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Sponsor Hildee Lewis
Hildee Lewis of Vineyard Haven will compete on behalf of the charity Grassroots Soccer in the Boston Marathon on April 15. The organization is seeking donations to sponsor Ms. Lewis and other runners as part of its campaign to educate, test and support those infected and at risk for AIDS.
Occupy Peace
The Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council is meeting on Thursday, April 12, at 101 Chase Road, Edgartown at 6 p.m. Cooperative plans with the MV Occupy group are on the agenda as well as plans for annual summer events. Call 508-627-8536 for Sarah.
The fate of the Martha’s Vineyard Family Center surfaced again this week, with the center’s supporters urging the high school committee to consider ways to keep the center at the high school.
The high school, citing low enrollment numbers, has decided to phase out its early childhood vocational program. As a result, the family center will need to relocate by 2014.
Last month documentary filmmaker Len Morris of Vineyard Haven accepted the 2012 Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor from the U.S. Department of Labor at a ceremony in Washington D.C. But Mr. Morris does not have the luxury of basking in the afterglow of the award ceremony. His Kenyan Schoolhouse program, now in its tenth year, is currently putting 34 former child laborers and street children through secondary school.
A dentist, a rabbi, and a potter walk into the West Tisbury School.
It could be the beginning of a bad joke, or it could just describe a typical Tuesday or Thursday night for the Martha’s Vineyard Table Tennis Club, which draws its players from all walks of life, including the three mentioned above.
If you are looking for a successful measure of the bay scallop season, which ended this week, the results can be found in large piles of shells in three down-Island towns.
There was a huge pile of shells next to a fish shack at the foot of Skiff avenue in Tisbury last week, as well as similar piles at the old Edgartown dump and in Oak Bluffs at Madeiras Cove. It was a good year, though there are many who have memories of better ones.