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September 12 - 18, 2012 • Vol. 8, No. 45
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The Chinese Invade Sparhawk By Stewart Lytle, Reporter –––––––––––––––––
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Louise Stilphen, Sparhawk's headmaster, and Kaitlyn MacDonald, director of the high school, are surrounded by some of their new Chinese students.
AMESBURY – With the exception of Haoran He, a 10th grader, all 11 students who arrived here from China this month to attend the Sparhawk School have adopted American names to make it easier for their fellow students rather than trying to pronounce their real names. One student, another 10th grader, decided to call himself Draco. When asked how he picked that name, he shrugged at the ignorant question and said it came from the “Harry Potter” character, Draco Lucius Malfoy. Another 10th grader found his American name, Abner Sampson, on the Internet. Other students have kept their Chinese family names, but
changed their first names to Quincy and Emma and Gabriel. Sparhawk, a private school grades kindergarten through high school, opened its doors to the Chinese students to create new learning opportunities for the Chinese students and the American students and faculty. “Our international program will bring creative and critical thinkers from around the world to Sparhawk High School. All of our students will benefit from cross-cultural experiences that will enrich their thinking, expand their worldview and increase their academic opportunities in a culture where creativity and kindness are tantamount to academic
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NEWBURYPORT – Start them, they will vote for the best your “upscale cocktail crawl” at cocktails and the best pairing. This Michael's Harborside Restaurant is a competition where the public is with an Apple Crisp martini, then the judges. meander down Merrimac Street for Besides Michael's, Not Your a watermelon sangria at Not Your Average Joe's and Brown Sugar, Average Joe's, then walk to the Mission Oak Grill or Brown Sugar's by the Sea and you are in for a special night in downtown. For $20, participants in the annual Newburyport Cocktail Competition can sample special cocktails and food at several of the city's best eateries – all within walking distance. “It is a chance to sample the cocktails and visit restaurants Photo by Stewart Lytle you have never been Alicia McIntire and Matt Kirk at Michael's Harborside in before for $20,” said are ready for the competition. Lisa Knight, president of the oddly named production restaurants that are participating company, called Drinkwater include Ceia, RockFish, Ten Center Productions. “It's a no brainer.” Street, Steeple Hall @Mission Oak The event will be held from 4 to 8 and probably others like the popular p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16. Grog and Thirsty Whale. Once the participants, and by late This year's event is being billed last week already 100 people had as a relaunch of the cocktail bought tickets, have sampled all the competition. It was held in 2008 cocktails and the food paired with Continued on page 3
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Deer Hunt Planned
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a one hour Refuge Hunter Safety & deer hunting license number to Orientation Program scheduled for Refuge Headquarters. To allow for the morning of Saturday, November two people to hunt together on the 17 at 9:00 am or the make-up same day, up to two hunters may orientation on Monday, November apply on the same single 3" x 5" 19 at 6:00 pm. Both sessions will be card but all the required information held at the Refuge Headquarters. The must be included on the card for lottery winners will be charged a $20 both applicants. Only one Paraplegic permit fee to participate in the Refuge hunter is required for a buddy team hunt with the fee reduced to $10 for to qualify for the paraplegic hunt holders of valid Golden Age or Access lottery. A paraplegic hunter may also Passports. have an assistant who is not allowed The hunt zone will consist of to hunt and whose name and other approximately 1400 acres on the information should not be included Plum Island section of the Refuge. on the application. A paraplegic To ensure public safety, the entire hunter should note “paraplegic” on Plum Island section will be closed to his/her application card so as to ensure all other activities for the day of the entry into the paraplegic hunt lottery. hunt. Only one application is permitted For further information contact per party. A self-addressed stamped Refuge Headquarters located at 6 To wone n of Ro w leyIsland Turnpike Newburyport, envelope should be submitted, Plum M assachusettsMA 01969 01950, or phone 978-465-5753. for each hunter, with the application. BOARD SELECTMEN TOWN ADMINISTRATOR All OFapplications must be received Office hours are Monday - Friday, 139 Main Street • PO Box 275 139 Main Street • PO Box 275 MA 01969 Rowley, MA 01969 byRowley, COB, Friday October 5, 2012. 8 am 430 pm, excluding federal Phone (978) 948-2372 Phone (978) 948-2705 Fax (978) 948-8202 applicants must attend Fax (978) 948-8202 Successful holidays. selectmen@townofrowley.org debbie@townofrowley.org INVITATION FOR BIDS
Town Hall Second Floor Window Replacement Rowley Board of Selectmen Town of Rowley, Massachusetts The Rowley Board of Selectmen is seeking sealed bids for the Town Hall Second Floor Window Replacement project. The Town Hall is located at 139 Main Street (Route 1A), in Rowley, MA. Starting on September 5, 2012 bid documents may be obtained in the Selectmen’s Office, Town Hall, 139 Main Street, Rowley, MA 01969 on MondayThursday between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. and Fridays between 9:00 a.m. and noon (excluding holidays) and on the Town of Rowley website: www.townofrowley.net until the deadline for submitting bids. It is the responsibility of the bidders obtaining bid documents from the Town’s website to notify the Town Administrator with their company information, and to check the Town’s website for Addenda. All bidders must view the windows at the premises of the Rowley Town Hall, 139 Main Street, with the Town Administrator and/or her designee prior to submitting bids. Bidders failing to view the premises will be deemed unresponsive to the Invitation for Bids. Sealed bids will be received in the Office of the Rowley Board of Selectmen, 139 Main Street Rowley until 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, October 3, 2012, local time, at which time bids will be opened and publicly read by the Town Administrator. Three copies of the bid are to be in a sealed envelope clearly marked “Bid for Town Hall Second Floor Window Replacement Project, Rowley Town Hall, Rowley, MA”. Bid award to be made by the Board of Selectmen to the lowest responsible and eligible bidder. Prevailing Wage Rates as established Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Department of Labor Standards apply. The Board of Selectmen reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids if deemed in the best interest of the Town. Robert Snow, Chairman Board of Selectmen Town of Rowley
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Strem Chemicals Donates $60,000 to NEF for Robotics Lab at Nock Newburyport – The Newburyport Education Foundation (NEF) announced a donation of $60,000 from Strem Chemicals, Inc. will fund a new Robotics Lab at the Nock Middle School this fall. “This generous gift from Strem Chemicals made it possible for us to get the lab equipment and kits in place for this fall,” said John Elwell, NEF President. “The work is well underway and we expect it to be up and running by the beginning of classes.” Through this new program at the middle school, students will integrate mathematics, science/ engineering, computer engineering, and language arts as they explore the field of robotics. The robotics course will be offered to 8th graders and introduces the principles of robotics and the role in which robots play in our technologically evolving world. Students will study the principles of mechanical engineering, electronics, and computer programming as they design, build, and mobilize remote control and autonomous robots. “This program has the potential not only to inspire eight graders to pursue studies in technical fields, but also to allow the robotics program at the high school (which uses the same design software) to advance to higher levels,” said Brad Balkus, technology teacher at Nock Middle School. “The possibility of afterschool programs, the connection to engineering faculty at MIT and the possible involvement of engineering students are all additional benefits.” Strem Chemicals, Inc. is a longtime supporter and donor to the NEF. Michael Strem, owner, is an original member of the
Business Coalition (formally the Newburyport Education Business Coalition-NEBC). In addition to other support since 2005, in 2006, Strem Chemicals donated $10,000 to the science labs at the middle school. Strem Chemicals continues to play a key role in the Business Coalition and funds Partnership Grants that maintain strong links and ongoing collaboration between our community's businesses and our schools’ educators. “We are proud to support this technology initiative by the NEF,” said Dr. Michael Strem. “By providing state-of-the-art tools and resources to our students, we feel we can truly advance education in the Newburyport Public Schools. This hand-on Robotics Lab is just the thing to get students excited about science and technology.” About Strem Chemicals, Inc. Strem Chemicals, Inc., established in 1964, is a privately–held company that manufactures and markets specialty chemicals of high purity. Strem's key products include catalysts and nanomaterials. In addition they have several “clean rooms” for the production of drug intermediates and active ingredients. Its products are used for research and development and commercial scale applications, especially in the pharmaceutical, microelectronics, chemicals, and petrochemicals industries. Strem's corporate headquarters is located in Newburyport. The European headquarters and warehouse are located in Bischheim, France. Strem also has other international distribution centers throughout the world.
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Cocktail Competition Returns
and 2009 in Newburyport, but fell prey to the down economy and changing restaurant management for the last two years. Knight, who has been directing a similar competition in Portsmouth, NH, for the last six years, thinks it is time to bring it back to Newburyport. “The restaurant scene in Newburyport is on fire,” she said. She is also impressed with the
quality of the city's restaurants. Several have won awards for their food, she said. Matt Kirk, who manages Michael's, said he is looking forward to the competition. “It is nice to bring people to the community,” he said. He believes his Apple Crisp martini will be tough to beat as the seasons change to fall, he said. Ceia is designing a special cocktail for the competition. As yet
unnamed, the cocktail will include muddled fresh nectarines, fresh lemon juice, spicebox whiskey and ginger. As Knight says, “It's a no brainer.” To order your tickets for this upscale cocktail crawl around downtown, visit http://shop. drinkwaterproductions.com. The Town Common Newspaper is proud to be a sponsor of the competition.
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American education and particularly Founded in 2009, The Cambridge success,” said Kaitlyn MacDonald, the small classrooms at the private Institute in Burlington has worked director of the high school, which school encourage more critical with more than over 140 schools to thinking, rather than just learning create meaningful and sustainable has 74 students. international programs. It works The international program was facts. MacDonald said the students in in 12 different countries, but has MacDonald's brainstorm. She came to Sparhawk from another school China often attend classes with 60 probably its deepest roots in the that had a large international student students. One student told her he Chinese culture. Cambridge through Green Planet base. Wanting to bring the benefits was interested in science and looked of the international program to forward to doing laboratory work. At assisted in selecting the students, Sparhawk, she began working on the his Chinese school, he got to do lab pairing them with the host families, experiments twice in a year because translating documents, helping program two years ago. To help facilitate the program, she there were so many students. At with visas and providing aroundturned to the Cambridge Institute. Sparhawk, students are in the science the-clock assistance to the students, families and the school. It also “If we tried to do this by ourselves, labs almost every day, she said. Stilphen said it was a great time for collects the tuition for the students I doubt we would ever get there,” the students to arrive in America in on Sparhawk's behalf. MacDonald said. The students, who come from The plan is for the students to time to witness the Presidential and stay at Sparhawk and live with host congressional elections. The school's different parts of China and speak families until they graduate, when theme this year, as it is every four Cantonese, Mandarin and other all the students said they planned to years during the national elections, dialects, are rapidly learning is American civics and law, she said. English. attend American universities. One ofIndependent the students had already “They are really interested in The The students gave much the sameLargest North Shore’s Community Newspaper reasons for wanting to leave China asked her why so many Amesbury learning English,” Stilphen said. houses fly the American flag. In “Give them a couple more weeks and and come to Sparhawk. “American education is better China, national flags are flown only they will be speaking very well.” The Sparhawk students have than in China,” said Quincy, a 10th on tall flagpole, Abner Sampson said. accepted them well, MacDonald grade female student. Sparhawk was swamped with said. Even before school opened Emma agreed. “Chinese education is good for studying for tests,” she about 40 applicants from China. last week, more than a dozen of the said. When students graduate, “They With the help of the Green Planet American students showed up to subsidiary of the Cambridge meet the Chinese students. all have similar ideas.” MacDonald said. “It has been Louise Stilphen, Sparhawk's Institute, Sparhawk interviewed all wonderful.” founder and headmaster, said of the students via Skype. Continued from page 1
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Lynne is also well known throughout the North Shore and Merrimack Valley as an early childhood and professional development consultant who helps parents, educators, and childcare providers learn and apply positive ways of dealing with the negative behavior of children and teenagers. She is the parent of two grown sons. Over the past 20 years she has used her experience as a parent and classroom teacher to understand child development and goals of behavior based on the work of Rudolf Dreikurs and Vicki Soltz in Children: The Challenge (NY:Dutton, 1987) Registration is required as space is limited. When you register for the first class you are registered for all of them. You can register at www.amesburylibrary.org or email Margie at mwalker@mvlc.org -----------------------------------------------------------For AMESBURY - The Sale Amesbury Cultural Council is looking for volunteers who would like to serve•on the local council. Our goal is to help foster and promote the cultural enjoyment and enrichment of our citizens through local and regional arts and cultural events and programs. If interested, please contact the Amesbury Town Hall for an application or visit the town website to download a form. -----------------------------------------------------------AMESBURY - Applications for the 16th Annual Open Studio Tour in Amesbury are NOW available. The tour will take place on Nov. 10-11, 2012. Applications are download-able on the website and are due by Sept. •14th to the Amesbury Cultural •Council. This annual event features work by artists living/working in Amesbury or who have participated in the tour in the past. It is a celebration of the arts in our community. All information and details are available on our website at: www.amesburyculturalcouncil.org. For more information, please contact council members at amesburycc@gmail.com. -----------------------------------------------------------GEORGETOWN - The Friends of the Georgetown Peabody Library seek donations of used books for their Georgetown Days book sale planned for Sunday, September 23, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm in the library meeting room, 2 Maple Street, Georgetown. The Friends are emptying out their storage room for this event: books of all kinds - cookbooks, romances, crafts, novels, how-to’s, and children’s books - will be available for sale. Donations of good books are always welcome and may be left at the library during regular business hours. The Friends cannot utilize encyclopedias or textbooks more than a year old. A bag sale is scheduled for Monday, September 24, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Browsers can fill a brown paper grocery bag with books of their choice for a modest fee. The proceeds from the book sale benefits library community programs, including a book discussion group for teens, support of summer programming for children and the purchase museum passes. -----------------------------------------------------------GEORGETOWN - The Georgetown Historical Society will be hosting an Open House at the Brocklebank Museum on September 22 & 23 and September 29 & 30 from 12 – 5 PM as part of Trails & Sails 2012. The museum, located at 108 East Main Street in Georgetown, houses many unique and interesting antiques and artifacts, including Georgetown’s legendary “Haunted Meal Chest,” and the original 1754 tavern sign, which was fired at by Revolutionary Minute Men on their way to battle. Georgetown in the Civil War, a special exhibit commemorating the sesquicentennial of the war, features Civil War uniforms, weapons, documents, and many other items pertaining to the men and women of Georgetown involved in the war, including a bullet that killed two men! Learn about the house’s ties to the famous Beecher family and the abolitionist movement. On September 22, William Hallett, author of Newburyport and the Civil War, will be having a book signing at the museum from 1:30 – 3:00. Local artist Ed DesJardins will be selling his artwork at the museum on September 23, 29 and 30. Now in its eleventh year, TRAILS & SAILS offers over 200 FREE events in a unique variety of historic, cultural and natural sites. Visit www.trailsandsails.org for more information. -----------------------------------------------------------GROVELAND –ICE CREAM STAND SPECIAL: Build a Sunday...Toppings Free! Monday nights are motorcycle nights....show of your bike, meet others! 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What You Need to Know: Register for the race online or download and print out a registration form and drop it off or mail it to the Ipswich YMCA at 110 County Road, Ipswich, MA 01938. Race starts at the Rowley VFW at 10 Bradford Street, Rowley 01969. Post-race refreshments and awards ceremony following race Music, giveaways and fun provided by 92.5 the River Contact Terry Gauthier, Race Director, at gauthiert@northshoreymca.org with questions. -----------------------------------------------------------IPSWICH LIBRARY - Story Time at the Ipswich Public Library located at 25 North Main Street in Ipswich, MA offers an opportunity for children to hear stories from classic children’s literature and also from newer additions to the library’s children's book collection. After the children share stories they sing songs, play games and create simple crafts. The children have the
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Little Chicks is a new program for newborn to 2-year-olds with caregivers at the library. It will be held on Tuesday mornings at 10 a.m. Inspired by and based on the Mother Goose On the Loose library program Little Chicks will include music, rhymes, puppets and, of course, books for caregivers to enjoy with the library’s littlest patrons. Babes in arms and toddlers who are just moving forward are the perfect audience for this program. For caregivers of the very young it is a wonderful opportunity to meet with new people in this library community setting. Sign up now by stopping by the Children’s Room at the Ipswich Public Library; call or drop in to the Open Houses scheduled for Tuesday, September 18 from 10 a.m. to noon, or Wednesday September 19 from noon to 2. Check out the hockey themed furniture donated by the Boston Bruins and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. -----------------------------------------------------------MERRIMAC – The Merrimac Lions Club will be holding its 31st year, “GIANT FLEA MARKETâ€? on Saturday, September 29th, from 7am to 3pm at First Student, Inc. 123 West Main Street, Merrimac, MA. Spaces are $15 for a 10 ft frontage or 2 spaces for $25. Gates will open 5am for dealers. Sorry, Only Lions Club food and beverages are allowed to be sold. First come basis. Bring your own tables and chairs. Free Parking. Proceeds for Lions Club Charities. Please donate your old eye glasses. -----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURY - Lower Green Village-Beginnings & Burials - September 22 at 10, 1 or 3pm join us for an easy one mile guided walk from the one room schoolhouse c. 1870’s on the Lower Green C. 1635 (location of the first Village of Newbury) to the historic Jackman-Willett House c. 1696 to the First Settlers’ Burial Ground c. 1635 and back to the Lower Green. Narrations and Q’s and A’s by members of the Newbury Historical Commission, Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury and First Settlers’ Burial Ground. -----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORT - The Parker River Clean Water Association will host two events as part of the annual Essex Heritage Trails & Sails 2012. Bird the Little River Nature Trail with Sue McGrath of Newburyport Birders on Saturday, September 22. The trail walk will start at 8:30 and finish at approximately 11:30 AM. Adults only, no pets. The walk is one mile of easy terrain between Story Avenue and Hale Street in Newburyport. Event capacity: 12. Special Instructions: Dress: weather appropriate and bring comfortable shoes, binoculars, bird guide, and drinking water. Heavy rain will cancel. Little River Nature Trail Walk, Saturday September 29. Arrive at 8:30 and finish at 11:30 AM. Walk the Little River Nature Trail with naturalist and registered Maine Guide Bob Metcalfe of New England Discovery. Family friendly, children over 6 with an adult is okay. The walk is one mile of easy terrain between Story Avenue and Hale Street in Newburyport. No pets. Event capacity: 20. Special Instructions: Dress appropriately, comfortable shoes, drinking water; Heavy rain will cancel. For both events, park and meet across the street from the trailhead at the Newburyport Park and Ride Bus Stop. For Directions: Take I-95 to Exit 57/Rte 113 E. 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David Larson, Education Coordinator for Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats, is looking for 100+ volunteers of all ages willing to help clean up trash and debris from the roads, trails, and beaches. Those interested are encouraged to bring friends, family, teachers, or students. In 2011, 143 volunteers picked up 5500 pounds of debris – everything from cigarette butts to a hubcap, a car bumper, a diver’s mask, and thousands of plastic disks from the Hooksett, NH, wastewater treatment plant disaster. Check-in is at the Refuge’s parking lot #1, where supplies will be provided by Mass Audubon staff. People are advised to bring their own work gloves. Data about trash collected by volunteers will be entered into a database by the Center for Marine Conservation in Washington, D.C., for the purpose of tracking the sources of waste. Following this year’s Coastsweep, Joppa Flats Education Center will again hold its Celebrate the Coast Free-for-All, a full day of family activities that celebrates the health of our coastline. Whether or not you were able to participate in Coastsweep, the public is invited to drop in on Sunday, September 23, at Joppa Flats, One Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, anytime from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm for live tide pool animal demonstrations, guided salt marsh walks, and interactive science activities. Both Coastsweep and the Celebrate the Coast Free-for-All are free, for all ages, and will be held rain or shine. Participants do not need to preregister and may show up at any time during the day. -----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORT – Friends of Newburyport Council on Aging will be holding a Silent Auction on Saturday, September 29th at the Hope Church on Hale Street. 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Real Estate • For Sale Selling in the Fall • Sports Sports Sports By John McCarthy,• Rowley Realty
The market, while slower over the last month than the frenzy we had in the spring, is showing signs of an active fall market. We have been getting lots of calls from soon-to-be sellers getting their homes ready for sale and looking for advice to get top dollar. In fall there are usually fewer homes on the market than in the spring and this year inventory is very low. If you plan on selling soon, you will want to do everything in your power to attract wouldbe homebuyers. One of the first things you should do is examine, and, if needed, repair any major systems. If you're unaware of any, you may want to hire a professional home inspector who will point out potential shortcomings. Chances are excellent that a potential buyer will hire a home inspector to examine the house, so you might as well save yourself any surprises down the road. Along those lines, and I have mentioned it before, it isn’t a bad idea to have a presale home inspection by a licensed inspector. You can take the information the inspector finds and preempt any issues that could come up during the buyer’s home inspection. Once the structural systems are repaired or given the thumbs-up, then you should turn to appearance. And when it comes to appearance there are many things to consider, here are just a few: Curb appeal. If you didn’t get
the memo we are in smack dab in the information age. Would be buyers can get your address and most will drive by before deciding whether or not to set an appointment. How does your home look from the street? What is the condition of the roof? Do you need paint? Are the grounds in good shape? The leaves will be falling soon, make sure they are off the lawn. As the saying goes, “you never get a second chance to make a first impression.” Get rid of clutter. This may fall under the first impression category if your buyer didn’t do a drive by. So…if you have too much furniture, put some of it away (not in another room!) or into storage. Fewer pieces of furniture will make the room seem larger and more open. Often times people have difficulty visualizing their furniture in your home, so make it easier on them. A fresh coat of paint inside a room can do wonders, but try to keep the colors neutral. Talk to a professional. Now is a good time to talk with a REALTOR®. Ask about their experience, find out how well they know the area and what kind of sales volume they have done. Once you have someone lined up you can follow his or her additional recommendations and begin the final phase of preparation before your house goes on the market. Finally, Set a Competitive Price.
Your REALTOR® will begin by conducting a market analysis of your house and give you an estimate of the fair market value based on how similar homes in your neighborhood are selling for. Your agent should be able to explain to you why he/she thinks your home is priced the way it is. Whatever price you decide on should be a mutual decision between you and your agent based on what the market says it should sell for. A house priced appropriately will be taken more seriously and will ultimately sell more quickly than one that's overpriced. The best time to sell your home is when it first comes on the market. Make sure you do everything you can do make your home stand out, not only from a pricing perspective but in appearances as well. Don’t miss the perfect buyer for your home because you didn’t go the extra steps to get the home ready. With inventory low and interest rates even lower this fall should be a terrific time to get your home sold, not just for sale. 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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