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Island Grown Dinner
Island Grown Initiative is holding a fundraiser for Island Grown Schools at the Sailing Camp in Oak Bluffs, on Wednesday, June 9, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
There will be taco bar by Cardoza’s, dance music by DJDi, a silent auction including art works made on Island, and fun for all.
Tickets are available at SBS and Cronig’s at a cost of $15 for one, $30 for a family. For details, e-mail [email protected].
By HOLLY NADLER
It’s dress rehearsal for the fairies in I Do Believe in Fairies — Journey to Never Never Land, one of two student dance recitals set to dazzle this weekend (the other one is so out of this world, it’s titled Outer Space in 12 Movements).
A gaggle of four-year-olds in pink leotards, pink tutus and silver pre-Raphaelite headbands — the cuteness factor was off the charts! — sit on the lobby floor as helpful moms apply eye shadow, lipstick and blush.
The Island’s largest wind turbine to date went up this past week at Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown. The 50-kilowatt wind turbine sits atop a 120-foot galvanized steel tower.
The project began as an idea three years ago, and on Thursday it took a single day to bring the huge pieces together and assemble it. The turbine now appears high above the landscape to drivers headed out of Edgartown on the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road.
Brazilian-American students graduating from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School this month have been refused permission to wear scarves in the color of the Brazilian flag over their gowns at the graduation ceremony.
Several weeks ago, a group of some 10 Brazilian students wrote to the school administration asking to wear scarves in green, yellow and blue to honor their ethnic heritage. The students recently were notified that their request had been denied.
World War II veteran Herb Foster of Edgartown was dressed in his infantry uniform. Ashlee Moreis, 10, and Julia Felix, 10, of Vineyard Haven, had pulled their Girl Scout vests over their T-shirts. All three made their way to American Legion Post 257 in Vineyard Haven yesterday morning, where soldiers and Scouts alike met to march in the annual Martha’s Vineyard Memorial Day parade.
There were long delays to flights on and off Martha’s Vineyard, emergency services across the Island were swamped with callers reporting fires, and a health warning was issued when a thick pall of smoke settled across Martha’s Vineard yesterday.
But there was little local authorities could do about it; the fires which disrupted the Memorial Day start of the summer season were not on the Island, but hundreds of miles away in Canada.