My View of Life on the Dock
On Saturday, The One Hour at a Time Gang, cleaned and picked up on Pole’s Hill. What a beautiful spot. Here a couple of photos of the view from up there. Even though it was cloudy so pretty.
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One of the views from the top
View of O’Maley from Pole’s Hill
Devoted Dogs Elle and Emma
On The Lucy Brown Davis Pathway
Congratulations to Eric Magers, so well deserved!! Seaside Sustainability was given the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs 2017 Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education.
Learn more about Seaside Sustainability’s programs here.
And recent GMG podcast with Eric here.
Photo, left to right:
Mathew Beaton – Secretary of Energy and Environmental Education
Eric Magers – Executive Director
Kris Scopinich – Director of Education Mass Audubon
Don Siriani – Legislative and Communications Director Commonwealth of MA
From the office of Energy and Environmental Affairs:
BOSTON – At a State House ceremony, Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Matthew Beaton today honored 33 energy and environmental education programs at Massachusetts schools and nonprofits as part of the 23rd Annual Secretary’s Awards for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education.
“Hands-on energy and environmental educational programs improve students’ problem-solving skills and create lifelong passions for science and the environment,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “Our administration is proud to recognize the students, teachers and nonprofits raising awareness and coming up with creative solutions to our pressing energy and environmental issues.”
“These educators are engaging students in real-world environmental and energy issues and bringing topics they learn in the classroom to life,” said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. “The programs recognized today are developing students who will make a positive and lasting impact on their communities, schools and the environment.”
Winners competed for $5,000 in awards, funded by the Massachusetts Environmental Trust with the intention to fund further environmental education initiatives at the schools. EEA solicited Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education Award nominations in early 2017. Schools and organizations that voluntarily incorporate environmental education into public or private school curricula are given priority.
“The outstanding educational programs honored today immerse students in important issues like energy, recycling and wildlife conservation,” said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Beaton. “It is more important than ever that we teach the next generation the importance of preserving and protecting our natural resources.”
The project applications were scored by the Secretary’s Advisory Group on Energy and Environmental Education, a group of environmental educators from state agencies, non-profits, industry and academia.
“Not only are these schools teaching students important lessons about protecting the environment, they are also providing them with valuable knowledge and skills in STEM subjects that could spark their future career choices,” said Education Secretary James Peyser.
SEE ALL RECEIPIENTS AND READ MORE HERE Continue reading “SEASIDE SUSTAINABILITY AWARDED EXCELLENCE IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION”
Thank You For Everything Mom. When they write sappy Mother’s Day cards to sell in stores you’d never think that there could be a woman that could live up to those impossibly high standards. But there you are, every day doing what you do, being the very definition of the mother that does everything and gives everything for her family. Always, without fail, you come through.
You are amazing.
I love you with all my heart
Today’s grand open house for two new C. B. Fisk pipe organs was a joyful event, crowded with well-wishers, fans, friends, and musicians. Opus 148 will be installed at Christ Church, Cincinnati, and Opus 150 at Benjamin Franklin’s Christ Church in Philadelphia.
Listen to the music!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUDN9WBlSPp/
What a treat to hear Opus 148 played by Nami and violinist Harold Byers.
Morgan Faulds Pike and David Pike, C. B. Fisk Senior Vice President and Tonal Director
Nami Hamada, organist and organ builder, and Harold Byers, former violinist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Chair of the Music Committee at Christ Church.
Greg Bover speaking about Opus 148
Thibaut Lenfant and Rick Isaacs
Sarah Tuvim helped restore the exterior case of Opus 150
Morgan’s brother, Tom Faulds, and friend Carole Crowther
Scale model of Opus 148. Morgan Faulds Pike, sculptress of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Memorial, carved the oak angels and panels for Opus 148. See more here.
Angels for Opus 148
Opus 150 and scale model
O’Maley bands and choruses killing it. Great job Gloucester!
And no wonder. Listen to this teacher and share: Carlos Menezes delivers an awesome introduction inspired by his students and the extraordinary Charles Allan Winter WPA-era mural at City Hall.
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Packed and happy house
CB Fisk
Donna Ardizzoni / Circle Consulting Group 978-526-9222
Taped 5/12/2017 with Sam, Rachel, B-Side and Hostess Alicia Cox
We went back! BACK TO THE 90’S!
We revisit all things 90’s right off the bat with O’Maley School’s “ShamRock” which was the OG Lip Sync Battle (it was a competition). B destorys her yearbooks.
Whatever happened to the Steve Kercher Band? Where are they now? Who has that music video vhs?
Hot Plate: The Vape Store is gone. Now it’s a nail salon!
HAPPY Nurse’s Appreciation Week! National Teacher’s Day! National Military Spouse Day!
Dating Dictionary: B explains the 2 new terms “Haunting” and “Situationship” we even talk about a man of Alicia’s Summer past (sorry Mr. E).
What generation are we? We have determined we are the “Oregon Trail Generation”. We are not MILLENNIALS! We need to find STARTAH JACKETS ASAP! We also need to find some Watermelon Color Z Cavaricci.
We still haven’t learned our lessons. Bridget and Sam invented podcasts, we’re convinced.
We play “Would your rather?”, we talk our Top Hearthrobs of yesteryear, Favorite teen books, pen pals, our “first time” on the information super highway.
We touch base on some of the BIGGEST 90’s news stories (briefly). Also we celebrate the 20th birthday of so many of our favorite songs!
Opening song: Mark Morrison-Return of the Mack
Closing Song: Semisonic-Closing Time
Donna Ardizzoni / Circle Consulting Group 978-526-9222
The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) invites artists to submit work to be considered for inclusion in “Artist Drawings and Paintings”, a five-week exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930.
The intent of this exhibition is to engage viewers in an exciting-ambitious-experimental-traditional-new-materials/traditional-materials exhibition of both paintings and drawings. Many artists do both paintings and drawings but tend to show only one or the other. We are looking for large works as well as small. We will include one or more of the drawings submitted by each chosen artist AND also one or more of their paintings. All selected drawings will be exhibited on one floor of the Cultural Center, and all paintings will be exhibited on the other floor, so each artist will have work on both floors.
Each artist may submit up to 3 drawings and up to 3 paintings for one entry fee. The submitted paintings and drawings may be related or they may be completely unrelated. They may be part of a series, or be individual works.
We seek a variety of works from experimental to more traditional in all media. Only original work will be accepted.
The medium does not determine if a work is a painting or a drawing. There could be oil drawings and pencil paintings! It is up to the submitting artist to determine what is a drawing and what is a painting, and to label each work as such by including the word “Drawing” or “Painting” in the title.
Listen to sweet voices from Veterans school chorus, “Imagine”.
Gloucester High School chorus
More theater, bands and chorus coming up!
Kurt Lichtenwald and GHS robotics presented at 1pm. GHS has 11 engineering courses — teaching to the top! Showing us Propane furnaces, LADAR, magnetic Newton’s cradle (no sound), a hovercraft that can carry 60 pounds… Design. Build. Modify. (More than one kid behind me said “I can’t wait to go to high school.”) Displayed art by O’Maley Middle school artists throughout City Hall, Cape Ann Museum and Sawyer Free.
Woodwork display is amazing!
New yoga studio at 25B Lexington Avenue, Magnolia Village of Gloucester, MA 01930. I met Ms. Katie Schroeder on Friday and we had a quick chat. Great space for yoga and Katie was terrific. She also does massage and Reiki right there in the studio.
North Shore Restorative Yoga
Classes 7 days a week
978-704-9807
http://www.nsryoga.com
info@nsryoga.com
Facebook: northshorerestorative.yoga
Good Morning Gloucester 