Community
Farm to School
The November Community Island Grown Schools meeting will take place on Thursday, Nov. 6, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Island Co-Housing Common House in West Tisbury, off Stoney Hill/Chicama Vineyards Road. The meeting, to discuss rules and regulations around sourcing locally-grown food for school meals, will be attended by state regulators and the head of Massachusetts Farm to School program. All welcome.
Apple Pie for Charity
Zephrus Zeafood and Grill has created a sweet new way for Vineyarders to think of each other and to donate to the Island Food Pantry. Along with its other standard desserts, Zephrus tempts its patrons by offering a new dessert called As American As Apple Pie.
Chef Robert Lionette said proceeds from the dessert will be sent to the pantry every two weeks. The dessert comes with ice cream and costs $12. Zephrus has already donated over $100 and anticipates enough pie eaters to support checks through out the winter season.
The Vineyard community from here and abroad showed up for a fundraiser to help an Island personality coping with medical hardship. Jim Moore, a sales representative from Island Food Products and a former food and beverage director for the Harbor View Hotel, is fighting the cancer Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
He has yet to hold a press conference in his front yard, hold forth on foreign policy regarding Israel, or hire a publicity management agent, as Ohio’s Joe Wurzelbacher has. But Joe Guerin, an Edgartown plumber with nearly 30 years experience, has seen his local fame skyrocket in the two weeks following the final presidential debate thanks to Mr. Wurzelbacher and the three little words he inspired: Joe the Plumber.
Minnesingers’ Auction
Tomorrow is the Minnesingers’ Annual Auction and Mini-Concert. The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s select vocal group will perform, plus there will be food, an array of items in a silent auction and a live auction with Trip Barnes at the microphone.
Help support the Minnesingers as they pursue community and cultural outreach through music. Doors open at 5 p.m., live auction begins at 7 p.m. It’s all at the Portuguese American Club on Vineyard avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Count Me In — Not So Small Town Politics on Martha’s Vineyard is the name of the newest exhibit at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.