Sports
Alcoholics Anonymous
Information: 627-7084.
All meetings are nonsmoking.
Sunday, 6:45 a.m., open discussion meeting, First Baptist Church, William street, Vineyard Haven.
Sunday, 10 a.m., open discussion, State Beach, first bridge, Oak Bluffs, (weather permitting).
Sunday, 11 a.m., open discussion meeting at the Council on Aging on Wamsutta avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Sunday, 7 p.m., grapevine meeting at old Oak Bluffs School, School street, Oak Bluffs.
Thirty-six weeks pregnant, Elissa Lash is practicing yoga, as she will continue to do until she delivers her second child. The difference is that now on the mats alongside her each Monday evening are other women with swelling bellies, all able, again, to have this hour and a half of prenatal yoga at absolutely no charge.
After more than 100 Island high schoolers called in sick on Wednesday — including 10 football players, 10 members of the boys’ soccer team and the cheerleading coach — Saturday’s football game and the season’s final two soccer matches were canceled, beginning a cascade of sports suspensions and other precautions as cases of suspected H1N1 flu spread quickly among Vineyard youths.
As the fall athletic season heads into the home stretch, the field hockey and boys’ soccer teams this week moved closer to a berth in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament.
Meanwhile the football team stumbled with a crushing loss to Somerset last Friday, while boys’ and girls’ cross country each posted wins against Bishop Stang and Barnstable as they wrap up another stellar season under coach Joe Schroeder.
Cross Country
Video for Stutterers
Stuttering is a problem for millions of people, but it can be especially tough on school-age children. Help is available for parents, teachers and speech-language pathologists at the public libraries in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury, in the form of a DVD designed to help school-age children who stutter. The 38-minute DVD, entitled Therapy in Action: The School-Age Child Who Stutters, is being distributed free of charge to public libraries nationwide.
The American Red Cross is asking all eligible, healthy blood donors to make and keep appointments to donate blood in the coming weeks. As the cold and flu season approaches, the Red Cross hopes to maintain a stable supply of blood to meet hospital needs. Blood donors who have received the seasonal flu shot are still eligible to donate blood if they are feeling well on the day of the donation.