Herald & Lantern 21 November '84 . 45

Salt Plagues Villas, Wells

VILLAS - Fifty-five of 247 wells tested here by the county Health Department contained concentration of chloride exceeding the state safety limit of 250 milligrams per liter. "It means we have excessive chloride down there," county Health Officer Louis J. Lamanna said of the preliminary report from a continuing survey of salt water intrusion. "It's by no means finished." "The salt water line has moved many blocks inland," Clay Sutton, environmental program administrator for the department, explained in February. "We know sodium levels are climbing at an alarming rate. It's severe problem in the Villas and we are getting close to the limits on some of the barrier islands." LOWER MAYOR Robert Fothergill told the audience at township council's Nov. 5 meeting that be would add salt water intrusion talks to the agenda during a meeting this Tuesday with Sutton, Lemanna and other officials. But, Sutton said Friday, that topic will have to be taken up at another time, (see related story above).

"...It's not a minor problem," complained a resident at the Nov. 5 council meeting. Like many of her neighbors, she received notice from the Health Department recently that her well was polluted by chloride The department tested for chloride, an indicator of salt contamination. Citing the notice, the woman told council she faced the prospect of drilling a deeper or more shallow well to try and avoid the chloride; one would cost about $2,500, the other more than $3,000. NEW WELLS MIGHT solve the short term problem of contamination, Lamanna observed, but in the long run Villas residents will probably need "a water system down there." "I myself would like to see them go for a water system," Deputy Mayor Joseph ( Davis said Thursday. "I think it's the only way to go. But it's going to be a multimillion dollar project." "It has to be tackled on a regional basis," Fothergill told spectators at the Nov. 5 council meeting. "I assure you, we|re concerned and we will be working on

30, 000 Square Feet For J.8-24 Months?

By JOE ZELMK COURT HOUSE - Talk about a logistical nightmare. In addition to the county's study for longterm space needs (see story front page), consider the short-term space problem the county will face next fall. It will have to relocate the entire courts operation — about 30,000 square feet and 115 employees — into temporary quarters for 18-24 months while the $6.3-million courthouse expansion is underway. And you don't just plunk three exacting judges into an empty gymnasium. What's needed is space for trials — criminal, civil, and family — and all the requirements they have: q^ie{ quarters, attorney-client meeting rooms, places to sequester jurors, plus all the clerical help that makes those operations mesh. And don't forget the sheriff and surrogate, also in that building. ADD TO THAT the opinion of Charles E. McCaffery, trial court administrator for Atlantic and Cape May Counties, that "we , should move together, not be part here, part there." i He also wants it close to Court House. "It j shouldn't be too far from the county clerk, | public defender, probation..." said McCaf- | fery, who also likes whipped cream on his strawberry shortcake. j The county had hoped that the new, <

$9-million Crest Haven Nursing Home would be finished first and the courts could have moved into the old Crest Haven Nursing Home. But, for reasons best known to architects, both projects now are slated to be underway concurrently. Nursing home arbchitect James A. McDonald of Wildwood said he hopes that project will start next spring and take 12-18 months. COURTS COMPLEX architect Edwin Howell of Ocean City said be hopes that project will start in mid- or late-summer of next year and take 18-24 months. "There's not enough lead time at one to provide space for the other," he said The space probably won't be needed for the entire 18-24 months, according to Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr. because the likely first piece of construction, a new record room, shouldn't affect current operations. McCaffery is having experience with this problem. He's located in the former Atlantic Electric building in Atlantic City while Atlantic County's civil court facility being renovated. That was supposed to be a 10-month job, he said, and "turned into 15 months in reality. "But hopefully that experience of movan entire facility will make it easier in Cape May County," he said. *

Cramped, and Looking for Space

(From Page 1) from the county at Social Services, reportedly has four supervisors, 12 caseworkers and four clerical persons. COUNTY PLANNING director Elwood Jarmer beads a six-member committee looking into space needs. That group was given "90 days at most," according to Freeholder Gerald M. Thornton, "before we get to final (1965) budget." But it also was asked for a recommendation within a week on whether the building proposed for the airport be expanded to two stories "and a maybe rent some space and get some income." Original idea was to put in that new building Public Affairs and Transportation, already in the airport terminal, and Planning and Public Works, now in the library building in Court House. But, Jarmer said, there should be a closer look at "needs and interrelation- - ships before we start moving departments her and there." At one point the county considered moving Social Services to the current Crest Haven Nursing Home, after the new one is built. That's no longer under consideration and the county has already promised Burdette Tomlin Mem anal Hospital space there for a 30- bed alcohol detoxification unit. "Everybody is sending in requests for more space," said Thornton, he blamed the county's rapid rate of growth" and "demand for services, especially from Oc-

tober to May," and said Social Services "is going to have a health hazard." Thornton said the Department of Aging and the nutrition program were among those expanding. I EXPECTATION IS that Social Services will expand at its current site. "Most low-income elderly and lowi income needy are in that area," said Thornton. But he also said the county may take advantage of "a commitment" for 10,000 square feet at the Marine Science Consortium at Seaville for "a satellite office in the north end of the county." He pointed out a few weeks ago that the county's Special Services School District at Crest Haven is already overcrowded and using a "temporary classroom. The vo-tech school, on the other hand, is experiencing declining enrollment and reportedly has unused space. THE COUNTY ALSO will have a temporary space problem when its courthouse renovation starts. Original plan was to finish Crest Haven Nursing Home first, then move the courts to the old nursing home. Now, however, the projects will be underway simultaneously and the county is looking for space for the courts operations. Jarmer's committee includes Scbellenger; Harry E. Kehr, director of Facilities and Services; County Engineer Neil O. Clarke; A. H. (Rick) Childs, executive director of the Economic Development Commission; and Diane E. Rudolph, deputy clerk of the board of freeholders.

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HANDS-ON — of Avalon's eighth grade mini-course in video production take part in demonstration on visit of Paul Burnley, right, of Court House, a student at Video Association of New York, who spoke on acting, speech and television. Manning camera is Frank Reed. 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reed, as Jeannine Polizzi, also 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Polixzi, watches her image on screen. Course is under direction of Jane Stone.

St. Raymond's Targets Alienated Catholics

By JOHN DONOHUE In the old days, all you had to do was nut a dollar in the first collection, a silver coin in the second, and remember to make your Easter duty. Then silver disappeared from the quarter, and a dollar wouldn't even buy a gallon of oil to heat the church with. Divorce was something that seemed to happen only in Hollywood. The elderly went to live with their children and grandchildren. And dad brought home all the bacon. Today, there are record numbers of divorced Catholics, and even more elderly Catholics, living alone, who, for various reasons, make up the estimated 20 million baptized Catholics in the U.S. no longer attending church or taking part in parish activities. ST. RAYMOND'S Church in Villas is trying to bring some of them back to the fold. Specifically, the parish wants widows and widowers, divorced and single adults

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REACHING OUT — Fr. Gerard Brinkman, left, and Msgr. William Reynolds, St. Raymaod's pastor, review outreach program literature.

to know they are welcome at St. Raymond's. "We're still in the early stages, but I would say the response has been very positive," said Msgr. William Reynolds, the pastor. » ' A group of volunteers from the parish are currently going into neighborhoods with Rev. Gerard Brinkmann, a visiting Redemptorist missionary, to spread the word. • The program is pretty much optional to pastors and is done on an invitational basis, Father Brinkmann said. "Usually, they call us in. I specialize in this. I'll be here another month. I arrived about two weeks ago,',' he added. ST. RAYMOND'S currently has 4,200 parishioners on its rolls, including 1,200 families. It is considered a fairly large parish. "In the old days," Msgr. Refolds said, "the church didn't have to be concerned about the community because the neighborhoods were very close-knit. "But in the modern world, it isn't like that. Alienation is the word today. That's the big word. I would also say apathy." The parish volunteers are trying to reach out to inactive Catholics who may have dropped out because of sickness or being shut in; marriage difficulties, and even Catholics who don't like all the modern changes in ritual. IT DOESN'T really matter what the reason. Hie outreach program reflects a softening of once-rigid views among the hierarchy in the U.S. that helped alienate many Catholics in the first place, because they didn't fit the mold. Not all the problems have been solved in that regard, but the pendulum is swinging I towards a middle ground. "There is still a problem of receiving sacraments (for divorced persons)," Msgr. Reynolds said, in noting the official church position on that matter. "As for my own personal views, well, I'm sure you understand that they are only my own views," he added, choosii* not to elaborate. BUT THE OUTREACH effort at St. Raymood's, the monsignor said, has shown there is a need for the parish to make personal contact with those who feel alienated. "We did a census in the area last year. We just knocked on doors and asked people to fill out a form. It was a more personal approach." Between that, and announcements at Mass, and the volunteer workers getting around, word began to spread. A list of names was compiled and fed into a computer. "We have two computer lists," Msgr. Reynolds said, "one of parishioners and one of possibles. We don't have enough of a response yet to have meetings with them as a group, but we would eventually do that." "THIS ALL FITS IN with the Catholic Church's program on evangelism'. Sometimes we think of evangelism as missionaries in Africa, but we have plenty to do right at home here," Msgr. Reynolds said. "They say charity begins at home, and it does. That's not taking anything away from the missionaries and the work they do, but there is a great deal to do here." Anyone interested in the outreach program can contact Msgr. Reynolds or Father Brinkmann at the rectory, 25 E. Hudson Ave., Villas. "Or they can come to a meeting of the Parish Organization which meets the third Sunday of the month," Msgr. Reynolds said.

Lawyer Disbarred TRENTON - A Villas lawyer, Theodore J. Kazlow, accused of misappropriating $67,000 from a widow who had given him ber power of attorney, has been disbarred by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The panel found that Kazlow sold the woman's house in Cape May while she was at an alcoholic treatment center, deposited the money in his bank account, then invested it in a company he incorporated which is now insolvent Arrested for Break-in RIO GRANDE - Middle Township Detective Walter Szymanski arrested Edward Bonacci, 22, of 25 Priest Blvd. last Wednesday while he was allegedly burglarizing 96 Priest Blvd. in the Grand Woods Mobile Home Court. A neighbor alerted police, they reported. Charged with single counts of burglary and theft, Bonacci is also regarded as a possible suspect in connection with four burglaries and three attempted break-ins at the trailer park, according to police.