Coming in june atebook The Start of the Summer … Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. Overall for the entire region and including the spring, summer and fall seasons, bookings are

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end is usually the sign that our summer has (un)officially begun. But for many of us, our sum-mer season be-gins much earlier than that. Lots of behind-the-scenes things have been happening all winter and spring. If you haven’t been down Main Street Hyannis lately, boy, are you in for a big surprise! Puritan Cape Cod is updating their façade and does it ever look beautiful! The Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District is putting pretty hanging flowers out on the light posts, the JFK Hyannis Museum portico is getting a fresh coat of paint, the Artists Shanties are in place at Bismore Park, and we can’t forget the CapeFLYER, which

I had the pleasure of riding from Boston to Hyannis last weekend – a convenient new way for visitors to come to the Hy-annis area.

According to HotelNewsNow.com, if early indications ring true, it’s going to be a busy summer for hotels across the U.S. as both families and business travelers are expected to hit the road in droves.

Several hoteliers reported to Hotel-NewsNow.com that advanced bookings are up dramatically year over year, back-ing up a new forecast by STR (the parent company of HotelNewsNow.com) that predicts strong performance metrics for June, July and August.

We’re looking forward to a fantastic season and to welcoming visitors to the Town of Barnstable! As always, our Visi-tor’s Center Information Specialists will recommend our member businesses and share incoming leads with you – please be sure to update your brochures in the Visitor’s Center and send us your specials, available rates, etc.

To our hosts, sponsors, speakers, door prize donors, and outstanding volunteers…

Thank you to Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises and Cape Cod Beer for sponsoring our May Business After Hours at Barn-stable Harbor. Members and guests enjoyed delicious hors d’oeuvres, refreshing Cape Cod Beer, and valuable networking with over 150 fellow chamber members aboard the Hyannis Whale Watcher. Lucky attendees won door prizes gener-ously donated by: Spirit Tours, The Cape Codder Resort & Spa, Com-mon Ground Café, Four Seas Ice Cream, Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises, and Island Queen.

A thank you also goes out to our Build Your Business Lunch

speaker, Calan Philbrook of Ed-ward Jones, whose presentation “Put Your Retirement Plan to Work” gave us great tips about how to better manage our savings plans; and to our host, the Beech Tree Cantina. Door prizes were donated by: ACME Glass, Box Lunch and Royal Palace at Memphis.

A very special thank you to all who volunteered to help make the Casino a big success at the Figawi Charity Ball! Mike Aucoin, TV Cape Cod; Chris Kehoe, Stewart Painting; Calan Philbrook, Edward

Jones; Lisa Swansey, Lisa Swansey Landscape Architecture; Kevin Sylver, Specialty Truck and Auto; Mike Trovato, Town of Barnstable, and Brenda Trovato.

And one more big thank you to the many outstanding volunteers who participated in the HACC and JFK Hyannis Museum Foundation Golf Shamble at Willowbend Country Club – we couldn’t have done it without you! Adra Cohen, Cape Cod Mall; Sharon Hawkins, Dowling & O’Neil Insurance; Glen Anderson, JFK Hyannis Museum

Foundation; Peter Scarafile, Cape Cod Healthcare; Lucy Steere, JFK Hyannis Museum Foundation; Betty Penn, Puritan Cape Cod; Sue Fein, Fein Things; Joyce Haycock, Rockland Trust; JoAnne Stelma, Rockland Trust; Dee Petrella, Rockland Trust; Christy Kendrick, Acme Glass; Chris Kehoe, Stewart Painting; Judy Crocker, Cape Cod Broadcasting; Lisa Swansey, Lisa Swansey Landscape Design; Rev. John Terry; Federated Church of Hyannis; and Ruth Condon Price, Cape Cod House Concerts.

Hyannis Area Chamber mem-bers are invited to donate door prizes that will help promote their business at our member events. Call 508-775-7778 or e-mail [email protected] for more information.

Interested in event sponsorship, hosting a Business After Hours or Build Your Busi-ness Lunch? Contact us at 508-775-7778.

Build Your Business LunchFriday, June 14th, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., Courtyard by Marriott, 707 Iyannough Rd, Hyannis, MA

Enjoy an informative pre-sentation, tasty lunch, great networking and door prizes. This month’s guest speaker is David Speciale, who will be presenting “Identity Theft and Data Breach and the Impact on the Consumer and Business.”

Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. Kindly RSVP to 508-775-7778.

Cost is $15 for HACC members; $25 for non-members. RSVP to 508-775-7778 or [email protected]. Registration also available on our online events calendar.

Business After HoursWednesday, June 19th, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by Keller Company at the Hyannisport Club, 2 Irving Ave. Hyannisport

Join us for business net-working, delicious hors d’oeuvres and beverages, and gorgeous surroundings

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Bookings Holding PaceCape Cod and Islands vacation rental

bookings on WeNeedaVacation.com so far this season are keeping pace with last year at this time, with modest increases particularly on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. Overall for the entire region and including the spring, summer and fall seasons, bookings are 1.7% ahead of last year.

Summer/high season bookings on the Cape are up a modest .4%, while those on Nantucket are up 5.5% and the Vineyard 4.1%. Fall book-ings are continuing to gain in popularity, as they

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at the exclusive Hyannisport Club. HACC encourages you to bring plenty of business cards to share with new connections and to win great door prizes from HACC members!

Cost is $5 for HACC members; $15 for non-members. RSVP to 508-775-7778 or [email protected]. Registration also available on our online events calendar.

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President and CEO ...................................Jessica SylverDirector of Sales ...................................Terri NoblemanOperations Assistant ................................... Ellen BradyInformation Specialists ...............Nancy Crowell-CotoiaJFK Hyannis Museum Staff .................. Ed Flynn, Ann McIsaac, Barbara Blume, Theresa Almonacid, Bonnie Sylvester and Lynn Remick.

Board of DirectorsChairman ............................................. Judy CrockerVice Chairman .......................................... Eliza CoxImmediate Past Chairman ........... Warren RutherfordTreasurer ............................................... Chris KehoeBoard Members ................................................ Adra Cohen, Tom Dott, Susan Fein, Sharon Hawkins, John Garner, Peter Martino, Billy Moore, George Searles, Brad Tracy, Sheryl Walsh, Doug Warren

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Finding a job at 14 can be troublesome: too old for camp and too

young to drive, plus all those work permit restrictions real-ly whittle down the options. When faced with this dilem-ma, four local teens jumped at the chance to be part of something totally new – run-ning a hot dog truck at Cape Cod Beer, in a new venture called Cape Cod Dawgs. The four boys – Dylan Chagnon, Jacob Dipilato, Jacob Marcus and Nate Pap-palardo – are all 8th graders at Barnstable High School, and plan to share all the responsibilities of operating a Hot Dog Truck Business. Given that none of the boys can drive (yet) the truck will be stationed outside of Cape Cod Beer, adjacent to the brewery’s new beer garden, and will be selling traditional hot dog truck foods, includ-ing hot dogs, pretzels, chips, sodas, and walking tacos. Cape Cod Dawgs debuted on May 25.

It all started with a Craig-slist advertisement and some parents lamenting about how hard it is for kids to find a

job these days, especially at 14. So when brewery owner Todd Marcus considered pur-chasing the truck off Craig-slist, he asked his son Jacob to ask some of his friends to see if there was any inter-est. Three other teens and their parents agreed to take the leap. During the April vacation the teens stripped down the truck to bare metal to paint it and put it back to-gether so that they knew ex-actly how everything worked. Covering the truck’s existing

‘bubble gum pink” walls was essential! During that time they also did research by visiting other local hot dog entrepreneurs, such as Nick’s Original Coney Island Hot Dogs in Fall River, The Dog Father in Sandwich, and Frankenstein’s Hot Dogs & More in Wareham. Product research was done on-line and by visiting various local purveyors, checking prices and local availability. Name and logo selection was also done by the teens themselves.

Each of the teens has their own perspective on the adventure. Jacob Marcus, of Centerville, claims: “Before we started working on the hot dog truck, I never really liked hot dogs, but after visiting some of the best lo-cal places for hot dogs, like Nick’s in Fall River, they’ve become one of my favorite foods.” Nate Pappalardo, also of Centerville, explains, “I’m excited to have my first paid-by-the-hour job. It feels like that one step closer to being an adult.” Dylan Chagnon of Center-ville says, “I’m excited to be earning my own money. I’ve got to start working on my college fund, plus having my own spending money will be cool.” Jacob Dipilato of Marstons Mills added, “I’m excited to make

some money. It will be nice to have my own money to buy presents for my family, instead of always asking my Mom and Dad. Plus there’s this hockey stick I’d like to buy!”

Cape Cod Dawgs is an (ad)venture started by four Barnstable teens, selling Hot Dogs from a 1979 Grum-man Hot Dog Truck, at Cape Cod Beer in Hyannis. Not just a summer job for four local 14-year- old teens, this (ad)venture includes building the business from the ground up, including business planning, product research, budgeting and actually running the busi-ness throughout the summer of 2013. Cape Cod Dawgs will be operating outside of Cape Cod Beer on Phin-ney’s Lane in Hyannis on favorable weather days in the spring, and daily once high school is over for the summer. Opening Day was May 25. For more infor-mation please go to www.CapeCodDawgs.com or visit our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Cape-CodDawgs

Common Ground Nezer Aldokhi420 Main Street, Hyannis(508) 778-8390 | www.

hyanniscommonground.com

Door to Door Transpor-tation

Ronnie Semprini20 Wally Court, Hyannis(508) 776-0307 | website

under constructionOrgano Gold Daniel Prado430 Main Street, Hyannis(508) 844-1116 | www.dan-

ieldoprado.organogold.com Premier Commercial John Ciluzzi1550 Falmouth Road,

Suite 1, Centerville(508) 815-5700 | www.

premiercommercial.biz

Saltworks Fine Art Diane Rash39 Main Street, Orleans(508) 240-1450| www.

saltworksfineart.com

Vista DeMare Jorge & Sergio Montero430 Main Street, Hyannis(508) 790-6900 | website

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These New Members have joined the ever-growing business network of the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce. Utilize our member network – ask us how! Please visit www.Hyan-nisChamber.com for a complete member directory or call us at 508-775-7778.

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have consistently for the past 5+ years, this year up 11.2% overall for the three regions (Cape Cod up 10.1%, Nantucket up 16.9%, and the Vineyard up 18.6%). This year’s spring bookings overall, however, are actually posting a 3.7% loss over last year, due primarily to the 6.2% decrease in spring bookings on the Cape, versus Nantucket’s 4.4% rise and the Vineyard’s 7.8% rise.

Homeowners listing on the website have increased their prices for the second year in a

row since the 2011 season, last year up 3.6% over the previous year’s and this year a modest 1.6% increase over last year’s.

A recent survey of real estate professionals with multiple list-ings on WeNeedaVacation.com reflects a similar assessment of the season so far. Blake Decker of Pretty Picky Properties, based in Brewster, states, “From our vantage point, the overall vacation rental market on Cape Cod is strong in 2013. While rates have had modest increases as compared with 2012, guests have booked their properties significantly earlier than in

past years.” Edith Delker of Edith Delker Real Estate on Nantucket reports that rentals have been considerably stronger than last year, as does Michelle Sylvia of Robert Paul Properties based in Osterville. Jody Sylvia of ERA Cape Real Estate in Yarmouthport commented that the booking season started out quite strong but slowed down considerably during March and April. She wonders if vacation-ers are becoming less tolerant of the bridge traffic, and the high prices that Cape rental owners are demanding. She cautions owners to be aware of the vast amount of competition they have and to be more disposed to negotiate their prices as the rental season nears and they

still have vacancies. Given the recent improve-

ment in the US economy, par-ticularly in the stock markets, it’s somewhat surprising that the Cape and Islands vacation rental market isn’t even stronger than booking numbers currently indicate. There is, however, a high inventory of homes to rent, and the website is continuing to activate new listings at a high rate, even at this late date in the booking season. Gas prices are still high, and it appears that many vacationers are continu-ing to exhibit economic caution when contemplating their vaca-tion plans.

About WeNeedaVacation.com: Since 1997, WeNeedaVacation.com has been providing an ef-

ficient and inexpensive way of matching vacationers and vaca-tion rental homeowners. The website lists more than 4,000 properties on Cape Cod, Mar-tha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket. The WeNeedaVacation.com Vacation Planner also offers extensive information to the 175,000+ vacationers who use our site yearly, including infor-mation about beaches, events, dining, activities, and shopping. Our amazing staff collectively has over 100 years of experience as Cape & Islands vacation rental homeowners. We love the Cape and Islands, work hard to promote this special place, and proudly belong to 17 local Chambers of Commerce.

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Brian griffin, gwen dadoly, Robert Janjigian, Rockland trust and Paul Connor, mansfield Jeep.

Warren Rutherford, the Executive Suite and Peter martino, Heritage House Hotel.

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Works of Artist Karen Ryder Featured at Barnstable Town Hall Through 6/21

The “Art on Loan” program which displays the work of local artists on the meeting room walls in Barnstable Town Hall, features the works of Karen Ryder in the Selectmen’s Conference Room and the Town Hall Hearing Room, located on the 2nd floor in Barnstable Town Hall, now through June 21st, 2013.

Karen Ryder is an artist with a career in business development marketing management. When speaking about being an artist, “she refutes the claim that we must forsake all other pursuits in order to be a ‘true’ artist. Her business and personal lives feed her art and the process of mak-ing art provides a release from the more structured parts of her life.” She spends time sketching all around Hyannis during many of her lunch breaks!

Having made a conscious decision to pursue fine art in a more meaningful way several years ago, she built upon her interest of the human form to develop a body of work shared in a solo exhibition, Figuratively Speaking at the Guyer Barn, in Hyannis. Her work has also been exhibited at the Lore Degenstein Gallery in PA, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cape Cod Art Associa-tion and PAAM. This July and August, her work will be part of a collaborative exhibition entitled, In the Moment, at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth.

The works she has selected to exhibit at Barnstable Town Hall are a selection of her extensive body of work in watercolor, acrylic and pastel.

HACC Members Receive TripAdvisor Awards

Katie’s Homemade Ice Cream and the Days Inn Hyan-nis have both been recognized by TripAdvisor with a 2013

Certificate of Excellence. This prestigious award, which places these businesses in the top-per-forming 10% of all businesses worldwide on TripAdvisor, is given to businesses that con-sistently earn high ratings from TripAdvisor travelers.

Catania Family Named Honorary Chairs of 28th Annual Citizens Bank Pops by the Sea

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the Hyannis Area Cham-ber of Commerce are pleased to announce that the Catania Fam-ily have been named Honorary Chairs of the 28th Annual Citi-zens Bank Pops by the Sea concert. Over the past 40 years, the Cata-nia family has grown the Catania Hospitality Group from a single family restaurant to an award-winning collection of restaurants, resorts and spas. V.J. Catania instilled his high standards and work ethic in his six children, who have each contributed to the company’s growth and success and have each contributed their energy and support to the Cape Cod community. The group now consists of six Hearth ‘n Kettles, the Dan’l Webster Inn and Spa, the Cape Codder Resort & Spa, the John Carver Inn & Spa and three Beach Plum Spas/Med-Spas.

Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Executive Director Kevin How-ard says, “ We are delighted to recognize, through the Honorary Chair program, a family that has contributed a great deal to the com-munity, including through their philanthropic support of the arts”

“The Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce is honored to recognize the Catania Family, which has given generously to our community and is supportive of the arts,” said Jessica Sylver, President & CEO of the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce.

The 28th Annual Citizens Bank Pops by the Sea will feature the only Cape appearance of The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra under the direction of conductor Keith Lockhart. The concert, viewed by an annual audience of 15,000, is scheduled for August 11, 2013, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the Hyannis Village Green.

The Cape Codder Resort & Spa has been named a “GreenLeaders HOTEL, SILVER LEVEL” by TripAdvisor

The award-winning Cape Codder Resort & Spa in Hyan-nis has been awarded Silver Level by The TripAdvisor GreenLeaders Program which recognizes hotels and B&Bs that engage in environmen-tally friendly practices. The GreenLeaders Program makes it easy for travelers to find and book a greener stay. TripAdvi-sor developed this program with help from national and international green industry experts including the US Green Building Council’s LEED Cer-tification Program, the United Nations Environment Pro-gram, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program, and other sus-tainability experts.

The program is completely voluntary and properties do not pay to participate.

The Cape Codder’s Green Practices include: Biodegrad-able toiletries • Organic/local food & beverages • Waste is composted • Staff training on green practices • Energy-saving lighting controls • Low chemi-cal gardening.

Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts to Hold Biennial Convention in Hyannis

Firefighters from across Mas-sachusetts will converge on Cape Cod for a four-day convention sponsored by the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts, June 10-13. More than 800 ca-reer firefighters are expected at the 40th biennial convention that will take place at the Resort and Conference Center in Hyannis. Delegates will participate in convention business and semi-nars during the day and offsite events in the evening.

The Professional Fire Fight-ers of Massachusetts represent more than 12,000 professional firefighters from across the Com-monwealth. More information about the PFFM can be found at www.pffm.org.

Cape Associates, Inc. has Remodeled!

Cape Associates, Inc. is ex-cited to announce the launch of our newly designed Web site, located at the same address: www.capeassociates.com

The site’s homepage wel-comes visitors with beautiful images of our projects, a clean, sleek design, and user-friendly navigation. The bold images feature content focused on our comprehensive services in the fields of custom building, renovations and maintenance, property management and painting.

The new site is divided into six sections: OUR SERVICES, PROJECTS, PHILANTHRO-PY, EMPLOYMENT, ABOUT US, CONTACT US. Our cur-rent and prospective customers will find detailed information about the services we offer in the SERVICES section. The PROJ-ECT galleries show the scope of our projects and the PHILAN-THROPY section highlights Cape Associates’ commitment to supporting the communities of the Cape & Islands. We encour-age our current and prospective customers to contact us through the website and sign up for our newsletter. For those seeking employment with a company who is committed to quality and integrity, please go to our EMPLOYMENT section to view available positions and apply online!

The website also features new types of rich content, ability to easily use on any device and sharing capability to popular sites such as Twitter, Pinterest, Houzz and YouTube! The web-site will be updated on a regular basis, with news of events, proj-ect progress and news content.

If you experience any prob-lems using the new website or if you have any suggestions, please contact us at [email protected]

Solstice Day Spa Receives 2013 Best of Hyannis Award U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement

For the fourth consecutive year, Solstice Day Spa has been selected for the 2013 Best of Hyannis Award in the Massage Therapy category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

The USCA “Best of Local Business” Award Program rec-ognizes outstanding local busi-nesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their custom-ers and community.

Nationwide, only 1 in 250 (less than half of 1%) 2013 Award recipients qualified as Four-Time Award Winners. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each cat-egory. The 2013 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are deter-mined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.

Solstice Day Spa is a full ser-vice beauty and relaxation desti-nation open seven days a week. A favorite of locals, seasonal guests and destination wedding parties alike. Congratulations, Solstice!

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