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SHORE! US by Jaonotto O'Mnv Years & Years

Of Volunteers

MreMI In The Night My mother played that sheet music on our ancient upright umpteen years ago. It was a galop and the artist’s cover depicted four pfancing white horses pulling a wagon holding a water hopper. We have come a long way ’since* then, and when I visited the Stone Harbor Volunteer. Firehouse and talked with Douglas Stanford, chief since 1977,1 was really impressed with the modern equipment and with the service records of the men who handle it THE EQUIPMENT isn’t worth a doggone if you don’t know what makes it

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Our first firehouse was built in 1912 on 85th St (it is still in use as a private home). As the town grew and the need as well for increased firefighting facilities; a new building was erected in 1924 at 96th and- Second Aves., by voluntary contributions totaling $15,000. IN 1973 the firehouse was rebuilt on the same site. Theron ’'Peanut” Wetsler is the fireman with the longest active record: 42 years on the job, and 30 of them as deputy chief. Harry Martin also has an enviable record with the department and served for 18 years as chief. Other dedicated members are former chiefs John HeMe and Herschel McClure; Deputy Chief Robert McClure and Lieutenants Steve Mhiner and Glenn Town ley. The company officers are President, Robert McClure

correctionclnhnriUion

A story in last weak’s paper incorrectly reported the response time of the State Police to the first motor vehicle accident in West Cape May since the entire police department there was laid off as "only a matter of minutes " Actually it was at least a half-hour; and by the time the trooper arrived, the two injured had already been transported from the scene by the Cape May Rescue Squad — a Cape May policeman, former borough patrolman, civilians and rescue personnel assisting the injured into the ambulance. The borough mayor also arrived on the scene after the victims had been taken away.

Vice President Robert Scott. Secretary for 22 years Hugh Scott, and Treasurer for 27 years William Brighton. MR. STANFORD made me aware of the basic training every Stone Harbor firemen must undergo; many have taken advanced training at the New Jersey Fire College Our volunteer firemen sponsor a poster contest during Fire Prevention Week, serving lunch to the children and awarding prizes to the winners. They also get together with our' school at Christmastime (all of you know how beautiful this program is.). DURING THE Blizzard of 79 they worked untiringly with the maintenance department clearing streets and removing downed high tensions wires. When I asked our chief for a word of adviefc to homeowners he replied : "Install smoke alarms; they save property and more important, lives!” Clinic At Go or No COLD SPRING - The hearing process involving a proposed quarter-million dollar regional health clinic for the Lower Township-Cape Mays area is scheduled to get underway today. Initial plans of the Community Health Council of Lower Cape May County Inc. call for the conversion of the old township hall here into a physicianstaffed health clinic ser-' vlng the needs of Lower Township, West Cape May, Cape May City and Cape May Point. TOTAL PROJECT cost is estimated at $257,529, with $210,369 being requested from the federal Dept, of Health Education and

Welfare.

• Under federal law, any proposed health facility must be scrutinized by local and regional review agencies to determine if there is a genuine need for the new facility or service. For the proposed clinic, there is a three-tier process beginning with the Cape May County Council of the Southern New Jersey Health Systems Agency. That gathering was scheduled for this evening (Wednesday) at the County Social Services Building, Rio Grande.

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Tlie LanU-ni

CAPE MAjf'tOINT - The U.8. Army Carps of Engineers Is flropcin* to

» new dredfe dump site In

j Bey lose then low miles southwest of the popular Brandywine Light fishing grounds and about four miles dde west of this

community.'

The Army Corps is requesting the federsl Environmental Protecting Agency to define the area as a designated dredged material diipoaal site since It han't been formally ■ done In the past. THE SITE — generally located M S degrees true and 2,000 yards east of buoy 10 — would receive dredge spoils from maintenance dredging of the bay shipping channel; specifically the Liston, Cross Ledge, Miah Haull and Bran-

dywine ranges.

According to the Army Corps, the dredge spoils would consist of 44 percent or greater medium/rine

sand or shells

THE NEW dumping site is being designated to prevent interference with ship traffic In the Big Slone Beach Anchorage Area on the Delaware side of the bay, which had been designated as the disposal

site a year ago.

No date is given for the start of the dredging

project. v

- Any interested person or group which msy be effected by the disposal of the dredged material may request a public hearimt by

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contacting the Philadelphia District, Army Corps of Engineers in writing prior to May 23. City Well Site Plan Attacked COLD SPRING - In- , dictions are that when the City of Cape May comes before the Lower Township Planning Board tomorrow night (Thursday at 7:30) seeking permission to drill a potable water well one block north of the canal here, there will be plenty of opposition - -including perhsps, that of Mayor

Tom Clydesdale.

The city Is interested In sinking a test well on a property at Johnathan Hoffman Rd. and Shunpike which is owned by Sarah Chambers of Shunpike But since even a test well can cost upwards of 229,000, the city is seeking the necessary Planning Board approvals for a continually

operating well.

WHEN A Villa resident voiced concern about the proposed well at Monday night's Township Committee meeting. Mayor Clydesdale pointed out that •''everyone of the city's wells is Oocted) in the township right now ... (sndl... if thiy want to put another well In — let 'em

.,— -- — quality donated Hems “ h- ■•rdoned off during Ike Slh annual Champagne Fling of the Cqpe Msy County UnH of the America,. "T Fran Chapman and Allsou Buff and Mary Jo Herr: An II ft. Sandpiper, aauitfitlc brats lantern and a handmade quill. The fundraising fling, which last year netted over $2i,aM. Is l to i Sunday at the Golden liy, Avalati.

put it somewhere else. ” Continued the mayor, whose own home is up Shunpike from the proposed well site, "There is plenty of opposition to this new site. ”v ACCORDING TO the mayor. <• the ‘‘general consensus of the neighborhood is we're all up in arms shout It.” Mr. Clydesdale indicated that he and Committeeman Jack Moran have already expressed their opposition to the well site with Cape May City fathers. The mayor also expressed the opinion that the Cape May City engineer. Van Note-Harvey, is acting jn conflict of interest since it is also the engineering firm for the Lower

Township Municipal Utllltieees Authority, which operates the water utility for township residents receiving municipa. waters Mr Clydesdale also said (bat the County MUA is against the proposed city wellsite. THE THURSDAY evening- Planning Board session will convene in township hall, Villas Because a pump building would be necessary for the operation of a well, the city is seeking,Subdivision, site plan tM conditional use approvals from the Planning Board: The site is in a residential neighborhood; any utility is a conditional use which requires board approval.

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