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SEA ISLE C^FY , — The city will launch its 100th birthday celebration with a Centennial Parade featuring bands, floats and marching bands the afternoon of May 22. Sponsors promise "the biggest narade ever held in the county." Prospective entrants are asked to contact Dick Alliger, 263-4461. At 7:30 that evening, the United Methodist Church will present a choir concert of Vivaldi's Gloria. OTHER EVENTS initially scheduled are: Centennial Surfing Contest, sanctioned by the Eastern Surfing Assn., May 29; Super Centennial Saturday. June 19. with a glaht seaside flea market and international food bazaar;.This Is Your Nile, Sea Isle- City, a display of old photos and historical itfigs at the United Methodist Church, Kennedy Blvd., July’s. Centennial fashion show, with 100 vears of fashions, at the Yacht Club. July 28; Surf fishing contest sponsored by the Delaware Valley Surf Anglers. May 8?

Centennial fishing contest, with prizes for largest fish caught in many categories, March f-DeC. 31. *

COUNTY 4-H QUEEN Jeanriette (Misty) Rea of West Cape May Is escorted to state Agricultural Convention Banquet by Harold II. Shaw, president of County Board .of Agriculture.

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COURT HOUSE - A number of important agricultural meetings, including the State • Agricultural Convention, were held dufing New Jersey Farmers Week Jan. 23-30, with Agricultural leaders and county extension agents participating in the series of meetings and events. Walter H. iJetts of

Tuckahoe presided at the Farmers Home Administration and Farm Credit Service luncheon meeting in Cherry Hill. Farmers were brought up-to-date on availability of loan funds for 1982 and the expected situation on interest rates for farmihg. Mrs. Sandra Nicholson, Office Assistant with the Cape May FmHA Office,

British Seagull 387 Caring Children Make For Thoughtful Adults by Ima Byrd Birds really love little children, and we get our feathers ruffled whenever we see hurrtans putting them down. But .there’s nothing that makes a bird 1 happier than to see small children (aught kindness, love and sensitivity to nature, especially to birds. We discovered in our travels that Cape May County really has something going for the kids — something that isn’t usually given too much notice. Just yesterday our friend Scout, a big bluejay from North Jersey, flew by the beach at Stone Harbor, where we like to congregate, and told us that Cape May County probably has the best facilities for nursery school children than any place in the country. SCOUT SAID HE GOT CURIOUS when he was watching a group of youngsters from Happy Day Nursery in Stone Harbor feed the birds. Well, he hung around a few days gulping a few handouts and getting to know the kids when he discovered that the woman responsible for the school was a Mary Hawk (that’s a real nice name, eh?) It seems • Hawk has beeh teaching youngsters in a gentle, creative, caring way for years. Well old Scout decided he'd check out some other places and I’m happy to report that there wasn't one that didn't * please and excite him. He stopped over in the Court House and checked out Joy Wood (that’s a nice name too). Scout just couldn't believe how much Joy Mrs. Wood spread to those children and how she turned them on to things around them, teaching them kindness and respect for their envirortment. It wasn't just that thougfiTIMecnv ed Wood went out of her way to plan little surprise* and special things for the kids — beyond the "job." \ SCOUT WAS SO OVERCOME when he told us that he had to wipe his eyes with his tail feathers, and that’s nt^ easy thing for an old bluejay. Well, after Scout headed back to North Jersey, we got to thinking about Hawk and Wood and we got to wondering if maybe their names had something to do with their sen-

sitivity.

But then we decided that was just plain’silly and what was really important was ^iat here were two women who had young, impressionable minds and bodies in their care and they were doing everything in their power to get some good attitudes about life across to those kids. Now that might not seem like much to some folks, but to the kids and to the future of this world, it's mighty important. " IF WE CAN GET THE KIDS THINKING honestly and surely about the world of nature and living things, maybe we can look forward to a generation of caring, thoughtful adults. There's a lot of wild, thoughtless youngsters around who might be different today if they’d had the experience of being with Hawk or Wood. We birds sal there by the ocean for a long lime thinking about the entire matter, wondering if maybe humans had overlooked the simplicity of teaching children kindness and knowing that the far-reaching effects would have an impact on us. Then we got to thinking about what Scout had said that he didn’t see one incidence of unkindness at any of the nursery schools he visited and we thought maybe a report like that was worth recognition - and worth noting

received the "New Jersey FmHA Employee of the Year Award" at the luncheon. She was lauded for outstanding service by James Gouryeb, State

FmHA Director,

JEANNETTE (MISSY) REA. County 4-H queen, from West Cape May, was honored with all - County Fair and Agricultural Commodity Queens at the Delegates Banquet at the Cherry Hill Inn. Prior to the banquet the queens presided at the Queens Court Reception and Country Fair in the Cherry Hill Inn. Miss Rea was accompanied to the Agricultural Convention by her parents, Leslie C. and Diane Rea Attending the State Agricultural Convention in Chefry Hill Jan. 26 and 27 was a large delegation of agricultural leaders from the county. Voting delegates from the County Board of Agriculture were Harold H. Shaw, president, of Marmora, and Gregory C. Mason, vice president, from Belleplain. Alternate delegates were George W. Betts, of Tuckahoe, and

Leslie C. Rea.

NOMINATED BY the State Agricultural Convention to serve for a threeyear term on the New Jersey Fish and Game Council as the farmer representative from South Jersey was Russell Hunter, vegetable farmer from

Burlington County.

Those participating in State Farmers Week activities include Mr. and Mrs. Harold H- Shaw of Marmora; Mr. and Mrs. Gregory C. Mason, Mr. ahd Mrs Bernard Germanio, and Mr. and Mrs. John fl. MacLeod of Belleplain; ^Walter H Betts and Vin•ent DILuzio of Tuckahoe; Mr and Mrs. Allan McClain of Green Creek; Mrs. Elizabeth E Croson of Seaville, Mr and Mrs. Leslie C. Rea and their daughter, of West Cape May; George W Betts of Petersburg; Michael Jones, and Larry E. Newbold. and Betty Jean Jesuncosky of Court House

Flower Show

WILDWOOD CR A bus trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show Tuesday, March 9, will bi* sponsored by the Republican Club. Ruses will leavp Crest Pier H a m ahd leave Philadelphia tb return 3 p.m For reservations call 522-6359

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Summer Concerts SEA ISLE CITY*’Centennial summer conserts will be held 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Promenade Bandshell at Kennedy Blvd The sbhedule includes: July 7, Sal Barbo, tenor; July 14. A1 Raymond Orchestra Big Band Concert; July 21, Larry Ferrari, TV organist; August 4, Dan Desiderio, Cordovox concert; Aug 11. Millville American Legion Band; Aug. 25, Sal Barbo, tenor; Sept. 1. “Doctors of Rhythm" Dixieland Band Heart Drive

Underway CAPE MAY - A coffee hour was held in the offices of Charles Pessagno, National Associates here, to "kick off" the American Heart Association’s annual February Heart Month fund raiser. Pessagno is County Chaiirman. Among those attending were residential chairmen: Beth Dungan Marmora; Clinton Vari Berry, West Cape May; James Sands. Lower Township; Dolly Stango, Cape May businesses, and Ed Campbell, county educators. Also taking chairmanships in the county are; Donna Hughes, Ocean City; Mrs. James Lutz, Seaville; Judith Sheldon, Oceanview; Beatrice Lanzi. Cape May; Joanne Kay. Wildwood Crest, and Elaine Vignola. Wildwood

Auxiliary Meetings

CAPE MAY-TheCourt-ly Executive Committee, Depti of New Jersey, American Legion Auxiliary; will meet 8 p,m. tomorrow in the Harry Snyder Post 193 Home, here; with members of Unit

193 as hostesses.

Thurston Elmer Wood Auxiliary Unit 198 will hold a card party, open to the public, at noon Monday; Feb. 15, at the Post Home. Dias Creek Rd. and Hand

Ave., Court House The regular meeting of Unit 198 will be held at nqon Tuesday. Feb 23, at the

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Pressure Ginic W" CAPE MAY - Because of repeafed requests for a blood pressure cHritc the boardof’commissioners is proud to announce that under the Division of Nursing. County Health Department, an opdn clinic will bo held for any one jn need of the service irr-any community sur rounding West Cape May The clinic will be held 1:30-4 pm fleb 18 at Borough Hall (rear bldg). 732 Broadway For further information."call 884-2727

S.J. History Course Set WILDWOOD CR..— A fton-credit course on South Jersey history and related subjects, sponsored by the Crest Historical Society and Museum, will be conducted 7-9 p m. for eight consecutive Tuesdays, beginning March 2 and

finishing April 20.

The course will consist of four lecture and instructional periods followed by four seminars and personal participation sessions at Crest Memorial School; St lx>uis and

Pacific Aves

INSTRUCTOR will be Dr. Frank Rock, who is teaching research and-writing at Salem County College artd also teaches social studies, psychology and history at St James High School, Pennsville. There will also be guest lecturers, including Dr. Robert Harper, professor in the History Dept, at GlassboroState He is the author of a number of Historical books and

treatises.

For information, call Stanley.Gage, curator, at 522-1276 or Jack ChrisUne, president, at 522-2093 Enrollment will close Feb 25.

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COLD WEATHER TIPS FROM JAPAN One of our readers, Carole-Woods, picked up a lot of ideas about coping with cold weather while she was growing up in Japan. She points out that most Japanese houses are not centrally heated, but that her winter experiences there proved that the Japanese people (who live in temperature zones comparable to those of the United States) generally manage to live comfortably during cold weather ... in homes that are designed primarily for summer heat. The typical Japanese winter bed covering is a quilt called a hahibuton. Ms. Woods describee it as being something like a comforter: "It consists of a light nylon covering over each side of a loft (or thickness) of approximately four inches—composed of untold layers - of cotton. This quilt isn't sewn through as a Western one would be. Instead, only an occasional thread—which is not pulled tight—runs from the nylon on one side, through the filling, to the other cover. This produces, essentially, a big, flat, warm and wonder{al. rectangular sleeping bag." During the winter, families often center their evening activities around a kotatsu. which is a heater placed on the floor underneath a traditional Japanese table (like those used in Japan’ese restaurants) A special quilt is draped over the top of the table to help keep the feet andjegs placed beneath it warm, and a second table top is rested on the quilt. A hlbachi, which more clqsely resembles a large vase or flowerpot made of fired and kiln-glazed clay iron than the cooking apparatus called by that name in thiif country, provides heat for the kotattu. Various grates dr tripods can be put over the fire so that food may be cooked or water boiled on the hibachi. For the most part, a kettle of water is kept simmering on the unit to hurhidifythe-room. (Such open fires may be safe in a rather lightly constructed, well-ventilated Japanese structuri*. but ite do not advise you to try It, since an open fire emits dangerous carbon monoxide | The Japanese cover their wooden floors with tatami. . straw mats that are approximately 1-1/2 inches thick. In especially cold weather, a layer of newspaper is'often put between the straw mats and the wooden floor for dxtra insulation. - Carole says that many Nipponese items of .clothing are designed to provide winter comfort in cool houses. A short kimono-type garment called a kaori is.constructed in the same layered manner as the kakabuton, except it's covered on the outside with cotton fabric. Such jackets are worn indoors and out. Under the Aaori, the Orientals wear several layers of sweaters and other garments, Carole's favorite memories of her life in Japan concern her late-afternofn visits to *heo/iuro. a sort of hot tub/sauna combination. "After a soak in the o/um," Ms. Woods states, "you'll be warm for at least a half hour, fend if you're staying up for a while, you won't need as many sweaters as before. " At bedtime the Japanese get out the yutampo, a device akin to a metal hot water' bottle, .to warm up the bed Ifutonl before climbing in. "Then, when you’re ready to slip under the warmed cover." she says, "you 11 have something nice to put your feet against as you drift off cozily to sleep " r<H PREI addltlonat Infowatlon 0«' SUirinQ W*fm O' on THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS wort ytim own* and And ••■< fof Roc'lst No MJ How tea Jip*n«v» Slay Wwm "Mail i^Po'ng MORE W>th LEM', R.O Bo« TO. Hendef»on*me, N C ZSTSi. or In cara of this papar 1SU THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS. Inc