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Emily Fischer sat on the steps of the shed in her front yard at Flat Point Farm in West Tisbury, yellow rubber gloves pulled up to her elbows, hard at work on her latest batch of goat’s milk soap.
Mental Health Awareness
As part of Mental Heath Month, the Vineyard Haven Public Library will have a display case featuring information about organizations helping individuals and families dealing with mental illness to learn more about the illnesses and to provide support. There will be a list of suggested reading materials available. As part of the library’s programming, Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness will be shown on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. The display case will be up for the month of October.
Something about a celebration of chocolate calls to mind a French chateau dining room adorned with the glow of a thousand candles. On a long table set with a flowing white linen tablecloth, you’ll find gold serving dishes heaped with chocolate squares, chocolate creams, chocolate brioches, chocolate-dipped strawberries and, rising from the center, to quote Proust, the duke of luxe himself, “An architectural cake, as urbane and familiar as it was imposing.”
The winners of the third annual Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce business awards, the Marthas, have been determined through vote of the membership. And the winners are:
Outstanding personal service: Basics Clothing.
Community hero: Cronig’s Market
Everybody’s favorite: Bunch of Grapes Bookstore.
Repair Extraordinaire: Vineyard Hearth Patio & Spa.
Turning the ordinary into the extraordinary this year: The Steamship Authority.
Promotion genius: Sharky’s Cantina.
The feeling of not wanting summer camp to end is familiar to many — and at Camp Sizanani, even the counselors want it to last forever. Founded in 2003 by Philip Lilienthal, a seasonal resident of Menemsha, the camp’s aim is to educate HIV-at-risk kids, either those who have it or have been affected by it, in Soweto, South Africa.
Real Estate School Honored
Dukes Academy has been selected as one of the top three real estate schools in the commonwealth by Banker and Tradesmen, a leading real estate and banking journal. More than 40,000 votes were cast in the balloting.