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Edition 12, Volume 4
June 15, 2009 |
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Welcome to our Newsletter...
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Hello Again,
Graduations are taking place all over and that means that the South Jersey Shore will soon be in full swing. Once the kids are out of school the shore comes to life! The ocean temp is climbing, fishing is picking up and the boardwalks, restaurants, stores and accommodations await you with open arms!! There are some GREAT deals being offered this season so make sure you search our site for whatever you are looking for, we are "shore" you will find it here. We are once again extending our webite network and we have some GREAT Surprises in store for you this season. Please tell everyone about us, we appreciate it GREATLY! Find it all on the GREAT VACATION GUIDE! |
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| All of our camping enthusiasts can now search for campgrounds located in the States of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and now Pennsylvania on our newest site GreatVacationCampgrounds.com. The site is a work in progress, but it does have the necessary information to help you find the best camping facilities for your liking. The NJ campgrounds can also be found on www.GreatVacationGuide.com. If you are a campground owner and your campground is not on our site :( and we are sure you will want to be included, please contact cheryl@GreatVacationGuide.com and she will be happy to add your facility to our family. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Many of you may not know that the Great Vacation Guide Family is published and produced by Successful Seasons Inc. of Cape May New Jersey. Successful Seasons Inc. offers full website design and hosting services. They also offer database solutions and email campaign services. They currently host over 200 websites for many businesses in the Tri-State area. Other services provided include ad design, rack cards, brochures, business cards and many other forms of marketing materials. Check Out The Newest Members Of Our Web Design and Web Hosting Family! Now Hosting: The Ala Moana Motel Wildwood Crest Now Hosting: The Pyramid Motel Wildwood Crest For a free quote on any project that you may have please call |
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Time To Start Sending Your Entries For The 2009 Photo Contest Please join our Photo Contest for 2009! This year we are only accepting 3 photos per person. You can submit 1 photo for each of the 3 categories ( Best Vacation Photo, Best Nature Photo, Best Overall Shore Photo). Include your name, address and phone number so we can properly identify your photo if it’s featured. The best photos chosen by Great Vacation newsletter readers will be in the final competition. Winners will receive wonderful prizes, and the best photos will appear in the newsletter, and also in 2010 Great Vacation in-room guides! |
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| Featured Businesses | |
| Artisans Alcove Estate Jewelers 523 Lafayette Street Cape May, NJ 08204 Phone 1-609-898-0202 Cape May's most unique jewelry store invites you to step into the past to experience the beauty and splendor of Victorian treasures. Their displays echo back to a time when craftsmanship and design mattered most in the creation of fine jewelry. The expert staff, including a certified graduate gemologist of the Gemological Institute of America, is always available to answer any questions, conduct an appraisal, or show you Cape May's finest and most exquisite diamonds. Feel free to come in and enjoy the wide selection of quality rings, bracelets, brooches, earrings, vintage watches, and a surprising selection of small antiques. For information: (click here) |
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| AABA Family Medical Supply 1638 Bayshore Road Cape May, NJ 08251 Phone 1-609-886-1699 Toll Free 1-800-320-1850 AABA Family Medical Supply is owned and operated by brothers Steve and Rich Ritondo. They are a family run business designed to meet all of your home health care needs. They have the largest stocked showroom in Cape May County and have proudly served the community since 1993. Their product line of Durable Medical Equipment includes the following: Aids to Daily Living - Bathroom Safety Accessories - Orthopedics Tens Units - Wound Care - Compression Stockings - Nebulizers - Post Mastectomy Wear - Ostomy Supplies. In addition, we provide sales, expert service and rentals for manual and mechanized mobility aids such as: Bruno Vertical Lift Platforms -Bruno Stair Lifts - Bruno Vehicle Lifts - Scooters - Power Chairs - Access Ramps - Lift Chairs - Beach Transports - Full Electric Hospital Beds - Hoyer Lifts - Wheelchairs - Walkers - Rollators - Lightweight Transports and many other products! If you are interested in rental products, they have the best selection!! They invite you to stop by and browse our showroom. Their friendly and knowledgeable associates look forward to serving you! For information: (click here) |
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| Fetch! Pet Care Mays Landing, NJ 08330 Phone 1-866-FetchMe Toll Free 609-788-3945 Fetch! Pet Care of Atlantic & Cape May Counties is locally owned and operated. They maintain a staff of pet-sitting professionals in your local neighborhood to provide loving care for your pet's customized needs. They are quickly establishing themselves as a leader in the pet care industry both locally here in Atlantic & Cape May Counties and other areas around the country. Expect professional, reliable, loving and caring service from them everytime. They guarantee it! For information: (click here) |
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| Fuze Restaurant & Mirage Lounge 7888 Dune Drive Avalon, NJ 08202 Phone 1-609-368-1919 Innovative, Bold, Daring.... Come visit Fuze Restaurant & Mirage Lounge. A worldly experience! Located in the Desert Sand Resort. Serving Breakfast and dinner. Fuze Restaurant and Mirage Lounge is now celebrating its first season in Avalon, NJ, notably one of the most visited and beautiful places at the majestic South Jersey Shore. They boldly go where fusion food has never gone before, dipping and sampling from all cultures on our culinary journey. Chef and proprietor Steve Cozzi will provide a versatile menu of all global variations. It will be a fusion cuisine that will rock the affluent shore town and its surrounding areas time after time. Cozzi is most definitely an educated and qualified chef in all areas, even outside of his formal culinary education. His reputation precedes him as his dishes have titillated critics and wooed audiences of the masses for years now all over the area, most notably his work at the casino restaurants in Atlantic City, and in nearby Wildwood Crest's own Marie Nicole's. For information: (click here) |
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| Cape May Stage Rewrites History in “Chronicles of Cape May” on June 29th at 8PM A 400th Anniversary Production with Local Celebrities |
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| Opens June 29, 2009 One Night Only! Cape May, NJ – June 17, 2009 - On Monday, June 29 at 8PM the "Chronicles of Cape May As Related By Jackson D'Catur, AKA The Old Fogey" promises to be the silliest show of Cape May Stage’s 21st season. In celebration of the city’s 400th anniversary, Cape May Stage is presenting a whirlwind Python-esque premiere that combines local luminaries, some favorite comic actors from the community, and a sprinkling of acting interns from Highpoint University in North Carolina. The show is penned by David Gray though it is anyone's guess what will actually be said. Donald Toal, the Stage’s resident Stage Manager and Outreach Coordinator, starts the evening with some actual historical facts, but is soon driven to distraction by Jackson D'Catur in a tour-de-force performance by Parker Smith. Lenape Indians are played by Shirley Stiles and Nathan Ruffin in costumes designed with wild abandon by Vickie Tryon. Bryon McHenry does a hilarious Ernie Hemingway as well as the English Governor. Monty LoSasso (who has been working backstage on "Souvenir") gets to shine as local hero Col. Henry Sawyer and an English Worthy. In a featured cameo, Al Beale will bring the house down, and Susan Tischler as an Indian in the future is absolutely brilliant. Marie Ventrone plays a surprising Captain Kidd and joins Susan Tischler for the ending of the evening. The antics are directed by Roy Steinberg with assistance from Donald Toal. The Cape May Stage interns have been laboring for weeks finding props and building special effects. Be prepared to laugh until you hurt. This production is part of the Second Stage Series sponsored by Dave and Chris Clemans. Tickets are $15 and the performance begins at 8 pm at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse at Bank and Lafayette Streets. Doors open at 7:30! Reserve now! Production Team Production team includes Roy Steinberg (Director), Donald Toal (Assistant Director), Vickie Tryon (Costumes) For more information (click here) Box office at (609) 884-1341. The box office is open Monday through Sunday from 10AM – 5PM. Assisted Listening devices are also available upon request. |
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| East Lynne Theater Company’s 20th Season ELTC's 20th Season begins on June 18 |
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| The Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company's popular "Tales of the Victorians" returns for its twentieth year! Take tea on the porch of one of Cape May's finest inns or tea shops, indulge in homemade tasty treats, and listen to stories by famous American authors, like O. Henry and Louisa May Alcott, read by members of the company, all for only $10.00. Children are always welcome, and, like other East Lynne events, ages 12 and under are free. Back again to perform are several ELTC favorites, including Stephanie Garrett, Lee O'Connor, Michele LaRue, Suzanne Longacre, Eileen Kirk, and Gayle Stahlhuth. The summer schedule is every Thursday at 4:00p.m., beginning on June 18, at a new location for "Tales," The Butterfly Tea Room, located at 109 Sunset Blvd. The first performer is Suzanne Longacre, who delighted last year's audience with sea tales by Herman Melville, and promises to bring other stories by other well-known American authors this year. Suzanne is a member of Actors' Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Association, and Screen Actors' Guild, and her credits include appearances in TV's "General Hospital" and Off-Broadway productions of "J.B." and "Green Pastures." If you miss "Tales" on June 18, there are other dates and locations from which to choose: June 25: Mad Batter at the Carroll Villa, 19 Jackson St.; July 2: The Cliveden Inn, 709 Columbia Ave.; July 9: The Dormer House, 800 Columbia Ave. July 16: The Fairthorne, 111 Ocean St.; July 23: Victorian Lace Inn, 901 Stockton Ave.; July 30: Inn of Cape May, 7 Ocean St.; Aug 6: Chalfonte Hotel, 301 Howard St.; Aug 13: Windward House, 24 Jackson St.; Aug 20: Victorian Lace Inn; Aug 27: The Fairthorne, 111 Ocean St., and on Sept 3: SeaVilla Hotel, 5 Perry St. During the fall, the day switches to Saturday, with the following date and location so far: Oct. 9: The Cliveden Inn, 709 Columbia Ave. Meanwhile, ELTC's mainstage season opens with the comic "Alice on the Edge," running from June 17-July 25 at 8:30p.m. at The First Presbyterian Church, 500 Hughes St. There is an after-show, opening-night party at The Washington Inn. For information and reservations, contact ELTC at 884-5898, or (click here). |
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| NJ's Tall Ship sets sail for Cape May! Public Sails available June 26-28 Maritime Camp for teens starts June 29 WHAT: AJ Meerwald offering Public Sails in Cape May WHEN: Friday June 26, Saturday June 27 & Sunday June 28, 2009 WHERE: Sailing from Utsch's Marina, Rt 109, Cape May, NJ (Just south of the canal bridge near the Lobster House) CONTACT: Call Bayshore Discovery Project at 856-785-2060 for reservations and more information. Availability is limited. DETAILS: Friday, June 26th Afternoon Sail: 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Adults (ages 13-59) $30; Seniors (60+) $25; Children (ages 3-12) $15. Saturday, June 27th Afternoon Sail: 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Adults (ages 13-59) $30; Seniors (60+) $25; Children (ages 3-12) $15. Evening Sail: 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. All passengers $35 Sunday, June 28th Afternoon Sail: 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Adults (ages 13-59) $30; Seniors (60+) $25; Children (ages 3-12) $15. Join the crew of the restored 1928 Delaware Bay oyster schooner, A.J. MEERWALD, for a sail on the Atlantic off Cape May. Help the crew haul lines and raise sails -- learn about the amazing maritime heritage of the region -- or simply enjoy the ride. Pack your camera or binoculars, and bring along a picnic lunch and beverages. Monday June 29 - Friday July 3 Maritime Camp still has spaces for teens On Monday June 29th, the MEERWALD will embark on a five-day Maritime Camp sailing up the NJ coast from Cape May to Jersey City. Campers aged 13-16 will spend the week living the life of a tall ship sailor - learning nautical skills, environmental lessons, sea chanties, and much more. On Friday when they arrive at Liberty State Park, family members can join them for a two and a half hour sail. Space is limited to 12 campers, but there are still a few spots available on this maritime adventure. Call for further information. Other Maritime Camp dates available. Century Savings Bank is this seasons Homeport Sponsor. For more information about Bayshore Discovery Project, visit www.bayshorediscovery.org. The Bayshore Discovery Project received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State. |
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| Two award winning local women artists team up to offer the community a unique look at nature inspired art. "Wings" - photographs by Tina Giaimo of Cape May and hand tinted block prints by Janet Payne of West Cape May is on display at the Nature Center of Cape May at 1610 Delaware Ave through July. A meet the artists reception is scheduled for June 19th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm as part of the kick off of this year's Harbor Fest. Giaimo has traveled near and far to capture her images of birds in their natural habitat. Included in her display is the rare Anna's Hummingbird with it's bright fushia throat. "My love affair with photography started at an early age. I was about seven when I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, which I still have today," says Giaimo. Giaimo is the owner of Spirit Catcher Photography in Carpenter's Square Mall. She enjoys photographing with her husband Don Merwin. Their love of nature, wildlife and Cape May shine through in all the photographs they take. She is seldom seen without her camera. Payne's playful use of color adds a unique quality to her intricately carved block prints. " It is very peaceful to carve. What you carve away on the block is just as important as what you leave behind," Payne says of her work. "The hand tinting with pastels really makes each piece unique," adds Payne. Among her subjects are blue herons, purple egrets and colorful fish of the Atlantic Ocean. Payne enjoys working in her studio, teaching art and volunteering at Cape May City Elementary School. Both artists will be on hand Friday, June 19th to discuss their art techniques and offer tips to budding artists. All artwork is for sale. Light refreshments will be served. Following the reception there will be a Summer Solstice Bonfire at the Nature Center with entertainment by Carl Behrens. Please call 898-8848 for more information. Photo Captions: Anna's Hummingbird, photograph by Tina Giaimo. Heron, hand tinted block print by Janet Payne. |
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