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NEIGHBORS
By Paul Gauvin
pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com
PAUL GAUVIN PHOTOS
DUESANDDON'TS -John Crow,membership chairman of the Osterville
Village Association, says "don't forget your dues" while discussing a
revival in membership numbers.
J
ohn Crow delivers.
He helped his high
schoollacrosse and foot-
ball teams in Connecticut
deliver enough victories to
propel the school to succes-
sive state lacrosse champi-
onships.
As a FedEx driver for 21
years, the stocky Osterville
wash-a-shore helps a world-
wide team convey commerce,
and as membership chair of
the Osterville Village Asso-
ciation, he has helped deliver
an astonishing rebound in
membership over the last
several years.
And therein lies a tale of
abandonment reversed by
what Crow calls "classy peo-
ple" who refused to allow a
disruptiveissueto unravelthe
threads of the association.
Townies will remember the
emotional outbreak that en-
veloped the town's effort to
initially construct some 160
living units under affordable
housing rules at the so-called
Darby property in Osterville.
"It was an issue that obvi-
ously alienated the village
from the town for a time,"
Crow said. Less obvious ,
though, it also splintered the
villageassociationto the point
that membershipplummeted
from roughly 800 members to
around 550,he said,before the
dust settled.
Crow, a village resident for
only seven years, was in the
thick of the controversy. "It
wasn't acaseofoneside versus
another but more likethree or
four different viewpoints."
He founded the Osterville
Voice, a group solidly against
the housingplan asit waspre -
sented because, Crow said,the
arrangement did not fit the
unique character of the village
... something he concludes is
worth preserving.
As the Darby flap faded
while other negotiated op-
tions began to surface for
affordable units with less
density and within village
character,there was arealiza-
tion that the association itself
had suffered and that nobody
really wanted to see it weak-
ened because of Darby.
"There were a few empty
seats on the board and I and
afew others were invitedto fill
them,"hesaid,eventhough he
was a relative newcomer.
"It was aclassy thingto do,"
Crow says. "We had had our
differences, but we realized
through it all the primary
importance of a strong as-
sociation."
Crow is among the younger
contingent now involved in
the association, people who
are still of working age. "I'd
say about 60 to 65 percent
of the board members are
retired. The others like my-
self still work." He mentions
a landscape and a surveyor
and association treasurer
Tami Walsh "who is younger
than I am,"conceding an age
differencethat assures alevel
of continuity inthe leadership
ranks.
There was a conscious ef-
fort to rebuild the association
membership once the Darby
arguments were put aside ,
Crow said. "Personally, I felt
an obligation to help bring
the numbers back to where
they were."
He eventually took on the
membership chair, but he
credits association president
Chuck Sabatt , lifetime direc-
tor Jay Larmon, and directors
BillCraigand GailNightingale
among others,includingmem-
bers who recruited neighbors,
for forging a successful mem-
bership drive that hasbrought
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Delivering people for Osterville
Schulz wins state
waterfowl stamp contest
First time
winner was also
a junior winner
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
STAMP OF APPROVAL - Matthew Schulz of Osterville was honored
as the winner of the 2007 Massachusetts Waterfowl Stamp
Competition. He was recognized at a ceremony Sept. 14. Schulz
(second from right) is show here with Director of the Division ot
Fisheries & Wildlife Wayne MacCallum (left) and parents Albert
and Jill Schulz, also of Osterville.
M
atthew Schulz of
Osterville cap-
tured top honors
in the 2007 Massachusetts
Waterfowl Stamp Compe-
tition for his rendering of
an American golden-eye
drake decoy crafted by an
unknown Massachusetts ¦
carver.
Schulz' painting was se-
lected in a fully blind judg-
ing process at the Spring-
field Science Museum in
which the judges are given
no information about the
painting other than the
provenance of the decoy.
Schulz and other artists
Who submitted paintings
for the waterfowl stamp
competition were hon-
ored at a reception at the
Springfield Museum on
Sept . 14.
i. Schulz is the first winner
of the Massachusetts Wa-
terfowl Stamp Competi-
tion who has also won high
honors in the Massachu-
setts Junior Duck Stamp
Competition, (2nd place,
Grade 10-12 Age Group
in 1997). He has entered
the Massachusetts Water-
fowl Stamp Competition
several times and placed
third in 2005.
Schulz grew up hunting
and fishing the waters of
Cape Cod with his grand-
father. It was through
his love of the outdoors
that Matthew first be-
came interested in art.
After graduating from the
University of New Hamp-
shire in 2001 with a BA in
Studio Art 2001, Schulz
started to pursue a career
in Fine Art. In May of 2002 ,
he opened The Schulz
Gallery located at 898
Main Street in Osterville.
Schulz has received
awards from wildlife relat-
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