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. . . on Main Street.

Sita with his Schnauzers, Taboo and Remy.

Latitude 43 would like to thank our vendors and supporters for their help, donations and participation in making our Celebrate Gloucester 2 outdoor theater café for Newell Stadium a huge success.

For the generous donation of his lot for our expansive café, Vito Giacalone and the Giacalone brothers at Fisherman’s Wharf.  For orchestrating setup and heavy lifting, Danny Normand. For lighting and electrical, Roy Spittle Electrical. For the entertainment, the hype, the screen, and the idea itself, Joey Ciaramitaro.  For all around construction and setup wizardry, Ed Collard.

For seamstress services on the projection screen and warming up the crowd with delicious  hot chocolate, Sister Felicia.  For putting in a very tough day of hauling tables after a late football game on the line, Michael Falzarano. For lending us tables, Cape Ann Farmer’s Market. For donating additional tables and chairs, Taylor Hedges at Event for Rent.  For food and beverage donations, our vendors Ryan and Wood, Merrimack Valley Distributing, Intershell, Halibut Jack, Kinnealy, Sysco, Sid Wainer, Arrow, MS Walker, United, Horizon and  Shaheen. For providing posters to illustrate stadium plan, Dan King. For their help, through their offices, in making the permitting process a “breeze”, the Gloucester Licensing Board and Rosalie Nicastro at the Board of Health. 

For the last minute poster hanging and promotions, Rob Parsons, June Steele and David Amero.  For media coverage and a serious call to action with the inclusion of the Gridiron Greats awards ceremony to fill the café with GHS football stars and their families, Matt Burke and the Gloucester Daily Times. And for coming out on a cold night to watch a great show for a good cause, the people of Gloucester.

The warmth and commitment expressed by the generous outpouring of help and support made it an event worth repeating.  We are very grateful to work in such an amazing community.

To say that Donna has earned her stripes here at GMG would be an understatement.  She is our girl on the street.  Everyone on our team has different talents.

What I consider Donnas big time strength is her love of people and being involved hands on at local events.  This love often finds her smack dab in the middle of the action and more times than possibly anyone else this year she has brought us the photos live from breaking events.

I can’t stress how critical this is for us.  We pride ourselves on bringing you Gloucester events first and best.  We certainly have very talented photographers which serves big time importance to the blog as well but it’s nice to have both timeliness and quality!

If someone takes photographs at a sporting event and it takes them two weeks to edit them because they don’t want to release anything until they are 100% technically correct and edited we may as well forget about it as it’s old news.

Please welcome good egg Donna Ardizzoni, OUR GIRL ON THE STREET TO THE OFFICIAL GMG STAFF!

Donna just yesterday was authorized with posting privileges after sending in photos to me for a couple years!

I only had a few seconds to grab these quick shots of the first-quarter moon playing hide and seek behind  sunset tinted clouds.

Better keep moving – Thanksgiving’s right around the corner.

E.J. Lefavour

Four Cheers for Rotary!

(left to right)  Event Committee Co-Chairs Marryanne Bland, MIna Sheedy and Laurene Wessel, along with Club President Bob Gillis, raise their glasses to support Rockport Rotary at this Saturday’s World Adventures Wine Tasting  – That’s October 8,  5-8 pm at the Shalin Liu Performance Center Reception Hall.  $30 tickets available at the Shalin Liu box office 978-546-7391, and from local Rotarians.  Includes more than 75 wines and delicious appetizers contributed by local businesses  – all to support the scholarships and local community service projects of the Club.

I own a Apple Ipod Touch. I’ve had it for over two years and I’m still amazed with it.  I’m still a PC person that won’t change. Steve Jobs did a great job turning around Apple and pushing the competition to a higher level. A lot of people including my Son James think he had too much control with the proprietary of apples Software and hardware. But as I told my son who is on his 2nd Ipod Touch, “You don’t have to buy it”. Hopefully the new guard will push the technology as he did. It will be interesting to see what he does in his next life! Namaste! Mr. Jobs.

from GMG April 2011:

Steve Jobs Displays what’s driving the sale of the Apple Ipad and Ipad II

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Albert Camus

Paul Korn & Sue Bumagin are great friends, and FOB’s.  They sent their 70-year-old friends, Deanne and Jim Bonnar of Acton, on a birthday scavenger hunt, which included Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery.  A sweet, unique gift for their dear friends – kind of like a slow paced Cape Ann version of the Amazing Race.  It was fun to be involved.

E.J. Lefavour