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PRECINCT 11 HANK FARNHAM Thisisthe best time of year - sun shining, flowers bloom- ing, the Red Sox winning and the town's annual budget is in full swing. By the time you read this,the councilwillhave approved the capital budget for 2007 and held workshops on all the operating budgets except Police. The BPDwillbe on the May 18council agenda. I'll share some of the budget highlightswith you below and hope you won't be bored. In- cidentally, it is my belief that there is nothing more impor- tant for the councilors to be involved with than approving afiscally prudent budget every year -nothing! Capital Budget You have heard me say before that Barnstable has been guilty of deferred main- tenance for years. Our roads, schools, municipal buildings and general infrastructure need considerable repairsand upgrades to fix the problems of neglect. Town staff has identified $261,000,000-plus in capital needs which in- cludes some biggies - sewer expansion, airport terminal, schools, roads -and this year, they requested $19,850,000 in funding. The council has approved 20 projects requested by the town manager totalingabout $6,150,000 including: $40,000 for permitting and design of a new Sandy Neck Beach House plus repair and doubling ofthe parking lot to add 200 spaces; $40,000 to fund the first phase of improvements to the West Barnstable Shooting Range for improving safety,function- ality and noise abatement; and the $457,000 balance for completion of the lower level of the Senior Center. School fa- cilities will get $1,000,000, and the biggest item is $2,775,000 for repairs to our public roads and drainage. Town Manager Klimm has been working with staff and the Town Council Roads Com- mittee to develop an aggres- sive plan to fund public road repairs and aplan for improv- ing our private roads,which is far more challenging. We are also hoping to reintroduce the 100 percent betterment program for private roads that first came out about 10 years ago but didn't get much traction. Of course there is always the possibility of cre- ating a capital stabilization fund (override) to establish a defined road repair system, but that will take political courage and education of the residents. CONTINUED ON PAGE B:2 .ilWl'li Science researcher at home with harmonica By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com PAUL GAUVIN PHOTC MAESTRO - Ronald Lipinsky of West Barnstable, standing, helps student Jim Burke ot Mashpee transfer the correct notes from paper to harmonica at the Sandwich Community School. "If you can hum it, whistle it or sing it, you can play it on the harmonica." So advisesRonald L. Lipin- sky of West Barnstable as he sits at the head of the 10 person class at Sandwich Community School where he has been teaching the harp, or harmonica "on and off for three years." Despite this sage advice, only committed students ever makeit past "Frere Jacques " or "You are My Sunshine,"he says.His observation: "Those who practice, learn." He gave similar instruction at Barnstable High School where he tutored students in science as a volunteer after retiring to the Cape about 15 years go. At 78, Lipinsky has come a way from his native Penn- sylvania where he earned a doctorate in chemistry from Duquesne University and spent a major part of his life easing the way, in a sense, for the medical profession to simplify and improve the diagnoses of patients with various afflictions. "I did research for the Al- lied Chemical Corp. of New Jersey on nuclear magnetic resonance , or NMR ,"he said. That type of inquiry eventu- ally led to the more familiar acronym , MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, widely used today to get a better picture of what the human body looks like beneath the epidermis. Many local people undergo MRI at Cape Cod Hospital without the slightest notion of what is going on in that claustrophobic tube with all the strange noises. That's probably because few want or can take the time to learn about the magnetic prop- erty of an atom'snucleus and aligning it with a powerful external magnetic field to obtain three-dimensional structural information , or what we might call, "the in- side story." The harmonica is easier to understand than NMR , Lipinsky suggests, albeit one must have the ability first to, as they say, carry atune. That was something he could do at an early age. "I lost my mother when I was in the 7th grade,"he said, and with an absent father, moved in with his older sister and other siblings. There was read music. That came in handy later when he taught his daughter the rudiments of the violin. Now she, Mrs. Margaret Zeghibe , also of West Barnstable, is amember of the Cape Cod symphony Orchestra. "A high school teacher in Pennsylvania wanted to know where my daughter learned to play the violin,'Mrs. Lipin- sky said, "and I told him she learned from her father. He asked if he could send some students over for tutoring so they could become members of the school orchestra. " Lipinsky welcomed the idea and transformed his base- "they asked for someone who could speak Spanish to help set up equipment in Mexico No one responded. Itold them I had taken a few courses in high school but that it was 40 years ago. So they sent me." He was nervous about it because he hardly knew a phrase. "But when I got there, everybody spoke English." The harmonica always came in handy. "Many times I would sit on the front porch and play the harmonica and the kids in the neighborhood would come over and listen," he said. 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