NOMINATE NOW YOUR CHOICE FOR CAPE ANN Y COMMUNITY AWARDS!
THE CAPE ANN YMCA ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR 2017 ANNUAL COMMUNITY AWARDS
Our Community Celebration event honors community members who make an impact every day.
Do you know someone who is making a difference in our Cape Ann community? The Cape Ann YMCA wants to hear all about them and thank them for all they do! The Y is accepting nominations for its second annual Community Awards in the areas of Youth Development, Healthy Living, and Social Responsibility and, new this year, the Mayor’s Youth Exemplary Award.
Join us Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 7:30 am
Cruiseport Gloucester (the event sponsor)
6 Rose Square, Gloucester.
Complimentary breakfast will be served.
Cape Ann Y Executive Director Tim Flaherty said, “This event is a great way for our Y to honor those people in Cape Ann who join us in our commitment to strengthening our community by providing essential programming regardless of one’s socio-economic situation. Last year, the honorees included Maggie Rosa and Ed Shoucair of the Gloucester Education Foundation, Erin Canniff of the Rockport Public School System and the Reverend Tom Bentley of the Trinity Congregational Church. We can’t wait to see who gets nominated and selected this year.”
It’s easy to nominate:
- Online Nomination submission form
- Download a nomination form
- Visit the Cape Ann Y and pick up a form at the front desk
Please submit all nominations by 5:00pm on February 28th for consideration by the Y’s selection committee. For more information, please contact Brian Flynn at flynnb@northshoreymca.org
The Cenotaph

Purple sky for Friday’s sunset

StudioCrepe in Rockport is a must
StudioCrepe on 17 Railroad Ave is an absolute must try if you haven’t been there. I am guilty of not making my way into Rockport with all the great restaurants.
My daughter Talia loves it and introduced me to brunch! Can’t make it for brunch? No worries they have lunch and dinner!
Here’s a glimpse of brunch but they offer so much more! Check out their website www.studiocrepe.com


I got the Sunrise Crepe with some Rose! Great beer and wine selection!

Weber Age Guide
Snowy Cotton Bush
Gloucester Smiles-515
Ma Audubon’s Chris Leahy retirement party May 21
It’s not a surprise party, but it is limited in size. Invitations will go out in April. Mass Audubon is hosting a special retirement tribute for Chris Leahy in celebration of his remarkable career –45 years of “impact and success”. How nice to see a Gloucester naturalist treasure being recognized in the spring –(bird-a-thon season!)– at Joppa Flats Education Center, Parker River National Wildlife sanctuary. Folks and fans can also swarm cards and MA Audubon gifts as a great way to acknowledge this milestone. Chris’s astonishing powers of observation and communication skills can make anyone care about birds, nature, and place. Within a mere twenty seconds of conversation he can capture history and immediacy in such an affable and effortless manner. What an ambassador.
“If I said, ‘Are there more birds around in the summer or the winter?’ most people would say the summer, and that’s right. But not by much,” said tour leader Christopher Leahy of Gloucester, who holds the Gerard A. Bertrand chair of natural history and field ornithology at Mass Audubon. “Actually almost 50 percent of the 300 bird species that occur in Massachusetts occur here during the winter.”– Chris Leahy from Boston Globe article Thrills and Chills: Birders Brave the Cape Ann Cold and Find What They’re Looking For by Joel Brown, published February 5, 2009
Congratulations, Chris


Blizzard on Kilby From Ted Reed
Hi Joey—
Coming Up at the Shipbuilding Museum
More Cape Ann Community News-
http://www.capeanncommunity.com
La Vida Rock Gym is excited to offer an indoor rock climbing camp February 21-23 for ages 10-15
Trying to find something for your kids to do during winter vacation? The La Vida Rock Gym is excited to offer an indoor rock climbing camp February 21-23 for ages 10-15. The camp will run from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. each day and will cover the basics of climbing techniques. We’ll also incorporate fun climbing and bouldering games and knot tying lessons. The cost is $115 per person and your spot is reserved once you have made your payment in full. Sign-up here: http://www.gordon.edu/climbingcamp
Slow motion Drone Video of the Beaches at Endicott College from Rob Ackerman
Hi Joey,
My name is Rob Ackerman.
I am Freshman at Endicott College, majoring in elementary education.
When I am not studying or in class, I like to take pictures and video with my DJI Phantom 4 drone or Canon 80D.
Recently I created a slow motion video of the water and beaches here at Endicott College.
I would be honored if you shared it on your blog!
Poll- It was just a matter of time before they started marketing tights for dudes. Would you wear them?
www.HeyHeys.com Yep it’s a thing I guess. For dudes.
If you’re a guy would you wear these?
If you’re a woman would you let your man wear tights?
CITY HALL ICY EVENING SUNSET
ANNISQUAM RIVER WINTRY DAY PANORAMAS
Brisk Walk

Two days after the snow

Even two days after the snow storm, the sky, ocean and trees make look so beautiful.

















