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Herald & Lantern 12 October '83

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The October Dinner .Meeting of S.H. Chamber of Commerce will take place on Monday the 17th at Henny’s, 9628 3rd Ave. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7. Featured speaker will be Michael Nardy of Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

'Jews Notes from Seven Mile Beach M'Ellen Rowland 368-2294

Fenner & Smith. His topic will be the current economic climate. Membership Chairman Pat Fitzpatrick requests everyone expecting to come to make their reservations in advance Her phone number is 368-1792. An exciting addition to the evening will be the awarding of the Chamber’s prize for best window decoration during the recent Wings ’n Water Festival.

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The S.H. Seniors got off to a swinging start Monday, Oct. 3rd. Rothie Fisher (Mrs. Gene) is a real go-getter. In a matter of a few days she organized a cruise on the Captain Cramer and luncheon at Urie’s for 63 persons. It all ticked off like, a Swiss watch. We left at 10:30 on the dot and soaked up the sun on the wide decks until reaching the restaurant. Uritf’s deserves a lot of credit too. They seated and served the whole group from the menu and supplied us with separate checks. Our pal Kay Casterline (a real 10) joined us'for lunch. She’s as interesting as she is good looking — she’s from Media, Pa., and a Loan Representative, so she suffers from the smarts too. We sat with Helen and John Murphey of 105th St., Lillian Wilson of 94th St., and Capt. Don Cramer, whom Kay has known fdr years, so it was a congenial bunch. Following our meal, which was top-flight as always, Capt. Don took us on a long, long cruise to Avalon and around Pelican Island. The Seniors’ orchestra was in top form and our spouse shook up the troops when he and Kay did a mean jitterbug. He cpyld hear some of the comments and he feels 10 years younger today.

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There’s a new guy in town. Stephen Thomas Mills was born at Burdette Hospital on Thursday, Sept. 29. He came in weighing a spanking 10 lbs. 1 ounce. His parents are Mike Mills (the electrical contractor) and Dee Hart Mills of 16 N. Main St., CMCH. Stephen won’t be lonely — he already has three brothers, David. Christopher and Michael. They go to Middle Tup. Elementary School. The Stone Harbor Lions Gub held its biggest event of the year, the annual Raffle Benefit for the Helen L. Diller Vacation Home for the Blind, Sunday, Oct. 2, at the V/indrift Restaurant at 80th St. and the beach. Everybody you’ve ever known was there from Stone Harbor and Avalon and some you’ve never met from points north, south and west. Twenty extremely valuable prizes were raffled off and only 200 chances were sold, so we had one chance in 10 of coming home with a goodie — much better ratio than you can get ir Casino land. We went with Joannie and Dave Krumbhaar of Scotch Bonnet and were joined by Mary and Gerry Suppiee of Avalon, who had just returned from a vacation in

Nantucket. We saw so many old friends like Evy and BUI Sylvestor (BUI is the builder who broke his leg and is just getting back into circulation) and those we see frequently like Grace and Ralph Evans, Ruthie and Ernie Blair, Spike Fisher and Betty Beard, Jim Owings and Jane and so many more. BUI DUler ran the show as usual, BUI Dougherty was the entertaining emcee and “Radar” was the disc jockey who didn’t aUow the decibels of music to exceed the sound of conversation, which was a refreshing change. We thought the way BUI Dougherty conducted the raffle was a tad more exciting last year, but there was still plenty of tension when the final numbers were drawn this year. Even if you’re not a winner yourself it’s great to see the happiness of those who are. Among this year’s biggest winners were: 1984 Mercury Lynx, by Harry C. Knecht of Avalon; vacations for two in Hawaii by Ellsworth Armacost. the most generous man in Avalon, who frequently wins because he buys so many tickets, and Gene A. Sanders of CMCH. Value of each ticket was $1,060.00. David Baker of Avalon and A1 Kurtz of Wildwood Crest won the vacations in Jamaica valued at $8,020

apiece.

Biggest winner of all was the Diller Home. Net proceeds from the raffle amounted to approximately $15,000, all of which will go to defray the $70,000 annual cost of maintaining the Vacation Home, this island’s outstanding achievement. THE GARDEN CLUB of Stone Harbor held its annual fall flower show and plant sale Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Elementary School. It was attractively arranged with the luncheon tables set to one side of the gym covered with pastel clothes and the fragrant, beautiful exhibits in the middle and far side. When we arrived we were greeted by the president, Ramona Wilson, and immediate past president Nancy Ritchie. Anne Townley was overlooking the gorgeous chrysthemum plants she would sell when the judging had been completed. We’re glad we didn’t have to be a judge — it is all highly technical and requires limitless knowledge about esoteric

plants.

The persons with the greenest thumbs and brightest blue ribbons won, at least one and as many as three, first prizes in numerous classes, they were: Nancy Ritchie. Alberta Riva, Fran Lewis. Mary Wheatdn, Gerry Stump, Agnes Robinson. Ihelma Yeager. Josephine Hueber. Eliza Harbage, Elbe Smith. Matt Woolery. Florence Atwood, and Agnes Robinson. The children’s class were judged according to their grade: 1st Grade, Harrison Walters; 2nd, Kendra Licata; 3rd, Asher Gergan: and 4th, Susie Fisher. There were three other prizes awarded to the

younger generation: Maureen McNulty for “Scare Crow Hat,” Michael McNulty for “Old Shoe;’’ and Jennifer Sellers for “Flower Arrangement.” These students all won firsts in their classes as well. • • • We have told you before ' that our daughter is on the stage. Old friends in Avalon remember her as Maris Gement, the name she kept when she went into theater. She’s been better than holding her own—a year and a half with Limited 20th Century on Broadway was her best shot to date. A few flops followed and trips around the U.S.A., Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France. This summer she was appearing in Minneapolis and got great reviews. In the fall she opened in a faltering off-B-way musical. Her friend, the famous producer Hal Prince, saw the show and called her three weeks ago and said “I don’t want you to waste your voice, I have arranged an audition for you with Beverly Sills.’’ The great diva is presently head of the New York Qty Opera. Maris protested that she knew nothing about opera but auditioned anyway. Beverly Sills called Prince immediately and said, “I want her as soon as she is available.” A hassle between unions was avoided when the off B-way show closed two weeks later. Maris has been rehearsing with the N.Y.C. Opera Company for a week and opens singing the part of Paquette in Candide by Leonard Bernstein on the N.Y. State Opera House in Lincoln Center Oct. 16. It has approximately 3,000 seats and is already sold out. She says it looks like a stadium to her and she’s scared stiff. We are ecstatic!

Romaine Mair (Mrs. Jesse), of 622 7th St. in Avalon, called us promptly to tell us she had two beach tags for Avalon for 1972 — seems there were both seasonal and weekly tags for that year. She also stressed the fact that the recipient had made out "a most generous check" to Mrs. Mair’s favorite local charity. We are still seking an Avalon tag for the year ’73, so please call ’ the number given above if you know of'6ne still in existence.

THERE WILL BE extensive alterations to the Golden Inn, we understand. We confirmed the rumor we had heard with Mrs. Penney Weed this morning. They are going to put in large meeting rooms to attract convention business. This sounds great to us, if the effort is successful they might stay around all year — boy! Talk about extending the season! Our Saviour Lutheran Church is also planning improvements to its Parish House. On November 5 they will be holding their 70th Birthday Party at 7:30 p.m.