Balancing Act
Month: March 2020
Susan O’Leary Upcycling These great bags
If you have not seen these great bags, please check out Susan O’Leary’s website.
Here are a couple photos of her great works.
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Machaca Gloucester ~This Wednesday March 4th, we present The FINALS. Our top 3 (as determined by our judges) will be going home with cash – 1st – $700, 2nd – $300, 3rd – $200. This is going to be a night of live, local, original music you won’t want to miss!
photos by Chris Langathianos and jisilva photo
Check out order of performers
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March progress at Gloucester Crossing and great view of Strong Group historic Net & Twine building
March 2020
Sweeping drop view across construction sites to Gloucester Net & Twine building, Strong Group
About the future Glen T. Macleod Center Cape Ann YMCA (opening fall 2020) here
About Gloucester Net & Twine building –
Besides the leather factory (founded in 1932), Strong Group businesses on site for three generations of the Cutter family include advertising and product and promotional projects. Prior to the leather business, the historic factory was built and incorporated in 1884. Gloucester Net & Twine quickly ramped up as a major ancillary supplier for the fishing industry. It’s one of the largest oldest factories still standing and was placed on the National Historic Registry in 1996. Eight volumes of historic plan books for Gloucester Net & Twine Company are in the collection of Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum.
Gloucester Net & Twine Company is included in the National Park Service maritime history trail in MA. Gloucester is one of the cities with the most sites–only Boston has more. Besides this historic factory building, other Gloucester sites on the maritime trail include: Our Lady of Good Voyage, East Gloucester Square Historic District, Man at the Wheel, Schooner Adventure, Ten Pound Light, Eastern Point Light Station, and Annisquam Harbor Light Station. – C. Ryan, July 2016
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Happy Birthday to FOB, terrific photographer, musician, and teacher
Len Burgess:
Happy Birthday to you, hope your day is great. This is Len helping the eighth graders from O’Maley building boats.
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Stones Pub Shepherds Pie Is Everything Shepherds Pie Should Be
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Cheers to 11 Years at Seaport Grille!
Happy 11th Anniversary to Seaport Grille!
Come join in on the food, drinks and fun! Tuesday, March 10th through Thursday, March 12th, enjoy Live Music, $11 Throwback & New Menu Specials, Giveaways (including a chance to Win Lunch For A Year!) and special Beer Flights as part of MA Beer Week!
Tuesday, March 10
5-8pm Music: Liam Anastasia-Murphy
Half Priced Apps All Day
Beer Flights as part of MA Beer Week
$11 Throwback + New Menu Specials
Beauport Cruiselines Ticket Giveaway
Wednesday, March 11
5-8pm Music: Chris Fritz-Grice Music
Beer Flights as part of MA Beer Week
$11 Throwback + New Menu Specials
A Year of Lunches at Seaport Grille Giveaway
Thursday, March 12
$11 Throwback + New Menu Specials
Beer Flights as part of MA Beer Week
Beauport Cruiselines Ticket Giveaway
Seats will fill up, call (978) 282-9799 to reserve!
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Construction Along Harbor Loop
The new Chamber of Commerce building at 24 Harbor Loop seems to be coming right along. The former Capt. Bill’s Whale Watch is going to look very different! Also coming right along seems to be the new Harbormaster’s office area at 19 Harbor Loop. It appears much of the current work is inside work on both projects and the workers had a great day for it yesterday!
The mostly green building pictures are of the new Chamber of Commerce. The mostly red ones are the Harbormaster’s Office and area nearby.
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Live From One Eyed Jacks, Gloucester UK With Adventureman, The Don Juan, Rabbit, The Town Cryer, Chris Nyland and The Ice Man
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God Save The King!
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LOSS OF HABITAT, THE USE OF PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES, AND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE HAVING A PROFOUNDLY NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE BUTTERFLIES
It’s not just Mexico’s forests that need protecting for butterfly migration
Their route from Canada is threatened by overuse of herbicides and climate change, among other factors
Mexico News Daily
Published on Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Mexico, the United States and Canada must share responsibility for the conservation of the monarch butterfly, according to a biologist who warns that the insect’s North American migratory path is at risk of becoming a thing of the past.
Víctor Sánchez-Cordero, a researcher at the National Autonomous University’s Institute of Biology and Mexico’s lead representative on a tri-national scientific committee that studies the monarch, said that the butterflies’ route from southeastern Canada to the fir tree forests of Michoacán and México state is under threat.
He blames the excessive use of herbicides, changes in the way land is used, climate change and a reduction in the availability of nectar and pollen.
“The commitment to conserve this migratory phenomenon not only focuses on Mexico; it’s a shared responsibility between our country, Canada and the United States,” Sánchez-Cordero said.
The researcher, who along with his team developed a system to monitor the migration of the monarch, said that there is a misconception that the most important – almost exclusive – factor in ensuring the continuation of the phenomenon is the conservation of forests in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (RBMM), located about 100 kilometers northwest of Mexico City.
That idea “has placed great international pressure on Mexico,” Sánchez-Cordero said before adding that he and his team published an article in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science that shows that the decline in the number of monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico is not due to deforestation in the RBMM.
Deforestation has been drastically reduced in the past 10 years but butterfly numbers have continued to decline, he said.
“The dramatic reduction in the density of monarch butterflies that arrive at overwintering sites in Mexico doesn’t correlate with the loss of forest coverage, which shows that this factor is not responsible for the population reduction. … Other hypotheses to explain the decrease must be sought,” Sánchez-Cordero said.
One possible cause for the decline, he explained, is that the excessive use of herbicides is killing milkweed, a plant that is a main food source for monarch butterflies and on which females lay their eggs. Less nectar and pollen in the United States and Canada as a result of deforestation is another possible cause, Sánchez-Cordero said.
He added that large numbers of migrating butterflies have perished in Texas and the northeast of Mexico due to drought linked to climate change.
To conserve the migratory phenomenon of the monarch – butterflies fly some 4,500 kilometers to reach Mexican forests from Canada over the course of three to four generations – a network of conservation areas along their migration routes needs to be developed, Sánchez-Cordero said. He also said that the routes followed by the butterflies should be declared protected areas.
“A new conservation paradigm is needed. … It’s something that we [Mexico, the United States and Canada] should build together,” the researcher said.
Monarch Butterfly Seaside Habitat
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SPENDING A HAPPY WEEKEND WITH MY FAMILY <3
Lovely long weekend with my family, cooking great dinners and long beach walks. Oh how I’ll miss my daughter when she returns to Santa Monica. All photos Liv Hauck
Me and my shadow
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Leap Day at Good Harbor Beach
Even though it was 30 degrees, we all need to go to the beach.
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Music Around Town ~ March 2-8, 2020
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Mom’s Kitchen Is Open!
Welcome back. Mom’s Kitchen now open in new location on Commercial Street. Best wishes! Thanks for taking care of GMG Jimmy.
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Something is Coming Soon
Does anyone know what is moving into this location? It used to be a little gas station right before the East Gloucester Shaws on Eastern Ave. They have been working hard for the last few months.
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Dinner at Minglewood a Real Treat
We recently had dinner at Minglewood and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Sometimes I think “bar” when I think of Minglewood, but, rest assured it’s a wonderful dinner experience. Jim enjoyed his sandwich and also treated himself to the cheesecake. My haddock had the most delicious lemon sauce! I cannot wait to go back. Bonus: it’s a Serenitee restaurant so we got points! There’s always something going on at Minglewood. Thanks Zach and staff for a delightful evening.
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The Rabbit and I will be live-streaming in Gloucestershire with Adventureman tomorrow
#buckleyourchinstrap Rabbit!
On this transatlantic trip we may experience some unexpected turbulence😁😂🍺
We’re in the heart of the monsta!
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SAFE GUARDING THE BUTTERFLIES: FILM INTERVIEW WITH JOEL MORENO ROJAS AND ELLEN SHARP FOUNDERS OF THE BUTTERFLIES AND THEIR PEOPLE PROJECT
In March I had the tremendous joy of interviewing Ellen Sharp and Joel Moreno Rojas, founders of the nonprofit organization “The Butterflies and Their People Project.” We filmed the interview from the rooftop of their hotel, JM Butterfly B&B, which is located at the base of Cerro Pelon Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Macheros, Mexico. Cerro Pelon is the old volcanic mountain where the Monarchs wintering home was first located by Mexican citizen scientist Catalina Aguado Trail, on January 2, 1975. Trail was at the time working under the direction of zoologist Doctor Fred Urquhart of the University of Toronto.
Joel and Ellen are simply an amazing dynamic duo. They have built a beautiful and welcoming bed and breakfast at Cerro Pelon, the most pristine and least trafficked of Monarch sanctuaries. Largely through the conservation efforts of The Butterflies and Their People Project they have helped provide economic opportunities that have in turn dramatically reduced illegal logging and deforestation of the core protected areas of the forest.
The mission of The Butterflies and Their People Project is to “preserve the butterfly sanctuary by creating jobs for local people in forest and monarch butterfly conservation. The Butterflies & Their People Project is an Asociación Civil (non-profit organization) registered and located in the village of Macheros in the State of Mexico.”
I hope you’ll watch and will be equally as enamored of Joel and Ellen as were we. You’ll learn more about how The Butterflies and Their People Project came to be, the importance of protecting the existing Monarch Butterfly forest sanctuaries, and how jobs and economic growth go hand and hand with protecting the vitally important temperate forests of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. And a bit about how this extraordinary couple met and began their journey in Monarch conservation.
To learn more about The Butterflies and Their People Project visit their website.
To donate to The Butterflies and Their People Go Fund Me fundraiser click here.
To learn more about and make a reservation at JM Butterfly B and B click here.
Good Morning Gloucester 