Community
In order to save the duck, one must eat the duck. It may seem counterintuitive, but that’s the idea behind Rebecca Gilbert’s latest venture at the Native Earth Teaching Farm in Chilmark.
Giving back to the community has long been a staple of the boys’ hockey program. This year the team is taking its yearly service project to a national level.
The team plans to raise at least $5,000 this season to donate to the Wounded Warrior Project. They are also hosting a military appreciation weekend in February during the annual Fairleigh Dickinson Tournament, held during the weekend of Feb. 15-16. Players will be wearing a special jersey in honor of the weekend tournament, which is a public event.
A fund has been set up to help Walter Ashley of Oak Bluffs who has been receiving treatments for lung cancer since last summer. Walter and his wife Connie are well-known figures on the Island where they operate their long-running business C&W Power Equipment near the airport.
It is a jump-and-shout scavenger hunt. Turn left and find a canvas dog tote, turn right and snap up the wooden Bavarian candle chime, search the bin on the bottom shelf and discover an ice cream scoop with a pink pig-shaped handle.
A grant received by the committee to save the Gay Head Light will allow three-dimensional scanning to create an accurate model, as preparations continue for relocating the old lighthouse.
An eggnog toast to all those hardy souls who put on their warmies and marched with the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard contingent in the Christmas parade last week.