Live with Misty Amero & Lillian LoGrasso Taking calls from The Media!

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imageGloucester Powerball Pool organizers Misty Ameto & Lillian LoGrasso repotrt a total of 493 Tickets were purchased  locally !img_3879

 

@WCVB Channel 5 Boston Scheduled to Interview Gloucester Powerball Organizer Lillian LoGrasso  Today @ 5PM 

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Misty Amero  came up with the orginal Gloucester Powerball Pool Idea then latter collaborated with Gloucester  FB Queen Lillian Lograsso

 

Powerball group members have been Chatting with eachother on their private FB Page all day!  
When Lillian threw out the idea of a city wide pool on her personal FB page early this week she had no idea it would snowball into a pool of  490 + people!  Lillian had REMAX coworker Jane Cahill bussy collecting money at the front desk of the 224 REMAX office located on Washington Street all day yesterday!  

Overwhelmed by the # who responded to her post, lillian enlisted the helping hands of Misty Amero! Both work hours organizing an official group list and private FB page for the Gloucester Powerball Pool!

Thank you Lillian for bringing Gloucester together, once again, and a special thank you to Misty and Jane for assisting you you in last 24 hours! NOW LETS WIN THIS!

Alicia Unleashed Episode 14-Can Harry be friends with Sally

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Alicia Unleashed Episode 14 taped 1/10/16 with B-side, KD and Host Alicia Cox

 

Topics Include:

Blaque Intro Song, Movie “Bring it on”, Powerball craze, What would you do if you won?, Yoga talk again, Joel teaches at Tree Top, Scanning picture “negatives”, Everyone needs a scanner, Memories should be cherished not destroyed, Netflix series “making a murderer”, Certain guys do not know how to act, Bully’s in middle school where are they now?, Can man and women be friends, When Harry met Sally, Generation X or Y, Hormones in the food, Kyle’s food rant, Have you changed how you eat?, How they treat cows, Do you know how they make Mayo?, “Egg Washing”, Ab’s are made in the kitchen, Who is Sean T?, 80-20, Homie Cast taping #5, Taping a podcast at a tattoo parlor, I rock the party that rocks the body.

You know those people that are always late and joke about it?

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It’s basically them saying that their time is more valuable than your time.  Drives me up a wall.

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If they said what they really felt when they showed up late, what do you think they would say?
I’ll start.
“I had plenty of time to get here on time but I wanted to make sure everyone was here before me so I wouldn’t have to wait for anyone else”
Add what you think goes through the perpetually late person’s mind when they show up late with a Starbucks Coffee in their hand.

UUSR Martin Luther King Jr. weekend events 2016

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All are welcome this weekend at the Unitarian-Universalist Society of Rockport! We will commemorate and affirm the work and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, beginning with this Sunday’s 10:30 a.m. worship service devoted to the theme of Racial Justice. The next day,  Monday 18 January, will be the 28th  annual MLK Day march and service.

The march will begin at 10 a.m., at the U.U. Society of Rockport, 4 Cleaves Street and follow a route through downtown of about 1 mile.  You are cordially invited to come at 9:30 to make signs (a favorite activity for the children.)  After the march there will be the chance to warm up with hot cider before joining Rev. Susan Moran in a short service of readings and music honoring Dr. King. Guest speaker,  Alexis A. Toliver,   the co-lead organizer for Black Lives Matter in Cambridge and a Research Assistant in the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, will speak about the meaning and goals of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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This march began 28 years ago when 8 year old Lily Ruchman, having learned a bit about Dr. King, asked her mother if there could be a march.  Her mother Anita, and her church community said Yes.  We and many others from the North Shore have marched each year since then for the ideals Dr. King lived and died for: economic and racial equality, peaceful means to peaceful ends, dignity and freedom for all people.

Please join us.  If you have any questions, please call 978 546 2989

QuickBooks Seminar for Business Owners & Bookkeepers

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Join us for a refresher course QuickBooks Seminar- two days: Tuesday, February 2 & Thursday, February 4, 2016, from 5:30-8:30pm, at Gloucester High School, Room # 3204.

Attendees will be given a refresher course on QuickBooks Pro software. The class will be geared toward Small Business owners and Bookkeepers.

Instructor: Mary Lou Balbo is a senior accountant with the CPA firm, Horvitz & Frisch, PC, located at 128 Main Street, Gloucester. Mary Lou has 30+ years of accounting, bookkeeping and tax preparation Experience. Horvitz & Frisch, PC, offers computer cnsulting and bookkeeping training, in addition to accounting and financial services.

Class size is limited. Payment is required to hold a reservation.
REGISTER HERE.

Tuesday, February 02, 2016 5:30 PM
AND
Thursday, February 04, 2016 8:30 PM

Gloucester High School
Leslie O. Johnson Rd.
Gloucester , MA 01930
QuickBooks Seminar 2016

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#NorthamptonMA Is A Cute Town In The Snow

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There may be more cool little coffee shops per capita than any place I’ve ever been and that’s usually the sign of the kind of place I like to be 🙂

  

COYOTE PHOTOS FROM EAST GLOUCESTER AND COYOTE MEETING RECAP

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City Councilor Steven LeBlanc

On Monday night at City Hall a packed audience attended the “Living with Wildlife” coyote meeting. Recognizing the exploding population of coyotes on Cape Ann, City Councilor Steven LeBlanc had requested the forum. Approximately 250 people were in attendance, which is an unusually large number for a meeting of this nature and speaks to the general concern by Cape Ann residents to the growing number of coyotes now living amongst us.

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The informational meeting was conducted by Pat Huckery, the northeast district manager for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife and she is herself a wildlife biologist. Pat presented the life history of the coyote as well as a number of methods for lessening human encounters with coyotes, most notably to cut off their food supply. Humans providing food to the coyotes directly and indirectly is the number one culprit and at the top of the list states Pat is bird feeders. She recommends that if you do have a bird feeder, at the very least, clean up the daily mess underneath the feeders. Spilled bird food attracts rodents and small mammals, which in turn attracts coyotes. Unsecured garbage as well as pet food left outdoors are also strong coyote attractants.

The very specific and unique ecology of Cape Ann, in relation to the coyote, was not discussed. Cape Ann’s coyote population has mushroomed in part due to the wealth of food that can be scavenged along our shoreline, marshes, and wooded habitats. One East Gloucester resident attending the meeting reported that she lives with a pack of twenty in her backyard. Hunting as an approved option for reducing the coyote population was discussed and is also believed to help create a healthy fear of humans on the part of the coyote. Local licensed hunter Sam Holmes was in attendance and he can be reached at 978-491-8746. Communities such as Middleton, Rhode Island, have an expanded hunting season to manage the population of specifically coyotes that have lost their fear of humans. Pat also debunked the highly romanticized term coywolf, and disputes the concept that by hunting coyotes, the reverse occurs and the overall population increases.

IMG_0273These photos were taken by Pat Halverson and submitted by Peggy Matlow, our new Good Morning Gloucester FOB . Peggy and her family will soon be permanently relocating to Gloucester, from the Berkshires, and these photos were taken from their new home in East Gloucester.

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BREAKING NEWS: MR. SWAN HAS A GIRLFRIEND!!!

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Swans Niles Pond Gloucester ©Kim Smith 2016Could this be the new Mrs. Swan?

Today at 9:30am while out doing errands, I stopped by Niles Pond to see if I could find my brand new glove, which was lost the morning previously. That Monday, the day after the weekend storm, the mergansers had moved overnight to Niles Pond to escape the wind and waves on the harbor and I had captured footage of Mr. Swan with the Red-breasted Mergansers. Last I saw him, he was alone and circling the pond, plaintively calling.

Just as I got to the spot where filming yesterday I looked up and flying overhead were not one, but two swans! They were flying towards Brace Cove. I hurried back to my car to get cameras, checking all the while to see if the pair would stay at Niles or continue up the coast. They circled back around Niles before landing on the far side of the pond. The large pure white male looks like Mr. Swan and his girlfriend appears to be much younger as she is comparatively smaller and still has some brownish-gray cygnet feathers.

I immediately called my friend Lyn to let her know about the swan pair swimming at her end of the pond. There was a large patch of ice that prevented the swans from coming closer to where she was calling them from shore but we did have a good long look and we both agree it could very well be Mr. Swan (Lyn calls him Poppa Swan and in Rockport he’s known as Buddy).

The pair of swans stayed, feeding on pond vegetation and moving slowly through the icy waters. Swans use their powerful breast muscles in a lifting and lurching movement to break up ice. It takes a great amount of effort to cut a path through the ice and Mr. Swan is much more adept at ice breaking than is his new girlfriend.

By a swan’s second summer (in other words two years of age) it will have lost all the characteristics of an immature. The brown feathers are gradually replaced with the white feathers. The last thing to visibly change is the color of the swan’s bill. A cygnet’s bill is blue/grey changing over the two year period to pinkish and then orange. Swans can breed as early as two years of age although most don’t begin until three years.

I can’t saw with 100 percent certainty that this is Mr. Swan because I didn’t get a close look at the distinguishing marks on his bill however, all signs point in this direction.

Swans Niles Pond Eastern Point Gloucester ©Kim Smith 2016

Note the young swan’s brownish feathers and greyish-pink bill (left). This tells us that she is not quite two years of age.