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CULTURAL FESTIVAL POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW STORM. UPDATED DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
Pick #1: Cultural Festival!
Saturday 9:00-12:30
Harborlight welcomes you to experience their third annual Cultural Festival! This year guests can travel our halls on a journey through Spain, Peru, Australia, India, Mexico, China, Nigeria, Morocco, and the Azores. Also make a stop along the way to engage in both art and stories from around the world. Grab your passport at the main entrance and begin your adventure! Have your passport stamped in each country while enjoying art, crafts, recipes, and activities from a variety of cultures. Small keepsakes will also be given out in each country.
The morning will end with live entertainment. An amazing group of youth performers from the Chinese Folk Art Workshop will perform a traditional dragon dance, a Diablo yo-yo performance, and leave time for hands-on demonstrations. There is a suggested donation of just $10 per family and baked goods available for purchase. Fun for the whole family!
Pick #2: Sugar Shack Saturdays at Appleton Farms
Spring is coming and the sap is running! Appleton Farms invites families experience the time-honored tradition of maple sugaring with Sugar Shack Saturdays at Appleton Farms. Spend the morning with us and see how we turn sap into sweet syrup. Start by getting creative with some maple themed crafts in the Appleton Old House then get outside and explore our very own sugar shack! Learn how we tap our trees every spring, see the evaporator in action, and taste the freshly made syrup. We will end back inside with a farm snack, including Appleton Farms cheese, apple slices, and homemade maple ice cream while we read a story about maple sugaring!
- Recommended for ages 8 and under but everyone is welcome!
- Space is limited.
- Registration is by the family- if you have 5 or more in your family, please register 2 families.
- Crafts and snacks included and we want to have enough for all.
When:
Saturdays, February 23 – March 9, 2019 10am-11:30am & 1:30-3pm
Location:
Prices:
Member Family: $24
Non-member Family: $30
Phone:
978.356.5728 x4117
Email:
Link(s):
Pick #3: World Wildlife Day at Stone and Franklin Park Zoo
This World Wildlife Day, learn how you can protect the future of wildlife. During scheduled zookeeper chats, you’ll have the opportunity to learn directly from caretakers about some of the endangered animals that call our Zoos home. Visit an Education Station to learn more about World Wildlife Day and the species it celebrates.
Franklin Park Zoo Schedule
- 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Arts & crafts, Tropical Forest sloth exhibit
- 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Education Station, Tropical Forest sloth exhibit
- 10:30 a.m. – Tortoise zookeeper chat, Children’s Zoo
- 11:00 a.m. – Bird’s World zookeeper chat
- 11:30 a.m. – Cooter turtle zookeeper chat, Bird’s World
- 1:30 p.m. – Cotton-top tamarin zookeeper chat
- 2:00 p.m. – Gorilla forage feed and zookeeper chat
- 2:30 p.m. – Tiger zookeeper chat
Stone Zoo Schedule
- 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Education station, Animal Discovery Center
- 10:30 a.m. – Jaguar zookeeper chat
- 2:00 p.m. – Black bear zookeeper chat
As always, for a comprehensive list of family activities, please visit our friends at North Shore Kid
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City of Gloucester Announces New Police Chief
City of Gloucester Announces New Police Chief
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (March 1, 2019) – The administration of Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken
announced today Edward Conley has been selected as the City’s new Police Chief. Conley
currently serves as Police Chief for neighboring Manchester by-the-Sea.
Mayor Romeo Theken said, “I’m pleased to welcome Chief Conley as Gloucester’s new Police
Chief. His experience, leadership qualities and values give me a high degree of confidence in
his ability to lead Gloucester’s Police Department. His deep understanding of the mechanics of
police management and community engagement will be important assets to our City. I look
forward to working together to advance the City’s agenda to provide exceptional and
transparent public safety services.”
The incoming Police Chief will be responsible for the overall planning, administration and
operation of the Gloucester Police Department. The Chief will also continue the community’s
high level policing services, grow its successful public safety outreach programs, and provide
public safety perspective and insight on the City’s management team.
Conley said, “I’m honored to be selected as Gloucester’s next Police Chief and I look forward to
joining the police department and being part of the City’s management team. I pledge to lead
the department with the utmost of integrity and professionalism, as I have done throughout my
career, as we promote, improve, and advance public safety initiatives and the department’s
standing in the community.”
About Conley
Conley has been Manchester-by-Sea’s Police Chief since 2016. Prior to that he served and rose
through the ranks within the Chelsea Police Department for more than twenty years. He also
worked at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and began his impressive career as an Army
Ranger in the military.
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Busy on the Beach
If you look closely for the details at a scene like this at Crane Beach
You’ll see how busy it is even on a cold winter day.
And perhaps you’ll even be rewarded with this
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17 Marathons To Go For Adventureman
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GHS Boys Hoop Playoff game Vs Danvers
GHS Boys prevail in overtime victory against Danvers….Great Game!!
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April Reiki Training and CE’s in Sedona Arizona; First Degree/Shoden
Begin Your Reiki Journey in Beautiful Sedona Arizona
First Degree/Shoden (Beginning Teaching) – 15-hour training.**
When: Friday, Saturday, Sunday. April 5, 6, 7
Where: Sedona, Arizona
No pre-requisite necessary. Come with an open-mind and open-heart!
Contact Us for Details – 978-283-4258 or Email: info@dreamtimewellness.com
Usui Reiki Ryoho – a Japanese Healing Art/Method that originated in 1922 with Founder USUI Mikao Sensei of Japan. Komyo Reiki System: A Keep It Simple system of reiki as taught by Buddhist monk INAMOTO Hyakuten Sensei, based on Japanese aesthetic – Less is More.
Learn Reiki (ray-kee) in this traditional apprentice-style training. Class is offered in beautiful, peaceful settings surrounded by nature. Includes instruction, discussion, practice, meditation, attunements (Reiju,) manual, ongoing mentoring and much more. Learn the history of Reiki Ryoho, techniques for self-reiki and self-care, potential benefits and use of reiki, reiki research, ethics and boundaries, and the reiki precepts…
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EXQUISITE LAVENDER-HUED SNOW LIGHT
Whenever I’m out doing errands, if time allows, I try to take the “long” way around. The sun was beginning to shine through the storm clouds while the snow was still falling when I stopped to capture the beautiful shadowy and pale lavender-gray hues at Stage Fort Park. The pretty grays lasted only a few moments, but I was so glad to have taken the long way.
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WINDY DAY IN GLOUCESTER BLOWS A THICK-BILLED MURRE TO SHORE!
Michelle Barton and Chris Anderson shepherded this little seabird back to the water after it was seen blown into a telephone pole and onto the ground. Many thanks to Chris and Michelle for taking care of the Arctic voyager and for sharing their photos..
Just like the Razorbill spotted earlier in the month, Thick-billed Murres are members of the Auk family. They are deep sea divers and seen off the coast of New England during the winter months. Thick-billed Murres are occasionally blown onto shore during intense storms.
I read that Thick-billed Murres have very pointy eggs and wanted to see what one looked like. Don’t you think they are beautiful? I love the shape, and patterns. Image courtesy Audubon.
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Kayaks under the snow
When it snows I like the how pretty it looks.
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From our friend Iain Kerr Ocean Alliance
Dear Friends,
Here we go again! The Parley SnotBot team is off on expedition, we’re taking along some other ‘Bots and will be having some long distance chats!
This time we’re in the Dominican Republic (DR), visiting the breeding / calving grounds of the North West Atlantic humpback whales (photo 1). I was first here in the 1990’s aboard the RV Siben and then the RV Odyssey so it is great to be back. This location and this group of whales is very special to us, because while the humpbacks mate and give birth in the waters off the DR, some of them migrate up the East Coast of the U.S. to spend their summers feeding on Stellwagen Banks, right off the coast from our headquarters in Gloucester, Mass. (Photo 2)
During Expedition 9 we took the Parley SnotBot out to study and collect (Exhaled Breath Condensate) “Snot” samples from the Gloucester population of humpbacks and we’re very excited to bring all of our skills and tools to bear to add what knowledge we can, about these whales in their winter grounds.
As with every Parley SnotBot expedition, this one started out with us at the airport with a ridiculous number of bags (total of 20 bags with 2 carry on’s each ☹). We flew Boston to Miami, Miami to Santo Domingo where we picked up a rental mini van. We then drove for almost 3 hours to our Air B&B accommodation (Photo 3) in Samana. Six people and twenty bags was a bit of a squeeze in the mini van. So when we got to Samana Chris and I removed some of the chairs from the mini-van to make it a bit more SnotBot friendly (Photo 4).
In addition to SnotBot, we are putting energy into another member of the Drones For Whale Research family while we are in the DR EarBot. EarBot was first seen in Alaska in 2016 and 2017 (photo 5). While our other drone work has kept us busy, our Robotics manager Chris Zadra has given EarBot some much needed TLC over the last few months and we are excited to be putting EarBot back to work to record humpback whale songs in the DR. As well as doing some behavioral studies and working with regional scientists monitoring the whale watch industry here we will also be doing photogrammetry work (measuring the size of whale with a drone) using our LIDAR array (photo 6) mounted on one of our Inspire 2 drones.
We have a bigger team here this year as we continue to try to improve Parley SnotBot and our Drones for Whale Research program. The team from past expeditions are Iain Kerr, Andy Rogan, Christian Miller & Chris Zadra. Now we have Ocean Alliance staff member Britta Akerley helping Andy with the science and data and Angie Sremba from Dr. Scott Bakers lab at Oregon State. Angie has been doing most of the DNA analysis of our Snot samples so we thought it important for her to see the collection process. Next week Ainsley Smith from Gloucester will be joining us to be trained on our data protocols and management. As if this was not enough we will be joined by Germany’s largest TV network ZDF (https://www.zdf.de) to shoot a documentary short.
We did get out on the water today but it was blowing close to 20 knots (photo 7) which like Gabon makes the work more challenging. To try and beat these trade winds the plan is to be on the boat tomorrow at 6:00 am (before sunrise) and be with the whales as the sun rises – hopefully we will have some spectacular photos and will be able to collect plenty of Snot before the wind picks up (fingers crossed).
Last but not least I am excited to report that these blogs are going Live! Our good friends at Maritime Gloucester will host an evening with a live discussion from the DR with the Parley SnotBot team along with live and archival footage. We hope that we can share some of the expedition excitement and let people know what it is like to be working in the field and answer a few questions….LIVE. If you live near Gloucester, please come on down and be part of the conversations at Maritime Gloucester on Sunday March 3rd, you can Register here. Next time we do Expedition Live we hope to webcast as well but for this first one we are trying to keep it simple as we can.
So once again we will be keeping busy, that said I am sure we will have some great stories to tell along with Christian Miller’s stunning photos.
As always thanks again to our partners and expedition supporters Parley.
Onwards Upwards and Fair Winds from the Dominican Republic!
Iain
Iain Kerr
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yellow white yellow | fresh snow winter morning
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Narnia in Gloucester
when snow falls pair of charming street lights Gloucester Mass call forth magic of narnia lamp posts
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Dave Sag’s Blues Party celebrates tonight …Yes, it’s Mardi Gras Time @ The Rhumb Line 2.28.2019
Thursday at the Rheummie, Let’s celebrate Phat Tuesday. Yes, it’s Mardi Gras Time and in honor of St.Hadacol, we’re gonna whoop it up before the dreaded Lenten heave-ho. So, look out for something a lil different. I’ve got John Cameron, fleet-fingered piano perfessor to tinkle the ivories, Steevee Sadler to mortar the cracks, and Andrew “Pops” Jones lubricatin’ that second line beat. Plus a whole slew of musical cronies who promise to show up and electrify the situation.Gonna be singin’ a whole lot of nude stuff. be prepared! 830 to 1130
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
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From FOB Len Burgess
If you are interested in model ship building
I’m the guest on a 1/2 hr. program on local TV called “Smart Boating” with Paul Jermain.
The show is airing in Gloucester, Essex, Rockport and Manchester this week-
Here are the time slots on Channel 12:
Smart Boating:
Thursday at 8:30 pm
Friday at 10:00 am
Sunday at 7:00 pm
-Len Burgess
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Gloucester Smiles-1163
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Eiders in the Storm
Sing it with me, you know you want to…….classic Doors “Riders on the Storm”
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Pics of the former US Coast Guard station building the partially frozen women lived in when the super blizzard hit 50 years ago (Photos from Pat Morss)
Joey:
The Gloucester Daily Times featured a story today (Wed) about the super blizzard 50 years ago. Text included: “But two years later, the bodies of two elderly women were found, still partially frozen, in their home in a remote section of Eastern Point. Police said they found signs that one victim had been chewed by a dog.” Shortly after, we were building our early year-round home as next-next door neighbor. Here is a photo of the former US Coast Guard station building the women lived in, which was a WWII observation station that triangulated with a similar station in Scituate to plot ship movements into Boston Harbor. The second photo shows the view through the horizontal slot window for the telescopic binoculars.
Best, Pat Morss
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Lobster trap tag washed up in Cornwall, UK that was attached to a trap in Gloucester MA harbor that belonged to our lobsterman Tommy Burns, skipper of the F/V Arethusa
Hello from England!
We found this lobster trap tag washed up in Cornwall, UK a few days ago and wondered whether it might have once belonged to lobsterman Tom Burns of the boat Arethusa? Not sure if it’s the same person or not but it would be wonderful to find out!
With very best wishes from Tracey Williams in Newquay, Cornwall
I put it into a google map and did a distance calculation- 3052 miles!
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Out On The Railways From Kevin Henry
Good Morning Gloucester 