My View of Life on the Dock
The 4th Marc K. Jackson Memorial Golf Tournament
Benefiting the Marc K. Jackson Neuro-oncology Patient Support Fund
Friday. May 19th. Enjoy a day of golf at beautiful Stow Acres Country Club. 58 Randall St. Stow MA. Includes a delicious lunch afterwards and a chance to win awesome prizes, including Red Sox tickets!
Event Contacts – Mike, Janna, Brian, Kari
For More Information Email: info@tootsforetufts.org
100% of the funds raised go towards helping cancer patients.
The Magnolia Pier float has been put back, thank you volunteers and a sure sign of summer.
The annual Citywide Arts Festival, a collaboration between the Gloucester Public School District and the Gloucester Education Foundation continues to grow with another extensive downtown event. This year’s festival will feature art and performances from children in every school in the Gloucester Public School District.
The Arts Festival takes place on Saturday, May 13 and is a showcase of student visual and performance art, including painting, ceramics, photography, woodworking, poetry, theater and music from every school in the district.
All are invited to participate in a collaborative art project that will take place from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Sculpture Park across from the Cape Ann Museum.
A highlight of the festival will be the paintings and drawings by Gloucester’s own rising artists – students from the Gloucester Pre-School, the city’s five elementary schools, O’Maley Innovation Middle School and Gloucester High School – that will be displayed in downtown venues – City Hall, Sawyer Free Library, the Cape Ann Museum, and the Sculpture Park.
To see a video about the Festival, visit https://youtu.be/G1KftLNJeyE
What: Citywide Arts Festival – Gloucester, Massachusetts
When: Saturday, May 13, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (see below for a schedule of events)
Where: Sawyer Free Library, City Hall, Cape Ann Museum.
For more info: www.thinkthebest.org
11 am to 12 pm GHS Culinary Arts Reception – Sawyer Free Library
11 am to 11:30 Mad Hot Ball Demonstration – City Hall
11:30 to 12 pm Recorder Performance – Elementary School Students – City Hall
12 to 12:340 pm Ukulele Performance – Elementary School Students – City Hall
1 to 1:30 pm GHS Interactive Engineering Demonstration – City Hall
1 to 1:30 pm Dancing Through the Decades Workshop – City Hall
1 to 3 pm Collaborative Art Project – Sculpture Park – Museum
1:30 to 2:00 pm GHS Theater Performance – City Hall
2 to 2:30 pm GHS Chorus Performance – City Hall
2:30 to 3:00 pm O’Maley Chorus Performance – City Hall
3 to 3:30 pm O’Maley Jazz Band Performance – City Hall
3:30 to 4 pm GHS Docksiders Performance – City Hall
Elementary Schools – City Hall
O’Maley Innovation- Sawyer Free Library
High School – Sawyer Free Library
Industrial Arts, Engineering, Woodworking – Cape Ann Museum and City Hall
CONTACT:
Christina Raimo, Executive Director
or Susan Brewer, Gloucester Education Foundation
978-282-5550 • susan.brewer@thinkthebest.org
The new Butt Butlers will be appearing throughout the city. Thank you again Patti for painting the butlers.
Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, May 10th – 7pm
Special Guest: TONY FRONTIERO!
Sharp songwriting, singing and playing. Tony Frontiero is
the total package, people. Come and listen to his message.
I’m sure you’ll agree. ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
The Rhumb Line Kitchen……now features Janet Brown with some new and healthy ideas!
Plus a fine, affordable wine menu!
Upcoming…
5/17 – Inge Berg
5/24 – Jon Butcher
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
For more information and to sign up – www.gordon.edu/lavida
Returning From Florida
Honestly…I can’t get enough of the new views to be had on the Boulevard. Last night I was stuck at the bridge and had to pull over to snap the Lannon floating by the flowers. We have Generous Gardeners to thank for these gorgeous flowers!! It takes a lot of hours and funds to make this happen and they are always looking for volunteers to give a helping hand. You can put in as many or few hours as you have available and you don’t have to have a green thumb, they will show you what to do! All you need is a love for your city and a few hours a week!! Did you know that all of the tulips are still in pots and at the end of May they will be selling off the pots to raise funds for next year’s flowers so stay tuned!! 
If you don’t have any extra time to volunteer, you can help out by buying a raffle ticket for an amazing trip to Amsterdam next year to see the original Holland Tulips! Click here for more info on the raffle or Contact susan@generousgardeners.org.
Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week occurred a couple of weeks ago and my co-workers and I were b.e.y.o.n.d spoiled by our fabulous parent community. Amongst so many other generous and amazing surprises (goodie bags, gift certificates, massages, raffle items, etc) were some delicious faculty luncheons.
One day lunch was delivered by b.good in Beverly. While I find myself at the Dodge Street Plaza kind of often when running to the Paper Store, Modells, Staples, etc. I actually hadn’t tried b.good yet…but I’ll be going in the near future for sure.
The food was really terrific…and pretty to look at. As if lunch on Monday wasn’t enough…Tuesday morning brought a Smoothie bar…also from b.good!
Join The Open Door for an evening of food and hospitality at the 17th Annual Empty Bowl Dinner and celebrate a beloved North Shore tradition on Thursday, May 11, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Cruiseport Gloucester.
The meal is simple—soup, bread and a cookie. Guests can choose and keep a special soup bowl created for this community event. The bowl goes home as an unspoken reminder that somewhere someone’s bowl is empty.
Tickets available at the door. $15 for adults and $10 for children under ten. Extra parking is available at Harbor Beach with complimentary trolley service to and from the event site.
Empty Bowl events are held nationally to generate awareness concerning hunger and to raise money for local hunger-relief programs. Proceeds from this event will benefit The Open Door Summer Meals and Mobile Market programs.
Sneak Peek at some of the 2017 Silent Auction Items:
THE FOLLOWING NOTICE ABOUT MILKWEEDS TREATED WITH NEONICOTINOIDS WAS SHARED BY TWO FRIENDS, MEGAN FROM PRIDES CROSSING AND CHERYL MCKEOUGH
FROM: Sandy Robinson, President, National Garden Clubs, Inc.
SUBJECT: Milkweed
It has been brought to my attention that some “Big Stores” have been selling milkweed plants that have been treated with systemic Neonicotinoids. This will kill caterpillars! Please, be aware and be on the lookout for these tags placed in plants. Please pass this information along to your garden club members!
Garden Club member Mary Writes, I purchased a Milkweed plant from Home Depot near my home and it wasn’t until I got home that I noticed the little information stick hidden behind the identification information that the plant had been treated with systemic Neonicotinoids. The container boasted how desirable the plant is for birds and butterflies. Yesterday I went to a different Home Depot and they had just put out an entire rolling cart of these plants, maybe about 100, all poisoned. I contacted the store manager and told him that it is the same as giving poison candy to kids on Halloween. This is THE host plant for the Monarch. My club, Shady Oaks and our junior club, Little Shadows have worked so hard to establish a Monarch Waystation and to educate people on the decline of the Monarch. I hate to think of the millions of poison Milkweed being distributed nationwide by Home Depot.
The container says distributed by Home Depot, 2455 Paces Ferry Rd N. W., Atlanta , Georgia.
I contacted the LSU Ag Agent for New Orleans, Dr Joe Willis. He said the Neonicotinoids will dilute as the plants grow but that only a very small amount will kill the larva of the Monarch. He is contacting the Master Gardeners of the area. I contacted the newsletters of garden clubs to ask that they send a notice to members. I contacted a local GOA club and the president said she would inform her members. I contacted our LGCF President and our Environmental School Chairman with the information.
We need a notice to Home Depot from a national source.
I contacted the Monarch Watch organization www.MonarchWatch.org/waystations at the University of Kansas (1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045) .
It needs to be sent soon as these plants are being sold now to well meaning people who are wanting to help the Monarch and not kill them. I hate to think of the billions of plants being sold nationwide and how that will cancel the efforts of so many to stop the demise of the Monarch. Could you please help?
GMG Readers, Wednesday I am planning to check to see if our local Home Depots are also selling milkweeds with pesticide. I don’t purchase plants from Home Depot as they are generally of a much poorer quality, however I have in a pinch.
Milkweed can be purchased from these local sources:
Cedar Rock Gardens
Wolf Hill
Northeast Nursery
Male and Female Monarch Butterfly on Marsh Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
Today’s gorgeous good morning, from GHB.
One of the teeniest butterflies you’ll see at this time of year is the Spring Azure, with a wing to wing span of less than one inch. Found in meadows, fields, gardens, and along the forest edge, the celestial blue flakes pause to drink nectar from clover, Quaker Ladies, crabapples, dandelions, and whatever tiny floret strikes her fancy.
You can find the Azures flitting about Crabapple blossoms.
Native wildflowers Quaker Ladies, also called Bluets, are an early season source of nectar for Azures.
If you’d like to attract these spring beauties to your garden, plant native flowering dogwood * (Cornus florida), blueberries, and viburnums; all three are caterpillar food plants of the beautiful Spring Azure Butterfly.
The female butterfly curls her abdomen around in a C-shape and deposits eggs amongst the yellow florets of the flowering dogwood. Pink or white, both are equally attractive to the Spring Azure.
Cornus florida ‘rubra’
*Only our native flowering dogwood, Cornus florida, is a caterpillar food plant for Azure butterflies. Don’t bother substituting the non-native Korean Dogwood, it won’t help the pollinators. 
Native Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) at Willowdale Estate Butterfly Garden
Think I am obsessed with these tulips, daffodils, tea roses, pansies, and etc. Walking the Boulevard on Monday the Generous Gardeners were still tending to the gardens. Thank you again.
if you’re planning to catch this great lineup, call ahead and reserve a table: (978) 515-7817.
Photos and winners of last week’s challenge
The first week of Katrina’s $1000 Singer Song Writer Challenge 2017 was one of the best nights in live music entertainment I have attended. Quite a few players came from the Boston area. Some were nervous but that did not interfere at all with the awesomeness they put out.. At some points it felt like we were in the presence of the likes of Joan Baez and Judy Collins, combined with the Jakals duo. You have to believe that many in the audience found themselves in awe of what they witnessed last night. No wonder the word goosebumps was mentioned so many times.
Here is a list of the players and judges and winners.
Steve Caraway
Zion Rodman
Jakals (duo)
Greg Guba
The Only Humans (trio)
Prateek Poddar
Patrick Nelson
Phil Holub
Judges: Annie Brobst, Susan Coviello & Brian Alex (who also, happened to do a real fine job on sound)
3rd place Zion Rodman
2nd Place The Only Humans
1st place a tie Jakals & Prateek Poddar
Chris Langathianos did a real fine job hosting the event. Katrina’s had a great vibe all night long and the food and service was excellent,
Special thanks, to Steve Caraway for performing “Quanah Parker’s Band”
https://soundcloud.com/steve-caraway/quanah-parkers-band
Hi all:
Hope everyone is doing well. Received a call with regards to Poles Hill and asked me if we could help out cleaning up there.
When: Saturday, May 13, 2017
Where: Poles Hill ( we can park on Ferry or Riverview )
Time: 08:00 – 09:00
I will have good ole yellow bags.
Thanks and if you have pickers please bring them along with gloves.
Take care
Donna
Good Morning Gloucester 