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.
Sista Felicia Cooks For St Joseph’s Day Filmed By Gianni Gallo Part I Filmed By Gianni Gallo
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Making a new mast for the “Story”.
Making a new mast for the “Story”.
Making a new main mast for the Essex Shipbuilding Museum flagship schooner L. H. Story.
Saturday, March 8th, shipwrights and volunteers were very busy in the Waterline Center at the museum preparing and glueing together large planks for a new main mast.
Check out the process with these photos by Len Burgess and Jim Dietrich…https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.722675387776982.1073741888.174653662579160&type=1
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Dusky Leadership Cgallenge
Since its founding, Addison Gilbert Hospital has benefited from a tradition of community partnership and generous philanthropic support, which has kept our hospital thriving and the Cape Ann community safe and healthy. Lives are saved and bodies are healed there every day.
As part of Addison Gilbert’s future planning, the hospital intends to invest in new equipment, technologies and programs that will help to keep pace with a rapidly changing healthcare landscape that offers dramatic improvements in medicine. For those of us who consider Cape Ann home, whether year round or for part of the year, this translates into better care and better outcomes.
To support these goals and the overall health of the community, the Dusky Foundation has announced the $350,000 Dusky Leadership Challenge. We invite you to join us and others by becoming a member of the Addison Gilbert Society, a select group of community leaders who care deeply about our hospital. Membership in this society means you are making a difference for those whose lives depend on the availability of top notch care, right here in our community.
We hope you will consider joining us today as a member of the Addison Gilbert Society by meeting the Dusky Leadership Challenge with a gift of your own. Your contribution, along with $350,000 from the Dusky Foundation could realize as much as $700,000 in vital support for Addison Gilbert Hospital.
Already this year, funds from the Addison Gilbert Society supported the purchase of a new CT scanner, an essential diagnostic tool that has enabled us to provide free lung cancer screenings for individuals who fit a high risk profile. We can do so much more.
To learn more about the Dusky Leadership Challenge, please call 978-236-1624.
Linzee Coolidge, Trustee, Dusky Foundation
Cynthia Cafasso Donaldson, Vice President, Addison Gilbert Hospital
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Seacoast Nursing Home Alzheimer’s Unit
“Scenes of Cape Ann”
In collaboration with Cape Ann Giclee and the donations from local artists, Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, is looking to bring the residents of the memory impaired unit back home through a program entitled “Scenes of Cape Ann”
We are looking for images of familiar places and events on Cape Ann to bring memories and comfort to the seniors on the Alzheimer’s unit.We are looking for 30 photographs which will be enlarged on canvas, and displayed on the unit. Should additional images be donated they will also be displayed as we plan to develop a DVD of “Scenes of Cape Ann” to be shown for the residents on the memory impaired unit.
An open house art show “Scenes of Cape Ann” will be held on Saturday, May 17th 2-3PM at Seacoast exhibiting the canvases by Cape Ann Giclee. A DVD of all the donated images will be shown for the residents, their families and the community. All contributors will be welcome to attend.
Plaques will be developed with the donor Artists names.
Any Artists interested in participating in this project please submit your photographs to info@capeanngiclee.com by March 21st to allow time for image selection and canvassing. When submitting images please 1.- do not send more than 10 images – if you have more than 10 and have a website with your images you can send us a link 2. – send only low res images files for now – if we select you we will ask you for the high res file at that time and 3.- make sure that the images sent have a high res file available and can be printed at a large size – approximately 20” x 30”.For additional information contact:
Alison Cox, Activity Director, Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center @ 978-283-0300
Or Cape Ann Giclee @ 978-546-7070Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation 292 Washington Street
Gloucester MA 01930
Located on the campus of Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, offering a friendly and elegant setting with an extensive program of short-term rehabilitation, skilled nursing and long-term care. Our 142-bed rehabilitation and 24 hour nursing care program also offers compassionate care for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders, provided by a certified staff in a secure and therapeutic environment. Our professional skilled clinicians are dedicated to ensure comfort, dignity and the well-being and health of our residents.
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Why? On So Many Levels- Why?
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The Studio Is Now Hiring! You Heard It Here!
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Community Stuff 3/11/14
CAST has several roles still open in its upcoming production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” which will play at the Gorton Theatre May 8 – 18 (eight performances). Rehearsals begin March 17 in Rockport on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 7 – 10 PM.
Following are the roles and rehearsal times:
Abraham Slender – male, 20’s – 30’s; Monday & Tuesday
George Page – male, 50’s – 60’s; Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
Bardolph/Rugby – male, any age; Tuesday & Thursday
Peter Simple – male, any age; Tuesday & Thursday
Host of the Garter Inn – male or female, 30’s and up; Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
For further information, please contact the director, Joseph Stiliano at cast2008@prodigy.net .
www.capeannshakespearetroupe.blogspot.com and Facebook
Hi Joey
Just wondering if you could send out a reminder. The Grand Opening of my new Children’s Portrait Studio at Whistlestop Mall in Rockport will be from 9am-1pm Saturday, March 1st. There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10am. There will be over $900 in giveaways at the event along with some great grand opening discounts. Oasis Rockport Children’s Portrait Studio is located above the old IGA in Rockport, at 37i Whistlestop Mall. The studio will specialize in photos from Maternity through High School Seniors. Here is just a sample of what Oasis Rockport does:
Maritime Gloucester is looking for pictures of Cape Ann — specifically pictures of coves, such as Folly Cove or Brace’s Cove — for potential use as the cover photo for the reprinting of the seminal book “The Sea is All About Us”, a guidebook to the marine environments of Cape Ann and other northern New England waters. First published in 1973, it was authored by Gloucester resident Sarah Fraser Robbins and noted marine biologist Clarice Yentsch, Ph.D. The photo should be high resolution and include “sky,” in addition to the coast line, as the title of the guidebook will be printed on the photo. We can offer attribution and Maritime Glouceter membership benefits to the photographer of the chosen photo. All photos must be submitted electronically to Tom Balf at tbalf@maritimegloucester.org by this Friday, March 14th. Thanks in advance.
Sorry for followup/correction — black and white photo
Hi Joey,
The Rockport Rotary is hosting a Wine Tasting event at Cruiseport on March 28th. We would like to announce it to Cape Ann and thought you might be willing to include it on GMG next week. It should be a fun night and a much needed spring break from this cold winter weather. The proceeds will benefit our community and international service projects.
Attached is a poster which provides the details on our event which include both live and silent auctions. We are moving it this year from the Shalin Liu to Cruiseport so we can accommodate more people.
Thank-you for your anticipated assistance in spreading the word.
Kecia German
Rockport Rotary
Hi Joey! Planning a fundraiser event for Cape Ann Animal Aid and would love if you could help spread the word.
Bark In The Park
Oasis Rockport is planning a Bark In The Park Day next month. Join me at Millbrook Meadow Park for Bark in the Park Limited Edition Pet Portraits. There are some gorgeous spots that make incredible backdrops for memories of your favorite four-legged friend. Limited Edition pricing will be in effect, with a session fee of only $45 and packages starting at $99. $5 of every session fee will be donated to Cape Ann Animal Aid as well as 10% of all portrait packages. Call 978-290-3184 to reserve a time. Sessions will be held on April 12th, and only a limited number of session times will be available.
Thanks
Angela
VEGAN COOKING DEMO DRAWS A CROWD
On Saturday, March 8, vegan chef Elizabeth Reed of Rockport presented a class in cooking with winter vegetables. An avid crowd of nineteen cooking enthusiasts swarmed the kitchen of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church as Reed demonstrated the preparation of three dishes: creamy roasted root vegetable soup, raw winter vegetable salad, and roasted Brussels sprouts salad with toasted spiced pecans. Students tasted all three dishes, learned about the benefits of a plant-based diet, and received plentiful recommendations for food shopping, kitchen tools, and cookbooks. The event drew cooks from Salem, Malden, and Concord as well as Cape Ann.
The cooking class was sponsored by the church’s recently formed Green Committee, which is making the church a community headquarters for information on environmentally conscious living. If you have ideas for future Green activities, please email the church atgloucesteruu@earthlink.net. For recipes and for more information on Elizabeth Reed, visit her blog, http://elizabethruns.wordpress.com/.
Photos by Janet Ruth Young and Krissie Burnham.
Good Afternoon, are phone line for the Beauport Princess is currently being repaired if you could help us spread the word that any interested parties could call our mainline at 978.282.9700 xt.1 that would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
The Team at Cruiseport Gloucester
Event Manager
Cruiseport Gloucester
6 Rowe Square
Gloucester, MA 01930
Ph: 978.282.9700
Fax: 978.282.9717
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The Last Two Seconds When These Two Guys Hug and High Five Each Other Shows Why Hockey Players Are A Different Breed
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From Niles Beach
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Representing in Anna Maria Island, FL
Joey,
Hope this email finds you well! This past week we spent some time in our favorite island in FL, Anna Maria Island. This island is just outside of Bradenton. While we were there we met up with our good friend Dee. Dee accompanied Diana Nyad during her swim from Cuba to Florida. Not only was she part of her team, but they used her boat as the guide boat for Diana during her swim. Needless to say we found a new home for GMG sticker! Here are the pictures of the boat. Thought you’d enjoy this.
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Leonardos Makes A Pretty Damn Good Steak and Cheese
The meat is super lean and the way they toast the buns at Leonardos takes any sub to the next level.
Leonardo’s also has some awesome french fries to go. They have the packaging thing down pat where you can still eat he fries a half hour later and they are not all soggy.
Two thumbs up.
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How To: Take The GMG Sticka To The Next Level- Customizing
Huge thanks as always goes to Beth Swan who designed and Frank Ciolino and Shewsberry who print the official GMG Sticker which we give away free when you send in a self stamped and addressed envelope.
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Free GMG Gloucester Sticker
As long as supplies last if any GMG folks want a bumper sticker but can’t drop down the dock, just send a self addressed and stamped envelope longer then 7 and a half inches and I’ll drop one in the mail for you.
Send the self addressed and stamped envelope to the dock at 95 East Main St Gloucester Ma 01930 care of Joey (put my name in big letters to make sure it gets to me)
Well the move is if you want to take the sticker to a whole new level is to cut an outline of the blue around the edges equidistant all the way around and round off the corners.
It gives The Sticka a totally die cut custom look.
Send in your stamped and addressed envelope to get a new sticker. Any self respecting FOB will get in on this.
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Mary Barker Brightens Our Day
Hi Joey,
This winter has been so long, so cold, and so snowy. I think most of us are more than ready for spring. During the snow storm this week, I decided to brighten my day by going to Rocky Neck to enjoy some of bright colors and artistry displayed on manny of the homes and shops there.
I thought I would share some of the spots that helped brighten my day.
Mary Barker
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Magnolia: The Cape Ann MarketWATCH 3/8/14 From Kenny MacCarthy
This week, we’re talking about:
- Magnolia
- Beverly
- 11 properties in various states of repair and disrepair
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Community Stuff 3/9/14
NEW ENGLAND BOILED DINNER
A traditional New England Boiled Dinner will be served at the First Baptist Church, 38 Gloucester Ave., on Saturday, March 15, at 5 p.m.
The meal will include corned beef and smoked shoulder, vegetables, homemade bread, desserts, and beverages.
The suggested donation is $10. Everyone is welcome. Please share with your friends! 🙂
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Capt Pete’s new grandson
Capt. Pete Mondello is a grandfather again.
Jackson Joseph Martin
7lbs 10 oz, 19.5″
3/7/14 8:25 pmBorn to Haley Mondello and Sean Martin
Sent from my Galaxy S®III
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Ninja Polar Bear Attacks Bearded Seal
Before you watch the video- “Who are you rooting for?”
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Gloucester Classic- St Joseph’s Sandwich at Virgilios
If you haven’t had one I’d say it’s one of those things that even if you moved here ten years ago I still wouldn’t consider you a local.
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Carl Sandburg Quote of the Week from Greg Bover
“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
An Illinois native, Sandburg left school at thirteen. He worked as a porter, bricklayer, coal heaver, and a farm laborer before briefly entering, but never finishing, college. He began his writing career at the Chicago Daily News and ultimately won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry in 1919 and 1951 and one for his widely read multi-volume biography of Lincoln, in 1940. Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories, for children, and his accessible poetry made him a popular figure in mid-20th century America. It was Sandburg who characterized Chicago as “Hog Butcher for the World …City of Big Shoulders.” His American Songbag, a collection of folksongs, and his Grammy- winning recordings of these songs accompanying himself on solo guitar, did much to advance the folk revival of the 1960’s.
Although often attributed to others, it was Sandburg who said, “Sometime they’ll give a war and no one will come.”
We are still waiting.
Gregory R Bover
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