JUNE D. MANNING
508-645-2574
The Aquinnah Public Library is sponsoring a Spring into Spring festival and potluck on Tuesday, March 2 at the Aquinnah town hall. At 3 p.m. there will be spring botanical face painting; at 4:15 p.m. Deborah Costine, puppeteer, will present The Twig Family in the Oak Tree; at 5:30 p.m. the community potluck dinner will begin (please bring your favorite spring dish to share with family and friends), followed by delectable desserts. Finally at 6:30 p.m. there will be live music with Ballyhoo. Please join in the fun for the entire family to think about the arrival of spring after such a long, gray, cold, snowy winter. Coffee hour at the library on Saturday mornings has been a great time of community conversation and refreshments.
Noah James Manning cheerfully welcomed his grandparents Bill and Joan Kistner to his new home on Wednesday. This is their first Aquinnah visit in eight months and they were delighted to view the grand results of all these months of planning and building.
All the best to our Aquinnah Tribal Health Director Ron MacLaren and his wife Terrie as they begin their new life at Fort Belvoir in Virginia next month. Ron has been in the United States Navy Reserves for more than 30 years. He spent eight months in Kuwait during 2007 and 2008, and has since been promoted to rear admiral in the reserves. He has now been recalled to active duty for the next two or three years. He will be heading a new unit that he will create. Terrie herself has had an illustrious military career, as have their sons Brian and Brett. Terrie has also worked as a nutritionist for the Aquinnah tribe and for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services. Ron will begin his duties in Virginia next month while Terrie works on the interior decorating of their new admiral quarters on base. We will look forward to their vacations on the Vineyard while Ron returns to his active duty status over the next two or three years. They will be greatly missed by many.
Condolences to the family of Barbara Ackerman who died in California one week ago. She was the mother of Roxanne Ackerman and her siblings John, Gretchen, and Toni, and grandmother to Diamond, Durwood, Naushon and Faith Vanderhoop, and great-grandmother of Billie Diamond Vanderhoop Shepherd.
Get well wishes and a speedy recovery to John Gibson, who was injured in a motorcycle accident on Wednesday morning in Riviera Beach in Florida.
Get well wishes to Ernestine Kinnecom, who underwent neurosurgery at Cape Cod Hospital on Monday and is expected home today.
Get well wishes to Kay Manning, who is expected to be discharged from Martha’s Vineyard Hospital today to continue her recovery at home from her recent surgery.
Get well wishes to Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop, who has been recuperating from his recent bout of pneumonia and treatment at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
Happy 70th anniversary wishes to Eric Cottle and his wife Marguerite as they celebrated their special day on Feb. 25. Eric is presently a patient at the Henrietta Brewer House on Causeway Road in Vineyard Haven.
Happy anniversary wishes to Mark Harding and his bride Paula Peters as they party on Feb. 27.
Happy anniversary wishes to Kenneth and Janet Belain on Feb. 28.
Happy birthday wishes this week to George Berz as he parties on Feb. 26. Barbara Francis will observe her special day on Feb. 27. Jacob Antonio Bazzy will be nine years old on Feb. 27. Troy Vanderhoop Jr. will be 10 years old on Feb. 27. Robert Iadicicco will also observe his special day on Feb. 27.
Dora Morrow of Montreal and Aquinnah will observe her special day on Feb. 28. James I. Millman will party on Feb. 28. Krystal Rose will party on the same day.
Cameron Widdiss will be nine years old on March 1. Jacqueline Mendez parties on March 2 and shares the day with Joanne Eccher. Penny Huff parties on March 3 and shares the day with Malia Austin Bodnar, who will be one year old on March 3. Paul David Sampieri parties on March 4, as will my daughter, Sharon Spiller.
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