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By David Augustinho www.ciwib.org At the Workforce Invest- mentBoard'sannualmeeting, Iupdated the Board on some of our accomplishments in the 2005/2006 program year. I thought that you might be interested to see what we have been up to: We were able to secure continued funding from the County,throughtheEconom- ic Development Council, for the operation of the Orleans location of Career Opportuni- ties. Cooperative efforts by the County Eco- nomic Develop- ment Council , Lower Cape Community De- velopment Cor- poration andthe Orleans Cham- ber provided the original statistical basis for openingthisone-stop center. We greatly appreciate the support of our partners and look forward to continuing servicesto thejob seekers and employers in the region. The WIB continued our oversight role in the state 's Extended Care Career Lad- der Initiative (ECCLI). We provided continuing techni- cal assistance under a $5,535 contract with CommCorp. Twoprojects were completed this year: one at Our Island Home, onNantucket,trained 15Certified Nurse Assistants (CNAs); the other graduated 16Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs).Thisproject involved a consortium of eight long- term care providers , both regional technical schools, Cape Cod Healthcare, SEIU 2020 and the WIB. This is a first of itskindprograminthe Commonwealthandwillserve as a model for other regions. Through this program we have doubled the capacity of LPNtraininginthe region.We hope to build on thissuccess- ful program in future ECCLI funding rounds. Our Workforce Training Fund collaboration between Cape Cod Healthcare, Cape Cod Community College , SEIU 2020, and the WIB re- cently graduated a second class of 15 Registered Nurses (RNs). TheWIBapplied for andwas awarded moer than $200,000 to provide atrainingprogram in health care administrative careers.The program istrain- ing 45 low/moderate-income individuals as ward secretar- ies, schedulers, receptionists in doctor 's offices, and other similarpositions. Some ofthe trainees received an ESOL component , with medical terminology embedded in the training, to overcome language barriers that might otherwisepreclude themfrom these careers. The project hasalready placed 65percent of the trainees intojobs. The WIB continues to follow up on our partici- pation in the Department of Labor- sponsored National Busi- ness Learning Partnership. We instituted a number of changesat Career Opportuni- ties based on the Partnership experience, including sector assignments for business service representatives, and self-registration for Career Opportunity clients. We will continue to seek methods to better serve the businesses in the region. The WIB continued to pro- vide technical assistance to businesses interested in the Workforce TrainingFund.Our efforts resulted in more than $300,000 in grants to local companies this year. The WIB continues to work with the Cape Cod Commis- sion. We provided a detailed report that is included with their CEDS submission to the Federal Government. We also continue tc work with the Sustainability Indicators Council. We continued our weekly update to keep Board mem- bers,and others interested in our activities, informed. The Executive Director was recently re-elected Clerk of theMassachusettsWorkforce Board Association's Execu- tive Committee. The Executive Director con- tinued his leadership role in the School-To-Careers Part- nership. CONTINUED ON PAGE A:10 WORKfOBGEIWIKTMEHTBOftRB One Ocean Street proj ect heard by planning board By Edward F. Maroney emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com EDWARD F MARONEY PHOTO ONE OCEAN STREET -This isthe building Hibel Realty LLC of West Roxbury wants to construct at the corner of Ocean and Main streets in Hyannis at the site of the former Hibel art gallery. The location is seen as a gateway to downtown, so the building by architect Richard Fenuccio has undergone a lengthy review. It appears to be a package the town's growth manage- ment department might have ordered from a catalog: a brand-new, mixed-use build- ing proposed for aprominent corner in downtown Hyannis that's needed a lift for many years. As the town contin- ues to unwrap Hibel Realty LLC's proje ct and fit it into the Growth Incentive Zone, more questions and answers will be heard. In presenting the project to the planning board Mon- day, attorney Michael Ford said the proponents , includ- ing downtown businessman Robert Bradley, want to build a three-story building on top of an underground parking garage after demolishing the former art gallery and grocery store. The street-level floor would have 9,000 square feet for retail and 3,000 square feet for, probably, one office rental. The two upper floors, plus a slice out of the roof, would offer 22 two-bedroom units. Two of the units would be designated as affordable housing. Bradley and his partners acquired the site at Ocean and Main streets three years ago and have spent a good part of that time working with the Hyannis Main Street Waterfront Historic District Commission on the design of the building. The next step involves negotiations with a subcommittee of growth management officials and planningboard member David Munsell to work out a regula- tory agreement. Ultimately, the planning board will make a recommen- dation to the town council on approving the agreement. All parties are finding the need to be creative in theii solutions to matching the complicated site and large building with the town'srules and regulations. In other cir- cumstances, the project would have been referred to the Cape Cod Commission,but creation of the GIZ meansthe town will call the shots this time. The underground parking CONTINUED ON PAGE A.T1 Turning the corner on downtown redevelopment Cape Air plane is Jiirek's canvas By Edward F. Maroney emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com EDWARD F MARONEY PHOTO AIR LINE - Artist Jiirek (left), airline CEO Dan Wolf (center) and IFAW President Fred 0'Regan pose proudly with a Cape Air Cessna 402 covered with images of humpback whales. At some point inhislife,Dan Wolf must have paraphrased Charles Foster Kane and de- clared, "I think it would be fun to run an airline." The president and CEO of Cape Air proved the point Wednesday as he piloted his company 's latest deco- rated aircraft over a crowd at Barnstable MunicipalAirport, giving a wing the tiniest dip. When Wolf rolled the Cess- na 402 up to the hangar, he popped out with Fred O'Regan, president of plane- painting sponsoring partner IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) to be greeted by artist Jiirek, who covered the aircraft with de- pictions of frolicsome hump- back whales. It's the fifth Cape Air plane that Jiirek , a former Cape resident who moved to the Berkshires , has used as a canvas since 1995. Wolf ticked off the subjects: a Nantucket sportsteam, "Sharky,"scenes of Provincetown on one side and Boston on the other, and a Nantucket daffodil plane that resembles "a big, flying flower." Non-artist O'Regan ("I can't even drawmythumb") praised Jurek' s celebration of the humpback whale. "Cape Cod has a proud whaling tradi- tion," he said. "That's been replaced by a very active whale-watching fleet." Whale-watching is a bil- lion-dollar business spread over 90 nations, according to O'Regan , who said the Cape Air plane would carry the ban- ner of opposition to renewed hunting of the creatures. Jiirek said hiswork was "my small token of restoring that relationship between sentient beings and Mother Nature. " Wolf, who still flies the route to and from Boston on Sat- urdays, recounted a tale that validated that relationship. Last week, he said, he spot- ted 15 to 20 whales as he was corningintoProvincetown and diverted the plane to circle above them. As he prepared to land, he saw a coyote pup running alongside the runway. Finally, as he turned onto the taxiway, ared-tail hawk burst from the brush and followed the plane, "sizing it up for dinner." IFAW hosts a Cape Cod WhaleFest tomorrow trom 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the village green in Hyannis. 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