Sports
It’s an NCAA Division I team that has won has five championships in eight years — that’s better than Ohio State University’s Rose Bowl record. This team has one of the finest training facilities in the country, with expansive practice fields, personal trainers and individual tutors. Reigning national title holders, the team recruits only eight elite student athletes a year.
Lyme Fair
The Southcoast Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Awareness Group will present an educational fair on Lyme disease on Sunday, May 16 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Westport Grange at 931 Main Road, Westport. This event is free and open to the public.
The Island’s youngest fish ermen were treated to a quiet, still morning last Saturday. The anglers came early to Duarte’s Pond in West Tisbury to compete in the annual spring Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club trout tournament. The club hosted the event with a large crew of volunteers. Youngsters were treated to hot dogs on the grill.
The club had stocked the pond with plenty of large trout, but it was the native pickerel that gave fishermen the best catch. Native catfish were also plentiful.
Tomorrow, hundreds of bicycle riders will travel to the Island for a spring tradition called Ride the Vineyard, a fund-raising bicycle ride that provides help for 19,000 people who have multiple sclerosis in four New England states (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont).
Look Good, Feel Better
The American Cancer Society, Maggie’s Salon and the Breast Cancer Support Group are hosting a free Look Good, Feel Better event on Wednesday, May 5, at the Vineyard Haven Public Library from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
A similar event last May for women who have been recently diagnosed with cancer was very well received by the 16 participants. This year’s event also brings each participant a top of the line cosmetics gift bag, demonstrations with makeup and hair accessories, including wigs, scarves and caps.
Among all the species taken by fishermen in this part of the world, horseshoe crabs have, until now, enjoyed a dubious distinction: they were the only ones targeted while in the act of reproducing.
The easiest way for many to catch them was to walk the beaches at the times of the full and new moons in May and June and simply pick them up as they came into the shallows to spawn.