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East Gloucester Elementary Holiday Fair Photos!
DECEMBER 3rd from 10a-2p — Santa & Frosty will be returning again this year for your holiday wishes and photos.
Photos are only $10/sheet and make great presents, gift tags etc. As always, you need not buy photos to chat with Santa or Frosty. We’ll have several packages to choose from and proceeds all benefit the PTO… so skip the mall and bring the kids to East GloucesterElementary’s Holiday Fair! Much more fun!!! (Pets are welcome too!!!)  This is a fund raiser for the E.Glo. PTO – all are welcome.

“Send in your turkey pics!”

HERE’S MINE!!

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As reported by Ed Collard

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Pauline’s Gifts is proud to support the

Gloucester High School/Ipswich High School Gymnastics Team

We have  Vernal Pond on our Property. It’s a good and bad thing. we are not allowed to do anything within at least 50 feet of it. But we get to see alot of interesting things. Owls, Hummingbirds, Thousands of Dragonflys.  Minx’s, herons, foxes, egrets, ducks and their ducklings, turkeys, coyote’s, Peepers that sound like the Aliens have landed during the Spring. and now a Otter! Thanks to my Son Salvatore’s girlfriend Errin, she identified these photos of an Otter that was sunning itself on a rock in our pond.

Hi Joey,

While a lot of folks have already had snow this year, it never occurred to me that Gloucester hadn’t had its first frost until I looked out and saw the grass this morning!   

Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

Last heard from, she was in in Chiang Mai, Thailand, sitting in a comfy chair in a simple room listening to a gekko.  But did you know that Brenda Malloy of Rocky Neck’s Imagine Gallery was once a commercial helicopter pilot?  Some gals have all the fun.  This is a shot of her on Madfish Wharf this summer.  Hope you’re having a great adventure Brenda.  Rocky Neck isn’t the same without you. 

E.J. Lefavour

Rockport National Bank is proud to once again sponsor The Giving Tree.  This is a special traditional our community has embraced for over 17 years during the holiday season. Last year, hundreds of families, individuals, elderly and children in the communities of Gloucester & Rockport anonymously received gifts.  This is a true testament to the goodwill and undeniable spirit of generosity of our customers and the residents of Cape Ann.

Anyone can participate………just stop by the Rockport National Bank branch nearest you and select a candy cane gift tag from The Giving Tree.  Return the wrapped gift along with the original gift tag by Saturday, December 17th.  Your gift will be anonymously distributed to the appropriate organization in time for Christmas.  Rest assured your generosity is deeply appreciated.

We thank you for your kindness in making this season brighter for so many families and children in need. 

Rockport National Bank Branches:   16 Main Street, Rockport
       37 King Street, Rockport
                                  4 Parker Street, Gloucester
                  Coming January 2012    4 Colon Street, Beverly                       
For additional information contact:  Grace Numerosi, 978-309-1224

Manchester train platform Sunday night 9 pm

If you haven’t yet gotten your Thanksgiving bird and prefer the organic, free range variety, there is a flock of about 20 nice healthy looking hens hanging around the Riverdale Post Office/Willow Rest area.  Here are three of them – nice looking and friendly.  You could probably coax them into your car with a little cracked corn.

BTW, did you know that Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird instead of the eagle.  I wonder how differently our nation would have evolved if he had gotten his way.  This was Ben’s take on the eagle vs. the turkey (written in a letter to his daughter Sarah):

For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.

With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country…

I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For in Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving – including these majestic birds that I’m sure will still be roaming Riverdale long after Thanksgiving is over.

E.J. Lefavour

Latitude 43 and Alchemy Bistro proudly announces the first annual Gloucester Education Foundation Gala Art Auction at Latitude 43 on Saturday, December 3, 2011 from 6-11pm.
The auction, hosted by Senator Bruce Tarr will go “live” at 9pm and is the season finale to the Alchemy of Art Gallery series, which has promoted local art and helped fund arts in Gloucester Public School District.  Each month a different artist has been featured in the gallery, promoted by the restaurant, had a formal opening and enjoyed 90% of proceeds from the sale of their art through Alchemy with the other 10% going to GEF.  Year one artists included Baraka Berger, Nubar Alexanian, Pattie Sullivan and EJ LeFavour, Christopher Wood and several other talented painters and photographers.
The series has been a wonderful opportunity to help up and coming artist, to host some better know local creatives and to foster arts in youth through the donation to arts in schools through the GEF.  The year-end gala auction further extends that support with 100% of the sale of art by series participants going to GEF.  The live auction will also include four hand painted doors by Gloucester High School students as part of a local artist homage.  Among these are fabulous representations of the works of local masters Winslow Homer, Charles Olson, Edward Hopper and Virginia Lee Burton. 
Works to be auctioned are currently on display at Alchemy Bistro and will be there until December 3rd, when they move to Latitude 43 for main event.
In addition to the auction items, Latitude 43 will offer 10% of dinner proceeds in the dining room to GEF, and the Gloucester Education Foundation has arranged a 50/50 raffle and some terrific student made art gifts for sale for those wanting to come out and support the GEF without participating in the art auction.
The evening will surely be a great way to start the holiday season, a fun place to catch up with parents and faculty, an easy way to support education in our schools and a fun night for all.
Reservations are a good idea, as the night will surely be a busy one.  978-281-0223.
Alchemy would like to extend our Request for Artists and invite local artists who are interested in potentially showing their art at Alchemy to contact us and we will send out our “Guidelines for Consideration” package. Artists to be showcased in 2011 will be contacted by Alchemy. For more information please contact Matt Rose at mattalchemy@gmail.com or at Alchemy at 978-281-3997. 

Inside Sources Mark Ring tells me our boy Tony Gross is back on The Waterways Board.

Natalie Schoonover, Ipswich, 9yrs, Jenna Lake, Magnolia, 8yrs with their coach Alisa Contreras of the Cape Ann Skating Figure Skating Club waiting to compete and the Silver Streaks Skating Club (Peabody, MA) Basic Skills Competition on Sunday November 20, 2011.  They both skated beautifully.

For more info regarding Cape Ann Figure Skating Club see: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cape-Ann-Skating-Club/150068585048452 or our web site: http://cafsc.org/