April 21, 2003

A CLUB known for nude dancers tried recruiting workers at a high school job fair this week before embarrassed school officials asked its representatives to leave.

Junior Bethany Logan said Mashpee High School students were shocked and amused to see a sign for Zachary’s Pub briefly displayed at the fair.

“It’s a place in town that people are ashamed of, not a place where you want to see anyone from our school work,” she told the Cape Cod Times.

Zachary’s registered for the job fair under another name, Diamond Real Estate, which is club owner Richard Halpern’s other business, according to the Mashpee Chamber of Commerce, the fair’s sponsor.

The representatives were looking for bartenders’ assistants and landscapers for the real estate business, said Janet Kraskouskas, a school guidance counselor who organized the fair.

Club officials did not immediately return a call seeking comment Saturday and Halpern’s number is unlisted. A Zachary’s employee told the Times the club wasn’t recruiting dancers at the fair.

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