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WE WENT TO a spetol meeting of Avalon Elomigh Council last Thursday, hop ing for enlightenment or their plans for sewage disposal Instead we heard business administrator An drew Bednarek ask council members and Mayor Rachel Sloan to come up with a final decision on a proposed new building to accommodate personnel in the office of public works Bednarek described their . present quarters as being a slum with pigeons flying around the area where they eat and only two showers ■for 20 workers. Council President Raymond S Gray, Jr said he

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had spent 72 hours in the building in the storm of '62 and agreed the building was inadequate After much discussion, it was unanimously voted that Bednarek should get an architect to submit plans for a 2,400-square-foot

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The opening dinner meeting of Chamber of Commerce held at Hahn's Restaurant on Sept 19 was the most pleasant we've attended yet Not just because we were getting together for the first time following the long hot summer but because each speaker was expressing his

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or her enthusiasm about the unusually successful season we experienced. C. Qf C. Pres. Jim Fisher of Seashore Home Supply chaired the meeting and requested there be no questions during the speeches in the interest of brevity. He then introduced Ramona Wilson, president of the Garden Club. Ramona vthanked the Realty Owners’ Assoc. <for including the club’s brochure with the ROA’s spring

newsletter.

It brought them a “great

deal.of money’’ and enabled them to plant 58 autumn trees, 60 flowering shrubs and order enough to place 118 shrubs |n the islands on Second Ave. Next year they hope to- plant chrysanthemums on the borough beds, which are the three islands to the north and three to the south of 96tkSl .’ Three-hundred sixty croci ” bulbs permantly planted will be placed around Nov.

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tailed the emplacement of 1,400 annuals planted this year with the Civic Club and other organizations including the kindergarten students participating in a four-day assembly-line procedure: one group would dig the holes, the next would put the plants in and the third would fillthem lin. In Ramona's

words. it- x was great! next Speaker was

Ted Pain . Adfninistrative . Asst, to the mayor, whe reported the 104th St. Bridge would hopefully be completed before May 1; .central business district project is moving forward and “we think it will be completed well before next season '; contract has been placed for artificial seaweed at 127th St and Seascape will be emplanted in early October; construction on 96th St. Bridge is still awaiting a.

Coast Guard permit. Police Chief Wm.

Donohue reported a relatively quiet sttmmer during which the department processed over 73,000 summonses and fines. Major crimes were few and far between; they handled just under 3,000 incidents, arrested 300, including 145 for criminal violations, 69 for ordinance violations and 70 drunken drivers. They have a new device which video-tapes alleged drunken drivers an(j should prove a major deterrent to this pr^alem in the future. He quoted a letter from a visiting couple who com-

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mended him for maintaining such young, clean-cut pfficers on his force, driving well-kept cars and making us feel so safe.” Discussing our excellent Rescue Squad, Chief Bob Rich said it had shared active summer beginning with Memorial Day when a 16-year-old boy dove into the ocean when the tide was out and broke his neck. Due to the efforts of the Beach Patrol and the Rescue Squad he walked out of the hospital three weeks ago with no paralysis oj loss of

sensation.

SOME TIME later they rescued a 56-year-old man “whom you would have presumed to have died”

. and he also walked out of

the hospilal two weeks ago. They rescued a 22-month-old baby girl who had suffered a cardiac arrest (Bob described these as being the worst eases of all) and she left the hospital three days later without sustaining any brain damage The chief also told of paying $50,000 in cash for a new ambqlance and last week celebrating the purchase of a second, exactly the same type, for which they paid all but $10,000. This was possible because of the support of the private and business sector. There are many volunteers in this borough who can choose the hours they wish to

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“Our volunteers are a breed of their own,” Rich said; their automatic pagers summon them at any hour of the day or night. Next summer they hope to have mobile Intensive Care Units in service and “be there when you need us.” A Fire Chief Doug SUnford declared that the reason we have such an efficient and effecUve Fire Department is because our citizens “believe that the best fire protection is fire prevention, as we do.” He listed other things the department does in addition to fighting fires: sponsoi a Christmas party for children at the Firehouse, have an Easter Egg Hunt, hold Fire Prevention Day at the school, have an annual poster contest and, above all, teach the kids to look for way ways out whenever tlfey enter a public building. He stressed the need for smoke detectors in every home and said members of his force would help people who bought them to install them. He is proud that our

fire loss ratio in terms of what they protect is one of the lowest in the state. He proudly told us that the Stone Harbor Fire Co. had entered a float in the Firemen’s Convention held annually- in Wildwood and for the sixth consecutive year won first prize. COUNCILMAN F. Jack Fitzpatrick's speech was one of gratitude to all those who helped make the July 4th celebration the unprecedented success it really was. The TastyKake Home Run Derby, the Sand Castle Competition, Decorated Bikes and the danceable music supplied by the Serenaders made the day memorable with the help of 30 Chamber members and so many,, many supportive citizens. It is “our people who make this town what it is” said Fitzpatrick.

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Ramona Wilson, president of the Garden Club of Stone Harbor, reminded me that the club is sponsoring a bus trip to Longwodd Gardens Wednesdays Oct 26. If you have never seen Longwood at this time of the year with its fall foliage you simply can’t imagine what you’ve missed. Not only that, they now have their own cafeteria, so you won't have a long wait at an adjacent inn. The. tomleaves from the Firehouse at 8:30 a.m. and will return at 4:30. If you’re interested in more details call Nancy Ritchie at 368-2286. or Ramona Wilson at 368-1318. The Keeping in Touch group met at the home of Ruth Blair. “210 103rd St., Monday, Sept. 19, to resume their regular meetings to be held every other Monday. The group's leader, Gracine McMenamy, opened the meeting by reaffirming their goals. “To be of some use to people in our town who are sick or incapacitated. We have been operating only since last October, yet we have been called on many occasions to assist existing agencies. Our ambitions are small: simply to help where needed or wanted; we visit, talk or listen, write or post a letter, sometimes take a book or newspaper. Since we lack extensive contact with those who need our services we publish two phone numbers, 368-5627 and 368-2551, which will put you in contact with our

organization.”

Hie group is both people and fun loving. They have given one party which was a great v success last June. They describe themselves as a gaggle of geese with three goslings They are already planning two parties for the coming year.

J. Wiley Christie, commander of Post 33, alerted us to be at the post at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, to welcome the winner of the Road Rally sponsored by the Main Line Jaycees for the benefit of St. Edmond’s Home for DisturbedChildren. An entrance fee of $50.00 was required to become a contestant and at the time Wiley called, 100 cars had registered for the

race

Entrants picked up their * clues to five checkpoints at which they had to stop to be declared a winner. The clues were purposely made obscure so that the quickest mind rather than the fastest driver would win the donated prize of a 10-day cruise in the Caribbean. » We got to the post early and Jound it swarming with the most attractive bunch of younger people you’ve ever seen. Seems many had gotten there long* before we but they hadn’t been able to decipher the clues, had missed some checkpoints and were disqualified. When they finally arrived the winners were Kim Bergan and Richard Devine of Philadelphia. The real point of this item is to say that they all had terrific jun, were mannerly to the point of being deferential and cleaned the place as it’s never been cleaned before. They even scrubbed all the floors with Pinesol. Let’s hear it for the younger generation for

a change!

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Rick and Mary Kokonos Ensslen of Avalon celebrated their first wedding anniversary Sept. 25. They celebrated it on a man-made lake in the Poconos — too cold to swim, according to Rick, but their cottage came complete with a boat and they did lots of fishing. •The first anniversary calls for a gift of paper. We understand some frugal (cheap really) friend gave them thousands of dollars in paper money — so much for friends. It’s only blood relatives you can count on. At the deLaurentis' 50th Wedding Anniversary Reception we learned that Be iihissler of 99th St and her late husband Ronald were baby-coach friends in Camden, where they were born. Ronald Shissler «nH Gene Fisher graduated from Haddon Heights High in 1930. Be and Ruth Fisher graduated from Audubon High School in 1931. In fact, it was at Be’s 18th birthday party that Gene Fisher met Ruth Hopkins, who was later to become his bride. At their weddings, Ron was Gene’s best man and Ruth was Be’s maid of honor.

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