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EXPLORATORY OPERATION — Young visitors head out from Wetlands Institute to in- I vestigate marshlands. Left to right are Stacey Quinn and Patrick Carotin of Ambler. Pa.. ' and Rusty Corson of Millville. Explorers plan to return for Wings 'n Water Festival at Stone Harbor institution Sept. IS and IS.

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STONE' HARBOR - World class decorative bird carvers of the mid-Atlantic coast will compete for $1,300 in prizes at the annual New Jersey Wings n Water Festival Sept. 15 and 16 in Stone Harbor. H>e two-day festival, a benefit for the Wetlands Institute, will also feature a wildlife/ maritime Art ■competition and sale, live hawk show, duck stamp exhibit, sunset and riverboat cruises, guided nature walks, whaler's cabin tours, hummingbird watches and other activities to total 45 events in Cape May - and Cumberland Counties Star attraction among Auditions CAPE MAY - The Sand piper Players will be r holding auditions for their annual Victorian melodrama "Love Rides the Rails, or Will the Milk Train Run Tonight" 7 p.m Tomorrow and Friday at the Franklin Street Civic Center (side door). Men, and women ages 16 and up are invited to audition

the talented carvers will be John Scheeler. multiple winner of the "Best in World" award at the Ward Foundation's Maryland shows A decorative bird carver who lives in Mays Landing, Scheeler was a bouse and industrial painter who began carving in 1969 IN 1971. HE won best of show at the U.S. Open in Babylon, N Y. He now holds more that 175 first place and best of. show awards as well as the Ward honors for decorative life size birds He is under con ~ tract to Wildlife World, Inc. which produces bronze castings of his works, and carves only a few pieces each year Scheeler is best known for his aggressive birds of prey. An innovator in carving technique and visual content, his attention to natural relationships bet r ween color, form and en- , vironment has created his prize-winning birds In addition to Scheeler. Harry V. Shourds of Seaville. New Jersey's third genera tibn decoycarver, will be another nationally respected carver to show and sell at thrrwoday event. f .

HIS FATHER and grand father produced decoys which have become prized collectors' items in this country. He has coauthored decoy book with Anthony Hillman. and was selected to demonstrate carving for "In the Barnegat Tradition," a film about decoys in the Garden State. Hillman. a Seaville neighbor, will attend the festival with his handsome carved birds. An illustrator, -be has regularly provided cartoons for New Jersey Outdoors Jim and Joan Seibert. a highly talented South Dennis team of decorative bird carvers, will display and sell his lifesize work and her minatures which were featured in The New York Times this year and last year. Both hold their art degrees from Glassboro State, and he is part4ime carver at Wbeaton Village Museum in Millville OTHER NEW JERSEY carves are Vincent Giannetto from Beverly, Chris Bittle or Eriel, Terry Mcfyulty of Medford, James Fox from Burlington, Jim and Betty Cum ming of Titusvilie, Joan Wolf of Cape May, Dave and Barbara Shields of Washington Township and Bill Tuller of Beesley s Point • - A taxidermist, Henry Sikora. will bring finished mounts Tom McFarland will return with his hatching turtles made of kilnfired clay and painted with acrylics and glazes Dave Caccia of Sewell sculpts herons. <*preys. hawks and wild orchids in cooper and stainless steel, and will also display and sell at the Stone Harbor show. A host of other decorative bird carvers will be competing for the grand prize Judges will award prizes on Saturday morning at the show site, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 95th and 3rd. Eleven other activities will take place in other nearby locations in the town, one mile east of the W#tiabd& Institute, on the AUantk seashore \ For additional infaK?na tion and a free program about the 45 events, contact festival headquarters at the Wetlands Institute. MS- 12 11 between 10 and 4:30, Tuesdays through Saturdays. •

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