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Dementia Care Training

An in-depth, eight-hour training designed to meet the state education criteria for dementia care professionals is being offered April 29 and 30 by the Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod and the Islands.

Topics covered in the Dementia Certificate Program for Professionals training include an overview of disease progression, empathic communication skills, managing challenging behaviors, medication management and others.

Learn Reiki

The Yoga Barn is hosting workshops with Libby Barnett, MSW and reiki master. Reiki I is Saturday, April 30, from 2 to 8 p.m. and Reiki II is Sunday, May 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The tuition for Reiki I is $95 and for Reiki II is $130, both discounted from regular tuition. As an additional discount Reiki I will be offered at $75 for nurses (proof of certification required).

Mytoi Cleanup

Enjoy a dirty, possibly sweaty celebration of spring: Spend a morning planting and sprucing up the Island’s only public Japanese-style garden, Mytoi on Chappaquiddick. The annual group gardening event is on next Saturday, April 30, from 9 a.m. to noon, and all are welcome to help. Bring your own work gloves, rakes and shovels, and join for any or all of the morning at Mytoi. Please let organizerss know if you plan to attend; call 508-693-7662.

Growing up, Todd Christy watched his father go through his early morning coffee ritual on a daily basis. “He would grab a mug of day-old coffee, nuke it, and slug it down. Then he’d be out the door,” Mr. Christy said. “And that was my early experience with coffee. Just something to get or keep you going.”

Edartown restaurant Chesca’s in association with Cakes by Liz, Sweet E’s Cupcakes in Vineyard Haven, and Sweet Life Café in Oak Bluffs will be baking special desserts during the week before Mother’s Day, May 2 to 8, to battle breast cancer as part of the 12th annual Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer.

Desserts start at $3 and 100 per cent of sales will benefit breast cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

“Each food item in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles,” writes Steven L. Hopp, Barbara Kingsolver’s husband, in the first of a series of sidebars sprinkled throughout her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, the account of their family’s attempts to eat locally. “If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.”

If the walls at Nectar’s could talk, or sing for that matter, they would share an intricate story of rock and roll, blues, folk, hip-hop, reggae and pop, but more than that, the story of the soulful music community on the Vineyard. Now, as the only remaining music club on the Island prepares to open for its third season, one thing remains true about the venue: No matter who’s in charge, the music continues to challenge a Vineyard audience.