NANCY GARDELLA

508-693-3308

(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)

There are many events for our Haunted Weekend. On Sunday, please enjoy an original play by Lynn Weber, in English and Portuguese, adapted to the music and play by the irrepressible Bella. This musical puppet show, O Buraco sem Fundo, The Hole Without a Bottom, kicks off at 11:30 a.m. behind Trader Fred’s at 56-58 Main street, Vineyard Haven. The play is for all ages, Bella even says bring your leashed dogs! Suggested donation is $5 for grownups, kids get in free. Bella runs these shows every Sunday at 11:30 a.m. If you can’t make it this weekend, go next week.

Following that, on Halloween day, the Tisbury Business Association is sponsoring a trick or treat parade on Main street. Begin at the Mansion House at 3:30 p.m. The children will parade downtown and stop for treats at participating businesses with balloons and posters at their locations. The party ends at the Waterside Market for refreshments. I’ll see you there if you recognize me in my costume.

This Sunday also marks the first of our library’s winter open Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. The library offers a Halloween open house, also with treats, and do wear your costume.

The Mansion House continues with free workouts for all at 3:30 p.m. on Sundays.

The library continues with free movies on Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. in the program room. This week’s feature is DeLovely, the Cole Porter story, starring Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd. On Wednesday night, at 7 p.m., join us there for Ballads from Broadway featuring vocalist Stephanie Miele and pianist Alice Carey. Some of our favorite composers will be heard: Jerome Kern, Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Stephen Sondheim. This is my kind of music.

It’s time for Serving Hands, Family to Family, and the incomparable input of Reliable Market to begin collecting funds for our Islanders in need to enjoy a Thanksgiving and December holiday dinner. You may help serve a family a complete meal for $25. Make your checks payable to VCOH, the Vineyard Committee on Hunger, and note in the memo it is for the Family to Family program. Send them off to VCOH, P.O.Box 4685, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568. If you have any questions, please call Betty Burton at 508-693-5339 or contact her at burtonsundman@hotmail.com.

Our Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network is teaming up with the Island Grown Initiative for a special program, From Farm to Market: Meeting the Demand, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury on Nov. 1. Space is limited so register today. Either drop your $10 check at Kiddo’s in Vineyard Haven, Ameriprise Financial in Edgartown, or register online at mvwomensnetwork.com. Light local foods will be served.

Beatrice Correllus Beaucaire was an amazing lady. I’m proud to say she was my son’s great-grandmother. Beatrice died last week at age 97 in Bristol, Conn., where she has lived since 1960. But all Islanders remember her raising her four girls, Lorraine, Shirley, Loretta and Rosemary right here on Franklin street. Beatrice had 28 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren! Our condolences to her family and friends. Her service was yesterday at St. Augustine’s in Vineyard Haven. Donations in her memory may be made to the Red Stocking Fund, 131 Fairfield St., Vineyard Haven.

The birthday bandwagon pulls along Lil Colligan and Jim Norton Sr. today. Halloween honors Deva Lieberman and Frances Graziani. Nov. 1 is claimed by Guillherme Leao. Nov. 2 is shared by Mauro Cotta, and a big shout out to West Tisbury for math teacher and oyster farmer John Mayhew’s 90th! Nov. 3 is for Jonas Budris. And on Nov. 4 Marianne Schmidt, Becca Hamilton and Marianne Ojile take the cake. Many happy returns.