The Manchester Public Library Presents: The Beantown Jumpers Double Dutch Team
This demonstration event is a lot of energetic fun for everyone! The team will perform a “Fusion” music presentation and then they will demonstrate the jumping styles necessary for competitions, including speed (2 minutes), compulsory (25 second dance routine) and a free-style (tricks) routine (1 minute). After the presentation, group participation with the team is encouraged. Audience members will learn how to jump in, turn the ropes and some jump rope tricks!
The competitive team began when Coach Patti Travers devised a way to get girls and boys in Dorchester and Jamaica Plain jumping at the chance to accelerate their heart rates.
“One of the students said, `Could you offer something fun,’ so I began to research, checking out how could I learn to teach double Dutch,” said Travers, who has taught PE for more than 10 years at Young Achievers Science & Mathematics Pilot School in Jamaica Plain. The team members include girls & boys who are in Grade 2 through high school.
The Beantown Jumpers are being sponsored by a Hooper Fund grant to the Children’s Room, with all sponsorship funding more children’s sports with the Red Auerbach Foundation.
At the First Parish Church, next to the library, behind the Sovereign Bank.
Call to register, or for more information, 978-526-2016 or scollins@mvlc.org
Please register for this athletic spirited event!
When: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Location: Manchester Public Library
Prices: Free
Phone: 978-526-2016
Email: scollins@mvlc.org
Link(s): The BeanTown Jumpers Massachusetts Double Jump Rope
12-step skincare/makeup application, nail care, hair loss and use of wigs and other head coverings for patients experiencing
appearance-related side effects from cancer treatment.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 19, 2013
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
WHERE: Addison Gilbert Hospital
298 Washington Street, Gloucester
RSVP: Community Relations
978-283-4000, extension 585
First-time participants receive a free make-up kit;
registration is required.
The St.John’s Episcopal Church opens its official celebration of its 150th Anniversary
with a major concert on May 19th at 4:00 pm followed by a reception in Parish Hall.This
concert is open to the public and should be a wonderful experience with a “Festival
Choir” including eighteen singers from the area, accompanied by one of the finest
organs in Gloucester with other wind and percussion instruments.
Music has long been an integral part of St. John’s service since its founding in 1867. In
fact it formed one of the first boys church choirs in Gloucester back in 1892. An other
major component of its music tradition has been the church’s organ which now is an
Opus 97 the last pipe organ designed by Charles Fisk. This has resulted in St John’s
having a big church sound in a small acoustical space.
In the celebration of Gloucester roots the program will include many anthems “““that
deal with the sea including such big coral works as Sumsion’s “They that go down to
the sea in Ships” Psalm 107 ( a key piece of music as it pertains to the maritime
community ) as well as Britten’s “Festival Te Deum” which is associated with
celebrations.
This concert will be followed by a reception where there will be plenty of food and drink
and an opportunity to visit with our new minister Bret Hayes and other members of the
parish.
Throughout the year St. John’s wants to remember and honor those that helped build
the congregation from the early parish days consisting of the fishermen’s families from
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to the present parish coming from many different
backgrounds.
This concert will help us celebrate the past as St. Johns’ will continue to serve the
community by being a place of welcoming, understanding and hope in facing a
challenging future.
WHAT: Three Mile walk-a-thon with refreshments, music, and raffles for Huntington’s Disease
WHERE: Back Beach Bandstand 32 Beach St. Rockport, MA (finish-line activity site)
WHEN: Saturday May 11, 8 am registration 9 am walk begins
HOW: Register/raise funds online at http://www.hdsa.org/thwrockport
or contact vgoolkasian@hdsa.org to have forms sent via email or mail.
Supporters Invited for Huntington’s Disease Walkathon Sat May 11
May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness month and Rockport’s Trish Dunton is helping to bring awareness about the disease to the North Shore. Dunton, whose family friend has the devastating degenerative disorder, organized Saturday’s three-mile walk to raise funds for a cure for HD and to raise awareness of the disease. It is one of the hundreds of Team Hope walks for the Huntington’s Disease Society of America that take place each year.
It is not too late to support the finish-line activities or to sign-up to join Cape Ann’s Walkathon to Benefit Huntington’s Disease (HD). The walk begins at 9:00 am at the Back Beach Bandstand. The first walkers should complete the circular route and cross the Bandstand finish line around 10am. The public is urged to welcome walkers at the finish-line activities, and those who wish to be sponsored walkers are urged to call 978-256-0811, Ext. 13.
There is presently no cure and only one FDA-approved treatment (for symptoms) of HD, which slowly diminishes the affected individual’s ability to walk, think, talk and reason. Symptoms usually appear in individuals between the ages of 30 and 50 years and progress degenerately. Cases of juvenile HD have been diagnosed in children as young as two years of age. More than 30,000 people in the United States are currently diagnosed with HD. Each of their siblings and children has a 50 percent risk of developing the disease, therefore 250,000 are at risk. Although medications can relieve some symptoms in certain individuals, research has yet to find a means of conquering or even slowing the deadly progression of HD.
Please come out and celebrate Spring, get some exercise, and help support an organization that supports many of your neighbors at the same time. Funds Raised will support HDSA Programs of Care, Research and Education to improve the lives of everyone affected by Huntington’s Disease.
Good Morning Gloucester 