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Ambulance Open House
The Tisbury volunteer ambulance service will celebrate National Emergency Medical Services Week with an open house on Saturday, May 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tisbury police and ambulance facility at the Water street parking lot next to the Stop & Shop in Vineyard Haven. More information is available by calling 508-696-4214.
Preschool Grant Offer
The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation of Getzville, N.Y., is prepared to provide grants to organizations operating preschools on the Vineyard. The grants would go to the purchase of age-appropriate classroom equipment and technology for use by children ages three to five to promote the development of language and literacy skills. The due date for the application letter is June 30. More information can be found at thetowerfoundation.org.
The napkins were folded and the tables set. The homemade bread was sliced and waiting in bread baskets and the waitstaff had been briefed — yes the cod is fresh, no we do not serve wine, and although all our desserts are wonderful, I would recommend the frozen key lime souffle with tropical fruit salsa and raspberry coulis, just delicious.
Not two weeks ago, as Katrina Yekel greeted customers at the door of Cafe Moxie, the restaurant she now owns with her boyfriend, executive chef Austin Racine, she simply glowed.
As she was updated on preparations for the 30th annual Tisbury town picnic on Memorial Day, to be held Monday from noon to 4 p.m.
Five or six years ago Kristin Henriksen started doing lectures on Martha’s Vineyard about the value of planting Island native plants.
“And afterwards,” she recalled yesterday, “people would come up to me and ask where they could get them. And I had to say I didn’t know.”
And so in 2006, she opened a nursery called Going Native, in Vineyard Haven. And when she talks native, she means local. Not native to North America, not native to New England, but Island native genotypes — plants from seeds collected here.
Initially Margaret Martin thought the want ad for a Cuttyhunk schoolteacher contained a typographical error. Scouring a jobs Web site for the Cape and Islands area in the spring of 2003, she saw an entry for a school with one student. She wasn’t reassured when she traveled to Rehoboth to meet Russell Latham, the district superintendent, and found that the listed address was actually a private residence. Sensing the whole thing might be an elaborate joke, she almost drove home to Long Island.