Great job artists! Thanks for sharing your buoys for our radiant community lobster trap tree

My View of Life on the Dock
This show was amazing, lots of foot traffic and it was also so much fun with the great vendors and wonderful customers.
STILL TIDES MASSAGE & SPA 15 Lexington Ave
Take a tour and learn more about services offered. Shop our unique and thoughtful selection of 100% natural products and enjoy light refreshments and holiday goodies. Gift certificates available with a limited time special offer of $20 for yourself for each $100 spent. Also receive your 20% off coupon card for future purchase of products and services.
stilltides.com
BEAUPORT HEARING CARE 8 Lexington Ave
Hearing health offering hearing testing, custom-fit hearing aids and hearing protection, and tinnitus care. Discounts on therapeutic wellness products. Offering gift bags with CBD products and other wellness products for hearing loss people and families. beauporthearing.com
ALL PURPOSE FLOWERS 29 Lexington Ave
Stop in into All Purpose Flowers florist and gift shop. We will have a sale of 15% off all our Christmas items including fresh and silk Christmas wreaths, poinsettias, amaryllis plants, and garlands. Stop in to check us out and enjoy some hot apple cider. allpurposeflowers.net
AYURVEDA WELLNESS 25C Lexington Ave
Give the gift that keeps on giving – give the gift of wellness. Email: info@ayurvedawellnesshealing.com or text/call (978) 395-1234 to purchase gift certificates and save 15%. Check out our website for services.
ayurvedawellnesshealing.com
MAGNOLIA 525 RESTAURANT 12 Lexington Ave
This beloved local tavern is open for lunch and dinner this weekend. Receive a free $10 gift certificate for each $50 certificate purchased. 525magnolia.com
And don’t forget to come back the following day to make your weekend complete with the MAGNOLIA GIVING TREE LIGHTING,
Sunday, December 8th from 4-7pm
1 Lexington Ave
Visit with Santa, enjoy cookies and cocoa, and buy crafts. Giving Tree benefits Pathway for Children and vistors are encouraged to sponsor local needy children. Tree lighting at 5pm at the Magnolia
Library and Community Center. Sponsored by Agape Brewing Community.
agapebeer.org
The annual Gloucester Santa Parade is getting ready to set the holiday stage for children of all ages when it starts its procession from Jodrey State Fish Pier this Sunday, Dec. 1, at 3 p.m.
The parade ends at Kent Circle, at the intersection of Essex and Western avenues, where there will be music and opportunities for photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus. But this year, the tree lighting will be a bit different. There will be no formal speeches or stage erected, and the judges will give out the awards from the judges float, which will be moved onto the green.
Other than that, organizers plan for the usual festive nature of this annual event.
Linzee Coolidge of Gloucester will lead the parade as the 2019 Grand Marshal, said Joe Ciolino, one of the organizers.
“Linzee continues the Christmas spirit all year
Coolidge and his late wife have provided significant gifts through the Dusky Foundation and the Belinda Fund charitable organizations to The Open Door, Cape Ann Animal Aid, Addison Gilbert Hospital, the Gloucester Fishermen’s Athletic Association and its restoration of Gloucester High School’s Newell Stadium, and the Cape Ann YMCA for its building fund for a new home on the Fuller School site, among other organizations.
The tree once again comes from Nova Scotia, this year from the Harris Christmas Tree Farm in the town of Lower Ohio, among the communities in the Municipality of the District of Shelburne.
This year Ringo Tarr and Nick Curcuru traveled the roughly 600 miles to Nova Scotia to pick up the tree.
Tarr explained that in exchange for the tree, the Topsfield Fair in recent years has donated money for the Canadian community to purchase small trees from a nearby nursery that will adorn their main street for the holidays.
“The only thing the Harris Christmas Tree Farm asked in return for their donation of the tree was to have this tree donated in memory of the late owner, Michael Harris, who died in January of this year,” Tarr said.
In that similar spirit, Tarr hoped that this year’s Kent Circle gathering after the Santa parade would be in honor of his late wife, Cathy Tarr, who died just weeks ago on Nov. 1.
As for the parade and Kent Circle gathering, Ciolino, who calls himself the “chief elf,” said the music from the bands is an important part of these events.
The featured bands are the Docksiders, sponsored by the Institution for Savings; the O’Maley Innovation Middle School band, sponsored by Gloucester Rotary Club in honor of the late Rudy Macchi; and the Boston Fireman’s Band, organized by Gloucester’s David Benjamin.
“The music sets the tone,” Ciolino said. “This is a holiday parade, with no political statements — there’s already too much politics in our lives. This is for the children. I want everybody to feel good and that’s what the parade is all about. It’s about being together and getting the season started.”
Ciolino noted that each year he is thankful for the efforts of many people who make it happen and for the support he sees along the parade route.
“What amazes me is that after we take off from Parker Street, we go past Pratty’s and they come out of that bar and the looks on their faces, they are like little kids. We go by many bars and when we go by the Crow’s Nest, they are all outdoors watching too,” he said. “No matter how old you are, it all reminds us of our childhood, of a happy time.”
Ciolino said the parade usually arrives at Kent Circle about an hour after it starts. At the circle, the judges will award first, second and third place for the floats in addition to an honorable mention.
Also at the circle, he said the Girl Scouts will do some singing as will some student actors from Gloucester Stage Company’s Youth Acting Workshop. The Gloucester Rotary’s Polio Bear also will be part of the festivities.
Gail McCarthy can be reached at 978-675-2706, or at gmccarthy@gloucestertimes. com.
All Gloucester and Rockport residents are welcome to attend Gloucester 400’s first Signature event on November 24, 3pm, at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church when we’ll honor, in gratitude, our community’s first century and its settlers,1623 through 1722.
Start your holiday shopping early,
VOTE
Even though the sun goes done earlier, it does provide beautiful sunsets. Always try to look for the positive.
Hope to see you, I will be the one in a blue dress and blond wig.
If anyone would like to volunteer, please let me know.
Race sponsors can now make sponsorship payments online via PayPal.
Magnolia’s Annual 5K Road Race Map
Lap 1
START Magnolia Library
(Est. Lap Time: 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM)
Magnolia Square
Left: onto Shore Rd.
Right: onto Hesperus Ave.
(through Stone Pillars unpaved street)
left: onto Norman Ave.
(pass the library)
Lap 2
(Est. Lap Time: 9:10 AM – 10:15 AM)
Magnolia Square
Right: onto Magnolia Ave.
u-turn: at Blyman School
straight: onto Shore Rd.
left: onto Hesperus Ave.
right: onto Lexington Ave.
Finish: Magnolia Library
Construction work continues on the Long Beach seawall at 3 compromised sections: two 500′ sections (one is closer to the Gloucester edge and the second pretty much mid beach) and a third 30′ area of trouble at the corner by the creek and footbridge. Last summer’s temporary pyres have been vastly expanded with truckloads of boulders from Johnson’s Quarry. The line of boulders helps to prevent sand from being scoured away by seas and the bottom of the wall from further erosion. The rip rap will add ballast support weight.
Besides the crew at Long Beach, the second unit labors at the quarry. It’s slow and careful going impacted by weather and tides. This week was busy. Next week’s conditions are less favorable. Extra time is allotted to make certain heavy equipment beats the tides or the very real possibility of large equipment breaks or malfunction (thankfully has not happened yet). People wondered if a jetty or two was in the works but that is simply temporary staging.
Boulders are deposited at the Gloucester entrance to the beach and transferred to repair sites. Excavators work with Rockport DPW and GZA engineers for optimum selection. (GZA was contracted for Gloucester’s Stacy Boulevard work.) “Spotters” can be seen atop the Long Beach walkway. After the boulders are dumped into piles, the excavator sorts, lifts, rolls and inspects the whole lot and singles like searching for an impossibly hard to find puzzle piece. Sometimes one boulder is turned 15x before it’s the correct pitch or timing. The sorting was remarkably graceful and reminded me of rinsing and prepping berries or beans.
One day at Long Beach I spotted a swimmer with a glorious and faithful arm tattoo of Mary Ann from Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. He was staying at Cape Ann Motor Inn. Did he know that the author and illustrator, Virginia Lee Burton, was from Gloucester? He was stunned and thrilled. She modeled the steam shovel after one she brought her son to see busy building Gloucester High School. Families with little construction fans might enjoy watching Mary Ann’s descendant shoring up the Long Beach seawall.
The timeline for permits and planning for a future sand phase have not been slated.
What: State Basketball Tournament Division 2 North Quarterfinals
Where: HOME GAME!! Benjamin A. Smith Field House, Gloucester
When: Saturday March 2, 2019 due to snow storm game moved till Tomorrow Sunday March 3, 2019 1pm
Tickets: “Just a friendly reminder that there will be a $5.00 fee for all students and a $7.00 fee for all adults. These fees are accessed by the MIAA. Everyone will have to pay. GOOD LUCK GHS BOYS BASKETBALL 🙂 “- Rosa
Fast Facts: Gloucester beat Danvers in overtime 67 to 58. Matt Montagnino scored 31 points. There was a ton of home town support in the stands (including Gloucester Hockey team after their own tough game the night before). Teenagers sported black t-shirts; tomorrow is beach attire. Reading beat Wakefield in a close game, final score 56 to 53. Winner tomorrow moves on to play Belmont in the semifinals.
Gloucester High School Fishermen Athletics facebook page –https://m.facebook.com/ghsfishermenathletics/
Gloucester High School Fishermen Athletics facebook page –https://m.facebook.com/ghsfishermenathletics/
Great info excerpt from the Gloucester Daily Times sports coverage:
“Did You Know?: Gloucester is looking to make just the program’s third ever appearance in the sectional quarterfinals. The Fishermen ventured to the quarters in 2000 and 2006. Gloucester is also hosting a first round home game for the first time since 2006 (the team hosted a preliminary round game in 2015)”
No. 5 seed Gloucester boys basketball (14-6) vs. No. 6 Danvers (10-10)
What: Division 2 North First Round
Where: Benjamin A. Smith Field House, Gloucester
When: Wednesday (7 p.m.)
Update from Rosa about Tickets: “Just a friendly reminder that there will be a $5.00 fee for all students and a $7.00 fee for all adults. These fees are accessed by the MIAA. Everyone will have to pay. GOOD LUCK GHS BOYS BASKETBALL 🙂 ”
What’s at stake: The winner advances to the Division 2 North Quarterfinals later this week against the winner of Tuesday’s first round game between No. 4 Wakefield and No. 13 Reading.
Points per game: Gloucester, 60.8; Danvers, 54.9.
Points against per game: Gloucester, 57.7; Danvers 62.7.
Gloucester’s leading scorers: Marcus Montagnino, 19.2; Ben Oliver, 17.3; Matt Montagnino, 9.3.
Danvers’ leading scorers: Justin DiTomaso 15.5; Armani Vlaun, 12.3.
Gloucester’s key to victory: Play strong defense. The Fishermen can find good looks at the basket against any team, and it can also play a up tempo or down tempo. The key for Gloucester is on the defensive end of the floor. If it defends the perimeter the way it did in its 86-38 win over the Falcons last month, it will be in great shape to move on.
Danvers’ key to victory: Keep up offensively. Gloucester can score from inside and out against good defense. Danvers is going to have to find a way to match Gloucester’s offensive output. The Falcon’s shot selection and ball movement must be on point on Wednesday night, they can not afford a mediocre offensive game.
Update- Gloucester for the win! 67 vs 58
Maritime Gloucester news from Sarah Oaks
Snow is on the ground here in Gloucester but it is time to start planning for summer 2019. We are thrilled to announce we are now accepting applications for the upcoming season’s internship program. Please forward (and post and share) the following link to all the college and high school students who may be interested in Maritime Gloucester this summer.
Maritime Gloucester 23 Harbor Loop Gloucester, MA 01930 978/281-0470
Gloucester Elks
101 Atlantic Road
Gloucester, MA 01930
Sunday, March 10, 2019 @ 11:00 am
Join us for a FREE Veterans Luncheon. If you are a local Cape Ann veteran, a member of the AmVets, VFW, American Legion, Elks, or a previous returnee… we would love to have you join us.
Tons of great food from many of our local restaurants.. the Causeway, Gloucester House, and Virgilios, to name a few!!
Every year we welcome home every returning veteran back to the Cape Ann Community. This year we are inviting others to join in the comradery and share their insights with our returnees this year.
If you ARE attending you must RSVP prior to the event. Space is limited. Email veterans892@gmail.com or confirm on the Facebook event invite prior to March 3rd.