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ftSiWIi PRECINCT 1 W ill it ever stop rain- ing? I did not know green could become so, well, green. Judging from some of the calls and comments I have received lately, some of you think that the Town Council is under its own dark cloud. You just might be right. On more than one occasion this newspaper has suggested trust and communication were important ingredients to government , to which I would add courtesy and aban- donment of self-interest. As I expressed one late Council meeting evening recently, we were elected to do the people's business, not our own busi- ness. Town Council is not a forum to show off, to domi- nate,to push one agenda over another. Thisisnot afootball game where it is important to outsmart the other guy, play the right parliamentary moves, score big and cheer when your side wins. One recent vote was de- monstrative of the point .The subject is less important than how the vote washandled. The Resolve was over whether the Town should give an easement over Town-owned propert y in Osterville. The Resolve in my opinion was vague and ambiguous. The intent sup- posedly was to protect well sites by allowing a 600-foot parameter around the sites and an easement in to the property. The Resolve refer- enced a "purchase price" of $133,000 and a map, both of which were worthy of clarifica- tion and discussion. The map, for example , should have been a central issue in the discussion. The map referenced in the Resolve (the map we would be voting on) showed a large conserva- tion restriction over amajority of the property in addition to the easements. That map was the map that COMMM ap- proved at their Annual Meet- ing and was the one given to the Town Attorney to create the Resolve. The map used in the pre- sentation made by COMM , however, showed only the easements without a conser- vation restriction. Presum- ably this map was what the councilors who voted in favor of the Resolve used as their reference. Those of us who abstained or voted against the Resolve understood it was not. The distinctions were and are important. The map ref- erenced in the Resolve would have precluded forever any housing at the site. The map displayed during discussion would not preclude hous- ing. Councilor Curtis and I brought up this discrepancy. Attorney Houghton was con- sulted , yet still the request for amendment was ignored. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8:8 ANN CANEDY Plant sale profits plowed into counseling, computers By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com HUT TO HOTHOUSE - Lt. Geoffrey Ahearn of the Barnstable County Farm stands in front of a former Quonset hut that housed inmates at the old jail on Route 6A and was converted to a hothouse by the inmates after the new jail in Bourne opened. PAUL GAUVIN PHOTOf PLANT MANAGER -James Kelleyarranges plants inthe mainhothouse When he isn't doing that, he's exuberantly greeting consumers and handling cash transactions selling some of the 40,000 plants seeded and nurtured by inmates. The young man at the cash register was wearing a blue T-shirt with the words " sheriff's inmate" printed on the back in large white let- ters. The woman obviously was smitten by the fashion statement. "Oh, I'd like to buy one of those ," she said to the young man. He looked quizzically at her amoment and replied with a smile, gesturing toward the cash drawer: "Grab a handful of money and I guarantee you'll get one for free." A skit at the Barnstable Comedy Club? Uh uh. It's the humor that blossoms like petunias now and then between inmates of the Barnstable County Jail and customers who stop by the county farm on Route 6A in Barnstable Village to purchase their choice of color- ful annuals at one of the nine hot houses operated by the Sheriff's Department on the verdant 80-acre site. Sheriff' s Lt. Geoffrey Ahearn and generally four other deputies oversee the farm operations and the aver- age seven inmates who put in their timeplanting, nurturing and selling flowering annuals that fill the greenhouses with kaleidoscopic color this time of year. The farm isayear-round op- eration that offers annuals in the spring, chrysanthemums, Indian corn and pumpkins in the fall and Christmas trees at Christmas. The inmates prepare some 40,000 plants for sale, includ- ing 400 hanging baskets and avariety of annuals including geraniums , impatiens , be- gonia, petunia, herbs, straw flowers , early girl steak toma- toes and others. "Angel trumpets are big this year,"said inmate James Kelley, who is on his second tour at the farm, he noted , with three months left on an 18-month sentence. "They were cloned from one plant and they 're a big seller." As the horticultural pro- gram was developed under the guidance of former sher- iff Jack DeMello some 12 years ago to train inmates in the growing of flowers and basics of small-business operation , Kelley was asked if he has learned much in the program. "Oh yeah ," he replied without hesitation. He enjoys learning "about flowers and plants and what they need to keep them going," he said. then unleashed another blos- som of humor amidst the humus by noting he enjoys it so much he came back a second time. Armed with new knowl- edge, Kelley nonetheless says he's probably going back to installing wood floors on the outside but someday hopes to have a small hothouse of his own. 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