Piping plover friends gathering on Good Harbor Beach
Sunday June 2nd 2019 at 4pm
Gather on the beach by the No. 3 beach path sign
Meet Kim Smith! Reconnect and meet & greet for some fun before the 2019 brood is here!
If the chicks have hatched we’ll be able to keep a good distance. If they haven’t we’ll have a piping plover bracket ready.
If you can’t come to this one, not to worry! This is a first but not the last one of the 2019 season. See below for ways to follow along and participate.
For live updates from the field/volunteers see “Glostaplover” Twitter here. Share sightings! @glostaplover #glostaplover. That morphed into Website here. 2018 log here. 2017 log here
Professional photographs and a new video will be coming soon from this morning’s Action Inc Annual Meeting celebrating staff and mission. Until then here are a few snapshots. Congratulations to Adam Farber, owner of Mark Adrian Shoes in Gloucester, who received the Community Recognition Award; Lindy Aiello and Dominique Spinola for Merit Awards; and invited guest speaker, Evan Moses, for his inspiring talk.
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Wrong tide, wrong wind but I wanted some mackerel for my smoker so I’m whipping a little silver dude into the wind and a helium ballon floats by. There is a swirl behind it so I cast behind it and sure enough a small striped bass too dumb to know better is trying to eat the streamer. I reel her in and put her back in the water and chased down the balloon that went up on the rocks a hundred yards downwind.
So this is my public service announcement. We don’t have to ban these things, just don’t buy them.
Don’t be a bad dad. If you want to be bad, pop these things in the checkout line at Market Basket. I will bail you out. Promise.
If you impulse buy one in the Market Basket checkout because you forgot your daughter’s birthday, stop. You are a bad dad. Don’t make it worse. Buy a box of oreos instead.
Last year’s haul. They last forever. Every tiny bit looks like food to a fish.
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Bring the whole family down for the 5th annual Peabody Car Show. Enjoy a stroll down Railroad Ave Main and take in a wide selection of classic, collector, antique and specialty cars from all eras on display.
Thank you to Century Tire and Peabody Wealth Advisors for sponsoring the car show.
Join the fun on Leather City Commons with DJ, 50/50 Raffle, Photo Booth, Auto Vendor Booths, and Beer Garden
Grab a bite to eat from:
Santoro’s: hot dogs, burgers, sausages, lemonade & soft drinks
Breaking Grounds Cafe: boded lunch, chips, cookies, coffee and other treats
Ice Cream truck
Little Depot Diner open from 7a-1p
Lots of fun kids activities, too, including Magic scratch off art activity with cars. Free bubbles and some other kid friendly items compliments of Aspire Developmental Services.
Free admission.
Note: This year the event is being held on Leather City Common and adjacent Railroad Ave (which will be closed to traffic).
Car Owners wishing to participate will be accommodated on a first come, first serve basis. Entry will only be from Sawyer Ave (off Lowell St) beginning at 930am and will continue until 10:45 or until space runs out. There is no cost to participate. Please note, since we are closing a public street we are unable to accommodate early departures from the show.
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Want to feature your auto related business or product? email lgeczi@ne-arc.org for more information.
PHOTO FROM PEABODY MAIN STREET’S CAR SHOW POST
As always, for a comprehensive list of family activities, please visit our good friends at North Shore Kid
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We have finally got some warm weather to compliment the hot real estate market that has been occurring this spring. The question earlier this year was, what are rates going to do and how was that going to influence the housing market???
You will notice from the above graphic, that in May 2018 rates were close to 4.5% and moving up to almost 5% at year-end 2018. January 2019 the rates dropped, and then in March, they really dropped and where they stay today…the low 4’s. The reason this is happening is because, as I wrote in March, the Fed decided to keep rates unchanged for the most part in 2019. The markets reacted favorably to this news, and rates began to settle down. Because there is no talk of future rate hikes, and with uncertainty in the trade and tariff markets, mortgage rates have benefited. And you can too!
JOIN US ON JUNE 15th FROM 7-10 ON BOARD THE LADY SEA, FOR A FUN NIGHT WITH FORMER AND CURRENT COACHES, TEAMMATES, AND OTHERS AS WE KICK OFF THE SUMMER AND GET READY FOR THE 2019 FOOTBALL SEASON.
TICKETS ARE $25, CAN BE PURCHASED AHEAD OF TIME OR AT THE BOAT. ENTERTAINMENT AND RAFFLE ITEMS AVAILABLE
Please join us on Ocean Day Saturday June 8th 2019. For the OLLIE Launch Party! https://www.oceanlab.org/ The FREE festivities begin at noon, right on our pier at Maritime Gloucester at 23 Harbor Loop Gloucester
Gather and check out tables and activities, have fun, be wowed in our virtual submarine partner OLLIE. The Whale Mobile’s (https://thewhalemobile.com/) inflatable whale will be under the big tent, and we’ll open up the classroom/microscope lab with the AR Sandbox, the touch table, and digital microscopes. A quick welcome, a champagne christening, and then we’ll open the doors to OLLIE, and people can check it out until 6pm. We’ll be virtually taking people to coral reef in Bermuda. This is an awesome hands on experience for anyone looking to learn more about our oceans.
On Friday May 24th 53 golfers braved the cold windy afternoon for a good cause, to play in the 7th Annual GHS Golf Tournament. Starting at 3pm at Cape Ann Golf Course the participants competed for the highly coveted GHS Golf Trophy. It was a great event which raised money for the Gloucester High School Sunshine Fund.
A big thank you to the Cape Ann Savings Bank for their continued support in our event with the generous donation to help make t-shirts.
A second big thank you to Pete Sutera for making this year’s t-shirts. You can find him on Instagram at: psutescustomvinyl.
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These sweet Piping Plover chicks are only hours old. All four are healthy, vigorous, and already feeding themselves and stretching their wing buds. They sure were giving their Mom and Dad reason to panic as they ran hither and thither, not yet understanding the adults piping voice commands. A dog ran through the nesting area and a pair of Crows added to the parent’s stress. After both parents briefly left the chicks to distract the dog and give chase to the Crows, calmness was restored and three snuggled under Mom while the fourth kept dad on the run.
*Note–I have been following and filming half a dozen PiPl nests around the state and just to be clear in case of any confusion, these are not our Good Harbor Beach PiPls 🙂
There have been quite a few PiPl chicks hatching around New England beaches. The cool, overcast weather will benefit the hatchlings tremendously. The beaches are relatively quieter, with fewer people, dogs, and trash that attracts avian predators, which will help allow the babies to reach that critical one week old age.
Finding insects in the wrack zone
Tiny wing buds
Adorableness ❤
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For all those interested in the progress of the Cape Ann Reads Children’s Book Contest story The Best Way Home, written and illustrated by Barbara McLaughlin, McLaughlin will be at the Burnham Library in Essex for a reading with an art demonstration and activities for young artists.
Friday, May 31 from 4 – 5 PM, art materials will be provided
Bring children and grandchildren ages 5 and up so they can share their budding talent!
Very best regards,
Barbara McLaughlin
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Here are a few scenes from the open house on Saturday May 18, 2019 at TOHP Burnham Library, Essex, for the Once Upon a Contest Cape Ann Reads exhibition. Most of the photos were taken at the beginning and at the end. What a great turn out on what felt like the first sunny Saturday this spring! Library Director Deborah French and librarian April Wanner welcomed the artists and writers and the community to a lovely public reception. The Friends of the Library provided coffee and baked goodies.
You can catch the exhibition at this venue through June 21, 2019. The temporary public art series by Alexia Parker is on view in this hall and look for one work in the library on the main floor. Three special upcoming programs in Essex feature Barbara McLaughlin this Friday May 31st at 4pm; Diane Polley & Marion Hall June 7th, 4pm; and Betty Allenbrook Wiberg. Contact the library for more information. Good to know: two fantastic playgrounds are close by the library and this exhibition: Memorial Park on the grounds surrounding TOHP, and Eagle’s Nest at Essex Elementray on Story Street.
April Wanner of Essex’s TOHP Burnham Public Library on Cape Ann Reads, a program where kids work on projects with local authors & illustrators. It runs on Fridays through June 7. The show is on display through June 21st. 📗 pic.twitter.com/BU6TvfVSvP
One more week to donate old hearing aids through our ‘Orphan Hearing Aid Drive’. Thank You to All that already donated! It doesn’t cost anything to donate old hearing aids – but the Gift of Hearing could mean the world to a child or adult. Please consider giving at one of our partner locations listed at beauporthearing.com. And don’t forget to have your own hearing tested annually.
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Good Morning Gloucester 