FREE Coffee, Treats & a Sneak Peek of Happy Belly!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Come try Happy Belly the day before we open our doors!

Everyone who stops by between 3 and 5 PM on Wednesday, June 7th will get a free cup of coffee and their choice of a Buddha Cookie or Brown Sugar Rice Crispy Treat!

Bring the whole family, check out the space, and get a taste of what Happy Belly has to offer.
Happy Belly will be open for breakfast & lunch on Thursday, June 8th and for all three meals starting Sunday, June 11th.
Happy Belly
3 Duncan Street Gloucester, MA
978.281.3997
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CAPE ANN VERNAL POND TEAM UPDATE

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Greetings from the Pond Team…

Here are three upcoming activities this week. Join us if you can make it!

Perley Elementary School
51 North St.
Georgetown, MA 01833
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
9:30 am with set up at 8:30 am.

We will be presenting Intro to Vernal Ponds for three classes of young students – showing our Vernal Ponds DVD and showing them some cool critters.
We could use a volunteer or two.

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Get Outside Center
186 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Friday, June 9th, 2017
4:30 to 6:30 pm.
Ribbon Cutting at 5:00 or 5:30.

Now that our sister organization, Kestrel Educational Adventures, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Get Outside Center. Show up and watch me make a fool out of myself saying a few words about CAVPT.

Strawberry Festival
Mile marker One Restaurant
75 Essex Ave.
Gloucester, MA 01930
Saturday, June 10, 2017
11:00 am to 4:00 pm

We will have some sort of live animal display and we need lots of volunteers.

This family friendly festival will have 50+ local vendors, farm fresh food, adoptable puppies, Kids Zone with pony rides, dunk tank, alpacas, face painting, bouncy houses, live music, live broadcast, and tons of fun. Plus the most exciting festival activity will be our very own Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team Display! Come one, come all!

Recaps…

Remember that Visiting Scientist Day at O’Maley School on Friday? Well,,, it got cancelled due to lack of interest. Not due to student’s lack of interest (anything to get out of class). Not enough scientists wanted to do it.
Yesterday I was at the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary with a bunch of our native snakes for their Nature Festival. I was helping out one of my favorite nature educators Richard Wolniewicz. Huge crowd. We were busy all day.

Hope to see you out there… if you can volunteer email cavpt@yahoo.com

Rick

we only have one earth, save it

We keep adding to our website so check out our Activities Photographs…
https://www.capeannvernalpondteam.org/Activity-Photographs

Get Ready for Sail Boston visitors in Rockport June 18-21

Posted on by James Eves

Friends,

Beginning Sunday June 18, we will be welcoming visitors on Conway Tours/Gray Line Coaches for four straight afternoons as part of Sail Boston. With the Chamber, the RCD will be organizing greeters at Dock Square from approximately 2:30-4:30 in the afternoon.  Since the visitors will not be here for long, our hope is to give them a taste of Rockport so they will want to come back for more.

Here is what we expect so far:

  • Sun. June 18 – 239 passengers
  • Mon. June 19 – 556 passengers
  • Tues. June 20 – 549 passengers
  • Wed. June 21 – 417 passengers

Sue Koehler-Arsenault
Rockport Cultural District

Don’t miss the Alice Gardner art exhibition at The Bookstore of Gloucester | dozens of Fiesta books already sold!

Posted on by Catherine

The Bookstore of Gloucester
hosts
Alice Gardner | St Peter’s Fiesta Gloucester, Massachusetts
A solo exhibition featuring the original illustrations (gouache, pen&ink, some acrylic) for her NEW children’s picture book published ©2017 the 90th Anniversary of Gloucester’s St. Peter’s Fiesta!
Address: 61 Main Street. Gloucester, MA 01930
Exhibition dates: June 3, 2017 – Fiesta and beyond!
Bookstore phone: (978) 281-1548

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday June 17

The first St. Peter’s Fiesta book launch and debut reading will be held at Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Public Library as a special part of a celebration program for the 90th Anniversary Party of St. Peter’s Fiesta thrown by the library, The Bookstore and Caffe Sicilia on Saturday June 17, 10-11:15AM 

“After coming to Gloucester so much I finally said I have to get a studio so I can spend my days here!”

She did. Alice Gardner maintains a studio in downtown Gloucester, next to the Cape Ann Museum. She has lived on the North Shore for more than 40 years. St. Peter’s Fiesta is a subject Gardner has photographed, chronicled and painted for over a decade.

Gardner says that multiple programs and contacts stemming from the Cape Ann Reads initiative and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators were critical in getting this new book into production. “Just do it!” was a motivating topic from a Steven Pressfield talk sponsored by the latter. She did. She created an entire new body of some of the Fiesta moments that have touched her most, alive with color and completed in time to coincide with the 2017 90th year Anniversary. Gardner was also inspired by Anita Silvey’s Cape Ann Reads presentations. She said Silvey mentioned “calling all these celebrities for “Everything I need to Know I learned From A Children’s Book.” It made me think that. Why don’t I just call? I wanted to talk to the Mayor. I wanted to talk to many people…This is a Gloucester story. They all grew up with Fiesta. I did not. They became part of creating the book…”  Gardner’s generous acknowledgement narrative is given great attention in the design.

The new paintings on exhibit are not for sale, but you can see a small selection of Gardner’s joyous responses to the spirit of Fiesta in larger, earlier works at The Book Store; or call ahead and visit her studio. “I am inspired by public events that make people happy, they’re doing things where there’s a unique sense of place and culture.” Gardner painted a series inspired by Boston icons– like the Boston Common swan boats– for Massachusetts General Hospital’s Illuminations. She’s also captured the seasonal charm of Manchester by the Sea at Fourth of July.

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Studio next to Cape Ann Museum http://www.alicegardnerstudio.com/

The Bookstore has a substantial children’s book section The Bookstore of Gloucester Facebook link

Alice print exhibit at the books store for Sebastian Junger reading and Fiesta 2016 

Alice photos OF Fiesta featured on GMG

D.E.S. – Crowning – Trinity Sunday June 11th 2017

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

This week at the D.E.S. Club is the Rosary. Here is the Rosary schedule for the week: June 5-11)

Monday, Tuesday, Friday at 7pm – Rosary Prayer
Wednesday at 6:30pm – Mass Service
Thursday at 6:30 pm – Rosary Song Prayer…
Saturday at 6:30pm – Rosary Prayer
Following a POTLUCK dinner and complimentary refreshments!!

 

The D.E.S. Crowning is on Trinity Sunday, June, 11, 2017
Mass Service at Our Lady of Good Voyage Church at 11:45 AM

Traditional “sopas do espírito santo” will be served at 1:00 PM

(Tickets are ($10.00) and are available during Rosary week at the DES or call (978)-283-9737
Raffle Tickets – will be available during the rosary week and the day of the crowning.
You may also contact any committee member or the club for purchase. (Tickets 5 for $5.00)

We look forward to your presence and your continued support.

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Kudos to the Rockport Police Department and Rotary Club

Posted on by Nichole S.

On Saturday, after a lot of baseball, we wandered over to the track behind Rockport High School where the Police Department and Rockport Rotary Club were conducting a bike safety program.

I wish I had known about it early enough to share the information with you all, but put it on your list of things to look into for next year.

With bike and helmet safety checks, bike registration, obstacle courses, challenges, police cruisers to sit in, some free snacks, and sunshine it was a really great event.

Much thanks to all who volunteered and made it possible!

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Community Stuff 6/6/17

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

ESSEX MERCHANTS GROUP ANNOUNCES BEST OF ESSEX ONLINE AUCTION
Essex Merchants Group is excited to announce its Best of Essex Online Goods and Services Auction. The auction will go live on Monday June 5th and run until 10:00 PM on Monday June 19th, 2017.
Participants will have the opportunity to bid on over 120 items donated by Essex friends and businesses.
Items include gift certificates from the town’s restaurants and many of its antique shops. Bid on fine art, specialty gift baskets, marine goods, landscaping and carpentry services, concert tickets, museum memberships and more. Fishing charters and cruises on the Essex River are well represented.
Some of the other highlights are a sculpture by Chris Williams; oil paintings by local artists, Teri Eramo of Eventide Fine Art Gallery, Kim Thayer of Thayer Art, Robert Hanlon of Walker Creek Furniture and Art Gallery and Marcia Savory of Savory Scenes; crab cakes and Caesar salad from Timothy Hopkins Catering and Cogswell’s Grant tickets to Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions.

Beginning June 5th, follow this link to the auction www.essexmerchantsgroup.schoolauction.net/auction2017

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Welcome! Click Catalog to view the auction items.
Click on the picture of the item for a larger view.


Login or Sign Up to start bidding! Bidding closes at 10pm Eastern Time on June 19th!

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Not a member yet? It’s easy to join. For more information, see our website at http://www.sandybay.org

Live: Mayor Romeo Theken MBTA closure meeting | proposed schedules

Posted on by Catherine

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Full house and more than 10 MBTA staff here to answer questions. Jeffrey Gonneville, Chief Operating Officer MBTA, is currently presenting.

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First question out the gate: Can’t we have direct buses from here?

Proposed weekday schedule

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Proposed weekend schedule

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Best Deal on the Harbor.“Water Shuttle Seasonal Passes”

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Best Deal on the Harbor.“Water Shuttle Seasonal Passes”
Only $60 before June 30th. 

email us at harbortours@gmail.com
http://www.capeannharbortours.com/shuttle.html

DON’T MISS DAVID ROBINSON’S PHOTO SHOW AT THE BEAUTIFUL NEW HUDSON GALLERY

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Cynthia Belchou and David Robinson

There’s an elegant new gallery on Main Street, the Hudson Gallery, and while David Robinson’s beautiful photo exhibit is on display is the perfect time to check it out. The gallery’s lighting is simply gorgeous and the space has a lovely flow. On our way out to dinner, Tom and I only stayed for a few moments, but naturally, we ran into Heidi Dallin and friends 🙂

Heidi Dallin, Larry Dalton, and Terry Byrne (Larry and David went to high school together)

More about David’s photos here.

For more information about the Hudson Gallery, contact:
Cynthia Belchou
thehudsongallery@gmail.com
617.755.6672

WHY BIRDS ATTACK CARS AND WINDOWS

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

It’s a new routine. Wherever I park my car on a particular wooded lane, I return to find mama Cardinal attacking the car’s reflective surfaces, both side mirrors and the windshield. She perches in the branches above chortling a medley of warning songs and then swoops in to peck and gnash at herself. I have tried moving my car further down the lane and have covered the mirrors with bags, but still, she perceives my car as “the enemy” and finds a shiny surface at which to strike.

Northern Cardinals, American Robins, and Turkeys are the species we most often hear attack  cars and windows. Northern Mockingbirds and American Goldfinches fly at reflective surfaces as well. The behavior is a territorial display; the bird sees in the object its own reflection and imagines the image is competition, or a threat to its nestlings. Some birds, like Mourning Doves, don’t require a large territory whereas I have read that Black-capped Chickadees will chase off interlopers in as much as a 17 acre territory. The mama Cardinal may continue for the entire nesting season, which is of concern as I don’t want her to wear herself out. Next time when at the wooded lane I’ll try parking even further away.

#GloucesterMA rainbow flag for LGBTQ Pride Month

Posted on by Catherine

The rainbow flag was raised today and City Hall Tower Light will be 4 colors for the month of June for LGBTQ Pride Month

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2017 RCD Grants for Festivals and Events

Posted on by James Eves

2017 RCD Grants for Festivals and Events

Purpose:

To give material support to arts and culture events to help draw cultural tourists to the Rockport Cultural District, especially during the shoulder seasons of Spring & Fall

Requirements:

  • Event or festival must be held in Rockport and sponsored by a Rockport group
  • The arts or culture activities must be a significant part of the event
  • The event must appeal to and attract visitors from beyond Cape Ann

Use of Funds:

  • Up to $400 can be used for general expenses related to stated grant activities as the  organizer sees fit
  • A minimum of 20% ($100) must be used for advertising & promotion

Allocation of Funds:

The RCD may make up to 6 grants. Application deadline is June 26, 2017.

  • Once the grant is approved, receipts/invoices must be submitted along with             name/address of person to be reimbursed; The Town does not pay tax; A tax exempt certificate will be provided for material costs
  • RCD will process reimbursements through Town Accounting Office; expect a 4 week turnaround

Partnership with the RCD:

  • Grant recipients must include the Rockport Cultural District logo in            advertising/promotional materials related to the event/festival

Application process:

Questions?

            Email Sue at rockportculturaldistrict@gmail.com

RCD Festivals and Events Grant Application