Jo Douglas spends much of her summer behind the wheel of her pickup truck as part of her Fork to Pork operation. In the off-season, though, she can be seen behind a much different wheel: the Zamboni at the Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena.

It may be cold outside (and inside, too), but the MV Ice Arena is a warm and friendly place helping Islanders get through the long winter.

While many people this week were thinking beach, as summer weather settled over the Island, at the Martha’s Vineyard Arena they were thinking ice.

Good ice is essential to good skating, and a good Zamboni machine is essential to good ice.

And after months of planning, wishing and fund-raising, the arena has a new Zamboni.

The machine that resurfaces the ice, made by the Zamboni family company, arrived at the arena on Tuesday morning after a journey from Paramount, Calif.