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The Nantucket Land Council is trying to help raise the remaining $4 million it needs to buy Linda Loring's 270 acres around North Head of Long Pond for $14 million with road signs. Using homemade signs six inches by 24, the maximum allowed by the Historic District Commission without a permit, the Land Council posted three consecutive signs on Loring's property along Madaket Road and two on Eel Point Road that print out the verses of poems. Madaket Road's is "Save This Land...The View is Grand...Give Us a Hand" and Eel Point Road's is "To Save This View for Me and You...Support the Nantucket Land Council." The poems borrow from the billboard sign campaign used by Burma-Shave brushless shaving cream, which put single poem verses on successive billboard signs along highways such as "A Whiskery Kiss...For the One...You Adore...May Not Make Her Mad...But Her Face Will Be Sore...Burma-Shave."

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION RECEIVES NON-PROFIT STATUS The Board of Trustees of the Community Foundation for Nantucket is pleased to announce an important milestone in the Foundation's development. At the end of June 2006, the Community Foundation for Nantucket was awarded 501(c) 3 status as a non-profit public charity. Effective immediately, all contributions to the Foundation are qualified for tax deductibility.

The Community Foundation for Nantucket is a permanent philanthropic resource created to enhance quality of life for everyone on Nantucket and dedicated to building community. The Foundation helps people and institutions identify philanthropic needs, opportunities and goals, and promotes cost-effective and beneficial charitable giving, grant making, and collaborating. CFN's Board and Advisors are now completing the Foundation's action plan and committee structures which will allow the CFN to serve the entire community. Visit the Foundation's website: www.cfnan.com

STRONG CURRENT KEEPS EMERGENCY CREWS BUSY Last Friday the fire department's emergency crews had little rest when powerful ocean currents on the island's south side overcame swimmers and caused two people to need ambulance transports.

"We were running from beach to beach at one point," said Acting Fire Chief Mark McDougall.

McDougall said a swimmer was reported trapped in the rip in the Wallbang Ave. area of Cisco at 12:15 on Friday, followed by a call to Clark's Cove at 2:55 p.m., then at 4:42 p.m. to the Bartlett Farm area and again at 4:51 p.m. at Surfside Beach. McDougall said those situations become difficult for emergency teams when beach crowding forces sometimes inexperienced swimmers to spread down the shore away from lifeguards and in less accessible locations.

RANNEY PROMOTED Lieutenant Commander William M. Ranney, USN, was promoted to his current rank on Tuesday, July 11. Will is the son of H. Flint and Corky Ranney. He is a 1992 graduate of Nantucket High School, and a 1996 graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. Will is a US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Officer on active duty. After returning from six months in Iraq, he is currently serving as the Force Protection and EOD Officer for Commander, Carrier Strike Group FIVE, embarked aboard USS Kitty Hawk, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.

STOREY NAMED GM Jim Storey was recently named General Manager of both Jared Coffin House and Harbor House Village. Storey served as General Manager for two years from 2002 until 2004.

During his first term as General Manager at Harbor House Village, Storey coordinated a four million dollar renovation of the hotel in 2003. Previously, Storey was Assistant Manager of the Nantucket Yacht Club where he worked for four years. Storey currently holds the position of Director of Housing/Procurement for Nantucket Island Resorts and has served as a Special Olympics Volunteer. He also organizes The Rock Run, an annual run around Nantucket which raises money for handicapped children, now in its 18th year.

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