4-H PROJECT WINNERS

TOPSFIELD, Mass. – The Essex Agricultural Society/Topsfield Fair will be hosted the annual 4-H Recognition dinner, where children involved in Essex County's 4-H clubs who won an award for their 4-H project were presented a gift for their hard work and effort.

This years' winners included: Beth Arnold of Peabody, Veronica Attridge of Essex, Lisa Barbaro of Peabody, Marina Belakonis of Danvers, Taylor Belakonis of Danvers, Kaitlyn Fabre of Salem, Elizabeth Garozzo of Georgetown, Emma Kraus of Wakefield, Jacqueline Lonigro of Georgetown, Jacques Lussier of Groveland, James Lussier of Groveland,
Nick Melanson of Peabody, Hannah Miles of Boxford, Angela Patriakeas of Groveland, Abby Sniegocki of Melrose, Maria Splaine of Merrimac and Allison Tucker of Topsfield.,

For more information regarding what 4-H is and how you can become a member or leader, please visit www.4-h.org. Congratulations to all!

The Essex Agricultural Society is dedicated to promoting education. The Society has been helping farmers since 1818 and strives to educate the community about the importance of farming and agriculture.

Nahant Garden Club News

By Maryjane Cusack

The Hamilton/Wenham Garden Club is sponsoring a spring Flower Show, April  25 thru 27, at Gordon College in Wenham, MA.   
The Show is entitled "The Science and Beauty of Spring" and will be held on the first floor of the Ken Olson Science Center. 

We hope you all will attend. We promise the scents, colors and beauty of Spring! 

We have six classes in the Design Division.  We would like to invite all GCFM members to enter our Design Classes.  

A copy of our Preliminary Flower Show Schedule can be viewed on our website, (hwgcsite.org).  Click on Special Events.
To enter a class, email our Design Entries Chairman, Jean Fucillo at jmfucillo@verizon.net  Please let Jean know if you
want a paper copy of our Schedule.
An Exhibitor's Meeting (Design) will be held February 23, 2013 at 9 a.m., 1st Floor, Ken Olsen Science Center, Gordon College.
Open attachment below for a "Save-the-Date" printable flyer.

Gordon College is located directly off of Rt. 128 at exit 17, Grapevine Road.  (Turn left at end of ramp, going 0.6 mile to the main entrance.)

Co-Chairs Flower Show: LuBeth Kuemmerle, 978-468-7085 lubethk@comcast.net and Joanne Kennett, 978-468-4093 jkennett28@comcast.net . Submitted by Jeanne Whitman, President, Hamilton/Wenham Garden Club

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Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce
Nahant Town Pride Award Winners

On Tuesday, February 5th, at the Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce's Annual Dinner, at Spinelli's in Lynnfield, Nahant News/Harbor Review Editor and Publisher, Donna Lee Hanlon and Michael Manning, Nahant Selectman, each received the Chamber's Nahant Town Pride award. Photo: Outgoing Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce President, Ralph Sevinor (far left), Donna Lee Hanlon, Nahant Harbor Review News, Nahant Selectman, Mike Manning and newly-elected President, David Solimine Jr. Photo by Chris Stevens.

Nahant Celebrates Earth Day with Beach Cleanup
April 6th "01908 Day"

By Heather Collins, Beautification Committee

An event is being planned for April 6th, 2013, in celebration of Earth Day, which is being called "01908 Day". During the day, the core purpose of this event will focus on cleaning up Nahant's beaches and public spaces.

All Nahant's groups and organizations are invited and most definitely are needed, to help clean and prepare the beaches and shores for spring.

Plans for a cookout after the clean up is also being organized. The goal for the cookout is to provide a fun, community fair and social atmosphere to begin the spring season and celebrate the end of winter in our Town!   

Each organization that would like to be involved will be asked to take one area, to be responsible for the cleaning, i.e., a beach or park.

Also, groups who want to take part in 01908 Day is to have a presence at the cookout by setting up a table to provide residents with information about their group, so our community can reconnect with all the wonderful groups in Town. One last request is: each group will be asked to send out an email, or a mailing to their lists, promoting 01908 Day. We will certainly provide the email text. We want this to be a great day of community spirit and community building and we would love to have everyone in Nahant involved.    

We plan on focussing our energies to cleaning the following locations, (obviously if other groups would like to take on additional locations we will not object) Short Beach, Tudor Beach, Forty Steps Beach, Canoe Beach, Town Wharf, Marjorum Park, Flash Road Playground, Library Playground, Bailey's Hill and Sears Gazebo.

The organizers of 01908 Day (Beautification Committee) has already coordinated with Town management to have all the of the materials that are cleaned up, removed on the day of 01908 Day. Trash bags and tools, needed for the cleanup, will be provided.

The Town is already committed to help in any way. All that's left is your group's participation and all of our friends and family members, out cleaning up Nahant and celebrating together on April 6th. 

Lynn Youth Hockey Bantam's State Bound
Congrats to Nahanters Donovan, Doyle and Peterson

In what was to be a tough game for the District 2 Championship turned out to be exactly that.  The Lynn Bantam AAA team would face off against a very talented Marblehead Bantam AAA team for the District 2 Championship.  Both teams won their semi-final games to move into the Championship game (Lynn beating Cape Ann and Marblehead beating North Andover).  Lynn would pull out in front of Marblehead 2-0 midway through the second period but Marlblehead would keep the pressure on scoring in the second period to cut the lead in half 2-1 heading into the third period.  The third period would have both teams limiting each other on scoring opportunities until midway through the 3rd period when Jonathan Kosmas would make a nice pass to Jack Morretti for a one timer to put Lynn ahead 3-1.  Lynn would hold off Marblehead to move onto the Massachusetts Tier II State Championship in March. 

The Lynn Bantam AAA team is currently in 1st place in the Valley League in the White North Division. 

The Bantams will also compete in the Niagra Bauer Hockey Tournament in April competing against teams from all over the world including Russia, Slovakia along with teams from Canada and the U.S. 

From left to right:
Tyler Donovan (Nahant), Louis Oliveri, Jack Stafford, Travis Ryan, Quinn Brinkler.  Standing left to right: Assistant Coach Jack Martin, Assistant Coach Jim Stafford, Mike Johnson, Jack Morretti, Andrew Kreamer, Peter Doyle (Nahant), Jonathan Kosmas, David Peterson (Nahant), Steve Patrie and Head Coach Andy Kreamer. Photo by Lisa Doyle of Doyle & Kersten.

Left to Right: Assistant Coach Jack Martin, Head Coach Andy Kreamer and Assistant Coach Jim Stafford. Photo by Lisa Doyle of Doyle & Kersten.