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Community Stuff 11/15/14
Trident Gallery Live Art Series presents
Dance in Dialogue
Kate Tarlow Morgan, Loren Doucette, Sarah Slifer Swift
Saturday November 22, 7:30PM
Trident Gallery, 189 Main St. Gloucester MA, 978-491-7785
“Dance in Dialogue” features two original performance works, followed by conversation and refreshments. Free, donations encouraged. Space is limited so please reserve a seat at events@tridentgallery.com.
Kate Tarlow Morgan (dancer/writer) recently returned from a midwest pilgrimage to bury her father’s ashes with a dramatic story of relatives unknown to her. She will report this intense personal story with the aid of artifacts, photographs, and a movement score created especially for the walls of Trident Gallery.
Loren Doucette (visual artist) and Sarah Slifer Swift (dancer) will show a segment of their collaborative project “Unravelling.” The piece explores the building of a framework within which a relationship is contextualized. Through dance and visual art created in the live moment, they inhabit the possibilities of unravelling the self from the frame.
HOLY FAMILY CHRISTMAS FAIR
Starting at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 22, 2014, spend a relaxing day and do some of your Christmas shopping too! Holy Family Christmas Fair has something for everyone. Your Christmas decorating will be easier with the selection of swags, wreaths and other fresh green accents for your home. Jam preserves, scarves, jewelry, toys, doll clothes and dolls and knitted baby items will be available at prices that can’t be beat. The “Wheel of Fortune” for those who would like to take a chance and win a basket filled with delightful things for every taste! Take a minute or two and look over the White Elephant table. You will never know what treasures you might see if you don’t take the time to look. The bake table has at least one thing for your sweet tooth or to put in your freezer for the holidays. Toys, books, religious items, pocketbooks and face painting will also be available. The children will also enjoy having their photo taken with Santa at the most reasonable price on Cape Ann. The kitchen will be open to have a bite to eat so you can keep up your strength to continue to shop. The best always comes last! Holy Family is known for their wonderful Italian bakers. The Christmas Fair will have many cookie selections and their all good and reasonably priced. See you at the Fair!
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State Fish Pier #GloucesterMA Timelapse 11/14/14
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I would totally soil myself…
Two men were on a boat in a fjord in Norway, then 6 gigantic whales decided to show up
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Get out My Face Sucka!
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Kent Circle Christmas Tree photos from Joe Novello
Hi Joey
Ringo Tarr and Joe Novello traveled to Nova Scotia to pick up the
Christmas tree for Kent Circle. these are the photos Joe and Ringo
Best Anthony Marks
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Phyllis A relaunch and quick haul
Hi Joey,
We had an exciting and a bit tense time at GMR on Tuesday. The Phyllis A, who had been up on the rails for 3 months, was relaunched, quickly moved over to the next bay (guys on ropes moving her) and hauled out on the travel lift. She had not been re-caulked before the relaunch as we anticipate taking many of the planks off pretty quickly. We expected a bit of leakage, and were not disappointed. Doug Parsons figured she took on about 4000 gallons before she got positioned on the travel lift. Doug had 3 pumps running to try to keep up. Joe Maletti lifted her up slowly to let the water drain to reduce her weight before the final haul out. We all crossed our fingers hoping she would stay together on the lift. She made it through with flying colors. Richie Arnold, the Phyllis A’s last captain was on hand for the excitement.
The Phyllis A was moved over behind the Gloucester Marine Railway office building on Wednesday. She’ll be there as we complete the next phases of reconstruction. Saturday, Doug and I will be aboard photographing the fo’c’sle so we have photo documentation of her layout before de-construction. We plan to use those photos later to aid in accurate re-constsruction. We encourage everyone to come by and visit the Phyllis A as she has her face-lift. Please visit the Phyllis A website at www.phyllis-a.org if you are interested in learning more about the Phyllis A , upcoming events, or volunteering in her restoration. We also have 2 FaceBook pages, the Phyllis A Marine Association and Friends of the Phyllis A Marine Association. I’ll be doing regular photo posting on FaceBook as the restoration continues.
The Phyllis A Marine Association is also excited to welcome Beth Welin as our Education Director. Beth’s high energy and creative ideaswill be a wonderful fit for our mission to promote the history and importance gillnetting in Gloucester.
Mary Barker
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Friends of Seacoast Holiday Bazaar is scheduled for Saturday, November 22, 9AM-1PM
SEACOAST NEWS November 2014
Thank you to the Friends of Seacoast!
The Friends of Seacoast have recently provided our facility with a special Halloween Variety Show with exceptional entertainment provided by the Big Smile Entertainment Company, Dinner Theater and weekly concerts.
We are looking forward to many upcoming events with the support of the Friends of Seacoast including A Veteran’s Day Celebration, Baby Farm Animal visits, Dinner Theater with entertainment and special foods, outings, weekly concerts and more……
The Friends of Seacoast Holiday Bazaar is scheduled for Saturday, November 22, 9AM-1PM. This special event will Feature a Cookie Walk,, Raffles, White Elephants, Many professional vendors and Santa visits. All Donations to white elephant table will be accepted.
Community Welcome Snow or Shine!
The Friends of Seacoast enhance the resident’s lives at the Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with hours of enjoyment by providing the finances needed for the special entertainment, supplies and community outings.
Any and all donations to “The Friends of Seacoast” are gratefully accepted.
The Friends of Seacoast are grateful for the gifts received in honor of loved ones.
The next Friends of Seacoast Meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 11th at 6:00PM.
The Cape Ann Museum artistic expression projects have included
museum tours and art demonstations within the Seacoast facility.
The CAM Connections next scheduled visit to Seacoast and art project will be November 6th at 2:00PM.
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Where do y’all fall on the cell phone tower in West Gloucester story
I’m all in for no dropped calls in West Gloucester, how bout you?
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Cape Ann TV Gloucester Cyclorcross 2014 Video&FORM
Hi Joey,
Got a great video here, done by Cape Ann TV interns Henry Cooper (Camera
Operator and Editor) and Lexi Bird (Host), full coverage of the
Cyclorcross Gran Prix Gloucester 2014
Come along for a ride with Lexi Bird to find out what makes Gloucester’s
Cyclocross Grand Prix one of the best biking events in the USA.
Thanks!
Becky Tober
Production Coordinator
Cape Ann TV
http://www.capeanntv.org
978.281.2443
Like us on Facebook: Cape Ann TV
Twitter: @CapeAnnTVCATV
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The Oval Playground Community – Build.. Got it Done!
Steve Winslow submits-
Thanks for the many community members who turned out to erect the new playground at the Oval.. Here’s a few photos
1. Brian Palazola – grandson of Joseph Palazola who Palazola Field was named after. Brian’s daughter was so excited to hear about the new playground she dragged Brian out of bed first thing Saturday morning. Mike Palazola, Joseph Palazola’s son also gave a hand..
2. Councillor LeBlanc checking out the new saucer swing.
3. The Big Fish has arrived!!
4. The Jacks Climber the kids at Pathways helped pick out
5. Playground equipment – all done.
Just a note – the site is still under construction.. Work will be completed in a few weeks and we’ll let people know when the ribbon cutting will take place.
Steve Winslow
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Pray for Paul Skate Around Fundraiser November 15th, 3:00p.m-5:00pm @ Dorothy Talbot Rink
Pray for Paul Russo Fundraiser Reminder Saturday November 15th @ Dorothy Talbot Rink 3:00 PM
In case you forgot Paul Russo’s fundraiser is this Saturday at the rink. There will be no charge at the door!
Skating 5$ Kids & 10$ Adults
Raffle 5$ per ticket (gift certificates)
Silent Auction (for over 10k$ in donation items)
Did we mention The Boston Bruins donated a stick signed by the 2013-14 Bruins team!
We hope to see you all there!
Paul Russo is from Gloucester, and frankly one of the nicest people you can meet. After graduating from Gloucester High School as a Captain of his hockey team, he took his bright mind and talent to Bryant University where he studied Accounting and received his Bachelors degree. While at Bryant he also shined on the schools Club Hockey team where he became Captain again. Paul then went on to earn his Masters in Accounting from UMass Lowell and accepted his current job at PwC in Boston.
This past Halloween morning, Paul suffered two seizures and was taken to Lahey Medical. Paul was diagnosed with Brain Cancer the following day. Just like many of us who are fighting to pay school loans, Paul could use support with now helping with his medical expenses for surgery and treatment.
Please keep Paul and his family in your hearts through this tough time, Join us to raise money and pray for a speedy recovery at the Dorothy Talbot Rink next Saturday. If you cannot attend the event you can donate to Paul’s page below.
https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/w3d6/paul-russo-s-brain-cancer-fundraiser?utm_source=facebook
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Community Stuff 11/13/14
Hey Joey,
The darling cast of Godspell, Jr.
GODSPELL JR
Coming to St. John’s Episcopal Church – This week, November 14-16, 2014 Featuring a group of young talented performers from Gloucester, Rockport, and Manchester
Based on The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the musical uses major episodes in the New Testament – including the baptism of Jesus, the Last Supper, his arrest and crucifixion – to explore important ideas like compassion, love, forgiveness and sacrifice for the greater good. The show draws on various theatrical traditions and musical styles, including pantomime, charades, acrobatics, vaudeville, folk and rock to create a unique reflection on the parables of Jesus. Godspell JR. is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI) and its collection of musicals for younger performers. This show will be co-directed by Dr. Jay DiPrima and Mark Nelson, the music director of St. Johns.
Show times and dates:
Friday, November 14th – 7:00pm
Saturday, November 15th – 7:00pm
Sunday, November 16th – 3:00pm
All tickets ($10.00) can be purchased or reserved by e-mailing or calling Betsy Levick, Parish Administrator – 978.283.1708 ext. 14. Tickets can also be purchased at the door twenty minutes before each performance. (All proceeds will be used exclusively for future children and youth programs)
On November 14th, local artist Alan Winter will demonstrate that Astronomy is art, not just science, as the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club presents his Messier Sampler, a trove of 14 astronomical objects — the great Andromeda Galaxy, the Hercules Cluster, the Ring nebula, and many more — carefully described and displayed in spectacular and colorful detail.
We’ll learn first-hand where and what, how big, how old, how far away, and also how cosmically beautiful each one is. Tune up your eyes and ears for a tour through fourteen of the finest astronomical objects in the Cape Ann nighttime sky.
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets on the second Friday of every month at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street Lanesville, from 8:00 to 9:30 pm. Parking is free. The public is warmly welcomed and there is no cost. More information is available through the website, http://gaac.us, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/gaacpage or in the club twitter feed, @gaactweet.
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How long before they take away our football?
So sad.
Should Your Child Play Football?
By John Guida November 11, 2014 3:40 pm
To the partisan battles of red and blue America, we can apparently add another culture clash: football.
Yes, the N.F.L. remains widely popular, despite its annus horribilis — among other things, the abuse scandals of Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson and, above all, the medical discoveries of the professional sport’s damage to a player’s brain.
Yet for all its popularity, the ground is shifting. As David Leonhardt writes for The Upshot at The New York Times, “Blue America — particularly the highly educated Democratic-leaning areas of major metropolitan areas — is increasingly deciding that it doesn’t want its sons playing football.”
He cites a poll conducted by the RAND Corporation for The Upshot: “Nationwide, only 55 percent of respondents said they would be comfortable with their sons playing football. The numbers for baseball, basketball, soccer and track were all above 90 percent.”
The ostensibly “liberal” view holds that football — especially at the professional level — poses risks both to players’ health and to American society at large. At The Los Angeles Times, Steve Almond, author of the book “Against Football,” criticizes “the cynical commercialization of the sport, its cultish celebration of violence and the more subtle ways in which football warps our societal attitudes about race, gender and sexual orientation.”
Over/Under 10 years, what do you think?
The push to make our kids as soft and overly sensitive as possible is well under way.
Why is there no outrage over other sports that have just as high injury rate or more than football? How come all these people don’t take their kids off of bikes?
Types of sports and recreational activities
Consider these estimated injury statistics for 2009 from the Consumer Product Safety Commission:
- Basketball. More than 170,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for basketball-related injuries.
- Baseball and softball. Nearly 110,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for baseball-related injuries. Baseball also has the highest fatality rate among sports for children ages 5 to 14, with three to four children dying from baseball injuries each year.
- Bicycling. More than 200,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for bicycle-related injuries.
- Football. Almost 215,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for football-related injuries.
- Ice hockey. More than 20,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for ice hockey-related injuries.
- In-line and roller skating. More than 47,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for in-line skating-related injuries.
- Skateboarding. More than 66,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for skateboarding-related injuries.
- Sledding or toboggan. More than 16,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for sledding-related injuries.
- Snow skiing or snowboarding. More than 25,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for snow boarding and snow skiing-related injuries.
- Soccer. About 88,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for soccer-related injuries.
- Trampolines. About 65,000 children ages 14 and under were treated in hospital emergency rooms for trampoline-related injuries.
It’s the same people who say we should hand out participation awards just for showing up. It’s the same people that are trying to tell us that we’re not supposed to appreciate beauty (and I get the difference between a creepy leer or inappropriate comment toward a woman vs a plain old compliment).
Jeeze I hope we don’t lose our football.
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Lone Gull
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Every Single Man In America
Every last one.
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Clouds Breaking Up Over #GloucesterMA Harbor 2:13 PM 11/12/14
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Google Search Is The Monster In It’s Space and No-One Else Is Even Close
This is a snapshot of which search engines were used to find GMG on Monday Nov, 11, 2014.
As you can see Google Search is far and away the most widely used by a mile. Microsoft’s Bing may have some cool features but wow the disparity between Google’s Search and everything else is just astounding.
Way down on the list from there in the list of referrers to GMG but still relevant every single day is Facebook. Twitter is barely a blip compared to Facebook.
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Always surprising to see a house float by
Linda submits-
Happened same time last year as the houseboat came through the drawbridge channel.
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Read The Globe: Future for fishermen bleak under cod ban By Laura Crimaldi | Globe Staff November 12, 2014
Future for fishermen bleak under cod ban
By Laura Crimaldi
GLOUCESTER — On the cusp of what is effectively a six-month ban on cod fishing, Russell Sherman could have spent Tuesday on the Gulf of Maine trying to catch what he could.
Instead, he never left Jodrey State Pier, opting to work on repairs to the 72-foot fishing vessel he wants to sell, rather than make a final run for cod. And he had harsh words for the federal officials who oversee the fishing industry.
“They say, ‘Oh, we’re so sorry, boys. We got to do this. We got to do it for the fish,’ ” Sherman, 66, said from the Lady Jane. “ ‘Now go out of business quietly, will you.’ ”
The death knell, Sherman and other fishermen said, was sounded Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which announced emergency measures intended to protect cod populations from further decline. The new rules go into effect Thursday.
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