Red Cross Chapter Charts a Fresh Course
By C.K. WOLFSON
Brenda Lehman remembers when she was five, and her family lost everything in an apartment fire, and again when she was 12, in another other fire in Dorchester.
"The only people there to help us were the Red Cross and the Salvation Army," she said. "After Sept. 11 I said, that's it. I have time for everything else, now it's the time to volunteer for Red Cross. I want to give back."
Community Services Launches Self-Study with Heller School
By C.K. WOLFSON
Martha's Vineyard Community Services announced this week that it has launched a comprehensive internal management study with the prestigious Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
The seven-month, privately funded study is aimed at developing a strategic plan for the unique umbrella human services agency that was founded in 1961.
Traditions: Cranberry Day Is Celebration of Great Spirit
By C.K. WOLFSON
On the second Tuesday of the month, as they have been doing for centuries, since even before explorer Bartho-lomew Gosnold came upon the Vineyard, Island Wampanoags will celebrate Cranberry Day, the harvesting of the last fruit of the season.
Sometimes referred to as the Red Harvest, the day is a tribute to the Great Spirit and is one of the most important Wampanoag celebrations.
Kindergarten In Primary Colors on First Day
By C.K. WOLFSON
The real world has summoned. Parents, properly awed, understand that the occasion is momentous, and are freeze-frame struck by the sudden awareness of time having passed. Cautiously they enter room 119 at the Edgartown School, their children clinging to them like velcro.
Labor Day's Departures Remind Us of the Pleasures that Attracted Them
By C.K. WOLFSON
It's an Us and Them question: How was your Vineyard summer?
For most of the working Us, it's an anthem of impatience, of too slow, too long lines and cars. It is a fast tempo fugue in a world that seems to be waltzing; too many demands and not enough time.
