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Beach ball of light
DAVID STILL II PHOTC
Despite the blistering heat it subjected us to during the day, the sun's evening performances this week provided
ample reason for forgiveness. A number of people made it to the town ramp at the end of Bay Street in Osrerville
Tuesday to watch the final glow over West Bay.
Sheriff begins operational
retreat from county complex
Dispatch center
headed for new
fire station at Otis
By Edward F. Maroney
emaroney@barnstablepatnot.com
On a very warm day, county
Sheriff Jim Cummings laid to
rest what was once a very hot
issue.
It appears the sheriff's build-
ings high above the county com-
plex in Barnstable village willbe
available for other uses - and
sooner rather than later.
Cummings said he's complet-
ing negotiations with county,
state and federal officials to
move his communications cen-
ter, which handles dispatching
for six Cape fire departments
as well as other duties, to a new
fire station being finished up on
Otis Air National Guard Base
The new station is not far from
the county 's new house of cor-
rection,which was the first of
the sheriff'soperations to leave
Barnstable.
The sheriff said he looked into
expanding the communications
center at the county complex
and was told by an architect
that it would cost $8 million to
bring it up to code. "That took
it right out of the picture ,"Cum-
mings said.
With other townsinterested in
havinghis department take over
dispatching, the sheriff said,the
move he hopes to complete by
December is timely. He'slooking
around the Upper Cape base for
space for his radio technicians
as well. That would leave only
the Bureau of Criminal Investi-
gation,which he believes could
find a new home as well.
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Review of Commission nears end
Task force is
narrowing
recommendations
By Edward F. Maroney
emaroney@barnstablepatnot.com
The 21s" Century Task Force
on the Cape Cod Commission
wasn't talkingto itself at apublic
hearing Tuesday evening - but
it came close.
Fewer than 10 people other
than task force members or
commission members and staff-
ers turned out for the session at
Mashpee High School, among
them the local town planner and
a member the planning board.
Undeterred,task force chair-
man Elliott Carr got a conversa-
tion going. Mashpee Planning
Board member Lee Gurney said
she was a"firm supporter "of the
Commission, but "that doesn't
mean I support every procedure
and decision."
Mashpee Town Planner Tom
Fudala found fault with the
commission's threshold for re-
viewing developments,which
has resulted in an explosion of
9,900-square-foot buildings to
beat that review by a whisker.
"The thresholds have got to be
low enough to catch everybody,"
he said, but the level of review
that would then be applied could
be adjusted based on traffic or
wastewater impacts.
Moving control of impact fees
and mitigation to towns that
have fully implemented their
Local Comprehensive Plans
might not work because town
meetings are reluctant to ap-
prove the zoning changes such
implementation would require,
according to Fudala.
Gurney said the format of the
LCPs is a problem. "There are a
lot of good intentions,"she said,
"but no funding to implement
CONTINUED ON PAGE A:4
Boston Pops, Shatner will transport audience
Sunday 's concert nears
sold-out status
By Edward F. Maroney
8maroney@barnstablepatriot.com
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
CROSSING ANOTHER FRONTIER -WilliamShatner will
conduct a symphony orchestra for the first time Sunday
when he leads the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
in the Washington Post March.
Keith Lockhart and his Boston Pops
Esplanade Orchestra could use Capt.
Kirk's transporter beam this month.
The beloved orchestra,which plays on the
Hyannis village green Sunday, is bouncing
from Nantucket to Tanglewood to Pennsylva-
nia and Virginia in August.
Fortunately, Lockhart can get advice this
weekend from someone who traveled the far
reaches of the final frontier on a five-year mis-
sion: William Shatner, who originated the role
of James T Kirk on Star Trek in the 1960s and
is now riding high as an Emmy-winning cast
member on Boston Legal.
Shatner will lead an orchestra for the first
time as he conducts Washington Post March
at the TD Banknorth Pops by the Sea concert
presented by the Arts Foundation of Cape
Cod.
"I'll avoid saying any of the obvious things,"
Lockhart promised,"such as, 'Take us up. Mr.
Sulu," or 'He's dead,Jim.'"
Lockhart was a junior in high school when
he stepped to the podium for the first time.
"There was not much chance to prepare ," he
recalled. "I didn't get terrified. I noticed that
somehow I had a knack for keeping people
together."
Sounds like the job a certain starship cap-
tain performed on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Will
Lockhart have any advice for the tyro conduc-
tor?
"Some people are genuinely nervous about
this," he said. "Some people you just can't get
off the siage. I try to tell them, the only thing
CONTINUED ON PAGE A:4
Open house celebrates
new location,bigger
building
By Kathleen Szmit
kszmit@barnstablepatnot.com
Cape Cod in summertime is a place
of scenic beauty and sea breezes. Come
winter, though, the ground hardens and
those breezes can chill a person to the
bone. Imagine having to sleep on that
frozen ground with such winds whipping
around you.
Richard Cowboy McBride knows very
well what it'slike. There was a time when
he used to sleep in vacant train cars,under
bushes, or simply on the ground in the
woods somewhere in Barnstable.
That was before Pilot House. "They
saved my life ," he said of the place he
now calls home. "They had the faith in
me that I never had."
At the time of McBride's homelessness,
he was a struggling alcoholic desperately
in need of assistance. Enter Betsey Fontes,
director of shelter programs for Community
Action CommitteeofCape Cod and Islands;
Claire Goyer, executive director of Duffy
Health Services, and Estella Fritzinger.
executive director of the Community Ac-
tion Committee. "They literally grabbed
me and told me to shut up and listen,"
said McBride. Sober now two years and
composing a book about his experiences ,
he is thankful for their persistence.
On Tuesdaythe Pilot House staff, which
now includes McBride as the maintenance
person,and its residents,welcomed local
and state officials,as well an the general
public to the official grand opening of
the new location at 120 Yarmouth Road
in Hyannis.
"We are soproud of how far we've come,"
said Goyer. "This is a remarkable testi-
mony to a lot of good agencies."
When the center first opened in 1997 it
wasin atiny house barely large enough for
two people, but steadily housed the maxi-
mum capacity of six,providingservices to
homeless men and women with substance
abuse issues. Airport renovations forced
the demolition of that propertv. as well
as the relocation of Pilot House.
Now, several years later, the Yarmouth
Road location boasts two floors and a
finished basement and can house nearly
people.
Pilot House resident Billy Bishop is
impressed with the changes. "I was in
the first Pilot House back when it was
condemned ," he said. "This is quite an
improvement. "
The center prides itself on providing
not simply shelter, but also assistance
on the difficult road to recovery. "We are
not a 'wet' shelter," said Fritzinger. "We
promot e self-sufficiency. "
Residents of Pilot House have a number
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Pilot House
a beacon
of hope for
homeless
Where's there's a Will,
there 's a way
to get laughs
PAGE C:1
This Week In A&E.
Beard of
Awn is up to i
scratch
INSIDE
Local students savor summer
learning in D.C.
Ask most teenagers what they did during their
summer vacations and what ensues might be
a mix of eye rolling and shoulder-shrugging
as they mutter about work and trips to the
beach A:2
Breakwater Baking
As the thermometer crept into the 90s and
the heat index blasted above 105 degrees
Wednesday, a lone figure could be seen try-
ing his luck with rod and reel at the end of the
Hyannisport jetty A:3
UP FRONT
GAUVIN: Unpleasantconfrontationspurs
councilor's move on parking lot
On a brisk March day, Town Councilor Gary
Brown of Hyannis made a "quick" lunch-hour
stop at the Island Merchant Restaurant at 5
Ocean St to conduct business with owner
Joe Dunn II A:7
OPINION
Change in traffic pattern cited
as a cause of store closure
Aubuchon Hardware officials reached at
company headquarters in Westminster this
week were reluctant lo comment on why their
outlet on Barnstable Road in Hyannis closed
without notice a two weeks ago A:9
BUSINESS
Fans enjoy an All-Star day with
CC Baseball League
At Red Wilson Field Saturday, it was about
All-Stars, autographs, hot sun and Hurlers
when the Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star
Game came to South Yarmouth A:12
Best of the West fall to
Beasts of the East
The sun set in - and for - the west Saturday
as the Cape Cod Baseball League Eastern
Division All-Stars trounced their opposite
numbers,7-2, at Red Wilson Field in South
Yarmouth A:12
SPORTS
Hairdresser's attitude shines
on affordable housing source
It was 8:30 a.m one hour before opening time.
Kathy Aspden sat on the edge of a chair in a
corner of the salon as the sun's rising rays
drifted lazily through the windows B:1
VILLAGES
Lung cancer screening remains
too costly for now
It' s the cancer that kills the more people
than any other,more than 160 ,000 in the
United States annually, yet no screening
is done for it B:3
HEALTHSCAPE
Arts C:1
Automotive C:8
Business A8-A9
Classifieds C.10-C 12
Editorials A:6
Events C 3-C 8
HealthScape B3-B4
Health Report B:4
Legals C:8-C 9
MainStreet B:8
Mowe Listings C:2
Obituaries B:2
Op-Ed A:7
Patriot Puzzle B:4
People B:1
Real Estate B:6
Religious Services B5
Service Directory C:11
Sports A12-A13
Villages B:1
Weather A14
INDEX