Community
Center for Living Benefit
On Tuesday, Sept. 13, Flatbread Pizza is hosting a benefit for the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living. What this means is that from 5 to 10 p.m. on that day and evening, $3.50 of every pizza sold will be donated to the center.
Aquinnah Cultural Center Hosts Expert
On Saturday, Sept. 3, at 6 p.m. the Aquinnah Cultural Center is hosting Kevin Grover, the director of the National Museum of the American Indian located in Washington, D.C.
CROP Walk
An advance planning meeting for the Vineyard CROP Walk will be held on Saturday, Sept. 10, at 5 p.m. at Grace Church in Vineyard Haven. The speaker will be the Rev. Bert Marshall, New England Director of Church World Service.
Mass in the Grass
The fourth annual Labor Day celebration and cookout at Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven gets underway at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 4, at the big tent on the rectory lawn.
There will food, ice cream, jazz music, and an announcement of a new effort in conjunction with the TogetherNow campaign, to address critical infrastructure needs.
The church is located at the intersection of Woodlawn and Franklin avenues.
For more details, call 508-693-0332.
Wind Festival Revisited
Too windy for a wind festival: that was the sad news last weekend. But, let’s face it, a kite wouldn’t have stood a chance against even the much milder than expected Irene visitation.
But now we are back to our gentle Island breezes and the wind festival is making another go at it on Saturday, September 3, at Waban Park. The festival begins at 11 a.m. and goes until dusk with kites, frisbees and all manner of wind powered flying contraptions, not to mention high spirits, soaring at the close of summer.
Cliffe Knechtle, pastor for Grace Community Church in New Canaan, Conn., will be preaching at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs this Sunday, August 28. Reverend Knechtle has spoken on university campuses around the country since 1980. He is the author of two books, Heaven Can’t Wait and Give Me an Answer. In 1990 he began the television program Give Me an Answer, which airs in portions of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, India and England. Cliffe’s parents were the founding members of the Presbyterian Church in New Canaan, where he grew up.