Community Health Needs Assessment Survey

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Community Health Needs Assessment Survey
Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals are conducting a Community Health Needs Assessment to better understand the most pressing health-related issues for residents. The information gathered will help develop health improvement plans that address these issues, and guide decisions on investments in community programs and services. Your input is extremely important.
 
Please take a few minutes to complete the Community Health Needs Assessment Survey. The survey is available in 7 languages. You can select your language in the top right corner: e
 

Information from this assessment is vital to help guide the work of community partners and our towns and cities. Please take a moment to participate in the survey and encourage others to as well.

Thank you.
Grace Giambanco Numerosi
Regional Community Relations Manager
Business Development
Location: Beverly & Addison Gilbert Hospitals 

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GloucesterCast 330 With Kate Allen, Jamie Mathison, Sarah Steward,Ralph DiGiorgio, Catherine Ryan and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/31/19

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GloucesterCast 330 With Kate Allen, Jamie Mathison, Sarah Steward,Ralph DiGiorgio, Catherine Ryan and  Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/31/19

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Topics Include:

Adventureman Update

Adventuredad went to Nichole’s Son’s Hockey Game

Walk No More

Dogtown compost facility

Red Finch Nesting Again

Beyond Beef

Walking with kids

The Line Tender – Kate Allen

Earth Day -April 27th 2019

The Great Gloucester Clean Up

Aardvark Straws

Beyond Beef

Cape Ann Reads


BEAUTIFUL RED-TAILED HAWK – HUNTER OF MARSH AND MEADOW

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This juvenile Red-tailed hawk was perched in a tree on the roadside running along the Great Salt Marsh. She was hunting a squirrel that was half hidden in the leaf litter below. This is the second time in the past several weeks that we’ve seen a Red-tailed Hawk hunting and eating a squirrel. The first was in our neighbor’s yard, perched on the stone wall, eating a Gray Squirrel. The Red-tailed flew overhead with the squirrel in its beak and landed on the lattice of our outdoor shower enclosure. My husband stood beneath the shower ceiling and watched for a bit as the hawk finished off his meal.

The Red-tailed Hawk’s diet is highly variable, consisting of small mammals including voles, mice, rats, rabbits, and squirrels; other birds including bobwhite, starlings, blackbirds, ducks, and pheasant; reptiles such as snakes and frogs; fish; insects; bats; and carrion. They are colloquially called “chickenhawks” however, they rarely take a standard-sized chicken.

The Red-tailed Hawk is the most common bird of prey found in North America. We saw several in Mexico on our trip to Cerro Pelon in early March. They are found from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as the West Indies and Panama.

Week 4 INVENTORS #GloucesterMA | Try Mr. Goulart’s local history trivia for 9th graders at Gloucester High School – good luck!

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Over six weeks I’m posting local history trivia questions from Shaun Goulart’s creative weekly scavenger project for his 9th grade history class at Gloucester High School– except we’ll be one week behind the students’ pace. He explains that the “questions are multi-layered and usually have an image required in the submission. All questions will deal with Gloucester’s local history. I recommended to the students to utilize friends and family so your student may be reaching out to you for help. It is a competition and the prizes will be calculated into the Term 4 grade” for the students.

Mr. Goulart’s Local History Trivia Scavenger Hunt Week 4 Inventors

 1. John Hays Hammond Jr.

  • Go to the location of his home and take a picture with a member in it.

  • What did he invent?

 

2. Clarence Birdseye

  • Go to the location where his company was and take a picture with a member in it.

  • What did he invent?

 

3. Augustus H. Wonson

  • Go to the location of his grave and take a picture with a member in it.

  • What did he invent?

 

4. William Nelson Le Page

  • Go to the location where his company was after it moved from Rockport and take a picture with a member in it.

  • What did he invent?

  • Go to the location of Le Page’s company co-founder Ruben Brooks’ manor and take a picture with a member in it.

 

 

Prior Posts

3/26 /19 Week Three Results

3/24/19 Week Three Questions- Gloucester Firsts

3/21/19 Week Two results

3/17/19 Week Two questions- Defending Gloucester

3/14/19 Week One results

3/10/19 Week One trivia questions

 

The Gannet coming out after a long winter, photos from our friend Mary Barker

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You can tell it’s spring when the gig rowers and volunteers have flocked to Maritime Gloucester to get their boats back in the water.

From our friend Mary Barker.  She was down at Maritime Gloucester yesterday morning as the Gannet was being lowered into the water.

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Healthy AF- Sandpiper Bakery Avocado Toast

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I could have eaten like crap all week and then have one order of Sandpiper Bakery Avocado Toast and I’ll be strutting around like I’m Jack Lalane.

Michael O’Leary & friends at Jalapenos some Sundays

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Though Dog Bar and Landing are closed, you can find Michael O’Leary and friends on alternate Sundays at Jalapenos (only in America!) brought together by their love of traditional music beautifully played, sung and felt. They were at the Farm on St Patrick’s Day, and Lannon music sails.

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Maternal Garments

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Some photos from the show Writing Mothers Workshop hosted at the Lanesville Community Center this past Saturday.
Maternal Garments:  What Mothers Wear was a mixed media exhibition that addressed the many layers of “clothing” mothers wear and the meaning and cultural context entwined within those garments.  This exhibition was a collaboration between words and fabric.

From Iain Kerr

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Dear Friends,

What an adventure the Blue Plant Live shoot has been – it’s been an absolutely amazing experience for the SnotBot team and it’s Snot over yet (😉)! EarBot is live this Sunday (show #4) at 20:00 GMT on BBC 1 BBC Blue Planet Live. If you missed the SnotBot show (# 2) I will let you know how and when you can see a non-live version, it is coming to BBC America and other media outlets.

BBC did have some transmission issues during our live shoot, but I take my hat off to the whole team. I have been told that this was the biggest live production that the BBC have ever done. To give you an on location perspective of this undertaking, there are 33 people in the BBC Baja team, 3 people in the helicopter team, 3 local small boats and drivers and of course the 3 person SnotBot team (missing Miller). Grand total 42 people!!! Clearly shooting a live show is far more complicated than a regular documentary. I think that the BBC “The Equator from the Air” (still to be released) production team who joined us in Gabon West Africa had a total of 6 people.

The 42 people were broken down into 7 different crews;

  1. The shore crew who managed the satellite uplink (we could not get more than twenty kilometers from this location, which turned out to be a limiting factor).
  2. The uplink crew on the boat, responsible for transmitting the live signal to the shore crew.
  3. The film and sound crew on the boat.
  4. The SnotBot team – who knows what they do?
  5. The helicopter crew.
  6. The ShotOver boat crew (I talked about the amazing ShotOver camera in an earlier blog) – they took shots of us on the boat from the water & amazing wildlife shots.
  7. Supporting panga’s run by local fishermen who ran people out to the bigger boat, tracked whales etc.

Typically I lead with expedition logistics, so it is hard for me to express how much of a pleasure it was to watch others doing this job and doing it so well. However you cut it, managing 42 people in the field is a logistical nightmare and the fact that they kept pulling off the impossible was amazing.

My wife can tell you I am not a morning person, well I guess my future is not in live TV.  For two days in a row we had to be at breakfast at 5:00 am and on the live day 4:30 am. We did get to see some more spectacular sunrises at sea though and the shore scenery was always spectacular.

There was rehearsal day before the live segment, not just for our location but for all of the different connections between the two other live teams and the studio in London. I take my hat off to Chris Packham, his ability to remember boat loads of facts and then eloquently reiterate them on demand-live was quite phenomenal.  For those of you who missed the live SnotBot show, the satellite uplinks were not kind to me. Chris Packham introduced me as one of his favorite scientist’s and then we lost the uplink.  Andy had a great segment on the science and data later in the show so we are all good. If you get a chance please watch the show, in the meantime, (spoiler alert) we did find a couple of blue whales on the live day but they were out of the satellite uplink range so no Snot collection live, but they ended the show with a cut to a Snot collection we made during the live rehearsal. I like to think that we did collect blue whale Snot live but it was only watched by the producers in London & the Baja team. In one of those bizarre situations it turns out that the sample we collected during the live rehearsal is the most productive blue whale snot sample we have collected to date.  Andy said that the liquid was so gummy that he had a hard time sucking it up with the micro pipette. I have attached the actual snot collection video short that appeared during the show to this e mail.

The Sea of Cortez is one of my favorite places to work, every day on the water held new and different wildlife encounters. Chris Packham quoted Jacques Cousteau who called the Sea of Cortez “The Aquarium of the Pacific.” I have run sperm, humpback, blue and grey whale expeditions here. When you are out on the water there is always enormous biodiversity, from concentrated bait balls of fish that attracts all sorts of wildlife including diving birds, to Mantas, turtles, dolphins, whales and whale sharks and so on.

I have attached a few photos of the team working and some amazing Sea of Cortez wildlife, apologies that I don’t have the capacity at this time to label them all. Of course we missed our good friend Christian Miller, but Andy and the rest of the team stepped up to the plate with the attached photos. I have included a couple of lunch break photos that I thought were fun.

I am still staggering a bit from a lack of sleep so I hope that you will bear with my usual erroneous writing and grammar. We have just flown south to our next location and we will be out on the water tomorrow and Sunday following and listening to Humpback whales and flying EarBot (LIVE).

I want to end by applauding the BBC Blue Planet Live team again, what an incredible effort. At dinner one night the director said that the goal of this show was to be ambitious and push boundaries, they did than and the some!

The Ocean Alliance Drones for Whale Research Program continues….. One more show to go but well done team Blue Planet live!!

Best Fishes

Iain

Iain Kerr

http://www.whale.org

 

 

museum news: Trustees adds deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum to its properties

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Published reports broaching the merger surfaced in September 2018. Now it’s an official merger under the Trustees.

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BREAKING NEWS: The residents of Lincoln have voted to approve The Trustees integration with the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, adding another special place to our properties!

The deCordova–along with its nearly 30 acres of beautiful landscapes and internationally acclaimed collection of more than 3,400 objects–will be a unique cultural site for The Trustees, and furthers our mission to connect people to inspiring places.

The town of Lincoln continues to retain ownership of its lands (most of the property) after this integration.

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CAPE ANN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GRANTS

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The application process for the 2019 Grants is currently under way, with applications due May 1st. All made possible by the proceeds from the Cape Ann License Plate. This year we will award $15,000

In the last two years we have awarded $24,000 to local nonprofits and education initiatives. Action, Inc was delighted to receive one of the first in 2017 to support their Healthcare Career Pathways Program. The grant was uses to cover the cost of supplies for students to complete training. Materials required included things like scrubs, text books, medical supplies all used for training. As a results three unemployed individuals obtained employment. Twelve others increased their income as a result of the training.

All of this was made possible because you take the time to order a Cape Ann License Plate at Lovecapeann.com So take the time today and show your love and pride in our Cape Ann Community.