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CUPBOARD
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"small tdken of
appreciation*' for those
whom Johnson jcaJIed "the
backbone of tWl Organization."
/ ,,
He aid thtf needs could
not be met Without outpouring
of helpsfaim the
churches,' swvloi arrtkdvie
associations, Individuals,
schools and the dry.
Johnson also described
the ups and downs of oper-
ation, noting that in May,
the cupboard almost ran
out of food.
"We're in good shape to
stirt this year, on. - U Better
than last year," he said. But
he spoke cautiously about
the local economy. **No one
knows about, die financial
situation,"
DUNE
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It was the most ridiculous
flung," she said. "The
one end of the loader was
in the watfr where the tide
was coming in while the
other end was removing the
dune."
The dune was removed at
the request of one of flu
owners of a duplex at 2805
Wesley Ave.
According to City
Administrator Richard
Deaney, a long-standing
dry policy allowed a 20-foot
path between the bulkhead
and the dunes to be maintained,
and as a public service
city crewi would
remove the sand at property
ownes request
"Mayor Nickolas Trofa
rescinded Aat policy Monday
pending a meeting
with the Department of
Environmental Protection's
Bureau of Coastal Regulations
Supervisor Mark
Acknowledging that
some people have abused
the system, Johnson said
they now nave a computer
mat wUl help Bit volunteers
stem this problem.
Guests at the luncheon
included Ocean City Mayor
Niefcelas Trofa, who told
group the Community
CtkpbQard Is the only outside
agency he recom-.
ided the city help fund
ing dty trucks for ftanspprHpg
foodstuffs donated
by offshore supermarkets
and agencies. Recently,
with use of a buck, the cupboard
was able to bring
back 40 extra crates of food
from an area market,
Veterans Day
events readied
Here is a rundown of the various Veterans Day ceremonies
being sponsored in our arm -
OCEAN CITY — Service honoring all veterans
A thought-provoking world
premiere continues at SJRTj
BjEDWISMER Is often confused with his
late wife), is admirably and
purple shadows presages
each of Walters mini
strokes.
Comments from several
Mike Geller, the new
argu- people who have seen the
president of the Ecumenical begins J0:30 I A Monday at Veterans Memorial Park,
play an indicative of the
CbuncU, which oversees the 6th Street and Wesley Avenue.
SJRT's Gateway Theatre
that mind set of local audiences.
cupboard's operation, was
along the bay in Semen
next fiscal year,
introduced and outgoing SEA ISLE CITY — Parade starts 11 am Monday at Point.
"People flunk Ocean City president Dot McQuaid VFW hall, CM Street and Kennedy Boulevard, down The weather was turbu- a review
is wealthy, an oasis, but we was flunked for her sewe. Kennedy to the Veterans of AU Wars Memorial founlent along the waterway
\
have needy here," said
Dandng The Box Step runs through Nov. 17 at South
tain at Landls Avenue for brief service.
and so was the drama. The
Trofa, noting the local wel- It was also announced
Jersey Regional Theatre, Bay Avenue, Somers Point.
story unfolded with humor
fare assistance account was flat proceeds from the dty
Performance times: Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, 8
UPPER TOWNSHIP—Ceremony starts 9 a.m. Mon- of the variety to be found p.m.; Friday, Saturday, 830 p.m.; matinees Wednesday
at $40,000 in the red this workers' Festival of
day, Nov. 11 at flie VFW post on Lyndhunt Avmue in even In the deepest tragedy. at 1 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Call 653-0553.
year. He lauded me cupFriends,
scheduled Satur-
Manriora.
It is tale oft repeated these
board for the aid it provides day, Nov. 16 at the recre-
days.
to the needy of the dty. ation complex, 6th and
Johnson thanked Trofa Atlantic, will go to the
SOMERS POINT — Gathering begins 11 sun. Raymond (John Thomas vived and by doing so is a The acting Is superb and the
for his assistance In provid- Community Cupboard,
Monday at the Veterans Memorial next to Old Ory Waitc). makes contact wfth reproach to his father. play is thought provoking
Hall on Shore Road. Refreshments will follow at flie his elderly and estranged Katharine Hepburn but an evening of unrelent-
VFW post on Bethel Road.
father In order to commit recentty uM, "old age is ing gloom is not what the>-%
the ailing widower to a not for sissy*B."Qne gets the came for. In a word, mosr
Mauriello early m Decem- Trofa said on Tuesday the COURT HOUSE — Services begin 2 pjm. Monday, nursing facility. Raymond Ida froin mis play that local playgoers wish to be
ber.
sand dunes were the ay's Nov. 11 at flie Cape May County Veterans Cemetery, is the surviving sibling who coping wifli the complexi- entertained, not taught.
Deaney confirmed the best protection torn the Crest Haven Roai"
went north to Canada while ties of life at any age is not To overbalance, me sea-
dry crew removed accumu- flood, and said that is why
his brother stepped on a duck soup.
son with so much, 'serious
lated sand on Wednesday, he changed the policy.
mine in "Nam.
Walter has another major art," is looked upon as self-
but it was not a dune The bulkhead where the
Mark Hammer plays the problem — guilt He knows indulgent
because it did not have sand was removed was
curmudgeonly father like
Musical this weekend
deep down mat he has Still. Dancing The Box Step
plants and was not built by breached during flie storm
VVUford Brinuey with burnt wronged Raymond. He is a Is worm an evening of your
dune fencing,
last week, partly flooding
oatmeaL
World War rivet who expe- time.
The meeting between some yards but not damag- Show Makers staging 'Into the Woods' His constant rejection of rienoes the guilt of the sis- It is an opportunity to se»«
Mauriello, die dty adminising flie houses,
LINWOOD — Stephen taker's wife, Jack and theRaymond,
even to giving vlvor. This makes him all some excellent acting and"*
tration and the dry Public Deaney admitted flie tim- Sondhelm's award-winning Beanstalk, the handsome dead brother Kevin's iden- too willing to feed the nexn-as much as it may hurt,
Works Department is suping of the sand removal as musical, Mo the Woods willprince
and Rapunzel in a tity to die survivor, seems generatJon into the crucible think.
posed to help dear up what less than ideal.
be staged by the Show Mak- mulMayered plot which ends to be a guilty reaction to Msof
war.
Oh yes, don't miss Chris
the regulations are pertain- He said the house where ers, Theatre G^d m thehappily
In Art One. In Art unequal handling of the He keeps reiterating that Daly's bit as the delivery
ing to sand dunes- flie sand is removed has Mainland Regional High Two, previous aeHons come brothers since childhood. the dam son "paid the boy at the climax. The con-
Interviewed yesterday, riparian rights, and there- School auditorium this week- home to roost with a ven- Sometimes it seems to be a price," to the aid he wonfusion about the food pro-
Mauriello said mat while fore has the right to remove end.geance.
result of the fatheir's ders Just what he paid for. vides some much needed
technically the dry's action flie dune.
The cast includes Charles repeated episodes of eardlo- The play forces the audi- levity.
on Wednesday could jeop- He said the dty has been
This fast offering of flie lihriryi, who narrates the vascular accidents — ence to rethink old
ardize state (aid for beach taken to court by some
Guild's 34th theatre season is tale; Tom Presti and Mark described, at one point, as a premises and orthodox atti-
replenishment, he feels it isowners
who wanted to pre-
directed by Ccnstanoe One-
Two-day rummage
Leggieri as the two princes; cerebral traffic jam. tudes mat have been found
better to clear up the policy vent dunes on their propman
and is scheduled for 8 Emmanuel Bailey is the big Walter, the father, has wanting. The humor is sale at church
rather man punish die dty. erty and who won.
pm Nov. 8 and 9; also 2 tad wolf; and characters hidden his mini strokes as often gallows humor didt- 9QMEBS POINT — The
The only thing that has
pm. Nov. 9 and 10. Sharon Levlne, Patricia well as other things from big self-conscious laughter United Methodist Church of
He said according to state changed is that the dry will Mo the Woods is a musical Dunmte, Jean Mine, Paul Raymond (Walter also has a laced with Httemess. Somers Point, Bethel Scad at
guidelines, mere is no dif- no longer help those own- Wry tale interweaving a Utts, Normal Steinthal, ladv friend/companion The set is minimalist and Damn Ave,, will hold a rumference
between accumuas who want accumulated hilarious mix of Cinderella, Salena Cramer, Genine Jezyc- whom he met in the drug- spare while the lighting mage ode 10 am, to 4 pjn.
lated sand and a sand dune. sand removed.
stepmomer and gtep-sisterg, ki, Barbara Price and Dodie store).
changes are evocative of tomorrow and 10 am. to 2
little Red Riding Hood, the Peronacc.
AHoe, me "Mend" (who mood changes, A Jumble of pm Saturday. Nov. &-9.
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Thufsday, Novtmber 7,1991
A memory from May as Veterans Day approaches
. ByJOHNANDRUS
I'm balanclne myself
against the wind and the
ship's forward momentum
on the O4 deck of the USS
Ford. We're a day out of
Pearl Haibor enroute to
Long Beach, Calif and the
sun has just dipped below
the horizon. Except for a
I couple of peeks through
breaks In the clouds, It will
be the last time we see sun*
shine until we sail through
the Queen's Gate.
The 04 deck is the roof
of the bridge. Below me the
captain and officers of the
deck are guiding this 453foot
guided missile frigate
the " =
patched last spring to drive
Saddam Hussein's Iraqi
troops out of Kuwait Now
homebound, the men of the
Ford along with those
aboard the USS Missouri,
which we were escorting,
are due a heroes' welcome.
As the wind whips
through my hair and I gulp
in the sea air, I think how
strange this whole thing is.
Here I am, a "country journalist,"
looking out at the
"Mighty Mo* as the huge
battleship slices through the
Padfic, her famous 16-inch
guns covered for the time
being. Later we would get
to see the 16-inchers fire. It
The USS ftwrf(FFG-54) is a 6-year-old guided rrissile frigate, the 48th ship of the
was aboard mis fighting
Giver Hazard Pftry class. At the «mt, she was under the eomnind of a^fwrnsr Ocean
C^ Hh School rtidinl, WHam W, Spew, whose mother, grandmefter, aunt and
patrolled the gulf as part of
^ ^ ^ ^ ^g % m(OT taportat have thought I would
spot where Gen, Kfac^iur fc, mta oeoslon, unde of Weed get to take an ocean
and military force dls
• Cam. William R, fcotte cruise? Communiqf journalcommanding
officer of the••"
***'* *• W
JW, Byron and I are on a
n ^ ouise. Thart Navy
lingo for a pubUc retanoni
cruise in which Ae dvlllan
fcmlly and friends of Navy
men have me opportunity
to ship out together.
Capt Spo», at the time a
• commander, is below me in
fte captain's chair on the
bridge, guiding this computerized
frigate. He's surrounded
by a handful of
officers and enlisted men,
one of whom Is actually
steering the vessel using a
wheel on the control panel
mat is about the size of a
ginger snap.
The "Mghty Mo" les off the port beam of the Fotdm the two vessels maneuver Irto The tiny wheel for a 3800
refusing posfflon In the South Pacific.
0 refueling ship which left people are doing and a day after day, night after
Pearl with us on May 6 and sense of patriotism mat rannight
from behind sand-
wUl continue a few days only be achieved when you bagged decks, never know-
until altering course along a see in close quarters how ing if they would make it to
more northerly route for men and machine function chow at the end of their
her homeport in Washing- in organized fashion for the watch, let alone home. And
ton state.
there's the Mighty Mo,
During our crossing, fte
whose giant guns softened
Ford refuels with flie Sacra-
Saddam, and which I am
mento and with the Missou-
late
ri That's an experience.
You've never seen waves
and the rush of water until
you've seen how they are
kicked up as two vessels
dose in on one another, the
effect being something like
squeezing water between
two sheets of glass In a vertical
position.
Commemoratlvft patch
My experience Is like
marks the 50m anniversary
watching • rerun of Victory
next month of the Japanese
at Sm, especially with me attack on Pearl Haibor. The
Mighty Mo to took out
logo pictures the Arizona
upon (she steamed along as
Memorial,
close as 50 yards during the
defense of our nation.
refueling to as far away as But this was a spedal
the horizon other times). Tiger cruise, and just why
Actually, It was more like that was so kept coming
being an actual part of fte back to me as in rode the
*' lucmnve Navy tradition. I'm sure "bucking bronco" (my
joblnuwwo^d.TOs^ls that's part of the Idea of the description of going into a
outof ml8worid;irsaonce
ta Tiger cruises: to instill pride moderate sea with waves
• ^te» occurrence! by the civilian population breaking over the bow, the
Muding me and ^ron in its military and to let the dean Pacific spray bracing
and c
"Pt- Spotts other public see how their tax my bee as I clench the raildollars
are being spent Ing above the bridge).
are 28 Tigers" or civilians If you ever have an Here I am, standing atop
aboard the Ford, There are opportunity to take a Tiger a naval vessel returning
300 civilians on the Atom* cruise, grab it! You'll come from Desert Storm. The 200
ru 1 don't know how many back with a real apprecia- officers and men below me
are aboard the Sacramento, ation
for what our military took their life in their hands
1 privileged to see fired,
perhaps for the last time (although
she is to return to .
Pearl for fte 50th anniversary
of the attack next
month).
StUl ahead is me heroes*
welcome—a spine-tingling
axnbinitton of ham-blowing,
water-shooting fire
boats; tooting, waving civilian
craft; band-pUying,
cheerleader receptions;
shouting. Waving loved
ones. Adding spontaneity
to the hanecomitig will be
porpoise and tea docks that
seemed to hue fte how as
fte Ford, ahead of fte Mbsouri,
steamed ftiou£^i..fte
Queens Gate, fte center
opening in fte breakwater
at Long Beach, GtfH.
But all of that was ahead.
And behind was Hawaii
(actually Oahu, mostly
Honolulu, specifically Pearl
Harbor). Another mnwal
aspect of this most T""iff"ff*
vacation was a one-way airplane
trip to Hawaii. For
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