The American Red Cross is asking all eligible, healthy blood donors to make and keep appointments to donate blood in the coming weeks. As the cold and flu season approaches, the Red Cross hopes to maintain a stable supply of blood to meet hospital needs. Blood donors who have received the seasonal flu shot are still eligible to donate blood if they are feeling well on the day of the donation.

Supply New England and the Kitchen & Bath Gallery at 25 Eastline Road in the Airport Business Park have completed a significant renovation to their co-located wholesale distribution facility and showroom. The Kitchen & Bath Gallery is now a registered Kohler® showroom, featuring the best in Kohler products for the kitchen and bath. Other brand offerings include Grohe, Rohl, Kraftmaid and Bertch.

Video for Stutterers

Stuttering is a problem for millions of people, but it can be especially tough on school-age children. Help is available for parents, teachers and speech-language pathologists at the public libraries in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury, in the form of a DVD designed to help school-age children who stutter. The 38-minute DVD, entitled Therapy in Action: The School-Age Child Who Stutters, is being distributed free of charge to public libraries nationwide.

Packer Wins Award

R.M. Packer Co. of Martha’s Vineyard is the recipient of Mutual Oil Company’s Gold Pinnacle Award for Excellence.

The award for sales excellence is given annually to Mutual Oil’s top dealers. Mutual Oil’s executive vice president Steve Shaer and marketing manager Paul LaBrecque presented the awards during ceremonies at Foxwoods Resorts; representatives of RM Packer Co. were unable to attend.

Longtime YMCA executive Jill Robie will relocate from Orono, Me., to become interim executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Y beginning Monday, Nov. 2.

Ms. Robie will take over from Margaret (Peg) Regan, the retired regional high school principal who has been acting in the role since August. Construction of the 38,000-square-foot center in Oak Bluffs began in May; the first phase of the complex is expected to be completed in May 2010.

Halloween at the Farm

Chappaquiddick singer-songwriter Kevin Keady will perform a musical rendition of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven at noon next Saturday as part of the Farm Institute’s Halloween activities in Katama. Admission is $10 a family ($5 single) for corn maze, hay ride, cider pressing, pumpkin carving and costume prizes.