My View of Life on the Dock
The Fish was still crispy and had the perfect medley of sauce and fresh toppings. Brough the girls for lunch and the children’s meals were cheap and they gut up the grilled chicken so when it hit the table we could all eat instead of the parent having to cut up the kids food first. Nice!
Frickin killer!
Previous updates from Bing-
Bing McGilvray photo (Click to enlarge)-
Joey ~
I spoke with Police Chief Leonard Campanello today about the Rogers St. construction site where the stairs once were. The official plan is for 5 to 10 new parking spaces and some pleasant landscaping to be completed by Spring 2014. The work is being done by Gloucester Dept. of Public Works under the the direction of Mike Hale.
The entrance to the GPD/Courthouse will be via the stairs that now exist from the current parking lot on Rogers St.
~ Bing McGilvray
At the Salt Rock in Indian Rocks Beach Fl
Now that is a special surprise
Yet another great
Gloucester Business
Sears…? Yes.
Ed at Sears on Eastern Ave
sold me a terrific vacuum.
Guided me to the sale item –
great price, great vacuum.
But had a little problem with the
wheel. Ed not only offered to fix
it but ran out to the hardware
store to get the right kind of
screws.
Long time later, I had another
little glitch. Vacuum just
stopped cleaning. So, I asked
Ed. He took it apart, found a
“catnip mouse” in the tube, and
put it back together. You’ll
never get service like that in a
big store.
Wow! Thanks Ed.
So, shop Sears in Gloucester,
and talk to Ed.
Those little Russian Tea Cakes are dope. You can also get Glosta Joe’s Coffee there (a great holiday present or stocking stuffer)
Hi Joey C & GMG Readers!
Rockport’s Downtown Merchants Group would like to invite their Cape Ann neighbors and friends to shop locally this holiday season, and have designated a full week in December as Shop Local Week. From Sunday, December 15 through Sunday, December 22, treat yourself and your family to the delightful experience of holiday season shopping amidst the Christmas tree lined streets and beautifully decorated shops of Rockport!
We hope to see you in Downtown Rockport!
Happy Holidays,
Dawn Noble
Rockport’s Downtown Merchants Group
Flock Rock
Hi Joey,
We had a flock of seagulls (not the ‘80s band) visit the cove to take shelter from the East wind on this rock last week.
Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
City of Gloucester
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CODE RED – Issued at 11 am on December 14, 2013
Good morning. This is Mayor Carolyn Kirk with an important message from the City of Gloucester’s code red emergency messaging system.
Effective at 11 pm tonight, Saturday, December 14, the city has declared a snow emergency and parking ban on all city streets due to the arriving snow and possible ice storm.
From 11pm tonight until Noon tomorrow, Sunday, December 15, all vehicles are banned from parking on city streets.
Violators of this emergency declaration are subject to ticketing and towing at the owners expense. Residents may park in municipal and school parking lots.
We anticipate that snow will freeze in place due to forecasted rain which will be followed by freezing temperatures. Your cooperation during this parking ban is necessary for efficient and safe snow clearing efforts.
To repeat, the city of Gloucester has issued a parking ban on all city streets as of 11pm tonight until Noon time tomorrow.
Thank you for listening, and this concludes this message.
The Gloucester fire department received a call reporting a building fire on Rocky Neck Ave. Upon arrival firefighters found a 2 story wood framed workshop fully charged with smoke. Crews vented the 2nd floor of heat and smoke by breaking out windows and it was found to be fully involved with fire. Firefighters stretched a hose line up the ladder well to the 2nd floor and quickly knocked down the main body of fire. Due to a significant amount of contents firefighting personnel remained on scene sifting through the workshop for hot spots to prevent against a rekindle. Crews from Headquarters and West Gloucester responded while the crew from Bay View covered the city. The workshop and it’s contents were destroyed by the fire and there was 1 minor injury reported as the frigid conditions turned the water from the firefighter’s hose lines almost immediately into ice and created very slippery conditions. One firefighter reported neck and shoulder pain from a slip and fall. The property is owner reported he was on the 2nd floor in the workshop when he noticed it filling with smoke. Upon his investigation he found smoke and fire coming from the 1st floor wall in the area of an operating wood stove. He stated that he attempted to extinguish the fire himself before calling the fire department but was unsuccessful. An investigation determined the fire was unintentional and originated on the first floor in the interior wall around the area where the wood stove vents to the exterior and was most likely caused by years of pyrolysis.Deputy Chief Stephen Aiello 12/14/13 Stephen M. Aiello, Deputy ChiefGloucester Fire Department8 School StreetGloucester, MA. 01930
Photos from Bill OConnor
13 December, 2013
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood (1939 – )
Born in Canada to parents engaged in the study of forest entomology, Atwood spent much of her youth in the woods and did not attend school full time until she was a teenager. A voracious reader, she ultimately graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in English and the goal of becoming a writer. She did several years of postgraduate work at Radcliffe and Harvard, but did not finish her dissertation. Her poetry began to receive widespread notice in the 1960’s, but her novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1981) propelled her to celebrity status, winning the Arthur C. Clarke and Governor General’s award, and making her an icon of the feminist movement. Other works of speculative fiction, Oryx and Crake, (2003) and The Blind Assassin (2000) have won her the Booker Prize and the Dan David Prize, as well as a long list of honorary doctorates at prestigious institutions including Smith, Harvard, Oxford and the Sorbonne. Atwood is well regarded in humanist and liberal circles and is a member of the Green Party of Canada.
For the 17th year, the teens and advisors from our Y TEEN LEADERS CLUB will be rocking in rocking chairs for 24-sleepless hours for our ROCKATHON TO FEED CAPE ANN’S HUNGRY. We’ll all be in our rockers from 8am Saturday – 8am Sunday of MLK weekend (with short 10-minute breaks allowed)
With the need in our community growing, our teens are steadfastly committed to making this our biggest event ever! With more than 45 active club members, we’ve already collected and delivered more than 1600 items in the past couple weeks! Each member has personally committed to collect no-less-than 150 items toward our “reach goal” 15,000!
100% of Food Donations will go to Open Door, St. Vincent DePaul Society and directly to families in need.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
* Please consider any or all of the following:
– honoring this supreme effort with your donation of non-perishable food items (financial donations will be forwarded to OPEN DOOR)
– donating a rocking chair you don’t want (at this time we are looking for “keepers” to build our fleet)
– help spread the word of this selfless effort by a great team of local teens
For more information, please contact Rick Doucette Executive Director of Teen & Camp Services, doucetter@northshoreymca.org
If the Middle Street Walk doesn’t get you in the mood for the Holidays then you have a heart of stone plain and simple.
Might as well paint your face green, strap a mangy dog to the front of a sleigh and go around stealing little kid’s presents.
Don’t be this guy-
Participate!
Thank Bill OConnor for producing this readable, searchable program-
2013 Middle Street Walk Schedule of EventsSaturday, December 14, 2013 |
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|---|---|
| When | Where and What |
| 8 am – 6 pm | Gloucester Boy Scout Troop #112 will be selling Christmas Trees on the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church lawn, Saturday and Sunday from 8am to 6pm |
| 9 am-4:30 pm | Saunders House, Sawyer Free Library
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| 10 am- 2 pm | Sawyer Free LibraryPresentation of History of WPA Murals and Samuel Sawyer |
| 10 am to 3 pm |
Gloucester City Hall
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| 10 am-3 pm | Trinity Congregational Church of Gloucester Cape Ann Thrift Shop Seasonal Goods Sale.Cape Ann YMCA Open house, kids activities, face painting and craftsSargent House Museum Visitors can shop holiday Christmas decorations, enjoy seasonal foods and browse the museum gift shop for holiday gifts and treats |
| 10 am-4 pm | Cape Ann Art Haven
Sargent House Museum |
| 10:30 am | Trinity Congregational Church of Gloucester Performance – Bell Ringers |
| 11 am | Sawyer Free Library Magic by Matthew Cushman – Magician to the Red Sox |
| 11 am – 4 pm | Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church Make your own s’mores, coffee and cocoa for sale on the Church lawn! |
| 11 am-2 pm | Gloucester City HallTours of City Hall Tower on the half hour by Maggie Rosa, Chair of City Hall Restoration Committee.Guided Tours of Middle Street
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| 11:30 am | Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church Tour of this historic churchGloucester City Hall Auditorium Live performance – Cape Ann Big Band |
| 11:30 am – 1:30 pm | Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church Lunch with 2 menus:
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| 12 pm | Trinity Congregational Church of Gloucester Concert – Plum Cove Singers |
| 12-2 pm | Middle Street Trolley Rides Featuring the Songbirds and a Holiday Sing Along, courtesy of CATA. |
| 12:30 pm | Gloucester City Hall Auditorium “Mixed Bag of Nuts”:
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church |
| 1 pm | Saint John’s Episcopal Church ‘A Children’s Holiday’ with the Rockport and Annisquam youth choir singing music for the season |
| 1 -3 pm | A Visit with Santa at Brown’s Mall |
| 1:30 pm | Trinity Congregational Church of Gloucester Concert – with Louis Stella (piano), Mary Jane Fabanio (cello), Jeanine Lynch (flute) and Robert Heinaman (French horn)Gloucester City Hall
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church |
| 2 pm | Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church Concert – Elementary and Middle School String Group & Band and Gloucester High School Chorus |
| 2:30 – 3:30 pm | Temple Ahavat Achim Tour and Q&A Session with Rabbi LewisSargent House Museum Scenes from Judith Sargent Murray’s play “The Medium”, staged by the North Shore Folklore Theatre Co. |
| 3 pm | Sawyer Free Library
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| 3:30 – 5 pm | Art Gallery Open Houses – Pleasant & Main Streets Visit All four Galleries and Win a Prize:
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| 4:30pm | Cape Ann Art Haven & Gloucester Police Station Plaza Lighting of the Holiday Lobster Trap Tree and a visit from Santa! |
Gloucester’s version of Cheers
The countdown is on……
Beach Gourmet will be bringing Smoked Salmon and Asparagus Crepes and Rosemary Spiced Nuts this evening.
Thanks!!
Its nice when the people we step up for throughout the year do nice things like this. Thank you Matt and John from Beach Gourmet
Sista Felicia Took These Photos aboard The Beauport Princess Cruiselines Maiden Voyage This Past Sunday-
Congratulations to Sheree and her dedicated team. Bringing jobs and beauty to our community. Thanks for all you do.
Here was the announcement-
Sunrise over Ten Pound Island this morning – December 10, 2013.
A nice way to great the day.
Sid Falthzik
Dear Joey.
A Merry Christmas season to you!! After many years, the Annisquam Village church is
changing the time of our annual Christmas Eve Candle Light Worship from 11 p.m. to 5:30
p.m., and we need some help getting the word out. Could you please post this?
All in the community are welcome to join us. Thank you for all you do for our community!
Wishing you a blessed Christmas.
SENIOR GLOUCESTER MA FIRE OFFICER COMPLETES EXECUTIVE PROGRAM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) National Fire Academy (NFA) announced June 28, 2013 that Miles J. Schlichte successfully completed the Executive Fire Officer Program (EFOP).
“The intensive EFOP is designed to provide senior fire officers with a broad perspective on various facets of fire administration,” according to U.S. Fire Administrator Ernest Mitchell, Jr. “This program provides fire service officers with the expertise they need to succeed in today’s challenging environment.”
Each of the four annual courses required a written Applied Research Project (ARP) to demonstrate application of course theory and concepts to real life situations within the student’s own organization. Each of these projects was evaluated through a formal process, and progression through the program was contingent on achieving each of these milestones.
Mitchell also stated, “It is important that these senior fire executives apply what they have learned in the classroom to existing situations in their own communities. This makes completion of the EFOP and the Applied Research Projects particularly valuable to these fire service leaders.”
Six months after completion of each of the courses, the EFOP participants were required to complete an ARP related to their own organization. The required executive-level courses are:
Executive Development, the entry level course, emphasizes team development and consensus decision making to enhance organizations effectiveness. Chief Schlichte’s ARP on the benefits to the City of Gloucester of an effective Emergency Management Program has been published by the National Fire Academy as an exceptional work.
Executive Analysis of Community Risk Reduction, the next course in the sequence, is a mixture of philosophy and application—the value of the community risk reduction and the process of applying risk reduction to the community. It involves developing partnerships with the community to implement programs, initiatives, and services that prevent and/or mitigate the risk of human made or natural disasters. Traditional fire prevention programs are addressed. Chief Schlichte’s ARP on mitigating flooding along Poplar Street by utilizing FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) resulted in a successful million dollar grant to alleviate the periodic flooding in this section of Gloucester.
Executive Analysis of Fire Service Operations in Emergency Management is the third year course. This course is a very critical curriculum in today’s incident response environment. The administration of incident response in light of the Federal Response Plan (FRP), the Integrated Emergency Management System (IEMS), Emergency Operations Center (EOC) functions, planning, and documentation, are some of the topics covered. Chief Schlichte’s ARP on the creation of a Type IV Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) for the City of Gloucester has been published by the National Fire Academy as an exceptional work.
Executive Leadership is the final course which examines all aspects of executive-level leadership and ties together the educational experiences of the three previous years. Chief Schlichte’s final ARP examines the current practice of using acting officers in lieu of permanent officers within the Gloucester Fire Department.
Chief Schlichte is the second member of the Gloucester Fire Department to have completed this intensive program. Chief Carleton Ekborg-retired, was recognized for his successful completion of the Executive Fire Officer Program (EFOP) in 2006.
Dr. Denis Onieal
Superintendent
National Fire Academy
U.S. Fire Administration
Hi Joey,
I’ve attached the flier inviting all families to join in our Winter Skating Festival & Family Skate on Saturday 12/14 starting at 11 am.
Thanks,
Faye Greel
Cape Ann Skating Club
Come join the Cape Ann Skating Club for our annual Holiday Winter Skating Festival on Saturday, December 14, 11 am, Talbot Rink, O’Maley School, Gloucester! Includes free admission to our Holiday Exhibition, used skate sale, bake sale, fun crafts for little ones. Family Skate $5 for entire family at 1 pm (if rental skates required, add additional $5 per person).
For more information regarding Cape Ann Skating please visit:
http://www.facebook.com/CapeAnnSkatingClub
website: http://cafsc.org/
Staff Writer MOVOTO
Massachusetts, the Bay State, is renowned for many things. It has some of the richest history and oldest buildings in the nation; some of our country’s best colleges; and, of course, Boston.
Bean Town is just one city, however, so we wanted to do all Massachusetts residents proud and determine which cities in the state are its very best. It’s the same thing we’ve already done with states like Washington and, a bit closer to home, New Jersey.
Of course, narrowing our selection down to a list of 10 and one winner overall—Marshfield—was not without a certain degree of challenge, but we figured Red Sox and Celtics fans are accustomed enough to dealing with that. When the results were tallied, the 10 best cities in the Bay State emerged:
Click here for the list-
Puhlllleaaaase Paul. Do The Right Thing And Tune Me Up Tomorrow Night! 
KIM SMITH PHOTO
Good Morning Gloucester 