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The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter, is starting a collaboration with the Medical Reserve Corps on the Island in support of local disaster relief efforts.
Jim Thomas of Oak Bluffs, staff relations manager for the Cape Cod and Islands Chapter, American Red Cross said in a statement: “I am really excited to work with these medical volunteers. Every shelter the Red Cross operates needs trained medical personnel and this will be a great step in expanding the volunteers available for local disasters and bigger events.”
The commercial and recreational fluke season ended this week.
Ladies Day Outing
GuidedCycling.com and the English Butler will present a special event for women only that includes two hours of a comfortable and fun guided cycling tour on a recumbent trike followed by a foot soak, scrub and massage while being served tea and sweets on a tiered platter. Preregistration is required by August 21. Transportation will be provided. The cost is $145. Call 508-338-3130.
When Hugh Weisman organized the first annual Chilmark Road Race some 32 years ago, he wasn’t exactly sure how many people would show up. Mr. Weisman, an avid runner who at the time was offering a clinic at the Chilmark Community Center, estimated beforehand that 200 runners might show up.
Maybe more, maybe less.
But he never imagined that the little race, stretching over five kilometers along Middle Road, would grow to become the phenomenon it is now.
Is Israel ready to play ball?
Bostonian Larry Baras thought so, certain that if he built it, they would come. He not only built it, he let Brett Rapkin and Erik Kesten film the associated trials and tribulations. The result is the high-octane Holy Land Hardball, showing this Sunday evening at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
Holy Land Hardball documents the formation of Israel’s first professional baseball league, from tryouts through the first game in June 2007.
Fish can come back.
A research paper published in last Friday’s journal Science concludes that while fish stocks remain threatened by overfishing, collaboration among scientists and fisheries managers can reverse the trend.
Boris Worm, a marine ecologist with Dalhousie University in Halifax and other scientists published a report in 2006 citing evidence that if current trends continued, all commercially harvestable fish would be gone by 2048.
The Friday report in Science takes an entirely different view.