Elizabeth Taber Library Events Update

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There’s still space available for the last two fall technology workshops at the Elizabeth Taber Library. Please call 508-748-1252 or stop in to reserve a spot today: November 5 at 11:00 am: Getting good at Goodreads; November 12 at 11:00 am: Saving recipes through Ziplist.

Knitting Group, Thursday, November 7, at 11:00 am: Do you love to knit? If so, bring your yarn and knitting needles to the Elizabeth Taber Library for our informal knitting group where you can work on projects, socialize, and share advice. Please note that this is not a knitting class. No instruction will be provided, although participants are more than willing to help each other if problems might occur.

Healthcare Literacy, Wednesday, November 13 at 11:00 am: Healthcare is complex. Sometimes we all need a little help navigating the system. Members from the Community Nurse & Hospice Care team will offer a presentation and intimate question and answer session on the complex ins and outs of today’s healthcare system. Participants will receive helpful hints, tips, and advice on how to be the best patient advocate for yourself or a loved one.

Travel Lecture Series: Cuba, Tuesday, November 19 at 6:00 pm: Ever wish you could travel to an exotic place to learn all about its history, culture, and more? Well, now you can just by coming to the Elizabeth Taber Library to see some of Cuba’s beautiful sites, and learn more about its history and culture. Light refreshments will be served.

Mystery Book Club, Wednesday, December 4, at 11:00 am: Join us at the Elizabeth Taber Library for our monthly Mystery Book Club meeting. The mystery book we will be discussing is Harlan Coben’s Tell No One. Please stop into the Library today to register and reserve a copy of this book.

Classic Film Friday Presentation: ‘Glory’

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On Friday, November 8, the public is invited to enjoy another installment of the Sippican Historical Society’s popular program, Classic Film Friday. Co-sponsoring the film series is the Marion Council on Aging. One Friday each month, the organizations present a classic movie and offer a discussion on its historical context or significance. November’s selection is the 1989 film Glory, based on the storming of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Starring Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, and Denzel Washington, the film won three Academy Awards.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Fort Wagner storming, considered to be the defining encounter of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. The encounter is credited with spurring the recruitment of more than 180,000 African-American volunteers, a draw that proved instrumental to the Union’s ultimate victory.

Classic Film Friday presentations are held at the Marion Music Hall (164 Front St.) and are offered free of charge to the public. Films begin at 7:00 pm, and refreshments are available. For more information, contact the SHS at 508-748-1116.

Gateway Youth Hockey Update

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Mite Bobcats: The Bobcats suffered their first defeat on Saturday versus Martha’s Vineyard by a score of 18 to 14. The Bobcats came out flying in the first period with goals from Juni Suarez, Derek Gauvin, Thomas Ledger and Trendyn Medeiros. The Bobcats did not let up even for a minute as they continued to score. With one minute remaining in the first period, goaltender Charlie Carroll had to leave due to an injury leaving the net open for the last minute of the period, replaced by Thomas Ledger, leaving the bench thin. Despite the loss of their goalie and being short players, the Bobcats gave the Vineyard a scare all the way to the final buzzer.

Squirt Grizzlies: On Saturday, the Gateway Grizzlies skated to a 3-2 win over Braintree 1 in a Yankee conference game in Pembroke. Luke Mello scored his second goal of the game to tie the score late in the third period and Chris Gauvin got the winner with one minute left in the game. On Sunday, the Grizzlies had a double header with Martha’s Vineyard. In the first game the Grizzlies were down 3 to 0 but battled back to tie the game with Gauvin netting a hat trick. Martha’s Vineyard continued to win the battle for the puck and proceeded to win 6-3. The second game saw the Grizzlies start out with a 3-1 lead after the first period. MV battled back to tie and eventually take the lead for good as the Grizzlies fell 8-4. The offense was lead by Gauvin who recorded his second hat trick on the day, and Tyler Lovendale got the other for the Grizzlies. Thomas Galavotti made some nice saves early but the MV pressure was too much for the Grizzlies.

Pee Wee Warriors: Gallo Arena played host to a battle of the unbeaten on Saturday morning, as the Gateway Warriors faced off against the Southeast Cyclones. Goalie Zachary Pateakos played a career game in net for the Warriors as he limited Cyclone scorers, who were averaging nearly five goals per game, to only two tallies during his 50-minute tenure. Pateakos earned his fourth win, allowing his Warriors to move to a record of 9-0 after the 5-2 victory. The forward skating line of Ben Demoranville, Noah Demoranville, and Jackson St. Don demonstrated their offensive cohesion by registering four of the five Warrior goals and eight points in all. Always hard working, Robert Ramsay netted a pretty backhand goal after line mate Danny Flynn sprung him on a breakaway, effectively sealing the Warrior victory in the third.

Girls: The Girls Open team played a double header this past Saturday versus Gateway’s long-standing nemesis, the Nantucket boys. The boat ride was fun as the girls’ team donned camo paint on their faces anticipating the battle to come. In game one, Nantucket came out gunning hard, ringing the posts and ruffling the net. As usual, the girls brushed it off and persevered, continuing to adjust their game with the help of coaches Ben Hathaway, Sean Sweeney and Doug Breault Sr. In game 2, the girls came alive on defense and offense. Defensewomen Mackenzie Hennessey and Rachel and Shannon Breault, along with centers Makayla Lorance and Caitlin Sweeney shut down the middle of the ice in front of the goal, disabling a key component of Nantucket’s net-swarming strategy seen in game one. The girls began pushing the puck through the neutral zone and bombarding the Nantucket goal. Persistence paid off, with Lorance scoring the first Gateway goal. After recovering from the 3 goal Nantucket blitz, Sweeney came through with a fantastic goal, bringing the score to 6-2.

Three Gateway Teams have made it the state tournament, known as a “Playdown Game.”  The Squirt Grizzlies take on North Attleboro November 1 at 6:30 pm; Pee Wee Predators take on Y-D on November 4 at 6:30 p.m.; and Pee Wee Warriors take on the Southcoast Panthers on November 6 at 7:00 pm. All three games take place at the Hetland Rink in New Bedford. Please come and cheer on the teams.

Halloween Festivities in Marion

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Lead by the Sippican School Drum Line and the Witches of the Marion Art Center the annual parade once again filled the streets in Marion with hundreds of ghosts, ghouls, and M&Ms. Photos by Paul Lopes

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ORCA Inspires School Spirit

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Last week was Homecoming Spirit Week at Old Rochester Regional High School.           Students participated in dress-up days, class skits, and an incredible pep rally on Friday. All of this spirit led up to Friday night’s victorious football game, where ORCA (Old Rochester Committee for Action) showed their school spirit by hosting a face-painting stand. Student ORCA members volunteered to paint the faces of fans with paws, players’ numbers, or anything else school-spirited.

ORCA, a club dedicated to creating a welcoming environment at ORR, is led by advisor and teacher Michael Jenkins. Jenkins said the face painting stand was “just to kind of let people know that we’re here; this is what we’re doing and what we’re all about.”

After getting their name out in last week’s football game, what’s next for ORCA? One project they are considering involves the new student orientation held at the end of August each year. At this orientation, new students typically watch a clip of the previous year’s graduating class’s senior video. Regarding this video, Jenkins said, “It really is not necessarily a good representation of the entire school, so our goal is to create a 10 or 12-minute video yearbook.”

This “video yearbook” would include the sports and clubs offered at ORR, so new students would know what kind of opportunities they can take advantage of. This welcoming video displays the ideals of ORCA.

“We’re just trying to build a better sense of community, of who we are,” Jenkins said. “And even if you may not be friends with somebody, that doesn’t mean you can’t necessarily support them or appreciate what they do.”

ORCA was founded just last year. A group of about 40 students took a trip to Bridgewater State College in order to learn about anti-bullying methods.

“We participated in the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center – MARC for short – program,” Jenkins said. “It basically gave us an idea about what some of the key issues were in terms of where students were feeling uncomfortable, [and] what they saw as some of the problem areas for our school.”

As a result, ORCA was formed to combat some of these issues.

ORCA avoids the “laissez-faire approach” to bullying and discrimination concerns. Although ORR has a mostly positive reputation in these areas, there is always room for improvement. This improvement, sought after by ORCA, will come in the form of increased school spirit and a “collegial” student body.

By Renae Reints

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Marion Council on Aging

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On December 4 at noon, Tom Shire will present “The History of Theatre” at the Marion Police Station. Admission is free, and preregistration is not required. Tom will share with us some of the history and the very special features of the Zeiterion that make it a truly unique theatre, including some of the talented people that helped make the Zeiterion a success. Join us and see Hollywood’s Golden Age come alive when you see fabulous memorabilia from the 1930s and 1940s.

The COA also has a limited number of tickets to the upcoming Tri-County Symphony performances and the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra.

Friends of the Bike Path Update

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Like Sleeping Beauty, the Mattapoisett Rail Trail project is about to reawaken from a long sleep. An official information session is scheduled for Town Meeting, November 18. Since the first mile was completed four years ago, and only because of your generosity, Friends of the Bike Path have been able to facilitate progress on bike path construction (Mattapoisett River Bridge) and design/permitting costs. For 2014, we will be initiating another capital campaign to allow us to continue expediting the project. As part of this, we’re asking everyone who can to “like” us on Facebook. Our page is called “Friends of the Mattapoisett Rail Trail”. This will make it so much easier to keep our contact list current.

Coming Soon: Alternative Gift Fair: On November 9, we will be participating in the Alternative Gift Fair at the Mattapoisett Friends Meeting House, 103 Marion Road (Route 6), Mattapoisett. Please come to our table from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. We’ll have gift cards and Tee Shirts to commemorate your contribution. Or send your donation to us at Friends of the Bike Path, PO Box 1336, Mattapoisett, MA, 02739.

Ongoing: Bike Friendly Mattapoisett: Over the past months, people who are interested in social bike riding, bike maps, and improved safety have been meeting at the Mattapoisett Library to make progress on these issues. This has resulted in the Tri-Town Bike Riding club and a few new maps of good on-road bike routes. If you’d like to join group rides, contact the Marion Recreation Department or Mattapoisett Recreation Department. For maps, go to www.mattapoisettrailtrail.com

Our next meeting is November 5, at 6:00 pm, at the library. The topic will be better intersections, better instruction, better documentation of problem areas. We hope to see you there. If you are concerned about safety, the town needs to hear your voice, or you need to put your name on a letter with your concerns.

Pilgrim Sands Trail Riders

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Dozens of skilled dirt bikers converged on the Pilgrim Sands Trail Riders’ race in Mattapoisett on Sunday morning. The course covered both grass track and woods. Photos by Felix Perez.

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