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OUR CONDOLENCES to Mayor Robert Fothergill, his children and aunt on the loss last week of the mayor's father, Henry R. (Bob) Fothergill, 81, who died after a long illness in Spring Lake. Mich. « Bom in Wilmington. Del., hewas a retired oil exploration executive who lost his wife Deborah (Seigriest) Fothergill. in December 1979. Besides the mayor, he is survived by his sister. Mrs. David Winifred Quinlan of North Cape May. and the mayor's children, Christine Elizabeth and Robert Robinson. Interment was in Spring Lake Cemetery Friday after a Thursday viewing. Memorial contributions can be made to the Deborah Fothergill Scholarship Fund c/o the Ottawa County School Employfe' Credit Union. 1703 Desaelder St.. Grand Haven, Nl ch., 49417. LT. CHARLES Thornton reports that Lower's police 45 qrlnltc arrested adults and 13

juveniles including three suspected drunk drivers last month while investigating 408 criminal complaints of the 1.677 calls received. Police arrested 42 adults and 12 juvbniles including three drunk driving suspects in September out of 399 criminal complaints from the 1,697 calls then. Twenty one burglaries. 34 larcenies and 32 vandalisms were recorded in September compared to 29 burglaries and 45 larcenies in October, according to Thornton. "Anything more serious?" , he was asked. "No. no," the lieutenant replied. "everything's routine." ,Last month, police recovered $21,666 in stolen property: $69,292 was reported stolen.

They handled 36 auto crashes, wrote 76 traffic tickets and made 2,080 property checks while logging 39,757 miles and burning 2,998 gallons of gasoline on patrol. "OPERATION CLEANUP" started last week, Thornton announced. That's a police crackdown on owners of junk cars being pushed, he said, by Tbwnship Manager James R. Stump. TOWN BANK Fire Co. hosted a drill for its volunteer* Erma and Villas firefighters and Lower's Rescue Squad last week on responding to a school bus accident and extracting victims, Tbwn Bank Chief Ray Brown reports. The volunteers practiced rescues on an old. overturned bus. SMOKE EATERS from Tbwn Bank took first prize for the most men in the line of march during the Oct. 14

parade in Cape May. TOWN BANKERS answered eight alarms last month, four more than September and August. Half the October calls were to oven fires or malfunctions. On Oct. 7 they extinguished one on Washington Boulevard, North Cape May, and another Oct. 17 at Town Bank Manor apartments. Two days later, they answered a third to Whildam Avenue. North Cape May. but the fire was out when firemen arrived. A short circuit in a microwave oven on Tbwn Bank Road. North Cape May. called the volunteers out for a fourth time Oct. 22. Firefighters washed down the scene of an Oct. 4 car , crash at Bayshore Road and Pontaxik Avenue; doused a fire of weeds and trash along Howland Avenue, North Cape May, Oct. 9: responded to a false alarm Oct. 19 to the 700 block of Atlantic Avenue, North Cape May; and ended the month byfighting an Oct. 29 auto fire along the 500 block of Bayshore Road, North Cape May. , ERMA FIREMEN had "a terribly busy" October, their chief, Robert McNulty, joked. The company answered two calls, compared to six. in September and 10 in August. The volunteers started off the month by responding to an oven fire call from Tbwer View Road, Erma Park, which turned out to be "no big thing," said McNulty. Their last official call of October was a false alarm to the Richard M. Teitelman School off Route 9. The Erma men. however, kept their eyes on a bonfire at Lower

• Cape May Regional High - School on Oct. 12 and extinguished it when students ' finished their get-together. \ Firefighters also held 1 drills or work details on Oct. 15. 19, 21, 22 and 29. VILLAS FIREMEN answered nine alarms last » month, three more than i September and August, according to Dot Rothenbiller, secretary to Chief George i Costell. Five of last month's alarms were to grass fires. The first was on Woolson Road Oct. 13, the second Oct. i 18 at Ohio Avenue on the i bayfront beach; the third > was the next day on Day i Drive. On Oct. 28, the i volunteers returned to BayDrive at Ohio Avenue to fight the fourth grass fire; they doused the fifth such blaze later that day at East Greenwood Avenue. They extinguished a refrigerator fire Oct. 8 on i Carolina Avenue: washed , ,r i>-\f -

down the scene of an Oct. 30 auto crash on West Pacific Avenue; and put out two other fires Oct 28. AN "ALL YOU can eat" breakfast will be served at the Villas Fire House. Bayshore Road and Georgia Avenue, 7 a.m.-noon Sunday — $3. adults: $1.75, children 12 and younger. REMINDERS - Loner's Environmental Commission meets 7 : 30 tonight ( Tuesday. Nov. 20) in Tbwnship Hall. 2600 Bayshore Road. Villas, followed at 8 by thd Incinerator Authority. The commission also meets at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27. The township Boaijd of Health is also slated to meet in Tbwnship Hall at 7:30 tonight (Tuesday, Nov. 20) and at the same time there next Tuesday. Tbwnship planners hold a work review sessiotn in Tbwnship Hall Nov 29 ; «> . l: $

Marine WO Ends Course CAPE MAY - Marine Warrant Officer Michael E. Cernoch, son of Erwin J. and Anna Cernoch of 909 McCullum Ave., has completed the Expeditionary Air Field Equipment Course. During the eight-week course at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Lakehurst, Cernoch received instruction on the operation and maintenance of catapults and arresting equipment used on short airstrips built to support tactical operations. Cernoch joined the Marine Corps in September 1976.

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