My View of Life on the Dock
Since the weather is starting to get cold and nasty the One Hour at a Time Gang will be taking a break for the winter. This does not mean we will not be picking up. We always carry a yellow bag to try and keep our city clean. Also the city has passed a motion on litter. Please read below the information on this motion. The motion states that cigarette butts are litter. Please remember to dispose your smoking materials properly and not on the streets, rivers or oceans.
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Saturday Clean up
Time: 8:00 – 9:00
Where: Horton Street we can park at Ocean Alliance
When: Saturday, December 19, 2015
See you all there Thank you
Photo by: Mary Barker
Our FOB and Ward 2 Councilwoman, Melissa Cox, has informed us of the passing of Peter Albert Todd. Earlier today Peter lost his very long battle with cancer. Peter Albert Todd was named Poet Laureate of the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts, in August, 2014.
Often referred to as the City Poet Laureate of Gloucester, Peter had been a life-long resident of the city that he loved. He celebrated his love of everything Gloucester in his deeply personal and moving poems. His poems centered around such diverse topics as the Gloucester City Council, the city’s rich history, the fishing boats and working waterfront, Gloucester landmarks, individuals who have made Gloucester great, his adored family, and his deep personal Christian faith.
He was active in the Masonic Order for most of his life, Peter is twice Past Master of Tyrian Lodge, twice Past Master of Acacia Lodge, Past Master of Ashler Lodge, Past Master of Charles C. Dame Lodge, Past Worthy Patron of Martha Washington Chapter #21, OES, and was a faithful and loving Rainbow Dad for many years. In 2004 Pete was honored with the Joseph Warren Medal for long and faithful service by order of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. He celebrates his love of the Order in many of his poems.
Peter lived with the angel of his soul and the love of his life, his wife of over thirty years, Barbara. He has one daughter, Jenice; a granddaughter, Ashley; and two great-grandsons, Nathaniel and Daniel.
Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken will lower the flag in front of City Hall on behalf of Peter.
Peter and his wife Barbara would visit us daily at Mamie’s Kitchen and when Peter was not sipping his hot chocolate with us he headed over to see his long time friend, Dean Salah of Georges Coffee Shop. We often heard the untold stories of Gloucester’s past and he brought copies of his poems to coffee shop to share with everyone. Peter had the most positive attitude towards life and the picture below says it all.
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by Peter Albert Todd
So many thanks to the super helpful and wonderfully welcoming Fran Mondello for the gift shop grand tour. Maritime Gloucester’s shop is simply bursting with terrific and interesting gifts for your seafarer, budding young marine-biologist-oceanography, and just about anyone who loves anything and everything about the sea!
Schooner Ardelle gift passes start at the unbelievably low price of $24.00 and would be an incredibly fun gift. Book a chartered sail aboard the Ardelle by January 1st and receive up to 200.00 off. For more information about Schooner Ardelle trummel tickets and charters visit info@schoonerardelle.com or call 978-290-7168.
Don’t you want this Lighthouse Bingo? What a fantastic way to learn about lighthouses!!
The gift shop is open Monday through Friday from 10:00am to 5:00pm. Maritime Gloucester is located at 23 Harbor Loop. Besides shopping locally at the heritage center, giving the gift of membership to Maritime Gloucester is another tremendous way to support this gem of a resource for our community. For more information about member benefits and the modest cost of membership visit here.
While visiting the gift shop, check out the Harbor dredging from the great vantage point of Gloucester Maritime’s pier.
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Dave Moore sent this to me the other day. He is such a nice person and loves to share his memories of Gloucester.
How is this for Holiday kindness! JM Walsh Oil Company is helping to make the winter more bearable and easier for 5 struggling families. Such a great act of generosity.
We are giving away 100 gallons of heating oil to 6 struggling families this winter. Nominate a family in writing by December 31st!
Please include your name and phone number. Serving families in Gloucester, Rockport, Mancester, and Essex. Selected families will be kept confidential and will be notified in writing with a letter and gift certificate after January 4, 2016.
Send nominations to 6 Cleveland Place, Gloucester or email to jmwalshoil@msn.com
If this act inspires you….and you are fortunate enough to be able to do so…feel free to donate funds to help sponsor even more families!
Great job, JM Walsh Oil! Please check out their website below
Our idea is to establish a composting system in the cafeteria at O’Maley in partnership with Black Earth Haulers. Trash removal at O’Maley has gotten very expensive. In addition, many students are uninterested in eating school lunch and are just throwing it out. Our plan will reduce trash costs and provide costly compost for free as well as establishing a sustainable garden at O’Maley that will educate and feed the school, students and staff alike. The system will be one bin for each grade’s lunch with a small bucket in the kitchen for cooking scraps. Black Earth will take away our bins weekly and in return bring us compost which will benefit the school’s gardens and get everyone at the school more involved. We will be educating everyone on what is and isn’t compostable at school wide assemblies and short videos to view in homeroom (Black Earth’s bin’s also have helpful signs that inform students about what can be composted). Amazingly, many students at O’Maley didn’t even know we had a school garden. With the help of Backyard Growers, we hope to create more planting and harvestings days schoolwide providing fresh produce for everyone to enjoy. Along with Black Earth Haulers and Backyard Growers, our school chefs and faculty member Caitlin Sumner (8th grade science teacher) are on board. With the support of many, a well devised plan, and $1000 we can make this idea into a reality.
Good Morning all:
Hope everyone is well. Since it is the Middle Street Walk and lighting of the Lobster Trap Tree we will be cleaning Middle Street.
When: Saturday, December 12, 2015
Where: Middle Street… near city hall parking lot
Time: 8:00 – 9:00
Please bring gloves
Dear Joey,
Awesome Gloucester held its Pitch Night at the O’Maley School Library Monday night. This month we took proposals for “making Gloucester more awesome” only from students there and received eleven. Our twenty trustees, who each chip in $50, voted to choose the top four ideas, and heard them pitched at the event. Even better, the Gloucester Education Foundation generously doubled our usual kitty, so when we voted again after hearing the presentations, the top two ideas were each funded with $1000, free and clear. The top vote getters were student initiatives to establish composting of food waste at the school, and another to support activities for kids with IEP’s during movement breaks.
This was one of those fun, exciting events that gave everyone who attended hope for the future. These kids and their ideas were extremely impressive and their presentations were articulate and well thought through.
Next month we’ll be back to taking proposals from all comers at awesomegloucester.org.
Thanks,
Greg
Honestly how can I be more thankful to have James and Anna Eves in my life? These MFers right here just always step up when it comes time to have fun. Thank you guys for hosting this year’s GMG Holiday Party and thanks for being such great friends. We’re so blessed to have you in our lives.
PS: When searching for a photos of James and Anna together I came across this photo that Alicia Pensarosa took and couldn’t help but wonder what the whole thing about Anna not wearing shoes is. Totally intrigued. Just rolling around the shop barefoot. Such a power move, there was no way I wasn’t going to use this picture.
Vickie and I applaud everyone who promotes shopping locally and truly appreciate people who buy tickets to local concerts as gifts for Christmas, Hanukkah, etc. This Saturday at 7pm we present our third New Orleans Christmas concert at Beverly’s fully-restored, acoustically stellar Larcom Theatre starring Gloucester’s Henri Smith and featuring renowned trumpeter Stanton Davis (who performed with Henri at Celebrate Gloucester 2010) and Grammy-winner Amadee Castenell on Sax & Flute. This year, Henri’s full brass band (complete with Tuba) will perform a special tribute to one of Henri’s mentors, Allen Toussaint, who died last month while on tour in Madrid. Tickets are available here.
Check out this video of Henri with Allen Toussaint that I shot last year in Allen’s dressing room at Berklee Performance Center. Allen explains how Henri serves as a New Orleans ambassador — and also has very kind words for Amadee, saying “When Amadee was in New Orleans we didn’t leave home without him. He’s our favorite saxophonist!” Then he reveals why Amadee no longer lives in New Orleans.
This will be an emotional show for Vickie and me. We hope you’ll join us in a Christmas Second Line Parade through the aisles of Beverly’s Larcom Theatre.
Laura Lepionka writes,
Hello Folks,
She simply didn’t believe me. There was no way that there could be carrots growing in her school garden because all she could see was a bunch of green leaves. But this little kindergartener from Veterans School had the surprise of her life when she reached down, scraped at the soil surface and found some orange! In the next moment she was yanking a carrot out of the ground along with her classmates and holding it up in the air with the biggest smile.
Please join us this year by donating to our end-of-year campaign in conjunction with Giving Tuesday, which is TODAY!
Why Backyard Growers this season? School, community, and backyard gardens yield delicious veggies, increase access to nature, provide learning opportunities, and improve children’s health — But more than that, gardens grow community and a powerful source of self-reliance.
This Giving Tuesday, help Backyard Growers strengthen our work serving Gloucester’s families and children. When you give today the first $2,250 we receive will be matched by three of our generous donors. This match represents a year’s worth of garden supplies for our district-wide Salad Days and Fall Harvest Days programs in Gloucester’s elementary schools. Double your impact and help us meet our match! Our partner, The Giving Common, will cover credit card fees so that 100% of your donation goes to Backyard Growers.
Please click the link to make your donation: https://www.givingcommon.org/profile/1141198/backyard-growers/
Thank you!
Lara
Lara Lepionka, Executive Director
Backyard Growers
269 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
978.317.8025
lara@backyardgrowers.org
www.backyardgrowers.org
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First Happy Thanksgiving..
Saturday Clean up
Where: Main Street
When: Saturday, November 28, 2015
Time: 8:00 – 9:00…
Please park at near City Hall since it is also Small Business Saturday and the building of the Lobster Trap Tree.
PLEASE RMEMBER TO SHOP LOCAL
LOBSTER TRAP TREE LIGHTING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12TH AT 4:30pm!
David Brooks adding the last few hand painted buoys
Mystery man pulls his piano, by bike, to the Bataclan and plays John Lennon’s Imagine.
Set electrician Alec Roy, from Watertown, reports from Russell Orchards (the current Katie Fforde base camp) that filming will continue on the Northshore at least through Thanksgiving. We talked a bit about the film tax credit and he made a point of thanking everyone who supported, and is continuing to support, the film tax credit. Sending a huge shout out to our Representative Ann Margaret Ferrante for all her tremendous work in preserving the credit and undoubtedly saving thousands of well paying jobs!!!
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Good Morning Gloucester 