Yes! The Naval Historical & Preservation Foundation 1-888-895-2200 was at Stop & Shop today.

My View of Life on the Dock
Yes! The Naval Historical & Preservation Foundation 1-888-895-2200 was at Stop & Shop today.

The One Hour at Time Gang will be helping out.

Thanks to city staff like Ken Whittaker, Gloucesters conservation agent, and experts like Kim Smith, volunteers have been inspired to have some fun helping wildlife in our own backyard. You can join in and follow their reports on Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/glostaplover?lang=en
The 2018 reports are also logged here goo.gl/DPygNw
No sign in required for either format. There’s a link for the 2017 records, too. Last year’s monitors were all ages and a few commuted from over the bridge. One mother daughter duo from the tri-state area scheduled a volunteer vacation in Gloucester because of Kim Smith and the city’s outreach!
As I write, folks have an eye on the plover pair in the Good Harbor Beach parking lot (still) incubating 4 eggs (still). Sign up with Ken Whittaker for a shift kwhittaker@gloucester-ma.gov. Last year’s post about how to sign up. Everything ramps up for chicks.
(through the binoculars- distraction dashing as crow went by )

Saturday at 10 AM – 6 PM
June 9, 2018
7 Seas Whale Watch
63 Rogers Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Public
(Tickets to our fundraiser are purchased on-site from a Sea Shepherd coordinator, we’ll be located at the 7 Seas pier where you board the Privateer IV. You can use cash or credit card. If you take part in the beach clean-up with us that morning, you can save $5 off your whale watch ticket ($35 instead of $40) or donate that to SSCS as well.)
In what is hopefully a new yearly event for us, we’ll be heading to one of our great historic New England towns (Gloucester) for a World Oceans Day fundraising event. Working with a couple local groups and organizations, we’ll begin our day spending a couple of hours helping clean up the beach. After a short break to clean up, eat or (for some) take your Dramamine, we’ll head out on what has always been a great day of whale watching with 7 Sea Whale Watch.
Please keep an eye out here on our event for additional details of our beach clean-up on Saturday morning. We’ll meet at the 7 Seas pier (right near where we will board the Privateer IV for our whale watch later) and head out from there. If you have gloves, buckets or bags please bring them… but we will have some on site if needed as well.
#SeaShepherd #worldoceansday #ocean #conservation #cleanocean #oceanplastic #pollution #whalewatch
Hello:
Hope everyone is well.
When: Saturday, June 2, 2018
Where: Essex Avenue, start near the Boulevard
Time: 8:00 9:00
We can clean up Essex Avenue in anticipation of the Strawberry Festival at Mile Marker.
Thank you kids.

Donna
Well, it happened again. We said, “Hey, it’s time for the spring clean-up of Burnham’s Field” and put out the word and the morning came and people came out of the woodwork to lend a hand. There was Gina Briguglio who’s been looking out for Burnham’s Field since the beginning and Deb Salah who with her family quietly plants flowers in the field and shovels the walkways in the winter without asking for credit and nobody ever knows. And City Councilor Melissa Cox who’s been Burnham’s Field’s biggest champion in the City for years. And Donna Ardizzoni and her One Hour at a Time Gang who clean up our city every weekend and as soon as they heard we were cleaning up the field raised their hand and said “How can we help?” and changed their plans last-minute so they could help out, too. And Aaron and Jamie and Brieana and Ambie and Bill and Steve and too many others to name. And so on a Saturday morning the people came to the largest park in central Gloucester and picked up litter and fixed a fence and cleaned over some graffiti and tightened some basketball rims and put up a community garden mural. And then the families came and the softball games began and the kids ran in the field and played on the playground and the sun shone over Burnham’s Field.






Thank you to Laurinda Butcher, Cape Ann Photographers Club and our Patti Amaral for these beautiful signs at Good Harbor and Wingaersheek Beach.


Change of plan for Saturday. Burnhams field at 8:00
Time: 08:00
Place: Burnham’s Field
When: Saturday, May 26, 2018
Please bring gloves, rakes and gloves.
Thank you all
All are invited to the clean-up of Burnham’s Field this Saturday, May 26, at 8 a.m. Bring a rake or broom or just yourself – we’ll bring the yellow trash bags. Burnham’s Field is the largest green space and ball field in central Gloucester, right across Pleasant Street from St. Ann’s church.
Can you believe it’s our 5th annual clean-up? This was the Good Morning Gloucester post a few years back by Joey, the World’s Greatest Headline Writer: “Burnham’s Field Getting All Clean And Shit! Lend a Hand April 21st!”
It’s fun to look back at how much Burnham’s Field has improved in the last seven years – the creation of the community gardens, the world-exclusive Good Morning Gloucester video profiles of the Burnham’s Field gardeners, the construction of the new playground and videos where I totally held the camera sideways instead of right-side up. Check out this bunch of Good Morning Gloucester posts about Burnham’s Field.
So come on down this Saturday morning for the Burnham’s Field clean-up. There’s parking in the lot at 4 Sargent Street – see you at 8 a.m!

Good day kids:
Let us try this again.
This week’s clean up will be at Grapevine.
We can meet on the East Main Street side
When: Saturday, May 26, 2018
Time: 08:00 – 09:00
Where: East Main and Grapevine Avenue
Please bring gloves and pickers if you have them.
Thank you all.

Gloucester Avenue Neighborhood Clean Up
The Clean City Commission is excited to partner with Cape Ann Lanes for a neighborhood cleanup on Gloucester Ave on Saturday, June 9th! Join us from 9-11 for a cleanup, followed by free pizza and a round of bowling, courtesy of Cape Ann Lanes. This will be a great family-friendly event! Trash bags and gloves will be provided.
Additional details can be found at https://www.facebook.com/events/156639135189671/


Red Cross Blood Drive
Magnolia Library and Community Center
1 Lexington Avenue
Magnolia, Gloucester, MA 01930
Monday, May 21
Time: 2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
To register for an upcoming blood drive, visit the Red Cross website.
Since it is going to be quite rainy, we will postpone Grapevine clean up until next week.
thanks

Also congratulation to Susan Kelly for the Rotary Paul Harris Award.

Good Morning kids:
Since I am going to a class at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum on Saturday. I will not be there. Hope all join this clean up.

2018 Gourmet Gala North Shore Medical Center benefit for North Shore Cancer Walk held at Acura of Peabody. Great food, worthy cause, quite a crowd. Live auction featured Gloucester’s Beauport Hotel Getaway. Auctioneer was Kiss 108FM Billy Costa.

(scenes from the Gala – click to enlarge, and again for full size)
Watching the Coast Guard practicing the other day, want to thank you them for all they do.

