A small group of eager five-year-olds gathered on the beach in Vineyard Haven Wednesday night to celebrate an important milestone: graduation from the Garden Gate Child Development Center.

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Its class of 2010 enjoyed a twilight swim at Mink Meadows Beach and supper provided by the parents before graduates Nicholas BenDavid of Oak Bluffs, Liam Marek and Sydney Rydzewski of Vineyard Haven, Ryan Harding, Mya Lee O’Neill and Sydney Marcus of West Tisbury, and Annalee Cingle-Hoy of Chilmark received certificates, T-shirts and yearbooks from program directors Dawn Warner and Leigh Ann Yuen.

Proud parents included Gary and Joellen BenDavid, Andy and Courtney Marek, Matt and Heidi Rydzewski, Chris and Kate Harding, Brendan O’Neill and Linsey Lee, Mike and Jen Marcus, John Hoy and Annette Cingle.