b'C H A P T E R T E NObviously, the health and welfare of Oyster River concerned the FCW board, and a lot more citizens, too.So, when FCW began putting together its August 1995 annual meeting, directors decided it meshed with Friends purposes to make the dredging possibility the headline topic of the program. Once again, until theScott Tappans family has been in Chatham for four recent activation of thegeneratons, close neighbors of Oyster River.When Alliance (see end note), nore-dredging of the river loomed, he joined the other group in town hasWaterways Committee to keep a sharp eye on what regularly put on suchmany saw to be a potential threat to the livelihood informational forums.6 of river-based shellfishermen.Tappan FamilyDays before the August 7 session, FCW took an ad in The Chronicle to help build an audience.The small print reminded readers that the final decision on dredging would be rendered by selectmen within the next month or two. A required Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) was available to aid the decision-makers. In the meantime, FCW had invited a knowledgeable panel to discuss key points - the DEIR, the political steps ahead, timetable, and so on. FCW director Lew Kimball would chair the meeting, and Scott Tappan, among others, would be there to answer questions.As an FCW director during the redredging ferment, Everett EddieYeaw was already monitoring meetings of the Waterways Committee.He could not vote, says then-chairman Tappan, but he knew Oyster River well and made his views known.Gordon Zellner184'