Thanksgiving 2008

Officials from the Cape Light Compact are holding meetings on the Cape and the Vineyard in November to discuss their proposed 2009 energy efficiency plan. The Vineyard meeting was held last night at the high school.

When I was a young boy my family gathered for Thanksgiving at my grandparents’ house on Long Island. It was usually a fairly small affair, perhaps a dozen or so family members and an occasional friend. When my grandmother died suddenly my grandfather decided that without her help he would give up hosting. By that time my parents had divorced and lived mostly overseas, so for a while I bounced around among various relatives.

Saltwater Hedge Fund

From Gazette editions of November, 1958:

VNA RESPONDS

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

I write to address the Vineyard Nursing Association’s efforts to accommodate an increased demand for physical therapy services here on the Island, a demand which has been made keener by our absorption of the entire case-load of the Visiting Nurse Service unit of the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services (which closed its doors last June) and by the loss of our full-time physical therapist over two years ago.

Educating Children Early

Investing in early childhood care and education is not about ideology. It’s simply a smart investment, a thing otherwise elusive these days. Investing in young children pays big dividends.

The Vineyard Affordable Child Care Project is a model program, run on a shoestring by two people who use local insight and a commitment to quality to maximize its impact. Yet this project is being crippled by sudden and short-sighted budget cutbacks.