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Eckstein At 4-H Event

NATIONAL CHAMPS — Laws' Printing captured Cape May’s National Softball League championship. Left to right, front, Carl Utnscheid, Billy Cork. Coach Bob Laws. John Fuller. Bill Combs and Ed Grant. Back. Mike Moore, John Vogle. Mike Hickman. Glenn Reagan. Theodore Ferrante. Rich Keenan. Brendan Rosenberg and Kevin Sherman.

Local Firemen, Band Capture Parade Honors

WILDWOOD - Three local fire companies, a ladies’ auxiliary and a high school band took away honors from the Firemen’s Annual State Convention parade down New Jersey Avenue Saturday. The Cape May County Firefighters’ Association trophy for the best appearing county fire company in the six-hour march went to the Rio Grande Volunteer Fire Department. “That’s quite an honor to win that trophy.” said A1 Beers, parade chairman and spokesman for its committee. Rio Grande volunteers also received honors for the best appearing tanker truck, (of 2,500 gallon or more) and the company's ladies' auxiliary captured a judges’ award for the best appearing auxiliary in the parade. STONE HARBOR firelighters won a special award for their fire-

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prevention float while Villas Volunteer Fire Co. collected best appearing honors for its utility truck. For the fourth consecutive year, the Middle Township High School Band outperformed 19 other units from across the state to take home the first prize. Boosters’ Program Due Sat. COLD SPRING - The parents Athletic Booster Club of Lower Cape May Regional High School met on Tuesday evening, Sept. 13th in the school cafeteria. Committee chairmen were appointed for refreshment sales, membership, and awards banquets. Over the summer months a committee worked on a program book to be sold at all home football and basketb all games and at wrestling matches. This book will be available at the first home football game, Sept. 24, and will include listings of both the home and visiting team participants. Proceeds from the sale of these books as well as other fund-raisers will go toward support of all boys and girls sports in the high school. Meetings will be held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. The next meeting will be in the high school cafeteria, Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. A film of the previous Saturday's football games will be shown to all interested persons at 7 p.m. Supporting all sports is a big undertaking and all parents, grandparents, and friends are invited to join this club and help support our young athletes.

“It was the biggest parade as far as men, equipment and bands and it was the smoothest.” Beers, a Wildwood Crest firefighter, explained. “We’re getting it do\?n to a science.” "We had more than 400 fire trucks,” he continued, noting that 235 state fire companies participated, and competed in the white glove inspection of their equipment by the award judges. More than 3,500 firemen marched in the parade while some 10,000 spectators cheered from the sidelines.

Sons Tap Son NORTH WILDWOOD - The Sons of Italy Lodge will fete former state Sen. James Cafiero as “Citizen of the Year” Oct. 22 at Nino’s Lucky Club. The affair is open to the public and tickets are $15.00.

COURT HOUSE - William Eckstein, Jr. of R.D.3, Rt. 47 Delsea Drive, attended a recent 4-H National Event - "CitizenshipWashington Focus” The six-day program is designed to use the unique resources of the nation's capital for students in the *^H program to explore citizenship, leadership, and learn on a first hand basis, the workings of our Federal Government. Eckstein attended the program with 40 other 4-H’ers. from 17 different counties in the state. The contingent stayed at the National 4-H Center, Chevy

Air Force Police Grad N. CAPE MAY - Airman Francis Sullivan, son of F. Robert Sullivan of 48 Beachhurst Dr., has. graduated from the U.S. Air Force security police specialist course at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Sullivan is scheduled to serve with the 51st Security Police Squadron at Osan Air Base, South Korea. He is a 1981 graduate of Lower Cape May Regional High School, Erma.

Chase, Md., just outside Washington, D.C. They visited the legislative and judicial branches of government on Capitol Hill, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Mount Vernon, the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington Cathedral, the Smithsonian Institution and The National Gallery of Art.

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