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Garden Club Elects Officers
The Garden Club elected its new slate of officers for the 2009-10 term at the annual meeting held on August 18 at the Old Mill:
President, Kristin Henriksen, first vice president, Ginger Duarte; treasurer, Judy Morse; recording secretary, Marie Connelly; corresponding secretary, Barbara Harnen; vice president Chilmark/Aquinnah, Judi Worthington; vice president West Tisbury, Linda Hearn; vice president Tisbury, Wiet Bacheller; vice president Oak Bluffs, Bebee Green; and vice president Edgartown, Laura Lee.
The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands chapter is organizing a number of CPR, AED and first aid classes this September for residents of Martha’s Vineyard. All classes will be held at the YMCA, 57 Pequot avenue in Oak Bluffs.
On a recent weekend we got a chance to sail away for a few days, leave Martha’s Vineyard and its drama (an approaching Presidential visit and the August summer in full swing) behind.
Nantucket Sound is a wonderful place to get away. You’re never away from the sight of land. Sailing across the 650 square mile inland sea is like being in the ocean without the huge rollers that can be experienced only a few miles away.
Blond and boyish Brad Tucker, a skateboarding Island-grown guitar player who also carries a fast and fine tune, was flipping through the dictionary one winter night with his then-roommate, Vinnie Padalino, who plays the washboard. The two were searching for a name for a band they wanted to form when they came upon the word ballyhoo.
“It said it was a town in Ireland known for rowdy crowds and lots of noise and ruthless folks,” said Mr. Tucker in an interview outside the tiny one-room guesthouse he shares just with his dog, Murphy, on Tuesday evening.
Sail-Free Race to Save Sengekontacket
The 19th annual Martha’s Vineyard Oar and Paddle Regatta will take place this Sunday at the Little Bridge in Oak Bluffs. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.
Paddlers, owners of kayaks, canoes and rowboats will compete for prizes in a two mile race in either Sengekontacket Pond and or Nantucket Sound. A children’s race will take place at 10 a.m.
Fine Finish for Featherstone Festival
Featherstone’s Festival of Poetry’s very successful summer season is wrapping up with a reading by Naomi Shihab Nye, an award-winning Palestinian-American poet whose works have garnered multiple awards over the years. Fellow poet William Stafford said of Ms. Nye, “Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life.”