Sunday, October 30th, 2016 / Gloucester City Hall area / 2PM – 5PM

Please join Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken for a FREE Halloween celebration with hayrides, haunted house, food and memorable fun! Children of all ages are invited but must be accompanied by an adult.

Please contact Volunteer Mayoral Liasion Roseanne Cody to volunteer or ask any questions. E: rcody13@gmail.com / P: 978-335-0755

SeniorCare Inc. will hold its annual autumn fundraising breakfast at Lobsta Land Restaurant, located on Causeway Street in Gloucester (Route 128, exit 12) on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, from 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.  Tickets are $12 per person and include your choice of pancakes, French toast, eggs, or a fruit plate with yogurt. Tickets are available in advance online at www.seniorcareinc.org, by calling 978-281-1750, or may be purchased at the door. Proceeds from the breakfast will benefit the full spectrum of programs offered by SeniorCare.

About SeniorCare

SeniorCare Inc. is a federally designated Area Agency on Aging (AAA) and a state designated Aging Service Access Point (ASAP) with offices in Gloucester and Beverly. Established in 1972, SeniorCare serves an area that represents more than 27,000 residents aged 60 and over, including the nine communities of Beverly, Essex, Gloucester, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester by the Sea, Rockport, Topsfield and Wenham. SeniorCare’s volunteers and staff work to fulfill its mission as a consumer-centered organization which provides and coordinates services to elders and others, allowing them to live independently at home or in a setting of their choice, while remaining part of their community.

CAPE ANN SKATING CLUB PRESENTS:
Halloween On Ice – Spooktacular Skating Expo
SAT OCT 29th at the Talbot Rink / O’Maley School
12 Noon  Family Skate.  $5 per family,
1 PM       FREE Halloween Skating Expo   
More info: CapeAnnSkatingClub@yahoo.com

Hettie Jones at the Cape Ann Museum.

Saturday, October 29 at 1:00 p.m.

Hettie Jones will discuss her first meeting with Olson, her impressions of Gloucester, a selection from Love, H,  her recently published book of correspondence with Helene Dorn, and some recent unpublished poems.

A talk presented by poet Hettie Jones, in collaboration with the Gloucester Writers Center and the Charles Olson Society. Jones’ first collection of poems, Drive (Hanging Loose Press, 1997), was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye to receive the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is also the author of How I Became Hettie Jones (1990) and several books for children. The former Chair of PEN’s Prison Writing Committee, she currently teaches graduate writing at The New School, and workshops at 92Y and the Lower Eastside Girls Club Center for Community.

$10 donation suggested. For more information please call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.

Love, H is available for purchase in the Museum’s gift shop.

Public forum on the four referendum questions which will appear on the November 8th ballot. Gloucester and Rockport High School students will present the arguments for and against each question, with ample time for voters’ questions.

Question One: Expanded Slot-Machine Gaming

Question Two: Charter School Expansion

Question Three: Conditions for Farm Animals

Question Four:Legalization, Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana

Gloucester Student Presentation: Tuesday, October 18, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Lecture Hall, Gloucester High School, 2^nd Floor

 Rockport Student Presentation: Thursday, October 20, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Community House, 2^nd Floor

Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Cape Ann and Gloucester High School

Photo: Tom Mikus (LWV), student Delaney Benchoff, and Diane Cartwright (LWV) practice for the forum.

Friday, November 4

7:00 p.m.

This special concert, held at the Annisquam Village Church, is offered in conjunction with Voicing the Woods: Jeremy Adams, Instrument Maker,  on view at the Cape Ann Museum from October 22, 2016 through February 26, 2017.

Organist Kevin Birch will play the Adams Organ, built in 1986, and a clavichord (also built by Adams, in 1999).

Birch has performed throughout the United States, Europe and South America. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Iowa with previous studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory (Amsterdam) and the New England Conservatory (Boston).

The Annisquam Village Church is located at the head of Lobster Cove at the corner of Washington and Leonard Streets, the 1830’s building is renowned for its graceful beauty and extraordinary acoustics.

This program is $10 for Museum and American Guild of Organists Society (AGO) members / $15 for nonmembers. Tickets can be purchased by calling (978) 283-0455 x10 or online at Eventbrite. Advance tickets are required.

Voicing the Woods has been generously sponsored by Jerry and Margaretta Hausman, Hinda Simon, Bettie Cartwright, Gregory and Stevie Neal, Robert M. Russell and Jane Deering Gallery.