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Best Of North Shore (BONS) Magazine Kids Category Local Picks

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Ok I’ve guided you on who is nominated locally in the Play Category and Eat Category, see those posts by clicking those links.  If you notice, the influence from our local readership has many many Gloucester establishments in the lead.  Two that could use help are votes for Good Harbor as Beach and St Peter’s fiesta for Fair/Festival vote for those here

Now we focus on local establishments nominated in the Kids category. you can click on any of the hyperlinks to view past Good Morning Gloucester Coverage on each of these fine local establishments.

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Click here to submit your votes in the BONS Kids category

Baby Clothing-  There is nothing locally nominated but I think we could change that with a write in under other for Kids Unlimited, downtown Gloucester children’s clothing store extraordinaire.  As of this writing 0 votes, not nominated

Family Hangout Indoor- Monkey Joe’s should win this by a mile even though it isn’t nominated (yet) As of this writing 0 votes, not nominated

Family Hangout Outdoor- No Local Nomination.  You could write in Ravenswood or Halibut Point State Park  My Vote- Halibut Point As of this writing 0 votes, not nominated

Kid Friendly Dining-  No Local Nomination But I would write in Giuseppe’s or Lobster Pool’s Outdoor Eat In The Rough with the Smore Firepit and Sunsets As of this writing 0 votes, not nominated

Kid’s bookstore- The Bookstore of Gloucester As of this writing 0 votes

Kid’s Clothing- Kid’s Unlimited is not as of this writing nominated but I’m suggesting a write in campaign for them As of this writing 0 votes, not nominated

Toy Store- Toodeloos Gloucester As of this writing 25 votes and is not in the lead

When You are done voting in the Kids Category, feel free to vote in the Play and Eat Category and support local businesses

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I will highlight local picks in the other BONS category in an upcoming post.  Who  supports local businesses like this here blog?  NOBODY!  Get out the vote peeps!

Happy St. Joseph’s Day!

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Viva San Giuseppe!

St. Joseph Trolley Party ©Kim Smith 2013

St. Joseph Trolley Party

Click photos to view larger.

A huge heartfelt thanks to All the Gloucester Families Helping with the San Giuseppe Film Project. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

A special thank you to Sefatia for organizing the trolley, and for being the best most spectacular hostess for the St. Joseph trolley. Traveling from home to home, she knows by heart, and explains in great detail, each of the family’s alar traditions and stories. She also manages to keep the trolley gang together (all 50 or so). Thanks to Sefatia, no one was left behind!

Thanks to Mayor Kirk for sharing in the St. Joseph trolley and festivities. Gloucester is so blessed to have the BEST Mayor ever!

Thanks to CATA and Ed Sallah for donating the trolley. Ed is an amazing driver and was so considerate towards each and every member of our exuberant party.

Ciaramitaro Family and Friends St. Joseph 2013

A special thanks to Felicia and her family and friends. Felicia is the first to say she could not have done it without her dear husband Barry, her mom Pat, son BJ, daughter Amanda, her beautiful aunts and gamatis, and all her friends and family, working alongside her, from sunrise until the well past the midnight hour. 

Felicia Ciaramitaro and friends ©Kim Smith 2013

Felicia and Her Best Gamatis ~ Le migliori amiche*

A very special thank you to Joey for inviting me to participate in his family’s St. Joseph festivities last year, which planted the seed for the St. Joseph film project. 

Photos of each of the families interviewed coming this week. 

* Thanks to Paul Frontiero for the correct spelling of best girlfriends.

Gloucester Maritime Summit 2013

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The City of Gloucester today released a video highlighting the City’s ongoing efforts to expand and diversify the maritime economy.  The video provides an overview of the recent Maritime Summit.

Like many working waterfronts, Gloucester faces challenges, especially with its historic fishing industry. Recently 150 stakeholders gathered to exchange ideas and advance a vision for Gloucester’s maritime economy that celebrates traditional fishing while embracing innovative opportunities in technology, life science research, and robotics. The Summit provided a showcase for innovation on the waterfront. More than 20 experts made presentations about the role of research, technology, and science in the future maritime economy.

By combining historic waterfront resources, the spirit of innovation, and an unparalleled natural setting, the city of Gloucester is ready to set sail into a brighter tomorrow.

Best Money You Can Spend To Get Out On Gloucester Harbor–International Dory 2013 Sign Ups Are Here

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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A new year is upon us and Spring is right around the corner.  What a great opportunity to pitch in, and be a part of “living history” with the Gloucester International Dory Racing Committee.  Recreational rowers, competitive rowers, and fans of dory racing can make a difference this year with memberships and volunteer work that benefit the entire community of Cape Ann .  Attached are your membership forms and schedule of events for 2013.  Please send us your forms right away and save the Committee the price of a stamp!  Mailers will be going out in a couple weeks so act now and we will see you on the water.

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For more info-http://www.internationaldories.com/index.html

Community Photos 3/13/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Charles Erbafina Photos From March 8, 2013

Bil Hubbard Submits-

Joey,
Here’s a short story about two of the first Gloucester gillnetters that I hope you can use on GMG.
My grandfather, Capt. John A. Dahlmer  bought the 39ft. “Rough Rider” shortly after she was launched at Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1904.  She was one of the first gas-powered fishing boats on the Great Lakes.  The first picture was taken the day of her launch.  Grandfather brought her to Gloucester in 1910 and alternating in the command of Capt. Edw. Weiderman and Capt. Pete Tysver and Capt. Lawrence B. Dahlmer.  The second picture shows her at the Tysver wharf off E. Main St.
In 1909 Capt. John Dahlmer had the 63ft. “Margaret D.” built at the J.G. Laird & Son Shipyard in Ashtabula, Ohio.  She was named for and christened by my mother, Margaret V. Dahlmer who was 5 years old in 1909.  Later that year, or early in 1910 he brought her to Gloucester where she worked as a gillnetter and mackerel seiner.  The first picture shows her launch in 1909 and the second is of her, rigged for seining in Smith Cove.  She was wrecked on Milk Island off Rockport in 1915.
The captains Dahlmer, Weiderman and Tysver were among a group  of 10 skippers who brought their families and boats from Charlevoix, Michigan to Gloucester in 1909-1910 and established the first successful gillnet fishery in America’s oldest fishing port.  All four families settled on Rocky Neck and eventually moved to other Gloucester locations. Other families from Michigan who brought their boats and settled in E. Gloucester included the Arnold, Shoares, Lasley,Lafond and Place families.
The Michigan men earned handle, “Michigan Bears” by working together to do whatever chore needed to be done for their boats, no mater how hard or how heavy the work.  The Michigan men and their son’s went on to captain many other boats out of Gloucester over the years.
Bill Hubbard
11Mar.2013

Statues and Plaques in Gloucester From Peter Dorsey- The World War II Monument

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hey Joey,

Here is a World War II monument that many people might be passing by every day without knowing it. Located at the intersection of Gee Avenue and Washington Street in Riverdale are set of handsome granite steps and a monument dedicated to the residents of Riverdale who fought and died in the Second World War.

Peter Dorsey

Varian Semiconductor / Applied Materials and the Gloucester/ Silicon Valley connection

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Catherine Ryan submits-

Hi Joey

There’s a long and continuous through-line of innovative and inventive companies and entrepreneurial spirit throughout Gloucester ’s history.

Here’s some background from James Kawski, Market Analyst and CI Manager for Applied Materials Varian Semiconductor, on the Gloucester/Silicon Valley, full-circle high tech connection.

  • Late 1940’s, brothers Russell Harrison and Sigurd Fergus Varian formed Varian Associates in California creating one of the early stalwarts of Silicon Valley. In 1953 they moved their headquarters to Palo Alto .
  • In 1975 Varian Associates purchased Extrion Corporation of Gloucester and Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates was born.
  • 1999 VSEA was spun off in 1999 and established itself as the world leader in the manufacture of Ion Implanters: large, technically complex machines used to make microchips.
  • 2011 Varian entered a new market making tools to build better, more efficient solar cells. In keeping with sustainable business practices Varian built the first power generating wind turbine on Cape Anne (which now forms a trio on our horizon with the two from Gloucester Engineering)
  • Late 2011 Varian merged with Santa Clara California ’s Applied Materials, reconnecting Gloucester ’s high technology history with Silicon Valley .
  • June 2012 Varian’s CEO Gary Dickerson named President of Applied
  • February 2013 Bob Halliday named CFO of Applied Materials

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Sigurd Varian

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Russell Varian

Photos courtesy Applied Materials © Ansel Adams

Key to Gloucester City Hall’s City Council in Session 1937 New Deal mural by Charles Allan Winter

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Catherine Ryan submits-

The Committee for the Arts is excited to share new “in situ” photographs of Gloucester ’s City Hall murals by noted architectural photographer, Chuck Choi.

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Here is Chuck Choi photographing and Mayor Carolyn Kirk eyeing his composition

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Here’s one featuring Charles Allan Winter’s City Council in Session in the lobby of City Hall (don’t miss our killer ship chandeliers!);

followed by a photo zoomed in to show all 34 figures

followed by a photo of the framed “key” that his installed below the mural, just above the collectors’ windows—more to follow on the key!

There was media coverage in the 1930s for the murals as they were completed, and many times since then. Here’s a fun one: In 1972 Senator William L. Saltonstall (Manchester resident and member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1967-1979) enlisted the help of media to announce a contest to help identify the portraits in some of Charles Allan Winter’s New Deal murals within Gloucester ’s City Hall. The Cape Ann VF insert published a photograph of the Winter mural in Kyrouz Auditorium, The Founding of Gloucester, with the caption: “Senator Saltonstall is offering dinner for two at a Gloucester restaurant to the first person to identify the most real people in the mural painting above.”

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Free Entry for Gloucester Fool’s Dual Road Races

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Fools Dual Logo 2013

Hey Joey –
We’re gearing up for our Fool’s Dual Road Races in Gloucester on April 7, 2013.
The response has been great and registrations are pouring in.
We jumped at the chance to support the Gloucester Police and their Fitness Challenge.
Participating GPD staff earn a free entry into the race AND we are sponsoring their weight loss as well.
We’re now recruiting volunteers to help support the runners. Any chance you could help spread the word?

Volunteers are the heart and soul of the YuKanRun.com Road Races. 

Today, we are offering a FREE race entry to reward the folks that jump in and help out.

Volunteer and earn a FREE entry for your favorite runner.
There’s no better way to support your friends and family!

Don’t miss your chance!
Free entries for volunteers are available for a limited-time on a first come, first served basis.
Visit YuKanRun.com and complete your entry form today!

It’s so easy for volunteers to get involved and get in on the action.
Whether sharing a smile at the registration table, handing water to grateful and thirsty runners
or presenting awards at the finish, there’s so many ways to help.
Thanks so much for your help. This is going to be great!
– Rich

YuKan Sports, LLC | P.O. Box 780 | Rockport | MA | 01966

Video- Rotary Polar Plunge Into Good Harbor To Raise $ for Polio Eradication From Dwight Hebert

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2013 Rotary Polar Plunge Photos from Lisa Cardinal

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Joey,
It was a pleasure to meet you on Sat. The “lobstah” was delicious. Here is
a mini album from the Plunge. Post any, all or none…
Have a great day,
Lisa Cardinal

An Indoor Flea Market this Saturday!

Posted on by Sharon

From my friend Walt Kolenda:

Laurel Tarantino is hosting an indoor flea market at the Pond View Village Community Center on LePage Ln. off of Essex Ave. in West Gloucester.So far there are at least 12 vendors. It looks like there will be everything from crafts to antiques, art & junk!

Where: Pond View Village Community Center, on LePage Ln off of 133 (aka Essex ave.) West Gloucester, MA

When: Sat. Feb. 23 9am-3pm

What: Flea market, antiques, crafts, home-made items etc!

cdI’ll be there, too, with prints, calendars, notecards, framed prints, music CD’s, etc. etc. Cleaning out the old stuff!

See you there! ~Sharon

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Jenkin’s House No More

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Jenkins House ©Kim Smith 2013

Intersection of Bass Ave. and Rt. 128

Davya Jenkins ©Kim Smith 2013

Davya Jenkins standing  where her home of 25 years formerly stood. Coming in its place are three new homes. She was there to reminisce with friends–and shedding more than a few tears. Best wishes in you new home Davya!

UPDATE ON THE 2013 GLOUCESTER HARBORWALK PUBLIC ART CHALLENGE

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

150+ Artists Responded! http://ghwalk.blogspot.com

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Happy Valentine’s Day

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine's Day ©Kim Smith 2013

Fujifilm multiple exposure created from the Big Rose Heart window display at Common Crow. I wonder who made all the beautiful paper roses?

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Happy Valentine's day rose heart ©Kim Smith 2013

Common Crow 

 

Video: Craig Kimberley Timelapse Car Ride of Gloucester After Blizzicane NEMO

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Awesome Video from Craig Kimberley.