Alex’s Place at the YMCA hosts Boomerang Trivia on Friday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. Form your own team of two made up of one adult and one teenager and then together you can answer questions from both generations.

Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 15, the Island Food Pantry will be open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Stone Church in Vineyard Haven.

The brightest planet in our morning sky has disappeared, or is about to. Venus is so low in the southeastern sky at dawn, you probably can’t find it. The planet, which in mythology is a Roman Goddess of love, is both extremely far away and also slipping into the glare of the bright sun.

Don’t try looking too hard for it, because the glare of the rising sun can be harmful. Venus will continue to appear to move closer to the Sun for another two weeks.

Today the are
Of things, mere are,
Be-drubs us, drubs us drab:
A thrusting spile splits this from that,
The air unbreathable . . .

These shacks attached by noon
Lack meaning in a butcher’s glare;
By their own shadows botched,
From were to will-have-been
They drift in are.

A blunt prow snorts and snores;
What impresario bids be
Such shrunkeness?
Says yes to it, yes yes, continually,
All else, all otherwise, ignores?

The Island Parents Advisory Council on Special Education (IPAC) will meet on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard.

The Vineyard Gazette won two top awards for excellence in journalism this week, including a Publick Occurrences award for its special section and website called Living on the Edge, the Coastal Erosion Project published in 2013. This is the second straight year that the Gazette has won this award.

From now until Nov. 1, the Mansion House Health Club will donate $18 to the Island Food Pantry whenever anyone renews or purchases a three month or more membership.

MV Toastmasters is holding an open house on Wednesday, Oct. 15, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the American Legion Post in Vineyard Haven.

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The campaign to bring high-speed internet to Chappaquiddick is short the required number of subscribers, with a little more than two months to go before the mid-December deadline.