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Zammer Cafe Open for Lunch at CCCC By Kathleen Manwaring kmanwanng@barnstablepatnot com Something special is cooking at the Zammer Hospitality Institute at Cape Cod Community Col- lege. Beginning on Thurs- day, February 9, students of the Institute began serving restaurant-style lunches in the Zammer Cafe tucked into the back of the Grossman Student . Commons Building. The Thursday luncheons were created to provide students with a realistic experience in food service operations and manage- ment while offering a variety of teaching and learning opportunities. Each week students in the program plan and prepare a select menu to be served to cafe guests from 11:30 until l p.m. The most recent menu featured a buffet of Ital- ian delicacies including Chicken Piccata, two types of lasagna and a tart lemon mousse with fresh raspberries for dessert. Prices are extremely rea- sonable for the gourmet fare, rarely exceeding the $7 mark. Past weeks menus have featured an a la carte menu including soups, sandwiches and salads as well as more main course items such as Beef Stro- ganoff and Scampi Pesto Pasta. While James Miller, director of the Zammer program, oversees the planning and preparation he is quick to point out that the students do the work. "Our goal here is to try and provide in a short period of time a variety of cooking techniques and restaurant experiences," he says, noting that he continues to be very impressed with student effort and enthusiasm. To provide students with a well-rounded foray into the culinary world, one half of the class works the kitchen while the oth- er works in the cafe. After spring break the students will switch. "We rotate our positions so that it gives us a nice feel for things," says student Katie Crosby who looks forward to a career as a pastry chef. "Cooking to order isn't exactly my thing but it will teach me a lot." Future chef Max Gar- rison has appreciated watching folks enjoy his creations. "You get to see what different people like and what's a bigger hit than others," he explains. Garrison appreciated the Italian buffet because it allowed more for advance preparation as opposed to cooking to order. In the weeks to come Miller hopes to provide the students with as many realistic experiences as possible through the cozy cafe. Student Lindsay Burnett looks forward to it. "I've always been in- terested in the restaurant business. I like the whole atmosphere," she says. Lunch at the Zammer Cafe will be served Thurs- days and some Tuesdays through the end of the semester. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 508-362-2131, extension 4395. Cooking Up Greatness Broader citizen participation sought to meet green goals By Edward F. Maroney emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com Next year, the town will learn how much progress it's made on a 10-year goal to reduce municipalgreenhouse gas emissions significantly by 2012. "The Town of Barnstable has the most aggressive cli- mate control policy I have seen, a 20 percent reduction in 10years,"said Cummaquid resident ChrisPowicki,princi- palofWaterEnergy&Ecology Information Services, David Anthony, the town's chief procurement officer and organizer of its Green Team, is not waiting for his 2007 mid-termgrades. He and other are pushing a number of initiatives while laying the groundwork for broader public participation in the campaign. Anthony and Powicki were two of the speakers at the Feb. 15 meeting of the Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative. While Powicki laid the global groundwork for an understanding of the emissions crisisand the need for action, Chuck Kleekamp of Sandwich, a founder of Cape Clean Air, detailed the sorry quality of the Cape'sair -sadly,the worst in the state based on the amount of ozone -and showed how theregion's two coasts (bay and sound) and wind patterns contribute toexposureto pollutantsfrom power plants to the west. An organizational chart presented by Anthony shows the green team as a wheel with the town council, town manager, school committee and department heads at the center and eight spokes devoted to initiatives.That's to show the commitment of the town's leadership to the work. Cooperation between the town and schools has led to a major renovation initiative, accordingtoAnthony.He said this is focused on a system that willhave fewer sites and fewer schools as enrollment declines, and that new or renovated structures will be "green" buildings. "I pay all the utility bills for the school department," said Anthony, who revealed that building boilers are shut downtwo hoursbefore school ends,providing plenty ofheat as they cool. Attention to detailcanyield energy, and thus monetary, savings. If you want to rent the middle school cafeteria for a meeting, for example, there are two prices: with or without the air conditioning turned on. A recycling program oper- ated by students at the high school has been so successful that the town is negotiating with BFI for a big Dumpster toholdthematerials,Anthony said. Recycling at the trans- fer station has become so popular, he said, that you've "gotta brush your teeth and comb your hair"before going because you runinto somany people you know. Anthony said plans are afoot to collect methane being vented from the capped landfill to heat a buildingat the MarstonsMills station,anditmaybe possible to sort wood from construc- tion and demolition debrisfor recycling in the future. The town is using alterna- tive-fuelvehicles (oneemploy- ee does better than that: he rideshisbicyclebetweentown hallandthe offices at 200 Main St.) and pursuing anti-idling initiatives to cut emissions from school buses. Replacement of energy- wasting portable classrooms is part of the green building initiative. Anthony said 44 percent of the electric bill for Hyannis East Elementary was consumed by five aging portable classrooms now consigned to the dustbin of history. Growth management that allows preservation of green spaces is another strategy of the Green Team, as is collab- orative contractingfor energy supplies and use of recycled content inoffice supplies and paper.The school committee has askedAnthony to find out whether the schools are get- ting agood deal on electricity purchases. Along with conserving en- ergy, the Green Team wants to generate its own. Anthony cited ongoing testing at the waterpollution control facility in Hyannisthat'sintended to help the town decide whether one or more wind turbines couldbe raised there to power the plant "offthegrid."There's even talk about windturbines and cell towers going up on the capped landfill ; Anthony said it ispossible to perforat e the lining for such uses. En- ergyco-generation efforts are under way at the high school and middle school. Employee initiatives have! led to site-based collection of white paper and to efforts to reduce energy consumption.! The "bring a mug to work" campaignremindsemployees that there's an alternative to endless use of paper and plastic cups. Anthony said the Green Teamisstartingto talk about its work more publicly in an effort to increase citizen participation in greenhouse gas reduction. There's talk of a citizens advisory board for the Team , and Susan Buchan, an architect at Sage DesigninCotuit,isworkingon. organizing a group to involve businesses.That peer-to-peer, approach to encourage shopsb- and companies to recycle!^ makes more sense than a government group,which can^ regulate enterprises,tryingto'g send the message. Buchan can be contacted at sagearchAeci@msn.com ^ Energy conservation effort wants you Hans Keijser, interim supervisor of the Hyannis Water Department, invited his audience of 20 to join the department and the Barnstable Land Trust in a clean-up effort March 4 at 9 a.m. He said the BLT will gather around Whiporwill Road and work toward the volunteers helping the water department,who willstart from Pitcher's Way and Frost Lane. The Collaborative is a co-sponsor of four free "Green Home and Business: Focus on Energy" workshops to be held in March at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham and the Waquoit Bay Reserve in Falmouth. 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