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Best Of The Press September 6 2012

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Jerry Blavat at Lighthouse Pointe Restaurant in Shawcrest Lower Township. Thursday Aug. 23, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Jerry Blavat does his show at Lighthouse Pointe Restaurant in the Shawcrest section of Lower Township on Aug. 23.

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Jerry Blavat at Lighthouse Pointe Restaurant in Shawcrest Lower Township. Thursday Aug. 23, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Sister James Dolores is the caretaker for the retreat. Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Sister James Dolores is the caretaker for the retreat and shows a phone booth she constructed at the retreat. Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Volunteer Nancy Walker of Stone Harbor, helps put together auction baskets the surfing contest dinner. Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Sister James Dolores is the caretaker for the retreat and stands on the upper beach of the private beach the retreat owns. Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Sister James Dolores (right) and volunteer Anthony Hillman of Cape Ma Court House, work on the new scoreboard for the surf contest. Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Best Of The Press September 6 2012

Sister Andrew Marie, organizes the merchandise that will be sold by the retreat during the surfing contest. Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Sister James Dolores is the caretaker for the retreat and walks through a garden on the grounds that has the stations of the cross. Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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The Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center at Utsch's Marina in Lower Township a new excursion boat, the American Star that was once a whale watch boat from Seward, Alaska. The boat dry docked at Yank's Marine in Tuckahoe and will be moved to Cape May by the weekend according to owner Jim Cicchitti. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Sister James Dolores is the caretaker for the retreat and stands in the chapel. Villa Maria by the Sea on 111th and the beach in Stone Harbor serves as a religious retreat for nun and sponsors a surfing contest each year to raise funds for the retreat. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Riley Gunnels goes over a project with production manager, Omar Rivera, of the Cardiff section of Egg Harbor Township, straight off the full color offset digital imaging press. Signal Graphics is a print shop, a franchise owned and operated by NFL veteran Riley Gunnels and his wife, Kay. Riley played with the championship Eagles in the early 1960s and then went to the Steelers. He caters to professional firms, municipalities and small businesses, printing forms, stationery and marketing items for them. Thursday, September, 6, 2012, 2012 ( Press of Atlantic City/ Danny Drake)

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Mike Wiesen, of Ventnor, AAAA Bike Shop owner, on his bike with a Le Tour de Downbeach T-shirt on. The Le Tour de Downbeach started five years ago as the Tour de Ventnor, a takeoff on bike-racing's legendary Tour de France. But this was just a ride, not a race, and everybody in it got the yellow jersey that only the leader in that other tour gets. Thursday, September, 6, 2012, 2012 ( Press of Atlantic City/ Danny Drake)

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