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COUNTYCLIPPINGS
APCC gives nod to
townspeople
It's a trifecta for the town
astheAssociationto Preserve
Cape Cod prepares to hand
out awardsatitsannualmeet-
ing Oct. 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the
Yarmouth House restaurant
on Route 28.
The Pond Village Associa-
tion of Barnstable, the grass-
roots group that started the
movementtohavethehistoric
northside neighborhood de-
clared a District of Critical
PlanningConcern,willgetthe
APCCPaulTsongas Environ-
mental Recognition Award.
Mark Robinson of Cotuit,
executive director ofthe Com-
pact of Cape Cod Trusts, is
in line for the Esther Synder
Award for Environmental
Excellence.
Finally,theAPCCVolunteer
of the Yearisnone other than
West Barnstable's Willard
Mason. He's being honored
for hiscontribution toAPCC's
VolunteerSaltMarshRestora-
tion Monitoring Program.
RSVPs to 877-955-4142 are
requested but not required.
Latest buzz on the
airport
A presentation of access
improvements at Barnstable
Municipal Airport will be
given to the Cape Cod Joint
Transport ation Committee
Oct. 6 at 8:30 a.m.inrooms 11
and 11ofBarnstableSuperior
Court House on Route 6A in
Barnstable village.Thelatest
summertraffic counts for the
Cape are part of the program
as well.
Stay CUEd in
CapeUnitedElderswillhear
from the National Citizen's
Coalition for Nursing Home
Reform Oct. 4 from 1to 3:30
p.m. at Federated Church of
Hyannis's Fellowship Hall.
All are welcome; call 800-
845-1999, ext. 159, to make a
reservation.
Cape agencies
honored by Mass
Rehab
Cape Organization for
the Rights of the Disabled
(CORD) inHyannisandCom-
munityConnections of South
Yarmouth received commu-
nitypartnershipawardsasthe
MassachusettsRehabilitation
Commission celebrated its
50th anniversary earlier this
week.
WalkingWeekend
starts next Friday
One of the first jaunts as
part of the Cape's Walking
Weekend '06 is a tour from
1 to 3 p.m. next Friday of
Barnstable Conservation
lands. Tojoin the free stroll,
take Exit 5 off Route 6, go
south on Route 149 to the
roundabout, turn right onto
Race Lane and go one mile
to right on Crooked Cartway
(parking at the end).
For info on more walks, go
to www.capecodcommisson.
org/pathways.
Show your roots
Roots and Shoots groups
around Cape Cod will fly a
handmade peace dove Satur-
dayinhonor ofUnitedNations
Peace Day.Meet at the beach
just below the parking lot at
Sandy Neck by 11a.m.
Push on for homeless services...
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pride to what Barnstable has
done, and tweaked his Cape
peers.
"One of my major concerns
is that this is becoming a
Hyannis and Barnstable is-
sue," he said. "It's not. It's
a Cape Cod issue. Fourteen
other town managers and
boards of selectmen should
be here."
Klimmsaidifan "unfair bur-
den" continues to be placed
on the town, eventually its
resources will be inadequate
to the task.
TownCouncilorJanBarton,
who chairs the Barnstable
Human Services Commit-
tee, hosted the Blue Ribbon
Roundtable session.She said
she continues to hear inter-
est from other Cape towns
- one, Chatham, even made
a financial contribution to
the committee's Operation
in from the Cold effort this
year.
Joe Doolin of Osterville,
retiredpresident and CEO of
Catholic Charities, served as
facilitator,suggestingwaysin
which agencies using to bat-
tling alone for any available
funds might band together
to improve patient intakeand
services.
The centerpiece of the day
required breaking up into
small groups, each of which
dealt with a case study of a
homeless person by consid-
ering what service options
could be offered. Duringtheir
presentations, some groups
sailed smoothly through a
smorgasbord ofreferrals while
others pointed clearlyto gaps
that kept people onthe streets
and in the woods.
Starting off by telling her
listeners they had described
an existing service network
"you should all be proud of,"
Barton called for specifics on
what more isneeded. Replies
ranged from an "overall as-
sessment center"to a 24/7 re-
sponse availability to smaller
shelters -maybe even one or
two beds -where chronically
homeless people barred from
shelters could stay during
their assessments. A care
manager to follow a man or
woman through intake, diag-
nosis, treatment, and place-
ment in housing was urged,
as was early intervention to
prevent homelessness.
The human services com-
mitteehasdrafted abrochure,
"Street Sheet,"that attempts
to pull together information
"for those who are Homeless
or threatened withHomeless-
ness."Attendees were invited
to amend the document and
share their changes.
Further talks about "ra-
tionalizing" the delivery of
services are on the agenda.
Alan Burt of the Salvation
Army's Overnights of Hos-
pitality returned to a famil-
iar theme at meeting's end.
"Where are the other towns?"
he asked.
As if to underscore the
need for broader participa-
tion by other communities,
he noted in ane-mailafter the
meeting that he had tried to
help a woman who was being
stalked.
"I called the state emer-
gencyhotline,safe linkto find
out that there were no safe
house beds in the state at the
time, that they are allfull,"he
wrote. "What kind of a state
do we live in? What kind of a
country do we live in?"
Burt tapped his Overnights
of Hospitality funds to put
the woman up in a motel for
the night, but there are many
more nightsbetween now and
a solution to the many-fac-
eted problem of inadequate
shelter.
POLITICALPOTPOURRI
Bennett thanks
Hyannis
All four Hyannisprecincts
went for Nantucket's Doug
Bennett in the Republican
state Senate primary, and
he's grateful.
Resurfacing some days af-
ter the vote,Bennett thanked
the "3,004 Republicans who
voted for me" districtwide.
"Their faith and belief in me
will always be in my heart."
Bennett isn't overlooking
the 4,000-plus ballots cast
for the winner, Ric Barros
of Centerville. "After a great
battle, it's always important
to uniteforces,"he said,prom-
ising to support Barros.
The candidate said he
plans to have that status
again "in the very near fu-
ture," but he hasn't settled
on an office just yet. He
remainsaNantucket select-
man and county commis-
sioner and plans to focus on
island issues while keeping
tabs on regional problems
such as the cost of living,
home insurance rates, high
heating bills and the like.
Kennedy, Delahunt
on the hustings
U.S.Sen.Ted Kennedy and
Rep. Bill Delahunt, both up
for re-election , will officially
open the Mid Cape Coordi-
nated Democratic Headquar-
ters in Swan River Plaza on
Route 134in DennisMonday
at 3 p.m.
Crocker to host GOP
luminaries
House Minority Leader
Brad Jones and state GOP
Chairman Darren Crate will
visit Baxter 's Boathouse
Club on Pleasant Street in
Hyannis Thursday from 5:30
to 7 p.m. to back state rep
candidate Will Crocker.
The requested con-
tribution is $35. RSVP to
info(5 electwillcrocker.com
or 508-771-1831.
Jean Gardner will miss the bus...
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Tales is a leading repository
oflocalhistoricalinformation
and artifacts. It has its own
building, the 1772 Old Colo-
nial Courthouse on Route 6A
at Rendezvous Lane, across
from St. Mary's Episcopal
church and gardens and the
tiny traffic island that is all
that remains of the common
from which Barnstable mili-
tiamen marched off to join
General Washington's army
in Cambridge.
Sheisthe spokesperson for
localhistory onTVashostess
of a weekly (7 p.m. Wednes-
days,3:30 onTuesdays) cable
program on Cape history,
also named Tales of Cape
Cod, and shehasinterviewed
legislators, authors, even an
astronaut from Sandwich in
the past couple of weeks.
Her first step to "retire-
ment"isto relinquishherrole
inplanning, hosting and nar-
rating the fall'sannualTales
of Cape Cod chartered bus
tour of major andlittleknown
sites on the Cape. Tales of-
fers two autumn bus trips.
Jean chaperoned the Down
Cape trip last Monday, and
retired teacher Jim Coogan
led his group to Falmouth
and the Upper Cape acouple
of weeks ago.
When Jean and her 55 stu-
dents boarded at 9 a.m. last
week, the bus was parked
next to the East Parish
Church on Cobb's Hill, lun-
cheon was stowed aboard
and happy pilgrims set forth
to tour the new Coast Guard
museum and old village
smithy,then look across the
harbor to Sandy Neck, and
meet some local notables.
Then they stopped at the
Cape Cod Museum of Art and
other cultural landmarks in
Dennis, Cape Cinema and
Cape Playhouse.
At this point the mission
came a cropper. Squeezing
through a narrow uphill
drive , the drive wheel of
the bus lost all traction and
spun round and round in
puddles. It became obvious
to driver Dennis Jalbert and
assorted mechanical kibitz-
ers that this vehicle was
going nowhere. Police were
called and a heavy-duty six-
wheel wrecker from Hyannis
showed up less than an hour
later.
But classcounts,and there
wasn't a word of criticism
from the passengers, guide
Jean and bus driver Jalbert.
The Cape Museum folks
gave permission for tables
to be set up and luncheon
to be served in their sculp-
ture garden, Ms. Gardner,
aside from notingplaintively
that this kind of problem
never happened before, led
the stranded passengers to
lunch, originally scheduled
for Nauset Beach.
The rest of the day was
as scheduled and the un-
expected stop en route was
regarded as a bit of a lark.
And seriously, one skill the
public servant should pos-
sess is the ability to cope
with the unexpected. Her
trademark saying, "OK, pal"
is Jean's call to work for all
hands.
Jean's school was Girls'
Latin in Boston , and she
went to college at Syracuse
University.There were gradu-
ate degreestobe won and she
wonthem from Northeastern
University and Fitchburg
State College; they led to
jobsin guidance counseling,
teaching and principals' of-
fices west of Boston.
On the Cape,Jean was two
years the president of Tales
as well as president of the
Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary
and the Yarmouth Port His-
torical Society. She swims
most days ("with the other
old gals"), was a skier and is
really hooked on golf. She is
in demand as a model and
fashion show moderator.
Life isn't alwaysgolden for
those who liveit sofully.Jean
and Irving have one son Jeff,
whoisasuccess as an artistic
painter. They are parents as
welloftwo daughters Jan and
Lynn, who died (of cancer
and heart disease) whenthey
were 25 and 49. Their mother
acknowledges that the loss
of her daughters has great
influence on her.The fullness
of her own life is Jean's way
to keep the memories of her
daughters close to lives still
being lived.
Jean's major achievement
came when the members
of women's organizations
elected her to be Cape Cod's
Woman of the Year. This
award originated with and
honors Mercy Otis Warren,
sister of "The Patriot" in
the year when Mrs. Warren's
statue was completed and
placed in front of the old
courthouse in Barnstable.
You'reapt tofind Jean Gard-
ner wearingapiece ofpatriotic
costume jewelry. One day last
week it was the red,white and
blue earrings.Shewearsthese
and drives past Mercy Warren
on the courthouse hill. She
opens the car window and
calls out. "Hi, Sister. Isn't it a
great day? I'm going to have
one. Hope you do, too."
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