ATTENTION Gloucester High School Students (and Parents):

Applications for 2018 summer jobs are now being accepted!

Apply for a GHS summer internship for July and August. Get a jump on your friends and nail down a summer job. THERE ARE VERY LIMITED OPEN SLOTS, SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO REVIEWING YOUR APPLICATION ASAP!

As part of this internship you will:

• Be matched with a local company where you will gain important workplace skills
• Be paid minimum wage or a stipend
• Start to build a solid resume for college and future endeavors

Internship highlights:

• Open to students in 9^th through 12^th grades
• Interviews being conducted NOW and we will let you know if you are accepted into the program
• A 2.5 hour workplace skills workshop each Wednesday at GHS during the weeks of July 9th- August 17th, and an internship placement at least 10 hours per week (exact weeks/hours will depend on the employer but will mostly be over those 6 weeks)

Applications are available online through LEAP for Education’s website: https://www.leap4ed.org/programs/internship-program/registration/

Or apply by contacting JoAnn Leavitt at 774-270-0119 or jeavitt50@gmail.com. There is also a QR code on the internship flyer below.

Join the Cape Ann Museum on April 28 at 3:00 p.m. to celebrate Folly Cove Designer and beloved children’s book author Lee Natti.

Museum members only; reservations required. Sign up online at Eventbrite or call (978)283-0455 x10 for further information.

Artist and gallery owner Judi Rotenberg will reflect on her father’s philosophies of observation and painting, and their years of plein air painting side by side. Space is limited; reservations required. $10 members; $15 nonmembers, includes museum admission.

It’s seed planting time! See how you can be involved with Backyard Growers this month:

Looking for a fun and education way to spend April break? Join Backyard Growers on April 17th and 18th for days filled with plants, seeds, games, crafts, and more!

Contact: sarah@backyardgrowers.org or call 978-281-0480 for more details.

Want to learn more about the square foot garden method? Join us on April 25th to become familiar and equipped in square foot gardening and leave with your personalized garden plan.

For more information contact community@backyardgrowers.org or call 978-281-0480

Backyard Growers is hosting our annual Spring Seedling Sale April 22-25th. Seedlings are sourced from Cedar Rock Farms and will be available for purchase via cash, check, card, or SNAP/EBT. The sale begins Sunday, April 22nd from 12-5pm and will continue 9am-5pm Monday-Wednesday at the Backyard Growers Office (271 Main St). See you there!

Looking for ways to support Backyard Growers this spring? Consider our Get-A-Garden, Give-A-Garden Program! Your contribution not only pays for a garden bed for your household, but provides a garden to a local family through our Backyard Garden Program. Want more information? Contact community@backyardgrowers.org or call 978-281-0480

Offered in conjunction with the Cape Ann Museum archival exhibition, Unfolding Histories: Cape Ann before 1900, participants will learn some basics about how books have been made since earliest times and will then create three different book structures to take home. Space is limited, reservations required. $125 for Museum Members; $145 for nonmembers. Materials included.

Apply now! Gloucester Biotechnology Academy currently has space available in it’s upcoming class of 2019, beginning in September 2018. 

Contact our Education Director, John Doyle at john.doyle@gmgi.org or 978.491.5968 with questions or to schedule a tour to visit our state-of-the-art laboratory.

Don’t miss CAFM’s annual Dinner & a Movie Fundraiser! With delicious food from Duckworth’s Bistrot, Short & Main, Cake Ann, and A&J King, a special Gloucester Writers Center Fish Tales, and Martin Scorsese’s short film “Italianamerican,” you can support our community farmers market AND have a great night out!

Get your tickets today! This event sells out EVERY YEAR! 

https://www.capeannfarmersmarket.org/events/2018/4/19/dinner-a-movie

Haven’t heard of this year’s film? Take it from the Museum of Modern Art on Scorsese’s “small, deeply personal documentary”:  

“In three–quarters of an hour, the three manage to cover a great deal of ground, most notably the parents’ experiences growing up in the rough-and–tumble New York tenements during the early years of the twentieth century…

Scorsese and his mother moving into the kitchen for a quick lesson on how to make tomato sauce—or “gravy,” as Catherine (and an entire generation of Italian Americans) would call it.”

Read the full piece here!

And check out a short clip here!

Come to the Gloucester High School Interact Club’s 11th annual Pizza Taste-Off on Wednesday, April 4, 5:30-7:30pm at Cruiseport Gloucester. Taste them all for yourself and vote on the best!

Tickets $10 (children 5 and under $5)
Tickets are limited to 300 and will be available at the door.

All proceeds will be donated to American Cancer Society.