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Fire station...
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said. "We're busy just doin'
the job. We're busy all the time
but especially in the summer.
We don't want to get negative
energy into the process again."
Bill Cronin, president of the
Greater Hyannis CivicAssocia-
tion, is in no rush.
"Speaking for myself," he
said, "I'd like to see them reor-
ganize their building commit-
tee and put one or two people
on there that know something
about building. They have no
experienced builders on that
committee."
Of the July 1 meeting, Cro-
nin said the borrowing "might
have been passed if there had
been some kind of order." As
did Brunelle and others, he said
he saw dozens of people leave
after a procedural vote, prob-
ably thinking they had voted on
the station project itself.
Owner's project manager
Paul Griffin said he's work-
ing on his report on the bids
received just days before the
special district meeting. He'll
make a recommendation and
wait for further direction.
Karras siblings celebrate a memorable Fourth...
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KATHLEEN SZMIT PHOTOS
LOCAL HERO - Petrus "Petey" Karras,wearing his official Navy uniform and medals,rides in the annual Barnstable-West Barnstable Fourth of July
Parade,which featured siblings Ted, Mary, and John,as well as a host of children,grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Mary added that at the start
of the parade she commented
to family members, "We're go-
ing home."
Home wasn't simply the
building that currently houses
the Dolphin. It ultimately be-
came the whole of Barnstable
Village, into which the Karras
family was woven like threads
in a fine tapestry. The elder
Karrases, Anna and husband
Kostas, came to the area in
1917, and together operated
the Barnstable Fruit Market
until 1946 while raising their
10 children.
The surviving children recall
a childhood of mischief mixed
with firm guidance from their
parents. Louis, George and
Peter, along with some other
local boys somehow managed
to put a carriage, the horse-
drawn kind , on top of the
Thayer Building, which was
then the Post Office, and there
were tales of old tires wrapped
in toilet paper and left on
roadsides as a prank (back
then new tires came wrapped
in white paper).
Because of their antics, the
children , the boys in particu-
lar, were kept home on Hal-
loween, lest they stir up more
trouble , but they also had a
work ethic. The boys spent
countless hours delivering
their mother's freshly baked
and extremely popular bread.
Ted recalls he and longtime
pal Jim "Butch" Ellis spread-
ing it with mustard. Mean-
while, Mary and Pauline were
instrumental in helping their
mother run the household.
"This is probabl y the
hardest-working woman you 'll
ever meet in your life," said
Ted's wife Mary Lou of Mary.
"She practically raised the four
youngest."
When a soldier approached
Mama Karras with an inquiry
about where he could get his
laundry washed , Mrs. Kar-
ras took it upon herself to do
it, and ended up washing the
laundry of many young men
stationed on the Cape.
"My mother was hoping
that someone was taking care
of [her sons] the way she was
taking care of the soldiers ,"
said Mary, whose married
name is Montagna.
Mary 's work ethic was
such that she became the first
woman to be elected a select-
man in the village.
"I ran for seven years before
I was elected ," she said , add-
ing that she served in the role
for six.
Eldest brother George also
made a name for himself as
one of the founding fathers ,
and first players, of the Cape
Cod Baseball League, becom-
ing inducted into its hall of
fame in 2002.
Though close with all his
siblings , it is Louis who holds
a significant part of Ted's
heart.
"My brother Louie was my
mentor," he said. "He was
the last one to come home
[from the war] because he was
wounded. If it wasn't for those
people in World War II , we
wouldn 't be saying 'God Bless
America. '"
After suffering an injury in
France during WWII , Louis
was awarded both the Bronze
Star and the Purple Heart.
It is Ted's hope to have the
overpass above Phinney 's Lane
near where Louis built his
home named in his honor. For
now, though , the siblings are
fondl y reflecting on their day
in the parade, delighting in
traveling back down memory
lane, and enjoying time spent
with their vast family at home
once again.
"It wasn't easy, but it was
fun ," said Mary of growing up
in Barnstable. "It was a nice
home... A happy home."
Councilor seeksban on plastic bags...
energy coordinator for the
town, outlined the renewable
energy commission's recom-
mendations for reducing trash
and increasing recycling in
the waste stream. About 40
attended.
Although the town's DPW
director, Dan Santos, has
recommended that Barnstable
go with a new trash disposal
company as of Jan. 1, there
has been no official word
from the town council on the
part of the picture addressed
by the commission , though a
waste workshop is scheduled
for this month.
Elrick outlined the concerns
that prompted the council
to charge the commission to
examine pickup and recycling
issues. He said only a third
of households, about 9,500,
purchase a transfer station
sticker, and that the state re-
ports the town's recycling rate
at around 16 percent , one of
the lowest (Nantucket is at 91
percent , Truro at 45 percent).
The majority of the town's
trash is picked up by private
haulers, Elrick noted , and
those companies either don't
recycle or charge an extra fee
to do that.
The commission's recom-
mendation that curbside pick-
up be instituted townwide, in
three sectors, echoes a propos-
al dated back two decades.
Elrick, who was a town coun-
cilor back then , remembers
town hall being "surrounded
by dump trucks " the night the
council discussed the option.
It went nowhere.
In addition to contracted
curbside pickup for which
trash and recycling charges
would be bundled , the
commission is recommend-
ing institution of a Pay As
You Throw system to spur
recycling. In this program ,
which several Cape towns
have adopted and found use-
ful, residents buy specially
marked bags for trash while
recycling is free. The transfer
station would remain open for
those who did not want to use
the curbside, and the board
of health would be asked to
require haulers to report recy-
cling statistics.
A second option would be
to implement PAYT at the
transfer station only.
Elrick said the arrangement
offers a certain equity. He
equated buying bags through
PAYT with buying water or
electricity - "You pay for
what you use." There 'd be an
annual sticker fee that would
cover disposal costs.
PAYT takes some getting
used to, Elrick acknowledged ,
but in towns where it's in
place, the average reduction
in trash tonnage is between 40
and 45 percent and recycling
rates rise on average from 15
to 40 percent.
Right next door, he says,
Sandwich experienced a 42
percent reduction in trash
after putting PAYT in place,
and recycling went up from
29 to 54 percent.
Elrick said qualms about
large households having to
buy many bags for their trash
are countered by census data
showing that more than 80
percent of townspeople live n
one-, two-, or three-member
households.
With disposal costs rising as
a new contract kicks in after
two decades of significantl y
lower rates, Elrick said the
issue appeals both to liber-
als who have environmental
concerns and conservatives
who believe taking care of
one's own trash is a matter of
personal responsibility.
During a question period ,
an audience member com-
plained that people continue
to dump recyclable materials
in with the trash at the trans-
fer station. Elrick said that
there is increasing pressure
on operations from the state
to get recyclables out of the
waste stream.
Hebert Looks Ahead
Hebert , who spoke in
Centerville after this reporter
left the meeting, said in an
interview that he supports the
commission's recommenda-
tions regarding Pay As You
Throw, but wants to think
more about curbside pickup
arranged through a Request
for Proposals with the town.
"I'm very understanding of
the private haulers ," he said.
"They do wonderful work.
Somehow, we have to find
out how to support them to
increase recycling. "
What was talked about at
that meeting is "do-able ,"
the councilor said. Now he
wants the community to f ocus
on what 's "coming down the
line," such as the growing
effects of chemicals in the
water supply.
"Where is all this cancer
coming from?" he asked. "We
need to look more deeply
at what 's in our water, our
food."
Hebert was prepared to lead
the charge to ban sales of any
water bottles that did not have
nickel deposits , but now there
will be a referendum question
on the November ballot about
that.
In talks with state officials ,
Hebert said , he's concluded
that there are "a million dol-
lars worth of nickel deposits
not being redeemed on Cape
Cod, 20 million bottles and
cans thrown away."
Hebert , whose Champ
Homes operates "the last of
the free-standing redemption
centers," in Yarmouth , would
like to see one in Barnstable.
Planningboardto
examineparking...
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Within the stack of reports
' is one from the Urban Land
" Institute in January 2013 that
stated that restoring two-way
traffic on Main Street "is the
single most important move
that can be made in harnessing
the future economic growth
and development of Hyannis
to the vitality of its bygone
days... "
Well, yes and no.
"I remember when Hyannis
was two-way and I liked
it," said Fire Chief Harold
Brunelle. "The fact is, it hasn't
been that way about 40 years,
and everything's designed that
way now.You'd have to spend
a lot of money to change it."
Brunelle said he was con-
cerned the Institute report
proposed making South Street
two-way as well.
"That's our main thorough-
fare to the hospital ," he said.
"It's not wide enough to go
down the middle of the road."
Bill Cronin , president of
the Greater Hyannis Civic As-
sociation, said he once heard
someone say that when Main
Street trafficwastwo-way, "you
could walk from Parker'sRiver
(in Yarmouth) to downtown
Main Street faster than you
could drive."
But, as Buntich said, Mon-
day's session is about parking,
not traffic flow. As for the In-
stitute'stake on two-way traffic
changes, she said, "There has
been no action on the part of
any agency or entity of the
town to make that happen."
In fact , the board might
wind up discussing what other
entities, such as the Hyannis
Transportation Center, the
Steamship Authority and Cape
Cod Healthcare might make
happen within the downtown
village.
Ideas about a parking garage
at the HTC or elsewhere need
to be discussed "because we are
a transportation hub," Buntich
said. "Typically a small city or
large town of this size wouldn't
look at parking structures, but
the seasonal nature and conges-
tion prompted by this happy
coincidence of uses (boats,
trains, and planes)" makes such
thinking worthwhile.
Surface parking, Buntich
said, "is not going away. In
my opinion , we need to take a
look at surface parking, how it
can function better, look better,
and fit more within the whole
environment of downtown."
The planningboard willmeet
Monday at 7p.m. at town hall.
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Busydaysat OstervilleVillageLibrary
Herewith a selection of free events in the coming weeks:
• Learn about "The Art of Opinion Writing" when nationally
¦ syndicated columnist Suzette Martinez Standring speaks July
12 at 10 a.m.
• Kick back with Accent, a band that takes casual to the limit
in its renditions of reggae, country and rock, July 17 at 6 p.m.
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that what's on sale is "Clothing that
takes you off in all Directions."
? Elects new trustees
The Pilgrim Monument and Prov-
incetown Museum added four new
trustees and elected new officers
during their 122nd annual meeting
on June 20. Stephen Borkowski,
Betsi Corea,Paul deRuyter and John
Roderick are the newtrustees. New
officers elected are: Christopher
J. Snow (president); Al Silva (vice
president);Arthur Parker (treasurer);
Courtney Hurst (secretary).
? Shellfish farm demo
Northeast Aquaculture Research
farm Network is currently looking
for shellfish farms to participate in
a research/demo projectto testnew
shellfish aquaculture technologies
and help demonstrate them to the
industry intheir region.Participating
farms will receive equipment and
support to install and operate the
new technology plus a stipend. The
project was created by Cape Cod
Cooperative Extension and Woods
Hole Sea Grant. Those wishing to I
participate may contact the state :
NARF-Net agent, Diane Murphy at ¦
dmurphy@whoi.edu
? Share a cup at Three
Bays
Coffee's on the house on Thurs-
days at 10 a.m. through Aug. 14 at
the Osterville office of Three Bays
Preservation, 864 Main St., where
you're invited to stop in to chat
about upcoming events,educational
programs and ongoing efforts to
clean up the three bays.
? Who's your top dog
now?
Agway of Cape Cod Is sponsoring
its second "Top Dog of Cape Cod
Photo Contest." Share as many
of your doggie photos as you like
(until Aug. 9), on Instagram, Face-
book or Twitter,using the hashtag
#AgwayTopDog.Agway will feature
a different dog photo on its website
each week (www.agwaycapecod.
com), and the Top Dog will be an-
nounced and feted in August. Visit
facebook.com/agwaycapecod to
see all the entries.
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