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A beautiful day in the neighborhood
Not only is it TGIF but it’s a spectacular, crisp morning in the neighborhood! Today’s view from Annisquam Yacht Club.
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Halloween Decorations #1
The boys have challenged me to make hunting for stellar Halloween decorations a thing like when we drive around and look for the best Christmas light displays in December. So, for the next few weeks we’ll evidently be looking for and taking photos of Halloween decorations. Feel free to share good locations!
Here’s some found at the Rockport Inn and Suites.
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Go See Gloucester’Golden Age Of Fishing Premier October 26th
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CB at Stage Fort Park During Gran Prix prep
Stage Fort Park is being prepped for the 19th annual Gran Prix cyclocross race this weekend. However, despite the markings on the ground and the stakes placed to guide the riders, the Park still has many beautiful settings.
However, anyone considering a crystal ball purchase should be VERY AWARE that it is very very easy to start a fire, as you can see here. The leaf got too close for comfort, so it was reminded to keep its distance by setting it ablaze. Yikes. This is a very serious warning that these can be very dangerous, especially at this time of year.
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Glorious Start to the Weekend
Beautiful morning on Wonsons Cove.
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Cape Ann Lanes candlepin bowling: Thursdays Veterans League
Photos of candlepin bowling league from Pauline- on Thursday nights it’s Cape Ann Veterans at Cape Ann Lanes, Gloucester, MA. Contact Adam Curcuru, Director Cape Ann Veterans Services about the fun league. Contact Cape Ann Lanes about the other nights: it’s a happening spot! Thanks for sharing photos, Pauline and Adam!
Worcester, MA, is the place where Candlepin started, mid 1800s and roughly the same time period as interest in golf spread. Unlike golf which spread everywhere, candlepin stuck around New England. Some people feel that’s because it’s harder than 10 pin. Who remembers Candlepin Bowling competitions on Channel 5 (1950s-1970s), later other channels (1970s-1990s), one of the most hidden watched sports on TV? It may have been on in the ‘background’, but it was a staple. Did they have bars then? Here’s some vintage inspiration, one with sportscaster Don Gillis 1992
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Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board Listings For 10/13/17
Cape Ann Community
Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board
Welcome To Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board
JOEY C ~
A place where non-profit Cape Ann organizations can post press releases directly and then those press releases will be reposted to http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com . This is not an advertising space for businesses, fitness or wellness organizations, or music listings.
The web address will be http://www.capeanncommunity.com
To have your community organization news posted here, contact Joey C who will grant access for you to post directly.
The Open Door Autumn Breakfast
OCTOBER 12, 2017 ~ THEOPENDOORMA
Please join The Open Door for our annual Autumn Breakfast on Thursday, October 26, from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at Cruiseport Gloucester. This celebration of community spirit kicks off the 2017 Thanksgiving Meal Basket and Food Drive season.
Breakfast is free. Donations requested. Reservations required by 10/23. Call 978-283-6776 ext. 205 or emailing breakfast@foodpantry.org.
Can’t make it? Want to help? Donate online or find out more at www.FOODPANTRY.org.
Age & Dementia Friendly Community Forums
Your Input is Critical!
SeniorCare Inc. will host four Community Forums throughout Cape Ann to begin a discussion of how Cape Ann can become more Age and Dementia Friendly. The four Forums will be led by Dr. Caitlin Coyle from UMass Boston, and will be held at:
- Rockport Community House, Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 10:30am-12:00pm
- Gloucester’s Rose Baker Senior Center, Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 6:00-7:30pm
- Essex Town Hall, Thursday, November 16, 2017, 2:00-3:30pm
- Manchester Community Center, Thursday, November 16, 2017, 5:00-6:30pm
Members from all aspects of the community are encouraged to attend, including government, human service agencies, health and beauty, finance and banking, media and information services, private business, and—possibly the most important group—caregivers and persons directly impacted by aging and dementia. Interested individuals are welcome to attend one or all of the Forums. Your input is critical.
What makes a community Age and Dementia Friendly? Are the sidewalks conducive to wheel chairs and strollers? Does transportation for seniors who no longer drive meet the need? Does our community make a person with dementia or other challenges feel welcome?
These are just a few of the questions the Age and Dementia Friendly initiative will aim to answer.
These Forums are made possible through a grant from the North Shore Community Health Network.
To learn more about SeniorCare’s mission to serve elders and adults with disabilities on the North Shore, please visit our website www.seniorcareinc.org. As the discussion on Age & Dementia Friendly Cape Ann progresses and Action Teams are formed, the website will include a section about this initiative.
SeniorCare Hosts Facing Death, Finding Peace Workshop
SeniorCare Inc. will hold a “Facing Death, Finding Peace” workshop with interfaith minister and master teacher Reverend Sue Koehler-Arsenault, M.Div., on Saturday, October 28, 2017, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the SeniorCare offices at 49 Blackburn Center in Gloucester. The cost for this workshop is $35 per person and includes lunch. Advance registration is required at www.seniorcareinc.org. Registration is limited to 20 people.
Through guided meditation, personal reflection and group sharing, Reverend Sue Koehler-Arsenault, will lead 20 participants toward making peace with the end of life so that they may live a more purposeful and powerful life now.
Rev. Sue earned her Master of Divinity degree with distinction from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Boston College in 1994). She has served as chaplain at Wellesley College where she was part of a pioneering interfaith spiritual life program, working with Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Protestant, Unitarian, and Muslim colleagues and students. Later, as Chaplain with Community Hospice in Schenectady, NY she became a skillful spiritual counselor and end-of-life educator. In November 2014, Rev. Sue moved to Cape Ann with her husband, artist David Arsenault. She is Dean of Second Year students and teaches on the Spiritual Care of the Dying at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in NY, NY.
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Gloucester Introduces Municipal Leadership Training Workshops
Gloucester Introduces Municipal Leadership Training Workshops
Program Custom Designed by Van Loan School at Endicott College’s Center for Leadership
(Gloucester, Mass.) – October 11, 2017 – Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken announced new training workshops for City of Gloucester employees designed by the Van Loan School at Endicott College’s Center for Leadership, starting first with “Fundamentals of Leadership” training for municipal department managers.
“The citizens of Gloucester deserve accountable and professional city services, so we must empower our staff with meaningful training and education,” said Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken. “The career development of our city employees remains a top priority and we are proud to partner with Endicott College’s Van Loan School for customized workshops to assist with this growth.”
Initial training needs were identified between Personnel Director Donna Leete and Center for Leadership Director Richard G. Weissman after a series of surveys and employee insights were collected and analyzed…
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Alicia Unleashed Episode 69 With Joey C and Alicia Cox Taped 10/12/17
Alicia Unleashed 69 With Joey C and Alicia Cox Taped 10/12/17
Topics Include:
Take 2
01:40 Talking about being single differences between now and 20 years ago
03:35 Millennials Playing By Their Own Rules
05:52 Coming Out Day
06:30 Alexa Uses
14:00 Talking Tolerance
23:00 Bud Light Beer Can That Lights Up When Your Team Scores
25:20 Passports Social Media
25:55 Why Is It That Every Waitress Inevitably Asks You How Your Meal Is The Second You Put A Full Bite Of Food In Your Mouth?
28:00 The Most Consistent Gloucester Restaurants Over The Longest Period Of Time (Franklin, Passports, Duckworths)
30:17 Maria Seniti At The Franklin Guessing How Long They’ve Been Open, The Hanger Steak, Guessing Game- How Many Hangar Steaks Has The Franklin Served? Guess In the comments, closest wins a Hanger Steak and two drinks.
33:00 Au Beaujolais
34:40 Meeting Toby Pett
35:30 The Slut Double-Standard
37:15 Questions For Maria Seniti
37:55 Pronto Pizza
39:25 Shoutout To Hanna Kimberley and Predicting A Movie Deal
42:00 Harvey Weinstein Pulling The “I Need Rehab” PR Move Is So Cliche
44:40 Studio Crepe Closing
48:34 JD Aspesi Puts It All On The Line Stating Rockport House Of Pizza Has The Best Roast Beef Sandwiches Ever And I’m Intrigued
52:40 Alicia Does Her Roast Beef All wrong
53:20 Huge Roast Beef Mystery
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WHEN A WEED IS NOT A WEED and Why Joe-Pye is So Darn Lovable!
A bodacious beauty possessing the toughest of traits, Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium) is the stalwart star of the eastern native plants garden. Large, airy dome-shaped flowerheads blooming in a range of shades from pink to lavender to purple provide food, by way of nectar, foliage, and seed heads to myriad species of bees, butterflies, and songbirds. Beginning in mid-July and continuing through mid-October, pollinators on the wing can find sustenance in a garden planted with Little Joes and Big Joes.
Joe Pye, the person, is thought to have been a North Carolina Native American medicine man who used these wildflowers to cure many ailments, including typhoid fever. The plants became know as Joe Pye’s weed.
A name changer from weed to wildflower would be a game changer for numerous species of native plants. Why do so many native wildflowers have the suffix weed? Because when the colonists arrived from Europe, they wanted their crops, as well as European cultivated flowers, to grow in their new gardens. Anything native that interfered with their plans was deemed a “weed.” Examples of beautiful and invaluable North American native pollinator plants with the name given weed are milkweed (Asclepias), sneezeweed (Helenium), ironweed (Veronia), and jewelweed (Impatiens capensis).
Three favorite and fabulous species for the New England landscape are Eutrochium purpureum, E. maculatum, and E. dubium. Joe-pye grows beautifully in average to moist soil, in full sun to light shade. Plant Joe-pye in the back of the border. E.purpurem grows five to seven feet tall, while Little Joe grows three to five feet. With their beautiful blossoms, robust habit, winter hardiness, and disease resistance, these long blooming members of the sunflower family are treasured for their ability to attract an array of butterflies, bees, and songbirds to the garden during the mid- to late-summer season.
Just look at this sampling of the different species of Lepidoptera finding noursihment from the blossoms of Joe-pye!
Tiger Swallowtail
Painted Lady
Black Swallowtail
Monarch
Joe-Pye does especially well in a coastal native plants garden.
If you enjoyed reading this post, I hope you will consider donating to the completion of my documentary film Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly. Every contribution is tremendously appreciated. For more information on how you can help, please visit the film’s website at www.monarchbutterflyfilm.com
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Back Shore Fishing
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Out Late
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Wicked good fun tonight @ The Rhumb Line’s Dave Sag’s Blues Party with Ed Scheer, Ricky King Russell, Mario Perrett and Dear Ol’ Dave himself. 8:30pm 10.12.2017
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
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Half Off All Day At The Studio Today October 12, 2017
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Atlantic Avenue
The views are so pretty as you drive down towards Wingaersheek.
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Alicia Unleashed- Wags 2 Riches
Recorded 10/11/17 with Guests Kristie Nicastro and Patty Bonfanti, with B-Side and Hostess Alicia
Hot Plate-Yoga for Surfing at Cape Ann Power Yoga October 15 12-1:30pm with Joel Kalinowsky
Scary Pumpkin Carving-Oct 21, 6-9pm Get Outside Center-Browns Mall;
Wellness Workshop at Cross Fit Cape Ann with Christina Kalinowsky October 24-6:45pm.
Briefly touch base on Vegas and California Fires. RIP Tom Petty.
We sit down with Kristie Nicastro and Patty Bonfanti, part of Wags 2 Riches non-profit-organization that helps recuse dogs and now cats from Puerto Rico. What is involved in rescuing pets, what funds they receive, some of the struggles of rescuing pets, including paying out of pocket. They discuss the euthanasia rate in PR. Advice on what a new pet owner should know about adopting a pet. Adopting vs Pet stores. We discuss Puerto Rico Devastation and what they are doing now to rescue animals now.
They are also looking for more people to join their team! They are looking for a Grant Writer! THE PUPPIES NEED YOU!
http://www.wags2richesdogrescue.org/
Paypal:
info@wags2richesdogrescure.org
Social Shoutouts:
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@wags2richesdogrescue
@KookIsland
@capeannpoweryoga
@EssexCountyGetOutsideCenter
@CapeAnnAnimalAid
Instagram:
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Smile.Amazon.com/ Search Wags 2 Riches
#adoptdontshop #wags2riches #PuertoRico
#PuertoRicoRelief #dogrescue #grantwriterswanted #animalaid
#dogobsessed #petfosters #helpwanted #volunteer
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Native filmmaker, local fishermen | Trailer for Dead in the Water – the documentary
David Wittkower’s full length documentary about the Gloucester fishing industry, Dead in the Water, was produced by Wittkower, Linzee Coolidge, John Bell and Angela Sanfilippo. Music is by Paula Cole. LA based filmmaker, Wittkower, returned home to Gloucester, and was surprised by how different the docks were from the same ones he scrambled over as a kid. What happened? A local screening premiere is slated for Saturday November 18, 3pm, at Rockport High School. Tickets can be purchased in advance (978)282-4847.
photo: Wittkower filming at sea — with PAUL VITALE, GLOUCESTER
Trailer
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This Weekend in the Arts
Laurie Simko One-Artist Show
Lush Life: Continuum
Laurie Simko – Connected Energy, Oil, 30×30
Laurie Simko – More Splash #2, Oil, 16×12
Laurie Simko – More Splash #3, Oil, 12×16
An exhibition of paintings by artist Laurie Simko will open in the Marguerite Pearson Room of the Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M) on Saturday, October 14th with an artist’s reception from 2 – 4 PM. The exhibition will be on view Saturday, October 14 – Thursday, October 26.
Over the past decade Laurie has produced a series of paintings exploring the richness of life in the streams, marshes, gardens and woods around her. The macro and micro views in nature allow for a diverse interpretation of its organic forms in their varying stages of growth. This exhibition reveals the continuation of this search for further understanding and a fresh, personal expression of the natural world.
Laurie works with oil on canvas or wood panel inquiring with reverence the interconnection we have with our environment, its offerings of chaos and order, flow and stillness, growth and decay, all elements intrinsic to our shared lush life.
Laurie Simko received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a member of and has exhibited at the National Association of Women Artists in NYC, Copley Society of Art in Boston, Concord Art Association and Rockport Art Association & Museum, and has also exhibited in many juried shows throughout the New England area and NYC, including the Arts League of Lowell, Brush Art Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA, Whistler House Museum and Gallery Z in Lowell, MA.
Simko has a studio at the Western Ave Studios in Lowell, MA. For more information and portfolio please visit her website at http://www.lauriesimko.com.
RAA&M Fall Hours:
Open Tuesday – Saturday 10 AM – 5 PM; Sunday 12 – 5 PM. For more information on this and other shows, please visit the RAA&M’s website at www.rockportartassn.org
This Week in Rockport
Friends,
What an incredible weekend ahead!
A stellar line-up of vocalists and musicians will be on hand Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society in a benefit for the Steeple Fund, “Rockport Rocks.” See the attachment below for details.
Cape Ann Plein Air is in full swing with activities across the region. CAPA’s Gala (Saturday) and Exhibit (Saturday -Monday) comes to the RAA&M. More information here.
This is the last weekend of Free Cultural District Walking Tours for the season. You can meet me in Dock Square Saturday at 10 a or Sunday at 1 p.
Finally, Rockport Exchange presents Harvestfest on T-Wharf this Saturday from 10 a – 5 p. featuring live bluegrass, jazz, folk, indie rock, cooking demos, a farm expo, plenty of activities for families and, ofcourse, beer.
Have a great week!
~ Sue Koehler-Arsenault
Good Morning Gloucester 