Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link to an agenda and details. All meetings are at Town Hall unless otherwise indicated.
Monday, July 8
- Select Board, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 9
- Capital Projects Committee, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, July 10
- Finance Committee, 4 p.m.
Thursday, July 11
- Affordable Housing Trust, 9 a.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 5 p.m.
- Nauset Regional School Committee Retreat, 5:30 p.m.
Conversation Starters
Plant Giveaway
The Eastham Public Health Dept. still has about one dozen garden plants available for free. Cape Cod Organic Farm donated approximately 75 seedlings, including tomatoes, eggplants, leeks, and ornamental gourds, for Eastham residents to plant in their home gardens.
The poster for the program says, “The plant drive is a pilot program to address food insecurity and healthy eating.”
These last few plants that need adopting are outside behind the Eastham Board of Health building and can be taken even if the building is closed.
The D.A.’s Update
At the select board’s June 17 meeting, Cape and Islands District Attorney Rob Galibois gave an update on his office’s activities. During his time before the board, Galibois spoke at length about his efforts to combat human trafficking.
Galibois’s office has started a trafficking prosecution unit. He said it also got a $97,000 Mass. District Attorneys Association grant and donated $50,000 of it to a Boston-based human trafficking survivors’ organization called My Life My Choice, which then conducted some programming on Cape Cod. They also donated $10,000 to Cape-based Independence House, which works with victims of domestic violence and of human trafficking.
The rest of the money went to training. Galibois said that prosecutors and some law enforcement officers recently traveled to Texas to attend a conference on human trafficking.
The D.A.’s human trafficking hotline can be reached by calling or texting 774-822-0632, and there’s a tip line on the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s website. —Jack Styler
