Congratulations to all our graduates! You have just taken a big step toward a successful future. We are all, your neighbors and parents, so very proud of you. We wish you well on your continuing journey. There are so many activities planned this week that the kids and their parents may need a few weeks to recover. This is such an exciting time in life, as the young people stand on the brink of a brave new world, preparing to find their way ahead.
There will be a Women-Only Self-Defense Class on Saturday from noon to 3 pm at the high school gym. Alpha Krav Maga Boston Cape Cod is returning to host the class to benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Connect to End Violence program. Connect to End Violence is a domestic violence and rape crisis center providing services to individuals on Martha’s Vineyard. All services are free and confidential.This class is open to women and girls, ages 12 and older. Suggested donation is $25, with all proceeds benefiting Connect for victim and survivor services. This is an important opportunity for women to be safer, now and in the future. For more or to register, call Isadora at 774-549-9667, ext. 106, or email ibrito@mvcommunityservices.com.
The citizens on the Vision Committee have invited design consultants to present alternative plans for Owen Park. Your comments will be considered when designing a master plan for the park. The meeting is tonight, Thursday, at 7 pm at the Tisbury Senior Center. All are welcome.
You can enjoy historic, newly digitized movies from Martha’s Vineyard, some of which have never been shown to the public before. The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society, working with the Vineyard Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, will show these historic movies of our Island next Wednesday at 7:30 pm at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center. Museum and/or Film Society members pay $12, nonmembers $15.
Thanks to the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society for the delightful experience of “Love & Friendship,” the film about Jane Austen’s Lady Susan. It was an unexpected treat, truly MOM rated: no sex, no violence. I look forward to more such unusual films this summer.
Our summer residents are still coming back. It is so good to see them coming home. They have been expecting a little warmer weather, but will soon be used to enjoying what we get … or waiting a few hours until it changes to something else. At least the surrounding water temperature is slowly improving; it will soon be a delight to step into the nearby ocean for a refreshing swim.
I had a new red bathing cap; fortunately I forget who gave it to me. But when I rinsed it last week after my swim in the YMCA pool, the rinse water was a rather bright red. I never had a bathing cap whose color ran after it was wet. I shall have to remember to ask the lifeguard if he noticed a red streak down my back as I got out of the pool. I doubt he did, for I am sure others would have said something. But what a very strange thing to happen. It never occurred to me to wonder if a bathing cap had colors that would run.
Support a local church: the UU Yard Sale, from 8:30 to 3:30, is next Saturday. You may find that odd gift, or the saucepan or book you were looking for.
Plan now to take Dad out to dinner for Father’s Day. He’ll enjoy a chicken and rib barbeque a week from Saturday, June 18, at 5:30 pm at the First Baptist Church parish hall. Complete meal with dessert and beverage is $15. Plan for takeout, too. Reservations or orders at 508-693-1539.
You can also get him some muffins for Sunday breakfast at the bake sale put on by the Vineyard Committee on Hunger, from 10 to 2, next to the Capawock. That is also a week away, the Saturday before Father’s Day. By the way, can you help? Can you make some cookies, scones, muffins, or bread? Donations, of food or cash, will be gratefully accepted from 9 am. All proceeds go to those who are hungry and in need on the Island. You should know that the need is growing.
More for foodies: If food is your thing, check out farmfieldsea.com to sign up for conversation only or a complete dinner on Wednesday, July 20.
Of course, you know that Flag Day commemorates the day our flag was adopted by the resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. Fly your flag on Tuesday to show your pride in America, the land of the free.
Big bunches of birthday balloon wishes go out tomorrow to Claudia Nelson, Cody Chandler, and Ruth Stiller. Monday belongs to Michael Noonan. Happy birthday to our flag and Madeline Fisher on Tuesday. Wednesday we send best wishes to Fredrick Nash.
Heard on Main Street: June showers bring July mosquitoes.
