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Girls Are Great
This Saturday, August 29, the YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts will host “Girls are Great! Let’s Celebrate!,” a cocktail reception to benefit YWCA girls after-school and summer programs from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Farm Neck Café, 1 Farm Neck Way, Oak Bluffs.
Tickets to the reception are $125 per person and include: food, open bar, and entertainment by violinist Nora St. Martin and vocalist Tanisha Sullivan. Tickets can be purchased at ywcasema.org. For details, call 508-999-3255.
Island Musicians Play Hospice Benefit
Yoga Intensive Sign Up
Vineyard yoga instructors Megan Grennan and Josh Montoya will host a yoga intensive on Saturday, August 29 from 8 to 10:15 a.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. The cost is $45 at the door, if there is space. A great way to wind up summer and get ready for fall.
Speaking from his vacation home in Chilmark Wednesday morning, President Obama ordered the flag at the White House to be lowered to half mast, as well as flags at all federal government buildings, to mark the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy died early Wednesday morning at his home in Hyannis Port of brain cancer at the age of 77. Mr. Obama was told of the death at 2 a.m. and called the Kennedy family just before 2:30 a.m.
There is no shooting hoops in the Oak Bluffs elementary school gymnasium this week. While all the classrooms are dark and quiet at 50 Tradewinds Road, the gymasium is the center of the media world on the Vineyard. “I think we’re going to call this Martha’s File Center,” White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said yesterday as he opened the first media briefing here. “I like it. A little warm.”
Heavy surf caused by Hurricane Bill brought “closed to swimming” signs to south-facing Island beaches all weekend, sanctions surfers cheerfully ducked. What the storm left was additional erosion, though the bigger loss may be economic, as many visiting boaters took off when they heard the warnings broadcast last week.