Switching from West Gloucester to Babson Water Treatment Plants Friday 12/19/14

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Friday evening December 19, 2014, water treatment plant operations will be transferred from West Gloucester to Babson as a part of routine operations.  This will result in a change in the direction of flow in some water mains and may cause temporary discoloration of the water as iron particles in the pipe are stirred up.

If you should experience “rusty” water, running a cold water tap for a few minutes should clear your line.  We also recommend that you avoid the use of chlorine bleach during this time period to prevent staining of laundry.

If you experience persistent water quality problems, please contact the Office of Water Compliance at 978-281-9792 or DPW at 978-281-9785, so that selective flushing can be targeted to problem areas.  Thank you for your cooperation.

Season’s Best Cookie Competition

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Contact Kristie Bernard k_ber@hotmail.com to enter.
This weekend, join in the second annual ‘Season’s Best Cookie’ competition! Enter your own fanciful cookie creations and cherished family recipes. This will be a FUN contest with first, second and third prize ribbons, and chef related PRIZES too!

To enter (no entry fee) contact k_ber@hotmail.com. Entries will be limited to the first twelve unique cookie entry submissions received (no chocolate chip). Please be prepared to bake at least two dozen.

Be bold. Be creative. Most importantly, have fun!

The cookie competition will be held as part of the Winter Solstice Party at the Second Annual Rocky Neck Art Colony Holiday Art & Craft Show, this Sunday, December 21 from 2 – 4PM at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street.

All are invited to enjoy the pleasures of Holiday cookies, good food and wine as you explore gift ideas from among exquisite wearable and functional art pieces, sparkling jewelry, colorful pottery, exciting photographs and paintings, books, cards, calendars and more. Celebrate the Sun’s return and longer days as you shop locally away from the malls!

Ellen Landrigan- The Lucky Winner Of Last Week’s GloucesterCast New Subscriber Contest picks Up Her Dinner Dealer Deck

Ellen stopped by to pick up her Dinner Dealer Deck and while she was here she told us that she had been following the blog for 5 years and because of Good Morning Gloucester she just had to move to G-Town.  She finally found a place in East Gloucester (God’s Country) and is putting down roots.

Congrats on finally making it home Ellen!

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Chef Paolo Interprets Pinoli!

In Sunday’s podcast, we weren’t quite sure of the pronunciation of Pinoli as we more often see pine nuts spelled pignoli. Chef Paolo explains the difference. Thank you Chef!

Pinoli’s Grand Opening is this coming Thursday, December 18th.

 

Some Inspiration For All You Creatives Out There

Man I was feeling this interview.  For anyone that creates to feed their soul- watch this and be inspired by the raw honesty.  Love the part about perspective toward the end.

Because One Elf Isn’t Creepy Enough

As if our elf, Jingle, is creepy enough this holiday season, why not take it to the next level and really freak the kids out?  What exactly do you call a group of elves?  A pod, a gaggle, a school, a flock, a herd, a troop, a colony? Or maybe a drove, a bed, a pack, an army, a horde, a tribe.  Hmmm.  No matter what they’re called….they take the cake in the “Dear Lord, Make it Stop” category of holiday fun.

Courtesy of the PNP, the Portable North Pole, you too can add up the ante of holiday fibs and give yourself yet more to explain when your child no longer believes.  Good times.

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As tempted as I was to see what would happen if poor little Finn founded himself on the naughty list, even I couldn’t be that mean.  There’s always next year 😉

Feeling A Lot Like Christmas

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On Saturday it started to feel a lot like Christmas. We had large flakes of snow falling, I started playing holiday tunes in the gallery, the Lobster Trap Tree was lit, and a beautiful floral arrangement was delivered to the gallery. It’s a gift from Sharon StClair and husband Chuck King of Florida. It was given to me and the “GMG Gang,” and will be the centerpiece of the gala GMG Holiday Party on December 19th. They love Cape Ann, are Friends of the Gallery, of Good Morning Gloucester, and are my friends. I wish them a very happy Christmas.

Monday December 15th , 2014 Cape Ann Weather ..

Marine Forecast :
Mon N winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas around 2 ft.
Mon Night NE winds around 5 kt. Seas around 2 ft.

Pod Cast Weather :
http://www.spreaker.com:80/episode/5353910

Hourly Forecast :

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Aaaaand Now It’s Official: Gloucester’s Got The Coolest Jews On The Planet After Building First Ever Lobster Pot Menorah

Get a Load Of Our Jew Buddies Up On Middle Street Rocking The First Ever Lobster Pot Menorah!

Right out there on the bleeding edge of cool- you name another small coastal community with more creative Jews than right here in Gloucester Ma. You can’t!

Read all about it on The Gloucester Clam

Click pic for the larger photos at The Clam

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Tradition renewed- Greasy Pole Champ Jackets Are A Thing Once Again!

Eric Spear writes-

Greasypole Shrine was happy to hand out the Greasypole Champ jackets. A tradition that Paul F. Nicastro and myself revised and brought back. Donations also came from the brotherhood of walkers and Good MorningGloucester too. The white jacket is for Friday, Red is for Saturday and Green for Sunday. Congratulations — with Greasypole Nation, Jack Russ and Mark Allen.

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Photo courtesy Eric Spear

End of the World

At 54 degrees S, Ushuaia Argentina is the southernmost city in the world. This view of the city faces south, toward Cape Horn,from across the Beagle Channel.

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Tomorrow our little expedition embarks on a small ship to cruise the Straits of Magellan,Beagle Channel and other fjords of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn.We will have no internet access (now there’s a REAL adventure) so I will be unable to post for about 5 days.

It’s 9:51  PM and still very bright outside so I guess I’ll just have to grab a beer and wait for bedtime.

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GloucesterCast 108 With Kim Smith and Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 12/14/14 #GloucesterMA

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GloucesterCast 108 With Kim Smith and Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 12/14/14


Topics Include: Guests Kim Smith and Toby Pett, Host Joey Ciaramitaro, Toby’s Attractive Nurses At Salem Hospital, GMG HOLIDAY Party (bring booze not food) is December 19th , Melissa Cox On The Stripper Pole, Those People That Come To The Party Just To Eat the Food and Not Socialize, Congratulations To Brian O’Connor and Family On Birth Of His First Masculine Child, Thanks To Leslie Heffron For The Nice Cards, Thanks To Jess and Dennis Alves For The Dinner Dealer Deck Which Ellen Landrigan Won,Middle Street Walk and the Awesomeness That Is The Art Haven, Art Haven Buoy Auction January 23 At Cruiseport, Art Haven, Cape Ann YMCA and Maritime Gloucester, Men’s Night Thursday Dec 18th, Pinoli Opening December 18th, Mark McDonough and His PR Person Samantha Porter Get Social Media, Breaking The Pinoli News, Breaking  The La Trattoria News, Passports Restaurant 20% Off On Gift Certificate Purchases, Joey’s Top Local Gift Ideas, Bex’ Micro Lobster Trap Tree, Group Text Messaging Hell, Kim Asks A Facebook Question Shout Out To Sefathia and Lillian LoGrasso, Whole Foods Lynnfield Review,(J Pace, Sclafanis and Virgilios) >Whole Foods, Describe The Ultimate Meatball Based On Size, Ingredients and Cooking Method, When Having Pasta With The Zugu Do You Mix The Zugu In Before Serving Or Ladle the Zugu on Top, Crack Cocaine Romano Cheese, GMG Christmas Holiday Party December 19th At Bodin Historic Photo.

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GloucesterCast Podcast New Subscriber Contest #5 Will Win A Copy Of Sista Felicia’s Cookbook. A Copy Of Sista Felicia’s Cookbook Will Go To One Of The First Ten New Subscribers To The GloucesterCast. Subscribe For A Chance To Win Here
To Purchase A Copy Of Sista Felicia’s Cookbook Order Here Winner Needs To Pick Up Cookbook At The Dock

Nichole and Toby, Madeline drawing Podcast 107 ©Kim Smith 2014

Electricity Update #10

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Here are some of the bulbs they gave my mom -notice the same kinds?-

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Here are the boxes of bulbs that were replaced with bulbs that provide the same or not better light but only used 10 watts of power and replaced bulbs that were drawing 65 watts of power.  I could see that for aesthetic reasons some people when these types of bulbs came out  might not have wanted to replace bulbs with the squiggly weird looking ones but now they make them to look just like regular lightbulbs AND you can get these bulbs for free that they are charging $15.99 each for at our local grocery store.  AND the guy comes out and installs them all for you.  AND you’re already paying for these kinds of ungrades in your Energy Efficiency Charge on Your Electric Bill.  What kind of idiot wouldn’t want to take advantage of all that AND save money every single month going forward with the 6 times more energy efficient bulbs?

IT’S MADNESS I TELL YOU NOT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE!

Boxes of bulbs at a cost of $15.99 that were replaced free of charge at my Mom’s House-

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Parts 1,2,3 Here
Electricity Update #4: Free Home Energy Assesment With Kevin From Next Step Living
Electricity Update #5: Video Walkthrough- Energy Efficiency Assesment and Free Stuff At Mom’s House
Electricity Update #6 Energy Saving Ideas
Electricity Savings Alternative Home Energy and Comfort Update #7- Cape Ann Chimney and Hearth
ELECTRICTY AND HOME ENERGY UPDATE #8 NO BRAINER- DONNA AND RICK GET THEIR ENERGY EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT!
ELECTRICITY, HOME HEATING AND ENERGY UPDATE #9 CAPE ANN CHIMNEY AND HEARTH TESTIMONIAL FROM CAROL CATALDO

Beautiful, Beautiful Lynn Swigart Photos of Gloucester and Other Favorites at Trident Gallery

Don’t miss Lynn Swigart’s show of stunning photographs, many from Gloucester, along with other favorites, currently on display at the Trident Gallery through January 4th.

Trident Gallery will be open late and serving refreshments on Thursday night, the 18th, for Men’s Night, which also coincides with the opening of Pinoli. You can check out the Lobster Trap Tree next door to Trident, see Lynn’s photos, shop local, and have dinner at Pinoli (or any of the other fabulous dining establishments on Main Street). Sounds like a wonderfully fun night out to me!

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Carousel, Geneva

Every single image in the show is beautiful and gorgeous, but my favorite amongst the favorites is this chromogenic print titled “Carousel, Geneva”

Eleven Days Before Christmas Carol Countdown ~ Oh Happy Day by Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples

“Oh Happy Day,” sung by Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples, is one of my favorite songs at Christmastime and it was a delight to discover this video of fantastic early footage of Aretha Franklin performing at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church, the church founded by C.L. Franklin, Aretha’s father.

Please send us your suggestion of favorite holiday music. We would love to include in the Christmas Carol Countdown!

Mavis Staples will be performing at the Shalin Liu on February 20th!

Karen Pischke Is Signed Up For Her Cape Ann License Plate

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For Information On How To Get Your Cape Ann License Plate-

CAPE ANN LICENSE PLATE

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LICENSE PLATE APPLICATION (pdf) DOWNLOAD > Print, Fill Out, Mail Back to the Chamber

Proceeds from the license plate will be used to benefit promotion, economic development and education initiatives for Cape Ann and the Cape Ann communities of Essex, Gloucester, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Rockport.

After an extensive design submission and voting process, the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to announce the winning design for the Cape Ann License plate. The winning design was chosen after nearly 2,000 votes were received from the Cape Ann community through online and ballot voting. The design was created by local Rockport artist, Annalei Babson, from Coveside Designs.
Download the Cape Ann License Plate Application or fill out the online form below to reserve your application:

Cape Ann License Plate Online Application

Show your love and support of Cape Ann by proudly driving this beautiful and symbolic license plate!