Herald - lantern - Dispatch 15 January '86 43

loyride III By Libby Demp Forrest \J J •

It's that time of year again. Everybody I know is on a diet or thinking about going on one. Personally. I keep looking for a diet where you go to bed fat and wake up thin. I'd like a diet where the pounds melt away with each snore. I'd like a diet where every glass of water you drink speeds up losing weight, maybe knocking off a pound of weight with each eight glasses of water drunk. EVERY MAGAZINE I pick up this time of year entices me with covers that (forgive the pun) whet the appetite for dieting. Shall I go on the 14-day crash diet? The four-day water loss diet? The 1986 Metobolitic Diet? Back to sensible eating? Admittedly, every teeny, tiny morsel of food I indulged in over the holidays could find nothing better to do than race through my bloodstream until it found a hip or some lonesome flab to join. I KNOW I shouldn't have eaten Auntie's demon fruit cake. It's always amazed me how a two pound box of chqcolates that I hardly touch turns into seven pounds of body fat. flow that turkey stuffing I specifically made with margarine thinks it's the high priced spread when I put a little of it in my mouth. How the smidgen of egg nog I had one night became a monster around the waist? I didn't mean to eat those two chocolate chip cookies. Can I help it that whoever baked them insisted on making them with such rich ingredients? AND ABOUT THAT 16-layer torte I found at a party one night; I thought it was only about 10 or 11 layers. If I had known there were 16 layers, I would have only eaten half my piece, thereby saving eight layers and probably two or three pounds right off the bat. No one ever told me that sitting around and talking to friends while eating puts on more weight than standing around and talking to strangers. I think I read that somewhere, didn't I? Anyhow, it was something about exercising in some magazine or another I've got around the house someplace or another. Maybe it goes along with the '86 Metobiolic Diet I mean to look into.

Nursing Home Finally Opens

COURT HOUSE - Court House Convalescent Center admitted its first patient at 11 a.m. Monday, ending a two-year struggle. The nursing home's officials could not release the first patient's name because approval had not been received by this newspaper's deadline. The home, oh Magnolia Drive, received a temporary certificate of occupancy from Stone Harbor construction official Herbert L. Hornsby. He was given responsibility for overseeing the home's construction after it became embroiled in the controversy surrounding the former Middle Township Sewage Commission, and township con1 struction official Michael Vistenzo. Hornsby said that, in conjunction with the (county) Health Department and state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)", he gave the home "a limited certificate of occupancy" for 20 patients and staff. The home is build to accommodate 120. BENJAMIN MILLER, a principal with the home's operating firm. Hospicomm Inc. of Philadelphia, said the gradual staffing and occupying of the home was T ' something we volunteered to do." "Everything appears fine," said Hornsby, "but we want to see how it operates first. We'd rather take a few, then we'll increase it later."

The temporary certificate was for the first two weeks, he said. Original cost estimate for the home was $4 million. Miller declined to reveal what the project eventually cost. The home also has a 27-patient "adult medical day-<are center" which wiil offer services from 9 to 5. Hospicomm also owns and operates Eastern Shore Nursing Home in Swainton which opened in September 1983, and also has a 120-bed capacity. Each of the homes is supposed to employ about 100. Hospicomm purchased 2.5 acres for $235,000 in October 1983 from local lawyer Frederick W. Schmidt Jr. and Realtors Thomas J. Repici, William *~';H. Tozour Jr., and David J. Kerr who bought a total of eight acres on Magnolia for $167,000 in June 1983. Hospicomm's officials had said thev were assured the Middle Township Sewage Treatment Plant had capacity for the proposed home. It didn't. Then began the months-long fight to design an on-site sewage treatment system that would satisfy government agencies and the Cape May Court House Neighborhood Association, formed specifically to force an environmentally sound system. The two still don't agree on whether the home's onsite septic system — designed to treat 8,000 gallons a day with a 4,000-gallon holding tank — is adequate.

Husband to Replace Wife on Commission

* COURT HOUSE - Anthony DeVico will be the new member of the Middle Township Sewage Commission after its Jan. 26 election. DeVico is running unopposed for a seat vacated by his wife, Jeanne, who will remain as clerk. He is the only new candidate. Commissioner James Killian is running unopposed for reelection and an appointment will be made to replace Mike Mills, who announced his resignation after legally-required election notices were published. DeVico, 30, is a life-long county resident and owner of DeVico Vending here. A 1974 graduate of Middle Township High School, he earned degrees in political science and geography at Bucknell University in 1978. After a short stint as a management trainee at the old A & P food store here, he bought DeVico Vending from his uncle in 1980. DeVico served on the Middle Township School Board from 1981 to 1983, was a director of the township Chamber of Com-

merce, and his term as president of the local Kiwanis Club ended in September. Prevent Rape WEST CAPE MAY - A four -day workshop on rape prevention and awareness began this week and will continue on the next three Tuesdays at the Body Mechanix Exercise Studio. For information, call > 884-0777. Chamber Set To Reorganize WOODBINE - The Woodbine Chamber of Commerce will have a reorganization meeting 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, at Old Borough Hall. DeHirsch Avenue here. The public is invited. For more information, call 861-3771, . \

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