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Hie Herald and The Lantern

Wedneaday, September 10, HM

Wade Steps Down From Realty Assn.

STONE HARBOR - Maj Runsell Wade. Executive Secretary for the pa..; six years of the realty owners Assn, of Stone Harbor, tendered his resignation at the recent annual meeting Association's president Robert S Voris. a consultant to Hercules Powder Co , regretfully accepted the resignation and expressed the gratitude of the group for May Wade’s past dedicated service He then introduced William Uskey of 139,109 St as Mr Wade's successor the nominating committee's slate was voted in with the inclusion of two new names. William Fox and Howard Beckmann

Celebrates ^ 50th Anniv. AVALON - Mr and Mrs. Walter E. Buechele Sr observed their 50th Wedding Anniversary Aug. 30 with a Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated by the Right Rev Bishop James L. Schad at Maris Stella Church. Their H#o sons and their wives were the lectors and several of their 11 grandchildren presented the gifts during the liturgy of the Mass. Following the church services, some 70 relatives and friends attended a reception for the jubilarians Named to Lilt UNION - Cheryl L. Brewer of Dennlsville, a physical therapy major, has been named to the Dean's List for the spring I960 term at Kean College of New Jersey.

Wetlands Seminar Will Dig into Coastal Dredging

SITTING PRETTY. Allnen Rice. Little Ml«« Stone Harbor, pores for portrait at art show of local Women's Civic Club. Artist Is Winifred Rumble of Swarthmore, Pa.

Get Up Early for Bird Walks

STONE HARBOR - The third in a series of seminars on Critical Coastal Issues will be 8:15 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Wetlands Institute. The topic will be dredging and its impact on the en-

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Roy Denmark, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who will present a slide introduction discussing dredging techniques and their impact on the environment. Bernard Moore, Chief of the Bureau of Coastal Engineering, will discuss which dredging

CAPE MAY POINT - Cape May Bir,d Observatory will offer an expanded autumn program open to the public featuring bird walks lectures, hawk-

banding demonstrations and three week-long field identification workshops. -Bird walks highlighting migratory species will be conducted 7 o’clock

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Wednesday and Saturday mornings during September and October. Participants should bring binoculars and meet leaders at the north shore of Lily Lake LECTURES AND slide presentations will be offered 8 p.m. Saturday at the borough fire house upstairs auditorium by authorities Clay Sutton "Bird Studies £t New Cape May.” Sept. 20; William Clark, "The Cape May Raptor Project," Sept. 27; Peter Dunne, “Fine Points of Field Identification," Oct. 11 and Armis Hill, "Owls," Oct. 18. Hawk-banding demonstrations will be given at the Cape May Point State Park 10 o'clock Saturday and Sunday mornings, Sept. 13 through Nov. 1. OBSERVERS ARE also welcomed at Cape May Bird Observatory’s Hawk Watch through Nov. 30. being conducted for the fifth year at Cape May Point State Park daily from dawn to late afternoon. For further information, call CM BO at 884-2736, or its Binding Hotline, 8842626. Gab Reconvenes CAPE MAY POINT - The Civic Club’s first meeting of the new season will be at the firehouse Sept. 11 at noon. Plans for 1981 will be discussed and a report on this year’s annual bazaar and food sale will bq made.

GOP Picnic Sunday COURT HOUSE - Over 10,000 are expected at the Seventh annual GOP picnic, 1 p.m. Sept. 14 a6 the County Park, according to county Republican Chairman Phil Matalucci. One of the highlights of the event will be a visit from Ronald Reagan's daughter Maureen. Open to the public, the picnic includes a chicken ^arbecue with corn on the cobb, Jersey tomatoes and refreshments; plus en-' tertainment including a banjo band, stringband, special choral groups and exotic dancers. The youngsters will enjoy pony rides, games, contests, hats, balloons and toys. All of this for a low price of $3. Congressional candidate Beech Fox and freeholder candidate incumbents William Sturm and Ralph Evans will join Miss Reagan and many state and local dignitaries. Many potential 1981 Republican gubernatorial candidates will be on hand according to Matalucci. Sept. 21 has been set as the rain date.

projects receive priority and how they are funded. Dr. James Parks' of Lehigh University will talk about an experimental technique for stagilizing channel bottoms — a process currently being field tested in Cape May County. Each speaker will give a 20 minute presentation, and a question and discussion period will follow. The public is invited. For further information, call 368-1211. Fall Nature Weekend Oct. 3-5 CAPE MAY-Cape May Bird Observatory will host the New Jersey Audubon Society's 35th annual Cape May Nature Weekend, Friday thru Sunday, Oct. 35, with headquarters at the Golden-Eagle Inn Mere. Events include an Intercoastal Waterway boat trip; field trips for birders and botanists; beach, salt marsh and evening walks. There will be demonstrations of butterfly tagging and hawk banding. Workshops include bilfling for beginners, writing for nature publications, and field identification of shorebirds and warblers. SPECIAL EVENING presentations with slides will be given by Jerry Cutlip of Corkscrew Swamp, Fla., and Jim Brett of Hawk Mountain. Pa. Nature Weekend will coincide with the peak of autumn migration when daily flights of several thousand hawks including Peregrine Falcons, may be seen. Since 1976, Cape May Bird Observatory has conducted an official hawk count and related studies at Cape May Point State Park with funding from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service. THE NEW JERSEY Audubon Soceity, a private, member-support-ed organization, welcomes participation from nonmemHers. Reservations for the Nature Weekend Package are being accepted through Sept. 10. A fee of 996 per person includes all events, lodging and accommodations, ations for field trips events only without accommodations will be accepted through Oct. 3 at $36. The Intracoastal Waterway boat trip costs an additional $3.50. The Society, headquartered in Franklin Lakes, is the nation's second*/ oldest Audubon Society, and the largest conservation organization in the state. CAPE MAY Bird Observatory in Cape May Point,one of its five nature centers, is noted for its research on bird migration and endangered species as well as for its conservation efforts in southern New Jersey. Inquiries regarding the Cape May Nature Weekend may be directed to Cape May Bird Observatory. P.O. Box 3. Cape May Point. N.J. 08212. The phone is 884-2736.