JUNE D. MANNING
508-645-2574
Chilmark Chocolates opened on Thursday and will be open for all of your Easter treats. Not only millions of jelly beans, but chocolate eggs and many other delicacies.
The 12th annual Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival will be held at the Chilmark Community Center throughout the weekend. Tom Bena has personally selected the best movie I should attend this weekend. The Vineyard Gazette has had contests over the week for free tickets — Theresa Manning won one day and Jamie Sue Vanderhoop won the next day. I will look forward to seeing many friends from across the Vineyard at the festival.
Community Baptist Church and First Baptist Church will co-host a St. Patrick’s Day dinner and movie at the First Baptist Parish House on William street in Tisbury on Saturday, March 17 at 5:30 p.m. A traditional Irish dinner will be served, followed by a screening of The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. Tickets are $10 each. For further information, please call Rev. Ellen Tatreau at 508-693-1539.
My former MVRHS classmate Sundy Smith and her husband, Jon Previant, are now the directors at the Farm Institute at Katama. They were recently awarded a grant opportunity from Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program to offer five one-acre plots of land to use for innovative crops or innovative growing processes, as a way to try out new ideas for free. Assistance and a small stipend will be offered. The grant application deadline is March 21. You may find the application online at farminstitute.org. We always look forward to hearing what our fellow classmates are doing these days and to catch up with them on their successes.
Roxanne Ackerman returned recently from her trip to California to visit with family.
Condolences to the family and friends of David Bramhall, who would often swordfish with our family aboard the Bozo.
Maxwell Butler will be the musical conductor for the performances of Rent at Babson College in April. Max will also perform at the House of Blues in Atlantic City during April. He was recently featured in the Boston Herald with his Gentle Giant moving company, for which he peddles around Boston making deliveries across the city.
Jo-Ann Eccher and Derrill Bazzy are actively recruiting new volunteers for their 11-year-old son Jacob and his home-based autism program, Jacob’s Ladder to Son-Rise. Requirements are energy, enthusiasm, excitement, creativity, love, acceptance and non-judgement of yourself and Jacob. There is a four hour a week commitment plus one team meeting a month. No experience needed, training will be provided. For further information, please call Jo-Ann at 508-645-3245 or e-mail her at jeccher@earthlink.net. For further information regarding the program, please go to autismtreatmentcenter.org.
Joan LeLacheur and her daughter, Aquinnah Witham, returned home on Tuesday after spending the week in Tuolumne, Mexico.
Lexie Roth will have a release party/gig for her new CD, Kickstarter, at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan on April 14, coinciding with her 25th birthday. It’s a great way to celebrate the day. Lexie and her dad, Arlen Roth, have been performing in Manhattan over the winter.
Dan Sauer, his wife Wenonah Madison, and their sons, Waylon and Amos, returned home recently after spending much too short of a vacation in Nicaragua. They will re-open 7-A Foods in two weeks after a little bit of reorganizing and reconfiguring the kitchen while preparing for a busy summer season.
Richard Skidmore presented his new documentary video at the Chilmark Tavern on Thursday evening, as part of the Pathways Projects Institute. Richard’s movie is of Johnny Seaview, whom so many of us have known over the past half-century — for his random acts of kindness with floral bouquets or a single rose, as an arborist, jockey admirer and Suffolk Downs enthusiast, World War II veteran, and especially as the assistant and constant companion of Loretta Balla at the old Seaview Hotel.
Wendy Swolinzky returned this week after spending most of the past four weeks in Nicaragua.
Whitney Swolinzky and Celeste Glavin have headed to Columbia after touring Peru. They recently enjoyed spending the night at an inn and being able to watch the sunrise at Machu Picchu.
Condolences to Captain Buddy Vanderhoop and his wife, Lisa, in the loss of their dear companion, their weimaraner Amos. Amos left them on March 9 but his memory will live on in Lisa’s Vineyard Dog calendars.
Happy 24th anniversary wishes to Albert O. and Linda B. Fischer as they celebrate their special day on March 20.
Happy birthday wishes this week to Gabriel Lee Olsen, who will celebrate his first birthday on March 17. Gabriel is the son of Chief Jason Olsen and his wife, Andrea.
Robert MacDiarmid will celebrate on March 18. A very special birthday wish to Marshall Carroll as he celebrates on March 19. Amera Ignacio will party on March 19. Joseph Corbo, Kristie Mayhew and Rita Meyer all share the day on March 20.
As you stop into our Up-Island Council on Aging at the Howes House, please wish Ellen Reynolds a very happy birthday as she celebrates on March 22. Annette Anthony will also party on March 22, as will Tony Oliver. Daniel Sauer, Renee Metell, Paul Galbraith, Dwight Kaeka, and Nanauwe Vanderhoop all share the day on March 23.
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