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The students at Rockport Elementary express their best wishes to Rockport Music, the organization that marks a big milestone this year in celebrating 30 years of existence! In the past decade, especially, Rockport Music has made an enormous difference in the lives of hundreds of students on the North Shore by providing music education and enrichment through countless programs and initiatives. Check out the creative way the students wish Rockport Music a happy birthday! You can spot this cake and card in person in the window of Rockport Music’s downtown box office.

The Open Class race was one for the ages as all 4 teams finished within 2 seconds of each other! Shortly after the start, strong winds out of the Northerly pushed the tandems of Erik Dombrowski / Glenn Harrington and Len Robertson and Ray D’Amico slightly off their course and that may have cost them the race as the boatspeed was there. In lanes 3 and 4 was in out-and-out war! Tom Jarvis and Jim Tarantino were neck and neck with defending champs Mark Duval and Joe "International Sex Symbol" Sanfilippo all the way to the turning flag. A smooth turn got Tarantino/Jarvis a small lead, which varied from a half a boat to a boat all the way home. But it was the superior athleticism and dedicated in-the-boat training that paid off for Duval and Sanfilippo at the finish, as they put on a huge push and ended up winning by an eighth of a second!!!
In the Master’s Division a perfect course by Mike Harmon, driven by the phenomenal strength of John Scola, secured an easy victory for the defending champs, even though they faced the skilled pair of newcomer Chris Ferrante and Bill Edmonds.
Unopposed representatives for the U.S. will be:
Juniors: LJ Robertson and Randy Parisi
Women’s: Christine Carpenter and Amy Robertson
Mixed: Jeff Muise and Christine Carpenter
Congratulations to all the rowers!
International Dory Races will be on Saturday, June 18th at the State Fish Pier in Gloucester, beginning with a Pancake Breakfast at 8 a.m.

What can I say?

If all that comes from my attempt at Art is this.  I’ll die a happy Guy!

Thank you for your Sacrifice Anita! Thank You Marine Sgt. David Coullard for your Ultimate Sacrifice for keeping all our families Safe and Free! You two will ALWAYS be in my thoughts.

Thank you so much for this Honor!

From Anita,

Hi Paul,

I put my rock in a very important spot.  It is on top of David medals box.

Thank You Again Anita For this Honor!

http://www.fallenheroesmemorial.com/oif/profiles/coullarddavidj.html

. . .time evaporated.

That Joey C. released the awesome new Version 5 limited edition Good Morning Gloucester sticker, designed by Beth Swan and printed by Frank Ciolino and Shewsberry, at yesterday’s Mug Up at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery?  This new version is classy navy with a silver winged gull.  Watch the exciting event as the box is opened and the new sticker seen for the first time.  If you are a collector, or don’t yet have a Good Morning Gloucester sticker, you can get your’s at Capt. Joe & Sons, 95 East Main Street or at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck, G3, or if you are out of area, you can mail a self-addressed stamped envelope to Joey at Capt. Joe & Sons ( 95 East Main St Gloucester, MA 01930), and he’ll send one to you.  Be the first on your block to have the new GMG Sticka proudly displayed on your bumper or front door!

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Work Meets Fun Head on.

View from Old Garden Beach in Rockport

This morning ushered in the start of a new Rocky Neck Sunday morning tradition – GMG Mugs Up!  At 10:00 am on Sunday mornings, Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery will host Mugs Up! – coffee and whatever with your favorite GMG leader, Joey C. and the team, FOB’s, visitors and stragglers by that we lure in with the boisterous fun and frivolity that ensues.  Today’s Mugs Up was great fun, and offered an amazing outlay of awesome foodstuff provided by FOB, and recent video’d GMG personality finding her Paul Frontiero Art Rocks! Rock at Capt. Joe & Sons – Patti Keenan.  Thank you so much Patti for the incredibly generous spread you brought.  Paul Frontiero also brought a coffeecake, which was delicious.  You can see Joey scoffing a piece of it here.  See R. Duck laying claim to the spread before Ed Collard had a chance to move in.  We experienced a sweet gesture of generosity on the part of Paul Frontiero, who gave an art rock to visiting FOB’s Anita Dziedzic and Jim Gularte from CT.  You may remember Anita and her story from a Paul post in August of 2010

 https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/art-rocks-looks-like-it-found-a-great-home/ .  Imagine’s Brenda Malloy came down to join us for some GMG and Madfish Wharf fun.  Sharon Lowe was in the house, as was Paul Morrison and of course R. Duck, as well as Marty, Ed, Joanne, Donna A. and more.  Bob rode over from Squam to get a new GMG sticka and represent.  Mark your calendars for Sunday mornings at 10:00 am at Madfish Wharf for GMG Mugs Up!

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.  ~Henry David Thoreau

That Tony Gonzalez caught a record breaking striped bass this morning off the rocks behind the paint factory on Rocky Neck.  Tony said he’s been fishing this spot for 32 years trying to catch the elusive monster striped bass, and he finally caught it this morning, and Good Morning Gloucester was on the scene to capture this amazing catch.  See photo of Tony with his 54” striper.   (Well maybe it was really only 28”, but it is still really big! And that’s no fish tale.)

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com