Sports
CPR/First Aid Class
The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter will hold an Adult CPR/AED and First Aid class Jan. 9 at the YMCA on Martha’s Vineyard at 57 Pequot avenue in Oak Bluffs. The class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and costs $50 for CPR/AED only (8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.), or $60 for CPR/AED and First Aid (1 to 3:30 p.m.).
Ring In New Year In Ring of Fire
The three words sound scary: ring of fire. In the Pacific Ocean, it’s where a lot of earthquakes and volcanoes go off. To Johnny Cash it was where you fell in love. But to disc golfers, it’s where you triumph over all those who lack your finesse with a frisbee — on three, two, one — as everyone throws simultaneously into the chain-link cage called a hole in disc golf.
Despite the snow and cold, the winter sports season is off to a hot start at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School with the boys’ basketball and hockey teams posting early big wins.
Meanwhile, the girls’ hockey team has been shaken by the sudden departure of longtime head coach Sam Sherman just two games into the season. Athletic director Sandy Mincone said Mr. Sherman turned in his resignation last Friday; the Vineyarders were 0-2 on the season after opening with losses to Whitman-Hanson last Saturday and Sandwich last Wednesday.
A total of 292 deer were taken during the two weeks of shotgun season on the Vineyard, which ended on Saturday, Dec. 12. Hunters were successful and the numbers are close to what was expected, despite weather conditions that were less than ideal.
“The weather was not that great,” said John Scanlon, state wildlife biologist. Mr. Scanlon operated the deer check-in station at the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest during the first week of the hunting season. He checked in 137 deer.
Mental Illness Support
A free Vineyard support group open to anyone with a close relative, spouse or significant other suffering from a mental illness — such as bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder or anxiety disorder — is being sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts.
A man deer hunting on Chappaquiddick Saturday morning was accidentally shot by a member of his own party, marking the second time in a less than a week that someone was mistakenly shot in a hunting season that has been marked by minor mishaps.
The accidental shooting last Saturday occurred just before 11 a.m. at a remote private property adjacent to the Cape Pogue Wildlife Refuge owned by The Trustees of Reservations.