Goal Sharky’s

Sharky’s Cantina is hosting a fundraiser this Tuesday, Oct. 5, for the Martha’s Vineyard Girls’ soccer booster club. All food sales that evening will benefit the booster club. There will also be a 50/50 raffle. The fundraiser will take place at both the Edgartown and Oak Bluffs Sharky’s.

Eighties Benefit Has Got the Beat

Were you that guy or gal Holding Back the Years while hoisting 99 Luftballoons at your White Wedding full of Karma Chameleons? Or maybe, instead, you were the Owner of a Lonely Heart because Sister Christian said Girls Just Want to Have Fun and then she started Dancing in the Dark with Mr. Roboto to the heat of St. Elmo’s Fire. Well, it Gives Love a Bad Name, right, all this Dancing on the Ceiling, but even if you do Blame It on the Rain, the sad fact is you miss doing the Wild Thing.

Adult and Community Education of MV (ACE MV) will have a benefit celebrating Island diversity and culture and Ethnic Studies Week. The Cultural Festival will take place at the Performing Arts Center at the high school on Oct. 15 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Electronics Disposal

Electronics disposal day is Saturday, Oct. 2, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the campus of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, across from the high school.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their old and tired computers, monitors, televisions, printers, notebooks, copiers, scanners, air conditioners, stereo equipment, dehumidifiers, cell phones, microwaves, you name it. Disposal is then done off-Island in an environmentally friendly way.

Understanding Zionism

Zionist Thought Then and Now, is a new class being led by Rabbi Caryn Broitman. The class will focus on the many different understandings of Zionism in the past 100 years, through reading thinkers both religious and secular, both left and right.

There will be 4 sessions: Oct. 12, 19 and 26 and Nov. 2. All classes will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Children’s Gardens

Award-winning children’s garden designer Jane L. Taylor, founding curator at Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden at Michigan State University, will lead a program about creating educational and entertaining gardens for children. Open to all teachers, parents and community members, the program will take place on Saturday, Sept. 25 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Edgartown School.