Young Leaders

Eva Faber of Edgartown, Andrew Randall of Chilmark and Cerina Gordon of West Tisbury represented the Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative at the seventh annual Bioneers conference held in Marion last weekend. The internationally acclaimed conference included 100 presenters and 50 workshops on topics ranging from the environment to social justice, health and healing, spirituality and sustainability in the Northeast and the world.

Welcome Sawyer

Alena and John Grady of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Sawyer Maxwell Grady, born on Oct. 21, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Sawyer weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces at birth.

Dominic Arrives

Erika Weron and Phillip Fuentes of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Dominic West Fuentes, born on Oct. 20, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Dominic weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces at birth and joins big brother Colby Weron.

KATHIE CASE

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(kathleencase@comcast.net)

It is now the last week of October and last weekend we were wearing short sleeves and some of us were still wearing flip-flops. Now we are looking at sweatshirts and socks and shoes. So we shall see what November brings.

Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons go out to Nicole Freitas, who celebrated her day Oct. 22, Jacob Pendergraft on Oct. 25 and to Gabriella Carlos, who celebrated her day Oct. 27.

A mile and a half off East Chop, 50 feet down, is a 380-foot World War I British freighter laden with motorcycles, steel billets, railroad car wheels, candles and clothes, still waiting patiently for delivery to the front lines in France. It is the Port Hunter and for photographer and anthropologist Sam Low it was a teenage playground.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

Oct. 21 72 56 Trace

Oct. 22 64 50 .00

Oct. 23 64 42 .00

Oct. 24 60 38 .00

Oct. 25 62 49 .01

Oct. 26 60 47 .00

Oct. 27 57 51 .33

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 59º F.

Special Olympics Meeting

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services will host an informational meeting on Nov. 1 for interested athletes, families and volunteers in the Special Olympics. The meeting will be held at Community Services from 4 to 6 p.m.

Special Olympics spokesmen will attend to provide information about the largest amateur sports organization in the world. There is no age limit for participation.

Archery hunting season began on Monday, Oct. 17 and continues through Saturday, Nov. 26. Hunting for deer is allowed from a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset. There is no hunting on Sundays. Hunters must have a license and in most cases permission from property owners.

You won’t find peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on white bread in this kitchen.

What you will find are adjectives. Lovely, unforgettable, nutritious, choice, happy. Luscious, unsurpassed, napkin, colorful, heavenly. These are a few of the adjectives hanging above the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School kitchen, written by students to describe their lunch experiences.

Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss praised a decision by the Massachusetts Board of Secondary Education this week to seek a waiver from the requirements of No Child Left Behind, the federal law that requires testing in public schools and sets a goal of 100 per cent student proficiency in English and mathematics by 2014.

“That was not a realistic benchmark to begin with and if we get a waiver for that we won’t have to get crazy over a standard,” Mr. Weiss said yesterday.