Month: March 2019
Gloucester Smiles-1178
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Stairway to Heaven
Beautiful and breathtaking Crane Beach on a recent spring day. I was told by the attendant to expect to see horses and a hauled out seal. I saw neither but my heart was still full from this piece of nature’s perfection.
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Here’s The Info With Times For @mrjamiemcdonald @Adventureman Arrival In Gloucester On Wednesday Also Links To His Facebook Page For More Info
HERE IS THE INFO WITH TIMES TO RUN!! JOIN IN AS ADVENTUREMAN FINISHES HIS 5,500 MILE US RUN IN GLOUCESTER- PLEASE SHARE!!!!
Itinerary Wednesday March 27:
*** 6 miles out – don’t worry, it’ll be a nice slow pace!
– Meeting point: Sweeney Park, 113 Summer St, Manchester By the Sea
– Time: 2.30pm
***1.7 miles out (if you’d like a shorter run)
– Meeting point: Hammond Castle
– Time: 3.45pm
***0.7 miles from the finishing point:
– Meeting point: Stage Fort Park (lots of parking nearby, apparently!)
– Time: 4pm
***Finishing point at the Fisherman’s Memorial Statue – where Jamie will dip his hand in the Atlantic Ocean, having done the same 5,500 miles ago in the Pacific!
-Time: approximately 4.15pm
After the finish, the nearby Beauport Hotel has confirmed they will be putting on a welcome celebration and reception for supporters, so please do feel free to join us to celebrate the incredible achievement…
For More About Adventureman and his journey check out his Facebook page (I swear your computer or phone will not spontaneously burst into flames if you click the link)
This is a link > https://www.facebook.com/AdventuremanJamieMcDonald/ (links bring you places for more information)
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DONATIONS FOR MAC FITNESS GLOUCESTER!
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April 9 Meeting Details
Easy First Steps to
an Earth-Friendly Garden with Rebecca Warner
Rebecca Warner offers simple methods for making compost and
improving soil, by using easy ways to make mulch from free materials you find
close to home. Rebecca reveals a time-saving, earth-friendly way to prepare
beds for annuals and vegetables in the spring. She will give us a quick recipe
for making peat-free potting mix for use in your containers.
Rebecca Warner is a home gardener in Newton, Massachusetts with thirty
years’ experience working toward a sustainable garden. Her book, “The
Sustainable-Enough Garden,” is the story of her quest to make a beautiful
garden that’s environmentally friendly. Toward that end she has overhauled her
garden practices, from composting to mulching, lawn care to irrigation. She
blogs weekly at http://thesustainable-enoughgarden.blogspot.com/.
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APPLY TODAY FOR GLOUCESTER BIOTECHNOLOGY ACADEMY!
The deadline for priority admission has passed, but applications are still being accepted for the upcoming Gloucester Biotechnology Academy class of 2020!
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn hands-on science at the bench, and get your career started in biotech!
Visit gmgi.org/apply to learn more and download the applications.
Reach out to John Doyle, Education Director with any questions at john.doyle@gmgi.org
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Adventureman and His Peeps are as Fun as they are Awesome
I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Adventureman and his team at Sweeney Park in Manchester-by-the-Sea at 6:00 tonight (Monday) to absolutely zero pomp and circumstance. It felt a little weird to meet them with no real grandeur, but…as we all know…that is because we are saving the giant welcome for WEDNESDAY at 4:00 pm. Tonight was about a quiet finish….as they prepare for a day of rest and most likely LOTS of reflection. It will be nice for the group to take some time together before sharing their tremendous finish with the city of Gloucester, the far reaching social media universe, fans around the world….and, of course, their beloved Gloucester, England.
They landed at Sweeney Park clearly spent, but in super good spirits….hugged, danced and sang a bit (there may have been a harmonica…it’s kind of a blur)….and then went about the business of tending to Caesar and their gear. Speaking of Caesar….he (it?) was safely tucked away at a neighbor’s house (THANK YOU if you are reading…you know who you are) and then we tended to the task at hand…Dinner….and maybe some drinks. Thanks to Callas for a great night!
Dinner out with this crew was exactly how you might expect it to be. Hysterical….crazy fun….and like Thanksgiving dinner with dear old friends. Joey, Pat D. and I were so happy to sit down and break bread with Adventureman, his phenomenal dad, the unbelievable support team, and a new friend who ran the last 30 miles with them. You couldn’t ask for a kinder, funnier, and more gracious group of people….and we can’t wait for you to meet them all on Wednesday.
Thanks to the amazing generosity of some good people who will be named later, the team is getting some great rest and are further planning their monumental finish. PLEASE be sure to be there to celebrate them and this epic adventure. And, if you’re able, consider making a donation to help the sick children that Jamie (Adventureman) cares so deeply about. DONATE HERE
Some of my favorite video of the evening is Joey schooling the group about the Greasy Pole….after they had schooled us on the sport of cheese rolling and a quick rendition of “Michael Row Your Boat Ashore” after Joey suggested that they might be interested in taking a dory out for a row tomorrow (after running 210 marathons). Gloucester, England and Gloucester, Ma have a lot to learn from each other….such as some vocabulary differences (but that’s a post for a different day).
Welcome to Cape Ann, Adventureman! We are SO HAPPY that you are here!
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@adventureman @mrjamiemcdonald arrived in Manchester! Please read, the schedule that is stickied to the top of GMG is accurate for his finish in Gloucester Wednesday .
http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com
Click the link. I promise it will take you to the Adventureman times of arrival and finish on WEDNESDAY.
We met at Calas tonight!
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Adventureman Shoutout To Gloucester!
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$450,000 call for Public Art | East Boston Police Station
Bid is open-
Eligibility – This Call to Artists is open to all artists, artisans, architects, landscape architects, or teams with experience in public art, site responsive design, project management, and construction administration.
Percent for Art: East Boston Police Station
Deadline April 25, 2019
Introduction
The City of Boston, as part of its Percent for Art program, invites artists or artist teams to apply to create permanent public artwork to complement the new East Boston Police Station.
Call released: March 25, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT
Deadline for responses: April 25, 2019, 11:59 PM EDT
Budget: $450,000
Click here to read the full RFP. To print, please download first.
Click here to read the Press Release
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Sawyer Free Library new building presentation March 27
Keep What Works at the Library – “Keep What Works at the Library”, Martha Bowen letter to the editor, Gloucester Daily Times, March 23, 2019
UPCOMING MEETINGS THIS WEEK
- ON Tuesday March 26, 2019 Library Trustees meeting from 5:30-7:30PM
- ON Wednesday March 27, 2019 there is a Library (new) Building Committee meeting from 4pm – 6pm. The monthly meetings sometimes follow the traditional schedule of meeting on the last Wednesday of each month at 4:00 pm, and sometimes they have been/will be combined with Trustee meetings, etc. Do confirm ahead: 01/30/2019,
02/27/201902/26/2019, 03/27/2019, 04/24/2019 LOCATION: confirm SFL location if Friend Room or one of two rooms upstairs/downstairs in Saunders. There may be other informal ad hoc meetings.
Since the last meeting February 26, 2019
- LTE March 23 https://www.gloucestertimes.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-keep-what-works-at-the-library/article_ec33d788-cd47-50db-8612-27635a74dac9.html
- LTE March 16 Gloucester Daily Times Letter to the Editor
- WGBH Greater Boston report on hiring retired police officers “Gloucester Takes a New Approach to Drug Use” (“those incidents drove people away”)
Continue reading “Sawyer Free Library new building presentation March 27”
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BREAKING NEWS: OUR PIPING PLOVERS HAVE ARRIVED AT GOOD HARBOR BEACH!!!!!!
Our beautiful Piping Plovers have returned! This afternoon we observed them foraging at the shoreline, then chased up to the wrack line by a bounding off-leash dog. After the dog departed the area, the two PiPls dozed off in the drifts of sand and dry beach grass.
The pair look plump and vigorous, not nearly as weary looking as the PiPls that arrived last year on April 3rd, after the four March nor’easters.
Unbelievably, the male is already displaying courtship behavior! And even more amazingly so, he was doing it within mere feet of where they have nested for the past three years.
I know I sound like a broken record, but today was an on-leash day. There were at least a half a dozen dogs off-leash in the forty-five minutes Charlotte, Tom, and I were there. I purposefully bring Charlotte to the beach on on-leash days because of the out of control dogs. A forty to fifty pound off-leash Golden Retriever puppy came bounding up to Charlotte, while its owner stood back shouting he’ll slobber all over her. I was more concerned with the oversized pup knocking her over and used considerable force to hold the puppy back, while Tom scooped up Charlotte. Everyone I spoke with was not aware of the dog laws, old laws and the new laws, and the new 300.00 fines. All the ordinances on the books are not going to do a thing, unless they are enforced.
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ADVENTUREMAN IS ON SCHEDULE TO ARRIVE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON!
Please help give Jamie a true Gloucester welcome! Jamie hails from Gloucester, England and it is an honor that he chose Gloucester, Massachusetts as his final destination on his 5,500 mile cross country journey.
See Joey’s up-to-the minute schedule of when Adventureman will be arriving to Gloucester, posted at the top of the blog, and for Facebook readers, at goodmorninggloucester.org.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvZZbq3nNqz/
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Sunday morning at Good Harbor Beach
The temperature was 48 degrees but the beach was full of happy pre summer beach goers.
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Serendipity’s Playhouse Grand Opening
MAR29
Friday at 4:30 PM – 7 PM
88 Bass Ave, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930
Serendipity’s Playhouse Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting!
Public
· Hosted by Serendipity’s Playhouse
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A message from our friend Iain Kerr from Ocean Alliance
Dear Friends,
Chris, Andy and I have just arrived in Loreto. As advised previously we are pretty damn excited to be taking part in the BBC Blue Planet Live Series. You can find more information on the show here: BBC Blue Planet Live. As I understand it the first show went live today, with Chris Packham and the crew in San Ignacio Lagoon. I have it on good faith that Chris was downwind of a grey whale and he got Snotted!
I made a mistake in my last e mail, I thought that there were three shows but it turns out there are four.
I am also excited but terrified to report that they have asked me to take part in the 4th live show on Sunday. So you can catch us on live TV on Wednesday the 27th (SnotBot with blue whales….🤞🤞) and Sunday 31st of March, EarBot and Humpback whales (🤞🤞). Right now my biggest concern is finding whales and good weather, preferably both at the same time, then of course not making a fool of myself on live TV.
For those of you not in England, there is a way to watch the show live on your computer, Chris says you have to get a VPN, which before last week I had never heard of. In short if the BBC website thinks that your computer is in England it will let you watch the show.
Clearly if you can’t watch the show live I am sure BBC will put it up on their website so I will send that information out next week.
So here we go – Get a VPN
- Download NordVPN 7 day free trial (https://free.nordvpn.com/trial/)
- Make sure to remember to cancel before the 7th day to avoid being charged $100+ for the 3 year subscription
- Alternatively, you can buy one month for $11.99
- After you’ve signed up for the trial, download and install the VPN app on your computer https://ucp.nordvpn.com/downloads
- Open the VPN app, log into your account
- Search for “United Kingdom” server in the country list
- Once connected to a server, now the internet thinks you are in the UK
Create BBC account
- Go to BBC iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer)
- Register for an account (https://account.bbc.com/signin)
- Choose United Kingdom as your country, and put in a UK postal code, this one should work: SW191AA
- Verify your email address with the email sent to you after registering
Watch BBC ONE
- Log back into BBC iPlayer and search for Blue Planet Live if it already aired, or if you’re trying to watch live go to channels and click on BBC ONE, then click “watch live”
- When asked if you have a TV License, click YES
- Press play
- If you get a message that says “This content doesn’t seem to be working” – go back to your VPN app and click United Kingdom again, it will give you a new server number, refresh BBC iPlayer and try again. You might need to try a few different UK servers before you get one that works.
I will try to send out a few blogs from our time here, until then….
Best Fishes from Loreto.
Iain
Iain Kerr
Cell: 978 760 1784
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Twin Light Manor Back Building Coming Down
Video courtesy Kate
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Serendipity’s Playhouse 88 Bass Avenue #GloucesterMA | Grand Opening Friday March 29, 2019 4:30PM
John and Phyllis Linquata announce their new business, Serendipity’s Playhouse, Cape Ann’s first indoor play space! Join them at 4:30PM on Friday, March 29, 2019 for the Grand Opening!
Serendipty’s Playhouse
88 Bass Avenue
Gloucester, Massachusetts
(978) 283-4335
After a year of renovations & permits and the challenges & kismet of converting a former tile store into a family- friendly destination, Serendipity Playhouse is open! The entryway tile design became a plus, matching the new vision at the site. This welcome playland features amusing attractions, an expansive wooden climbing structure, pint-sized imaginative activity stations, foam pit, ride on train, airplane see-saw, and a separate padded toddler space. Families can sign up for extra programs like Zoomba’s “Zoombini” package on Saturdays at 9AM.
The Linquatas sussed out an ideal location with plenty of parking and neighboring businesses that are a natural fit. Families and caregivers can refuel, meet up and juggle errands with a play break: Cape Ann Coffees is right next door; Charlie’s Place is across the street; Stop & Shop plaza is out back; and Good Harbor Beach is a walk away. The Linquatas are Gloucester residents and parents which is evident because 1)see their location intel and 2) the convenient hours…they open early enough for those families with wee early risers. The new venture is very much a family endeavor. John is running the day to day operations. Phyllis dreamed of opening an indoor wonderland and brings her professional expertise as a preschool teacher into building the business. Their daughter is helping out after school. They are determined to provide an active indoor play haven that’s super clean and engaging.
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Gloucester Smiles-1177
Good Morning Gloucester 