This past weekend dozens of area families have visited InfoAge to see the holiday train display.   It is a special time for InfoAge volunteers seeing the kids enjoy the trains in the Marconi Hotel that the volunteers worked so hard to save.  The display is open this Friday the 15^th, 7PM to 10PM, on Saturday and Sunday noon to 6PM.  Next weekend the display will be open just on Friday and Saturday.  A $5.00 donation is asked of adults and all kids under 12 are free with an adult.  
     The Marconi hotel dining room has 10 model layouts from tiny Z gauge to giant G gauge.   The displays are presented by the Garden State Central of Asbury Park (GSC) and the John Pugh Ring #96 Circus model bulders of Central New Jersey.   The expertise and detail of the railroad and circus train modelers craftsmanship is impressive.   In the wireless operator lounge Mike Golub of Neptune is exhibiting his massive collection of Christmas village figurines.     
    This year Mr. Robert Judge of the GSC and InfoAge assistant director has directed the holiday train display.   In 1999, at Mrs. Clinton’s invitation, Mr. Judge created a holiday ornament that featured the Marconi Hotel for the White House.   The model was displayed on a Christmas tree in the west wing of the White House.     
    In between the trains are Christmas trees.  The center piece Victorian Christmas tree is decorated with hand made Victorian ornaments made by Dee Burrows, Linda Boyle and Ellen Judge.  The ladies spend many hours sewing and gluing lace and fabric to make the gorgeous ornaments.   
   The featured HO gauge layout was originally built by Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers in the Holmdel Labs.  The Holmdel chapter 132 of the New Outlook Pioneers of Lucent Technologies saved the layout and gave it to InfoAge.   Doug Natale, President of the GSC, and club members were excited that InfoAge invited the club to repair the Lucent layout and to host the holiday Train display.  
    Don Rue, president of the John Pugh Ring of the circus model builders and its members had been looking for a location to exhibit their circus models when InfoAge approached them.  They are exhibiting tiny Z gauge, HO and O gauge circus trains.    
   This weekend the circus builders will present hand carved circus wagons in 1” scale from the Bill Barritt Collection.    Mr. Barritt when he was alive loved to carve circus wagons and he displayed them throughout New Jersey and Virginia.   Todd Robinson’s circus display shows how all the circus’s unloaded their wagons from the trains.  
   During the past few weeks community members have helped InfoAge collect Christmas toys for the Salvation Army, Asbury Park.  InfoAge and the Salvation Army thank the kind persons who dropped off dozens of donated toys that were forwarded to the Salvation Army.  The toys will brighten many a child’s holiday.

In the history of World War II, Camp Evans holds an important place. Historians call World War II the "Radar War." They even call radar "the invention that saved democracy." Now is the time to dedicate this unique historic site as a World War II memorial to those who helped win the war with advanced electronics.

To honor the service of World War II veterans, the Borough of Belmar, the Township of Wall and the County of Monmouth passed resolutions designating the Camp Evans Historic District as the World War II Living Memorial. Council member John Szeliga of Belmar, Wall Mayor Edward Thompson III and Freeholder Ted Narozanik sponsored the resolutions.