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SIDEWALK SPORT — Fiddler crab races for children will lake place between 2 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Wetlands Institute as part of Wings 'n Water Festival.

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Tour Features Gardens

STONE HARBOR - Five Avalon gardens have been selected for special Seashore Garden Tours Saturday and Sunday as part of the New Jersey Wings 'n Water Festival. Mary Jane Lea. chairman of the new seaside tours, said, "We tried to pick a garden in each barrier island acting: ocean, bay. inlet a^i mid-island. The idea is to show the types of flora that can thrive and survive on our barrier islands." REPRESENTING the ocean side, the home of Robert and Joan Narrigan will display a variety of plants against a background of native bay-berry, all cultivated to preserve dunes and encourage birds. Daisies, lavender and other flowers flourish in the sandy soil. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Touzour's garden is on the inlet, and has low private bulkheads. Cedar, bayberry and Japanese black pine offer further protection. Vegetables and pyracantha, pussy willow and holly stand near flowers. A bayside garden is typified by the homesite of Mr. and Mrs. William Diller. Flowers surround a minature evergreen tree in the front circle. Redwood boxes at the entrance to the driveway feature seasonal flowers, and an English garden on the side is lush with blooms, minature trees and bushes A* rose garden will also be open to the public. MID-ISLAND, the committee selected the home of Dick and Betty Light where a 10-year-old garden, planted and cared for by the owners, features Japanese black pines, hollies and junipers. Bradford pear and Russian olive trees afford shade from the south in summer. J

Azaleas, rhododendron and acuba bushes as well as pachysandra. a gfoundover, are found here. The area includes a 100 sq. ft. vegetable garden and herb garden of 14 varities. A small collection of heather was planted in 1984. The final garden to be available on the tour was . selected as a winner byJack April], owner of Learning's Run Gardens on Rt. 9 at Swainton. It 'is located at the home of PhiUip and Doris Sanders in the inlet area. a "I REALLY HAD two close runners-up." Aprill said, "but this particular garden showed the loving -

care of its owners. The plants were healthy and robust. The flowers were nicely arranged." He did-not include commercially arranged or maintained gardens in his entries. The garden also features a weeping willow, juniper, contorted willow and fruit trees — apple, peach, plum and cherry — as a backdrop. Alongside are holly and pine trees. The Seashore Garden Tour will be held Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. starting from 7th and Ocean Drive. Visitors can travel to each site in their own cars or by trolley originating at the Wetlands Institute.

FINNY SUBJECT — Fish artist Kevin Diggins will display this and some of his works at the Stone Harbor School. 93rd and 3rd. -s--

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Festival Has Variety * Of Events, Prices

c. STONE HARBOR - The admission fee of $3 for adults and $1.50 for children 6 to 12 covers 36 of the 45 events during the two days of the New Jersey Wings ;n Water Festival. mugs ii waiei reauvai.

Cold Spring Village will . be free to festival ticket holders, or festival tickets can be purchased there, and the fish fry at 5 p.m. Saturday- will be $6.95. The Old Fashioned Flounder Seafood dinner by the Middle Township Chamber of Commerce from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Methodist Church at Cape May Court House is $6.75. Chicken barbecue under —the Wet & Wild Food and Cheer Tent at the Wetlands Institute 11: 30 to 1:30 is $5. A VERY LIGHT snack "Lunch with the Birds" at SJ. Mary's Parish Hall in Stone Harbor is $1. A raw oyster bar on the lawn at St. Mary's will serve on the half shell at reasonable prices during both days from 11:30 to 3. Saturday and Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. The

Delta Lady riverboat wiU offer boat rides through the Cape May Canal and bays from the Wildwood Yacht Basin for $5. These water tours are a benefit for the Hereford Inlet Jighlhpuse nereiora injei^jjgnmpuse

r e s t o r a t i crifjnidTh e Wetlands Institute. \ Two l'.?:hour Sunset \ Cruises with natwaliit \ guides aboard include hore ' d'oeuvres and liquid .refreshments on 'board, and leave Avalon and Stone - Harbor at 6 p.m.. Reservations are advised for these popular cruises at $10 per person. Learning's Run Gardens Whaier*s Cabrn Tours and Humbling bird Watches are $2.65. Wheaton Village in Millville is $4 for adults. $2 for students. Saturday night's headliner hawk show with Dr. Heinz Meng from New York is at the Avalon Community Hall. $3 for adults. $1.50 children, 6-12. For information, phone the festival headquarters at 368-1211.

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