Vineyard Gazette
Make a Difference Day
Friday, November 10, 2000
Island of Martha's Vineyard, seven miles off southeast coast of
Massachusetts.
Winter population, 14,248; in summer, 105,624.
Twenty miles from the city of New Bedford.
Eighty miles from Boston and 150 miles from New York.
Devoted to the interest of the six towns on the Island of Martha's
Vineyard: Edgartown, Oak Bluffs. Tisbury (Vineyard Haven), West Tisbury.
Chilmark and Aquinnah.
These, with Gosnold, eonslitulc Dukes County.
Make A Difference Day Brings
Mobilization of Island Volunteers
The Stone Soup Foundation would like to thank all those who helped
make the first Make A Difference Day on Martha Vineyard a great success.
In honor of this national day of service on Saturday, October 28, over
100 people - of all ages - on the island joined together to:
Collect 600 items to stock the Island Food Pantry for the winter in
honor of Pam Perry;
Raise $800 for the Martha's Vineyard After School Program yard sale;
Collect 100 books for Project Headway's children;
Read 100 stories to children and seniors at the Read-a-thon:;
Shingle a house tor Habitat for Humanity;
Paint a bilingual mural for Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary;
Clean two playgrounds at Oak Bluffs and Edgartown schools;
Plant beach grass at Lambert's Cove Beach;
Clean Edgartown's Bend in the Road Beach;
Hand-clear a 1/4 acre of land for Sheriff's Meadow's environmental museum.
Thanks to our co-chairs, Ted Morgan and Bob Tankard; project managers
Tisha Calpello and Collccn Leland;
teachers Joan Creato, Marsha Curtis, Hope Fecitt, Mike Halt, Betsy Hauck,
Peggy Isham and Bill Jones;
Morgan Hauck, City Year/Providence RI who spoke at all the school
assemblies along with Stone" Soup Community Heroes Ed Jerome. Anna
Markwica, Ted Morgan, Ethe1 Sherman, Pricilla Sylvia, Robert Tankard
and Arthur Wortzel; and musician Niki Patton, Ted Morgan and Leo Convroy,
Doris Gaffney and MV Regiona1 High School for their contribution to our
community celebration.
Special thanks to our business donors: Carroll's Moving &Trucking Inc.
and Vineyard Packaging Service for help with the food drive; food and
beverages from A&P, Black Dog, David Ryan's, Edgartown Pizza, Island
Food Products, Louis', Vineyard Bottled Water; and the Wal-Mart
Foundation.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary with Rebecca Taylor and Pam Benjamin
with Andora Aquino, Gregory Aquino, Jessica Francis, Matte Horton,
Derek, Will, Ron and Deb Nagengast and Robert Kaskiewicz (England),
Yoohyun Oak, Brittany, Gillian, Naomi Rayfield, Emily Regan and Klayton
Vilkaca,
Island Food Pantry with Amen Hanjian and the West Tisbury school,
teachers Robyn Wingate and parents, Nancy Cole, Pat Lynch, Tom Ronan,
Peggy Stone and eighth grade and British exchange students with Student
Council members, especially Sarah Greenberg. Christine Ronan, Sophie
Lloyd, Alyssa Harrison, the Edgartown Junior Girl Scout Troop and all
those who donated food.
Habitat for Humanity with Armen Hanjian, Mark, Rich Combra, Clifford
Jernegan and the Nantuckct Congregational Church.
Lambert's Cove Beach grass planting with Betsy Mayhew with Peggy,
Brittney and Matthew Stone, Eric Bales, Nancy Rogers and Pheobe Bates.
Beach and Playground Clean Up: Pack 90, Den 5 Tiger Cubs for cleaning
the playground, at the Oak Bluffs and Edgartown school and Edgartown's
third graders for cleaning up Bend in the Road Beach.
Martha's Vineyard After School Program with Marsha Curtis, Belsy Corsiglia,
Betsy Edge.
MVRHS Vocational Child Development with Ruth Major and the Garden Gate
Child Development Center, Martha's Vineyard Hospital's Learning Center,
Martha's Vineyard Community Service. Early Children Program, the Rainbow
Place who collected 100 books for Project Headway.
Read-a-thon with Ethel Sherman wilh Sue Larsen's Girl Scout Troop in
Chilmark; Diane Headen with Victoria, Thomas Phillips, Jerry, Nancy and
Matthew Brightman. Marge Larned, Emily Miller, Barbara Fell in Viney rd
Haven; Janet and Sheldon Bank, Candy and Lyndsey Webster. Celeste V,
Bailey. Erinn Long, Sophie Van Raan, Martha Hubble with Mary Jo Joiner in
West Tisbury; Jesse Taylor and Oak Bluffs Student Council with Pam
Melrose; Janet Holladay, Michael, Karen and Megan Dulton with Linda
Norton in Oak Bluffs; Helen Manning, Suzanne Carmick, Zoe "Pinky"
Zeeman, Caley Bennett. Sandy and Charlotte Rose Benjamin with Agnieszka
Meyro and Natalie Francis in Aquinnah; Christine Ronan and Sarah
Greenberg with Susan Markwica at Family Center; Ann Tyra, Janelle Guanino,
Ashley Guanino, Shana Patz. Molly Cabral with Debbie MacInnis in
Edgartown.
Sheriff's Meadow with Debra Swanson, Dick and Sarah Johnson, Bill
Bridwell, Emily Miller, Nick Turner and Lauren and Matte Horton.
And to everyone who volunteered on Make A Difference Day on their own
special projects.
Stone Soup Foundation. 696-8514 http://www.soup4world.com
P.O. Box 4301 Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
When we all work together; we can build a better world for everyone.
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