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Be Doris Ward DON'T BLOW IN HIS EAR — Four-year-old Matthew Leusner tries to muffl the sound of fire engine sirens during Fourth of July celebration at the Goshen Complex in Middle Township. He's the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leusner of Cape May Court House.

^ "V . . Care About Child Care?

Cape May County Branch of the American Association of University Women AAUW has published a directory of child care facilities in the county. The eight-page pamphlet was offered to Freeholder Gerald M. Thornton who had responded to a request ro&day care from more than a hundred cotomy employes by asking the Social Services Department to prepared such a list. Thornton who said county involvement in day care would h« to costly, also pointed to a program of training welfare recipients at the Vo-Tech Center to offer day care to as many as five children.

"That's good," said Nancy Vecere of the ASUW, "but I don't think Mr. Thornton can rely on that. Just because those women take this program doesn't mean they have to provide day care. " VECERE SAID the ASUW study found about 525 county day care slots, "filled for the most part." , There also is "a large underground. " he said, "some maybe not real high quality. A parent has to make that decision." The pamphlet listed 25 day care centers and four other programs. Fees range from $5 to $8 for a half-day session, she said. "Kids are in and out all the time," said

i Vecere. "Now is the time to call and i register for fall. ' She said the ASUW did the study because i "there was no one place where everything was listed for the whole county when soI meone new moves in". ^The organization spent about $200 on the project, getting 1,000 of the pamphlets printed. They are being distributed, to ASUW members, libraries, pediatricans, obstreticians, child birth classes, Le Leche League, the maternity ward at Burdette Toihlin Memorial Hospital, etc. They also will go PTAs in the fall, Vecere said.

News ■ Th'. . .. ^ Digest !£SL A Gain for the Dents? WILDW60D — Mayor Earl Ostrander has changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, according to records at the county Board of Elections. Ostrander first registered as a Democrat in 1974, stayed with the party until 1983 when he changed Republican, a party he stuck with for less than a year. Records show Ostrander missed the April 15 deadline for party change for the primary election by one day and didn't vote in the June 5 primary. Two Arrested FISHING CREEK — Lower Township police arrested Joseph Rack and John Gormley, both 20, on Friday afternoon for the June 30 cross burning on the Woodland Avenue lawn of their black neighbor's summer home here. Rack and Gormley were charged with one count each of causing fear of bodily violence for allegedly lighting a wooden cross on ithe lawn of Carl and Joan Vance Johnson of Washington, D C. v New Principal COLD SPRING — Lower Township Board of Education hire^-Oliver J. West, 38, of Absecon for $29,000 a year to ^ (Page 51 Please)

llPlllflbk A[!>NT I 1 JMk a J fi SELLING SEASHELLS BY THE SEASHORE — Jared Fontaine looks over some of the items these Cape May entrepreneurs were selling. Left to right are Emim Brandon 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Brandon; Mary Elizabeth Atweli. 7-vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Atweli; and Cory Kosbob, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kosbob. Jared is the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fontaine all of Cape May.

300 Less Parking Spaces? Another Anti-Windrift Effort

By JOE ZELNIK STONE HARBOR — A proposed parking ban to deal' with the Windrift Cocktail Lounge "problem" was slated for a filial vote after a public hearing Tuesday night, too late for the Herald-Lantern deadline. But whichever way the borough council vote goes, the controversy „will continue. If the ban, already approved in a first

reading, is defeated in this second reading, demands for something to be done will persist. * If the ban is approved, Windrift attorney Norman Slotnick of Atlantic City told the Herald and Lantern that he'll seek an injunction against it as "arbitrary and unreasonable." NO ONE HAS ACCUSED anyone of be ing reasonable in this controversy. Jim

Fisher, a member of the borough parking committee, told the Herald and Lantern Monday that this solution "stinks," ak opinion he was slated to repeat at last night's hearing'. "It's the wrong solution, to ban cars where there are no people living," he said. The parking committee has met at least 10 times. Fisher said, and "came to the same conclusion time after time; let the police handle the situation." • Two months ago, a less severe parking ban was unanimously turned down by the same council. FISHER WAS SLATED to wear a second hat to last night's meeting: chamber of commerce president. "The chamber can't take a position." Fisher said, "but the Windrift has done a lot of good for the businessmen in Stone Harbor, especially with its early and offseason packages." The problem is that the Windrift is in Avalon, on the beach at 80th Street, the boundary between Avalon and Stone Harbor, on whose streets most Windrift patrons park and reportedly create noise at closing time. The proposed ordinance, for which the signs have already been prepared or have not already been prepared — according to who you ask - would ban parking from 10 (Page 18 Please) ( ' I

Huns or Nuns — They're Noisy

STONE HARBOR - Some local residents in the north end of town describe the Windrift's night-time clientele as a combination of Huns, Vandals, and persons Wildwood turned away as too unruly. They drink beer from bottles and throw the empties over their left shoulders. Ask the Windrift owners to describe their l^ar crowd and it sounds like the anAn Analysis ^ nual convention of the Order of St. Francis, sipping carrot juice. The truth, of course, is somewhere in between. The Windrift can and does pack , 550 persons into its Ocean Terrace Lounge, patio bar and adjoining dining room, and it is impossible to generalize about that crowd. But they do tend to be 25 or older, they

are more affluent and less%rowdy than some places, and they pay a cover charge of $3 to $5 just to mingle with their peers. On the other hand, they probably drink as much as Huns, Vandals and persons Wildwood turned away as unruly. STONE HARBOR RESIDENTS, in public meetings, have accused those patrons of being noisy, littering, urinating on lawns, and fornication. The latter charge is unproven. Windrift owners say their customers are "professional people" who wouldn't dream of urinating on a lawn. They say they are innocent of littering because the Windrift staff checks people as they leave Not even a plastic cub cup, let alone a beer bottle, exits the Windrift, they say. To prove that claim, one can see Windage 18 Please)

Shunpike Barrier Toppled By JOE ZELNIK BURLEIGH — County freeholders last week reversed their three week -old deci sion to put a barrier at Shunpike Road just south of Oyster Roah. a move aimed at banning trash trucks headed for the MUA solid waste transfer station. The rare change of mind — approved 4-1 with Freeholder Gerald Thornton opposed — followed: % • A letter .from Middle Township .Mayor Michael J. Vol! asking a 90-day delay #o a 35-mile per hour speed limit and four-ton load limit could be tried instead • A 45-minule '"emergency" closed session. advertised after-the-fact, at which Thornton's voice could be heard through a two-inch-thick door into the freeholder meeting room • Two brief recesses to enable county

counsel Albert M Ash to pencil in last minute changes revisions (And. after it was all over. Thornton accidentally took home the final draft so typing of the completed ordinance for publication was delayed. > When the vole to rescind the resolution came, everyone except Freeholder William E. Sturm Jr., who on June 12 was on the short end of the 3-1 vote (chairman Anthony Catano60 was absent > to clqse off the road southbound, voiced doubts "It's not gonna work, guys, it's not gon na work," said Thornton, shaking his head vigorously Sturm had offered the motion to rescind "I second this with great reluctance." said Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr.. with a blast at Middle Township for opposing the cul-de-sac "Apparently, when it suits their political purpose, they say they can't enforce it. On iy after the work is donb, suddenly, for political expediency, they say they can enforce restrictions they previously said they (Page 18 Please) inside WHERE to go and what to do i when«Vou get there. The dining f and entertainment guide, pages i 25-44. WORKING the night shift in a morque; "Video Eye" by Charles P t Lamey, page 40. IT'S sportsfishing tournament I time. Lou Rodia on page 52. EVERYTHING you ever wanted I to know about Cape May j County's recreational waters and 1 never dared to ask. Page 65. |