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Red Cross Receives Grant
The Edward Bangs and Elza Bangs Kelley Foundation Inc. has provided a $7,500 grant to the Cape Cod and Islands Chapter of the American Red Cross to support the Training For Life Program.
The program is aimed at developing American Red Cross community scholarships to train high school students in first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
More information is available by calling 508-775-1540 or visiting capecodandislandsredcross.org.
SLOOP: Restoring My Family’s Wooden Sailboat, An Adventure in Old-Fashioned Values. By Daniel Robb. Simon & Schuster, New York, N.Y. 2007. 318 pages with photographs. $25.
A recent project in Oak Bluffs to cull the population of Canada geese by addling their eggs has been completed. Town shellfish and environmental officials hope the project will reduce droppings on public greens, including Ocean Park, and reduce bacteria levels in coastal ponds, including Sengekontacket and Farm Pond.
Correction
The Farm and Field column in Tuesday’s Gazette gave the wrong location of Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm. The farm is in Virginia. The Gazette regrets the error.
Festival Network, the national company that plans to hold a concert this summer in Ocean Park featuring the Boston Pops, wound up in hot water with Oak Bluffs selectmen this week when a representative asked for permission to expand the concert to a second night.
The request from Rob Scherer drew heat from representatives of several Island nonprofits, who said they are still waiting for crucial information from event organizers about the availability of tickets, ticket prices and a list of scheduled performers.
His feet were sore. His toes and heels threatened to blister. They had taken him across ponds, through wetlands and tall grass, under the cover of pines and oaks, over soft moss and hard asphalt, around the bends, down the valleys and up the hills.