Ended my day yesterday the way it started except on the other side of the island at Plum Cove. Just can’t beat our daily views! Looking forward to getting outside this weekend since Mother Nature is gracing us with some rays!
Month: June 2018
Good Morning, Annisquam
A beautiful Good Morning, Annisquam shot courtesy of Paul Horovitz. It’s enough to make you want to play hooky isn’t it?
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Saint Peter’s Fiesta Schedule Gloucester, MA | Since 1927
Editing thanks to Bill O’Connor, www.northshorekid.com Daily calendar also available at www.northshorekid.com
Novena to Saint Peter
- Monday, June 18 through Tuesday, June 26, 2018
- 7:00 p.m at the American Legion Hall
Wednesday, June 27
- 7:00-10:00p.m.| Musical Entgrtainmen | Saint Peter’s Park: VINYL GROOVE
- Carnival Open 5pm – Midnight
Thursday, June 28
- 6:30 p.m | Fiesta 5K Road Race -with Cape Ann YMCA – Starting location Stage Fort Park – Finish Line at Saint Peter’s Park
- For further details, contact Cape Ann YMCA
- 8:00-11:00p.m | Entertainment, Dance and Music | Saint Peter’s Park featuring: WILD FIRE
- Carnival Open 5pm – Midnight
Friday, June 29
- 4:45p.m | Greasy Pole Contest and Women’s Seine Boat Races | Pavilion Beach
- 6:30p.m | Entertainment | Before Opening Ceremonies
- 7:00p.m | Formal Opening at Saint Peter’s Square
- Entertainment will immediately follow until 11:30 pm:
- 8:15-9:45 pm Music by MORENO FRUZZETTI
- Carnival Open 2pm – Midnight
Saturday, June 30
- 10:00a.m | Pavilion Beach | Seine Boat Race: Gloucester Coast Guard vs. Gloucester Fire Department & Gloucester Police Department
- 3:00 p.m | Children’s Games | Beach Court
- 4:45 p.m | Sports Events | Pavilion Beach: Seine Boat Races & Greasy Pole Contest
- 8:00-11:30pm | Musical Entertainment | Saint Peter’s Park featuring: FRANCO CORSO
- Carnival Open 12pm – Midnight
Sunday, July 1
- 10:00a.m | Celebration of Mass of Saint Peter | St.Peter’s Park
- 12:00 noon | Procession followingthe Celebration of Outdoor Mass
- 3:00p.m | Blessingof the Fleet | Stacy Boulevard
- 3:00 p.m | Concert | Saint Peter’s Park: U.S Navy Band Northeast, Rhode Island Sound
- 4:45 p.m | Sports Events | at Pavilion Beach -Seine Boat Races & Greasy Pole Contest
- 6:30p.m | Children’s Pifiata Contest | at Pascucci Court
- 7:15p.m | Awards Ceremony – Trophies awarded to winners of the Sports Events
- 8:30 p.m | Musical Entertainment | Saint Peter’s Park featuring: NATALIE PINTO and PANORAMA
- 10:15 p.m | Raffle Drawings and Closing Procession
- Carnival Open 12pm – Midnight
Ride Coupons
Wednesday: 5pm – Close
Thursday: 5pm – Close
Friday: 2pm – 5pm
$30 per person, per day
$25 per person, per session
Save the Date: Next Year
Saint Peter’s Fiesta June 26 – JUNE 30, 2019
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Fire Department Annual Firefighters Memorial Service Sunday June 10
From the Gloucester Fire Department News Blog:
*MEDIA ADVISORY*
Gloucester Fire Department Invites Residents to Firefighters Memorial Service
GLOUCESTER — Chief Eric Smith invites the public to join the Gloucester Fire Department at its annual Firefighters Memorial service this weekend.
WHEN:
Sunday, June 10, at 9 a.m.
WHERE:
Cherry Hill Cemetery next to Addison Gilbert Hospital
WHO:
- Gloucester Fire Department
- Gloucester Fire Fighters Relief Association
WHAT:
The Gloucester Fire Department will hold a ceremony to honor the deceased firefighters who have served the Gloucester community.
A drum-led procession will march up Washington Street, from the Department of Public Works to the Firefighters Memorial Site at Cherry Hill Cemetery. Once there, the department will honor its fallen firefighters and will place wreaths and flags on their graves.
“It’s an honor to pay our respects to those who have come before us and sacrificed on behalf of the City of Gloucester,” Chief Smith said. “I hope residents will take the time to join us for this traditional tribute to the firefighters who served our community and dedicated their lives to keeping it safe.”
Here’s part of an article from the June 12 1922 Gloucester Daily Times naming those lost for that year’s ceremony. It is difficult to read due to the method of digitization but, sadly, the list is long.
Interestingly, it also appears in the June 12 1922 edition of the Gloucester Daily Times that the Firemen’s Monument was dedicated at Cherry Hill Cemetery that year.
The Department is to be commended for maintaining a long history of this memorial service. Godspeed to all past and present.
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Tuffy Welcomes Aboard Victim Number 726. Good Luck Greenhorn 😂
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Stop by Harbor Cove Dental to pick up your stress lobstah!
Our latest promo is here! Stop by Harbor Cove Dental to pick up your stress lobstah! They’re in the lobstah pot at the front desk.
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Be a lighthouse ~
Our office is located in a very beautiful, calming and refreshing area, surrounded by lighthouses but our favorite is the Annisquam Harbor Light. Lighthouses help to guide in ships to safety…we too can be a lighthouse and guide those around us to safety by being kind and lending a sympathetic ear.
Together we can all create healing white light..become a lighthouse.
“Blockage is disease/Flow is health”
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Red, White and Blue Pancake Breakfast
Red, White and Blue Pancake Breakfast
In just two weeks the Red, White and Blue Pancake Breakfast will be here. This will be the 29th annual Breakfast and traditional start of the Fourth of July holiday. Save the date for Saturday, June 30, rain or shine, 7:30am-11am at Tuck’s Point. The Manchester-Essex Rotary Club needs volunteers to host this event. We have many returning workers, most notably Sen. Bruce Tarr and Rep. Brad Hill who return every year to flip pancakes. We welcome all volunteers, new faces and regulars. Please email RSVP@manchesteressexrotary.org to help us plan. Students in need of community service hours are welcome.
Look for Rotarians selling tickets in front of the Post Office and Crosby’s Saturday mornings, 9am-noon, June 16 and 23, or stop in at the Parks & Rec Department or Nor’East Frameworks. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 the day of the event…
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ANOTHER AMAZING PLACE IN GLOUCESTER! DRIFT CAFE!
And it’s much more than just a “cafe” most would say.
I just came across yet another amazing spot to recently open in our awesome city. This is DRIFT CAFE on Main St.! This Thursday night, which is tonight, is INDUSTRY NIGHT, so stop on by! (Ask a restaurant friend if you have no clue)
The interior design is equal to the great staff and amazing drinks! (and food:)
Behold…
Awesomeness.
Live music every week, all kinds!
Fixture this.
Whiskey for days! Plus all ya favs n brews!
Keeping the hint of nautical.
All while classy yet approachable.
Details folks (hooks and sockets)…
It’s all about the details. USB chargers anyone??
This bar! You HAVE to see and feel this!!
And proper CAFFEINE HOT ALL DAY!
Tea for 20!
Fixins for the bean heads.
Oh, these are delivered and baked fresh on location..every morning! (food menu avail)
Yup
Hot out da oven
3 Main St. Gloucester… 978-559-7974
Stop by and meet Rick or any of the other staff for Good times! Find them at Facebook.com/DriftGloucester
https://www.facebook.com/driftgloucester/
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Come out for a ride around the island with us on the Lighthouse Cruise…
http://www.capeannharbortours.com/lighthouse.html
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Yeah it is back
Cape Ann farmers market at Stage Fort Park
Donna Ardizzoni / Circle Consulting Group 978-526-9222
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Walking the Maritime Wharf
On Wednesday it was such a nice afternoon decided to take a walk to Maritime Gloucester’s wharf.
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From our Friend Len Burgess
Gloucester SCHOONER CHALLENGE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO JULY 9TH.
—DON’T MISS THIS FUN EVENT— It should be a sell-out so sign on-board early. Ticket price is tax deductible and will benefit the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.
FOR TICKETS and info: Visit the Museum’s secure website:
https://www.essexshipbuilding.org/museum-store/6th-annual-schooner-challenge
or call: (978) 768-7541 or email: chris@essexshipbuilding.org Tickets are $50.
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Dave Sag’s Blues Party 8:30 ~Special Guests :Tim Gartland at the Rhumb Line Thursday June 7, 2018
Gnashville’s own Tim Gartland. Harp master and songster with a killer band including Tom West, Pete Henderson, Benny Benson and me. don’t miss it!
Dave
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
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San Francisco Voters Uphold Ban on Flavored Vaping Products
Since two Stanford graduate students (product design) invented the fastest growing e-cigarette JUUL, I was surprised to read that there was a ban already in place in San Francisco.
Here’s a link to the article: “San Francisco Voters Uphold Ban on Flavored Vaping Products: The measure is considered the strictest in the nation. Voters backed it despite an expensive advertising campaign…”
1623 Studio Cape Ann TV taped (on their jazzy new equipment) visiting scholar, Ruth Potee, MD, at O’Maley discussing vaping and marijuana and impacts on the adolescent brain. Fortnite is another hot topic.
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10 BEST FRIED CLAMS list from Yankee Mag New England today
A friend in New York just emailed me this link: 10 Best Fried Clams in New England, courtesy Yankee Magazine’s New England Today. A couple of local Cape Ann favorites made the list. The comment board is climbing fast. I have friends that swear by the Cupboard in Stage Fort Park and various restaurants in Gloucester, Rockport and Essex. Did yours make the 2018 list?
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Around Town #51
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Gloucester Smiles-933
“ I LOVE MY DADDY”
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World Oceans Day Fundraiser, Beach Clean Up and Whale Watch
Saturday at 10 AM – 6 PM
June 9, 2018
7 Seas Whale Watch
63 Rogers Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
World Oceans Day Fundraiser, Beach Clean Up & Whale Watch
Public
· Hosted by Sea Shepherd New England
(Tickets to our fundraiser are purchased on-site from a Sea Shepherd coordinator, we’ll be located at the 7 Seas pier where you board the Privateer IV. You can use cash or credit card. If you take part in the beach clean-up with us that morning, you can save $5 off your whale watch ticket ($35 instead of $40) or donate that to SSCS as well.)
In what is hopefully a new yearly event for us, we’ll be heading to one of our great historic New England towns (Gloucester) for a World Oceans Day fundraising event. Working with a couple local groups and organizations, we’ll begin our day spending a couple of hours helping clean up the beach. After a short break to clean up, eat or (for some) take your Dramamine, we’ll head out on what has always been a great day of whale watching with 7 Sea Whale Watch.
Please keep an eye out here on our event for additional details of our beach clean-up on Saturday morning. We’ll meet at the 7 Seas pier (right near where we will board the Privateer IV for our whale watch later) and head out from there. If you have gloves, buckets or bags please bring them… but we will have some on site if needed as well.
#SeaShepherd #worldoceansday #ocean #conservation #cleanocean #oceanplastic #pollution #whalewatch
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Surfs Up
A few surfers at sunrise this morning riding the waves at Good Harbor.
Good Morning Gloucester 