Day: September 16, 2011

Melissa Cox writes-

Members of One Hour at a Time Gang and fellow citizens,
After reading this story (see link below) I was saddened to not see Pavilion Beach or any at Stage Fort on the list. Maybe it is because they didn’t have enough volunteers to cover all of the beaches in our area. Help me throw together a group that will make this city proud and clean. These two beaches are heavily traveled by our visitors and it is a shame to see them left out of a wonderful event. Please know this clean up is in addition to the other efforts on Saturday and not sanctioned by the Coastsweep group.

I’ll be at one of these two locations on Saturday morning, won’t you join me?
I’ll take care of picking up the trash bags but please bring gloves (garden or work gloves are better then disposable), water is a reusable container and a friend!! Spread the word. We can do this.
Saturday Sept 17th 8am – 11am
I will be stationed at Pavilion Beach while my husband, Bill Cox, will be at Stage Fort Park.
Please RSVP if you can attend or if you need more information~ melissacox4council@gmail.com
Together we can do more,
Melissa Cox
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x1078459254/Volunteers-ready-for-coast-cleanup

Capt Bills Whale Watch is going to be donating a pair of tickets to raffle off for those who come down to the clean up on Saturday Sept 17th 8-11. Pavilion Beach or Stage Fort Beach’s. You will need to check in with Melissa (Pavilion Beach) or Bill (Stage Fort) Cox to get a raffle ticket!
Thank you.

Also, the cutest photo of Caton Andrade (Dr. Nicole’s son) in his homemade GMG T swabbing the decks of the Schooner Adventure after Mug Up on Schooner Festival weekend.

And a really nice note from Dr. Nicole:

As promised EJ, sorry for the delay!  Thanks so much for having us at MugUp on Schooner Festival weekend!  It was great to see Paul F, and to meet Ed C, Paul M, Dorothy Englander (LOVE her work!) and finally the infamous Bean!  The Beauport Breakfast was sold out so we came back to the Neck where we visited Brenda at Imagine, then little Caton grabbed the helm and swabbed the deck on the Schooner Adventure and worked up an appetite for lunch at the Studio Restaurant .  We are excited for Trails and Sails Weekend and we have a real wee GMG shirt for representin’ now!  FYI there are also still slots open for the fall nooks and crannies tour at Beauport Sleeper McGann House, I highly recommend!

As you know, Cape Ann Healing Center is very committed to sharing Gloucester as a destination for healing in its art, land, history, resources and people.  We are so grateful for all that you and all the GMG contributors do, we voted daily from every computer in the office.  As promised also attached are fun photos and is the flyer for our YMCA for ALL fundraiser movie What If?  Awakening to Our True Selves at the Cape Ann Community Cinema, next wednesday Sept. 21st.  Doors open at 7, hope to see some GMG fans there, it is a great film, thanks for helping us spread the word!

So hope everyone can turn out for What If? at Cape Ann Community Cinema.  I know after a wild summer on Rocky Neck, I’m certainly ready to start thinking about my health and life in a totally new way.

E.J. Lefavour

Free Icehouse tours are offered Friday 9/16 at 2 pm, Saturday 9/18 at 11 am and at 1 pm, and Sunday 9/18 at 11 am, and again the following weekend, as part of the Trails and Sails program organized by Essex National Heritage Area.  Chill with the coolest guys around at Cape Pond ice Company, in business since 1848.  See 300-pound block ice being made, fishing vessels taking on ice, and ice sculptures in our historic icehouse on Gloucester’s working waterfront. See vintage film of the natural ice harvest, and learn about our connection to The Perfect Storm and the F/V Andrea Gail.

Please wear practical footwear and bring a sweater or sweatshirt for when we are in the Icehouse.  Tours last approximately 45 minutes.  Reservations are not required.  Cape Pond Ice Company is located at 104 Commercial Street, Gloucester on the Fort.

Saturday, September 17^th: 7-10pm

$5 Students, $7 Adults

A Benefit Concert in Support of Peace One Day, hosted by GHS Human Rights Initiative. A great night of music and art that supports international peace day. The fantastic and exciting bands Sardonic and Fairhaven will perform! Art is now on display and for sale in The Art Parlour, benefiting Peace One Day, the artist, as well as The Annie! Great Time – Great Karma – Great Cause

THE CAPE ANN ("THE ANNIE") IN HISTORIC GLOUCESTER, MA

STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

Rock the Block!

The Block Party will start at 6 pm and go on until 11 pm +. We’ll be open and serving light fare and drink. Artists exhibiting include painters Jean Byrd and Kathleen Miller, glass blower Aron Leaman, fish print maker Patrick Horgan, marquetry artist Chip Brewer, and photographer Fred Bodin. The weather will be perfect for the last Block Party of the season, but it’s not the last event for us here at Bodin Historic Photo.

Hope to see you!  Fred

Bodin Historic Photo

82 Main Street

info@BodinHistoricPhoto.com

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Here’s a Photo of “Philmore” checking GMG to see if he can go to the Beach.

The Beaches are now open to dogs!

Now that the fall run for striped bass is underway in Gloucester and the rest of Massachusetts, anglers might want to consider some safety issues.

Short and stubby plastic ecreational kayaks are the norm these days for kayak fishing. But they have severe limitations. Rec kayaks lack both bulkheads and internal flotation. It doesn’t take much for them to swamp and sink.

Here’s a somewhat ponderous video that makes the point:

Read more about kayaking and kayak fishing at twitter.com/seakayak