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Things To Do- The Wish Ball March 12th

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Danvers, Mass. (February X, 2011) – Of the nearly 24 million Americans that have diabetes,  as many as 3 million Americans have type I diabetes, which usually strikes children and young adults. In fact, a staggering 40 children every day are diagnosed with the disease.  Wylinn’s Wish for a Cure is hoping to reduce these numbers by raising funds at the Wish Ball, an evening of dinner and dancing, to be held on Saturday, March 12, 2011 at the Danversport Yacht Club in Danvers, Massachusetts.
Wylinn’s Wish for a Cure was founded by Terry Palmisano of Gloucester as a way to help find a cure in honor of her granddaughter Wylinn who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2008, just before turning four years-old.  Palmisano, encouraged by her team’s fundraising success at a Walk to Cure Diabetes event in Boston, came up with the idea of selling special “Wylinn’s Wish for a Cure” grocery/tote bags at local stores, including Goodies Ice Cream in Danvers, owned by her son and daughter-in-law, Wylinn’s parents, John and Stefani Palmisano.  In addition to raising money, the bags also serve an educational purpose as tucked inside each one is a Type 1 Diabetes Symptoms Sheet.
Feeling that more was needed to raise awareness and fund the research needed to find a cure, Linda Flaherty of Danvers, a friend of Terry’s, decided they could do more.  “Everyone has been touched by diabetes and we really wanted to do something about it,” said Terry Palmisano.  Encouraged by the support of colleagues and friends, now known as the Friends of Wylinn’s Wish for a Cure, they decided that they could increase awareness, raise the most money, and brighten an otherwise dreary month by hosting a gala event.
The Wish Ball, an elegant, “Black Tie Optional” gala, sponsored by the Friends of Wylinn’s Wish for a Cure will be held at the Danversport Yacht Club on Saturday, March 12, 2011 from 6:00pm – midnight.  World class entertainment to be provided by the World Premier Band.  Tickets are $75 each.  Proceeds will support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the leader in diabetes research worldwide  and consistently ranked among the best-managed charitable organizations.
In addition to ticket sales, organizers are looking for sponsors for the event as well as donations of raffle items.  Ads are also available in the Wish Ball program book.  To purchase tickets or make a donation, please contact Linda Flaherty at (978) 808-5233 or wishballcomm@aol.com.

Open Door Empty Bowl Painting Tonight!

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Hi Joey,

The snowdrifts are piled high, but spring is on the way! The Open Door Empty Bowl Dinner is right around the corner, and we need help decorating bowls for our annual May event.

The Open Door is hosting a free bowl decorating evening with North Shore 104.9 on Tuesday, February 15, at 28 Emerson Avenue in Gloucester, from 6 to 8 p.m. for anyone interested in trying their hand at painting a bowl design. The event is fun and children are welcome, but we need to know how many are coming. Reservations can be made by calling 978-283-6776 ext. 205 or e-mailing us at info@foodpantry.org.

We think it would be wicked cool if GMG came to document the event, and maybe decorated a bowl. What do you think? Attached file has the important info. We would really appreciate it if you could let GMG readers know they can participate.

Julie LaFontaine ,Executive Director
The Open Door
www.foodpantry.org

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Debara Hafemann Represents!

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Hey Joey,
I hope this finds your family all well and staying warm!
I just returned from Chad, Central Africa where my husband Scott and I visited the
orphan village called Altonodji …….showing my pride 🙂
Debara Hafemann

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Gloucester Fire Ladder Truck Knocking Down Icicles On Gloucester’s Main Street Video

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Gloucester Fire and Police Keeping City Streets Safe For Residents

Gloucester Rotary: Polar Plunge to End Polio Now

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Julie LaFontaine Writes-

Hi Joey,

The Gloucester Rotary Club president, Josh Arnold, is just crazy enough to participate in a Polar Plunge to End Polio Now. The plunge is going down at Long Beach, Cape Ann Motor Inn, on Saturday, February 12, at 11:30 a.m. sharp! Josh will join 47 other club representatives from Rotary District 7930 to brave the frigid temperatures. Donations of any size to support End Polio Now and to support Josh’s lunacy would be greatly appreciated. Donations can be mailed to: Rotary Club of Gloucester Foundation, P.O. Box 1228, Gloucester, MA 01931. Please include GMG: End Polio Now in the memo line.

Contributions will help Rotary International raise $200 million to match $355 million in challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $555 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families. Together, we can make a difference.

We would really like to have people come out and show their support. Hot Chocolate and Chowder will be provided courtesy of the Rotary Club of Gloucester, MA. If you could help us get the word out, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Eastern Point PSA and Happenings From Dani Lubbers

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Hi Joey!

Keeping you updated with the happenings down at Eastern Point Lighthouse. With all of this ridiculous snow, we decided that we should do something constructive with it. So naturally we built this huge ass igloo. We aren’t skilled enough to put a roof on it, but we did our best. We’d like to invite you to an igloo party sometime….I’m sure this beast will be standing until June. -Dani Lubbers

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I’d like to give anyone and everyone a heads up about the parking lot at the end of Eastern Point. THERE IS SNOW – IT HAS NOT BEEN PLOWED – STOP THINKING YOUR FORD FOCUS HAS 4WD. Thanks. 🙂

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Igloo Party!!!!  I Want In!!!!!!

Johnny McElhenny and Andrea Holbrook Represent! At Cape Ann Brewing

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Johnny McElhenny also known as husband to ARIA (not her porn name) McElhenny and Andrea Holbrook- night editor at The Gloucester Daily Times enjoy some great conversation at the second Cape Ann media Meet-Up held at Cape Ann Brewing.

Capt. Doug Fifield Has Some nice Things To Say

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Good morning Joey,

I just wanted to say that your sight is wonderful and the way you update it
so often with so much good, entertaining and relevant information is truly
amazing.  I hope to sometime contribute, but for now I am just enjoying it
very much.

Best regards,
Capt. Doug Fifield

Talitha Displays Buoy She Created For The Art Haven Lobster Buoy Auction

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There are three different mermaid type goddesses surrounding the face of the buoy each one more beautiful than the next.

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Here is all you need to know about the Buoy Auction which will be this Friday night

Fr. Ronald J. Gariboldi to Celebrate Golden Jubilee

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Fr. Ronald J. Gariboldi to Celebrate Golden Jubilee

On Saturday February 5th Fr. Ronald J.  Gariboldi will be celebrating 50 years as an ordained priest begining with a Jubilee Mass to be celebrated at St. Ann Church, Holy Family Parish at 4:00 PM.  Following the Mass there will be a reception at 6:00 PM at the Gloucester House Restaurant.  All are welcome to attend the Mass, however there are a limited number of tickets for the reception. Tickets for the reception are available at Holy Family Parish Office on Pleasant St, or by calling 978.281.4820.

Photo:  Rev. Timothy Harrison, Rev. Ronald Gariboldi, His Eminence Sean Cardinal O’Malley

Hoping you can get this out in the next week or so.  Thanks!  Mary Howard

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Plum Cove Parent Teacher Co-op is getting ready to run an online auction fundraiser.

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Ann Andrews writes-

You are invited to participate in our 3rd-annual on-line auction to benefit the arts and education of our students at Plum Cove Elementary School. The success of our past auctions has allowed us to re-build our playground and make improvements to our library; including the purchase of books and the implementation of an electronic library cataloging system. Save the date to place your bids on great items! You can sign in and make donations effective immediately. Thanks for your support…

Click here for all the info

Bikini and Speedo Dodgeball At The Farm Bar and Grille Pics From Matt Miller

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Team “Five In The Pink”

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Over $500 was raised for Breast Cancer Research according To The Gloucester Times

Farm Bar and Grille Mascot

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Team Balls Models

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The Farm Team

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Team Randoms

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Noah Sporting A Little Chubby

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The Silver Bullet- Frankie

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Game Time!

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The End!

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Huge Thanks To Matt Miller For The Photos- Videos Coming Soon!

Bikini and Speedo Dodgeball- It’s On! This Saturday At The Farm Bar and Grille

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Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Last year over chicken wings at the Farm it hit me.  We had an opportunity to do something that’s never been done before and have an absolute blast doing it.  The Farm, if you haven’t already been there has a huge back yard just off it’s patio which is set up for volleyball in the summer.

All we need to do is register teams and it was a no-brainer great time.  So when Ryan Cox contacted me to ask me when we were going to get it done I looked at the forecast and it calls for 6 inches of fresh powder for Friday- the perfect set up for The First Annual Bikini and Speedo Dodgeball Tournament!

Now there is absolutely nothing better than when you can accomplish a win/win.  But when you can pull off the  win/win/win/win it’s the best of all worlds.

Think about this

  • We get to Raise Money To Save Boobs- Win
  • People get to witness the spectacle of a lifetime- Win
  • The Participating teams get their names mentioned with great publicity- Win
  • Everyone has a blast-Win

Now I’ve contacted several local restaurants and we have 3 local Gloucester teams Confirmed. The Farm is fielding two teams and there is already word that there may be two teams from Salem bars.

The response has been overwhelmingly positive in the very little time since pulling the trigger (last night at 5PM) with most of the local restaurants that I contacted telling me they would get a team together.   However I’m just going to put this out there that there was one local restaurant that I called and the woman I spoke with acted as if it was completely ridiculous and there was no way that she would play in a Bra and Panties Dodgeball tournament.

Now Really.  It’s not like we are asking men and women to wear G-Strings.  You can find Bra and Panties that cover up way more than you see every day of the summer at Good Harbor Beach.  Who the hell would want to patronize a bar whose owner is so uptight that they couldn’t grasp the fun of a Bra and Panties Dodgeball Tournament and on top of that, Who the hell would want to patronize a bar which didn’t support Breast Cancer Awareness?????

It’s going to be a whole lot of fun.

So who want’s in on the GMG team? Sharon? EJ? Meg Lee?Alicia? David Cox?  Thom Falzarano? Paulie Walnuts?  Sarah Kelley?  We need a team of five and at least 2 women.  Also it doesn’t only have to be contributors, we can have our regular commenters on the squad as well. I personally will sponsor the entry fee for our GMG Team out of the TShirt money fund.

If your business or group of friends would like to field a team contact Ryan Noah or Bradley at the Farm- farmbargrille@gmail.com

Huge thanks to the Boys at the Farm!

The event is now renamed Bikini and Speedo Dodgeball Tournament.

Community Garden Proposal At Burnham’s Field

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John McElhenny discusses community plots at Burnham’s Field in the heart of historic Gloucester MA

Paulie Walnuts’ Art Rocks Buoy To Be Auctioned Off For Art Haven

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Art Haven Director Dawn Gadow contacted Paulie about making one of his famous Art Rocks Buoys for the upcoming Buoy Auction and Art Show at Cruiseport.

So for all of you who have tried and failed to get yourself an Art Rock you can  bid for Paulie’s Art Rocks Buoy- (a one of a kind) at the Art Haven Buoy Auction.  I can attest to this being a super fun night. The Art Show itself is worth it, seeing all the talent that is coming up in this community is amazing.

Details From Art Haven–

Join us on Friday, January 28th from 6:00-9:00 for Art Haven’s biggest fundraiser of the year! See the beautiful artwork created by our students throughout 2010 and take home your favorite buoy from the 2010 lobster trap tree!

SAY THANKS TO OUR TROOPS! Write a Card – Draw a Picture

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Monday, January 17, 2011

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Danversport Yacht Club

Monday, January 17, 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday.  To honor Dr. King’s legacy, RSVP Volunteers of the North Shore invites residents of all ages to "Thank the Troops," a free community event of writing letters and drawing pictures to our overseas heroes in need of an outstretched hand and a warm smile.

From small children to distinguished seniors, the public is invited to drop in at Danversport Yacht Club in Danvers from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm to write a card, letter or draw a picture that will help lift morale and show support to our armed forces.  Danversport Yacht Club has graciously donated the Terrace Garden Room for this event.  It is expected that Congressman Tierney will stop by to support the effort as well.  Everyone’s notes and gifts will be sent to Operation Gratitude (OG) to be placed in care packages for the troops.

Stated RSVP Director Robin Saipe , “Tens of thousands of American service members are separated from their loved ones for long periods of time, often deployed to hostile and remote regions of the world.  The troops report the most cherished items in their care packages are the personal letters of appreciation from Americans.  One serviceman wrote back saying, ‘Your letter brought tears to my eyes and reminded me of the wonderful things people are capable of doing with their passion and that you were able to share with a stranger like me.’" 

RSVP, and its sponsoring agency, SeniorCare, are eager to offer this simple gift of kindness to our service people and know how rewarding it will be to all who volunteer. All stationery, cards, pens and crayons will be provided and light refreshments will be served.  There is no fee, and no reservations are needed. Saipe added, “All we need is a lot of heart and soul.”

RSVP has 770 chapters throughout the country engaging nearly 500,000 adults 55 and older in community service.  Sponsored federally by the Corporation for National and Community Service and locally by SeniorCare, Inc., RSVP Volunteers of the North Shore is proud to have 400 members donating their time at 26 nonprofit agencies in 13 towns and cites.  Please call 978-281-1750 ext. 367 for more information on RSVP or this event.