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Lights of Love raised more than $14,500 to support Addison Gilbert Hospital’s cancer program and provide special care packages to new cancer patients.
Lights of Love was launched in 2008 by Gloucester residents Shawn Wilson and Sue Kyle as a tribute to Cape Ann families whose lives have been touched by cancer and as a symbol of their gratitude for the exceptional patient care Sue received at the Gorton’s Specialty and Cancer Care Center at Addison Gilbert Hospital. This year’s event was a tribute to Sue Kyle, and was presented in honor of long-time Addison Gilbert Hospital colleague Tina Ketchopulos. Over the past eight years, Lights of Love has raised more than $130,000. For more information or to make a donation, please visit http://www.beverlyhospital.org/locations–services/locations/addison-gilbert-hospital.
The O’Maley Middle School Vocal Performance club sang festive holiday carols during the event.

BAKE FOR GOOD: KIDS

In King Arthur Flour’s FREE Bake for Good: Kids Program, nearly 500 kids from Gloucester, Massachusetts will LEARN to make bread from scratch. They will discover that math, science, reading, and baking know-how add up to delicious bread! Kids are excited to take ingredients and their new skills home to BAKE two loaves; one to keep and enjoy and one to SHARE with The Open Door food pantry.

COMING TO Gloucester, Massachusetts

SCHOOL: O’Maley Middle School

WHERE: 32 Cherry Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

WHEN: Thursday, January 15, 2015 – 8:45AM and 9:50AM

TEACHERS SAY THAT KIDS LOVE TO LEARN, BAKE, SHARE

“I cannot tell you how fabulous the program was… I have been receiving emails and personal calls from many of the teachers who couldn’t say enough about how much their students enjoyed the program.”– 5th Grade Teacher

Police Chief Leonard Campanello announces that The Gloucester Police Patrolmans Association represented Gloucester Police Department at the weekend services of slain NYPD Officer Wenjian Liu.

Five officers from Gloucester Police Department made the journey to New York to pay their respects to their fallen brother officer.

Pictured left to right: Officer Mark Foote, Detective Thomas Quinn, Officer Anthony Giacalone, Officer Kevin Mackay, Officer Brendan Chipperini.

“We were very humbed to take part in the memorial services for Officer Liu,” Chief Campanello said. “I would like to thank the officers of the Patrolmen’s Association for making the trip to New York and honoring our fallen brother. We hope that our involvement, and the involvement of so many law enforcement agencies in this service, shows how police remain strong for each other and for the public in the aftermath of such a tragedy.”

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The fjords, glaciers, islands and passages of southern Chile stir up all kinds of emotions. These were the waters explored by Magellan and by Robert Fitz Roy aboard the Beagle. Charles Darwin went ashore and explored Wulaia Bay and in 1895 Joshua Slocum, having sailed from Boston on the Spray, had a few very nervous days in this area when he encountered a less than friendly welcome by the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego. However, that did not stop him from completing the first solo circumnavigation of the world.

It is hard to describe the glaciers of this region. The U shaped valleys and massive moraines give testimony to the awesome power of these slowly moving rivers of compressed ice. Some of the glaciers we saw are receding in size and mass at an accelerated rate due to climate change. Others, with larger and higher snow collection areas, are stable or growing.

Although the wind was stiff during most of our voyage, the Via Australis rarely rolled, pitched or yawed. I felt significant motion only once, when we rounded Brecknock Peninsula at the southwest extremity of Tierra del Fuego, where the protected waters of the fjords and inland passages briefly meet the open Pacific.

I hope this short video gives you a sense of what this portion of our trip was like. Come with us as we not only explore and discover the power and beauty of nature, but also get to spend some time among the 140,000 penguin inhabitants of Magdelana Island.

Here is the third installment of our South American journey.

Early in the morning of December 16 our expedition cruise ship, the VIA Australis reached, 55 degrees 56′ South latitude, the southern tip of South America. From our cabin we had our first glimpse of Cape Horn and we were soon on deck hoping to hear if the weather conditions would permit a landing. After a bit of a wait we were told to don our warm and waterproof layers and jackets, gloves and hats. It was a go!

This was our first boarding of the Zodiacs that would ferry us to and from Cape Horn and 6 other excursions in the Chilean fjords over the next few days. We had a cold, windy and wet trip to the tiny landing area on Cape Horn and then proceeded to climb 157 steps up the sheer face of the Cape to a more or less level boardwalk that took us to the summit. It was a typical day on Cape Horn: cold, windy, cloudy, sunny, rainy, snowy and dry, all within one hour. We visited the various monuments on the summit, witnessed the wind damaged massive wing sculpture, met the new resident Argentine Navy caretaker and stopped by the windblown chapel.

Having read about Cape Horn all my life, this visit was a must on my bucket list. Because of the harsh and changeable weather, only 40% of visitors get to land on the Cape, We were lucky and very happy to have stood upon this unique piece of the earth.