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Still taking steps against homelessness
2010 PATRIOT FILE PHOTO
IN HIS FOOTSTEPS - Members of organizations benefiting from the Bob Murray
Housing with Love Walk will take turns carrying the founder's shoes.
As July 14, the step-
off date of the 22nd
annul Bob Murray
Housing with Love
Walk , approaches ,
we've been missing
Bob's annual visit to
get some ink for the
charitable exercise.
Bob believed that
if people had the op-
portunity, they would
do the right thing.
If he made it clear,
whether in a %isit to
a newspaper or by
walking 100 miles in
the heat of summer,
that there were op-
portunities to prevent
homelessness , who
wouldn't get the idea?
Those annual vis-
its to the newsroom
were an occasion for
laughter and catching
up as much as they
were PR for the walk.
Bob had the gift of
inviting everyone he
dealt with to be fully
human.
That's not to say
that he couldn't be-
come frustrated, and
who would not when
public indifference
and bureaucratic delays sty-
miedhis efforts to keep people
in their homes or find them
new housing? Yet he perse-
vered, not only on his annual
march from Provincetown to
Falmouth but in preserving
and creating housing options.
When Bob died last year,
there was no doubt that his
walk, and his work, would
continue. This year, represen-
tatives from each of the 11
organizations that will benefit
from funds raised will carry
Bob'sshoesovertheroutefrem
St. Mary's Church in Provinc-
etown to Liam Maguire's in
Falmouth.
Donations will support the
Cape Cod Council of Church-
es Overnights of Hospitality
Ministry, The Champ Homes
of Housing for All Corpora-
tion, Chatham Ecumenical
Council for the, Homeless,
Community Development
Partnership, Falmouth Home-
less Prevention Program ,
Friends of Prisoners/Guindon
House, Harwich Ecumenical
Council for the Homeless,
Homeless Not Hopeless Inc.,
Housing Assistance Corpora-
tion, Homeless Prevention
Council, and St. Vincent de
Paul Society.
Tomake a general donation
to the cause,or one to aspecific
group, all you need to do is go
to www.murray
housingwalk.
org and follow the links.
If you'd like to offer moral
support for the cross-Cape
walkers, the Barnstable leg
begins July 17 at 8 a.m. at
Champ House on School
Street in Hyannis. Then it'sup
to Main Street, over to High
School Road Extension and
out Bearse's Way to routes
132 and 6A. At 10 a.m., the
walkers will head out on the
Old King's Highway to the
Riverview School in East
Sandwich, where they're due
for lunch at noon.
If you're reaching for your
walking shoes or your check-
book right now while wonder-
ing how much you can really
help, keep these words of Bob
Murray in mind:
"You help who you can that
day. You do the best you can.
Otherwise,you couldn't do this
work at all."
EDITORIALS EARLY FILES Selected by John Watters
JUNE 1964 FILE PHOTO
MARSTONS MILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO
NOT SO UNFAMILIAR-George Hamblin's store in Marstons Mills circa
1895,today the location of Cash Market. Inthe 21"century,villagers and
town officials have been working out improvements for this now rather
busy intersection.
1844
Two boys, sons of Major
Joel Snow, and widow Martha
Knowles , of Eastham , had
their faces severely burned by
an explosion of powder on the
4lh.They were flashing it on the
ground, and one of them was
pouring some out of a horn
contain about half a pound,
when an explosion took place,
burning the faces of both the
lads very badly.
1864
A letter received in this vil-
lage from a member of Co. E,
40th regiment, states that while
in the rifle pits in front of Pe-
tersburg, Leander L. Jones, of
this town, raised his head and
shoulders above the works,
when he was fired upon by a
rebel sharpshooter and received
a severe wound, from the effects
of which he has since died.
1894
Capt. James D. Kelley while
out in his dory hauling nets,
allowed his sailboat, the "Ma-
doe,*to drift away from him so
far that he could not pull to her
in the strong westerly gale then
blowing, and had to pull in his
dory to SquawsIsland, where he
landed. Capts. Zenas and Chas.
E. Bearse, seeing the drifting
sailboat, pulled to her in their
dory from the wharf, getting on
board of her and dropping the
anchor just in time to save her
from being dashed to pieces in
the surf.
1904
A drive through our Cape
villages at this season is made
most enjoyable by the pretty
pictures made by the Crimson
Ramblers,which are now at the
height of their beauty. Many a
home is made more charming
by this rose, which seems to
grow equally as well and flower
as profusely over the humble
cottage as the stately mansion.
1914
The first serious interruption
in the water service since the
installation of water in Hyannis
and the Port occurred on Satur-
day. Supt. Palmer had just left
the pumping station and was
walking down Mary Dunn road
whenashort distance in front of
him there was a loud roar and
water from the Company's big
sixteen inch main shot into the
air, carrying stones and debris
and washing out a piece of the
road forming there a miniature
pond. An accident of this kind
is liable to occur at any time in
a modern highpressure firefight-
ing system, and large stock of
duplicate parts for all size pipe
is carried by the Company for
such an emergency.After Supt.
Palmer had closed the main gate
valve that holds in reserve the
supply in the Company's big
tank on the high hill overlooking
Cummaquid, the water ceased
to flow from the break.
1924
Work will commence at once
on curbing on Ocean Street,
Hyannis. This is an improve-
ment which has been needed for
a long time as the street is very
narrow and the auto traffic has
been a source of much danger
to the school children.There has
been some talk of making this
a one way street and it is pos-
sible this eventually may come.
"No Parking"signs have placed
along the east side of the street.
1934
A change in the architectural
appearance of some of the A&P
Stores on the Cape isbeingmade
to have them conform to the
Cape Cod style. This has been
done largely in the case of the
Osterville store...the familiar
red front is doomed as far as the
Cape is concerned, so George
C. Clements, of Hyannis who is
supervising the change believes.
1944
Members of the WAC(Wom-
en's Army Corps) have gone in
for beachcombing. But instead
of looking for shells, booty or
anything else that might have
been washed upon the beach
by the sea, the WACs are look-
ing for recruits to swell their
numbers, and beaches on the
Cape are now the scene of this
activity.
1954
Wonder what the Patriot cor-
respondent of 1873 would say
if he could see the sights on
•Main.Street Hyannis. in-.1954.
He wrote the following back
then. "It is disgusting to see
young girls parade the streets
with a tuckedupbehindwiggle-
darnphoolishness larger than
they are!"
I964
Like other large resort towns
on Cape Cod the town of
Barnstable is finding more
drinking by younger and young-
er teenagers this year than ever
before. Principal trouble spot in
this town ever since the middle
of April has been Sandy Neck
where big parties of young
people ages 14 to 20, mostly
from communities between
Quincy and Plymouth, have
been broken up by the town's
special law enforcement officer
Taisto Ranta.
1974
Perhaps it is a sign of the
tempered times that a more
outraged, rhetoric-spewing con-
frontation between the shorf-
hairs and the longhairs didn't
erupt. All the earmarks were
there when town officials issued
orders to close craftsmen and
artisans who didn't haveproper
permits. TV cameras, police,
and headlines, all the props
for a late 1960's type protest
theatre production were there
when the selectmen crackdown
of transient vendors and tem-
porary businesses in the West
End of Main Street was issued
but everything seems to have
been carried out more or less
painlessly in the newest chap-
ter of the selectmen's purge of-
There is an alternative to thetown's
shootingrangethatoffers more
By Paul Gauvin
Two
old men sitting on a
bench at Veterans Beach
are ruminating on the
vagaries of life. They are, col-
loquially, "shooting"the breeze.
Betting on the perennially
slow horse is a "long shot ,"
the boss and his entourage is a
congregation of "big shots," a
photographer'scompellingphoto
is a "great shot" and athimble of
whiskey isjust a plain old "shot."
David'sweapon in the battle with
Goliath was a "sling shot."
Now, like the weary bread-
winner arriving home from
the office, Barnstabalonians
interested in the town's ongoing
"Great Firing Range Affair" are
"all shot."
How long have glum gun guys
and gals been waiting for their
old home on the range to reopen
and, conversely, how happy are
neighbors to be living without
the noise?More to the point,why
all the hair-splitting bureaucratic
bickering to change something
that really wasn't all that broken?
Everything was running along
smoothly at the range - except
for some disgruntled neighbors
and general dissatisfaction with
clean-ups of lead slugs - when
the arrogance of the insurance
industry, like the homeowner
underwriters, fostered a highfa-
lutin' decision to cut the town
loose despite a squeaky clean
range record . Just like that.
One imagines the town could
have simply bought insurance
elsewhere - which it now has
done - and avoided all this
nonsense about swapping land
and who controls what and
how.As it was, the range was a
relatively simple operation - a
free range, so to speak - that
shooters enjoyed at minimal
expense while, conversely, some
neighbors begrudgingly lived
with the noise as do critics of
flight-path airplane noise.
The columnbroaches the range
subject again in the wake of a
recent neighborhood block party
where several men in the mix
wanted to know if or when the
rangewouldopen sothey coulddo
somepracticeshooting.(My initial
reaction was, 'Practicefor what?')
One of them is a summer
resident. Waiting two months
for the range to reopen means
another year. This column sug-
gested looking into the privately
operated Bass River Rod and
Gun Club in Yarmouthport. It
has more going for it than the
Barnstable range, although the
latter is less expensive.
All in all, the Bass River club
appears to be a better deal for
those who enjoy the "sport" of
frequent target shooting, learn-
ing more about guns and their
use, and a higher level of ca-
maraderie. Being a private club,
it can exclude undesirables by
denying membership, something
a public range needs to weigh
more carefully.
One'smembership application
for the Bass River club must be
filled out and mailed to a com-
mittee with a $350 check that
includes the one-time initiation
fee and $175 first-year dues.
Applicants must meet with the
committee, usually within three
to five weeks of applying, to gain
acceptance. The proposed fee
for the Barnstable range, if and
when it opens again, is $100.
There is more bang for the
buck at the Bass River club. The
extra $75 in dues opens the door
to a clubhouse for fellowship
and socializing and an indoor
pistol range. It offers a variety of
education classes for the shooter
and archer and indoor pistol
competitions. It also has basic
certification courses for pistol
and shotgun that run monthly
and a plethora of other events
that include fishing, trap shooting
and varied other competitions.
The non-profit club is its own
democracy maintained by the
membership and is therefore
unshackled from detractions like
the ping-pong match going on
in Barnstable between the state
and town agencies currently
splitting hairs on management
responsibilities.
For the uninitiated, the state
feels the town'splans to improve
the Barnstable range land, origi-
nally purchased with state funds,
no longer meets the criteria for
"passive" use like walking, bik-
ing, hiking, skiingand horseback
riding.
Hold on, folks! Doesn't "pas-
sive" conjure up a snoring,
lotion-lathered body soaking
up the sun on a beach? Passive
means not active, yes? Skiing is
not active? Would it not seem
more active than merely stand-
ing still and moving your trigger
finger a silly little millimeter?
If nothing else, the Barnstable
range'sclosure hasgiven impetus
for political activism by neigh-
bors who wouldjust love for the
range to remain closed and for
serious shooters who have been
using it to consider a member-
owned alternative.
Thatleavesnon-resident prices
and people who shoot maybe a
dozen rounds or so a year at the
Barnstable range. According to
the latest figures, a non-resident
pass is set at $160, making the
Bass River club a better deal for
them. And for the occasional
shooter, the Barnstable range
offers a $10 guest pass. From
this corner, that's a good deal.
Disgruntled neighbors can
battle politically to keep the,
range closed, or push for the
town to build an indoor pistol
range to eliminate some noise,
then grin and bear it.
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