While the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland may have drawn the world’s attention away from their troubles, the people of Haiti continue to struggle in the effort to rebuild their shattered nation. This has not escaped the Edgartown School’s parent/teacher organization, who are holding a clothing drive through the end of April to directly benefit the Sacre Coeur Hospital, and the Children of the Promise orphanage, located in Milot, Haiti.

Martha’s Vineyard high schoolers Domonique Aaron, Lily Bick, Jess Dupon, Zen Hughes and Jordan Wallace have been named winners is the Promising Young Poets project, sponsored by Island Voices, the West Tisbury poet laureate, the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council and Pathways Projects Institute.

Honorable mention goes to Joe Aguilar, Annabelle Hackney, Chelsea Phaneuf, Tonya Sequeira and Oscar Thompson for their very deserving work.

When Joan Ames of West Tisbury realized the workmen who had been fixing her house had been relieving themselves on her lawn, she was delighted.

She thinks the emerald green circles in the grass are beautiful, and the workmen’s al fresco un-drinking affirmed her in her creed of urinary utopianism. She wishes everyone else on Martha’s Vineyard did likewise.