Year: 2013

October Seacoast Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Newsletter

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

October Seacoast Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Newsletter

Thank you to the Friends of Seacoast!

The Friends of Seacoast has provided our facility with a new sound system which has enhanced the participation of residents who are hearing impaired in their leisure activities.

The Friends of Seacoast enhance the resident’s lives at the Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with hours of enjoyment by providing the finances needed for the special entertainment, supplies and community outings.

Any and all donations to “The Friends of Seacoast” are gratefully accepted.

FYI- The Cape Ann Museum has provided passes for any Residents their families and staff  from Seacoast who would like to attend the Museum.

The Cape Ann Museum received a grant from “Mass Humanities” and will be offering Seacoast an on going program from September 2013 through June 2014 called  “The Power of Place”

This artistic expression project will include poetry, painting

A museum tour and art demonstrations within the Seacoast facility.

We are looking forward to many upcoming events with the support of the Friends of Seacoast including foliage trips to Turner Hill and to Russell’s Apple Orchid in Ipswich.

Dinner Theater with entertainment and special foods, The Schooner Adventure History Sharing program, weekly concerts and more……

Alison Cox,

Activities Director

Mike Murray’s Gloucester Visit

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hey Joey,   I visited Gloucester once again on Saturday and had great fun.

I sailed in the footsteps of my ancestors on the Thomas E Lannon schooner.

Had a fabulous dinner at Passports and lucked into a block party.

I mingled with locals and truly enjoyed my stay. This is what makes Gloucester so unique.

Now unfortunately I also entered into  the redundant mode. When I first entered Gloucester naturally I stopped in at Oakhill cemetery. 

The grass was mowed this time which was a plus. However, a 40 ft branch that crashed upon a good size section of headstones and completely engulfed them as you entered the cemetery has kept my in need of maintenance visitation streak alive and well.   I don’t know what it is about Gloucester and its lack luster upkeep of cemeteries but apparently they just aren’t important enough for people to care.  Either that or people are just have too much fun to pay attention? 

I will make the notification calls to Malden Catholic Cemetery division but how long would it remain like this if I didn’t visit ? How long has it been like this and has just been mowed around instead of proper maintenance?

I’ve learned to like Gloucester for what it offers in the present and to see it like it truly treats the past.

A Frustrated Gloucester fan

Mike

Raising the sail

They’re Here!

Posted on by Fredrik Bodin
A pro team pulled up, just as I was cooking dinner. Of course I had to go investigate. Lots of different languages being spoken. I should have given them a tour of the Crow's Nest.
A pro team pulled up, just as I was cooking dinner. Of course I had to go investigate. Lots of different languages being spoken. I should have given them a tour of the Crow’s Nest.

Community Stuff 9/28/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Cape Ann Museum to close for renovations
The Cape Ann Museum will close at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 29 in preparation for a major renovation project. This transformational project will focus on four areas: updating the building’s infrastructure (mechanical, electrical, plumbing, lighting, fire and security systems) in the older parts of the Museum (1930s – 1960s); architectural enhancements to the interior of the more than 50 year-old spaces (new flooring, ceiling and finishes); capitalizing on underutilized spaces; and reinterpreting and reinstalling the collection in ways that better tell the Cape Ann story.
The Fitz Henry Lane, Davis and Folly Cove Designers galleries will be totally redesigned. By reconfiguring existing spaces, two new galleries have been created: a Central Gallery which will serve as the educational hub of the Museum, a gathering place where visitors are introduced to the Museum and its collections, and the Thacher Island Fresnel Lens Gallery devoted to the newly arrived 10 foot tall, one ton First Order Fresnel Lens. Visitors will greatly benefit from the improved basic amenities, including a wireless environment, a more gracious reception area, an expanded gift shop, personal lockers, and an additional restroom. Boston-based designLAB Architects is responsible for the overall design.
While the Museum will be closed, it will continue to offer a full schedule of programs off-site, often in collaboration with area cultural and educational institutions. Please visit http://www.capeannmuseum.org for current program listings and to keep informed of the progress of this very exciting project.
In many ways, the story of the Museum can be told through its architecture. Founded in 1873, the Museum settled in its first permanent home in the early 1920s. The gracious Federal period building (1804) on “Captain’s Row,” home of Captain Elias Davis, proved a good investment for the Cape Ann Scientific & Literary Society, as the Museum was first known. The Society’s collection grew and in 1930, it added a new gallery to display paintings, furniture and sculpture and an auditorium to accommodate cultural programming for the community. The 1960s brought the addition of a gallery to showcase the Museum’s growing Fitz Henry Lane Collection and another gallery for its maritime collection. The Cape Ann Scientific & Literary Society became the Cape Ann Historical Association. In the late 1980s, the Association purchased an adjacent building and created space for a library/archives, children’s room and a new wing for its maritime collection. A new gallery and sculpture garden were added in 2001. Fast forward to 2013 – The Association is now the Cape Ann Museum and updates to the earliest additions of the Museum are long overdue.
The Cape Ann Museum, located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester, MA, celebrates the art, history and culture of this singular place. In addition to being a preeminent art museum with the single largest collection of paintings by Gloucester native Fitz Henry Lane, it houses an extensive collection of marine and granite industry artifacts and the largest collection of textiles created by the Folly Cove Designers. The Museum welcomes over 20,000 visitors annually.

 

Rockport Community Blood Drive

Sponsored by the Rockport Rotary Club

Friday, September 27 from 1-6 p.m.

Rockport Community House

58 Broadway

For an appointment, please call

1-800 RED CROSS (733-2767)

or visit

redcrossblood.org

Community Photos 9/27/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Anthony Marks Submits-

Baby On Board, photos from Anthony Marks

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Teegan and her mother loved sailing on the Ardelle.

Curtis Sarkin Submits-

We currently have a rare calico lobster on display in our Aquarium.  Due to the black and orange coloration, we’ve nicknamed her “the Halloween lobster”. 

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Fish on Fridays

Posted on by Marty Luster

The Fish on Fridays series is a collaboration between Gloucester photographers Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster. Look for various aspects of Gloucester’s centuries-old fishing industry highlighted here on Fridays.

Kathy and Marty continue this week with their interest in shellfish and a look at scallops harvested in waters off Cape Cod and sold at Intershell to local restaurants in Gloucester. Nico from Short and Main demonstrates preparing his Live Scallop Crudo. http://shortandmain.com

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Photos © Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster 2013
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Video © Kathy Chapman 2013

Big Rubber Duck in Pittsburgh!

Posted on by paultmorrison

Live blogging of the Rubber Duck in Pittsburgh! The Pirates and the Reds are fighting it out this weekend for home field advantage. Pirates win and the Rubber Duck will be outside the stadium on Tuesday looking in watching the NL wild card game since she is 54 feet tall!

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Visiting Liv in Brooklyn: Roberta’s and the Doughnut Plant

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Roberta's Brooklyn ©Kim Smith 2013

Here we are at Roberta’s in Brooklyn. The exterior looks very nondescript but what welcomes upon entering is a warm, vibrant interior.

Roberta’s is a high energy establishment with fabulous food and fabulous service. The lively, yet cozy, restaurant is always packed to the brim with an eclectic crowd–young people on dates, groups of  friends, families–with a line down the street, even in the dead of winter, and on week nights!

The key to Roberta’s success is not only their out-of-this-world delicious pizza, appetizers, seafood, salads, and veggies, but equally as important to their success is their ultra efficient and friendly wait staff, and super accommodating house policies towards the customer. Unlike one of the newer restaurants on Cape Ann, which absolutely will not allow any add-ons to their limited pizza menu (they want only to serve it as only they deem acceptable, and I say, come on–it’s pizza), Roberta’s has a complete menu of pizza toppings! Roberta’s menu is not terribly extensive (nor pricey), but because their’s is a select range of entrees, pizzas, and first courses, you don’t feel the menu is limiting. The produce is farm fresh (much is grown in Roberta’s garden), and the seafood sweet, melting in your mouth as only super fresh seafood does.

Roberta's Dinner Menu

As you can see from Roberta’s menu posted above, it is not vast, but neither is the menu restricted to 5 or 6 pizzas. 

Next stop is Liv’s favorite doughnut shop, The Doughnut Plant, which is well worth getting off the subway on the way to your destination, walking many blocks, stopping at the Plant for amazing doughnuts, and then walking back the same many blocks to hop back on the subway and resume your day.

VIDEO: Sawyer Free Library Art Auction Preview

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

Lisa Smith sent us this nice video by Cape Ann TV’s Becky Tober featuring Carol Gray with a preview of the art in this year’s Sawyer Free Library Art Auction on Wednesday, October 2 beginning at at 6pm with a preview party, entertainment and refreshments.

Bandit Kings Tonight @ MinglewoodAtLat43. 9-12 ~ Yip Yip Yee Haw

Posted on by Joanne

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Cape Ann Auction this Sunday 5:00pm

Posted on by Joanne

Comin up this Sunday
Cape Ann Auction
1 Lexington Ave.

Preview is at 3:00pm
Auction starts at 5:00pm
9.29.2013
via Walt Kolenda Auctioneer.

http://capeannauction.blogspot.com/

Gloucester Mayoral Debate Tuesday October 8 At The Elks

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Cape Ann Chamber Presents

Gloucester Mayoral Candidates Debate

The Elks at Bass Rocks

101 Atlantic Road, Gloucester

Tuesday, October 8

7:30 to 9:00 am 

On Tuesday, October 8, the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce will host a Gloucester Mayoral Candidates Debate between the two candidates whose names will appear on the November 5 Gloucester municipal elections ballot, incumbent Mayor Carolyn Kirk and challenger Mac Bell.

The debate will be held at the Elks at Bass Rocks, located at 101 Atlantic Road in Gloucester from 7:30 to 9:00 am. This event will be open to Chamber members and the general public.

A limited number of tickets are available for $35 in advance or $40 week/day of for Members and $50 for Future Members. Fee includes a continental breakfast and attendance for the debate. Check-In, breakfast and networking will be held from 7:30 to 8:00 am and the debate will follow from 8:00 to 9:00 am.

Questions will be posed by a panel of Cape Ann journalists. If you have questions that you would like considered for the candidates, please submit them to peter@capeannchamber.com.

Pre-registration is highly recommended as this event will fill up quickly. To make a reservation online please visit www.capeannchamber.com

or call 978-283-1601. 

Carolyn A. Kirk, Mayor, City of Gloucester, Massachusetts

Carolyn A. Kirk is the first woman popularly elected as Mayor of the City of Gloucester. Mayor Kirk is currently serving her third two year term.  Prior to being elected Mayor, Mayor Kirk served two terms on the Gloucester School Committee. Mayor Kirk came into office during turbulent times in the city.  During her initial mayoral campaign, she emphasized the need for reforms, regaining fiscal control, and her professional management experience in the corporate sector.

With the City’s finances stabilized, and significant infrastructure investments made, Mayor Kirk is now focused on improving the quality of life for all residents, economic development and long-term capital planning for the city’s elementary schools. 

Mayor Kirk’s professional career spans over 20 years. She is a long-time management consultant, specializing in the field of customer relationship management (CRM), with industry expertise in financial services. Career highlights include employment by Fleet Financial Group in the early 90’s and by IBM Global Services as an Executive Consultant in the late 90’s. Mayor Kirk’s clients have included many of the Top 20 banks in the US, along with Fortune 500 companies. 

Mayor Kirk also started her own successful consulting practice which afforded her the flexibility to spend more time with her family, and launch her political career. She and her husband Bill Kirk have two children, Sam, 16 and Baylee, 13. Both are enrolled in Gloucester Public Schools. 

A graduate of the Boston College class of 1984, Mayor Kirk was born and raised in Clinton, NY and moved to Massachusetts to attend college. She moved to Gloucester in 1988, and was drawn to the diversity and beauty of the city.  

Mac Bell, Candidate for Mayor of Gloucester

Mac Bell, a life-long resident of Gloucester, is a well-known and successful real estate developer whose projects include the Gloucester Mill, Downtown Plaza, the Pathways expansion development on Emerson Avenue, and 33 and 44 Commercial Street. In 1973, Bell was elected to the Gloucester City Council and served two terms as the youngest city councilor ever elected. He also ran a retail operation called The Glass Sail Boat that he financed in its fledgling years by working as a union laborer and a commercial fisherman. The Glass Sailboat was a downtown fixture for 31 years providing services, products, and employment opportunities. Over the years Bell’s retail and commercial real estate ventures have provided hundreds of jobs to local residents.

In 2011, Bell contracted with Endicott College to bring day and evening Associate and Bachelor degree programs with flexible scheduling and small class sizes to support the needs of students in Gloucester and the greater Cape Ann area. The following year, 2012, Orange Leaf Yogurt was brought in to sweeten up Main Street Plaza. Bell has focused on the beautification of his beloved Gloucester and takes pride in being a champion of tree planting, anti-litter, and sustainability initiatives in the city.

Mac Bell has five children: Pip, Winnie, Timba, Sylvie, and Joe who are the 5th generation of Bell’s to have grown up in Gloucester.