Red Stocking is a long-standing Vineyard effort to provide food and clothing to Island children from birth through grade eight. Approximately 375 children were served last year by Red Stocking.

Doubles Trouble, Anyone?

The Vineyard Tennis Center Workout and Spa invites all players for a Halloween One on One extravaganza, featuring a doubles format set to music, with a prize for best costume.

The event will be held Saturday, Oct. 30 from 3 to 5 p.m.; the cost is $25 per player.

Islanders can support the treatment of autism using voice movement therapy by placing an order for an evergreen Christmas wreath at a cost of $12. Each wreath will be delivered to the Island just after Thanksgiving. The sales are through Corinne de Langavant, who is presenting her thesis on autism and voice movement therapy at the YAI Conference on special needs in New York city in May of 2011. The funds wiLL help to defray related costs.

Promising to enable women to gain financial freedom, find creative fulfillment and enjoy better relationships, Island personal trainer Kimberly Cartwright has created Spiritual Cycling.

This eight-week indoor cycling class for women uses meditation, breath play and guided imagery inspired by renowned psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek.

Lyme Disease

A petition to support reform in the treatment of Lyme disease and more adequate testing protocols is at the West Tisbury Public Library. The deadline for signatures is Sunday, Oct. 31.

The petition also highlights the need to support a chronic Lyme disease training program for doctors on the Island. Lyme patients should not have to travel to receive proper treatment.