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Bid for Rising Tide
Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center are having a gift sale/silent auction every day from Saturday, Dec. 5 through Sunday, Dec. 13, at the Farm Stand behind Alley’s General Store in West Tisbury from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Much of the center’s funding has been cut, and it is their policy to never turn anyone away because of financial restraints, so the funds raised from this sale will benefit everyone in the upcoming winter program. For details, call 508-693-6112.
Fund Set Up After Fire
An account has been set up at Bank of Martha’s Vineyard (Sovereign Bank) for the Moreis Burney Yazinsky family, one of the families displaced by the fire that occurred on Nov. 2 at Fisher Road town house apartments in Edgartown. The family, with three small children, is still in temporary housing.
Donations may be made at any branch or mailed to Bank of Martha’s Vineyard, P.O. Box 2151, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568.
Go Slow at Détente
Twin effects of the recession — less funding and more needy Islanders — led Martha’s Vineyard Community Services to post a deficit of nearly a quarter of a million dollars this year, according to the annual report enclosed in today’s Gazette.
The deficit is half that which Community Services accrued the previous year. “This represents real progress but is still not sustainable over the long-term,” wrote the director of administration and finance Bernadette M. LaPorte.
At a booth with working firefighter lights on top, the Edgartown Firemen’s Association and their Fire House Special Wings won, over 11 other hot competitors, at Sharky’s restaurant’s inaugural Wingfest last weekend, where hundreds of patrons ate more than 5,000 chicken wings to raise more than $5,000 for the Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and Girls’ Club.