Herald & Lantern 11 April '84

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CANDIDATES for. township council - all 17 of ’em — are being invited by the Taxpayers' Association of Lower Township to present their platforms at a public fonun May 2 in Lower Township Consolidated School. Seashore and Ferry^ roads. Cold Spring, according to Verna Righter. association

secretery.

The associationsponsored forum will be held at 7 p.m. LOWER POLICE arrested 25 adults and 10 juveniles last month, in,eluding -four suspected drunk drivers. Lt Charles Thornton reported Twenty-five adults and seven juveniles were arrested ' in February. 15 adults and 19 youths in

January.

Last month, the local force logged 36.347 on patrol while answering. 1.258 radio calls and checking 511 properties. Police investigated 247 criminal '-complaints, including 30 burglaries and 27 ^larcenies, besides making 351 service calls. In February, 2 2' burglaries and 34 larcenies were committed: 27 burglaries and 30 larcenies were recorded in January Police recovered $185 in stolen property last month; $14,389 was reported stolen. They investigated 38 collisions and issued 58 traffic tickets in March compared to the 19 crashes and 26 tickets of February and the 36 collisions and 63 tickets issued in January. TOWN BA N K firefighters answered false alarms March 1 and 3 and

Electrician’s Course Over RIO GRANDE — Airman Vernon H. Eldredge. son of John and Joan Eldredge of 202 School Lane, has graduated from the U.S. Air Force electrician course at Sheppard Air Force.Base. Texas. Eldredge is scheduled to serv^ with the 67th Civil Engineering Squadron at Bergstrom Air Force Base. Texas. He is a F980 graduate of Middle Township High School.

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battled grass fires March 3, 17 and 18, Chief Ray Brown notes The grass fires were at Seashore Road near the Cape May Canal bridge, at Caspian Avenue and Ferry Road, and at Fire Lane and Bayshore Road On Marsh 13. the volunteers' fought- a chimney fire along Old Mill Drive, Schooner Vanding and cleared a Bayshore West house of BrnB March 26. They enied the" month March 27, Answering a smoke alaran triggered by a pf/inter’s cigarette at Die Lobster House in S^hellengers

Landing

Fireman inswered 11 alarms each [in February

and January

ERMA VOLUNTEERS started the mon^i bV answering a house fire alarm ph Briarwood Drive: it turned out to be a smoking oven was under control by the time they arrived. Two days later, the company fought a grass fire near Lawrence Haven marina off Oceafi Drive. The firefighters extinguished a vehicle fire on the southbound Parkway the following morning. Thirteen volunteers responded to a March 6 trailer blaze on Breakwater Road and 14 Erma men answered to March 24 alarm to a chimney* fire on Saxton Avenue Erma Chief Robert McNulty^reports. The company was called out lor one. alarm in February, four in January. VILLAS FIREMEN answered five calls in March, one more than February, one less than January , according to Dot Rothenbiller. fire

commissioner.

The company rescued victims of an auto accident with the Jaws of Life after an early morning March 1 collision along Fulling Mill Road. On March 6. the firemen fought an auto fire at Bayshore Road and Bay Avenue. On March 11. they answered air alarm to a minor house fire on St. Johns Avenue apd two days later they responded to a false alarm at Breakwater Plaza. Fishing Creek. The Villas volunteers ended the month by fighting an auto fire at

views Notes from-

Lower Township E. ). Duffy 465-5055

Bayshore and "Fulling Mill roads March 31 ROTHENBILLER an nounced that the Villas u$- plans breakfast j. Bayshore Road anihpeorgia Avenue, flrom 8 a.m. until 1 p.m Apnl 29 Pancakes, .sausage, eggs, bacon and home fries will be served. Adults $3. .children $1.75. • THE FI ND DRIVE has had a very, very poor return this year." Chief Kevin Hart of Lower Township Rescue Squad said of the drive that began M?rch 1 with a $36,000 goal.

Sp far. only $11,000 has been contributed. Hart urges Lower's permanent and sufnmer residents to "stop and think a minute about what they'd do without" the 24-hour-a-day emergency ambulance service The squad, he noted, mailed 11.500 requests for donations: $1,854 were returned. The squad has yet to reach a fund drive contribution goal and Hart said he's concerned that it may be forced to start charging for ambulance twnsportation "from the door" as other rescue squads do Contributions can be ad

dressed to The Lower Township Rescue Squad Inc . Box 89. Villas. N.J 08251-0089 MARCH REPORTS from , the rescue squad are pen ding but Hart has released its February stats That month, squad crews logged 408>v hours and 6.498 miles answering 139 calls They chalked up 475 hours over 7.500 miles on 162 calls in January Ninety-eight of the February calls were emergencies 18 heart at-tacks.-three strokes, three auto accidents, four fires and 69 miscellaneous The' squad also answered 40 calls for transportation and one non-emergency miscellaneous call GARDENING BY.THE SEA Club members plan to mark Arbor Day by planting a tree April 27 at

Township Ha 11.^ Bayshore Road. Villas • MEMBERS OF the Richard M Teiteiman School Ecology Club and Keith Seager a township environmental commissioner. will report the vesults of their Gypsy Moth census io township committee and the Lower health board Seager and the club were scheduled to contact the census this weekend. Mayor Peggie Bieberbach noted last week. REMINDER — North Cape. May Senior Citizens' bus to the Playboy HotelCasino departs at 3:45 p.m tomorrow - from Keene's Kitchen. Bayshore *Koad The SlOiMp includes dinner. a show' and $10 in quarters. Call Anne Lewan- - dow'ski. president for infor mation at 886 9279

irs TIME for COMMON SENSEI r MAY 8, 1984 SENSE COALITION TOWNSHIP COUNCa

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