Day: August 6, 2019

Cape Ann Chamber Event Guide

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NEXTGEN Sail & Networking on Schooner Adventure

Thursday, August 8, 2019 | 5-8:30 PM

Schooner Adventure | 23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester

The Cape Ann Young Professionals group is hosting a networking event like no other! Embrace your sense of ‘adventure’ on the seas with area young professionals aboard Gloucester’s own historic Schooner Adventure.

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Next Gloucester Block Party

Saturday, August 10, 2019 | 6-10 PM

Main Street in Gloucester

The Gloucester Block parties are fun, festive events that bring downtown to life! A portion of Main Street is closed off from 6-10pm, allowing for live music from local bands, street performers, al fresco dining, children’s activities and more! This family-friendly event has something for everyone!

*New this event is the BankGloucester Beer Garden!

Ribbon Cutting at Blackbear Barber Shop

Tuesday, August 13, 2019 | 10 AM

Blackbear Barber Shop | 260 Main Street, Gloucester

Please join us on Tuesday morning for a ribbon cutting ceremony at Blackbear Barber Shop.

RSVP Today!

North Shore Summer Social with Boston Globe Media

Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | 6:30 PM

The Peabody Essex Museum | 161 Essex Street, Salem

Please join Boston Globe Media and other North Shore Chambers at The Peabody Essex Museum for an evening of networking and socializing.

Enjoy beer, wine, hors d’oeuvres and meet the Globe’s new Chief Commercial Officer, Kayvan Salmanpour.

RSVP by TODAY August 6.

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Businesswomen’s Sunset Sail

Only 5 spots left!

Thursday, August 15, 2019 | 5 – 8:30 PM

Schooner Adventure | 23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester

$35 per person

Enjoy a wonderful sail aboard one of Gloucester’s oldest working vessels! Sail Gloucester Harbor and beyond, enjoy a glorious Cape Ann Sunset, network and enjoy the company of other area Businesswomen.

A light meal will be provided- Delicious, Award Winning Clam Chowder provided by Woodman’s of Essex (thank you Woodman’s!), sandwiches, chips and cookies.

BYOB- a wonderful opportunity to bring your own libations to enjoy on the sail! Concoct your favorite concoction or share a bottle of your favorite wine with a friend- bring it along to enjoy!

Water and soda available on board.

WE DO EXPECT TO SELL OUT SO REGISTER EARLY!!

Festival Details

39th Annual Gloucester Waterfront Festival

Saturday & Sunday, August 17&18 | 10 AM – 6 PM

Stage Fort Park, Gloucester

A collection of over 200 juried Artisans, Craftspeople, Authors, Food Vendors and Musicians from throughout the United States will display and sell their unique creations.

The Rotary’s Pancake Breakfast will be on Saturday from 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM.

The North Shore Car Club will display over 75 antique automobiles on Sunday.

Register Today!

August Business After Hours at The Village Restaurant

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 | 5-7 PM

The Village Restaurant | 55 Main Street, Essex

Join us for August Business After Hours as The Village Restaurant in Essex! Check out what the new owners have done since taking over the restaurant about a year ago.

Sample from their award winning, delicious menu and enjoy a summer evening in Essex with other area business leaders!

There is no charge for this event.

2019 Application

Carolyn M. O’Connor Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded yearly by the Cape Ann Chamber Businesswomen’s Committee, to a woman who is going back to school to better herself/her circumstances.

Someone who perhaps had to stop pursuing her career due to unforeseen or unfortunate circumstances, or who simply has struggle with the means to attend college.

To qualify for the scholarship the applicant must have graduated from High School or earned a GED.

We are looking for women who are seeking education or training, to better their life situation and further their career.

This year we are pleased to announce that we will be awarding two $1,500 Scholarships.

The deadline for the applications to be returned to the Chamber is September 1, 2019. 

LUSH SUMMER PLANTER GARDEN

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Our planters for the Kendal Hotel and Black Sheep Restaurant, located at 350 Main Street in Kendal Square, Cambridge, are planted up in late spring. We keep them going with daily watering and fertilizing.

The hydrangeas look more and more beautiful as the summer progresses and I found a wonderful complementary purplish-blue and white striped petunia at Cedar Rock Gardens this year. With a name like ‘Blueberry Muffin,’  how could one resist purchasing. ‘Blueberry Muffin’ is holding its own and filling out nicely. It’s a keeper and on the list for next year.

Next time you’re in Cambridge, stop by and check out the Kendall Firehouse Hotel and come on in for a delicious breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The food is simply outstanding and the staff are wonderfully friendly and professional.

“Kaboom” J. Schneider submits- Postcards from the Edge… of Summer Vacation Part 3

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As a kid, a rainy summer day in Gloucester in the 1960s meant a movie at the theater on Main Street, Candle Pin Bowling by the dreaded rotary, a museum, or arts and crafts at home with WSBK on the TV as background noise. When it came to arts and crafts, it was a mix of writing and addressing postcards my mother insisted my sister and I send to friends and relatives before school started in the fall, and my weird, creative, warped mind screwing with those postcards. My mother blamed it on MAD Magazine, which is why I read it. Years later I would work for MAD, so there you go, mom!

 

Decades before the computer, email or Photoshop, I would sit and cut out pictures from magazines and newspapers, then using gobs of Elmer’s Glue to paste them onto the postcards. Each one a piece of art. No longer would I hear how anyone got the same postcard, and considering there were only six different postcards available at Mal’s (then Ame’s, now a giant Stop& Shop), it was quite an accomplishment.

 

During the 1980s I was able to make color copies of postcards I was still defacing. I now have folders full of them, from cities around the country, but Gloucester will always be my favorite place to make the recipients wonder if the town is a little too weird.

 

“Kaboom” J. Schneider

Magnolia Road Race 2019

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43rd Annual Magnolia 5K Road Race – 2019 Online Registration

Event Date: Saturday, August 24, 2019,
Event Time: 9:15 am

Online registration ends: 8/22/2019 at 4 P.M., EST
43rd Annual Magnolia 5K Road Race and 1K Fun Run

USA T&F Certified Course # MA12028JK

Magnolia’s 43rd Annual Road Race is a 5K Race to be held rain or shine along a beautiful, scenic route in Magnolia. A 1k Walk/Fun Run will appeal to kids and those not capable of completing the 5k.

The 1k course is short, easy and also includes scenic Shore Road.  All kids who enter get a ribbon and there are trophies for the top finishers.

All proceeds from the races go to the Magnolia Library Center, a non-profit community organization dedicated to enriching the lives of our residents by providing educational and cultural programming and events.

When: Saturday, August 24, 2019

Times: 1k run – 8:30 am     5k run – 9:15 am

Location: 1 Lexington Ave, Magnolia, MA.
T-Shirts: First 100 registered runners. Runners will have the opportunity to purchase a race t-shirt on race day for $15
Prices: 1k fun run – $7   1K Fun Run after July 1, 2017 – $10        5k Adults Pre Fiesta Discount – $20  Adults After July 1st – $25         Under 21 –  $20
Day of Registration: From 7:30 – 8:45 AM  $30 Day of Fee
Awards: $100 to the top M/F overall winners. Awards to all age group Male & Female winners in the following age divisions 19 and under, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+
Phone: 617-413-6315
Email: magnoliarace@gmail.com

Magnolia Road Race

Join us for the 43rd Annual Magnolia 5K Road Race and 1K Fun Run – Saturday, August 24, 2019

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Race sponsors can now make sponsorship payments online via PayPal.

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Magnolia’s Annual 5K Road Race Map

Lap 1

START Magnolia Library

(Est. Lap Time: 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM)

Magnolia Square

Left: onto Shore Rd.

Right: onto Hesperus Ave.

(through Stone Pillars unpaved street)

left: onto Norman Ave.

(pass the library)

Lap 2

(Est. Lap Time: 9:10 AM – 10:15 AM)

Magnolia Square

Right: onto Magnolia Ave.

u-turn: at Blyman School

straight: onto Shore Rd.

left: onto Hesperus Ave.

right: onto Lexington Ave.

Finish: Magnolia Library

Join us this Tuesday August 6th 6-8pm @ Design of Mine Featuring the Reggae sounds of Chris Fritz-Grice

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Live Music by:

Chris Fritz-Grice

Tuesday

August 6th 6-9pm

 

Our Summer series sip & shop is RED HOT !

Join us this Tuesday August 6th 6 -8pm

Featuring the Reggae sounds of

Chris Fritz-Grice

Hot summer looks and sounds

Design of Mine 33 Main St. Gloucester MA |978-491-7495 |Designofmine66@gmail.com

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Pogies Underwater Video From Eric Swanson (who gave us last week’s whale/pogies/striper) Drone Video

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Hi Joe

Here is another view of the Pogies/Mehaden but not from a drone from underwater (kind of what a striper or bluefin tuna or whale would see).    There are some interesting scenes specially as I chase them like predator.

Regards
Eric

Annual Rotary Pancake Breakfast on August 17!

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Cape Ann Community

GLOUCESTER ROTARY PANCAKE BREAKFAST
Come for the Pancakes, Stay for the Waterfront Festival!

Rotarians Jim Marr, Kathleen Piaggesi, and Deanna Fay take a break for a quick photo at last year’s breakfast

The Gloucester Rotary Club will hold its annual Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser on Saturday, August 17, 2019, from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Stage Fort Park. This popular event takes place concurrently with the Gloucester Waterfront Festival, and a special free parking area is available for Pancake Breakfast attendees.

Tickets for the Pancake Breakfast are $8 per person, $5 for children six and under, and are available in advance online at www.gloucesterrotary.org, from any Gloucester Rotarian or at the following Gloucester locations:

Bank Gloucester, 160 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
Cape Ann Savings Bank, 109 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
Institution for Savings, 4 Parker Street, Gloucester, MA
North Shore Health Project, 5 Center Street, Gloucester, MA
Rose Baker…

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