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February 15 - 21, 2012 • Vol. 8, No. 15
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The iPad Rescue Adventure
By Stewart Lytle, Reporter –––––––––––––––––
BYFIELD – Bruce Truesdale was flying from a New York City-area airport to Boston on a routine business trip when he did what many fellow travelers do: he put his iPad in the seat pocket in front of him. “They are small enough that in the pocket you can't see them,” Truesdale, an executive with a large shipping company, said. When the flight landed at Logan Airport, he gathered his other things and left, leaving behind the $700 iPad his children and wife had given him last Father's Day. Truesdale was crushed. Continued on page 3
Juliet and Bruce Truesdale and the rescued IPad.
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Boys & Girls Club Goes High Tech
By Stewart Lytle, Reporter ––––––––––––––––– SALISBURY – When you walk in the Boys & Girls Club of Lower Merrimack Valley these days, you know this is not the old “gym and swim” clubs that the boys and girls clubs once were. Thanks to a six-figure grant from a secret donor, the club in Salisbury, which works with 90 to 100 students after school every day and on school vacations, has gone high-tech and highcontent. Playing basketball in the gym and getting help with their homework are still major parts of the program. But they now share space with drama and dance programs, scientific experiments, photography courses, computer Photo by Stewart Lytle instruction and Xbox 360 Kinect. Mark Wood, left, and Gabe Wood dance to an XBOX 360 game.
“We asked ourselves, Are we really making an impact?” said Jim Keenan, the executive director. He questioned whether the program was just offering activities for the children who come from Salisbury, Newburyport and Amesbury. He wanted to offer both activities and programs. The club survives on grants and donations. The $25 a year the students pay for the program is barely noticed in the $500,000 club budget. But with the large donation from “a good friend,” Keenan said, the club felt it could begin creating new programs. The Boys & Girls Club of America conducted a survey of the existing programs and offered
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Sheila Mullins, Candidate for Republican State Committee Dear Editor and readers, I am Sheila Mullins, I live in Newburyport, and I am running for an office that you may not have ever heard of and frankly up until a couple of years ago, neither had I. I am running for Republican State Committee in the First Essex district which is the State Senatorial district that is currently being served by Steven Baddour. The big questions are: 1. What is the State Committee and what do they do; 2. Why should I care; and 3. Who are you, Sheila? The role of the Republican State Committee is to act as a liaison between the city/town committees and the national GOP. They are responsible for the monetary distribution to candidates that is donated to the MA GOP. The job of the State Committee is also to help grow the Republican Party in
Massachusetts, help Republicans be elected, and assist city and town committees with training, support, etc. We all know that Massachusetts is, by and large, a one party state and that this imbalance has not been good for we the beleaguered Taxpayers. Without more Republicans and others who seek a constitutionally compliant government (as in limited government), we will continue to get more of the same: excessive regulations that kill businesses, job growth, and hamstring small companies; ever-increasing taxes; a government that sees its employers (meaning the Taxpayers) as its own ATM; fewer services for American citizens, but more cost to the same; and the like. This is NOT the direction that I think is beneficial to anyone living, working, and paying taxes in Massachusetts. These are some of the reasons why you should care. Then the question still not answered is who am I? I am a member of the Newburyport Republican Committee and former Treasurer during the time that Larry Giunta was Chair. I just completed my term as the Clerk of the Newburyport Charter Commission (my only elected office). I have spent a number of years in Newburyport doing what I can to help make my adopted hometown a better place. I am a Friend, member, and volunteer at the Custom House Maritime Museum; a
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some suggestions. Many of those ideas are now becoming reality. With three full-time and 12 part-time staff members, the club began to expand its programs. On a stage by the gym, the Interactive Zone has three large-screen TVs mounted on the wall. The Xbox 360 offers about 15 different games, all of which keep the students active and improve their physical and mental skills. Last week, students were busy doing the Wipe Out Challenge and dancing to another program. Across the hall, a couple of dozen students were conducting science experiments. Last week Continued from page 1
they were building their own experiment in the Steady Hand Game. The science program helps the students learn through hands-on life, physical and earth science experiments. Other students were working on Mac computers that were more advanced than many schools and fewer households in the area have. Further down the hall, a room is being readied for a photography class that will be rolled out during the February school vacation. The club just completed a drama production of the “Wizard of Oz” where 50 club members participated either as actors or set designers. Almost
300 people came to see the two performances. In two weeks, the drama program is preparing to do a series of 15-minutes skits. In coming months, the club will offer a digital arts program that allows the club members to produce their own movies and music. The club also offers math tutorials and an anti-bullying course. “We are giving them skills that they can use outside the club. They will be better off for it,” Keenan said. “We're excited.” To enroll in the Boys & Girls Club, call 978-462-7003 or visit www.bgclmv.org.
iPad. Together they began what might be called the iPad Rescue Adventure. They turned on their computer and went to an iPad application, called mobileme.If you search mobileme, you will discover that it is being phased out in favor of a more robust service, ICloud. However, until summer, mobileme still works for those already enrolled. The Truesdales did not know if his iPad was enrolled in mobileme, but it was worth a try. Together they typed in his identification and password and suddenly on the screen popped up a map. Looking closer, they saw a green dot on a house. “What does that mean?” he wondered out loud. He clicked the zoom in button and the house grew larger. When he zoomed out, he realized the house, where his iPad may be being held hostage, was in a small town in Maine, about 30 minutes away. He called the police department there and told the person who answered the phone he suspected that someone who worked for the airline had found his iPad and taken it home or given it to someone who lived in the house with the green dot. Truesdale was told he needed to come in and file a complaint. It was a nice day for a drive in his new Mini Cooper, so he got on I-95 and drove north. Soon he was in the police department, which is in the basement of the town hall, sitting across from a burly officer, who wanted to hear all about the iPad and how it had been tracked. Truesdale, who follows the news closely, wondered if there
was anything the police could do in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Jan. 23 that said attaching a Global Positioning Satellite tracking device to a car amounted to a police search. Under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, police are now required to seek warrants if they install a tracking device. Maine is, after all, across two state lines and thus a federal issue,Truesdale thought. The police officer did not seem overly concerned about what the nine robed men and women in Washington, D.C., thought about tracking criminals. He turned on his computer and asked Truesdale to show him the house with the green dot. Truesdale also described the iPad with its distinctive crack and the photo of him, his brother and sister that was his screen saver. “I think I know who lives there,” the officer told Truesdale. By the time Truesdale got back to a grocery store in Newburyport to do his Super Bowl shopping, he got a call from the officer, telling him that the iPad had been rescued. Would he like to pick it up? The details of the rescue are being held on a need-to-know basis, but Truesdale believes his iPad was stolen by an airline employee, who lives in the house in Maine. The Maine police are not pressing charges because the theft occurred in Massachusetts. The officer's advice: turn the matter over to the Massachusetts state police and notify the airline about the theft by one of its unnamed employees. Truesdale is weighing his next step.
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He called the airline and was routed to its Lost and Found office in Texas where he was told one woman was handling the items recovered from planes and she was still working on stuff left behind during the Christmas holidays. “What was the chance I would ever see my iPad again?” he thought. Frustrated and disappointed, Truesdale picked up a Sunday newspaper and read an article about several federal TSA workers who had been caught stealing money, jewelry and iPads as travelers passed through the screening process. Three items in the story caught his attention: An agent who worked searching checked luggage at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was suspended after the owner of a stolen iPad used the tracking feature on the device to locate it at the agent's home. Police found seven other iPads there. Authorities charged an agent at Miami International Airport with swiping items and luggage and smuggling them out of the airport in a hidden pocket of his work jacket. He was arrested after one of the items, an iPad, was spotted for sale on Craigslist. Another TSA employee was arrested in July at nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after an airline employee reported that a fellow employee had slipped an iPad into his pants. Truesdale turned to his 12year-old daughter, Juliet, a student at Newbury Elementary School, and asked if she had installed a tracking device on his
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February 15 - 21, 2012 Shore Business Forum on February 17 on Business Bookkeeping. The North Shore Business Forum meets at 7:30am at the Danversport Yacht Club, Rt. 62 East, Danvers, MA. The $10 admission fee include a continental breakfast and pre-registration is not required. For more info - www.nsbforum.org MEMOIR WRITING FOR EVERYONE The Stories of Your Life & Times Starts Friday, February 17th at 10am. Remember your first date or haircut when you were a kid? Or what Salisbury was like when you first moved here? A favorite tradition you are now continuing? There are so many stories in our lives. All you need for this course is pen and paper. No experience with writing needed. We will spend time talking about our stories and take time to write about them. This course will meet for 6 sessions for 90 minutes each with Jeannie Martin, Ed. E. FREE. Hilton Senior Center 43 Lafayette Rd Salisbury is open to all and presents the following opportunities. To register or for more information call the Hilton Center at 978-462-2412. COMPUTER CLASSES Every Friday from 10:30am-1pm, Do you need help downloading a book to your new e-Reader? Having trouble setting up a new email account? Call Sharon Archambault at the library and set up an appointment for computer help today! Langley-Adams Library, 185 Main St, Groveland 978-372-1732 http://www.langleyadamslib.org TAROT CARD READER, MEDIUM, CHANNELLER Questions about money, love, career or your life's purpose? Friday, February 17th. Carol Hutchins will be doing readings from 11AM -3PM, which start at $20.00 for 15 minutes at The Herbal Path 599 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth, NH. Call her for an appointment at 207-324-6077 or just drop by. www.healingwindssite.com FISH FRY Women of the Moose Fish Fry on Friday ~ February 17, 2012, 6 to 8 pm, $8 per person Moose Lodge, 34 Broad St, Merrimac. Menu - fried fish, french fries, onion rings, cole slaw, roll, dessert & beverage MARDI GRAS A Mardi Gras Celebration, featuring 2012 Grammy nominated Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys will be held on Friday, February 17, 2012 at 8:00PM at Belleville Congrregational Church, 300 High Street, Newburyport. Concert tickets are $20 in advance/$25 day of show/ children 12 and under $10. A Cajun dinner, catered by Karen Kelly Dardinski of Newburyport, will be held from 6:00-7:30PM. Dinner tickets are priced at $15. Advance purchase of dinner tickets is required. Additional beverages and desserts will, also, be
available. For more information, email: Merrimack River which provides bellevilleconcerts@gmail.com or visit: perfect, winter habitat for these majestic www.bellevillechurch.org/concerts.php. birds. These spectacular birds soar high over the water and then stoop to secure ACTOR’S STUDIO prey with their sharp talons. We'll visit Last summer at Bluefish Cove, Bald Eagle habitat along the lower written by Jane Chambers, Directed Merrimack River. Dress in layers for by Marc Clopton, performed by an outdoor weather, including waterproof eight women ensemble. The Actor's boots, wool socks, hat and gloves. This Studio of Newburyport at the Tannery program will be conducted outside in Newburyport. February 17, 18, 19, along the river's edge. 24, 25, 26. Friday & Saturday shows at 8:00pm Sundays at 5:00pm Tickets EAT YOUR PROBIOTICS: LACTO$18/$15 seniors & students order here: FERMENTATION http://bit.ly/sNSKGL Drink & eat your probiotics, which promote good flora, help us to SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18th resist infection & keep our immune system healthy. Learn how to ferment SATURDAY MORNING BIRDING your foods at home. Saturday, February Weekly trip with experienced 18th At The Herbal Path 599 Lafayette leaders in a search for avian activity in Rd., Portsmouth, NH. 2:00-4:00PM the Newburyport/Plum Island area. For $25.00. Given by Julie McElhaney, beginners and birders of all skill levels. Nutritionist. To register or for more Saturday, February 18, 9:30–11:30 information contact her at: 603-969am. Meet at Joppa Flats Education 6836. julie@nutritionrestoration.com. Center, One Plum Island Turnpike, www.nutritionrestoration.com Newburyport. Adults $10; Children ages 8 and up $7. Preregistration is OWLS OF THE SALT MARSHES not required. Call 978-462-9998 for AND FORESTS information about additional programs Search for diurnal and nocturnal and events, or visit the Web site at www. owls in the Newbury/Rowley area, with massaudubon.org/joppaflats. a dinner and lecture break between afternoon and evening. Saturday, THE WONDER AND THE WOW: February 18, 4:30-10:30 pm Meet at BALD EAGLES ALONG THE the Joppa Flats Education Center, One MERRIMACK RIVER Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport. Family educator Lisa Hutchings $48. Preregistration is required. Call takes adults only outside to discover the 978-462-9998 for information about wonderful world of bald eagles. Saturday, additional programs and events, or visit February 18, 1:00-3:30 pm. Meet at the Web site at www.massaudubon.org/ the Joppa Flats Education Center, One joppaflats. Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport. $17. Preregistration is required. Call 978-462-9998 for information about JAMES KEELAGHAN CONCERT Juno award winner (Canada’s additional programs and events, or visit Grammy) James Keelaghan performs the Web site at www.massaudubon.org/ at the New Moon Coffeehouse on joppaflats. Saturday February 18th at 8:00 pm. Berklee graduate Lindsay Straw opens BIRDING CLASSES AT LOCAL the concert. The coffeehouse is located COMMUNITY COLLEGES Bald Eagles and The Lower in the Unitarian Universalist Church, 16 Merrimack River North Shore Ashland St, Haverhill MA. Admission Community College Instructor: Sue to the show is $20; $10 for those ages McGrath Saturday, February 18, 18 and under. Keelaghan is a masterful 2012 – 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm For more storyteller, poet laureate of folk and roots Continued on page 8 information and to register, please contact North Shore Community College at 978-236-1200. The Bald Eagle is one of our national symbols. Each winter, Bald Eagles from northern New England move south to the lower
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Community Announcements AMESBURY - The Trustees, Amesbury Health Care Charitable Trust is pleased to announce they have recently published a new Resource booklet. Community resources are listed in this booklet to services infants to seniors in Amesbury. This booklet was published with the assistances of the Amesbury Council on Aging, University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Northern Essex Community College Intern Students. This booklet is available at the Senior Center as well on the Amesbury Town web page www.amesbuyrma.gov. You may also request that a booklet be mailed to by sending a written request to Amesbury Health care Charitable Trust, PO BOX 463, Amesbury, Ma 01913 -----------------------------------------------------------AMESBURY - Acadian History and Genealogy - Lucie LeBlanc Consentino is a leading Acadian genealogist. She will present a workshop at the Amesbury Public Library on Saturday, April, 28 at 2:00 p.m. Her web site, Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home (www.acadian-home.org), is widely regarded as providing reliable, original, and comprehensive genealogical data. She has published in several Acadian and French-Canadian genealogy journals and speaks regularly at events in the U.S. and Canada. She was a speaker at two events during the Congrès Mondial Acadien 2004 (World Congress of Acadians) in Nova For Sale Scotia and one event in 2009 in Northern New Brunswick. She was honored to give the • keynote address at the Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the Deportation of the Acadians in Boston, Massachusetts on City Hall Plaza. Registration is required. To register please go to www.amesburylibrary.org or contact Margie at 978-388-8148 or mwalker@mvlc.org -----------------------------------------------------------AMESBURY - The Market Street Baptist Church, 37 Market Street, Amesbury, MA is holding a Flea Market Fundraiser on Saturday, March 3rd from 9:00 am - 12 noon in the hall at the•front of the church building.•To researve a six foot table for $20 please call the church office at 978-388-0930 or email msbcsec@verizon.net. The event will be cancelled only if a storm hits. Proceeds will be to fund the summer mission trips.We hope you will join us for a fun day of making new friends as well as earning money. Set -up will begin at 7:00 am at the front door. -----------------------------------------------------------GROVELAND – Kid’s Day of Art and Prayer, St. James Episcopal Church Groveland, During School Vacation, Second through Sixth Graders, February 22nd 9:30 am to 12:30pm. The first 15 children to sign up for a children's workshop lead by Ingrid Sanborn and The Rev. Marya Decarlen will have fun!! After sharing about Lenten prayers there will be time to be creative with colored charcoal and to pray in color. The drawings will be made into a quilt-like form for display in the Church during Lent with an explanation about why the children chose to draw their specific prayer. The cost is $7 per child (including pizza lunch). Enroll by calling St. James Episcopal Church, 978 373-1270. Limit: 15 children. SJ Address: 119 Washington St., Groveland, MA 01834 -----------------------------------------------------------GROVELAND - Tiny Tots Story Time (birth- 2 years)- Tuesdays @ 10:15am- No registration required. Spring Session 1: Week of 2/27- 4/2.; Bookworms Story Time (ages 3-5)- Tuesdays @ 1pm- No registration required. Spring Session 1: Week of 2/274/2.; Read & Rhyme Story Time (ages 2-5)- Thursdays @ 10:15am- No registration required. Spring Session 1: Week of 2/274/2.; Family Fun Story Time (all ages)- Thursdays @ 1pm- No registration required. Spring Session 1: Week of 2/27- 4/2. Teddy Bear Story Time (all ages)- The fourth Wednesday of each month at 6:30pm- No registration required. Rhythm & Rhyme Sensory Story Time (ages 2-5)- Saturdays 1/28 & 3/14 both @ 10:30am- No registration required. This story time, which is open to all children ages 2-5, is especially geared to children with sensory integration issues.; Reading with Hawke (grades K3)- Fridays 2/3 & 3/2 both @ 3:30pm- Please call the library to register (978-372-1732). You must register for each program separately. February Make & Take Craft (all ages)- Fri. 2/10 from 10am-5pm- No registration required. Candy Sushi Making
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Librarian Speaks At the last meeting of Rowley Grange, our guest speaker was Rowley Librarian, Pam Jacobson. Pam told members how the library is a full service library and has many things going on, using computer lessons as an example. There are several groups that meet there and classes are held there too. The library is open 40 hours a week and is considered a full time facility, that serves over 3500 people. Today’s libraries aren’t just about books anymore. You can find videos, music CDs, computers for use, and passes for some museums. Ebooks are also available at libraries. Rowley Grange is proud to be a friend of the library. Rowley Grange will have 2 more meetings at the library and then we will be opening up the Grange Hall for our first supper of 2012 on March 28th. Turkey Pie tops the menu. Reservations may be made by calling 978-948-2635 or 978948-7288.
UPCOMING EVENTS March 7th – Program on Herrick Farm. Meeting at 7:30 at Library March 21st – Program to be announced Meeting at 7:30 at Library Next Grange supper is: 4th Wednesday in March March 28th, 2012 SUPPER NOTES: Reservations are encouraged. Call 978-948-2635 or 978948-7288. Give your name, the number in your party and the time of seating. To go dinners are also available. Reservations provide a $1 off your supper donation.
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Stages • Sports • Sports Sports By John McCarthy, Rowley Realty I was watching a movie the other night; don’t remember the name and the stages of grief someone goes through when a loved one passes was mentioned (not exactly a laugh a minute movie). When these stages were explained by the psychologist I thought they sounded eerily familiar to what a seller in a down market goes through. Psychologists talk about the five psychological stages of grief. These stages do take place in other difficult situations like divorce or even real estate. By understanding these stages in advance, before you put your home up for sale, you can better deal with the realities of selling in this market. Knowing the stages now will help you identify where you are on the scale and help you move toward getting your home SOLD! Here are the stages mentioned by the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (she wrote a famous book on it): DENIAL The first stage. This stage was in full force 4 or 5 years ago when although the market was weakening there were arguments that it was still strong. Evidence was proving that homes were selling for less but this isn’t what sellers wanted to hear so they went into denial. Everyone, unless they have been living under a rock, knows that homes are selling for less. When I meet with sellers today most know that their home is worth less than what it was in the past. However, some sellers are still in denial. When bringing up a comparable home that fits nicely with the seller’s home I still hear things like “my house is much nicer than that one that just sold since I put a new welcome mat out front and I just bought a new toilet seat”. Um, no. Overcoming denial is the first phase in what you have
to go through when you put your home on the market. My job is to sell your home, not tell you what you want to hear (“yes that new bedspread makes your home much more valuable.”) I am giving you objective advice based on what the market of sold, for sale and under agreement homes have shown me. ANGER Now you are mad. “We should have sold years ago!!! We shouldn’t have bought this house!!!” You are upset at the market, the money you owe on the home, the faults with the home and maybe even your REALTOR® for telling you what your home is worth. All that is fine but you need to move past it as you can’t change the market you can only work within it. BARGAINING This isn’t the bargaining you do when you get an offer, it is more in the way of bargaining in psychological terms. For example, one of the ways you can bargain with yourself is by realizing that although your home will be selling for “less” than what you want you can buy a better home that you wouldn’t have been able to in a hot market. It is all relative. You couldn’t buy a 4 bedroom home 5 years ago as you couldn’t afford it. Now you may be able to. There will certainly be some bargaining later on when we get an offer for your home but for now the bargaining takes place in your mind…do we want to sell or do we stay put? DEPRESSION Now you’re feeling down. Your bargaining and anger have subsided and although you are pressing forward with the sale you are not optimistic. You know now that you haven’t created any equity, you didn’t make the money you always
hoped when you bought and your goal of retiring on a huge nest egg at 35 isn’t happening. Take some solace in knowing that there are a lot of people experiencing this, and many of them have been hit a lot harder than you may have been. Also realize that if this is your first home sale and subsequent purchase you will probably be on the cusp of a rising market. If this is your last sale and you bought your home more than 10 years ago you probably made money. If it was longer than that you more than likely made a lot of money. ACCEPTANCE This is the stage we are trying to go to--an acceptance of the real estate market. You accept that you are not “giving the house away.” Accept that you may have to do some more work (paint, flooring, etc.) to get less than what you would have even a few years ago. You will have to accept that you may not get the price you want. Sorry, it is nobody’s fault, just the way the market has gone. One thing that is easy to accept is that once your home does sell and you move forward to purchase a new home that you will be on the other side of the market as a buyer. If you aren’t getting what you wanted on your sale then you should be able to make it up on the purchasing end. A good REALTOR® can navigate you though these five stages to what will hopefully be a 6th stage…Happiness. If you have any questions about this article, real estate in general or are looking to buy or sell a home please contact me, John McCarthy at Rowley Realty, 165 Main St., Rowley, MA 01969, Phone: 978 948-2758, Cell 978 835-2573 or via email at john@ rowleyrealestate.com
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February 15 - 21, 2012 limited number, so call early to reserve. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19th FOCUS ON SEABIRDS Explore Cape Ann to find sea ducks, loons, grebes, and gulls. Special features: harlequin ducks and perhaps a king eider. Sunday, February 19, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 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.
and events, or visit the Web site at www. massaudubon.org/joppaflats. HEART EDUCATION Tues. Feb. 21 from 6-8 @ Merrimack Valley Hospital Merrimack Valley hospital and Langley-Adams Library have collaborated to offer an evening of heart education, relaxation and surprises. At 6pm Cardiologist Kenneth Adams, MD from Pentucket Medical Associates will speak about the heart. Then at 7pm, hypnotherapist and wellness coach Addie Kania will teach us the “heart breath technique”. Be your own Valentine and join us for a group-guided imagery/hypnosis session for health and wellness. This free event will be in the hospital’s first floor auditorium. Light refreshments and sweet dark chocolates will be served. Contact Sharon Archambault, Adult Services and Outreach Coordinator at the Langley-Adams Library to register. sarchambault@mvlc.org Presidents’ Day Mon. Feb 20 Library will be closed.
STRESSED LADIES? FIND YOUR INNER CALM 38 Cable Ave 54 State Street Janice Burghoff, founder of “A Peaceful Woman-Find Your Inner Salisbury, MA 01952 Newburyport, MA 01950 Calm”, is a Certified Medical Meditation & Stress Management Consultant. From 2:00-3:30PM she will teach simple All Occasion Cakes forms of mediation & other techniques Fresh Baked Muffins & Pastries to help transform your anxiety & stress MARDI GRAS IN BYFIELD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd at The Herbal Path 599 Lafayette Rd., Open Daily If you have ever been to New Portsmouth, NH. $15.00. Sunday, 6:00am to 2:00pm Orleans for Mardi Gras then you know it February 19th Class size is limited. WEDNESDAY MORNING is one of the greatest parties in the world! Pre-register by 2/17/12 at: 603-973- BIRDING All Pastries are made with If you haven't booked your trip to the 1252, jborghoff@comcast.net. Www. Join Joppa Flats Sanctuary 100% Real Cream land of the Cajuns for this year then why apeacefulwoman.com Director Bill Gette and USFWS not plan to come to the bayou in Byfield veteran David Weaver for this weekly instead!? The Squeezebox Stompers will birding field trip in the Newburyport/ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20th once again be providing their zydeco Plum Island area. Appropriate for all mojo at the Byfield Community Arts ENERGY BALANCING birding levels. Wednesday, February Center on February 18. Ticket price Reiki, Polarity Therapy, Energy 22, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm. Meet at the Breakfast and Lunch is $15 at the door and doors open at Medicine, Reflexology & Cranio- Joppa Flats Education Center, One Daily Specials 7:30pm. You will be able to fuel that sacral Therapy to balance your energy. Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport. mojo motor with authentic N'Orleans Monday, February 20th Offered by $17. Preregistration is not required. 155 Bridge Rd beer and cajun gumbo. The dance floor Gayle Perkins, a Wellness Educator Call 978-462-9998 for information is open! The Byfield Community Arts from 11AM – 3PM at The Herbal Path about additional programs and Salisbury, MA Center, 7 Central Street in Byfield, 599 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth, NH. events, or visit the Web site at www. 978-465-1199 is handicap accessible, has ample free The first 10 minutes are free and $1.00 massaudubon.org/joppaflats. www.nancysmarshview.com parking and is easily located at exit 55 per minute thereafter. Call her for an from route 95. For more information appointment at: 207-752-1281 or just DOES LOVE LIVE ON EVEN call 978-463-3335 or check our website drop by. Www.healingways.net THROUGH DEATH? at www.byfieldcac.org. Wed. Feb. 22 from 6:30-8pm, Join Elissa Al-Chokhachy author of TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21st ENJOY AN EVENING OF MARDIS Miraculous Moments: True Stories GRAS! Affirming That Life Goes On. FEBRUARY VACATION WEEK You are invited to a celebration FLYBYS AT JOPPA Elissa will share stories that contain ■ Family Law ■ Criminal Law of Mardis Gras/Carnival Greek style Teacher-naturalist Lisa Hutchings first-hand accounts of after death ■ Restraining Orders ■ Bankruptcy at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox offers a wide variety of indoor and communication, nearing death New Office Church at 7 Harris St. in Newburyport outdoor activities, keeping minds awareness and near death experiences. ■ Contempt of Court ■ Landlord/Tenant 15 Friend Street on Saturday, February 18 (snow date: active and hands busy during school Langley-Adams Library, 185 Main St, Amesbury, MA ■ Civil Litigation ■ Special Education Law February 19) from 6-11 pm. The theme break. For ages 2 – 12. Adults must Groveland 978-372-1732 http://www. is Un Ballo in Maschera—The Masked accompany children. Tuesday, February langleyadamslib.org (Near Barking Dog Rest.) Ball and will feature hot and cold hors 21, Nature’s Mardi Gras Parade 10 (978) 792-8101 d’ oeuvres, a buffet with a variety of am-2 pm; Wednesday, February 22, ASHED TO GO meat dishes, and desserts (featuring Caribbean Coral Reef Carnival, 10 amSt. James Episcopal Church, 120 a mouth-watering tira mi su!). There 2 pm; Thursday, February 23, Polar Main Street in Amesbury will have will be Greek and American dancing Bear & Penguin Splash! 10 am– 2 pm. “Ashes To Go” on Wednesday, February all evening to the tunes of DJ Independent Meleti. Meet at the 22nd at 7am on the sidewalk in front Joppa Flats Education The North Shore’s Largest Community Newspaper Tickets are: Adults--$15; Children Center, One Plum Island Turnpike, of the parish. Drop by on your way to under 12--$5; and Children under Newburyport. Fee: $7. Pre-registration work! At 7:00pm will be the Liturgy of 5—free. Call the Church Office at 978- is not required. Call 978-462-9998 for the Day with Holy Communion and 465-5757 to reserve tickets. There are a information about additional programs Imposition of Ashes in the Church.
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Berry, 7-9pm Sun 2/16: Bluegrass Brunch with Flynn Cohen, 12-2pm CAPE ANN BREWING CO. www.capeannbrewing. com 27 Commercial St., 978281-4782 Wed 2/15: Trivia Night, 7:30pm Thu 2/16: Open Mic Night, 9pm MURPHY’S RIVERSIDE Fri 2/17: Mardi Gras Find them on Facebook Costume ball with Henri Smith 37 Main St., 978-834Sat 2/18: The Runaround 0020 Tue 2/21: Sea Shanty Thu 2/16: Karaoke Mon 2/20: Game Night Sing-A-Long, 9pm MASSACHUSETTS Amesbury THE BARN PUB & GRILLE www.thebarnpub.com 5 Ring Street, 978-3888700 Wed 2/15: Seacoast Dart Association League Fri 2/17: Luck of the Draw Tue 2/21: Northeast Dart Association League
Beverly FIBBER McGEE'S Find them on Facebook 108 Cabot St., 978-2320180 Wed 2/15: Karaoke Thu 2/16: DJ Fri 2/17: DJ Sat 2/18: DJ/Live Music Mon 2/20: Trivia, 7:30pm THE PICKLED ONION www.pickledonionbeverly. com 355 Rantoul St., 978-2323973 Wed 2/15: Karaoke, 10pm Thu 2/16: DJ Max Baun, 10pm-1am Fri 2/17: Tobin & Leahy, 5-9pm Mon 2/20: Stump Trivia, 5-10pm Billerica EMERALD ROSE www.theemeraldrose.com 785 Boston Rd., 978-6670500 Sat 2/18: Tom Courtney, 7:30pm MICKEE’s SPORTS PUB www.mickeesonthewater. com 512 Middlesex Turnpike, 978-667-1157 Sun 2/19: Free Pool Mon 2/20: Free Pool NEWTOWNE GRILL & SPORTS BAR www.newtownegrille.com 838 Boston Rd., 978-6670021 Wed 2/15: Karaoke w/DJ Scott C Thu 2/16: Stump trivia, 7pm; DJ Pensive, 10pm Danvers THE VILLAGE GREEN www.villagegreendanvers. com 225 Newbury St., 978774-7270 Sun 2/19: Mardi Gras, Wild Fire Gloucester ALCHEMY CAFÉ & BISTRO www.alchemybistro.com 3 Duncan St., 978-2813997 Wed 2/15: Women, Wine & Chocolate w/Chelsea
Wed 2/15: Karaoke Thu 2/16: Country Line Dance Lesson Fri 2/17: DJ Julian; MDDS Sat 2/18: BD & The Cavemen Sun 2/19: Dave Rasmussen Sax Factory Mon 2/20: Battle of the Bands; Dead Air Project vs. Krazor Love Tue 2/21: Open Mic MAL’S LOUNGE @ GEORGE’S RESTAURANT www.malslounge.com 77 Washington St., 978374-5150 Fri 2/17: Roy Barboza THE PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER www.thepeddlersdaughter. com 45 Wingate St., 978-3729555 Sat 2/18: Pop Farmers, 9:30pm
THE TAP/LIMELIGHT LOUNGE www.tapbrewpub.com 100 Washington St., 978THE DOG BAR www.dogbarcapeann.com 374-1117 65 Main St., 978-281Wed 2/15: Stump Trivia 6565 Thur 2/16: Karaoke Wed 2/15: Karaoke, Fri 2/17: MFS Band 9pm-cl Sat 2/18: Nerve 8 Thu 2/16: 3 Vibe, 9pm-cl Fri 2/17: JT and the Lawrence Hounds, 9pm THE CLADDAGH Sat 2/18: T Max, Renee www.thecladdaghpub.com and Joe, 9pm-cl 399 Canal St., 978-688Sun 2/19: Michael 8337 O’Leary with David de la Wed 2/15: Trivia Night, Barre, 9pm-cl 8-10pm; Over 6 Thu 2/16: DJ Night, GIUSEPPE'S 9:30pm-1am RISTORANTE Fri 2/17: Bail Out www.giuseppesma.com Sat 2/18: Mugsy 2 Main St., 978-879-4622 Wed 2/15: Open Mic, Methuen 7:30-10:30pm FIRESIDE Thu 2/16: Dueling RESTAURANT & PUB Pianos, 8:30pm www.firesidemethuen.com Fri 2/17: Joe Thomas, 171 Pelham St., 978-6839pm-cl 2945 Sat 2/18: Joe Thomas, Wed 2/15: Harry Karaoke 9pm-cl Sun 2/19: Rick Lauria and Thu 2/16: Just Joe Fri 2/17: Beau Paris Graham Sturz, 6pm Sat 2/18: Beau Paris JALAPEÑOS MEXICAN SAHARA CLUB RESTAURANT www.jalapenosgloucester. www.jockosjazz.com 34 Bates St., 978-683com 9200 86 Main St., 978-283Tue 2/21: The Chris 8228 Taylor Trio Tue 2/15: DECA Fundraiser Newburyport DAVID’S TAVERN @ THE RHUMB LINE www.therhumbline.com THE GARRISON INN 40 Railroad Ave, 978www.davidstavern.com 283-9732 11 Brown Sq., 978-462Wed 2/15: Prime Rib, 8077 5pm; Fly Amero, 8-11pm Thu 2/16: Tom Courtney, Thu 2/16: Dave Sags 7-10pm Blues Party, 9:30pmSat 2/17: Aiden’s Clan 1:30am Sun 2/18: Billy Glynn Fri 2/17: Full Circle, 9:30-12:30am THE GROG Sat 2/18: Generation Gap, www.thegrog.com 9:30pm-12:30am 13 Middle St., 978-465Sun 2/19: Marina Evans, 8008 8pm-12am Wed 2/15: Hoot Night, Mon 2/20: Open Jam 8-11pm w/Dan King, 9:30pmThu 2/16: Underground 12:30am Hip-Hop hosted by Tue 2/21: Trivia, 7pm; Persistant Funk Jam w/Henley Fri 2/17: Don’t Call Me Douglass Jr. & Soul Force Shirley V, 10pm-12:30am Sat 2/18: Soul Robot Sun 2/19: Blues Party, Haverhill CHIT CHAT LOUNGE 6-10pm www.chitchatlounge.com Mon 2/20: Comedy Open 103 Washington St., 978- Mic, 7:30-9:30pm Tue 2/21: Steve Spoungin 374-9710
THE PORT TAVERN www.theporttavern.com 84 State St., 978-4651006 Wed 2/15: Irish Seisuin with Eamon Coyne Fri 2/17: Adam Payne Tue 2/21: Stump Trivia, 8-10pm
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Goffstown THE VILLAGE TRESTLE www.villagetrestle.com 25 Main St., 603-497ROCKAFELLAS 8230 www.rockafellasofsalem. Thu 2/16: Ladies Night com Karaoke THE GREEN LAND 231 Essex St, 978-745Fri 2/17: The Tom Dixon CAFÉ 2411 Band, 8pm-12am North Reading www.thegreenlandcafe. Wed 2/15: Latin Dance Sat 2/18: Rose Kula, 8pmGREAT AMERICAN com Party, 8-11:30pm 12am TAVERN 87 Washington St., 978- Fri 2/17: Lisa Love Sun 2/19: The Wan-Tu www.greatamericantavern. 744-7766 Experience Blues Band, 3-7pm net Fri 2/17: Clay Ventre and Sat 2/18: Audio Tue 2/21: Usual Suspects, 303 Main St., 978-207- the Bond Girls Underground 6-8pm 1240 Mon 2/20: Julie THE PASTA LOFT Thu 2/16: Stump Trivia, Dougherty, 8pm-11pm SCRATCH KITCHEN www.pastaloft.com 8-10pm; Time of Your www.scratchkitchensalem. 220 E Main St., 603-378Life DJ, 9pm-12am THE GULU GULU com 0092 Fri 2/17: Diezal Lounge CAFÉ 245 Derby St., 978-741- Wed 2/15: Open Mic www.gulu-gulu.com 2442 Fri 2/17: Groove Peabody 247 Essex St., 978-740- Thu 2/16: John Sage Authority CAPONE'S ITALIAN 8882 Sat 2/18: The Fallen Stars AMERICAN Thu 2/16: Fishing the Salisbury RESTAURANT Sky; Sasha de la Cruz Art BLUE OCEAN MUSIC Hampton, Hampton www.caponesdining.com Opening HALL Beach & North 147 Summit St., 978-977- Fri 2/17: DJ Seth www.blueoceanhall.com Hampton 0520 Sat 2/18: Dave Simmons 4 Oceanfront North, 978- WALLY’s PUB Thu 2/16: Moholland Annual Theme 463-9222 www.wallyspubnh.com Drive Tue 2/21: Mardi Gras Thu 2/16: The Dan 144 Ashworth Ave., 603Fri 2/17: Lee Hawkins Party Morgan Band 926-6954 Sat 2/18: Wildfire Sat 2/18: Frank Santos Jr. Wed 2/15: DJ Provo PADDY KELLY’s IN A PIG’S EYE Open Mic, 9pm http://paddykellys.com www.inapigseye.com CAROUSEL LOUNGE Thu 2/16: Bi Polar Bears, www.carousel-lounge.com 9pm 20 Oceanfront, 978-465- Fri 2/17: Split, 8-11pm 9045 Sat 2/18: Strip Search, Sat 2/18: King Karaoke, 8-11pm 8:30pm Mon 2/20: DJ Provo, 9pm HOBO'S CAFÈ & LOUNGE Newmarket www.chefhowieshobocafe. 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Dance, 6pm Sat 2/18: Kung Fu Sun 2/19: Open Mic, .�/�0��1 2342: Saugus 7pm-12am 2/2 � 70��� 890:����1 - folk/singer-songwriter KOWLOON Tue 2/21: Blue Grass Jam, 2/� � ����� /�9;� - singer-songwriter/blues/rock RESTAURANT 9pm-12am 2/4� � 79�� S�:� < rock/pop/singer-songwriter 2/2= � �������� 7��K & ;����� ���>��8�� www.kowloonrestaurant. rockabilly/boogie woogie com Portsmouth {music presented by: Ironic Music Booking Agency – www.ironic.it } 948 Broadway, Rte. 1N, THE BLUE MERMAID 781-233-0077 www.bluemermaid.com Thu 2/16: B. Marley 409 The Hill, 603-427Sat 2/11: Santorelli 2583 Wed 2/15: Open Mic MADDY’S LOUNGE & Fri 2/17: Andrew Merzi 245 Derby St. - corner of Congress & Derby GRILLE Sat 2/18: The George Salem, MA | 978-741-2442 | http://scratchkitchensalem.com www.maddyslounge.com Brown Band Check �acebook for specials: 1639 Broadway, 781-231���.facebook.com/Scratch�itchen 1185 PORTSMOUTH Fri 2/17: Audio GASLIGHT CO. www.portsmouthgaslight. 154 Washington St., 978- 148 Derby St., 978-741- Underground Sat 2/18: Beatlejuice com 532-2370 4436 Sun 2/19: Karaoke 64 Market St., 603-430Wed 2/15: Karaoke, Wed 2/15: Orville 9122 3-10pm Giddings and Allen Estes POLCARI’s Fri 2/17: Ice Fest, 5pm; Thu 2/16: College Night Thu 2/16: Fiddle Head w/DJ Mikey B Fri 2/17: Blues Jam, 4:15- www.reginapizzeria.com Justin Lantrip, 9:30pm; 92 Broadway, Rte. 1N, Keith Henderson, 10pm Fri 2/17: DJ Sammii 6:45pm Sat 2/18: Ice Fest, 5pm; Mon 2/20: Beirut Sat 2/18: Sit Down Baby 781-233-3765 Tournament, 9:45pm Sun 2/19: Levy, Stubbss, Wed 2/15: Karaoke, 7:30- DJ Koko P, 9:00pm; 11:30pm Aaron Denny, 9:30pm; Tue 2/21: Family Feud Rivelli Trio Thu 2/16: Stump Trivia, Randy Arrant, 10pm Style Trivia, 9pm Mon 2/20: Open Mic, 8-10pm, Industry Night Tue 2/21: Pub Trivia, 9pm 9pm Fun Reading Fri 2/17: Keep it Real THE PRESS ROOM GRUMPY DOYLE’s O'NEILL'S PUB www.pressroomnh.com http://grumpydoyles.com www.oneillsofsalem.com Band 77 Daniel St., 603-431530 Main St., 781-942- 120 Washington St., 978- Sat 2/18: Soul Fuzion Band 5186 2822 740-8811 Wed 2/15: Chad Verbeck Fri 2/17: Acoustic Hot Wed 2/15: Sports Trivia, NEW HAMPSHIRE Thu 2/16: Beat Night Jazz Tub 5-10pm Exeter & Poetry Tue 2/21: Stump Trivia, Thu 2/16: DJ Sap, 11pmSHOOTERS PUB @ Fri 2/17: Martin England 8-10pm 12:30am and the Reconstructed Fri 2/17: Live Irish Music, EXETER BOWLING LANES Sat 2/18: Dan Walker Rockport 6-9pm; DJ Sap, 10pmwww.shooterssportspub. Band ROCKPORT MUSIC @ 12:30am com Sun 2/19: Jazz Grill with THE SHALIN LIU Sat 2/18: Irish Music, 6 Columbus Ave., 603Pianorama 6-9pm $10 PERFORMANCE 6-9pm Mon 2/20: Jazz Grill with CENTER Tue 2/21: Trivia, 8-10pm 772-3856 Fri 2/17: DJ BIggZ & D, Eric Klaxton Combo, www.rcmf.org 8pm 35 Main St., 978-546PEM | PEABODY ESSEX 8pm Sat 2/18: John Valby (Dr. Tue 2/21: Larry Garland 7391 MUSEUM Dirty) Jazz Jam, 5:30pm Sun 2/19: Larry Coryell www.pem.org Salem FINZ SEAFOOD & GRILL www.hipfinz.com 76 Wharf St., Pickering Wharf, 978-744-8485 Thu 2/16: The Zackleys
RÍRÁ IRISH PUB www.rira.com/rira/ portsmouth.html 22-26 Market St., 603-3191680 Wed 2/15: Open Mic, 9pm Fri 2/17: Amorphous Band, 10pm Sun 2/19: Irish Sessions with Rob Benton, 9pm Mon 2/20: Oran Mor, 5pm Tue 2/21: Quiz w/Murph & Little Murph, 8pm RUDI’S PORTSMOUTH www.rudisportsmouth.com 20 High St., 603-430-7834 Wed 2/15: Dimitri, 6pm Thu 2/16: Brett Gallo and Guest, 6pm Fri 2/17: Philip Sargent and Guest, 6pm Sat 2/18: Danny Harrington and Dimitri, 6pm Sun 2/19: Jazz Brunch with Max Langley, 12-3pm THE RUSTY HAMMER www.therustyhammer.com 49 Pleasant St., 603-4369289 Thu 2/16: Trivia Night, 8-10pm SPRING HILL TAVERN @ THE DOLPHIN STRIKER www.dolphinstriker.com 15 Bow St., 603-431-5222 Wed 2/15: Michael Troy and Craig Tramack Thu 2/16: The Digney Fignus Fri 2/17: The Jack Leg Preachers Sat 2/18: Power Money Cake Sun 2/19: The Retroactivists Mon 2/20: Old School, 8pm-12am Tue 2/21: Bob Halperin Salem JOCELYN’s RESTAURANT http://jocelynsrestaurant. com 355 S. Broadway, 603-8700045 Sat 2/18: Marc Fleury MURRAY’s TAVERN www.murraystavern.com 326 S Broadway, 603-8949100 Wed 2/15: 45’s Night Thu 2/16: Trivia Night Fri 2/17: Grp 3 Seabrook CHOP SHOP RESTAURANT AND PUB www.chopshoppub.com 920 Layfayette Rd., 603760-7500 We 2/15: Reverend JJ and the Casual Sinners Thu 2/16: Date Night with Tone Bone Fri 2/17: Drop Zone PRIME TIME SPORTS BAR & GRILL www.facebook.com/ primetimeseabrook 620 Lafayette Rd., 603760-7230 Wed 2/15: Team Trivia, 8pm Thu 2/16: Karaoke & Ladies Night, 9pm Fri 2/17: Bedrock, 9pm Sat 2/18: The Take, 9pm If your venue would like to be included in this calendar, or if you’d like to receive this list weekly via email, please contact us at: info@ ironic.it.
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I told you a couple of weeks ago about a new product that had sparked my interest. I had been reading about it for a few months and at the time I mentioned it in my column, I was just heading out to attend a 2-day annual dental meeting to learn more. I am typically not an early adopter of “new stuff ”. I like to see new products or technology spend a bit of time in other dentist’s practices before I make a decision to invest. There has to be overwhelming evidence to me that the “new stuff” is going to make the treatment I provide for my patients better, make my life and my patient’s life easier, and make economic sense from the standpoint of running a business. The product I mentioned a few weeks back is called Onset®. It is a system used to buffer dental anesthetic or “Novocaine”. Here is the concept. The pH scale measures how acidic or basic a substance is and is measured
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