22 Herald & Lantern 26 September '84

*Jews Notes from — Lower township E. J. Duffy 465-5055

INCINERATOR AUTHORITY members plan to recommend to township council that it appropriate the money necessary to hire another engineer "and bring this incinerator thing to a head," Township Manager James R. Stump reported Friday. Hie authority was "impressed," he said, with engineer William Harrington of Glenburney, Md., because he recommended, f during a Thursday interview, that Lower officials work with the county to develop a local waste-to-en-ergy incinerator. Stump said the authority will recommend that council hire Harrington for $5. 000-$ 10, 000 on an hourlyrate but no "exact price" can be fixed until council considers the matter. REALTOR HERMAN TOLZ is still "willing to donate" his 14-block bayfront beach to the township but the possibility remains "under negotiation," Stump said last

week, while he weighs the consequences of a municipal takeover. If he does donate the beach (from Cox Hall Creek math to Del view Road, Cape May Beach), Tclz has said, he wants it "kept in pristine shape." TOWN BANK FIRE Chief Ray Brown's report for August shows the Town Bankers answered four alarms, the same number as July but one less than June. With other local volunteers, they fought an Aug. 11 blaze that damaged the Whale House tavern, Bayshore Road, Villas, and searched for missing persons the following day. They responded to a false alarm Aug. 22 sounded by an alarm system on Suzanne Avenue, North Cape May, and ended the month by washing down the scene of a car crash on Route 109. * The Firefighters held a mutual aid drill with the West Cape May Fire Co.

last month on the use and handling of four-inch bo6es, Brown noted. ERMA CHIEF ROBERT McNulty and seven other volunteers appreciate the assist Town Bankers provded by holding the fort while the Erma smoke eaters attended an August workshop in Brick Township on responding to gasoline truck mishaps. Besides McNulty, the Erma firemen who received certificates from SafetySystems Inc. for attending the workshop were: Ed Pew, first assistant chief ; Capt. John Hewitt; Lieutenants Greg Bassett and Ed Bower; with firefighters Bob Green way, Jay Jordan and Bruce Townsend MAYOR ROBERT Fothergill nomimated and

township council approved Alan Koch of Seashore Road, Erma, as an alternate member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment last week. Koch operates Anchor Welding Inc. of Erma. His appointment fills all board vacancies, according to Manager Stump. LOWER'S ZONERS • meet in Township Hall 7 p.m. Tuesday to review four applications for construction of single-family homes on undersized or otherwise unbuildable lots. Those lots are on Fishing Creek Road, Fishing Creek; Baywyn Road, Cape May Be a elf? Delaware Bay Avepue, Villas; and on Seashore Road, Cold Spring. REMINDERS — Incinerator Authority and Board of Health members also meet in Township Hall next Tuesday, both at 7:30

p.m. Township planners have scheduled a special meeting there 7:30 p.m. tomorrow to consider applications not beard during last Thursday's meeting. Lower's council holds its work session at 6 p.m. next Monday in Township Hall's • rear conference room followed by a regular meeting at 8 p.m. in the main meeting room. Municipal Utilities Authority members will bold a public hearing there - on proposed sewer and water rate increases next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. (see front page). COUNCILMEN approved a $3,000 payment to the MUA list week as its portion of revenue from the tax sale of a property. The issue was discussed behind closed doors during two recent council work sessions. "The township forgot to reimburse the MUA for a lien," noted Manager Stump. Now, be added, the township will have a program for "timely reimbursements" to the authority. ELEANOR MARKS of. Seashore Road, Erma, complained last week that township crews opened a drainage ditch Monday on a property adjoining hers but its owner, developer Thomas Brodesser, had it closed two days later. She and neighbors told council during its Sept. 5 work session that Brodesser has been dumpi ng debris on the trianglular lot, blocking water runoff ; they're worried about flooding. 'Marks quoted a letter from countyEngineer Neil O. Clarke in which he wrote: "I feel there most certainly will be a flooding problem with a heavy rainfall." Manager Stump toldJ Marks that Brodesser "claims there never was a (drainage) ditch" nor did be need a permit to dump «i the 150-foot lot. Marks and her neighbors, however, attested that such a ditch has run through the lot for upwards of 70 years. 'Hie dispute, Stump said Friday, involves a "lot of questions" over "sketchy information." He had instructed township employes to uncover the mouth of the

drainage pipe, Stump added, but they went a little farther. The township, he continued, doesn't have the right to go on to Brodesser 's property. Stump said he'll try to resolve the matter between both parties this week. COUNCILMAN JOSEPH Lonergan questioned a $17,403 bill for one month of street lighting during last week's council work session. "We've got to watch where we put our street lights," said Stump, "they're very expensive. "If we've got lights where we don't need them, let's cut them out." •I THINK THE PARKS are in bad shape," Stump told council last week after he inspected thfcm and other township recreational facilities. "They need maintenance, all of them." "This building has been leaking for eight years," he added, referring to the Recreation Center adjacent to Township Hall. Township workers made some recent repairs to the park facilities, the manager said, and those repairs will continue. "So, I think, all the parks will be brought up to at least minimum standards this month." COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY approved three resolutions last week, adding a total of $1,978.72 in lot clearing charges to the tax bills of three Lower homeowners. The township "will be bidding out this program during the winter," Manager Stump announced; Lower employes have been clearing the lots after their owners are notified to do so and fail to comply. Those notices have been amended, Councilman Lonergan noted, deleting mention of possible fines and jail terms if the properties are not cleared in the required time. tnoergan objected to penalties cited in tlie previous lot clearing notices. MANAGER STUMP assured resident MaryBaxter last week that he'll have some proposal prepared within a month on her recommendation that the township limit the amounts of trash it will collect from residences and businesses. "Yes, we are going to be limiting it," the manager confirmed. "When? asked Baxter, recalling that she has been "hollering about it" for two months, "and I don't sed^. anything on the table about it" Councilman David F. Brand Jr. reminded Baxter that "businesses pay taxes too," but she called that "completely irrelevant," noting that taxes are based on assessed value of properties. "You're entitled to your opinion and I mine, Brand replied. "We only have a problem with a couple commercials (businesses)," Stump told council July 30, "but we're sort of wide open (on regulating trash volume and collection)." Last week, however, he reported that a recent review of commercial trash collection indicated that "itls really not that large of a problem." . "So, Mary," he told Bax-

ter, "the problem isn't that bad but we're going to solve it anyway." - • • • LOWER CAPE MAY Regional High School's Ecology Club will be spending Oct. 19-21 at Belleplain State Forest The district school board approved the excursion during its meeting last week. • • • LCMR*S BOARD also ap- * proved Lower Township Consolidated School's request to present its annual Christinas coocert in the high school Dec. 12 with practices there Dec. 19-11. e e e TOM BROWN OF Atlantic County College will discuss "Out of this World Houseplants and the Culture of Them" during The Gardening by the Sea Club meeting next Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in Township Hall, 2600 Bayshore Road, Villas. • • • LOWER'S RECREATION Center is looking for children's gymnastic instructors and soccer coaches for all ages playing in the county soccer league. Applicants should contact the center at 886-7880 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. or 6-10 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. • • • TOWNSHIP DEMOCRATS plan an Oct. 25 Victory Dinner for the Common Sense Coalition at the Anchorage restuarant, Schellenger's Landing. Tickets ($25 each) offer diners their choice of stuffed flounder or prime rib. For information or reservations, call Susan Kenny at 886-6631. The club is holding a flea market to benefit the coalition at its Villas headquarters Oct. 27-28. Tables rent for $8 a day and dealers are welcome For information, call Anne Myers at 8890514.

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