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Mwali - LANTERN ■ Dining and Entertainment! Guide

\ By LIBBY DEMP FORREST HOW ABOUT mid-September at the seashore? The fall migration is under way. Farmers are cutting field corn and drilling wheat this week. The peach harvest is now at its height, and grapes are ripening. These must be protected from migrating birds, or they may go in a , night. -• / / • • * • Fields of new corn shocks, and ripe pumpkins; ripened fruits and seeds everywhere, and newly-dug root crops. These completed goals of the plant world are matched by the insects. Caterpillars of all kinds are completing their feeding now all except the very latest, like the "wooly bear, which sometimes spends the winter as a caterpillar, and are making their cocoons, and tying them to the twigs of trees or bushes, or digging in under ground as chrysalids for the winter. *** . . It's apple picking time. We always take a little autumn jaunt to an orchard for a I big bag of apples and a gallon or two of fresh cider. Helps to whet the appetite for I the coming season and quench an annual I thirst for a big glass of cider in the late I afternoon. L , * • * > A juicy apple and a good book seem to I go hand in hand. We pick up a big apple I and a good book when we ought to be doI ing other things — such as getting the I house ready forwinter. Oh, well, we'll get I back to the chores sooner or later. * • • As autumn gears up, a good satisfying I meal beckons food lovers. We recomI mend this group of restaurants for big I satisfaction: GOLD WHALE. The daily Beat the I Clock specials offer a complete dinner for I the unbelievable price of just $4.25 — I everything is included, including dessert. The Gold Whale is located in the I famous Marquis de Lafayette Inn, on I Beach Drive at Decatur Street in Cape I May, and the atmosphere is always pleaI sant and friendly. Enchanced with oldI fashioned decor, the Gold Whale puts I diners at ease from the moment they step I into the room. The Beat, the Clock special I includes soup and salad bar, two I vegetables, beverage and dessert, served I trail 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. A great value I evSrvday incWtiing Sunday. I wtNRRJFTi-Avalon is the setting for

the Windrift Restaurant and Lounge, a fashionable dining and 'entertainment spot that draws regulars as well as vacationers who enjoy the excellent menu during all hours of the1 day and night. Nothing is ever too much trouble for the help at the Windrift, located at 80th and the Beach. Breakfast is served 8 to 11:15, lunch from 12 to 3:30, and dinner from 5:30 to-9:30. Belinda and BalckJTye proCounty Calendar Items for COUNTY CALENDAR MUST BE RECEIVED THE THURSDAY PRIOR TO PUBLICATION Send them to Libtoy Demp Forrest. P O Bo* <30. Cape. May Court Houk, N.J 08210 « ■ £ WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12 Rummage Sale, benefit Ladies Aux., VFW Post 3509, (info 5(22-5192), at 3700 New Jersey Ave., Wildwood, 9 a.m. Also Thurs., Fri. and Sat. AARP Chapter 691 meeting, Victorian Towers, Cape May, 1 p.m. Mansions by Gaslight Tour, includes 4 Victorian landmarks, sponsored by Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, ( info 884-5404), loop trolley provides transit, 7:30 p.m. Duplicate Bridge, every Wednesday, (info 368-1421), at firebouse, Stone Harbor, 7:30 p.m. J % THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13 Rummage Sale (see Wednesday), Wildwood, 9 a.m. Dr. Paul Remer, eye specialist, at AARP Chapter 710 meeting, at Townsend's Inlet Civic Center, 1 p.m. Sunshine Boys Banjo Band. Music Pier, Ocean City, 8 p.m. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 14 Firemen's Convention. Wildwood, starts today thru Sunday. Recruit Graduation Exercises. U.S. Coast Guard Training Center, parade field. Cape May, every Friday, 11 a.m. A nite on Morey't pier, sponsored by St. Raymond's Athletic Association, (info 886-0366), 6 p.m. Young at Heart Singers. Music Pier. Ocean City, 8 p.m. (Page 27 Piease)

vide the most danceable music around. I There's also continuous music with DJ I RADAR Thursday, Saturday and Sunday I from 9 p.m. Wednesday and Friday enjoy I the music of D.J. Ted Steinmetz — he I likes your kind of music. • • • COUNTRY HOUSE RESTAURANT. I This restaurant is the great standby of I Cape May county, creating country cook- I ing now for more than 25 years. Located I on U.S. Rt. 9, Burleigh, we have eaten I many, many times here over the years I since the first time we fell in love with the I country atmosphere and the country I cooking that comes from the kitchens. Year after ydar, we go back to The I Country House Restaurant until it I finalizes closes for the season. The I homemade soups and fresh baked pies I are always the same excellent quality. I While the menu is more than ample, we I especially like the turkey entrees and in- I variably choose that day's offering. Just I a good habit we acquired years back; I can't seem to help ourselves. The Coun- I try House restaurant is open Sunday 3 to I 8:30 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday from 4:30 to I -8:30. ' • • • TORTILLA FLATS. You don't have to I go to Mexico or the western United States 1 , to enjoy the finest Mexican food — you I can now stay right here in Cape May I County and enjoy the wonderful flavors of I old Mexico available at Tortilla Flats I Mexican Restaurant at 2540 Dune Drive, I Avalon. Tortilla Flats is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. Dine in or take out the finger-lickin' foods sold here. Good news for Mexican food lovers — Tortilla Flats will be open thru December. HUNTINGTON HOUSE. The colossal buffet at The Huntington House, off Beach Drive, on Grant Street, Cape May is still available weekends thru October 14th. It is one king-sized buffet that.fulfills in every way — from appetizers all the way to scrumptuous desserts, including the fabulous fruit pies topped with whipped cream you spoon on yourself. Everything imaginable is put on the serving tables, including that delicious tender aged roast beef we've described many times. Well, it's a favorite of ours. Adults $10.95, children $3.95 for all you can eat.