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J D PLOURDE II PHOTO
WELL-DESERVED - Ed Semprini, sports enthusiast and longtime Cape Cod media icon, displays the first
W. Leo Shields Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award. He received the honor at the Barnstable High
School Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday night. Semprini began his Cape Cod media career 65
years ago at the Cape CodStandard-Times. Today Niwrites a regular column as well as occasional sports
and feature pieces for The Barnstable Patriot. Turn to Page 10 for the full story and more pictures.
INSIDE
Councilors
eye tighter
limits on
comments
May schedule public
speakers before 'regular'
meetings
By Edward F. Maroney
emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com
Public comment periods at town council
meetings , which some believe have been
abused by speakers, may be moved to a
45-minute "special" meeting before the
"regular " 7 p.m. council sessions.
At Tuesday 's agenda-setting meeting in
the council office , President Hank Farnham
spoke with a handful of other councilors and
Town Attorney Bob Smith about scheduling
votes on the changes Dec. 7. Public com-
ment at that meeting will begin just after
7 p.m. as usual.
While councilors feel a responsibility to
provide for public comment , Farnham said,
some are concerned that the sessions have
been "sort of captured" by a small number
of repeat speakers. He said he's had calls
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County lab may move to old jail
Health department
sees potential for
revenue boost in
tight year
By Edward F. Maroney
emaroney@bamstablepatriot.com
If only every county depart -
ment were as healthy as the
health department.
George Heufelder , county
director of health and envi-
ronment , reviewed his budget
request for the fiscalyear begin-
ning next July 1on Wednesday
with the county commissioners.
H&E is something of a favorite
son, given its potential to pro-
duce revenue as well as spend
it in a time of impending fiscal
austerity,
Heufelder says he could do
even more to brighten the bot-
tom line if he had more space
for the county laboratory, and
a move from the basement of
Barnstable Superior Court
House to the old gym in the
fonder house of correction
up the hill is under way. It's
planned that the cost of the
relocation , which is scheduled
for the spring, can be kept under
$1 million.
There will be plenty contend-
ers for the vacated space in the
court house , chief among them
the court system itself.
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FAA audit of airport probes FY 2005
CC Commission hearing on
expansion to be pushed back
By Edward F. Maroney
emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com
TwoFederal Aviation Administration employ-
ees from headquarters in Washington, D.C., and
several staffers from the FAA regional office in
Burlington were at Barnstable Municipal Airport
this week to begin an audit of records from fis-
cal year 2005.
"We will be auditing financial transactions
between the airport and the town,"FAAregional
spokesman Jim Peters said Monday. To the best
of hisknowledge,he said, thisisthe first time the
Washington office has participated in an audit
of the Barnstable airport .
Asked whether legal action brought against
management and members of the airport com-
mission by Rectrix Aerodrome Centers was the
reason for the audit , Peters said, "I don't know
if the lawsuit has prompted this decision. "
Following this week's fieldwork . which was
expected to take several days, a report will be
compiled that may include recommendations ,
according to Peters. He said there is no "time-
table " for releasing the report , a step that will
likely require a Freedom of Information Act
request.
Meanwhile, a Cape Cod Commission public
hearing on the airport's proposed new terminal
and expansion project willnot be held on Dec. 14
as had been announced this week.
Commission spokesperson Nancy Hossfeld said
the hearing, which was to have considered the
project as aDevelopment of RegionalImpact, will
likelybe continued on Dec. 14to adate in January.
It wasnecessaryto schedule the hearing, she said,
to observe procedural time limits on the review.
Inaddition,Hossfeld said,the commission'sdraft,
writtendecision,based on staffand subcommittee
review of the project , is not ready
Another
Hyannis area
gets police
attention
Fresh Holes quandary
prompts Sea St.
Neighborhood Watch
By Paul Gauvin
pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com
The town and the police swiftly embraced
a plan by Sea Street , Hyannis, residents this
week to form a Neighborhood Watch in the
wake of recent lessons learned from the crime-
troubled Captain's Quarters area of Fresh
Holes and Hiramar Roads between Bearses
Way and Route 28.
Taking the crime "prevention" bull by the
horns, Jennifer Cullum. owner-operator of
the Sea Street Market , pitched the idea to
some neighbors and to Town Manager John
Klimm after two people recently attempted to
hang a dog in the Oak Grove Cemetery across
from the store. A mother-daughter pair from
Yarmouth was taken into protective custody
and one was charged with cruelty to animals,
according to police sources.
Cullum said she has observed - even on
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Passion to participate motivates Katrina aid effort
BHS students make sacrifices to
help hurricane victims rebuild
By Britt Beedenbender
news@barnstablepatriot.com
BRITT BtEDENBENDER PHOTO
THEY CARE - Pat Nelson, senior class president,
and Kara Griffin, president of the Spanish Honor
Society, are working to get 10 Barnstable High School
students to Alabama to build houses for those left
homeless by Hurricane Katrina.
"Two seconds after Hurricane Katrina hit, Pat
came runninginto the classroom saying, 'We gotta
do something! We gotta do something!'"
Thisishow,accordingto Grace LytleofBarnstable
High School, emotion turned into action. Spurred
on by the enthusiasm of one, a group of teenagers
has rallied, sacrificed its ownwants for the needs of
others, and in the process inspired a community.
In February, during school vacation week, the
coordinated efforts of the 40 students from the
i
Spanish Honor Society willbe realized asthey send
off 10of their classmatesto Mobile. Ala.,where they
will help Habitat for Humanity build houses for
low-income familieswho are still without homes in
Katrina's aftermath. On Nov. 14. Habitat reached
a construction milestone when it raised the walls
on Its 500th hurricane recovery home, just outside
Mobile.
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Cape hospitals consider
electrocunvulsive therapy
Electroshock therapy conjures images of
desperate, terrified patients strapped to
gurneys popping and writhing as the juice
hits the brain B:4
HEALTHSCAPE
INDEX
Judith Barnet: She's added art to
activism
Judith Barnet has been a driving force for
affordable family housing in Barnstable for
decades but is now quietly looking for a suit-
able place of her own in the town she served
for so many years B:1
VILLAGES
It was a game mired in controversy, rife with
energy, and smeared with just a little mud
from a field still drying out after Thursday's
heavy rains A:10
Weather of not, rivalry continues
Lifetime achievement,labor of love
Ed Semprini stood to the side at Friday
night's 2006 BHS Athletic Hall of Fame
ceremony, shaking his head slightly as past
inductee Jack Aylmer rattled off Semprini's
credentials A:10
SPORTS
Rebecca Pierce-Merrick retains title at Pierce-
Cote A:8
Osterville's Pierce-Cote
Advertising merges with Regan
Communications
Willy's buys Women's Body Shop
in Hyannis
It's Willy's latest gym , but guys named Willy
or whatever remain persona non grata. . A:8
BUSINESS
GAUVIN: Right chief at right price
could lift Klimm legacy
Town Manager John Klimm is occupied, one
presumes, soliciting input from town coun-
cilors ... on what type of permanent police
chief the town wants A:7
OPINION
Talkin' 'bout cogeneration
At a time of ever rising electricity costs,
Barnstable prepares to combat the inevitable
expense by experimenting in new age technol-
ogy to be used at the high school A:3
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