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The cure for the common winter Osterville's Chocolate Fest sweetens up cold Cape days By Heather Wysocki hwysocki@barnstablepatriot.con- Winter on Cape Cod is cold , damp, and dreary. But Osterville's Business and Professional'sAssocia- tion wants to change that description to rich, dark, and chocolaty. Osterville is holding its first Chocolate Festival on Saturday, Feb. 11, to celebrate Valentine's Day and, "spark some energy into Osterville during win- ter,"said Nicole Merriman, owner of Hot Diggity in Osterville and a member ofthe OBPA. "February is the ulti- matechocolatemonth,"she said. And, because many activities and programs close during the winter, she thinks it could be the ultimate month for avillage celebration as well. After brainstorming ses- sions this summer, mem- bers of the OBPA decided upon the festival in order to bringbusiness to Osterville during a traditionally slow period. "Our goal was to get the village together to do something exciting and fun," Merriman said. The festival, which will feature a chocolate tast- ing contest , music, and special events at stores on Main Street in Osterville, is inspired by the "traditional Valentine 's spirit with a twist of chocolate ,"said Jim Power, another member of the OBPA who is involved in organizing the event. One of the most antici- pated events is the choco- late tasting contest, which will feature "both chefs and non-chefs," said Mer- riman. Any entry -as long as it includes chocolate -willbe accepted andjudged from 2 to 4p.m.The tastingisopen to members of the public, who willbe able tojudge all the entries; prizes will be awarded to the best. The OBPA is expecting to see everything from "the average chocolate chip cookie to the decadent dessert you would see on the menu at a restaurant ," Merriman said. Tickets to participate in the contest are $5and avail- able at Hot Diggity and at Upstairs Imports, both on Main Street in Osterville. All proceeds from the tick- ets will be donated to the Osterville Food Pantry. Merriman and the OBPA decided to donate proceeds from the festival to the food pantry because it goes along with the fest's food theme. "It is aperfect cause,near the Valentine 's weekend," said Power. 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Village identity easier to find than boundary lines By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com BOOK OF BOUNDS-Frank Schlegel,town engineering records manager, aches for Osterville boundary lines. PLENTY OF MAPS - Plenty of corners in Town Hall have maps, but none provide definitive boundaries for Osterville or other villages. Two fellows are head- ing toward one another while walking alongside a tree-lined road. As they pass, one fellow utters a derogatory remark , which prompts the offended passerby to exclaim with aristocratic huff, "Sir. You are totally out of bounds!" To which the offender re- torts: "A serious charge, sir. Can you prove it." If they were walking on the landward fringes of Osterville, there would be no way to ascertain beyond a reasonable doubt in what village they were walking when the incident occurred. To find out , they could huff 'n puff up three flights of stairs at Town Hall to visit Jim Benoit of the map- making GIS department, evoking, in the process, a quote from Juliet: "How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath?" Shakespeare aside, surely Benoit would have impres- sive aerial images with big black lines delineating the exact bounds of the seven villages. Not exactly. "We took the lines from old zoning maps that weren't accurate," Ben- oit explains. He suggests a chat with town surveyor Bob Golden down the hall. Ah! To be assured then, the practitioner of such an exact science as surveying could precisely document the bounds between the villages. But Mr. Golden would tell them he hasn't held this job too long and that he is not able to render precise answers concerning village boundaries. He would say there is a good reason for that: Certified boundaries between the town's seven villages do not exist. He says that if one really had to have an exact bound- ary, either the town council or town manager would have to order up a survey. It would be a big job - and one that could, as they say, make a wave, in this case, perhaps a discombobulating tsunami. To explain why, Golden would refer the fellows to a most accommodating town agent tucked in a record- filled corner office across the hall that catches the afternoon sun through half- closed blinds. "Let there be light," the fellows would think to themselves. "Where oh where does Osterville begin and end?" Frank Schlegel, the town's engineering records man- ager and E-911 data liaison, has been on the job for 21 years and has driven just about every road in town. Finally, there is somebody with exact village boundar- ies. Wrong. Schlegel, who is respon- sible for accurate addresses in town to assure quick and precise responses to E- (for enhanced) 911 emergency calls, doesn't have accurate village margins either, and he doesn't really care be- cause other boundaries are doing the job for him. Precise bounds became important with the advent of E-911 in 1995. That, Schlegel says, is because most of the villages du- plicate street names. "For example, we have seven Main streets in the town of Barnstable," he says, a situ- ation that was unacceptable to exacting federal and state governments directing 911. There is no room for ap- proximism in the emergency system. "There could be no duplicate road names unless they were in well defined areas," Schlegel said. The feds required regis- tered boundaries separat- ing the streets of the same name in separate villages or districts. Schlegel says the most precise boundaries were those of fire districts. So they, not village lines, were used to implement 911. The other set of exact boundaries involve the town's 13 political precincts, none of which attempt to set village margins. CONTINUED ON PAGE B:3