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What does the future hold in store for you? (Answer at end of column.)
One Good Dog deserves one good reading by author Susan Wilson at 7:30 p.m. at the Bunch of Grapes tonight, Friday, March 12. Feel free to ask a question or two! Open mike for authors continues next Tuesday, with Laura Roosevelt as emcee.
Oak Bluffs School invites townspeople to attend a public budget hearing at the library at 10 a.m tomorrow, Saturday, March 13. Who’s alert enough at that hour to figure out figures?
And if you’re not good in math, try spelling. Seventh grader Charlotte Potter won the spelling bee at the Oak Bluffs School by spelling photosynthesis. Correctly. Now she heads to the All-Island Championship next Thursday, March 18, at the high school performing arts center at 9:30 a.m. You go, Charlotte.
In other Oak Bluffs School news, tonight, Friday, March 12, is games night at 6:30 p.m. And Wednesday, March 17, elementary school dismissal is at noon for an Islandwide staff development day. Doesn’t that coincide with a certain Irish holiday?
Come to the second annual technology fair at the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Saturday, March 20 from 1 to 4 p.m. Community, school, library and business leaders will display new information and communication technologies. Ask questions, try out electronics, and see the latest gadgets. At 1 p.m. Doug Cabral, editor of the Martha’s Vineyard Times, will discuss challenges faced by community newspapers in the age of the Internet. For us old duffers who have to have our kids to turn on our iPod or DVR, this is a chance to try to catch up to the tech world.
Note, the library will have a delayed opening on Friday, March 19, to prepare for the fair the next day. The library will be open from 2 to 6 p.m.
Even though it’s out-of-town news (all the way in Edgartown), Lorraine St. Pierre invites us to the third annual Celebrity Waiters Pasta Dinner at the Federated Church Parish Hall in Edgartown on Saturday, March 20, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Support your favorite impostor to benefit the Haiti Peace Quilt Project. Now where else can you enjoy a delicious pasta dinner for $7 if you’re of age, and $5 if you’re under?
Saturday Surprise Storytime (for ages three to five) meets at the library tomorrow, March 13, at 10:30 a.m. with Anna Marie. Children’s Book Club (for grades three to six) meets at noon to read Savvy by Ingrid Law (2009 Newbery Honor Book). The Teen Book Club (for grades nine to 12) meets at 2:30 to discuss Going Bovine by Libba Bray, the 2010 Printz Award winner.
More groups meet next Wednesday, March 17: at 10:30 a.m. toddlers meet for stories, and preschoolers meet at 11:30 a.m., to talk over St. Patrick’s Day and Ireland. Got it?
We continue our trek through the land bank properties in Oak Bluffs, this time to Quays Corner. You know where the police cruisers sit in Eastville, by the hospital. It’s a great spot to keep an eye on traffic passing both directions, 20 mph, by the way. Well, by that lot, a sandy road runs inland about 20 feet to a hidden refuge, no bigger than our living room, complete with two benches and a bike rack. This is the land bank’s smallest property, tucked behind fir and scrub oak, protected from traffic, private and quiet. Worth a five minute visit. Then stroll out to view the Sound in all its splendor. A second land bank property, as we make our way through the alphabet, is Southern Woodlands, a benefit gained during the golf course dilemma a few years back. Driving down Barnes Road, past the old Webb’s campground, Southern Woodlands is a broad expanse of wood and field currently undergoing “a natural resource inventory” and cleared back to its natural habitat, so it’s not quite ready for prime-time pedestrian traffic. But it will be, and will offer access to ancient ways, views of the lagoon, and wonderful woodland walks. There’s even a rumour afoot that the land bank may consider reopening a camping area here!
On a personal note, we had to take a drastic step to ensure that our bird feeder does not permanently become what Shelley Christiansen calls a “squirrel feeder.” When we extended our deck, the squirrels had an ideal launching pad for the feeder. We took the extraordinary step of moving the feeder back about four feet. Let’s see those rascals fall in midair!
What does your future hold? Well, Kathy Cowley can help determine whether the stars are lined up for you, what your tea leaves say and whether your astrological chart has anything good coming up. Visit the spiritual psychic fair tomorrow, Saturday, March 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs VFW. No charge for this event. Island clairvoyants and seers will give free readings, channels and individual sessions for your psychic peace of mind. There’ll be goodies from Orange Peel Bakery and stories by a Celtic revivalist. Sounds like a chance to find out what you have to look forward to!
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