JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Chilmark welcomes the country’s first family for their third summer vacation in Chilmark. We hope they enjoy some happy times here and continue to find our town an enjoyable and peaceful place to visit.
We all wish Mildred Mayhew a very happy birthday as she celebrates her 97th birthday. The family party at her son, Ted Mayhew’s home, will include family members from across the Island. Her daughter, Carol and her husband, Jim Mays of Londonderry, N.H., and her nephew and niece, Gus and Debbie Sands of Sun River, Mont., will also be here. Cheers from us all!
The Chilmark Church continues to sell lobster rolls to go on Tuesdays from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the church.
Douglas and Carol Whittier have completed their annual Menemsha vacation and returned to their home in Winthrop, Me. They enjoyed a visit with their son Jon and his wife, Eleonora, and daughter, Sierra, who came from Tucson for the reunion. They were at the Hariph M. Smith Cottage on Larsen Lane.
The Chilmark Public Library awarded the prizes for the winning poems in this year’s Brickner Poetry Contest on August 15. The first place high school winner was Thorpe Karabees of Chilmark and second place high school winner was Isabel Feinstein of Chilmark and Concord. The junior high school winner was Sunday Hull of West Tisbury and the second place winner was Rachel Mallicker of Chilmark and Montclair.
The Bartels family plans a service and reception for the late Bruce Bartels on Sept. 24. The service will be at the West Tisbury Church at 1 p.m. and the reception will be at the Grange Hall at 2 p.m. The public is invited.
Happy birthday to Garth W. Edwards, who will celebrate on August 25 with family and friends at the family home at Abel’s Hill. Garth is expected to arrive this week with his family and visit for two weeks.
The Paul Iantosca family is enjoying their annual reunion in Chilmark. Justin Iantosca has arrived from Luxembourg where he lives and works. Alisa and her fiancé, Jonathan Ross Godin, are busy working on their wedding plans for September 2012. Paul and Ruby are happy to be entertaining their two grandsons, Jaden and Sebastian, who are here for two weeks.
We send happy birthday wishes to Michael Reinitz, who will be celebrating his 75th birthday this week. The Reinitz family will gather at the family’s North Road home, coming from East and WestCoasts for the occasion. Cheers from us all!
John Herzan and his wife, Lauren Brown, with their daughter, Charlotte, are at Barn House for their annual vacation. Charlotte is off to Lafayette College in Pa. soon.
Aaron, Sarah, Jack and Scott Bennett are at the Slater home in Menemsha for a week of vacation coming from Attleboro. Aaron and Sarah joined lots of others and ran in the Chilmark Road Race and the boys are excited about their impending visit to the fair.
There will be a program on Tuesday, August 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library. The title of the subject that several speakers will discuss is Two States Now: A Discussion on the Policy Implications of the Forthcoming UN General Assembly Debate on Granting Palestinian Statehood. The speakers will be Richard North Patterson, Bill Gamson, Caryn Broitman, Arthur Obermayer and Arnold Zack. The program is open to the public at no charge and is sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Public Library.
The Aquinnah Library Summer Speaker Series will host Helen Goren-stein of Chilmark, who is a poet and memoir writer. She will speak about Recollections and Tricks of Memory from 5 to 6:15 p.m. The library talks take place in the Old Aquinnah Town Hall.
John Jacobs of Denver and Chilmark is hosting a family reunion at his Menemsha home. His son, Jake, and family are here from Hong Kong and his daughter, Susan, and her children are in from Portland, Ore.
Sue Costello at 508-627-9568 is recruiting junior high school age students for the junior high cheerleading program. The program is open to boys and girls in grades six to eight. Please call her if it is something of interest to your child. It is a program that promotes team spirit and individual skills.
I am still hearing stories about the Stanley Cup travels through Chilmark. Cam Neely, Aquinnah summer resident, stopped in at the Chilmark Police Station to share the excitement with the officers.
Let’s hope the last few weeks of summer give us the rest we were hoping to get, the visits with friends we have been looking forward to all year, and the beach days we dream of!
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