We are holding a benefit chicken dinner for Liam McCarthy on March 23, 2013 at the P.A Club located off Vineyard avenue in Oak Bluffs. Liam is in desperate need of a walk aide device that his insurance will not cover and it is very expensive. Liam and his four brothers and sisters are all students in the Martha’s Vineyard School System and they live with their mother Kelly McGuiggin.

As Chappaquiddick residents we have recently been sent a five page document entitled “Appeal to the Chappy Community” which asks that we support Comcast’s build-out of infrastructure for Chappaquiddick’s proposed high speed internet service. We are being asked to endorse the expenditure personally and through our taxes to subsidize Comcast’s costs for equipment that they will own when completed.

My family and I are following the high drama of the encroaching and angry Atlantic as it closes in on the Wasque property of the Schifters. As with so many other problems the world has experienced over the recent past, much could have been done to mitigate or eliminate the disaster if a more prudent decision in the public good was made just a few short years ago.

The attached letter has been circulated to the The Trustees of Reservations and the Mass Division of Marine Fisheries: In my view, the ongoing oceanic and coastal processes witnessed at the Trustees property at Wasque Reservation and Leland Beach should not become part of the Schifter’s relocation plan.

About 1930 I used to join childhood friends during three summers on Lambert’s Cove Beach, which was the base for Norman Benson’s trap fishing business.

The Family of Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop (March 31, 1926 - Jan. 16, 2013) wishes to extend our deepest gratitude for the loving support, care and thoughtful final honors and tributes that were provided to our father and grandfather. There were so many acts of kindness by a great number of individuals that we regret our lack of ability to name all of you. Please know that every kindness, no matter how big or small, was gratefully and humbly accepted and have been appreciated by all of us.