Turley Publications photos by Ruth M. Lyon

Mason Lucia likes a colorful cement mixer.

Sam Berthel, a fourth grader at West Brookfield Elementary School, in charge at his mother’s table for a while. “My mom’s Lisa Berthel, and she sells Pampered Chef products. I guess everyone likes them, because sales have been good,” he said.

West Brookfield parents and teachers team up to raise funds for school

By Ruth M. Lyon

Turley Publications Reporter

WEST BROOKFIELD - The sun shone in the backyard of West Brookfield Elementary School, where tables bearing an assortment of things you never knew you needed were set up, their proprietors doing a brisk business on a recent Saturday.

Nearby, the Gallagher girls were conducting a bake sale for the West Brookfield Elementary School Daisy Scout Troop.

Inside the school, the gym was filled with more vendors, all there to sell no-longer needed toys, gifts, athletic and musical equipment. They would keep the proceeds of their individual sales, but the modest charge for the spaces would go toward the sponsoring parent-teacher organization. Those funds, said group president, Michelle Niemic, will be used toward items and projects needed or wanted by the pupils there. “Sometimes we contribute toward a program or a project, sometimes it goes toward a field trip, or some special piece of equipment,” she said.

She went on to say that the group is not large, but active. “Members do what they can for whatever occasion they’re available. We’re always looking for new members with good ideas and a little free time,” she said.