4 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 5 February '86

At Edge of Stone Harbor Two 100-Unit Motels Proposed on Boulevard

By GREGG LAW SON COURT HOUSE - Two area developers are scheduled to present plans for 100-unit motels along Stone Harbor Boulevard at a March 19 work session meeting of Middle Township Committee. Robert Maerz. owner of the Topeka Lodge Motel, and Steven R. Narrigan, co-owner of the Stone Harbor Lumber Yard, both plan to build similar units on their properties, opposite each other just west of the 96th Street bridge Both envision multi-level motels with dining areas, and liquor licenses. Maerz' plans also include a thirdfloor pool deck And both say the projects are dependent on the township sewering the area when the Municipal Utilities Authority Seven Mile Beach/Middle Region treatment plant is completed The facility is scheduled to go on-line June 1987 •SEWAGE is the bottom line." Narrigan said. "Hopefully, these projects will he the key to getting the area sewered." "We don't know what we can do unless we find out if we're going to get water and sewers in 1987." Maerz said. "I think we'll get a positive response." "I think the township can pick up some ratables and capitalize on the tourist dollar." he added "It's up Students Fighting Leukemia WILDWOOD A symphony of busy typewriters will be heard out at Wildwood High School Tuesday. Feb 11. Students at the High School will be typing away to help raise money to white-out L&ukcmia. The students will be participating for the first time in the third Annual Type-A Thon sponsored by the Southern New Jersey Chapter of the Leukemia Society of America. Inc. I*ast year the program raised $23,000. with 27 high schools participating Ms. Alice Borneman will be chairwoman, coordinating the event with the help of Patricia Davies. Victoria Fisher and June Barnes. The entire school has been invited to participate. regardless of typing ability. The goal of each participant is to type as many words per minute as possible, while encouraging friends and family for pledges Leukemia kills more . children than any other diesease, yet strikes and kills more adults each year than children The moneyraised by the students at Wildwood High will be used for research to find the cause, control and cure of Leukemia, as well as aid to patients in the local area

to them what I can do " Maerz went to the township planning board Jan. 23 for advice and was told to go before township committee and request a ..public hearing Narrigan also will appear to discuss his plans. THE AREA is zoned commercial, but both developers probably will have to obtain a height variance from the planning board. The height limit in that are is 30 feet. Maerz said his motel would be 55-feet-tall; Narrigan said his plans are not firm at this time Four projects received final approval from the Planning Board Jan. 23. Courtway Associates was granted a major subdivision for Arbutus Farms, a residential development to be located on SwaintonGoshen Road across from Cape Veterinary Hospital. It will consist of 23 lots ranging in size from 3.066 acres to 18.085 acres. ( O I K T W A Y ASSOCIATES is William Tozour. David Kerr. John Millar. Robert Gillin, Thomas McCloskey and Tom Hessert Workers will begin clearing- the area and preparing to install 1.200 feet of road within two weeks. Tozour said That, plus the installation of telephone lines and underground electric, should be completed by July 1. he said. Tozour said there has been much interest in the project and construction could begin as early as April or May. Owners Thomas J Kapp and Joseph Pastal received approval to add 95 mobile home sites at their Garden Lake Mobile Home Park. Rt. 9 and North Wildwood Boulevard. Burleigh The addition will bring its total to 322 sites. The sites are approximately 50 feet and the park's existing sewage plant has capacity to handle the added flow. Kapp said. THE BOARD APPROVED a site plan for a Meineke Muffler shop on Stone Harbor Boulevard east of Adams' Shell station. Owner Ronald Borek plans to build a 1,954-square-foot building on a 268,660-square-foot lot According to the site plan, construction will begin about Feb 25 and take four months to comHonor Rolls Announced STONE HARBOR - Honor rolls for the second marking period at the borough public school have been announced, with one pupil making the distinguished honor roll and eight the honor roll. Kristin Huff earned distinguished honors. On the honor roll are Matt Ault. Amy Dougherty. Dale Pickett. Suzie Fisher. Jennifer James. Kathleen McNulty. Jennifer Sherwood, and Tracy Taylor.

plete. The site plan says the shop will employ four people Henry Spinelli received approval for two office and retail store buildings on Route 47 where the old Montgomery Ward store was located. Both buildings will be 5.600 square foot According to the site. pMh. construction was to have begun Feb 1 and take four months to complete Seniors Set Fete for 16th Year STONE HARBOR - The Stone Harbor Seniors will celebrate the 16th anniversary of the organization at a luncheon noon Wednesday. Feb. 26. at Henny's. For reservations, call 368-2294. Bingo nights and special holiday parties have been featured in the group's activities since it was organized. A luncheon party was enjoyed by 48 at Theresa Martin's Jan. 22. President of the organization is Jerry Rowland. Alliger Gets PR Position TUCKAHOE - The Upper Township Committee has named public relations person Dick Alliger to edit and publish a new Upper Township Newsletter. The committee noted in its appointment that there is a need within the township for such a publication to publicize the activities and events within the township, so as to ensure that the greatest number of township citizens have knowledge of such events, and that the publication and distribution of a township Newsletter will be the most effective way to accomplish this purpose. The Alliger has an extensive background in public relations and the media, having published and edited newspapers and magazines over the years, operated his own public relations agency, and is in his 10 year of broadcasting the Saturday night radio program. "The Make Believe Ballroom ". on WWOC Stereo 94. Alliger also serves as public relations director for Sea Isle City. The first issue of the new newsletter is due off the press around the first of March, and will be publish ed every other month thereafter. The newsletter will be mailed to township residents and will be available at convenient locations throughout the township

ROY GILLIAN

Hospital President SOMERS POINT - Roy Gillian of Ocean City was elected president and five others who live in Cape May County or have connections there were named to the board of trustees of Shore Memorial Hospital at its annual meeting Jan. 27. Gillian, owner-operator of the Wonderland Pier in Ocean City, succeeds Bernard A. Capaldi of Linwood. Others elected to the board were: OCEAN CITY attorney Arthur F. Ford III, treasurer and assistant secretary . Clifford J. Phifer of Marmora, elected to a three-year term.

MUA Calls Huddle On Recycling Plan

SWAINTON- The chairman of the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority has invited the freeholders and mayors of all 16 Cape May County municipalities to meet with him to discuss and advice the authority on its proposed county wide recycling plan William F.X. Band said he has scheduled the meeting for noon Wednesday. Feb. 12. The proposed Cape May County Recycling Plan, which has been approved by the authority for distribution. details a comprehensive regional program with a goal to recycle 15 to 25 percent of the county's solid waste stream. ACCORDING TO MUA Solid Waste Manager Theodore F. O'Neill. 11 communities. which generate 69 percent of the county 's recyclables, have requested the authority to re-establish a regional recycling program. The MUA has recommended that communities which generate 75 percent or more of the county's recyclables need to agree to this program before the authority is willing to go ahead with its plans to construct an intermediate processing facility to receive, sort, clean, consense and market source-separated news-

paper. glass and cans. "WE'VE BEEN burned before." said MUA Vice Chairman Roy Gillian dur ing a recent discussion of the proposal, "and we want to be sure we have guaran teed support this time before we authorize any ex penditures for a regional recycling program " The authority abandoned a regional recycling program after high prices for recycled newspaper led many municipalities to seek their own markets. Subsequent depressions in the markets for paper and glass precipitated the recent pleas for aid from several county communities. "TWO KEY items in the proposed program." O'Neill explained, "include minimum five-year service agreements with the participating communities and the recommendation that recycling be mandatory in all county communities." Benefits to the communities would include: savings on tipping fees at the authority's sanitary landfill and transfer station; net profits from the sale of the recyclable materials; grants from the New Jersey j Office of Recycling; transportation savings; and re- [ S duced administrative costs.

/J1§^NEWS " INgV DIGEST f ^7 It j The Week's H H II Top Stories (From page 1) sewage polluted local waters in August and island beaches were closed. To reduce rainwater instrusion. city residents are now required to cap sewer vents on their properties or face $500 fines. Crest Contracts Center WILDWOOD CREST - Architects Edwin N. Howell and Associates signed a contract this week for design and construction management of a $2-million. ' 23.000-square-foot community center at 'Crest Pier. The contract calls for the firm to receive five percent of the project cost. The project is scheduled before the Planning Board March 6 for a formal site plan review. Mayor Frank McCall said groundbreaking is scheduled next January and the target completion date is December 1987 Sandy Session Thurs. AVALON — Borough Council plans a 9:45 a.m. special meeting tomorrow in Borough Hall. 3100 Dune Dr., to discuss beach erosion between 17th and 22nd streets and a possible resolution "authorizing an exingency for the placing of approximately 30,000 cubic yards of sand" there, according to Borough Clerk • Dorothy R Brennan City Proposes Mall NORTH WILDWOOD - This city and its business community are studying a proposal to build a five-block. $900,000 shopping and recreational mall at Hereford Inlet northeastward from Second and New Jersey avenues The city's share would be 60 percent, or $540,000. 1 with the rest funded by businesses. Councilman Ralph Johnson said the city's share will only fund street restoration. No tax dollars will be spent on business * expansion. Johnson said

Middle: No to Union COURT HOUSE - Middle Township employes voted 22-14 Monday not to join Local 2210, American Federation of State. County and Municipal Employees, Council 71. at an election in township hall. The eligible voters. 45 public works, clerical and other employes, had petitioned the state Public Employment Relations Commission for the election. Local 2210 represents Upper Township bluecollar workers and Lower Township's white-collar and supervisory employes. Also, about 700 state workers at the Woodbine Development Center belong to the local. Firemen Save Duplex COURT HOUSE - Local firefighters confined to one bedroom a 6:31 p.m. fire in a duplex at 308 Boyd Street on Jan. 28. Cause of the blaze was under investigation last week. Lt. Paul Hand of the Cape May Court House Volunteer Fire Department said the cause could have been electrical. Jannie Thompson, owner of the five-bedroom frame house, said she though the fire started in a mattress, but no one in the two-story duplex smokes. Thirty-two volunteers with four fire trucks extinguished the blaze within a half hour. Stranded Porpoise Dies OCEAN CITY — Beach strollers spotted a stranded harbor porpoise around 9 a.m. Saturday. Still alive at the time, the sea mammal died before personnel from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center arrived from Brigantine. They reported the animal emaciated, with fluid in its lungs, and exposed intestines The por poise's organs will be sent to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine for pathological studies. Members and Guests CAPE MAY — Lower Township Mayor Robert Fothergill and Theodore O'Neill, solid waste manager for the county Municipal Utilities Authority, will be (Page 41 Please)