the WIIITK LINK on the horizon is actually coastal storm. To the right of the stop sign, a ocean water floods up Bayshorc Rd. T oday\ crashing waves, breaking over and thru the couple of people wade in knee-deep sea water there is virtually no protective dune to hold South ('ape May dune during the Oct. 25 along Sunset Blvd. In the foreground, the back an angry sea. Urgent Need for Survival

EDITOR'S NOTE — The following editorial appeared in the I^ower Township Lantern three days before the Oct. 25 coastal storm. It is reprinted here because of its timeliness and the urgency of having the South Cape May Dune repaired. The dune is vital to* the survival of the area behind it — including the property and safety of hundreds of citizens in no less than four munidpalities. Washout In authorizing a J12 million beach erosion control project for the Cape May beachfront

while denying erosion control along the stretch of Lower Township beach between Cape May City and Cape May Point, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has provided the latest example of what’s wrong in this nation when the law is allowed to outweigh logic (or common sense). The Cape May strand will be the recipient of a multi-million dollar beach restoration program, and the South Cape May beachfront in Lower Township won’t because of geographical boundaries and so-called economic justification. Where the township portion of beachfront part of Cape May’s geography, the ratables elsewhere in Cape May would have come into consideration and South Cape May would

undoubtedly been afforded the storm protection that comes with a nice wide beach. The myopia of the law which the Army Engineers are hound to follow (don’t blame the Corps for doing its job!) is that it could very well result In a false sense of security for the Nation’s Oldest Seashore Resort which at some time in the mid-1980s will find itself with a beautiful wide beach out front — and a badly exposed flank called South Cape May! And that doesn’t even include those residents in low-lying sections of West Cape May and the rural area of Lower Township whose properties will be inundated by flood waters before they wash into Cape May proper. A new methodology is needed.

Practice Makes Perfect, But...

Some parents of student athletes at Lower Cape May Regional High School have rightfully complained that their children are spending too much time especially in the morning before school starts, practicing. The school board president has acknowledged that his own son was spending a dozen or more

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hours a day on school grounds. However, Football Coach Bill Garrison believes that if it takes 15 hours a day to be a winner, he’s all for it! And, furthermore, the coach noted to the board recently, a student's grades have to suffer during the playing season if the student athlete is to be a member of a successful team. In Other words, the football coach feels that when it comes to a successful football season, the students comprising the football teams shouldn’t be expected to keep up with their studies. In this guns-or-butter vein, the coach has come up with an athietics-or-academics dichotomy. Lower Cape May Regional happens to be at the two-thirds mark of its most successful season ever and is on the verge of its first Cape-Atlantic League Football Championship. The student football players and the teachercoaches are to be congratulated for their successful season. But, if it is taken for granted that success on the high school gridiron must come at the expense of the team member’? learning ability — then a championship 1980 football season will be a Pyrrhic victory. Schools are institutions of learning; to

prepare young citizens for a lifetime of continuous learning and doing. Taken in their rudimentary forms, primary schools provide young students with the basic building blocks of learning; secondary schools teach older students how to apply these building blocks to (Page 31 Please)

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Thank You, Men For Big Cleanup by Dominic C. Raffa I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the Cape May County Road Department and Superintendent LeRoy Reeves for their all-out effort-in working to clear Ocean Drive after the recent disastrous storm. These men worked long hours at the almost impossible task of clearing the sand and debris from this important highway, and did it in record time. All too often, we take this kind of dedication and devotion for granted, but, on behalf of the people of Sea Isle City, the commissioners and myself, I say “Thank you" for a Job well done. Dominic C. Ra//a U mayor of Sea Isle City.