West Tisbury Library users, this is your challenge, should you choose to accept it. Submit a donation to the West Tisbury Library Foundation, Inc. before Oct. 1. and see your donation doubled.

More than 80 people turned out Sept. 16 for the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Library 5K Run/Walk and Fun Run. The annual event, which raises money for the library, attracted participants ranging in age from 7 to 75.

This Sunday Steve Maxner, a Viet Nam veteran and environmental activist, will speak at the Unitarian Universalist Church on the topic, About Protest. Mr. Maxner recently paddled a yellow kayak near the award ceremony at the Monster Shark Tournament in Oak Bluffs. His small boat carried the words, “Killing Sharks for Fun and Prizes is a Crime against Nature Shame on Us.”

On Sunday, Sept. 23, the Mink Meadows Golf Club is hosting its second annual tournament to benefit Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard. CBS News correspondent Morton Dean will serve as one of the hosts of the event.

This year’s Living Local Harvest Festival is next Saturday Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury. The event is an all-things-sustainable gathering where those with boots in the soil and fingers on the green pulse, be it energy or otherwise, showcase not only their wares but their wherewithal.

Take a local wild food adventure, learn how to fillet a fish or create the perfect compost mix, enjoy food from Island farms, carve pumpkins, ride ponies and cows or take part in a bit of cow chip bingo. In other words, the possibilities are endless.

There were winning golfers — four, to be exact. But the real winners at the Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club fall golf tournament, held Sept. 8 at the Edgartown Golf Club, were the children and families of the Vineyard.

The annual golf tournament, now in its 28th year, raised just over $9,000 to support the Boys and Girls Club’s affordable youth programs, most notably the club’s after-school program, which is open to all Island youth in grades K-6 for an annual membership fee of just $20.