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ip^m Job Fair Canceled CREST HAVEN - The vo-tech school district canceled its Job Fair set for today because of a lack of potential employers willing to participate. Robert Owens, director of ancillary services for the district, said employes blamed "the time of the year." The fair was held earlier in April in previous years. About 10 employers had agreed to come, he said, and 40 to 50 were needed. The district will try again in late May. 20 Percent to Go CAPE MAY - A joint letter from the county MUA (Municipal Utilities Authority) and Planning Board has told the city to begin a "capacity assurance program" because its sewage flow has reached 80 percent of its 1990 allocation for the Cape May Region sewage treatment plant. The city will have to begin allocating sewage flow, develop a program to reduce inflow and infiltration to its collector system, and have its sewage system evaluated.

28 Cars Damaged DEL HAVEN — A vandal or vandals damaged 22 cars hepe and in Court House, and six more in Villas, in a predawn spree last Friday morning. t Residents in these areas awoke to find rocks, asphalt and cinderblocks thrown through their cars' windows. Middle Township and Low^rTownship police are asking for anyone with information to calL ... ... ) Pit Closed Twice SEAVILLE — Superior Court Judge John F. Callinan ordered Action Supply Inc.. a mining operation, to close for the second time in two days last Friday for violating Cape-Atlantic Soil Conservation District regulations and local ordinances. Callinan issued the order on Thursday and again Friday when the company was observed violating several of his orders, according to Attorney James Jackson, who represents the Soil Conservation District. (Page 69 Please)

I tnsic/e ■ FIRST dibs on prime finds. AntiI qnes, page 19. ■ EAVESDROP on two Saturday ■ night listeners. Joyrtde, page 71. IN A COUPLE ways, high school I life hasn't changed. From the Prin> I opal, page 23. COUNTY had slaves and the ■ underground railroad. Jersey Cape I Historically, page It. DYFS under attach, page 70.

Doris Ward REGARDLESS — Mrs. Cathy Johnson of Avalon. employe at the Cape May County Museum in Swainton, finds there's no way to change the time on an ornamental sundial at the museum. Regardless, people with clocks will want to set them ahead an hour before retiring Saturday night or find themselves late all day Sunday.

Recycling: Still the Ultimate Goal

By JOE ZELNIK If a cat has nine lives and a batter gets three strikes, why should anyone think countywide, mandatory recycling is dead after just two rejections? f. It's not.

Last week, for example, county MUA ! (Municipal Utilities Authority) board 1 chairman William F X. Band sent a letter to the county's 16 municipalities. He thanked the eight that had voted to participate in the recycling program, urged the six who took no action to do so, and made no 1

fliiiniyitk TdlTONS TRASHjigL JJit GENERATED ANNUALLY ' ' AGREED TO MUA MANDATORY RECYCLING PROGRAM ' ' REFUSED MUA MANDATORY RECYCUNG PROGRAM iW6T„wcw g— DIP NOT RESPOND BY MARCH 31 DEADLINE ZI

4We Separate Everything Else; Why Not Trash?

MARMORA — There's a typical family of four here, probably generating two tons of trash a year. But it's also a typical for this county, whose 2 percent recylcing rate is one of the worst in the state. Linda and Donald Pitale and their children, Maria. 11. and John. 7. recycle more than half their trash. One reason could be that she's recycling coordinator for the county MUA. They put out all paper in supermarket bags, all glass separated by color (clear, green and amber), and all aluminum cans (separated from tin and bi metal). Upper Township requires those sorts; the MUA's regional program would not have. "WE SEPARATE everything else in our ■ lives into drawers," said Pitale. "why not I trash? It shouldn't be that challenging

Pitale. 37, is an Atlantic City native whb received her associate degree at Atlantic Community College in 1968 and her BA in education at Glassboro in 1970. After several years in teaching, she moved to Cape May County in 1975. Her husband is a righf-a-way agent for NewJersey Bell. She came to the MUA as a recycling education intern in February. 1984. and was promoted last May to recycl- , ing coordinator, a part-time position J EVEN WITHOUT mandatory, countywide recycling, there's plenty to do for a recycling coordinator Pitale provides technical assistance to the 13 municipalities that have recycling programs (Only Cape May Point. Dennis Township and Woodbine do not). (Page 4 Please)

j He Chose Via Veneto Local Wine Importer: Trust Your Judgment

By JACK SMYTH SEA ISLE CITY - The Italian wine I scare affected Tom Alberico more than I mo6t people. He makes a living importing I and distributing it. I The Italian reds got a bad press recently I after several Italians died from wine from I Italy's heel, Apulia, which had been forI tified with a lethal dose of methanol to boost the alcohol content and, therefore, the price. Alberico, the county's only wine importer, immediately had some 35 vintages and brands he distributes tested. None was contaminated, and he so advised some 315 customers — restaurants and liquor stores. Although there are other and larger li-

quor distributors in the county. Alberico, 29, imports only Italian wines, through his firm, Alberico Wines, headquartered in McKee City. Its small size also is one of his selling points. ••THE LARGE GUYS have so many products they can't pay attention to a single wine for more than a few days." he explained. Although in business only two years, and employing only four people, Alberico feels he has carved out a niche which is both profitable and fulfilling. "The business has exceeded my expectations so far, and I'm \ery happy with what I have been able to accomplish in a short time," he said. "Being the only link between the pro(Page 20 Please)

special appeal to the two — Middle and Uptownships — that voted "no." "THERE SHOULD BE no doubt that the authority remains committed to recycling." he wrote, and "the concept of a regional recycling plan will be considered again at a future date if additional communities choose to participate ..." And last week the county Planning Board agreed to tell the MUA that mandatory recycling is "still our ultimate goal." /~\N "We will probably reconsider a formal request to the freeholders," Planning Director Elwood Jarmer told 'jthis newspaper. The board voted 7-1 lasl December to ask the freeholders to mandate recycling, but never followed up because Jarmer said the MUA seemed to be moving ahead on its own. — BUT THE MUA ABANDONED its pro . posed "regional program" (it never emI phasized the word "mandatory "> on April 2 after failure to receive by its March 31 deadline a guarantee of participation bycommunities with 75 percent of the county's trash. I The eight in favor have 60 percent, the : MUA said. They are Cape May, Dennis Township, North Wildwood, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Stone Harbor, West : Wildwood and Wildwood. WHAT WOULD mandatory recycling have required of the individual? Separation of paper, glass and metals' from the trash. All paper — newspapers, mail, your child's C-plus paper in geography — would be plunked into a brown paper bag, the * kind one receives at the grocery store. All glass — any kind, any color, and, despite scare stories, with labels intact — would go into a second bag or container All metal cans — tin. aluminum, or bimetal (steel sides) with aluminum tops — into a third bag. For the typical family of four, the MUA said, this would amount to about 60 percent of its trash. THE MUNICIPALITY would have collected the recyclables and taken them to a proposed MUA $933,000 intermediate proi cessingfjjeitity^ IPF) adjacent to its landfill iirWoodbine. A f that plant, the MUA would have prepared the recyclables for market. Glass would have been separated by color, washed (which removes labels), and crushed into cullet that sells for about $10 more a ton than the bottles the (Page 69 Please)

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