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Bruce Springsteen Fans Unite!

August 25's Movie on the Sand features Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band live from New York City video.

Visit www.marvelousmargate.com for more information.

CHECK OUT OUR NEW OCEAN CITY BAYFRONT LISTING

FEATURED ON FORBES.COM!!!!

(Along with some other really cool homes)

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/homes-of-the-real-jersey-shore.html

JOLLY PETS is open in Margate!

9412 Ventnor Ave.,Margate

609.350.7518

No need to make a trip off the island for premium pet food for Fee Fee or Fido.   Jolly Pets has recently opened its doors and offers quality pet supplies right here in dear old Margate.

These mutts of mine are spoiled and particular. I've threated them repeatedly. I've tried enrolling them in psychotherapy. I've driven them past the pound and told them to eat up, or they can "walk to the light..."

Nothing's worked.  It seems, the breeder I use brings her dogs up on some esoteric dog food made only in Maryland. I can tell you first hand, that stuff has been harder to find than a good Cuban cigar in this land of the free.  I've had to go the online route. Ugh...

I practically had to grab the nitroglycerin when I discovered Barbara Jolly's Jolly Pets carries the dang stuff. I couldn't believe it.  No more on line ordering with those outrageous shipping fees. I figure it's Karma for all the bullying I was subjected to in my younger years. Since then I've learned to forgive my younger sisters and just let the baggage go.

No more resentful bitches glaring at me like they did when I used to reach for that bargain brand crap I insisted on shoving down their spoiled throats. Now I'm out of hot water, at least for a while. I'm back to being an animal lover.

Barb told me today, she's happy to announce her shop is now offering professional pet grooming.  But don't get me started on that one...

Questions?  Give Barb and her staff a call at 609.350-7518 

MARKET STATISTICS THROUGH: JULY 31ST, 2011

AREA:                NUMBER SOLD:              AVERAGE SOLD PRICE:

BRIGANTINE

2010                     134                                $426,844

2011                     137  UP 2%                   $339,183

ATLANTIC CITY, MARGATE, VENTNOR, LONGPORT

2010                     386                                $395,879

2011                     399  UP 3%                   $389,119

OCEAN CITY

2010                     370                                $568,168

2011                     449  UP 21%                 $565,920

AVALON & STONE HARBOR

2010                     104                                N/A

2011                     158  UP 55%                 N/A

SEA ISLE

2010                     119                                 N/A

2011                     115  DOWN 3%              N/A

UPPER TOWNSHIP

2010                     64                                   $304,388

2011                     59  DOWN 8%                $260,438

ABSECON, GALLOWAY TWP., EHT, SOMERS POINT

2010                    602                                  $211,288

2011                    494  DOWN 18%             $195,512

JEWISH SUMMER FEST

Sunday, August 14th -- 6 p.m.

Don't miss out! The Jewish Summer Fest is being held on the beach at the Ventnor Library (Newport Ave, Ventnor)

Rides! Crafts! Games! Carnival! Kosher BBQ!

FREE CONCERT with Yellow Red Sky Band

For information:  (609) 822-8500   www.jewishsummerfest.com

Regarding Multiple Emergency Vehicles En Route

It's common knowledge and common sense to yield to approaching, crossing, and passing emergency vehicles.

On my way to work today, those of us in the left lane yielded to an approaching siren. The driver directly ahead of me yielded, failed to watch out for the 2nd ambulence following closely behind. The result was alarming close to tragic. Due to the training and skill of that ambulance driver, tragedy was averted for a number of vehicles. Believe me, I'm not ready to meet my Maker. I've got a ton of atoning to do first...

Emergency Medical Personal and First Responders continue to warn that drivers and pedestrians seem to  ASSUME that once the ambulance, police car, fire truck, emergency vehicle passes, they can immediately resume positioning on the road WITHOUT REGARD for A TAILING emergency vehicle (or that impatient cowboy who enjoys riding the tail of the responder.)

Many times, there is a tailing Paramedic, police vehicle, or first responder en route as well -- especially here in Paradise!

Let's take our time, and keep our eyes open for the unsung heroes who are there to protect and serve us so that we can go about our lives and vacations safely.

Le Tour de Downbeach, in its 3rd year, will be held on September 11. The ride runs from Ventnor to Longport and back to Margate.

There's a barbeque planned after the ride.  The Tour begins at 9:30 a.m. at Newport Avenue in Ventnor.  

This will be my first year attending the event.  I was recently informed by one of my fresh kids that mastery of the French tongue has, in fact, never been a requirement for participation. To think that I've wasted 2 years, the result of costly misinformation from one of those condescending, spandex-clad bicyclists who was snickering with his trophy gal-pal by the poster.

The race is advertised as a "friendly bike ride."  I, for one, am not the amiable type when it comes to serious competition like Le Tour.  I've been training with intensity and focus just to be nice? Come on!  Off come the training wheels, my friends.  I am out for victory. 2nd place would surely be heartbreak. 3rd, social suicide. After that, I'm back to quoits at the Senior center with my mother-in-law.

Fair warning, if you are in my way on the 11th, I will squeeze the horn but ONE time.  Fear it.  Move it or lose it, Grandma. I'm driven for the recognition, the adulation, the respect this "ride" (r-a-c-e) promises to bring me.

See you there...and eat my dust.

It's a real scorcher out there --so they say...I'm sure Philly, Cherry Hill, New York or wherever you find yourself is hot and uncomfortable. We wouldn't know, here in Margate.  We're praying for you though.

Why not get the kids together and jump in the car? Destination: Absecon Island -- Margate, Atlantic City, Ventnor, Longport. Ocean temps have been heavenly as has been the "eye-candy" on the beach. What could be more visually stimulating than Lucy the Elephant from a strategically placed lounge chair on our ever-popular Washington Avenue "thong beach."

I've come a l-o-n-g way since those unforgivably hot summers without air conditioning plaguing my adolescent years. There was no such thing as the shore back then. For reasons beyond my father's control (alcohol and competitive cock fighting), we never traveled beyond the city limits most summers.

I've got to hand it to him though. My father had some reasonably affordable ideas for keeping us 8 kids entertained while reform school was in summer recess.  Family Fun Day, every third Sunday was filled with excitement. Two of my old man's favorite Fun Days included: tarring the driveway or if we were lucky and Butch won his fight the previous night, being allowed to cool off on the tomb stones in the grave yard behind the house.

Believe-you-me, my quality of life has improved dramatically since I was asked to leave the house that memorable Christmas morning. Margate is heaven to me. The restaurants, the beach, the good times.

And most of all, I no longer have to contend with the hassle of spending innumerable Sunday afternoons in the local emergency room while one of us eight kids got an arm or leg casted, the result of the dreaded frisbee competitions we were forced to participate in at the monthly family picnic in the graveyard behind the house.  

I recall fondly, Dad ranting and raving that any hopes of the full ride he'd been planning for me to a Division 1 frisbee powerhouse was quickly fading.  But I've got to hand it to him. My old man never seemed to give up hope in me and the possibility of eventual fame and riches as a pro thrower. To this day, despite the Alzheimer's, my old man recognizes me when I visit. I know he still recognizes me, because he'll see me and start yelling , "Jump, you moron. Jump!"

Yeah, life is less complicated now here in Margate.