Jim and Cathy Finnegan, Bill and Mary Woods and Andrea and Don Paul get together at the Exchange Club Thanksgiving dinner.

The Christmas holiday shopping season kicked off with the Charity League’s annual Christmas Mart at the Greate Bay Country Club. Ladies in holiday sweaters arrived early to start their Christmas shopping and to pick up their coveted Charity League Christmas pin.

Brian Barry and Nicholas Hanson welcome Ron and Beverly Denney and Cathy and Jim Finnegan to lunch at the Marine training base.

On the road again. That’s right, Ron Denney put together another trip in a series of educational excursions sponsored by the Exchange Club of Ocean City to military training facilities.

Around Our Town with Cathy Finnegan

It was a bright sunny day when the 17th annual Sunshine Golf Classic, sponsored by the Messner Foundation, teed off at the Harbor Pines Golf Club. Norma D’Angelo, Beth Bowman, Carole Aust, Joanne Marzulli and Barbara Riggione arrived at Harbor Pines by 9:30 a.m. to set up the Chinese and silent auctions, register golfers and sell mulligans and raffle tickets, then they took turns during the classic monitoring holes-in-one, longest drive and closest to the pin holes.

Bill and Muriel Elliott, center, smile with Jay Gillian, Abby Crafts, Greg Gregory, and Caren and Brian Broadley.

When the Ocean City Regional Chamber of Commerce roasted Bill Elliott at their annual event at Sandi Point, the sign outside the restaurant appropriately read “Special Tonight – Roasted Elliott.” Shawnda McGinnis, Barbara Brown and Caitlin Greene greeted guests when they arrived while Michele Gillian and Rose Savastano made final arrangements in the dining room.

Jay and Michele Gillian stand with volunteers Joe and Doris DiCorcia, Barbara and Bob Lautenschlager and Mike Dattilo at the Ecumenical Council luncheon.

The Ocean City Ecumenical Council held its annual volunteer’s luncheon at St. Peter’s United Methodist Church on a bright sunny day to thank those who work at the Food Cupboard and Clothes Closet. Sue Baker and Nancy Notaro greeted guests when they arrived and gave them their nametags. Don Paul was stationed outside St. Peter’s in the Wesley Avenue parking lot, which was filled with trucks of men working on the major renovations at the church, to direct volunteers to St. Peter’s lot on Central Avenue or the Presbyterian lot across the street.

  Gary and Denise Jessel pose for a picture with their family, Tricia and Paul Audino, Clay and DJ Rossiter and Sydney and Carley Rossiter.

There was a mass exodus out of Ocean City on a late summer Saturday night when over 200 guests made their way over the Corson’s Inlet bridge and converged on the beach outside the Deauville Inn to surprise Denise Jessel and celebrate this “party girl” turning 60.