Author: Donna Ardizzoni

Ardizzoni Photography, Business Manager, Grandmother, love living in Gloucester, love to swim, kayak, walk and of course take pictures. Our company does computer networking, Office Management, Medical Billing, transcription, networking software updates and virus protection

Sunday’s Spring Market at the Magnolia Library

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Here is a list of participating vendors at this fun event. Hope to see you all there. Thank you.

Sara McDermott Sunniest Side Up- Note Cards
Sharon Lowe Photography
Carolyn Gurrisi- Paparazzi Accessories
Lauren Negron Cape Ann Olive Oil
Jillian Shamberger JBombs Bath Luxuries
John Theo Author
Emma Sanders Hand painted Notecards
Sara Adams Memory Quilts
Amy Plummer Watercolor cards and gifts
Wendy Antrim Trendy Wendy’s Fashions
Haley Allison Bare Cheek Beauty
Donna Ardizzoni Photography
Diana Whitten/
Karen Pischke Gloucester Tease
Dreamtime Wellness
Top Dog Nutrition
Melissa Cox Hand Crafted Soaps
Jessica Biker Knitting and hand made bags
Diane B Saunders Lularoe Rep
Heather O DiFonzo Wine Tasting
Judy Gillis and Betty Cannon Magnolia Historical Society
Susan O’Leary SassyEcoBags
Julie Geary Classic Cooks
Rosandra Olivio PUREhaven
Bob Marshall Marshalls Farmstand
Erin Pequeno Stone Design and Face painting
Lindsay Marshall Angies Alpacas
Lara Jardullo Visual Interest headbands and fascinators
Jen Holmgren City Council Candidate

One Hour at a Time Gang Saturday Clean Up

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Morning all:
In honor of the beautiful Tulip Festival on the Boulevard this Saturday’s cleanup will be will be there.

Time: 8:00 – 9:00
Where: Boulevard
When: Saturday, May 6, 2017

We can meet at Stage Fort Park Parking lot and walk down.

Hope to see you all there.

Thanks kids

True signs of Spring

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Even though the weather is still chilly and overcast you can see the signs of Spring.

Egrets on Kettle Island

Parents and their Goslings

Gloucester Wind Turbine Tour and Electric Vehicle Showcase 2017

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Description

Saturday, May 13 2017 – Wind turbine tour.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, but please RSVP!

Join us for pizza and a tour of the Gloucester wind turbines! Hear their stories and go inside the towers.

We’ll also have an electric vehicle showcase before each tour!

Due to popularity of this free event, we’re planning to offer two tours—one starting at 10:30am (EV showcase & food–then the actual tour will start by 10:50), the next at 11:30am (EV showcase–actual tour will begin at noon). Please indicate your preference when you RSVP.

Contact anna@massenergy.org or 800-287-3950 x5 with questions.

 

Gloucester Wind Turbine Tour & Electric Vehicle Showcase 2017

 

Blackburn Industrial Park

(Gloucester Engineering parking lot)

Gloucester, MA

Another great Gloucester Pride Stride Event

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Fun time at Stage Fort Park on Sunday, April 30, 2017.

The volunteers on this committee are terrific.

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Cape Ann Sustainability Fair

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On Saturday, April 29, 2017, Cape Ann Sustainability Fair was held at The O’Maley Innovation Middle School, Gloucester, MA.   Lots of interesting ideas and having the Cape Ann Farmers’ Market there made for a great day.

 

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Thank you Generous Gardeners Volunteers

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The tulips, grass, flowers and the boulevard looks amazing and looking forward to The Tulip Festival on May 6, 2017.

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TULIP FESTIVAL May 6th

Gloucester Tulip Festival, Saturday May 6, 2017

May 6th is the Ribbon Cutting Celebration for the new Stacy Boulevard gardens and the completion of the seawall reconstruction project.

The festivities will begin at 10:00 AM with an old-fashioned promenade from the Stage Fort Park Visitors Center to the Fishermen’s Wives Memorial. Participants are encouraged to dress in their best and stroll with neighbors and friends. Free and open to all. Prizes awarded based on elegance, creativity and floral inspiration. Prizes are baskets of tulips with gift certificates.

1. Best Bonnet (female)
2. Best Chapeau (male)
3. Best Pram
4. Best Walking Stick
5. Best Children’s Outfit
6. Best Headdress
7. Best Overall (male)
8 Best Overall (female)
9. Best Couple
10. Best Family

Following the promenade, Gloucester’s mayor will officially open the Boulevard with a ribbon cutting. The Promenade’s Grand Marshall, William Taylor will then announce the winners. Generous Gardeners volunteers will be available all afternoon to answer questions and provide interesting tulip trivia.

Generous Gardeners planted over 22,000 tulips for a spectacular show of color and form in shades of pink, purple, yellow, orange and red. Generous Gardeners is a volunteer group of local gardeners who care for over 22 public spaces in Gloucester. There are two tulip festival fundraising events planned. The movie Tulip Mania will be shown April 29th at the Cape Ann Cinema and Stage on Main Street. Doors open at 7:00 to mix and mingle. The film starts at 7:45 about the spectacular tulip speculation in 1637 Holland. $15/per person. The second event is a fundraiser party on May 6th at the Mile Marker starting at 6 PM and featuring the Honky Tonk Women’s Band. $20/per person. These events benefit Generous Gardeners and the Stacy Boulevard Gardens.

Free Parking at Stage Fort Park. Handicap/senior parking at Kent Circle. Promenade contestants must register at 10:00 AM at Stage Fort Park Visitors Center, but all are welcome to participate.

Please note our fabulous fundraiser trip to Amsterdam below. If you would like a ticket supplies are limited, email susan@generousgardeners.org and she will reserve one for you. Call 781-346-1363 with questions.

May 6 Generous Gardener Tulip Festival Poster

Raffle for All Inclusive plus Airfare for 9 day Amsterdam Tulip River Cruise

Gloucester Pride Stride Sunday

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GLOUCESTER
PRIDE  STRIDE​

​Annual Fundraising Walk to Benefit Cape Ann Non-Profits and Community Groups

30th Anniversary
Gloucester Pride Stride
Sunday, April 30, 2017, 12pm
3-Mile Walk Begins and Ends at Stage Fort Park

10am: Registration | 12pm: Walk Begins
Join us for a celebration cookout* after the walk featuring DJ music, inflatable playground, games and fun for the whole family!
*$5/person for those not participating in the walk
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Breaking News Waterfront building collapse

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Please click link below from the Gloucester Daily Times

North Atlantic Fish storage building collapses, damages FBI Wharf

http://bit.ly/2qooG6R

The Annisquam Exchange opening soon

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Another sign of summer The Annisquam Exchange is opening soon.

The Annisquam Exchange
32 Leonard Street
Annisquam, MA 01930
Tele: 978- 281- 0358
info.annisquamexchange@gmail.com

The Annisquam Exchange offers Consignors 70% of sale amount. The Exchange donates 30% of sales to local organizations and charities. Consignment is open to everyone. Items must be clean and ready for the showroom floor with completed paperwork. A $10.00 administration fee is due with completed contract and consignment listings.

We have been very successful in the sale of jewelry, both costume and designer; antiques and collectibles; estate pieces; small furniture; lamps; linens; china; clocks; prints and paintings are welcomed, subject to available space.

Larger pieces of furniture are welcomed at our one-day Fall Furniture Sale on Saturday, September 16, 2017, from 9 am to 12 pm.

2017 Dates & Information
May 3-4, (W, Th) 10-2 Pre-Opening Consignments Accepted
May 9-11 (T, W, Th) 10-2 Pre-Opening Consignments Accepted
May 19 (F) 10-4 Opening Day

May 19-June 3 10-4 Fridays and Saturdays ONLY
May 25 (Th) 10-2 Consignments Accepted
June 5-September 9 Mondays-Fridays 10-4 / Saturdays 10-1
September 15-October 7 10-4 Fridays & Saturdays
September 16 (Sa) 9-12 ONE DAY FURNITURE SALE
October 6-8 (FF, Sa, Su) 10-4 Final Weekend

BEGINNING JUNE 5; CONSIGNMENTS ACCEPTED MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
CALL TO SCHEDULE DURING BUSINESS HOURS.

Green Gloucester at City Hall

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The Cape Ann Sustainability Fair will be held on Saturday, April 29, 2017. To kick off the fair, on Thursday at City Hall there were members of the Cape Ann Sustainability Fair greeted by our Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken. Look forward to the fair on Saturday. Please follow the link below for more information.

Thank you. Hope to see all there.

http://towngreen2025.org/sustainability-fair/

Egrets and Ibis at Clark Pond

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Early on Tuesday morning drove by Clark Pond and there were quite a few Egrets and Ibis having some good eats. Another sign of summer. YEAH..

A Mother’s Day Concert at The Gloucester Meetinghouse

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Gloucester Mother’s Day Concert to Feature Ipswich Orchestra in Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”

The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation is pleased to announce that the Ipswich-based community orchestra, ‘The Orchestra on the Hill,’ will perform renowned composer Aaron Copland’s prizewinning “Appalachian Spring” on Sunday, May 14, in the historic Gloucester Universalist Meetinghouse.
This Mother’s Day concert begins at 3:30 p.m., led by conductor and orchestra founder Tom Palance, a member of the music faculty at Salem State University and at the Boston Conservatory of Music. This will be the 20-member orchestra’s first concert appearance in Gloucester.
Along with the orchestral suite “Appalachian Spring” the program will present Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Suite for Viola and Orchestra,” and a new work by Ipswich musician and composer Chris Florio, “The Banquet.” Copland’s scoring of familiar melodies in “Appalachian Spring” won him the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1944.
This is the finale in GMF’s fall-winter 2016-17 concert series. The Meetinghouse, an icon on Gloucester’s skyline, is located at the corner of Church and Middle Street in downtown Gloucester. Parking is available on the green. Accessible side entrance with a lift at 10 Church Street.
A summer series of free Friday evening, outdoor concerts on the Meetinghouse lawn starts on July 7th. ‘Music on Meetinghouse Green’ features a different musical ensemble each week with a partner North Shore non-profit as the beneficiary via free-will offerings from the audience.
Tickets to the May 14 concert are $45 for preferred seating, $30 for general seating, and $25 for students and seniors. Admission is free to persons age 17 and under. Tickets are available at the door or may be purchased in advance at http://www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org

The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation’s mission is to preserve Gloucester’s last-surviving historic Meetinghouse, as a civic hub, entertainment venue and community center. The landmark 1806 Meetinghouse is home to the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, whose founders led the way in Massachusetts for legal separation of church and state as now enshrined in the First Amendment.
The Orchestra on the Hill is a community organization formed in support of professional music performances and performers on the North Shore. Its mission is to enrich Ipswich and surrounding communities through exceptional concerts of orchestral music, and provide opportunities for non-professional adult musicians to rehearse together coached by professional conductors and players.

Contact Information:
For the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation:
Charles Nazarian president, 978-821-5291 & chasnaz@gmail.com
http://www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org

For the Orchestra on the Hill:
Tom Palance, tompalance@yahoo.com
http://www.orchestraonthehill.com