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Red Cross Classes
The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter will be holding an Adult CPR/AED and First Aid class on Dec. 12 at the YMCA on Martha’s Vineyard at 57 Pequot avenue in Oaks Bluffs. The class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and costs $50 for CPR/AED only, or $60 for CPR/AED and First Aid.
Students will receive training manuals and certification cards.
Bid for Rising Tide
Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center are having a gift sale/silent auction every day from Saturday, Dec. 5 through Sunday, Dec. 13, at the Farm Stand behind Alley’s General Store in West Tisbury from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Much of the center’s funding has been cut, and it is their policy to never turn anyone away because of financial restraints, so the funds raised from this sale will benefit everyone in the upcoming winter program. For details, call 508-693-6112.
There’s an old legend about the Vineyard that women who come here grow strong. They may have been strong to begin with, but even so, they grow stronger. A corporate executive might find herself scratching around for new ways to survive, so she adds growing artichokes, opening a candle shop, and writing grants for nonprofits to her resume.
Vineyard harbors have emptied. Mooring balls that bobbed up and down through the summer were replaced by floating blue and white stakes. The osprey are gone and herring gulls dominate the shoreline.
Edgartown energy committee chairman Kitt Johnson outlined a priority list for projects before the town selectmen on Monday. The most complex and expensive is an experimental tidal energy project that hinges on the completion of an extensive pilot plant application due at the end of February. The idea was introduced in early 2007, when Edgartown joined forces with Nantucket and Cong. William Delahunt to pursue energy independence. At the time, the town expected extra research money to be provided to establish an offshore energy zone between the two Islands.
Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss’ $3.5 million dollar budget was approved with little ado by the all-Island school committee this week, a month after the committee voted to restore $11,000 in funding to the budget for arts and enrichment programming across the Island.
The superintendent’s budget is called a shared services budget because it includes funding for programs such as the elementary strings and natural history and arts programs in Island schools.