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1935: Fishing Schooner jams prop in nets, needs aid

Fishing Schooner in trouble;

Above is a typical Grand Banks fishing schooner of the era

Cutter Sent to Help Vessel With Fouled Propeller.

On this day in 1935 a Grand Banks Fishing Schooner, the "Babe Sears", got its propeller snarled in a fishing net a 100 miles east of Cape Cod. She hailed a passing merchant ship to ask for help from the Coast Guard which subsequently towed her into Boston. Read the newspaper report from that day on the right. 

The Marconi Station in Wellfleet and WCC in Chatham Port were still relatively new aids to mariners back then, and the old schooners seldom had radios aboard, but the merchant ship did have one and radioed the Cape stations for help.

The Grand Banks Schooner

As the New England fishing industry grew in the 18th and 19th centuries, so did other related industries and technology. Once the US gained independence, New England soon became a commercial power. This affluence can be attributed to fishing and the ever-improving design of the schooner. The fishing schooner had been invented in 1713, and their design gradually improved, allowing for faster travel and larger catches. Support industries also prospered by making gear, boat parts, and tools for the fishermen. As fishing techniques evolved, so did society.  The graceful, elegant schooner shown above is among the ultimate in that class which was made obsolete by gas powered fishing boats.

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Sandwich rollover; Yarmouth crash; Smoke evacuates Yarmouth hotel

Route 6 rollover seriously injures driver
SANDWICH - Rescuers had to extricate the driver of a rollover crash on Route 6 late Thursday evening. A vehicle rolled over on the eastbound side near exit 3 about 10:30 p.m. The driver was taken to Cape Cod Hospital reportedly suffering from a significant head injury. The crash is under investigation by State Police as well as a second crash at the same spot while the first was being cleaned up. No one was seriously injured in the second crash.

Driver seriously injured in car vs pole

YARMOUTH - A Saab crashed into a pole just East of Willow Street on Route 6A  shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday causing extensive damage to the car and sending the driver to Cape Cod Hospital with what were described as serious but non-life threatening injuries. Yarmouth Police are investigating the crash. Photo by Richard Copley.

Smoke forces evacuation of oceanfront hotel
YARMOUTH - Just after 9 a.m. Thursday morning, the Ocean Club on South Shore Drive in South Yarmouth was evacuated when alarms sounded and smoke spread through the building.  A full response from the Yarmouth Fire Department confirmed the presence of smoke and  the issue was resolved.  It was not determined what caused the smoke and guests were allowed to return to the building once it was cleared.  Story by Richard Copley.

Cape Police mark Peace Officer's Police Memorial Day
YARMOUTH - Cape Police Departments are marked Peace Officer's Memorial Day Thursday. In 1962 President John F. Kennedy designated May 15 as Peace Officer's Memorial Day.  The calendar week in which May 15 falls is National Police Week.

The men and women of the Yarmouth Police Department are honoring National Police Memorial Day today by wearing black and blue mourning bands over their badges as a tribute to the 18,000 Police Officers who have given their lives in the service and protection of their fellow citizens.

A special roll call ceremony was held this morning honoring fellow Yarmouth Patrol Officer Bradford M. Erickson who was killed in the line of duty on December 1, 2000.

On average during the last 10 years in the United States:

• 167 Police Officers were killed in the line of duty each year
• 57,558 Police Officers were attacked in the line of duty each year
• 16, 219 Police Officers were injured in the line of duty each year

Public Law 103-322 designates that all government agencies, businesses, and residents are required to fly their flags at half staff on May15.

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Are you a consigning woman?

Several of my clothes have come from Consigning Women in Harwich, but I've been hesitant to write about them because they contradict my mission statement.

This store, generally speaking is not cheap. My first purchase was a suit by Kenar with a $49 price tag; my only justification was the fact that it would have sold at Marshall's for $100. Granted, they do have designer clothes that are in great condition, but their prices are much higher than any other Cape consignment shop. 

The skirt in the picture below is part of the suit, the original jacket was orange corduroy but I no longer wear it.  Also pictured is a brown Limited jacket ($2.50, Our Lady of the Cape Thrift) and an off-white shirt ($19.99, Ann Taylor).  

As an incentive, Consigning Women does offer "Comeback Buks" which equate to a $0.50 coupon for every $10 you spend. Yet Tots to Teens Fashion Exchange, the consignment store I recently blogged about, also offers Comeback Buks, but they offer a $1.00 coupon for every $10 spent.

At any rate, if you like Talbots, Ann Taylor, J Jill or Banana Republic, then you will love Consigning Women. And if the clothes stay on the rack for more than a few weeks, they will start taking discounts off the original price. Consigning Women also has a really great selection of shoes (mostly new) and designer purses.

The skirt is from Ann Taylor ($13 [after $2 comeback buks], Consigning Women), the blouse is from Fisherman's House Thrift and the jacket is from Old Navy (United Methodist Thrift).

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Reception for Rep. Jeff Perry with Special Guest Mitt Romney

Reception for State Representative Jeff Perry (R) with Special Guest Mitt Romney

A reception for Representative Jeff Perry will be held on Thursday, June 26, 2008 at the Cape Codder Resort on Route 132 in Hyannis. 

Doors open at 6:30pm.  There will be complimentary appetizers and a cash bar.  There will also be a performance by Sgt. Daniel Clark, "The Singing Trooper".

The evening's special guest will be former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. 

The cost to attend is:

• Host Committee: $500 (includes a private reception with Mitt Romeny & Jeff Perry)
• Event Sponsor: $200 (includes preferred reserved seating)
• General Reception: $50
  

For more information or to RSVP, call 508-888-2158 or email here.  Visit Rep. Perry's site here.

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Practicality or Vision

These days there is a real conflict going on about practicality vs. vision and I think it is true throughout the country. Of course, I can only speak from my own point of view and I don't pretend to have the answers. By practicality, (and I'll stretch the definition) I mean the tendency to be "practical" or judicious when considering projects affecting the community at large and placing a long-range vision on the back burner.

For example, the recent discussion about the new police station in Harwich drew practical points of view from all directions. Why build a new one? Why not regionalize? Why not build it smaller? What will be the impact on taxpayers? And so on it went. But other practical arguments were introduced that made the new police station a shoo in, e.g. costs will increase if the Town waits; regionalization is good for certain programs, like dispatch, but not for the entire police force; building size has been reduced to the minimum needed for a viable force. The same arguments will show up, I'm sure, when the matter of building a new high school comes up, in fact, it's already happening.

My point is that all of the above are extremely important. It is not like a committee that wants to build a horse and ends up with a camel. In most cases, practicality works for the betterment of all. Many problems can be solved by the "practical" approach.

Now, we come to the two historic school buildings in Harwich. From a practical standpoint, certain folks would like to see them torn down. In other words, why throw good money into two dilapidated buildings? This is the best way to rid the conscience of the troubling problem of having a sore spot stick out in the town. After so many years of neglect and disinterest in improving the buildings, now we are faced with a decision. Go forward or just throw in the towel. There are other practical suggestions. Why not take on the renovations in a piecemeal fashion? Why not turn the buildings into additional housing units? Why not sell them?

The police station is a necessity for public safety. The new high school is a necessity for a vital educational purpose. Tearing down the old police station and replacing it with a spanking new one is not a problem. Tearing down the old high school and building the new one is not a problem. Tearing down historic homes, or any homes for that matter, for building new and larger homes is a problem, but on a different scale. Historic buildings, generally, have no significance for safety or basic education. Their value lies in the community's commitment to preserving history, a sort of abstract term that requires some thought beyond the practical.

We may often talk about the heart and soul of Harwich, but it seems to mean different things to different people. The supporters of economic growth do not always consider the importance of historic treasures to the Town. They call it progress. The supporters of limited change may be nearsighted when it comes to zoning changes and controlled growth. In the middle of it all is historic preservation. The Town created the historic district in the 70s. The reasons are not totally spelled out, but districts and places are seen as adding values to a Town, in property values and intrinsic values.

Creating a historic district and maintaining it are two different things. Harwich, for thirty-odd years has had the district in place, but has placed little emphasis on its existence, except for a few signs. The Brooks Academy Museum and the Brooks Free Library have masterfully kept the Town's history intact, but they can't do it alone.

Over time, the lack of attention to the historic district as a whole has created a real problem; apathy that requires enormous resources to recover from. The O.R.B. (old rec. bldg on Sisson Road, across from Brooks Academy Museum, Harwich Center) is a cornerstone of the Historic District. The architecture is Greek Revival (as is the museum and the West Harwich School). Those who might be interested in this topic should visit here or here.  The two schools, built in 1871, represent Greek Revival and are the last of the town-owned buildings. The schools, also built in three other villages, were built when the townspeople realized that providing education was the responsibility of the Town.

Do you think the picture, an example of Greek Revival, is of Brooks Academy Museum? Think again. See answer below.

The RFP (Request for Proposal) is on the street for affordable housing and building renovations. The immediate practicality is the housing. We need it now. Not totally secondary, however, is the building renovations. Unfortunately, the costs are high. We can't be sure that any builder will want to take on the project, especially since we are asking that the renovations live up to historic standards and that we intend to file for the historic registry.

The vision is to raise the Historic District to its rightful place in the community and make it a destination for tourists; good for the soul of Harwich, good for business. The same applies to West Harwich.

Having a dilapidated building in the district is a sad commentary on the Town's commitment. We now have an opportunity to put things right, if, and only if, we can find a bidder who will restore the buildings. If not, the consequences are dire. We will go on indefinitely, hobbling along until the day comes when the very existence of the buildings will surface again and the "I-told-you-sos will come flying out of the rafters.

How can we GETTER DONE?

The first annual cleanup of Historic Harwich Center will be held on Saturday, May 17. Volunteers are asked to report to the Exchange Center Park at 9:00 a.m. Bring a rake, broom, or just yourselves. We have a surprise for all volunteers.

Vast improvements have been made to the Town's web site. For your enjoyment, go here and click on Boards and Commissions.  Then, click on Cultural Council for some interesting links.  Most important, click here to print and fill out the survey, then get it to Town Hall.  The Council needs your input. Out-of-Towners welcome as well.

The picture is of the First Congregational Church in Somers, CT built in 1842.

Have a great week.

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Vatican: It's Okay to Believe In Aliens

I'm not the  voice of the aliens, but...

While I'm not sure I want to become the voice of the aliens, I couldn't help but add this to your daily news lineup. I've professed a belief here before that we couldn't possibly be the only living beings in a universe that doesn't end, and I have to say, this headline does nothing to dispel those beliefs. Neither does the fact more than 100 high ranking military personnel recently came forward (again) to admit they've either seen UFO's or have helped cover up their existence. It may be convenient for you to ignore such things  (lest you be forced to rearrange your world view), but the facts are the facts, ladies and gents.

Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer saidI don't think an institution that has, in the past, believed in purgatory and a little man with red horns should be the deciding factor on whether or not you believe in UFO's. Religion itself has some rather other-worldly ideas in the first place, but one has to question their motives here. What's the reason for this revelation now? If the US government won't get on the UFO bandwagon, then why would the Vatican? And of all the things the Vatican could have said it's "okay" to believe in, why this particular issue? This article shows some pretty forward thinking on the part of the Vatican, integrating faith and reason.

Keep in mind that nothing comes out of Vatican City without Vatican City knowing.

Here's the article:
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
By ARIEL DAVID
Associated Press Writer
3:07 PM CDT, May 13, 2008
VATICAN CITY
Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.

"How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said. "Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation."

In the interview by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures. Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom, he said.

The interview, headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother," covered a variety of topics including the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and science, and the theological implications of the existence of alien life.

Funes said science, especially astronomy, does not contradict religion, touching on a theme of Pope Benedict XVI, who has made exploring the relationship between faith and reason a key aspect of his papacy.

The Bible "is not a science book," Funes said, adding that he believes the Big Bang theory is the most "reasonable" explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.

But he said he continues to believe that "God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the result of chance."

Funes urged the church and the scientific community to leave behind divisions caused by Galileo's persecution 400 years ago, saying the incident has "caused wounds."

In 1633 the astronomer was tried as a heretic and forced to recant his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.

"The church has somehow recognized its mistakes," he said. "Maybe it could have done it better, but now it's time to heal those wounds and this can be done through calm dialogue and collaboration."

Pope John Paul declared in 1992 that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension."

The Vatican Observatory has been at the forefront of efforts to bridge the gap between religion and science. Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world's best.

The observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, is based in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the hills outside Rome where the pope has a summer residence. It also conducts research at an observatory at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.

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Shooting Great Aerial Photographs Lesson #1

The first in a series of lessons about how to take great Cape Cod aerial photographs.

#1- Do not sit in the front seat and attempt to shoot through the windshield, instead have the pilot open the side window and shoot from the back seat.

(Unsuccessful Aerial Photograph)

The above image, shot seconds apart from the following one, was snapped as the lighthouse rolled around in sight from my open window behind the plexiglass.  The focus is good and it can be color corrected but the manual editing required is prohitive in a professional workflow.  The glass casts reflections, refracts images, distorts focus, and most damagingly adds a green tint to all shots.

(Successful Aerial Photograph)

The above successful image of the Monomoy Point Lighthouse in Chatham was shot out the open window, seconds before the later image which follows in this series, shot through the plexiglass window.  Always have the pilot open a window and shoot through the opening from the back seat. Turn the plane for your shots, rather than turning and shooting out windows.

-Christopher Seufert
www.CapeCodAerial.com

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Coast Guard Rescues Four from Eight-Foot Seas

Rescued sailors arrive at Coast Guard Canal Station today

The crew of the 210-foot Coast Guard Cutter Reliance, based in Kittery, Maine, rescued Paul and Linda Doughty and Berlinda and Antoinette Cole on Monday from their 38-foot sailboat, Wolf, which was floundering in eight foot seas 200 miles off the Carolina coast.

Crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Reliance (highlighted) pull four boaters from the floundering sailing vessel May 13, 2008. Coast Guard photo.A boat crew from Station Cape Cod Canal is scheduled to transport the four to the Cape Cod Canal station today.

The crew of the Reliance, which by pure luck was only six miles from the Wolf when they received the distress call, arrived to the aid of the sailing vessel just in time. The sailboat's cabin had filled with approximately four feet of water, and the vessel's bilge pumps had lost power and were no longer pumping the water off the boat.

A rescue crew from the Reliance piloted their ship's small boat through 8- to-10-foot seas to the sailing vessel and pulled all four of the sailors off the sinking vessel safely.

Vessel adrift

The four sailors are aboard the Reliance and are in good condition. They will stay aboard the cutter until the ship pulls into Cape Cod.

The crew of the Reliance was unable to tow the Wolf into port safely because it was taking on so much water and the seas offshore were too large. The vessel is adrift and its position has been marked in order to prevent it from initiating any false mayday calls.

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What Are The Options?

Is misery optional for alkies?

I was told something when I first tried to get sober that was designed to keep me coming back - and I'll be damned but it worked.

I was told that I was the “the most important person in the room”.

I thought, Man this is a wonderful place. I was sure that it was true and I was happy that these folks could see it. Finally I was being appreciated. I was sick of being told what a loser drunk I was.

That idea took the edge off my pain almost as well as drink did. The pain and crappy feelings - low self-esteem that I had collected about myself got just a little bit more tolerable when I thought that maybe - just maybe - these people understood and appreciated me. That kind of tribute was something I really needed to feel better and so what did I do? You kiddiing? I kept coming back for more!

Already an approval junkie, I came to hang with these people - go to meetings - NOT to solve my alcohol problem - but for my approval fix.  Oh, and I also drank again.  I was one of many many meeting makers who were not 'making it'.  The 'meeting makers' arent makingit in AA these days - and one only need to look honestly at the relapse rate in AA to see that this is true. Where AA once had a seventy five to nintey five percent success rate there is now a rate believed to be at par with rehabs nd treatment centers - and that rate is abominable. Arrogant, "board approved" and paid "Addictions Counselors" in the alcohol treatment industry brag about it and use this as a selling point for their $10-$40,000 a month facilities. With charges like that DAMN I'd want you  back too! Many  do go back for mutliple spin drys through the revolving doors of treatment centers that are desparate to get back the business they gave up on and pissed away to AA seventy years ago - and why not, they didnt have a solution to alcoholism - they still don't - and Alcoholics Anonymous does. Always did.

If you are  familiar with the book from which the Fellowship of Alcoholcs Anomymous gets its name, aka "The Big Book" then you also may have seen the directions for Twelve Stepping an alcoholic. You know  then that it says,  “Call on him while he is still jittery. He may be more receptive when depressed.” ^{("Alcoholics Anonymous" 19:2)}

This is not just some bright idea that the co-authors of that book just pulled out thin air and tossed into the text. Hell, no. It is based on their experiences in working with other alcoholics and from being real alcoholics themselves.

Today I realize that the most important thing for a newcomer is NOT to keep coming back. It's good to come back - of course - because after his alcohol problem is solved he will have gained so much freakin' power over alcohol that he won’t be able to contain it. He will just have to give it away - and that is the Primary Purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous.  An AA group’s members help other alcoholics achieve sobriety - and what is sobriety in AA parlance? Bill W, one of AAs co-founders said it: “Sobriety: freedom from alcohol thought the teaching and practice of the Twelve Steps is the some purpose of the AA Group.”

 AA is a not a "not drinking today, Ma!"  club - it is a "help others recover" spiritual Fellowship of alcoholics - what it's co-founders termed a "Fellowship of the Spirit".  The first and most important thing is to have a spiritual awakening - not to stop drinking, as so many think - so that we can come back and help others to have that same experience. That is what I have fianlly learned through hard experience, which I share here.

OK I know - some people need to feel good about themselves because that’s why they are  drinking. Take away the reason they are drinking (low self esteem) and then they can stop. I know all that. It’s true. But  anyone who is drinking solely to escape the pain of low self esteem is NOT drinking for the same reasons I did. They probably are not the kind of drinker I  am either, and I am a real alcoholic exactly fitting AA's much ignored "Our description of the alcoholic"  These folks are what the co-founders refered to as “problem drinkers”.  Now don’t flame me. I did not write the bloody book. I just refer to it and live by  it. 

To further help make the point, “It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives. These things were true to some extent, in fact, to a considerable extent with some of us. But we are sure that our bodies were sickened as well." ^{("Alcoholics Anonymous" The Doctors Opinion)}

Alcoholics do not drink because of some childhood trauma or inability to deal with their lives. That's what normal folks and heavy drinking types do. We alkies take a first drink because we are insane and we keep drinking because we are physically unable to stop the craving for more once we do. It is just that simple. We are separate entities from the rest of humanity walking the face of this earth once this physical factor becomes a part of our makeup. Some of  us would rather commit suicide that give in to that craving - and very many of us do. It is that insurmountabe and little appreciated by those who cannot identify themselves with it.

“These men were not drinking to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.” ^{("Alcoholics Anonymous" The Doctors Opinion)}

I used to tell a friend of mine, Barry Gross who had been helping me recover and who had not had a drink in over four years at the time, that "I have to get my self-esteem back . . . THEN I will be OK!"  Man, I just wanted wanted to feel good.

Barry laughed upon first hearing this from me. He told me "I've been trying to SHRINK your self-esteem. You have too damned much of it."

He was right.

He taught me that if we wait for someone to "feel better" to get their "self-esteem" back and feel "comfortable" in their skin FIRST then  we are working AGAINST the real alcoholic solution - not working toward it. That is because the more miserable we are - the more receptive we will be to going any length - and that lenght is real long - so long that many of us cannot go through with it.

We do not want to tell an alcoholic "There, there, everything will be all right" or “You’re a wonderful person who just happens to drink too much." That may not be the truth. The truth is everything is NOT all right. He has NOT acted and behaved a “wonderful person." He’s probably stolen money, hurt his family and friends and owes every Tom Dick and Harry from New York to Los Angels. He is at death's door - and hopeless.

If he doesn't feel that way or if we prevent him from getting to feel that way then we could and often do short-circuit his recovery - and he'll never go through with it - the drastic steps necessary in order to have the spiritual awakening that will save his life.

Why would we say that depression and misery is optional at this stage? If an alcoholic bottom is necessary to start recovery then misery is MANDATORY - not optional. Feeling like shit is GOOD for a real alkie. It is God's natural tap on the shoulder. "Yo, wasup home skillet! You lost, my son!"

I believe he got me because he wanted to let me know that the first and most important thing was  to have a spiritual awakening so that I could can come back and help others to have that same experience.

The only way to accomplish that is to deflate - not INFLATE.

Peace and Love,

Danny S

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Time to beef up the Bourne Library

There are many different ways to judge a town, but the quality of the local library is usually a pretty good barometer as to what things will be like with other town services. Lots of people aren't aware of this, but things sort of fall into line once you start looking for it.

That said, there's two kinds of small town libraries in New England: the little rural one that holds like 9 people, and the modern one where you can get DVDs and use the Internet for nothing.

The Library serves many functions beyond somewhere to go at the last minute when you have a History paper due. The Library was/is/shall always be a sort of de facto babysitter, an answerer of questions that can't be answered within your family and social circles (I'm here today to try to find a way to cheat on my real estate assessment, but I digress), and most likely something from your town that was in your grandmother's town... and will hopefully be in your grandchildren's town as well.

If the future were that easy to predict, I'd stop writing and just bet on football 16 weeks a year. But there are things you can do to ensure that your town's future will feature a library big enough that some old lady won't be going SHHHH at you every time you cross your legs and the nylon hisses.

Bourne has a superb library (peep the website: http://www.bournelibrary.org/jbl/), but it was last renovated in the Reagan Administration. Melissa could throw a ball from one end of it to the other, and she's 4 (I know this because she's done so already). It's a bit chilly in the winter, and a bit warm in the summer- it needs modern HVAC stuff. It has handicap-accessibility issues. The wiring is a little funny, as this library was last renovated before Al Gore invented the Internet.

Certain things must be changed to accomodate a customer base that includes children, elderly, and whoever else you might find in here at 11 AM on a Thursday.

Most notably, they need space. Space for more books, space for more Children's programs, space for more Internet stuff, space for private tutoring (when I tutored, I would almost always use the library as a meeting place, unless the client had really rich parents and we could study Math out in a garden or something), space to just move around.

They have the actual hard part done already... the space. There's a soccer field out behind the library, which could be redesigned so that one goal isn't next to a culvert. Allowed to expand into that space, the library could modernize in a heartbeat.

It's a good library. They have 56,000 books, 3,200 videos, does thousands of children's programs (pretty much once a week), circulates 140,000 books a year, and serves 100,000 people a year.

That's impressive, but we can do more. We like our library to be able to kick the Wareham and Sandwich's library's candy asses.

There's a Town Meeting this May 20th, and voters will be asked to come up with the $9.2 million ($6.3 million on the town's end) needed for the library renovation product. If you live in Bourne and either A) have kids or B) plan on being elderly, I'd wholeheartedly recommend not being cheap when the question of Library Funding comes up.

Remember... if the town doesn't vote to cough up the $6.3 million, we lose the $2.8 million state grant that probably won't be offered again unless Deval is really right on the money about that Wampanoag gambling thing. 

The Library is trying to raise funds on their own, but you can only do so much. Cataumet Fish is doing something really cool... Cash For Clams, where you get a Cash For Clams card, and every $10 worth of seafood you buy there generates a fat dollar hit for the library renovation fund.

I shall also not fail to inform my readers that the library will also be continuing their popular Barn Babies program this June 27th (9 AM to Noon). Kids who show up that day will get to play with baby ducks, chickens, cows, cobras and whatever else lives on a farm. It regularly scores a 9.9 on the Cute-O-Meter.

I might be wrong about the cobras, but I'm not wrong about the importance of Coming Correct at the May 20th Town Meeting when the Library. I won't tell you how to vote, but vote to allow the funding for the renovation.

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