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We think we prepare for being old — or, to use a more shuddery word, elderly — but we don’t, do we? We back away, don’t we? And then suddenly we have to face the facts: We’re old. I’m old. Everyone has a different entrée into this shadowy part of life, this Being Old Situation. […]
To the Editor: Island Elderly Housing is looking back on the holiday season with a feeling of great appreciation, and would like to publicly acknowledge the following individuals and organizations who went out of their way to make sure the holidays had sparkle for the residents of IEH. Sharon Brown, representing Island Grown Initiative, coordinated […]
To the Editor: The Island Elderly Housing (IEH) board of directors offers this memo in response to the articles published in the Vineyard Gazette and Martha’s Vineyard Times, along with comments made in the May 5 Zoom meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, regarding the proposed five-unit elderly housing building to be located at 38 […]
Volunteering is an easy choice for Islander Ilona Metell, and the work she and countless others do helps strengthen the network of support on Martha’s Vineyard. The value of volunteering was instilled in Metell at a young age while growing up here. When she was just a little girl, she would accompany her grandmother in […]
March 13*: William Ezra (“Bill”) Shanok, 78 Bill lived every day as a new adventure, and found happiness in life’s simple pleasures: walking his precious collies in Menemsha, brush-cutting on his tractor, and fishing, as long as it was on someone else’s boat! April 2: Corrine Rogers, 66, Oak Bluffs April 3: Howard Scott Steward, […]