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Mason Fischer
Mason F. Fischer of West Tisbury received a bachelor of science in computer science during the University of Vermont’s commencement ceremonies on May 23.
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
In an incomplete building behind the Edgartown Fire Station on Pease’s Point Way, they talk fire. Not recent fires. This talk is about history and a growing group of firemen’s enthusiasm for preserving that history. It’s been burning in the department for years — to the point where they are building a new fire museum.
For 30 years it has been the Island’s best-kept secret.
And today Island Elderly Housing (IEH) also remains one of the Island’s best success stories, thanks in part to the original founders, Margaret Love, Marguerite Bergstrom and Carol Lashnits, who had a strong and far-sighted vision of what was needed for not only the elder citizens of the Vineyard, but for its disabled population as well.
What follows is a day in the life of Alma West, a resident at Island Elderly Housing, in her owns words.
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I get up early — I am a morning person and have a routine. I do most of all my own housework and everything. I cook a little less now, but still make my own meals. I try to walk a mile three days a week, going out to the Edgartown Road and back.
Katherine Graduates
Katherine Campbell of Vineyard Haven graduated from Emmanuel College, cum laude, with a degree in psychology, counseling and health on May 10.
Richard L. Taylor, professor of business, law and ethics at Suffolk University in Boston, will be speaking at Union Chapel on Sunday, July 4 at 10 a.m. The title of his talk is The Declaration of Independence: A 21st Century Perspective.