b'C H A P T E R S E V E NOther solutions to Chathams well-identified problems came from all sides. Restrict the size of trucks downtown. Tell guests to conserve precious water. Get involved in completing the Long Range Plan. Try to cut down on day trippers. Limit B&Bs to one to two units. Make buses park behind Main Street School and pay a fee. Protect the towns beleaguered fishermen. Thats just a sample.With the meeting winding down, facilitator LeFeve posed a question: How do we move this process forward? Distilled answers pointed to the importance of ongoing communication. Store-owner Kathy Doyle favored taking comments generated that day and then come up with some plans. Several concurred. To realtor Howes, the next step should be dispensing (the mornings) information to the various committees responsible for the (many) issues .We should make the results known the best way possible.As meeting chairman, FCW President Kurt Hellfach expressed the hope that the five-hour session was just the beginning (of) a process that we can take .into other parts of town .We ought to really move forward on evolving a program.His benedictory comment: It was a wonderful experience. In many ways, it was. Inevitably, speakers had axes to grind, some defensive, others off- base, still others less than realistic. But no one made a more touching point than octogenarian Francesca Stone:Think about everyone except yourself .Forget our personal priorities .Thats what the forefathers who setded this country did .What is important is to keep this town functioning as a whole and leave something for those who come after me .Do whats best for the town.No speaker in that long mornings kaleidoscopic proceedings received any warmer applause. Mrs. Stones appeal had been the only one aimed at residents better nature.When the FCW board convened three weeks later, Kurt Hellfach had some feedback to share. Norman Jenkins of the Non-Voting Taxpayers Advisory Committee had high praise. It had been a memorable & worthwhile event .a wake-up call for all, but it will all be for naught if there is no follow-up.For its part, FCW setded on its own follow-up. It would try to revise the Zoning Bylaw as a way of improving growth control. That demanding project ran into more hard-shelled, entrenched opposidon than any FCW undertaking before or since.125'