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JOYCE REED, of the Lions Center copped the Ms. Senior Citizen diadem of Cape May County at Ocean City. Joyce, who is of English descent, still ' speaks with a lovely accent that would be at home in London. Her husband Jitit. is the ex-Wildwood Convention Hall Director. As we went to press, Joyce was competing, at' the Tropicana casino for the , state title. FROM OUfe you • know summer is coming when... . dept: Carlson's Seafood & Fish Market on Park Blvd. reopens for the.season today, April 7, fcnd i/hder new ownership. Not to worry, the "new" owners are longtime Carlson employees Rich Hoff and Warren White who have been at Carlson’s for 12 years hnd 16 years respectively. -Former owner John •/Corky" Carlson is still aboard, so in this case new proprietorship also means, • familiar fpces. They’re open forjresh seafood, bait , and ice now; the seafood take-out will get underway {nearly summer. • • • MOVIE-MAKING in the Wildwobd-Cape May area will be depicted in a feature in Uie June issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. Aurora Productions will film about two weeks of beach scenes In • the Wildwoods during th<? spring for Eddie and the Cruisers? Most of the .footage will be lensed in Cherry Hill, Vineland and Ocean City. Lisa Russo of the famed Wildwood restaurant family Jooks just greater in her cameo folt in the "rushes” of Some Sunny Day., starring Robert Hays. Variety is carrying fullpage ads for the film, which was about 90 percent lensed in the Wildwoods. FAMED Carol Connors and David Shire wrote the words and music for the . Wildwood-based movie, originally titled On the Boardwalk. The musiowas composed and conducted by Mark Snow of Find Me fame. Kathleen Beller who has the female lead in the Wildwood movie, just completed another movie, Sur/acing. in whch Joseph Bottoms stars with her. Serendipity Productions of 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank. Calif., are releasing the Wildwood movie. It is the first film almost entirely filmed here since M-G-M’s Going Home, which starred Bob Mitchum, Brenda Vaccarro, Jan Michael Vincent and Joshua Mostel.

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MARY LOU PONDS, a long tim^ waitress at Kurtz's in tf»e Crest, is far famed for taking care of and feeding ducks at her Green Creek manse. So Crest antique dealer Charlie MacDonald whippd together a stained’ glass representation of a duck swimming in the wetlapds as a surprise gift for Mary

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^ *•* * WITH THE MIGHTY competition of a $40 million annual ad budget utilized by the ,nearby casinos, Wiidwoodians are fighting back with ethnic festivals and conclaves. Ghe of the most successful is the informal Irish-American week which enlivens Anglesea and North Wildwood every August. . The headquarters is the Red Garter and the sparkplug behind the festivities is Butch Dugan

'lews Notes from-

The Wildwoods CV. Majhis^at large

of Philly’s Irish-^mericah

, Society

A charitable person. Butch is so well regarded in the Quaker City that thousands turned out a testimonial for him at the Stack on the Bbulevard. Wildwood regular - entertainers were present 'including Billy Matthews, Steve •'MUky" Lawlqr and

Cozy Merely.

Anvong Wiidwoodians present were Bud Benson and Roy Watton who inviled podiurh sports' notable Ste.ve Van Buren to visit the .Wildwoods. Van Buren accepted-the invitation. Also present was Joe Jones, ex-ofcner of the Old Philadelphia Bar , • • • . ABOUT TO retire after 40 years as a postman is

Lea Filer. He has spfcnt 34 of those__year8 as the Crest’s version of the "barefoof mailman." . BUSINESSMEN AND constructiofi workers hope the planning boards will e* •pedite proposed projects ready to roll ThihnQSt extensive is the 263-unit coridominium by Bamess Cor.poration at Diamond Beach Another major undertaking is a townhouse development planned by contractor Bob Scully for Schooner Island in Wildwood Yacht Basin

WILDWOOD . lifeguard

mascot John Navin. Jr. scored a hit as the preteenager who gave^amantlja her first kise oh a retent episode of dfve Me A

Break, starring Nell Carter Young Navin also has a pilot for his own series so 1 his bedch days may be numbered:

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