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Please Adopt Us
The Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard has three dogs and four cats available for adoption. The dogs include Vito and Louie, the gentle beagles who need some training but will make good pets or hunters with some work. The other dog is P.J., a very gentle, good-natured female pit bull. Don’t let the fact that she is a pit bull deter you from coming to see her; she is one of the sweetest dogs we have ever had at the shelter and she loves people.
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CPR/First Aid Class
The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter will hold an Adult CPR/AED and First Aid class Jan. 9 at the YMCA on Martha’s Vineyard at 57 Pequot avenue in Oak Bluffs. The class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and costs $50 for CPR/AED only (8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.), or $60 for CPR/AED and First Aid (1 to 3:30 p.m.).
Young Poets Prize
Island literary figures are seeking poetry for a new award which will recognize up to five Promising Young Poets.
Short manuscripts of three to five poems will be read by a distinguished panel of poets. The results will be announced in April, national poetry month.
Party Owl
It may have been a Christmas miracle or just a lucky break, but Oak Bluffs resident Christopher Dacunto was reunited with his pet kitten Harabe over the holiday weekend under unlikely circumstances following a major car accident on the highway just outside Old Mystic, Conn.
Tuesday before Christmas, Mr. Dacunto was driving on I-95 to see his family in Hamden; in the car with him was 15-week-old Harabe, an exotic Serval-Bengal mix. He hit a snowbank and lost control of his Volvo, flipping it several times before coming to rest on the side of the road.