The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center invites the public for a film and discussion on Sunday, April 11 at 3 p.m. for their Yom Ha’Shoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, program. A screening of the prize-winning film, Pilgrimage into the Past, will be followed by a talk with the film’s director, Austin de Besche, and the film’s subject, Holocaust survivor Michael Kraus. The event is free; donations will be accepted.
Benefit Party
The Portuguese American Club in Oak Bluffs is hosting Jimmy Buffet Night, a benefit party for Brenda Lehman, at 6 p.m. Friday, April 16. The evening will feature live music courtesy of the Sting Rays, food, trivia, silent auction, and prizes for best Parrothead. Tickets are $20, available at the door or in advance from Deb Rogers at 508-627-4171, or Barbara Phillips, 508-627-9097.
The East Coast School of Etiquette this summer will offer a new class, Manners for Three, Four and Five-Year-Olds, to the Vineyard program which also includes etiquette classes for kindergarten through grade five.
The new preschool program has been designed as a 10-lesson presentation, with creative activities to help children learn introductions, telephone manners, dining skills and more.
Held at Farm Neck Country Club in Oak Bluffs, the classes are available in July and August.
HOLLY NADLER
508-274-2329
(hollynadler@gmail.com)
Has anyone out there ever experienced Post Office Post Pile Stress Disorder, otherwise known as POPPSD? This occurs when you’ve been away from your Island mailbox for a month or more over the winter.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
(kathleencase@comcast.net)
The grass is greener, the trees are budding, the spring flowers are blooming and we all have spring fever. We are all hoping it is not a dream and that we can keep this weather coming.
By LYNNE IRONS
There is not much to be said for this retirement-age body. I garden for other people all week and then try to do my own over the weekend. I wonder when I started the pathetic, one-step-at-a-time coming down to my breakfast? I do remember the day I last jumped off the back of the truck. I admit I’m a bit of a poor sport about dragging reading glasses around to figure out plant labels and seed catalogs. I don’t envision a particularly bright future for any of these behaviors. The good news is I do seem to enjoy things more.
