Community
Fudging It
Murdick’s Fudge is again sponsoring the Run the Chop Challenge, a five-mile road race benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha’s Vineyard. The race is on July 4, starting at the Tisbury School on Spring street in Vineyard Haven at 8:30 a.m.
Love, Set, Match for Cambodia
In 2004, while traveling through Cambodia, Todd Alexander and his wife, Kara Gelinas, were taken with a charming 14 year-old girl selling postcards to tourists. The girl did not attend school, although she wished she could. Her family couldn’t afford it.
What began as a chance encounter led Mr. Alexander and Ms. Gelinas to create a nonprofit called Family to Family Cambodia to help children of Cambodia attend school and, ultimately, to actually build three schools in Cambodia.
Young Poet Awards
The 2011 Promising Young Poets contest has named four winners and two runners-up in its second annual contest for high school poets.
This years winners are Jess Dupon from the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, and Jordan Wallace, Claudia Taylor and Lizzie Kelleher from the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Runners-up are Truda Silberstein, from the regional high school and Oscar Thompson form the charter school.
Cakewalking
In yet another sign that spring is indeed on its way, the third annual Cake-walk will take place at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury on March 19 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
For the uninitiated, this cakewalk is not a metaphor for easy doings. It’s as near to literal as one can get. Then again, cakes don’t actually walk, but cakemakers do.
Samplers are not just another pretty doily.
This evening beginning at 5:30 p.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Museum will host an event entitled Behold the Needle: Samplers in the Education of Schoolgirls in the 18th and 19th Centuries that gives an in-depth look at the remarkable history and uses of samplers in the not too distant past.
In addition to building needlework skills, samplers were once used as practical teaching tools for learning numbers and letters.
Late March Tack Sale
The Martha’s Vineyard Horse Council will host a tack sale on Sunday, March 27, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury. Tables are $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers. The council will provide the tables, with up to two people per table. Sellers are in charge of their own prices. Any profits after paying for the cost of the hall will go to the council scholarship fund. For information contact Stephanie at [email protected] or Tara at [email protected].