Month: April 2011

Liz Dooley pictured with husband, Morgan Crane (you remember, the ones who wouldn’t let winter go).  Well Liz is doing the Susan G. Komen 3 Day Walk for Breast Cancer, and this post is about a fundraiser Jalepeno’s is hosting to help her reach her fundraising goal.

Monday, May 2 – Doors open at 4:30. Live music 6:30 to 9:00 pm. Come anytime.
86 Main Street, Gloucester
http://www.jalapenosgloucester.com/

For those of you who enjoy great Mexican food and LIVE MUSIC, please join us at Jalapeno’s Mexican Restaurant in Gloucester on Monday, May 2. ColdStream*, an acoustic quartet, will be providing entertainment from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. There will also be raffles for Captain Bill’s Whale Watch tickets, an iPod Shuffle & two gift baskets.   

Jalapeno’s will donate 10% of the nights proceeds to Susan G. Komen for the Cure on Liz Dooley’s behalf to help her towards her fundraising goal of $4,300. All proceeds benefit breast cancer health and research.

Doors open at 4:30 until 10 pm. Jalapenos is located at 86 Main Street in downtown Gloucester.

Please spread the word to anyone you know on the North Shore – the more the merrier and the bigger donation to the 3 day!

*ColdStream is a four-piece acoustic band made up of 2 guitarists, a bass player and a mandolin player. They specialize in three and four part harmonies. Their music ranges from soft rock to pop, soul, Irish, Americana, country, English folk and classic rock. They are a staple in the southern New Hampshire restaurant circuit playing to warm receptions everywhere.

There is no cover charge, so anyone who likes live music and good food will be benefiting a good cause by just showing up!!!

Best,

Liz
 

2009, 2010, 2011!
http://www.the3day.org/goto/LizzieD

That until about 1942, the Lanesville Community Center building was the Ahola Dairy Barn?  The Lanesville Community Center was founded in 1954 by a forward thinking group of neighbors who purchased the old dairy barn to use as a gathering place for the residents of Lanesville, and it remains a prized possession of the community. Consisting of a main building sitting on 2.7 acres of recreational green space and managed by a board of directors, its purpose is to assist, encourage, promote, and undertake such activities as will contribute towards the educational advancement of adults and children in the community in the areas of art, local history, agriculture, and emergency preparedness, and advance the social, recreational, physical, moral, spiritual, and cultural lives of its citizens. The Center has been the site of many a pig roast and clam bake, political meeting and square dance, as well as a haunted house at Halloween.  Historian, Barbara Erkkila who wrote Hammers on Stone: A History of Cape Ann Granite and A History of Lane’s Cove, was the past secretary of the LCC and tracked all events held there for a period of about 40 years.  The records are now in the archives at the Cape Ann Museum. 

The Center is in the final stages of some pretty major improvements, funded by a $15,800 CDBG Grant from HUD through the City of Gloucester, and supplemented by a 60th Anniversary Capital Campaign.  They have installed 2 new handicap accessible baths and a new kitchen area, and are currently finishing the new concrete slab with radiant heat floors.  Pictured are volunteers Dave and Randy Young, Butch Roth and Jim Flint.  Butch Roth created the stars in the floor, which will become memorial stars, the first being for Helen Jacobson who passed this winter at the age of 92.  $1,000 in memorials was raised in her name.  Jim Flint (you remember Jim from the Sacred Heart Church), has been the President of the LCC for four years, and expects that Phase 1 of the work will be completed by May 1.  The Center will then be available to rent (at very reasonable rates) for weddings, parties, funerals, meetings, etc.  The Center is also used for ward meetings and is the voting location for Ward 4-2, and is free for community service events.  Art in Lanesville in August and the Lanesville Music Festival in September are also held at the Center.

The LCC is always looking for volunteers, so if you live in the area and want to help, or if you are interested in renting the space for a function or meeting, visit their website at http://www.lanesvillecommunitycenter.org/ for contact and rental info, and check out the video of Jim in the buff!

E.J. Lefavour

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Out of the sad and forlorn mist, the sun rose in all its glory and magnificence this morning.  Wishing everyone abundant blessings this Easter Day, including chocolate bunnies that are not hollow.  These are some photos and a video of the Annisquam Village Church sunrise service at Squam Rock.  It was quite magnificent and magical.  The bagpipe added a special touch, and the purple beam of light captured by the camera coming from the rising sun was amazing.  Did you know that the color used in the sanctuary for most of Lent is purple, red violet, or dark violet? These colors symbolize both the pain and suffering leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus as well as the suffering of humanity and the world under sin.  But purple is also the color of royalty, and so anticipates through the suffering and death of Jesus the coming resurrection and hope of newness that will be celebrated in the Resurrection on Easter Sunday.  At one point, a flock of 5 herons circled in the sky above the congregation.  Pure magic.

Due to the overcast This Easter Sunday There won’t be an official Sunrise.

Here’s Last Years Easter Sunday Sunrise.