Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

There’s no better way to start your year, I can promise you that! The camaraderie, the exhilaration, the overcoming your fear and telling yourself “I can tackle anything in 2018!” I’ve yet to hear anyone that’s done it with us walk away saying they regretted it. It’s awesome!

Don’t forget to bring non perishable food items for Open Door as Cathy McCarthy and Co will be collecting at the entrance to Oakes Cove Beach. You can donate cold harsh cash too. I’m pretty sure that works too.

Can wait to see all the familiar faces on the beach and hopefully some new ones too!

Here’s a link to the event page for more info

Hi

Hoping you can help spread the word-

We will have a donation box for The Open Door at CAFM’S  Holiday Fare tomorrow from 10-1

Our goal is to collect 100 Lbs of food

For every ten items you bring in CAFM will donate fresh produce.

items most needed are-

Tuna

100% Juice

Hearty soups

Peanut butter

Pasta sauce

Breakfast Cereal

Baking Items

Nicole Bogin, Director
Cape Ann Farmers Market
www.capeannfarmersmarket.org

Another Year and Another Unanimous Decision For The Gloucester MA Lobster Trap Tree As The Without A Doubt Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of The World.

While towns up in Maine are still going back to the same old tired plans trying to make their trees the tallest (by making them horribly disfigured Christmas Spikes Instead of Christmas Trees)  David Brooks and the Gloucester MA community once again made them all pale by comparison.  David Brooks and Gloucester MA is playing chess while Rockland Maine is playing checkers.  But after all these years and crushing their spirits with their horribly disfigured Christmas spikes and them using terrible Chinese sweat shop labor Christmas bows on their trees while Gloucester MA adorns their Lobster trap tree with hand painted buoys made by the angelic youth of  Gloucester.  But this year after the over the top outpouring of support, David Brooks decided to go 3 dimensional on their ass.

You don’t just experience the Gloucester Ma lobster trap tree from the outside, we built this shit so dope that you can actually enter inside the tree and the entire inside is adorned with the beautiful hand painted buoys as well.   They turned the Lobster trap tree game on it’s head.

Hilarious that they thought they could compete.  I feel bad for these other communities, I really do.  Just when they think they have a chance, along comes Brooks and Co just crushing their Christmas dreams.

Kim Smith photo.

In all seriousness, it’s nice that the other communities try  to compete and we wish them nothing but the best during this Christmas season.

Good luck next year, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Gloucester MA Lobster Trap Tree> All Other Lobster Trap Trees

Word on the street is that the makers of the other community lobster trap trees were all infiltrated by moles from the creators of the Land of the Misfit Toys.  True Story.

GREETINGS! The Winter Solstice for 2017 in Northern Hemisphere is today Thursday, December 21st, at 11:28 AM EST. Wishing you the very best for the season ahead — and always!

XOXO

Tom

“The Solstice is a time of quietude, of firelight, and dreaming, when seeds germinate in the cold earth, and the cold notes of church bells mingle with the chimes of icicles . . . All around us the season seems to reach a standstill – a point of repose.”   —John Matthews

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The Rockport Christmas Tree Committee, now in its 119th year, is Rockport’s oldest ongoing tradition.

Started in the 1890’s by Rockport grocer Tim Sheehan, the custom of remembrance is carried on today. Members of the Rockport community 80 years of age and older, shut-ins, people with illnesses and others are remembered on Christmas Day with the delivery of a fruit basket and cookies. Residents of area senior housing, nursing homes and local hospitals receive a visit in the days before Christmas. Santa Claus himself visits residents of the Den Mar Nursing Home and presents each with a small basket of fruit and other goodies.

On Christmas morning in Dock Square, Santa arrives at 10:30 and gives all the town’s children a bag of goodies, in the tradition of the 1890’s.

Santa’s volunteer helpers will meet at Spiran Hall on Broadway at 7:00 PM on December 22 to pack the bags and baskets. On Christmas morning volunteers are welcome at Spiran Hall from 8:30-9:30 AM to deliver baskets. Generations of Rockporters have participated, all you need is a willingness to help, and a smile.

The Committee needs your help to continue this tradition. We rely solely on volunteers and donations. Donations may be mailed to the Rockport Christmas Tree Committee, %Doreen Carter, 2 Mary Helen Way, Rockport, MA 01966 or dropped off at Smith Ace Hardware & Lumber. Donations are tax deductible.

If you have a neighbor or friend who you feel should receive a basket, just let any committee member know, or leave a note with name and address at the Lumber desk at Smith Hardware and Lumber.

Committee members include Dana (Buddy) Woods, Jay Smith, Lisa Littlefield, Doreen Carter, Judy Harris, Mary Helen MacLeod, Linda Johnson, Janice Ramsden, April Beaton, Sally Frithsen, Ruth George, Andrea Ritchie, Chris Murch, Judy Bogage, Mary-Kathryn and Jeff Gray, Darlene Trumbour, Pat Brown, Roger Lesch, Nina Samoiloff, Toni Rowe, Bethany Brosnan, Diane Bertolino and John Thompson.

On this Thursday, December 21, we will be packing the bags. We need volunteers to help. Please come to Spiran Hall on Broadway in Rockport at 7PM. Thank you!

These baskets are delivered on Christmas morning, beginning at 8:30AM, volunteers needed!

And on Christmas Day, Santa arrives in Dock Square at 10:30AM to hand out bags of candy and fruit to the children of Rockport.

Merry Christmas!