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Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center is having their third annual cocktail party/fundraiser tomorrow night, Wednesday, July 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Styron family home on 53 High Hedge Lane in Vineyard Haven. Sponsored by LeGrenier Restaurant, Jim’s Package Store, Donaroma’s Nursery & Landscape, Red Pony Farm & Consignment/Tack Shop and Linda Sibley of Vineyard Electronics, the event is open to the public. For tickets and information, call Vickie Thurber at 508-693-6112.
Compassionate Care ALS represents a new, or perhaps ancient, approach to medicine. Focusing on health care rather than disease treatment, the Cape-based nonprofit seeks to improve the quality of life of people who have ALS. This degenerative and irreversible nerve decay was made famous by Lou Gehrig and then Stephen Hawking. Doctors can do little to treat it or slow its progress ive destruction, even as the mind and senses remain.
Over 100 vendors will offer their wares on Tuesday, July 14, when the fourth Featherstone Flea and Fine Arts Market will cover the grounds of Featherstone Center for the Arts near the blinker in Oak Bluffs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission and parking is free. The flea market continues on Tuesdays through Sept. 1.
“How do you transform a continent?” asked Fred Swaniker, the founder and chief executive officer of the African Leadership Academy, in his presentation last Saturday afternoon at the Edgartown home of Joe and Sylvia Frelinghuysen. The audience of 30 joined Mr. Swaniker in light laughter; he knows his goals for educating African youth and preparing them for effective, ethical leadership on the continent of Africa may at first sound hyperambitious.
Christina Cook was thinking the other day about her beginnings in the Martha’s Vineyard art scene.
A plan to convert the old Oak Bluffs library at the corner of Pennacook and Circuit avenues into a mixed-used commercial building with a pharmacy on the ground floor and affordable housing on the second floor has hit a snag, as bids for the project were substantially higher than expected.