Dr. Jon A. Ruel, DMD, MscD, a nationally renowned prosthodontist with more than 35 years of experience, has joined Island Dentistry. His specialty deals with comprehensive care, including replacing missing teeth with implants, crowns, bridges and dentures.

Center for Living Meeting

The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living will hold its annual meeting on Thursday, Nov. 10. at 7 p.m. in the Tisbury Senior Center. Following a brief business meeting, the board will discuss the Center for Living’s past accomplishments and plans for the future. Refreshments will be served.

The center provides a variety of programs and services for Island residents ages 55 and older through partnerships with town councils on aging and other organizations.

The Halloween scarecrows that decorated many business storefronts for the past two weeks have been rounded up and moved to a central location. The handcrafted pieces, created for the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School’s 12th annual Islandwide Scarecrow Festival, will be displayed on the porch of the Mansion House through Tuesday, Nov. 6. Each of this year’s scarecrows bears a literary theme, such as the above Grapes of Wrath design.

Scavenger Hunt Winner

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission has announced the winner of its 25th Anniversary Photography Scavenger Hunt, a summer-long quest in which participants searched for designated points of interest in at least 15 land bank properties.

Development Director

Christine Todd has been named development director for the Martha’s Vineyard Arena, leaders at the venerable ice rink announced. A resident of Oak Bluffs with a long background in marketing, fund-raising and development, Ms. Todd most recently helped the YMCA raise the money it needed to open its doors in 2010.

Edith W. Potter of Chappaquiddick, a longtime conservationist who wrote the first zoning bylaws for Edgartown and was influential in saving South Beach and the Katama airfield, will receive the annual Spirit of the Vineyard Award, Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard announced this week.

The award is given annually to a person who has served for one or more nonprofit organizations on the Island, and whose work has made a difference to individuals and to the community as a whole.