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BRIGHT SPOTS: Week of July 16, 2025

Here are only a few of the many bright spots.

Amplifications: Q&A with Dining for Women’s Leslye Heilig

The organization formed in 2002 when retired nurse Marsha Wallace, a mother of four from Greenville, North Carolina, read an article about friends who met for potluck dinners and donated the money that would have been spent on restaurant meals.

CHP partners with Fairview Hospital to add midwives to its OB-GYN services

CHP provides the only OB-GYN practice south of Lenox and works closely with Fairview Hospital to provide maternity and women’s health care in the community. Fairview is a great place to practice with a midwifery model.

WHAT’S COOKIN’: Leslye Heilig’s chicken soup

Making dinner is not the only culinary activity in Heilig’s life. She and Linda Baxter, a retired nurse midwife, founded a local chapter of Dining for Women, a national organization with chapters all over America.

Philanthropic Berkshires: Dining for Women

An international organization, Dining for Women’s motto is “changing the world, one woman, one girl, one dinner at a time.”
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