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)une 12, 1985

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News~J!l~_ Dicest Weeks "o TopStories Neir Angle COURT HOUSE - Realtor Thomas J. Repici, convicted May 30 of "theft of services" for connecting his tyy-Land Motor Inn to Middle Township sewage lines without permission, is seeking a new trial on grounds Assistant Procescutor Robert Wells did not use information he had that Repici had permission to connect from former Sewage Commissioner Michael Vistenzo. That was the defense Repici was expected to make in his trial, hut didn't. Repici did not testify before the Grand Jury that indicted him Vistenzo, who has publicly denied giving that permission, did testify Repici's legal maneuver caused the stat^teal Estate Commission to postpone yesterday's hearing to consider revoking or suspending his real estate license. Can't Win 'Em All COURT HOUSE - Freeholders were scheduled to make 11 women happy last night by naming them to a new Advisory Commission on the Status of Women. On the other hand, they also were slated to make 31 women and one man unhappy. They were interviewed by a screening committee and passed over. This newspaper has already received one letter complaining about the selection process. The job pays nothing. Mediator Trying COURT HOUSE — Mediator Theodore Gerber from the state Public Employment Relations Commission listened to negotiators from county government and its major union, Local 1983, for four hours last Friday. Another session will be held. The employes rejected a contract offer by a 283-111 vote May 24, and it's Gerber's job to try to bring both sides together. Some 700 county worker? are covered by the contract.

No Economy Move COURT HOUSE - Freeholders were slated last night to appoint Joseph P. Haggerty of Rio Grande to a $29,829 post as administrator of the Private Industry Council (PIC). That's about an $ll,000-a-year raise for Haggerty, 56, a county resident since he retired from the Army in 1974, and a county Welfare Department employe since October 1983. Haggerty replaces Nan Mavromates who (Page 56 Please) •inside ... REPORT from Seaside Coat: vital, vibrant, growing — with three empty lots left. A new column from a new place, page 12. HANG in there. Libra; find a confidante, Scorpio. Planentarily Speaking. page 71. DAY-TO-DAY intrafamily shady dealings. Joyride III, page 71. Wildwood Bay Water Yucky CREST HAVEN - Most of the county's ocean waters tested clean even though samples were taken during a heavy rainstorm last Wednesday, according to the county Health Department. But Wildwood's backbays had high fecal coliform bacteria counts serious enough to raise the possibility they will be posted' against reccreational use if they continue. Complete test results appear in a chart exclusvely in this paper on page 67. Lightning and thunder last Wednesdayforced the department's crew to cut short its ocean water sampling before it could do Lower Township. THE HALF-DOZEN high counts in the ocean waters off Avalon and the Wildwoods (Page 69 Please)

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■PfJflrJllrJwl WELCOME CANADIANS BP L 'Smjm I IWV • "» WILLIAM II. HEVENER

By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOtJSE - The French (Canadian) connection is under scrutiny. The new focus results from the juxtaposition of a $3,000 county contribution to the local chamber of commerce and a $45,000 expenditure for tourist promotion in Montreal. Conforming to the adage that you don't bite the hand that feeds you, even if it only amounts to 2 percent of your budget, the chamber suffered in silence for the last

two years with a freeholder-reduced appropriation of $3,000 instead of the previous $7,500 Last week, however, a four-member chamber delegation, its "rainy day account" down from $30,000 to $10,000, came to a public freeholder meeting to ask if it could get the former amount "returned." RESULT: Freeholder Herbert Frederick met with Public Affairs Assistant Director Louis A. Rodia Jr. and came up with the likelihood of a state grant of (Page 69 Please)

Is He Going? /

NORTH CAPE MaV— William H Hevener had his ups and downs last Thursday. At about 4 p.m., county freeholders decided they couldn't pay anything toward his estimated $1,700 cost to attend a conference in Canada a-, director of the Cape May County Task Force on Drugs and Drunk Driving. At about 8 p.m., VFW Post No. 386 in Cape May pledged him a $300 contribution.

and suggested other VFWs also might help out. HEVENER, 38. TOOK the nonpaid post after Sheriff James Plousis resigned in January The 1 1 -.--year-old task force has no budget, but exists on grants from S.O.B.E R (Slow on the Bottle Enjoy the Road) grants from the Office of HighwaySafety It just bought two boat trailers with a (Page 69 Please)

Weddings

Medieval Fantasy Comes True

WILDWOOD — Five musicians bearing recorders and a drum preceded the bride up the aisle. The sound of their processional song filled the church. Two guards, swords ready, escorted the bride as the maroon taffeta of her underdress flashed beneath her pearl and lace-adorned white satin gown. The stately guards delivered her safely to the side of her groom who nervously awaited her in his black knickers, silver-

2»/2 Million Americans Marry Each Y ear: These Accounts by Becky Bernstein Are DIFFERENT trimmed, lace-collored suit, and whiteplumed hat. What may sound like a marriage scene (Page 69 Please)

One Ritual Down ; 10 to Go 7

STONE HARBOR — Patricia Mary Ballinghoff and Robert Lewis Grisar were married fast Saturday — for the first of 1 1 times. On their western European honeymoon, they plan to celebrate 10 more marriages in as many countries over the next two or three weeks. "I think it's for the romantic part of it," said Patti. "We're both true romantics." The couple originally planned to marry in France, a country they believe is

t synonymous with romance However, they realized that their friends and relatives would like to participate, so they switched to Stone Harbor. "Then we thought. Why not both places?' " said Patti. Since their honeymoon flight lands in England, where they have a few friends, they decided to get married there too. "It just really snowballed," explained Bob. The trip now includes marriage sites in France, Scotland, England, Ireland, Luxembourg. Belgium, The Netherlands. (Page 69 Please) irdgc to « ■ • -

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* t * r.Tr r -r- .. V t 1 I - 1 ' Doris Ward - BREAKFAST? Mom Mrs. Linda Winter of » Erma doesn't care if Sean, 18 months, makes crumbs on the Cape May Beach.

Whose Waste Polluting Water?

By E.J. riUFFY CREST HAVEN - High fecal coliform counts in local waters are at least partially due to a natural cause — animal waste. But, how much of what's detected as waste bacteria comes from gulls, turtles, dogs and cats, and how much of its is human — from overloaded sewage treatment plants or septic systems? That's what Lower Township Manager James R. Stump wants to know. As executive director of the township MUA, he's asked the county Health Department, which samples county waters on a weekly basis during the summer, to perform a i Fecal Coliform-Fecal Strep Ratio test that f will determine the amounts of human and , animal wastes in water samples. The test will be performed as part of a

special study Stump's requested on fecal coliform bacteria in the Delaware Bay off Cox Hall Creek, Town Bank. Residents there petitioned the governor, state, county and local officials last summer to clean up the contamination when fecal coliform counts frequently exceeded the 50 MPN (most probable number) safety limit. THE TOWNSHIP MUA treatment plant in Villas discharges treated sanitary sewage into the creek's headwaters. Although that discharge has consistently met state water quality standards, county Health Officer Louise J. Lamanna last August called the MUA plant "the major source of contamination eventually reaching the Delaware Bay." Arguing that other, undetected sources (Page 56 Please)