Cape Ann Artisans April Demonstration Day

Posted on by Matthew Green

Yesterday, the Cape Ann Museum was the venue for various artists to demonstrate and explain their artistic skills. Here is a slideshow of some of their demonstrations:

 

Get Your Stretch On- Physical Therapy Tip of The Month From Harmeling PT

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Time to Get Moving

Unless they are avid skiers or snowboarders, most New Englanders tend to go into hibernation mode during the cold winter months. This generally means eating more and exercising less, both of which lead to unwanted weight gain.

Spring is sneaking up on us quickly. Before you know it, the days will be longer and the weather much warmer. As the ice thaws and snow melts, you may feel the urge to lace up your sneakers and get outside more often. One great way to shed winter weight is by consistently walking or jogging.

While regular cardiovascular exercise has many benefits, a sudden increase in activity level puts your body at risk for injuries. One way to prevent injury is by stretching the major muscle groups in your legs before and after activity. Doing the following stretches consistently will allow you to stay active, remain injury-free, and enjoy the beautiful weather that will be upon us in the upcoming months. Here are a few of our favorite stretches that you may want to try.

Calf stretch

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Quad stretch

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Hamstring stretch

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Hip flexor Stretch

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Try holding each stretch approximately 20 seconds, for 3-4 repetitions on each leg. Maintain each position, without bouncing, until you feel a moderate but comfortable pulling in your muscles. If you have any previous medical issues that may prevent you from doing these exercises, consult your physician prior to beginning.

One other thing to consider as you get more active is trying to exercise within your target heart rate. Doing so will maximize the health benefits that you will receive through exercise.

Heart rate is measured in beats per minute (bpm). One way to monitor your heart rate is using the old-fashioned manual method by which you take your pulse rate by feeling the artery in your wrist. There are also different heart rate monitors that you can purchase. These can make it easier to ensure that you are staying within your target heart rate.

To determine your individual target heart rate for exercise, use the following formula:

1. Subtract your age from 220. Then, multiply by 50%.

(220 – your age) x 0.50

2. Subtract your age from 220. Then, multiply by 85%.

(220 – your age) x 0.85

Your target heart rate should remain between these two numbers.

For instance, if you are 40 years old

1. 220 – 40 = 180

180 x 0.50 = 90 bpm

2. 220 – 40 = 180

180 x 0.85 = 153 bpm

Your target heart rate for exercise should stay between 90 and 153 beats per minute.

Once again, always consult your physician if you have any previous medical history that may limit your ability to exercise at this level.

Questions? Email us at info@harmelingpt.com

Harmeling Physical Therapy is located at 8 Blackburn Center in Gloucester.

Phone # (978)-283-0888

Check out our website at www.harmelingpt.com

Community Stuff 4/28/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

 

Judith Ring and Karen Aase (teachers from Wisdom’s Heart Center) are going to be offering meditation for beginners on
Fridays from 5:30 – 7:00 PM May 10th to June 14th.

Free Health Resources & Family Fun at Safe Boating Day

United States Coast Guard Station Gloucester will hold its annual Safe Boating Day Event on Saturday, May 18th, to kick-off National Safe Boating Week, which is May 18-25. The event is to promote boating safety and awareness. Gates will open at 9:00 am and close at 1:30 p.m.

Free health information and resources will be offered by: Healthy Gloucester Collaborative, Addison Gilbert Hospital, PACE and several other agencies. For information on Health services contact Kathy Day at Healthy Gloucester Collaborative / Gloucester Health Department 978-281-0924.

This is a family friendly event and includes many activities for children including: boat tours, life jacket fitting, coloring, and face painting. Kids can say hello to Rocky, the inflatable right whale calf; Lucy, the leatherback sea turtle model, and a life-sized Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon models. Kids learn how to safely enjoy watching endangered species in their natural environment.

This free event is a great place for boaters to learn more about equipment and procedures that can keep them and their passengers safe on the water.  There will be recreation booths and tours all day. Island Class Patrol Boat, will be available during the day’s events. For more information please contact Rick Bowen at 978-283-0705, ext. 204.

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Hi Joey,

I hope this beautiful day finds you well!

I have some news from Apple Street Farms (ASF) that I thought you would be interested in.

First and foremost, Chef Frank McClelland is thrilled to announce Phoebe Poole as his new Farm Manager of ASF. Poole is a New England native and discovered her passion for farming while studying biology at Wellesley College when she worked on a local farm every weekend. Since then, Poole has worked on farms of various sizes at locations across the country learning how to grow vegetables, raise livestock, manage CSA’s and operating farmer’s markets.

Now that the growing season is upon us, Phoebe is very excited about the 3rd annual Seedling Sale and Family Farm Day at ASF over Memorial Day Weekend. Apple Street Farm provides over 90% of the produce for L’Espalier and Sel de la Terre and is utilized by many other Boston restaurants (many of whom are L’Espalier and Sel de la Terre alumni), and now fans and friends of the restaurant can visit the farm to grow their own produce. More information on the Seedling Sale is included in the advisory below.

Additionally, Apple Street still has availability and openings for their produce and poultry CSA’s. Produce CSA’s are $500 for the 20-week season and are picked up once per week on Thursdays. They expect the first pick to be early to  mid June and the season will run through Octover. Vegetables include: lettuce, salad greens, kale, swiss chard, bok choy, cabbages, onions, beets, carrots, radishes, turnips, rutabaga, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, squash, peas, beans and more. Poultry CSA’s are $450 for the 20-week season which includes a whole chicken each week, or a half share that is $225 and includes a half chicken every other week. Poultry shares are picked up on Fridays and ASF birds are raised in a radically different manor from any bird that can  be found in a grocery store.

More info- http://www.applestreetfarm.com/

Pictures: Boat Explodes In Rockport Harbor

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Joey,
I shot these from my porch on Atlantic Avenue in Rockport, the Halyard Guest House
Ryan Drohans lobster boat caught fire, George Pollison backman…both escaped without injury. About 430pm Saturday

Jon Cunningham

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com Do you get it?

GloucesterCast Taped 4/27/2013 with Host Joey Ciaramitaro an Guest Bill O’Connor

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

GloucesterCast Taped 4/27/2013 with Host Joey Ciaramitaro an Guest Bill O’Connor

Click to listen- With Host Joey C and Guest Bill O'Connor

GloucesterCast Taped 4/27/2013 with Host Joey Ciaramitaro an Guest Bill O’Connor

Topics Include: North Shore Kid, Schooner Ardelle,Maritime Gloucester, Cape Ann Museum, Flynn Beach or Oakes Cove Beach, Local Gas Prices, Market Basket vs Shaws and Stop and Shop, Seaport Grille, Appleton Farm CSA, Composting,

The Noble Kids Represent! In Costa Rica

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hey Joey! Having the adventure of a lifetime in Costa Rica! Tried to represent from the zip lines, the horses, the quads, the waterfalls, the mountains, the islands, the jungle, and with the monkeys to no avail!
Finally got to the chocolate sand beach near Jaco, Costa Rica and are mellowed enough to send the pic.
Great country. Great People. See you soon, Steve, Dee, Lainie, Skye, and Zak. And our new friend Sole’…..

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Mike Murray Not Happy With Vandalism In Gloucester Cemeteries

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Gloucester is great but it could be better.  It needs to openly address its faults but that isn’t the culture there from what I can see.

So much history has been lost in Gloucester cemeteries due to vandalism and neglect of cemeteries, in Public but more so Private.

Decades of vandalism in Oak Grove Cemetery is well documented in the Sawyer Free Library in case you weren’t aware.  Your Mayor knows how I feel as does your Police chief but it keeps getting worse.  As a successful Blog owner you have more power and influence then you realize over a communities behavior.  Possibly more than your Mayor or Police Chief because you reach more people daily then they do. 

So much more economy could be had for Gloucester if cemetery monuments had been preserved or cared for better. 

It really saddens me to see all the new vandalism done to headstones in Oak Hill Cemetery.  Those people won’t be back to spend the day in Gloucester an eat in a restaurant of stay at an Inn.  Why come back after ones loved one’s headstone has been damaged and/or removed because of said needless damage?  It leaves a bad taste and a false snap shot of your town. 

Personally, I’ve already repaired one of the only ancestors headstones I could find as I found it in three pieces. 

It is from 1862 and it can still be easily read except for the cement holding it together.  I have three there that can be found and 14 others completely MIA !  It hurts!

Joey, If you choose you could be the voice of reason Gloucester so desperately needs to change this accepted behavior.   I’m asking that you photograph or videotape some of what I am describing to you. Take a ride through Oak Hill Cemetery and see the headstone conditions near and on the back hill section .   Look at the side and back edges. Especially on the back road where headstones are literally swallowed up and engulfed by eight ft or more of Brambles.  You have to look close but they are there hiding underneath.

Write about it !  Get local volunteers that I know would come out in support showing Gloucester’s great spirit. A group effort could easily cut and tame those brambles.  Let People know the dead are respected in Gloucester.  Get people to show some pride and say this isn’t right and It can’t go on any longer in my town.  The Catholic Cemetery assocation is the official caretaker but all I get is shrugged shoulders from the superintendent.

Joey , Please go visit Oak Hill on Poplar St and if you aren’t disgusted about the conditions there you can deny my request to write about it with a free conscience.

With Respect and blunt truthfulness

Mike

"Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals."

Gladstone.

Shout Out to Seaside Graphics–Super Speedy Service, with a Smile!

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Yesterday I was working on a client drawing and the time got away from me. Before long, it was 5:45. I had intended to drop off a flash drive with my movie poster at Seaside Graphics, in hopes that I would have posters to deliver by early next week. I jumped in the car and raced over and made it just before 6:00 closing time. Not only did the staff  graciously not mention my walking in the door at 5:58, they printed all 25 in about five minutes, and the posters came out beautifully.

Seaside Graphics was highly recommended by both Cape Ann Giclee and Cape Ann Cinema’s Rob Newton for this type of printing. Fast, efficient, and excellent quality– Thank you Seaside Graphics!!!

Life Story of the Black Swallowtail Movie poster

Chronicle producer’s new book cover is Motif #1

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

You may know Ted Reinstein from the award-winning TV show Chronicle on Channel 5.

I’ve been a fan for years and  was lucky enough to meet Ted when he produced Chronicle’s feature of Gloucester in 2007 right after Celebrate Gloucester and the opening of Cruiseport.

After covering every corner of New England for 16 years, Ted has made good on his claim, “I have enough stories to fill a book!” Now he’s about to release what National Geographic Traveler has named one of “The Best Travel Books of Spring.”  And look at what’s on the cover!

Ted sent me a pre-release copy of his chapter on Cape Ann, which he aptly titled The Other Cape.  Here’s how it begins:

ReinsteinObviously written from the heart, Ted describes Gloucester as “America’s most authentic, enduring working waterfront.”  The chapter is filled with quotes by–and stories about–local fishermen, artists, photographers and others along with some excellent photos.

This captivating, well-written book isn’t just a travelogue.  It’s a gem that everyone who lives here and cares about this place would want to own.  New England Notebook hasn’t been released yet, but you can pre-order a copy now — right here.

Ted tells me he’s planning to come to The Other Cape to do a reading at some point.  We’ll be sure to let you know when and where as soon as it’s scheduled.  Perhaps you can get your book signed!