Brenda Malloy’s Gloucester Imagine Video

Happy Day!-  That’s the standard Brenda Malloy greeting.

Click this text to check out Brenda’s Gloucester Video

Gloucester Public Schools City Wide Art Festival

Just in from Brenda Malloy-
“Could you do a blast for me about the up coming Gloucester Public School Art Festival, Sat., May 9, all day downtown Gloucester. See the above attachment for details.

In addition there is, like I mentioned above, artwork plastered all over Main St (or will be by mid afternoon today).

Perhaps you’d like to do a few shots of that. We art starting at Sage Florist down near Dunkin Donuts and will be in almost every business window down to Virgilio’s. Bank Gloucester is going to get covered head to toe in the parking lot lobby entrance as well as Main St and Pleasant St. corner windows.  Vernon Martin Real Estate down near Dunkin Donuts will have a ton of work in their windows as well.

We are looking for as much coverage as we can get, really trying to get the whole community involved, not just the students parents and families, any help would be appreciated.”

Lobstering On The Stanley Thomas

Here’s Mark Ring aboard The Stanley Thomas.  He is setting up the lobster trawls to set.  Lobstering lesson video at 7:00AM with Mark and Matt Ring

Spring Clean Up With The One Hour At A Time Gang

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One Hour at a Time Gang Notice

Saturday May 2, 2009

Time:                         8:00 am

Where:                     Good Harbor Beach

From the little bridge side so we also can clean up the street

I will bring bags.

Thanks all

Looking forward to seeing as many people as possible and thank you.

Donna Ardizzoni

Business Manager

Circle Consulting Group

PO Box 5506

Gloucester, MA 01930

978-526-9222

www. circleconsulting.com

Donna Ardizzone Age 26- Not Much Has Changed

Good Buddy and FOB (friend of the Blog) Donna Ardizzone is only 26 in this picture.  She doesn’t look much different today.  Check these pages next week to see where the One Hour At A Time Gang Will Strike Next!

Donna Ardizzone Age 26, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

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One Hour at a Time Gang

Looking forward to seeing as many people and thank you.

Donna Ardizzoni

Business Manager

Circle Consulting Group

PO Box 5506

Gloucester, MA 01930

978-526-9222

www. circleconsulting.com

Nancy Hendrickson Models Derby Hat at Seasons On Main

Nancy is having a contest at her shop Seasons on Main starting Friday night and Saturday.

Little Donna Ardizzone

I’m not gonna tell Donna who sent in this picture.  She will have to figure this out on her own 🙂 Wasn’t she a cute child?

Donna is one of the group of good eggs in the “One Hour at a Time Gang” who have been meeting on Saturday mornings to clean an area of the city that could use some clean up.  They decide on an area and meet Saturday mornings for an hour or so and get it done.

Little Donna Ardizzone, originally uploaded by captjoe06.


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One Hour at a Time Gang

Looking forward to seeing as many people and thank you.

Donna Ardizzoni

Business Manager

Circle Consulting Group

PO Box 5506

Gloucester, MA 01930

978-526-9222

www. circleconsulting.com

Original Detail At Saunders Mansion Preserved

Thanks to The Dunsky Foundation, and the work of Steve Goodick and Michael DeFalco and crew one of the crown jewels of our city is being restored and preserved for future generations.

For history of The Sawyer Free Library and old pictures of this building click this text

Entrance To Saunders Section Of Sawyer Free Library

I love the color of the overhead in the entranceway to the Saunders section of The Sawyer Free Library which Steve Goodick and Mikey DeFalco have been painstakingly and carefully renovating back to it’s former glory with generous help from the benefactors The Dunsky Foundation.  I’ll be getting a more in depth interview with Michael DeFalco this week.

Michael DeFalco Works On the Sawyer Free Library Restoration

Michael DeFalco has been working on the Sawyer Free Library Restoration since the fall.  It’s really starting to look beautiful.  All the original detail work has been saved.  Look for the video with Michael at 2:00PM

Things To Do- Cape Ann Farmer’s Market Event

JOIN US FOR FOOD, FILM AND A FUNDRAISER!

April 19, 4 – 7 p.m.
Location: Cape Ann Cinema at Gloucester Stage Company
267 East Main Street

Help support your local farmers’ market, eat great food and watch an inspiring film about the community-based values of cooperation and conservation.

4 – 4:30 Wine tasting with Ned’s Groceria
4:30 – 5:00 Film Shorts
5:00 – 5:30 Soup provided by Common Crow and
Alchemy;
bread provided by Swiss Baker and A & J King
5:30 – 7:00 Feature Film: “The Power of Community”

Cost: $30

Spring Clean Up with the One Hour at a Time Gang

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One Hour at a Time Gang Notice

Date:  Saturday April 18, 2009

Place:  Stage Fort Park

Time: 8:00 AM

Looking forward to seeing as many people and thank you.

Donna Ardizzoni

Business Manager

Circle Consulting Group

PO Box 5506

Gloucester, MA  01930

978-526-9222

www. circleconsulting.com

Ron Gilson, Author Of An Island No More

Here are some photos from Ron Gilson’s Home.  Part One of the new video interviews come Monday morning at 8:00AM

 

Ron Gilson- “The Waterfront: Then and Now (but this is NOW)”

Must read from Ron Gilson-Click the text to read the entire post-

The Waterfront: Then and Now (but this is NOW)

Gloucester’s future is in our harbor. In my youth our harbor was our lifeblood. If this city is to survive economically without a substantial fishing industry, our harbor planners must accept the reality of change. Before we take off willy nilly, we should examine the past: what went on in our harbor since 1950, the pivotal year and highest period of our harbor’s fishing production. Before we can decide on any new harbor strategy, the planners must review where we’ve been.
Last week I spent time with Ron Gilson at his house and got three more interviews with him.  The first will be posted in video form Monday morning at 8:00AM.  I haven’t heard another person speak such perfect sense about Gloucester Harbor’s past, present and future than this man.

Peter Dench GHS Class of 65 Picture

Here’s Peter Dench, long time teacher in the Gloucester School Systems and all around great guy.  Pete used to work loading trucks after school for J & P Trucking and helped get the masses of fish on it’s way to New York back in thew day. 

 

Clark Dexter GHS Class of 58

Clark Dexter GHS Class of 58, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Thanks to Janice Lufkin Shea for providing the GHS Flickers.

Good Eggs- Things To Do- Cleaning Crew

Got this message from Donna Ardizzone-

Hi All:

One Hour at a Time:

Date:                 Saturday, April 4, 2009

Time:                08:00 AM

Where:              St. Peters’ Square

Please bring gloves and looking forward to seeing all

Thanks

That’s all it said.  So I sent an email back to Donna asking here what the heck was going on.

She replied-

Hi Joey;

It started with Bob Gillis, Ed the House Doctor, Tony, Precision Roofing, myself and we just decided to do it and start cleaning rather than wait for the city to do it.  Patti Amaral helps as often as she can.  Some weeks we have quite few people.  I send out the emails and we all decide what she be taken care of next.

A bunch of us decided to clean the streets every Saturday morning for an hour.  Pick up trash, cigarette butts, etc.  We go to Main Street and then the next week the BLVD, Good Harbor, etc.  wherever we see an issue..  It works really well and people come up to us and thank us and I think that if people see people keeping their city clean it is catchy.  Maybe you could mention on Good Morning Gloucester, thanks and also did you get to see Barbara’s window with the wedding dresses.  Amazing…

Take care and hope to see you around town.

Donna

So if you are around and feel like lending a hand, swing on down to St Peters’ Square at 8:00AM April 4th and have at it.

Chickity Check It!- Ron Gilson’s Common Sense Must Read

The Gloucester I Love

Ron Gilson is a man who remembers Gloucester’s glory days of fishing and tells it like it is.  No holds barred.  His offering in this weeks blog entry is a must read.  To check out Ron’s Latest Click This Text

Look for three more videos from Ron Gilsons archives coming in the coming weeks.