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The Martha’s Vineyard Fish Farm for Haiti Project hosts a benefit tennis tournament from Thursday to Saturday, at the Martha’s Vineyard Resort 111 New York avenue in Oak Bluffs, open to all ages and levels. The entry fee is $50 per player. To sign up, call 508-693-0368.
The Cottagers’ 26th annual House Tour will be held on Thursday, July 17, rain or shine. In the fine tradition of distinctive homes associated with the event, five cottages will be on tour.
Two cottages are on Ocean avenue across from Ocean Park, and two houses and the historical Shearer Cottage are in the area of East Chop known as the Highlands.
The 37th Annual Martha’s Vineyard Antiques Show, benefiting the Rotary Club of Martha’s Vineyard, opens Thursday for a weekend program in the Edgartown Elementary School on the West Tisbury Road in Edgartown,
The show kicks off Thursday, July 17, 6 to 8 p.m. with an hors d’oeuvre reception. Admission to the preview is $40, and it’s best to make reservations by calling 508-627-6024.
Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, the show is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
At the very end of Main street Tuesday night, a bright green Tisbury fire truck stood with nothing to do and nowhere to go until one small boy came along and, too shy to do so on his own, had his father ask if he could climb up into it.
Red Cross Classes
The American Red Cross is organizing a number of CPR, AED and First Aid classes in July and August. All classes will be held at the Martha’s Vineyard YMCA at 57 Pequot avenue in Oak Bluffs.
The Infant and Child CPR class will be held on Monday, July 14, from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The cost for this class is $45.
An Adult CPR/AED class will be held on Saturday, July 12,and there will also be a class on Saturday, August 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The cost for the Adult CPR/AED course is $50.
The Aquinnah Cultural Center will hold its second annual All Native Artisans Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the center, located in the former Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead at the Gay Head Cliffs.
The festival will showcase Native American art from several U.S. locales, as well as traditional native food, artists at work, music and dance performances, said Berta Welch, chairman of the Aquinnah Cultural Center.