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It is also that time of year for holiday events all over Cape Cod. This year the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to be partnering with the Hyannis Main Street Business Im- provement District and the Greater HyannisCivicAssoci- ation to present the Hyannis MainStreet ChristmasStroll. New partnerships mean new energy and enthusiasm, and this year proves to be better then ever. The weekend revolves around four marquee events andissurrounded byamyriad of musical, interactive, and family-focused activities To- day at 5p.m., the celebration beginswiththe openingofthe VillageGreen,and isfollowed at 7:30 p.m. withthe exciting arrival of Santa Claus on a Barnstable Fire Department ladder truck. WQRC will be broadcasting as families en- joy the lighting of the Village Green and visits with Santa. Next door at the JFK Hyannis Museum is the first Spectacle of Trees, with pro- ceedsfrom that event goingto support 15local non-profits. The evening continues with activities up and down Main Street, from free hayrides to musical entertainment , holiday shopping and special kid'sactivities.MainStreet is once again the central loca- tion for the Stroll's festive family fun! CONTINUED ON PAGE A:9 Osterville's Pierce-Cote Advertising merges with Regan Communications Rebecca Pierce-Merrick retains title at Pierce-Cote By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com Boston-based Regan Communica- tions Group, the nation's ninth largest independent public relations firm, has announced a merger with Pierce-Cote Advertising of Osterville. Principals of both companies said the merger willempower them to offer clients an expanded and comprehensivemenu of integrated communications services. George K. Regan Jr., founder of Re- gan Communications Group, said, "Our longstanding strengths-public and com- munity relations and crisis communica- tions - are perfectly complemented by Pierce-Cote's advertising, multimedia, Web and graphic design services." Rebecca Pierce-Merrick willretainher title as president of Pierce-Cote and the agency will continue to operate from its Osterville location. "The merged companies represent a one-stop shoppingopportunity to clients who otherwise would have to contract with multiple companies for various communications needs," Pierce-Mer- rick said. Company names will remain the same. Terms of the agreement were not released. Regan Communications Group, found- ed in 1983, represents clients across a broad spectrum , including professional sports teams,hotels,restaurants,manu- facturers , banks, law firms and news media. The company's Cape Cod office will share the Pierce-Cote site. Pierce-Cote Advertising, established in 1988,provides integrated communica- tions to the travel and tourism industry, transportation , health care, financial services and other industries. Willy's buys Women's Body Shop in Hyannis Club will remain for women only By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com JULIA CUMES PHOTO MAKING A MOVE - Barbara Niggel,a noted martial arts champion and owner of Willy's Gym, has purchased the Women's Fitness Center in Hyannis. It' s Willy's latest gym, but guys named Willy or whatever remain per- sona non grata. Owner Barbara Niggel of Eastham, who at 19 won her first martial arts world title, clarified vagueness this week about the recent purchase of the Women's Fitness Center on Attucks Lane in Hyannis by the Willy's Gym organization. Despite coed centers in Orleans and Eastham, the tradition will not extend to the Women's Fitness Center niche that, although now owned by Willy's in a $2.1 million deal, will continue to be testosterone free - no men. "It will remain a women- only facility," Niggel said this week. "At some point in the future, we would like to add onto the existing build- ing for a coed facility and have both." Niggel said Willy's took over the Women's Body Shop operations on Nov. 1. "It was a soft opening," she said. "There won't be any changes at this time. We want to get through the hoi idays. After that, we'll start training our team there and hopefully the current staff will choose to stay." Willy's tradition, none- theless, is rooted in coed activity, said Niggel, whose purchase of her first Willy's Gym in Orleans in 1985 was "a lifelong dream come true." That dream began when Niggel was a child training with a martial arts master teacher, a Mas Goeroe Ago- eng in Indonesian, named Willy Wetzel, for whom Willy's gyms are named. Nig- gel says Wetzel taught her "if you can dream it, you can do it." At age 15, Niggel won her first martial arts title and, two years later, at 17, opened her first martial arts school and gym in Ohio under Wetzel's tutelage. Not long afterwards, in 1975, Wetzel died, leaving Niggel a "heartbroken" teenager, she said, who vowed to devote her life to Wetzel's "compas- sionate teachings." When the steel industry abandoned her Ohio town, Niggel said, so did many of her clients. She was still in competition and moved to Hingham for a while to help a friend start a gym in that area. While there she vaca- tioned on Cape Cod, liked it and between competitions, began teaching self-defense in Lower Cape schools, rape crisis centers and police departments as a volunteer, becoming an honorary depu- ty sheriff for her efforts. Niggel continued with martial arts competition and doing worldwide teach- ing of Wetzel's Poekoelan Tjimindie Tulen, "not a martial art but a healing and compassionate way of living," she said. "But I missed having a club. In 1985, 1decided to lease property and open one in Orleans." She named it after her mentor, Willy Wet- zel. "I have what you could say is a lifetime lease on the building because I never plan to leave that club," she said. "It's my baby." Niggel kept her world title for nine consecutive years and retired from competition, she said, "before the young ones beat me." In 2002, she opened Willy's Wellness and Conference Center in East- ham, where she owns the building and the business. She says the clubs have been named the best fit- ness clubs on the Cape for a number of years and have received awards this year in 11 categories.