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One sport begets another, at least this Saturday, Oct. 22, that is.
It’s the seventh annual Birdies for Baseball charity golf tournament. That’s right, you won’t be just swinging a golf club for fun, you’ll be helping out by adding to the coffers of the baseball scholarship and field improvement funds.
In a way, golf will actually fit on the honey-do list, rather than be a sneaky aside to all those home improvement projects left hanging.
Community Supper
This week on Monday, Oct. 24, the Edgartown community suppers are starting up again. They will be held every Monday throughout the fall, winter and spring at the Baylies Room of the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
The suppers are free and everyone is welcome. The evenings are an excellent resource for community as the Island grows colder, darker and, oftentimes, lonelier. They are also a welcome antidote to the very really issue of hunger as the off-season reality of fewer and smaller paychecks hits home.
Slow Food Martha’s Vineyard is combining its philosophy with the ancient traditions of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Indian Tribe with a celebratory harvest dinner beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Chilmark Community Center. Traditional native Wampanoag dishes including journey cakes with cranberries, venison stew, and sea bass with sage stuffing will be served. Corn meal from the Sandwich Grist Mill will be used for the authentic journey cakes to be cooked in Juli Vanderhoop’s clay oven.
As hundreds of West Tisbury residents, including selectmen and moderator, awaited the beginning of the annual town meeting, Daniel Waters stood up to recite, not a prayer but a poem written especially for the occasion.
Tonight the gym is filled with chairs
In which our town will sit
Our democratic derrieres
And chew the fat a bit.
‘It seems we did this just last week,’
We comment with a groan;
Yet measured by our own physique,
Falmouth Academy will host an admissions open house on Saturday, Oct. 22 from 2 to 4 p.m. at their campus in Falmouth.
Throughout the afternoon, student guides will conduct tours of the campus, and Falmouth Academy teachers and current parents will be available to meet with visitors. The open house will include information sessions on the middle school, the school’s study skills curriculum, interscholastic athletics, and financial aid. Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet the school’s headmaster, David C. Faus.
Class of 1966 Reunion
This weekend the Martha’s Vineyard Class of 1966 is gathering to celebrate their 45th reunion.
On Saturday, Oct. 15, the class will be gathering at 5:30 p.m. at the P.A. Club in Oak Bluffs. The cost for the evening is $40 per person.
On Sunday, Oct. 16, at 10 a.m. the party continues with a brunch at Farm Neck. The cost for this event is $30, which includes tax and tips.
For more information call Herb Ward at 508-693-7683.