7 all together. Come down to the dock to pick em up
95 East Main St
Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
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Community Photos 10/21/13
Hi Joey,
On a recent visit to the railways, I snapped this shot of a Schooner Roseway crewmember who seemed to be right at home as he sat atop one of the masts.
Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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Huge Kudos To The Team That Produced The Rockport Harvest Festival
That town was jumpin!
Great job all the way around! Took the trolley from the Rockport Transfer station- less than 5 minutes of a ride on the cool trolley with a super friendly attendant and driver- total no brainer rather than driving in circles in downtown Rockport trying to find a spot to park.
Thanks for the time and energy you put in to make such a fantastic day- we really appreciated it.
and for anyone that missed it- you really ought to pencil it into your calendar for next year- It’s a must-do event.
-The 2013 Harvestfest poster, designed by the very talented Darren Mason!
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Community Stuff 10/21/13
Water Compliance Office
50 Essex Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
TEL (978)281-9792
FAX(978)281-9724
CITY OF GLOUCESTER
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
WATER COMPLIANCE OFFICE
NOTICE TO OUR WATER CUSTOMERS- OCTOBER 18, 2013
WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM MAINTENANCE
Gloucester DPW will begin filling the Plum Cove Water Storage Tank in Lanesville midday Wednesday October 23, 2013, then sample it for water quality, and bring the tank into service the following week. During the tank filling Lanesville and Annisquam residents may temporarily experience pressure fluctuations and discolored water. The DPW is currently having the Blackburn Water Tank painted and anticipates bring that tank back into service in early November.
The DPW switched the distribution system disinfectant from chloramine to chlorine on October 7, 2013, when the West Gloucester Water Treatment Plant was brought into operation. Customers may notice a slight chlorine odor. The switch was made to aid in bringing these water storage tanks back into operation most effectively. The DPW anticipates switching the distribution system disinfectant back from chlorine to chloramines in November 2013 after the Blackburn Tank painting, filling, and sampling.
Also the DPW is currently approximately half way through routine fall water distribution piping flushing program fully across the entire city. Flushing may cause a change in the direction of flow in some water mains and may cause temporary discoloration of the water as iron particles in the pipe are stirred up. If you should experience “rusty” water, running a cold water tap for a few minutes will clear your line. We also recommend that you avoid the use of chlorine bleach during this time period to prevent staining of laundry if you are experiencing “rusty” water.
If you experience persistent water quality problems, please contact the DPW at 978-281-9785 or the Office of Water Compliance at 978-281-9792, so that selective flushing can be targeted to problem areas.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Larry Durkin,
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GloucesterCast 10/20/13 With Guest Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro
GloucesterCast 10/20/13 With Guest Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro
GloucesterCast Podcast Taped 10/20/13 With Guest Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro
Topics Include: Red Sox Clinching and Odds That John Farrell getting Manager of the Year, Farm Bar and Grille vying for East Gloucester Spot, Smartphones on planes, GMG Caps, Passports Closed for a couple of weeks for Olive Kitteridge miniseries taping, Posts of the week including Kim Smith’s Love Letters To Gloucester and Marty Luster’s Phyllis A Video, people who email comments to GMG instead of posting their comments under the respective post.
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Samuel Johnson Quote of The Week from Greg Bover
18 October, 2013
“Kindness is always in our power, even when fondness is not.”
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Dr. Johnson was the most important English literary figure of his age. He wrote plays, essays and poems including the perceptive “Vanity of Human Wishes,” but he was best known for his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), an almost incomprehensible feat of mainly solo scholarship, written in just nine years, and the first to feature examples, largely from Shakespeare, Dryden, and Milton, of the 114,000 words in a literary context. Johnson was also the subject of one of the most famous biographies ever written, the minutely detailed Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell. It is from this biography and other descriptions of the tics and outbursts of the good Doctor that it is now thought that he suffered from Tourette’s syndrome, a condition not yet defined in his time. Johnson is also credited with the observation that “Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.”
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First Ever 2014 Rotary Calendar Photo Contest
The Rotary Club of Gloucester is pleased to announce a photography contest for the youth of Gloucester. The winning photo will be featured on the 2014 Annual Rotary Calendar, which will be distributed to over a thousand Gloucester households and businesses. All profits from the calendar are donated to local charities.
The calendar will feature a photo that depicts the beauty of Gloucester at the top that is visible throughout the year. For the first time, high school and middle school students from Gloucester are being invited to submit their amazing photos of Gloucester. The winning entrant will receive $100.
2014 Calendar Photo Contest Theme: Photos should be a scene from anywhere in Gloucester that shows the unique beauty or character of Gloucester. Summer or late spring shots are preferred, if possible.
Requirements:
- Photos entered must be original, digital, color, horizontal and no smaller than 1800 x 1200 pixels (a 4 x 6” image @ 300 dpi).
- Limit one entry per person.
- Entrants must be 13-18 years of age and living in Gloucester, MA.
- All entries must be emailed to Dave Stotzer, owner of Cape Ann Photography, at stotzerphoto@gmail.com. In the email, please include your name, age, grade, address and phone number.
- Entry Deadline: November 7, 2013.
- The entrant agrees to allow the Gloucester Rotary Club to publish the winning photo for no fees other than the prize. Parental (or legal guardian) permission for photo credit on calendar required.
More information about the Gloucester Rotary Club can be found at the Club’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RotaryGloucesterMA.
The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
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Chickity Check It!- Floating From Martin Ray
Check out Martin Ray’s recent posting “Floating”, at http://halibutpointnotes.blogspot.com
Martin
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Community Photos 10/20/13
Hi Joey-
Yesterday, when we returned from our morning row, we saw two (very nice) workers who are in the process of inspecting the integrity of the docks in our Harbor.
Looking up, we also saw our (always nice) Harbormaster, Jim Caulkett.
Smiles all around-a great way to start the day!
Best- Janet Rice
gloucestergigrowers@gloucestergigrowers.com
West Gloucester Farm photos from Anthony Marks
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Community Stuff 10/20/13
Almond Bread Cooking Class at Temple Ahavat Achim!
Temple Ahavat Achim invites you to its “Google the Kugel” cooking class!
Join Rabbi Lewis for the first “Google the Kugel” class of the season!
In 1996 Rabbi Lewis made a short video of his grandmother, Hannah Aronson Levinson Quint, preparing mandelbrodt (“almond bread”) and talking about what cooking means to her. Come watch the video, learn her recipe and share what cooking means to you.
Please call Natalia at (978) 281-0739 to sign up!
Hey Joey how are ya? Was wondering if you could advertise for us, Bailee is having another event next saturday Oct 26th, she will be selling Hot Apple Cider to raise money to buy toys, coloring books, crayons and stickers to bring up to Beverly Hospital to the pediatric ward, Bailee was hospitalized in the end of August, and was not allowed in the toy room because they were not sure if she was contagious, so all they really had was a old coloring book that was filled, and a baby wipe box full of broken crayons, Bailee was inspired to do this event so that throughout this flu season kids that are on precautions and arent allowed in the toy room will have the opportunity to get their own “prize” a toy, coloring book, etc, we are just asking for no stuffed animals….
“Heal with Happiness a Bailees Lemonade Fundraiser”
Saturday Oct 26th from Noon- 4:00 pm
29 East Main Street Glosta!!
Hot Apple Cider in trade for a donated toy, or cash donations are excepted that will be used to purchase toys.
There is a facebook event “Heal with Happiness a Bailees Lemonade Fundraiser”, but im not sure how i would post it to you, maybe you could do that?
Thankyou so much for all your help in promoting in the past, lots of people come because of GMG!!!
Brieana Militello
Hey Joey,
This is Stefanie over at Alchemy. We have an event coming up on the 29th of October called the Pumpkin Challenge. It is a competition between 2 chefs ( our chef Scott Jensen) and Stacy Cogswell from the Regal Beagle in Brookline using a pumpkin as the main ingredient in each dish. We are also doing a pumpkin carving challenge as well among the guests to see who can carve the best pumpkin. First prize is $100 and second prize is $50. For each pumpkin that is entered into the contest, $5 will be donated to the Open Door Foundation.
I was wondering if you could post something about the event on Good Morning Gloucester.
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Photos from Committee for the Arts Trails and Sails and Block Party
Hi Joey,
During two Trails and Sails weekends and the last Block Party, the Committee for the Arts (CFTA ) was pleased to participate and spread awareness about municipal art. One event: during the block party we were at Main and Parsons, near a very busy Markouk booth (always busy at Cape Ann Farmers Market, too), fried dough and candy truck (not just kids buying!), Dress Code’s charmingly illuminated booth, and Joe Ciolino’s. What a gorgeous night! We spoke with dozens of folks including the group of twenty youth from Ocean Classroom en route from Maine to Puerto Rico with a stop in Gloucester and a night out downtown. Parsons Street public art mural by James Owen Calderwood.
Send us your photos and we’ll add them in! gloucestercfta@gmail.com
Enjoy photos from Saturday’s Gloucester Committee for the Arts/Block Party/Trails and Sails!
Gloucester Block Party is making some “best of” and “top” event lists. Here are a couple of nice mentions:
http://www.topeventsusa.com/state-events-massachusetts.html
http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/992709/top-8-summer-block-parties-in-the-us
The Essex National Heritage Commission is the organization that ran the fantastic Trails and Sails weekends (34 towns, and hundreds of FREE events!) Don’t miss it next year!
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Learn parenting hacks from the best!
Learn parenting hacks from the best!
Author, Christine Koh of Boston Mamas and Minimalist Parenting to speak at North Shore Nursery School on Thursday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m.
In the midst of a culture and marketing climate that tells parents “more is more”, MINIMALIST PARENTING, authors Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest offer a fresh approach to navigating modern family life. Christine helps parents tune into their family’s unique values and priorities. She’ll share the Minimalist Parenting road map for simplifying your family life – how to confidently edit schedules, possessions, and expectations to give you time and space for what you truly care about. With her suggestions you’ll enjoy your family more by doing less!
“With its focus on simplicity, self-knowledge, kindness, and confidence, Christine gives parents the tools to help themselves-and, more importantly, trust themselves-as they navigate the often overwhelming terrain of managing family life.” –Andrea J. Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author of The Daring Book for Girls
Tickets are $10 with limited seating. Purchase tickets online today!
Kelly O’Connor
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Representing!
Dear Joey
Here’s a born & raised Gloster girl representing in Emerald Isle NC
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Community Photos 10/19/13
Beacon Marine At Dusk photos from Anthony Marks
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Community Stuff 10/19/13
POP GALLERY PRESENTS:
Our 4th Annual POPtoberfest!
Featuring a PINK PUMPKIN SALE on many items in store!
Warm up with some complimentary hot mulled cider, seasonal ales, and apples and snacks!
Extended hours on Saturday till 7 pm. October 19th! At 67 Main Street!
Some of our FALL special sales include:
– Our ‘Glowing’ collection of candles to set the mood at home!
– Wooly handwoven scarves from SmartWorks, cashmere hand warmers from Elizabethan!
– Jewelry to accent your sweaters and leather jackets by Emily Rosenfeld, Betsy Frost, Joyce Roessler And SKLO
And a plethora of other treats to “Grab”on the way out!!!
GHS DOCKSIDERS
Concert to Benefit
The Open Door Food Pantry
When: Saturday, October 19th at 7 p.m.
Where: Gloucester High School
Admission: Food donations to The Open Door
When: Wednesday October 30th 7:30 pm
What: Helen Fremont to Read at the Gloucester Writers Center
Where: 126 E. Main Street, Gloucester MA 01930
Contact: Chloe Martin, chloemart@gmail.com, 949-677-2451
The Gloucester Writers Center presents Helen Fremont, the author of the national best selling memoir After Long Silence on October 30th, 7:30 p.m. at 126 East Main St. In addition to being a memoirist she is also a public defender in Boston. She will answer questions and dialogue with the audience after her talk A Perspective- Point of View in Memoir.
Helen and her sister grew up Roman Catholic, and it was not until she was in her thirties, that they discovered that their parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors. The book Traces the stories of her parents’ lives, including her father’s years as a political prisoner in the Siberian Gulag, and her aunt’s marriage to an Italian Count, who was instrumental in saving her mother’s life. Other works of fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including 1994: The O. Henry Awards, Ploughshares, and The Harvard Review. She is currently working on her second memoir focusing on her and her sister’s lives, and how the trauma of one generation is expressed in the next.
The Gloucester Writers Center was founded to celebrate, preserve, and promote Gloucester’s rich literary legacy and to create space in the community for the voices of people of all ages and backgrounds to be heard through writing, dialogue, and the artistic process. Find out more about the Gloucester Writers Center at gloucesterwriters.org
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Tee Up……To End Cancer! Schedule of Events
Here is some information regarding Family Ties and the Golf Tournament. Also Thom Falzarano is a part of the day taking tons of photos. This is occurring this Monday.
Tee Up……To End Cancer! Schedule of Events:
Ferncroft Country Club 9:00am Registration & Lunch
Middleton, MA 11:00pm Shot Gun Start
Monday October 21, 2012 4:00pm Dinner, Awards & Auction
Please join us for a day of sunshine, fresh air, friends, family, food and a celebration dedicated to all we love to fight and to raise money to help The American Cancer Society through the Relay For Life and Family Ties, Inc.; to help individuals and families financially; and to find cures to end cancer. We are hosting an all-day event of golf, food, awards, silent and live auctions for all to enjoy with the proceeds going to our foundation and to Relay For Life fundraising efforts.
Family Ties, Inc. is a Massachusetts Non-Profit Corporation that was established to help families affected by cancer. Family Ties, Inc. works with Relay for Life which is a 501(c)(3) company to help as many as we can in the fight against cancer. In 1985, Charles “Chucky” Pratt was diagnosed with cancer as a 17 year old high school student. Chucky lost his battle with cancer after four years and missed out on so many of life’s wonderful moments. Family Ties was a Relay for Life team created by Erin “Pratt” Avila to honor her brother and to bring her family together, celebrate him and fight for those who need our help.
Over the past 8 years our family has raised over $100,000.00 as a part of the Relay for Life in Cape Ann, we have won several awards as a team due to our fundraising efforts and have led the fund raising event as top fundraisers. We have now turned this team into a foundation as our passion is to raise money to help families who are battling cancer and to help invest in cures supporting The American Cancer Society through the Cape Ann Relay For life. Join us with your family and friends to help us in the fight against cancer.
The following explains all of your options in how to help and be a part of this amazing day:
- Golf Team Registration Form
- Hole and Golf Cart Sponsorship Form
- Competition and Signature Sponsorships Form
- Corporate Sponsorship Form
If you are interested in making a straight donation to the Family Ties, Inc. foundation please feel free to contact Jon Pratt at 978-239-6881 or Bethany M. Pratt at 617-388-9571.
Thank you from the bottom on our hearts
Family Ties, Inc.
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Come Down To Captain Joe and Sons Through The Weekend To Take Your Picture With The Blue Lobster
Bring your kids, bring your family members and/or friends to take pictures with the blue lobster that Dave Jewell landed this week.
blue lobster @captjoelobster #GloucesterMA #lobster thestevedujour @thestevedujour @andreawbz https://t.co/xA3FWpNEqE
— Joey_C (@Joey_C) October 16, 2013
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Harbortown Cultural District Update From Cat Ryan
Cat Ryan submits-
Harbortown Cultural District will be included in an upcoming AAA publication featuring 10 cultural districts! Also look for some breaking tech news. Our Harbortown cultural district joined forces with the 3 other Cape Ann Cultural Districts (Harbortown, Rocky Neck, Rockport and Essex) to apply for a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant to help us towards some exciting shared marketing. We found out that YES we were awarded a grant, and are looking forward to creating a new mobile APP.
We’re also crossing our fingers this week, waiting to see if an amendment to the state’s supplemental budget happens or not. The MCC is asking for an amendment that will include $500,000 to market the state’s cultural districts through advertising on commuter rail lines, the subway and on busses in the Boston area.
GMG contributor and the ever affable Main Street proprietor Fred Bodin is one of our many talented founding partners. During our August event at the Cape Ann Museum, he multi-tasked. The good photos from the event are his! Visit http://www.gloucesterharbortown.org
Cape Ann Museum Director, Ronda Faloon, outlined the museum’s impressive next steps and guided us on a mini tour. Cape Ann TV –also a founding partner—was filming. The Fresnel lens is gorgeous! I can’t wait to see it in its new location when the museum re-opens. Look at the scale of this thing (see photo with Bob Whitmarsh, Co-Chair, to get an idea of size—)!
We followed up with a discussion of our district goals led by Bex Borden.
We are so grateful to Cape Ann Museum for hosting and the lovely appetizer spread and beverages. They also set up and readied for our visit and meeting. Harbortown founding partner, Lise Breen, and other members also helped set and clean up for this double billing. What a spot to have it. Check out the large Gordon Goetemann oil on canvas From a High Place Nice!
More party photos
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Community Photos 10/18/13
Michelle Polito submits-
Sunrise In Rockport
Found By The Shore photo from Anthony Marks
Good Morning Gloucester 