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WHAT A VIEW!! 200 East Marina Court, Unit B6, North Wildwood.This spacious one bedroom condo located in the Anglesea area ofNorth Wildwood offers breathtaking water views that can be enjoyedyear round. This top floor condo has had some recent renovationswhich include kitchen, painting, crown molding and recessed light-ing. The most recent renovation is the beautiful bathroom. The condois ready for you to move in. Just bring your toothbrush and beachchair. Definitely worth looking at!! JUST $199,000!!

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BEACHFRONT CONDO IN WILDWOOD CREST. 404 E. DenverAvenue, Unit #301, Wildwood Crest. This unit is located on thethird floor of the FOUR WINDS CONDOMINIUMS and offers fabu-lous ocean views. The spacious condo consists of living roomwith a sleep sofa, galley kitchen, bathroom and private bedroomwith two double beds. This unit can accommodate six people.Other amenities include an elevator, heated swimming pool, mul-tiple sundecks, outside shower, game room for the kids, off-streetparking and on-site rental management. JUST $148,900

BAYFRONT CONDO w/BOAT SLIP. 5206 Lake Road, Unit D, Wildwood. Checkout the beautiful bay views from this top floor condo located in the Marinadistrict in Wildwood. This newly renovated condo consists of three bed-rooms, two full baths, fully equipped kitchen with granite tops, dining areaand a living room with a fireplace and sliders that lead to a spacious deckwhere you can enjoy the bay views. In addition, there is a 30' boat slip withan electric lift. The condo is equipped with gas heat and central air for yearround enjoyment. Other amenities include a common area deck on theground level and off-street parking for two cars. JUST $399,900

GREAT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY. 6409 New Jersey Ave. This newlyrenovated 5 unit complex consists of two separate buildings. The front build-ing contains two 2 BR apartments and one 3BR apartment. The rear buildingcontains two 2BR apartments. There is plenty of common area yard space.All of the apartments are currently rented year round and are equipped withgas heat and central air. The rental income is approximately $4875 a month.In addition the coin-operated common area laundry room generates ap-proximately $200 a month. All units are separately metered. JUST $567,500

BEACH BLOCK CONDOMINIUM W/SPECTACULAR OCEAN VIEWS.507 East 7th Ave., Unit #2, North Wildwood. Exquisite 3BR, 2BAfurnished condo in a complex of only 5 units. This is the top eastend condo that is entered from the side through a pretty courtyardentry path surrounded by lush seashore plants and landscaping.The floor plan is bright and open offering a wide living room withcathedral ceiling, gas fireplace and sliders to the private sundeck,dining room and kitchen with new granite counter/bar with stools.In addition there is a two car garage with a storage room. Great forentertaining and extra guests. Located in a desirable area in NorthWildwood...just steps away from beach. JUST $449,000

MONEY MAKER WITH LOTS OF OPTION. 121-125 West 25th Ave.,North Wildwood. This six unit complex located in North Wildwood isa fabulous investment opportunity. The four buildings are situated ona 90x100 parcel and consist of two duplexes and two cottages thatare all separately metered for gas and electric. All but two of the unitshave been fully renovated. There are two 3 BR units and four 2 BRunits. All units are currently rented and gross approximately $72,000a year. The property is virtually maintenance free. Amenities includeoff-street parking for 2 cars per unit and an on-site laundry facilitythat generates about $200 a month. This property has endless possi-bilities. Perfect for a condo conversion. JUST $764,900

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 100 East 6th Avenue, North Wildwood.Here’s your chance to own and operate a turnkey restaurant nestledon the highly traveled New Jersey Avenue in North Wildwood. Thefully equipped establishment is currently a seafood restaurant whereyou can eat-in or take-out. The restaurant comfortably seats 48inside the delightfully decorated dining room and seats 50 on thebeautifully paved and landscaped outside patio. The possibilities areendless for this year round building that’s equipped with gas heatand central air. JUST $499,000

NORTH WILDWOOD VICTORIAN. 107 West 23rd Avenue, North Wildwood. Thisthree story Victorian home located in a desirable neighborhood in North Wild-wood is situated on a 60x100 lot and offers 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, spaciousliving room, formal dining room, kitchen and breakfast nook. There is a secondset of stairs that leads to the third floor that can easily be converted into twoadditional bedrooms. The oversized front porch is perfect for relaxing whileenjoying the shore breeze. Other features include a 3 car driveway and a fencedrear yard for fun family gatherings. JUST$325,000

JUST LIKE NEW!! 132 West Roberts Avenue, Unit #3, WildwoodThisspacious first floor condo offers 2BR, 2BA, living room and diningarea. Other amenities include washer and dryer, nice size deck, out-side shower and off-street parking. This condo is equipped with gasheat and central air for year round enjoyment. Being sold furnished.JUST $209,900!!

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3/12 Sober St. Patty’s Party & Dance 8-11:30pmN. Wildwood Rec, benefits 12th Step House

3/13 DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIMEbegins!! Don’t forget to spring ahead!

3/13 GIA MARCELLA CHIARELLA BENEFIT1-6pm, Bolero Resort. DJ, Food, Beverage, Prizes!

3/11-13 National Cheerleading ChampionshipWildwoods Convention Center.1.866.52.CHEER. or cheertech.net

3/12 St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Parade. 10th& Atlantic Ave. from City Hall to 1st Ave., NorthWildwood.11:30am 609.522.2955

3/17 Saint Patrick’s Day

3/19 Passport Around the World WildwoodsConvention Center. Girl Scouts. 856.795.1560or www.gscsnj.org.

3/20 Annual Spring Bridal Fair Wildwoods Con-vention Center. Starlight Ballroom,Win A DreamHoneymoon! 609.465.7181 Pre-register atWildwoodsNJ.com, capemaycountychamber.com

3/26-27 13th Annual Ocean Drive Marathon &Health and Fitnes Expo Sat.10am-5pm609.523.0880 or www.odmarathon.org.

3/19 Full Worm Moon 22nd hour, 25th minute.

3/20 First Day of Spring- Vernal Equinox Thedate is significant in Christianity because Eas-ter always falls on the first Sunday after the firstfull moon after the vernal equinox. THE FULLPink MOON is April 18th, thus making EasterApril 24th this year.

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4/2-3 Special Olympics of NJ Spring Sports Fes-tival Basketball Competition. Wildwoods Con-vention Center. Sat: 9 a.m. - 10 p.m., Sun: 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Open to the public and FREE of charge.609.896.8000 or www.sonj.org.

4/2-3 Spring Sports Festival Basketball Competi-tion Wildwoods Convention Center and otherWildwood locations. A multi-day event in which500+ athletes from the Garden State will com-pete in basketball competitions. FREE! Sat: 11 a.m.,Sun: 9 a.m. 609-896-8000 or visit www.sonj.org.

4/5-7 Wildwood Wholesale Gift Show.Wildwoods Convention Center. Wholesale tradeshow only. Tues. - Thurs. 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Fri: 9a.m. - 3 p.m. 508.261.1800.FREE.

4/9-10 Gymnastics Beach ClassicsWildwoods Conv. Center. www.usaigcnj.com.

4/13 Business At The Beach Expo 4-7pmWildwoods Conv. Center. Premier, free network-ing event in the county, attracting over 100 ex-hibitors & attendees. 609.465.7181

4/16 Post Card Show & Open House WildwoodHistorical Society, 3907 Pacific Ave., Wildwood.Free. Refreshments. Post card vendors or otherinquiries call 609.425.5308.

I have found violets. April hath come on,And the cool winds feel softer.

–NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (1806–67)

Bright and chilly, then flakes willy-nilly.A flash of sun, a splash of rain:

Is it spring again?~FARMERS’ ALMANAC

5/4 Wildwood Restaurant Showcase A samplingof some of the Wildwoods’ finest restaurants andspecialty shops. All proceeds benefit theGreater Wildwood Chamber of Commerce Foun-dation and area high school students. Locationto be determined. 6pm - 9pm. 609.729.40005/5-7 Tall Cedars Convention Wildwoods Con-vention Center. Parade beginning at 21st andAtlantic Ave., N. Wildwood and proceeds southto Andrews Ave., Wildwood. 717.232.5991

5/5-8 19th Annual East Coast Boardwalk Na-tionals Car Show Cars displayed on theWildwoods Boardwalk from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. onFriday and Saturday. FREE! New this year!Cruise on Pacific Ave., Street Festival on SweetBriar Rd including a drive-in type movie at dusk.609.523.8051 or www.ThunderMoto.com.5/8 Morey’s Piers Mother’s Day Celebration.Celebrate Mother’s Day with the entire family!Mom gets some extra TLC! 609.522.3900 orwww.MoreysPiers.com.

“I love you, Mom.”

5/13-15 Sensational 60s Weekend >>>>>>>5/13-15 Spring Motorcycle Rally.

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4/9 Batter Up! OPENING DAYGreater Wildwood Little League

4/16 ECC Shore Showdown.Beast of the East.Cheer Tech Competition.Wildwoods Convention Center. 1.866.52.CHEER

4/17 “Beast of the East” Cheerleading Compe-tition Wildwoods Convention Center.866.52.CHEER or www.CheerTech.net.

4/18 PASSOVER

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4/21-23 War at the Jersey Shore Youth Wres-tling Wildwoods Convention Center.856.642.7592 or wwwsjwrestling.com.

4/23 Elks Egg Hunt. on the beach at 17th Ave.NWW. Noon. 609.729.5776

4/23 Jaycees Egg Hunt. on the beach at LincolnAve. Noon. Find the Golden Egg! 729-5501

4/24 EASTER SUNDAY for Churches on the is-land, see page 32.

“The name of JESUS is the one leverthat lifts the world.” -ANON.

4/24 Resurrection "Son” Rise Service 6:15am.Hereford Lighthouse Gazebo, 1st & CentralAve., North Wildwood 609.522.2951

4/24 Morey’s Piers Easter Opening Day Celebra-tion! Fun for the kid in all of us! Easter Egg Huntfor the little ones! Easter Bunny arrives atMorey’s Piers. www.MoreysPiers.com

4/28-5/1 Tournament of Bands Indoor Champi-onships. Wildwoods Convention Center856.935.4940 or www.njatob.org

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"A late Easter, a long cold spring."~FRENCH PROVERB

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Thank-full for Spring!

DorothyArtist, Editor, and PublisherThe SUN by-the–sea, WILDWOOD, NJ

Where did I leave you? Oh yes, I was standing in the midst of December bliss, sketchingbeams of morning yellow light coming through the juniper tree just outside my kitchenwindow. Chocolate chip cookies were baking in the oven, the ones that called fordried cranberries and walnuts and dear friends over coffee or tea. Winter peace wassettling in.

Interludes of quiet time are essential to our lives if we are to be productive. I am a bigfan of ‘productive.’ My winter agenda... less computer, more reading. My little dogsliked to hear that, since sharing my lap to nap while I read is their favorite pastime. Mywinter book... “A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are~ One Thousand Gifts” byAnn Voskamp. She too, wishes to live the life that God has given her well and to thefullest. “How,” she wondered, “do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, dramaand daily duties?” This is my winter lesson. And spring, summer and fall. Thankfulnessand counting gifts is the way to joy. Ann says, “There is a way to live the big of givingthanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments willadd up.”

In this contemporary, techo world of connectedness, we rarely go anywhere withoutour cellphones, ipods or laptops. We may have become slaves to the very machinesthat were created to simplify our lives. God must have known how difficult of a task itwould be for us to learn to redeem the time. He stresses in the Bible to “number ourdays” (PSALM 90:12) and reminds us how “short our time here is.” Limiting the flow ofinformation into our lives in order to preserve our times of quiet, allows our eyes tocatch the simple beauty in everyday life. A glimpse into heaven on earth.

As I revisit my computer, in the still of this gray January hibernation, I’m struck with thedisappearance of my three winter months. They have vanished one day at a time, sun-rise to sunset. Before long, we will be drifting into the excitement of Wildwood Spring-time. Our island comes back to life, in all colors. I am recharged, renewed and readyto bring you an abundance of Sun-drenched pages overflowing with all that is good inour little seashore town.

Be a ‘tech-No’ and just say no. Disconnect, if just for a little while. Enjoy each momentfor they will quickly become a memory. Count your blessings beginning with eachgrain of powdery white sand between your toes. And, in essence, don’t ever let thecounting stop.

*”For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time, and thenvanishes away.” (JAS. 4:14)

“All we have to decide is what todo with the time that is given us.”

~J. R. R Tolkien

LouAnn Catanoso • Meg Corcoran • Alison Heller • Anita Hirsch • Bob Ingram • Josh KinneySteve Murray • Joe Russo • Gary Sloan • Patti Sparks • Anne Vinci • Jessica Westerland • Danielle Wilson

"I would maintain that Thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." — G.K. Chesterton

FIVE MILES OF SMILES~photos galore! Pages 18, 21, 26, 30, 33, 36, 43

SPRINGTIME IN THE WILDWOODSby Steve Murray Pages 8

WILDWOOD NOSTALGIA & RECIPESby Anita Hirsch Page 10

BEYOND PURPLE PASSION by Jessica Westerland Page 12

BEACH SWEEPING with Jessica Westerland Page 14

BERNIE’S ARMYby Joe Russo Page 15

WILDWOOD HISTORIC SOCIETYBLAST FROM THE PAST!

by Anne Vinci Pages 16-17

OPENING DAY THE MOREY WAYby Alison Heller Page 20

Hoffman Agency “What’s Hot!”Centerfold

WILDWOOD CATHOLIC CLASS OF 1960by Patti Sparks Page 24

A DAIRY THAT HASN’T SPOILED/INTERVIEW WITH BOB NERIby Josh Kinney Pages 28-29

YOUR 2011 PHILLIESby Danielle Wilson Page 30

CHURCHES ON THE ISLANDMCCOY’S GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

by Meg Corcoran Page 32

ALWAYS IN MY HEART ~ FITZby LouAnn Catanoso Page 34

CHUCKIE VANQUISHES HAPPY WARRIORby Bob Ingram Page 38

MOVIE BUFF GOES TO HOLLYWOODby Meg Corcoran Page 40

THIS OLD “LOVE SHACK”by Meg Corcoran Page 41

CAPT. GARY SLOAN FISHING Page 41

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can stay connected to the Sun.  I lookforward to reading it every summer whenwe vacation in Wildwood Crest in July.  Ire-read it the rest of the summer to remind

me of our time there.  Thank you for awonderful newspaper!

~ REBECCA BASS

I know you hear this all the time but I lovethis newspaper! I get excited for theSpring issue every year. The paper

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As a youngster, seeing summer end and leav-ing my grandparents house in North Wild-wood was the saddest time of the year. Soonthough, there was more than enough to dowith the new school year and a hundred otheractivities back home. Thoughts of my Wild-wood summers soon just faded away (for thetime being) without notice.Six months later after thelong, bleak, dragging monthsof January and February,came March and the arrivalof spring. Once again,thoughts turned back to theshore.Easter marked thereawakening of theWildwoods from its long hi-bernation. (At least on theweekends until MemorialDay). Everyone in my familycame down to North Wild-wood for the Easter weekend.If we drove in on North Wild-wood Blvd., the rattle andrumble of the Beach CreekBridge let me know we wereback for sure. If we came invia Rio Grande, the smell ofthe Menhaden plant, eventhrough closed windows, alsolet me know we were near.There were dozens of otherfamiliar sounds, sights andsmells - the salt meadows,seagulls, the roar of theocean - all were a welcometo the senses.My grandmother startedcooking Easter dinner earlySunday morning and thosewonderful aromas made itdifficult to leave the house for church. On the1/2 mile walk back home from church (kidsstill walked back then) it was more great odors(and sounds) that got my attention. The board-walk was in operation again!I’d call a couple of local friends as soon as Igot home and we would rush up to spend sometime on “the boards”. Families were still alldressed up in their best in those days on Eas-ter, but us kids just got into our street clothes.The first stop was always Macks Pizza (25¢ aslice). Next, the rides on Hunts Pier and thenon to the Casino Arcade. The bumping carsthere were my favorite but they never seemedto go as fast or “bump” as hard as I’d like. Iguess most kids still feel that way.We always had to play some skee ball ofcourse. I’d win a bunch of coupons and putthem together with the pocket full I had savedand brought along from last year. I was rich Ithought - should get some valuable “majoraward”. When I went up to redeem themthough, it was usually a cheap ashtray or abackscratcher. It didn’t matter, it was fun andwe would still feed those machines all ourdimes the next time up.

Springtime in the WildwoodsEven with the great Easter dinners waiting forus at home we still had to have a sampling ofboardwalk “junk food” - soft pretzels, KohrBrothers custard and Nates hotdogs (4 for $1).I loved this weekend but I kept in mind all theupcoming ones would be work trips for my

entire family. My grandparentshad 3 apartment buildings andit took a lot of effort by every-one to get those old placesready for summer rentals. Ilearned how to use a paintbrush at about 7. (No oneforced me - I just wanted tohelp). The problem was, nomatter how much care youtook, an old house at the sea-shore had to be repainted justabout every year. My grand-father always said, “when youcome to Wildwood they handyou a paint brush and yearslater when its time to leave thisearth, you still have it in yourhand”.Each weekend we came downit was a little bit warmer andmy desire to go fishing keptgrowing. I always convincedmy dad to take one day off foran early party boat trip. Theproblem was, the only thingusually running at that time ofthe year was mackerel, whichI hated and wouldn’t eat. Heck,it was fishing though.Early April could be really mis-erable out on the water - cold,foggy and choppy seas. Add allof these things together withthe smell of diesel fuel, bait andthe hoagie and chips I had for

lunch - you had a recipe for a very unpleas-ant day to say the least. I have a few memo-ries of return trips, just sitting below deck withmy face in my hands.Each weekend I would always try to do a littlebeach combing, especially after a storm. Youcould still find pieces of old shipwrecks, fish-ing floats and tackle, beach glass and unusualshells like sand dollars. Once they started toclean the beaches so thoroughly, (to preventinjuries & lawsuits) this treasure hunting cameto an end. Where can a child find a seashellthese days?We also went to the movies on some of thosespring weekends. Believe or not, Hunts had 2movie theatres open year round and rightacross the street from each other. They werebeautiful, art deco style buildings that showedfirst run films. Hunts had the nicest, best runtheatres I’ve seen anywhere. The Matineeprice for kids back then was .50 - .75 Cents!Eventually it would be Memorial Day and de-spite a couple of weeks of school left, to me,summer had arrived.If I close my eyes I can still smell theCoppertone and Noxema.

1963 Young Steve Murray,Easter Sunday

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the newest book by Anita Hirsch is now available at the Wild-wood and Wildwood Crest Historical Societies. This collec-tion includes her columns which have appeared in The SUN-by-the-sea, which are nostalgia-packed, lavishly illustrated withphotos and includes more than fifty recipes in all.Revisit people and places that make the Wildwoods so special.Read how Wildwood-By-the-Sea came to be: stories of yourfavorite places with more than 250 photos that will take youback to the best times of your youth and your family vacations.Memories of the boardwalk, the beach, the ocean, the sand,sand castles, the tram car, and the food...here is your chanceto revisit your favorite memories of Wildwood-By-The-Sea..

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by Anita Hirsch excerpted from her book"Wildwood-By-The-Sea: Nostalgia and Recipes"

WiLDWOOD by-the-sea:

THE MUSIC OF THE 50S & 60SAND THE MAGNATONES

Thank you to Ed and Jackie Hickman, theWildwood Historical Society, and PaulRusso for help with this article.

JACKIE HICKMAN’S

Chicken Cutlets

1 lb. chicken cutlets4 tbsp. mayo, light4 tbsp. bread crumbs4 tbsp. grated parmesan cheese

Jackie Hickman whose husband Edis part of the Magnatones, says thisis an easy recipe and can be servedwith vegetables, used with pastaand sauce, on a sandwich or cutinto strips and used in a salad.

Slice each cutlet vertically, so theywill be thin. There will be about 6slices. Spray a baking sheet withnon stick spray. Lay the chickencutlets on the baking sheet. Spreada layer of mayonnaise over thechicken. Then sprinkle a layer ofbread crumbs over the top and fi-nally a layer of parmesan overthat. Bake uncovered for 1 1/2hours at 250°. They should benicely crispy on top and slightlybrowned. Check after an hour,they should be ready by then.Yield: 3-6 servings

Wildwood in the summer, especiallyin the fifties and sixties, was theplace to go to hear the best music.All the notable bands and singerscould be found in at least thirty-oneclubs located around Oak and At-lantic Avenues, each featuring adifferent headliner.When Bill Haley came to town withthe Comets in 1954, he played atthe Hofbrau Hotel, where they in-troduced “Rock Around the Clock.”That is now the site of the BeachTerrace Motor Inn where a markerhas been placed on Atlantic Avenueto note that spot.Four other favorite clubs were theMartinique, the Oak Club, the Rain-bow and the Fairview, which fea-tured Sal Masie and the Untouch-ables. The Fifth Dimension ap-peared at the Hurricane, which isnow the site of Luna on Pacific Av-enue.Ginny Wood, a Wildwood native,loved to stop at “her three favoriteclubs” in those days: Phil andEddie’s on Schellenger near Atlan-tic, the Bolero and the Rip Tide.The entertainers would perform inLas Vegas in the winter and cometo Wildwood in the summer. TheTreniers: four brothers who sang,danced, and summered in theWildwoods, recorded “Everything’sWild in Wildwood”.And there was Freddie Bell and theBellboys, Buddy Holly’s Crickets,The Drifters (“What A WonderfulWorld”, “Under The Boardwalk”,and “Take It Back!”), The Coasters(“Yackety Yack”), The Chantels, TheCadillacs, Little Anthony and theImperials, The Dovells, Johnny Mae-stro and the Brooklyn Bridge, thePlatters (remember “Only You”,“Twilight Time”, “Smoke Gets inYour Eyes”, and “The Great Pre-tender”), The Shangri-Las, Joey Deeand the Starlighters ( “PeppermintTwist”), Tommy James and theShondells, the Soul Survivors, theTurtles, the Beach Boy sound of“Help, Help Me Rhonda” and “Cali-fornia Girl”, and Frankie Avalon.“Performing in Wildwood duringthe 1960’s was a great thrill for all

of us,” says Ed Hickman of theMagnatones. “ From our start at theEmerald Room, all the way to LasVegas and back again, it was athrilling ride that could never beduplicated.”The Magnatones still play up anddown the east coast, although thereare a few new members. Theyplayed together at a Fifties Week-end reunion in Wildwood in 2006.The Magnatones originated inGloucester City, New Jersey and allwere in high school. They weretaken under the wing of an ex-Vaudevillian Tommy Tattler, whotaught them how to be profession-als which included how to enter andexit the stage, how to dress and howto dance. A future member of thegroup, Shawn Kelly, their leadsinger, also taught them some“moves”.Tommy Tattler was the one whobooked the Magnatones into theEmerald Room in Wildwood beforeany one in the group graduatedfrom high school. The EmeraldRoom, a classy spot in Wildwood,was part of the Blackstone Hotel.The Magnatones appeared everysummer, seven nights a week fromMemorial Day to Labor Day, foreight years. Ed Hickman remembersthat they celebrated the 16th birth-day of Bobby McCann, the bassplayer at the time, in Wildwood.“We were so young! We couldn’teven drink in the bars that weplayed in”, says Ed. “Even in LasVegas we had to be led by securityup to the stage.”The current Magnatones are EdHickman on sax, Ed Gibson bass,Skip McCarty guitar, Billy Zanedrums and the singer is Jimmy(Pasquarello) Anthony. Some of theold songs they like to play are:“Splish Splash”, “Bristol Stomp”,“Sixteen Candles”, and “In the Stillof the Night”.Now many of these entertainers arecoming back to Wildwoodto perform during the Fabulous Fif-ties and Sixties Weekend. Thefirst ever Wildwood Music Award,created by Paul Russo, owner of

Cool Scoops Ice Cream Parlor, wasgiven to Charlie Gracie in 2004,a Philadelphia native. Charlie pre-sented Chubby Checker withthe second annual Wildwood MusicAward in 2005. Since then therehave been many artists who havereceived recognition: Dee DeeSharp, The Comets, The Orlons, TheDovells, Ed Hurst, The Association,The Archies, The Monkees, DickClark’s Original Bandstand Dancersand many more.A walking tour map is being createdby Paul Russo which will include allof the Wildwood’s historic musicalvenues made famous by those hon-ored by the Wildwood MusicAwards.

Eddie Rossi and Phil Bonelli in front ofPhil and Eddie’s Surf Club

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” ~Oscar Wilde

Charlie Gracie at the Bolero 1958Original Magnatones: rear from left:Billy Zane, Shawn Kelly, and EdHickman, front : Joe Spytek and JimPasquarello.

Magnatones playing in 2006 at a Fifties Weekend, L-R: Skip McCarty guitar, EdHickman on sax, Jimmy (Pasquarello) Anthony singer and Ed Gibson on bass

Bill Haley announcement at HofBrau1953 Appearing at the Rip Tide

The Hurricane, now Luna at Garfield & Pacific Aves.

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“Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.” ~John L. Mason

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Bobbilyn Bradley LOVES the color purple.This may seem like a very plain, or maybe oddway to start an article. You may be wonder-ing, “What kind of beginning is this?” But hon-estly, any more adjectives, punctuation or sup-porting sentences would obscure the fact thatis about to be conveyed to you.Bobbilyn Bradley LOVES the color purple!You may know her already, without knowingher name. If you walk into Shore Styles Salonon Park Boulevard, you will instantly knowwhich station is hers. She has purple combs,brushes, signs, clock, q-tips, cottonballs, nailpolish remover, hair spray, and bottles. Shemay be wearing her purple UGGs, purpleleopard printed shirt, and have purple nails.She will probably be wearing purple jewelryand purple glasses. She could show you herpurple piggy bank, purple marti gras mask,purple sunset photo, purple stuffed animals,and purple phone. You may have seen herdriving around the island in her previouspurple cars, or now in her green car with acompletely purple interior from steering wheelcover and air freshener to seat covers.Yep. A lot of purple right? But how did this allstart? Let’s start at the beginning. Bobbilynwas one of 6 children. She had 4 sisters andone brother, and out of them all she is theonly one that fully inherited her mother’s fond-ness of the color purple. Perhaps it all startedwith her February birth...her birthstone isamethyst and she was brought home from thehospital wrapped in a purple receiving blan-ket! However it began, Bobbilyn has alwaysloved purple, and started collecting at an earlyage. “My mom, [Bobbi Young] started to buyme things, and my sisters and friends wouldbuy me stuff, purple shirts, purple earrings.”Over 30 years later, Bobbilyn is still in lovewith purple, both plain and patterned purple,as well as every shade and every hue.“As soon as I walk into a store it draws meright towards it. I find everything and any-thing [purple]. If I see it, I have to have it,”Bobbilyn laughed. “I will do anything to getit, even bribing someone for the shirt off theirback!”Bobbilyn’s house also pays homage to herpurple obsession. She has a purple couch, rugs,lamps, and bowls with purple potpourri in it.Her kitchen table set is purple, as is her micro-wave, toaster, toilet seat, VCR and laptop. Herdog wears a purple collar, as does her cat. Oneof the few non-purple items she has is her stoveand refrigerator. However, she has her purplepaint on hand to help her in these areas!Think that is a lot of purple? There is still more!Bobbilyn likes purple food as well, both natu-rally purple food like eggplant, and food notnormally purple but oh yes it can be; like purpleOreos, butter, ketchup and icing. The only

purple food she doesn’t like, surprisingly, isgrape soda and lollipops. “I even saved apurple bagel someone gave me; I left it in myrefrigerator until it got all nasty!”Bobbilyn Bradley has been a hairstylist for 21years, and her clients come in asking, “Can Ihave the purple girl?” They bring her purplegifts, from purses, gloves and toys, to purpleelectrical tape. They call her “Purple peopleeater, Barney, Purple Haze, and the PurpleNinja.” Her customers will come into the sa-lon and wear purple, just for her. So not onlydoes she just love the color, but she passes alittle bit of that love to the people around her.Bobbilyn’s love of purple isn’t just a love ofconvenience; she goes to great lengths to geta hold of as much purple as possible! On oneoccasion, while she was cutting a man’s hair,she noticed a truck going by with a purplelounge chair in it. “I yelled ‘Oh my God, apurple lounge chair!’ And a lady [in the shop]went outside and yelled ‘Stop, Stop!’ to thetruck.” The truck did indeed stop, and it turnsout the chair was from a hotel and was on itsway to be thrown out. So Bobbilyn saved herpurple chair, and kindly the man whose hairshe was cutting even offered to throw it in theback of his truck and drop it by her house forher.“It is an obsession, and a love,” Bobbilyn said.“It is a purple passion.”She doesn’t really like any other colors, andshe doesn’t foresee her love of purple dimin-ishing. Many people have loyalties. And lotsof people collect things. But Bobbilyn Brad-ley is a loyal collector and appreciator, ofpurple.

Purple PassionBY JESSICA WESTERLAND

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Sun by-the-sea contributing writer, Jessica Westerland (far right), Captain of Poplar Ave.Beach Sweep for Clean Ocean Action in NJ poses with students from Wildwood High, whovolunteered their time on October 23, 2010. Congratulations to Jessie Westerland & KyleMumford (pictured next to Jess) who were engaged on February 21, 2011

“If everyone just changes a feweveryday habits, they can help maketheir environment a better one. Being“Green” and “eco-friendly” doesn’thave to be scary and take over your

life. It can just be a small part of yourlife. The sea will thank you for it. Like

E. E. Cummings said, ‘It is alwaysourselves we find in the sea.’”

Spring Beach SweepApril 30, 20119:00 - 12:30

The Fall 2010 beach sweep had a great turnout and made a great conclusion to CleanOcean Action’s 25th year of beach sweeps.The top items found were: Straws-=395 Caps/Lids= 283 Beverage/Soda bottles= 215 andCigarette filters= 197Of the 99 categories of trash listed on the cards, only 11 items were not found on Wildwood’sbeach. The oddest things found were a rubber mat from a waterpark, a beach chair, atraffic cone, and a car panel.There were approximately 80 volunteers, who collected 45 trash bags of items. There werelocal couples, families, and students from Wildwood High School (Peer Leaders and ROOTSgroups) All together, we collected approximately 3,453 pieces of trash! A big thanks to allthe people who made it possible, and for such lovely weather!Hope to see you on Poplar Ave. beach bright and early April 23rd!

When people think about Wildwood, mostpeople picture the boardwalk, free beaches,and the night life. The one thing people don’trealize is that as wonderful as the boardwalkis, its close proximity to the beach also meansa lot more trash and debris end up on the sandsand in the water. For this reason, the Wild-wood beach sweep is especially important, sowe can help keep the beaches clean for manymore great memories to be made.Wildwood has a large population in the sum-mer, but during the rest of the seasons thereare mostly only locals on the island. To seegroups of locals come out to help their home,to help keep the environment that they enjoyeveryday clean, makes me really proud.This past fall, out of the 94 different items listedon the trash item score cards, only 8 items werenot found on our beach. It is shocking to real-ize how many different types of trash arefound just within several blocks. When youthink about how many different ways thattrash can harm the balance of thesea and the creatures within it, it really lendsa sense of importance to picking up trash offof the beach.It truly is the volunteers that make the beachsweep successful, and I am so thankful for ev-eryone that comes out and helps keepWildwood’s beaches beautiful and safe formarine life! ~Jessica Westerland

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I WAS A LOYAL SOLDIER

During the winter of 1974-75, my senior yearat Wildwood High School, I had the honorand privilege of being a member of the var-sity basketball team as the equipment man-ager. It was an exciting time at WildwoodHigh that year. Bernie McCracken was com-ing back to reassume the head coaching du-ties of the basketball team after a two-yearhiatus. During his previous tenure he hadwon a handful of South Jersey titles and twostate championships, so expectations wererunning high throughout all of Wildwood.Aside from being a knowledgeable coach,Bernie was a strict disciplinarian and he ex-pected his players to be prompt and readyto practice at the assigned time. I once hearda player remark that, “if you were shootingaround when he blew the whistle to startpractice, he expected you to stop in midair.”In my capacity as manager I was also sub-ject to the same code of discipline and I wasmore than willing to do what it took to helphim maintain his winning program. Even ifit was only to take the uniforms to getcleaned.“Here, take my car,” Coach McCracken saidto me one afternoon. “Drop the uniformsoff at Stokes’ Laundry and we’ll pick themup tomorrow.”Practice ended and I went home, ate dinner,did my homework, and then called my friendDan. I was standing in the hallway by thekitchen, as far as the cord would reach (forall of you young readers, phones were at-tached to cords back then) when I stuck myhand in my pocket and came up with astrange set of car keys. All of the blood

drained from my head and I weakly blurtedto Dan, “I gotta go!”I plotted my route while in full sprint to mycar: Ocean Avenue all the way toSchellenger (no lights), to Atlantic, to SurfAvenue, to the McCracken house on 3rdStreet. My assumption was that thereshouldn’t be a police presence down by thebeaches in the dead of winter, so I couldkeep my foot pinned the entire way. Mymind’s eye showed the angry coach sittingin a dark, empty gym silently plotting mymurder. I quickly decided to swing by theschool just in case I could bail him out be-fore he had a chance to put his plan intomotion.Fortunately, the gym was dark so I turnedback around and resumed my stealth route.At last I reached 3rd Street, pulled up to thehouse with a screech, bounded out of thecar, and was met at the door by a smilingcoach McCracken.“Coach, I am so sorry,” I sputtered.“Hey, Joe, it’s nice of you to remember me,”he said with a laugh. “Come on in and havea soda-pop.”I accepted his invitation with great relief.“You didn’t have to come up here,” he said.“Kitty picked me up.”I stayed for over one hour, shared a pop andsome laughs over my absent-mindedness andthen said goodnight. I returned to my carand found that it was still running with thedriver’s door wide open.Then I drove home (within the speed limit).

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Between the years of 1962 and 1976, we hada local publication called SHOUT. For thosethat don’t remember, it was a tabloid news-paper that showcased all the entertainmenton the island. Within the past year or so,we were gifted with bound copies of the pub-lication thanks to its publisher, Dennis Grant.It was our intention to have the papersscanned and put on a disk so that we wouldhave a permanent record of this informationfor research purposes that would be avail-able to our visitors. It took some time, butwe were fortunate enough to find a few gen-erous benefactors, and our project has al-most reached fruition. In fact, I was in themiddle of proofing the disk and it broughtback such great memories.During the week of August, 1965, the Rip-tide Club booked “Mr. Rhythm and Blueshimself, Fats Domino, plus the hilarious com-edy team of Fisher and Marks.” The articlewent on say that “Fats, who composes manyof his own hits, gets his titles from colloquialexpressions such as ‘Ain’t That a Shame,’‘Poor Me’, and ‘I’m In Love Again.’ Duringthat same week, the Surf Club booked BobbyRydell. The SHOUT paper described him asa “fair-hair young star with a whiplash formand a lusty voice.”In another SHOUT issue, area historian,Charles V. Mathis said “Anglesea, with itsacres of free parking, is still an after darkMecca of the Jersey Cape.” He was toldthat “during prohibition, Anglesea wasknown as ‘Little Mexico.’ Things were so con-genial that the police would escort imbibershome so no harm would befall them. BudMoore laughingly recalls when Moore’s In-let had break-away bars. These were bro-ken down and trundled away when the po-lice were en route. They were just as hur-riedly reassembled when the ‘men in blue’had departed.” Coincidentally, I just came

across an old postcard of Moore’s Inlet dur-ing the early 40s. It was a hotel and café,and in the rear of the establishment, it hada dock for deep-sea fishing boats. Also, Icould not let this time go by without remem-bering “the lady of the house, ” Doris Moore,who passed away a few months ago.   I haveknown Mrs. Moore for over 40 years,and always  knew her to be of remarkablespirit, fabulous style, and the most beautifulsmile.  This fine lady will be sadly missed.A SHOUT article that caught my interest was“All Star Benefit Set Monday, August 17.”Making final arrangements were Msgr. M.Augustine Crine, Cozy Morley, Co-Chair-woman, Mrs. Peter Yecco, MickeyShaughnessy and the Rev. Joseph F.O’Connell. It wasn’t until the early 80s thatI became involved in that particularfundraiser along with some other hard-work-ing ladies by the name of Dotty Ranisewski,Pat Callanan, and Diane Brannen. We wereall officers of St. Ann’s PTA and it was ourjob to get this event together. It was held atConvention Hall. Cozy Morley hosted it forus for many years, and most of the enter-tainers that were appearing that week woulddash over to the Hall and do part of theiract during their intermissions. It drew lots oflocals and summer tourists alike, and en-abled our PTA to pay for such things as theblack top in the school yard, the fencearound the yard, and carpeting in the school.Of course, we always had our small chil-dren in tow, and it got to the point whereDotty’s youngest son and my daughter coulddo Cozy’s “shtick” without missing a beat.Hard work, but fun times and good memo-ries!Until next time . . . . . be happy and be well!

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A Blast From the Past!PHOTOS COURTESY OF WILDWOOD HISTORIC SOCIETY

Dominick CologeroWCHS 1967

“I was so much older than, I’m younger than that now.” ~Bob Dylan

Louis GoldWHS 1973

Andrea MonzoWHS 1980

Alice AndersonWHS 1970

Michael SavinoWHS 1960

Bruce HillWHS 1983

Ed IllingworthWHS 1981

James RobinsonWHS 1960

Margaret WadeWCHS 1975

Lisa RussoWHS 1976

Karen BoehmWCHS 1975

Fred EchevarriaWHS 1966

“Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.

Remind me that my days are numbered,how fleeting my life is.

You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.My entire lifetime is just a moment to you;

AT BEST, EACH OF US IS BUT A BREATH.”~psalm 39:4-6

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December 2010 ~ On the first Wednesday of every month the senior citizensgroup “Forever Young” of Notre Dame de la Mer Parish in the Wildwoodsgather at the Knights of Columbus for a meeting, lunch and a movie, usuallyfor a small fee.For December’s meeting, however, the seniors received a complimentary holi-day treat from the Greater Wildwood Municipal Alliance who hosted theevent. A lecture by Rev. Carrie Williams was presented to the group on Howto Avoid Holiday Stress. The seniors were served a delicious lunch by Wild-wood Catholic High School’s Peer Leadership students.Some of the other programs that the Greater Wildwood Municipal Alliance supports areDARE, After Prom Parties, People of Purpose, All Star Peers, Peer Leadership, which areprograms that encourage students to pledge alcohol and drug free lifestyles and to providecommunity service projects, MMS Mentor/Buddy, Forest Friends/Sea Life which teaches re-siliency, self-esteem and coping skills to kindergarteners.They are an organization that focuses on the prevention of substance abuse and has beenin operation for 12 to 13 years. Statewide, they offer thousands of drug and alcohol pre-vention programs. The funding for these are derived from fines that are levied upon peopleconvicted of drug offenses.

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“We will not be feeding our actorsvery much, so they should be inmuch fouler moods this season.

In fact, ‘acting’ may be too strong a

term for what they’ll be doing.

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“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.” ~Ronald Reagan

As the sun slowly breaks through the seemingly eternal greyof winter, Wildwood residents rub their eyes and roll uptheir sleeves in anticipation of another wild season. Neonlights buzz then flare up island-wide. Ice cream trucks dustoff their coolers and test their familiar jingles. Slowly, hotelpools all over town are prepped for cannonballs and splash-ing with refreshing chlorinated water.

At Morey’s Piers, all levels of staff anticipate opening day.The Events Team began planning as soon as last seasonended. They spent the off-season researching, planning andmarketing. The Wild Half, a new half marathon event thattakes runners 13.1 miles along the boardwalk and throughthe island to a beach finish, has been nearly two years inthe making.

“It takes a lot of coordination. The Wild Half runs throughfour cities and we needed approvals from five differentmunicipalities, but we did it! Everyone is excited and readyto showcase the Wildwoods in a whole new way,” said NickLassor, Beach Sports Manager.

Morey’s Piers also hosts the Beach Blast Soccer and BeachLacrosse Tournaments.

“With close to 20,000 people at the first soccer tournamentalone, you can imagine how much planning it takes to orga-nize and pull together all the resources to make it happen,”Lassor said.

The Maintenance Department gets busy reassembling therides. Freshly painted carousel horses leave their winterstables and are bridled back on their rotating platform. The

Giant Wheel, which looks like a wide mouth missing a fewteeth over the winter, regains a refurbished grin.

With the arrival of “it”, a new ride that will send guestsspinning, swinging and soaring over 65 feet into the Wild-wood sky, the maintenance crew has manuals to memorizeand parts to assemble. Before “it” is ready for it’s maidenspin, they’ll know every piece of the ride inside and out andensure it passes all inspections and meets the safety regula-tions.

Ghost Ship Manager Terry O’Brien anticipates a more fullyimmersive experience for those brave enough to enter theIgnus Fatuus. With new visual affects, some physical changesto the ship itself, and the help of award-winning costumeand make-up designers Keith Lambert and Ruby Muro, theGhost Ship may be more about survival than entertainment.

“We will not be feeding our actors very much, so they shouldbe in much fouler moods this season. In fact, ‘acting’ may betoo strong a term for what they’ll be doing. ‘Dying to es-cape’ may sum it up better,” said O’Brien of his nearlyundead crew.

Back at the waterparks, it requires 1.5 million gallons ofwater to ready all the slides and the thousand-foot stretchof each lazy river.

“It takes almost a month to fill all the pools at both beachfrontwaterparks. The rivers alone take two or three days each tofill,” said George Rohman, Operations Manager at OceanOasis Waterpark and Beach Club. “And, of course, thereare several hundred inner-tubes to inflate-and no, we don’tblow them up ourselves, fortunately! We use an air com-pressor.”

Then there are the lounge chairs, trashcans and umbrellasto be cleaned, filtration and chemical treatment systems tobe brought on line and, of course, thorough safety inspec-tions before permits can be issued and the parks are readyfor the public to enjoy.

Maggie Warner, Operations Manager of Raging WatersWaterpark looks forward to filling the roster with a newand diverse team of lifeguards, guest services associates andpark services staff.

“As long as Mother Nature does her part this summer, wevow to do our part in creating a fun and unique experiencein an exceptionally clean and safe environment,” saidWarner.

The entire staff at Morey’s is excited for an incredible 2011season packed with old traditions and new additions.

“I’m looking forward to seeing the boardwalk full of lights,sounds and people,” said Lassor. “It’s been a long winter!”

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After months of preparation, Tony Luke’s owners Nicky Luke and Mike Vicario didn’tknow what to expect when they finally opened their doors that chilly Black Fridaymorning. It was the off-season, when large gatherings aren’t typically expected in ourtranquil hamlet. It was also the day after Thanksgiving, the feast of all holidays. Tur-key Day has nothing on Tony Luke’s, apparently, because after months of shore loversanticipating the best Philly style cheese steaks and roast pork sandwiches, the lineswere naturally wrapped around the corner of SweetBriar and New Jersey Avenues inWildwood Crest. The friendly staff, including their hardworking Shark friend, happilyserved a famished steady stream of customers from early morning that typical- holiday-shopping day, until their fresh-baked rolls ran out around 4 PM. Selling out on theirfirst day prompted Nick and Mike to remain open all winter long, a decision a hungrygroup gratefully approved. Fortunately, their satisfied off-season crowd has preparedthem for the upcoming season, when they’ll be serving their award-winning sandwichesevery day, all summer long! ~MEG CORCORAN FOR THE SUN

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The party began Friday, October 22,2010 at 3PM. The 1960 WildwoodCatholic High School graduating classbegan to get reacquainted. We werecelebrating our 50th Class Reunion andit was going to last the entire weekend.Montego Bay, North Wildwood, offeredthe perfect venue. As each classmatecame into the Hospitality Suite they weregreeted with hugs and handshakes.Food and drink flowed; singing, danc-ing and laughing was the order of theday. Later that night we all went to theBeef and Beer, then it was back upstairsto our Hospitality Suite. We were hav-ing a ball!!Saturday dawned sunny and warm soafter breakfast many strolled the board-walk, beach and watched the ocean. Forsome it had been a long time since theyhad enjoyed that view and experiencedthe feeling of sand between their toes.That afternoon we met on the steps ofour Alma Mater for our group picture.Fond memories were shared as we re-called our class picture having beentaken on those very steps fifty years ear-lier. We returned to the “party room”for more fun, stories, food and libation.Dinner was at 6:00PM and then it wasback to the Suite to continue the festivi-ties. Another late night!Sunday dawned another beautiful day.We attended Mass, which was dedicatedto our class of 1960. Then it was time tosay goodbye with promises to write, calland visit. Did we have a good time? Somuch so we’ve planned a “mini” reunionfor July!!

Phil Judyski, Elsie Ann Onorato Keehan,Loretta Mollo Henry, and Billy Leahy

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50th Reunion of Wildwood Catholic High School ~ Great Time Had by All!

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A DAIRY THAT HASN’TSPOILED OVER TIME

Bob Neri, Bill Piergiovanni, Ken Gray (Landsdale), Roy Bennington,Douglas Jones, Rob Piergiovanni, & Joan Gallagher

1922

We’re a throwback to the oldtimes. The history that’s here just

doesn’t exist anymore. ~BOB NERI,,,,

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A peek inside is like a visit to a museum~ a century old freezer door, antique milk bottlesand bent wooden spoons are all pieces of our past.

A DAIRY THAT HASN’TSPOILED OVER TIME

“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” ~Thomas Watson, Sr.

Standing in the original 100 year oldfreezer room, stocked with milk, eggs,and chilled gallons of delicious SwissTea, Bob Neri said, “We’re a throw-back to the old times. The historythat’s here just doesn’t exist any-more.“ There are some places thatstay the same as always; unhamperedand left as they once were. We callthese hidden pearls of pure and pre-served history, treasures. One of theserelics remains on the corner of Spicer andNew Jersey Aves. in the heart of Wild-wood, NJ. The Lehigh Valley Dairies,originally Abbott’s Dairies, built in 1902,serving the South Jersey seashore commu-nities. Being one of the oldest businesseson the island, its exterior has not only with-stood time but original interior operationscontinue almost just as they were 100 yearsago.

Initially, the Wildwood Depot was Abbott’sDairies of Philadelphia and South Jersey,serving also as an ice cream company andproviding coastal services from the tip ofCape May to Atlantic City. During the 50’s,before the days of Wawa, when big Ac-mes and Shop Rites weren’t around, sev-eral dairies existed to serve the barrier is-lands, though this particular one seems tohave survived in part, as others died off.From its opening day in 1902, the depothas gone through a few name changesstarting with Abbotts to Pennbrook Farms,then Fairmont Foods, later Labatts Beer,and now Dean Foods, which surpassesKraft as the largest dairy holder in the U.S.Home delivery was a large portion of thebusiness up until the mid 70’s, however,“We’re still operating like we did 30-40years ago,” said Robert Neri, Dean FoodsSales Manager.

What started as a summer job for 15 yearold Neri in 1974, evolved through his col-lege years, becoming the foundation forwhat would be his full time profession. Ev-ery summer since he was 6, Neri would visithis grandparents in North Wildwoodwhere he found himself working forAbbott’s. Having gone to the Universityof Colorado in the town of Boulder, or ashe likes to call “The Cape May of theWest” and then finishing at Temple Uni-

versity with a degree in accounting,family was what brought him back tohis seaside roots. During the summerof their college years, Bob and tworoommates worked at the WildwoodDepot making deliveries. With littlemoney as a college student, theirneeds were generously met by cus-tomers who would provide food andsnacks for them such as rolls, roastbeef and other homemade goods as

well as making milkshakes out of the dam-aged and discarded ice cream. He de-scribes the relationships back then as genu-ine, lax and carefree. In essence, they sur-vived off dairy, and their reliable relation-ships with patrons. “If you were out some-where, your customers would want to takecare of you. You were ‘their’ milkman,”he said, leaning back in his chair, sport-ing a smile of reminiscence.

The Wildwood dairy has spent over 50years building loyal clients, such asDouglass Candies and Groff’s Restauranton the Boardwalk. People from all walksof life found themselves employed at theDepot, including school teachers who sawa good summer job, one in particular whowas there prior to Neri’s arrival was BillCarr, a chemistry teacher at Lower Town-ship High School, has had over 34 sum-mers of working experience and added acreative flavor with academia on one sideand blue collar on the other. Bob fondlyrecalls Billy, Bobby and Ralph, the 3Osborne brothers who he grew up work-ing with at Abbott’s. It was Bill, who alsoworked for Atlantic Electric for 34+ years,who helped Bob get his job there. Manyinteresting characters came through thedairy, leaving lasting impressions and hi-larious stories, but Bob and his reception-ist, Joan Gallagher, are the last two of theoriginal crew in the last 30 years.

“Everyone came from Philly back thenwhen around 250,000 people slammed theisland in the 70s and 80s,” he said. To-day, people vacation in various places suchas Florida and the Outer Banks of NorthCarolina, but back then everyone went tothe treasure that was in their own back-yard, Wildwood by-the-sea. In the hey

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1934 Wildwood Baby Parade

Old Photos Courtesy of Wildwood Historic Society

1994

day of disco there were many clubs onPacific Avenue. In those warm summerevenings, Bob, and Wildwood Commis-sioner Rich Nordaby, and 3 or 4 otherswould be loading trucks from 4 to midnightwhen around 10, the cars would trickleback in the streets. Bob would be sent out,flashlight in hand, directing them into thedairy parking lot, $5 a car to park, whichwent to food costs for employees. Thework environment Bob grew up in was com-pletely different than that of today whereso much is sensitive and protocol. Now,such things wouldn’t be allowed, but thingswere much different back then. Let’s sayenough time has passed to reveal that littlesecret.

What people don’t know that makesWildwood’s location so original andunique is that 70% of its customers don’torder milk; they rely on depot employeesto come in and fill it. This lost art is calledPack and Pedal. “It’s a dying aspect youdon’t find anymore,” said Neri. Today,trucks come and go every day, each driverhaving an average of 40 customers. Be-cause of the ebb and flow of business, it’shard to determine what’s going to hap-pen, such as a big weekend when custom-ers might need more supplies, but the dairyis conveniently on the island, not comingfrom PA or elsewhere. The client base hasexpanded, including chain stores, hospi-tals, and nursing homes with delivery

routes as far as Pennsville, Hammonton,Vineland and Millville. Bob, Joan, and theemployees of the Wildwood Depot con-tinue a rich tradition of serving the bestproducts with quality service. Today, Bob,along with his wife Tracy, are busy rais-ing their two children, Austin and Daria.He loves fishing, cooking, and the Wild-wood Yacht Club on Sunset Lake. He’s ahistory buff, an avid reader with an ap-preciation for art and architecture, an-tiques, and old relics, finding himself in theperfect place for his vintage personality.Bob and his friends have survived on thedairy and its loyal customers. Wildwoodsexhibited artifact on Spicer and New Jer-sey Avenues has also endured in the sameway, through loyal relationships that havekept preserving this historical remnant.

“Think what a better world it would be if we all had cookies & milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.”~Robert Fulgham, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

1922

1960

2011

The corner of Spicer & New Jersey Aves. in Wildwood, NJ

The corner of Spicer & New Jersey Aves. in Wildwood, NJ

The corner of Spicer & New Jersey Aves. in Wildwood, NJ

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“There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.” ~Bill Veeck

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It all started on December 14th, at 12A.M., Cliff Lee had returned. That’swhen I, along with many others, real-ized that 2011 is going to be anotherwinning season for the PhiladelphiaPhillies. Opening day for the Philliesis on April 1st, and Roy Halladay willbe starting that game, most likelyagainst Astros’ starter and formerPhillie Brett Myers. Charlie Manuel(Manager) and Rich Dubee (PitchingCoach) will most likely decide to al-

ternate the pitchers in the starting ro-tation based on which arm theythrow with (Halladay RHP, Lee LHP,Oswalt RHP, Hamels LHP, BlantonRHP.) That’s right, there is a guaran-teed sweep of every series we playin, as long as the offense is there toback up the above average pitching.The fifth starter is indeed JoeBlanton, no if’s, and’s, or but’s. Therewere rumors of him being traded af-ter signing Lee to make room on thesalary, but he’s staying put for atleast one more season. There’s onelittle problem with this dream team,and it’s right field. Who will startthere everyday? I believe that it willbe both 29-year-old Ben Franciscowho we acquired along with Cliff Leeback in July of 2009, and rookieDomonic Brown who was the obviouschoice as a right field regular, butnow The Phillies have more options,including John Mayberry Jr., andRoss Gload. I guess we’ll have to seewho the break-out star is duringspring training!A little about me, my name is DanielleWilson, I’m in the 10th grade, andfell in love with the Phillies when Istarted watching games with my Dadin 2007. I paid close attention to ev-erything about the team, and startedwriting in July ’10. My Twitter ac-count is @CBPhresh, give me a fol-low! (Their names remain a mystery)

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One year ago, Fran Flynn left us to be withher husband, John, in heaven.  Ironically, theday she passed away was one of her favor-ite days, April 1st.  Whenever she talkedabout her children, her famous line was, “Ihad 4 boys, then I finally got my little girlon April Fools Day”.  My dad wanted a foot-ball team, she was done when I came along! Mother and I had a very special bond.  Shewas so easy to talk to, she gave her advice,but never interfered, she guided me to makethe right decisions.  My friends considered herto be their second mom.  Mother will alwaysbe remembered for her sweetness, loving waysand unbelievable generosity.  That generos-ity was mostly her time and volunteering.  I

believe Mother was an angel God put on thisearth to be an example of how to lead a goodlife.  Everyone she met was touched by her insome way.  To her, the glass was half full, shefound good in EVERYONE! She was the “ROCK” of our family.  In hersubtle way, she knew how to get thingsdone.  She made sure Dad thought it washis idea!  Her life was always full.  She sang,danced, told jokes, was an artist and volun-teered for everything!  She was Irish throughand through. As my father put it, “she wasa tough Irish broad.”  In 2006, she was di-agnosed with tongue cancer.  Throughoutthe chemo, radiation, feeding tube andmedications, she never complained.  Also,she never lost her hair or got sick from thechemo.  She was an amazing lady!  If thereis someone like her, I haven’t met them yet! My mother LOVED her birthdays!!  Dadwould get a kick out of her.  He would say“her birthday lasts the whole month of Au-gust”!  I guess she loved birthdays so much,that she left us on April 1st, my birthday. Now our birthdays are “etched in stone” onher grave marker.  We know she is happyand not suffering now, but we miss her terri-bly, what a special lady she was.  Your 4boys and little girl love you so much.  Wewere blessed to have had you as our Mother! Love, Colleen

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him...” ~Romans 8:28

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“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” ~Psalm 90:12

Wildwood lovers Francis and FlorenceMcCoy will celebrate 50 years of weddedbliss on July 24th, 2011.

Frank, a retired New York City police officer,and Flo, a former antique dealer and jew-eler, spent many idyllic vacations in Wild-wood with their three children, Nancy,Diane, and Frank Jr. (Frank also has son,Brian from a previous marriage) before be-coming proud, permanent residents in 2010.

The couple, originally from Rockland County,New York, purchased a condo in WildwoodCrest approximately 30 years ago. Shortlyafter Flo closed her antique and jewelry busi-ness in Northern, New Jersey, they movedinto the Regency Towers in North Wildwood.There they found their very own slice ofHeaven on Earth complete with a picturesqueocean view and spectacular sunsets.

The fun-loving, social couple maintain anopen-door policy which extends to the 5:30Club Flo started, a weekly neighbor’s meet-ing held by the pool or in the game room,where they share cocktails and the latest sto-ries.

As Frank successfully battles lung cancerthanks to excellent care, healthy doses ofcarefree days, and the well-being fresh, saltyair can bring, he and Flo appreciate whatthey’ve found within their seaside sanctuary.As they continue to create memories withtheir shore-loving children and grandchil-dren, they can happily look back, knowing

their relocation to Wildwood was the smart-est move they ever made. Congratulationsto the happy couple!

~MEG CORCORAN

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Chris Taylor, Jack Falls & John Yerkov

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FRIDAYDECEMBER 3, 2010HEREFORD INLETCHRISTMAS TREE

LIGHTING CEREMONY

L-R, NWW Council woman Peggy Bishop, theinfamous voice of the tramcar, Floss Stingelwith the keeper of the Hereford LighthouseGift Shop Betty Mugnier

Regina & Dan Naphy and their children Drew, Rylee & Nolanenjoy coming to their summer home in the winter time

Mike, Linda & Amelia Kutepow especiallyloved this old-fashioned CHRISTMAS event

Cathy Smith, ofJunke & Treasures,Unique Gifts atDavis & Pacific Ave.

Patrick & Michelle Rosenello with their 3 sons,Peyton, Blake & Gavin. (We all know whatGavin asked Santa for... his 2 front teeth!)

North Wildwood 7th St. neighbors, Bob &Marilyn Guidetti and Diane McMonagle

Troy & Maureen Cawley came to hear theirchildren sing in Margaret Mace School choir

Jean Macintyre, Andy Stone & Good friends

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I met my true love in Wildwood in the fall of 1969, but, Ididn’t know it. Michael Fitzpatrick came to Wildwood Catho-lic High School from St. Raymonds Grade school. He hadan attitude problem, a chip on his shoulder, and he could becrude at times, but, I saw right through his façade; he was a“big teddy bear.”

We had never spoken or been introduced, but one day inthe school cafeteria he challenged me to a game of ‘foot-ball’. From what I can remember, the object of the gamewas to flick a pack of matches across the table towards eachother. Whoever got closest to the edge, without going offthe table, won the game. Needless to say, I got lucky andwon every time. I believe he called me a few ‘choice names’(with a devilish smile on his face) and we became ‘fastfriends’. I couldn’t resist his ‘charm’!

Throughout our high school years our friendship grew. Iknew that ‘Fitz’ wished it could have been more, but I had asteady boyfriend during those years, and I just didn’t feel‘that way’ about him; or, so I thought. But, in spite of that,we were ‘best buddies’. We would go ice skating together,and to the duck pond to feed the ducks; and we would spendhours on the phone every night talking. Many years later,he would still insist that ‘these were still among his fondestof memories.’

We had our differences. For example, he would claim to bea ‘liberal’, and I was, and still am a ‘conservative republi-can’, who is also a ‘feminist’. (Yes, that is possible). But, wehad enough respect for each other to listen to each othersopinions, and points of view; and then we would just ‘agreeto disagree’. And, when we slow danced, he wouldn’t ‘yellat me’ when I would lead! He never felt threatened or in-timidated by my individuality.

On the other hand, we both enjoyed Clint Eastwood, JamesBond, and Bogart movies. (“I remember every detail; thearmy was wearing gray, and you were wearing blue.”Humphrey Bogart-Casablanca). And, our music interestswere the same; Dylan, Harrison, Aretha, Dr. Hook, GilbertO’Sullivan, Todd Rundgren, and the Raspberries, were justa ‘few’ of our favorites. But, Fitz knew if he came to my

“The first time ever I saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes, and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave.”~Roberta Flack.

Always In My HeartBY LOUANN CATANOSO

place the stereo would most likely be playing The Fifth Di-mension, War, Barry White, Motown, Helen Reddy, BobMarley, Rodger Whittaker, and Sly and the Family Stone.

There is a slight chance he may have owned up to listeningto all of this music, except for my collection of classic coun-try, and Broadway show tunes albums. (Sweet Charity, WestSide Story, Pippin!) But, I knew he enjoyed them, and that’sall that mattered. Okay, I admit it, I’m obsessed with musicsince birth. (There are worse things in the world.)

Over the years, when Fitz would profess his love for me, Iwould ask him how he could be satisfied with just ‘being myfriend’. He told me that he would rather have me in his lifeas ‘just a good friend, then not to have me at all’. He wouldsay to me, “You love me, you just don’t know it yet”. And, hewould usually follow that statement with, “When you real-ize you’re crazy about me, you’ll know where you can reachme”.

He was the one, that would send me flowers on ValentinesDay; and he was the one that I would spend almost everybirthday with. My birthday is June 6th, and his birthdaywas June 10th. And, he was the one that would hug me,when someone else broke my heart.

We had come a long way together. Our activity of choicehad become watching the sun set, on a bench, at the bay inTownbank. Our days as teenagers, and playing flag foot-ball on the North Wildwood beach after school with thegang, were long behind us. Fitz always said that we hadfour songs; ‘Wild World’ and ‘How Can I Tell You’, by CatStevens, ‘Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad’, by Meatloaf, and‘My Eyes Adored You’, by Frankie Valli. And since his pass-ing in 1996, it has not surprised me in the least, to hear anytwo of these songs played back to back on the radio, morethan once.

We had settled into a beautiful, mature friendship, and genu-ine love for each other over our 26 year relationship to-gether. And, he was right; I do know where to reach him.‘He is right here, in my heart, where he has always been’.‘Happy Valentines Day Fitz’. ‘I love You’....

Dedication: This story is dedicated to my sister, Cathy. I want tothank her for her constant, unconditional love and support; andalso for thinking of this wonderful title for my story.

Fitz & LouAnn, 1995Fitz & LouAnn, High School years

Best Friends: Fitz & Chris McDevitt, mid 90s

Louann’s Annual Christmas party 1995(L-R) Front ~ Fitz, John, Charlene, Alice,

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LouAnn & Baby Lauren

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Travis Pidcock and Brandi Sanguinettiwere engaged on July 10, 2010 on thebeach of Hereford Inlet, North Wildwood. Brandi, the daughter of Gina Sanguinetti,of North Wildwood, is a 2007 graduateof Wildwood High School and 2010 gradu-ate of The College of New Jersey with aBA in Psychology.  Travis, son of Steve andLisa Pidcock of Lancaster, PA, is a policeofficer for Susquehanna Township PoliceDepartment and proud father of JacksonPidcock.  The couple, emulating the loveof Jesus Christ for His Church, will prom-ise a lifetime of love and faithfulness toeach other on July 1, 2011 at The Car-riage House in Galloway, NJ. 

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John & Carole Pantalone have looked for-ward to this exceptional Christmastime per-formance every year now for 10 years.

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100 Years for North Wildwood’s Volunteer Ladies AuxiliaryThe North Wildwood Fire Co. No. 1 and the Ladies Auxiliary held an anniversary dinner atthe Bolero on Friday, November 19, 2010. Honored guests were N. Wildwood Mayor BillHenfey and N. Wildwood Fire Dept. Cheif Anthony Cole. Presentations were made by N.Wildwood Fire Co. No. 1 Vice President David Greenland.The officers and members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary express their appreciation to the manypeople who have helped make this organization the success that it has been for the past100 years.

North Wildwood Mayor Bill Henfey, Kellyann Tolomeo ~ Councilwoman, Sherri Davis ~Trustee, Dorothy Watt ~ Vice President, Betty Glenn ~ President, Devoney Cline ~ Finan-cial Secretary, Michelle Matteo ~ Recording Secretary, Connie Dougherty ~ Treasurer, EileenStern ~ Trustee, & last but not least, Betty Crossen ~ North Wildwood Ladies Auxiliary

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Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony

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Enjoying a cocktail at Moriarity’s nextto the Forest Theater in Phila. beforeseeing JERSEY BOYS are Wildwoodlocals, Rick & Kate Haas (on right),and Karen and Mark Olkowski

The Patton family of Wildwood Crestand Wilmington, Delaware are sohappy to receive their best gift! AVAJOY YING PATTON was adoptedJuly 4, 2010 from Fuzhou, China.

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This was back on December 4 at Bally’s At-lantic City when Wildwood’s Chuck “The Pro-fessor” Mussachio pounded out a lopsidedunanimous eight-round cruiserweight deci-sion over the boxer cum biker, Theo Kruger(he didn’t want to be known as Teddy Krugerfor apparent reasons), the pride of PuntaGorda, Florida.

At the weigh-in the day before, Theo wasgoing to present Chuckie, a teacher (guid-ance counselor, actually) in Ventnor, with anapple, but because he’d had to pull weightand was hungry and dehydrated, hechomped the apple himself. What was upwith this cat?

What was up was that Theo Kruger has sixkids to feed, fights all over the world, has amediocre record of 10-11-2, 3 KOs, is toughas a Boardwalk plank, and really loves thefight game. He’s a truly happy warrior, whogives his not-quite-good-enough best everysecond of every round, but leaves all thetrash-talking and faux toughness to the jit-terbug kid boxers who seem so taken withthat kind of gangsta baloney.

A less focused fighter than the Professormight have been thrown off his game by theapple gambit at the weigh-in, as well as acordial conversation he had with Theo inwhich the Florida fighter recounted howwhen he had fought in Germany recently,at the press conference there all the Euro-pean photographers were madly snappinghis photo with big grins on their faces, andthen he looked behind him and saw a posterof - are you ready? - Freddy Kruger.

Chuckie Vanquishes A Happy WarriorBY BOB INGRAM

Chuckie was a little nonplussed at the endof his brief conversation with Kruger at theweigh-in, and as they parted, he wished hisopponent luck, and then added, “Not toomuch, though.”

In the ring the next night, Theo Krugerneeded all the luck he could get, as ChuckMussachio, despite an almost 25-poundweight disadvantage (Kruger gained morethan 14 pounds since the weigh-in), used his6-1/2-inch reach advantage to keep the Flo-ridian on the end of his highly educated jabthroughout the one-sided contest. Yet eventhough he was taking an as-whipping, Theofought every round with a bemused look onhis face, as if he was enjoying the pain.

Chuckie was having as much fun as Theo,giving the Floridian Floyd Mayweathershoulders and even breaking into a coupleof Hector Camacho butt-wiggles from timeto time. I guess it’s all right to showboat alittle when you’re pretty safely out of harm’sway.

It was a good workout for Mussachio andbrought his record to 17- 1-2, 5 KOs. Afterthe fight, he was amazed at Theo Kruger’sdurability. “I hit him with everything I hadand he was still there,” he marveled. For hispart, Kruger was still having fun, sticking hisgrinning face into the after-fight photo ses-sions with Chuckie in the ring.

The downside of the evening was a severelybruised Mussachio hand from the endlessbouncing off the Kruger skull, which he saidwould take a couple months to heal, and thusprecluded a possible fight in, of all places,Kazakhastan against Gayrat Ahmedov. Awin there would have given him a chancefor a WBA world light heavyweight title shotagainst champion Beibut Shumenov.

I guess a win isn’t always a win.

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“Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.” ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

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Goes to HollywoodMeg the Movie Buff

2011 SPRING MOVIE GUIDEby Meg Corcoran

With spring resting comfortably onthe horizon, the promises of bright shoredays are Limitless. While The Lincoln Law-yer and Jane Eyre have a lawful yet genteeldiscussion about the best way to spend thesenot-yet balmy days, Your Highness has al-ready set up his (high) lounge chair at themost majestic spot on the still-quiet beach.Because the days are still cool, they all even-tually decide to Hop to their local movie the-ater, where the best indoor, pre-summer en-tertainment can be found!

Before hopping to your local movie theater,please check your local listings for releasedate changes.

Romance is in the sea air Labor Day week-end 1988 when shy Matt (Topher Grace) lieshis way into a big party, anticipating ask-ing his high school dream girl (Anna Faris)to Take Me Home Tonight (opens March 4th)by way of a romantic tram car ride.

Beneath starry skies, plain governess JaneEyre (Mia Wasikowka, opens March 11th)warms the heart of her gruff employer(Michael Fassbender) with sweet, seaworthytales unaware that he is harboring a terriblesecret.

Limitless (opens March 18th) possibilitiesabound when a struggling writer (BradleyCooper) discovers (and uses) a top-secretdrug that improves intellect and other envi-able arcade-worthy skills while beingtracked by a group of killers. Also stars AnnaFriel and Abbie Cornish.

The Lincoln Lawyer (MatthewMcConaughey, opens March 18th) has littletime for Monster Truck Rides while operat-ing his legal business out of his Lincoln TownCar. His latest case promises the highestpayoff and the greatest malice.

Back in school following a summer vacationfilled with secrets and speedboat races andin possession of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid(2): Rodrick Rules (opens March 25th) asGreg (Zachary Gordon) struggles to keephis secret safe while his troublemaker brotherRodrick (Devon Bostick) works to expose it.

During a government experiment, a soldier(Jake Gyllenhaal) learns the Source Code(opens April 1st) when he is sent back in timeover and over again, waking in the body ofa witness to a train bombing. He must find

the guilty party and win the heart of a beau-tiful fellow passenger (Michelle Monaghan)all without the assistance of an inspiring,romantic ocean view.

The Easter bunny, (Russell Brand) hopped upon the boardwalk’s finest (sugary) fare,proves to be a nightmare houseguest for theslacker (James Marsden) who accidentallyhits him with his car and must Hop (opensApril 1st) to the high-maintenance rabbit’severy need.

Your Highness (opens April 8th) comes in theunlikely form of a slothful prince (DannyMcBride) too lazy to finish a game of minia-ture golf yet suddenly in charge of savinghis perfect brother’s (James Franco) fiancé(Zooey Deschanel) and saving his father’sempire.

Not satisfied with simply working on her tan,Soul Surfer (opens April 15th) BethanyHamilton (AnnaSophia Robb) finds thestrength to get back in the ocean after los-ing an arm in a shark attack. Based on atrue story. Also stars Dennis Quaid and HelenHunt.

Following the death of his parents duringthe Great Depression, a veterinary student(Robert Pattinson) drops out of school anddevelops a yen for (Raging) Water for El-ephants (opens April 22nd) when he joins amediocre traveling circus. He then developsfeelings for the star performer (ReeseWitherspoon) who is also the wife of thecruel ring master (Christoph Waltz).

The Soul Surfer sails into town, determinedto discover the secret to Wildwood’s charm.During a solitary swim, she uncovers thecoastal version of the Source Code hiddendeep beneath the salty seas. Feeling soothedby enough Water for (ocean-loving) El-ephants, she surfs onto dry, sandy land,where she finds a buried treasure of sortswritten within the Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2):where Rodrick (‘s) Rules clearly state whatmakes for a charming seaside town: serenedays brimming with bright sunshine over thesparkling sand and surf. Following theseenchanting days, naturally, are captivatingmovie-starlit nights for our cast of charac-ters, who declare Take Me Home Tonight thelengthy boardwalk way straight into sum-mer!

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“Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. ” ~Luke 9:16

This Old Love Shack

As teens growing up in Philadelphia in the

late 1960’s, twin brothers George and

Gerard Lex loved spending their youthful,

carefree summers in Wildwood, dreaming

those blissful days would never end. They

slowly began to make that dream a reality

when they rented the house humbly rest-

ing at 226 Hoffman Ave. in North Wild-

wood circa 1975. “The Shack,” as it was

dubbed, was considered the ultimate beach

hut and resided in front, with an efficiency

in the back, separate from the house. This

was referred to as “The Love Shack.” The

efficiency modestly consisted of one room

with a kitchenette and bathroom (not filled

with abundant space but overflowing with

the sounds of the surf and the sea just the

same).

In 1995, the Lex brothers finally purchased

the house on Hoffman Ave. They tore down

the existing structure in 2005, with the new

structure complete in 2006. The once-

humble abode is now a two-story, two-car

garage home, with four bedrooms, three

and a half bathrooms and two decks (and,

of course, a great shore-inspired view to

always remind them where they are). The

renovated property began a new era for

the Lex family, as the home built with love

and dreams now has central air and a

heating system, making it the perfect year

round home.

George is a self-employed financial plan-

ner, which provides him and his family with

the benefit of more shore time. Gerard and

his wife Cynthia live in northern N.J. and

have long-term plans to move closer to the

shore, where the whisper of the waves

makes their sanctuary by the sea the ulti-

mate place to call Home...

BY MEG CORCORAN

George & Gerard Lex in 2004in front of The Shack for its final summer.

Feb., 2011~ George, Dolores & Paul Pavlishing,Cynthia & Gerard Lex on a winter visit to theirshore house. The Pavlishing’s fondly remem-ber the “Love Shack”. They both agree, alongwith their friends, the owners, that the newhome is like living in lap of luxury!

226 Hoffman from the same view as top photo, 25 years earlier, long before the seawall was put in.

Captain Gary Sloan, THE ADVENTURER, WILDWOOD, NJ

CAPTAIN GARY’SSpring Fishing Report

Hello fellow AnglersAs another cold winter slowly fades away (not as inconspicuously as Al Gore). I am surewe are all looking forward to some milder spring weather. Spring seems to be the seasonof hope and optimism. Mother Nature explodes in a dynamic way with new life fromplants, mammals, and marine life. I believe the saying is “Hope springs eternal.”Early spring is a great time to revitalize your fishing tackle. Somebody always seems tohave created the new sure thing for catching fish. You can also take in a boat show toshake the cob webs from your brain, which may be suffering from some winter doldrums.You can check out the latest lines of engines, boats, and equipment. If you are reallyambitious, fishing opportunities do exist. The back bay waters can produce winter floun-der by March. Some light tackle, a chum bag, red colored sinkers, small hooks, and clambait can be effective way to catch them. Check with your local Marina or Tackle storesfor the favorite spots. They can be caught from land or by boat. Stripers should alsoappear in the warmer waters of the back waters first. Good early baits are blood wormsand fresh clams. For the boaters, spring means lots of elbow grease and sweat. Procras-tination and staring has never completed any wax job. However, a early start to the taskof getting your craft ready will result in a quick launch, if the weather and fish gives us aearly spring. This is a great time of year to check out your safety equipment. The earlyseason and its dangerous water temperatures should be first in thought for boating safety.As humans we like to believe we control most things in life. Calendars represent thatfeeble effort. Unfortunately, Mother Nature and fish seem to have their own opinions asto when to arrive and bite. Imagine that! Time has taught me that three factors candrastically impact fishing. As of this writing Big Brother (Marine Fisheries) hasn’t issued2011 regulations. Secondly, the weather. Thirdly, water temperature. Excluding anyunfortunate and unnecessary closings by Marine fisheries or bad weather, the in-shoreocean wrecks will hold Sea bass and Tog by March. Mackerel has failed to appear thelast couple of years. In the past, they would arrive by the first week in April. Generallyby early May the first signs of weakfish, blues, and drum should arrive.I applaud the State of New Jersey for passing a fishing license without a fee. We allunderstand those fees eventually would be going to the general treasury, and not to-wards its original goal of marine fisheries. I will admit my ignorance as to whether thishelps us meet our requirements to the Marine Fisheries paperwork. Since the State can’tseem to meet obligations to pension systems, I wonder how they will find monies forworkers to complete these tasks. The potential of losing more fishing opportunities dueto closure for a failure to meet Marine Fish obligations would certainly undermine thewhole concept. I promise to avoid my usual ranting about the Marine Fisheries manage-ment since its early season and they haven’t really set forth all the damaging rules for theyear.Pushing aside all the dark clouds on the future, Lets not forget the beauty of a glassy flatocean, or the sensation of moist ocean air penetrating your dry nasal passages. Visualscenes of dolphins, turtles, and various creatures. The biological sense of well being andpure beauty as the first rays of sunlight streak out of the ocean’s eastern horizon at dawn.The treat of freshly caught fish , cooked to your personal taste. Whatever difficulties wecreate for ourselves, nature gives us back the most when we appreciated the pure beautyand ease that we can interact with her blessings. We double that experience when weshare it with someone we love so go make a memory. God bless.

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Ravioli HouseChristmas Cookie Trays

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The Kelly sisters, Katie & Brianna helpedtagging a restaurant-full of gifts fromGIA that were taken to Cooper hospi-tal at Christmas.All other photos from this event will befeatured in our Holiday issue this year.

Brendan Sciara of Dogtooth &KONA. Congratulations to thenew Dad! Welcome baby Michael!

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CHRISTMAS EVE WITH FRIENDS

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Joey Alosi of RAVIOLI HOUSE

Mike & Sue McGeeof Alfe’s Restaurant

Dutch Decker, Victoria Steffen &Betsy King (with Full Moon above)at Edwin’s Barn Christmas party

(Above Left) Christine & SteveBradway at Edwins Barn’s annualholiday gathering on Dec. 21st, thelongest night of the year.Also adding to the festive atmo-sphere, and wrapping up 2010, arare event occurred! A total lunareclipse. . .of the Full Moon. . .on thewinter solstice! A triple whammy!

Below, Steve Bradway, the Copper-smith of Edwin’s Barn in Rio Grandewith a sampling of his handcraftedtable made from copper and localcedar. See his ad on opposite page

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“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” —Theodore Roosevelt

Dear Sun, this is Joe Brooks. You were kind enough

to feature my story about how I met my wife, Sue in

“I Met My True Love at SuperFresh.” Sue and I are

down this weekend at our summer home with three

of our four kids. I am in the living room listening to

my daughters laugh and run back and forth

upstairs. I’m also sipping my Avalon coffee and

reading The Sun. I have two quick points to make

that I hope will make you smile:

1.) Your wonderful paper ALWAYS warms me. Its

the ultimate “feel good” reading experience. I

imagine you’re a wonderfully warm and peaceful

person. It shines through in The Sun.

2.) Just a note to let you know that if you ever

wondered whether your work ever impacted

someone, this should affirm that you’re doing great

and meaningful work.

Peace, Joe

THE SUN MAKES ME :-)

THE BROOKS FAMILY ON NORTH WILDWOOD BEACH, 2006