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Food Handling Course
On May 3, ServSafe Food Sanitation Training and Recertification classes begin at Adult and Community Education of MV (ACE MV). The class is taught by Alice Robinson. It is designed for safe food handling practices for food service personnel and anyone responsible for enforcement of the food sanitation code. Exam and materials are included. There will be a food safety minicourse for vendors at Farmers Markets and street fairs on Wednesday evening, May 25.
Caleb’s Crossing, By Geraldine Brooks, Viking, 2011, Hardcover, 320 Pages, $26.95, in bookstores May 3.
Poet’s Corner at Library
Cape Cod poets Elizabeth Bradfield and Nancy K. Pearson join Island poet Lisa Vunk in a reading on Sunday, May 1 at 4 p.m. at the West Tisbury Library.
Elizabeth Bradfield’s Approaching Ice (Persea Books 2010), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her book Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books 2008) was winner of the Audre Lorde Prize and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she has an MFA from the University of Alaska and works as a naturalist.
Fashionable Art of Flowers
Featherstone Center for the Arts will host its second annual Garden Tea Party and Fashion Show on Saturday, May 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. The tea party will feature tea, sandwiches and cake. A Peggy Zablotny botanical collage will be the raffle prize, while other prizes will be awarded for special hats. Minor Knight will be fashion moderator, while Traeger di Pietro, Denys and Marilyn Wortman, Anne Gallagher and Shelley Christiansen will walk the runway under the tent at Featherstone’s campus on Barnes Road in Oak Bluffs.
Blood Drive
The Red Cross has put out word this week that blood donors are needed: There is a critical need for type O negative and B negative blood.
A blood drive will be held this coming week on Tuesday, April 26, from noon to 5 p.m. at the Portuguese-American Club on Vineyard avenue in Oak Bluffs. Please come and give blood if you are able.
Trainings for Islanders who want to learn more about becoming a volunteer for Red Cross disaster services — and become a member of the Vineyard’s disaster assistance team — will be offered by the Red Cross on Friday, April 29, from 6 to 9 p,m, and Saturday, April 30, beginning at 8:30 a.m. They will take place at the Oak Bluffs Council on Aging located at 21 Wamsutta avenue. Beverages and snacks will be provided.