Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Through the American Council on Exercise we have pledged hours to help veterans and their families get fit.  Few words can accurately describe the sacrifices our service members and their families make every day. The stress of war and long periods of separation from family and friends tremendously impact their lives in ways most of us cannot comprehend. We would like to give back to our nation’s men and women in uniform and their families by offering compimentary small group training or group fitness sessions

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Specialized sessions for breast cancer survivors

Carol Figurido from Transform Fitness is offering specialty training for breast cancer survivors. If you have had: a breast biopsy, lymph node biopsy or removal, – breast conservation surgery (lumpectomy), mastectomy or breast reconstruction then this class is for you. Any of these procedures can affect how you well you can move your shoulder and arm, take a deep breath, or do daily activities, like dressing, bathing, and combing your hair.. You may find a decrease in muscle and an increase in fat mass, premature osteoporosis and muscle imbalances.

• Exercise plays a pivotal role in physical and emotional recovery for breast cancer survivors. At Transform Fitness, we would like to help you implement a suitable exercise program by:
• Increasing range of motion and strength in the affected chest, arm, and back;
• Increasing lean body mass through strength training;
• Increasing endurance through a guided program of cardiovascular exercise;
• Preventing lymph edema or frozen shoulder;
• Decreasing stress and promoting wellness through education on stress management techniques.

Carol knows firsthand about the benefits of exercise for breast cancer survivors. In 1998, just as she was beginning her career in fitness, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. That diagnosis, surgery, and subsequent recovery inspired her to pursue her dream as a fitness coach both through personal training and teaching group fitness classes. During this time, she realized the importance of living a balanced life, both physically and mentally. Carol is ACE certified Group Fitness since 2000, FRAPersonal Trainer, Stott Mat Pilates, Indoor Cycling, Reebock, Coreboard, PACE Arthritis Instructor, BodyPump, BodyVive, and Pilates Coach certified

National Multiple Sclerosis Foundation

Jean and Carol have been trained by the MS Society to work with individuals living with this illness.  Exercise is a key component of your overall healthcare strategy, but that doesn’t mean you need to be a super athlete to enjoy the benefits. Studies show that moderate aerobic exercise improves cardiac health, stamina, and mood, and helps manage symptoms like fatigue, weakness, and bladder and bowel difficulties. Stretching exercises—whether done on your own or with a helper—can relieve stiffness and improve your flexibility and mobility. Learn more about good ways to get yourself moving—and have fun while you’re doing it

Just a note to let you and all of Gloucester know that the Gloucester High School Docksiders will be performing for their 3rd year at the Topsfield Fair on October 9th at 6:30 on the Trianon Stage (near the front gate.) We are pleased to be asked once again to entertain the crowds.

Lauralee Taylor

President Docksider Parent Boosters

Dear Joey and Good Morning Gloucester!

I wanted to ask if you can get this out on your blog for the local Merchants in The Gloucester/Cape Ann Area.

Http://VisitCapeAnn.net has made all its Full Page listings for Local Merchants FREE!!! (Same as for Bands and Community Events!) Go check out other sites of the same genre, they are getting upwards of $300 – $500 USD per listing, per year!

The only requirement is that the Merchants or Events are truly located within Cape Ann. You must also be patient as we do approve all of the placements to keep spam out of our website.

Why are we making it Free? It’s Simple, We want to fill our site with all the Merchants & Local Events in Cape Ann for Next Spring’s upcoming tourist season. Our Operating revenue comes from Featured Ad Space, so the costs are already taken care of, and I want to make this a great resource site for those looking to visit Cape Ann.

These Listing Pages have everything a Merchant could ask for, like Google maps to your business, All the attributes for people to contact you, as well as the ability to link your business Facebook, Your Website, and Twitter. You can even have a video posted on there (We must do that on back end, just need video’s address like in You tube or other comparable online video service). You have the ability to post “Specials” and change them whenever you want! There are also Viral Marketing tools so visitors can “Like” you Page as well. Each Page Listing have a great Search Engine Optimization with Google (Means they rank well and are highly place for your keywords!).

You have FULL Control of your listings. Once you have created your site Profile then add your listing(s), You have the ability to change it, add to it, and more for the full subscription time.
Local Exposure. Local Google Searches for Cape Ann are over 40,000 a month! (and I think Good Morning Gloucester is most of them..lol.) And that isn’t counting the global searches!

All Listings also get posted virally throughout Facebook and Twitter Automatically on our Accounts there as well for even more visibility.

Check out our Video here on how it looks:

If you would like to see a category that isn’t listed, feel free to contact webmaster@VisitCapeAnn.net to ask to add one.

Thanks!, Dan Driscoll

We wanted to let the Gloucester community know that the little curio shop, Jemil Beauchamp, in Lanesville is adjusting our hours for the autumn and winter. Instead of being open 6 days a week, we’ll only be open four, BUT, we’re going to open late!

Our new hours are:

Thursday: 10 am to 8 pm

Friday & Saturday: 10 am to 9 pm

Sunday: 12 pm to 6 pm

Closed Monday through Wednesday.

We hope that this enlivens the Lanesville evenings and allows our customers more convenient shopping hours, especially as we approach the holiday season! Thanks to everyone who has supported and patronized the store so far!

Kurt and Jen

Latitude 43 would like to thank our vendors and supporters for their help, donations and participation in making our Celebrate Gloucester 2 outdoor theater café for Newell Stadium a huge success.

For the generous donation of his lot for our expansive café, Vito Giacalone and the Giacalone brothers at Fisherman’s Wharf.  For orchestrating setup and heavy lifting, Danny Normand. For lighting and electrical, Roy Spittle Electrical. For the entertainment, the hype, the screen, and the idea itself, Joey Ciaramitaro.  For all around construction and setup wizardry, Ed Collard.

For seamstress services on the projection screen and warming up the crowd with delicious  hot chocolate, Sister Felicia.  For putting in a very tough day of hauling tables after a late football game on the line, Michael Falzarano. For lending us tables, Cape Ann Farmer’s Market. For donating additional tables and chairs, Taylor Hedges at Event for Rent.  For food and beverage donations, our vendors Ryan and Wood, Merrimack Valley Distributing, Intershell, Halibut Jack, Kinnealy, Sysco, Sid Wainer, Arrow, MS Walker, United, Horizon and  Shaheen. For providing posters to illustrate stadium plan, Dan King. For their help, through their offices, in making the permitting process a “breeze”, the Gloucester Licensing Board and Rosalie Nicastro at the Board of Health. 

For the last minute poster hanging and promotions, Rob Parsons, June Steele and David Amero.  For media coverage and a serious call to action with the inclusion of the Gridiron Greats awards ceremony to fill the café with GHS football stars and their families, Matt Burke and the Gloucester Daily Times. And for coming out on a cold night to watch a great show for a good cause, the people of Gloucester.

The warmth and commitment expressed by the generous outpouring of help and support made it an event worth repeating.  We are very grateful to work in such an amazing community.

To say that Donna has earned her stripes here at GMG would be an understatement.  She is our girl on the street.  Everyone on our team has different talents.

What I consider Donnas big time strength is her love of people and being involved hands on at local events.  This love often finds her smack dab in the middle of the action and more times than possibly anyone else this year she has brought us the photos live from breaking events.

I can’t stress how critical this is for us.  We pride ourselves on bringing you Gloucester events first and best.  We certainly have very talented photographers which serves big time importance to the blog as well but it’s nice to have both timeliness and quality!

If someone takes photographs at a sporting event and it takes them two weeks to edit them because they don’t want to release anything until they are 100% technically correct and edited we may as well forget about it as it’s old news.

Please welcome good egg Donna Ardizzoni, OUR GIRL ON THE STREET TO THE OFFICIAL GMG STAFF!

Donna just yesterday was authorized with posting privileges after sending in photos to me for a couple years!