HN REPLAY: Pedaling the extra mile…
HN REPLAY: These photos and their message were initially published on 9/29/2015. What’s happening to HyTown is not fair for our children and families. We need to change that! Please take another look at these photos and this recent HN message… also, please be safe, sensible, and unreasonably stubborn when it comes to raising the bar and going that extra mile for Hyannis.
HYANNIS – In the above photos, two young children show surprise as they’re caught on camera today at about 6:00PM on Hinckley Road.
HN frequents the Route 28 area late in the day and I always see this father hauling his children in the relative safety of closed business parking lots and side streets…
In the following photo, HN was fortunate to finally meet this young family. The father of four told HN he rigged up the bike and wagon so he could get some exercise and have fun with his kids after a day’s work.
The children are 2 and 6-years-old… and they all seem to be smiling every time I see them.
HN REMINDER: Our existing (as well as emerging) town leaders need to focus on somehow inviting and facilitating an abundance of job rich industries to move here so that HyTown can once again become the logical choice for hard working young families. In short, we need to become more business and job friendly. Welcoming and telling the world that Barnstable is “Open For Business” needs to be the top priority of town wide agendas, and all over the top page of our town’s website.
The easiest and quickest way to clean this town up is to inundate it with gainfully employed young families. (That will not happen by continuing to focus on tourism being the primary industry… In fact, there will be less and less tourism if something does not change.)
We also need to continue to encourage the movement of social service industries out of the Hyannis family neighborhoods and business districts. We may still need these agencies to some degree as we “transition,” but their goal should ultimately be to decrease in number, if not disappear altogether. (As of right now, social services and welfare agencies are seemingly the fastest growing industry in the downtown area. That definitely needs to change.)
We don’t want young hard working families continuing to pack up and leave to find safer and better places to live, as they currently are doing. We want to send the message that we value them by making Hyannis the logical choice for raising children. We need to provide that, and in return they will bolster our tax rolls so that we may continue to maintain the promises HyTown should be offering and expecting.
Continuing to turn this village into a giant outpatient ward which expects very little other than slowing the overdose death rate and trying to prevent the numbers of newly arriving troubled transient individuals from bleeding out on our sidewalks and living room floors is a terribly short-sighted goal… and unfair to the children, families, and needy that already exist here.
There has been some progress, but so much more can be done. There can be no rest until the people of Hyannis and surrounding villages enjoy the benefits of HyTown becoming the cleanest, safest, most enterprising, and prosperous seaside city on the East Coast.
In the meantime, please be safe, sensible, and unreasonably stubborn when it comes to raising the bar and going that extra mile.
9/29/2015
Robert Bastille,
P.S. – Today’s HyTown Vignette is brought to by Curtis Mayfield… [Crank it!]
