First In, First Aid

The American Red Cross will hold an adult CPR/AED and first aid class on August 14 at the new YMCA on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Oak Bluffs, The CPR/AED portion will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and costs $55. The first aid class portion of the class will then continue until 3:30 p.m. Cost for the CPR/AED and first aid is $65. Enrollment is available online at cciredcross.org or by calling toll-free 508-775-1540.

The Holmes Hole Sailing Association race on Thursday night July 22 was a warm evening with a pleasant 10 knots of west wind. Twelve boats posted for the 6 p.m. start at red nun 6. The course took the fleet to green can 23a at East Chop then to nun 4 at West Chop, and back to nun 6. The first leg was a broad reach on the port tack. After rounding the nun, a beat to West Chop was followed by a beam reach to the finish line.

Hoopapalooza

It’s all hoops, all day, on Sunday, August 15, when the dunking begins in the 22nd annual Alex Cohen Memorial Basketball Marathon for Charity at the Chilmark Community Center.

Fun begins at noon and continues through 6 p.m.

The marathon is played in memory of Alex Cohen, who spent his summers in Chilmark, playing and working at the community center until his untimely death in August 1991.

Yoga Class Gives Back

Bend it for the Bard, and all the other arts, by taking Johanna Hynes’s vinyasa yoga class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Vineyard Arts Project, 215 Upper Main street Edgartown (parking available). Drop-in fee is $20, kids $12, and 20% of the proceeds go to benefit Vineyard Arts Project.