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Actually it is on Washington Street, but that collection of tools with the pumpkin gives this still life scene a Criminal Minds serial killerish Halloween feel.  Does anyone know where it is?

E.J. Lefavour

Joey:  Have you had your flu shot yet?  If not, stop by AGH!!

Medication Disposal Day in Gloucester ~ This Saturday!

The Gloucester Medication Disposal program sponsored by Healthy Gloucester Collaborative is once again hosting a community medication disposal event in conjunction with the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration Annual Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.

The Medication Disposal Day will take place on Saturday, October 29th from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the parking lot of Rose Baker Senior Center , Six Manuel F. Lewis Street, Gloucester. 

Items Accepted:

Prescription and over-the-counter medications, Medication Samples, Vitamins, Narcotics, Liquid Medications

Items NOT Accepted

Sharps (sharps can be disposed of 24-7 in the main entrance of Addison

         Gilbert Hospital , 298 Washington Street ,  Gloucester , at the Sharps Kiosk).

Thermometers, IV Bags, Bloody or Infectious Waste, Inhalers, Hydrogen Peroxide, Personal Care Products

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day addresses a vital public safety and public health issue.  More than seven million Americans currently abuse prescription drugs, according to the 2009 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

Each day, approximately, 2,500 teens use prescription drugs to get high for the first time according to the Partnership for a Drug Free America.  Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet.

Flu Clinic at Addison Gilbert Hospital November 8

A free flu clinic will be held at Addison Gilbert Hospital , 298 Washington Street, Gloucester on Tuesday, November 8 from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. in the Longan Room located inside the Washington Street entrance. The flu clinic will be conducted by the Gloucester Health Department.

There is no fee. Participants are asked to bring their insurance card and to wear short-sleeves.  The clinic will be held for those six-months of age or older.

Cape Ann Military Family Support Group collecting items for our Soldiers in Time for the Holidays

Employees, staff and volunteers at Addison Gilbert Hospital will be assisting the Cape Ann Military Family Support Group in collecting items to be sent to our Cape Ann soldiers in time for the holidays. Containers are marked inside the main entrance of Addison Gilbert Hospital in the Fisher Lobby for items being collected.

The following items are being requested:

Candy Canes, miniature matchbox cars

Assorted snacks:  Beef jerky, beef sausage logs, slim Jim’s, individual cookie , cheese and cracker packs, dried fruits and fruit, pudding and applesauce cups, packaged dried fruits, seeds, nuts and raisins, peanut butter and individual cereals boxes, Pop-tarts, Breakfast bars, granola and health bars, Pretzels and Pringle’s canned chips

Canned items should have the pull tabbed tops:

Cups of Noodles Dinty Moore Meals, Pasta Dinners and bowl type meals

Soups Ready to eat  and packet soups, Canned tuna,chicken, salmon pull top cans only

individual packets of condiments: mustard, catsup, relish, Mayonnaise, B-B-Q sauce, single serve salad dressings, jelly and jams.

Powdered drinks: Crystal Light lemonade mixes, Kool-Aid,  teas, coffee, cocoa, milk Assorted candy and gum Small games, playing cards, Uno, Sorry, puzzles, crossword books andtravel size board games.

Thank you for your consideration to help!

That lobsters attack homies?  I was walking across the footbridge in Annisquam and heard this homie crying out in great distress and trying desperately to free himself from an object caught on his neck.  At first I thought he had been hooked by a fishing lure.  In fact, he had been attacked by a feisty little lobster who obviously didn’t want to be dinner.  It took the homie quite some time to get free, but then it was time for a lobster dinner.

E.J. Lefavour

Joey,

        The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce has been running a membership drive that is about to end this Friday. During the drive, many local advertisers offer new members great discounts to help defray the cost of membership which is LESS THAN A DOLLAR A DAY. If you do business on Cape Ann, Chamber membership is a win win proposition. You get to support the voice of local business on a local,state and federal level as well as promote your business at the same time. Should anyone wish for more information about joining feel free to call or email me as this is a great time to join. Thanks, Ed

Ed Collard
978-281-7140
housedoctors@verizon.net
www.housedoctors@verizon.net

Hello Joey,
I live over by Lanes Cove and, while walking my dog tonight, came across an injured Northern Gannet up on sunset point.  As I have never seen one of these great sea birds around here I was hoping there was a wildlife rehabilitation clinic that would be willing to treat and hopefully re-release this striking creature.  My original plan was to bring her to the Danvers Animal Hospital which treats injured wildlife, but the staff told me that, with their limited resources, it was unlikely they could rehabilitate this type of bird and it would more than likely be euthanized . I was told that there was a Wildlife Clinic in Weymouth but  they will accept injured wildlife only between the hours of 10-2.  With my work schedule I will be unable to make it there tomorrow and my only other option would be a very long drive to Tufts Wildlife Clinic  out in Grafton after work.  I was hoping that with your help I may be able to find someone interested in making the trip down to Weymouth tomorrow to give this bird (a rare sight around here) a chance.  Thanks in advance for any help or ideas you have in this matter.
Thank you

We are here on the planet once only, and might as well get a feel for the place.

 ANNIE DILLARD

I always thought this was Pigeon Cove, but I have recently become aware that Pigeon Cove is actually a community of Rockport that extends from the granite bridge by Granite Pier all the way to Folly Cove.  I never knew.  It’s amazing how many unique individual parts there are to Cape Ann.  These photos are of Pigeon Cove Harbor.

E.J Lefavour

LoGrasso’s Café & Bistro at Isinglass Place, 13 Railroad Ave. in Rockport is located upstairs in the building that once was home to the Rockport Twine & Rope Factory where my father worked in the 60’s and early 70’s.  Prior to that it was the Cape Ann Isinglass and Glue Company, formed in 1868 by the firm of J.J. Manning & Brother (William).  

Isinglass is a substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish, originally sturgeon, but now primarily cod and hake.  It is a form of collagen used mainly for the clarification of wine and beer.  It can also be cooked into a paste for specialized gluing purposes, such as repairing parchment.  The swim bladders or sounds of certain fish are largely composed of that variety of gelatin called isinglass.  The sounds are manufactured into isinglass by a mechanical operation which consists of passing the macerated sounds successively between several sets of rollers, the first set kneading the sounds into a homogeneous sheet, and the subsequent sets squeezing and elongating the sheets into the ribbons of isinglass known to commerce.

Isinglass is a protein-based clarifier that has been traditionally used by commercial wineries and is preferred by some winemakers because of the softer, gentler effect it has on the color and body of the wine. It is very effective in adding a high polish to white and blush wines.

Wouldn’t it be cool if LoGrasso’s served isinglass clarified wines.  Unfortunately it is a BYOB establishment, so you would have to find and bring your own.

E.J. Lefavour