The high school theatre and music departments are performing Cats this year at the Performing Arts Center at the regional high school with shows on Feb. 13, 14, 15 and 16.

The Holmes Hole Sailing Association is taking orders for its annual mid-winter dinner. This year it will be held at the Wharf Pub on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 6 p.m.

Tracing your family tree is the theme at the Introduction to Genealogy workshop with Kay Mayhew on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

The sold-out event sponsored by WMVY raised $34,000 for the Red Stocking Fund this year. People sampled chilis and danced to the music of the Mariachi Mexico Lindo Band, the Baja Brothers and later Johnny Hoy.

An architectural salvage expert in Tampa was charmed to discover a scrapbook full of cartoons by the late Denys Wortman, renowned syndicated cartoonist in his day and a Vineyard resident.

The 28th Annual Big Chili Contest, a major fundraiser for both the Red Stocking Fund and the Portuguese-American Club, begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the P.A. Club in Oak Bluffs (snow date is Sunday).