The Vineyard Nursing Association has introduced a new private home care services program. Private Care Services is designed to meet the growing demand for personal help in the home that reflects the needs of a population living longer and aging at home and much more.

The Vineyard Nursing Association’s nurses help clients with clinical requirements such as daily injections or dressing changes while home health aides assist with more personal needs such as help with bathing or eating.

Hello, Rylie

Rylie Adele Mansfield, the daughter of Katy Mansfield and Rick Mansfield, formerly of Vineyard Haven, was born Dec. 12. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Her grandmothers are Eileen Andrews of Vineyard Haven and Gloria Mansfield of St. Michaels, Md. Her late grandfathers are Roger Andrews of Vineyard Haven and Rick Mansfield of Maryland.

Announcing Natalie

Shannon Larsen and Daniel Larsen Jr. of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Natalie Elizabeth Larsen, on Feb. 25 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Natalie weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce at birth.

Chilmark’s Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival is seeking couches (no sleepers, please) for its eighth annual weekend movie March 14 to 16. If you have a couch in good condition that you’d let the organizers borrow, they will thank you with three film tickets and a festival gift bag. They will come and pick the couches up on Thursday, March 13, and return them on Monday, March 17. The couches will be covered during the event. Please call Brad Westcott at 508-645-9599, or e-mail him at [email protected] if you can help.

Named to Dean’s List

Simon Goldberg, a junior at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., has been named to the dean’s list for the 2007 fall semester. Mr. Goldberg, who is majoring in sports management, is the son of Ken Goldberg of Edgartown and Patti Linn of West Tisbury.