On Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the West Tisbury School, the MV Youth Soccer organization is hosting an end of the season party, including a pie eating contest and barbecue. Soccer games will erupt, too, throughout the morning.

The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation is accepting inquiries for its 2015 Learning Disabilities grant cycle. To be eligible to apply, organizations must be located in Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, or Nantucket Counties.

Veterans, merchant mariners and others involved in past and present service will be recognized at the 16th annual service honoring veterans at the Shabbat service at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Friday, Nov. 14.

Saturday at the Barn Raisers’ Ball everyone and everything will be hitting the dance floor in celebration of the anniversary of the raising of the new Agricultural Hall 20 years ago.

Congratulations to Theresa Kistner Manning upon her first election to a political office, with almost 400 Upis Land votes Theresa, my most favorite daughter in law, has offered to serve on the Up-Island Regional School Committee.

Voters will decide tonight whether to approve a $590,000 purchase for two parcels of land near the site where the town hopes to relocate the Gay Head Light. The special town meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the old town hall. A quorum of 37 voters is needed to convene the meeting.

Visitors to the animal shelter are greeted these days by two lively new tenants, Teddy, a six-year-old male Chihuahua and Bella, a miniature apricot poodle who does not look her official age of nine.

West Tisbury volunteer firefighters spent several hours on election night dousing a brush fire in a stump pit at John Keene Excavation off Old Stage Road. About 30 firefighters responded to the scene, which was cleared just after 1 a.m.

Wow! It was quite a storm last Sunday. My friend, Sharlee, registered a 54-mile-an-hour gust on Chappy. I will say it made quick work of stripping the rest of the leaves from several varieties of trees.

Well, I am writing from my Old Country as Nonna could not take one more minute away from her friends, family, neighbors and beloved Good Counsel. My doctors cleared me to drive and I did so last weekend, leading a Conestoga Toyota consisting of Teri, Nonna, Silvio, Lil’Bit, Teddy, et moi.