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Donna and Jerry Ruane, of Wildwood and Media, Pa., with The Wildwood Leader standing at the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park on June 7, 2008. |
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Baum family vacation Kim, Kayla and Kassidy Baum of Mays Landing visited Universal Studios in Hollywood, Calif., with Dad Kenny, who is taking the picture. |
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This is a picture of the Middle Township Gazette as it went to the Big Kahuna, Half Ironman held in Santa Cruz, Calif., on Sept. 7. Lt. MaryCarla Erausquin (center) completed the event for the first time. Martha Powell, her grand aunt(left), and Joanne Erausquin, mother (right) were there to see her come through the finish line. MaryCarla attended Middle Township High School and is now a resident of San Diego. Joanne Erausquin is from Cape May Court House. Martha Powell resides in Santa Cruz and hosted the family visit. The Gazette makes it to the finish! |
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Getting a taste of the Old Town Vi Goss of Absecon visited with her grandson Sean Michael and his wife, Tess, along with her three great-grandchildren, Evan, Elliot and Ezra-Sue. They spent the day visiting the sights of Old Town San Diego State Historic Park in California and enjoyed a great Mexican dinner while there. |
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A California Christmas Nate, Karen, Ashley and Sasha Peebles of Somers Point were in Oceanside, Calif., for Christmas and New Year’s, visiting parents, aunts, uncles and cousins. The Peebles also had a side trip to visit Mickey and Minnie in Disneyland. |
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For the month of July, Nancy Stella, of Wildwood, visited her son, Vince and his wife Trish in San Carlos, California and accompanied them on their annual vacation to Lake Tahoe. Vince looks forward to reading his hometown news in The Wildwood Leader. |
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The O’Keefe family of Wildwood Crest recently took the
Gazette on a family camping trip to Yosemite National Park.
Pictured are Joey O’Keefe, 7, Jimmy O’Keefe, 9, and their
cousin Jake Cole, 8, from Bear Valley Springs, Calif. Jimmy and Joey are also shown with the Gazette at the Mariposa Grove
sign, home of the Giant Sequoia trees. |
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USS Midway follows The Current In June, Katherine Whitty of Margate traveled to San Diego, Calif. with her two daughters, Kathleen Whelan of Cape May Point and Joan Oates of Malvern, Pa. for her granddaughter Ellen Whitty's high school graduation. Her son, Michael Whitty of San Diego, is a retired Navy F-14 pilot, a commercial airline pilot, and a tour guide for the USS Midway Museum docked in San Diego. While they were visiting, her son gave them a private tour of the USS Midway along with The Current. From left are Michael Whitty, Kathleen Whelan, Katherine Whitty and Joan Oates. |
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A moving memorial to U.S. troops Vietnam veteran John Ferrera of Margate visited a makeshift memorial in Lafayette, Calif., to U.S. troops fallen in Iraq. The counter on the billboard changes as new crosses, stars of David and Islamic crescents are added. The memorial is a very dramatic and moving sight along Highway 24 near San Francisco. The photo was taken Feb. 11 by Barbara Ferrera. |
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Seeing nature’s beautiful side Leo and Marcia Orlando of Margate vacationed in Palm Springs, Calif. in February. They took The Current on a side trip to Joshua Tree National Park, which is about a mile above the desert floor and has incredible rock formations.
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Bill, Denise,Beverly & Robert Alessandrini visiting Hollywood Park racetrack in sunny California with The Wildwood Leader along for good luck. And it worked! All came home a winner! |
 A rocking vacationTim and Dianne Kelly and daughter Devon Kelly of Linwood hiked the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park near Los Angeles, Calif. last August. |
 The zoo at lastGerry Estep of Smithville traveled to California in July with her daughter, Kristen. During her travels she went to the San Diego Zoo for the first time in her life. They traveled all over southern California from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara visiting lots of family and friends. |
 Dwarfed by a Giant SequoiaThe Collins family of Egg Harbor Township went on a spring break trip to California for a vacation in Sequoia National Park and San Francisco. Pete Collins, his wife, Mary, 12-year-old daughter Ashley and her friend Rose Davidson spent a week hiking in 10 feet of snow amid the towering 2,500-year-old Giant Sequoias. Here, Rose, left, and Ashley sit in front of a cross-section of a fallen Giant Sequoia tree. They all spent several days in San Francisco, touring Alcatraz, hiking along the Pacific Coast, and enjoying the sights, sounds and food of Fisherman's Wharf. And The Current was there. |
 Catherine Jaffe, of Wildwood Crest, visiting her daughter
Rebecca, with The Leader in Dana Point, Calif., with the
beautiful sunset in the background. |
East meets West |
 “Greetings! The (above) photo is of our "gang" of friends
and family out in the boundless splendor of Lake Tahoe,
California. As would be expected during our travels, it was
obligatory to bring with us a Wildwood Leader newspaper. In
the photo are the following persons, from left, William
Crawford, Sean McNeill, Shannon McNeill, James Hunsicker,
Dan McNeill and Harry Bauer. All hail from various parts of
Cape May County. No trip is complete without the Gazette,"
-- Dan J. McNeill |
The Current goes to Hollywood |
 Bill Weaver of Bucks County, Pa. and Ocean City visited the
Pebble Beach, Calif. area and took in the Pro-Am Tournament
this past February. He took the Gazette for his daughter
Julie Weathers to catch up on Ocean City news. Julie lives
with her husband, Navy Lt. Jeremy Weathers, in Monterey,
Calif., where he attends graduate school. |
Pat Donat and Nancy Olivieri of Sea Isle City took the
Gazette to the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, Calif. on Jan.
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 The Wildwoods and The Wildwood Leader are well represented
here at the Holly Beach Tower in Hollywood, Florida.
Escaping the cold weather are Dorothy and Bill Gannon of
Wildwood, Anne Vinci, Mary Ellen Shields, Peg and Lou Bishop
of North Wildwood, and Betsy and Denny Tomlinson of Wildwood
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 In honor of Tony Pittaluga’s graduation from the Navy in San
Diego in October, the Gazette traveled with his sister
Theresa and wife Nancy. Also shown are mom and dad Patty and
Jim Elberson, his sister Maria and husband John Mazzuca,
aunts and uncles John and Mary Izzi, Terry Keating, Tina
Witherow, Ed and Sue Barr and Danny Konczyk. |
 Loyal to the corpsDottie Alton of Longport attended an annual Marine Corps reunion of her late husband, Ralph Alton, of Fighter Squadron VMF 115 in San Diego, Calif., in September and made sure to bring along The Current. She is pictured in front of an F4U Corsair similar to the one her husband flew in the Pacific during his service in World War II. Dottie was also a Marine at the time in the Women’s Reserve. She was a sergeant stationed at Cherry Point, N.C. The two met there, married after the war’s end, and raised five children in Ventnor. |
The Current goes Hollywood |
 Atop the ‘crookedest’ streetMadeleine and Raymond Lewis and their parents, Bill and Dawn of Galloway Township climbed to the top of the famously crooked Lombard Street in San Francisco during their vacation to California the last week in August. The winding road with hairpin curves that zigzags down one of the city’s many steep hills is often called “America’s crookedest street.” |
Majoring in travel |
Lilly Mytyk and Dee Carlino, owners of Sorella Salon in Galloway, traveled to Fullerton, Calif. to visit Dee’s son Chris Carlino, formerly of Galloway. Here, Lilly, Dee and Chris show off a copy of The Current before leaving it at a sushi restaurant so California residents could read the latest news from South Jersey. |
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 Colleen Spurlock of Palermo, Tina Spadafora of Ocean City
and Joe Spurlock of Palermo took the Gazette hiking at Muir
Woods on their trip to San Francisco. |
 In September, Nancy Keough of Ocean City visited San Diego
Sea World with her Gazette and family, granddaughters Julia
and Natasha Keough. |
 San Francisco surpriseThe Marr family of Galloway Township was in shock when they ran into their neighbors, the Cassin family, while vacationing in San Francisco, CA, in July. They had to document this remarkable coincidence by taking a picture together on Pier 39 with the Current. Shown in back are Julius Cassin, Laura (a foreign exchange student from Spain), Laurel Cassin, Lori Cassin, Hailey Marr, Vicki Marr, and John Marr. Holding The Current are Auggie Cassin and Hannah Marr. Not shown are Damian Cassin and Oscar (also visiting the Cassins from Spain). |
East Coast meets West Coast |
 Vincent and Barbara Rosica of Ocean City took the Gazette on
a visit to the Napa Valley’s wine country via train ride
through the vineyards of California. |
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California dreaming The Woods family of Egg Harbor Township visited the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Calif., in December. Shown from left are Julia Vieg and Kathy, Kaela and Emily Woods (front and center). Vieg is an exchange student from Germany who is attending Egg Harbor Township High School. She will be heading home at the end of June and she’ll be taking along copies of The Current to share with her community.
Together again in Iowa Bill Long of Pleasantville, center, is shown with his father, Dale Long; sister Cheryl Kemp; mother, Georgia Long; and aunt Betty Easterday. When Long’s sister arrived from Woodland, Calif., to visit with the family at Fort Madison, Iowa, in April, he had not seen her in 10 years. 
Linda and Larry Carnuccio of Ocean
City took the Gazette with them to serve as marshals at the Buick
Invitational Golf Tournament at Torrey Pines, in La Jolla, Calif.
Leggo my Current! The Hornsteins of Egg Harbor Township went on a trip to San Diego, Calif., that included a stop at Legoland in nearby Carlsbad. Shown are Dave, Colleen, Evan, 9, and Josh, 7 – all but Dave holding fast to The Current. |
 Getting their Naval exercise Linda Santon and Misty Poole of Egg Harbor Township visited the Navy's USS Midway docked at San Diego Bay in sunny California in early spring. Linda Santon, who works for the Federal Aviation Administration, attended a SANS training course in San Diego as well. They visited the National Salute to Bob Hope and the military statues.
Several families traveled to California in
January for the wedding of Megan Hope, formerly of Marmora,
and Stephen Garcia. Visiting Alcatraz Island in San
Francisco is Bob Adams, Bob Dowling, Jeff, Patti and
Samantha Dowling, Katie Hope, Roger, Sandy, Nicole and Zac
Colao and the bride and groom.
Surf’s up in California Shaun Wigglesworth (center) and Robert Whiteside (right), both of Linwood, traveled to Huntington Beach, Calif., last summer to visit their friend Tyler Sirna (left) and attend the U.S. Open Surfing Competition.
Leader out on Left Coast
Lego snapshot The Bellinger family of Somers Point spent 10 days in San Diego, Calif., in June. The trip included a stop at Legoland where Aaron, 12, and Nicholas, 9, took time out to read their favorite newspaper. Submitted by Michael Bellinger. |
Julie Cusack of Beesley’s Point traveled at Easter
time to California with her grandparents Marian and Pat
Henry of Ocean City to visit cousins Taya and Ziggy Henry of
Berkeley and Krissy Henry of San Francisco. A day was spent
in San Francisco with the Gazette touring the Exploratorium
on the grounds of the Palace of Fine Arts.
Basking in tradition Alberta and Martin Leventon of Somers Point are pictured in Coronado, Calif., across the bay from San Diego. Their first trip to the area was an anniversary gift from their children 15 years ago, and they have repeated the trip every winter since. March 9 was their 50th anniversary.
Leader’s off to the Golden Gate
Sunset in California Beth Keelan and daughters, Christine, 11, and Lauren, 9, took The Current to Half Moon Bay, Calif., in October. They spent the afternoon at the pumpkin patch on the coast and then headed over to the beach for the evening to watch the sunset. They have a house in Margate and they love reading The Current. |
Poker in paradise The Demko family is on the move again. Nina and Bill Demko of Linwood visited Palm Desert and Palm Springs as well as Santa Barbara, Calif. Their daughters Ilana and Brooke of Arlington, Va., joined them. While in California they did lots of sightseeing and shopping and played plenty of golf and poker.
Tommy and Patrick Cusack of Beesley’s Point spend Thanksgiving vacation with their grandparents Marian and Pat Henry of Ocean City, visiting their cousins Eli and Diego Henry of Hemet, Calif., formerly of Marmora. One day, with the Gazette, was spent in San Diego enjoying Sea World.
Open up that Golden Gate Natalie and Griffin Halsted of Galloway Township posed for a picture with the sun setting behind the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. They went to California to visit their Aunt Dee, who lives in San Francisco. Visit Travelocity for San Francisco Deals 
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Dr. Gary C. Pavlis of Egg Harbor Township and Andrea Daniel of Linwood recently visited San Francisco and the wine country of California. The picture was taken at Mumm Sparkling Wine Napa Valley. |
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