After a weekend of rain and clouds, the sun made a very brief appearance sunday through all the billows of clouds. It was a quick glow!

Welcome To Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board

Joey C

A place where non-profit Cape Ann organizations can post press releases directly and then those press releases will be reposted to http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com . This is not an advertising space for businesses, fitness or wellness organizations, or music listings.

The web address will be http://www.capeanncommunity.com

To have your community organization news posted here, contact Joey C who will grant access for you to post directly.

Thacher Island Association Annual Lighthouse Cruise

July 11, 2016 ~ saintgee74

This is the last call for reservations for the “Lighthouses of Cape Ann” tour around the Cape on Wednesday July 13 at 7pm departing from Captain Bill’s Whale Watch, 24 Harbor Loop,Gloucester. This three hour narrated cruise up the Annisquam River and around the Cape will pass all six lighthouses, including the Twin Lights of Thacher Island, before returning via Eastern Point to Gloucester Harbor. Tickets are $30.00 per person. Credit cards accepted .Call 617-599-2590 for reservations. All proceeds go toward the maintenance and restoration of both Thacher and Straitsmouth Island lights.

Thursday Night Chamber Auction

July 11, 2016 ~ chambercacc

Chamber Auction Thursday, July 14: A Celebration of Cape Ann!
Includes a Special FREE Auction Preview Event on Wendesday, July 13.
Register Here.

The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Auction celebrates its 29th run on Thursday, July 14 beginning at 5:00 PM at The Essex Room at Woodman’s, 125R Main Street, Essex. For added fun a FREE Auction Preview/Business After Hours, will also be held at The Essex Room, on Wednesday, July 13 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. This special Auction Preview evening will be a great opportunity to mingle with friends, preview this year’s Live Auction treasures and get an early start on Silent Auction bidding.

This Thursday’s main event will bring together bidders from across Cape Ann and the North Shore in hopes of going home with marquee auction items. Led by committee chair Tony Corrao, the auction committee’s preparations are humming along. Over $100,000 worth of donated items are already in hand and great new packages have been arriving daily from Chamber members and friends.

“This is one of the premier summer gatherings on Cape Ann,” said Carol Morse, a staunch supporter of the Chamber Auction for many years, adding: “This year’s Auction promises to be another great success and one of the best nights of the summer.”

Original paintings by Cape Ann’s leading artists, including Ken Knowles, Robert Gruppe, John Terelak, and Carole Loiacono; tickets to Red Sox, Bruins and Patriots games; exciting trips and adventures, including a South Africa Photo Safari; many vacation packages to fun places, including New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Portland, ME, Niagara Falls and Newport, RI; a select Afghanistan rug from Landry & Arcari; a beverage center from Doyon’s; and great shop and dine packages from Cape Ann shops and eateries are just some of the auction highlights. Plenty of other fun and unique items will also be up for bid.

For a complete list of auction items and to register to attend please visit capeannchamber.com or call 978-283-1601. Tickets for the 29th annual Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Auction on Thursday, July 14 are $30 per individual or $300 for a reserved table of 10. The 29th Annual Cape Ann Chamber Auction is sponsored by Cape Ann Savings Bank.

Rose Baker Artist Honorees

July 11, 2016 ~ oldfolks76

Juni Van Dyke has selected Bob Quinn and Barbara Maddix as the Rose Baker Summer Artists and they are being honored with an exhibit of their work in the lobby of the Rose Baker Senior Center. Juni is the instructor and Director of the Rose Baker Art Program and every two months she selects one or two artists from the Program for this honor.

Bob Quinn (l) and Barbara Maddix (c) with Art Director Juni Van Dyke standing in front of the summer exhibit.

Even before Bob Quinn enrolled in his favorite high school class, mechanical drawing, he knew art would always be an important part of his life. Over the years, Bob has developed enviable skills in leather carving, metal work, stained glass, and computer graphics and video. His professional career was in marketing and advertising which allowed him to put his creativity and artistic eye to work in the business world.

Bob admires the many notable Cape Ann’s artists, and has used their work to inspire his own personal style of drawing, sketching, and watercolor.  Bob’s style is straight forward, unencumbered, and charming.  On exhibit at Rose Baker are works that delight the eye and reflect the subjects he loves most:  Gloucester and all that is of the sea.

After retiring from a long career assisting one of Boston’s most prominent judges, Barbara Maddix has followed her lifelong interest in art.  Barbara joined the Senior Art Program over 24 years ago. Now in her nineties, Barbara is still an active member of the Art Program.  Some of her most recent contributions to the Program include creating ceramic bowls for Gloucester’s Empty Bowl Dinner and creating numerous iconic scenes for Art Program’s Neighborhood Quilt Project.

Barbara’s paintings are joyful and childlike.  They are rendered with exuberance and a unique sense of color that reflects Barbara’s happy outgoing love of life and the world around her.

The summer show is on display from now until the end of August in the main lobby of the Rose Baker Senior Center at 6 Manuel F. Lewis St in Gloucester. The show can be viewed weekdays from 9am to 4pm.