Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Da Godmuddah forwards-

Lanes Cove Fish Shack Restoration

Fund Drive

Built in the late 1800’s, the Lanes Cove Fish Shack is very much a part of the living history of Lanesville and all of Gloucester. With your help, we will restore the Fish Shack to its appearance when it was last actively used by fishermen in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The restoration will employ traditional materials, including cedar shingles, roll roofing, and rough sawn lumber.

The Shack will be restored for use by commercial fishermen. Work will begin Spring 2012.
This is a community project that needs your active support. Please share copies of this flyer with your neighbors and encourage them to join you in contributing to this historic project so that together we can reach our $80,000 goal.

Contributions should be sent to:

The Gloucester Fund, Inc.
45 Middle Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Be sure to note in the memo line of your check that your contribution is for the Lanes
Cove Fish Shack.  Your canceled check is your receipt for this tax deductible contribution.
We also seek skilled and supervised workers to keep down the cost of restoration. Let Arnie  Shore know that you will lend a hand with the work of restoration. You can reach Arnie at arnold.shore@gmail.com
At future community meetings, we will update you on contributions, volunteers, and restoration progress.
A safe, secure, and appropriately restored Lanes Cove Fish Shack is in our future and in the future of our children.
Thank you !

Pew Party & Pledges Please!!

Karen Ristuben writes-

Hello friends of The Center project!
Two things:
*  We are having a potluck neighborhood party at The Center this Thursday from 5-8 pm to remove the pews and to celebrate in holiday and community spirit.  Please be a part of this event!!  Invitation is attached.
*  And, a very friendly update and reminder:
Our fund drive for The Center’s Feasibility Study and Option to Purchase needs your pledges right away.  We are interviewing two excellent consultants this week, and would like to start working with one of them right after the New Year.  And, our Center Steering Committee is meeting this Wednesday to get things rolling.   But, we are still several thousand dollars short of our goal, so we need you now!  Easy pledging & Paypal available on the website – www.rockyneckartcolony.org. 
Hope to see you on Thursday if not before!
Yours, Karen

Cynthia Dempster asks-

Hi Joey,

  Do you have any idea where I can purchase used lobster buoys?

Thanks,  Cynthia Dempster

Pathways

Pathways for Children will be hosting  Parent & Child Playgroups on Monday mornings from 10:00- 11:30 am, at their Cape Ann Families playspace located at 28 Emerson Ave.( across the street from Pathways) in Gloucester.  Parents/caregivers and children ages birth- 5 years of age are welcome.  This drop-in group offers a great opportunity to socialize, learn new songs, find out about interesting family happening on Cape Ann and have FUN!  The group starts Monday, December 12^th and will be closed on 12/26 & 1/ 2 for the holidays.  For further information please contact Amy Larsen, Coordinated Family & Community Engagement Coordinator at 978 281-2400 x 120 or at alarsen@pw4c.org.  This activity is made possible through a grant from the Department of Early Childhood Education & Care and Pathways for Children. 

The CAT’s Out of the Bag:
Auditions for Neil Simon’s “Rumors”
Wednesday, January 4 and Thursday, January 5, 2012

The Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative invites you to audition for its March play, Neil Simon’s comedy-farce “Rumors,” Wednesday, January 4th and Thursday, January 5th from 7 pm to 9 pm at 5 Heritage Way (in the Roy Spittle Associates building) located in the Blackburn Industrial Park, Gloucester MA. Rehearsals will take place on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, 7pm to 9pm.
This full tilt farce aims for hilarity. Four high society couples gather at the home of the New York City deputy mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party is on hold though. The host has shot himself through his earlobe, his wife is missing and the cook and servant are conspicuously absent. As each couple arrives, the cover up of the shooting gets progressively more difficult to sustain. The story confounds in its growing absurdity. Oh, the scandal of it all! Doors slam and rumors abound as the couples get more and more tangled in their web of deceit. We will audition for the roles of the four couples (ages 40-50), and a policeman and policewoman (ages 30-50). “Rumors” will be performed at the Gorton Theatre (home of Gloucester Stage Co.) on March 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 and April 1.
CAT’s past productions include, “The Weir,” “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,” “Beyond Therapy,” and “Sylvia.” For further information please join the Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative on the web at http://www.CATcollaborative.org, on Facebook (you need not be Facebook member to access our page), email us at CATcollab@gmail.com or call 978.325.3153. Be a part of community theatre at its very best. We encourage you to audition for a role or to become a CAT Collaborative member working in a variety of non-acting positions.

PHOTO Credit: Lee Nadel.
Caption: (left to right) High society, high crime, high comedy, gunshots, a dinner party, no cook, no host, you are cordially invited to AUDITION! Behind the Scenes—(clockwise from left) CAT Collaborative’s Heidi Redston-Rideout (costumes), Lauren Suchecki (actor), Pat Maloney-Brown (director “Rumors”), Mary Lou Nye (publicity), Pia Nadel (sets), Pauline Miceli (director “Sylvia”), and Joey Arsenault (actor/social media) meet to kick-off the planning of Neil Simon’s rollicking farce, “Rumors.”