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Student Achievement
Paul and Diane Watts proudly announce the graduation of their daughter, Kimberly A.W. Peaslee, from Franklin Pierce Law Center with a J.D. Degree in Intellectual Properties on May 16 in Concord, N.H.
Kimberly will also receive a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College on June 14, earning Suma Cum Laud designation. She was awarded the $10,000 Donald W. Banner Corporate Intern Scholarship by the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation.
A handwritten sign sat next to the cash register at Craig’s Bicycles: “Health Care Organizing Kickoff . . . Attend a local meeting here!” And so on June 9, a wet Tuesday evening in Vineyard Haven, a small but spirited group of nine people gathered around the spare parts and 12-speeds to debate of the future of health care in America.
Bread Sale
Vineyard Committee on Hunger’s annual Bread and Bake Sale will be held Saturday, June 20, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., as ever under the Linden Tree next to the Capawock Theatre on Main street, Vineyard Haven. Both bread and baked goods will be available for purchase.
The Vineyard Committee on Hunger has chosen to donated the money from this year’s bread sale directly to Huruma (Mercy), the home for children depicted in Len and Georgia Morris’ film Rescuing Emmanuel.
Five-card drive? Or five-car draw? Either way you call it, Saturday’s Poker Run — where classic cars drive to five spots to get a playing card, and the best poker hand wins — is a great charity fundraiser, part of the annual Island Power Cruise. The poker run begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Wesley Hotel, but kids and their parents will be the local winners if they come to Al’s Package Store on Upper Main street in Edgartown — the second-card stop — any time between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Island favorites Justen Ahren and John Maloney last night kicked off a summer festival of poetry at Featherstone Center for the Arts, presented in association with the West Tisbury Poet Laureate and the Martha’s Vineyard Writers’ Residency.
Billy Collins, Naomi Shihab Nye, Fanny Howe, Honor Moore and others are part of the festival program.
The next event is scheduled for Thursday, July 16, with Fan Ogilvie and Fanny Howe.
A stay of execution was granted on one of Chilmark’s few remaining pre-Revolutionary houses at a well attended meeting of the historical commission Wednesday.
The so-called Tilton-Weckman house, set off from North Road, is a shingled, gable-roofed building flanked by a high curving stone wall on a two-acre lot, part of property owned by Diana and Roy Vagelos.
The principle structure dates back to the mid-18th century and was owned by the Tiltons, a family whose Vineyard history is long and storied.