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Chamber fundraising public sale Thursday

The Higher Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Love Higher Cape Ann Fundraising Public sale celebrates its thirty fifth run on Thursday, Sept. 29, starting at 5 p.m. at Cruiseport Gloucester, 6 Rowe Sq.. The public sale retains its legacy as the biggest within the area, and award-winning auctioneer Lynne Zink is returning to guide the reside bidding.

This yr’s public sale — a signature occasion of the chamber’s centennial yr — will convey collectively bidders from throughout Higher Cape Ann and the North Shore in hopes of going house with marquee gadgets. Led by committee co-chairs Karin Porter and Andrea Donnelly, public sale preparations are buzzing together with over $100,000 price of donated gadgets already in hand and nice new packages arriving every day from chamber members and pals.

“Now we have been planning this since June, and our centennial yr’s public sale guarantees to be one other nice success and essentially the most thrilling evening of the yr,” mentioned Porter.

Authentic work by Cape Ann’s main artists, together with Ken Knowles, Robert Gruppe, John Terelak, and Sam Nigro; thrilling journeys and adventures, together with Tuscany, a South Africa Photograph Safari and a sizzling air balloon experience; tickets to Bruins and Patriots video games; and trip getaway packages to the Berkshires and White Mountains, Boston and the opposite Cape are simply a number of the public sale highlights. Loads of different enjoyable and distinctive gadgets can even be up for bid.

Public sale planners want to categorical their appreciation for the assist offered by sponsors Beauport Hospitality, Establishment for Financial savings, Johnson O’Connor, Cape Ann Financial savings Financial institution, Coastal Home windows & Exteriors, Noble Monetary Group LLC, Utilized Supplies, BankGloucester, Brookline Financial institution, Carroll Okay. Steele insurance coverage Company Inc., Cazeault Photo voltaic, and Works by JD.

Public sale gadgets could also be previewed by visiting https://one.bidpal.net/lovegca22. To register to attend, please go to www.capeannchamber.com or name 978-283-1601. Tickets for the thirty fifth annual Love Higher Cape Ann Public sale are $75 per individual or $750 for a reserved desk of 10 and embrace a cocktail hour with appetizers and full dinner. A restricted variety of seats and tables stay.

Residence watch accredited

ROCKPORT — Salo Residence Watch has earned accreditation from the Nationwide Residence Watch Affiliation for the twelfth yr.

Salo Residence Watch is a service that “retains an eye fixed on issues” at your trip or main house when you are not in residence. The NHWA was fashioned in 2009 with a purpose to set up and keep business requirements for absentee home-owner providers all through america and Canada (www.nationalhomewatchassociation.org).

Throughout 2018-2019, Salo Residence Watch skilled 5 saves. A save is a state of affairs the place, if Residence Watch was not watching over the shopper’s house, the shopper would have skilled a giant mess and an costly clean-up.

Proprietor Dana Salo, a father of two daughters, is a 1983 graduate of Northeastern College, College of Prison Justice. After retiring as a 36-year letter service, he started Salo Residence Watch in August 2009, when a retired physician on his mail route requested him to observe over his house whereas he was away. After counting the variety of trip properties on his mail route, a enterprise thought took root. He’s now working Residence Watch full-time.

Salo likes to level out that unoccupied properties are the breeding grounds for hassle. If your house sits unoccupied, it isn’t a query of “if one thing will occur,” he says, however as an alternative, “when one thing will occur.”

Salo sat on the NHWA’s Advisory Board from its inception till final yr. He’s a Licensed Residence Watch Skilled, making him one of many elite professionals within the business. The CHWP designation exhibits Salo’s dedication to offering glorious service to his purchasers.

Salo Residence Watch serves Rockport, Gloucester, Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and a lot of the North Shore alongside the Route 128 hall. Salo will be reached at 978-660-2372 or [email protected]. Study extra on the firm web site, www.salohomewatch.com.

Gorton’s helps Meals Challenge

A gaggle of staff from Gloucester-based Gorton’s Seafood volunteered with The Meals Challenge on Sept. 13. They harvested, washed, and weighed greens to be donated or dropped at a crop share. The Meals Challenge is a neighborhood non-profit group that works to create a productive neighborhood of youth and adults from numerous backgrounds who work collectively to construct a sustainable meals system.

Volunteering that day have been Logan Taylor, Victoria Tondo, Reilly Zubricki, Dillon Cecchi, Mark Jordan, and Pleasure Smith.

Individuals

Lisa Albanese has joined J Barrett & Firm as a Realtor on the company’s Cummings Heart workplace in Beverly. Her skilled background consists of greater than 20 years of customer support expertise with Verizon. Albanese, who lives in Wenham, can be longtime volunteer with the Boy Scouts, coordinated award ceremonies with native distributors in addition to fundraisers. She was additionally an Assistant Scout Grasp.

Draga D. Gilroy additionally not too long ago joined the agency as a gross sales affiliate on the Cummings Heart workplace. Gilroy, a longtime Middleton resident, has labored within the discipline of disabilities as an educator and nurse for nearly 20 years, and is fluent in a number of languages together with Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian.

Realtor Norman Banville has additionally rejoined the company within the Prides Crossing workplace in Beverly. Along with his actual property expertise, Banville has an intensive enterprise background as a former profitable enterprise proprietor, software program options supplier and expert craftsman/handyman. He has been an actual property agent since 2006.