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May 04, 2022
Hybrid meeting with Zoom starts at 5:00 PM Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 871 2867 1971 |
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Nepal Update and Recovery from COVID 19
May 11, 2022
Join Zoom Meeting at 12:15 PM Meeting ID: 890 5289 6645 |
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May 11, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Meeting with Zoom
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![]() Message Therapy and Brain Core Neurofeedback
May 18, 2022
Michelle Baker Michelle has been working with the human body for over 25 years, utilizing modalities of eastern and western practice to help educate and facilitate the healing process for many physical, energetic, and neurologically based conditions. Starting in her early 20’s in therapeutic exercise, she specialized in neuromuscular conditions and began to recognize the emotional and energetic symptoms these conditions carried with them for her clients. Michelle began researching these areas and how they affected the body as well as the brain. Incorporating soft tissue work and Polarity Therapy for energetic alignment, she realized that the body can be healed, but stressful circumstances take a toll on our brain and, in effect, also our behavior and emotional regulation. To help the whole human, Neurofeedback was added to her practice. Michelle is a graduate of Salem State College, a Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Personal Trainer, Board Certified Polarity Practitioner, Advanced Certified BrainCore Neurofeedback Practitioner and BCIA Candidate. Michelle is currently working on her graduate degree at Harvard University and aspires to create a treatment program using her focused modalities for all levels of stress-driven challenges, while bridging the gap between alternative and conventional healing. Michelle Baker, Owner Dynamic Balance, Inc 978-880-8310 26 Millyard, Unit 7 P. O. Box 216 Amesbury, MA 01913 |
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May 18, 2022
Hybrid meeting with Zoom starts at 5:00 PM Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 871 2867 1971 |
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May 21, 2022 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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May 21, 2022 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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May 21, 2022 11:00 AM
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May 25, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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May 25, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Meeting with Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting at 12:30 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89052896645?pwd=NlhqY24vNVBtVEwvVkQ2SFVJMHFSUT09 Meeting ID: 890 5289 6645
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Jun 01, 2022
Hybrid meeting with Zoom starts at 5:00 PM Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 871 2867 1971 |
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Ipswich Rotary's Experience with and demo of the Owl for hybrip meetings
Jun 01, 2022 5:00 PM
Ann has done a great deal of reasearch into how best to conduct Ipswich Rotary's hybrid meetings; to engage both those attending face to face meetings, and those attending remotely. They have decided on the Owl as the best solution. She will discuss their decision making process, set up their Owl, laptop and projector and screen so that those in attendance F2F and those attending remotely can see how long it takes to set things up, and see the effect of this set up on the quality of our meetings -- both first hand and how it works for those attending remotely via a recording of the meeting. |
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Jun 06, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Jun 08, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Meeting with Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting at 12:30 PM
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Passcode: 845942 |
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Jun 08, 2022 12:01 PM - 1:00 PM
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Jun 08, 2022 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
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Jun 08, 2022 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
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Jun 15, 2022
Hybrid meeting with Zoom starts at 5:00 PM Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 871 2867 1971 |
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Jun 22, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Jun 22, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Meeting with Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting at 12:30 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89052896645?pwd=NlhqY24vNVBtVEwvVkQ2SFVJMHFSUT09 Meeting ID: 890 5289 6645
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Jun 23, 2022 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The Block Party-
The event runs from 5:30-8PM. We need help from 5-9PM depending on how long clean-up/tear-down takes. On the Chamber side people are working pretty much the whole event, but I'd like to see people sign up for an hour and a half or so so that they can also take time to enjoy the event. Even an hour would be great, and we wouldn't turn down the offer of a longer shift.
This year we need more volunteers because most of the restaurants can't provide staff. We DON'T need grill people, as we have a great group that calls themselves the Blackstone Guys (or something like that) who are bringing their Blackstone grills and doing the cooking.
Rotary volunteers will either be serving food, collecting tickets at activities (pony rides, face painting, train rides, balloon creations, etc.), helping with line control, helping break down tables and chairs, or whatever else Chamber staffperson Sheila needs us to do. If anyone can recruit their spouse or significant other or teenage or adult children to help that would be great.
FYI I did recruit our friend Michael Woo to help and he's going to try to rally some friends.
Thanks!
Donna
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Jun 27, 2022 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Jun 29, 2022
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Jul 06, 2022
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Jul 14, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Join Zoom Meeting at 12:30 PM
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Jul 20, 2022 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Northern Essex Elder Transport
Jul 27, 2022
Dori Sawyer. I am the incoming administrator for Northern Essex Elder Transport, NEET. We are a local non-profit, based in Amesbury, and provide senior transportation to medical and other essential appointments through an all-volunteer driving program. Northern Essex Elder Transport, Inc. (NEET), a nonprofit volunteer driving organization was established in 1981. NEET (www.driveforneet.org) supports elders with transportation services in the following communities: Amesbury, Boxford, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Merrimac, Methuen, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, Rowley, Salisbury and West Newbury. Rides are scheduled through the local Council on Aging The NEET drivers provide non-urgent medical transportation both locally, as well as to metro Boston, Burlington and the Danvers/Peabody area for those individuals aged 60+.
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Jul 27, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Aug 03, 2022 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Local Mystery Author
Aug 10, 2022
Edith was first recognized for her fiction writing at the age of eleven. She won the Pasadena Star News contest for her short story, “Viking Girl” and walked away with the prize money of $2.00! So how did Edith go from an 11-year old award-winning fiction writer to the best-selling mystery author and sought-after speaker that she is today? While writing has been a life-long craft, her fiction career took a few detours before she penned her many multi-setting crime capers. As an adult, Edith made her living writing technical documentation in the software industry. She also wrote features and essays as a free-lance journalist, edited medical texts, published several articles, and wrote a dissertation to earn her doctorate in the field of linguistics. Constructing fictional worlds rich with passion, intrigue, and the true mystery of human behavior is what makes her happiest. In 2013 she left high-tech to write mystery fiction full-time and is now living her dream. Edith is a lifetime member of Sisters in Crime, and is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She is also a long-time member of the Society of Friends (Quaker) and a past Clerk of Amesbury Friends Meeting. Her art story was featured in the National Endowment for the Arts 50th anniversary celebration. Edith blogs with five other New England mystery authors at WickedAuthors.com who were featured in the Boston Globe. She also blogs at Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen on the second and fourth Fridays of the month. Preston and Cristabel and Birdy rose to celebrity status after being featured in Edith’s mystery novels. Preston was the farm cat in the Local Food mysteries. Cristabel, the kitchen cat of the Quaker Midwife series, and Birdy, the star of the Country Store mysteries. All are now deceased, alas, but their fame lives on in the books. At the Malice Domestic Convention in April 2022, Edith finally collected her Agatha Award teapot that she won in 2020 for Best Historical Novel. The Agatha Award was for Charity’s Burden, the 4th book in her Quaker Midwife Series. In 2001, Edith wrote a prose poem about her beloved father Allan Burroughs Maxwell, Jr. Having been an organic farmer, Edith knows the language and tensions of someone like Cam Flaherty, the farmer in the Local Foods mysteries. Edith lived in southern Indiana for five years and loved the slow pace and language of its natives, so it made sense to set the Country Store Mysteries there. She was interviewed in the Indiana University Alumni Magazine recently. As a Quaker herself, and before having worked as a doula and taught independent childbirth classes, Edith has the experience and knowledge to write about the life of Rose Carroll, the 1880s midwife portrayed in the Quaker Midwife Mysteries. Her article about how being a Friend guides her writing and marketing was published in Friends Journal. And her Cozy Capers Book Group series comes straight out of both her imagination and regular solo writing retreats on Cape Cod. Edith lives in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but is originally a fourth-generation Californian. She has two grown sons and lives in an antique house with her beau and their energetic kitten, Ganesh.
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Aug 10, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Aug 17, 2022 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
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![]() Official District Governor's Club Visit
Aug 24, 2022
Short BioAlexander Falk founded Altova in 1992 in Vienna, Austria; member of the W3C XML Schema working group that defined the XML Schema 1.0 specs; member of the W3C Advisory Committee; co-creator of the popular Altova XMLSpy XML Editor; established US subsidiary Altova, Inc. in 2001 and relocated to the USA; President & CEO of Altova; VIP member of the Kepler Society (Alumni Club of the Johannes Kepler University). Always interested in new technologies and creating new developer products that improve the software development cycle. As an entrepreneur and investor the focus is clearly on software, drones, IoT, and XML-related technologies. More career details can be found on LinkedIn. AltovaAltova® is a software company specializing in tools that assist developers with data management, software and application development, mobile development, and data integration. The creator of XMLSpy® and other award-winning products, Altova is a key player in the software tools industry and the leader in XML solution development tools. Altova offers a complete line of desktop developer software for XML, SQL, and UML; high-performance workflow automation server products; and a cross-platform mobile development platform. With over 4.7 million users worldwide, including 91% of Fortune 500 organizations, Altova is honored to serve clients from small and medium-sized businesses to the world’s largest organizations. |
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Aug 24, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Aug 31, 2022 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
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Amesbury Public Library
Sep 07, 2022
Westphal said she did not formally apply for the position and had only worked at the library for six or seven months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. “I was really just getting my feet under me and then everything was thrown to the wind, so I wasn’t 100% sure that I was the best fit since I had so much to learn,” she said. The search committee, however, found itself comparing Westphal’s experience and skills to those of the candidates. She was then asked about becoming the next director after the final round of interviews. The Library Board of Trustees voted unanimously to make Westphal the new director Jan. 27.
“As I started to do the day-to-day work of the interim director, it seemed much more possible to me that I could be able to do this and be a good fit for the library,” Westphal said. Library Board of Trustees Chair Anne Campbell said in a press release that the board looks forward to working with Westphal more closely as director. “Aimie has made some wonderful contributions to the library during her time as assistant director and it’s been great to see how she’s helped bring the team together while navigating the challenges of the pandemic,” Campbell said. The new library director will start at an annual salary of $82,000 and is expected to be deeply involved in the library’s strategic planning initiative to create a three-year plan that would include updating the mission and vision statements. “We had a long-range plan which expired in 2020 and we were starting the process to begin the long-range plan then but the pandemic hit and we had to stop,” Westphal said. She said serving the community and getting it involved in the long-range planning for the library are among her top priorities. “We also want to update our technology so that we can better serve our community,” Westphal said. “We have been working on that for the past year and a half with our IT director and we have a really good working relationship. But it is a slow but sure process.” Mayor Kassandra Gove said in a press release that Westphal did a great job of serving as interim director. “Aimie has strong relationships with the trustees, the Friends of the Library, city staff and the community,” Gove said. “She’s fully qualified and has successfully led the staff during a tough transition time. As a city, we are committed to providing growth opportunities for our staff and Aimie is the perfect choice to lead our library into the future.” |
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Sep 07, 2022 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
The September 7th. meeting will be a 5:00 PM evening meeting at the fountain in front of the Amesbury Library. There will not be any food available box lunches. This will not be a Zoom hybrid meeting as supporting utilities are not readily available. If there inclement weather, the meeting will move inside the library. |
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Sep 14, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
This is an off site meeting, with box lunchesINDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTERSet in Amesbury’s historic Upper Millyard, the Industrial History Center is our new venue dedicated to honoring the city’s industrial history. With construction completed in 2021, the Center offers programs that serve families, schools, and the community. The IHC is a vital addition to downtown, located in historic Mill 2 in Amesbury’s Upper Millyard. The Community Is Our Campus. Most museums are buildings with objects in them. We’re a bit different. Although we use the Industrial History Center for exhibits and programs, we consider the entire city of Amesbury as an artifact. Many of our programs explore the nearby built environment as a way to discover our industrial past. Check Co-President's weekly meeting notice email for Zoom availability and link for this meeting. |
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![]() the Amesbury Carriage Museum & Industrial Center Museum
Sep 14, 2022 12:00 PM
Kelly Daniell is the new Executive Director of the Amesbury Carriage Museum. Kelly comes to Amesbury from The Peabody Historical Society & Museum, where she served six years as Curator. In that role, she maintained the extensive decorative arts and research collections, as well as eight historic buildings in the City of Peabody. Her recent exhibition subjects included examining stories of immigration, profiling veterans, and charting the lives of four notable women in Peabody’s long history. Kelly earned a bachelor’s degree in Cultural and Historic Preservation from Salve Regina University and a master’s degree in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. |
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![]() Amesbury Local Artist
Sep 21, 2022
AMESBURY — Ron Quinn has dedicated most of his life to art and his most ambitious project — 365 oil paintings, which he painted one per day for the past year — has just reached its conclusion. "My girlfriend (Sandy) says it looks like a lunatic lives here," Quinn said. "I told her 'one does.'" An impressionist working mostly in oil, Quinn, 63, was a married electronic technician in his 20s when he was asked to paint a simple sign for his parents' wedding anniversary and he never turned back. "As soon as I made the first mark, I said, 'I love this,'" Quinn said. "It just struck a chord. So I quit my job and came home and told my wife that I was going to be an artist." Having retired after a 21-year career as an art director for AT&T, the Amesbury native often draws inspiration from the work of Vincent van Gogh. Quinn recently became known for live painting at such events as the Fireball Run, the Amesbury Days Art Show & Sale and the Amesbury Pines Music Festival. "I don't call myself an artist," Quinn said. "Too many people use that title. I call myself a painter. That's what I do. I was trying to find my style and I fell in love with (van Gogh) instantly. It was the color and the texture that spoke to me in volumes." Working primarily in oil, Quinn has tried to paint something substantial each July 29 to honor van Gogh's death on that date in 1890. "I feel like I am keeping his legacy going if I paint on that day," Quinn said. Quinn was too busy to paint a larger piece last July 29, but that's when inspiration struck. "I only had the time to do one of these little cubes, which was of a red lily in my friend's garden," he said. "So I painted it and then the next day, I didn't feel like I had done enough. So I told my girlfriend I was going to paint one every day for a week. That way I would have seven of them." Quinn immediately set about his first week of painting cubes but once the week was over, it still wasn't enough. "I found out, during the last 70 days of Van Gogh's life, he painted 70 paintings," Quinn said. "So my seven seemed pretty weak right then. I looked at Sandy and asked, 'Do you think I can do it for a year?' She said, 'You are out of your mind.' and I am like, 'maybe?'" Crazy or not, Quinn has spent the past year painting one 4-inch by 4-inch cube each day and was scheduled to finish the project with a replication of van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Crows" Friday night. "I was probably a month in when I realized I was hooked," Quinn said. "That's when it became a mission." Nothing deterred him in his mission either, not even a near-fatal heart attack his mother suffered in October. "She was rushed to the hospital, the whole nine yards," Quinn said. "I came home that night, totally drained but I was like, 'Where's my paints?'" With his mother on the mend, Quinn has spent the spring and summer finishing up his work, painting Rockport, Gloucester, Newburyport, Salisbury and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, along the way. "I want to get people involved in the process so I went to Facebook and told them to send me a photo, any photo at all," Quinn said. "I got a string of pets, not one landscape. So I painted a bunch of pets and I had a ball doing them. I really did." Most of his paintings are local landscapes. Each cube is numbered, dated and signed on the back. Having covered every wall in his Fruit Place kitchen, now that his project is finished, Quinn is ready to find a suitable home for it. "Ideally I'd like to get this to a museum," he said. "That would be my number one option. That way they are going to be seen as a group and will stay all together. A lot of museums buy collections and put them in their permanent collection. That is a possibility. Obviously, it is a long shot." |
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Amesbury Fire Department Update
Sep 28, 2022
Mayor Gove said that “I want to thank Interim Chief Nolan and Bill Shute for stepping up at this critical time,” Gove said in a statement. “Chief Nolan has demonstrated an incredible commitment to our city and Bill has tremendous experience to offer. Together, I am confident they will provide solid leadership for our staff, and I look forward to working with them.’ Shute will oversee day-to-day operations, including but not limited to budgeting, personnel and general administration, according to the city. Nolan started with the Fire Department in 1995 as a part-time, call-in firefighter. He became a full-time firefighter/EMT in 1997, then held the role of acting lieutenant from 2012-13. In June 2014, he was promoted to lieutenant, and in July 2015 was promoted again to acting deputy chief. In 2019, Nolan was promoted to deputy fire chief and fire prevention officer. In a written statement, Nolan said his goal was to continue providing a “high level of service excellence that the members of the Amesbury Fire Department provide to the citizens and visitors of Amesbury every day. “ “These are very difficult times in the post-COVID world that we live in, and together with Bill, the members of the Fire Department and I will continue to face these challenges head on,” Nolan said in the statement. “ I will work with the mayor and the City Council to keep the Fire Department in a forward motion during this transition. I would also like to thank Chief Berkenbush for his service to the Amesbury Fire Department.” |
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Sep 28, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Oct 05, 2022 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Grab your favorite flannel, a warm beverage and some guests. Next Wednesday (10/5) we will have a sunset meeting at Lake Attitash in Amesbury to hear from Derek with the Lake Attitash Association. Lake Attitash is a great part of Amesbury that not everyone knows a lot about. We will hear about the lake, lake treatment and some other things we don’t think about such as wildlife, watershed and the protection of trees.
(We won’t have Zoom access. It’s well social distanced. In case of bad weather, we will be at Gametime, a decision to be made that day.)
1 Lakeshore Drive, Amesbury, MA 01913
From 110: Old County Road, an immediate right on 1st street or a 2nd right onto 2nd street, a right at the bottom of the hill until you see H2O, a right and then straight into the open gate. Text Eric Palen at 978-697-5146 if you have any difficulties.
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Oct 12, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Collaborative Innovation Works
Oct 19, 2022
OUR MISSION: CI Works creates energetic work environments built on collaboration and open interaction to improve how we work and how we do business. OUR CAMPUS: Our campus is an adaptive reuse building, leasing for manufacturing, office and co-working space that’s actually affordable. Address is 11 Chestnut Street, Amesbury, MA 01913 OUR TEAM: Our team is built of business experts, economic advisors, entrepreneurs, artists and craftsman, regional leaders, and an incredible array of networks of expertise to help your company find the path to even greater success.
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Oct 26, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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