Island Falls Happenings

By Riva Hawkes
    On Oct. 31, the Whittier Congregational Church held its annual fall sale, which included clothing, knick-knacks, dishes, etc. along with the home made food, which included pies and bread. It was a most successful sale and will be repeated again come July.  Mrs. Gertrude Webb is now a resident at the nursing home in Patten, moving there from the Houlton Regional Hospital on Nov. 5. She had been a former resident of Houlton at a boarding home for the past three years.
    Mr. and Mrs. Malcomb Palmer are now residents of their winter home in Florida, having left about two weeks ago for the long ride to warmer climes. Have an amazing number of woodpeckers this fall getting into my feeders and they also dearly love the peanut butter and lard mixture I put out on the cold days and are right there to gobble it all up. And the deer are still arriving, sometimes a bit early, in the afternoon for an hour or so of grazing.
    It is some circus when the two young ones start chasing each other around the back lawn and the mother is calmly eating away, paying no attention to them. Had a visitor in the other day and he had a real good look at my deer family, who just happened to show up when he was there.