Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 2 October '85 ' 59

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Seniors of Stone Harbor have shifted their Halloween Party to Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Avalon/Stone Harbor Post 331 of the American Legion. Party will start at 8 p.m. Weird costumes are encouraged and prizes will be given in three categories, usually: prettiest, funniest and most original, but a special award for zaniest has occasionally been given. Reason for date change is: sooo many Seniors will be in far away places like the tour to the Orient which St. Mary's Church is sponsoring. Other dates scheduled are: a covered dish luncheon at the Women's Civic Club today ; fun nights Oct. 9 and 16, and lunch at the Golden Inn Oct. 23. STONE HARBOR Garden Club will hold its unusual flower shower andboutique Saturday, Oct. 5, 11 a.m. 'til 4 at the S.H. Elementary School, 93rd and Third Avenue. Phyllis Childs and Rosabelle Koss are chairing an excellent lunch to be served at noon. Alice Supplee, who has lots of tricks up her sleeve, is doing the staging. As always the club will feature classes for students with green thumbs and fresh ideas. These kids' classes are our favorites — far and away the most original. Four florists will be participating too. Avalon Flower and Garden Shop, Gate House Flower Shop, Rose Petal and Plants from Fischer's Greenhouses. This promises to be a big show with discriminating judges. THERE WERE fireworks at 7 : 30 p.m. Sept. 21. From Joannie and architect Dave Krumbhaar's deck in Scotch Bonnet we watched the kind we love — a display, set off from Shaw Island celebrating Seafarer's Weekend, which was humongous in scope. It was far more sensational than originally planned. We didn't learn the reason 'til the following day. Seems one faulty explosive sparked a fire in marsh grass, sending flames soaring to heights visible for miles. The conflagration was contained in less than an hour by firemen from Wildwood Crest under the direction of Asst. Chief Ed Whalen Jr. and New Jersey Marine Police. There were no injuries and only minor property damage, but it provided spectators one whale of a display! AN OPEN letter to Joe Hodecheck. Villas Maria: Some people are gifted at birth with health, wealth or beauty or a talent and some get a measure of it all. Few people are gifted with courage; there isn't enough to go around. God saves that for people He loves best — Gerry Hudecheck was one of them. Services for Gerry were held Friday, Sept. 13, in Havertown, Pa. • • • JUST LEARNED that super-saleswoman Alison Rockwell and her husband, Jim, have bought Avalon Real Estate Stooe Harbor at 376 96th St. Jim owns the Rockwell Construction Co. so bulk of responsibility for

the new venture will probably fall on Alison. She won't mind — she knows local real estate like the back of her hand and has boundless energy and ideas. Just when we think we're getting the hang of this writing bit, someone cuts us down to size. By far the most difficult thing to write is an interesting or amusing postcard. Peg (Mrs. James) Grimes sent us this one from the Tirol: "We took a ride on the cable car to the top of the mountain — what a view! I signed up for hang-gliding lessons next week. It's a good thing we leave for Italy tomorrow. Austria is beautiful, food wonderful, enjoying it all. Love, Peg." WE DIDN'T think they could do it, but the Wings 'n Water Festival at Wetlands Institute was pluperfect this year. It flowed like ball bearings on ice. There was plenty of help: Mary DeH'Orefice, Sue Skinner and Pat Fagan gave us tickets and Arnie Morris raised eyebrows by gallently escorting this reporter, whose spouse had to work. He'll be marrying Lucille Arenson Dec. 28 in Florida and is carrying the passport for their wedding trip in his wallet already. Before and during the auction the island's best bartenders had the duty: Art Anderson. James Washington and Fred Wakefield, assisted by Will O'Connor and Bryan Schmid. Nine lasses passed goodies from Candlelight and Caviar and Hugit's WE SAW Shannon Quinn, Tiffany Tozour and Alicia Parker among them. Before bidding started we spoke with Viki and Duke Wear, Eileen Connor and Gracine McMenamy, Betty and Dick Light, Nancy Ritchie, Ben Pfeiffer and others. Fast moving auction action was guided by Cindy O'Connor, Wiley Cristy, Becky Greenberg, Joyce Kludzuweit and Claire Marks. We sat with Delores Harris, a teacher from Pollock Elementary School in Philadelphia, who had planned her vacation around the festival. THE AUCTION was swift and successful. Sixty - one items were donated and sold to benefit the Wetlands Institute. The four fetching highest prices were: Long weekend on Lake Naomi near the ski area, in a magnificent home loaned to the institute for that time, donated by John and Mary Miller ($375) ; cocktail party for 29 aboard 78-foot yacht "Electra", donated by Jim Palmer of Avalon ($400); print by Robert Bateman, first Canadian Duck Stamp winner, given by Mill Pond Press and the Olive Tree ($425) and a week in a waterfront villa for four on Treasure Cay, Abaco, given by Ben and Betsy Pfeiffer ($800)! LITTLE BY Utile we're getting to see each of more than 30 events the Wings 'n Water Festival offers every faU. This year we got a prime spot to watch the Coast Guard Air/Sea Rescue from the 95th Street Pier. It was really exciting apd

a great demonstration of what that corps has going for us. Afterward we listened to a Coast Guard Band concert with Miriam McNichol and lots of other familiar faces. We marched to fading notes of Semper Paratus to the adjacent Civic Club. Jo I,evison and Marie Spence were minding the store when we got there and Frank Smith was helping prexy Ellie run the show. Gail Keown and Aggie Robinson helped with lunch and the shrimpwiches were great! AT THE ART Show in the school. Gene and Ruthie Fisher were checking tickets all day and Jean Westhoff and Grace Sheeran helped Gracine McMenamy set up her exhibit of oils. Brought her luck too; she won an award with her Lily Pond, listed in the catalog. Didn't get to Avalon for the start of the 5-Mile Beach Run but Fr. Michael Orsi of St. Paul's saw it the hard way. He came in 67th in a field of more than 100 professional runners and teenagers. THE HAND-CARVED decoys at Community Hall beggar description. Hilda Mixsell was on duty while we were there and Betty Light told us Evelyn and Jack Warren, Betty and John Scull and Ann and Jack Bretherton all worked on the project both days. We asked Bill Van Ness, pres. of ROA, how long it took him to complete one feather and he said, "more than a day." Looked like a year's work to us. Got to see only one garden. Nancy Rirchie has achieved complete privacy with her British bower containing a miniature Shinto shrine and St. Francis. Nancy, who had shown more than 300 people through, told us "See Josie Rich's garden; hers is set up for a tea party and I hear it's great!" Too late; we missed it, but it's on our list for next year. John P. Hall, whose company owns 8433 Third Ave. among other properties in Stone Harbor, sought a major subdivision of that land at a public hearing of the planning board Sept. 3. A goodly crowd watched board chairman Bob Sellers of Diller & Fisher realtors and his board members go through the motions until the P. A. system was turned on by request from the audience. Plaintiffs Hall and his wife sat with their backs to the wall on the left with a small boy (grandchild we guess) playing soundlessly at their feet. SOME INTERESTED spectators who had received certified mail notifying them of a hearing on the same application made in August, only to attend and find it postponed due to improper filing, returned to bear the outcome of the latest notice. For two hours thye waited impatieeUy while agreement was reached «■ three other applications. At 9:30 p.m. the Hall request came up. Two lawyers, Robert L. Taylor for the plaintiffs and Paal Dare for three dissident couples, made eloquent pleas, demonstrated willingness

on everybody's part to cooperate, deplored long distance traveled by some spectators and took umbrage with remarks made by each other or onlookers. ATTORNEY FOR the board Eric Gaver warned further statements at the hearing might later be disallowed in court. Following a little legal jockeying at the gate, he pointed out there would be insufficient time to reach agreement before the hearing exceeded the 11 p.m. limit the state imposes. A postponement date was set and the meeting adjourned by unanimous vote. Next hearing will be: 7 p.m. Oct. 28, at Borough Hall. In case you're wondering, reason for so much clout on the board is that it's state mandated and the little boy was sleeping at the end. WE KEPT the fire exit clear at the heavily-at-tended crafts show held in conjunction with Wings 'n Water Sept. 21. It was a fun job. Audrie and Bill Kaufmann, who create Pierscapes (collages in the round ) . had their table next to the door. We've chatted with them before at shows, but never at length. What started as a hobby when Bill retired from banking has become a fulltime business. Audrie sketches houses from the original, on causeways to Avalon, Stone Harbor, North Wildwood and Cape May, Bill carves them, and both arrange a grouping on driftwood with Jersey shells, grasses, carved birds etc. THESE ARE cocktail table or shelf objects d'art. Bill also makes rustic frames for wall-hanging arrangements. The Pierscape they donated to the Wetlands auction rais- ° ed $90 for the institute. | They're both very thrill- -a ed. Six months ago, depsite £ Bill's misgivings ("against .= 52 states?" ), they mailed a £

Pierscape off to California to be entered in the Woman's Day national crafts contest, the first they'd ever entered. Bill had surgery over the winter and they forgot the competition. Last week, after six months, they were notified they'd won first place! It'll be pictured in the magazine soon. AUDRIE IS quite a dame — an artist for years, she painted the natural habitude of animals on walls of the Philadelphia Zoo. She won lots of awards for those last summer. Natch, she sat in empty cages to do it and endured the witticisms of zoo visitors. Since she's pretty, the most frequent twit was "Now, that's what I call a rare animal!" Peanuts thrown at her were collected at day's end given to wild birds at home. She's going to write a book titled Life in a Cage some day. Like our lives, the Kaufmanns' are governed by a dachshund, dapple gray/silver female named "Tye-dye" which has been taught many tricks. In her spare (?) time Audrie takes Tye-dye to nearby nursing homes at Easter. Christmas, Halloween and

for patients' birthdays. Audrie's made her a costume for every occasion. Tye-dye is a very special dog to many people. We consider the Kaufmanns pretty special too — next time we write about them, it'll be about Bill's missing socks. CAPE MAY County Municipal Utilities Authority started accepting recyclable newsprint from the borough of Stone Harbor Sept. 20. However, the MUA will continue to accept it only if we play by its rules, which are: Only clean, dry newspaper and Sunday supplements are included. Kraft bags are acceptable only for the purpose of bundling papers. The following materials will not be accepted: magazines, catalogs, computer paper, books, corrugated • paper, any other paper products or plastic bags. . For those ofcus who suffered through having newspapers build' into mountains this summer, this is not too arduous to cope with. Let's give the borough a break and comply like craxy.

* COOI.IN(;-OFF PERIOD — Adrienne Broun of Marristown takes for a long cold drink on Cape May BoardQ walk. She came to town to visit a friend, Alice Wilson.

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