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Page www.TheTownCommon.com July 12 - 18, 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 2004-2017 The Town Common © - All Rights Reserved In loving memory of Liz Ichizawa, Reporter (1956 - 2005) Dear Editor, Letters To The Editor Kid's Day at the Park Community Announcements Community Connections The Market Street Baptist Church, The Rock Church and the All Saints Church all of Amesbury participated in Amesbury Days’ “Kids’ Day at the Park” on June 29. Market Street Baptist Business with the joint effort Spotlight of other churches has have been running “The Kid’s Kingdom” at this event for many years offering the Bouncy-house and Obstacle-course inflatables and games along with Real Estate • For Sale For Sale free sno-kones. Our goal is to provide a safe and fun environment for Sports • Sports • Sports families to enjoy the day together at no cost to them or the City. Thank You to the adult and teen volunteers from the three churches and to all who helped in any way, big or small, with finances, time, setup & pack-up and everything in between. To Vermette’s Supermarket, Pond Street, Amesbury for donating enough ice for 700 sno-kones and the Amesbury Recreation’s Director, Kathleen Crowley for her help. Pets, Animals, Plus “The Block Party” trailer that contains all the equipment needed is rented from the Massachusetts Baptist Association. We are thankful for this opportunity to give to the community and for those who support Health our needs to provide & Fitness this event. Sincerely, Dianne Dostie Cole, Ministry Assistant Market Street Baptist Church 37 Market Street, Amesbury Theater in the Open and the Summer of Firsts Theater in the Open, recently selected as curators of the Gatekeeper’s House in Maudslay State Park, opened their summer season Saturday, July 8th with a production of Sophocles’ Antigone, played in repertory with their production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set to open on July 15th. “This is an ambitious summer season for Theater in the Open,” stated Artistic Director, Edward Speck, “and we’re really pleased to be able to offer these two productions free to our community. Sophocles’ Antigone is a tragic play about the power structure in Ancient Greece and it expresses the values and laws of that culture. Balanced against that work, we offer Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, so our audience sees two plots derived from the same mythological moment; two stories that use that mythology — in very different ways — to express cultural values.” Director Stephen Haley returns to Theater in the Open to tackle both plays, running through August 20th. With a cast of 20 actors, Haley explores these two very different visions of the world of Ancient Greece. The titular Antigone, a woman guided by her own moral code to stand against the laws of Thebes, is presented in a production that incorporates dance with Sophocles’ classic text. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” humans and fairies descend upon the forest outside of Athens to connect with their true loves as Shakespeare explores the balance of power and themes of the masculine and feminine in his timeless comedy. In another first for Theater in the Open this season, we will be hosting a theater festival the weekend of August 12-13. That weekend we have four distinct offerings for the community. We begin on Saturday morning at 11AM with Family Hour in the Open, an interactive hour of creative exploration and performance. At 2PM we’ll once again be staging our spring production, Snow White: A Through the Looking Glass Panto, then on Sunday afternoon, audiences can see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 1PM followed by Antigone at 4PM. All performances are free and open to the public. We’ll also offer fun, games and light refreshments between the performances on both days, so families are invited to pack up their picnic baskets, the dog and their imaginations and join us for a weekend of inventive, exciting theater. Antigone will be performed July 16, 23, 30 and August 13 at 4pm. A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed July 15, 22, 29, and August 19 and 20 at 4pm, and August 13 at 1pm. All performances free and open to the public.
July 12 - 18, 2017 www.TheTownCommon.com Page 3 Parking Garage Goes to City Council Continued from page 1 Authority is expected to contribute $1.5 million, although the city had hoped for $2 million from that agency. Although some neighbors still object to the proposed garage, the primary complaint against the project has been its cost. Port was working last week with two sets of estimators to finalize the cost projections over the next two weeks for the council to act on. “It costs more to make a parking garage fit into the downtown,” Port said. “Aesthetics are expensive.” The garage is being designed to look like other buildings in downtown, Port said. The brick building at Merrimac and Titcomb streets has long been the projected spot for the parking garage. Owned by New England Development, the building now houses a furniture store and two gyms. After months of negotiations between Stephen Karp’s development company and the city, the purchase price for the property is $2,184,000. The agreement to purchase the building and land does not include allocating any parking spaces for a proposed Waterfront West hotel, as once discussed between the city and New England Development. If approved by the council, the entire building will be torn down. Not all of the property will be used for the garage. The garage will also be a terminal for the Merrimack Valley Doing Their Best for Beer Regional Transit Authority. The MVRTA has said that 45 spaces must be designated for those vehicles of commuter bus riders. That could be a thorny issue left for the council to resolve. It has long been a goal of the city to remove the dirt parking lots on the waterfront. The garage was conceived as a solution to that problem, but some residents wanted to ensure that the waterfront spaces would be gone at the time the new garage is built. If approved, construction would begin this fall with the demolition of the old Fitness Factory. Construction of the new garage would be modular with much of the components assembled elsewhere and erected on site, Port said. Continued from page 1 Brewery in Londonderry, NH. computers. And each of the traditional and new flavors they Paul Barewolf joined his son brewers will work every step of have come up with. after selling a business in Texas the process by hand, blending the Beer lovers are encouraged to and moving back to Massachusetts mash, cleaning the equipment. “It stop in the tasting room, sample where together they found the is awful, disgusting work, unless a brew, play games and listen to brew space at CI Works in this you love it,” Stevie said. some blues. “charming New England town,” The Barefords also plan to Barewolf is a family business, he said. make their own deliveries to named for Stevie’s parents, his CI Works leases old stores, bars and restaurants. That mother’s maiden name being warehouses, once occupied by way each customer is guaranteed Wolf. His brother, Chris, a ARC Technologies, to a variety they will receive exactly the beer builder, helped turn the brick of manufacturers and businesses they ordered. And the Barefords and concrete warehouse space that share space and services to will get to know each of their into a brewery and tasting room. keep costs lower while they are customers personally. His sister, Annie, is the brewery’s growing. They plan to practice their lawyer. And Stevie and his To the Barefords, brewing is slogan: “Doing our best for beer.” fiancé, Jennifer, an art professor, part science, part art. “We make transformed the concrete flooring the best damn beer we know how, he Town Common of the warehouse into what looks blending endless passion and like distressed wood and the rug refined tradecraft in an art-science made popular in the movie, The fusion. We eat, sleep and breathe Great Lebowski. beer,” the web site says. They are also designing the All of the beer produced in this brewery’s cans. small brewery will be handmade. Stevie did not always plan to be To prove it, the Barefords had a a brewer. He was studying to be mash paddle custom made that an illustrator in art school, where is tall enough for six-foot, threeinch he met Jennifer. But to his family Stevie to use comfortably. he always seemed to be drinking, They promise this brewery thinking and talking about beer. will never produce its beers by And because he found he did not take directions from others Need a well, he abandoned the art of illustration and followed his Mattress? passion of making beer. With $200 from his sister, he invested in a small $750 home brew kit and made his first batches. Soon, an entire room in the apartment he shared with Jennifer was devoted to beer production. And while she attended art school in Ithaca, NY, he found a job there as the brewer of 15 craft beers a week at a brewpub. 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