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Community Stuff Friday

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe will present its fifth annual production of “A Shakespeare Celebration” paying a birthday tribute to the genius of William Shakespeare. The theme of this years presentation is comedy, featuring some of his most noted fools, jesters, clowns and windbags. There will be scenes from “Much Ado About Nothing”, “As You Like It”, The Merry Wives Of Windsor”, “Twelfth Night”, “The Two Gentlemen Of Verona”, and others, plus sonnets and songs.
As has been CAST’s custom, traditional English cake, pastry, and punch will be served for an audience and cast get together after the performance. And, of course, a round of CAST’s birthday song to the Bard of Stratford.
Directed by Nick Neyeloff and Joseph Stiliano, the cast features Jonathan Arnold, David Cluett, Mia Formichella, Olivia Gale, Andrew Hoover, Ray Jenness, Dominic Parry, Ken Stoeffler and Cathy Sullivan-Bradley.
“A Shakespeare Celebration” will play April 27 and 28, 7:30 PM at the Old Sloop Coffeehouse, 12 School Street , Rockport. Tickets are $15; $10 (student); $5 (youth 18 yrs. & under ) and may be reserved at cast2008@prodigy.net or purchased at the door. More information at capeannshakespearetroupe.blogspot.com and Facebook.

Heather Atwood Forwards-

Barbara Erkkila will be at the Lanesville Community Center this Sunday from 3-5 talking about Lanesville history and her life.  There will also be a ceremony honoring her work in the Lanesville Community Center.  Nisu and coffee will be served.

Raffle To Support Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Down At The Lone Gull

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Hello my name is Travis and I am an eleven year old boy with a chromosome abnormality that is rare,so rare that I am the only known case in the world. I love to go outside for walks in my wheelchair but I get upset when my mom stops to talk to someone, she needs to keep moving.I can walk but not far and not alone because I am legally blind. I can not talk at all and I have a g-tube so that I can eat. I am a very happy boy and my mom says that I have the cutest smile and the sweetest little laugh. I love my mom and dad and they love me. I have two older siblings and a niece and a nephew. My family is my life and I am theirs.

My Physical Therapist recommends that I get a Rifton Tricycle. This tricycle provides the support I need with specific accessories to allow me to ride around with my siblings.

 

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Lanesville celebrates week of history at Community Center

Posted on by Sharon

From the Beacon–

Lanesville History Week begins with a celebration of the founding of the Lanesville Community Center on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 4 p.m. with writer Barbara Erkkila. There will be coffee and nisu, traditional Finnish bread, while she talks with Lee Steele and other founding members and neighbors about the first days of the Lanesville Community Center.

A potluck supper follows at 6 p.m. There will be music by Sylvester Ahola and old photos of the early days.

More than 50 years ago, a group of neighbors contributed money, skills and labor to establish a meeting place for families in the village of Lanesville. A group of about 20 families purchased an abandoned dairy barn from the Ahola family. The first event was an old fashioned clambake with lobsters, clams and corn raked out of the seaweed from hot stones in a pit the men had dug in the yard. The women contributed pies, coffee and nisu. Enough cash was raised to buy lumber and concrete so the work could begin to rehab the building. With entirely volunteer labor, cowstalls were ripped out, a floor was laid, and the sagging structure was shored up. More improvements have followed over the years.

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