Announcing Julia
Anne and Glen Caldwell of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Julia Marie Caldwell, on July 14 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Julia weighed 6 pounds, 13.6 ounces at birth. She is also welcomed by big sister Samantha.
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services has been awarded a 3-year accreditation, the highest level possible, by CARF International, an independent not-for profit organization that accredits human service providers.
The process began in 2006 and was completed in May of 2008. In a letter received from CARF on June 30, Community Services was recognized for its “dedication and commitment to improving the quality of the lives of the persons served . . . . Services, personnel, and documentation clearly indicate an established pattern of practice excellence.”
Mary and Jackson Kenworth said this week that they are working on a scaled-down plan to rebuild the former Deon’s restaurant in North Tisbury.
Mrs. Kenworth said she hoped to have a new design of 2,000 square feet to show the West Tisbury zoning board of appeals tomorrow night.
The board continues a public hearing on the restaurant plan at 6 p.m. at the town hall.
North Tisbury Restaurant Revival
Jackson and Mary Kenworth want to take over the burned-out West Tisbury restaurant known most recently as Deon’s but also historically known as the Ice House and the Red Cat. The little restaurant sits along State Road in the North Tisbury corridor that is dotted with a pleasant country mix of small businesses and homes.
Bringing Engine No. 2 Home
To run, maintain and protect a town, taxpayers buy all sorts of vehicles: dump trucks, police cruisers and backhoes, among others.
Yet whatever loyal and lengthy service any of them render, they won’t begin to attract the affection inspired by a fire engine.
As most everyone knows by now, the Visiting Nurse Service, the former nursing agency of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, announced in March that it would be closing its doors effective June 30. The Vineyard Nursing Association, upon learning of the unexpected closing, began working with Sharon Claus-Zanger, the VNS clinical director, and others to create a plan to move care for 70 patients to Vineyard Nursing Association home care by the end of June.
The following remarks were spoken to family and friends following the death of Wendy Jenkinson Weisman.
I’m Wendy’s father.
This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. My Wendy, our Wendy, your Wendy is dead. There’s a tremendous amount of things I could tell you about Wendy; her love of her friends and family, her loyalty, her beauty, her sunny disposition, her many talents, her intellect, all the things she’s done and accomplished in her life, but today I just want to focus on her incredible bravery.
The Rev. Dr. Todd J. Williams, president of Philadelphia Biblical University, is the guest speaker at Union Chapel on Sunday, July 27. The service begins at 10 a.m. The chapel, whose services are open to all, is at the south end of Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs.
This past winter Eisenhauer Gallery owner Elizabeth Eisenhauer and Kaitlyn Ruitenberg went to Brussels, Belgium to visit French artist Michel Brosseau; in Mr. Brosseau’s studio they felt as if they had entered a 19th century European atelier. Canvases are everywhere, filled with colored buoys and sailboat linens bright as if sunlight were pouring out from the canvases. Long drapes hang on tall sunny windows that fill the studio with a warm yellow glow while the murmur of Brussels traffic comes through an open window.
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, tweens, teens, young adults, the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The organizers of the Summer Film Series at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival teamed up with the Gazette to bring you reviews by Island kids, here for the summer or year-round, each Tuesday, before each Wednesday film presentation.
