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News Notes from Lower Township E.J. Duffy 465-5055

REMINDER — Lower Township voters go to the polls 5-9 p.m. today to answer two elementary school district ballot questions on financing repairs to Lower Township Consolidated School, Cold Spring. Approval of one question would authorize the transfer of $400,000 in district surplus for the project while approval of the other would authorize a $400,000 bond issue to help finance it. Polling places are at Consolidated School, Villas and Town Bank fire houses. "ALL FIRE DISTRICT elections are held on the second Saturday in February." noted Town Bank Fire Chief Ray Brown. This year, elections for fire commissioners and district budgets will be held 2-9 p.m. Feb. 9 in Villas, Town Bank and Erma fire houses for Fire Districts 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Town Bank Deputy Chief Louis H. Conley Jr. is standing for reelection to the five-member District 2 fire commission along with incumbent John F. Bitting. District voters will be asked to approve $109,620 for the budget from taxes. Last year, voters approved $85,187 by a 52-1 margin. Dorothy "Dot" Rothenbiller is running for reelection as a Fire District 1 commissioner. Villas voters will

f also decide a $74,225 budget ; they approved last year's ($65,695) by 46-0. Elmer Will, a retired Erma firefighter, is standing for reelection as District 3 fire commissioner. District 3 voters from Erma, Shawcrest, Diamond Beach, etc. will be asked to approve a $69,940 budget Feb. 9. Last year, 12 voters turned out to elect two commissioners and to approve the district's $57,940 budget. TOWN BANK firefighters ended 1984 with two December alarms, one to a vehicle fire on Delford Avenue, Town Bank, Dec. 21, and the other to a chimney fire three days later on Pacific Avenue, North Cape May, Chief Brown reported. The volunteers answered six November alarms and eight in October. Totals for last year included 79 alarms, 23 drills and two mutual aids. The company answered 86 alarms during 1983, according to Brown's figures. REELECTED CHIEF, Brown listed other 1985 officers as David Perry, assistant chief; Louis Conley, deputy chief; Art Treon, captain; Edward Garrison, president , Wes Wright, vice president; Dean Umschied, treasurer; and Conley, secretary. GEORGE COSTELL has been elected to his 32nd yearly term as' Villas fire chief. Also renamed were Assistant Chiefs John Rothenbiller and Frank Fidler; Martin Maroszek Sr., captain and president; John Klingenberg, vice president ; Robert Haffner, engineer; and House Lt. Robert Schweizer. Lieutenants are Kim Rothenbiller, Clarence Howard, Richard Willey, Anthony Stelaccio Jr., Don Gipple, Harry Garrison, Bill Moor, A1 Hutler and Gary Hermanns. Willey was also named as treasurer and Stelaccio as secretary. VILLAS FIREMEN answered five alarms last month, increasing their 1984 total to 85 with 23 drills and 10 mutual aid calls. They answered 83 alarms in 1983 and nine each in November and October. The volunteers started last month with a Dec 6 call to arcing electrical wires at the Gulf station, Bayshore Road and Pennsylvania Avenue. They fought two grass fires, one at Millman Field, Dec. 9; the other Dec. 29, at Village Road and Bay Drive, required four pumpers. Called to a reported structure fire at the Manorlake apartments, 42 E. Greenwood Ave., the firemen arrived Dec. 12 to find only a faulty can opener. They washed down Fishing Creek and Tabernacle roads Dec. 22 after a pickup overturned at the intersection. The company ended "its month and year by supplying a pumper to Erma firefighters battling a Dec. blaze at the Bree-Zee-Lee Yacht Basin off Ocean Drive at Cold Spring Harbor. RECOVERING FROM bronchitis last week, Erma Chief Robert McNulty offered his thanks to Villas, Town Bank and Cape May fire companies, and the U.S.

Coast Guard, for assisting with the Bree-Zee-Lee blaze or at another marina fire off Ocean Drive the following I week. Both marina buildings were "totaled," according to McNulty, and both fires were still under investigation last week. Ironically, Erma and Cape May fire companies, along with the Coast Guard, fought a marina fire on the same date (Dec. 30) in 1983. That fire, which broke out aboard the 39-foot, $100,000 pleasure boat Taurus, also damaged the 38-foot Sweatpea and the 33-foot Triangle, all moored at Portofino Ma rina, along Ocean Drive at the harbor. Besides the Dec. 30 fire at Bree-Zee-Lee, Erma firefighters answered five other alarms last month for a 1984 total of 69 runs, the chief reported, up nine from 1983. The company answered three November alarms and four in October. The volunteers started off last month with a smoke report that "didn't amount to anything" at 602 Shunpike on Dec. 15, McNulty recalled. They were called to that accident at Fishing Creek and Tabernacle roads (above) Dec. 22 but Villas firemen took over because the call was in their district. The next day, Erma firefighters washed down the scene Dec. 22 but Villas firemen took over because the call was in their district. The next day, Erma firefighters washed down the scene of an accident at 749 Route 9 — that's where McNulty caught his bronchitis — from smoke inhalation, wet weather etc. On Christmas Eve, the volunteers answered two board alarms from Lower Cape May Regional High School. The first was a system malfunction, McNulty said, while the second was caused by a smoky generator. Goshen Fire Chief Bill Frame and Harry Murray instructed the Erma firemen on handling propane during their regular December drill. They held four work details, preparing for the Lower Township Rotary Club Christmas Parade in North Cape May, and cleaned up the fire hall and apparatus during a Dec. 21 work detail. ERMA FIREFIGHTERS have reelected McNaulty as chief and treasurer; Ed Pew as president and first assistant chief; Kevin Hewitt, second assistant chief and treasurer; and Frank Svitak as vice president and lieutenant. Edward Bowen was named captain with lieutenants Greg Bassett, Jay Jordan and Steve Parker. • • • NOTICE — Lower Township is looking for people willing to serve on the Zoning Board of Adjustment or Planning Board. Two regular members are needed for the former and one alternate on the latter. If interested, pick up an application from either the municipal clerk, or township manager's office. • • • THIS YEAR'S meeting schedule is still pending release from the local Board of Health, but the township Environmental Commission has posted its '85 schedule. Its meetings will be held 7:30 p.m. in Township Hall,

2600 Bayshore Rd., Villas, on the following Tuesdays : Feb. 19 and 26; March 19 and 26 ; April 16 and 23 ; May 14 and 21; June 18 and 25; July 16 and 23; Aug. 13 and 20; Sept. 17 and 24; Oct. 15 and 22; Nov. 19 and 26; and Dec, 17. REMINDERS — Township planners and zoners meet in special session 7 p.m. tomorrow in Township Hall to discuss ground water problems. The zoners may appoint a new solicitor during their regular Feb. 5 meeting in Township Hall at 7 p.m. when they'll also consider requests for hardship variances to construct singlefamily homes on two R-3 lots in Cape May Beach, one in North Cape May and another in Fishing Creek. Lower's Incinerator Authority also meets next Tuesday in Township Hall but at 7:30 p.m. Township Council holds its 7 p.m. work session there in the rear conference room, followed by a regular meeting at 8 in theVmain meeting hall. Planners hold a regular work session tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the rear conference room. JOE HALAOZ OF Potter Florist, Burleigh and Cape May, will discuss "Color Mine Beautiful" during the Gardening by the Sea Club's 10a.m. meeting in Township Hall next Wednesday. Call 884-5467 for reservations to the club-sponsored trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on March 8. A charter bus will depart Breakwater Plaza, Bayshore Road, North Cape May, at 1 p.m. that Friday. ANNE MYERS of the Lower Township Democratic Club reports that its Penny Party has been postponed from Feb. 1 to March 1. Doors will open 6 p.m. then at the clubhouse, Bayshore Road and Washington Avenue, Villas. Call Anne for details at 889-0514. Scholarship Awarded COURT HOUSE - Lynne Sponaugle, daughter of local residents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sponaugle, has been chosen for an Oglethorpe Scholars Award at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta for the 1985-1986 academic year, according to Jonathan H. Jay, director of admissions. Lynne is currently attending Middle Township High School. The Oglethorpe University scholarship program is designed to recognize outstanding academic achievement as demonstrated by high school performance significantly above SAT scores and recommendations. Show Time WILDWOOD - Wildwood School has issued notice to parents of students there that report cards will issued Monday, Feb. 4.