Charity

ERBA and Essex Elementary School's PTO have teamed up once again for their annual Downriver Raffle! The raffle winner will go home with a wonderful Stand Up Paddleboard package consisting of two Eddyline 'Skylark' stand-up 12' kayaks, two Harmony 'Drifter'aluminum paddles, two MTI 'Journey' life jackets, and two kayak safety kits. Tickets are $50, and 250 tickets will be sold. Winners drawn at the Auction Pick Up Party at Woodmans in Essex on April 7, 2017. Reserve a ticket today via email!

Generous Gardeners has a great fundraising idea for gardeners this Spring that helps the gardener, the garden, the environment and the Gloucester Education Foundation! If you're an avid gardener like we are, you know that the time to split your perrenials is now, and you'll also be in the process of raising seedlings for planting after the last frost. So split your perennials and plant some extra seedlings, because now there's a place to send them! Donate your split perennials with Generous Gardeners, and they'll end up in a garden sale on May 21 at O'Maley Innovation Middle School that will raise funds for the Gloucester Education Foundation.

Fluff is a special treat in our house that we usually reserve for that wonderful combination of bread, peanut butter and fluff - aka the fluffernutter! What we never knew was that fluff is a product native to the North Shore and has been made in Lynn at the same factory since 1929.  Today, fluff is sold throughout the United States and the world and has a dedicated following.