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 24, 2017, 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, 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.
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Rose Baker Fall Art Exhibit
Juni Van Dyke has selected Ginny Dench and Katherine Keith to be featured in fall exhibit at the Rose Baker Senior Center. Their work will be on display in the lobby of the Center from now until December. Juni is the instructor and Director of the Rose Baker Art Program and every two months she selects one or two artists from the Program for this honor.

Ginny Dench (l) and Katherine Keith (r) in front of the fall exhibit
Ginny Dench is an animal lover as well as an artist. She is a devoted volunteer at Cape Ann’s Animal Shelter, and often seen out and about with her own beloved dogs. Ginny’s understanding and love of animals is evident in her endearing drawings and paintings of “all creatures great and small.”
This work by Ginny, featuring fish, illustrates her unique style and interesting use of color.
In explaining her path to art, Ginny says “Up until the time I joined Juni’s art class at the Senior Center, my appreciation of nature had been as a watcher. Now my passion for nature has been transferred to images in drawings and paintings.”
When Katherine Keith is not involved in philanthropic works, she is an avid painter of flowers and landscapes. This exhibit focuses on her original interpretations of the works of the French botanist Pierre Redoute.

The flower above is an excellent example of Katherine’s flowers, which are featured in the Fall Show..
Katherine’s vibrant use of color infuses each floral specimen with a lively and original vitality. Also included in the exhibition are Katherine’s renderings of favorite places around Cape Ann and Maine.
October 20 Meeting of the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club

GAAC is a week later than usual this month! The Oct 20 meeting, 8:00 pm at the Lanesville Community Center, will be well-worth the wait, with Dr. Bill Waller and a presentation titled “Surfing the Galactic Froth.”
This is pretty cool. As it turns out, space is not so empty after all, but instead is shot through with frothy stuff.
According to Dr. Waller, this phenomenon arises mostly from microscopic grains of dust, irradiated and warmed by stars within our Galaxy’s disk, and concentrated in nebular regions of recent star formation and subsequent stellar death.
There’s a lot we can learn from these complex emissions, which provide a record of processes that have structured and powered supposedly empty interstellar space for the past 100 million years. Some of these features can be described in terms of “filaments,” “loops,” and “shell fragments,” while others appear more random – appearances that are consistent with turbulence and other processes.
In his usual colorful and irreproducible style, Dr. Waller will consider some of the hot stars, intense stellar winds, and supernova explosions that power the galactic froth, and will present recent images of this nebular emission from three nearby galaxies.
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets on the second Friday of the month (except for this October!) at 8:00 pm at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan St in Lanesville. More information of the club can be found on the website at http://gaac.us, the facebook page, at http://www.facebook.com/gaacpage, and on twitter, @GAACster.
There is no cost, and there is plenty of free off-street parking. The public is warmly invited; there is no special knowledge required to have a great time.
Art Haven’s Pumpkin Carving Party for Kids!
October 22 • Drop-in 12-3pm • FREE • Good for all ages
Celebrate Halloween with us! Carve a pumpkin to take home for halloween, have your face painted and take a Halloween Photos too.
For more information visit www.arthaven.org/workshops-and-events
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Institution for Savings for providing pumpkins for this year’s Pumpkin Carving Party. Special thanks to Wolf Hill for their help.
Red Cross Blood Drive at Out Lady of Good Voyage Friday 11/10 from 1 to 6 pm.
Last Call for Artists and Craft Vendors for Essex Clamfest!
Calling all artists and craft vendors! We still have some spots open for this year’s Essex ClamFest… and we’ve decided to wave the late fee this year. To apply as a vendor, contact Kerry at the Chamber – kerry@capeannchamber.com.
On Saturday, October 21, the Essex ClamFest and Chowder Competition will take place in Essex. The annual event has everything the small town is known for including arts and crafts, K-9 demonstrations, food vendors, Ipswich Ale Local Brews and, of course, the ever popular clam chowder competition. The festival will take place at Shepard Memorial Park in Essex from 11 AM to 4 PM.
The popular clam chowder competition is from noon to 2 PM (while supplies last). It costs $5.00 to enter to chowder tasting area. Nearly 1,000 people taste the best of the best, each voting for their favorite in the People’s Choice Award, while nine esteemed judges helped to select the winner of the Judge’s Award.
This year there are 12 competitors:
- Ipswich Ale Brewers Table
- Ipswich Clambake
- J.T. Farnham’s
- Lobsta Land
- Mile Marker One
- Relish Catering & Events
- Salty Franks Hot Dogs
- Shea’s Riverside Restaurant
- The Farm Bar and Grille
- The Pub at Cape Ann Brewing Co.
- Windward Grille Restaurant
- Woodman’s of Essex.
Essex Clamfest is brought to you by the Essex Division of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce. BankGloucester is the presenting sponsor, First Ipswich Bank is the gold sponsor and the media sponsor is North Shore 104.9.
Dress up your dog for the Halloween Photo Shoot & Costume Contest at the Gloucester Dog Park on Saturday, October 28, from 8 am to 10 am!

The Open Door Autumn Breakfast
Please join The Open Door for our annual Autumn Breakfast on Thursday, October 26, from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at Cruiseport Gloucester. This celebration of community spirit kicks off the 2017 Thanksgiving Meal Basket and Food Drive season.
Breakfast is free. Donations requested. Reservations required by 10/23. Call 978-283-6776 ext. 205 or emailing breakfast@foodpantry.org.
Can’t make it? Want to help? Donate online or find out more at www.FOODPANTRY.org.
Age & Dementia Friendly Community Forums
Your Input is Critical!
SeniorCare Inc. will host four Community Forums throughout Cape Ann to begin a discussion of how Cape Ann can become more Age and Dementia Friendly. The four Forums will be led by Dr. Caitlin Coyle from UMass Boston, and will be held at:
- Rockport Community House, Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 10:30am-12:00pm
- Gloucester’s Rose Baker Senior Center, Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 6:00-7:30pm
- Essex Town Hall, Thursday, November 16, 2017, 2:00-3:30pm
- Manchester Community Center, Thursday, November 16, 2017, 5:00-6:30pm
Members from all aspects of the community are encouraged to attend, including government, human service agencies, health and beauty, finance and banking, media and information services, private business, and—possibly the most important group—caregivers and persons directly impacted by aging and dementia. Interested individuals are welcome to attend one or all of the Forums. Your input is critical.
What makes a community Age and Dementia Friendly? Are the sidewalks conducive to wheel chairs and strollers? Does transportation for seniors who no longer drive meet the need? Does our community make a person with dementia or other challenges feel welcome?
These are just a few of the questions the Age and Dementia Friendly initiative will aim to answer.
These Forums are made possible through a grant from the North Shore Community Health Network.
To learn more about SeniorCare’s mission to serve elders and adults with disabilities on the North Shore, please visit our website www.seniorcareinc.org. As the discussion on Age & Dementia Friendly Cape Ann progresses and Action Teams are formed, the website will include a section about this initiative.




