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fc)NEwT ifey digest C 7/ // ,/ The Week's Ul II H 'op Stories The Water's Great CREST HAVEN — Most tourists are gone and with them, guess what, much of the ocean and backbay waters pollution. Results of the county Health Department's water monitoring program appear on page 59. There was no backbay sampling in the Sea Isle City or Lower Township-Cape May area as the program winds down. Persons addicted to reading fecal coliform bacteria counts in the 92 backbay and 43 ocean sites should be warned that the last chart for the season will appear next week. But it. the tourists, and probably some pollution problems. will reappear next May. In Memory of George COURT HOUSE - The 10:30 a.m. mass at Our Lady of Angels Church Sunday will be offered for the repose of the soul of L/Cpl George L. Dramis who was killed by a sniper in Berirut. Lebanon Jan. 30. 1984. The eldest son of Middle Township Police Sgt. James Dramis and his wife. Luretta, George would have been 21 on Sunday. Among his personal belongings was a letter to his parent--' that concluded "Always keep me in your memory." Catlin Stable COURT HOUSE — Nine-month old Catlin Mulligan of North Cape May was in stable condition at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Monday, recovering from an auto accident 2:40 a.m. last Friday in which her 20-year-old mother, Katie, was killed. The Mulligan car was traveling south on the Garden State Parkway in Dennis Township when it swerved off the road and hit a tree. Mr. and Mrs. Clive Edmunds of Villas came upon the scene, discovered the injured child in the back seat, and rushed her to the B-T emergency room. Their prompt action may have saved the child's life. Oh Shoot! WILDWOOD CREST - Seafarer s Weekend ended last Saturday with a fireworks display on Shaw Island, selected because it would be safer than the beach. An apparent dud sparked a dry marsh fire that was extinguished within 45 minutes and within a few yards of the borough's sewage treatment plant On to Cairo WILDWOOD — Still teed off at some boardwalk t-shirt merchants. Mayor Victor Di Sylvester said last week he ll take his complaints (unethical pricing and objectionable messages) to the U.S. Im- ( Page 4 Please)

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Area Lacks Facilities Self-Help Center for Epileptics?

By E.J. DUFFY VILLAS — "I am an epileptic." Linda Campmeier of Redwood Avenue explained last week. "And. when I moved to Cape May County. I found out there was no Epilepsy Foundation added the nurse. 38, who's originally from Hurffville near Glassboro. She moved here three years ago. "South Jersey is just one area that does

—inside. TRY recycling again? Page 8. BlOWFtSH: lots of fun and fine ' eating. Lou Rcxiia, page 42. ART DECO: less local demand, better prices. Antiques by Arthur Schwerdt, page 23. CROSS country, soccer and field hockey: a roundup. Sports by Sue McKinley, page 45. CLOSETS can reveal much. County library, page 17. RAPING the Wetlands; well pay. Page 62.

not have the facilities, which is normal." she observed. "This is something that we i are going to have to rectify." I Unlike many who suffer from one of four forms of the so-called "falling sickness." Campmeier isn't embarrassed by the disorder, despite seizures that strike her at least once a month. She has endured the social consequences of epilepsy, however, and wants to help others deal with their malady rather than hiding it and suffering in silence. "I HAVE BEEN' WORKING with epileptics for three years on my own." she said, determined to establish a local organization for fellow epileptics. Tentatively called the Epileptic SelfHelp Center, that group will hold its initial meeting next month. The closest Epileptic Foundation chapters are at Elizabeth and Morristown in North Jersey, she said, but a self-help group that formed in Atlantic City six years ago has since grown from 25 to 300 members None of those groups is near enough for the unknown number of Cape May County epileptics. They're prohibited from driving unless they have been free of seizures for seven years as certified by a physician. Campmeier suffered her first seizure as t

a nine-year-old after she contracted e rheumatic fever. Her great-grandfather. who was stricken with epilepsy in mid-life, r drowned himself; he was unable to live (Page 61 Please)

Nursing Home Still Without Approvals COURT HOUSE — "Dead in the water" was how Hospicomm attorney Norma Zlotnick described the company's 1 20- bed nursing home last week to Middle Township Committee Court House Convalescent -Center is scheduled to open next month on Magnolia Drive. Zlotnick was aggravated that committeemen. for the second time this month, voted Thursday night' to table a resolution that might smooth state approval of the home's proposed sewage treatment system. "All bets are off," the lawyer told officials. "There's going to be a lot of litigation and not just with them." he added, apparently referring to the township and the Cape May Court House Neighborhood Association. It has named Hospicomm in a suit against the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to prevent the nursing home from discharging sanitary sewage into Romney Marsh "DON'T THREATEN MY CLIENTS." Township Solicitor Bruce Gorman told Zlotnick. speaking for the Committee "If you're going to litigate (sue them), litigate." "I'm not threatening your clients." Zlotnick replied. During their Sepl 4 work session, committeemen balked at adopting a DEP prepared resolution which stated that the township officials approved the nursing home's proposed sewage treatment plant Zlotnick had argued unsuccessfully that "the words approves the project' refer to local ordinances Gorman, however, countered that the resolution wording "opens a Pandora s Box Committeemen directed Gorman to reward the resolution and strike any mention of approval Zlotnick urged thpm to adopt the measure unedited and attach a cover letter "expressing your concerns" about the plant's treatment capacity and a licensed engineer to operate it. Association geohydrologi^t David Blackmore raised "reservations" on both points. "There are two small points of contention." Gorman told Zlotnick on Sept. 4. "Why don't you solve those two points; in 27 hours this body will reconvene." "We can't solve them in 27 hours," Zlot(Page 61 Please)

; For Village, Park Hall , School to County?

By E.J. DUFFY COLD SPRING — "It looks like" the county will accept Lower Township s old municpal hall for Historic Cold Spring Village, freeholders said last week. Freeholder Herbert Frederick, who oversees village administration, said he plans to meet today with Lower Manager James R. Stump to work out the final details. If all goes well, the freeholder added, the 1897 structure could be moved from Seashore Road to Route 9 this fall and serve as the county maritime museum and focal point of a second village entrance. Gerald M. Thornton, freeholder direc-

tor. said chances are also pretty good that he and his four colleagues will look favorably on any Park Commission recommendation to accept the 1840 Green Creek Schoolhouse for the County Park South in Del Haven. STUMP AND SCHOOLHOUSE owner William Szathmary had offered their twostory frame buildings, and part of the costs of moving them to the 15-acre village, which was donated to the county in December by Dr. Joseph and Patricia Anne Salvatore. Without a positive response from the county, Stump last month announced for the second time plans to demolish the fire- ( Page 61 Please)