Herald/Lantern/Dispatch 24 April '85 \ 1 — -

slews Notes from r The Wile/woods Thomas Parsons

Bonnie Carlson, presi- j dent of the Wildwood Cfest i Republican Club, invites < all Wildwood Crest i residents to attend the | club's candidate night < slated for 7:30 this evening, in the Nesbitt Center at i Rambler and the Beach. i All six registered candidates will be present to speak and answer questions from the public. Refreshments will be served. Don't forget the First Baptist Church's tomorrow at the church. Maple and Atlantic Avenue in Wildwood. Lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All are invited. SLEEPY HOLLOW Nursery School, Lotus and New Jersey Avenue, is announcing registration for the 1985-86 school session. Pampered children between the ages of 3 and 5 are welcome to register while no children in Pampers are accepted (that is about as nice and I can state the •potty-trained'' requirement). Further information can be obtained by calling 522-1833. If somebody answers "Duffinetti's", just keep talking. The Sleepy Hollow Nursery School is located in Duffinetti's Restaurant during the off-season, and the instructors who transform themselves into restauranteurs for the season occasionally get the seasons mixed. If you don't have children to register in Sleepy Hollow, you have only a few more weeks until Duffinetti's reopens. Trish Cettei, always cordial hostess and owner of the business with husband Ed. informed *" me that the seasonal opening will be the Saturday before Memorial Day. AND SPEAKING of seasonal openings, on our island, absolutely nobody considers the robin to be the harbinger of spring. Everyone watches the George Redding Bridge for the return of Mr. Mark and his lovely wife who own and operate the Dragon House Restaurant in Wildwood. Well, they have returned and we understand that the opening night saw people waiting in line for over an hour to get in. Amazing how successful the Dragon House has been for so many years. Have you ever gone fishing at Mill Pond? Better known as the Wildwood Reservoir, located at the Wildwood Water Works Pump Station in Middle Township along Route 47. this little one-acre-plus lake has been where many a youngster has been initiated into^The rights of freshwater, blue-gill fishing. If you are familiar with the lake and perhaps fish there, forget about it and do not go fishing there. The City of Wildwood has placed the area off-limits to all and has posted the appropriate signs to warn tresspassers. HAS MARY FREAL finally gone to the birds? No. she says emphatically.

< changed her agency's Freal, who owns the 1 Calloway Agency, has recently given the office a facelift and changed the signs as well. For 25 years, the Calloway signs have featured the "Happy House" with the agency slogan. The Calloway signs now sport new colors and a white gull as the logo. In announcing the new changes. Freal also noted the addition of Nancy Simon and Natalie Visalli Carfagno to the roster of sales associates. Also in the real estate world, Donna Marsden. broker for Marsden Real Estate, has announced the addition of her son to the staff of sales professionals at the Marsden Agency. MEMBERS OF the Wildwood Crest Fire Department .are "gearing up" for this Sunday. This is the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Fire Department and they are celebrating with the housing of two new fire vehicles. It is scheduled to be a gala celebration with a mini - parade and refreshments for all. Plan to attend. Keep April 28 in mind, because it is only 34 days from that date that the North Wildwood HomeSchool Association will be hosting its second annual Fun Fair at the Margaret Mace School. They have asked me to keep reminding you and there are only so many ways to catch your attention. Perhaps a simple Margaret Mace Fun Fair June 1. at 12th and Atlantic Avenues, North Wildwood will suffice. IT LOOKS as though Wildwood will get another chance at professional basketball this summer. The newly organized U.S. Basketball League will feature a team based in Wildwood's Convention Hall Officially called the Wildwood Aces, the team will play all home games in the Convention Center with the season beginning June 2. just one day after the Margaret M&ce Fun Fair. Seven teams will round out the league and team representation; will be from the Northeast. The last professional basketball franchise to call Wildwood home faded into obscurity as the season ran concurrently with the NBA schedule. The new league, whiqh has developed also along The lines of the USFL, features a schedule that is not competitive with the senior league slate. With the millions of tourists traversing our shores each season, the nfw team's chances of success are greatly enhanced, i "* I SPEAKING OF the ConI vention Hall, it .seems that the governing body, the Parking Authority, is mak1 ing a bid for the 1987-88 Mid-Atlantic Shrine Coni vention. Marie Geiger, office manager and defacto director of the facility, has been sent to Virginia Beach in an attempt to woo the multi-million dollar cont

vention back to the Wildwoods. If you have been reading your weekly Herald as closely as you should, you will have noted that the coverage concerning the pending fire safety regulations has been exceptional I have heard more comment from Island business owners regarding this coverage than I can remember in recent months. Why? Because it is a major issue. Unlike many forms of legislation, nobody is going to get "grandfathered" on this one! Which means that when many regulations are passed, enforcement is limited to new structures and older structures that have changed "use" and/or ownership. The state's new fire-safety regulations exempt no structures simply because

they were in existence prior to the legislation. AND THE LEGISLATION! It is the most restrictive and demanding type of fire-safety code in existence. All business j owners are urged to become more, knowledgeable about the pending code enforcement. You may call the state's Bureau of Fire Safety at 984-6000, for further information, or what may be easier, grab the past couple issues of the Herald. The Wildwood Crest Fire Department invites one and all to the May 5th Pancake Breakfast at the fire house. The time for the af fair is between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Also in the "Crest", the Indies Aid of the Crest Community Church will sponsor a penny party in the new church social hall 7 p.m. A p r 1 1 3 0 . Refreshments will be served.

i j . All Jury Functions At Cape Tightened

COURT HOUSE - In t response to a statewide ef- t fort to improve jury utilization and jury management ■, as a whole, effective Jan. 1 . I all jury related functions in the County were consolidated into a single operation, the Cape May County Jury Management Office. This office, responsible to Philip \ Gruccio. assignment judge for Atlantic and Cape May Counties, and managed through the Trial Court Administrator's Office, has consolidated the prior fragmented operation; i.e.. qualification of persp&tive jurors, selection, summoning. requests for excusal or postponement and payment of jurors. The staff of the Jury Management Office, in addition to the jury manager i and clerks, now also in- > eludes the court attendants formerly under the direction of the sheriff. These ati tendants, now responsible i to Judge Gruccio. provide a 1 host of functions, including ■ juror orientation and over- : all assistance to the jurors and judges. i IN ADDITION to proi viding improved supervision and co-ordination of all 1 jury functions, this con1 solidation into a single of- ) fice has allowed all juryi related costs to be contain- ( ed in a single budget. The creation of the Jury j Management Office is just a another step in the continu5 ing effort to improve the ? jury system. _ Under the i direction of 'Assignment s Judge Gruccio. Atlantic H and Cape May Counties s have been devoted tb this e effort. Improvements over the pd^Tfew years include the i- reduction in terms of petit t jury service from four . e weeks Jo-one week. 8 GRAND JURY terms of i- service have "been reduced f- from one day a week for a o period of 16 to 20 weeks, to s one day a week for a period h of 8 to 10 weeks, with Atlanc tic and Cape May Counties i- being the first in the state

reduce grand jury-Code-a-phone systems allowing jurors to call in for a recorded message instructing whether their service will be required the following day, have been installed in both counties. Comments or questions concerning the jury system in the county should be directed to Jury Manager Howard H. Berchtold Jr.. Trial Court Administrators Office. 1201 Bacharach Blvd.. Atlantic City. N.J 08401 (609 ) 345-6700, Ext. 2400.

Joyride III rak. f By Libby Demp Forrest \J JJ" J r It helps to have a sense of humor in a commuting marriage. The other day I came across an article about *a survey that had been conducted in which it was shown commuting marriages have a lower divofce rate than the general population 4 I've been conducting my own survey 'among friends and acquaintances for two years and came to see the same conclusion quite a while ago. The Hubby lives and works in one place, and I live aiyl work in another place 250 miles away. When we get together and go out to eat. we're probably the most animated couple in the restaurant. None of this two peope sitting next to each other and staring into space. We talk. WHAT ARE WE saying? "Did I tell you the insurance bill came last Week? Did I v tell you I had a bad headache 10 days ago'' That's a nice necktie — when did you get it?" The Hubby always arrives with a bouquet of flowers, even if he's had to stop along the side of the road and pick ' them. If ours were a conventional marriage, would he do that every time he showed up? According to the survey in the newspaper, commuting couples try harder tefcjnake their marriages work. What's to try? The things roost couples are able to take for granted there isn't timfe for in a commuting marriage. -s , FIGHTING is one of those things There isn't time to have a reallv good fightin a commuting marriage. Aside from the fact both spouses are probablyNoo tired to do anything but fall into bed by the time they can get together, there really isn't enough time to get a good fight going from beginning to end. You can't fight by the clock, you know. Anyhow, falling into bed at the drop of a hat is supposed . to be very good for marriages in general. So perhaps conventional marriages can look to commuting marriages as good example of how to do things right. WHEN THE HUBBY and I first got married. I found it a little difficult to explain commuting marriage to some people. "What is this?" someone wanted to know. "Did I get this straight? I've heard of people who live together, but don't get married. But you two are married, and not living together? Is that it?" As for divorce in a commdting marriage, how would two people even know where to file for divorce? ANOTHER POINT raised in the survey was that infidelity "did not appear to be a problem for most commuter couples " I had to wait until 1 1 p.m. when the rates go down before I called The Hubby to tell him about the survey. "Infidelity?" he yawned. "Hmmmm." "Well?" I asked. "Maybe with a railroad conductor or an airline stewardess." he said, "if one could stay awake long enough."

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