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Herald & Lantern 28 March '84

Mews Notes from Seven Mile Bdach M'Ellen Rowland 368.1294 ’1]

Got a note from irrepressible Grace O’Brien, who gives those peerless cocktail parties each year to benefit the Avalon Garden Club. She spent the winter in Mexico again this year and says. "If it were possbile to change through osmosis, I would truly be part Mexican by now. There is a veritable fountain of culture here — music every evening, piano conperts, symphony, drama, comedy, political farce, and^ a kind of hospitality that is unique in this impersonal world ..." She's very excited because she’s been invited to give a piano recital in Merida next year. One thing that makes her so fascinating is that she faces up to'every challenge — this winter it was "a bowl of sopa de cucaracha without a blindfold". j S.H. Chamber of Com-, merce’s dinner meeting March 19 at Benny’s was most informative. Speaker was John McVey of CMCH, Principal of Middle Township High. “In the past three or four years we have been costing you more money," he said, to which Joe Scott called from the audience "You can say that again"). McVey theq^ explained that in the past his school had previously lost 25 percent of its students to private schools but this year from Avalon, Dennisville and Stone Harbor, it lost only 3. “People are finally r*

realizing that public schools can offer kids a lot. “For a long time we had people sending their children to other schools to protect them from minority groups, from sex, from drugs, from alcohol and other reasons. I think people have finally realized that sex, drugs; alcohol and minorities are a part of life. They exist.” HE POINTED OUT that wherever parents send their children the same qonditions will obtain. It’s not the schools’ fault, he said, it’s because parents have deprived their children of one thing they had. poverty. You gave them things you. did not necessarily have and “they don't know how to work for a buck," he said. Jim Fisher, president, then introduced Jane ( Mrs. Joe) Scott, who made an eloquent plea to members to sign up to donate blood or participate in some phase of the Red Cross Bloodmobile project Friday, April 13, 1:30-6:30 at the Fire Hall; 1,500 pints are required to meet the county’s daily needs, so help if you can. Councilman Jack Fitzpatrick told members an ordinance is planned “to insure that all stores must front on a street. We hope this will prevent oversaturation of the business district with stores.’’ Borough Clean-up Days will be April 2 and May 29. No heavy appliances will be picked up. Ted Pain confirmed the 96th Street

Bridge will reopen April 20 and enhancement of 96th Street will be completed May 20. ON MARCH 15 a special meeting of Avalon Borough Council was called for passage of the ’84 Budget. Since there wasn’t even a question from the audience Borough Council passed it unanimously. The regular work session followed immediately with Mayor Rachel Sloan presenting engraved certificates of appreciation to retiring employes of the borough. Joseph A. Sommers Jr., Conrad Lind Jr. and Evelyn A. Lind. Cindy O'Connor, chairperson of the Wings 'n Water Festival to be held Sept. 15 and 16, attended to request that Avalon schedule more events this year for the Festival, which attracted more than 2,000 tourists to the area last fall. In '83 Avalon’s participation was limited to highly successful boat tours but the council agreed with Ms. O’Connor that there should be mroe attractions in the resort this year. Suggestions were made to try to get the Coast Guard Band; have a Coast Guard air-sea rescue; nature walks; reserve

Comm:fnity Hall for Saturday ni;iht; have a garden tour; and look into the possibility of hiring a bus for the two-day event. Matching grants from the State Bureau of Travel and Tourism will be sought by Middle Township. Talked to Peg Sinclair of W. Cape May today, and having been involved with dozens of such festivals, she promises the ’84 Festival will be bigger and better in even’ way than '83. This we find difficult to imagine! Story Harbor American Legion Post 331 was honored by the Legion’s Department of New Jersey at the monthly county meeting held in SIC March 17. The. S.H. Stephen C. Ludlam’ Post received not one, but two citations: The Meritorious Service Citation “For having reached a membership greater than their all-time high” and “For surpassing their previous year’s membership. ' These citations were due largely to the efforts of Comm. Robert Wilson, of Sunset Drive, his officers and his auxiliary, in which his wife, Ramona (Pres, of the S.H. Garden Club), spent hours of work. S.H. Seniors will be sponsoring a bus trip to Inner

Harbor, Baltimore, May 14 and 15. Reservations are being made at Best Western Hotel. Dinner plus next morning’s breakfast will be included in the tour package. A trip to the aquarium and a boat ride are also on the agenda. For reservations' call Ruth Fisher at 388-1421. The Seniors' MarclT^21 Fun Night was dedicated to Scott Daniels, who has done such a fabulous job as V.P. He uas publicly thanked for the neat things he has planned all winter to chase our blues and keep . our minds off ever-whining winds. He also was presented with a luscious chocolate cake. Cindy Banik. originally from Bethlehem, Pa., js a recent graduate of > West Chester Univ. While'there she studied music as a clarinet major. She is now being welcomed as the new music teacher at the Avalon. Sea Isle City and Stone Harbor schools. % Bob McClure’s Hot Stove League, which met almost every morning at the Exxon Center at 94th and 3rd Avenue, is now one of our fading memories, but don’t be too gloomy. Bob and his brothers have started a highly successful new business, the McClure Generator Co., Inc. Virginia and Don Sheneman. who have owned a home on 93rd Street for six years, will become permanent residents as of April l. Virginia is ending a

long career by retiring from Riggs Banks in Washington, D.C. Don, not quite ready to sit back and enjoy life, has taken over the Exxon Service Station and we look forward to seeing the couple on a regular basis soon. Flag Drive By Legion

WILDWOOD - The American Legion is renewing its appeal for donation of flags once used to drape casket*, of veterans. Commander Frank Turse. ' Byron/Pennington Croker Post 184 stated that this continuing drive to collect flags, to be flown at the "Avenue of Flags” at Beverly Nationa 1 Cemetery, Beverly, N.J., is to honor interred veterans. Turse reiterated that each star on the 900 flags flown will represent a veteran buried in the National Cemetery. He urged anyone with such a flag to deliver the flag to thie Post 184 home, 4200 Atlantic Ave., as soon as possible so that the flag can be displayed Memorial Day. Commander Turse can also be reached by calling 729-7009.

School Elections Tuesday-

—i From Page 1) employe, itrfhe race for three seats on this nine-member board. One seat was vacated when Thomas Leonard, county library director, decided not to run for reelection Budget question: 81,666,139. Polling station: Dennisville Elementary School on Academy Road. Lower Township Township voters select three members of the Lower Township (Elementary) School District board and twpjnemberS-of Lower Cape May Regional’s board. Three incumbents and a former board member are running in the elementary district election. They are: former board member John G. Mueller, a math teacher, board president Joseph F. Wagner, an engineer, members Terrance L. Brown, a Cape May City official, and Barbara Robinson, a Villas businesswoman. In the LCMR race, incumbent Arlene MacDonald, an advertising sales representative, is running with builder John F. McGraw. Former Lower Mayor John T. Lincoln and Robinson's husband, David, past member of the elementary school board, are also seeking the seats currently held by MacDonald and Ruth Billmeyer. Billmeyer is moving from the $rea.' Elementary district budget questions: $3,899,870, in current expenses, $15,000 in capital outlay. LCMR budget questions: $4,439,770 in current expenses,956,000 in capital outlay. Polling stations (both districts): Villas fire hall, First Ward (Villas), Town Bank fire hall. Second Ward (North Cape May), and Lower Township Consolidated School, Third Ward (Erma, Cold Spring, Shawcrest, Sunset Beach, Diamond Beach). Middle Township Five candidates are vying for three seats on the nine-member board, including incumbents Andrea C. Balliette, a lawyer, and funeral director John L Radzieta Board member Anthony DeVico is not running for reelection. The newcomers are: Harry "Skip” Kerr, superintendent of county Building and Grounds department, H. Keith Maund, a telephone company employee, and Edward J. Rosenberg, former teacher and local politician. Budget question: $4,610,514 overall, a budget that projects a 9.7 cent t^x cut per $100 of assessed property value. Polling stations: The district ad-

ministration building in Court House, the old Whites boro School, Rio Grande and Green Creek fire halls; the Daughters of American hall in Goshen. North Wildwood Incumbents Ralph G. Johnson, board president and a former motel owner; Clara Ann Mattera, a homemaker; and Elsie H. Wizst, an employe in the borough police department her husband heads, are standing unopposed for three three-year seats on the board. Joanne Cacci, a housewife appointed to an unexpired term, is running unchallenged for election to that one-yeai^«eaL- ... Budget questions: $1,$28,257 in current expenses, $100,000 in capital outlay. Polling station: Margaret Mace Elementary School lobby. Ocean City Jean B. Seber, a Miss America Pageant worker, and Gary H. Kleeman, an employe of an insurance brokerage firm, S^ek reelection to two of the three seats subject to election this year on the ninemember board. Thomas B. Gibb, a retired engineer, James Miller Glenn, a licensed practical nurse, and Mary Ann C. Lanchoney, who works in her husband's CPA firm, are run ning for the same positions. One vacancy was created when board member David N. Blyler bowed out of the race because he’s moving from the district. Ballot questions. $6,425,093 in current expenses, $300,000 in capital outlay. Polling statirtis: Ocean City Primary School, 6th Street and West Avenue; the Interntediate School, 19th and Bay avenues; and Our Lady of Good Counsel School, 40th and As bury avenues. Sea Isle City Mayor Dominic C. Raffa appoints the school board members. Stone Harbor Three candidates are vying for two three-year seats on the five member board but Albert W. Meadowcroft, a retail salesman, stands unopposed in his bid to fill the unexpired one-year term of Glenn Townley. Alison K. Rockwell, a real estate saleswoman is running for one of the threeyear seats along with incumbents Herman E. Kapp, an electrician and board vice president, and George B. Thompson, one of the owners of Stone Harbor Lumber Co. Budget question: $411,191 in current expenses. Polling station: Stone Harbor Elemen-

tanySchool, 93rd Street and Third Avenue. Upper Township Ti ree incumbents are being challenged by [ txir newcomers in the race for three three-year seats on the nine-member board. Tbe incumbents are: Thomas H. Griffin Jr., a retail manager, Richard E. Mower, an administrator in the Pleasantville school system, and Dorothy R. Armand, past president of the PTA and legislative representative to the state school board association. Tbe challengers are: homemakers Mary An- Andrews and Kathy Mason, Township Clerk Barbara Camp and FAA employe Joseph A. Wright. Budget question: $5,658,249 overall. Polling stations: Upper Township Elementary School, 50 Tuckahoe Road, Marmora, the Seaville and Tuckahoe fire halls, both on Route 50. West Cape May Borough voters choose two three-year members to the five-member elementary school board and one three-year member to the nine-member Lower Cape May Regional board. Miriam E. Reeves, a real estate saleswoman, is unchallenged for reelection to the LCMR seat while incumbent president Susan W. DeHart, a part-time waitress, and Marvin Morrell Jr. a Social Service worker, are unopposed for West Cape May Elementary School District board. Elementary district budget questions: $153,099 in current expenses, $1,000. in capital outlay. LCMR budget: $4,439,770 in current expenses, $15,000 in capital outlay. Polling station. West Cape May Elementary School, 5th and Moore streets, for both district elections, r West Wildwood \ Incumbent Elizabeth O’Hala, a borough employe, is running for reelection while newcomer Ruth Cargen, a homemaker stands for the seat vacated by board president Dorothy Stingel. Both candidates are I'nopposed in their bids for two of the five board seats. Budget question: $183,822 overall. Foiling station: Borough Hall, 701 W. '-'enwood Avenue. Wildwood /Five seats on the city’s nine-member £?hool board are being contested. President Harry Breslin, former police chief, and board member Barbara

Preston, a legal secretary, are running for reelection with board member Ruth C. Campbell, a community activist, and newcomer Margaret Kincade, a * homemaker, for three three-year seats on the board. Georgia C. HarrisT^a government woricer, is seeking election to an unexpire<f two-year term to which she was appointed, along with Elizabeth Zuzulock, operator of the Anchor Inn. Four contenders are vying for an unexpired one-year term: Robert Dietz, husband of the Home and School Association president; Jerome Brown, a city employe; Curtis A. Miller, director of the W'Udwood Community Center; and Martha Stile, operator of Stile Pharmacy. Ballot question: $2,228,170 in current expenses. Polling stations: Glenwood Avenue School (District One), Wildwood High School, 4300 Pacific Avenue (District Two), and Wildwood Recreation Center, 243 Rio Grande Boulevard (District Three). Wildwood Crest Incumbent William J. Carr HI, a chemistry teacher at Lower Cape May Regional High School, stands unopposed for a three-year term on the five-member board and Matthew R. Tomlin Jr., a business administrator at the county VoTech school who was appointed to the board, is running unopposed for the oneyear post. Budget questions.: $2,336,370 in current expenses, $15,000 in capital outlay. The budget projects a 3.8 cent tax hike per each $100 of assessed propety value. Polling station: Wildwood Crest Memorial Schodl, 9100 Pacific Avenue. Woodbine Four incumbents are unopposed for reelection to the nine-member board — three for three-year seats and Jeannette Jriiarey, a county employe, for eleetton to her appointed one-year seat. Standing for the three year seats are: Vera Ciancaglini, a real estate saleswoman, Juanita Lewis, a nurse at Woodbine State School, ahd Leon J. Cheesman, district director of the Veterans’ Bureau. Budget question: $289,373 in current expenses, $1,000 in capital outlay. Polling station: Woodbine Elementary School, Webster Avenue.