Matilda Arrives
Tehya Annabelle Backus-Clement joins her parents, Jeannie Clement and Rod Backus of Vineyard Haven, in announcing the birth of her little sister, Matilda Adelai Backus-Clement, on March 11 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Matilda weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces at birth.
JUNE MANNING
508-645-2574
The Easter morning sunrise service will be conducted by Rev. Roger H. Spinney at 6 a.m. Sunday, March 23 at Community Baptist Church with organist Kathryn B. Stewart. Special music will be performed during the service. All are welcome to attend. Thank you to our friends at Chilmark Chocolates for their generous donation of jelly beans for the Easter service.
JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Chilmark is enduring March with some ease as every gray day is followed by a couple of stunning sunny days . . . all promising a green and leafy April, we hope. We know the farmers and gardeners welcome these rainy days, so we try to see the silver lining.
Sunday is Easter and the Chilmark Community Church will host the annual Easter egg search for children at the church at 10:30 a.m., followed by the worship service at 11 a.m.
HOLLY NADLER
508-693-3880
On Tuesday, Ms. Parrot lost her chickens. That may sound like a title for a new children’s book, but it was very much a minor crisis in the domestic life of Margot Parrot who, along with her husband, Bob Osborne, will be opening the new store, Shibori, in the space that for years housed Island Music.
NANCY GARDELLA
508-693-3308
I’m going to blame it on Freud. The Father of Psychiatry convinced everyone to talk about sex and now no one can shut up. I am disgusted with the news coming from my Old Country, New York, about the former governor and, yes, the current governor. Being from the tri-state area, the antics of the former New Jersey governor and his wife also upset me.
Do you love horses and helping people? Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center is having a volunteer recruitment day. The center, based at Red Pony Farm in West Tisbury, needs help from anyone aged 16 or over in many areas: grooming and tacking up horses, barn cleaning, side-walking in lessons, pasture raking, public relations, and more.
ShareCare, a one-day seminar for the general public that teaches cranio-sacral therapy techniques to relieve pain and promote relaxation, will be held Sunday, April 6, at Vineyard Complementary Medicine in West Tisbury. The workshop accommodates those who have no background in anatomy or physiology.
An evening of music, dancing and a raffle to benefit Heather Jardin, an Island leukemia patient, will be held Saturday, March 22 from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Portuguese-American Club on Vineyard avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Music will be provided by The Mercy Beat and Sugar Bowl bands. Donations of $20 are requested, and event coordinator Chris White of Edgartown Pizza has lined up a raffle of donated gifts to help the 27-year-old Vineyard Haven resident in her recovery from acute AML leukemia.
Earns Honors
Elizabeth Edwards, a member of the class of 2008 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., earned highest honors for the fall semester. She is the daughter of John and Mary Edwards of Edgartown.
Hello, Guthrie
Rosemary and Nathan Davis of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Guthrie Floyd Davis, born March 10 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Guthrie weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth.
