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Get your hands dirty with Backyard Growers!

We need your muscle power! 💪
Backyard Growers’ 10th growing season is off to a great start – in spite of the weather! For our BUILD Day 2019, we’re making a final push to build new garden beds for families and seniors around Cape Ann so that they can enjoy their own fresh veggies this summer and into the fall. But we can’t do it without you! WE NEED YOUR HELP to build these garden beds.
Interested in joining the party? Meet us at Backyard Growers HQ (271 Main Street) in downtown Gloucester at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 11, ready to get your hands dirty, make a difference, and have an awesome time! Rumor has it it’s going to be SUNNY🌞, too!
Where: Backyard Growers HQ, 271 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
When: Saturday, May 11, 9 am – 1 pm
Maritime Gloucester Spring Lecture Series concludes this Thursday 5/9/19 at 7pm

Evelyn Ansel closes the series with “From 1 to 18,006: highlights from the Haffenreffer-Herreshoff digitization project at the MIT Museum”
About this Event
The Spring Lecture Series presents “Leading Ladies: Defining the Discussion of Maritime Science and History”. This series will tell stories of exploration, science, research, historical preservation, adventure and the working waterfront from the perspective of the women who engage and lead in these issues every day.
Over the past two and a half years, the collections team at the MIT Museum has been working to digitally capture the entirety of the Haffenreffer-Herreshoff collection. The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff holdings consist of some 17,000 artifacts from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, formerly of Bristol, RI. These original plans, drawings, notebooks and correspondence date from the 1870s through the 1940s and represent the full breadth of HMCo.’s output during its years of operation. The digitization project developed in concert with the exhibit Lighter…
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See you at the Gloucester Dog Park this coming Saturday morning!
Muladhara – Restorative Yoga + Energy Work
Saturday, May 11th, 6:30-8:00pm

Join instructors and reiki masters Hilary Richard and Gurdeep Bhogal for an evening of restorative yoga and energy work. We will focus on the root chakra (Muladhara), that is associated with feelings of being grounded, security, support and identity. You will be put into nervous-system relaxing restorative poses while crystal healing and reiki is used to bring out past and present junk that prevents us from feeling our feet on the ground. We will begin with a mudra and mantra to get the intention in motion. Enjoy an R&R retreat to heal deeply into the roots of yourself. This is the first of a series of workshops.
Craig is on “Food Queen”
YMCA Backshore 5k on May 16th
Backshore 5k on May 16th at 6:00pm. I have attached a flyer for the race and linked in our websites information regarding the race. This year our community race series races will support different causes serving our community. The Backshore 5k race proceeds will go to support camp scholarships for local children to attend summer camp. In addition to the camp scholarships we are offering a $5 discount to all middle and high school students that register for this race.
MAC FITNESS GLOUCESTER MONDAY MAY SPECIAL!
ARE YOU A MEMBER AT MAC FITNESS GLOUCESTER?
IF SO, BRING A FRIEND FOR FREE EVERY MONDAY DURING THE MONTH OF MAY! DEFINITELY A GREAT MOTIVATION BOOSTER RIGHT BEFORE SUMMER!

Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Contractors Division Event
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Contractors Division Planning Board is holding an event that is geared towards anyone who owns a business/operated vehicles over 10,000 lbs. The chamber also has a facebook event page for it.. link below.
Jazz Night this Thursday: Gorell-Landoni Duo at Feather & Wedge
Stop in at Feather & Wedge this Thursday to hear some fantastic jazz from the Gorell-Landoni Duo. With Zach Gorrell on piano and Dave Landoni on bass, this accomplished jazz duo performs selections from the Great American Songbook as well as arrangements of pop, R&B, and original compositions.
Reservations highly suggested! 978.999.5917

Feather & Wedge, 5 Main Street, Rockport , MA 01966 https://featherandwedge.com
ROTARY’S HIGHEST AWARD TO THORPE, WILLIAMSON
The Gloucester Rotary Club has named Patrick Thorpe and Danny Williamson as Paul Harris Fellows, the prestigious award named after the Chicago lawyer who founded the Rotary movement in 1905. Thorpe was selected by a club committee of previous recipients of the award, while Williamson was chosen by members of the Interact Club, the very active group of Gloucester High School junior Rotarians. Thorpe and Williamson will be honored at a special dinner on Thursday, May 23, at Cruiseport Gloucester, located at 6 Rowe Square in downtown Gloucester. The social hour will begin at 5:30pm, followed by dinner at 6:30pm.
Patrick Thorpe joined BankGloucester in 1999 and was named President a year later. He is an active member of the community, serving on the boards of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, the Cape Ann YMCA, the First R Foundation, and as a board member and past president of the…
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Join the League of Women Voters at their annual meeting — all are welcome!
Author Laura Harrington will speak on her dynamic musical comedy of politics, power and persuasion, “The Perfect 36” about the struggle to persuade 36 states to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. She is the author of two novels, Alice Bliss and A Catalog of Birds.
Breakfast will be provided, by the League of Women Voters of Cape Ann.
There will be a very brief business meeting before the talk.
Saturday, May 11, 2019 – 9:00 a.m.
Scout Hall, 47 Mount Pleasant Street, Rockport, MA

Celebrating Nurse’s Week and 19 Years in Business
Nurses – Be Sure to Love and Take Care of Your SELF This Nurse’s Week!
Case Managers, Nurses, Nursing Students, CNA’s – For life-work balance and avoiding burnout, the most important lessons I learned have been to make time for vacations and learnself-care tools for daily relaxation and stress management. Self-hypnosis, meditation, mindfulness, reiki, tai-chi, and yoga are all helpful modalities that can be learned and practiced on your own or in a group.
Monthly Community Reiki Shares/Clinics and First Degree Reiki Training (CEU’s for Nurses, Case Managers and Social Workers) – Helpful ways to take care of yourself! When you take care of yourself first, you have more to offer to those you love.
Loving Others Begins With Loving Yourself. Self-Love Begins with Self-Care.
Our Annual ‘Gratitude Coupon.’ SAVE $19.00 on any Gift Certificate or Private Session of Reiki, Hypnosis or Reiki Training. Good Through End of 2019. (One Coupon Per…
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Do you suffer from Offer Fatigue?
Google Offer Fatigue and I bet it doesn’t come up. The reason is, it’s a new term and I have recently adopted it. I cannot take credit for it’s origin. I think it was a real estate agent that said it to me a few years ago. You still don’t hear much of the term Offer Fatigue, but let me tell you, it’s real. And I want to help people overcome it.
So, what is Offer Fatigue and what are the symptoms you ask? Well it’s submitting one offer after another on a house or condo, only to have them all rejected. This occurs over weeks, months and even years. It comes with low-ball offers, over-list offers, closing cost credits and offers to the seller they can live in their home for months for free as they look for a house. Finally, it comes with the prognosis that no offer…
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Gloucester Grow Fest – June 9!

The Gloucester Grow Fest is a fun, inclusive, FREE community event hosted by Backyard Growers at Burnham’s Field in downtown Gloucester. Join us for hands-on, family-friendly activities to raise awareness about healthy eating, green living, and personal wellness, while celebrating the arrival of warm weather and the beginning of the growing season on Cape Ann!
Where: Burnham’s Field, 75 Pleasant Street, Gloucester
When: June 9, 12 pm – 3 pm
Activities and treats for the whole family include live music, yummy food, community yoga, art projects, games, GOATS!, gardening how-to’s, dancing, sunshine and good vibes! Click here for more information.
YOUTH FOOTBALL OPPORTUNITY
Boys and Girls Grades 1-8- non contact clinic
Join Superbowl MVP Julian Edelman for a day long experience this summer. Sign up and use promo code “coachoconnor” to receive 10% off
Sawyer Free Library Events 5/13-5/18
Boston sports teams since October in playoffs. Graphic from @bostonsportsinf
Stu Lehr is the Massachusetts Tennis Pro Of The Year
Our friend East Gloucester great guy Stu Lehr received the USPTA (United States Professional Tennis Association) Massachusetts Tennis Pro of the Year award at the USPTA New England Conference in Portland, ME.

Way to go Stu!





