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Page www.TheTownCommon.com March 29 - April 4, 2017 How to Submit Letters to the Editor Marc Maravalli, B.S., R.Ph. Publisher/Editor, The Town Common Letters to the Editor provide a useful way of communicating concerns, issues, or suggestions to all members of the community. The Town Common encourages all citizens to submit letters concerning issues of interest and concern to the local community. Letters selected for publication may be edited for length and clarity. Some letters may serve as a catalyst for other articles or coverage, and community leaders and agencies will be offered an opportunity to respond to letters concerning their areas of responsibility. All letters must be signed and include a daytime telephone number. Letters may be submitted to: The Editor c/o The Town Common 77 Wethersfield St. Rowley, MA 01969 or preferably via e-mail to: editor@thetowncommon.com. The Town Common deadline is 5pm Wednesday (except when a federal holiday necessitates an earlier deadline). The Town Common serves the communities of the Upper North Shore of Mass. & Coastal New Hampshire and welcomes your participation. Send your Organization or Group Notices, Birth or Engagement Announcements, Photos, Articles and Letters to the Editor, by mail, phone, fax, or e-mail to: 77 Wethersfield St., Rowley, MA 01969 Phone: 978-948-8696 Fax: 978-948-2564 E-mail: news@thetowncommon.com The Town Common Marc Maravalli, Publisher / Editor editor@thetowncommon.com Graphic Design Services graphics@thetowncommon.com Advertising Opportunities advertise@thetowncommon.com Event and Announcement Submissions events@thetowncommon.com 77 Wethersfield Street Rowley, MA 01969-1713 Phone: (978) 948-8696 Fax: (978) 948-2564 www.thetowncommon.com The Town Common is not responsible for typographical errors or omissions, but reprint opportunities do exist for prompt notification of such errors. Advertisers should notify The Town Common of any errors in ads on the first day of issuance. No credits &/or refunds are offered or implied. All material and content cannot be duplicated without written consent of the publisher. The right is reserved to reject, omit, or edit any copy offered for publication. Copyright 2004-2016 The Town Common © - All Rights Reserved In loving memory of Liz Ichizawa, Reporter (1956 - 2005) AMESBURY - Mayor Ken Gray announced that the City will again be offering summer programs for Amesbury Youth, now starting at age 2 to fifteen years old. Last year, Amesbury’s Youth Programs served over 1,400 youth in Amesbury’s community. Amesbury’s Youth Services Director Kathy Crowley provided details about the program, adding, “This year, there will be many new programs offered in addition to the many programs offered last summer.” New this year will be many STEAM programs such as Coding, Video Game Design, Lego Engineering, 3D Illumination Electronics, Robot making, “Shark Tank,” Star Wars Action Flix, Lego Stop Motion Flix, Top Secret Science and many more. Other new programs will be Rugby, Volleyball, Pickle ball, Surfing, Track and Field, Cheerleading, Flag Football and British Soccer and Multisports camps. All programs will be open to out of Town residents for a small charge. Amesbury residents will have the last week of February and much of March to register before non-residents on March 20. The Tadpole Park Program for 4 and 5 year olds will offer 4, one week sessions, Monday through Friday, from 9am to 1:00 and is located under the red shade structure at the Town Park. It will include arts and crafts, playground games, fun cooperative games, sports, water play in the splash pad, Friday entertainment with animal shows, magicians, walking field trips and more. The Tadpole Park Program is designed to give preschoolers a chance to develop social skills, work on coordination and have fun all at the same time. The Youth Park Program, located at the Town Park on Friend St., Amesbury Summer Recreation Program for 2017 serves 6-11 year olds and has new hours running 9-3 for last year’s price! This program will offer 7, one week sessions this summer. We have an extended day component (8am to 5pm) to provide assistance for working families. The Youth park program offers choice activities all day including playground games, arts and crafts, sports, theme days, nature walks, group games, team building activities, talent shows, entertainers and more. Every Wednesday is all day water play. Field trips will be on every Thursday and this year trips will go to 3 pm and may include trips to Aquaboggan, Launch Trampoline Park, Kingston State Park, Franklin Park Zoo, Merrimack Valley Pavilion, and Jump on In. Each Friday we host entertainment such as a Magician and a Bicycle Stunt show. Tuesdays are special theme days which may include Pirate Day with a huge Scavenger Hunt, Amesbury’s Got Talent and a Tye Dye Summer Celebration, to name a few. New this year will be the opportunity to buy a day pass to the park program called the Lilly Pad Pass. The Tween/Teen Program will serve ages 11-14 and parents will have a choice of the Park or Tween for age 11. This program has been designed to hold six, 1 week sessions and will meet at the Middle School cafeteria on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9:30-3:30. Tuesdays will be theme days and Wednesdays and Thursdays will be field trips. Trips scheduled this year are Launch Trampoline Park and Take Flight Aerial Adventures, Water Country, Merrimack Valley Pavilion, Portland Sea Dogs, Codzilla w/ Faneuil Hall, Palace Playland Amusement Park, Canobie Lake Park and York Beach. Teen enrollment will be limited to 50. The Summer Environmental Program located at Camp Kent Nature Center serves approx. 300 youth in grades 1-8 each year and offers six, one week sessions, running 9-3, Monday through Thursday. Participants will be in small groups with their peers and will participate in a variety of environmental science, outdoor skills, and adventure learning activities. Each week for grades 3-8 we will offer a hike up Powwow Hill with a free cookout, water view and Eagle watching, a paddle day to the beach in kayaks, dories and canoes; and weekly visits from wildlife specialists. In addition, programming includes a low elements challenge course, archery, kayaking, fire making for some ages, Dutch oven cooking and GPS navigation. Grades 1 and 2 will be offered ponding and insect collection, wildlife presentations, animal tracking, dory rides, scavenger hunts and learning how to make a sailing craft. New this year will be a Wilderness Week including orienteering, shelter building, survival skills and an overnight camp out. Another new item is each camper receiving a Camp Kent t- shirt included in the program cost. Please note that we are seeking outdoor educators and naturalists to conduct family programs and environmental workshops throughout the year. Please call Camp Kent at (978) 834-0359 if you have any questions or e-mail: RJ at campkent@amesburyma.gov In addition to Camp Kent, other programs held on or near the water include a fishing program which will travel to local watering holes. Our Youth Sailing Program where we will teach the fundamentals of basic sailing on a sunfish sailboat, water and boating safety, sailboat rigging, reading wind direction, knot tying, and more. We will continue to offer stand-up paddle boarding and swimming instruction at Lake Gardner. The “STAR” (Summer Theater Arts Recreation) program serves grades 5-9 and will meet 4 days a week for 2 weeks from 10- 3. The “STAR” Program will hold a performance on Thursday, August 10 at the Middle school auditorium. As a result of parent feedback, the “Shooting Star” program will be a 2 week program for grades 1-4 where they will learn the magic of theater through games, skits, improvisation, make up and costumes. “Shooting Stars” will have a small performance for their parents at the end of the program. Shooting Stars will work their way up to the STAR program for a more advanced theater experience. In addition to our tennis program for grades 1-11, we will also offer two Team Tennis Programs, one Boys’ and one Girls’ with intrasquad matches. Other programs include Fencing, Baseball, Gymnastics, Basketball, Soccer, Archery with recurve bows, Keys for Kids, Golf with a Pro at Apple Hill Golf Course, and the very popular Bubble Soccer. The Counselor in Training Program is offered for 14-15 year olds in the Preschool, Park, Theater, Tennis, Swimming, Boating and Camp Kent programs. CIT’s offer assistance to staff and will receive community service hours and training. CIT’s will need to provide a reference letter and will be interviewed for positions in May. Please see the Youth Recreation Director for an application or download online. All applications and materials are due by May 1. All brochure and registration information was mailed to Amesbury homes on February 17 and may also be obtained online at the Town website: www.amesburyma. gov/youth-recreation under “forms and documents”. Registration starts February 21 and forms can be mailed or dropped off to 68 Elm St. There will be open enrollment throughout the summer for the Youth Park Program. All other programs have limited enrollment. All programs are open to out of town residents after March 20 for an extra charge. Check the website for employment opportunities. For questions about the programs, please call Kathy Crowley, the City’s Youth Recreation Director at 388- 8137 ext.560 or e-mail at Kathleen@ amesburyma.gov OR Nicole Spirito (Assistant Youth Director) at 978- 388-8137 ext.561 or SpiritoN@ amesburyma.gov. All programs and fees are subject to change pending Municipal Council appropriation.
March 29 - April 4, 2017 www.TheTownCommon.com Page Father of Modern Philanthropy Returns Home Continued from page 1 could see a difference.” The colors of the portrait are again vibrant. The chipped pieces of the frame have been replaced. Painted in England, the portrait depicts Peabody standing in front of a formal desk, his right hand inside his coat, a typical pose for portraits in the 19th century. He holds a card in his left hand addressed to the chairman of the Peabody Library, Georgetown, Massachusetts. Taped to the back of the portrait is the card. It is signed by George Peabody. There is also a note describing how the painting was created. Peabody was photographed in a studio in Brighton, England in 1866. The image was enlarged, traced on canvas and the oil paint was applied. It appears that the painting was completed by 1869. Peabody, pronounced PEEbe-dee, was born to a poor Massachusetts family on Feb. 18, Continued from page 1 1795. He would become one of the world’s leading bankers and founded the J.P. Morgan banking house. Peabody was also extremely generous, donating funds to create the Peabody Trust, which built and maintains housing for the poor in England; the Peabody Institute, a conservatory and universitypreparatory school in northern Baltimore, and the George Peabody Library in Baltimore as well as the library in Georgetown. In recognition of his generosity, Peabody, who lived to be 74, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and is considered to be the father of modern philanthropy. Peabody began his business career in dry goods, but soon turned to banking. In 1837, he moved to London, the center of international finance. He partnered with Junius Spencer Morgan in 1854, a partnership that would become J.P. Morgan. Peabody took an interest in Georgetown when he would stay with his sister, Judith Peabody Russell Daniels, who lived on Main Street, while he was in Massachusetts. On Sept. 19, 1866, at the laying of the cornerstone for the Peabody Memorial Church, which was built with another gift from him, Peabody announced that he would fund the Georgetown libQrary. The wood-framed Italianate library, built on Library Street, was designed by the Boston architectural firm of Bryant & Gilman. It opened on July 3, 1868. The library was moved at the beginning of the 20th Century to Lincoln Park and opened in 1909. Almost a century later, the library was expanded to add an accessible main entrance at ground level and an interior atrium/lobby that preserves the brick facade of the rotunda. From his perch, Peabody would appear to be pleased with all the activities of the modern library he made possible. Ace Gymnasts Are a Winning Family Continued from page 1 The regional competitions are stressful because the gymnasts and their coaches are working hard to win an invitation to the national competition, said Amy Patch, coach and manager of Ace Gymnastics. The national competitions are calmer, although it attracts coaches from every college gymnastic team. At the nationals Riley and Kiley will be competing against hundreds of other gymnasts, some of whom are home schooled and work out twice a day, Patch said. But for Kiley, who has gone to the nationals five times before, it will be “old hat,” Patch said. “She gets significantly better each year. Twelve-year-old Aquinnah (Quinnie) Weherein of Newburyport and 13-year-old Madison Young of West Newbury compete as level eights. Both did well in the state competition, placing on multi-player events and coming in fifth in the All-Around competition. Each of the gymnasts has her favorite event. Kiley loves the bars and is an expert at vault. In the state competition, she scored 9.825 out of a possible 10. Madison also loves vault. And Quinnie loves the floor competition because in it “I can show my personality and choose my own music,” she said. As excited as the four gymnasts were last week about their success at the state competition and the upcoming regional competitions, they mostly wanted to talk about RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER what Ace has meant to them personally. “Ace is SHARE a wonderful THE GIFT place,” OF READING Riley said. “It is about relationship building. They make you feel like family.” Ace, which has expanded as the number of young would-be gymnasts on the North Shore Recycle This Newspaper has grown, says it is “dedicated to putting a smile on your child’s face! Ace works hard at instilling physical activity and life lessons to Share the Gift of Reading last for years to come!” With her friends nodding vigorously, Quinnie called those she trains with most afternoons her second family. Recycle This Newspaper Share the Gift of Reading Chamber Guidebook Reveal 2017-18 Guidebook in front of a packed house at Metzy’s Cantina. Chamber members watched as the star of the cover, Skye Timothy, made her cover debut! New this year, the guidebook is called a ‘Visitor & Resource Guide.’ “We wanted to make this a resource for both tourists as well as locals,” said Chris Johnston, Director Membership Development for the Chamber. “All of our member businesses and organizations will be listed so it’s a one-stop guide for everybody,” he added. Recycle This Newspaper Share the Gift of Reading Like most of the gymnasts here, Quinnie came to Ace when she was very young. “She came to us when she was five. We knew right away that she had the gift,” Patch said. “She could do cartwheels. So we moved her quickly onto a team.” Madison came a little later, but she caught up quick, Patch said. “She is a fast learner.” Some of the gymnasts started even younger. Riley has been Sea View Retreat -Since 1954 An extended Care Community www.seaviewretreat.com Come in for a visit and compare! (978)-948-2552 •Private & Semi-Private Rooms with Baths and Beautiful Views • Medicare/ Medicaid certified • Social Services-Speech, Physical, Occupational, & Massage Therapies • Full Activity Program • and much more... MANSION DRIVE • ROWLEY, MA • JUST OFF ROUTE 1A See us on TOWN OF ROWLEY PLANNING BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING n accordance with Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40A, the Rowley Protective Zoning Bylaw, and the Rowley Planning Board Rules and Regulations, the Rowley Planning Board will conduct a Public Hearing on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 8:30 p.m. in Meeting Room #5 in the downstairs of the Town Hall Annex building located at 39 Central Street, Rowley, MA to review an application for Flood Plain Special Permit/Site Plan Review that involves the expansion replacement of an existing storage shed consisting of approximately 270 sf (18’ x 15’) into a 576 sf (24’ x 24’) storage shed. The subject property located at 759 Main Street, is also identified as The Town Assessors’ Map 34. Lot 7. Michael Young Comm who resides at 5 Strong Street, Newburyport, MA, is applicant and owner of the otherwise training vacant subject property that consists of approximately .23 acres and is Recycle at Ace for This 14 years. Kylie also started training at age two at a located in the Coastal Conservation (CC) Zoning District. different Newspaper gym and came to Ace five The application is being filed pursuant to Section 4.10 (Floodplain years ago. Overlay District), Section 7.6 (Site Plan Review), and Section 7.8 (Special Permit Review) of the Rowley Protective Zoning Bylaw. Approval “It is fun as a coach and a person to see these girls grow as gymnasts of a Special Permit and Site Plan Review are required for the structures and realize Share that the you Gift have taught that qualify as “new development” in the Floodplain Overlay District. The applications, plans, and relevant documents are on file with the them everything they know,” of Reading Rowley Planning Board, and are available for public inspection at the Patch said. Rowley Planning Board Office, Town Hall Annex, 39 Central Street, during public office hours. LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Public Sale Recycle This Newspaper Notice is hereby given by Amesbury Towing 100 Haverhill Road, Amesbury, MA, pursuant to the provisions of Mass G.L c. 255, Section 39A, that they will sell the following vehicle on or after March 30, 2017 beginning at 10:00 am by public or private sale to satisfy their garage Share the Gift of Reading keepers liens for towing, storage, and notices of sale. 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