Celebrations
Tenth generation Vineyarder S. Bailey Norton Jr. will be honored at a public event hosted by the Edgartown library: the Legacy of Learning Summer Brunch, to be held on Sunday, July 12, at noon at the Boathouse Field Club in Katama. The brunch also aims to raise awareness and funds to renovate and expand the library.
Mr. Norton was born into a family of fishermen, whaling and yacht captains. His book, My Long Journey Home, A Life Worth Living, documents the people and scenes of the Edgartown he loves, particularly the waterfront.
Please Adopt Us
For those of you looking for kittens the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard has two seven-week-old part Balinese kittens. Both are females — one black and the other black with white paws — who need socializing. They were very shy when they came to the shelter; they were born in a wood pile but with a lot of TLC they are slowly learning to trust people.
Plum TV Wins Telly Awards
Plum TV Martha’s Vineyard has won two Telly Awards. The top award, silver, was for Plum’s coverage of the 2008 Vineyard Cup Regatta. The bronze was for the series with Island chef and farmer Chris Fischer. The Telly receives over 13,000 entries from around the country from the finest television stations, cable companies and advertising agencies.
Awards and Recognition
The Massachusetts Restaurant Association Educational Foundation recently honored Kathleen Coulter of Edgartown as one of 31 recipients of its ninth annual Making the Future Bright scholarship awards gala. Ms. Coulter attended Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and is currently attending the University of New Hampshire. Her scholarship sponsor is US Foodservice-Boston Group.
At its annual Recognition Day June 13 Falmouth Academy gave awards to the following Vineyard students:
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School sophomore Kira Shipway of Vineyard Haven has been awarded the 2009 Kurshan Global Scholarship by the U.S. branch of the International Education and Resource Network, iEARN.
This will allow her to attend the organization’s youth summit in Ifrane, Morocco, to be held July 19 to 25.
Through iEARN, young people are empowered to learn with, rather than simply about, the world, using new technologies in collaborative projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
Announcing Sarah
Miriam deOliveira and Carlos Antonio deOliveira of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Sarah Victoria Assis deOliveira, born on June 23 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Sarah weighed 7 pounds, 15.4 ounces at birth.