CM gets grant to improve rampsBy CHRISTOPHER

SOUTHCape May Star and Wave

CAPE MAY – At Tuesday’scity council work session,Cape May city manager LouCorea announced the receipt

of a $383,231 Small CitiesGrant, which will be used forADA improvements along thebeachfront.

The grant, awarded fromthe Department ofCommunity Affairs, willallow the city to install 10

modular walkways, threeADA ramps on thePromenade, and up to 22ADA ramps at beachentrances along BeachAvenue. Corea said the exist-ing ramps are not ADA com-pliant, and the new rampswill meet ADA requirements.The city also plans to buymore beach wheel chairs.

“With this Small CitiesGrant the city can continue toenhance its abilities to allowthose individuals with ADArequirement to utilize thecity’s fine beaches,” Coreasaid.

Jennifer Kopp/Cape May Star and Wave

Showing solidarityWho says dogs hate cats? During Tuesday’s rally to save Cape May’s feral cats, this little pooch showedup in defense of his furry friends. After all, he likes the beach, too!

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Schatz was party to the law-suit.

Residents Bob Boyd andDennis Crowley asked if itwas certain the city was goingto get beach replenishmentfunding under the agreement.Favre said that was the case.

Boyd said the only reason

cats could reside on the beachwas because there was abeach restoration project.

“The nesting areas didn’texist until there was beachrestoration,” he said.

Boyd said the beachrestoration project was a mat-ter of public safety.

City council voted 3-0 topass the resolution approvingthe Beach Management Plan.Mayor Jerry Inderwies wason vacation, and CouncilmanDavid Craig was attending afuneral for a family member.

“There is a major con-cern...when we close LyleLane, we don’t clear out thecars. I’m concerned aboutpeople backing out amongpeople who are sitting. That’sa blueprint for disaster,” shesaid.

Sorantino said she wouldsupport a recommendation byDeputy Mayor Niels Favre topaint a clearly marked cross-walk between the mall nearCasale’s Shoes and the RotaryPark Gazebo.

Councilman David

Kurkowski asked if reroutingtraffic bound for West CapeMay down Broad Streetwould help ease congestionnear the mall. Sorantino saidmost of the people comingdown Lafayette were going tothe mall.

and if they found it accept-able. Corea said the idea hadbeen presented to a subcom-mittee of the Mall MerchantsAssociation, and they were inagreement; but the city didnot contact all the patio users.

Kurkowski asked if thereshould not be two tiers, onefor liquor license owners andone for non-license holders,

as the previous proposalrequired. Corea said he hadno direct input from any ofthe business owners withregard to fee tiers.

Councilwoman LindaSteenrod said she would liketo hear from mall businessowners to learn if they wouldbe paying more or less underthe new system.

Deputy Mayor Niels Favresaid he would prefer councilpull all the fees out of theordinance and introducethem in a separate fee ordi-nance at a later date.However, the rules for patiopermits could be adopted atthe next council meeting.

The ordinance was passedas amended by a 3-0 vote.

Afghani people, and thankingthe women for their gift ofphone cards.

“Once again, thank you forgiving the people on my med-ical training team some freeminutes to share our heartswith loved ones back in theUSA,” he wrote. “We love ourcountry and you.”

Air Force TechnicalSergeant Robert Mills alsosent a note thanking thewomen’s group. He said mostof his medical training teamreceived one or two of thecards when they arrived inKabul.

“The phone cards came invery handy in keeping touchwith our friends and fami-lies,” he said.

Halbruner said theTabernacle United MethodistWomen try to have a projecteach year around Christmas.For the past two years theydecided to collect phonecards from their membersand send them to servicemenand women.

“It just feels better whenyou can talk to someonerather than if you just get aletter,” she said.

Halbruner said she found125-minute cards being soldin a pack of seven for $25, buteach woman went out andbought her own cards.Additionally, there were twopeople who were not mem-bers of the group who donat-ed $25 to buy cards.

The women were told topurchase AT&T phone cards

and they put them inenvelopes labeled withTabernacle United MethodistWomen and the address. Thefirst year the women sent 90phone cards and this pastChristmas season they sent70. They had no idea wherethe cards would end up, butthis year they started gettingmore letters, some with pho-tographs, thanking them forthe phone cards.

“It meant so much we want-ed to share them with peo-ple,” Halbruner said. “Weposted them on the back-board of the church,”

Halbruner said she believespeople should care aboutthose who join the militaryand serve their country in aforeign land. She said theythought it would be nice toprovide a way service mem-bers could talk to their hus-bands, wives and children.

She said other communitygroups could also send phonecards.

“There are a lot of groupsaround our community thatcould do this,” she said.

The women’s group got thenames of three individualsfrom the letters and plannedto send them another card.She said they would probablysend more cards at Christmastime, and they would startcollecting the cards inNovember to go out Dec. 1 inorder to get on a plane to beoverseas by Christmas.

Halbruner said she turnedto Skip Hoffman to get thephone cards to service mem-

bers. Hoffman said heworked with CommandSergeant Major (Ret.)Michael Hughes, who got thecards to the FamilyAssistance Program run bythe Air National Guard/ArmyNational Guard.

Hoffman said he andHughes belong to the 157thField Artillery BattalionAssociation. The 157th, hesaid, was decommissionedand there is a group of guyswho were in the unit who keptthe organization going as abreakfast club.

Hoffman said he andHalbruner have known eachother since high school, andHalbruner asked him if hecould help get cards to themilitary.

“We meet once a month as acommittee for the graduatingclasses of the early 50s, andwe just happened to talkabout one of the projects wedo. Shirley said they couldcollect phone cards and askedif we could get them to themilitary,” he said.

He turned the cards over toHughes and since theyreceived the letters theyknew the cards were beingdispersed.

“Now we know where theyend up,” he said.

Hoffman said there aregoing to be 3,000 more troopsbeing deployed in the futurefrom the state of New Jersey,and they would continue theirsupport of the military untilthey come home.

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