Cape Ann Youth Hockey Challenger Program was the winner at the most recent Awesome Gloucester Pitch Night, receiving $1000 from the local micro grant foundation to support skating and hockey instruction for disabled children. The money will be used to purchase adaptive equipment for the participants.
Each month the Gloucester chapter of the Awesome Foundation solicits proposals from the community and chooses the top three to attend a public Pitch Night on the evening of the third Monday. Submitters make their case before the 20 local trustees who have each donated $50 toward the monthly award. The top vote getter walks away with $1000 in cash. Proposals to make Gloucester more awesome can be made at Awesome Gloucester.
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Although the exact historicity of his life is lost in time it is generally accepted that Siddhartha Gautama, born a prince in what is now Nepal, was a member of the warrior/ruler class who, as a mature and married man, renounced his noble life and began many years of wandering and study, ultimately rejecting the extremes of asceticism and hedonism to establish a middle way to spiritual awakening. He spent the rest of his life teaching the Dharma, or the nature of things, and expounding the Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths, the acceptance of which is said to be the route to Nirvana, the perfect peace of a mind free from ignorance, greed and hatred. He is also reputed to have said “The trouble is, you think you have time.”
It came up in conversation the other day that most of us don’t know each other’s phone numbers. Â True that.
I remember clearly a moment that happened YEARS ago……
A few years before our kids became a reality, a bunch of us were hanging out on July 3rd. Â We were in my living room with some local friends as well as a few friends from Rockport who were home visiting for the 4th of July week. Â On the 4th we all had different plans/obligations, but we wanted to meet up at the end of the day. Â The questions arose, “Do we all have each others’ phone numbers so that we can track each other down?” Â I, silly me, jumped up to retrieve a pad of “sticky notes” so that we could all swap numbers…. Â I walked back into the living room to see everyone else had whipped out their cell phones to add contacts. Â I, of course, had a cell phone back then….but, hadn’t quite transitioned to the modern day way of easily saving phone numbers. Â Much like some people now still jot down recipes from a website rather than taking a screen shot….or write down a child’s wish list from a store rather than snapping a photo of the toy or item.
So, back to phone numbers.  I can tell you without a second’s thought that my phone number from birth to age 9 was 774-7451.  My phone number from age 10-17 was 468-4544.  However, I can’t tell you my mother or father’s current cell phone number.  Nor can I tell you anyone else’s.  The only cell phone number I actually know is my husband’s and that is probably only because it is one number away from my own.
I do, however, know our dentist’s and doctor’s office phone numbers off the top of my head. Â I could also order a pizza from two local take-out restaurants….because, I’m happy to report, they’re not simply saved in my contact list.
So, my question to you is…. Â In thinking of family members and good friends, how many phone numbers do you actually know? Â Who could you call if you were to lose your contact list?
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Coyotes typically sleep above ground in the open or under cover of shrubbery and wooded patches. Pup season is the only time coyotes use a den, which is usually a rocky outcrop, hollowed out stump, or a burrow made by fox, raccoon, skunk, or other medium-sized mammal. Coyotes will also make a den by digging a hole.
The color and shape of coyote poop (scat) varies, depending on what food is available. Purportedly at this time of year the scat is oftentimes reddish-orange because their diet is rich in apples.
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Tomorrow the Gloucester Meetinghouse will toll the Paul Revere bell in the Meetinghouse tower at 2:45pm, 15 minutes prior to the Spectrum Singers concert. We will do this in honor of those who died or are suffering in Paris, the worldwide victims of terrorism or intolerance, and affirmation of our precious heritage of religious freedom.
The concert was planned before the tragic events in Paris but speaks to our common humanity through musical settings of the psalms and prayers of the 3 Abrahamic faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – including the premiere of a choral piece by Mohammed Fairouz. It concludes with the hauntingly beautiful setting of Psalm 90 by Charles Ives with the full chorus, soloists, bell choir, chimes and organ.
Whether you subscribe to a traditional religious practice or simply find a divine presence in nature…we hope you will join us for this meaningful community event.
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The Paul Revere bell in the Gloucester Meetinghouse tower will toll at 2:45pm, 15 minutes prior to the Spectrum Singers concert. We will do this in honor of those who died or are suffering in Paris, the worldwide victims of terrorism or intolerance, and affirmation of our precious heritage of religious freedom.
Whether you subscribe to a traditional religious practice or simply find a divine presence in nature…we hope you will join us for this meaningful community event.
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The First Baptist Church in Gloucester, 38 Gloucester Avenue, will hold its annual Holly Fair on Saturday, December 5 from 9:00a.m. to 2:00p.m. There will be homemade candy and baked goods, crafters, a White Elephant table, a raffle with prizes from many local businesses including a brand-new Keurig coffee maker, and a wonderful luncheon with our traditional kale soup and fish chowder. Come down and spend all or part of the day with us. We always have a great time! Call the church office at 978-283-4808 for more information.
Thanks Again,
Mark Spreer
The Gloucester Writer’s Center is holding a celebration and poetry read for Peter Albert Todd, Gloucester’s Poet Laureate who is gravely ill and in hospice. We will show a short video taken this past spring of Peter telling us stories of Gloucester in the 1930’s…
Thanks to skipper Brian Higgins aboard the F/V Toby Ann we’ve got some beautiful tuna steaks to smoke up today.
Last night I trimmed them up and put out my ingredients for the overnight marinade and added two more ingredients: Fresh Ginger which I’d grate into the bowl and finely chopped up yellow Cayenne Pepper.
The marinade consisted of-
A Bottle of Veri Veri Teriyaki Marinade and Sauce
A Turn In the Bowl of Chili Oil and Japanese Sesame Oil
A Very Generous Amount of Crushed Red Pepper Flakes (I like stuff spicy)
A Half a Tablespoon of Granulated Garlic
Tablespoon of Freshly Grated Ginger
I Finely Chopped Yellow Cayenne Pepper
A Cup Of Light Brown Sugar
Here’s one of teh tuna steaks before i put them to bed sealed in Ziploc bags overnight.
This morning virtually all of the liquid of the marinade…
The Taste of Magnolia would like to thank all their volunteers, contributors and would also like to thank GMG for helping make Taste of Magnolia a success.
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Good Morning Gloucester 