Community
Eleven-year-old Sophie Donohue doesn’t have far to travel for the Community Sing each week. During the summer she lives with her family in the Oak Bluffs Camp Ground. Sophie’s Vineyard experience could be described as a time to swim, sail and, of course, sing.
On Wednesday, July 20, at the third Community Sing of the summer, Sophie mingled with the crowd. “I’m waiting for my friends,” she explained. “We come every week to sing together.”
The overflow crowd gathered at the Chilmark Public Library to hear renowned Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday evening did not know it going in, but they were about to hear from an indicted felon.
An international criminal, if you will, for his offense was not committed in this country but in Italy.
In summary, the circumstances are these: Several years ago an Italian newspaper contacted him, seeking his views on an Italian judge who had freed a group of terrorists, on the basis that they were actually “freedom fighters.”
First In, Best Dressage
The Martha’s Vineyard Horse Council is offering a dressage show on August 14 and clinic with Bill Warren and Bill McMullin the day before, August 13.
On show day Bill McMullin will host Ride on the Side. Participants will sit with Bill during the show and he will talk about what is going on during each ride, what the judge is looking for, and how the movements are likely to be scored — promising a great opportunity to ask questions about riding tests! The cost for this is $35.
Celebrating Art and Life, the Della Way
The last Saturday in July has traditionally been called changeover weekend, the time in the summer when the July people leave and the August people arrive on the Island.
Meals-on-Wheels
Got wheels? The Meals-on-Wheels program really needs you. Regular and substitute drivers are needed to deliver Meals-on-Wheels on Martha’s Vineyard. Drivers are needed Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Individuals, teams of two or more, or groups and businesses may adopt a route. Delivery routes include up-Island, in and around Oak Bluffs, including Woodside, Edgartown and Vineyard Haven. Mileage reimbursement is available.
If there is one statistic that attests to the way in which Martha’s Vineyard Community Services has become crucial to the to the well-being of Islanders, it is the one board president Wiet Bacheller now recites.
Some 6,000 people — a number equal to about one-third of the resident population — come into contact with Community Services each year.
Fifty years ago, when the organization first started its helping work, the year-round population of the Vineyard was less than that.