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THREE PEAT!

Please Sign Up For A Free UBER Ride Using Coupon Code “CAPEANN” and Using This Link Or Call A Cab!  There will be no Parking At Spindrift but there will be a shuttle bus from Wingarsheek to Spindrift.  BEST Move is to Take a cab and get dropped off/picked up right there!

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Video of the 2012 event:

Video 2013 event:

1. Parking is at wingaersheek beach down the road from spindrift. There will be 2 shuttles going back and forth all day to get people from the parking lot to spindrift. Be patient and kind with the shuttle drivers as they are volunteers!
2. Rules are printed out on sheets and will be posted soon.
3. We encourage folks to also take cabs or Uber. Uber will be launching on cape ann today with a focus on this event. If you sign up for Uber Using This Link as a new user use promo code “CAPEANN” for a free ride. You can park at the farm bar and grille and take the uber from there, its about 15 mins.
4. If you park at the farm and plan on leaving your car overnight, leave it in the back section where the parking lot is dirt. The pavement is being repainted on Monday morning so you will be towed if you leave it there.
5. The games start at noon so plan on being there between 11-11:30 to get settled in and enjoy the atmosphere.
6. This is a really fun event and the weather is going to be great, so enjoy!

Get Your Walk On & Help Support the Gloucester Dog Park!

Team ‘Gloucester Dog Park’ in the
28th Annual Pride Stride
Sunday, April 26th
10:00am – Registration
11:45am – Gloucester Dog Park team members meet at Dog Park Entrance for
a group photo
Noon – Walk begins

If you are interested in joining the Gloucester Dog Park Team, please email gloucesterdogpark@gmail.com 
For a pledge sheet and other information about the walk, visit http://www.gloucesterpridestride.com/
To view our current team members, please visit http://www.gloucesterdogpark.org/gloucester-pride-stride.html
If you would like to donate in support of our team checks may be mailed to:
Friends of the Gloucester Dog Park

P.O. Box 6

Gloucester, MA 01931

Make checks payable to:  The Pride Stride

Please note in the memo line:  Gloucester Dog Park

You may also drop checks, made out in the same manner, in the donation bin at the Gloucester Dog Park

All donations for The Pride Stride event marked for the Gloucester Dog Park will be listed at: http://www.gloucesterdogpark.org/gloucester-pride-stride.html unless you note that you wish to remain anonymous.
Our goal is to raise $1,000 and so far we’ve got $150, so help us reach our goal!
The money we raise at this event goes towards the purchase of doggy waste bags, mowing, and general maintenance and upkeep of the park.
Upcoming Events
Saturday, April 11th:  Poop Pick-Up Day 9am
This winter was rough and now that the snow is melting, all the poop has appeared (and there is e A LOT of it). Come help us pick up the poop this Saturday beginning at 9am. 
Grab a friend and bring a shovel or rake and come to the park. Dog waste bags will be provided. We greatly appreciate any time you can spare to help!
Saturday, May 2nd:  Park Clean Up
This winter has been hard on the Park so please join us for a general clean-up day. Details to follow as we get closer to the date.
Saturday, May 16th:  GDP’s 2nd Anniversary Summer Kick-Off Party 10am-noon
Doggy Nail Clipping, Doggy Photo, and much more with a donation to the Park [additional details to follow].

Joins us!  Contribute!  Volunteer!  
Get involved at gloucesterdogpark.org

Karen Pischke submits

Joey – Men in kilts has come to the North Shore! Krystina, The owner is the only one that wears the pants in the business. Window and gutter cleaning, Power washing and siding cleaning. No peeking!! For those interested I have a $20 ‘Kilt cash’ coupons.

Joey – 

Since we’ve had people asking us who we are and what we do, and we’re participating in Pride Stride, we were wondering if you could run this? 

Gracias!

KT

Why Support Ocean Alliance? Because We Rock, That’s Why!

It’s almost time for Pride Stride again! Like last year, we’ll have a team of walkers from Ocean Alliance and we are hoping that you will either join us on the walk, or support our cause.

Our problem, sometimes, is that as an organization, we focus on our work and we’re almost too quiet about what we bring to the table! And since we’re new to town, and we’re out on the water off Rocky Neck, it seems like we can be nearly invisible! But we have so much to offer Gloucester, and donations help us further our goals both locally and globally. We’ve been around since 1971, and were based in Lincoln, MA for decades. Our founder, Roger Payne, is a hugely influential researcher who, along with his research partner Scott McVay discovered whales sing songs – a massively important finding that turned around the public perception of whales and started the “Save the Whales!” movement. When our CEO, Iain Kerr, saw the Paint Factory decades ago, he determined it was the perfect location for Ocean Alliance’s headquarters. Pulling together the necessary funding, Ocean Alliance was able to buy the Paint Factory with the intention of restoring & repurposing the buildings for use as waterfront oceanographic research, education and innovation center. Community focused, the buildings would be open to the public, with a robotics laboratory, meeting space, and much more. But as of now, we only have one building completed – we all work in two rooms, and we’re a bit cramped! We have plans this year to complete more work, but we still need funding to complete the entire project.

So what do we DO here at the Paint Factory?

-We are heavily involved in marine mammal toxicology, studying ocean pollution as a whole, by researching whales. Most recently, we spent the past five years in the Gulf of Mexico on our research vessel, the Odyssey, doing independent research on the impact of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster upon ocean ecology. In addition, some of our toxicology work, specifically the toxin loads of dolphins killed for their meat, was featured in the Louie Psihoyos documentary the Cove.Finally, as part of our robotics program with Olin College of Engineering, we developed a project called SnotBot, a small drone flown over whales as they surface, to collect DNA data from their breath.

-We have a robotics lab! It’s an old shipping container that had been repurposed into a pop-up retail store, and now it’s re-repurposed into our lab! We have a weekly meeting of our Paint Factory Flyers club down there, and we’re teaching kids and adults alike how to build a controllable plane and fly it via a simulator, as well as our drones.

-We still help save the whales! We offer whale adoptions and team up with Seven Seas Whale Watch. Bringing awareness of these beautiful animals to thousands of people, as well as their endangered status, is what makes us tick! This year, we are also teaming up with NOAA’s Whale Entanglement Response Network – if a boater sees a whale entangled in marine debris, we will be called to track the whale visually with one of our small dinghies. But, our boats need work this year to be operational.

We hope you’ll consider donating to Ocean Alliance for Pride Stride. We’re here to make Gloucester awesome! 

It’s Going Down Tomorrow At Noon! Please Sign Up For A Free UBER Ride Using Coupon Code “CAPEANN” and Using This Link Or Call A Cab! There will be no Parking At Spindrift but there will be a shuttle bus from Wingarsheek to Spindrift. BEST Move is to Take a cab and get dropped off/picked up right there!

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FRANKIE GWYNNE FORWARDS THESE PICS FROM THE TOURNAMENT BUILD OUT-
Just add Hay Bales!!!

Pooping stations are in!