The Stone Soup celebration of heroes, an awards ceremony featuring the late Walter Cronkite, originally held at the Tabernacle in July, 2000, featured as a film, will be rebroadcast on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m. on MVTV Channel 13, followed by a free reception for award winners, friends and supporters from 7 to 8 p.m. (RSVP for directions: e-mail [email protected] or call 415-912-6957.)

Vineyard Pedicab entrepreneurs Will and John Pasquina will host the first Pan-Martha Challenge, a 40-mile bikeathon across the Vineyard to raise money for cancer research and treatment at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, on Oct. 4 at 9:30 a.m.

Participants are asked to gather donations before pedaling from the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs to the cliffs of Aquinnah, a route one-fifth the length of the statewide charity event it mimics, the Pan-Mass Challenge.

Cycle Martha’s Vineyard

Cycle Martha’s Vineyard is a scenic recreational Island ride on Saturday, Oct. 17. Both the 100-kilometer and the makes a circuit of the Island, traveling along the Atlantic Ocean, Nantucket Sound, rolling farmland and the State Forest. The 50-kilometer route also offers breathtaking views. The event benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha’s Vineyard and other charities.

Hoping to guard against an outbreak or worse of the H1N1 virus among young people this winter, a group that includes town health agents, the Vineyard Nursing Association and school leaders is moving forward with a plan to vaccinate the Island student population against the virus known as swine flu.

Members of the group have been meeting weekly to finalize a plan to distribute vaccine to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and the five Island elementary schools.

The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands chapter is organizing a number of CPR, AED and first aid classes this September for residents of Martha’s Vineyard. All classes will be held at the YMCA, 57 Pequot avenue in Oak Bluffs.

When the glossed ponies of The Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs halt their whirling prance, the expressions of the children mounted atop their wooden backs sour. The ride is over. But for Island artist Sandy Bernat, the slowing spin of the merry-go-round on a bright day earlier this summer marked her moment.

As the riders slid down the saddles, Ms. Bernat rushed into the ring to snap a photograph of the bridled horse heads, hooves and mystic aesthetic of America’s oldest operating carousel.