Miles of Memories
The Martha’s Vineyard Miles of Memories Walk for Alzheimer’s will be on Sunday, May 15, rain or shine. Registration begins at 11 a.m. at Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs. The two-and-a-half-mile walk begins at noon.
Accepted at Law School
Patrick W. Barrett 3rd has been accepted to Suffolk University School of Law. Patrick is a graduate of Marblehead High School and University of Massachusetts at Boston. Patrick will begin at law school in the fall of 2011. He is the son of T.O. and Shellie Johnson of Edgartown, formerly of Marblehead.
Remembrance Luncheon
Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is holding a remembrance luncheon at the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown on Sunday, May 22. All attendees are invited to bring a picture of a loved one to be displayed during the meal.
The cost is $15. For more details and to RSVP, call 508-693-0189.
Walk to Cure Cancer
This Saturday, May 7, everyone can pitch in to help cure cancer simply by putting one foot in front of the other in the annual MV goes Pink walk.
Beginning at Lola’s on Beach Road and looping around to the Edgartown Lighthouse and back, the walk is a chance to help raise money for the Island’s Cancer Support Group as well as show support for Islanders living with cancer.
Registration begins at 9 a.m., walk at 10 a.m. For details, call 508-560-0484.
Art by Wendy Weldon
Wendy Weldon began playing with paint as a young girl in her mother’s art studio on a farm in Indiana. She studied art at Bard College, Silvermine College of Art, Santa Rosa Junior College and the Boston Museum School.
These days she spends her time painting in her studio in Chilmark. Her dog, Mollie, is often by her side, which is appropriate as Mollie will be the featured subject at Ms. Weldon’s art show, on exhibit for the month of May, at the West Tisbury Public Library.
At its annual meeting last month, the Edey Foundation awarded $71,236 to the following organizations:
BiodiversityWorks, through the Manomet Center, for study of beach nesting birds and associated education and protection;
Friends of Sengekontacket for an upgrade to their Web site;
The Vineyard Conservation Society for natural resource monitoring training;
Vineyard Energy Project for their in-school education program;
Vineyard Voice Media for five environmental videos;
Creative drama teacher Phyllis Vecchia has an innovative way to get history across to sixth graders: Rather than talking about suffragettes Amelia Bloomer and Susan B. Anthony, and the abolitionist Henry Stanton, she has them BE Amelia Bloomer and Susan B. Anthony and Henry Stanton. In a rousing half-hour in Amy Reece’s sixth grade class at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School on Thursday of last week, Ms. Vecchia guided the entire class through improvised paces of the women’s rights movement from 1840 to 1860.
Downdogging at Home
Want to do more yoga but schedule’s too full to get to a class? Or maybe the cost of weekly classes has been just too much to bear. But what’s the alternative? Shallow breathing and road rage? Wait, there is another way. How about creating a 21-minute home practice with the help of Sherry Sidoti at Fly Yoga.
Writers’ Group Unveiled
On Sunday evenings for the last several years a group of writers has been gathering at the Cleaveland House in West Tisbury, the home of mystery writer Cynthia Riggs. The writers meet to share their work and help critique and inspire each other while traveling down that very solitary road of the creative process.
Comsog Plant Sale
You know that summer is almost here when the Community Solar Greenhouse (Comsog) plant and seedling sale arrives. The sale begins Saturday May 7 and Sunday, May 8 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and runs through Memorial Day weekend. The sale will feature homegrown organic plants, herbs and vegetables, heirloom tomatoes, 15 varieties of peppers, hanging baskets, geraniums, petunias, sunflowers, zinnias, and of course gifts for mom! The greenhouse is on New York avenue in Oak Bluffs.
