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On Monday, April i Lomax, a past president of Board of Trustees of Wetlands Institute and environmental consultant to many organizations will give a slide tour lecture for the Stone .Harbor Garden Club at 10 a.m. at the fire house. Lomax will be showing slides he took himself' on a recent tour of Iceland.

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Last week we spent a • fascinating evening. George and Bonnie Feise invited us to the last in a series called “Introduction to Wine" conducted by sommelier Doris Lucas of Gallagher’s Avalon Liquor Store in two coxy rooms behind the store and adjoining Century 21, where George is a realtor. Since we were neophytes in the group we sat with Bonnie and George at a table right next to Doris, who kindly filled us in on information already familiar to regular students. This class was devoted to German wines. We each had six crystal goblets for sampling different vintages from different areas and plates of a bland cheese and crackers to cleanse our palates between testings. We were surprised to learn, among many other things: that Germany has the world’s strictest control on wine; 'Italy produces the greatest variety and is the largest exporter to the JJ.S.; France is second largest exporter followed by Germany ; and white wines can be made from red grapes but not vice versa. WINE TASTING requires use erf all one’s senses i.e., visual — clarity, color, depth; olfactory — off odor, aroma, bouquet; gustatory — off taste, changes in contact with air. Many wines are aged in oak in Germany as well as in'other countries, this is more likely to be picked up by your sense of taste rather than your sense of

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Since this was the concluding session Doris P’ seated all students with - •rtificate^ and all tasters with a very special (and expensive) wine to stay in our memories. It’s a terrific course! We learned rather than listened and will no longer secretly snicker when we think people are

trying to iirfpress’xb with their sophistication After just one lesson we’ve learned enfugh to spot a phony. Doris Lucas knows her subject and, even better, howLdteach it. If you thirst fareducation (pardon pun) we recommend you sign up for the next five-week series on Wednesday nights starting May 2 at 8 p.m. For further information call Doris at 465-3804 or Gallagher’s at 967-4121. For students, teacher and wines, it’ll be

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Sunday, March 25,

had Etta Mae and Norman Condi Park of Moores town as house guests. (We’re doing some name dropping here "since the toriells had the original land grant for the entire State of N.J. and Jhe Parks’ four daughters, Nh^cy, Jennifer, Kathy and x WanIyn were dominant amateur swimmers of their day.) When talking about our former boating buddies we are frequently asked “The swimmers’

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That Sunday was one of the days we wished we'd retired to Arizona, but Avalon's Women’s Civic Club and its Committee for the Performing Arts saved our bacon. Etta Mae and Matt Woolen, got some brunch together and we joined at least 40 Stone Harborlites who bucked the tide to hear the Lewis Shearer Chorale in Avalon's Community Hall. It was a glitzy way to break a gloomy day. Among Avalon's moguls we spoke to were: Mayor Rachel and husband Griff Sloan. Betty and Councilman Dick Light, Maryanne and Councilman * James Busha, Joe and Councilwoman Jeanette Glazier and every other Avalon notable. Marjorie H. Jones, prexy of the Civic. Club and representative for the Red Cross for the borough, made it a point to greet all guests. This was the second of what promises to be an annual event — at least we hope so.

STONE HARBOR SENIORS had another bang-up Dutch Treat luncheon at Henny's March 28. Scott Daniels had 57 reser-

^vations but because of illness or the torrential downpour a few people couldn’t make it. Those who did really enjoyed iL Scott had six bottles of wine as door prizes and the winners were: Eileen Connor. Jo Levison, Matt Woolery, Amelia Goerraizi and two new members each won a bottle. Pauline and Frank D'Etta - they should have beaded for casinoland immediately while they were on a role.’ Scott announced that May 4 would be Easter Parade for the Seniors. Use your imagination, competition is stiff and this year horseshoe crabs wilK be disallowed. Having heard persistent rumors about the Golden Inn in Avalon we called and our call was promptly returned by General Mgr. Dumping Phase-out

Our Readers Write Who Pays to Close?

To The Editor: I see where MU A Chairman William Band now suggests the state pay for landfill closures. I don’t think the taxpayers should pay for the closure of landfills that are privately operated, as they have been charging a fee to dump and are getting rich doing so. Township landfills which do not charge a fee should be helped by the state, but not landfills operated for a profit. As Air. Band should know, there is a 57-cent tariff per ton on each ton dumped which is to go for said closures of township landfills. That has been in effect for a few years. ELMER DOYLE Eldora

Offense Unintentional

To The Editor: Regardipg the photograph of the Star of Cape May quilt that appeared in your March 28 issue, it’s been brought to our attention that the quilt design is distasteful to some Jewish people We are truly sorry if we

have in any way offended anyone. Nothing was done intentionally. We appreciate your accepting our apology. RUTH TUEL SANDRA HOSKINS Crazy Quilt Shoppe Cape May

Advances

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two House Subcommittees have unanimously approved legislation introduced by Congressmen Bill Hughes (D-NJ) and Edwin Forsythe (R-NJ) which would phase out the ocean dumping of sewage sludge off the New Jersey coast and provide for the restoration of the New York Bight region. The Hugbes-Forsythe measure calls for the phaseout of ocean dumping of sewage sludge at the 12-mile site off the coast of Sandy Hook within 18 months. This site, within the New York Bight Apex, is generally regarded as one of the most severely degraded coastal areas- in the country Hughes said the legislation is vital because the Environmental Protection Agency has been unable to implement the ocean dumping law which he authored in 1977. That law banned the damping of harmful sewage sludge in the ocean after Dec. 31,1981. “Despite this congressional mandate, New York City and a handful of other municipalities continue to dump their sewage sludge in the ocean just off the New Jersey coast,” Hughes said. “In fact, almost twice as much sewage sludge is 'being dumped in the ocean today than a decade ago, when the Marine Protection Act was first signed into law."

Dennis Corley. We wanted to check our source abd Curley was only too hrfppy to oblige. The Golden Inn is trying to extend the season in Avalon with the ultimate objective of making it a year-round facility for conventioneers. It will open mid-May and lessors of the dining facilities will be current owners of General Warren Inn in Malvern,^Pa. and Barren's Inn in King of Prussia. The food will be American, European and Continental, only topquality, and special attenbruUches which they hope to make a feature attraction. Curley told us they hope to get a matching grant from the State to make this a year-round attraction for tourists withkkiqotd units, six executive suits and a conference center to be added. Wednesday, March 29, was a day which will live in local history, if not in ixy famy, in South Jersey. Fronyreports we read in this morning’s papers, winds gusted up to 80 ■ ' V

m.p.n You could have fooled us — we thought it was blowing at that rate all day. - Kind friends stopped by to see what they could do to help and having been wakened at 4 a.m. by neighbors to alert us to danger, this writer never even got lipstick on, or teeth brushed. Incidentally, we heard the first criticism of the borough since we've lived here: People who remember the storm of '82 say they were warned in advance of the danger —' this time they were not Maybe this &houl<M>e put on.a list of priorities; certainly it should for people who.are incapacitated or atone. We spoke to an authority in Avalon today and this was done there. Considering the fact that we were in the direct path of the storm, we got off lightly. We lost our stationary and floating docks — they are presently situated on Betty and BUI Webster's adjacent property. It’s a funny scene; the chairs and table are aboard the dock, clustered in one corner, the floating dock is close by acting like a watch dog for its companion pieces. People say we can retrieve the remainder and repair our docks at minimal cost. We have started to breathe again.

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ONE HAPPY THING occurred due to the March 29 storm. Noted epidemiologist. Dr. Bob Juai rowed tip to our place searching for a missing oar and oarlock. Fate took him to the right place; it was against our side fence Always a fascinating guy, Bob has just returned from another trip, this time to a colloquium of French Research l&titutes at Versailles, held for the purpose of reducing infant deaths from diarrhea worldwide. A canny traveler when he couldn’t get military transport due to Easter leaves, be flew to England with People's Expess, for peanuts really, then took a ferry to France and train to Versailles. After the conference he visited Le Mans, where 30 years before he had been on loan from the military to the State Dept. It had been a Marshall Plan project to help a milk cooperative there meet sanitary standards set by the Army. One permanent program stemming from his work in Le Mans was tuberculin testing for herds which spread throughout France., He found the cooperative is currently excited atxxit plans to introduce their new product Yoplait and build plants in the USA to produce it. New industry, more jobs, greay

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