ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times.  Gloucester: Gloucester Community Arts Charter School second grader Ethan Brien with his winning art piece in the All Kids Can Create Children's Art Exhibition sponsored by CVS/Caremark and the International Organization on Arts and Disability. Only the works of two students per state in grades K-13 are selected to travel the country for two years with other winning entries. This piece is titled "Party Pig Dressed as a Bird," and is made with found objects from a "treasure chest" in the art room and a recycled paper plate. The mask is based on traditional Mexican coconut shell masks, which was part of a class project.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times.  Gloucester: Gloucester Community Arts Charter School students received honorable mention in an international competition recently titled "Doors to Diplomacy," sponsored by globalschool.net and The Department of State. The contest promosts global cultural awareness through the creation of websites by students. Three students from the school teamed up to create a website as an elective class. They competed in the arts and culture category. They were competing against 225 teams of students and teachers from 38 countries. From left are: Laney Lavell, a seventh grader, Charley Olson, a sixth grader, Jade  Barry, an eighth grader, and social studies teacher Christopher Ahearn.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times.  Gloucester: Gloucester Community Arts Charter School second grader Ethan Brien, left, and his art teacher Shay Cajolet, with his winning art piece in the All Kids Can Create Children's Art Exhibition sponsored by CVS/Caremark and the International Organization on Arts and Disability. Only the works of two students per state in grades K-13 are selected to travel the country for two years with other winning entries. This piece is titled "Party Pig Dressed as a Bird," and is made with found objects from a "treasure chest" in the art room and a recycled paper plate. The mask is based on traditional Mexican coconut shell masks, which was part of a class project.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. ROCKPORT: Abigail Ross Goodman, a summer resident of Rockport, of Cambridge, enjoys the festivities with her children after the denaming and renaming ceremony of the Ocean Reporter fishing vessel on Friday afternoon at Sandy Bay Yacht Club at Sandy Bay Harbor. She is friends with Bill and Sandy Lee, who own the boat. She is with daughters Esme, 2, on her lap, Hannah, seated, and not pictured, Rebecca, 7.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. ROCKPORT: Sandy Lee breaks champagne over the bow of the fishing vessel Ocean Reporter on Friday afternoon during a denaming and renaming ceremony of the boat held at the Sandy Bay Yacht Club at Sandy Bay Harbor.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. ROCKPORT: Bob Smith of Rockport fires one of several small cannons during the ceremony denaming and then renaming the fishing vessel Ocean Reporter on Friday afternoon at Sandy Bay Yacht Club at Sandy Bay Harbor.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. ROCKPORT: The crew of The Formidable were on hand during the ceremony to dename and rename the fishing vessel Ocean Reporter at Sandy Bay Harbor at Sandy Bay Yacht Club on Friday.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. ROCKPORT: The crew of The Formidable were on hand during the ceremony to dename and rename the fishing vessel Ocean Reporter at Sandy Bay Harbor at Sandy Bay Yacht Club on Friday.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. ROCKPORT: Neptune was on hand to bless both the denaming and renaming of the fishing vessel the Ocean Reporter at the Sandy Bay Yacht Club at Sandy Bar Harbor on Friday.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Gloucester: Gloucester Community Arts Charter School second grader Ethan Brien with his winning art piece in the All Kids Can Create Children's Art Exhibition sponsored by CVS/Caremark and the International Organization on Arts and Disability. Only the works of two students per state in grades K-13 are selected to travel the country for two years with other winning entries. This piece is titled "Party Pig Dressed as a Bird," and is made with found objects from a "treasure chest" in the art room and a recycled paper plate. The mask is based on traditional Mexican coconut shell masks, which was part of a class project.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times.  Gloucester: Gloucester Community Arts Charter School second grader Ethan Brien with his winning art piece in the All Kids Can Create Children's Art Exhibition sponsored by CVS/Caremark and the International Organization on Arts and Disability. Only the works of two students per state in grades K-13 are selected to travel the country for two years with other winning entries. This piece is titled "Party Pig Dressed as a Bird," and is made with found objects from a "treasure chest" in the art room and a recycled paper plate. The mask is based on traditional Mexican coconut shell masks, which was part of a class project.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Gloucester: Gloucester Community Arts Charter School second grader Ethan Brien with his winning art piece in the All Kids Can Create Children's Art Exhibition sponsored by CVS/Caremark and the International Organization on Arts and Disability. Only the works of two students per state in grades K-13 are selected to travel the country for two years with other winning entries. This piece is titled "Party Pig Dressed as a Bird," and is made with found objects from a "treasure chest" in the art room and a recycled paper plate. The mask is based on traditional Mexican coconut shell masks, which was part of a class project.
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