Month: January 2015

COLD WEATHER REQUEST TO RESIDENTS

THE ROCKPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ROCKPORT COUNCIL ON AGING ARE ASKING RESIDENTS TO REGULARLY CHECK IN WITH THEIR ELDERLY FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS.

THE WINTER MONTHS BRING ADDITIONAL HAZARDS TO SENIOR CITIZENS , WHICH INCLUDE SNOW AND ICE, HYPOTHERMIA, AND POWER OUTAGES.
CONTACT THE ROCKPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT ( 978-546-1212), EMERGENCIES 911, AND THE COUNCIL ON AGING (978-546-2573) FOR ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE AND REFERRALS TO OTHER AGENCIES.

“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that
eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth
together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.
”
Archibald MacLeish
(1892- 1982)

An Illinois native, MacLeish attended Hotchkiss, Yale, and Harvard Law,
where he was an editor of the Law Review, but only practiced for three years
before marrying and decamping to Paris to join the expatriate community of
the 1920’s, where his friends included Hemmingway, Stein, Dos Passos,
Fitzgerald, Parker and Benchley. During this time his poetry began to be
published and he was awarded the first of three Pulitzer prizes for his
writing. He was Franklin Roosevelt’s controversial choice to be Librarian of
Congress, and although he lacked formal training in Library Science, he is
credited with transforming the Library of Congress from an out of date
backwater to the literary archive of record is still is today. He was
instrumental in establishing the post of Poet Laureate, and was a founding
representative to UNESCO. He returned to Harvard in the late forties and
taught there until his retirement despite the opposition of Joseph McCarthy
and other Red Scare proponents. In addition to his multiple Pulitzers, his
writing garnered a National Book Award, a Tony for one of his plays, and an
Academy Award for a documentary. In 1977 Jimmy Carter recognized his
contributions to literature with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Greg Bover

Lights of Love raised more than $14,500 to support Addison Gilbert Hospital’s cancer program and provide special care packages to new cancer patients.
Lights of Love was launched in 2008 by Gloucester residents Shawn Wilson and Sue Kyle as a tribute to Cape Ann families whose lives have been touched by cancer and as a symbol of their gratitude for the exceptional patient care Sue received at the Gorton’s Specialty and Cancer Care Center at Addison Gilbert Hospital. This year’s event was a tribute to Sue Kyle, and was presented in honor of long-time Addison Gilbert Hospital colleague Tina Ketchopulos. Over the past eight years, Lights of Love has raised more than $130,000. For more information or to make a donation, please visit http://www.beverlyhospital.org/locations–services/locations/addison-gilbert-hospital.
The O’Maley Middle School Vocal Performance club sang festive holiday carols during the event.

BAKE FOR GOOD: KIDS

In King Arthur Flour’s FREE Bake for Good: Kids Program, nearly 500 kids from Gloucester, Massachusetts will LEARN to make bread from scratch. They will discover that math, science, reading, and baking know-how add up to delicious bread! Kids are excited to take ingredients and their new skills home to BAKE two loaves; one to keep and enjoy and one to SHARE with The Open Door food pantry.

COMING TO Gloucester, Massachusetts

SCHOOL: O’Maley Middle School

WHERE: 32 Cherry Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

WHEN: Thursday, January 15, 2015 – 8:45AM and 9:50AM

TEACHERS SAY THAT KIDS LOVE TO LEARN, BAKE, SHARE

“I cannot tell you how fabulous the program was… I have been receiving emails and personal calls from many of the teachers who couldn’t say enough about how much their students enjoyed the program.”– 5th Grade Teacher

Police Chief Leonard Campanello announces that The Gloucester Police Patrolmans Association represented Gloucester Police Department at the weekend services of slain NYPD Officer Wenjian Liu.

Five officers from Gloucester Police Department made the journey to New York to pay their respects to their fallen brother officer.

Pictured left to right: Officer Mark Foote, Detective Thomas Quinn, Officer Anthony Giacalone, Officer Kevin Mackay, Officer Brendan Chipperini.

“We were very humbed to take part in the memorial services for Officer Liu,” Chief Campanello said. “I would like to thank the officers of the Patrolmen’s Association for making the trip to New York and honoring our fallen brother. We hope that our involvement, and the involvement of so many law enforcement agencies in this service, shows how police remain strong for each other and for the public in the aftermath of such a tragedy.”

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

The fjords, glaciers, islands and passages of southern Chile stir up all kinds of emotions. These were the waters explored by Magellan and by Robert Fitz Roy aboard the Beagle. Charles Darwin went ashore and explored Wulaia Bay and in 1895 Joshua Slocum, having sailed from Boston on the Spray, had a few very nervous days in this area when he encountered a less than friendly welcome by the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego. However, that did not stop him from completing the first solo circumnavigation of the world.

It is hard to describe the glaciers of this region. The U shaped valleys and massive moraines give testimony to the awesome power of these slowly moving rivers of compressed ice. Some of the glaciers we saw are receding in size and mass at an accelerated rate due to climate change. Others, with larger and higher snow collection areas, are stable or growing.

Although the wind was stiff during most of our voyage, the Via Australis rarely rolled, pitched or yawed. I felt significant motion only once, when we rounded Brecknock Peninsula at the southwest extremity of Tierra del Fuego, where the protected waters of the fjords and inland passages briefly meet the open Pacific.

I hope this short video gives you a sense of what this portion of our trip was like. Come with us as we not only explore and discover the power and beauty of nature, but also get to spend some time among the 140,000 penguin inhabitants of Magdelana Island.