Community Stuff 10/24/12

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New and consigned apparel and equipment for skiing, skating, hockey, snowboarding and horseback riding!
Earn money for your previously used equipment and stock up for the upcoming season. Great deals for children and adults!!  Vendors will be here too, selling new merchandise at great prices.
Please email skiskateboardandride@gmail.com for more information or to pre-register as a consignor.
Pre-registration is strongly recommended, but you may also register on the drop-off days.
Consignors receive 70% of sales.  Donations are also welcome.
Like us on facebook:
facebook.com/SkiSkateBoardRideConsignmentEvent

Saturday, November 3rd,  9am-4pm
Sunday, November 4th, 12-3pm
Cutler Elementary School,        
237 Asbury Street, Hamilton

Drop-off hours will be held:
Tuesday, October 30th, 4-8pm
Thursday, November 1st, 4-8pm
Friday, November 2nd,  10am-2pm

Pre-Sale for volunteers ONLY:
Saturday, November 3rd 7-9am!

A Gentle Reminder: Holiday Card Season Is Upon Us

No Pressure But You Don’t want To Come Off With Some Generic Lamo Christmas Card This Year Do You?

Well the time is now to start planning. 

It isn’t enough to lug your kid/s to the mall and plop them down on the lap of that homeless alcoholic who plays Santa every year and pay the $30 bucks for a few 8x10s. 

In today’s world of competitive momming you gotta bring you’re A-Game.  You have to do something completely unique or let’s face it, you just don’t love your kids.  You’re a bad mom, a terrible mom.  Maybe the reason you’re lugging your kids to the mall is because you have a secret homeless alcoholic Santa fetish and while your kids are innocently sitting on homeless alcoholic Santas lap you’re thinking about getting all freaky during alcoholic homeless Santa’s coffee break.

Anyway, I digress.  If you want to avoid getting all caught up in your alcoholic homeless Santa fetish I suggest you get started on your beautiful children’s Christmas Cards immediately.

We go to Sona Revette’s Love and Life Cards

I did a video interview with Sona last year-

Sona can completely customize your Holiday Card so you don’t get cast off into the uncaring unloving mother pile of Moms who don’t go the extra mile for their children.

They are cheap and she donates dough to plant trees with every order.  So you can assuage your guilt about destroying the ozone with your aerosol cans of hairspray by rocking with Sonas Custom Holiday Cards as well.

Here’s a preview from Sona-

Holiday sneak peak!

The holiday season is upon us… well, almost! It is still October, but some of you very organized people (you know who you are) have already started thinking about holiday cards and have even put in a holiday order. You would think as a card designer, my cards would be done well ahead of time, but alas, I have no idea what my family holiday card will look like. The card design is so much fun for me, but getting just the right photo is another story! So instead of stressing about how I’ll ever get my kiddos to photographed, I’d rather have fun designing the perfect card for you and your family.

Below is a sneak peak of some of our 2012 holiday designs. We’re really excited to offer more designs this year!

Simple and stylish "Crafty Collage"

Say it all with "Joy and Love"

Show off your little elves with "Santa’s Little Helpers"

Three perfect photos? "May your days be Merry & Bright"

Classic Christmas "One Ornament"

Simple and elegant "Ball of Joy"

All of these new designs, and more, will be on the web site and ready to go by the first week in November, but of course if you’re ahead of the game, we can get started right away and as always, if you don’t see exactly what you’re looking for on our web site, we will be happy to create a custom design to show off your beautiful family.

Andre the seal Represents! from Rockport (the other one)

Deb writes-

Hi Joey –
Andre the seal Represents! from Rockport (the other one), Maine, looking out over the harbor he was born in.

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Passports Wine Dinner October 25th Reserve Your Spot Now!!! Four Courses Paired With Four Wines!!!

California Wine Dinner with Chili Sullivan

Passports Restaurant

Thursday October 25, 7pm

Passports Restaurant

Thursday October 25, 7pm

1st courseRoasted Pear Salad

w/Spicy Pecans, Blue Cheese, Citrus Vinaigrette

Wine pairing – Sterling Sauvignon Blanc

2nd courseMolten Lump Crab Dip

Wine pairing –The Calling, Dutton Ranch Chardonnay

3rd courseBraised Short Rib

w/Mirepoix, Smashed Gold Potatos & Maple Carrots

Wine pairing –The Calling, Cabernet Sauvignon

4th courseChocolate Espresso Torte w/Raspberry Puree

Wine pairing – Rosenblum “Rockpile” Zinfandel

With Microsoft’s Windows 8 looking Like Such A Disaster

They Can Be Thankful That Apple Prices Their Macbook’s So Stupid Expensive For Maybe Saving Microsoft From Completely Sinking Down The Toilet With Windows 8.

I don’t know anyone who has touted Microsoft’s huge victory with Windows 7 more than I have.  I’m a HUGE HUGE FAN of Windows 7.  But Windows 8 and it’s touch interface and Metro UI looks like a complete disaster.

So Apple comes out with an announcement today for its 13 inch Macbook Pro priced at $1,699 and $1,999.   The $1,699 model includes a 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge Core i5 processor, 8GB of memory, and a 128GB SSD drive. And the $1,999 step-up boosts the processor speed with a dual-core Intel Core i7 processor and the option to increase the SSD drive’s capacity to 768GB source Gizmodo

Instead of putting its foot on the throat of Microsoft and crushing its larynx Apple leaves the door open for people to continue on with lesser priced Windows based computers.

I contend that if the iPad mini is priced at less that $275 it will be a knock out punch for Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook.  Every kid is going to want one and parents that don’t want to spend $500 on a full sized iPad will put one in the hands of their kids for the holidays.

If they price the iPad mini over $350 to start they will leave breathing room for the android devices of the world to survive.  There’s no doubt after using both android and Apple devices that the operating system for Apple tablets is far more user friendly and should command a slight premium.

Follow along on the Gizmodo live blog of the Apple Event now here

Update:

They just announced the pricing of the iPad mini base model starts at $329 which IMO leaves the door open for the lesser Nook and Kindle Fire to survive.  This is not to say that the Fire or Nook are  nearly as good as the ipad Mini but they are able to be priced considerably less.  There is a sweet spot of price that most people would be willing to spend for a child’s holiday present and $329 is higher than magic number IMO.

Sort of like the $9.99 lunch, price it over that and you lose a lot of working folks.  looks like Apple let up on squashing its competitors on this one as well.

If money were no option you go full sized iPad obvi.

Community Photos 10/23/12

Egret West Gloucester photos by Anthony Marks

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Surf’s up yesterday at Good Harbor

Kerry’s boards.

Photo © Kathy Chapman 2012

http://www.kathychapman.com

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Straight Sexy Baby!

I find it hilarious that upscale restaurants charge all the money or Monkfish.  Poor man’s lobster, Riiiiiight.

Let’s get something straight- Lobster is lobster.

Rubbery ol’ monkfish- not lobster.

Got it?

GMG Readers Poll- What Would You Like To See Fill The Space Vacated By Five Guys?

If those of you who have Facebook or Twitter or Google+ could share this I’d love to see a really large number of votes to get a true picture of what most people want, Thanks. (You can share it by clicking the little icons below the post)

Holy Canoli Batman there were a lot of responses to this.  Some which I think are completely ridiculous due to the space available where Five Guys was located up at Gloucester Crossing.

Anyway here are your options, vote away!

Gloucester Community Sports 10/23/12

 

O’Maley Field Hockey is 11-0 and has scored 45 goals!  Represent!!!!

O’Maley vs Rockport

They are 11-0 with a total of 45 goals scored and only 12 goals scored against them. Way to go team and coaches! Four more games!

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Front Row (sitting) Mackenzie Plante, Brie Ramsey, Callie O’Leary, Nicole Tocco and Whitney Good

Back Row (standing) Lilly Gray, Jenna Taormina, Maddie McCarthy, Gabby Machado, Rachel Alexander,Kelly Broe, Megan Russo, Sam Cominelli, Sam Orlando, Marissa Enes, Bailey Kirk, Lila Monell, Maggie Destino and Brianna Fernandes

Missing from picture:  Emma Lamoureux, Ava Trotman, Haley Glaser and coaches Marcy Plante, Alison Monell, and Ellen Preston.

Sue Good Forwards us some photos of the squad in action!


Trish from Pleasant St Tea and Coffee Co writes-

Hey Joey,

My brother ran the Baystate marathon in Lowell today.  All of the siblings were in attendance along with the MUM and nephews, niece and 3 babies in bellies of the two sisters. My brother ran an amazing race with an improvement from the Sugarloaf Marathon in September. 3:16:31

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Community Stuff 10/23/12

On the next Cape Ann Profiles show host Rich Sagall interviews Andrew Innes, a supporter of ballot question #5. This question concerns the Supreme Court ruling known as "Citizens United," a ruling that has had a great impact on the current election.
Cape Ann Profiles can be seen on Cape Ann TV Channel 12 on Friday, October 26 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, October 28 at 2:00PM. It repeats on Friday, November 2 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM.


Gloucester Writer Center Event

When: November 7, 7:30 p.m.

Where: The Gloucester Writers Center, 126 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA.

Contact: Annie Thomas, 978-283-7738

What: Memoirist Helen Fremont, gives a talk on Perspective and Point of View in Memoir. Helen’s first memoir, After a Long Silence, was published in 1999 and tells of being raised Roman Catholic and discovering in her thirties that her parents were in fact Jewish Holocaust survivors. She is currently working on a second memoir focusing on how the trauma of one generation is expressed in the next. Helen works as a public defender in Boston.


On Friday. Afternoon a group a new moms and their babies will be having a Halloween parade on Main St. At 1:30 in Gloucester 10-26-12


Cape Ann Community Forum

Cape Ann Community Forum
Location: Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966
Date: October 30, 2012 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Lahey Health System will host a community forum discussing the future state of healthcare, payment reform and its impact on hospitals and healthcare delivery systems.  Presenters will include Denis Conroy, Vice President of System Integration for Lahey Health System and Cindy Cafasso Donaldson, Vice President and Executive Director for Addison Gilbert Hospital.  All residents are encouraged to attend this presentation which will be followed by a question and answer session

Are you Kidding Me Brad Pitt????

This may be the all time dumbest commercial and expose on taking oneself too seriously of all times.  OH MY LOOOOOORD DUDE, SERIOUSLY????

I hope you got paid ALLL THE MONEY and I Mean ALL THE MONEY for this ad.

Listen Haters Gonna Hate. I’m no Brad Pitt Hater.  I actually liked Brad Pit and his body of work… alllll the way up to ten minutes ago when I saw this commercial on TV.

Dude, you don’t have enough money that you gotta sell out like this?????  Someone needs to fire their agent STAT! Agent needs to go, ad agency needs to go, handlers need to go, anyone associated with this debacle needs to go.

What’s next? Tampon commercials?  Midol commercials?  Bath and Bodyworks commercials?

Douchebag says what?

Flutter From Bill O’Connor

Hi Joey,

On a recent trip to Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary in Topsfield, I was followed by a couple of chickadees that would fly very close to me as I walked along the trail.  On a whim, I stopped and stretched out my arm with the finger extended and they would actually land on my finger and quickly fly away!  I tried to get numerous shots but found it hard to manage the camera while the bird was standing on my finger. I snapped this at the moment that one fluttered away.

Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

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#Boom! Bradley Makes An Honest Woman Out Of Kimberly On Niles Beach Saturday!

GMG FOB’s NOW NEWLYWEDS!!!!

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Joey!  Happy October!  From Kimberly & Bradley
We did it!  Niles Beach, October 20, 2012
Mr & Mrs Bradley Scheetz
(Newlyweds & big fans of Mighty Gloucester)

Engaged On Pavilion, Married On Niles!

You may remember this post back on August 28th-

Newly Engaged FOBs Kimberly Funk & Bradley Scheetz!

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Joey C

Hi Joey-

My boyfriend (now fiance!) Bradley and I really enjoy your blog and we LOVE Gloucester (we definitely have the wheels turning for a relocation from Boston one day). Thought I would share a Gloucester story from this past Sunday..
We often come up on the weekends to hang out and one of the things we (mostly me) like to do is look for sea glass at Pavilion beach. That’s where we were this past Sunday when Bradley called me over to look at something in the sand. Just sitting on a rock was a beautiful shiny sparkly ring. I was a little slow..even thinking aloud that someone must have lost their ring..doh! Anyway it was for ME and we got engaged right then and there! We were super lucky that local, Amy Clayton happened to be on the beach and she snapped some pictures for us! Here our a couple of our favorites ..
Kimberly Funk & Bradley Scheetz
8.26.12

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Open Door Autumn Breakfast Thursday October 25th

AUTUMN BREAKFAST

Breakfast is FREE. Donations accepted.

Thursday, October 25 Cruiseport Gloucester

6 Rowe Square

7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

RSVP by Monday, October 22

978-283-6776 ext. 205
Register to reserve a seat
http://theopendoorautumnbreakfast-eorg.eventbrite.com

Founders’ Award

Leslie Pearlman

Helen Muise

Community Service Award

Bruce Gordon

Sharon Muddiman

Unsung Hero

Val Gilman and Jared Gilman

Lisa Reis

Outstanding Community Builder

Joey Ciaramitaro
Good Morning Gloucester