Wednesday, April 2,1980

Animal Advice—

SPCA-

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(From Page 1) FiorilH .had spearheaded an effort to reopen a recently renovated SPCA animal shelter in that city and arranged to^have the Cumberland County Veterinary Service give professional advice at no cost to the operators of the SPOVaherter. MR. CROWLEY recounted the actor's

reply:

"There is the answer to any problem in Cape May County. Find a civic leader like the good Mayor Fiorilli who can get the various agencies and interested men and women to meet — with the understanding each may have to give a little for the benefit of all.” "I. told him," Mr. Crowley said, "I was not active now, but that press notices reported the SPCA and an Animal Welfare Society working as separate units again because of personality

problems.

MR. HOLLIMAN'S reply, according to Crowley, was that amateurs without professional experience in organizing and directing a prsject tending to create management problems. The AOA president said he had seen this happen frequently throughout the

country.

But, the actor told Mr.

Crowley, an answer to the problem in many instances is reached when all parties concerned meet, with a willingness to give and not to expect that all their

demands would be met. "AS AN example of that

thinking," Mr. Crowley related, "he recalled ]row some of his group at one time wanted to abolish euthanasia. Others wanted it put in effect as soon as an animal was in their custody. A compromise was made whereby an animal would be kept for four weeks before being put to sleep. That gave them time to advertise, which resulted in getting many animals back to their owners or finding someone

to adopt an animal.” Mr. Crowley said the

actor explained to him that the delay in getting back to him was because he had been on location making a motion picture and that he was just now going through flies to get caught up on his Actors and Others for

Animals responsibilities.

Easter 1980

(From Page 1)

annual Easter Egg Hunt in the area next to Community Hall at 30th and the beach. Mayor and Mrs. Ellsworth Armacost will be on hand with Mr. Bunny to award prizes to winners in several categories from babes in arms to 10-year-olds. OCEAN CITY — No less than four major activities are on tap here this weekend : — The annual Sffring Swing surfing event begins 9a.m. Saturday at the Seventh St. beach where leading collegiate surfers from throughout the East Coast will «

compete.

— The Easter Egg Scramble starts 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Sixth St. beach. Mayor Chet Wimberg will give the starting signal in the various age categories for youngsters who will be searching for bags of candy. — The non-denominational Easter Sun Rise Service begins at 6:30 on the Music Pier, Boardwalk at Moorlyn

Terrace.

— The Easter Promenade starts Sunday at 1:30 p.m. on the boardwalk in front of the Music Pier where the city and local Chamber will see to it that the "Best Dressed' families, children and individuals don’t go unnoticed. (The Easter weekend visitor to Ocean City will also have a chance to see the outside of the beach house at 19th and Welsey Ave. which was extensively renovated for the filming of the motion picture "Tattoo." Stars Bruce Dem and Maud Adams were on location here March 24-28 for the filming of scenes in this Joseph Levine Co. produc-

tion.)

(From Page 1) body that it assign a police officer to make periodic checks of the SPCA pound in Cold Spring, in the wake of continued complaints that dog officer Dennis Kelly isn’t properly taking care of the strays he picks

up.

The attorney told the Township Committee March 24 that a specially assigned officer could report back to the governing body and that criminal charges could be brought if warranted "because there's no reason

for this."

MR. CALLINAN’S remarks were precipitated by allegations from resident Catherine "Cass" Clark that Mr. Kelly has charged as high as $100 for a dog at the pound, that small and large dogs were keot in the small pen together with nothing but cold, wet pavement to lie on, and that he doesn't keep proper records of the animals that are picked up. "I think the township should do something about him," she told the committee. “Nobody’s

checking on him."

Mr. Callinan said there was no doubt that the township has the jurisdiction to take proper action in cases of actual

animal abuse.

THERE HAVE been complaints expressed before about alleged inhumane treatment at the SPCA pound, but when one area newspaper followed up on such allegations last year, nothing inhumane was found. Ms. Clark, however, indicated this was because thpre was

advance warning.

She emphasized she was referring to "inhumane treatment" and reiterated her allegation that "He [Kelly] feels like he didn't have to answer to

anybody."

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for publication.

Society Active-

‘LINCOLN LOGS' really do come in large size*. This "Stack V Build" house is going up on Clubhouse Rd. in Town Bank. Food Stamp Info Available

RIO GRANDE - Representatives of the Cape May County Food Stamp Office will be available for consultation at several satellite offices throughout the county this month. Purpose of these field visits is to enable persons to sign up for food stamps or gain information about them when it would be impossible for them to get to the Food Stamp Office at the Social Services Building here. Here are the satellite

offices: North Wildwood City Hall, April 3; Woodbine Community Center, April 7; Cape May City Hall, April 8; Wildwood Community Center, April 9; Ocean City Youth Center, April il; County Library meeting room, April 14; King Center in Whitesboro. These field offices will be open 9:30 to noon; except Whitesboro, which will be open 11 to 12:30. For more information, call 729-9200ext. 232.

(From Page 1) park, the Animal Welfare Society of Cape May County remains "very, very active." That was the word Friday from AWS president John Nisseh “We’re more active all the time." she said. In fact." she continued, "within the next six or seven weeks we intend to start our neutering and spaying program which is very, very important ” That, she emphasized, is the only way to deal with the growing population of unwanted animals v AWS MEETS 7:30 p m the third Tuesday of each month at the Socialjservices Bldg, here; the latest meeting was March 18. * According to the president, membership' is over 2lX); although she notes that "of course," all the members aren’t active. She said the group is* especially active with the adoption of pets and that her Linden La. home here serves as AWS headquarters as far as mailing address and phone calls (465-4563) are concerned. "ITS THE headquarters

right now. being as we don’t have a place." she said The county is making ground at the airpark in Erma available to AWS for what members say Is a much needed animal shelter in this area, but as to the latest on that project, Ms. Nissen wasn't sure. "I don't know what the story is," she said "I’m waiting to hear myself "

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