V — •» 22 Herald & lantern 13 June '84

rww SCHOOL THEME - "1 Love America" was the theme of the Cape May County Christian School graduation in Rio Grande last Friday. Left to right are Joni Timmins. daughter of JoAnne T.mmins of North Wildwood. as Betsy Ross; Brian Seabrook. son of Mr and Mrs. George Seabrook of Court House, as Abraham Lincoln; and Megan Gadsbv daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Gadsbv of North Cape May, as Uncle Sam

County Disputes Middle Sewage

j 'From Page li tional capacity available." M.WKR's RESPONSE will go into the mail to DEP this week, he told the Herald and Lantern. Should Middle's studies conclude its plant does have adequate sewage capacity. Mayer said he hopes for DEP approval in July followed by 10 months of construction and an opening next spring. He said the New Jersey Health Department has okayed operation plans and his financing package is completed and approved by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority so that the under writer can issue lax-free industrial revenue bonds. Financing will be "100 percent private." he said Mayer and his cousins. Benjamin and Melvrn Miller, all of Philadelphia, are partners in Court House Associates. Under the management firm of Hospieomm Inc. of Philadelphia, they also operate F^astern Shore Nursing Home, which opened in Swainton last September. Mayer said Eastern Shore has been filled for the past two weeks, "an indication of the tremendous need." He pointed to the proposed nursing home's location practically across the street from Burdette Tomli'n Memorial Hospital - as a plus and "it he most logical site in the county." county planning director Edwood Jarmer had referred to it as "in a sea of parking lots at the busiest intersection in the county" i Routes 9 and 657 ». The proposed home is behind the McDonald's Restaurant and Cape May County Savings & Loan in Court House. Its. entrance would be on Magnolia across from the Jamesway Shopping Center Mayer said Burdette Tom I in is now losing $:{(hi to $400 a day on elderly patients who must stay longer than covered by medical reimbursement, whether private or government. The proposed nursing home could take these patients, he said, and "save Burdette Tomlin a tremendous amount of money." Richard Magee. director of social services at Burdette. said Mayer was basically correct, that reimbursement is "much lower" for persons who stay longer than # the predetermined length, but the cost to 4 the hospital is "not quite $3(X)-$400 THERE ARE: TIMES when patients have extended stays in the hospital because the only place they can be discharged to is a nursing home. " he said, "and frequently there are more nursing home patients than beds " Magee said Barbara Ryan, the hospital's discharge planning coordinator, testified at the CAFRA hearing "on the 1 concept of the need for additional nursing f home beds in this area. "We don't have any particular comment on this specific site." said Magee. JAILME^'S OTHER objections, and Mayer's responses: • Jarmer said the project "is described as, having the capacity to provide occupational and recreational therapy." but the plans submitted "do not show or describe any features of the project which would fulfill the needs of the patients with respect to recreational needs " "That shows a misunderstanding of what our project is all about." said Mayer

"We are a skilled nursing facility: the patients are under the direction of physicians and nurses. Physical, occupational and I recreational therapists will be provided if the need requires. This is not a retirement hjunevwe do not have patients that can recreat^outside. You don't see any Burdette Tomlin patients recreating outside the budding. " • Jarmer shid the site lacked "scenic attributes and vistas .to provide an aesthetically pleasing environment "We will have balconies and large windows with a view all the way to the ocean > ad inland." said Mayer. "The site is very TMfe. If elderly patients needed vistas, then no home would be built in New York or Montreal or Toronto. Patients being fed intravenously or through nasalgastric tubes need tender loving care, not vistas." • JARMER SAII) the 2.5-acre lot size was "inadequate" and the proposed threestory building "will not have the desirable features found in a one-story building." "We have identical facilities, but 180 beds, on four stories, in Linden (Union County i." said Mayer. "Some nursing homes are 10 stories high. It's not the size of the lot that makes the nursing home ; it *s the kind of care inside that counts. "I don't believe Middle Township complained about the 2' - acre site," he said. "And it's not higher than the bank (Cape May County Savings & Loan* in front of it. It's not the Empire State building." MAYER SAID SCHMIDT, the attorney in the transaction as well as a partner in the firm attempting to sell the land, told him that Jarmer "has no jurisdiction to comment on anything except water runoff. This home is regulated by the New Jersey Department of Health." "It's correct." responded Jarmer. "that we only have approval authority if it affects county drainage or roads However, it's not true that other comments are beyond the scope of the county Planning Board. We make planning comments on eyery CAFRA application, and these are valid planning issues." The proposed 120-bed nursing home also would have a 27-patient "adult medical day-care center. "^employ about 100 per sons, and cost about $4-million The Middle Township Sewerage Com mission had approved a sewage line hookup for the home last Sept. 1, but that expired March 1. It has been proposed that the same line serve the Jamesway Shopping Center, which has septic tank pro blems. and which would share with the nursing home the cost of installing the line. I

I Hogan Lt. Colonel In Army

AVALON - Donald I Hogan. former lifeguard for seven years at 37th Street beach here has I become a Lieutenant Col A I onel in the United States \ I Army Dental Corfp. \ Graduated from! I Muhlenberg College, while r I he was a lifeguard, he went/ I to Temple University Dei* I tal School. When he was I graduated from Temple h^ I was sent to the Phalzer% I wald Forest area in GerI many to the Pirmasen ArI my Dental Hospital After spending three I years there he was trans- ■ ferred to Fort Ord. in Monterey. Ca.. as a Major For three years he was in charge of the dental clinic d there. The last two years he was transferred to Fort ™ Meade. Maryland, whpre | he was in a program of the study of periodontics. Friday. June 1. Hogan received his graduation certificate from M General H. Thomas Chandler. DC.

Assistant Surgeon General for Dental Services. Chief. Army Dental Corps. The U.S. Army Institute of Dental Research began I as the Army Dental School in 1922. For over 50 years it ; made a major contribution ' to the Army dental care system. The present Institute organized in 1962.

has become one of the largest dental research organizations in the world. Lt. Col. Hogan, with his family of four children, is now being transferred to Fort Riley. Kansas City. Ks. and will be taking command July 1 as chief Dental Officer of Fort Riley.

Social Security Questions and Answers

Q. My husband and I are partners in our own business. How do we report' our self-employment earnings for Social Security? A. If you and your husband operate a business as a true partnership or joint venture, you each report your share of the business profits as net earnings on separate schedules, even though you file a joint income tax return. The

amount each of you should report depends on your agreement. Each of you will get the Social Security credit if each has net earnings of $400 or more. ed NOTE: Your Social Security Office at 136 E Spicer Avenue in Wildwood will answer all your questions. For more personal replies, write or visit the of fice. or call: 800-272 I 111.

Upstream s M f ( From Page l » t kettle black," said Clay Sutton, enl vironmental program administrator for the county Health Department "We have the same rules." said Jarmer. "The shoe is on the other foot . " i The capacity question at the township's plant is holding up DEP approval of a $4-miIlion, 120-bed nursing home in Court i House. i The capacity question at the Crest Haven plant could be a problem for a $9-million. loo-bed nursing home the county intends to build at Crest Haven to replace its 31-year-old. 140-bed facility "The county's Crest Haven plant doesn't have the capacity for the new nursing home," said Jarmer "We have submitted a proposal (to DEPi to correct that " Jarmer said a preliminary study indicated "there is a lot of infiltration and inflow in that system, rain water seeps into the pipes " Vistenzo has offered the same explana ti°n for periodic high sewage treatment flows at the township plant Jarmer said an engineering study, already authorized by the freeholders, wili determine "where it comesfrom. how to correct it and reduce the flow " Step two. Jarmer said, will be a "conser vation program: we will retrofit every building with water conservation devices. That should reduce flow at least to reserve capacity for the new nursing home "If it doesn't. Jarmer said, "we'll have to improve the (sewage treatment i plant " "I crab out there in Crooked Creek." he added.

sii1 ' ijp H iihV BR |\ Doris Ward SAMPLING — Grover Webber of the county Planning Department and Jeanne Hansen of the Health Department take a water sample from the bay at 89th and Sunset in Stone Harbor.

Ocean, Bays Test Clean

'From Page 1) plant discharges into an inlet, another "problem area." Wildwood: From 13 to 23. Wildwood Crest: Except for the 79 readings of 5. 7. and 17. Cape May: six readings of less than 2. one of 7. No sample was taken at Howard Street. Cape May Point: readings of less than 2 to 4. Lower Township: except for the 926. readings of from 13 to 33. AS FOR THE BACK BAYS, with a state permitted maximum of 200 MPN, there were only a half-dozen high readings from about 75 taken. Sea Isle City had a 540 at the lagoon between 42nd and 43rd streets. Stone Harbor had a 240 at the entrance to Stone Harbor Marina and a 926 at the adjacent Stone Harbor Manor lagoon. "We're doing a special survey there."

pid Sutton, pointing out that the Manor hafc septic systems arid there is "a big. active marina there." North Wildwood had a 240 in Beach Creek opposite the marina and a 240 off the dock by Zaberer's. HAD a 240 at the mouth of the Otten s Harbor canal. Cape May had a 220 off the fishing docks on North Ocean Drive and a 540 on the tishing docks south of Ocean Drive. The county was somewhat hampered in its tirst back bay monitoring by the unavailability of its boat. That's in action this week. The Health Department offered no readings for Ocean City's 17 back bay monitoring sites. The county's water fnonitoring program samples 40 ocean sites on Mondays, 90 in the back bays on Tuesdays, tests them in its laboratory and gets results by Friday. I hey are forwarded to the municipality and to the DEP.