Sports
Women’s Workout
Curves of Vineyard Haven will give a free, 30-day membership to any non-member who visits the club during regular operating hours throughout National Women’s Health Week, May 13 to 19. This annual awareness week, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health, begins each year on Mother’s Day.
Track and field and girls’ lacrosse return to the Vineyard this week after several away games and meets, with the track team competing against Bishop Stang on Tuesday at 3 p.m. and the girls going up against Oliver Ames Monday at 3:30. Softball, boys’ tennis and boys’ lacrosse are also home this week.
YMCA Healthy Kids Day
There will be Zumba. There will be yoga. There will be a petting zoo, face painting, swim assessments and healthy food.
The event is the YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day and it takes place tomorrow, April 28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The day is dedicated to teaching kids the value and fun in physical activity.
It’s all free all day long.
Last year over 400 kids of all ages attended the event. There is even a “wee ones” play course, to get those toddlers toddling.
Allergy Talk
On Wednesday, May 2, the Martha’s Vineyard Family Center Allergy Support Group is presenting a talk called Managing Atopic Dermatitis and Eczema. The event will be led by Karol Timmons, a pediatric nurse for 32 years who specializes in asthma, atopic dermatitis, eczema, and food allergies.
When it comes to drug and alcohol abuse among teenagers, peer pressure and experimentation frequently are cited as contributors. But according to one expert, a look at adolescent brains shows why teens are particularly affected by drug and alcohol use.
To speak more about what’s going on in teenagers’ heads — and how it affects things like substance addiction — Dr. Traci L. Brooks is coming to the Vineyard next week for three presentations about “The Adolescent Brain” and changes that occur as the brain matures.
Volleyball Winners
The West Tisbury volleyball team defeated the Oak Bluffs Blazers in five sets last Wednesday during the middle school championship game, giving the Hawks their third interscholastic title of the 2011-2012 sports season.
The Hawks won the first two sets 25-21, 25-23, but Oak Bluffs came back in the next two (25-12, 25-22) to tie the match. West Tisbury closed out with a 15-5 fifth set.
Earlier this year, the West Tisbury girls won the annual middle school track meet; the boys shared the track title with the Tisbury School.