RENSSELAER - It's 'song and movement time' at the Ready, Set, Grow Daycare.

"Are we really happy? If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!" says Dominque Smith to the young children who are clapping to the rythm.

Smith and his wife run a home business that had plans to grow itself by adding a new room. But he and his wife said those dreams withered when their contractor stopped showing up.

"It's unfair when you give somebody money in good trust, and they start to do things and they disappear, and you feel heartbroken and you feel like you ultimately, got scammed," Smith said.

He showed NewsChannel what they have to show for the addition they hired the company Mr. B's Construction to build.

"Wood. Footings. Cement. Headache. Frustration," said Smith, pointing to the footings off his deck.

PITTSFIELD - The second annual Berkshires Dream Auction will be held beggining on May 18. All money raised during the auction will benefit the Berkshire Marketing Fund.

In 2011, he Berkshire Marketing Fund was creataed to help reduce the regions dependence on state funds for tourism marketing.

The online auction will run from May18- June 5. Any Berkshire business that would like to contribute an auction item or experience to support this venture is encouraged to do so.

For more information, contact Dara, 413-743-4500.

PITTSFIELD - Hillcrest Educational Centers President and CEO, Gerard Burke has been asked to join the Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) by the Board of Directors. MBR is a statewide public affairs organization of chief executive officers and area executives of the state’s leading companies representing a full range of Massachusetts industry and business enterprises.

A CEO's participation in the Roundtable means that he or she is concerned with quality of life issues in Massachusetts and is willing to work directly with peer business leaders to study and address key public policy issues such as health care, economic development and education.