HIGH HOLIDAYS & A MAH JONGG EXTRAVAGANZA! AT TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

HIGH HOLIDAYS AT TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 ~ TAAGLOUCESTER ~

Dear TAA Members and Guests,

This year the High Holidays fall on the following dates*:

Rosh Hashanah – Monday-Tuesday, September 30-October 1

Kol Nidre – Tuesday, October 8

Yom Kippur (with Break-the-Fast) – Wednesday, October 9

In the past years, to accommodate Temple Ahavat Achim congregants attending High Holiday services, the city has allowed parking in legal parking spaces without charge and ticketing.

If you place a temporary parking permit on your dashboard, you won’t be ticketed. PARKING PERMITS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD on http://www.taagloucester.org

Handmade parking signs will not be recognized by the police!

PLEASE NOTE : DO NOT PARK ON MAIN STREET, ROGERS STREET, GLOUCESTER HOUSE RESTAURANT PARKING LOT, OR IN THE SAWYER FREE LIBRARY PARKING LOT BEHIND THE TEMPLE.

Any vehicles parked in these locations will be ticketed and the tickets will NOT be eligible for abatement by the City.

BABYSITTING services will be available on the First Day of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur from 10:30 am to 1 pm.

TAA parking lot will be reserved for handicapped parking only. The hashed parking area will be needed for unloading and loading of wheelchairs.

St. John’s Episcopal Church has graciously allowed us to use their parking lot during the High Holidays for parking overflow. (First come – first serve.)

If you haven’t ordered our smoked salmon for your High Holiday dinner table but would like to, there’s still time – just click here to place your order!

For more information on the 5780 High Holidays at our Temple, please CLICK HERE.

L’Shanah Tovah!

A MAH JONGG EXTRAVAGANZA!

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 ~ TAAGLOUCESTER ~

A MAH JONGG EXTRAVAGANZA!

Thursday, October 17th at 5:30 pm

at Temple Ahavat Achim

(86 Middle St, Gloucester, MA)

THE LINE-UP:

5:30 pm – Registration, welcome & snacks

6:30 pm – Dinner & movie

“The Tiles that Bind” – a 32-min entertaining film on the history of Mah Jongg in America

7-9 pm – Play Mah Jongg!

Don’t know how to play? Come and learn!

Bring your own mah jongg set (one per table)!

Don’t forget your cards!

Groups and single players welcome!

$18 PER PERSON

SPACE IS LIMITED!!

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

by MONDAY, OCTOBER 7th!

Hurricane Dorian in Massachusetts before high tide Long Beach Rockport & #GloucesterMA

Posted on by Catherine
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by Cape Ann Motor Inn

 

Clear skies and big waves. (pinch and zoom for mobile / double click to enlarge photos desktop)

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Several Bahama relief efforts – here’s one: https://www.projecthope.org/

Cape Ann Lanes enhancing classic candlepin bowling space in #GloucesterMA

Posted on by Catherine

A big redesign at Cape Ann Lanes is underway. It’s looking great. $25 for an hour is an excellent option for a group of teens. P.S. Until the dining option is completed, they have local menus on hand for ordering pick up or delivery. Snacks and beverages are available on site.

Cape Ann Lanes website: https://www.capeannlanes.com/

photos: September 2019 AFTER |  2016/2018 below to compare 

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2016/2018

 

 

Cape Ann Classic Cars on the Green

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

SECOND ANNUAL CLASSIC CAR SHOW COMES TO MIDDLE STREET
Cape Ann Classic Cars on the Green – Fun for the Whole Family

The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation announces the second annual Cape Ann Classic Cars on the Green to be held on Saturday, September 28 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on the grand allee of the Gloucester Meetinghouse. This early fall show attracts a variety of classic cars and dedicated aficionados to a fun-filled event with food vendors and live Dixieland music provided by John’s Giddy Gang.

Members of the audience will be invited to vote for their favorite classic car and prizes will be awarded in a number of categories at the conclusion of the event.

The Gloucester Meetinghouse is located in Gloucester’s Historic District at the corner of Church and Middle Streets. The show is handicap accessible. Tours of the Meetinghouse will be held on the hour and will include performances on the historic 1893 Hutchings-Fisk pipe organ.

Cape Ann Classic Cars on the Green is free and open to the public. Donations to the Meetinghouse Restoration Project will be gratefully received. Car owners who are interested in showing their classic vehicles may register at the entrance for $10 or in advance by emailing c.nazarian@gloucestermeetinghouse.org. In the event of rain, the show will be held the following day on Sunday, September 29 from 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 

Kids and Cairns

Posted on by Pat D

Those rock piles you are seeing everywhere are commonly referred to as cairns, though technically they are not since they are usually not landmarks or memorials. I have mentioned before that I am ambivalent about them, although recently I’ve become less enamored every time I see one.

Anyhow, I was driving along the back shore recently and noticed a scene I thought might be “blog worthy”. A pair of rock piles, a pair of fishermen and a pair of lighthouses.

I was experimenting with getting the right angle when two boys wandered into view.

I am working out how I can make this work when one of the kids gives one of the rock piles a good kick. The artistic value of the scene went down faster than those rocks. I didn’t know whether to be disappointed or give the kid a pat on the back.

experimenting with getting the right angle

Athletes, family, friends, and fans – last chance to order GHS sports apparel

Posted on by Catherine

Bryan Lafata shares reminder

The deadline to order apparel for Gloucester High School Athletics is coming fast- Sunday at noon. Don’t miss a big school spirit selection for fall sports and all GHS athletics. Here’s the store link: https://gloucesterathletics2019.itemorder.com/sale

Schedule for all the games can be found here 

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GOLDEN FLOWER OF THE AZTECS

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

The brilliant red-orange Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia) is a beneficial pollinator magnet. Plant and they will come! Grow a patch of milkweed next to your Mexican Sunflowers and you will not only attract Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and an array of bee species, but every Monarch Butterfly in the neighborhood will be in your garden.

Its many common names include Red Torch Mexican Sunflower, Bolivian Sunflower, Japanese Sunflower, but one of the loveliest is ‘Golden Flower of the Aztecs.’ Tithonia rotundifolia grows wild in the mountains of Central Mexico and Central America.

Mexican Sunflower is one of my top ten favorites for supporting Monarchs, is extremely easy to grow, and deer do not care for its soft, velvety leaves. Plant in average garden soil, water, and dead head often to extend the blooming period. Ours flower from July through the first frost. Collect the seedheads after the petals have fallen off, but before they dry completely and the songbirds have eaten all the seeds.

 

 

 

 

 

Grant helps plovers have record year on Crane Beach, featuring Jeff Denoncour

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Grant helps plovers have record year on Crane Beach
Local Ne.ws
By John P. Muldoon

Rotary Club paid for three solar-powered electric fences

IPSWICH — Those little birds you see running around the beach don’t have it easy.

Although they have wings, they won’t fly to trees to build their nests. Instead, they scoop holes, or “scrapes,” in the sand and lay their eggs there.

And that’s an invitation for all kinds of trouble: predators, rogue waves, dogs, or clumsy or malicious humans.

Combined with widespread loss of habitat, piping plovers are now on the federal government’s threatened species list. One estimate says there are just 8,400 left worldwide.

But along with lease terns, which are protected in Massachusetts, the plovers are well taken care of on Crane Beach.

In fact, they were so well taken care of in 2019 that a record number of chicks fledged and are now ready for the next perilous phase of their lives — a migration to the Bahamas.

This year, 49 pairs of plovers raised 96 chicks, said Jeff Denoncour, coastal ecologist with The Trustees of Reservations.

The last year that good for the birds was in 1999, when 44 pairs produced 89 fledglings, he added.

To show how precarious the species’ existence can be, Denoncour said the year 2000 was disastrous. Just 12 fledglings survived despite the efforts of 49 pairs. “That was due to a major storm,” he explained.

READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE
Jeff Denoncour and Courtney Richardson last year at Jeff’s program on coastal ecology held at the Cape Ann Museum