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Help Homeless Animals
Kym Cyr, who runs the Helping Homeless Animals shelter in Oak Bluffs, has a critical need for people to adopt cats. The summer season has left the shelter full of cats and dogs in desperate need of a home. Call Kym at 508-221-6931 for more information and directions to the shelter on June avenue.
Volunteers are also needed.
The Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard has awarded grants totaling $25,176 this fall to 14 Island nonprofit organizations. “It was wonderful to be able to provide financial support to almost two-thirds of the organizations who approached us for funding this cycle,” said endowment chairman Anne Williamson.
Three years after the Island Affordable Housing Fund saved the historic Denniston House in Oak Bluffs from demolition, it is applying for a permit from the Oak Bluffs historic commission to raze the building.
Leigh Cormie searched the voter rolls at the American Legion in Vineyard Haven.
“There I am!” he said as a volunteer thumbed through the pages.
Taking his ballot into the voting booth, he officially exercised his democratic privilege for the first time — in this country at least.
“This is a big thing for me,” he told the volunteers in his vestigial Down Under accent as he affixed an “I voted” sticker to his lapel.
VNA Coordinator
April McCarty has joined Vineyard Nursing Association as the nurse intake coordinator, the bridge between physicians and hospitals and the VNA’s home health care services.
“Having a nurse in this position is a shift for the VNA, in response to the growth in demand for services and the level of complications that many cases present,” said chief executive Bob Tonti.
The red pine plantations of the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest have been described as recently as 1998 by this paper as a “pine cathedral,” with evenly spaced rows of the northern evergreen towering above a forest floor nearly barren except for a carpet of needles. Now that cathedral has been all but sacked by fungal barbarians known as diplodia pinea which infect the trees from the shoots and rot them to the core.