Patriots Square open

Shoppers from all over the mid-Cape headed for the corner of Routes 134'and 6 Monday, June 17, because the two anchor stores of the Patriots Square shopping complex - a Purity Supreme supermarket and a Heartland Drug Store - opened for business.

Another group of people headed that direction also — employees, hundreds of them.

Purity Supreme Manager David Greenwood says his supermarket has hired over 200 full and part-time employees. Developer Charlie Chamberlain says that altogether the complex should employ about 600 once all its shops are open.

Purity Supreme held interviewing sessions at the Dennis Senior Center over the last several months. Chamberlain says it has even hired some retired people part time, as well as about 50 recent graduates of Dennis-Yarmouth High School.

"This could be the largest employer in town," said Chamberlain in an interview earlier this spring. "If you con-Continued on next page Continued from previous page sider those working on Great Western Road, you're looking at a very heavy concentration of employment -- 1500 to 1600 people." "These are all new jobs too," he said. "We're not replacing something that is shutting down. Business-wise, it will be a real help to the community. You've got to feed them and take care of their cars."

FinCom and school crowding

Dennis Finance Committee, meeting the morning of June 18, entertained a request from the School Committee which wants a member of FinCom to attend a meeting aimed at school overcrowding in Dennis. FinCom member William E. Crowell, Sr., said that he is going to ask his colleague, Judith Swanson, to attend the meeting.

D.C. group donates land

The Nature Conservancy of Washington D.C. has donated one-half acre of land off Airline Road in East Dennis to the town. The parcel abuts 2.5 acres the town recently took at Baker's Pond. Dennis Conservation Commission voted June 20 to recommend to the Board of Selectmen that the town accept the gift.

Joy to work for town

Kevin Joy has been appointed as the town of Dennis' assistant natural resource officer for the summer. He was unanimously appointed by the Conservation Commission.

Dennis Port brickwork

At 10:45 am on Main Street, Dennis Port, out in front of Davenport's department store, Virginia Van Vorst leaned over and placed into the sidewalk the last brick in Dennis Port's sidewalk beautification project. The dedication marked the end of Van Vorst's long struggle to improve the sidewalks of Dennis Port's business district. Money for the project came from the South Side Business and Civic Association, of which Van Vorst is treasurer. The association contributed $20,000 and the Town of Dennis pitched in $10,000. The Dennis Port Historical Study Committee, of which Van Vorst is chairman, sprung up out of the association. She said the sidewalk improvement is part of the bigger goal of having the south side of Dennis declared a historic district.

Apple Lane extension

Dennis Planning Board has voted to require more detailed plans from Sesuit Woods Realty Trust, developers of a 14-lot subdivision off 6A near Black Ball Hill in Dennis. The board said at its June 24 meeting that the two parcels of land farthest away from 6A are so-called panhandle lots and that access to them and two others is over a 35-degrce slope. That steepness causes the board concern; it wants plans showing the location of driveways on the plots and what kind of drainage system will be involved. As board member Gail Hart said, "The Engineering Department has to have to have something specific (o review."

Census not complete

Dennis Town Clerk Elinor Slade told selectmen on June II that final figures for the town census are still not completed, but that redistricting the town's five precincts is inevitable. Preliminary figures show South Dennis with a heavy population increase and West Dennis with a lighter population than reflected in the last census. As soon as the census is complete, Slade says, the redistricting project can begin and be submitted to the Massachusetts Secretary of State by September 15, the extended deadline for redistricting plans.

Aquaculture grant renewed

Aquaculture Research Corp. has received another fiveyear grant to grow mussels and oysters on a one-acre plot at Chase Garden Creek, Dennis. Dennis selectmen unanimous!) approved Aquaculture's grant at a June II meeting. The Shellfish Committee had recommended the grant in May. Selectmen voted to retain the original restrictions on the grant, limiting the number of shellfish rafts to 160.

Assistant harbormasters

Selectmen al their Tuesday, June I I meeting appointed Maureen McBrien as deputy to Shellfish Constable Alan Marcv and appointed four assistants. Richard Proctor ol West Dennis and Ed Goggin of Dennis Port will patrol Sesuit Harbor, and Ken I elton of Harwich and .lint PettengUl ol Brewster will patrol Bass River.

Town Hall Clock

(All meetings in town hall unless otherwise noted) Friday, June 28 Finance Committee, 9:00 am Monday, Jul) 1 Board of Appeals, 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 3 Planning Board Work Session, 7:30 pm Thursday, July 4 Holiday, Town Hall closed