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Herald & Lantern 8 February '84

Dorit Ward

OUTSIDE AGAIN — Frances Rbgan, in wheelchair and assisted by her cousjn, Mary

Buhrmap. is greeted by her neighbors now that a ramp has been completed, enabling her to leave her Villas home. Volunteers & Resources of the county Welfare Department coordinated the effort to get Mrs. Regan a ramp. It was built by the Atlantic City Council of the Telephone Pioneers of America. Mrs. Regan had her leg amputated last summer. Neighbors are. left to right, Freda Bitting. Lena Goslin, Cass Kerley and Sam Lauria.

Authority Organizes By E. J. DUFFY going to be our own landfill or (an) in-

cinerator,” the mayor added.

“You've got to go to the three of you and Fothergill spoke of Sanborn-Wielenga’s see if Jhe five of you can convince the three *A Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Alter- ■’ of you to give you the money.” native for Lower Township, N.J.” as •‘a "That's what Township Solicitor Bruce roa( ^ map” the authority could use in three Gorman told the Township Municipal In- phases to develop a method for disposing • pinerator Authority during its first of township trash — incinerated or othermeeting last week wise. The consultants' September study, pie context and punctuating nods are ' - — -

missing, however, from the financial advise he offered'the five-member authority that includes the mayor.and two township

committeemen*

Since the authority has no money to begin operations, Gorman was telling its five members to ask those three members (township committee) for enough seed

money to get things going.

Nodding to file committee members of the authority, Gorman added: “There’s nothing to stop you from doing that in your other (governing) capacity." c COMMITTKEMAN Robert Fothergill nominated Mayor Peggie Bieberbach as authority chairman and Patricia Bowman of South Cape May as vice chairman. Both were appointed to those posts with 4-0

votes. - 1 .

Except.for (February and holidays, the authority will meet on the first and third Mondays of e^ch month at 7 p.m. Several speakers are expected to address it and the public during a 7:30 p.m. meeting Feb.

14 in Township Hall.

According tb Fothergill, an engineer,will discuss waste disposal in general. One or both of the township's solid waste disposal advisors (Sue Sanborn and Mark Lange of Sanborn-Wielenga Associates) will be there with, perhaps, one potential client for incinerator steam, and a financial firm representative interested in backing a township incinerator plant. Fothergill told the authority that two companies are considering relocating their operations to Lower Township if it builds a trash-tq-steam incinerator. One outfit employs 30 workers, the other 200, he

said.

"There is p very strong possibility that Lower Township may not even have to float a bond" to finance an incineration project,” be added, noting that Prudential Bache could pick up the tab because similar ventures are regarded as “very

profitable" investments.

(Fothergill has been negotiating with Harbison-Walker Refractories, owner of the 123-acre magnesite plant at Sunset Beach, toward possible township acquisition of that site for an incinerator-powered

industrial complex.)

BOWMAN WHO WAS appointed to the authority by township committee in part to answer South Cape May residents' call for a member from the Sunset Beach vicinity) asked if speakers at the Feb. 14 meeting

would only discuss>incineration

South Cape May residents were assured when the authority was created last month that it would review other trash disposal

options as well.

he noted, allows for terminating a disposal

program after each phase.

Township council candidates Samuel Stubbs and Debi de la Cretaz have criticized the study as an amateur attempt to address what professional engineers should handle. But, Fothergill said at the authority meeting, "This is a feasibility study... it has nothing to do with engineering.” PART OF THE.$5,000 the authority is expected to request from township committee would go toward an engineering review of any waste disposal plan the authority

commissions.

Before township committee established the authority Jan. 9, Stubbs, de la Cretaz and Stubbs’ son, Michael, wrote Carmine Capone, deputy director of the state Division of Local Government Services. They asked him to investigate township hiring of Sanborn and Lange last July. Among their complaints, the Stubbs-de la Cretaz team contended that township committee violated the Local Public Contracts Law by paying the consultants some $3,500 after the resolution hiring them expired Sept. 5.-The consultants were paid another $3,500 for the solid waste study. Stubbs vowed Jam-9 to. request a Superior Court injuncfron to block any incinerator authority action. He and de la* Cretaz later decided to await word from Capone before asking the court to

intervene.

Meanwhile, township committee covered post-‘Sept 5 payments to the con sultants — through June, 1984 — by rehiring them Jan. 18 as both recreational efficiency experts and solid waste disposal

advisors.’

When the DLGS director notified Stubbs and de la Cretaz it would not investigate the hiring. Stubbs said he would wait until the authority takes any action before deciding whether to follow through with an injunction request. Perhaps it was his threat that caused the authority to close its doors for a private session after the first meeting last Wednesday. Gorman told its members that he wnted to discuss "potential litigation" with them but would not elaborate in

public.

Before the public session adjourned, he told the authority: “You should also think about how you’re going to integrate yottr advisory board.” As a concession to residents who attending the Jan. 9 public bearing when the incinerator authority was created, township committee introduced an ordinance later last month, establishing a Solid Waste Advisory Council for the authority. Five advisors will , probably be named if the or-

“Neither Toin nor I have talked to any^f^peb. 15.

# dinance is adopted after a public hearing

these people," Bieberbach replied,'ref« ing to Committeeman Thomas Clydesdale

and the expected speakers.

“I’m very open-minded — whether its

Gorman advised township committee that it should iron out, between authority members and its advisbry Council, “who’s

going to do what.”

^ews Notes from-

Seven Mile Beach M’Ellen Rowland 36fF2294

Returning to Stone Harbor from CMCH by the new, longer route via Avalon we stopped at one of our favorite shops on the island, the Red Geranium, owned by Helen (Mrs. Frank) Reed. Helen and FYank mov.ed to Avalon from Huntingdon Valley, PA, five years ago. Frank is general manager of Admiral Datsun in Pleasantville. To keep from going bonkers in retirement. Helen, a frustrated interior decorator, took over the Red Geranium gift shop, 2799 Dune Dr., Avalon and brutherrr, has she made a success of it. We can't stop to pick up a card without spending a half hour looking over her collection. Even our spouse shops uncorr plainingly. In summer, Helen features eye-pleasing articles for the guys so their dolls may browse to their heart's content. If you seek the unusual this is Paradise! From refrigerator magnets (mere pennies), handpainted fans on stands, ceramic duck salt and peppers to top-quality etched crystal you’ll find something you can’t live without, vte promise! Thelma and Edwin Yeager, 8800 2nd Ave., have just wound up another successful tour for St.Mary's Church. This year it was a cruise to the Caribbean and 33 participants enjoyed their snow-away vacation to the fullest. Among them were Ruth and Gene Fisher, Sidney and Dr. George Jone*. Anne Allen, Pauline Young, Florence Atwood, who joined the group for the first time, we understand. Lydia Battendieri. Amelia Guerazzi and Paul Murphy. Most of them returned Sunday, Jan. 29 and all were ecstatic about ' their ship, the Vlordic Prince. R-Way Tours of CMCH made the arrangements and the Yeager team suggested the embellishments. The Fishers and the Yeagers stopped off in Florida to reduce their time in our bracing weather — poor souls, wait 'til they hear what they’ve missed. WENT TO a lovely dinner oarty this week. Our favorite kind, good eats, good friends (both new and old a perfect mix of generations and plenty of time to talk. The weather was. in our estimation, the pits, so it was great to be in the company of pa'ls whose common denominator was this community. Hostess Peg Grimes showed us pic- • tures of Stone Harbor

dating back to days before we even remembered .it; (That’s mucho days, believe us.) Both Peg and her sister. Dotty Stump, have-donated much memorabilia to the Cape May County Historical Museum, whiChris a nifty place to take visitors if a Nor’easter sets in. It also has a gift shop which provides take-home presents unobtainable elsewhere. Peg still has an enviable collection of memories in photographs and some day we hope .to persuade her tb let us use ' them for a story on the Way We Were. Father Wesley Martin of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church motored with his wife Ginny and Dawn and Keith Commer, of South Dennis, to Trenton, to attend the Consecration of the Rev. Vincent K. Pettit as Supplicant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. The ceremony was held in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in order to* accommodate the wellover 1,000 celebrants and even this huge edifice had insufficent seating capacity for the overflowing crowd. Before the consecration Pettite served as rector of Christ Church in Toms River. It should be interesting to members of St. Mary’s in Stone Harbor that back in the '30’s Bishop Pettit served as an acolyte in their church when his father was holding services as a visiting minister during the summer season. Bishop Pettit will be conducting service here on Sunday. June 17, so plan to be early — we're sure all parishioners and visitors in the vicinity will be on hand to greet the new bishop. YOU MISS A lot. locaUy, if you don’t subscribe to the student publication Avalon Courier. This month we learned from the Student Council it has been earning points from a Post Cereal contest for a tetherball set and a soccer ball. Stacey Trainor informed us that the school is welcoming new students Eric and Jeffrey Acevedo, formerly of Delaware. Student Council received a gracious note from a family thanking pupils for “their thoughtfulness and generosity at Christmas.” Last but not least, the paper contained a vastly informative article by budding ichthyologist’ Bob Mauger thanking Bob Shellcoff and the Home and School Assoc, for presenting a show on sea mama Is, including whales, sea

It s the White House for Villa.

turtles and seals. Surprisingly, “Whales will rarely try to hurt a person but on the other hand cute furry seals will bite... their bites are infectious. Their teeth are very sharp.” Sea turtles ea'k only jellyfish or something resembling them and range' from 50-1,500 lbs. in weight while whales eat only small fish because their esophagi are narrow. .Dolphins can’t be held in captivity more than five hours without danger of a heart attack and dying, says knowledgeable Bob Mauger. ••• That guy of many talents, Len Borklaod of Sunset Drive, was demonstrating his latest creation the other day. It’s a duck on wheels which flaps its wings and waddles. He is. in great part, responsible for the unprecedented success of the cookbook. Seashore Seasonings, compiled by the Auxiliary of the Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital under .the guidance-of his wife, Peggy , and Mary Jane Lea of Avalon. So far the book has sold 3,600 copies nationwide and the hospital has been the recipient of $9,000 in profits. Continuing sales should augment that amount handsomely. Back to “Qvak” the duck (we named him that for Ha gar the Horrible’s pet) — we suspect that Len will make some available for sale at the Burdette' Tomlin Memorial Horse Show which will be held fa ter in the season this y&ar on Sept. 22 and 23. S.H, Chamber of Commerce members have good reason to turn out in droves this month! Police Chief. William Donohue is principal speaker. He will talk on "Life in the Wilderness," which he,has studied extensively, and tracking missing persons who have disappeared without apparent reason. We have talked with Chief Donohue about the latter ^ subject and it is completely absorbing Call member ship chairwoman Pat Fitzpatrick at 368-1792 for .reservations for dinner at Henny’s Feb. 20. The S.H. Seniors held their Valentine Party Feb. 1 at the Elementary School. Thanks to new V.P. Scott Daniels there was a nearcapacity audience. (Unusual when so many residents have fled wintry winds.) Die decorations had to appeal to the frostiest hearts. Old valentines collected by members through the years were furnished by request and festooned the walls. Goodies purchased from Crest Haven were obtained by V.P. Daniels and, best of all, we seniors learned how to invest Social Security benefits to our advantage.

(From Page 1) ingly described the incident to her parents, Rfhert and Bea Anderson. They called the Veits, who found Villa scratching at their front door. Linda Veit bought a brown Newfoundland for a pet about five years ago, “fell inloveV’ and “started adding more." Today the Veits breed Newfoundlands, whidiieU for from $350 to $500. They have foafadults, a 14-week-old puppy, and eight, eight-week-old puppies. Villa came from breeder Penny Webb in Skowbegan, Maine. Mrs. Veit is a member of the Cape May 1 County Dog Obedience Training Club. She

is a physical education and driver education teacher at "Wildwood High School. Her husband is superintendent at Margaret Mace Elementary School in North Wildwood Andrea, 12, attends seventh grade at the Richard M. Teitelman School in Lower Township. Her mother Bea, is a homemaker and her father, Robert, is a riverboat pilot headquartered in Philadelphia. Barson said the Ken-L-Ration award was started “to recognize the true value of dogs in terms of companionship and loyalty, and saving lives or property " Burson doesn’t own a dog, though. He lives in an apartment and isn’t allowed.