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Let’s Dance!
Island Salsa will be represented at the Let’s Move Festival on August 24 in Waban Park in Oak Bluffs. From 1 to 1:15 p.m. there will be a demonstration followed by a brief introductory class with David Vanderhoop. There is no charge. The rain date is August 25. And it’s not too early to start planning for salsa classes this coming fall. Classes for beginners, advanced beginners and a salsa intensive are all planned, starting in October. An announcement with details will appear in a future edition of the Gazette.
Bring the family to the next Shearing Day celebration, when Island Alpaca Farm shears their newest alpaca babies, or cria, from their summer birthing season on Friday, August 27 from noon to 3 p.m. at the farm near the blinker.
In this fleece-to-fiber transition, observing expert shearers work their clippers through the baby alpacas’ fabulous fleece. Admission is $5 per person.
FOUR FISH: The Future of the Last Wild Food. By Paul Greenberg. Penguin Press, New York, N.Y. July 2010. 304 pages. $25.95, hardcover.
The title is too narrow. Don’t think for a moment this is a book only about salmon, cod, bass and tuna. The book goes beyond the history and plight of four fish, to our hunger for fresh fish of all kinds. For anyone who wonders where the swordfish went, how we emerged from the collapse of the whale fishery, or simply which fish is safe to order at the restaurant, Four Fish offers much.
A number of beaches have been closed to swimming in Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury due to bacterial contamination.
Inkwell Beach, Pay Beach, Eastville Beach and Madeiras Cove in Oak Bluffs have all been closed to swimmers, Oak Bluffs health agent Shirley Fauteux confirmed on Wednesday. Ms. Fauteux said elevated bacterial counts were found in water samples taken on Monday.
As 1,500 runners anxiously milled about the starting line on Middle Road Saturday Morning, West Tisbury selectman Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter brandished a streamer-topped car antenna, holding it up to the sky.
“In case I need to wave down a med-flight,” he told curious fellow runners in the 34th Chilmark Road Race.
The sweat-soaked Mr. Manter had already run the course that morning in preparation for a half-marathon in Lowell and was beginning to feel the miles.
“Stay in front of me and you’ll be all right,” he said.
Gloria Scher, a resident of Aquinnah and New York city, received the president’s award given by National Arts Club for her painting shown at the 11th annual exhibiting members exhibition, located in the historic Tilden mansion on Gramercy Park.
The National Arts Club was founded in 1898 by Charles de Kay, a literary and art critic, as a gathering place for artists, patrons and audiences