TTC_04_7_21_Vol.17-No.24

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April 7, 2021
Community News
Community Announcements,
from page 11
• Annuals
• Perennials
• House Plants
• Trees & Shrubs
• Fruit trees
Outdoor Furniture
& Gift Shop
• Berlin Garden Furniture Dealer
• Indoor furniture
• Custom wreaths & arrangements
• Home Décor
• Garden accents
Nursery
Wolf Hill Ipswich
60 Turnpike Road
Ipswich, MA 01938
978-356-6342
• Vegetables & Herbs
• Pottery
• Statuary
masks and to meet at the Hale
Street entrance to the Gloria
Braunhardt Bike Trail. (Trail
closest to Route 95 overpass)
Proper social distancing will
be observed during the work.
The Clean Water Association
received a $40,000
Recreational Trails Program
grant from the Department of
Conservation and Recreation
to make the 1.2-mile trail
handicapped accessible and
upgrade it to proper bike path
standards.
The PRCWA, an all-volunteer
organization, must foot
roughly $10,000 as a match
to receive the funds. Volunteer
hours generated by people
working on Saturday can
become a part of those matching
funds.
Volunteers are asked to
bring shovels and rakes, hammers
(or a sturdy mallet) and
the Clean Water Association
also will have tools. Volunteers
also should bring gloves.
Water will be available.
The main objective is to
complete the tasks that would
finish the Eagle Scout Candidate
Project that was undertaken
in 2018. The wetlands
are only 30” away from the
600’ south end of the bike
path. Erosion boards need to
be properly seated and then
staked into the ground so the
stone dust in the path does
not seep into the marsh.
Names and hometowns of
volunteers are required so the
organization can log it for
DCR reimbursement.
Due to a worldwide lumber
shortage brought on by the
Pandemic, and a reluctance to
have volunteers exposed at the
height of the lockdowns, delays
have occurred in 2020 to
finish the job. A special thanks
to the Pro staff at Home Depot
and Lowes for persevering.
The boards have come
available, and some have been
put in place ready for seating
and staking.
• Custom Container
Plantings
• Loams
• Stones
• Mulches
• Compost
• Bagged Products
• Fertilizers
Landscape
Materials
• Daily deliveries
from both Wolf
Hill locations
• Cambridge &
Belgard Pavers and
Wall Stone
Garden Center
• Fox Farm Brand
Potting Soils
• Soil Amendments
• Watering Supplies
• Grass Seed
www.wolfhillgardencenter.com
For more information:
www.parker-river.
org and www.littlerivertrailsystem.com
or call Jerry A.
Mullins at 978-618-9154.
Northern Essex
Community
College ArtSpace
Gallery Features
Local Painter
Through Mid April
This month’s exhibit in
Northern Essex Community
College’s Linda Hummel-Shea
ArtSpace Gallery
is a homecoming for Newton,
NH painter Kale Baker,
who graduated from Northern
Essex in 2014, before
transferring to Montserrat
College of Art, where she
earned a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Painting.
Titled “Vessels”, the online
exhibit includes 11 oil paintings,
capturing a wide range
of subjects from plants in a
• Large Tool
Selection
• Organic Seeds,
soils & fertilizers
• Seed starting
supplies
Wolf Hill Gloucester
104 Eastern Ave
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-281-4480
greenhouse at the Fuller Gardens
in North Hampton, NH
to the Merrimack River and
the New England Coast. It
will be available through April
15, when the NECC Student
Show begins.
The online exhibit (https://
mcclump3.wixsite.com/website-1)
includes an artist vita
and statement, a video interview
with the artist, and the
exhibit.
As a student, Baker “exhibited
an innate understanding
of the use and interaction of
color”, according to Marc
Mannheimer, her former professor
and the director of the
ArtSpace Gallery. While her
work has evolved, becoming
less abstract, that talent for
color continues, he says.
In an interview that is a part
of the exhibit, Baker says that
her work can be viewed in
a larger context, as part of a
statement about climate control
and the vulnerability of
nature, or more simply. “If
people want to see my work as
just a potted plant, that fine,
too.”
A 2010 graduate of Newburyport
High School, Baker
earned her Associate Degree
in General Studies: Art
from Northern Essex with
an almost perfect GPA in
2014 and her bachelor’s from
Montserrat in 2017.
Starting at Northern Essex
was a “wonderful experience”,
she says, which prepared her
well for transfer.
Located in the Bentley Library
Building on NECC’s
Haverhill Campus, the Linda
Hummel-Shea ArtSpace
Gallery features exhibits by
NECC students, faculty, and
artists from around the region
and the world. During
the pandemic, the gallery has
closed and exhibits are being
held online.
Northern Essex’s Department
of Art & Design offers
many courses in fine art and
design leading to an Associate
Degree in General Studies:
Art & Design.
For additional information,
contact Marc Mannheimer,
gallery coordinator at
mmannheimer@necc.mass.
edu