Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
The creator of goodmorninggloucester.org Lover of all things Gloucester and Cape Ann. GMG where we bring you the very best our town has to offer because we love to share all the great news and believe that by promoting others in our community everyone wins.
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Dead Carcasses In Gloucester Harbor!
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Raven Lane – photos from Anthony Marks
Good Harbor Beach – photo from Anthony Marks
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Tremendous Lesson Right Here…
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BLACK FRIDAY IN DOWNTOWN GLOUCESTER November 28th 2014
OK, If You haven’t taken part of this one you’re just plum crazy. If you go to Toodeloos between 6 and 8am on Friday you save 30% off anything you buy and then the later you go in the day the savings decrease. But 30% is HUGE!
THINK BIG – SHOP SMALL!
FROM 6AM Many Discounts & Specials offered all day long!
TOODELOOS! 142 MAIN ST. OPEN AT 6 AM
Kick off (or finish!) your holiday shopping in Downtown Gloucester
in a family- friendly and festive atmosphere.
Discounts during the day-
6AM-8AM 30% off storewide.
8AM-10AM 25% off, and 10AM-close 20% off!!!
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Community Stuff 11/25/14
Hi Joey,
We are writing with the hope that you might be able to help us publicize an important upcoming event:
What: “Songs of The Season” ~ A Holiday Concert
Who: Featuring performances by students in The O’Maley Band and The O’Maley Academy Vocal Performance Club.
When: Friday, December 5, 2014 from 7:00-8:00 P.M.
Where: The O’Maley Innovation Middle School Auditorium
Admission: In lieu of ticket sales, food/monetary donations to The Open Door will be collected upon entry
*Please see the attached event program for more information
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide in helping us get the word out to the community about this event.
Best,
Joe Janack, O’Maley Band Director and Jennifer Luzitano & Leslie Sellers, Co-Directors of O’Maley Academy Vocal Performance Club
p.s. O’Maley Academy Vocal Performance Club students will also be singing at the Lights of Love fundraiser for Addison Gilbert Hospital’s Cancer Center from 5:30-6:30 P.M. on Wednesday, December 3, 2014.
Gloucester: Katherine Bevins, Lucas Brisbois, Lucia Dimeo, Marisa Dimeo, Olivia Francis, Moriah Murphy-Thornley, Shannon Murphy-Thornley, Kayla Saltonstall, Isabel White, Silas White, Rachel Wolfe
![Honors Youth Choir[1]](https://goodmorninggloucester.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/honors-youth-choir1.jpg "Honors Youth Choir[1]")
Chorus North Shore with Artistic Director Sonja Dahlgren Pryor presents “An Advent-Christmas Concert on Saturday, December 6 at 8:00 PM at Our Lady of Hope, Linebrook Road, Ipswich, Mass. and Sunday, December 7th at 2:00 PM at Hamilton-Wenham High School, 775 Bay Road, South Hamilton, Mass.
The Chorus is joined by soloists Stephanie Kacayonis, contralto and Erin Smith, soprano; the Festival Orchestra and the 45 member Honors Youth Choir.
The concert selections feature the holiday season from Advent to Christmas with a montage of Christmas selections arranged by Gustav Holst and features a cantata by Telemann “MACHET DIE TORE WEIT” that depicts the story of opening wide the gates to let the King of Glory come in. The concert includes the New England premier of “Who Will Come” by Bob Milne, selections ranging from rousing hymns and “In the Bleak Midwinter” sung by the 45 member Honors Youth Choir with soloist Grace McGrail.
In keeping with their long tradition, the Chorus concludes the concert with the audience joining them in singing Silent Night”
Ms Pryor says “This concert promises to put everyone in a warm holiday mood”
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Row Boats Essex, Mass
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Electricity Update #5: Video Walkthrough- Energy Efficiency Assesment and Free Stuff At Mom’s House
The ongoing series of finding ways to cut Home Energy Costs and Be More Comfortable In Your Own Home Part 5
In this video you’ll see the things Kevin From Next Step did to inspect and replace inefficient things in my mom’s house.
If ever there has been something I stand behind as being 100% no-brainer and you’d have to be crazy to not take advantage of it’s this. Not only is it incredibly interesting, but the immediate money in your pocket saving and free lightbulbs that look exactly like the old inefficient ones that they are replacing. To know all the places where you are losing heat so you can take steps to correct those things. If you want to have insulation work done or weather sealing to have Mass Save pay for 75% of THAT. To know that you can elect to have any of it done or not and to know you are already paying for it on your electric bill in the line item “Energy Efficiency Charge” and then not take advantage of it. You would have to say to yourself “That person is crazy to not want to do this.”
I was blown away with what my mom got, how interesting it was and how much I learned about energy savings and teh construction of my mom’s house.
If you want to take advantage of awesome programs available to you right now for zero out of pocket then watch the video and sign up for your own energy efficiency assessment and get a ton of free lightbulbs, power strips, electronic thermostats that will turn down the heat at night or while you’re at work automatically, and efficient showerheads.
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Here’s the video walkthrough and conclusions of my Mom’s house so you can see what you can expect to learn and receive again, for zero cost-
Oh, I Forgot To Mention The Free Electronic Thermostats That They Will Provide and Install Free Of Charge. My Mom has nine of the standard dial thermostats that they are going to come in and replace free of charge with programmable ones that will turn them down at night automatically and when you are off to work and then turn them back up just before you wake or come home from work for even more savings. They are going to replace and install 9 of them for a total savings of $1062. and that is not to mention any of the monthly savings she will receive from not having to go around and turn down the thermostats herself every day. No frickin brainer city. A grand+ in savings for zero dollars.
If you want to take advantage sign up to get on board-
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GloucesterCast 105 Featuring Kim Smith, Nichole Schrafft and Toby Pett With Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 11/23/14 #GloucesterMA
GloucesterCast 105 Featuring Kim Smith Nichole Schrafft and Toby Pett With Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 11/23/14
Topics Include: New GloucesterCast Subscriber Contest Number 2 Click Here To Subscribe and Enter– One Of The First Ten New Subscribers To The GloucesterCast Will Win a New Copy of Kim Smith’s Book Oh Garden Of Fresh Possibilities, A $35 Value, Winner Must Pick Up Book At the Dock and Will Be Announced On GloucesterCast 106, Kim Smith’s Monarch Film Trailer, Kim Smith’s Kickstarter Campaign For Her Monarch Film, Collin Keegan Science All Around Us, Tom Ellis, Nubar Alexanian, Last Week’s Podcast Subscriber T Shirt Winner Is Robert Lukach, Donna Ardizzoni Is Everywhere, Eating Like a Dock Worker, Passports Wine Dinner, Nichole Schrafft Let’s Down the Entire Readership and Baby Orphans Are Dying Because Of It, Paulie Walnuts Is Back (Surprise Surprise), Turducken, Big Green Egg, Nichole Schrafft, Chinese Food For Jewish People On Christmas, Mench On A Bench, Elf On The Shelf, When Do You Have Your Christmas/Hanukkah Shopping Done?, Trader Joe’s Amaretto, Trader Joe’s Frozen Fish Is Disgusting, Trout Is Like Poison, Detroit/Newark/Cincinnati, Energy Efficiency Discussion, Toby’s Gorton Review, The Food and Gift Emporium, Jessica Brand, Request For Nichole To Put Together A Children’s Gift Suggestion List, Grandpa Gave All the Cousin’s Hatchets When We Were 7 Years Old, Report On Finn’s Status After His Horrible Fall, Participation Awards and MVP Awards, The Game Ball,Happy Thanksgiving 🙂
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Interview with Collin Keegan, Nubar Alexanian and Tom Ellis Down the Dock 11/23/14
Watch out for this kid. He’s going places!
To contribute to the awesome Kickstarter initiative click here
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Market Basket From Christian Derobert
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A Thanksgiving Tradition Like No Other- Franksgiving @FarmBarGrille
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Community Stuff 11/23/14
Hi Joey C & GMG!
Many of Rockport’s Downtown shops will be extending their hours for Black Friday & Small Business Saturday! Welcome in the holiday season by discovering the quality and variety of Rockport’s local retail shopping scene! It’s a great way to find unique gifts for everyone on your list while enjoying the hospitality and warmth of independently owned neighborhood shops.
“Don’t shop the mall, shop small!”
For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/shoprockportma01966
Nov 21 at 2:13 PM
Join us Thursday, December 4th from 5pm-8pm for our annual Holiday Reception with friends, refreshments, and maybe even Stubby the cat! Discounts in our museum shop for everyone (10% for non-members and 20% for members). We are delighted this year to welcome author Paul Erickson and photographer Andrew Martinez and their new book The Pier at the End of the World. This colorful book features bizarre and beautiful creatures, both through incredible underwater photography and playful drawings, as they interact with each other and their surroundings. This is a great book for a budding marine scientist – get a signed copy at our reception.
Curtis Sarkin
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Amazing Junk Art
submitted by Bill O’Connor
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Dec. 5th – Wintry Pebble Beach Show At The Tusinski Gallery
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TODAY! Open Door Thanksgiving Food Drive on Saturday, November 22, from 9 AM to 3 PM
Hi Joey,
We are stocking up for the winter. Will you let GMG readers know about The Open Door Thanksgiving Food Drive on Saturday, November 22, from 9 AM to 3 PM at Market Basket, Shaw’s on Eastern Avenue, and Stop & Shop in Gloucester? The items we need most are: peanut butter, tuna fish, cereal, 100% juice, soups, pasta and pasta sauce. All support is welcome, but PLEASE don’t bring items in glass because they WILL break and they WILL make a mess. Trust me!
Best,
Julie
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North Shore Food and Gift Emporium This Sunday!
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Community Stuff 11/22/14
Holiday Present Making Workshops at Maritime Gloucester!
Share in 3 Holiday Events at BankGloucester
Saturday, December 6th Customer Appreciation Day & Photos With Santa
BankGloucester, 160 Main St., Gloucester
Photos with Santa 10:30 am -12 pm* *Please sign in by 11:30
Enjoy refreshments from 8:30 – 1 pm. Have photos taken with Santa from 10:30-12. Your child’s photo will be emailed to you or a 4×6 print will be mailed.
Monday, December 8thHospice Tree of Lights Ceremony
5 pm at BankGloucester, 160 Main St., Gloucester
Join BankGloucester for the grand illumination of the Hospice “Tree Of Lights”. The ceremony is a meaningful way to remember loved ones while supporting the mission of Care Dimensions. A reception will follow in the lobby.
To sponsor a light, or for more information visit http://www.CareDimensions.org.
November 28th – December 22nd Project Uplift Toy Drive
160 Main St., Gloucester & 15 Martin St., Essex
BankGloucester will be supporting Action, Inc.’s Project Uplift Toy and Clothing drive by collecting new, unwrapped toys and gift cards for youth 0-14 years old. Please drop off your donations in the collection boxes in the bank’s lobbies in Gloucester or Essex. Your donation will help alleviate the holiday stress for many local families and bring smiles to children’s faces.
Call BankGloucester at 978-283-8200 for more information
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Thanksgiving Quotes of the Week from Greg Bover
Dear GMG Friends,
I have been thinking about what Thanksgiving means, beyond turkey and football. I looked back through my four plus years of weekly quotes and was a little surprised to find so many that speak about the various facets of gratitude, but perhaps I shouldn’t have been. Wise people over the centuries have recognized the power of thankfulness to transform one’s life, and it certainly has changed mine.
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but also the parent of all the others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”
Henry Van Dyke (1852 – 1933)
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
“By holding up a fancied golden era of yesteryear, we can devalue where we are and who we have become. Thanksgiving aims at gratitude not for what was, but for what is.”
James Carroll (1943- )
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
Melody Beattie (1948- )
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954- )
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