My View of Life on the Dock
The Boston Massacre traveled to Raleigh, NC to compete in the 2009 WFTDA regional tournament. For the preview check out Derby News Network
Here’s a video made earlier in the regular season-
Tonight they face Gotham in a match against the best-
This from BostonDerby on Twitter-
Holy moly! HUGE 112-40 win over Carolina to start us off. We’re now guaranteed *at least* 4th in the East. Tomorrow… Gotham @ 6:15.
Yesterday my girls went to my mothers house to learn how to make the zugu and mudiga. After work I went by to taste the fruit of their labor. Yum! I had about 6 slices of Virgilio’s bread dipped in the zugu on the stove before I even got to the table.
Ma’s Meatballs, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Toby has lots of bait ready to go. The trail of seagulls that chase the boat down the harbor is wild.
Deck Of The Jupiter II, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
I saw these at the motorcycle run last month. Very cool! They were done by a guy in NH. Maybe I’ll go up there when I’m ready for mine! 😉
Culina Cafe Now Open, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The Healthy Gloucester Collaborative’s Medications Disposal Program will hold a Community Drop Off Event to safely dispose of unwanted and unused medications today from 10 a.m. to noon at the Rose Baker Senior Center parking lot on Rogers Street in Gloucester.
As you may know, keeping unused medications on hand is a public health risk, especially if they’re found by children and young people. Flushing medications down the toilet is bad for both public health and the environment.
Please check your own medicine cabinet for old medications, both prescription and over-the-counter items. Vitamins, veterinary medications, narcotics, pills, and liquids will also be accepted. This material will be appropriately destroyed by the Gloucester Police Department. (Other items – such as syringes, needles, thermometers, IV bags, personal care products, empty containers, and the like – will not be accepted.)
Many of you read my outrage when finding out about The Man At The Wheel being bumped off the Massachusetts Quarter in favor of a park in Lowell. The outpouring of disgust in this decision has been overwhelming. People have been asking what we can do, who we can call, what letters we can write.
Well Ray Lamont, Editor of The Gloucester Daily Times contacted me yesterday and asked what I had planned if anything and if we should try to make a difference. So we’re teaming up and looking for all the help we can get in getting this petition out to folks. Ray put together this letter addressed to Senator Kerry and Congressman Tierney-
I will be printing them out as a petition and bringing them to our local coffee shops and retailers. I will also have a link to it in pdf form which you will be able to click and print and send in yourself.
Enough is enough. We don’t get our fair share of school funding, they build huge research facilities in Woods Hole on the South Shore, they castrate our fishermen and consolidate our fishing industry through regulations, they force our harbor to remain in a DPA “for the good of the Commonwealth” while we get no benefits from it, and when it’s finally time to for us to get a little positive recognition- voted on by over 4 to 1 by the people and on a voting system put forth from the state itself, we get bumped in favor of a building in Lowell. A building that could be placed anywhere. The Man at the Wheel is uniquely Gloucester, Uniquely Massachusetts.
We’re sick and tired and we’re not gonna take it anymore.
Here’s the form, copy and paste it and send it in. By Monday we will have it around town at the coffee shops and I’ll post a list of other places for you to sign.
U.S. Senator John Kerry
U.S. Representative John Tierney
September 2009
Dear Sen. Kerry and Congressman Tierney,
I, the undersigned, respectfully request that you petition Congress to ask that the U,S, Mint revisit its decision to select the Lowell National Historical Park over the Gloucester Fishermen’s Memorial Man At The Wheel statute as the featured image on the back of the next edition of the Massachusetts quarter.
While we recognize that, due to miscommunication, there is now a belated question as to the Man At The Wheel’s eligibility for this honor, it’s important to note that the Man At The Wheel, an iconic symbol of the role of fishermen in the heritage of Gloucester and in Massachusetts, drew the support of more than 109,000 voters in the online poll commissioned and promoted by the office of Gov. Deval Patrick to make this choice based on the will of Massachusetts’ citizens,
For the U.S. Mint to unilaterally override that decision stands as a slap in the face to the people of Gloucester, to the governor’s office that coordinated the polling, and especially to all of the Massachusetts residents who took the time to make their feelings known regarding the Man at the Wheel and all that it represents.
We thank you in advance for your consideration.
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ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE SCHOONER ADVENTURE
7′ 7″ length, 47″ beam, plywood construction using e-poxy (West System)
plans by Paul J. Bennett of Shoestring ShipyardConstructed by students at the Merrimack Education Center in Topsfield, MA
$5.00 per ticket; 6 tickets for $25
Raffle Tickets are available for purchase at the Fitz Henry Lane House office at Harbor Loop or at the boat on Saturday mornings.
Tickets will also be available at the Antique & Wooden Boat Show at Hawthorne Cove in Salem, MA on August 22-23, 2009 and at the Gloucester Schooner Festival September 4-7, 2009
Come view the Pram Dinghy on the deck of Schooner Adventure
Call
978-281-8079
for a viewing of the dinghy or to purchase raffle tickets
Raffle Winners will be announced on October 1st 2009 at the Thursday ‘Nights on the Neck‘ Arts Festival in Rocky Neck, East Gloucester, MA
Good Morning Gloucester 