Town by Town: mental health flag, horror movie marathon, and pink police

(WGGB/WSHM) – Western Mass News takes you town by town to Holyoke, West Springfield, Hadley and Easthampton.

A flag was raised Monday morning at the Mira-Vista Behavioral Health Center in Holyoke for World Mental Health Day.

World Mental Health Day is a universal call to make mental health and well-being a priority for all countries.

In Massachusetts, about 260,000 adults have a serious mental illness.

Approximately 66,000 young people between the ages of 12 and 17 in the Commonwealth have depression, and more than half in 2020 did not receive mental health care for it.

Town by town he took us to Cinemark in West Springfield Y Hadley.

The theater chain is inviting horror fans to get into the Halloween spirit with a movie marathon starting Monday.

The “Halloween Revisited” series pays homage to the most recent and final installment in the iconic Halloween movie franchise, Halloween Ends.

You could watch Halloween 1978 on Monday, Halloween 2018 on Tuesday, and Halloween Kills on Wednesday.

The best part: each presentation is only $5!

Finally, town by town he took us to Easthampton where members of the police department will wear pink badges this month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to honor all those who have battled cancer and for all of us who have lost the battle.

In 2022, an estimated 287,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women in the US, as well as 51,400 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer

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