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WHAT'S INSIDE YWCA Greater Newburyport Awarded Grant Page 2 Crime Prevention Booklets in Seabrook Page 2 Amesbury Council on Aging Seeks Volunteers Page 4 Join the Choir Page 5

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By Stewart Lytle, Reporter ––––––––––––––––– SALISBURY – The side effects of a divorce are rarely good. But a recent divorce caused a man to downsize into an apartment too small for his Panasonic 50-inch television.

So he donated it to the Boys & Girls Club of Lower Merrimack Valley.

Last week the big-screen TV was sitting in Jim Keenan's office while Gene Dion, the director of operations, figured out how to mount it on the wall in the club's computer room.

“We'll use it to teach,” Keenan, the executive director, said. Paramount on his mind was using it as a tool to teach the club's anti-bullying program.

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Fuel Training Studio, Urban Elements Not Moving Yet NEWBURYPORT – News that real estate developer Stephen Karp might build a hotel where their businesses are located did not come as a shock to two tenants who operate in the former Fitness Factory building on the corner of Merrimac and Titcomb streets.

Mayor Donna Holaday disclosed last week that she and Karp, chairman of New England Development Corp., have discussed the location at 75 Merrimack Street for a long anticipated new hotel with 80 to 85 rooms. Karp, who proposed building a new hotel four years ago, has indicated he is interested in the old Fitness Factory site because the building and its large parking lot are not on the waterfront.

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By Stewart Lytle, Reporter –––––––––––––––––

by Newburyport Development Corp., a subsidiary of New England Development, is a block uphill from the riverfront. That removes issues with the Federal Emergency Management Administration, which raised significantly the flood zones along the river following the Katrina hurricane.

Moving away from the riverfront also would eliminate challenges working with the state environmental agencies, including the state's highly restrictive Chapter 91 rules.

The owners of the Fuel Training Studio, one of at least three tenants Photo by Stewart Lytle of the building that would have to The site of a possible new hotel.

“We are not going anywhere,” bring.” be torned down to make way for Her business partner, Julie Bolcat, a hotel, said they have no plans to owner Jeanne Carter said. “But you never know what the future will move.

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YWCA Greater Newburyport Awarded Grant from Essex County Community Foundation NEWBURYPORT - The YWCA Greater Newburyport has been awarded a $1,000.00 grant from the Merrimack Valley General Fund, a fund of the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF). The YWCA Greater Newburyport will use the grant funds to implement the Teaching Strategies Gold Curriculum at the new YWCA Child Care Center. This will allow the YWCA to track outcomes along 8 different developmental criteria which will help in tailoring their curriculum to ensure that each child learns and grows.

The Merrimack Valley General Fund (MVGF) is a field of interest fund at ECCF serving agencies in the Eastern Merrimack Valley. The fund was established when the Merrimack Valley Community Foundation merged with ECCF in 2004. The MVGF funds programs serving the community in the areas of Arts and Culture, Education, Social and Community Services, and Youth Service.

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Fuel Training Studio, Urban Elements Not Moving Yet Continued from page 1

said the exercise training studio has “an unusual lease,” but declined to elaborate.

Carter and Bolcat said they knew that someday the building would be torn down to make way for another use. But for now the location works well for them and their clients.

The site is convenient to downtown and has a large parking lot, they said.

Kim Tenenbaum, who opened her Urban Elements warehouse store on the building's ground floor on Saturday, said she was told the site might someday be torn down for a municipal garage. Working in her retail store on Pleasant Street last week, she was unaware that the site might become a hotel. She said she knew the warehouse store would only be temporary space. She moved her collection of furniture and home accessories from her Salem store,which is now closed, and she is consolidating in Newburyport.

“We love Newburyport,” she said.

Since she opened the retail store here, the Newburyport store is more

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profitable than the Salem store was.

She decided to consolidate operations in Newburyport when she was outbid for her space by another company that was willing to pay more money for her Salem space. Her landlord decided to take the higher paying tenant, she said.

“I am the kind of person who goes with the flow,” Tenenbaum said. She said she knows she will find a larger space when the time comes.

That time may be well into the future. The plans for a new hotel will take months to work its way through the city permitting processes.

And there is no guarantee that some residents will not oppose the plans by Karp's Newburyport Development Co. for a new hotel.

Karp has been a lightning rod for those who oppose new development along the waterfront.

Newburyport Development owns about a third of the downtown, including restaurants, marinas and office buildings. In the area of 75 Merrimack Street, the firm owns several properties.

“This is great. It is something

Newburyport needs,” said Bob O'Brien, the managing director of the Newburyport Clean Tech Center.

He said there are several large companies in the business park, like Rochester Electronics, that need a hotel so it can bring in employees for training or for quarterly or annual meetings. Currently there is limited hotel space.

He hopes that the city will conduct a strategic plan for the entire area so that the hotel, the proposed mixeduse project on the waterfront by the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority, a future garage and other space on the waterfront could be coordinated for the benefit of the city.

The move to locate a hotel on that site had some council members scratching their heads.

At Large Council Member Ari Herzog wrote in an email: “If Newburyport Development wants to build a hotel there, go for it.

But that's the potential site for a parking garage. So, where are the cars going if not there?”

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The Boys & Girls Club, now in its 12th year, is constantly innovating, creating new programs to serve the needs of a growing number of youth, who come to the old school building on Maple Street here for after-school care.

The program has grown every year. It now serves about 100 to 110 youths every day, about double what it averaged last year. The youths come from towns throughout the region.

Bus transportation is provided from Amesbury, Newburyport and Salisbury.

“We are seeing kids we have never seen before,” Keenan said.

Club membership, which costs $25 per year, has jumped from 306 in 2011 to 420 in 2012. And that does not count some of the older teenagers who come to play basketball because they have no place else to go, Keenan said.

The reason for the continued growth of the club, Keenan and Dion believe, can be attributed to the ever-broadening array of programs that are not only fun, but have “an impact on their lives,” Keenan said.

“The kids and the parents recognize that they are learning skills here that they can use outside,” he said.

Gone are the old days, when a Boys and Girls Club was mostly “gym and swim.”

They come to use a bank of computers for homework, to learn how to produce digital art, to make movies and record songs. They

come to dance and create art that supplements school art programs or for some provides the only art expression and training the young people get.

They come to learn wood working and how to build models. They even work on constructing robots.

And they come for after-school tutoring by former teachers and adult volunteers and from students who attend Governor's Academy in Byfield. Each week, the club, which tutors 40 to 45 students, recognizes the best male and female students in the tutoring program. And each month the best students receive a pizza party for themselves and three of their friends.

“We have teachers calling us now asking us to help some of the children do their homework,” Keenan said.

Last week, a half dozen club members were working on a new dance they will incorporate into an upcoming production of the musical, “The Beauty and the Beast.”

Last year, the club had so many youths wanting to be in the play, “The Wizard of Oz,” that they had to have three Dorothys and several Tin Men. Dion may be most excited about a puppet theater, where the club members put on a production of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

They also come just to play basketball and have fun, Keenan said.

The Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley last year

won two awards from the Yankee Chapter (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine clubs) for its anti-bullying jamboree and a second award for its theater and dance programs.

The club, which started out in a basement before moving to the old school, has also been successful in attracting donations and grants.

Keenan said the annual budget that includes a staff of 10 is $500,000, almost all of it coming from fundraising.

“The banks have been very good to us,” he said. He referred to support the club gets from the Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank, the Provident Bank and the Institution for Savings Bank.

Grants make up about 57 percent of the budget. Fundraising and donations contribute about 36 percent.

The fees paid by the families who send their children to the program after school and on holidays make up about 6 percent of the total cost.

Keenan and Dion take great pride in the kids who leave the program to graduate from high school and go on to college and get good jobs. Some of the kids come back to volunteer or just to say thanks.

“I think we are different from other after-school programs,” Keenan said.

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Community Announcements AMESBURY -The Market Street Baptist Church, 37 Market Street, Amesbury is hosting an 8-week Junior Church Basketball Program for both girls & boys ages 5-8 in the church gym. This program is a noncompetitive, instructional league designed to teach fundamental basketball skills and basic Bible knowledge in a fun and engaging manner beginning Friday, January 25 until Friday, March 15 from 6:30 - 8:00 pm. A suggested donation of $10 per child is requested to help defray expenses.Please make check payable to: MSBC/Bball. Space is limited. To register in advane contact the church office at 978-388-0930 or msbcsec@verizon.net. All are welcome. Registration is 6:00-630 pm on January 25.

-----------------------------------------------------------AMESBURY - The Amesbury Council on Aging is in search of volunteers to assist in several different areas. If you are interested please stop by and pick up a volunteer packet. For More information please feel free to call and speak with Jean Marie, Volunteer Coordinator 978 388 8138. Areas of need: 1. Friendly Visitors: The COA is searching for adult volunteers to join us in helping caregivers and people who are frail. Friendly visitors are paired with homebound adults who are older For or frail and have Sale scheduled visit with them 1-3 times per week. This is to help with • socialization, meeting the individual’s social needs, helping caregivers, and on occasion running local errands to pick up items such as groceries (no transporting of people in your vehicle). 2. Reception area: answer phone, schedule van trips, register clients for events (2-5 hours at a time) – computer skills suggested 3. Greeters- front desk, back up to phones and welcome people into the center. 4. COA Board Members- must be an Amesbury resident, wanting to be involved in making the senior Community Center the best it can be. If you have a skill that you feel may be helpful please call us• and/or stop by we may be able • to utilize your talent.

-----------------------------------------------------------AMESBURY - The weather might be chilly, but storytime is always cozy. Join us January 15th – April 11th for songs, activities, crafts, and, of course, stories at the Amesbury Public Library. You’re child will sing, laugh, and learn! Please bring your child only to the session appropriate for his/her age. Tuesdays: 2 year olds at 10:30am; Thursdays: 3 to 5 year olds at 10:30am. No registration is required and programs are free. Schedules are available at the library or at www. amesburylibrary.org. Supplies for these programs are generously funded by The Friends of the Amesbury Public Library. For more information, visit www.amesburylibrary.org or call the Children’s Room at 978-388-8148 x4 or email cdombrowski@ mvlc.org -----------------------------------------------------------AMESBURY - Interactive fun awaits babies 0 – 23 months (and their caregivers) at the Amesbury Public Library Mother Goose of the Loose Babytime with puppets, stories, songs, and music all followed by a playtime for kids and social time for adults. A fun way to start your child’s literacy journey! Our next session runs on Fridays at 9:45am January 15th to February 22nd. Registration is not necessary, but attendance is on a first come basis due to limited space. This program is free. For more information, please contact the children’s room at 978-388-8148 x4 or www.amesburylibrary.org.

-----------------------------------------------------------BYFIELD – Owl Expert to Speak - Parker River Clean Water Asociation (PRCWA) is excited to announce that owl expert Norm Smith, of Mass Audubon Blue Hills Trailside Museum, will be the keynote speaker at their annual meeting, Sunday, January 27, 2013 at the Newbury Library in Byfield on Lunt Street (I-95 exit 55, Central Street west 1 block to Lunt Street and turn left). The program is from 1 - 3 PM and refreshments will be served. The public is welcome. Contact PRCWA for more information at 978-462-2551 Norman Smith is a self-taught naturalist who has worked for the Massachusetts Audubon Society since 1974. Norman has studied birds of prey for over 35 years, including rehabilitating the injured and successfully fostering over 1,000 orphaned hawk and owl chicks into adoptive nests. His ongoing long-term projects include trapping and banding migrating hawks and owls in the Blue Hills Reservation, banding nestling hawks and owls, and doing research on snowy owls and other raptors wintering at Boston's Logan International Airport. He has also traveled to Alaska to study snowy owls in their native tundra habitat. His research work has been published in National Geographic, National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Yankee, Massachusetts Wildlife, Bird Observer, Birding, Sanctuary, Geo, Nature, Grolier Encyclopedia, Owls of the Northern Hemisphere and Owls of the World. His mission is to use the information gathered from his research to stimulate a passion in everyone he meets to help us better understand, appreciate and care for this world in which we live.

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It is a joint ministry of of three churches: the Market Street Baptist Church (MSBC), 37 Market Street, Amesbury and the Ward Hill Church of Christ (WHC), 34 M Street, Haverhill and the West Newbury Congregational Church (WNCC), 308 Main Street,West Newbury. The program consists of 12 four-week sessions of full-time study. Thirty-six courses are offered over a three-year period and new students may enroll at any stage in that time. Registration Fee is $30 per course, $75 for three. To register contact Pastor, Michael John at 978-388-0930 or mejohn@verizon.net. Make check payable to Merrimack Valley School of Missions and mail to: Merrimack Valley School of Missions, 37 Market Street, Amesbury, MA 01913.

• Any Home Repair -----------------------------------------------------------• Complete Remodels NEWBURYPORt - Join the Choir - Do you enjoy singing? The First Religious Society Choir is beginning a new season of • Barns & Specialties music. They will sing music in a variety of styles, and include pieces from various faith traditions. Rehearsals are Thursday nights, 7:30-9:00pm, and again on Sunday mornings, 9:00-10:00am. Come and try it; the Choir Room is upstairs behind • Call with Questions the organ. If you would like more information, please contact the church music director, Jay Lane at jaydlane@comcast. net The First Religious Society, 26 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, the choir room is upstairs in the sanctuary Free and open Neal Conley, Lic. & Insured (978) 465-4079 to the public -----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORt - Attention All Singers! From show singers to choral veterans, the Newburyport Choral Society is actively recruiting new singers. Our members Listen to Kathryn' radio program Listen to Kathryn’s radio program come from nearly forty communities in Massachusetts and southeastern New every Friday at 7:45 am every Friday at 7:45 am Hampshire and range from high school students to retirees. We perform twice a on WNBP 1450 AM. year with a professional orchestra and present music that is both challenging for on WNBP 1450 AM. experienced singers but is still doable for beginners. We rehearse Monday evenings in the Triton High School cafeteria from 7:30 to 10 PM. Spring 2013 registration began on Monday, January 7 at 6:30 PM for three consecutive weeks. Sign up then and/or give the us a test drive at our Open Rehearsal on January 14. For more information, visit us on facebook or at www.newburyportchoralsociety.org.

Kathryn O’Brien, M.Ed. -----------------------------------------------------------978-887-7272 (office) NEWBURYPORt - The River Valley Charter School is now accepting applications for fall 2013 for grades K-8. Call 978-465-0065 for an application 978-465-1322 (direct line) package, or visit www.rivervalleycharter.org to download enrollment materials.

Email: kathrynobrien@remax.net Applications must be submitted to the school no later than 4 p.m. on February Website: www.KathrynOBrien.com 1, 2013. The enrollment lottery will be held at the school on February 7, 2013.

The school will offer two information sessions on Thursday, Jan. 17: one at 9 a.m. and one at 6:30 p.m. Those interested may attend either session, and registration is not required.

-----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORt – Salvation Army Programs that will resume in January 2013: Free Yoga classes begin Thursday, January 10th at 6:15pm. Ongoing glasses, good for beginners, people with some limitations of over 50. Not a chair class.

Donations accepted to help with personal care items for our food pantry. Please arrive before the starting time and allow extra time for parking; Free Haircuts in January are on Wednesday the 9th and 23rd at 11:00am. No appointment needed.

Please come with clean hair. Everyone is welcome to come up to once per month.; The rainy Day Giveaway will resume on Tuesday, January 8th. All on the Seacoast (not NH or Haverhill) are welcome to bring their own shopping bag for a variety of non perishable pantry food. This is offered without any intake and is separate from the usual Salvation Army food pantry and also separate from the COA Brown Bag Program.; The Kid Snack Program also will begin again in January during the last week of the month. Beginning on Monday, January 28th during the Food Pantry hours. Anyone on the Seacoast can receive one week of school snacks for documented school age children (6 to 18 years) including drinks.; Food Pantry hours are, Monday 1-4, Wednesday 12:30-4, and Thursday, 1-6.

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of the North Shore Computer Society on Thursday evening, January WEDNESDAY MORNING and events, or visit the Web site at www. 10, at 7 pm when security expert, BIRDING massaudubon.org/joppaflats.

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Peabody Municipal Light Plant, 201 Warren Street Extension, Peabody, TRIVIA NIGHT MA. All meetings of the North Shore Keon's Trivia Nights on Wednesday Computer Society are free and open from 7-9, $2 off all menu items & gift to the public. (Please note: Seating certificate giveaways. 258 Andover St, is limited). Tech Talk Time will also Georgetown 978-352-2900 be held – your chance to share your technical questions and answers.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10th Remember, to be eligible to win any door prize offered, you must be a BABIES AND BOOKS member of the North Shore Computer Babies and Books classes for infants Society. to 2 1/2 years will resume January 10th, 2013 at 10:00 AM for eight weeks at FRIDAY, JANUARY 11th the GAR Memorial Library, 490 Main St., West Newbury, MA. Free and open WINTER SEABIRDS: A to all! Space limited Call 978-363-1105 WORKSHOP or email sharoncgrimes@gmail.com Learn about sea ducks, alcids, cormorants, and the toughest shorebird HOMESCHOOL STUDY in the world, the purple sandpiper, on SESSION: WHAT’S THAT BIRD? local shores, riverbanks, and estuaries Monthly focus topics for with Dave Larson and Dave Weaver. homeschoolers, ages 7 to 12, each with Friday, January 11, 7:00-9:00 pm, an on-site study session and an exciting and Saturday, January 12, 7:30 amfield trip. Birding field trip on January 5:30 pm Meet at the Joppa Flats 24. Teacher: Lisa Hutchings. Thursday, Education Center, One Plum Island January 10, 1:00-3:00 pm Meet at the Turnpike, Newburyport. Fee: $125.

Joppa Flats Education Center, One Preregistration is required. Call 978Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport. 462-9998 for information about $17. Preregistration is required. Call additional programs and events, or visit 978-462-9998 for information about the Web site at www.massaudubon. additional programs and events, or visit org/joppaflats. the Web site at www.massaudubon. org/joppaflats.

BLOOD DRIVE Give a Pint, Get a Pound.

CRAFT PROGRAM Community Blood Drive at the Hilton The Ipswich Public Library After- Senior Center, 43 Lafayette Road, School Craft program for January, Salisbury Friday, January 11, 2013, making a cool, decorative sock 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. sponsored by the snowman, is on the schedule for Salisbury Lions Club and the American Thursday, January 10, between 3 and Red Cross. Every two seconds someone 5 p.m. Due to the great response to in the United States needs blood and this craft program in the past few every pint donated could save up to months, registration is required to be three lives. The Red Cross is urging certain that there are enough supplies the public to make an appointment for everyone. The crafts generally take to donate blood by calling 1-800about 30 minutes to create, so stopping RedCross (1-800-733-2767) or visit by between 3 and 4:30 will give young www.redcrossblood.org. Snacks, fruit artists enough time to finish. Come to juices, and bottled water is provided to the library to see a sample of the craft presenting donors by the American Red and to register or call the Children’s Cross. Also, each presenting donor will Room at 978-412-8713 to sign up. also receive a voucher for one pound of The program is intended for students Dunkin Donuts coffee. in grades 1 to 5, but younger children may participate with a caregiver in SINGLES DANCE attendance.

Singles dance every Friday at Daniels Hall, Route 4, Nottingham, NH., 8 “IDENTITY THEFT AND PM to 12. Dance is BYOB, casual COMPUTER SECURITY dress, $12 admission, includes a free Come learn about “Identity Theft hot buffet and free drink set-ups. Bring and Computer Security” at a meeting your own liquor, Non alcoholic drinks WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9th

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WINtER RAPtORS WIth PAUL ROBERtS Join Paul Roberts, a gifted teacher and highly skilled, trip leader. Paul has been studying raptors and teaching courses on them for 40 years. This miniclass will concentrate on identification, migration and winter counts. January 12th, 8:00 am to 1:00 pm, Fee: $35 - Pre-registration required. Meeting Location: Provided upon registration.

Winter is an excellent time for learning about and viewing raptors. Paul will cover physical and behavioral traits you can use to confidently identify hawks and owls with a focus on those species present in the winter. During this field trip, we will explore the Merrimack River, Plum Island and Salisbury State Park looking for eagles, hawks and owls. It's an exciting time to be in the field with the opportunity to search for species such as Snowy and Shorteared Owls, Rough-legged Hawks and Bald Eagles which move to the coast as inland waters freeze. We'll take time to closely observe these raptor species and discuss the adaptations that allow them to survive our harsh winters.

We'll also check out any other winter specialties we encounter and hope for a Northern Shrike.

PAPER DRIVE The All-Scout Paper Drive will be held on Saturday, January 12,2013 from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. behind the First Congregational Church of Rowley on Main Street. The scouts will be collecting newspapers, books and magazines. The Boy Scouts will be collecting redeemable bottles and cans. The Boy, Cub and Girl Scouts of Rowley thank you very much for helping to keep Scouting active in Rowley. The paper drives are held the second Saturday of odd numbered months. If you have any questions please call George Pacenka at (978) 948-7918. Non-perishable items… including diapers, paper towels, toilet paper will also be collected at this time for the Rowley Food Pantry.

SAtURDAY MORNING BIRDING Join our experienced leaders in a search for avian activity in the Newburyport/Plum Island area. For beginners and birders of all skill levels.

Saturday, January 12, 9:00-11:30 am Meet at Joppa Flats Education Center, One Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport. Adults $10; Children ages 8 and up $7. No preregistration required. Call 978-462-9998 for information about additional programs and events, or visit the Web site at www. massaudubon.org/joppaflats.

tEDDY BEAR CLINIC Free Family Fun - Saturday, January 12th from 10am-12pm Sponsored by the Triton District Family Connection Agencies and Anna Jaques Hospital Event held at Salisbury Elementary School (SES) café 100 Lafayette Rd., Salisbury Parents/Caregivers bring your child and his or her favorite stuffed friend to our Teddy Bear Clinic!

Does your Teddy or stuffed friend need a check-up, ill, or have a booboo? Join our interactive and exciting clinic, designed to help children feel encouraged when visiting a doctor.

They’ll also get tips on being healthy, especially through the cold and flu season! Children’s stuffed friends will have a check-up and their boo-boos bandaged! Healthy snacks provided!

Kid-aerobics! Get your cameras ready for a meet and greet with our Teddy Bear Friend, Dr. Teddy who’ll be around to meet with kids! FREE gift… and MORE! AUthOR PRESENtAtION The Langley-Adams Library in Groveland will be having many programs throughout the winter to keep you active and involved! Please join us by registering for any of the events at www.langleyadamslib.org or by calling 978-372-1732. Saturday, January 12th from 11am-12:30pm Local and Bestselling Author Andre Dubus who wrote "The Garden of Last Days" and "The House of Sand and Fog" will present his latest book "Townie: A Memoir" He will be discuss his writing, have a book signing and Q & A. BEAN SUPPER St. James Episcopal Church, 119 Washington St, Groveland will host a Bean Supper on Saturday, January 12th 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm 978 373-1270 Adults $7 Children $3 GIN MILL JULEP The Cat in the Cradle Coffeehouse is excited to start the new year with a performance by Gin Mill Julep on January 12. This intoxicating group will keep the post-holiday spirit ringing! Gin Mill Julep brings a range of influences including traditional American and Finn dance music, 20th century jazz and swing, and cheerful barnyard tunes. Opening the evening with her dynamic presence is local favorite Greta Schaefer. Guaranteed to warm your soul on a cold winter's eve, the Cat in the Cradle Coffeehouse is hosted by the Byfield Community Arts Center at 7 Central Street, Byfield.

Doors open at 7:30, admission is $5.00 at the door, and the Cat Cafe serves beer, wine, soft drinks, and snacks throughout the evening. Call 978463-3335 for more info or check our website at www.byfieldcac.org.

EREADER WORKShOP Did Santa leave a Kindle or Nook in your stocking and now you’re not sure what to do with it? Join us for a free workshop on how to download eBooks from the Newbury Town Library onto COMEDY NIGht your eReader. The workshop will be The Pine Grove PTA Comedy Night held on Saturday, January 12th at Fundraiser!! Timothy’s Club- 225

Newbury Street, Danvers MA come early and eat at Timothy’s… for dinner reservations CALL 978.774.7270 Saturday, January 12, 2013 7:00pm12:00am (show starts at 8:00pm) Music by DJ Matt Grenier to follow show Jeanne Sullivan “Rowley’s own”; Robbie Printz Boston’s best Comedy Act, Best of Boston 2003, Has been seen on NBC, MTV, and Comedy central; Chris Pennie Finalist in CMT Big Comic, Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival , and Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Riots Join Pine Grove For A Night Of Fun & Laughs $25 per person Reserve your own table Open seating also available Contact Celeste for Tickets and Reservations ckiricoples@ hotmail.com 978.973.2125

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Saturday, January 12th from 10am-12pm Event held at Salisbury Elementary School (SES) café 100 Lafayette Rd., Salisbury, Ma

Parents/Caregivers bring your child and his or her favorite stuffed friend to our Teddy Bear Clinic!

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FOCUS ON MERRIMACK RIVER BIRDS Explore local venues to find gulls, wintering ducks, and bald eagles.

Sunday, January 13, 9:00 am–12:30 pm Meet at the Joppa Flats Education Center, One Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport. $25. Preregistration is required. Call 978-462-9998 for information about additional programs and events, or visit the Web site at www. massaudubon.org/joppaflats.

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GARDEN CLUB MEEtING Sea Spray Garden Club will be meeting Monday Jan 14th at 7 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 8 Lafayette Rd, Salisbury. We are always welcoming new members! Please consider joining fellow gardening enthusiasts to start off the new year.

Our speaker this month is Linda Corapi of Gardens Galore in Stoneham Topic is "All about Irises" Light refreshments served. Please call 978-388-4848 for more info tUESDAY, JANUARY 15th BECOME AN EDUCAtION VOLUNtEER At JOPPA FLAtS Learn to assist children’s educator Lisa Hutchings in coastal ecology and birding programs in the field and at schools. No experience necessary. Posttraining commitment: two half-days per month. Tuesdays, January 15 (Weather & Wildlife), January 22 (Raptors) and January 29 (Tracking & Nocturnal Creatures), 9:30 am – 1:30 pm Meet at the Joppa Flats Education Center, One Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport.

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and events, or visit the Web site at www. PBS Series and discuss the cases with a group including women from the massaudubon.org/joppaflats. countries and populations featured in WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16th the videos. The First Religious Society, 26 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, Lower Meetinghouse Free and Open to WEDNESDAY MORNING the Public BIRDING ON CAPE ANN Join Joppa Flats Sanctuary Director Bill Gette and USFWS veteran David WEDNESDAY EVENING Weaver to see the magnificent winter LECtURE: LOUISIANA BIRDING seabirds and ducks around Gloucester – YELLOW RAILS IN CAJUN and Rockport. Appropriate for all COUNtY Joppa Flats Science and Education birding levels. Wednesday, January 16, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Meet in Gloucester Coordinator Dave Larson presents an at the Friendly’s restaurant at the first evening of photographs and stories traffic circle on Route 128. Fee: $17. about a recent birding trip to Cajun Preregistration is not required. Call County. Wednesday, January 16, 7:30 978-462-9998 for information about pm – 8:30 pm Meet at the Joppa additional programs and events, or visit Flats Education Center, One Plum the Web site at www.massaudubon. Island Turnpike, Newburyport. $4.

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978-462-9998 for information about additional programs and events, or visit hALF thE SKY On Wednesday, January 16 at the Web site at www.massaudubon.

7:00pm the Social Action Committee org/joppaflats. of the First Religious Society will sponsor a presentation of the "Half the WEDNESDAY EVENING Sky" Movement. Women's Stories; LECtURE Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Women are not the Problem, They are the Answer. This presentation Street, Ipswich will host its monthly is about gender inequity, one of the Wednesday Evening Lecture on January major issues of our time. Women 16 at 7:30 pm. Stephen Kenney, comprise 70 percent of the world’s director of the Commonwealth poorest people. Gender inequity is Museum, will present an illustrated one of the major issues of our times. PowerPoint describing the great In so many cases, poor women are “foundation documents” displayed at the victims, but they are also the ones the Museum and high tech interactive driving change, from the micro-credit exhibits that bring Massachusetts initiatives, to community healthcare, history to life. Rare national treasures they are empowering their sisters - they featured are John Winthrop’s charter have taken successful initiatives. In the for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, book ‘Half the Sky’ Nicholas Kristof the 1789 Massachusetts copy of and Meg Ryan have made the voyage the Bill of Rights, and Paul Revere’s to meet these women. They have been copper engraving plate depicting the Boston Massacre.

First Ipswich Bank present with women from all over the The North Shore’s Largest world, written their stories in a book, generously sponsors the Wednesday Community Newsp Series. Refreshments turned these into the subjectIndependent of a PBS Evening Lecture four hour Video. Come and watch served. $10 for non-members; free to selected women’s stories from this members and audience participants.

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Continued from page 5 Center announces the opening of an exhibit featuring the nature photographs of Newburyport Art Association members Linda Dahlberg and Beth Reiter Blanchard. The show, “Take Another Look,” will be held in the Center’s Juliet Kellogg French Room from January 13 through February 24, 2013. The artists will introduce their work at a free opening reception on Sunday, January 13, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. at the Joppa Flats Education Center, 1 Plum Island Turnpike in Newburyport. A portion of all purchases made during the exhibit helps to support Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats. Founded in 1896 by two inspirational women who were committed to the protection of birds, Mass Audubon has grown to become a powerful force for conservation in New England. Together with more than 100,000 members, Mass Audubon cares for 35,000 acres of conservation land and provides educational programs for 225,000 children and adults annually. Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center is a natural history education center that is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday and Monday holidays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Call 978-462-9998 for information about additional programs and events, or visit the website at www.massaudubon.org.

-----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORt -Tickets are now on sale for the YWCA Greater Newburyport’s 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast.

This year's event will be held on January 21, 2013 at Newburyport City Hall. Registration and continental breakfast will begin at 8:00 am. The program will begin at 8:30. Tickets are $25 ($20 for senior citizens.) Thanks to the generous donations of sponsors and community members, High School students attend the breakfast for free. Advance tickets can be purchased at the YWCA 13 Market Street until Friday January 18th at noon. Tickets will be available at the door. “Racism is a thing of the past” and “events like this perpetuate issues that no longer exist.” “There is no racism here.” These, and similar comments, were expressed by high school students at last year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast. At some level, maybe these comments can be excused. After all, the civil rights movement is taught in history classes. The civil rights act was signed into law by President Johnson in 1964, almost 50 years ago. In contrast, in 2008, the United States elected its first African American president. After the election, there was even talk of a “post racial America”. But is it really true?

That still unfinished conversation about the current reality of racism has helped the students on our planning committee shape the planning for this year’s event. Our guest presenter at this year’s breakfast will be Jamele Adams, Associate Dean of Student Life at Brandeis University. Jamele oversees the departments of Student Activities and Community Service, as well as the Intercultural Center and the Chaplaincy. He works with campus groups to promote and enhance opportunities to celebrate diversity at Brandeis. In addition, he oversees the Community Prejudice Response Task Force. Known as Harlym 125, Adams was a frequent and highly regarded figure in competitions in New York and beyond. Since coming to Brandeis, he has become a part of the Boston area poetry scene and joined a team of poets who have won numerous competitions regionally and nationally. This promises to be an engaging and meaningful program for all. For more information, go to www.ywcanewburyport.org or call 978-465-9922.

-----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORt - As the Firehouse 11th Annual New Works Festival continues for the second and final weekend on Friday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26; theater-goers are once again invited to participate in the playwriting process.

Area playwrights were asked to submit plays that were then judged by an independent panel of theater professionals in blind readings. Presented over two weekends, the festival has become highly respected throughout the theatrical community and writers from all over New England participated this year. The intimacy of the Arakelian Theater’s 195-seat auditorium means that a writer can be ‘up-close and personal’, both with audience members to judge their reactions to the new works first-hand, and with the actors on stage -- making it a perfect venue from which to showcase new works in development. In addition, the Firehouse theater staff handles the production details smoothly and with dispatch; all of which has earned the Firehouse New Works Festival a reputation as one of New England's foremost playwriting festivals. Tickets to the event, which will be held at the Firehouse (Market Square, Newburyport), are $13 per evening and may be purchased in person at the Box Office (Wed-Sun, 12N-5P), by calling 978/462-7336 or online at www.firehouse.org .

-----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORt - A Mardi Gras Celebration/Dance, featuring Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, will be held at the Belleville Stage, 300 High Street, Newburyport, MA on Friday, February 8, 2013 at 8:00PM. Tickets are $25 in advance/$30 day of show/$10 children 12 and under. For more information: please email: bellevilleconcerts@gmail.com or visit: www.bellevillechurch.org/roots.php Continued on page 12

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There are five major reasons that people do not get the necessary dental care they need. They are money, time, lack of concern, fear and trust. Let’s take a quick look at each one and see if any of them fit you and what dentists often try to do to overcome these obstacles for patients.

Although you may think that money would be the number one reason people avoid ideal dental treatment, it is not.

Even in these tougher economic times, money, although a significant barrier for many is still not the number one issue for most. Yes, dental care in some cases can be a significant investment.

With insurance industry’s unwillingness to raise the bar, as I have talked about in previous columns, patients often get stuck with large dental bills.

Unfortunately, as of now, we have to face these facts and it does not mean avoiding the dentist.

Many dentists offer payment plans

through third party carriers so patients can pay for treatment over an extended period of time. Ask your dentist if they have such an option. The point here is to get a plan. Once a plan is established, your dentist can work with you to prioritize and sequence your treatment.

This way, if you need to spread your treatment over a period of time to make it affordable, you can pick away at a well thought out plan.

Time is an excuse. We all use time as an excuse for many of the things in our lives we want to avoid or procrastinate on. The reality is however, if we place something high enough in our value system there is always time for it. But, in order to move something higher up in our value system, we must be educated and come to realize that this particular thing is of benefit to us. This brings me to the most common reason people avoid ideal dental care.

Lack of concern about dental health is prevalent with a huge percentage of the population for a few reasons.

Absence of pain is one. Other than “nerve gone bad” need for a root canal, there few things that actually cause pain.

Take for example periodontal disease.

About 75% of the population has some form of this disease but only 50% of the population goes to the dentist.

Why? No pain. This doesn’t mean it

is healthy and there are not problems down the road like loss of teeth. It is up to the dentist to educate patients on these types of issues, but people have to actually go to the dentist to get this information.

Some people have fear of going to the dentist….and for good reason, due to bad past experiences or bad information.

However, dentistry today should be a comfortable experience most of the time. For those who are still fearful, there are different medications dentists can use to ease the experience.

The last barrier to ideal treatment is trust. For a patient to move forward with treatment, it is essential the patient both like and trust the dentist.

Although I am sure that the skills of your dentist are important to you, I am willing to bet that you would not stay with a dentist that you did not like or trust. Find someone you can connect with and build a strong doctor-patient relationship.

Dr. St. Clair maintains a private dental practice in Rowley and Newburyport dedicated to health-centered family dentistry. If there are certain topics you would like to see written about or questions you have please email them to him at jpstclair@dentalhealthforlife.com. You can view all previously written columns at www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com/blog.

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Every two seconds someone in the United States needs blood and every pint donated could save up to three lives. The Red Cross is urging the public to make an appointment to donate blood by calling 1-800-RedCross (1-800-733-2767) or visit www.redcrossblood.org. Snacks, fruit juices, and bottled water is provided to presenting donors by the American Red Cross.

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It does not work that way. As long as a home is overpriced, it will sit until it grows cold or until it is reduced to what is closer to the fair market price for that home. All homes on the market are in the "column" we can refer to as "the wish list".

That original "wish" to realize more equity than the market will bear, will never materialize. Homes that have been correctly priced for the market will be at the closing table within a predictable and reasonable period of time. Homes that have sold are the market and they are the only homes that should be used to compare with the value of any other home.

The records we REALTORS track in the market demonstrate that properties are being priced more realistically and as such, they are coming to closing sooner. The buyers are back because of the corrected pricing and the inventory is now low.

The young couple with the unrealistic offer is not alone. There are many buyers who continue to approach properties that are far out of their price range and they are often armed with the false notion that "all sellers are desperate". We who practice real estate recognize that although there are some

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In support of their market analysis, they had downloaded material from one of the many internet sites that have exploded through cyberspace with real estate public data strewn in all directions for the "convenience" of the general public to explore and interpret as factual.

They pointed to columns of figures and addresses of properties that had been on the market and that had sold. They took the original list prices of the homes and subtracted that figure from the actual sale prices

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