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His family members and friends got inoculated at their doctors or druggists.
She’s had her first 100 days, her first summer — including her first Possible Dreams Auction — and now Martha’s Vineyard Community Services executive director Juliette Fay is settling into the rhythms of year-round Island life. And she has some observations.
“What I’ve learned is that this is a very remarkable community,” Ms. Fay said this week.
When he leads a service, Reverend Bill Clark, 61, wears a starched white hat and a rainbow-colored stole. He walks up and down the aisle during the hymns with broad strides, his chin tilted upwards, his voice easily filling the cozy wooden church.
“Whatever you are going through in this life, my friends, you are not going through alone,” he told his new congregants, the members of the Unitarian Universalist Society in Vineyard Haven, at a recent Sunday morning service.
The 23rd Annual CROP Walk is Sunday, Oct. 27 with walkers meeting at 1:25 p.m. at St. Augustine’s Church on Franklin street in Vineyard Haven. The walk route is to Oak Bluffs and back again.
Pledges benefit local organizations working to alleviate hunger on the Island. Last year walkers and supporters raised $23,447, which brought the 22-year total raised to $359,085. A group of generous Islanders are pledging 20 cents for every dollar raised this year.
For information or for forms for sponsoring walkers, call the Rev. Alden Besse at 508-693-3930.
The Animal Shelter has an A.P.B. out for the owner of a large male cat found on Mount Aldworth avenue in Vineyard Haven. This handsome gentleman was trying to move in with a family who already had two cats. He is residing at the shelter until he is reclaimed by his owner or adopted. Sweet and friendly, this cat is quite distinctive with a prominent dark spot beside his nose and a few white hairs mixed into his otherwise smooth gray coat. He is on the larger side, somewhere around 15 pounds, a perfect lapful of purring.
Red Stocking applications are available beginning Oct. 25 at locations around the Island. Red Stocking provides clothing, food and toys for Vineyard children in need from ages newborn to eighth graders at the holidays.