Herald & Lantern 8 June '83

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Don't forget the regular meeting of the S.H. Garden Club at the Firehouse June 13. Mr. Fischer of Fischer’s Greenhouses will address the members of the club on the care and feeding of African Violets at 10 a m. We have been advised to talk to our plants — well we must bore African Violets silly. They have been known to endure no more than a week of our tender loving care and cheerful comments before expiring. We have just received a beauty and are determined to have it live as long as we do so we’ll be there for

Time has been changed for the Women's Civic Club’s British Brunch on June 14th. Originally it was scheduled for 11 a m, but now it is planned for noon and plan to take your seats at that time. It’s going to be old-fashioned fish and chips and as you know, they should be crisp. The program entitled "Color Connections" will be given by Karen Nordahy and reservations are required. You can make them by calling Becky Bailey at. 368-1768. Melissa Grace Spell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Preston Beal Spell of 286 91st St. was married to James Jay Patterson Sunday, May 29 at Our Saviour Lutheran Church The bride wore white peau de soie with a long train and fingertip veil. Her bouquet was of orchids and carnations and the most striking thing about her beautiful ensemble was a sheer, broad-brimmed hat trimmed with exquisite lace. Her sigter-in-Iaw Fileen Spell was her maid of honor and she had three

bridesmaids gowned In lavender. Her flower'girl was Lea Robinson, whose older sister was bridesmaid Pamela Juni McConville. she was married some time before on the Juni's dock on South Basin — another of his brothers was one of three ushers. Following the wedding there was a dinner reception for 150 guests at the Golden Eagle Inn in Cape May. Stupendous, with music, champagne and the works! The bride and groom met while attending West Chester State Teachers’ College. What a glorious start for a handsome couple. THIS YEAR’S Memorial Day parade down 96th St. to the beach was even more solemn and poignant than usual It began with celebrities and the clergy arriving with a police escort in antique cars. They were followed by: The American Legion Color Guard, American Legion Firing Squad; American Legion Auxiliary Color Guard; American Legion Auxiliary Members; Poppy Memorial Boat; CMCH Brownie Troop; Cub Scouts of Avalon and Stone Harbor Middle Twp. Middle School Band; Burdette Tomlin Auxiliary; Stone Harbor Seniors; S.H. Yacht Club Members; S.H Rescue Squad; S.H Volunteer Fire Co.; and the S.H Garden Club wearing flowered gloves and carrying brightly painted garden tools. Post Commander Wiley Christie of the Stephen Ludlam Post 331 was in charge of ceremonies conducted from the entrance to the Women's Civic Club.

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Middle Twp Middle School Marching Band played the National Anthem and the large crowd joined them in singing it. Msgr. Vincent Giammarino gave a moving invocation and Commander Christie introduced the honored guests. Chamber of Commerce pres. James Fisher gave the welcoming speech and wished residents, merchants and visitors alike to a happy season. He introduced the guest speaker, Maj. Gen. John K Stoner Jr, U.S.A. (Ret.) who has recently become a permanent resident of the community. Pres, of Borough Council announced that a former resident of this Borough, Dr. Charles Woodbury Blair, an Episcopal Priest and physician in Louisiana, had died Dec. 28. Dr Blair had requested that he be cremated and his ashes be scattered from a boat off the shores of the beach he so loved. While he lived here he was affectionately known as "Skip.” His mother, Rosalind Blair, conferred with her old friend Councilman Eric Arenberg, in charge of Life Guards in the borough and he arranged that it be done at this Memorial Service Dr. Blair was a young man who accomplished much in his few years. He was one of the medical pioneers in bio-feedback and he started Pastorla Counseling Service in Louisiana His son, Michael Mon tgomery Blair, has been awarded a special scholar-

ship at a private Episcopal school and the American Medical Association has set aside one day annually in honor of Dr Blair In addition to his mother he is survived by his widow, Jane Bollman Blair (who started nursing school June 1) and five children Following transportation of memorial wreaths to the boat by representatives of 29 donating organizations and individuals, Councilman Arenberg carried Dr. Blair's ashes to the boat and Skip's lifelong friend and cousin. Barry Stephen Warner, carried the wreath. A Salute by the Firing Squad of the Legion accompanied the launching followed by the playing of Taps by Chris Weber, III and the Echo by Pamela f*arkhurftt. Participants gazed out to sea long after the boat melted into the horizon. IvfEMORIAL DAY. was also the date of the Stone Harbor Women's Civic Club's 70th Anniversary Celebration. The club invited all of the borough's residents and guests to an Open House in the beautiful club which members are working feverishly to winterize and make it available on a year-round basis to members and approved associations for posh affairs. Approximately 450 persons filled the large, airy main room overlooking the ocean It was magnificently decorated with flowers ar ranged by Dottle Petruzfa

and Albert Riva and clusters of balloons festooned every comer (The balloons later were given out to younger guests > We talked to Pegi" Schaffer about inflating the balloons and she said her sister and brother-in-law Innocently stopped by the night before and she conned the poor guy into filling the balloons with helium while she and her sister tied them off, starting at 8 a m Monday As we entered there was a long, well-staffed and efficiently stocked table where we were served hot dogs in rolls With all the embellishments, including sauerkraut. In front of the stage there was another table with three tremen dous cakes — a three-tiered round one flanked by two flat cakes; all iced in colors of the club and bearing the anniversary date The decoration of the cakes was done by Midgr McMullin's daughter Regina Burrows. On the stage was a great band comprised of the lloffnaglc family of Wildwood They own the carpet cleaning busi ness and from youngest to oldest they arc excellent musicians They started with traditional songs of all the Armed forces, then’On the Way to Cape May and from then on had the crowd singing, dan cing or at least toe tapping to every rhythm It was all smashing and this town rocked as never before. The Chairpersons, Mary Conwell, Alice Suppler and Her committee, Marguerite Klotzbucher and Ellir Smith, are all due heartiest congratulations let's not ignore Hilda Mixsell, who had the stagger ing job of registering people at the door Thanks a bunch to Club pres Dotty

Stump, and all the guys and dolls involved, for a superb celebration of the 70th Anniversary of a continuously expanding club. On Sat., May 28 we visited the Bayberry Twigs 8th Annual Antique and Collectable (sic) Show for the benefit of Burdette Hospital at Avalon's ComsJhunity hall It was light, orifcht and had plenty of room to move around and examine the wares of 33 exhibitors Their Garden Cafe served lunch, supper and refreshments from 10 'til 6 p m We'll just bet Runny Aftanin and Suzanne Walters were exhausted when the day was over. We were really shopping for cut glass for a friend but almost fell to temptation ourselves when we reached Mary's Antiques She had a crystal sauce bowl and matching plate we wanted so badly we could taste them She also had two itetps of the very rare Bridgeton Rose cut that we had a tough time passing by lladdon Antiques had a lovely water pitcher at a N good, price too We almost succumbed to an old fashioned shelf reacher < remember grocers used to fetch out-of-reach items with them) in good condi tion for only $23. and get snorts from our spouse when we came home without it! There was even a flower stand with gorgeous plants You miss some real bargaias if you don't get to these shows.

Mayor Hand Personifies Borough

i From Page l) same high school. Their senior citizens have separate centers. STONE HARBOR has been developing south one block at a time as the borough auctioas off its property. It is currently at 122nd Street, where half of 29 lots offered for sale last year are still available Wooden stakes poke out of the ground there like cemetery markers Each includes a lot number and asking price, which ranges from $115,000 to $260,000 for beachfront. Although the borough stretches to 127th Street on paper, this is quite possibly the last extension. At least environmentalists hope so. Because vacant, buildablc, affordable lots are scarce, some people buy and renovate old buildings With only 1,200 year-round people living in 2,426 homes, it's easy to understand Mayor Hand's comment that "all of our bills arc paid by out-of-town people." OF THE 57 PEOPLE named "Hand" in the local telephone book, some came north from the southern states, some south from New England. The mayor, 53, traces his family to the latter early arrivals. He was born in Lower Township, moved to Court House when he was in the sixth grade, and was graduated from Middle Township High School in 1948 A lot of things happened to Hand in 1950 He moved to Stone Harbor, married the former Anne Menzel, and got drafted into the army. He was assigned as an electrical inspector with the Seventh Army in Germany. using a skill he started working at while still in high school A civilian again in 1952, he worked for two years for Louis Griesback Electrical Contractors in North Wildwood, then went into the electrical contracting business on his own THE HANDS in 1963 took over ownership of Fred’s Tavern in Stone Harbor, a restaurant started by Mrs Hand's parents. Mr and Mrs Fred Menzel, in 1937, when it was called Fred’s Cafe The Hands rebuilt it in 1964 The building now includes a liquor store, tavern and lounge and employs as many as

35 in the summer compared to a dozen in the winter The hours, 9a m to2a m . make that "a young man's business." the mayor said, and he has two young men interested: son James, 28. who also auditions the musical groups, and Paul. 21-year-old junior at Stockton State College Another son, Tom, 18. will graduate from Middle Township High School this month. The Hands also have three daughters: Kathleen, a teacher at Middle Township Middle School; Mrs. Patricia James of Avalon; and Mrs Donna Brown who. with her mother, operates Harbor Trader's, a men's sportswear store a few doors from Fred’s'. HAND ENTERED politics in 1965 when Mayor William Lange asked him to run for borough council, an $800-a-year job He was reelected to five three-year-terms, served as council president for eight of those years and was the logical choice to be appointed mayor when James Wood resigned at the end of 1981 He was elected last November to serve the remainder of Wood's term, which ex pires Dec 31. 1984 The job pays $6,000 "Nobody does it for the money," he commented In those six runs for political office. Republican Hand has never had opposition. He manages to golf once a week, resum ing a sport he gave up 10 years ago A 462-pound blue marlin he caught 65 miles off shore 10 years ago. is mounted in the liquor store STONE HARBOR raised its beach tag prices this year Seasonal lags cost $5 before June l. $7 thereafter Neighbor Avalon stayed with $4 and $6 Thus ended years of reciprocity for tourists who, crossing 80th Street, may not know one town's surf from the other's What will Stone Harbor's beach patrol do when someone with an Avalon tag walks by 0 "They'll be asked to leave the beach," said a no-nonsense Mayor Hand "Other wise, everybody would go to Avalon to buy their tags "

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