Great Teamwork Once Again Shows What Is Possible

Look for The Block Party Red Carpet Celebrity Slide Show At 8AM

A Complete Team Effort Proved Once Again That The Power Of Pulling In The Same Direction For A Great Event Can Reap Huge Rewards For Our Entire Community!

Great job by my fellow Block Party Committee members once again.  Also a great job by the folks in City Government and the Police and Fire Departments.

Special thanks to some unsung heros who also helped tremendously during the event- Rick Moore, Donna Ardizzone, and Bob Gillis who helped clean the streets.

Thanks To the DPW for leaving the extra barrells.

Big thanks to The Cape Ann YMCA Clean Team who you will see in a video later today helping to clean the streets spotless at the end of the night.

I’d like to give a huge personal thank you to our Good Morning Gloucester Soldiers- Sharon who manned the GMG Block Party Celebrity Red Carpet Station (Slide show coming at 8AM), Joey and Frank Ciolino who built the backdrop and helped throughout the event at the media presentation truck and David Cox who will undoubtedly provide us with hundreds more photos from this magnificent evening .

Thanks to the people who provided the media presentations, the Art Haven Folks who provided children activities, and Georgie and Erika Hansen who were doing the face painting.

Thanks to all the musicians and performers who donated their time on one of the busiest nights of the year when they could be playing paid gigs elsewhere but play instead for free because they too realize that sometimes it’s not about getting paid.

The Downtown Merchants and restaurants once again put their best face forward and showed what a brilliant  jewel we have in Downtown Gloucester.

August 09 Dory Race Eliminations Scene I

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Thanks To Frank Ciolino for taking the footage

GMG Will be live blogging the International Dory Race Results as they happen

Frank Ciolino will be on the beach capturing video and calling in the race results this morning.  Live from Niles Beach.  If you can’t get there this morning (shame on you)  you can tune in here for the results.

The races start at 9AM and usually last until about 11:30.  Stop in at Last Stop Variety for a cup of coffee and a blueberry muffin and head on down to catch some of the excitement.  The light is awesome this morning.

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Bailing Out The Dorys After A Hard Rain- Jimmy T, Kyle Edmonds and Joey Ciolino

Thanks Frank Ciolino for the pics!

You don’t think these things bail themselves out do you? 🙂

It’s guys like this that take care of stuff for others to use that make us proud to have them a part of our community!


Gussy Sanfilippo and Billy Edmonds Rowing Gloucester Harbor

Yesterday Gussy Sanfilippo and Billy Edmonds swung by the dock along with Billy’s son Kyle and FOB (friend of the blog) Frank Ciolino’s son Joey.

We took a row around the South Channel, had a quick race on the dories and talked to Gus about predictions for fish prices with the June 1st fishing grounds area opening.  The first part of the videos will air this morning at 8AM