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acanedy@comcast.net The issue of apossible study of the Fire Districts has been in the news lately. I am on the Fire Study Preparation Committee which is chaired by Councilor Barton and consists of representatives from the various Fire and WaterDistricts and interested citizens. One of the most persistent questions people seemto have about ourTown's structure is: "Why do we have five fire districts?" This com- mittee was created to explore that question and to consider whether it would be prudent to commission an indepen- dent professional study to explore the issue further. I think we have a terrific Fire District in Barnstable Village. I am sure residents of other districts feel the same way about their fire stations. Unfortunately, I have had the occasion to use their services for both fires and medical emergencies. I know that the personnel are professional and effective. Therefore , my intention in examining this issue is not to harm or dispar- age these brave and women in any way. Someone asked me once if I was afraid of the "C" word because I use the word 'reorganization " instead of "consolidation."Iuse the word reorganization intentionally. I amnot pushingconsolidation. I have no idea what a study will find or recommend. The possibilities run the whole gamut from retaining the current structure to complete consolidation. I aminclined to believe that the answer lies somewhere along the spectrum , but I stand ready to explore the possibilities. However, if the most efficient way to run our fire andrescue servicewithout compromising response time and quality of service (that's important) isto leave the cur- rent structure as it is, I can accept that also. The point is, let's just bite the bullet, examine this issue, make a decision and put this matter to bed. Clean UP Dav sponsored by the Barnstable Village Civic Association in Barnstable Vil- lage is April 29. Please join us and the sheriff's crew begin- ning at 9 a.m. in front of the Fire Station. Bags and gloves will be provided. This is vot- ing day in the fire district, so come vote and help beautify the Village. Hathaway's Pond was hard hit this winter and the DPW is hard at work cleaning up that area and installing new picnic tables. When you walk there and other places in the Village, please take a trash bag with you. DCPC : With the current criticism of the Cape Cod Commission making front page news, I would like to report a cooperative effort between the town and the Commission. The Pond Vil- lage DCPC Steering group, CONTINUED ON PAGE B:7 liSHl'll PRECINCT 1 ANN CANEDY By Paul Gauvin pgauvm@barnstablepatriot.com RAILING ABOUT TRASH - Ed Campbell shakes a rake at trash he says fell off a Bay Colony Railroad trash train. His property is behind him Wind helps trash penetrate the brush line separating private yards from the rail bed. PAUL GAUVIN PHOTOS LITTER BOX - Holes in an empty rail car show trash hanging out that could be loosed anywhere a long the rail line by wind. The housewasspotless, the yard neat - ex- cept for the scattered woodchips and beer can that didn't belong, and thereby hangs the tale of a retired crime scene investigator with a pet peeve. "Don't get me wrong," said Ed Campbell as he led the way across his .63-acre prop- erty sandwiched between the winding historical ribbon of Route 6A and the passive emptiness of the Jail Lane conservation area. "I like trains, they're nostalgic, and I'm not complaining about them. I like to hear them come by." The tracks used by the Bay Colony Railroad Corp.'s "trash train" to haul the Cape'sscraps twicedailyfrom the Yarmouth Transfer Sta- tion tothe SEMASSResource Recovery Facility in Roch- ester, separate Campbell's homestead on Governor 's Lane from the relatively iso- lated conservation area. "They (Bay Colony) have a big brush and tree cutter (flailmower) attached to the engine and when it came by the other day as I was work- ing in the yard, it started raining wood chips and I was nearly hit by the beer can the machine propelled like a bullet into my yard," Campbell said. He likened the effect to the tree cutting along 6A by the state that riled residents. "There needs to be clean-up afterwards," Campbell said. "It's a shame how that ma- chine scars some trees that are left standing along the tracks." Policemen are trained to be more observant of their sur- roundings than most laymen and so it is that Campbell monitorsthe tracks only steps from the rail fence in his back yard that delineates a prop- erty line from the railroad's right of way. "It's natural that I see what's going on," he said. Particularly since, he said, some of the trash isdeposited in his and other area yards by the wind. On more than one occa- sion, Campbell says, he has observed the train come by withrubbish hangingover the topside,itemsthat the remov- able trash car roof evidently failed to fully contain. For the uninitiated , the trash car roofs are removable. In Yarmouth,the empty trash cars pull alongside an el- evated flat area (tipping area) and the roofs are removed by a large crane. Front-end loaders then push the trash dropped on the flat area by rubbish trucks into the train cars below, then the roof is again lowered for the trip to SEMASS.The samething oc- curs in reverse at SEMASS. "Sometimes," said Camp- bell, "+"ish bags are trapped between the lid and the side of the cars and eventually falloff along the tracks."And that , besides the wood chips and how the brush cutter scars and emaciates trees, is Campbell' s pet peeve. Recently, the former state trooper and fingerprint and crime scene photographer for the Barnstable County Sheriff's Department called histown councilor,Ann Cane- dy, to see if she could get Bay Colonyto bemore precise cut- ting the vegetation flanking the tracks, quicker to clean it up and more efficient replac- ing the lid on the trains so rubbish wouldn't fall off. "She came right over. She held up her end," Campbell said , but has not yielded results. Canedy turned the problem over to Cornelius Andres , supervisor of the town'shigh- way division. 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