Day: March 16, 2016

Happy Birthday Big Boy!

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BankGloucester Artist Reception
for Marilyn Swift

Artist Reception: March 19, 11:00-1:00
Exhibit: March 12-May 14

BankGloucester • 160 Main St. • Gloucester, MA  01930

BankGloucester is featuring artist Marilyn Swift’s paintings from March 12-May14. An artist reception will take place on March 19 from 11-1 with light refreshments served.

www.bankgloucester.com

Gloucester Education Foundation is proud to host a day of play for Gloucester families. Sponsored by Cape Ann Savings Bank and Cape Ann Trust and Financial Services

Play is an important learning tool that promotes creative and innovative thinking. Play also helps kids develop skills that are a foundation for life-long success, including critical thinking, communication, problem solving, and collaboration. The Power of Play Festival will feature fun family activities throughout the Field House like: collaborative art projects; lego building; kid’s yoga; board games; sand, water and goop tables; obstacle courses; giant building blocks and LOTS more.

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My name is Rachel Refalo and I am the PTO President at West Parish Elementary School in Gloucester.  In September of 2016 we will be blessed with the opening of a new school but the playing fields they are replanting around the school will not be able to be played on until September of 2017 and our beloved Science Park is in quite a state of disrepair. We are hosting a Hollywood themed auction to raise money to make repairs to the Science Park called:

Lights, Camera, Auction!
6pm-11pm at the Cruiseport Gloucester
6 Rowe Square, Gloucester, Ma  01930

Tickets are $25 for 1 person | $40 per couple

Our auction is going live online on March 20, 2016.  There will be mobile items like a Breakfast with Good Morning Gloucester’s own Joey C that can be bid on by people around the country.  People can also attend the live event to bid on mobile or live items.

For more information or to buy tickets people can visit www.biddingforgood.com/westparishschool

West Parish School PTO – BiddingForGood Fundraising Auction

Starting on March 20, 2016, West Parish School PTO will be auctioning off a number of fun and unique items to bid on to raise money for our organization – and more importantly, our beloved Science Park. You can show your support by clicking on the Donate Items button to contribute to our catalog. Give a little and get a lot in return. Whether you have 1 item or 100 to contribute, your participation is an invaluable part of our fundraising efforts. By donating an item or service directly online, you’ll be helping to raise money for our organization, and you’ll receive a mention on our site that can link back to your own web page. You would be a featured donor on our Facebook page, local newspaper ads and on our Star Donor Wall at the event. If you cannot make the event but would still like to support our cause, you may donate cash by clicking on the Donate Cash button. We receive 100% of cash donations so please spread the word! Thank-you for your support!

I can also be emailed at racmatz@hotmail.com

2nd Annual Helen Garland flyer

2^nd Annual Helen Garland Universal Earth Day and Equinox Bell Ringing Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 2 PM

Bell ringing event and musical tribute to Pete Seeger at Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church celebrates global peace and arrival of spring

Gloucester, MA: The 2^nd Annual Helen Garland Universal Earth Day and Equinox Bell Ringing will take place this year on Sunday, March 20^th at 2 PM at Gloucester’s Unitarian Universalist Church located at 10 Church Street. A musical tribute to Pete Seeger by local musicians will also take place.

For the past 46 years, Helen Garland, a long-time nature advocate and resident of Gloucester, has traveled to the United Nations in New York City to ring the Japanese peace bell at the exact time of the Vernal Equinox to celebrate Universal Earth Day. In 2016, the Vernal Equinox will arrive at 12:31 AM. Around the world, the Vernal Equinox is recognized as a time to celebrate Earth’s balance, a planetary equilibrium of day and night, light and darkness, and a movement toward a new season. In the northern hemisphere, we celebrate light, renewal, and rejuvenation as we move into the spring season. In the southern hemisphere, people prepare for autumn and the oncoming winter.

Helen Garland’s work at the UN on behalf of Nature and Motherhood as chair of the Earth Society Foundation led her 46 years ago to attend the bell ringing ceremony. Now, we carry on her tradition in Gloucester, this year with the help of the Gloucester UU church.

This is a family oriented event and open to the public.

For more information contact: Maureen Aylward maureenaylward@comcast.net 978-290-1507

More about the UN Bell Ringing: The Vernal Equinox was observed as the beginning of a new year in ancient China, England, Persia, Egypt, and North and South America. At the exact moment of the Equinox the sun is setting at the South Pole and rising at the North Pole. On the equator at noon you will cast no shadow. The annual tradition of ringing the Peace Bell at the UN at the exact moment of the Vernal Equinox (March 20-21) was initiated by John McConnell with the support of UN Secretary-General U Thant on March 21, 1971. This tradition has been observed for 46 consecutive years at UN Headquarters. The UN 2016 ceremony is co-sponsored by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).