Community
Former Vineyard resident, fine art photographer and educator Michael Zide has been asked to speak for Bogen Imaging at the Photo Plus Expo in New York city this October. The expo, held at the Javits Center, is the largest photographic event in the country. Mr. Zide will present his collection of black and white landscape images of Martha’s Vineyard, the West Coast and the Pioneer Valley during three presentations, Thursday Oct. 23 at 4 p.m., and Friday Oct. 24, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The title of the presentation is Musings and Metaphors.
Health and human service agencies on the Vineyard are already feeling the effects of severe state budget cuts made last week by Gov. Deval Patrick and are bracing for more in the months ahead.
State funding to Family Planning of Martha’s Vineyard and Martha’s Vineyard Community Services was slashed in the cuts, while directors at the Island Health Care Rural Clinic in Edgartown and the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital were busy this week preparing for spending and hiring freezes.
Late October swirls with the supernatural. Dropping temperatures, cheap candy and carved pumpkins all herald the coming of Halloween. Tomorrow, ethereal energies are converging at the Mystic Fair, a healing arts bazaar being held at the Vineyard Playhouse.
Harvest Festival
Tomorrow is Vineyard Gardens’ annual Harvest Festival, with free crafts, refreshments and information available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the nursery on State Road in West Tisbury. All are welcome for the Saturday demonstrations and instruction on decorating with edible flowers, creating autumn flower bouquets, building pinecone bird feeders and planting paperwhite bulbs. For details, call 508-693-8511.
The organizers of the surplus food program, now called Helping Hands, begin distributions today, continuing monthly through April, 2009.
Future dates, all Fridays, are: Nov. 14, Dec. 12, Jan. 16, Feb, 13, March 13, and April 10.
All distributions will take place at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Parish House in Vineyard Haven. The parish house is the small building on William street right next to the church. Food will be distributed until we run out.
BY JULIA RAPPAPORT
A 2003 graduate of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School who works as a dispatcher for the county sheriff’s department was one of three lucky Islanders who won an affordable Edgartown home in a town lottery this week.
“I’m too shocked to think,” said a teary Maria Williams following the drawing held by Edgartown selectmen in the Baylies Room at the Old Whaling Church on Tuesday.