This Sunday Steve Maxner, a Viet Nam veteran and environmental activist, will speak at the Unitarian Universalist Church on the topic, About Protest. Mr. Maxner recently paddled a yellow kayak near the award ceremony at the Monster Shark Tournament in Oak Bluffs. His small boat carried the words, “Killing Sharks for Fun and Prizes is a Crime against Nature Shame on Us.”

On Sunday, Sept. 23, the Mink Meadows Golf Club is hosting its second annual tournament to benefit Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard. CBS News correspondent Morton Dean will serve as one of the hosts of the event.

This year’s Living Local Harvest Festival is next Saturday Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury. The event is an all-things-sustainable gathering where those with boots in the soil and fingers on the green pulse, be it energy or otherwise, showcase not only their wares but their wherewithal.

Take a local wild food adventure, learn how to fillet a fish or create the perfect compost mix, enjoy food from Island farms, carve pumpkins, ride ponies and cows or take part in a bit of cow chip bingo. In other words, the possibilities are endless.

The Martha’s Vineyard Family Center allergy support group is presenting a program entitled Living With Allergies: One Family’s Experience with Christine and Mark Mulvey.

Anyone interested in learning more about ticks and tick-borne illnesses should mark their calendars for Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. On that evening the Vineyard Haven Public Library is holding a forum entitled Island-Wide Boards of Health: How to Protect Yourself from Tick-Borne Illnesses.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School has received approval from the state to officially close the early childhood education vocational program at the end of the next school year.

At the district school committee meeting Monday evening, Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss presented a letter from the state approving the school’s plan to close the program. In order to close the program, the school had to ensure that any student already enrolled would be able to finish the program. There are currently six students enrolled.