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The Herald and The Lantern

Wednesday, March 18, 1981

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S&L Sets Opening in Township

FISHING CREEK - The Lower Township Office of Sturdy Savings and Loan Assn., located in the Breakwater Plaza shopping center at Bayshore and Breakwater Rds., will open this Thursday at 9 a m. In announcing the opening, John Armour, Sturdy president hi^d that Fred Houston, ^rst vicepresident and secretary

and a resident of Lower Township, will be opening the office. The fulhservice office will have a special opening celebration from March 19 through April 4 according to Houston. The Breakwater Plaza office will feature N.O.W. checking accounts in addition to passbook savings, savings certificates, mor-

tgage loans, home improvement loans, Individual retirement ac : counts, education loans. Christmas club, money orders, traveller’s checks,

and save-by-mail.

Sturdy Savings & Loan Association, with offices also in Stone Harbor, Avalon and Dennisville, has assets of more than $61 million and has been in-

business for 58 years.

Last Minute Budget Hike A^ds $15,000

COLD SPRING - Just hours before they were to hold a public hearing on their proposed 1981-82,budget Lower Township school officials learned that as a result of a bill recently signal by Governor Brendan Byrne, they will have to provide extra funding for the transportation costs of nonpublic school students. So at the public hearing Monday night, superintendent Ed Campbell suggested to the Board of Education that $15,000 be added to the district ;s

budget, bringing the total figure to $3,410,062’. This exceeds last year’s {widget by about $430,873. WHEN VOTERS GO TO the polls April 7, they will be asked to support a tax levy of $2,574,893. This calls for about $252,386 more than is needed to support the district’s present budget — an 11 percent int crease. According to Mr. Campbell major increases in the budget are in salaries, heat, utilities and fuel costs. As an example, he cited that heat costs have increased in the last three years by 100 per cent.

This year $60,000 was appropriated for heating; the new budget will be increased to $80,000. THE TAX RATE IS expected to be in the vicinity of 88 cents per $100 of assessed evaluation. This means that an owner of a house valued at $27,300 will pay approximately $24 in taxes to support the elementary school district. The Board voted unanimously to adopt the budget. The public hearing was short in light of the fact that only four people were present.

Course On MIDDLE TWP - The Cape May Bird Obser* vatory will offer a field identification course entitled ‘‘Spring Birds of Cape May,’’ at the Wetlands Institute, Stone Harbor Blyd., it will consist of five Wednesday evening slide seminars beginning at 7:30 p.m. March 25. Five Saturday morning field trips are

also planned.

Bird groups singled out for special attention will be songbirds (particularly warblers and vireos) and shorebirds (sandpipers, plovers and the like). A course fee of $15 per person will be charged for New Jersey Audubon^Society or Cape May Bii^d Observatory members $30 for

nonmembers.

THE ADDITIONAL $15 constitutes annual support of the Observatory. Registration may be made by calling 884-2736 Registration is limited, Though Cape May is world famous for its fall migration of birds, its spr-

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ing migration is overlooked. In truth, the number of birds which pass through the Cape during spring not only may equal the number seen in the fall but sometimes exceed it. Last year, on the annual spring birding weekend held in May, 179 different, species *of birds were seen in the three-day dvent. To Upgrade Borden Dock LOWER TWP. - A Department ol the Army permit has been asked by the Borden Co. to install a steel sheetpile bulkhead along Upper Thorofarc at Ocean Dr. highway here. The proposed bulkhead will be backfilled by sand and capped with a concrete deck. It is to upgrade the existing bulkhead and loading dock for the com mercial fish processing

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