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Chilmark Concert
Don’t miss the last summer concert and community hymn sing: join Lia Kahler, some of her students and fellow Methodist musicians on tonight, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at Chilmark Community Church.
The concert and sing will be followed by refreshments in the community room. Proceeds from the freewill offering will be used to help replace the music and instruments destroyed in Hurricane Katrina and to help replenish the Island Food Pantry for next winter. For details, call 508-645-3325.
Few people ever see the raw notes - the raw thoughts - of a writer they admire. They don't know the handwriting of a favorite novelist or journalist, or what kind of notebook, grade of paper or color of ink the writer prefers. But every writer has a process of transmitting thoughts into printed words. It's an unselfconscious process, since only the finished product will ever be seen.
That is, in part, why the new body of work by nationally acclaimed Island-based painter Cindy Kane is so bewitching.
Grant Will Help Train
Nurses for Windemere
The state has announced the award of a $104,974 workforce training fund grant to Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
The grant will fund a program to train 10 employees to become licensed practical nurses in 10 months. In addition to the grant, Windemere will fund $244,644 of the training program.
Red Cross Slates Workplace Safety Seminar
The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands chapter will has scheduled a workplace safety informational seminar for Sept. 26 in Hyannis.
The seminar will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the Four Points by Sheraton Hyannis Resort at the West End Rotary.
A flinty sun was dropping brilliantly, taking the temperature with it as the countdown to show time began Friday evening in the outdoor horse ring at the agricultural fair ground — but it was the gleaming white Lippizan stallions that shone.
A story about the Menemsha Pond sailboat races in the Friday Gazette misspelled the name of Nicholas Karnovsky. The Gazette regrets the error.