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Bonnie Feise is chairing the Avalon Garden Club's sale of mushroom soil at the Recreation Center. 8th Street and Ocean Drive Proceeds from the sale of the famous soil from Pennsylvania will benefit the club's projects to beautify the 7th Street triangle. 12th Street, 30th Street and the library. It will be held Saturday and Sunday April 20 and 21 and 27 and 28 as well as Tuesday, April 23, and Thursday, April 25. Hours for all sales will be 9 a m -1 p.m. Gardeners tell us the soil produces bigger blooms on all plants and flowers and is especially beneficial to vegetables Large orders of over 10 bags may be called in ahead at 967-4263 or 967-5456. AVAl.ON'S Borough Council prexy Jeannette Glazier, who will be running for re-election in the May 14th municipal election, called to tell us the town's Committee for the Performing Arts, of which she is chairman, will sponsor a concert in conjunction with the Avalon Women's Civic Club Saturday. April 27 at 8 p.m. in Community Hall. 30th and Avalon Avenue. Featured artists will be Wildwood's String Band — this is a fun group and temptation to strut will be strong It promises to be a glitzy evening for all ages Reba Raeburn is taking reservations now, so call her at 368-1453 THAT PRIDE of Sea Lions is at it again — making money for the Diller Home for the Blind. They'll be holding a rummage sale on the grounds of the home May 24 and 25. The gals save all their goodies for this event You want reusables? This is big time. so remember it when you spring clean your closets Donations for the sale may be dropped off until the last minute. For more informa tion call Angie Angelow at 368-5719 Hint— lots of fur niture and kitsch will be available too! On election day in Avalon May 14. the Lionesses are sponsoring a fashion show at the Harbor Light Restaurant. 98th and 3rd Avenue. The Village Shop at 9836 3rd Avenue will be putting the show on with its chic spring collection of beau monde clothes. Reservations for this luncheon are limited; so ensure a place by calling Joanne Mascia at 624-1210 or any Sea Lion of your choice M a r c e 1 1 e and Ray diLaurentis entertained at a delightful after-church brunch on Palm Sunday We really pigged out on their out -of this world cinnamon buns and souffles It was a cold, rainy day but a great one to solve all Stone Harbor's problems with chums Most popular topics were headlines John Hall has been making, proliferation of shops and of fices and, of course, the 96th Street Bridge. We have been trying unsuccessfully to get information about Price Waterworks, the building which is to replace Hahn's and

Pier 96. because no one would return our calls This piqued everybody's curiosity and we promised to get more on the subject for this week's column We called the dedicated building inspector Herbert L. Hornsby the next day and he checked the plans for us. Price Waterworks will have 12 separate offices or entities with the possibility of joining two of them to make a total of 11 Hahn's replacement will contain 22 spaces plus a restaurant but agents for the building won't name a restaurateur. And Pier 96, which is owned by John Hall, has received a permit for a single-family dwelling and now Hall has applied for a use variance to construct a 36-food high building containing approximately 20 spaces for commercial use, with 22 bathrooms with tubs! Thank Goodness we have a strong, vigilant zoning board of adjustment. Just how many professional offices and commercial entities can one small town support? Let's face it — our already overtaxed sewage system needs 22 additional bathrooms as much as moi needs poison ivy! We also should all be concerned about the safety factor of a curb cut at the foot of 96th Street. This could present enormous hazards on busy weekends when there is constant ingress and egress of our summer population We wouldn't miss the zoning board meeting May 10 at 8 p m in Borough Hall, when this issue will be decided, for beaucoup de bucks! SATURDAY, MARCH 16 at 5 p.m. Father Michael P. Orsi of St. Paul's Catholic Church wore the magnificent rose-colored vestments which may only be used twice in the church year: Once, during Lent for the Latere service and once during Advent on Gaudette Sunday The handsome handembroidered garments were presented to the church by Mary DePasquale in memory of her grandson and Marie Britton in memory of her brother. Joseph M. Norton, who was killed in a tragic vehicular accident on the 96th Street Bridge two years ago. These two women have done many wonderful things to perpetuate the young man's memory, including the establishment of several scholarships MOST OF the wheels in the county showed up to honor Stone Harbor's retired Police Chief William B. Donohue. Among the plethora of. guests were: Assemblyman Guy Muziani. Freeholder James Kilpatrick Jr.. Judge Vincent Lamanna. Chief William B. Matthews of the Prosecutor's Office, Cape May City. Police Pres. Carl Gansert, Chief Joseph E. Foley representing Avalon (who was responsible for a hilarious roasting), F.B.I. Special Agent Donald Wadsworth (who took plenty of well-intentioned roasting too). Municipal

Court Clerk William Douglass. Special officers, the dynamic duo John Firman and Jack Whiteside. Bill's son Officer Edward Donohue and acting Police Chief James Sweitzer. Stone Harbor's borough council supplied the champagne. which one guest insisted was really Ripple. Plaques, compliments and resolutions were as numerous as snow-flakes in a blizzard. R. Jack Fitzpatrirk did his usual top job as toastmaster and humorous anecdotes were the source of almost continuous laughter. At no time did the evening get so saccharine as to be weepy, but tributes from speakers flowed freely. Bill Donohue started as a patrolman in Wildwood and joined the Stone Harbor Force in 1960 as a patrolman then came up through the ranks to become chief in 1974, which post he held until last Feb. 28. He is a member of six prestigious criminology organizations and is a graduate of six criminology institutions. Everyone expressed regrets at losing him as chief but were delighted that he will still be around serving as under sheriff in Cape May County. SORRY WE MISSED our deadline two weeks ago but we had to make a pit stop at Burdette Tomlin Hospital for repairs. Dr Rudolpho Garcia put us on intravenous feeding temporarily — this is lean cuisine the hard way We told our husband not to say where we were but that . was ridiculous! Half the people we knoware volunteers there and among those we saw were: Vernis Polert. who works almost non-stop. Gertrude Cerny, Hildegarde Harvey. V Grace Beebe. Dorothy O'Connell. Fran Walters. Teresa Varga. Phylis Blum. Ruth Kurland. Peggy Borkland. who created the cookbook "Seashore Seasonings." which has made megabucks for the hospital . Jeannie Long and Sylvia Wogan. FATHER SHELTON of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church By the Bay stopped and said a short prayer with us while he was making pastoral calls on parishioners. Our first roommate was Ruth Bushay of Ocean View. Her grandson. Chip Camp, is at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London and she has another one serving on a nuclear sub in the Navy. Ruth's replacement as my roomie was Debra Hoch of Wildwood. Her husband Linwood works for Marine Italian Bakery on New Jersey Avenue. Helping us get well were nurses: Debbie O'Neill of Green Creek and Rosemarie Meloro, students at Atlantic Community College; Kathee Francis of Wildwood Crest and Joanne Lone of Villas, whose 7-year-old son Benjamin shows promise of playing pro hockey. Dr. Gracia finally sprang us with an admonition to avoid stress — he hadn't counted on our watching Viilanova vault into the final four and then wrap up the championship on the side screen yet!