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The Vineyard is a place of healing. It’s a community of healers, with acupuncturists, chiropractors and other alternative medicine practitioners, where yoga practice is a mainstay in many people’s lives. In yoga they say wherever you are is perfect, whether you’re halfway up in downward dog or halfway down in eagle pose, but sometimes half the battle can be getting to that pose among the overwhelming number of yoga options available here.
Living local can be a challenge when you need things that are not available on the Island — for instance, higher education. But learning local is becoming possible here, too. Courses that provide college credit have been creeping into the growing program of adult education offered by ACE-MV.
Name That Hero
Do you have a hero? The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter, and Cape and Islands United Way are looking for nominations for their annual Heroes awards. These heroes will be recognized at the 10th annual Heroes Breakfast in March, next year. Now, though, is the time to nominate a Vineyarder. Tell the organizers about any heroic act your hero performed between Dec. 15, 2010 and Dec. 21, 2011 (there is still time to be a hero!).
As the cool winds roll in, the beaches become less crowded and the sun begins to set even before dinner, the Living Local Harvest Festival arrives just in time to celebrate this coming of autumn and winter. Gone are the summer fairs with their fried food, greasy hot dogs and rides that make you dizzy. Enter instead a festival that seems more to stroll as well as to nourish.
Farm fields will soon go fallow, but Vineyard shellfish beds are about to see their peak season begin. October brings the opening of the bay scallop season, and also now the reopening of Sengekontacket Pond for all shellfishing.
The pond, which spans Edgartown and Oak Bluffs, has been subject to mandatory state closures for shellfishing in the summer months for the past four years. Sengekontacket reopens tomorrow.
During the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, everyone lining up in the mornings at the Island’s councils on aging has got to love a fisherman. Every weekday during the derby, the Island’s seniors receive free fresh striped bass and bluefish and only occasionally get fresh Atlantic bonito. The program is a derby win-win.
A battalion of volunteers extending across the Island administers the program.