Sacred Retreat at Blue Shutters – April 24 to April 25
Fri. Apr 24 – Sun. Apr 26. Join Robin Clare and Colleen Morgan on retreat at the beautiful Blue Shutters Inn across from Good Harbor Beach, a sacred portal in Gloucester, Ma. All-inclusive with ocean view room and home-made vegan and gluten free meals. Robin & Colleen will take you on a journey to discover: Who You Think You Are…Who You Really Are…Who You Want To Be.
To register: https://beingrealretreatapril2015.eventbrite.com
The High Cost of Affordable Housing on the North Shore
Harborlight Community Partners’, Andrew DeFranza, to Speak at April 19 GDCC Meeting
The Gloucester Democratic City Committee’s monthly meeting at the Gloucester House on Thursday, April 9th will feature Andrew DeFranza, Executive Director of Harborlight Community Partners, a local nonprofit affordable housing organization.
It has been widely reported over recent years that Massachusetts faces a shortage of affordable housing, increasing numbers of low and middle income families facing homelessness, and a rapidly growing aging population with supportive housing needs. DeFranza will discuss reasons why area affordable housing development is so costly and slow to produce; Harborlight Community Partners’ efforts to preserve and create contextually sensitive affordable housing for low income seniors and families; and how the organization works together with municipalities to meet our growing need for decent, permanent affordable housing. Currently, Harborlight Community Partners supports housing for over 500 people in 371 units located in 8 North Shore Communities including Gloucester, and Rockport.
This event will begin with an informal gathering at 7:00pm; business meeting at 7:30; and speaker program, 8:00-9:00. Members and Democratic friends are welcome to attend.
Havana Curvevall is GDCC April Film Series Feature
Showing April 27 at the Cape Ann cinema & Stage
Monday, April 27, the GDCC and Cape Ann Cinema & Stage will co-sponsor “Havana Curveball,” another in a series of films on social and policy issues. For fifty years the United States has imposed an economic embargo on Cuba. Finally that relationship is beginning to thaw. This month’s documentary gives us a glimpse of that change. It’s the story of a 13 year-old American boy who, to “help heal the world,” wants to collect baseball equipment to send to Cuba. That island country had sheltered his grandfather during the Holocaust.
The special ticket price for GDCC members is $7.50. (If you buy on line for the regular $10.50, you will have a $3 credit at the concession stand.) Doors open at 7pm. The film will screen at 7:30pm.
Good Morning Gloucester 