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EMERGENCY - The emergency department at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford is once again certified to handle most trauma patients. Page 2 FORECLOSURES - A short sale offers an alterna- tive to foreclosure. Page 6 HEALTH - Are all natural snacks healthier or not? Page 10 WINNERS - Trinity, Danny Short are among list of 2009 winners in Riverfest. Page 12 TAXES - CRI looks at need to thoroughly analyze how every tax dollar is being spent. Page 23 POLICE - A car with three young children inside slams into a house near Laurel. Page 37 FIREMAN HURT - A volunteer firemen is injured while directing traffic at an accident scene. Page 51 50 cents VOL. 14 NO. 13 THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009 BULLETIN BOARD 16 BUSINESS 6 CHURCH 20 CLASSIFIEDS 30 EDUCATION 24 FINAL WORD 51 GAS LINES 44 GOURMET 27 HEALTH 10 LETTERS 50 LYNN PARKS 29 MOVIES 7 OBITUARIES 21 PAT MURPHY 19 PEOPLE 15 POLICE JOURNAL 37 PUZZLES 47 SNAPSHOTS 48 SPORTS 39 TIDES 7 TONY WINDSOR 47 Sports DERRIK - Seaford graduate Derrik Gibson steps into the batter’s box at the Lowell Spinners’ game played in Staten Island. Gibson was draft- ed in the second round in Boston Red Sox and is their 23rd top prospect. See story on page 41. Photo by Lynn Schofer SSA SWIMMING - The SSA Dolphins recently had a home meet. See results and photos starting on page 40. News Index By Lynn R. Parks It couldn’t have gone any better. Such was the report on the 15th annual Riverfest that chairwoman Trisha New- comer gave to the Seaford City Coun- cil Tuesday night. “It went wonderfully,” she said. “We couldn’t have asked for any nicer weather.” The downtown Seaford festival was held last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Between 10,000 and 12,000 people attended, Newcomer said. About 400 people participated in the festival’s signature event, the Nan- ticoke River Float-In. By inner tube, kayak or inflatable raft, they made their way downriver from Benz Urology near U.S. 13 to the city’s canoe launch on North Street. “That was a very good turnout,” Newcomer said, especially considering the fact that the Float-In started at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Starting time is deter- mined by the tides. New this year was an antique tractor show, set up on High Street near the Continued to page five Riverfest enjoys perfect weather Riverfest glimpses clockwise from top left: State Rep. Danny Short takes his turn in the dunking booth, Elvis Presley tribute singer Michael O’Connor performs, smiles abound during the float in, and Shannon Layton, 9, of Seaford, enjoys a snack. Photos by SD Smith
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EMERGENCY - The emergency department at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford is once again certified to handle most trauma patients. Page 2
FORECLOSURES - A short sale offers an alterna-tive to foreclosure. Page 6
HEALTH - Are all natural snacks healthier or not? Page 10
WINNERS - Trinity, Danny Short are among list of 2009 winners in Riverfest. Page 12
TAXES - CRI looks at need to thoroughly analyze how every tax dollar is being spent. Page 23
POLICE - A car with three young children inside slams into a house near Laurel. Page 37
FIREMAN HURT - A volunteer firemen is injured while directing traffic at an accident scene. Page 51
graduate Derrik Gibson steps into the batter’s box at the Lowell Spinners’ game played in Staten Island. Gibson was draft-ed in the second round in Boston Red Sox and is their 23rd top prospect. See story on page 41. Photo by Lynn Schofer
SSA SWIMMING - The SSA Dolphins recently had a home meet. See results and photos starting on page 40.
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By Lynn R. Parks
It couldn’t have gone any better. Such was the report on the 15th annual Riverfest that chairwoman Trisha New-comer gave to the Seaford City Coun-cil Tuesday night.
“It went wonderfully,” she said. “We couldn’t have asked for any nicer weather.”
The downtown Seaford festival was held last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Between 10,000 and 12,000 people attended, Newcomer said.
About 400 people participated in the festival’s signature event, the Nan-ticoke River Float-In. By inner tube, kayak or inflatable raft, they made their way downriver from Benz Urology near U.S. 13 to the city’s canoe launch
on North Street. “That was a very good turnout,”
Newcomer said, especially considering the fact that the Float-In started at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Starting time is deter-mined by the tides.
New this year was an antique tractor show, set up on High Street near the
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Riverfest enjoys perfect weather Riverfest glimpses clockwise from top left: State Rep. Danny Short takes his turn in the dunking booth, Elvis Presley tribute singer Michael O’Connor performs, smiles abound during the float in, and Shannon Layton, 9, of Seaford, enjoys a snack. Photos by SD Smith
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Nanticoke Memorial Hospital CEO Steve Rose, left, and trauma medical director Stephen Carey show off the plaque certifying that the Nanticoke emergency department is a level III trauma center. The plaque, which will be put up again, was removed two years ago when the department lost its level III designation. In the background is Lisa Wile, director of emergency services. Photo by Lynn R. Parks.
Nanticoke Memorial attains level III trauma center statusBy Lynn R. Parks
The emergency department at Nan-ticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford is once again certified to handle most trauma patients. With the addition of round-the-clock emergency orthopedic care, the department has met the requirements for a level III trauma center, as defined by the American College of Surgeons.
“This is a great day, a beautiful day, a momentous day,” hospital spokesman Tom Brown told a crowd of about 100 people, including local dignitaries, hospi-tal staff and volunteers with the Seaford Volunteer Fire Department, on Monday. “Today, we have level III trauma status, with coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
Other level III trauma centers in Dela-ware are located at Beebe Medical Center, Lewes, and at Bayhealth Medical Centers in Dover and Milford. Christiana Hospital near Newark has the only level I trauma center in the state. The state’s only level II center is at the A. I. duPont Hospital for Children near Wilmington.
Nanticoke lost its level III status two years ago, in July 2007, when it could not guarantee that an orthopedic surgeon would be available in its emergency de-partment. Since then, patients needing emergency orthopedic care have been taken to other hospitals in the area, includ-ing the Bayhealth Medical Centers and Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.
“This will be easier on us and easier on the patients,” said Tyler Wood, a five-year volunteer with the Seaford Vol-unteer Fire Department and driver of the ambulance that brought Nanticoke CEO Steve Rose and doctors Stephen Carey and Rafik Muawwad to the announcement ceremony. “Now, we won’t have to take patients all the way to Dover or Salisbury. We’ll have a 10-minute drive instead of a 30-minute drive.”
“You can’t have ambulances driving past your hospital,” said Carey, a surgeon and Nanticoke’s trauma medical direc-tor. “But that’s what we have had for two years.”
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Four candidates have announced they are running for the state Senate seat in the 19th District that was held by the late Thurman Adams Jr. They are Polly Ad-ams Mervine, Thurman’s daughter, state Rep. Joe Booth, Matthew A. Opaliski and Gwendolyn Jones. Following is a look at the candidates.
Polly Adams MervineBy Carol Kinsley
Polly Adams Mervine officially kicked off her campaign for State Senate with a series of public meetings on Monday, July 13, starting in her hometown of Brid-geville, where her father, the late Sen. Thurman G. Adams Jr., was laid to rest just three weeks ago.
Joined by elected officials, commu-nity activists and campaign supporters, Mervine went on to stops in Greenwood, Ellendale, Milton, and Georgetown — all towns in the 19th District she seeks to represent.
At a Western Sussex Democratic Club Picnic at Dukes Recreational Poolhouse in Laurel in the evening, Democrats rallied support for her campaign.
In Bridgeville, Sen. Bob Venables said that after talking with Mervine he knew she was “a chip off the block” with the same values as her father. “I’m really ex-cited about Polly taking her father’s place in the Senate,” he said.
Former Bridgeville Mayor Joe Con-away said, “Nobody is running who is bet-ter prepared. Democrats and Independents cannot lose this seat, or the people of the 19th District will suffer.”
Mervine said she and her family are putting aside their grief to engage in a battle to retain her father’s seat for the Democratic Party. “It won’t be easy,” she said, to run against an experienced and well-known Republican. “But we will match (his campaign) with energy, resources and support from diverse areas. There are multiple issues that need to be explored, (including) a balanced budget and strong financial management without higher taxes. A smaller, better organized state government will serve us well.”
Her teaching background — Mervine taught second grade at North Laurel El-ementary School and previously taught English for All Nippon Airways in Oki-nawa, Japan — and a son who is a rising high school freshman, make education a priority. She pledged to be a senator who
will put the residents of the 19th District first every day, because she cares about her constituents and brings strength and compassion to the job.
Mervine holds an elementary education teaching certification from East Carolina University and a bachelor of fine arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is co-owner of Fauxbulous FX Inc., a member of Union United Methodist Church, board member of Clear Space Productions, former children’s church coordinator and former board member of Delaware Pain Initiative. Mervine is also founder of Fund for Women and a found-ing sister of Epsilon Gamma Chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha.
Her husband, S. Jay Mervine, a pilot for American Airlines, was a captain in the U.S. Marines, serving in Desert Storm. Their son Stephen J. Mervine, Jr., will en-ter Sussex Tech this fall.
Joe BoothBy Carol Kinsley
A veritable Who’s Who of Republicans in Sussex County were on hand as State Representative Joe Booth, R-37th, an-nounced he would run for the Senate seat left vacant by the late Thurman Adams Jr. State Senators, Representatives, mayors and councilmen from Sussex County and Georgetown joined Booth’s family and friends July 7 at The Circle in Georgetown
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to lend their support.Booth has lived in Sussex all his
life. In fact, his family residency goes back 300 years, he said. His grandfa-ther served in the Senate in the 1930s, and his Uncle Robert, one-time State Insurance Commissioner, ran for gov-ernor in the ‘70s.
Booth, owner and operator of Thoro-Kleen Dry Cleaning Inc., said he was involved in several civic or-ganizations — including Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, Pop Warner, Little League — before his election to town council and then as Georgetown’s mayor. He also served on the Indian River School Board.
He was elected to the Delaware State House of Representatives in 2002 and is serving his fourth two-year term. He is a member of the Joint Finance Committee and still hopes, he said, “to see if we can’t get a state budget in Delaware that taxpayers can afford.”
Sen. Gary Simpson noted the suc-cess of Booth’s coffee meetings with constituents. “He knows what they want and he stays in touch. I can’t think of a better candidate. He’s a con-servative like his predecessor.”
Booth said the race would be diffi-cult because of the person he was seek-ing to replace, a political giant in the Delaware landscape. “Delaware will miss Thurman Adams.”
He urged voters to remember that “experience counts” on election day, Monday, Aug. 3. Booth and his wife Margie have five children and reside in Georgetown.
Gwendolyn JonesThe Libertarian Party of Delaware
announces that Gwendolyn (Wendy) Jones will run for the 19th Senate Dis-trict seat. Jones said she wants to bring a new spirit of liberty to Legislative Hall.
An active member of the Libertar-ian Party for almost 20 years, Jones is a member of the Executive Committee and serves as the Sussex County Sec-retary. She is a supporter of individual rights and, as a long time small busi-ness owner, will work to restore free-market entrepreneurship.
Her support of the Second Amend-ment is evidenced by being an NRA member for about 25 years, currently holding a Life-Endowment level mem-bership. She is also a Gun Owners of America member and she is the Dela-ware representative for Pink Pistols. She carries a well worn copy of the U.S. Constitution, which will be her guide in Dover.
A Milton resident since 2001, Jones has spent her spare time giving back to her community, mentoring at H.O. Brittingham Elementary School in Mil-ton, and she is currently donating her professional driving services for Sus-sex County Mobility Consortium.
Matthew A. OpaliskiGreenwood resident Matthew A.
Opaliski, 35, announces he will run for the State Legislature in the Special Election for Senate District 19.
Opaliski, a Republican who has lived in Sussex County since 1992, has long been involved in politics at many levels. With a passion for community involvement including many grassroots
efforts, along with political activism that has taken him from simply follow-ing local and state government issues to testifying in front of Legislative Committees and all the way to a run for the same District 19 seat in 2002 and 2006, he says ‘That same passion still burns strong, and when something just feels right, to the extent that you know that know you can and will make a positive and lasting impact, you have to follow your heart and act on it.’
As a service technician with JC Eh-rlich, Co. in Bridgeville, covering the Delmarva Peninsula he says, “I talk to people all over the downstate area in-cluding all of the areas in this District and people are craving new leadership with fresh ideas. They’re ready as much as I am to shake things up and I look forward to doing just that if I’m fortunate enough to be elected.”
With the encouragement and sup-port of his wife Ivy and their four children, Opaliski says that he looks forward to the shortened campaign and another opportunity to show the kids first hand what civic responsibility and involvement is all about, “When you see things that need to be changed for the better and the opportunity to effect that change presents itself you have a responsibility to act,” he said.
Opaliski says that he would like to establish a meaningful dialogue between constituents and the office of State Senate for the 19th District to create an avenue by which those whom the office is intended to serve may voice their concerns, thoughts and their ideas with the knowledge that they are indeed welcome and will be given seri-ous consideration.
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Seaford Museum. While the number of tractors in the show was small, Newcomer said, enthusiasm was high. “Next year, we hope to have even more tractors,” she said. Also new was the Community Awareness Fair, featuring booths set up by commu-nity service organizations. It too was a popular event, Newcomer said.
The festival started Thursday evening with open-ing ceremonies and a gospel concert in Gateway Park. “People really enjoyed that,” Newcomer said. “It is a low-key night, and people can just bring their chairs to Gateway Park, sit back and relax.” Concerts Friday and Saturday night — Anything Goes on Friday night and Mike Hines and the Look on Saturday — were well attended, Newcomer said.
Newcomer said that there is no doubt that the city will continue to host Riverfest. “It is great for the city and great for downtown,” she said. “It brings people into downtown and familiarizes them with what’s there, so that when they need something they can come back.”
But there will be a change next year. Amy Walls, a former city employee who now works for Discover Bank, is retiring from her long-time position as fes-tival co-chairwoman. Amanda Lloyd, who works for Pizza King, has volunteered to take her place.
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A week of celebration starting with a ribbon cut-ting and dedication of the new library will be held on Monday, Aug. 17, at 10 a.m. A Family Fun Day will be held Saturday, Aug. 22, from noon to 4 p.m.
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When Robert and Jane Johnson (not their real names) bought a home in 2005, they had high hopes for their new home. This was their “dream home.” All they had left to do was build a deck and begin to enjoy barbeques and family picnics; life was wonderful!
However, less than two years after pur-chasing their dream home, Robert began dealing with some medical issues. Due to his health and the impact of the economy, Robert lost his job. After about six months of struggling with all of the bills, they realized they were sinking into a financial abyss.
They talked with various financial advi-sors and concluded that, even with a loan modification of some sort, they could not pay their mortgage loan on the property. As painful as it was, they realized they needed to sell their home and find some-thing more affordable. They contacted a realtor to list their home for sale. They found that, due to the current real estate climate, in order to sell their home, they would have to price it below the amount they owed on their mortgage. When they originally purchased their home they had
maximized the loan to almost 100% of the sales price. Now, unfortunately, their mort-gage loan amount exceeded the estimated value of their home. Normally, this would mean that if the Johnsons sold the home below what they owed, they would have to pay the difference between the loan amount and the actual closing amount. They wondered if this nightmare could get any worse and began to feel their only way out of the financial stress was to sim-ply walk away from the house and allow the bank to foreclose. But they knew this would significantly impact their credit for years to come and limit their ability to buy another home in the future.
Fortunately, there is another alternative - a “short sale.”
When a borrower is in distress, some-times the bank is willing to consider ac-cepting less than what is owed on the balance of the mortgage loan. This is par-ticularly true when the foreclosure process may prove to be more expensive to the lender.
There are several parts to this:• The bank needs to have an under-
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• They have to prepare a “hardship let-ter” that explains the events that led to their current financial situation.
• The homeowners need to create and provide a full financial statement that out-lines their income, assets and debts. This document will need to be supported by W2 forms, pay stubs and bank and retirement plan statements. It is critical that the infor-mation confirms their financial hardship.
• The bank will want a comparative market analysis to determine the current market values and conditions of the area.
• Once the bank agrees with the short sale approach, the Johnsons must attract a
buyer.• If a buyer decides to buy the property,
a contract of sale is created and submitted to both the Johnsons, as the sellers, and the bank for approval.
• The buyer will need to produce proof of their ability to purchase the property.
• When the contract to purchase is sub-mitted, both the seller and buyer need to be patient.
This can be a lengthy process as the bank will require time to evaluate the con-tract, assess the appraisals and the relative value of the property, review the ability of the buyer, and analyze the bank’s cost of a short sale versus a foreclosure. This pro-cess can take 2 to 4 months.
Since this process is both stressful and complicated, it is often an advantage to en-list the help of a Real Estate professional. Such a professional can help with an explanation of the details of the hardship letter, coordinate and provide analysis of the property’s value, interact with bank of-ficials, and create a sales strategy to attract a buyer for the property.
Be sure to talk with a realtor who has experience with short sales and can guide you through the process to a successful outcome.
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Buyer beware of ‘all natural’ food labelsBy Mary Trotter, MS, RD
You’ve probably seen the advertise-ments by now. Potato chips with just three ingredients: potatoes, oil and salt. Ice cream with just five ingredients, including real sugar and cream. Even sodas are get-ting into the act, using real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. But does an all natural snack mean it’s healthier?
The definition of an all natural product simply means it contains no artificial in-gredients.
So for example, while there’s no argu-ing that sugar in ice cream is an all natural ingredient, there’s also no arguing that adding sugar to any food offers nothing more than “empty calories;” i.e., there’s no nutritional value.
Yes, cream is all natural; however, it contains over 20 times the unhealthy fat than something made with low-fat or fat-free milk.
In reality many ice cream products, along with many other snacks, have been made from all natural ingredients for years. The nutritional value of these snack foods hasn’t changed — just the way food companies choose to market them to the public.
This current trend in food marketing, a “back to basics” approach, trumpeting their goods as “all natural” and touting fewer ingredients, is in many respects a good thing. Fewer ingredients does mean less processed.
During food processing some nutrients may be removed, such as vitamins or fiber, while at the same time, other chemicals
may be added, like preservatives and fla-vorings. This is why whole grain crack-ers and chips — with the whole grain or seed and its vitamins, antioxidants, trace minerals, and fiber still intact — is a bet-ter nutritional option than plain saltines or crackers — where the grain has been milled to produce white flour, losing many of those important nutrients and fiber. But what still matters most in any food you consume is the nutrition density of the in-gredients going into the product, whether the product is labeled “all natural” or not. In other words, how much nutrition bang per calorie are you getting for that hard-earned buck?
Here are some healthy, all natural snack food ideas:
• Good old fruits and vegetables – It’s recommended for adults and children to get at least five servings of fruits and veg-etables everyday, so why not incorporate them into your snacks? Cut an apple in half and smear on some all natural peanut butter or put that peanut butter on celery and add some raisins to make your kids “ants on a log.”
Remember that buying local, in season, picking your own, supporting your nearby farmers markets, and buying frozen are all money-saving ways to provide these healthy options and stay within your food budget.
• Flavored water – If the thought of plain water has no appeal, why not try adding your own flavor? Orange or lemon slices are the usual tricks…but why not try raspberries, watermelon, or even cucum-
ber? There are also flavored waters on the market that are all natural with no calories. If you find them on sale, stock up!
• Trail mix – Trail mixes come in so many varieties and are easy to make on your own, allowing you to save some money and offer a great, all natural, on-the-go snack for your whole family.
• Pretzels – There are all natural, whole grain pretzels available. But even regular, store-brand pretzels are a much healthier, all natural option than potato or corn chips.
• Popcorn – Easy to make, easy to pack and store, and so easy to flavor! When made at home, popcorn can satisfy a sweet tooth or a salt craving naturally and with substantially less fat and fewer calories than many microwave or bagged varieties — and less cost too.
Of course, we all want to indulge at times. So if ice cream is a must-have treat in your household, why not try the slow churned variety?
It has less calories and unhealthy fat than traditional ice cream but maintains the creamy texture you know and love and all natural options are available. If chocolate is your go-to splurge, give a glass of low-fat chocolate milk a try. It’ll satisfy your
sweet tooth while also providing those other important nutrients you won’t find in a chocolate bar.
In today’s economic climate, we are all stretching our food dollars at the gro-cery store. Snack foods can have a place in a healthy diet but shop for them with a “buyer beware” attitude.
Look beyond the large print and big claims — “all natural,” “just three ingre-dients,” “real,” “pure,” — on the front of the food package and pay attention to the nutrition label and the ingredients list on the back. Understanding what’s in the food you eat gives you control and allows you the ability to decide what is best and healthiest for your family.
About the authorMary Trotter is a program and policy
analyst for Nemours Health & Prevention Services. A registered dietician with a master’s degree in human nutrition, Mary provides technical assistance, training, and staff support to community agencies, orga-nizations and coalitions implementing new health promotion strategies.
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Tylenol is safe taken as directedBy Dr. Anthony Policastro
There has been a lot in the news re-cently about the safety of Tylenol. The generic name for Tylenol is acetamino-phen. The issue is really not with Tylenol itself.
There are many drugs that contain acetaminophen besides Tylenol. These include Percocet, Darvocet, Ultracet and Nyquil.
When people get sick, they tend to take medications that they think will help them. Unfortunately, they do not always read the labels. Someone who takes Tyle-nol for a headache and Nyquil for a cold is getting a double dose of acetamino-phen.
The FDA’s main concern is people mixing medications. It is much better to take a preparation with a single drug in it. Once you begin taking combinations, it can create issues for things other than acetaminophen.
Another problem is the frequency of dosing. Acetaminophen is listed as an every four hour drug and the maximum daily dose is 4,000 mg per day. If you
take two regular strength tablets, that is about 650 mg per day. If you take it ex-actly every four hours that would be six doses per day. Six times 650 comes out to just about 3,900 mg per day, which is within the daily dosage limit.
However, if you take extra strength tablets, the dose is 1,000 mg per dose. If you take these every four hours, you would take 6,000 mg per day - over the daily dosage limit.
For children, the recommendation is that you should give acetaminophen every four hours but not more than five times a day.
High dosages of acetaminophen causes liver problems. Many people choose acet-aminophen to overdose on when they at-tempt suicide because they think the drug won’t cause pain. Unfortunately, many of them go into liver failure because it does not do what they think it will.
Like all medication acetaminophen must be respected. It remains safe in the proper doses. Make sure you read the la-bel, follow dosage instructions and don’t mix it with other medications.
MORNING STAR • July 16 - 22, 2009 PAGE 11
Hospital to donate bike helmetsKent County Tourism has partnered
with Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington in conjunction with the 23rd Amish Country Bike Tour’s “Give A Child A Bike” campaign. The duPont Hospital’s Trauma Program will provide a helmet for every bike donated this year.
“If you have a used bicycle or a scooter in your garage that is no longer ridden, as long as it is in good condition, we can find a child that will put it to good use,” said Robin Coventry, director of public affairs and special events. “New bikes can also be purchased for under $100 and donated.”
Statewide businesses can become spon-sors or partners. To donate a bike, contact Kent County Tourism at 302-734-4888.
The 23rd Amish Country Bike Tour and Pedal Away Prostate Race is Sept. 12 on Legislative Mall in Dover. For more information or to register, visit www.visit-dover.com.
Kent County Tourism is working with the Boys and Girls Club in Delaware to locate children that need bicycles.
Law to help health insurance costsPremiums insurance companies charge
Delawareans for medical coverage will now receive the same scrutiny from state regulators as auto, homeowners and work-ers compensation policies.
Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 35, which Gov. Jack Markell signed into law earlier this week, gives Delaware’s Insur-ance Department the authority to regulate health insurance premiums. The depart-ment now has the authority to ultimately reject proposed premium increases if the company cannot justify the hike in rates.
“This law will protect Delawareans who are already being squeezed by rising insurance costs,” Markell said. “While the federal government continues work-ing on how to reform the nation’s health care system, we can take concrete actions in Delaware to hold down costs and make insurance more affordable.”
Grants help uninsured residents States will be able to access $40 mil-
lion of the allotted $100 million in federal grants to expand enrollment in State Chil-dren’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
and Medicaid, as authorized by the SCHIP expansion signed into law earlier this year.
The newly released funds will help bring awareness to those who qualify for government insurance programs, yet are not enrolled. There are over 20,000 cases in Delaware alone, and as many as 12 mil-lion throughout the nation.
“Delaware is able to apply for this funding to address our enrollment short-falls and further reduce the number of uninsured in our communities.” Rep Castle said. “As Congress begins to debate health care reform, we can’t overlook federal programs that are already in place. This step by HHS will hopefully enable Dela-ware to cover more of the children who qualify for assistance.”
The program will be administered by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). For more information, visit www.castle.house.gov.
Depression Support GroupThere will be a free bimonthly Depres-
sion Support Group meeting in Laurel on the second and fourth Wednesday eve-nings from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Any person who has signs and symptoms of depression and is under the care of a professional counsel-or/MD is welcome to attend. To register, call Life Matters Counseling and Consult-ing at 302-465-6612.
CHEER hosts free workshopMany adults face the challenge of man-
aging one – and often several – chronic medical conditions, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, hearing problems and depression.
The Chronic Disease Self Management Program (CDSMP), developed at Stanford University, has proven extremely effective at enabling people to take more control of their own health. This program can give adults a sense of control over their lives, improve their day-to-day functioning, and help save on medical bills.
This program will begin at the CHEER Community Center on Wednesday, Aug. 5 and it ends Wednesday, Sept. 9. The pro-gram consists of 6 – 2 ½ hour workshops which will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Registration is required. For more information and to register, call Cindy Mitchell at 856-5187.
Family Caregiver trainingThe Alzheimer’s Association Delaware
Valley Chapter sponsors The Family Care-giver Education Series four times a year in each of Delaware’s three counties. Renais-sance HealthCare Center in Millsboro will host the training on Wednesday, July 22, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This training for family caregivers is free and lunch will be provided by Re-naissance HealthCare Center, therefore pre-registration is required by July 17. For more information or to register, call Jamie Magee, branch office coordinator, at 302-854-9788.
DGS converts to electronic records Delaware Guidance Services for Chil-
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to purchase computers for the organiza-tion’s conversion to electronic medical records.
DGS is in the process of purchasing and implementing the new clinical soft-ware system from Sequest Technologies, the leading provider of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software solutions for be-havioral health organizations.
Sequest will connect all five DGS of-fices across the state electronically, en-abling the organization to operate more efficiently and function almost completely without paper.
DGS is the largest not-for-profit pro-vider of mental health services for children and youth in the state. Every year, the agency serves approximately 10,000 chil-dren and their families, regardless of their ability to pay, at locations in Wilmington, Newark, Dover, Lewes and Seaford.
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Trinity, Danny Short are among list of 2009 winnersRiverfest 2009 featured a number of
friendly contests and giveaways. Winners of the various competitions are listed below:
Survivor ChallengeOn Friday evening, eight teams par-
ticipated in the 2nd Annual Nanticoke Riverfest Survivor Challenge. Each team participated in six different events. In the end, the team with the quickest time through all six events was Trinity Termi-nators from Trinity Transport in Seaford. Trinity Terminators 7:08:25 Trinity Troopers 7:30:00 5 Amigos 7:35:25 Seaford “City Slickers” 8:08:03 Seaford Subway 10:26:29 Hamilton Towing 11:31:00 Seaford “Survivors” 12:00:04 NHPS/5-2-1 None 13:13:13
Mayor’s Challenge Winners1st. Place: Rep. Daniel B. Short with
partner Aaron Popelas (16 tosses)2nd Place: Mayor Jim Ford of Lewes
(15 tosses)3rd Place: Mayor Jefferson of Brid-
geville (7 tosses)4th Place: Mayor Butler of Seaford (5
tosses)Tied for 5th Place: Mayor Mike Smith
of Blades and Mayor Wayne Baker of Dagsboro (4 tosses)
Cat Country Delmarva StarWinners were Chelsea Betts of George-
town and Lauren Witzke of Laurel. Both ladies won tickets to see Darius
Rucker at the Delaware State Fair on 7/29, day passes for Midway Speedway in Reho-both and move on to the finals in October to compete for a Cruise to the Caribbean.
There was an exceptionally large turn-out of competitors, registration was cut off 20 minutes early. Nineteen competitors made it in.
Duck Dash WinnersHeat #11st – Alex Thomas $100 (Ticket # 147)2nd – Peggy Salisbury $50 (Ticket #
Bike Raffle WinnersGirls Bike Winner: Heather McCarthy
- SeafordBoys Bike Winner: Kevin Arturo -
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Riverfest Pageants Little Miss Riverfest 2009 Peyton
GivansJunior Miss Riverfest 2009 Bridget
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Tractor Show - Top 5Robert Walls, Farmall AAlvin Hastings, 1955 AC TractorBarry Calhoun, 1937 Farmall F12Leroy Messick, 1951 Oliver 66Mike McGee, 1948 8N Ford
Fishing Tournament ResultsAges 3-6Amanda White 1stMackayla Jeandell 2ndCarlyn Deford 3rd Ages 7-11Ryan Walton 1stDaniel Datson 2ndAshton Steelman 3rdMatthew Willey 3rd(Tie for 3rd place) Ages 12-16Amanda Lineweaver 1stTyler Junup 2nd Amanda Lineweaver received the
Lunker Trophy for a 17” Catfish, largest single fish caught at the tournament.
Dominic Longo had the Most Unusual
Catch, a 7.5” Large Mouth Bass. He re-ceived 2 passes to Midway Speedway.
Top 20 Cars Top 20 Cars in the Southern Delaware
Street Rod Association Show:John Haley, 1930 FordDarren Wroten, 1969 ChevyBrian Butler, 1956 ChevyBunkie Burke, 1939 FordStephen & Teresa Brock, 1932 Ford
Canoe & Kayak RacesOverall fastest male: Stephen Petrie
1:17:34Overall fastest female: Cyndi Janetzko
1:21:59Course record (2008): Holm Schmidt
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Group 1: Tandem Kayak (Recreational)1st Place: Maryellen & Mike Morris 1:34:01 (9th Overall)
Group 2: Short Kayak – Men1st Place: Timothy Martin 1:44:14 (16th Overall)2nd Place: Ruben Vahoy 1:58:12(21st Overall)3rd Place: Ben Abrams 2:00:14 (22nd Overall)Group 3: Short Kayak – Women1st Place: Trish Hildenbrand 2:26:43 (26th Overall)2Nd Place: Lisa Hatfield 2:30:54 (28th Overall)Group 4: Short Kayak – Senior Men1st Place: John Jacobs 1:37:05 (10th Overall)2nd Place: Mel Mahoney 2:02:01 (23rd Overall)Group 5: Short Kayak – Senior Women1st Place: Kathleen Connaughton 3:16:58 (30th Overall)2nd Place: Denise Gray 3:17:34 (31st Overall)Group 6: Long Kayak - Men1st Place: David Hinzman 1:46:14 (17th overall)Group 7: Long Kayak – Women1st Place: Cyndi Janetzko 1:21:59 (4th Overall) (1st Fe-male Overall)*2nd Place: Patti Nash 1:48:13 (18th Overall)3rd Place: Sandra Rothermel 1:49:13 (19th Overall)4th Place: Kimberly Targett 2:41:44 (29th Overall)Group 8: Long Kayak – Senior Men1st Place: Mike Eline 1:40:44 (12th Overall)2nd Place: Richard Herzog 1:43:46 (15th Overall)Group 9: Long Kayak – Senior WomenGroup 10: Standard Solo Canoe Novice Group 11: Standard Solo Canoe Advanced Group 12: Std. Tandem Canoe Novice- MenGroup 13: Std. Tandem Canoe Advanced – MenGroup 14: Std. Tandem Canoe Novice – Women Group 15: Std. Tandem Canoe Advanced – Women Group 16: Std. Tandem Canoe Novice– Mixed 1st Place: Vic and Sandra Oliveira 2:03:19 (24th Overall)Group 17: Std. Tandem Canoe Advanced – Mixed 1st: Dana Young and Taylor Bunnell 2:29:21 (27th Overall)Group 18: Std. Tandem Canoe Novice – SeniorsGroup 19: Std. Tandem Canoe Advanced – Seniors1st: William Hahn & Charles Thorton 2:04:35 (25th Overall)Group 20: Tandem Competition Cruiser1st: Judy Jeanes & Karen Febey 1:24:07 (6th Overall)Group 21: Solo Competition CruiserHal Wilson 1:39:19 (11th Overall)Group 22A: Open Class- Men1st Place: Stephen Petrie 1:17:34 (1st Place Overall)2nd Place: Ron Clore 1:19:29 (2nd Overall)3rd Place: Larry Bliven & Steve Brainard 1:40:45 (TEAM) 13th OverallGroup 22B: Open Class- WomenGroup 23: Extra Long Kayak Men 1st Place: Jeff Lusk 1:27:00 (7th Overall)2nd Place: Jeff Evans 1:29:29 (8th Overall)Group 23A: Extra Long Kayak Women Group 23B: Extra Long Kayak Senior Men 1st Place: Don McConaughy 1:21:47 (3rd Overall)2nd Place: Charlie Johnson 1:22:24 (5th Overall)3rd Place: Kent Gaffey 1:42:45 (14th Overall)4th Place: Chris Beckman 1:50:41 (20th Overall)
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To get the orthopedic sur-geons in its emergency depart-ment, Nanticoke turned to Delphi Healthcare Partners, a contract physician staffing and management company based in North Carolina. Delphi set up a program at the hospital that guarantees continuous orthopedic on-call coverage.
Three doctors, Muawwad, Alexander Doman and Eric Bon-
tempo, are currently providing the on-call coverage. Delphi, which will continue to manage the orthopedic hospitalist pro-gram, expects to add a fourth doctor soon.
During the time that they are on call, the doctors can be no more than 15 minutes away from the hospital, Brown said. The doctors will also provide ortho-pedic services to inpatients and follow-up care to anyone they
treated in the hospital.Brown said that the contract
with Delphi is costing the hos-pital “well over $1 million.” He expects medical insurance to cover much of that, but probably not all.
“We will probably see a loss,” he said.
But that is not unusual for a trauma center, Carey said.
“Trauma is a money loser,” he added. “But it is a service that
hospitals provide for the commu-nity. It’s just a service we have to provide.”
Carey, who has been with Nanticoke for 17 years, described Delaware’s trauma system as “very sophisticated.”
But the effectiveness of the whole system was diminished during the time that Nanticoke was not a level III center, he added.
“You just can’t have a non-
participating hospital,” he said. “It’s like being healthy, but your leg isn’t working. It harms the whole system.”
Rose described the level III trauma center as vital for the community as well as for the hospital.
“Our ability to provide critical services not only fulfills the core of our mission, but is also the springboard for future growth,” he said.
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Hardscrabble project change of dateThe Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announces a change
in the start date for the pavement and rehabilitation project on Route 20/Hardscrabble Road from Kaye Road to East Trap Pond Road near Seaford. It now will begin on Monday, July 20.
Motorists can expect delays and lane closures from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Saturday work hours may also occur to make up time for inclement weather or other delays.
Construction is expected to be completed within 45 calendar days, pending weather.
The contractor, American Infrastructure-MD Inc., bid $1.4 mil-lion for the project and was the lowest of six bids received.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Macklin of Georgetown are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Julie Ann to Mr. Jordan Gould Rollins of Seaford. Jor-dan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rollins of Seaford.
Julie received her BSN from Salis-bury University in May, and is employed at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md. Jordan received his BA from Virginia Tech in May and is a second lieu-tenant in the National Guard.
The wedding will be held on Feb. 27, 2010. Formal invitations will be sent.
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Kendall Olivia Scott was born on May 29, 2009, at 10:44 p.m., at Nanticoke Me-morial Hospital. She weighed 8 lbs. 1 oz. and was 21-inches long.
Kendall is the first child of her parents Eric and Morgan Scott of Bridgeville.
Maternal grandparents are Linda and Robert Colona of Bridgeville and Charles Butler of Smyrna. Paternal grandparents are Tom and Norma Scott of Bridgeville.
Maternal great-grandfather is Charles Butler of Greenwood. Paternal great-grandmother is Evelyn Spiering of Greensboro, Md.
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Local racers recently visited Camp Barnes in Bethany Beach to promote the annual Camp Barnes Benefit Stock Car Race.
Local racers visit Camp BarnesOn Tuesday, June 30, the “Wheel 2
Wheel Show” attended Camp Barnes in Bethany Beach to raise awareness for the camp and promote the annual Camp Barnes Benefit Stock Car Race.
Camp Barnes, which has been in op-eration for 62 years, is open to children between the ages of 10-13 at no cost to the camper or family. The camp accommo-dates 60 campers per week for six weeks and is operated by the Delaware State Po-lice. Several local racers allowed campers to get an up close look at their race cars and gave out autographed cards.
Local musician Taylor Knox provided
entertainment. The Wheel 2 Wheel Show is hosted by
Wade Perdue along with his brother Bran-don, Kelly Putz and meteorologist Harlan Williams. The show, which covers dirt racing, can be heard live every Tuesday night from 8 to 9 p.m. on 97.5 and 105.9 Cat Country Radio. This year the camp needs the public’s help more than ever in order to keep operating as a free camp.
To make a donation to Camp Barnes, send a check or money order to Camp Barnes Inc., DSP Troop 4, 23652 Shortly Rd., Georgetown, DE 19947.
Christmas in JulySeaford Elks Lodge #2458 will host a
“Christmas in July” auction with spaghetti dinner and a “cake wheel” on Saturday, July 25.
The cake wheel will begin at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m. and the auction will fol-low.
The price is $9.50 and includes spa-ghetti, salad, Italian bread, dessert, tea and/or coffee. Everyone is welcome to attend.
‘Boyz 2 Dads’“Boyz 2 Dads” will be offered to young
men ages 12 to 19 the week of August 3. The program will be offered by Delaware Adolescent Program, Inc. and the Father-hood Initiative Coalition.
Boyz 2 Dads is an interactive, comput-er-based video game and decision making program. Space is limited, so please regis-ter your son early.
Young men 16 - 19 years may register on their own. Snacks and incentives will be provided and certificates will be award-ed upon completion.
The program will be held in Seaford from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, August 3, 5, and 7. To register, contact Shawn Phillips at 629-7790 or [email protected]
Seaford VFW Post 4961 events On Friday, July 17 the VFW Post will
hold their monthly AYCE fried fish & chicken dinner, which includes fish, chick-en, fried potatoes, green beans, greens, stewed tomatoes, corn bread, iced tea or coffee.
This event, which is every third Friday of the month from 6 to 8 p.m., is $10 per person.
On Saturday, July 25, the VFW Post Auxiliaries will hold their annual chicken BBQ/yard sale at 7 a.m.
Tables are available for rent at 6 a.m. for $10. The BBQ includes chicken, potato
salad, corn-on-the-cob and a roll for $6.Also on July 25, a Texas Hold ‘Em
Tournament will be held in the Post’s Hall from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Doors open at 5 p.m. for registration. Attendees should park on the east side of the building.
Seaford Library• “Express Yourself @ Your Library” is
showing a movie on Thursday, July 16 at 3:30 p.m. For details, call 629-2524.
• “Be Creative @ Your Library” pres-ents “Movie Monday” on July 20 at 1 p.m. This movie is rated G. Call the library for details at 629-2524.
• The Children’s Summer Reading Pro-gram, “Be Creative @ Your Library” is having a “Juggling Workshop” presented by Cascading Carlos on Tuesday, July 21 at 6:30 p.m.
• “Be Creative @ Your Library” with “Snappy Sounds” presented by voice artist Rebecca Jones on Thursday, July 23 at 1 p.m.
• “Express Yourself @ Your Library” hosts the NBA2K8 Video Game Tourna-ment on Thursday, July 23 at 3:30 p.m.
• The Seaford District Library has joined IHOP in an effort to raise money for the Library.
Eat a meal at the Seaford, Dover, Re-hoboth, or Salisbury, Md. IHOP locations and return an itemized receipt along with a comment card to the Seaford District Library.
We must have the comment cards with itemized receipts in order to receive the reimbursement. The Seaford Library will receive 10% of the total receipt.
• Saturday, July 25 is the last day to turn in your logs for the Teen Summer Reading program “Express Yourself @ Your Library”.
• “Be Creative @ Your Library” pres-ents “Movie Monday” July 27 at 1 p.m. This movie is rated G. Call the library for details at 629-2524.
• The Children’s Summer Reading Pro-gram “Express Yourself @ Your Library” will be having its “Creamy Confections” grand finale ice cream party on Tues-day, July 28 at 6:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded.
• All reading logs for the Teen Summer Reading Program “Express Yourself @
Your Library” are due on Tuesday, July 28.
• The Teen Summer Reading Program “Express Yourself @ Your Library” will be having its “Grand Finale” celebration on Thursday, July 30 at 3:30 p.m.
Yard saleS.G.C.C. Swim Team will hold a yard
sale on Saturday, July 18, 7-10 a.m. at West Seaford Elementary School parking lot. Cash only.
Car washS.G.C.C. Swim Team will hold a car
wash on Saturday, July 18, 8-10 a.m. at the S.G.C.C. parking lot
Farmers and Artisans MarketSeaford’s Farmers and Artisans Market
will be open for the 2009 season until Sat-urday, Sept. 26 in Kiwanis Park on Satur-day mornings from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
Kiwanis Park is located at the intersec-tion of Atlanta Road and Stein Highway. We encourage local growers to join us by bringing your locally grown and/or organic fruits, vegetables, cut herbs, plants and cut flowers.
For registration information, visit www.seafordmarket.vpweb.com or email or call the Market Master, Sonja Mehaffey at [email protected] or 302-245-9494.
‘Books and Birdies’ Golf ClassicSeaford Library and Cultural Center:
The 1st Annual “Books and Birdies” Golf Classic will be held at the Seaford Golf & Country Club on Friday, July 24.
The cost is $125 per player and in-cludes use of the driving range with range balls, greens fee and cart, a hospitality cart, buffet luncheon, and prizes for many on-course contests, tee gifts, door draw-ings and putting and chipping contests.
Proceeds from the tournament go to-ward construction of the new library and Cultural Center.
Registration forms are available at any Sussex County Library and at the Seaford Golf & Country Club. For more informa-tion, contact the Pro Shop at the club at 629-2890.
‘Send a Kid to Camp’ Morning Star Publications, publishers
of the Laurel Star and Seaford Star news-papers, is joining the Western Sussex Boys & Girls Club to help send area kids to summer camp.
The “Send a Kid to Camp” project fea-tures a series of “parking lot” performanc-es by local singer, Tony Windsor.
Any business interested in hosting the performances in their store parking lot can contact Maria Motley at the Western Sussex Boys & Girls Club by calling 628-3789.
Seaford Historical Society raffleThe Seaford Historical Society is offer-
ing a raffle featuring a day on the Nanti-coke River in the spring of 2010. This all-day excursion accommodates a party of six people on a boat ride that leaves from the Marina at Nanticoke River Marine Park in Blades, Seaford.
Other festivities included with this trip are mid-morning snacks on-board ship, lunch in Vienna, Md., a self-guided walk-ing tour of historic Vienna, a visit to the Vienna Heritage Museum and refresh-ments on the ride back to Seaford in the afternoon.
A raffle ticket costs only $5 or five tickets may be purchased for $20. Tick-ets are available at the Seaford Museum which is open Thursdays through Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m., or at the Ross Mansion which is open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m.
At other times call the Seaford Histori-cal Society office at 628-9828 for tickets.
The drawing will take place at the Vic-torian Christmas at the Ross Mansion on Dec. 13, 2009.
The income from this raffle helps with the maintenance of the Seaford Museum and the Ross Mansion.
Delaware Teen ChallengeDo a good deed today for Delaware
Teen Challenge (formerly Seaford Mis-sion). Donate your old or unused vehicle. Get a tax write off and help someone with life controlling problems.
Call Delaware Teen Challenge at 629-2559.
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Let Tony Windsor perform for your event Tony Windsor is accepting bookings for entertaining any size event, from the living room to the great
outdoors! Singing classic country and rock, with special 50s, 60s and 70s hits! Also, gospel and
holiday music available. Booking now for Christmas
parties and beyond. Call: 302-236-9886 for info.
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Education program.
Community mentors neededThe Laurel Kids Connection Mentor-
ing Program seeks adult volunteers to mentor a middle school-aged child. Men-tors can meet during school lunch time or after school. Mentors and students meet throughout the summer at the Laurel Public Library and enjoy the benefits of scheduled field trips and events. Mentors are asked for a one hour per week com-mitment for 12 months. For more informa-tion, contact Shawn Phillips at 629-7790, ext. 17.
served by the Centenary Promise Keepers for the College Scholarship Fund will be held at the Centenary UM Church, Laurel on Saturday, July 18, from 4 p.m to 6:30 p.m. Menu: spaghetti, meat balls, meat sauce, marinara, salad, garlic bread, desert. Cost: adults $6, children (6-12) $3, less than 6, free.
Summer Reading ProgramAll programs take place at the Laurel
Public Library. For more information call 875-3184.
• Tuesday, July 21, 2 p.m., Movie and Munchies - Pre-k through 6th grade
• Tuesday, July 28, 2 p.m., Winterthur Museum presents “Design Like Dupont” - grades K-6
• Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2 p.m, Rehoboth Summer Children’s Theater presents “An-ansi, the Trickster” - all ages
grades 2-6 – be part of a real play!• Preschool Storytime, Tuesdays, 10:30
a.m. - day care homes welcome• Kids Create Art Club, Wednesdays, 2
p.m. - grades K-6• 10-Page-A-Day Book Club, Thurs-
days, 6:30 p.m. - grades 2-6
Old Christ Church services Old Christ Church services will con-
tinue through the first Sunday in October. All services begin at 9:30 a.m. Old Christ Church is 237 years old and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. A free will offering will be taken up at the concert to benefit the church. For infor-mation or directions, call 228-6097. Any donations given to the Old Christ Church League are now tax deductible as the League was recently successful in becom-ing a 501C3 (nonprofit) organization.
Laurel VFD eventOn Saturday, July 25, from 6-9 p.m.
(Doors open at 5 p.m.) the Laurel Fire Dept.; 205 W. 10th St., will have a dinner, a 50/50, a Chinese auction and door prizes. Dinner menu includes: hot roast beef sandwiches, fried chicken, corn on the cob, bake beans, coleslaw, chips & pret-zels, desert, beer, soda, ice tea, cash bar. Tickets are $20 a person, or $35 a couple. Advance ticket sales only.
D.H.S. class of ‘84 reunionDelmar High School Class of 1984
celebrates its 25th class reunion on Friday, July 31 through Sunday, Aug. 2. On Fri-day, July 31 - social/cocktails, location to be announced. On Saturday, Aug. 1 - Del-mar VFW, dinner dance at 6 p.m., tickets $27 per person. On Sunday, Aug. 2 - Old Mill Crab House at 3 p.m. Contact Lisa (Payne) Henry at 410-896-2214 or LD-Henry84@comcstnet. RSVP by July10.
Ice Cream fundraiserWicomico Relay for Life will hold a
homemade Ice Cream Sale on Sunday, July 19 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Ste-phen’s United Methodist Church on East State Street in Delmar. All proceeds will benefit Wicomico Relay for Life.
to benefit Dave Akers’ “Kicks for Kids” and Brooke Mulford & Family – Field of Dreams in Memory of Joshua Dickerson will be held on Saturday, July 18. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. and Bingo begins at 6 p.m. Delmar VFW, State Street, Delmar, Md. Cost is $20 in advance, $25 at the door. There will be 20 games of Bingo, 5 special games, raffles, silent auction, King Tutt games, rip offs.
For more information and/or tickets contact: Dawn Turner at 410-726-2184, Pam Price at 302-249-2546, or Sandy Dickerson at 302-846-9761
Summer Reading ProgramThe Greenwood Public Library’s adult
summer reading club, “Book a Summer Getaway @ Your Library,” will be going on until Aug. 17. The summer reading club is open to anyone 18 years and older or those who have graduated from high school.
To participate, register at the library and start reading or listening to your fa-vorite books. Entry slips are filled out for each book; these entry slips enter you in weekly prize drawings and a grand prize drawing on Aug. 17.
In addition, $1 worth of fine forgive-ness will be granted for each week’s par-ticipation. For more information, contact the Greenwood Library at 349-5309.
Scrapbook classesScrapbooking classes will be held at the
Greenwood CHEER Activity Center on the first and third Thursdays each month from 1 - 2:30 p.m. July classes are $3 each class.
For more information call Susan Welch at 349-5237.
Friends fundraiserThe Friends of the Bridgeville Library
have another delicious fundraiser to pro-mote. All you have to do is enjoy a meal at the Seaford, Dover, Rehoboth, or Salis-bury IHOP locations, any day, any meal.
Take and fill out the comment card, staple your reciept to the comment card and drop it off at The Bridgeville Library, Bridgeville Town Hall, or The Providence Sales Cottage at Heritage Shores. For de-tails call Pat McDonald at 337-7192.
Girls Night Out The Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay
Council is sponsoring a Girls Night Out on Friday, July 17 to Saturday, July 18 for girls entering grades five through eight. The sleepover will be held at Bridgeville United Methodist Church from 6:30 p.m. on Friday to 9 a.m. on Saturday. Girls also have the option of attending on Friday, July 17 from 6:30 to 11 p.m. if they do not wish to spend the night. Topics include bullying, sexting and texting. The evening will include watching the movie “Mean Girls,” eating pizza and hanging out. Cost is $5 per girl and financial assistance is available. You do not have to be a Girl Scout to attend. For details or to sign up, call Cindy Lindenlauf at 800-374-9811, ext. 25 or email [email protected].
Charity Open golf tournament The Town of Bridgeville’s third annual
benefit golf tournament, the Charity Open, is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 9, at Heritage Shores Club in Bridgeville. Registration and a continental breakfast begin at 8 a.m. with the shotgun start for the four-player scramble starting at 9 a.m. sharp. A lun-cheon and awards ceremony will follow the tournament. Proceeds will be used to support the Bridgeville Kiwanis Founda-tion, the Bridgeville Lions Foundation and the Bridgeville Senior Center. This year’s tournament will have a new format whereby more players will have a chance at winning a prize. The event will feature a scramble, but the field will be separated by flights according to handicap. Hole sponsorships are available for $125. The single-player registration fee for the tour-nament is also $125. To become a sponsor or to register for the golf tournament, con-tact Peggy Smith at 337-7135.
Wine tasting & art auctionThe Fourth Annual Wine Tasting and
Art Auction to benefit KINfolk will be held Wednesday, July 22, from 5:30 to 8
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p.m., at Nassau Valley Vineyards, Routes 9 & 1, Lewes.
Sample wine and bid on unique items such as blown glass, jewelry, sculptures and framed photography and art. Tickets are $30 (still a bargain).
KINfolk lends laptop computers and Internet access to children who are hospi-talized and convalescing at home.
For information and tickets call Kathy at 302-645-6971, or visit www.KINfolk-Kids.org.
Heritage Day in HarringtonThe city of Harrington extends an
invitation to all those who would like to participate in its 31st Annual Heritage Day celebration on Saturday, August 28.
That includes exhibitors, crafts demon-strators and vendors offering food and oth-er merchandise who would like to reserve space for the day.
Planners are also looking for anyone who would like to join the parade - indi-vidual marchers, groups, floats, organi-zations, vehicles, bands and others. For information or entries, call Bill Falasco, Harrington Parks & Recreation, 398-7975.
Relay for Life cruiseDr. Marie Wolfgang is at this time
accepting enrollments for her annual Relay for Life cruise, scheduled for Jan. 24, 2010. This is a 10-night cruise out of New York City (bus transportation to the dock included), visiting San Juan, St. Thomas, Antigua, St. Maarten and Tor-tola. Call 629-4471 for brochure.
- cost: $70. A comedy called “Uncle Chick’s Last Wish” is definately one you won’t forget anytime soon.
September 12-18 - Northern Michigan. You’ll visit Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth with time to visit the unique shops around town before dinner. The next day enjoy activites before going over to Mackinac Island for a two night stay. You’ll have a horse & carriage tour of the island before being dropped off at the Grand Hotel for lunch.
The next day travel to Saulte St. Marie for a boat ride through the Soo Locks. Before leaving Michigan, stay at the Ke-wadin casino hotel. Cost: $790 pp double.
October 16 - Strasburg, Pennsylvania. Ride the rails and have lunch on the train. Spend time in the train museum before returning home. Cost: $69.
November 16-20 - The Biltmore Es-tates in Ashville, N.C. Two hot meals per day. The Carolina Nights dinner theater Christmas show, a candlelight dinner at Deerpark restaurant and another Christ-mas show at the Wohlfahrt House Din-ner Theater. Visit Chimney Rock Park, Folk Arts Center and a guided tour of Asheville. Cost: $589 pp double.
Contact Rose Wheaton at 629-7180 for more information on all the above trips.
See ‘Jersey Boys’ with Del TechThe Adult Plus+ program at Delaware
Technical & Community College, Owens Campus, is taking reservations for a fall trip to see the musical “Jersey Boys.”
Witness the rise of four of the most fa-mous blue-collar kids in pop music histo-ry, The Four Seasons, in the Tony-award winning Best Musical “Jersey Boys” on Thursday, Oct. 8 at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.
A special discount rate is available for Adult Plus+ members.
For more information or to reserve orchestra seats, contact Delaware Tech’s Adult Plus+ program at 302-856-5618.
Travel with Delaware TechEnjoy summer day trips sponsored
by the Adult Plus+ program at Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus.
On Saturday, Aug. 1, enjoy dinner be-fore watching the play, “There Goes the Bride” at the Rainbow Dinner Theater in Paradise, Pa.
Watch as a wedding between the chil-dren of two prominent families is called off again and again, each time for reasons zanier than the last.
On Wednesday, Aug. 12, view the ex-clusive world appearance of “Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy” at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
Enjoy a guided tour, independent time at the museum and lunch after the exhibit.
On Saturday, Aug. 15, watch “Damn Yankees,” a musical comedy about a fan who sells his soul to the devil to become the world’s greatest baseball player and lead his favorite team to victory against the New York Yankees.
Enjoy dinner before the show at To-by’s Dinner Theater in Baltimore.
Enjoy an afternoon with a popular movie, camaraderie and lunch at a sur-prise location on Wednesday, Aug. 19. Seats are limited so register early.
On Tuesday, Aug. 25, book lovers will delight in a trip to Baldwin’s Book Barn, a five-story bookstore housed in a dairy barn that was built in 1822.
The store is filled with 300,000 used and rare books, manuscripts, maps, fine paintings, prints, estate antiques and other valued collectibles.
On Friday, Aug. 28, savor summer as a tropically inspired Jimmy Buffet tribute band whisks you away to Margaritaville with its stage show “Parrots of the Carib-bean” at the Rehoboth Beach Theatre of the Arts.
For more information or to sign up for a trip, contact the Delaware Tech’s Adult Plus+ program at 302-856-5618.
Rails & Trails Escorted motor-coach trip to Water-
ville Valley, New Hampshire sponsored by the Seaford WPS, Sept. 21-24.
Four days and three nights - cost $639 per person, includes lodging, three break-fasts, three dinners, entertainment, cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee, Castle in the clouds, Rock Estates, Mt. Washington Cog Railway, dinner on Lake Winnipe-saukee Railroad, Wolfeboro Village, all gratuities, taxes and baggage handling.
For details contact Frances Horner at 629-4416.
Branson tripNanticoke Senior Center and Curran
Travel are providing a trip to Branson on Tuesday, Oct. 13, to Wednesday, Oct. 21.
The trip includes: round trip Motor-coach transportation, eight nights ac-commodations, great sightseeing tours, admission to nine great shows including Mickey Gilley, Lee Greenwood & the Bellamy Brothers and Shoji Tabuci.
Cost is $1,075 per person-double oc-cupancy, $1,355 single occupancy. A $200 deposit is required. Call 629-4939 for details.
Knitting Guild AssociationThe “Sea Purls” chapter of the Knit-
ting Guild Association meets on the first Wednesday of each month from 10 -2 p.m. at the Cheer Community Center in Georgetown on the corner of Route 9 and Sand Hill Road.
New members always welcome. For details, call 302-854-6776.
Equine Council meetingThe next meeting of the Delaware
Equine Council is Monday, July 20, at 7 p.m. at the Harrington Public Library.
We will discuss last minute prepara-tions for the State Fair.
Everyone who is interested in horses is welcome to attend.
For more information, contact Stan at 684-3966 or Peggy at 629-5233.
Georgetown AARPJoin Georgetown AARP Chapter 5340
at their monthly luncheon meetings held on the first Monday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at the Sussex Pines Country Club.
For details contact Dee Richards at 302-841-5066.
39th District Democrats The 39th District Democrats will hold
their monthly meeting on July 16, 7 p.m., at Pizza King in Seaford. New members are always welcome.
For more information, call Maggie Callaway at 629-4846.
Widowed PersonsThe Seaford Chapter of the Widowed
Persons Service will have its next meet-ing on Tuesday, July 21, at 12:15 p.m. at the Golden Corral in Salisbury, Md. All widowed persons of all ages are invited to attend.
Come join us – we all enjoy the trips, lunches/dinners, etc. that we do.
Submit Bulletin Board items by noon, Thursday. Send to Morning Star Publica-tions, PO Box 1000, Seaford, DE 19973, email to [email protected] or drop off at 951 Norman Eskridge Hwy., Seaford (Home Team Bldg.)
Annual Basket -n- Bags Bingoto benefit
Dave Akers “Kicks for Kids” and Brooke Mulford & Family - Field of Dreams
in Memory of Joshua Dickerson
When: Saturday, July 18thTime: Doors open at 4:30 pm and
Bingo begins at 6 pmWhere: Delmar VFW, State Street, Delmar, MD
Cost: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
This bingo is in no way affiliated with the Longaberger® or Vera Bradley® Companies.
For more information and/or tickets contact:
Dawn Turner at 410-726-2184, Pam Price at 302-249-2546
or Sandy Dickerson at 302-846-9761
20 Games of Bingo5 Special Games
Raffles / Silent AuctionKing Tutt Games / Rip Offs
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Memories of Little League All Star gamesThings are unusually quiet aren’t
they? I am talking mainly business related as we continue through this recession, or whatever it is. What it is, are people finding themselves out of work for the first time in their life. Nearing 10 percent — this affects us all.
I urge our elected officials to start taking care of the citizens of this country and bring the jobs back to the U.S.A. What’s that got to do with Laurel, Seaford, Delmar and Bridgeville? Plenty, we all know someone, or ourselves, who are “trying to make ends meet” so to speak. Well, I’m no economist, but I find myself with increased frustration over this and I don’t think another casino or gambling center will solve any of our problems.
Well, let’s move on, I think I’ve let off enough steam for a little while.
All the local Little League teams are into their All Star competition now. It’s a summer ritual that has gone on since around 1960. I can’t help but think of the Maine baseball team, when I think of All-Stars. Around 1978 Laurel hosted the East-ern Regional Senior League Playoffs at the old park on Tenth Street. One of the few, if not the only time we have done that. The week before there must have been 20 or 25 volunteers out at the old park daily sprucing it up and making it look nice for our guests from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, D.C., New York, Maryland, Massachusetts and Maine. The one team I am sure of that was there was Maine, because they were the heart-warming story of the year in Little League.
Pennsylvania was favored, but a large group of parents and fans came from Maine and many stayed with local families and made friendships that probably exist to this day.
A little side note to this, I shall not forget either as we worked on the field
well into the afternoon of the day of the first game. My old Datsun pick-up with the covered section was on the field with all the rakes, hoes, and shovels in it with the top window pulled up. I ran around the back of the pick-up as we finished and banged my head right into that aluminum razor-like window and the blood flew. Here I was selected to umpire the regional and I had just about sliced my forehead off. I survived and this is not the story.
Maine actually had a radio station set up in the upstairs scorekeepers booth send-ing a pitch-by-pitch account back to the little town in Maine. Many of the Maine contingent borrowed money against their homes to make (for them) a tremendous trip. Everyone’s attention went to Maine, as their players, parents and coaches were easily the nicest and most respectful of all who were there. Their coach was a small college professor who took the team through the playoffs each year and he de-manded respect for and from his players.
The Maine pitcher, however, was not real happy with the calls from home plate umpire Ray Smith from Seaford in the first game of the regionals and his gestures throughout the game showed it, in spite of visits from his manager.
Around the fourth inning this pitcher hit a home run straight away center field in that old bandbox of a ballpark and as he touched home plate he jumped on it and pointed at the umpire in a way to show him up. Ray promptly threw him out of the game. The manager came out, talked with Ray – this was Maine’s star player. The manager assured him, he would not be seen on the field for a while and he wasn’t throughout the tournament and guess what, with everyone rooting for them, Maine won the regionals. I am sure that young man learned something from Little League and I am sure others from Laurel did too!
As you and I know there has been something missing from the community the last couple of months. That is Barbara Shwed, one of the Lions and Lioness Clubs most dedicated members. Barbara has been in the hospital in Baltimore for the last two months. Seeing Barbara, you are always going to hear something upbeat and positive. So Barbara, we are all think-ing of you. This put me to thinking about her husband and our mayor John Shwed. John, while working at the school, keep-ing up with his mayoral duties, the Lions Club and more, has made daily visits to Baltimore to visit Barbara, missing only a
few times since she was hospitalized two months ago.
When I think of people making a dif-ference, I think of John and another person who I was talking to the other day. Qui-etly, efficiently, Penny Duncan has led the close to 1,000-member Laurel Senior Cen-ter as director for the last 32 years.
Penny replaced a legend, the late Clara James and now for her efforts she has become a legend in her own right. Some people just naturally make a difference and under tough times for themselves, too.
A little recognition is due these fine folks, don’t you think? Keep them in mind in the next “Citizen of the Year” voting.
My first visit to the Laurel Auction Market this year was on the opening day, July 9, which due to a cool spring, kept the number of sales slow for the start. I did see one of my many-year’s-ago Little League players, Oscar Johnson for maybe the first time.
There were no watermelons or canta-loupes but they will start coming a little later.
Folks buy local produce — it supports our economy.
In this area we take this for granted but ask some city folks what they will do just for some of the squash, tomatoes and corn growing around here!
See Ya.
People making a difference... Keep them in mind in the next Citizen of the Year’ voting.
Pat MurPhy
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WIN LOVATO TICKETS - Visitors at all Del-One branches are invited to enter to win four tickets to see Demi Lovato and guest, Jordan Pruitt, at the Dela-ware State Fair on July 28. The contest runs through July 20 and entry forms are available all Del-One statewide lo-cations. All new Max-A-Million and/or EZSavers youth accounts opened earn an additional five entries. Visit www.Del-One.org or call 302-739-4496. Unlimited ride wristbands for the Fair are also available at a reduced cost.
Church BulletinsMt. Olive hosts gospel concert
A gospel concert featuring Brother Kevin Brown, of Union Baptist Church, Easton, Md., will be held Sunday, July 19, at 4 p.m., at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Bridgeville. Pastor is Woodrow Evans. The public is welcome. A free will offering will be taken.
For more information call Sister Paris Twymon at 410-754-9135.
Hitchcock speaks in Laurel Joel Hitchcock will be at the Light-
house Church on Kaye Road in Laurel on Sunday, July 19 at the 10 a.m. worship service. Joel emphasizes the power of signs and wonders in his meetings, in ad-dition to his fundamentalist messages such as “The Blood of Jesus,” “The Cross of Christ,” “The Birth, Life, Miracles, Death, Resurrection and Second Coming of Je-sus.” Many have testified of their healing which are captured on video.
Joel and his wife Heidi have ministered to many nations of the world. Seating is limited. For more information, visit www.thelighthouseld.org.
Gospel Music FestivalOn Saturday, July 18, at 5 p.m., St.
Paul’s United Methodist Church on Old Stage Road in Laurel will host its 2nd An-nual Gospel Music Festival.
Homemade ice cream, hot dogs, ham-burgers and more will be available for sale. Music will be provided by the Lights of Home, Reunion Quartet, the Baptist Boys, Sounds of Joy and the Don Murray Family. This is an outside event so bring
your chairs and plan on enjoying the fes-tival under the stars. All proceeds benefit the St. Paul’s youth program.
Macedonia A.M.E. ChurchSummer schedule for Macedonia
A.M.E. Church: 9 a.m. church school; 10 a.m. worship service. All denominations welcome. The Rev. Dania R. Griffin is Pastor. Church is located at 431 North St., Seaford. Call 629-3116 for more in-formation.
Gospel MusicVictory Junction, Where God and Mu-
sic Meet, host is Joe Dawson, Music Min-istry. “A Night of Gospel Music,” from 6-9 p.m. on July 25. Guests will be Amy Holloway Stark, Jerry Jones, Bunky Eye.
For more information call 302-934-6995.
Men’s Day CelebrationBooker Street Church of God will cel-
ebrate its Annual Men’s Day on Sunday, July 19. Theme of the Day is “Godly Men Don’t Quit!” Bishop Marvin Mor-ris will preach at 11:30 a.m. and Bishop Levin Bailey of Pilgrims Ministry of Deliverance will preach at 5 p.m. Call the Rev. Charles Long at 856-9097 or 855-0959 for more information.
Stephen MinistryGethsemane United Methodist Church
has commissioned their first seven Ste-phen Ministers. Stephen Ministry is a Biblically based system through which members of our church are trained and organized to help provide Christian care-
giving to members of our congregation and community.
Stephen Ministers are members of Gethsemane UM Church who have com-pleted 50 hours of training to provide high quality Christian care to folks going through a difficult time. Gethsemane UM Church is located 44 miles west of Sea-ford on Route 20.
They have Sunday morning services at 8:45 and 10:30 a.m. Come and join in as you are – no halos required, jeans expect-ed. For more information call 629-2862. Diana Williams and Janet English are the Stephen Leaders at Gethsemane UMC.
VBS fun at Christ UMC“Studio GO! Game Show” Vacation
Bible School will be held at Christ United Methodist Church, 510 S. Central Ave. in Laurel. This year is a one-day VFW on Saturday, July 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided, as well as music, games, prizes, Bible stories, crafts, excitement and fun. Call Marlene Dulis at 536-7407 to pre-register.
Latin MassA Latin mass according to the Missal
of 1962 is celebrated on the third Sunday of every month at 3 p.m. at Holy Cross Church in Dover. The mass will be cel-ebrated on July 19. The mass is always a Missa Cantata using traditional Gregorian chant. For further information, call 302-674-5781.
Good News Tour in concertThe Good News Tour will be in con-
cert at Blades United Methodist Church
(Market and Fourth streets) on Sunday, July 19, at 11 a.m. All are invited for this special message in song.
Bethel Charge VBSBethel Charge will hold their Vacation
Bible School Aug. 3 through Aug. 7. It will be held at Mt. Zion United Method-ist Church located on Seaford-Laurel highway from 9 a.m. till 11:30 a.m. The theme this year is Crocodile Dock. Bethel charge consist of three churches which are Portsville, Mt. Zion & Sailor’s Bethel. If interested and first time visitor, pre-register by calling 875-2713.
Benefit Gospel ConcertBenefit Gospel Concert for St.
George’s United Methodist Church, 34894 St. George’s Road, Delmar, DE 19940. M.C. and performer, Joe Dawson “Music Ministries,” also featuring “God’s Country Crossroads,” “Good News Tour Ministries,” “Crossroad Christian Band” (Contemporary youth group), on Satur-day, Aug. 15, from 5 p.m. till 9 p.m. Ad-mission is free - A love offering will be taken. Food and refreshments will be for sale. Bring a lawn chair. For more infor-mation call 875-2273 or 875-0449.
Vacation Bible SchoolSeaford Church of the Nazarene will
hold Vacation Bible School on July 20-25 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. To pre-register, call 302-628-2751.
Everlasting Hope Tent Services Everlasting Hope Ministries will hold
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DIRECTORY: Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship DIRECTORY: Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship DIRECTORY: Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship
Delmar Wesleyan Church 800 East Street
Delmar, MD 21875 “The Church That Cares”
410-896-3600 Pastor James C. Hitch
Sunday: Sunday School 10 M
Worship 11 AM & 6 PM
Wednesday: Bible S tudy
7 P M
Pastor - Donald Murray - 856-6107
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Road 68, South of Laurel
Laurel, D el. Sun. School 10 a.m. • Worship 9 & 11 a.m.
Wed. Night Bible Study 7 p.m. Hymn Sing: Last Sunday Each Month - 7 p.m.
www.StPaulsUMCLaurelDE.org
Rev. Donna Hinkle, Pastor Church: 875-4233
Sunday Services: 8:30 am Praise 9:30 am Sunday School, 10:45 am Worship
Wednesday Midweek Services - 7 p.m. For info, call 875.7995 or visit www.centralworshipcenter.org
Worship 10:45 a.m. • Sun. School 9:45 a.m. Wed. Night 7:00 p.m. • Sun. Night 7:00 p.m. Located on Camp Road between the Dual & Alt. 13
For info call: 629-3674 or 875-2915 Sr. Pastor Roland Tice
Great Worship - Talented Singers Loving People - Powerful Preaching
Youth Group Wednesday 7:00 pm
Christ Evangelistic Church
Ph: 875-7748 Minister: Ian J. Drucker Worship Services: Sunday 10 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Bible S tudy: Sun. 9:00 a.m.; Wed. 7:00 p.m. In The Interest Of New Testament Christianity
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1010 S. C entral Ave., Laurel
Sunday Family Worship 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Sunday Family Worship 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. 94 Walnut Street, Laurel, DE
(across from GameZone) 302-875-7873 www.laurelnazarene.org
A church you can relate to
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Wednesday, and Thursday, Aug. 11-13; Saturday, Aug. 15; and Sunday, Aug. 16. Services will begin at 7 p.m. nightly and Sunday services will be held at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
These meetings seek to encourage in-dividuals whose lives have been adversely affected by drugs and/or alcohol.
This year, fathers are encouraged to at-tend.
Speakers are as follows: Tuesday, Aug. 11 - Apostle Ivory Hopkins, Pil-grims Ministry of Deliverance, George-town; Wednesday, Aug. 12 - Rev. Tony Neal and Minister Dolly Morris, Booker Street Church of God; Thursday, Aug. 13 - Bishop Jamie Hazzard, Welcome Full Gospel Holiness Church, Slaughter Neck; Saturday, Aug. 15 - Rev. Anthony Can-non, Dominion Church of Deliverance, Georgetown; and Sunday, Aug. 16 - morn-ing service - Bishop Marvin L. Morris, host pastor, Booker Street Church of God; and evening service - Pastor Arlene Taylor, Chosen Generation Ministires, Grasonville, Md. Everyone is welcome to
attend. For more information, contact the Rev. Anthony Neal at 302-854-6692 or call the Booker Street Church of God at 302-856-9097.
Community Anti-Drug Rally
The 15th Annual Community Anti-Drug Rally and March will be held Sat-urday, Aug. 15. The march will begin at 11 a.m. from the grounds of the Booker Street Church of God, located on Booker Street near the Richard Allen School. Par-ticipants will carry signs and spread their anti-drug messages through the streets of Georgetown.
The march will return to the church grounds, where Fun Day activities will be held from noon to 4 p.m. There will be games, food, a dunking booth, moon bounce, train rides, drill teams, creative dance teams and more. Everlasting Hope Ministries will provide free t-shirts.
For more information, contact the Rev. Anthony Neal at 302-854-6692 or call the Booker Street Church of God at 302-856-9097.
Located at Tyndall’s Furniture Plaza on Discountland Rd & Rt. 13, Laurel
302- 875-4646 PO BOX 60, LAUREL, DE 19956
Sun. 9:30 am Wed. 7:00 pm Children’s Church • Nursery
Senior Minister: Dr. Carl G Vincent Senior Pastor: Pastor Barry B. Dukes
wwwmessiahsvineyard.org
Messiah’s Vineyard Church
Pastor Stacey Johnson 28261 Seaford Rd., Laurel, 2 miles N. of Laurel on Alt. 13
302-877-0443
VICTORY TABERNACLE CHURCH OF GO D
SUNDAY WORSHIP 11 AM and 6 PM ~ Sunday School 9:45 AM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT Ministry for the whole f amily 7 PM
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH A Cooperative S.B.C. Church
805 Atlanta Rd., Seaford, DE 302-629-8434 • www.graceseaford.org
Sunday School 9:30 am Worship 10:45 am & 6:30 pm Children’s Church 10:45 am SPANISH Worship 10:45 am Wednesday Activities 7 pm Pastor: Homer McKeithan
Youth Minister: James Hollis Music: Jim Burket “The Cross Is Grounded In Grace”
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCH 532 Stein Hwy., Seaford, DE 19973 Redemptorist Fathers • 629-3591
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH 315 N. Shipley St., Seaford, DE 19973 • 302-629-9755 Pastor: Rev. Andrew C. Watkins www.christlutheranseaford.com Praise Worship 8:15 AM • Sunday School 9:45 AM
• Traditional Worship 11:15 AM
Laurel Baptist Church, SBC Where everybody is somebody & Jesus Christ is Lord
33056 Bi-State Boulevard, Laurel, DE 19956
LBC Sunday School ~ 10:00 Morning Worship ~ 11:00
Wednesday Bible Study ~ 7:00 P.M. Nursery P rovided
Pastor: Rev. Steven Booth Music Director: Linda Lewis
302-875-7998
Sunday Services: Informal Worship in Chapel 8:30 a.m.
Traditional Worship 11:00 a.m. Sanctuary 9:45 Sunday School
Pastor: Rev. Jim Sipes • 302-629-4458 PROFESSIONAL NURSERY CARE PROVIDED
Mount Olivet United Methodist Church
Serving Christ in the Heart of Seaford since 1830 315 High St. • Seaford, DE
Laurel Wesleyan Church
Church 875-5380 • Sr. Pastor Ken Deusa Asst. Pastor: Rev. Rick Green; Youth: Kyle Horton
Children’s Pastor: Marilyn Searcey
Rt. 13A, Just North of Laurel Sunday School - 9:30
Union United Methodist Church 2 North Laws St., Bridgeville, DE 19933 Across from Bank 337-7409 Handicap Friendly
WORSHIP TIMES: 9 am Contemporary Service
10 am Sunday School 11 am Traditional Worship Youth Group (Sun. 6 p.m.)
Welcome… SEAFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday School 9 am Morning Worship 10 am
701 Bridgeville Road
629-9077
The Gift of His Love Let others know where you are and when you meet.
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Weekly Services: Sunday: 10 am
Tuesday: Prayer 7-8 pm
Thurs day: Bible Study 7 pm
22606 Sussex Hwy. Seaford, DE
302-359-6331
Robert C. Elliott Sr., 82Robert “Bob” C. Elliott Sr., of Delmar,
died Friday, July 10, 2009, at his home in Delmar, with his loving family by his side.
He was born on Nov. 26, 1926, in Del-mar, a son of George and Laura Maddox Elliott. Bob worked on the family farm from the time he was 13 years old until he was in his mid 70s. He was very good with his hands and in addition to farming, he was good with mechanical, plumbing and body and fender work.
He was a charter member of the Bi-State Ruritan Club for 29 years, where he proudly served as past president and trea-surer. He always looked forward to selling ads for the Ruritan ad book, their most im-portant fundraiser. Bob was a big Nascar racing fan and enjoyed trips to the races in Dover. He is survived by a son, Robert C. Elliott Jr., and his wife Susan of Delmar; three daughters, Nancy Ellen Elliott of Millsboro, Peggy Bowden White and her husband Randy of Delmar and Mary Jane Haney and Jeff Evans of Delmar; seven grandchildren, Greg Baker and his wife Shannon, Lindsey Elliott, Brittany Elliott, Mallory Elliott, Tammy Bowden Horn and
her husband Mike, Shane Bowden and his wife Kara, and Aaron (A.J.) Bowden and his wife Jen; seven great-grandchildren, Tyler, Megan, Kylie, Bryce, Maddi, Mi-chael and Cole; a son-in-law, Thomas Bowden; and a special caregiver, Darlene Frisby, who helped care for him to honor his wishes of spending his last days at his home. He is also survived by several nieces, nephews and good friends.
In addition to his parents, he was pre-ceded in death by his wife, Blanche King Elliott, who passed away in 1974; two sisters, Hazel Brittingham and Mildred Bowden; and two brothers, Melvin Elliott and William Elliott.
The funeral service was held on Mon-day, July 13 at Short Funeral Home in Delmar. Interment followed at St. Ste-phen’s Cemetery in Delmar.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contri-butions may be made in his memory to Delaware Hospice, 20167 Office Circle, Georgetown, DE 19947 or the Alzheim-er’s Association, Eastern Shore Chapter, 209C Milford St., Salisbury, MD 21804.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.shortfh.com.
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Beverly Ann Records Hill, 87Beverly Ann Records Hill of Seaford,
died Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at home. Born in Seaford, the daughter of Lillian
Jarman and Samuel J. Records, she was a clerk and secretary for the City of Seaford prior to retirement.
At the age of 78, she went back to school and earned her high school diploma. She was a member of St. John’s United Methodist Church in Seaford, a life-time member of the Ladies Auxiliary Seaford Volunteer Fire Department, the Ladies Aux-iliary Veterans of Foreign Wars Virgil Wilson Post 4961, a 40-year member of the Ladies Card Club and was well known as Aunt Bev, Aunt Beb and Mom Mom. She is survived by a daughter, Donna Fay Conaway and her husband Andy of Seaford; grandson, Craig Conaway and wife Brenda; granddaugh-ter, Sondra Messick and husband Allen; great-grandchildren, Jeremiah Conaway, Robbie Bagwell, and Morgan Messick; sister, Aline Hill of Seaford; daughter-in-law, Rachel Hill of Williamsville; stepgranddaughter, Roxanne Lee and fam-ily; stepgrandson, Richie Smith and fam-ily; and loving nieces and nephews and their children. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Edward Hill, in 1988, and her son, Barry Hill. Services were held Sunday, July 12, at Watson-Yates Funeral Home in Seaford. Burial will be at a later date.
Carolyn Ruth Ralph, 76Carolyn Ruth Ralph of Laurel, passed
away on Monday, July 6, 2009, at Nanti-coke Memorial Hospital.
She was born in Tangier Island, Va., a daughter of Lon and Mary Charnock.
She retired as a self-employed poultry farmer and homemaker. Carolyn was a member of Mount Pleasant Untied Meth-odist Church in Laurel. Along with her late husband she was a member of the local VFW and American Legion.
She is survived by her close friends, Milton Brunner and family; Lori and Micheal Short; and Tammy Hawley and family, all of Lau-rel. She also leaves behind her Dog, “Sugar,” and cat “Tom.” She is pre-ceded in death by her husband, Donald T. Ralph, who passed in 1998 and her brother and sister.
Graveside services were held on Friday, July 10 at Mt. Pleasant Church Cemetery. The Rev. Dale Evans officiated. Dona-tions may be made in her honor to the DE SPCA - Sussex Chapter, 22918 DuPont Highway, Georgetown, DE 19947.
Nicholas L. Tuozzo, 80Nicholas L. Tuozzo of Millsboro,
passed away on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at Beebe Medical Center in Lewes.
He was born on Feb. 21, 1929, in Ches-ter, Pa. to Nicholas A. and Corrie Tomms Tuozzo. Mr. Tuozzo worked for Boeing Aircraft, Helicopter Division, as a machin-ist and retired as the supervisor of the tool and die shop. He was a member of the Community Church of Oak Orchard. He was also a member of the Blue Lodge in Chester, Pa., the Scottish Rite, and Nur Temple in Wilmington. Mr. Tuozzo loved fishing and hunting, and was an avid out-doorsman. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lorraine Tuozzo, in 2007 and a son, Ronald, in 1996.
He is survived by two sons, Rick Tuoz-zo and his wife Melinda of Crownsville, Md., and Scott Tuozzo of Jacksonville, Fla.; two daughters, Pamela O’Hare and
husband Patrick of Essex, Md. and daugh-ter-in-law Sandra Tuozzo of Utah; 13 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Services were held on Tuesday, July 14, at the Community Church of Oak Orchard in Millsboro. Pastor J. Allen Miller offici-ated. Interment followed in St. George’s Church Cemetery, Clarksville.
Oliver King Shields, 73Oliver “Ollie” King Shields, of Laurel,
passed away on July 1, 2009 at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford.
He was born in Indiana, PA on March 13, 1936, a son of Moody Milton and Ber-tha Ann Shields. Ollie retired as a math teacher for the Laurel School District with 30 years of service. He also retired as a math teacher for ECI with 14 years of service. He attended the Laurel Wesleyan Church. He is a past president of Laurel Little League. He was the recipient of Teacher of the Year awards in Delaware and Maryland. He was a founding member of the James H. Grove GED Program. He also taught migrant children math dur-ing the summers. He was a Laurel High School baseball coach for 18 years. He was the coach of the Laurel 1965-1967 Diamond State Championship teams. He served as the secretary of the Laurel Bowl-ing League.
Cherished memories include collect-ing baseball cards with his son, Jeff, and cheering for his favorite teams, such as the Pittsburg Steelers, Pirates and Penguins.
He also proudly served his country in the United States Marines. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Sandra Shields of Laurel; sons, Alan and wife Dawn Shields of Millsboro, Jeffrey Shields of Laurel, and Todd and wife Elisa Shields of Texas; sisters, Barbara Reinard and Virginia Van Horn of Ohio; grandchildren, Tony and Rachel Streeks, James Gibbs, Dinelle Gibbs, Cassandra Shields and Desiree Liz-zette Macias, Todd Shields, Adam Shields, and Annette Shields; great grandchildren, Beau Streeks and Janell Gibbs. Several nieces and nephews and many cousins also survive him. In addition to his parents he
is preceded in death by his brother, Milton Eugene Shields. A funeral service was held at the Laurel Wesleyan Church, Lau-rel, on July 7. The Rev. Ken Deusa offici-ated. Interment followed with full military honors in Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Millsboro.
Contributions in his honor may be made to Oliver Shields Memorial Fund, c/o Wilmington Trust Company, 101 S. Mar-ket Street Laurel, DE 19956.
The Shields family is in the care of the Hannigan, Short, Disharoon Funeral Home, Laurel.
Christina Lynn Colameco, 42Christina Lynn Colameco, of Seaford,
formerly of Media, PA, died of unknown causes in her trailer in Delmar, where she was found on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Born in Chester, PA, she is a daughter of George E. “Ted” Clark, and his wife Leigh of Laurel, and Patricia Drivon and her hus-band Andre of Pocono Pines, PA.
Christina formerly worked as a driver for UPS and was licensed in cosmetology.
In addition to her parents, she is sur-vived by a sister, Michelle Clark, and her paternal grandmother, Doris Clark, both of Wallingford, PA. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, July 19, at 1 p.m. at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Laurel. The Reverend Howard Backus will officiate. Interment will be private.
Arrangements are being handled by the staff of the Short Funeral Home in Delmar.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.shortfh.com
Death NoticesJames Farmer, 66
James “Jim” Farmer of Laurel, and formerly of New Castle, passed away on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, at Delaware Hospice Center in Milford. A memorial service was held at Bay Shore Community Church on July 13. Arrangements are in the care of Hannigan, Short, Disharoon Funeral Home in Laurel.
Ralph
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In recent years the calls for improving accountability and transparency in Dela-ware’s state government have increased tremendously. As is evident with the State of Delaware’s recent budget shortfall, Delaware’s residents, business leaders and elected officials need to thoroughly ana-lyze how every tax dollar is being spent.
The Caesar Rodney Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, research and educational institute, has unveiled www.Delaware-Spends.com – to provide a look into how state and local tax dollars are spent.
Building upon the movement for open government in Delaware, DelawareSpends.com offers searchable databases of the fol-lowing public information:
• The entire payroll of all state em-ployees for 2009 (including the executive, legislative and judicial branches of gov-ernment);
• The entire payroll of all Delaware school district employees for 2009;
• The entire listing of all check pay-ments to vendors from the state for fiscal years 2006, 2007 and 2008 (includes ex-ecutive branch, judicial branch and school district expenditures; does not include leg-islative branch expenditures);
• The entire payroll of Kent County employees for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009; and
• The entire payroll of Sussex County employees for 2009.
• The entire listing of vendor payments for New Castle County for fiscal years 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (through June 16).
“Delaware Spends is the most thorough and comprehensive government transpar-ency website in Delaware – encompassing not just state data, but county data as well. With this information, all Delawareans can
see just where their tax dollars are being spent,” stated Garrett Wozniak, policy di-rector for the Caesar Rodney Institute.
Payrolls are searchable by first and last name, title, department, agency, wages, benefits and total compensation. Vendor payment information is searchable by vendor name, vendor address, department, agency, amount of purchase and descrip-tion/categorization of purchase.
DelawareSpends.com will expand in the near future to include additional payroll and spending information from Delaware’s 57 municipalities as well as state contracts and disbursements to local governments and school districts.
“Of all the information that is now available at the public’s fingertips, it is the checkbook data that the Caesar Rodney Institute is most interested in analyzing,” Wozniak said.
“There are tremendous cost savings available if we can dig into the data and find them.”
A few examples of what you will find include:
• From Jan. 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009, state employees received more than $76.5 million in benefits.
• In fiscal year 2008, the State of Dela-ware spent over $3.1 billion in check pay-ments to Delaware businesses and over $1 billion to out-of-state firms (over a quarter of the check expenditures), equating to over $3 million dollars per day sent out of state.
• Through June 30, 2009, Sussex Coun-ty has paid 540 employees over $10.5 million in pay and over $7.3 million in benefits.
• 862 state and school district employ-ees make $100,000 annually or more total-ing over $50.9 million in salaries.
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I Wanted You To Know...... I Was Sitting Here In Heaven
And Having A Wonderful Day.I Started Thinking About You
And All The Things I Didn’t Get A Chance To Say.I Don’t Want You To Worry About Me
And Please Don’t Shed Any Tears,Because I Will Wait For You In Heaven,
If It Takes A Hundred Years.Everything I Had On Earth
I Have In Heaven Too!My First Day Here
My Body Became Brand New.It Is Really Pretty Here
And I Love My New Home,Although Your Heart Is Broken
Because My Body Is Gone.My Love Will Always Be There
As You Go Along The Way,Just Take A Peek Inside Your Heart
There Is Where I’ll Stay.Know That I Loved My Family
And All My Friends Too, My Thoughts Will Be With Each Of You
Your Whole Life Through.
In Loving Memory of
Alice P. Brittinghamwho went to be with Jesus July 10th 2008
With Delaware’s unemployment rate at a 32-year high, more Delawareans are struggling to meet their basic needs. To address this crisis, a statewide collabora-tion seeks to collect one-million pounds of fresh produce, rescued foods and nonper-ishable goods and $150,000 for utility and shelter assistance.
Delaware Does More, initiated by the Food Bank of Delaware and United Way of Delaware, aims to capitalize on Dela-ware’s rich agricultural community by focusing its summer efforts on collecting fresh produce from local gardeners and farmers.
“Traditionally, families with limited budgets have difficulty acquiring healthy foods, such as fresh produce,” said Patricia Beebe, president and CEO of the Food Bank of Delaware.
More than 598,000 pounds of food have been donated through the Delaware Does More campaign since May 1.
In addition to ensuring that Delawar-eans have access to nutritious foods, Dela-ware Does More is also collecting funds for families and individuals who are strug-gling to meet their shelter and utility costs.
A total of $35,000 will be allocated to participating social service agencies, which will provide monetary assistance to approximately 80 families.
Produce donations may be dropped off at the Food Bank’s warehouses in Newark
and Milford, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. A listing of other statewide drop-off sites can be found at www.fbd.org. To donate funds, visit www.uwde.org or call 302-573-3762.
A volunteer distributes donated dairy prod-ucts and fresh tomatoes at a recent Food Bank of Delaware produce distribution. The food was donated through the Delaware Does More initiative.
Delawareans ‘Do More’ to help
CRI launches website
Coupe is named superintendentCaptain Robert M. Coupe has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the Delaware State Police. Col. Coupe, 46, assumes command of the State’s largest police agency following the retirement of Col. Thomas F. MacLeish. Col. Coupe, a 24-year veteran of the State Police, most recently served as the Troop 2 Criminal Investigative Unit Commander since May 2006. Col. Coupe joined the DSP ranks in 1985 and has served as troop commander,
internal affairs investigator, homicide de-tective, training officer at the DSP Train-ing Academy and a member of the DSP Honor Guard Unit. Col. Coupe is a gradu-ate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy, the West Point of law enforcement. In 2001, Col. Coupe received the Exceptional Performance Award for his role in helping to create the DSP Pipes and Drums. He still performs with the band as a bagpiper. He also earned the Life Saving Award in 1996 for coming to the aid of a suicidal subject.
WINE TASTING PLANNED - KINfolk will hold its Fourth Annual Wine Tasting and Art Auction at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 22 at Nassau Valley Vineyards in Lewes. Shown here are attendees from last year’s event. Local businesses are need-ed to sponsor the event. KINfolk, a Delaware-based non-profit group, links children and their families to the world outside the hospital by providing laptop computers and online connections to the Internet and e-mail. For tickets and sponsorship opportuni-ties, call 302-645-6971. For more information, visit www.KINfolkKids.org.
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EducationNoel wins USTA scholarship
Spencer Noel, a three-sport athlete at Seaford High School, was selected as one of 52 winners nationally for a $6,000 College Ed-ucational Scholar-ship by the United States Tennis As-sociation Serves Foundation for Ac-ademics, Character, Excellence - the philanthropic and charitable entity of the USTA.
Winners were selected on the basis of commitment to academic success, local community service and the game of tennis.
Noel, son of David and Holly Noel of Seaford, was the 2009 Henlopen Confer-ence 2nd Singles Champion, and captain of the cross-country and swim teams. Academically, he won Academic All Con-ference honors.
Noel is a member of the Key Club, National Honor Society and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.
He plans to attend the University of Delaware in the fall and major in account-ing.
Messick graduates from LVCDeborah Lee Messick of Laurel gradu-
ated summa cum laude from Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa. on May 16
with a bachelor of arts degree in music and a concentration in violin perfor-mance.
In addition to graduating with honors, Debby was elected to Phi Alpha Epsilon, the college’s scholastic honor society.
She was chosen for the 2008 Bar-bara June Kettering Award, given to a mu-sic major showing promise and devotion to the field of music, and she also received the Music Teachers National Association Award, given to an outstanding music stu-dent who intends to teach professionally in an independent or collegiate music studio after graduation.
Debby also earned departmental honors for her presentation and performance on the work of composer William Grant Still, “William Grant Still: Beyond the Afro-American Symphony.”
At LVC, Debby studied violin and viola under Dr. Johannes Dietrich.
She played in the Lebanon Valley Col-lege orchestra for four years and served as the concertmaster of the orchestra for three years, beginning her sophomore year.
At her last concert, Debby was awarded the Carmean Orchestra Award for her con-tribution and dedication to the orchestra.
Debby also played violin and viola in the Lebanon Valley College String Quar-
tet. She was also the business manager of that ensemble.
She sang with LVC’s concert choir, chamber choir, and gospel choir during her years at the college.
She now makes her home in Steelton, Pa., and is employed by the Commu-nity Music Institute of Annville, Pa., as a teacher of violin, viola, and cello, and also operates her own music studio in her home.
She is currently on the faculty of the Lebanon Valley College Summer Music Camp for high school instrumentalists, where she teaches strings and conducts the string ensemble.
Debby is the daughter of Elizabeth and Keith Messick of Laurel, and the grand-daughter of Norma and Ernest Pegelow of Delmar and Betty Messick of Delmar.
Students earn certificationFor the second year, Sussex Tech
Digital Publishing students sat for their PrintED certificate exams.
In the Level 1 test, Introduction to Graphic Communications, 13 of the 17 sophomore students met the industry standard.
In the Level 2 test, Digital File Prep, 16 of the 19 junior students met the in-dustry standard.
Ratings are: Successful Completion, Certification, and Certification With Dis-tinction (equivalent to a 3, 4, or 5, respec-tively, on the DSTP).
Sophomores (Introductions to Graphic Communication):
Successful Completion - Briana Bolden, Bridgeville; Timothy Flynn, Laurel; Kaitlin Hardesty, Seaford; Natalie Hein, Georgetown; Brianne McDowell, Greenwood; Daly Pineyro, Bridgeville; and Danielle Del Negro, Millsboro; Cer-tification - Natalie Bennett, Millsboro; Alexandra Cannon, Laurel; Matthew Tull, Seaford; Lauren Welsh, Millsboro; and Sarah Overman, Georgetown; Certifica-tion With Distinction - Jessica Carpenter, Milton.
Hamilton, Seaford; Brandy Dechene, Laurel; and T.J. Schwalm, Rehoboth; Certification - Michael Edelin, Laurel; Rachel Haas, Millsboro; Warren Oney, Seaford; Jennifer Pignataro, Milton; Mary Ryan, Ocean View; Grace Batten, Milton; Margo Carey, Clarksville; Victoria Clark and Brian Donahue, Lewes; Certification With Distinction - Lisa Sekscinski, Sel-byville; William Fetters, Milton; Colleen Mahaffie, Lewes; and Aja Tenerovich, Lewes.
Noel
Messick
The first annual graduation for Royal Learning Center was held on June 27 at 3 p.m. Many friends and family members turned out to see the march of 18 children full- and part-time status.
Each child wore a cap and gown and received certificates of recognition and achievement awards.
Six pre-kindergarten received Pre-K certificates. Deanna Wilhelm received a special star award for maintaining an A average through year 2008-2009.
The guest speaker was Eleanor Pa-radee who taught at North Laurel El-ementary for 34 years. Graduation class/participants: Deanna Wilhelm, Mason Himmler, Makenna Himmler, Austin Gleaton, Kira Gleaton, Keshawn Sturgis, Dy’Asia McDougald, Jaylin Beckett, Paul Parker III, Lucas Granger, Isaiah Brewington, Jeremiah Ross, Byron Knox Jr., Azariah Davis, Kaylie Lowe, Jordan Lowe.
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DATE OF ELECTION: MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009 POLL OPEN: 7:00 A.M. TO 8:00 P.M.
Friday, July 24, 2009 Registration Deadline to be eligible to vote in the Special Election . Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 25, 2009 Department of Elections Office open for absentee ballot voting in person. Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 30, 2009 Last day the Department of Elections is permitted to mail Absentee Ballots for the Special Election Voted Ballots returned by mail or hand delivered the day
of the election will be accepted until 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, August l, 2009 12 Noon, Deadline to vote absentee ballot in person in the Office of the Department of Elections.
Extended Office Hours for Absentee Ballot VotingMonday - Thursday July 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 6 p.m.
For Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Voting by Mail call:
http://electionssc.delaware.govSussex County Department of Elections
119 North Race Street - Georgetown, Delaware Normal Week Day Hours: 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
Phone: 856-5367
NOTICE SPECIAL ELECTION 19th SENATORIAL DISTRICT
DATE OF ELECTION: MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009 POLL OPEN: 7:00 A.M. TO 8:00 P.M.
Friday, July 24, 2009 Registration Deadline to be eligible to vote in the Special Election . Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 25, 2009 Department of Elections Office open for absentee ballot voting in person. Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 30, 2009 Last day the Department of Elections is permitted to mail Absentee Ballots for the Special Election Voted Ballots returned by mail or hand delivered the day
of the election will be accepted until 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, August l, 2009 12 Noon, Deadline to vote absentee ballot in person in the Office of the Department of Elections.
Extended Office Hours for Absentee Ballot VotingMonday - Thursday July 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 6 p.m.
For Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Voting by Mail call:
http://electionssc.delaware.govSussex County Department of Elections
119 North Race Street - Georgetown, Delaware Normal Week Day Hours: 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
Phone: 856-5367
NOTICE SPECIAL ELECTION 19th SENATORIAL DISTRICT
DATE OF ELECTION: MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009 POLL OPEN: 7:00 A.M. TO 8:00 P.M.
Friday, July 24, 2009 Registration Deadline to be eligible to vote in the Special Election . Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 25, 2009 Department of Elections Office open for absentee ballot voting in person. Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 30, 2009 Last day the Department of Elections is permitted to mail Absentee Ballots for the Special Election Voted Ballots returned by mail or hand delivered the day
of the election will be accepted until 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, August l, 2009 12 Noon, Deadline to vote absentee ballot in person in the Office of the Department of Elections.
Extended Office Hours for Absentee Ballot VotingMonday - Thursday July 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 6 p.m.
For Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Voting by Mail call:
http://electionssc.delaware.govSussex County Department of Elections
119 North Race Street - Georgetown, Delaware Normal Week Day Hours: 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
Phone: 856-5367
UD increases tuition rates this fall for in-state undergraduates
Tuition for in-state undergraduate stu-dents at the University of Delaware will rise by $760 for the 2009-10 academic year - bringing the annual in-state tuition cost to $8,540.
Undergraduate students from outside Delaware will pay $1,980 more in annual tuition.
Their tuition next year will be $22,240.
Over the past five years, annual in-state tuition and fees at UD increased from $6,954 in 2004-05 to $9,486 in 2009-10, a total of $2,532.
Out-of-state tuition and fees grew from $16,640 to $23,186 during the same pe-riod, an increase of $6,546.
Approximately 35 percent of next year’s increase is necessary to cover costs of rapidly rising demand for financial aid among UD students.
The economic downturn has led to many more students needing help under the University’s Commitment to Dela-wareans and other financial aid programs.
In the upcoming academic year, 26 percent of tuition revenue is going direct-ly to financial aid - the highest in recent years.
More than half of UD’s students re-ceive financial assistance, with an aver-age need-based scholarship or grant of $6,025.
The total amount of financial aid from
all funds for undergraduate students has grown by $34 million, from $55.7 mil-lion five years ago to $89.7 million this upcoming year, representing a 61 percent increase.
Tuition and fees account for approxi-mately 31 percent of the full cost of edu-cating a Delaware resident at the Univer-sity of Delaware.
The additional 69 percent is comprised of state appropriations, contracts and grants, endowment earnings and contribu-tions.
Also contributing to UD’s rising tu-ition and fees are the increasing costs of health insurance, property insurance and utilities, as well as a reduction in the amount of endowment proceeds available. UD’s endowment value on May 31, $987 million, is down $357 million from a year prior, resulting in less annual endowment income available.
UD Executive Vice President Scott Douglass pointed out that UD has made significant cuts in spending amid the state’s difficult fiscal situation.
“Across the board administrative ar-eas had already reduced their projected spending for next year, as well as future years, before we even considered an in-crease of tuition and fees,” he said.
Sussex Tech students win national SkillsUSA medals Sussex Technical High School stu-
dents recently returned home from Kan-sas City after competing in the annual SkillsUSA national competition.
They brought back six of the top-five medals and placed 10 students in the top-10 positions.
Wearing the highest national medal is Lisa Sekscinski who won second place in the Extemporaneous Speech category.
Especially proud were the Media Broadcasting students who placed in the top-three for the fourth consecutive year.
The TV Production team of Carly Marconi and Kurt Browning now wear a third-place bronze medal.
Classmates Chandler Elmore and Cody Belote collected fourth place in the Video Production competition.
Rounding out the top-10 medals were: Melissa Willey, fourth in the Job Interview competition; Terell Hutchins, fifth in Criminal Justice competition; the Community Service team of Sara Baker, Emily Southmayd, Taylor Pridgeon, and Rachel Southmayd placed sixth for their school recycling program; and tak-ing home seventh place in Basic Health Care Skills was Taylor Hudson as well as the Crime Scene Investigation team of Mike Cordrey, Tom Brennan and Danika Hall.
Students who qualified for the national competition by winning gold medals in the state competition are, from left: front row kneeling – Natalie Justice, Seaford; Courtney Bailey, Laurel; Taylor Tingle, Seaford; Taylor Hudson, Millsboro; Summer Kates, Lewes; Anna Marie Dill, Seaford; Danika Hall, Frankford; Alexis Turzani, Seaford; Robert O’Connell, Lincoln; and Tyler Davidson, Harbeson; middle row – Stephanie Spera, Seaford; Jill Miller, Seaford; Melissa Lynch, Millsboro; Audrey White, Milton; Jasmine Trotman, Milford; Missy Willey, Seaford; Taylor Pridgeon, Fenwick Island; Rachel Southmayd, Fenwick Island; Emily Southmayd, Fenwick Island; Sara Baker, Millsboro; Lisa Sekscinski, Selbyville; chaperones Pattiva Cathell, Frankford; Sue Brady-Sekscinski, Millsboro; and Valarie Day, Laurel; back row – Corey Michieli, Milford; Mike Cordrey, Millsboro; Terell Hutchins, Millsboro; Cody Belote, Laurel; Chandler Elmore, Laurel; Kurt Browning, Georgetown; chaperone Jay Maull, Lewes; Carly Marconi, Milford; Todd Hosmer, Milford; Tom Brennan, Millsboro; Ty Heimerl, Millsboro; Keith Walls, Georgetown; Jon Santon, Georgetown (partially hidden), and chaperone Gary Conaway, Seaford.
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Cell: 302 236-2164 Office: 302 629-7711
Bobby Nibblett, Broker/Realtor
“YOUR REAL ESTATE CONNECTION”
www.4HTR.com 302.629.7711 800.447.7711
959 Norman Eskridge Hwy. Seaford, DE 19973
Congratulations Evan and the Seaford Minor League
Pat Knight Champions! 7-0. Great Job!
Scenes from Riverfest 2009’s ‘Rockin on the River’
Above in the left column are scenes from the float-in. We can’t explain the shoes in the top photo, but the little girl seems content. In the center column are photos of the Duck that vis-ited with some children in the top photo and with Riverfest coordinators Trisha Newcomer (left) and Amy Walls. At right, state Rep. Danny Short appears to be gloating after winning the Mayor’s challenge and proudly displaying his trophy. Photos by SD Smith.
Winners of the Cat Country Delmarva Star competition were Chelsea Betts of Georgetown (left) and Lauren Witzke of Laurel.
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Fourth Annual Wine Tasting & Art Auction
TO BENEFIT
Wednesday, July 22, 20095:30 PM TO 8:00 PM
NASSAU VALLEY VINEYARDSROUTES 9 & 1 - LEWES, DELAWARE
Sample wine and bid on unique items such as blown glass, jewelry, sculptures
and framed photography and art.
Tickets $30 (still a bargain)KINfolk lends laptop computers
and Internet access to children who areHospitalized and convalescing at home.
For information and ticketsCall Kathy @ 302 645-6971
www.KINfolkKids.org
959 Norman Eskridge Hwy., Seaford, DE 19973
HOME TEAM REALTYPRESENTS
AGENT SPOTLIGHT“BOBBY NIBBLETT”
Bobby Nibblett has been with Home Team Realty since obtaining his real estate license in 2003. He has consistently been one of Home Team’s top producers each year and obtained his Delaware real estate Broker’s license in 2008. Bobby is proud to be a native of Seaford, graduating from Seaford High in 1987.
Prior to real estate, he worked in the residen-tial and commercial construction fields.
Bobby and his wife, Candy, have 2 children. Erin will be attending Seaford High this year as the president of the freshman class. Evan will be attending Blades elementary this year as a fifth grader. Candy is a self-employed cosmetologist and owns her own shop in Seaford. They reside in Seaford.
Bobby is involved with Seaford Little League and is a member of the National Association of Realtors and the Sussex County Realtors Assoc. You can reach him on his cell most anytime at 302-236-2164, at the office, 629-7711 or by email, [email protected]
NEW LISTING IN BETHEL: Very well maintained home offering 3 BRs, 1 bath, front porch w/windows, second story side porch w/windows, paved driveway, 4 outbldgs. includ-ing 28x30 det. garage, central AC, new roof in ‘07 and a beautiful yard. Estate Sale. MLS #570606
$144,900Your LOCAL Real Estate Connection
www.4HTR.com302.629-7711800.447-7711
Picking the perfect cantaloupe, a tasty summer treat “Friends are like melons. Shall
I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.” When French poet Claude Mermet wrote this little rhyme he obviously wasn’t aware of the helpful clues for melon buyers that I discovered several years ago. After first writ-ing on the subject I received a lot of feedback from readers who were surprised to find that these little hints actually worked for choosing the best cantaloupes.
First, like all melons, you should choose a cantaloupe that’s heavy for its size. The “netting” on the skin should be thick and well raised. The stem end should yield slightly to pressure – what growers refer to as a “full slip.” It should have a fruity fragrance. Avoid cantaloupes with soft spots and overly strong odors. Pass over those with rough stem ends or with part of the stem (called a peduncle) still attached.
If not quite ripe, leave at room tem-perature (70 degrees) for 2 to 4 days but refrigerate immediately when ready. Can-taloupes will store 10 to 14 days refriger-ated. Cover an open melon with plastic as it easily absorbs other food odors. Choose carefully.
Mermet exaggerated but a countryman had it right when he wrote, “There are three things which cannot support medioc-rity - poetry, wine and melons.”
Try your carefully chosen cantaloupes in one or more of these tasty treats.
Cantaloupe Bread with Praline Glaze This excellent bread is very moist and
has the texture of pumpkin or zucchini bread. Can puree and freeze extra canta-loupe to make bread in the off season.
3 eggs 1 cup vegetable oil 2 cups white sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 cups cantaloupe - peeled, seeded and
pureed 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 cup butter 1 2/3 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165
degrees C). Lightly grease and flour two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
2. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, vegetable, sugar, vanilla and cantaloupe. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and ginger. Stir flour mixture into canta-loupe mixture; stir to combine. Pour batter into prepared pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted into center of a loaf comes out clean. Meanwhile, combine margarine and brown sugar. Microwave for 3 minutes, stirring at 1 minute inter-vals; mix in pecans. Pour sauce over warm bread. Let cool for 1 hour before serving.
Blue Cheese in Melon 8 ounces blue cheese1 package cream cheese ( 8 oz.)1/4 c heavy cream1 ripe cantaloupe Thoroughly blend the blue and cream
cheese together; beat in the cream until fluffy. Using a melon ball cutter, scoop out melon balls from ripe cantaloupe. Spoon cheese dip into cantaloupe shell. Serve with assorted crackers and melon balls on cocktail picks.
Agua De Melon A refreshing change from lemonade or
iced tea1 cantaloupe, peeled, seeded and cubed1/2 c sugar, or to taste6 c waterIn a blender, place the cantaloupe and
sugar with 2 cups of the water. Blend until smooth. Strain into a large pitcher, add the
remaining water, and stir well. Add ice, and refrigerate until ready to serve. Stir before serving.
Cantaloupe Freezie 1 c chopped cantaloupe1 c orange juice1 tbsp. lemon juice2 c crushed ice3 tbsp. sugarPlace all ingredients in blender. Blend
until smooth.
Delaware makes bike friendly list The Department of Transportation
(DelDOT) announces that the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) has selected Delaware as the ninth most bicycle friend-ly state in the nation. Delaware was ranked #31 last year.
LAB’s Bicycle Friendly State program ranks all 50 states based upon support for bicycling. Delaware is the highest placing state in the Mid-Atlantic. Nationally, from first to 10th respectively are Washington, Wisconsin, Maine, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Arizona, New Hampshire, Delaware and New Jersey. Furthermore, Delaware received one of only two honorable men-tions for the Bicycle Friendly State award, of which only four states won full designa-tion. DelDOT is striving to achieve full designation, and an honorable mention is a good indication of its future attainment.
For more information, visit www.bike.deldot.gov.
The Practical Gourmet
Loretta Knorr
8324 AIRPORT RD., LAUREL, DE No attention to detail has been spared for this brand new home with 1,600 plus sq. ft. of living space. Features are 3 ˆ 4 BR, 2 BA, granite counter tops, stainless appliances, ceramic & hardwood floors, rear deck and a full fenced back yard! Plenty of country living space for a family to spread out on! All this for $226,900 (MLS#569857) Directions: From US 13, in Laurel, go West on Rt. 24 through the town of Laurel, past the airport. Go Right on Airport Rd. 1/2 mile. Home on the corner of Danma-kay and Airport Rd. Your Host: John Allen
Cooper Realty • 629-6693
32770 DANMAKAY RD., LAUREL, DE Meticulous craftsmanship best describes this brand new home just days away from completion. You still have time to pick your carpet colors. Features include hardwood & ceramic tiled floors, granite countertops, rear deck and front porch. All this in a quiet country setting, min-utes from town. $216,900 (MLS#569103) Directions: From US 13, in Laurel, go West on Rt. 24 through the town of Laurel, past the airport. Go Right on Airport Rd. 1/2 mile on Left is Danmakay Dr. Your Host: John Allen
Cooper Realty • 629-6693
323 W. POPLAR ST., SEAFORD, DE Lovely 3 BR rancher with attached garage on a corner lot in Sea-ford. This home has hardwood floors, a fireplace in the living room, a large kitchen full of cabinets, and a fam-ily room. $179,900. (MLS#563290) Directions: From Rt. 13, West on Middleford Rd., continue on through downtown onto Pennsylvania Ave. Turn Right on Hall St. House on corner of Hall St. and W. Poplar St. Your Hostess: Mary Harding
Cooper Realty • 629-6693
20852 E Country Rd., Georgetown, DE Your very own private lane leads you to this quanit “new in 2006” Beracah Cape Cod home situated on 6 acres. Horse pasture surrounded by new solar electric fencing. 2nd Flr is a blueprint of the first, needs drywall and carpet. MLS# 568508 $267,000 Directions: Rt 9 to Whaley’s Corner Rd., make left on Shortley Rd., Country Rd im-mediately on left. Hostess - Brenda Collins 302-258-7538
Home Team Realty • 629-7711
10368 Fox Glen Drive, Bridgeville, DE Great house - ready to move in! This 4 bdrm, 3.5 ba home is a delight for car buffs! There is a 2 car detached garage (24x26) and a 2 car attached garage. Private lot with sunroom on back to view the wildlife. MLS# 563879 $399,900 Directions: From Seaford, 13N, turn right on Camp Rd., then turn right onto Eskridge Rd., follow to Fox Glenn and turn right, house is at the end, look for sign. Hostess - Carol Crouse 302-236-4648
Home Team Realty • 629-7711
16042 Hardscrabble Rd., Seaford, DE Spacious 2900+ sq ft rancher, 5+ bdrms, 2.5 baths with many extras including oversized garage, inground pool, sun room, large composite deck, exquisite master suite with sitting room, large living room w/frplc on 1.62 par-tially wooded acres. Located in Seaford but close to Georgetown and Millsboro. MLS# 563724 $349,900 Directions: From Seaford, 13N turn left onto Concord Rd (Rt 20), cross over Rt 9, go 2-3 miles home on right, look for large sign. Host - Frank Parks 302-745-7653
Home Team Realty • 629-7711
7793 Main Street, Bethel, DE 2300 +/- sq ft home in Historic Bethel with a large country acre. Home offers a spacious 23x12 heated 4 season room, a country style kitchen/family room combo, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms - this home is cozy and great for entertain-ing. MLS# 568124 $238,500 Directions: From Sea-ford, RT13 south, go west on Camp Rd., Laurel, cross over RT 13A & Woodland Rd., home in on the right at the edge of Bethel town limits. Host - Steve Ellis 302-249-351
Home Team Realty • 629-7711
218 N CANNON ST, SEAFORD This 3-BR clinker brick Colonial in town offers front porch, rear patio, & 1-car det garage. Inside you’ll enjoy the wood floors, fireplace, LR & FR. Reduced to $179,000 (MLS 556116) HOSTESS: Julie Kennedy
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
10082 MARVIL DR, LAUREL Well-maintained Cape Cod on landscaped lot w/6’ privacy fenced back yard. This 3-BR home has original (refinished) hardwood floors & lots of charm! Great for 1st-time buyers! $169,900 (#563278) From light at “Five Points” in Laurel, turn onto Marvil Dr, prop on L. HOSTESS: Terry Scott
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
305 CHRISTOPHER DR., CRESTFIELD, SEAFORD Lovely 3 BR, 2.5 BA home. Nice floor plan w/spacious rooms. New kit. in 2004, hardwood floors & more on a nicely landscaped lot. $258,000. Directions: From Shufelt Rd. west of Seaford, turn left into Crestfield. Turn right, then first left. Home on right.
GLENN SIZEMORE REALTORS • 629-3066
CUSTOM BUILT home with many upgrades and amenities. Home features 3 bedrooms & 2 baths. Great open floor plan. $218,900. Directions: North of Seaford, turn left on Rt. 18 by the former Chrysler dealership, turn left into second entrance into Clearbrooke, turn right at stop sign, home will be on your left.
GLENN SIZEMORE REALTORS • 629-3066
16898 BEAVER DAM RD, Ellendale. Well-maintained rancher on 1.21 beautiful country acres. Front porch & enclosed rear porch. 2 sheds, large patio & circular blacktop driveway. Wonderful landscaped yard. Di-rections: From Rt 16 go North on Chaplain’s Church Rd. Cross over Redden Rd. Go 1.2 miles, turn right on Beaver Dam Rd. 2nd home on the left. Hostess: Wanda Rash. $199,500. MLS # 569828
CENTURY 21 TULL RAMEY • 629-5575
509 ELM DR, Seaford. Adorable home w/new roof, windows & fresh paint. Arched doorways & hardwood flrs. Fixed steps to floored attic. Half basement on a double lot. Directions: 20 West (Stein Hwy.) through Seaford, left on Elm Dr. House on 2nd block on left. Hostess: Brenda Rambo. $145,000. MLS#568654
CENTURY 21 TULL RAMEY • 629-5575
4 W. ELIZABETH ST, Delmar. Charm and Potential abounds. 2-story home on large corner lot. Large front porch, 2 car detached garage. Directions: Alt 13 South towards Delmar, right onto Line RD. Thru Delmar, cross over RR tracks, make first left, house is one block down on corner of West Elizabeth. Host: Jim Demas. $164,900. MLS # 568927
CENTURY 21 TULL RAMEY • 629-5575
5TH STREET, Blades. WOW!! New construction town homes at an unbeatable price! Quality built by local builder. Qualifies for $8,000 1st time home buyer tax credit! Directions: RT. 13 to west on High ST. (turn @ Royal Farms) to left on Market ST., in Blades. Left on 5th St., homes on left. Hosts: Ed Higgins & Jessica Bradley. $125,900. MLS# 561335.
CENTURY 21 TULL RAMEY • 629-5575
108 Evergreen Dr., Laurel DE Charming 4 bdrm, 2 ba home with lots of room - waiting for a new owner. Nice corner lot, quick acces to town amenities. Lots of closet space, large rooms and a full basement. A must see! MLS# 569520 $199,000 Directions: Travel thru Laurel on Central Ave., turn left on Evergreen Dr., (between Middle School and Family Dollar) on the cor-ner of Evergreen and Forest Lane. Hostess - Dawn Collins 302-841-5682
Home Team Realty • 629-7711
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There’s no time for maturing when on vacationWell, we’ve done it again. In a
repetition of last summer’s adven-ture, my sister and I have driven to St. Paul, Minn., and back in order to visit with my daughter and her husband.
Astute readers may remember that after last year’s trip, on which we were accompanied by my sis-ter’s teenage son, I wrote that I had been particularly goofy: closing the car’s sunroof on my sister’s hand, requiring assistance in making a simple appointment for a haircut, blowing the car horn several times by ac-cident. “I was involved in unwrapping the paper from a piece of candy and did not know that my palm was pushing against the steering wheel,” I wrote.
This year, I was much more sensible. Mature, one might say, as though in the past year I have finally grown up.
Well, maybe not completely. There was that incident with a bowl of soba noodles and vegetable tempura and a set of chop-sticks. Everyone else at the table was mak-ing out just fine, getting food from bowl to mouth with no problem. But it seemed that, much like that racquet with which I played badminton later that week, my chopsticks were defective.
“I just can’t get the hang of this,” I muttered.
“Lynn!” my sister called to me from the other end of the table. “Why are you using your left hand?”
“Oh, am I?” I replied, completely un-aware of which hand I was using. Must be something in the Midwest air.
I switched the chopsticks to my right hand, the hand that, up until then, I have always used to feed myself. It didn’t make much difference, though. In the end, I had to humbly request that the waiter bring me a fork.
This year, my sister and I were joined in St. Paul by our husbands and my sister’s two sons, all of whom flew out for a long weekend. We had a great time — touring the Mississippi River city by foot and bus, visiting its farmer’s markets, enjoying its restaurants.
One day, while most of the men were at a Twins-Tigers game, my daughter and I made strawberry jam from fruit that we had bought just that morning. A bowl of sweet pea blossoms sat in the windowsill, a vase of zinnias and sunflowers were on the kitchen table and the whole apartment smelled of strawberries and sugar. It was wonderful.
Our last day there, after the rest of our families had returned to the east coast, my sister and I decided to treat my daughter and son-in-law to a special dinner out, at
the fanciest restaurant in their neighbor-hood. We made reservations and promptly at 7 in the evening, we arrived and were seated in the restaurant’s backyard patio.
Following drinks, we ordered our salads and entrees. My daughter and son-in-law opted for fish, I decided on the chicken and my sister ordered a house specialty, the gnocchi.
After our salads were finished and the plates cleared away, our waitress put our entrees in front of us. My chicken, set on a bed of creamed corn and swisschard. The two fish platters. Then the gnocchi — and it was a good thing that it was last, because it wasn’t long that we had to hold our laughter in front of the waitress. Cen-tered on my sister’s plate, large enough, by the way, to hold a 16-ounce steak, were a dozen or so small potato dumplings, each about an inch long and decorated with thin ribbons of sauce and a few stalks of greens. I think that my sister mumbled something about her hollow tooth.
If she left the table hungry, her entrée the next evening at a restaurant in Ottawa, Ill., more than made up for it. At Hank’s, located in a former dairy barn and billed as a farm restaurant, her serving of rigatoni with meat sauce, covered with at least a half pound of cheese, had to have been large enough to feed four people. I think that the table actually shook when the waitress set it down.
“Wow, that’s a huge amount of food,” my sister said.
They must have heard about your gnoc-chi, I told her. She ended up throwing away at least two-thirds of it.
I, however, managed to eat all of my broiled catfish and baked potato. I even, without any prompting, held my fork in my right hand.
I’m learning. Perhaps next year, we’ll have a perfectly sedate, goof-free family visit to St. Paul.
Well — “No fool, no fun,” my grand-mother always said. I think, in the spirit of vacation, I’ll put that whole maturing process on hold for a while.
I switched the chopsticks to my right hand, the hand that, up until then, I have always used to feed myself.
Lynn Parks
MORNING STAR • JUly 16 - 22, 2009 PAGE 29
PICK UP SERVICE OFFERED - Sus-sex County Habitat for Humanity’s Re-Store volunteers available for large item pick up are, from left, Dave Zorb, Adam Tull, Skip Smith, Larry Whitten and Kevin O’Brennan.
27085 RIVER RD, SEAFORD NOT an “ordinary” ranch, this charming 3-BR home w/bsmt living area is situated on an impeccably landscaped 8/10 acre sloping lot. Customized features include granite countertops. In-ground heated pool, bi-level 4-car garages, patio & deck, plus more! This home looks as new as the day it was built! $270,000 (#570439) HOST: Dean Records (LOCATION: Proceed out River Rd, 4th house on L past Holly Shores & Clark Rd)
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
7744 MAIN ST, BETHEL Own a little piece of history! Charming 4-BR, 2-BA Victorian in the quaint, historic village of Bethel. Meticulously restored to its 1890’s character, it features original wood floors, 2 staircases, 4 elec. fireplaces, central air, & much more! $270,000 (#569524) HOSTESS: Sue Bramhall
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
26 WOODLAND DR, SEAFORD Contemporary brick home on 1.48 acres offers apx. 4,000 sq. ft. & 3-car garage. 4 BRs (including 2 master BR suites), 4 BAs, “Great Room,” sunporch, & home warranty plus many special features & extras! $449,900 (#563738) HOSTESS: Phyllis Parker (From Stein Hwy Rt 20W turn at RR X-ing onto Woodpecker Rd 80, go apx 1 mi & turn R into Woodland Station, 2nd prop on R)
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
25 RIVERS END DR, SEAFORD Custom agent-owned home on 6/10 acre lot offers over 3,000 sq. ft. w/ heated, cooled sunroom, 4 BRs, 3.5 BAs, formal LR & DR, FR w/fireplace and adj. kit. & eating area, & double garage. Updated features & extras included! $435,000 (#560045) HOSTESS: Fran Ruark (12th home on R after entering Rivers End from Old Meadow Rd)
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
160 LAKESIDE DR, LAUREL This 3-BR, 2-BA home w/garage in Lakeside Manor is a “Must See!” New plumbing & septic tank; new windows, siding & roof; new kit. flooring, appliances, & paint; 2 new bathrooms; fenced back yard & deck, plus much more! $179,900 (#564100) From Rt 13 turn W at the “Relax Inn,” at stop sign turn L, 1st prop on L HOST: Trent Ruark
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
74 RIVERS END DR, SEAFORD Curb Appeal! Move-In Condition! And that’s just the beginning! This home offers 3 BRs, 2.5 BAs, FR, double garage, fireplace, C/A, security system, irrigated lawn & more! Reduced to $338,000 (#566939) HOSTESS: Connie Covey (From Old Meadow Rd, turn into Rivers End; proceed on Rivers End Dr to prop on L)
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
613 ELM ST, SEAFORD This is a “honey of a house” with new siding, roof, deck, front & all interior doors, heat pump, & instant hot water. Inside has been refurbished w/hardwood flooring, carpet, appliances & paint! $219,000 (#570267) From south end of Nylon Blvd turn E onto Elm St, prop on R. HOST: Wyatt Lowe
CALLAWAY, FARNELL & MOORE • 629-4514
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JOHN DEERE TRACTOR, OLD 80’S, LAST USED Old 80’s, last used summer 2008. Unable to get to run. ossibly starter. Has new ‘09 battery. Asking $50. 875-1638. 7/16
4 BEAN BAG SEATS, 30”, like new, navy color, $12 ea. 875-7495. 7/16
30” GE GAS RANGE, white, $225. 24” white GE Dish-washer, $150. Microwave/Hood Combo, GE, white, $100. 875-7775. 7/16
52” CEILING FAN, white Bellagio, by Harbor Breeze, 3 spd., with light kit. Can be used outdoors. Still in box, 30 yr. warranty, asking $50. 410-754-9564 7/16
HARMONY GUITAR w/case, great shape, $85. 398-0309. 6/18
SEV. 3-PHASE ELEC. MO-TORS, best offers. New 15 hp Horz air comp., cost $4000, selling $2000. 20 hp High Volume Air Compres-sor, $500. Post & Piling Peeler, $1500. 337-8961.
TABLE SAW, 10” Crafts-man, with stand & cast iron top, asking $150. 337-3370 h; 258-4095 c. 6/18
SNAPPER 12.5HP, 33” Hi-Vac riding mower with bag-ger, mulching blades, lights, very good cond., Asking $649 OBO. 337-3370 h; 258-4095 c. 6/18
JITTERBUG CELL Phone, 98% new in orig. box w/access. & instruct. book. Paid $140, asking $60. 875-5086. 6/18
good location, potential for growth. If you are serious about
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EDUCATIONAL VACANCIES: DELMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT
200 N. 8th St., Delmar, DE is accepting completed Distict paper applications for
the following full-time teaching vacancies for the 2009-10 school year:
• Physical Education/Health Education • Middle School Science with
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LEGALSNOTICE OF
PRESUMPTION OFDEATH ACTION
IN THE MATTER OFCHRISTOPHER NASH LUTZIN THE CIRCUIT COURTFOR DORCHESTER COUNTY, MARYLANDCASE NO: C-09-16818
A Petition for a finding of a Presumption of Death regarding CHRISTOPHER NASH LUTZ has been filed in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, Maryland. It is alleged that he perished in a boating accident on the Nanticoke River on April 4, 2009. Any persons having knowledge that CHRISTOPHER NASH LUTZ may not have de-ceased are requested to contact the Clerk of the Cir-cuit Court for Dorchester County, P.O. Box 150, Cam bridge, Maryland 21613 or Raymond H. Sim-mons, Jr., Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 753, Cambridge Maryland 21613.
Donna L. Pyle, Clerk7/16/3tc
NOTICEOn Saturday, August 22,
2009 at 11:00 a.m., Penin-sula Mini Storage, located at 40 S. Market St., Blades/Sea ford, DE will hold a public auction pursuant to the State of Delaware Self-Storage Facility Act Title 25 Chapter 49.
The following storage units will be sold or disposed of for Non-Payment of stor-age rent. Tenants name and last known address are listed below.
David Brown, Laurel, Del., Unit 216; Jermaisho Cannon, Salisbury, Md., Unit 234; and Mitchell Thompson, Seaford, Del., Unit 330.
Peninsula Mini Storage302-629-5743
7/16/2tc
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
You are hereby notified the below matters will be before:
The City of Seaford Planning and Zoning Com-mission for their review and recommendation on Thurs-day, August 6, 2009 at 7:00 P.M., in City Hall, 414 High Street, Seaford, Delaware; and,
The City of Seaford Mayor and Council for their determination on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, at 7:05 p.m., in City Hall, 414 High Street, Seaford, Delaware:
1) Hoober, Inc. 6367A Stein Highway, Tax Map and Parcel 531 12.00 41, is requesting a final site plan review for the construc-
tion of a 15,750 sq. ft. new building to be located east of the existing building.
If these projects are of concern to you and you wish to present your posi-tion or evidence, please attend this meeting. You may have counsel attend on your behalf.
Issued this 16th day of July 2009 pursuant to the Rules heretofore adopted by the City of Seaford.
THE CITY OF SEAFORDDolores J. Slatcher,
City Manager7/161tc
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
LITTLE CREEK HUNDRED
Subd. #2008-2Notice is hereby given
that the County Planning and Zoning Commission of Sussex County will hold a public hearing on Thurs-day evening, AUGUST 13, 2009, in the County Council Chambers, Sussex County Administrative Building, George town, Del a ware, on the application of LEE LITTLETON to consider the Subdivision of land in an GR General Residential District in Little Creek Hun-dred, Sussex County, by dividing 8.76 acres into 6 lots, located south of Road 454, 310 feet east of Road 457.
Planning and Zoning public hearings will begin at 6:00 P.M.
Text and maps of this ap-plication may be examined by interested parties in the County Planning and Zon-ing Of fice, Sussex County Administrative Building, Georgetown, Dela ware.
If unable to attend the public hearing, written com-ments will be accepted but must be received prior to the public hearing.
For additional informa-tion contact the Planning and Zoning Department at 302-855-7878.
7/16/1tc
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
BROAD CREEK HUNDRED
Subd. #2008-3Notice is hereby given
that the County Planning and Zoning Commission of Sussex County will hold a public hearing on Thurs-day evening, AUGUST 13, 2009, in the County Council Chambers, Sussex County Administrative Building, George town, Del a ware, on the application of EV-ELYN J. AND ARTHUR P. DAVIS JR. to consider the Subdivision of land in an AR-1 Agricultural Residen-tial District in Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex County, by dividing 2.69 acres into 2 lots, located south of Route
20, 1,100 feet northwesterly of Road 473.
Planning and Zoning public hearings will begin at 6:00 P.M.
Text and maps of this ap-plication may be examined by interested parties in the County Planning and Zon-ing Of fice, Sussex County Administrative Building, Georgetown, Dela ware.
If unable to attend the public hearing, written com-ments will be accepted but must be received prior to the public hearing.
For additional informa-tion contact the Planning and Zoning Department at 302-855-7878.
7/16/1tc
NOTICEEstate of Jacklyn Rose
Berner Smith, Deceased.Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Adminis-tration upon the estate of Jacklyn Rose Berner Smith who departed this life on the 22nd day of May, A.D. 2009 late of Laurel, DE were duly granted unto Teresa Berner on the 1st day of July, A.D. 2009, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Administratrix without delay, and all persons hav-ing demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Adminisgtratrix on or before the 22nd day of Jan-uary, A.D. 2010 or abide by the law in this behalf.
Administratrix: Teresa Berner
25510 Shovelhead AlleyMillsboro, DE 19966
Gregory Fuller Sr.Register of Wills
7/16/3tc
NOTICEEstate of Norman E.
Layfield, Deceased.Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Testamenta-ry upon the estate of Name who departed this life on the 8th day of May, A.D. 2009 late of Laurel, DE were duly granted unto Eliz-abeth Sullivan on the 24th day of June, A.D. 2009, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Executrix with-out delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Executrix on or before the 8th day of January, A.D. 2010 or abide by the law in this behalf.
Executrix: Elizabeth Sullivan
207 Hantwerker Dr.Delmar, DE 19940
Gregory Fuller Sr.Register of Wills
7/9/3tc
NOTICEEstate of Contance Joan
Ingalls, Deceased.Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Testamen-tary upon the estate of Con-stance Joan Ingalls who departed this life on the 10th day of June, A.D. 2009 late of Laurel, DE were duly granted unto Joyce Aline Brock on the 30th day of June, A.D. 2009, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Executrix with-out delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Executrix on or before the 10th day of February, A.D. 2010 or abide by the law in this behalf.
Executrix: Joyce Aline Brock
13065 Nero Ln.Laurel, DE 19956
Gregory Fuller Sr.Register of Wills
7/9/3tc
NOTICEEstate of Herbert E.
Stouffer, Deceased.Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Testamen-tary upon the estate of Herbert E. Stouffer who departed this life on the 2nd day of May, A.D. 2009 late of Seaford, DE were duly granted unto Sherry S. Chaillou, Herbert W. Stouffer on the 29th day of June, A.D. 2009, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Co-Executors without delay, and all persons hav-ing demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Co-Executors on or before the 2nd day of Janu-ary, A.D. 2010 or abide by the law in this behalf.
Co-Executors: Sherry S. Chaillou
1492 Park LanePasadine, MD 21122
Herbert W. Stouffer3304 Stonebrook Dr.
Richardson, TX 75082Attorney:Darrell J. Baker, Esq.702 King Str., Ste 600Wilmington, DE 19801
Gregory Fuller Sr.Register of Wills
7/9/3tc
NOTICEEstate of Paul M. Powell,
Deceased.Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Testamen-tary upon the estate of Paul M. Powell who departed this life on the 21st day of May, A.D. 2009 late of Sea-ford, DE were duly granted unto Ann W. Nyce, Donald C. Powell on the 23rd day
of June, A.D. 2009, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Co-Executors without delay, and all persons hav-ing demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Co-Executors on or before the 21st day of Jan-uary, A.D. 2010 or abide by the law in this behalf.
Co-Executors: Ann W. Nyce
14331 Shiloh WayLaurel, DE 19956
Donald C. Powell10512 Foxhunt Rd.Oak Hill, VA 22070
Gregory Fuller Sr.Register of Wills
7/2/3tc
NOTICEEstate of William D.
Gardner, Deceased.Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Adminis-tration upon the estate of William D. Gardner who departed this life on the 29th day of May, A.D. 2009 late of Seaford, DE were duly granted unto Junior D. Clayton on the 17th day of June, A.D. 2009, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Administrator without delay, and all persons hav-ing demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Administrator on or before the 29th day of Jan-uary, A.D. 2010 or abide by the law in this behalf.
Administrator: Junior D. Clayton
408 Patriot St.Seaford, DE 19973
Gregory Fuller Sr.Register of Wills
7/2/3tc
NOTICEEstate of Stephen P.
Scherer, Deceased.Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Adminis-tration upon the estate of Stephen P. Scherer who departed this life on the 12th day of June, A.D. 2009 late of Seaford, DE were duly granted unto Michael S. Scherer, Stacey Dietz on the 18th day of June, A.D. 2009, and all per-sons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Co-Administrators without delay, and all persons hav-ing demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Co-Administrators on or before the 12th day of February, A.D. 2010 or abide by the law in this behalf.
Co-Administrators:
Michael S. Scherer309 Worthington Rd.
Towson, MD 21286Stacey Dietz
426 Five Farms Ln.Timonium, MD 21093
Gregory Fuller Sr.Register of Wills
7/2/3tc
NOTICEEstate of Charles M.
Truitt, Deceased.Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Adminis-tration upon the estate of Charles M. Truitt who departed this life on the 13th day of June, A.D. 2009 late of Delmar, DE were duly granted unto Peggy T. Morris, Penny J. Truitt on the 22nd day of June, A.D. 2009, and all per-sons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Co-Administratrices with-out delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Co-Administratrices on or before the 13th day of February, A.D. 2010 or abide by the law in this behalf.
Co-Administratrices: Peggy T. Morris
906 Jones TerraceDelmar, DE 19940
Penny J. Truitt200 Hantwerker Dr.Delmar, DE 19940
Gregory Fuller Sr.Register of Wills
7/2/3tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Dela-ware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being located in the CITY OF SEAFORD, Seaford Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware and being more particularly described as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at an iron pipe found on the Easterly right of way line of North Front Street, said point being located 231.68 feet to Third Street, at a corner for this lot and lands now or formerly of Anna Mae Buchert; thence with the Easterly right of way line of North Front Street North 09 degrees 31 minutes 47 seconds East 31.84 feet to an iron bolt found at a cor-
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MORNING STAR • JULY 16 - 22, 2009
ner for this lot and lands now or formerly of Peggy J. Geradi; thence turning and running with lands now or formerly of Peggy J. Gera-di South 80 degrees 58 minutes 05 seconds East 132.17 feet to an iron rod found at a corner for this lot, lands now or formerly of Peggy J. Geradi and in line of lands now or formerly of William Shockley, Heirs; thence turning and run-ning with lands now or for-merly of William Shockley, Heirs South 09 degrees 04 minutes 50 seconds West 32.23 feet to an iron pipe found at a corner for this lot, lands now or formerly of Anna Mae Buchert and in line of lands now or for-merly of William Shockley, Heirs; thence turning and running with lands now or formerly of Anna Mae Bu-chert North 80 degrees 53 minutes 52 seconds West 132.45 feet to the point and place of beginning said to contain 4,239 square feet of land, be the same more or less, together with im-provements, as shown on a survey prepared by Miller-Lewis, Inc., dated October 18, 2006.
BEING the same lands and premises which Kevin L. Jefferson, by Deed dated October 19, 2007 and re-corded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County and State of Delaware, in Deed Book 3512, Page 206, did grant and convey unto Ant-waneshia Blake.
Tax Parcel: 4-31-5.00-77.00
Property Address: 319 Front St., Seaford, DE 19973
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Ca-shier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to con-firmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also sub-ject to 1 1/2 percent Sus-sex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the
Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sher-iff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the per-centum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited.Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property ofANTWANESHIA BLAKE
and will be sold byEric D. Swanson, Sheriff
7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Dela-ware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situ-ated, lying and being within the Corporate limits of the Town of Laurel, Delaware, bordering on the North side of Cooper Street, adjoin-ing lands now or formerly of George W. Hastings, lot now or formerly of William F. Baker, and lands now or formerly of Charles E. Wootten and Lizzie E Woot-ten and contained within the following courses and distances, to wit
BEGINNING on the North side of said Cooper Street and at the Southwest corner of Hastings lot, and run from thence with said Hastings lot North 22 ¼ degrees East l50 feet to the Northwest corner of said Hastings lot and to an alley between this said lot and lot of said Baker, thence with said Alley North 68° West 50 feet to a corner at the end of a division line between this lot and an ad-joining lot now or formerly of Charles E. Wootten and Lizzie E. Wootten, thence for said Division line South 22 ¼ degrees and Vi de-grees West 150 feet to the North side of Cooper Street aforesaid; then with the said thereof 50 feet a right line to the place of beginning, con-taining 7,500 square feet of land, more or less.
BEING the same lands and premises which the Es-tate of Ernest L. Littleton and Christopher F. Littleton, by Deed dated December 6, 2007 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sus-sex County and State of
Delaware, in Deed Book 3546, Page 220, did grant and convey unto John M. Holter.
Tax Parcel: 3-32-1.07-202.00
Property Address: 545 E. 4th Street, Laurel, DE
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 per-cent to be paid by the Pur-chaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the respon-sibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be re-quired to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirma-tion. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks pay-able to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property of
JOHN M. HOLTERand will be sold by
Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Del-a ware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the City of Seaford, Seaford Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, designated as LOT NO.5 and the north-erly half of LOT NO.7, SEC-TION NO.2, “WESTVIEW”, in accordance with a plan
prepared by T.R Pepper, Surveyor, undated, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in Georgetown, Delaware, in Deed Book 322, Page 600; and being more particularly described in accordance with a recent survey pre-pared by Douglas L. Park-er and Associates, May 27,2005, as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the northerly right of way line of Martin Street and the westerly right of way line of Elm Drive, said point being on the westerly right of way line of Elm Drive and 25 feet distant from the center-line thereof at 50 feet wide; thence by and with the said right of way line of Elm Drive, North 04 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds East 330 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe found, a cor-ner for these lands and the center line of Lot No.7; and being the point and place of beginning of the herein described lot; thence leav-ing the said right of way line of Elm Drive, and by and with the centerline of Lot No.7, South 89 degrees 29 minutes 31 seconds West 119.82 feet total to an iron pipe previously set, pass-ing over an iron pipe found at 118.79 feet, a corner for these land, the centerline of Lot No.7, and the center-line of Lot No.8; thence by and with Lot No.8, then Lot No.6, North 04 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds East 90.40 feet to an iron pipe found, a corner for these lands, Lot No.6, Lot No.3 and Lot No.2; thence by and with the Lot No. 2, thence Lot No.1, North 89 degrees 42 minutes 23 sec-onds East 119.78 feet to an iron pipe found, a corner for these lands and Lot No.1, and being a point on line of the westerly right of way line of Elm Drive; thence by and with the westerly right of way line of Elm Drive, South 04 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds West 89.95 feet to the iron pipe found, a corner for these lands and the centerline of Lot No.7, the point and place of beginning, be the contents thereof what they may.
AND BEING the same lands and premises con-veyed unto KATHERINE J. WIER by deed of Jan Parker Wier, dated June 20, 2005 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Sussex County, Delaware in Deed Book 3164, Page 158.
Tax Parcel: 5-31-12.08-021
Property Address: 614 Elm Dr., Seaford, DE 19973
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash
or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Ca-shier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to con-firmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also sub-ject to 1 1/2 percent Sus-sex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sher-iff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the per-centum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property of
KATHERINE J. WIERand will be sold by
Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Del-a ware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being situate in the Town of Greenwood, Sussex County, Delaware known as Lot 71, The Cove, Phase I, as shown on a survey prepared by Land Tech, dated April 13,2006, bounded and described as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at an iron pipe located on the north-erly right of way of Cove Court, said iron pipe being a comer for this lot and Lot 83; thence by and with the northerly right of way of Cove Court, North 72 degrees 16 minutes 24 seconds West, a distance
of 49.99 feet to an iron pipe, being a point of curve to the right having a ra-dius of25.00 feet, a cen-tral angle of 90 degrees 01 minute 20 seconds, and a chord bearing of North 27 degrees 15 minutes 44 seconds West, 35.36 feet; thence northwesterly along the arc distance of 39.28 feet to an iron pipe; thence by and with the easterly right of way of Duck Creek Lane, North 17 degrees 44 minutes 56 seconds East, a distance of 41.71 feet to an iron pipe, being the point of curve of a non tan-gent curve to the left, hav-ing a radius of 545.00 feet an having a chord bear-ing of North 14 degrees 59 minutes 55 seconds East, 51.88 feet; thence along the arc, through a central angle of 05 degrees 27 minutes 21 seconds, a distance of 51.90 feet to an iron pipe; thence by and with Lot 88, South 68 degrees 33 min-utes 52 seconds East, a distance of 77.56 feet to an iron pipe; thence by and with Lot 83, South 17 de-grees 44 minutes 56 sec-onds West, a distance of 113.51 feet to the point of beginning.
AND BEING the same lands and premises which John Robert Collins Trust-ee under Revocable Trust Agreement of John Robert Collins dated 1/3/2000 and Peggy Joann M. Collins, Trustee under Revocable Trust Agreement of Peggy Joanne M. Collins dated 1/3/2000, by deed dated April 28, 2006 and recorded in the Office of the Re-corder of Deeds in and for Sussex County, Delaware in Deed Record 3312, Page 109 did grant and convey unto SEAN E. COLEMAN, in fee.
Tax Parcel: 5-30-10.00-86.00
Property Address: 102 Duck Creek Ln., Green-wood, DE 19950
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Ca-shier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to con-firmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by
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the Purchaser. Also sub-ject to 1 1/2 percent Sus-sex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sher-iff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the per-centum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property of
SEAN E. COLEMANand will be sold by
Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Dela-ware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situ-ate, lying and being in Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, as de-picted on a plan entitled “Minor Subdivision of Lands for Robert S. and Donna M. Horsey, Trustees”, pre-pared by Miller Lewis, Inc., Land Surveying, approved by Sussex County July 5, 2005, and more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a found concrete marker located on the southerly right-of-way of county road num-ber 454B, said point being located 886.6 feet distant from county road num-ber 68; thence from said point of beginning South 78 degrees, 46 minutes and seconds East 174.68 feet to a found iron pipe; thence South 11 degrees, 25 minutes and 00 sec-onds 239.10 feet to a found iron pipe; then North 78 degrees, 46 minutes and 55 seconds West 174.68 feet to a found iron pipe; thence North 11 degrees, 25 min-utes and 00 seconds East 239.10 feet to the place and paint of beginning, the contents thereof be what they may, said to contain 41,747 square feet of land, more or less.
BEING the same lands
and premises which Rob-ert S. Horsey, Trustee and Donna M. Horsey, Trustee by Deed dated October 24,2005 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County and State of Dela-ware, in Deed Book 3224, Page 240, did grant and convey unto Isaac Davis. The said Isaac Davis is also known as Isaac Davis, III.
Tax Parcel: 5-32-14.00-22.07
Property Address: 12082 Coachman Ln., Delmar, DE 19940
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 per-cent to be paid by the Pur-chaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the respon-sibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be re-quired to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirma-tion. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks pay-able to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property of
ISAAC DAVIS a/k/a ISAAC DAVIS, III
and will be sold byEric D. Swanson, Sheriff
7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Del-aware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following
described real estate to wit:All that certain lot, piece
or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the North-westerly side of a proposed 30 foot street in the City of Seaford, Seaford Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, being known and designat-ed as Lot No.3, containing 4.624 square feet of land, more or less as will more fully and at large appear upon reference to a survey entitled “Plot of Subdivision OF THE LANDS OF THE CITY OF SEAFORD”, pre-pared by Thomas A. Tem-ple, Jr., dated June 1910, filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Georgetown, Delaware, in Plat Book 21, Page 94.
AND BEING the same property conveyed to Blanche Prattis, by Deed from The United States of America, acting through the Administrator of the Farm-ers Home Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, dated July 17, 1992, and recorded September 1, 1992, in Deed Book 1867, Page 298, among the land re-cords of Sussex County, State of Delaware.
Tax Parcel: 4-31-5.00-403.02
Property Address: 304 Grant St., Seaford, DE 19973
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 per-cent to be paid by the Pur-chaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the respon-sibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be re-quired to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirma-tion. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks pay-
able to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property of
CHERYL E. LAWTONand will be sold by
Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Del-aware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Nanticoke Hundred, Sus-sex County and State of Delaware, more particularly described in accordance with a survey prepared by Thomas A. Temple, Jr., dated August 10, 2004, as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron stob in the southeasterly right of way line of Road No. 524 - German Road, a corner for this lot and lands of Sussex Ventures, Inc.; thence, by and with the southeasterly right of way lien of German Road North 632 degrees 27 minutes 35 seconds East 165.00 feet to a pipe, a corner for this lot and lands of Sherrylyn L. Wilcoxson and Diana Thomas and Russell Thom-as; thence, along a line be-tween this lot and lands of Sherrylyn L. Wilcoxson and Diana Thomas and Russell Thomas south 28 degrees 35 minutes 36 seconds East 200.00 feet to a pipe, a corner for this lot; thence, along a line between this lot and lands of Sherrylyn L. Wilcoxson and Diana Thomas and Russell Thom-as in part and partly with lands of Sussex Ventures, Inc., South 62 degrees 27 minutes 35 seconds West 165.00 feet to a bent pipe, a corner for this lot; thence, along another line between this lot and lands of Sus-sex Ventures, Inc., North 28 degrees 35 minute 36 seconds West 200.00 feet to the place of beginning, containing therein 32.994 square feet of land, more or less.
BEING the same lands and premises conveyed to Larry M. Wilson and Angie Tolliver Wilson, by Deed from Lewis David Kibler, dated August 18, 2004, and recorded August 19, 2004, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County and the
State of Delaware in Deed Book 3023, Page 53.
Tax Parcel: 2-31-13.00-146.02
Property Address: 24233 German Rd., Seaford, DE 19973
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Ca-shier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to con-firmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also sub-ject to 1 1/2 percent Sus-sex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sher-iff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the per-centum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property ofANGIE TOLLIVER AND
LARRY WILSONand will be sold by
Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Dela-ware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Seaford Hundred, Sussex County and State of Delaware, and being more particularly de-scribed as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at an iron pipe (found) on the South-easterly right-of-way line of
Sussex County Road No. 535 (60’ R/W); said pipe being situate a distance of 151.00 feet from North Shore Drive; thence with the lands of Thomas S. and Rita J. Paulsen, now or for-merly, South 43 degrees 33 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of252.30 feet to a concrete monument (found); thence with “North Shores Court” Subdivision, now or formerly, South 57 degrees 35 minutes 00 sec-onds West a distance of 157.60 feet to a concrete monument (found); thence with lands of Richard and Patricia Anderson, now or formerly, North 29 degrees 41 minutes 00 seconds West a distance of254.04 feet to a concrete monu-ment (found); thence with Sussex County Road No. 535, North 63 degrees 14 minutes 55 seconds East a distance of 96.97 feet home to the point and place of be-ginning, and said to contain 31,822 square feet of land, be the same, more or less, together with all improve-ments thereon, as shown on a survey prepared by Miller-Lewis, Inc., dated Oc-tober 29,2003.
BEING the same lands and premises which were conveyed unto Patrick L. Tierno, by deed of Pamela A. Tierno, dated the 31st day of August, AD. 1994, and recorded in the Office of Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, on the 8th day of December, AD. 1994, in Deed Book 2021, Page 320.
BEING the same lands and premises which were conveyed unto Richard A Hoffman and Teresa M. Hoffman, as tenants by the entirety, by deed of Patrick L. Tierno, dated the 31st day of October, 2003, and recorded in the Office of Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, on the I1h day of November, 2003, in Deed Book 2906, Page 23.
Tax Parcel: 3-31-6.00-29.00
Property Address: 9318 Middleford Rd., Seaford, DE 19973
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Ca-shier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to con-
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firmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also sub-ject to 1 1/2 percent Sus-sex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sher-iff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the per-centum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property of
TERESA M. AND RICHARD A. HOFFMAN
and will be sold byEric D. Swanson, Sheriff
7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Del-aware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Nanticoke Hundred, Sus-sex County and State of Delaware, and lying on the Northwestern right-of¬-way of Sussex County Road #484 (50 feet wide), being more particularly described as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at a point, said point being located on the Northwestern right-of-way of Sussex County Road #484, said point also being located at a comer of these lands and lands now or formerly of Leon J. and Ruby M. Tyndall, said point also being lo-cated 0.35 miles more or less from the intersection of Delaware Road # 20 and Sussex County Road #484; thence turning and running from the aforementioned pint by and along the Tyn-dall Lands, North 46°37’42” West, 106.00 feet through a concrete monument and five (5) feet to a concrete monument; thence turn-ing and running North
16°59’46” East, 179.45 feet to a concrete monument; thence turning and running by and along the residue of land of Raymond J. and Mary E. Hitch, South 61 °03’06” East, 137.03 feet to a concrete monument; thence turning and running by and along the Northwest-ern right-of-way of Sussex County Road #484 in a de-flection to left, a delta angle of 10°26’30” with a chord distance of 201.98 feet, with a chord bearing of South 28°09’21” West, 202.26 feet, home to the place of beginning and said to con-tain 0.5275 acres of land, be the same more or less, as surveyed by Donald K. Miller, Registered Surveyor, on October 6, 1992.
BEING the same lands conveyed to Raymond J. Hitch, Jr. and Stacey L. Reynolds by Deed of Ray-mond J. Hitch and Mary E. Hitch, his wife, said Deed dated the 24th day of Feb-ruary, 1993 and of record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, Delaware, in Deed Book 1990, page 134, in fee.
BEING the same lands conveyed to Raymond J. Hitch, Jr. and Stacey L. Hitch by Deed of Raymond J. Hitch, Jr. and Stacey L. Reynolds a/k/a Stacey L. Hitch, his wife, said Deed dated the 18th day of Feb-ruary, 1998 and of record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, Delaware, in Deed Book 2267, page 243, in fee.
Tax Parcel: 2-31-17.00-64.01
Property Address: RR2, Seaford, DE 19973
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Ca-shier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to con-firmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also sub-ject to 1 1/2 percent Sus-sex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser
will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sher-iff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the per-centum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property of
STACEY L. AND RAYMOND J. HITCH, JR.
and will be sold byEric D. Swanson, Sheriff
7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Dela-ware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
All that certain lot or par-cel of land situate, lying and being in Nanticoke Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, lying on the Southwesterly right of way line of Highway No. 631, and more particularly de-scribed as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a pipe in the Southwesterly right of way line of Highway No. 631, said pipe being also 448 feet in a Southeast-erly direction from the in-tersection of Highway No. 631 and Route #36; thence South 64 degrees 07 min-utes West 208.35 feet to a stake; thence turning and running South 22 degrees 48 minutes East 650.75 feet to a stake at the inter-section of ditches; thence South 84 degrees 01 min-utes East 240.00 feet to a pipe; thence North 23 de-grees 00 seconds West 778 feet, home to the place of beginning. Said to contain 3.42 acres of land, more or less
Being the same lands and premises which Mar-jorie G. Swartzentuber and John M. Swartzentruber did grant and convey unto John M. Swartzentruber and Tammi L. Swartzentru-ber by deed dated October 24, 2002 and recorded on November 8, 2002 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Book 02770 Page 296.
Tax Parcel: 4-30-5.00-53.00
Property Address: 12698 Mennonite School Rd., Greenwood, DE 19950
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Ca-shier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to con-firmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also sub-ject to 1 1/2 percent Sus-sex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sher-iff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the per-centum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property ofTAMMI L. AND JOHN M. SWARTZENTRUBER, JR.
and will be sold byEric D. Swanson, Sheriff
7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Del-aware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Little Creek Hundred, Sus-sex County, Delaware, and being Lot 7, being 1.1748 acres more or less as shown on a survey pre-pared by Miller-Lewis, Inc. dated September 3,2004, and being more particularly described as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at an iron rod (found) lying on the Easterly right-of-way line of Danny Drive (50’ right-of-way) North 09 degrees 12
minutes 52 seconds East 151.34 feet to an iron pipe found) marking the begin-ning of a curve; said curve having a radius of 50.00 feet, a delta of 142 de-grees 30 minutes 03 sec-onds, a length of 124.36 feet, a chord of 94.69 feet with a bearing of North 06 degrees 06 minutes 50 seconds West to an iron rod (found); thence turn-ing and running by and with a common boundary line for this lot and for Lot 26 North 09 degrees 12 minutes 52 seconds East 13.23 feet to an iron pipe (found); thence turning and running by and with a com-mon boundary line for this lot and for lands now or formerly of R.Thomas, Sr. & Carole D. Vincent South 72 degrees 54 minutes 15 seconds East 236.16 feet to an iron rod (found); thence turning and running by and with a common bound-ary line for this land and for lands now or formerly of Daniel Nero & Donna Rose South 09 degrees 12 minutes 22 seconds West 246.28 feet to an iron rod (found); thence turning and running by and with a common boundary line of this lot and for Lot 8 North 74 degrees 33 minutes 59 seconds West 210.17 feet home to the place of begin-ning said to contain 1.1748 acres of land more or less as shown on a survey pre-pared by Miller-Lewis, Inc. dated September 3, 2004.
Being the same lands and premises which David A. Milligan and Gloria J. Mil-ligan, did grant and convey unto Arthur C. Lex, III and Loretta L. Butler, by deed dated October 1, 2004 and recorded on October 6, 2004 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Book 3044 at Page 156.
Tax Parcel: 5-32-7.00-26.27
Property Address: 35257 Danny Dr., Laurel, DE 19956
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sus-sex County) and valid driv-er’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid
by the Seller and 3/4 per-cent to be paid by the Pur-chaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the respon-sibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be re-quired to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirma-tion. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks pay-able to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property ofLORETTA L. BUTLER
AND ARTHUR C. LEX, IIIand will be sold by
Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Dela-ware, Georgetown Hun-dred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit:
ALL that certain tract, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Little Creek Hundred, Sus-sex County, Delaware and being known and designat-ed as LOT 9A, as shown on a plot of WOLFE PROP-ERTIES, INC., dated April 30, 1999 and prepared by Adams-Kemp Associates, Inc., said plot being of re-cord in the office of the Re-corder of Deeds in and for Sussex County in Plot Book 64 page 35.
BEING the same lands conveyed unto Martin O. Fleetwood and Lisa K. Fleetwood, Co Trustees of the Martin O. Fleetwood and Lisa K. Fleetwood Joint Revocable Trust Dated Oc-tober 4, 2004, by Deed of Martin O. Fleetwood and Lisa K. Fleetwood dated July 2005 and of record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Sus-sex County in Deed Book 3171 Page 265 et seq. The said Martin O. Fleetwood departed this life on July 30, 2005 leaving Lisa K. Fleet-wood as the sole co-trustee of the Martin O. Fleetwood and Lisa K. Fleetwood Joint Revocable Trust Dated Oc-tober 4, 2004.
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Tax Parcel: 5-32-14.00-37.17
Property Address: 36437 Robinhood Rd., Delmar, DE 19940
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Pur-chaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property ofLISA K. FLEETWOOD
and will be sold byEric D. Swanson, Sheriff
7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Dela-ware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following de-scribed real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Laurel, Little Creek Hun-dred, Sussex County, Dela-ware, located on the south-easterly side of West Street, and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron pipe found on the south-easterly side of the sidewalk along the southeasterly side
of West Street, said iron pipe (found) being 89.6 feet to 7th Street, and being a common boundary line for this land and for lands now or formerly of Charles H. & Julia Smith; thence by and with aforesaid Smith lands South 65 degrees 18 minutes 28 seconds East 108.92 feet to an iron pipe (found); thence turning and running by and with a com-mon boundary line for this land and for lands now or formerly of John L. Short, III and Anna W. Short South 14 degrees 25 minutes 36 seconds West 25.36 feet to an iron stob (found); thence turning and running by and with a common boundary line for this land and for lands now or formerly of John L. Short, III and Anna W. Short South 72 degrees 53 minutes 50 seconds East 36.40 feet to an iron fence post (found); thence turning and running by and with a common boundary line for this land and lands now or formerly of Mildred E. Phil-lips Heirs South 16 degrees 58 minutes 46 seconds West 24.37 feet to an iron pipe(found); thence turning and running by and with a common boundary line for this land and for lands now or formerly of Gregory K. & Donna K. Adkins North 69 degrees 11 minutes 50 sec-onds West 154.60 feet to an iron stob (found); thence turning and running by and with the Southeasterly right-of-way of West Street North 26 degrees 13 minutes 00 seconds East 54.81 feet home to the place of begin-ning said to contain 6,626 square feet of land more or less with improvements thereon.
Being the same lands and premises which Walter F. Lecates, Jr., and Gloria J. Lecates, did grant and con-vey unto Jeffrey J. Allman and Sandra L. Allman, by deed dated January 17,2006 and recorded on February 17,2006 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Book 3272 at Page 280.
Tax Parcel: 4-32-8.06-201.00
Property Address: 705 West St., Laurel, DE 19956
Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009.
Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Pur-chaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property of
JEFFREY J. AND SANDRA L. ALLMAN
and will be sold byEric D. Swanson, Sheriff
7/9/2tc
SHERIFF SALEBy virtue of a writ of Le-
vari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter
At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Com-plex, 22215 DuPont Bou-levard, Georgetown, Dela-ware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following de-scribed real estate to wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece and parcel of land situate, lying and being in Nanticoke Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, designated as LOT NO.2 as shown on the subdivision Survey Plan of Shirley T. Downes and Robert D. Downes, Jr., pre-pared by Adams-Kemp As-sociates, Inc., Registered Surveyors dated March 6, 2005 and revised on April 5, 2005 and filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sus-sex County, at Georgetown, Delaware, in Plot Book 92, Page 330 .
Being the same lands and premises which David Wilson and Linda Wilson did grant and convey unto Christopher D. Costello and Nicole M. Misita by deed dated November 17, 2006 and recorded on November 22, 2006 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Book 3385 Page 230.
Tax Parcel: 4-30-6.00-12.02
Property Address: 12670 Utica Rd., Greenwood, DE
19950Registration is required
for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register.
TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Reg-istration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before August 17, 2009.
Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on August 21, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at
the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Pur-chaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County.
Seized and taken in execution the property ofNICOLE M. MISITA AND
CHRISTOPHER D. COSTELLO
and will be sold byEric D. Swanson, Sheriff
7/9/2tc
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Police arrest burglarGary R. Walls of River Road
in Seaford has been arrested and charged with second degree bur-glary, felony theft, and criminal mischief for an incident that took place July 5 on Pauls Lane in Seaford.
The suspect, who was ar-rested on July 8, entered a resi-dence while the owner was out shopping, removed items and then fled the area. Walls was ar-raigned by Justice of the Peace #4 and released.
Search for missing girlDelaware State Police Troop 5
is requesting assistance in locat-ing Devy Rivera, a 15-year-old female from Bridgeville. Rivera was last seen on Friday, July 10 at her residence on Seashore Highway. She was wearing khaki shorts, a dark brown t-shirt, pur-ple flip flops and silver stud ear-rings. She is believed to be in the Greenwood to Laurel area. No foul play is involved, however
Delaware State Police would like to locate her as soon as possible.
Any-one with informa-tion per-taining to this case is asked to call investigators at 302-337-1090, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333. Callers may remain anonymous. Tips may also be forwarded online at www.tipsubmit.com.
Woman drives into houseA house was struck on Satur-
day, July 11, after a woman who was following too closely, veered off the road and struck a house.
At approximately 6:45 a.m. a 1999 Ford Contour (operated by Shaneka N. Ricks, 26, of Sea-
ford) was traveling northbound on Seaford Road (US 13 Alter-nate) when a green mini van in front of her slowed to look at a yard sale in the area.
Ricks avoided the mini van by applying her brakes and swerving to the right, losing control of the vehicle. The vehicle continued off the east edge of the roadway
and struck a house located at 28565 Seaford Road.
Three children inside the car, ages 11 months, 2-years-old and 3-years-old, were not properly restrained in car seats and were immediately transported to Pen-insula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md. where they were treated for non-life threaten-
ing injuries.The subjects inside the resi-
dence were not injured during the crash, but there was extensive damage to the house.
Ricks was cited for child restraints in motor vehicles, fol-lowing too closely, and failure to have valid insurance. Alcohol was not a factor.
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Reports of cyber attacks by North Korea are another example of why the United States needs to be better armed to fight these alarming 21st century security threats, said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.).
As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Finan-cial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security, Sen. Carp-er has been pushing to increase protections against just such cyber attacks as those reported recently against U.S. and South Korean government websites.
News reports say that in the United States, the Treasury De-partment, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Trans-portation Department websites were targeted at varying points over recent days, and sites of 11
South Korean organizations were targeted as well, in a coordinated nation-state sponsored attack.
Sen. Carper, in April, intro-duced the “United States Infor-mation and Communications En-hancement Act of 2009,” which would dramatically reform the way federal agencies defend their sensitive information.
The Carper bill, S. 921, would greatly improve the old Federal Information Security Manage-ment Act of 2002, and empower agency Chief Information Secu-rity Officers to focus their efforts on monitoring, detecting and pre-venting cyber intrusions.
Specifically, the legislation would enhance the power of the Department of Homeland Secu-rity’s US-CERT to take proactive actions before a cyber attack pen-etrates government networks.
Increased protection necessary to prevent future cyber attacks
Even though the ink is barely dry on the new state budget, State House Minority Leader Richard Cathcart (R-Middletown) and State House Minority Whip Dan Short (R-Seaford) said state of-ficials need to be looking toward Delaware’s next spending plan.
Rep. D. Short says they have presented six suggestions that could save taxpayers between $100 million and $200 million annually, but which were too complex to be quickly incorpo-rated into the new budget.
The ideas range from reform-ing the state’s purchasing prac-tices, to establishing a program for rewarding cost-cutting ideas, to repealing minimum wage re-quirements for skilled workers on state construction projects (pre-vailing wage). These three con-cepts alone could potentially save the state more than $130 million annually. The suggestions come from a variety of sources includ-ing the non-partisan Leadership for Education Achievement in Delaware (LEAD) Committee, Gov. Jack Markell and the House Minority Caucus. Rep. D. Short concedes that not every proposal may find the consensus it needs to be viable, but he said all the suggestions should be judged on their merits and potential ben-efits. Except for limited special sessions, the General Assembly will not meet again until mid-Jan-uary, after half the fiscal year has already passed and the process for writing the new budget has already begun.
Rep. Cathcart said the so-called Big Head Committee – a group of legislative leaders and members of the Markell adminis-tration that make tax and spend-ing decisions – needs to do busi-ness differently and meet when the General Assembly is not in session.
According to the Federal Re-serve’s forecasts, Delaware will face a continued drop in econom-ic activity and a resulting lost of state revenue.
“It’s likely our state will be cash-poor into the foreseeable fu-ture,” Rep. D. Short said. “These ideas represent a chance to make government more efficient and less costly. It’s an opportunity we cannot afford to let slip by.”
The suggestions are:• Reduce State Construction
Costs - Temporarily suspend pre-vailing wage for all school con-struction and other state projects for four years. Study the impacts.
(estimated $70 million savings annually)
• Save money on school con-struction by standardizing designs and leveraging better prices on the purchase of materials. (esti-mated $14 million savings annu-ally)
• Reform purchasing for pub-lic schools: Implement a “central-ized procurement program” for local school districts, vocational-
technical school districts and charter schools. (estimated $25 million savings annually)
• Consolidate school admin-istration: Save on administration and support costs by replacing lo-cal services for the 19 school dis-tricts with broad, shared services on a regional or statewide basis.
Local school districts would be kept intact, but this action would significantly reduce the ineffi-ciency of duplication. (estimated $30 million savings annually)
• Reform state purchasing: Establish and enforce policies for unified billing and minimize use of state-issued checks and state-
owned credit cards to appropriate purchases. Channel most agency purchases through unified state contracts, leveraging lower costs through more advantageous econ-omies-of-scale. (estimated $60 million savings annually)
• Efficiency Rewards Program: Create a program whereby state
employees and private citizens can make suggestions to cut costs and/or improve efficiency. If the idea is implemented, the person submitting the idea would get 10% of the estimated first year cost savings, capped at $25,000 max. (estimated $7.5 million sav-ings annually)
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MORNING STAR • JULY 16 - 22, 2009 PAGE 39
PAT KNIGHT CHAMPS- The Nanticoke Pat Knight Minor League baseball team, which won the championship with a 17-10 win over Lower Sussex, hold up the trophy. Shown are: Noah Waldridge, Parker O’Day, Jordan Gambrel, Justin Gray, Evan Nibblett, Ryan Delgado, Jamiles Small, Christian O’Neal, Zackry Hall, Caleb Dennis, Dai-Mere Sample, Troy Marshal and coaches Lance Massey, Quincy Higgens, and Mark O’Day. Photo by Lynn Schofer
NANTICOKE MAJOR SOFTBALL- Shown (l to r) is the Nanticoke Major League all-star softball team: front- Rachel King, Erykah Tolliver, Laura Chambers, Erin Marine; back- Rebecca Shirey, Tiffani Hinds, Sydnee Smith, Brianna Kessler, Brittani Wortmann, Paige Atkison; Coaches- manager Arlie Wooters, Brian Shirey, Ken Kessler, and Dr. William Lane. Not pictured are MacKenzie Wooters and Hailey Parks. Photo by Mike McClure
WOODBRIDGE PAT KNIGHT-
Shown (l to r) is the Woodbridge Major League Pat Knight baseball team: front- Jawaun Rodriguez, Davon Lee, David Gray, Jordan Chelton, Nick Rosado; back- coach McDowell, Riley Parker, Noah Perry, Josh Sprout, Josh Reibsome, Christian McDowell, and coach Gray.
Photo by Mike McClure
SEAFORD PAT KNIGHT- Shown (l to r) is the Nanticoke Major League Pat Knight baseball team: front- Jair Moore, Trevor Bradley, Ryan Ricketts, Travis Shockley, Damien Argo; back- Noah Guinta, Jaylynn Magee, Connor Perry, Andrew Mitchell, Kyle Jester, Ryan Justice; Coaches- Artie Perdue, manager Brice Smart, Josh Cherrix, and Jay Brad-ley. Photo by Mike McClure
WOODBRIDGE MAJOR SOFTBALL- Shown (l to r) is the Woodbridge Major League softball all-star team: front- Emily Chisenhall and Makayla Polite; middle- Toya Neal, Caro-line Breeding, Anna Buckley, Rebecca Buino, Kelsey Eckert, Jordan Clark; back- Dasia Williams, Jessica Brawner, Elizabeth Stangl, Danielle Glenn, Erica Apgar; Coaches- man-ager R.J. Bennett, Jim Apgar, and Dennis Buckley. Photo by Mike McClure
Woodbridge team II catcher Ethan Bender puts the tag on a Lower Sussex runner for the final out of the inning in last Wednesday’s Minor League Pat Knight baseball game. Photo by Lynn Schofer
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SSA’s Nathan Venables is swimming the breast stroke against the Elks Club. See results on page 45. Photo by Amy Handy
Amy Venables soars through the water in the butterfly during a recent SSA swim meet. Photo by Amy Handy
Maria DeMott helps her team in the freestyle relay during a recent SSA swim meet. Photo by Amy Handy
Post 6 shortstop Hunter Absher shows the ball to the umpire after tagging the run-ner out in Saturday’s home baseball game against DelVets. See story on page 44. Photo by Lynn Schofer
Becca Wheatley is shown competing in the backstroke during an SSA swim meet. Photo by Amy Handy
The Nanticoke and Laurel Major League softball teams are shown during the post game ceremony following Monday’s championship game in Rehoboth. Photo by Mike McClure
Jason Cook of SGCC wins first place in the 50M backstroke in the boys’ 12U race in a home meet against Talbot last week.
Laurel’s Shanda Mann steals second as Nanticoke shortstop Erykah Tolliver looks to make the play during last Thursday’s District III Major League softball game. Photo by Mike McClure
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Derrik Gibson reported to spring train-ing camp in February to begin his first full year with the Red Sox organization. He hoped to grow physically and men-tally strong in spring training and perform well enough to make the Greenville Drive roster. Gibson did perform well despite an injury that sidelined him for five weeks, however, the Red Sox organization de-cided to send Derrik to Lowell, Mass., for a season with the Lowell Spinners.
Last year Derrik played with the the Spinners for brief period where he batted .189 with an on base percentage of .233. Derrik believes and trusts the organization in their decision, “Looking back at spring training, I know they made the right deci-sion for me. You gotta trust the organiza-tion because they want me to develop and not rush it,” Gibson said.
Seaford Star Pat Knight Major League baseball scoreboardLaurel 13, Woodbridge 3- For Laurel, Shane Baker was hit by a pitch, singled,
and scored one run; Alan Lubiniecki singled and scored a run; Jeremy Metz had two singles, two runs, and a delayed steal of third base; Nick Hastings walked, singled, and scored two runs; and Josh James reached on an error, was hit by a pitch, and scored two runs. Wade Townley singled and scored two runs; Dustin Allen singled, walked, and scored two runs; Daniel Smith added a sacrifice bunt and reached on a fielder’s choice; Irvan Casiano walked and doubled to end the game; and Brandon Johnson singled and scored a run.
Smith pitched three innings and allowed three runs on three hits while striking out three and Baker gave up no runs or hits and struck out one in one inning.
For Woodbridge, Riley Parker singled, hit a solo home run, and scored two runs; Jawaun Rodriguez walked and scored one run scored; and Christian McDowell singled. Nick Rosado pitched three innings giving up 11 runs on eight hits with four strikeouts. Noah Perry pitched two thirds of an inning, giving up two runs on no hits.
Laurel 17, Nanticoke 5 (five innings)- For Laurel, Shane Baker had two walks, two singles, and four runs scored; Dustin Allen drew a pair of walks and scored two runs; Jeremy Metz had two walks, one single, and two runs scored; and Nick Hastings reached twice with a hit by pitch and a single and scored two runs. Josh James walked, singled, and scored two runs; Wade Townley singled; Daniel Smith had two singles and two runs scored; Irvan Casiano drew two walks; Brandon Johnson reached on a fielder’s choice, walked, and scored two runs; and Alan Lubiniecki had two walks and one run scored. Daniel Smith pitched three innings, giving up five runs on three hits, walking two, and striking out two, Jeremy Metz pitched the last two innings giving up no runs on one hit, walking none, and striking out one.
Smith pitched a total of 18 innings in the tournament and allowed four earned runs while striking out 24. He also threw three no-hit innings in one of Laurel’s games.
For Nanticoke, Trevor Bradley singled and scored a run, Travis Shockley and An-drew Mitchell each walked and scored one run, Ryan Justice singled and scored a run, and Kyle Jester had two singles and one run scored. Mitchell, Conner Perry, Jester, Shockley, and Jaylyn Megee pitched for Nanticoke.
Former Seaford Blue Jay baseball player Derrik Gibson poses with high school teammates Zack Reynolds and Zach Schofer last Sunday in New York. Also with Gibson are Haley and Abbey Gray who made the trip with family and friends to cheer on Gibson and the Lowell Spinners. Photo by Lynn Schofer
Derrik Gibson returns to play for Lowell Spinners in New York Penn League
“I really love playing for the Spinners, it is a baseball town and the fans fill the stands every game.” Gibson added. “Low-ell reminds me of Seaford, the town has a lot of history and because it is small it is more comfortable.”
Gibson also enjoys the friendships he has made. “We have played together since spring training and are really getting to know each other,” said Gibson.
The schedule and timetable the players must keep prevents Derrik from sightsee-ing very much. “I am always glad to get home because the road is very tiring,” Derrik said.
On a recent road trip to the Staten Is-land Yankees the bus arrived in town and within four hours the players were on the field warming up for the game. “Some-times the days go by so fast I don’t even know what day it is,” said Gibson.
Woodbridge II pitcher Evan Gallo come home with a pitch during the Pat Knight Minor League baseball tournament last week in Seaford. Photo by Lynn Schofer
Second baseman Jordan Grambel gets into position to field a ground ball in the third inning of play of last Wednes-day’s Pat Knight Minor League baseball tournament played in Seaford. Photo by Lynn Schofer
Woodbridge Pop Warner to hold mandatory parent meeting Woodbridge Pop Warner football and cheer will be holding a mandatory parent
meeting on July 29. The 2009 season begins August 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the Woodbridge sports complex.
The league is also looking for donations and sponsors for the upcoming season. Mail donations to P.O. Box 231, Greenwood, DE 19950. A tax ID number will be pro-vided.
DOCK DOG- D.W. Horsey of Laurel and his dog Dallas show off at the Dockdog’s event in Berlin last Saturday. An event begun by ESPN as a fill has grown nationwide. Photo by Lynn Schofer
Continued on page 43
MORNING STAR • JULY 16 - 22, 2009PAGE 42
Nanticoke Major softball tops Millsboro in District III openerBy Mike McClure
The Nanticoke Major League all-star softball team opened the District III tournament with an 8-0 win over Millsboro last Wednesday in Seaford.
The Seaford team put three runs on the board in the top of the first. Tiffani Hinds singled in Erykah Tolliver and Rachel King before coming home on an error.
Millsboro’s Chase Andrescavage reached first on an error in the bottom of the in-ning before being tagged out at second following a rundown. Following a pair of walks, Nanticoke pitcher Erin Marine recorded a strikeout before catcher Paige Atkison threw a runner out at third following a wild pitch.
Nanticoke made it 5-0 with a pair of runs in the third inning. King walked, stole sec-ond, and went to third on a wild pitch; Brittani Wortmann walked and stole second; and Sydnee Smith walked to load the bases. Atkison singled in a pair to extend her team’s lead.
Seaford added a run in the top of the fourth when Marine walked and scored on a single by Wortmann. In the fifth, Atkison reached first on error, Brianna Kessler sin-gled, Rebecca Shirey walked, Marine walked to force in a run, and Tolliver reached first on a fielder’s choice to make it 8-0.
Andrescavage collected her team’s first hit against Marine in the bottom of the sixth, but Marine recorded a pair of strikeouts and got a ground out to seal the 8-0 win. Ma-rine struck out five and allowed one hit in six shutout innings.
Laurel 16, Nanticoke 0- Laurel’s Regan Green struck out eight in four innings and allowed one hit and no walks to help her team to a win in the District III championship on Monday. Nanticoke’s Tiffani Hinds had her team’s lone hit.
Nanticoke’s Tiffani Hinds gives a high five to her coach after collecting her team’s first hit against Laurel hurler Regan Green during Monday’s game. Photo by Mike McClure
Woodbridge Major League softball team wins opener, 14-4By Mike McClure
The Woodbridge Major League all-star softball team opened the District III tourna-ment with a 14-4 win over Lewes last Thursday in Rehoboth. Woodbridge held a nar-row 5-4 advantage before scoring seven runs in the bottom of the fourth.
Danielle Glenn reached first on a fielder’s choice, Jordan Clark put down a bunt single, and Jessica Brawner singled them in. Emily Chisenhall added a single, Kelsey Eckert singled a run, Erica Apgar singled to load the bases, and Anna Buckley walked to force a run in. Eckert scored on a wild pitch and Elizabeth Stangl added a two-run single (12-4).
Clark pitched out of a jam in the top of the fifth. A pair of errors and a steal put a pair of runners in scoring position with one out. Clark recorded a strikeout before field-ing a comebacker and throwing the batter out at first for the final out.
In the bottom of the inning, Clark and Dasia Williams each walked and Brawner hit a two-run single to seal the 14-4 win.
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Seaford second baseman Rachel King tags out a Millsboro-Georgetown runner at second during last week’s game in Millsboro. Photo by Mike McClure
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Woodbridge’s Jessica Brawner delivers two-run single in her team’s 14-4 win over Lewes last week in Rehoboth. Photo by Mike McClure
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Scott Bowden wins Super Pro at U.S. 13 DragwayBy Charlie Brown
Scott Bowden of Pittsville scored his first win of the season in the Double Points Super Pro final last Friday night at the U.S. 13 Dragway. Jim Williams of Seaford took the Pro final and David Thompson of Trappe, Md., rode to the win in Pro Bike. Other winners on the night included Dave Peffer of Melfa, Va., in Street, Zach Cordrey of Delmar in Import, Travis Waters of Delmar, Md., in Bike Trophy, Jerel Davis of Salis-bury in Jr. Dragster 1 and Christopher Kahler of Ocean View in Jr. Dragster 2.
Bowden faced Calton Mason of Pocomoke in the Super Pro final. Mason was a little quicker at the start but Bowden had the better run and took the win with a 9.466/133.17 on a 9.42 dial in his ’67 Camaro. Mason was off his dial with a 9.282/132.52 on an 8.53 dial. Semi-finalists were Dennis Long of Chesapeake City, Md. and Ben Parks of Salisbury.
Williams came up against Jesse Truitt of Parsonsburg who was once again in the final round of Pro. Truitt was too quick however and broke out with a 9.447 on a 9.46 dial-in and Williams got the win with a 9.484/139.79 on a 9.47 dial. Semi-finalist was Joanna VanReenen of Elkton, Md.
Thompson rode up against James Farmer of Felton in the Pro Bike final. Farmer had a red light foul and Thompson rode to the win with an 11.096/114.81 on a 10.93 dial. Semi-finalist was Doug Thomas of Ellendale.
Dave Peffer defeated Brian Riebert, Jr. of Berlin in the Street final. Riebert had the better reaction but broke out with an 11.271 on an 11.28 dial. Peffer got the win with a 17.757/75.25 on a 17.74 dial. Elaina West of Whaleyville, Md., red light fouled and Zach Cordrey took the Import final. Cordrey ran a 14.933/93.21 on a 14.95 dial. Evan Melson of Bishopville, Md., left too early and fouled and Waters took the Bike Trophy victory. Waters ran a 9.965/116.51 on a 9.57 dial.
In Jr. Dragster 1 it was Davis paired against Alex Bradford of Newark, Md. Davis took the hole shot win with a .046 reaction and a run of 9.036/70.79 on an 8.99 dial. Bradford was late at the start but on his dial with a 9.099/70.85 on a 9.09 dial. Cris-topher Kahler met Cortney Cathell of Laurel, in the Jr. Dragster 2 final. Cathell broke out with an 8.006/82.42 on an 8.01 dial and Kahler got the win with a 7.961/81.58 on a 7.93 dial.
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The Nanticoke Little League Pee Wee division held the annual Blue-Gold game last Thursday. Shown is the yellow team, which consisted of the Blue Jays and Orioles: Richard Durham III, Deshown Sample, Rob Mitchell, Austin Morton, Darius Hopkins, Collin Handy, Noah Adkins, Jacob Adkins, Alexander Nickels, Tommy Nunemann, Braydan Graham and coaches Richard Durham Jr., Arthur Hopkins, Jim Mitchell, Ryan Morton, and Robin Adkins.
Derrik knows that this is all part of his preparation for the future; a future hope-fully in the Major Leagues.
“I am trying to stay strong both physi-cally and mentally,” he said. “I am keep-ing the same approach to the plate I had in the beginning of the season.”
Gibson started the season on fire bat-ting as high as .477 and has recently settled down but continues to hit and be a dangerous base runner.
“It’s important not to make too many adjustments at a time and I have to trust myself, said Derrik, who added that hit-ting is the hardest adjustment to this level of play. “There are so many different situ-ations and you are seeing tougher pitch-ing.”
Gibson is learning to work the curve ball and change up so it doesn’t jam him so much. “I always look fast ball and adjust and if I have two strikes I have to fight off until I get the pitch I want. Everyone can hit a fast ball at this level, they want to see you muscle the other pitches,” Gibson added.
A group of about 20 or more family and friends recently traveled to Staten Island to watch Derrik play. The outfield opens up to a view of the Hudson River and Statue of Liberty as the background. Gibson’s high school coach Kenny Cum-mings and his family and high school teammates Zack Reynolds and Zack Schofer were among some of the fans who made the trip.
“It was so special that everyone made that long trip to watch me play,” said Gibson. Derrik had some time before and
after the game to catch up with his par-ents and some of his family and friends.
“My friends are an important part of my life and my years at Seaford, it was great to see everyone. I know Kenny and Michelle (Cummings) have small children and it meant a lot that they were able to make the trip,” Gibson added.
Derrik continues to remain grounded and humble even when the fans are ask-ing him for his autograph or screaming his name.
“When I was hitting .477 they were yelling to me that I’m the best. I know that tomorrow I could be the worst if I don’t focus and play well,” said Gibson, who believes he has made the adjustment well and is able to tune out any distrac-tions.
“It is really important that I am 100% focused when hitting so I can tune out everything.”
Gibson has seen time at both shortstop and second base. He has played both po-sitions well and the Red Sox organization said it wants to keep training Derrik at both positions.
As the season moves on and Derrik continues to develop he said he is also trying to learn it is a day in and day out process.
“I can go in to tonight’s game and go 0-5; and this is OK because tomorrow I get five more at bats,” Gibson said.
Derrik is learning how to mentally survive at the big league level. “I allow myself to dwell on it until midnight, then it is a new day. I shut it down and move on,” said Gibson.
“I’m still hard on myself. When I get frustrated it because I know I can do bet-
ter, but I still have to move on.” Derrik will continue to move on. He is
currently ranked as the Red Sox’ 23rd top prospect.
Gibson can be followed on the Lowell Spinners’ website.
The Star will continue to follow his year with weekly statistics.
Shown (l to r) is the Nanticoke Pat Knight Minor League baseball team: front- Evan Nibblett, Jordan Gambrell, Dia-mere Sample; mid-dle- Jamiles Small, Parker O’Day, Noah Waldridge, Caleb Dennis, Skyler Chaffinch, Zackry Hall; back- Chris-tian O’Neal, Justin Gray, Ryan Delga-do; coaches- Mark O’Day, manager Lance Massey, and Quincey Hig-gins. Not pictured is Troy Marshal. Photo by Pat Mur-phy
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Camp Barnes race held at Delaware International SpeedwayBy Charlie Brown
It was a night of repeats as Ricky Elliott and H.J. Bunting defended their wins from last year in this year’s 37th Annual Camp Barnes Benefit at the Delaware International Speedway, which took place last Wednesday. Elliott also sent the huge crowd home smiling as he held off the Big Block Modifieds to win the 12 lap, $1,000 to win Shoot-out bringing his total for the night to $4,000.
The Super Late Models were first up and a strong field of 25 cars took the green. The caution was out before the cars hit the third turn when Hal Browning, who had the crowd on its feet with his heat race win, slowed coming off the second turn. Ray Davis, Jr. led the first lap but the yellow was out again as Kerry King and Daryll Hills got to-gether with Hills headed to the pits with a flat tire.
On the restart Elliott, who had started in the fourth spot, tucked into second while David Pettyjohn and Ross Robinson battled for third. Elliott moved by Davis down the back straight to lead lap six as Robinson pulled into third and Austin Hubbard took fourth.
Yellows at the halfway point and on lap 17 kept Elliott from building a commanding lead. Hubbard continued his climb taking third on lap 15 and second from Davis on lap 20. Hubbard could not close the gap in the final five laps and Elliott, in his own Halls Construction/Barry Wright No. 88 took the checkered. Hubbard finished a strong second with Davis ending a solid drive in third. Fourth went to Richard Jarvis, Jr. and Ross Robinson held on to fifth. Heats were won by Davis, Devin Freise and Browning.
Bunting repeats in Big Block Modifieds- Bunting led wire to wire to defend his win of a year ago in the Camp Barnes event. Bunting started on the pole with invaders Chad James and Richie Pratt, Jr. chasing in second and third. Stewart Friesen held the third spot and Rick Laubach ran in fifth.
The Jake Marine crew had Bunting’s mount set up perfectly as Bunting set a torrid pace. Pratt, Jr. put on a good wheel to wheel battle with James taking second on lap nine with Friesen following into third. Friesen stayed on the charge taking second one lap later and at the halfway sign the top five were Bunting, Friesen, James, Laubach and Pratt, Jr.
James kept things interesting as he moved back in to battle with Friesen for second. That battle would last for the remainder of the race. At the checkered it was Bunting, in the J&M Roofing/Teo, recording his second straight Camp Barnes victory and his sec-ond win of the season.
“We got a good starting spot and everything worked good on the car,” said Bunting. “Jake gives me great equipment so it’s all up to me.”
Friesen got by James on the final lap for second with James third. Fourth went to Laubach and Pratt, Jr. rounded out the top five. Heats were won by Bunting and James.
The 12-lap, $1,000 to win, shootout matched the top five finishers from the Super Late Models against the top five finishers from the Big Block Modified feature. Elliott led the first lap before last year’s shootout winner, Rick Laubach moved on top.
The caution was brought out at the halfway point with the top five re-drawing for their restart position and sixth through tenth heading to the pits. Only one late model remained in the top five and that was Elliott who drew the pole. Starting second was James followed by Laubach, Friesen and Pratt, Jr.
Laubach grabbed second on the restart with Friesen dropping him to third one lap later. Elliott was not to be denied as he powered to the popular win. Friesen, Laubach, James and Pratt, Jr. followed him across the stripe.
Joe Warren captures Crate Model feature- Joe Warren’s fast time in qualifying placed him on the pole for the 15-lap Crate Model feature. The defending point cham-pion demonstrated why he has two championships to his name as he held on through a number of mid-race cautions to take the win in his Big Fish Grill/Lazer.
Tyler Reed headed the chase through the halfway point before going to the pits under a yellow. Ryan Walls picked up the chase and would take second. Third went to rookie Matt Hill in his best performance to date with Jack Mullins fourth and Skip Syester fifth.
Kyle Fuller gets first career win in AC Delco Modifieds- The AC Delco Modified 15-lap feature was a good one with quick timer, Joseph Tracy setting the pace. Tim Trimble chased in second until lap five when rookie Kyle Fuller took over the spot. Tracey narrowly missed a spin right in front of him on lap 11 to maintain the lead.
Fuller caught Tracy with three to go and took the lead crossing under the white flag using the outside. The race wasn’t over yet as the yellow was out setting up a one lap dash. The rookie was up for the challenge as the 16-year-old Fuller held on to post his first career win in the C.W. Matthews Logging/Teo. Tracy finished in second with Trimble third. Fourth went to Brad Trice in a race long battle over Michael White who finished in fifth.
Steve White gets seventh win of season in Mod Lites- Steve White abandoned his normal high groove and sped around the bottom to post his seventh win of the season. Tim White rode in second on the first lap before Brandon Dennis to over the spot. Tim White stayed in the hunt as Jimmy Wills climbed to fourth.
Dennis cranked it up and took the lead coming to the one to go sign. Steve White rode his back bumper into the first turn and regained the lead coming off of two. White, in his Northeast Heating and Air/Lightning posted win number seven with Tim White slipping by Dennis for second and third. Fourth went to a late charging Kevin McKin-ney and Wills rounded out the top five.
Brittingham comes from deep in the pack to win Little Lincolns- The Little Lin-coln Vintage cars put on a good 10-lap run. Mel Joseph, Jr. started on the pole and led the first three laps before Bill Brittingham came blasting from his 12th starting spot to lead lap four.
Brittingham, in the Hobbs & Sons Trucking/’57 Chevy, made no mistakes as he drove to his second win of the season. Matt Johnson put on a good run running in sec-ond for the distance with Donald Robinson third. Fourth went to Mark Cashdan making his first start of the year and Bryan Brasure rounded out the top five.
Post 6 falls to DelVets, 4-3, in 10 inning American Legion gameBy Lynn Schofer
The Post 6 Patriots took on DelVets in a double header Saturday in Seaford last Satur-day. The first game took three hours and 10 innings to decide a winner with the Patriots losing 4-3.
Korey Hearn took the Patriots through the first eight innings of play, holding DelVets to three runs. Hearn opened the game with two strikeouts in the first inning. Hearn was backed up by strong defense when in the top of the second Patriots’ catcher Danny Petrone tagged out the runner at home on a double play assist from center fielder Garrett Eskridge.
In the third inning, Petrone continued to show strong defense with a quick snap to first base to pick off the DelVet runner. In the bot-tom of the inning, Dustin Richards scored the first hit of the game. Later in the inning Jordan Stanley hit an RBI double and the Patriots were up 2-0.
Hearn continued to pitch out of some jams into the fifth and sixth innings. Coach Steve Hearn had to use his only bench player in the sixth inning. DelVets scored two runs but Kole Hearn ended the inning by scooping up a throw to prevent further damage.
In the seventh inning, DelVets scored the go ahead run and threatened to add more with a runner in scoring position. A wild pitch from Korey Hearn advanced the runner, but he tried to come home and was tagged out by Hearne who was covering the plate.
Post 6 tied the game in the bottom of the seventh on Korey Hearn’s sacrifice fly to deep center field. The game did not end without controversy. In the eighth, Robbie Payne was on third and Hunter Absher on first. The pitcher stepped toward first and faked a throw, turned and threw to third picking off Payne. Coach Hearn argued that it was a balk but it fell on deaf ears and the out counted.
In the top of the ninth, right fielder Jordan Stanley picked off the runner when he over ran second base, taking the game into the bottom of the ninth. The Patriot’s failed to score in the bottom of the inning.
In the 10th, DelVets put two men on base with walks and scored on the RBI single. Going into the bottom of the 10th inning, the Patriots were down 4-2 but made an at-tempt to come back when Hunter Absher scored on a wild pitch. The Patriot’s were un-able to add another run to send it into the 11th.
Patriots’ second baseman Dustin Richards flips to first basemen Jake Williams for the out in Saturday’s 10 inning American Legion game played in Seaford. Photo by Lynn Schofer
Price comparison average for Regular Unleaded Gasoline
7/12/09 Week Ago Year Ago
National $2.54 $2.62 $4.10Delaware $2.47 $2.60 $4.03
Gas LinesPrices continue to drop
At a time when gas prices typically peak due to increased summer demand, motorists continue to enjoy the atypical seasonal decline in gas prices again this week.
The decline in gas prices has con-tinued now for 18 consecutive days through last Friday, with the average U.S. retail price for regular grade gaso-line dropping to $2.57 a gallon.
Friday’s price marks a 6-cent drop in the past week. Contrary to the record-breaking high prices of last summer, current gas prices are $1.54 a gallon (or 37%) below the record price of $4.114 set July 11, 2008.
Crude oil dipped below $60 a barrel in intraday trading Friday and settled at $59.89 at market’s close. Like gas prices, crude oil was on a steady decline last week with prices falling in seven of the last eight trading sessions due to a combination of falling stocks, a stronger U.S. dollar, poor economic conditions and bleak oil fundamentals.
Economic uncertainly was the driv-ing force behind the biggest weekly
fall (over 10%) in crude oil prices since January. After setting a 2009-high of
$72.68 a barrel on June 11, crude oil has dropped more than $12 (or
18%) as expectations for a swift economic recovery faded. Global energy demand was the focus of
two reports last week.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that global demand will fall to 84.2 mil-lion barrels per day this year from 85.6 million last year. OPEC predicts con-sumption of its crude would not return to 31 million barrels a day, the level it averaged in 2008 before the economic crisis dampened oil use, until 2013.
Also last week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced its prediction that there will be a 1.7% increase in global oil demand in 2010 (based on expected economic recovery), but the agency expects demand to re-main down 2.9% in 2009 and sees lim-ited demand for OPEC oil this year.
Local pricingOn Tuesday one station in Seaford
was selling regular gasoline for $2.339 a gallon, down 10 cents from a week ago.
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SSA results from meet against Mid Delmarva YMCAThe following are the SSA swim team’s results (top two) from a meet against Mid-
Delmarva YMCA which took place June 25:Freestyle Relay- Girls 8U 100 Yard- 2. SSA (Becca Wheatley, Marley Fishburn,
Lauren Stanton, Amy Venables); Girls 10U 100 Yard- 2. SSA (Cailey Hastings, Megan Perdue, Samantha Cotten, Victoria Dalton); Girls 12U 200 Yard- 2. SSA (Rachel King, Kelsey Ketterman, Taylor Kvilhaug, Hannah Venables); Girls 14U 200 Yard- 2. SSA (Taylor Daudt, Courtney Michel, Aubrey Seeley, Maria DeMott); Boys 14U 200 Yard- 2. SSA (Chris Michel, Jacob Duke, Cameron Horne, Gray Venables); Girls 15-18 200 Yard- 2. SSA (Taylor Swain, Ali Schwartz, Morgan Swain, Shanice Cannon); Boys 15-18 200 Yard- 2. SSA (Cory Darden, Dustin Venables, Daniel DeMott, Lee Mayer)
Wheatley, Marley Fishburn), 1:52.37; Girls 10U 100 yard- 2. SSA ( Samantha Cotten, Victoria Dalton, Hannah Venables, Megan Perdue), 1:24.76; Girls 14U 200 yards- 2. SSA (Taylor Daudt, Maria DeMott, Courtney Michel, Julia Tobin), 2:34.81; Boys 14U 200 yard- 1. SSA (Chris Michel, Gray Venables, Jacob Duke, Cameron Horne), 2:24.90; Girls 15-18 200 yard- 2. SSA (Taylor Swain, Shanice Cannon, Ali Schwartz, Morgan Swain), 2:30.85; Boys 15-18 200 yard- 2. SSA (Dustin Venables, Cory Darden, Philip DeMott, Lee Mayer), 1:57.15
Star Monday/Tuesday Little League all-star scoreboardMinor baseball- Delmar 14, Berlin 4-
Jimmy Adkins earned the win on the mound while Isaac Austin collected three doubles for Delmar.
Delmar 7, East Wicomico 6- Tim Ward picked up the win, Taylor Cox went 3-4, and Isaac Austin singled and drove in a pair for Delmar.
Major baseball- Seaford 7, Milton 6 (Monday)- Cody Wilkerson went 2-3 with the winning RBI and pitched four innings with six strikeouts, Elijah Knowles scored two runs, Trey Banning got the win, and Nick Bennett hit a home run and drove in three.
Seaford 6, Georgetown 1 (Saturday)- Ryan Swingle allowed two hits and struck out nine in five innings, Tyler Banning went 2-3 with a double and two RBIs, Colin Bergh was 1-3 with a triple and an RBI, and Nick Ben-nett homered and picked up the save.
Delmar 16, Snow Hill 5- Ethan Walker earned the win, Chad Wien had two home runs and five RBIs, Nate Smith tripled and Billy Adkins doubled.
Senior baseball- Woodbridge 4, Mills-boro 3 in nine innings (Tuesday)- Wood-bridge overcame a three-run deficit to elimi-nate Millsboro/Georgetown from the District III tournament. Down 3-0, Woodbridge mounted their attack in the bottom of the sixth as Brock Little led off the inning with a triple and scored on an error on a ball hit by Joey Petrone. Petrone scored on a sac fly by Jordan Vazquez to make it 3-2.
Dustin Jones then plated pinch runner Justin Warren as he lined a 1-2 pitch into center field to tie the game. It stayed that way until the bottom of the ninth when Erik Peterson walked to lead off the inning. He was sacrificed to second by Brock Little, and with two outs, Peterson scored as John Keefe hit a 2-0 pitch into the gap to win the game.
Jones pitched six and two thirds strong innings for Woodbridge and Ronnie Wisse-man finished out the game to pick up his second win in two nights.
Woodbridge 9, Laurel 7 (Monday)- Woodbridge had to come back twice to oust Laurel from the District III tournament. Woodbridge trailed 4-1 and 7-5, before pull-ing away for good. Woodbridge scored in the second inning as Jordan Vazquez led off with a walk and scored two batters later when Erik Peterson reached on a throwing error. Laurel went ahead 3-1 in the third as Eric McDorman, Trey Tyndall and Paul El-liott all singled and scored.
Laurel went up, 4-1, in the fourth as Trey Elliott knocked in Zach Whaley with a double to left. Woodbridge took a 5-4 lead in the fifth as Erik Peterson led off with a double and scored on a groundout by Tyler Absher. Dustin Jones then singled and Joey Petrone and John Keefe both reached on an error and then scored on a walk to C.J. Pleasants and another Laurel miscue.
Laurel went up, 7-5, in their half of the fifth as Dylan Shockley, Lucas Acosta and Kagen Yossick all scored on RBI hits by Yossick, Whaley and Trey Elliott. Wood-bridge went ahead for good in the sixth as Peterson led off with a walk and scored on a groundout by Ronnie Wisseman. Absher and Jones then walked and Petrone plated them with a triple. Petrone then scored on a John Keefe single.
For Woodbridge, Justin Warren pitched four strong innings, Jones kept Laurel in check with two innings of middle relief and Wisseman picked up the win as he closed out the game.
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Seaford’s Tyler Banning is shown at the plate during his team’s game against Milton on Monday in Mills-boro. Photo by Mike McClure
Woodbridge Junior softball opens tourney with win over Lower SussexBy Lynn Schofer
The Woodbridge Junior League soft-ball all-star team opened District III play with a 7-3 win over Lower Sussex on Tuesday in Greenwood. Lower Sussex defeated Nanticoke on Monday in the three team tournament.
Tuesday’s game was a game of de-fense and pitching. In the first inning Woodbridge pitcher Devon Bitler picked off the runner as she slowly walked backed to second base. Lower Sussex put the first run on the board but Woodbridge answered with a run of their own on a wild pitch.
Woodbridge took the lead in the bot-tom of the second on another wild pitch. The first hit of the game wasn’t until the fourth inning when Lower Sussex opened the inning with a lead-off triple that even-tually led to the tying run.
Woodbridge again made a good defen-sive play when the throw home was held long enough by the catcher to make the out. Lower Sussex went on to add another run on two straight errors by Woodbridge. Woodbridge didn’t stay down long and in the bottom of the fourth Woodbridge tied the game on a sacrifice RBI by Bethany Killmon.
Hailey Andrews came in and took over on the mound for Woodbridge in the fifth inning, shutting down Lower Sussex. Woodbridge turned on the heat in the bottom of the fifth sending eight hitters to the plate scoring three runs on four hits, a walk, and a sacrifice by Bitler. Woodbridge took a 6-3 lead into the sixth inning. Andrews overpowered the Lower Sussex team with two strikeouts and a
Devon Bitler opened the game for Wood-bridge and pitched four strong innings, holding Lower Sussex to three runs. Woodbridge went on to win the game 7-3. Photo by Lynn Schofer
ball hit back to pitcher for a quick inning. Woodbridge added another run in the
sixth on a hit by Amber Callahan and a Lower Sussex error. Lower Sussex opened the seventh with a hit but was picked off with a bullet thrown by Bitler to first base when the runner rounded the base toward second.
Andrews pitched three innings and had five strikeouts while allowing one hit and one walk. Hits for Woodbridge: Tiara Maddox and Bethany Killmon with one hit and Callahan and Andrews had two hits each.
Sports at the Beach host Bean Ball Blast tournamentSports at the Beah of Rehoboth hosted the Bean Ball Blast July 10-12. The follow-
ing are the results from the championship game: 10- Olney Pirates (Md.) 14, Mid State Mavericks (Pa.) 4; 11- Olney Pirates (Md.) 18, HYCP Raiders (Md.) 4; 12- New Jersey Mariners 9, Uniondale Sports Club (NY) 0; 15-16- South Jersey Young Guns 8, Dream Bombers (Salisbury) 0; 18-19- Blue Hens (Georgetown) 4, Delmarva Tigers (Laurel) 2.
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High games and seriesNick Wheatley 320Buzzy Watson 833Martha Lloyd 262Michele Campbell 728
Wednesday No TapSeaford Lanes 28.5-21.5Friendly Rollers 28-22The Comebacks 27.5-22.5Sandbaggers 27-23Bee Movie 27-23Fuhgedaboudit 24-26Avery’s 23.5-26.5Nine Pins 23-27B+R 21.5-28.5Strikers 18-32High games and series
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Summer Senior ExpressSeaford Lanes 11-52 Gal And A Guy 9-7Magic Marks 8.5-7.5Curves Chicks 3.5-12.5High games and seriesBill Boyer 280, 774Dot Cannon 286Dianna Halpen 770
Summer Adult/YouthTeam Dynasty 24-12
Pin Dusters 20.5-15.5Fantastic Four 19.6-16.5Williams Gang 19-172 Guys & 2 Brats 18-18Girlz Rule 17.5-18.5 Road Runners 17.5-18.5No Names 17-19Destroyers 16-20Whattever 16-20Ten Pin Rollers 15.5-20.5Nothin But Trouble 13.5-22.5High games and seriesJoe Holloway 297Jessica Todd 282, 796Terry Wooters 286, 805Cassie Wooters 284Shelby Williams 782Scott Morgan 799
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STAR TEAM OF THE WEEK- Shown (l to r) is the Diamond State Swoop, which won the USSSA Delaware state championship with a win over the Delaware Storm: bottom row- Hannah Layton, Corrin Farris, Mya Maddox, Nicole Hovatter, Jenna Calloway, Montana Riddle, Hannah Davis, and Lexi Harris; middle row- Sami Mumford, Alleigh Townsend, Yasmin Hill, Taylor Collins, Alyssa Ball, Morgan Willoughby, Natalie Culver, and Shannon Lord; back- coach Ralph Ball, coach Scott Hovatter, manager Duane Calloway, coach Chad Layton, coach Gary Lord, and coach Tabitha Farris. The Swoop moved to 40-10-1 overall with the win over the Storm and a 4-3 victory over the Midway Orange Crush to advance to the championship game. Send your team photo to [email protected] to be a Star Team of the Week.
Seaford Recreation Department Fall signups are taking placeThe Seaford Recreation Department is holding signups for the following Fall sports
programs:NFL Flag Football- The cost is $30 for this co-ed league which open to ages 6-8
and 9-11. Sign up now through August. Games start in September and will be played on Sunday afternoons.
Tackle Football- The cost is $40 and the league is open to children ages 7-10 and 11-13. Sign up now through August. Physicals and practice will take place in Septem-ber and games will start in October (on Saturday mornings).
Girls Cheerleading- The cost of registration is $40 which includes a uniform to keep. This program is open to children ages 7-10 and 11-14. Cheerleaders will cheer during the tackle football games on Saturdays.
Girls Field Hockey- The cost for this program, open to ages 8-12, is $25. This in-structional league will start Sept. 12 and will take place on Saturdays from 9-10 a.m. The league will compete in at least one play day.
District III Little League all-star schedules The following are the Western Sussex teams’ schedules (subject to change) in the
Delaware District III Little League all-star tournaments:Major baseball (winners bracket at Millsboro, losers bracket at Milton)- 7/16-
losers bracket 6 p.m.; 7/17- championship 6 p.m. at Millsboro; 7/18- championship 2 6 p.m. at Millsboro
Junior softball (at Woodbridge)- 7/16- championship 1 at 6 p.m. at Woodbridge; 7/17- championship 2 at 6 p.m. at Woodbridge
Junior baseball- states at Georgetown- 7/25- District III vs. District 1-District II winner, 7 p.m.; 7/26- loser’s bracket, 7 p.m.; 7/27- championship 1, 7 p.m.; 7/28- cham-pionship 2, 7 p.m.
Senior softball (winners bracket at Lower Sussex, losers bracket at Laurel)- 7/18- Laurel vs. Nanticoke at Lower Sussex, 6 p.m., Woodbridge vs. Lower Sussex/Georgetown-Millsboro winner at Lower Sussex, 8 p.m.; 7/19- losers bracket 6 p.m.; 7/20- winners bracket 6 p.m., losers bracket 6 p.m.; 7/21- losers bracket 6 p.m.; 7/22- championship 6 p.m. at Lower Sussex; 7/23- championship 2 6 p.m. at Lower Sussex
Senior baseball (winners bracket at Laurel, losers bracket at Lower Sussex)- 7/16- championship 6 p.m. at Laurel; 7/17- championship 2 6 p.m. at Laurel
Shown (l to r) are members of the Diamond State Swoop who also played on teams during the District III Minor League softball tournament: front- Nicole Hovatter, Jenna Calloway, Lexi Harris, Hannah Layton, and Mya Maddox; top row- manager Duane Calloway, Sami Mumford, Yasmin Hill, and coach Scott Hovatter. The Swoop topped the Delaware Storm, 10-1, in the USSSA state championship game on June 28, then six members of the team played in the District III championship game be-tween Laurel and Woodbridge later that night.
The Heritage Shores Ladies’ 18 Hole Golf Association played Ace of Aces on Wednesday. Shown (l to r) are the flight two winners: Cynthia McDevitt (Low Net), Anne Kallagher (Low Putts), Joannie Van Oostrom-Phipps (Low Gross). The flight one winners are: Kay Mooney (Low Gross), Muriel Waite (Low Net), and Ursula Gardner (Low Putts).
The winner of the Arthur Hills Cup played July 1 at Heritage Shores was Kay Mooney, left. Dottie VanHelmond won low net.
There were several special phrases that resonated through-out my household on certain given days. My mother and fa-ther had some catch phrases that we could almost count on as a result of certain behavior.
For instance, if we came in or out of the house and left the door open or ajar in the summer we would almost immediately hear, “Shut the door your letting flies in the house.” Now, if we left that same door open in the winter months the immediate response would be, “Shut the door, are you trying to heat all outdoors?”
I remember having a bad habit of trying to put my shoes on without unlacing the shoe strings.
I would stand and force my foot into the shoe and inevitably my heel would flatten the back of the heel area of the shoe as it was pushing its way into the footwear. Mom would spy me doing this and I would hear the all familiar statement, “Unlace them shoes, you’re mashing the jackins.”
I have searched the Internet and countless dictionaries and have yet found out what the jackins are on a shoe. But, I have to believe a lot of people mashed the jackins of their shoes because 20 years later I saw kids and adults alike walking around on the mashed down back of their shoe heels.
This occurred so often that eventually shoe stores became stocked with shoes that have no back heel support. You just slide your foot in over the open back
of the shoe.I also recall
that anyone at the din-ner table who demonstrated less than a hearty appetite would cause my mother to remark in one of two ways. She would ei-ther say, “You don’t eat enough to keep a bird alive,” or “You ain’t eat enough to fill your hollow tooth.” My personal favorite nutrition com-ment would come after I did not eat a particular food item, such as corn pudding. My mother would say, “What’s wrong with you and corn pudding?” It was as if I had some type of personal or emotional relationship with corn pudding and Mom sensed we were on the outs.
I know it is trivial, but I ac-tually miss those quaint catch phrases. It seemed we were always making enough noise to “wake the dead,” running through the house “like a herd of elephants,” or leaving a room in such a mess that it “looked like a cyclone had come through.”
My grandmother had a spe-cial saying that I never under-stood. She would use it when we would eat something without offering her any of it.
For instance, she would find out I had eaten a sandwich and say to me, “You sat there and ate that sandwich and didn’t say boo.” Sometimes she would change it up and say, “You sat
there and ate that sandwich and didn’t say dog.”
I have no idea what either means, but it sounded cool when she said it, and it always had the ability to make me feel like a jerk as well.
My mother would also say that someone who was rushing through a meal, or moving at a high rate of speed, was going like “Grant through Richmond.” And if she was hungry and look-ing for something to eat she would declare that she was so hungry she could “eat a horse and chase the rider.”
That had a really nice ring to it, I thought.
My all time favorite was how my mom and dad would describe somebody who seemed to always be in our business or constantly eavesdropping on private conversations. It has a slight profanity, but it is still funny. They would say of this particularly nosey person, “She can hear an ant [break wind] in China.”
Oh well, enough of this non-sense. I will have people think-ing my family is made up of a bunch of rednecks [wink…nod].
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“What’s wrong with you and corn pudding?” ...as if I had some type of personal or emotion-al relationship with corn pudding...
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For the next four months, Delaware Office of Highway Safety (OHS) and law enforce-ment officials are turning up the HEAT on speeding drivers with phase two of the 2009 Stop Aggressive Driving campaign, “Stop Speeding Before It Stops You.” Phase one occurred in April and resulted in Delaware State Police Troopers issuing 1,298 speed citations. To date, speed has been a predominant contributing factor in 30% of the state’s 44 fatal crashes, 10% higher than at this time last year.
Alcohol is currently a fac-tor in 25% of the state’s fatal crashes.
From now through October, OHS and law enforcement offi-cials are implementing a combi-nation of enforcement and public awareness strategies aimed at reducing speed-related crashes in the state. Delaware State Police in all three counties, New Castle County Police and Dover Police will conduct either single or two-officer team patrols looking
for speeders and other danger-ous drivers such as those who run red lights or are impaired by drugs and or alcohol.
Additionally, State Police will conduct four multiple officer team operations.
Enforcement will be conduct-ed on roadways where crash data analysis has revealed an above average number of speed-related crashes. An emphasis will be placed on secondary or rural roadways, which is where many of these speed-related crashes occur. In Sussex County, some locations will include portions of Route 1, 5, 9, 13 and 16 as well as other rural roadways. En-forcement will be slightly heavi-er in New Castle County where 63% of the fatal crashes involv-ing speed occurred in 2008.
In 2007, OHS and DelDOT partnered to place 12 roadway signs in or near high crash loca-tions statewide, encouraging motorists to call 911 to report aggressive and impaired drivers.
Aggressive drivers are those
who not only speed, but also tailgate, weave in and out of traffic, run red lights and stop signs and pull into traffic with-out giving others adequate room or time to maneuver.
When motorists see examples of these dangerous behaviors, they are asked to call 911 when it’s safe to do so.
Alerts will then be sent to officers in the surrounding area to be on the lookout for the ag-gressive driver. Drivers ticketed for going 10 mph over the speed limit, will receive four points on their license and be fined $77.40 after court costs are as-sessed. Fines and points increase from there putting your driving privileges at risk. The Stop Ag-gressive Driving campaign is the third initiative in the 120 Days of Summer HEAT campaign, a summertime crackdown on traf-fic violators.
For more information, visit www.ohs.delaware.gov or follow updates on Twitter at www.twit-ter.com/DEHighwaySafe.
OHS launches speed campaign
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Snapshots
THIRD PLACE WINNER - Janay Rob-ins, 13, of Seaford Meadows, was the 3rd place winner for the entire Eastern Terri-tory of the Salvation Army in voice for her level (ages 12-14). The event took place at the Meadowlands Sheraton (New Jersey) on Saturday, June 13. The Eastern Terri-tory is from Maine, down to Kentucky and over to Sussex County.
KIDS TOUR CAMPUS - Participants in the Laurel Kids Connection Mentoring Program, an outreach of the Delaware Adolescent Program, were treated to a tour of the main Uni-versity of Delaware campus in Newark on July 2. Highlights included the Carpenter Sports Building, Trabant Center, the Mineralogical Museum, and learning about the SEED schol-arship. From left are Sophomore Tour Guide, Tony Muccio and Laurel students Patrick Littleton, Matt Trivits, Elijah Sneed and Brandon Coulbourn. Photo by L. Betts
BRIDgEvILLE LIONS CLUB CHECK PRESENTATION - Shawn Hatfield of The Brid-geville Lions Club, right, presents a check for $2,500.00 to Tom Connar, president of the Friends of the Bridgeville Library, left, in honor of Jacob “Hoot” Brown, center.
KIDS SHARE LOvE OF MUSIC - Ju-nior soldier Breona Kellam, 12, of Seaford, helps a young girl learn how to “buzz” on the cornet at an instrument petting zoo held at the Seaford Library on Thursday, June 25.
WACKIEST CHAIR - Club members from the Western Sussex Boys & Girls Club in Seaford and Laurel, show off their creation of the “Wackiest Chair.” The project is part of a statewide effort incorporating 10 Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware sites who are hoping to win a trip to the Ellen Degeneres Show. Club members created ideas for the chair and then local artist, Karen Owens, of Nanticoke River Arts combined all of the ideas and designed the chair. This chair along with others from the Boys & Girls Club sites will be on display at the Delaware State Fair where visitors will be encouraged to vote for their favorite chair and donate toward a Boys & Girls Club site. Voting will enroll the individual in a chance to win tick-ets to the Ellen Degeneres Show. The winning chair will be featured on an upcoming episode of the Ellen Degeneres Show along with mem-bers and representatives of the chosen club. Pictured above are (left to right, front row): Daynasia Thompson, Timmy Baker, Karen Owens, artist and Julius Snead. (Back row, left to right): Samantha Hollenger, Alyson Rowe, Boys & Girls Club Education Director and Jada Burbage. Photo by Tony Windsor
DONATION - On Monday, June 29, Mrs. Barbara N. Allen presented a $15,000 check to the Bridgeville Public Library for the purchase of the new library’s circulation desk in memory of her mother, Mrs. Frances K. Norris. Mrs. Norris, a resident of Bridgeville, was an elementary teacher in the Woodbridge School District for many years. Pictured from left to right - Dr. Tom Connar, president of the Friends of the Bridgeville Library, Mrs. Barbara N. Allen, Karen Johnson, director of Bridgeville Public Library, Matt Davis, president of the board of trustees of the Bridgeville Public Library
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Frank Raskauskas of Mortgage Network Solutions presents Penny Bolden (center) with a $50 U.S. Savings Bond for her wining entry in the 2009 AFRAM Theme Contest. Council-woman Pat Jones (right) holds the winning entry.
AFRAM chooses theme winnerPenny Bolden is the winner of this
year’s AFRAM Theme Contest. Her win-ning theme suggestion is “The change is here, so do your part.”
Change has a special meaning to Bold-en who served in the U.S. Navy for more than 20 years. She continued D.O.D. ser-vice for years as a civilian, which included the Middle East, serving in places such as Qatar and Iraq. She was always on the go, serving her country. She recently made
another change and is now living with her mother, Addie Bolden and helping the Seaford community.
The AFRAM Committee started the theme contest to make sure that as many people as possible are given the opportu-nity to participate in the AFRAM Festival. The judging committee is headed by Dara Laws, Seaford High School teacher and the contest is sponsored by Mortgage Net-work Solutions of Seaford.
Construction continues at libraryThe Seaford Library construction is coming along. Glass has been installed about the
perimeter and the drywall is up and being taped. The fund drive is still in progress and we welcome any donation. For all you golfers - the “Books and Birdies” tournament is scheduled for Friday, July 24 at the Seaford Golf and Country Club. Come out and join the fun. For more information, contact the SGCC at 629-2890.
These windows on the north side of the building mirror the style of the Ross Mansion and will allow plenty of light throughout the new facility. The next thing that passers-by will notice is that the parking lot has been prepared for final topping of the crushed stone base.
Library patrons will be greeted by the library staff at this spacious receiving desk. Note that all drywall and taping has been finished.
CATCH OF THE DAY - On July 4, a group of friends went fishing in the Chesapeake Bay. The catch of the day was a 15 pound, 33 inch rockfish, reeled in by Kim Beard.
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Letters to the Editor3,000 housing starts a year
is assuming the construction in-dustry is booming every year for the rest of my life, my children’s lives, my grandchildren’s lives, and well beyond.
Heart & Soul’ a waste of money
Recently a public forum called “Heart & Soul” was held at the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension Service to continue the “search” for what Sussex County will look like years from now. This year was the second year for this county bashing.
On the surface, the intent of this quest would seem to be simple enough: ask a ba-sic question and see what kind of answers people give. But if you look a little deeper, and truly evaluate the conclusions gener-ated from this forum, you might see how biased this effort is and how formulated opinions already are.
The group attending this event, many of them State employees, was made up of so-called experts working as part of the Coastal Community Enhancement Initia-tive. Its mission is supposedly to help local officials and residents plan for the future. “Heart & Soul” is, as its founders have suggested, a planning tool.
During this event, these so-called ex-perts put on their magic caps and peered into their crystal balls to see a nightmarish future of almost 854,000 new homes being built in Sussex County. This number has now been tossed around by extremists and critics in the anti-development crowd, and in some instances quoted as fact. It’s scary sounding stuff to those who don’t look at this theoretical scenario a bit closer.
Let me ease your fears. This future would take generations
upon generations to realize, if it even hap-pens at all, and doesn’t seem to take into account a number of variables. The group has even recognized that based on 3,000 building permits issued a year in Sussex County – the pace at the height of the building boom of 2004 to 2006 – it would
take 250 years or more to pan out. What they did not say is that 3,000 housing starts a year is assuming the construction industry is booming every year for the rest of my life, my children’s lives, my grand-children’s lives, and well beyond.
The reality is, as we’ve seen with the economy and the correction of the mar-kets, such an assumption is just that – it’s an assumption, and a very, very loose one at that. It is far from fact, and far from reality.
The reality is that Sussex County now is averaging about 1,100 building permits for housing a year. That’s much more nor-mal. Taking that more realistic number as a constant, it would take between 700 to 900 years to achieve this “build-out” sce-nario the “Heart & Soul” project predicts.
So what does it all mean? I would argue it doesn’t mean much.
Apparently, it takes experts like this to be able to see this far ahead. The rest of us, particularly those in local government past and present, just don’t seem to get it.
These experts should have known the County has already looked into the future, and taken steps to protect that future. It’s called the Sussex County Land Use Plan. We adopted it in 1997, revised it in 2002, and again in 2008. This was done after hundreds of public hearings, with consul-tants the County hired, to show what our county will look like in the future.
Today, there are elements for protecting habitat, preserving open space, and pro-moting better, smarter construction prac-tices. This plan was adopted by the County Council and has been certified by the State and signed by the Governor each time. The County developed this plan while fol-lowing the state law.
I assure you, the plan sees a Sussex County that is still very much rural and very much home to agriculture for genera-tions to come.
All of this has led me to some questions of my own. I am curious to know who commissioned this “Heart & Soul” study. Who asked for it or who authorized them to undertake it? What’s its true purpose?
Just because some of these so-called experts work for the State and make over six figures a year does not, in my opinion, qualify them to be prophets of what is to come. Maybe they don’t have enough real work to keep them busy. They seem to have enough time to sit around and play “make-believe” on the taxpayers’ dime, at a time when the State is out of money.
Which brings me to another question.
How much is this quest costing, and who is paying for it? This was a forum free to the public to attend that was spon-sored by the University of Delaware Co-operative Extension, something the County Council has supported with funds in years past.
I would like to know, in these tough economic times, what this cost the Univer-sity and the State of Delaware by having all of these employees gathered around for this pretend session. I understand they had breakfast, lunch and dinner all catered, too. I also understand about one-fourth of the people there were State employees, presumably there while on the clock.
It seems to me the mission of “Heart & Soul” is one of scare tactics to force an outcome desired by a very vocal minor-ity. And it seems to me to be an incredible waste of time and money to reach conclu-sions that don’t take into account the fact that County Councils will change, land use plans will change, and economies will change.
These experts and a few critics might not like development, the current land use plan or the decisions made by local plan-ners and the County Council. That’s their right. I would encourage them to run for office if they’re so interested in making change.
But don’t pretend for a second that what you’re doing here is real science or about presenting facts. Your mission, I believe, is to scare up the public to force your desired outcome, and that’s the real “heart and soul” of the matter.
Dale R. DukesLaurel
An Open Letter of ThanksTo Seaford Police, City of Seaford and
co-workers, Nanticoke Hospital ER and ICU Staff, Peninsula Regional Staff, and all those who prayed for me.
Re: The gracious help and support you all gave me.
I have always believed that if we all put our efforts into helping instead of hurting one another, what a difference it would make in our families, our communities, and our world.
You all have proved that to me in your help through my recent heart attack and hospitalization.
I am alive today because of the effort and concern of all of you. I owe each of you more than I can say, and more than I can ever repay.
From Boyd Taylor, who got me to the hospital immediately, to all the ER staff,
ICU staff, and police officers who did not leave my side.
I found later that so many friends, and friends of friends, around Seaford and beyond, were praying for me, and for my family through this time. Some people visited, and I did not even know they were there.
“Thank you” does not seem like enough. I commit myself to live the best that I can, to be all that I can be — for my-self, for all of you, and for others whose path I cross.
Bob RidingerSeaford
Support for the Seaford PoolAfter spending the month of May in
Florida swimming and sunning at the pool, I looked forward to returning home to Sea-ford and our own community pool. Much to my dismay, I learned the Seaford Pool had closed permanently.
The Seaford Community Pool was a place of relaxation and socialization. It provided fresh air and sunshine and plenty of healthy exercise for my two daughters when they were growing up. The thought that this same opportunity would not be available to the children of our community was too sad to accept without a protest.
To that end, I arranged to have the Sea-ford pool closing put on the City Council Meeting at City Hall on Tuesday, July 21 at 7 p.m. Please come and lend your sup-port to this worthy cause. If you can come, please call me at 628-8580.
Kathleen (Kate) TaylorSeaford
Thanks for your support
The Kiwanis Club of Seaford would like to thank all of the sponsors and golf-ers who supported our 23rd Annual Ki-wanis Foundation Golf Tournament on June 12. Through their generosity, the Kiwanis Club is contributing scholarship monies to 11 deserving college students from our community. We hope everyone had a wonderful time. Again, thanks to all the businesses and individuals who made our tournament a success.
Ralph PalmerTournament chairman
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Put selfish ambitions asideIn passing the budget on June 30, the
Delaware General Assembly chose the path that leads to immediate gratification at the expense of long-term economic recovery. The clearest indication of this assessment is the burden levied by the massive and multiple tax increases we Delawareans must now bear.
To raise taxes in the middle of a reces-sion, in the name of balancing a budget, speaks volumes about the lack of wisdom and vision shared by those at the helm of our Ship of State. At a time when we desperately need people to engage in the marketplace in order to jump start our floundering economy, we have decided to take more of their money in taxes and fees so that we can continue to spend at record setting proportions.
The Joint Finance Committee did make numerous cuts to the budget; in fact, they sliced off nearly $400 million. Unfortunately, they took only the low hanging fruit and left the larger harvest for next year’s budget battle, which will dwarf what we have just faced. You can only sweep the dirt under the rug for so long. Eventually the irresponsible nature by which our state government is dealing with fiscal matters will catch up to us, and when that happens we will all be hit hard.
The simplest and most obvious example remains the 2.5% pay cut to state employ-ees. When do they get it back? It will not be next year; how about the year after that? When will there be enough money,
without raising taxes even more, to give back the hard-earned money of our loyal state employees?
Raising taxes to fill budgetary gaps only ensures that you will have to continue raising taxes for the same purpose in fu-ture years. That is because true economic growth is spurred through the innovation, dedication, risk and sacrifices made by the hardworking people of our great state, not through tax hikes. When the economy screams out for a free flowing exchange of currency, we have decided to increase the state’s portion of the pie instead.
The pervasive nature of this school of thought is evident in a number of our state legislators. Some who have been right-thinking in the past have bought into the false claim that we must do everything possible to maintain our current level of state services. One such legislator is John Atkins (D-Millsboro). Representative At-kins was once a conservative; but this year chose to vote for every tax increase that was placed before him. When I asked him why he sided with tax hikes in the middle of a recession, he responded “it was the right thing to do.” Clearly, Mr. Atkins has forgotten what it means to be “right.”
What we need is a true leader. This state cries out for a bold leader who has the courage of their convictions and is not afraid to go down for what they believe in. It is time to put Delaware first and selfish ambition aside.
Shaun FinkSmall business owner, Millsboro
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On Monday, July 13, at 11:30 p.m. Blades Volunteer Fire Company respond-ed to a motor vehicle accident on Seaford Road, south of Blades.
Fire Captain Wayne Merritt arrived on scene and was in the process of setting up a traffic detour when his emergency ve-hicle was struck.
Merritt was just exiting his vehicle when his truck was hit in the rear. Emer-gency crews on scene of the initial acci-dent quickly responded.
Delaware State Police said a white 2004 Ford, southbound 13A, driven by James R. McAllister, struck the rear of the Blades Fire Policeman’s vehicle a red 2008 Isuzu truck. The Fire Policeman’s vehicle was marked with emergency light-ing. As a result of the crash Merritt’s ve-hicle was pushed into him knocking him to the ground.
Merritt was transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center by Seaford Fire Department Ambulance and Sussex Coun-ty Paramedics. Captain Merritt was admit-ted to the hospital and treated for fractured ribs and a bruised lung.
As a result of the crash McAllister, 39, of the 200 block E. Sixth St., Laurel, was charged with vehicular assault 2nd degree, driving a vehicle under the Influence of al-
cohol, and failure to have insurance identi-fication in his possession. McAllister was released after posting $1,250 bond.
Merritt, 68, a 28-year veteran of the Blades Volunteer Fire Company, is cur-rently the Fire Police Captain, a position he has held for several years.
Photo shows damage done to the truck of Fire Captain Wayne Merritt.
Fire policeman injured when car hits his emergency vehicle
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There’s room for everyone in this “expandable” Colonial on over an acre in an established development W of Seaford. This elegant & spacious 3-BR home exudes class & style! $360,000 (#570266)
Custom One Owner Rancher w/ Open floorplan, Large Rooms, 2- Bedrooms, 2 Baths & Room to expand. Large backyard w/ privacy in a Horse friendly area! $199,900 (#570588)
“Picture Perfect” custom-built ranch. All you have to do is move into this 3BR, 2BA home w/great room, separate dining + bar area in kit. Above-ground pool, great deck & 7/10 acre lot near Harrington. $279,900 (#569983)
Looking for an affordable home with some land out of town? Here’s your country acre with a 2BR, 2BA home & at-tached 24’x 24’ garage. Only $149,900 (#570480)
Need 5 BRs & 3.5 bathrooms? This colonial also includes a for-mal DR, LR, FR, eat-in kitchen, rec. room & 2 car garage for only $269,900. Energy sav-ing features & 9’ ceiling on first floor, foyer, vaulted MBR ceil-ing, & many extras. (#570626)
Owners say “Sell” this lovely 2700 sq. ft home on a corner lot in North Shores. Beautiful in ground pool, sun porch & patio room, abundant storage space, 3 full BAs, 4 BRs & room for a possible 5th BR. Only $240,000 (#570623)
Own a little piece of history! This charming 4-BR, 2-BA Victorian in quaint, historic Bethel has been meticulously restored to its 1890’s character. Features original wood floors, 2 staircases, 4 elec. fireplac-es, C/A & much more! $270,000 (#569524)
This 3-BR clinker brick Colo-nial in town offers front porch, rear patio, & 1-car det garage. Inside you’ll enjoy the wood floors, fireplace, LR & FR. $179,000 (MLS 556116)
What a Sunset! You’ll enjoy viewing the sunset over the pond from the sunporch or from the living room of this fur-nished 2-BR, 2-BA home in the Wood Creek Golf Community. $189,900 (#564571
3-BR, 2.5-BA home in North Shores offers a FR adjoining the gorgeous kitchen, formal LR & DR, new mas-ter bath, finished basement, & many updates. The lushly landscaped lot in an established neighborhood is close to Rt. 13 for easy access to Dover or Salisbury, MD. $239,900 (#563379)
Well-maintained 3-BR, 1.5-BA home on beautiful corner lot west of Seaford. In addition to the 1-car att. garage, there’s a 2-car det. garage w/ workshop, plus an in-ground pool & pool shed, enclosed porch, & more! $185,000 (MLS 561683)
Close to Milford, this 3-BR, 2-BA home offers gas fp, se-curity system, front deck, eat-in kit. & formal DA, & more! Listed well below appraised value at only $139,900. Possible FHA financing! (#569298)
With over 2,200 sq. ft. of living area, this home is great for a growing family! The scenic rear yard & deck enhance the livabil-ity of this 4-BR ranch with a FR, sep. utility & att. double garage. Lots of extras & special features for $264,500 (#567302)
Great 4 BR Colonial home with lovely hardwood floors and rear screened porch with views of duck pond. Corner lot with fenced back yard, full bsmt., att. garage. $169,000 (#568439)
Country living at its best! Well-landscaped acre ready for your garden & fruit trees. Spacious 2,700 sq. ft. home with 3 BRs, 2.5 BAs, den, huge DR & LR, large breakfast room adjoining the kit, finished “bonus” room over garage + gigantic attic storage! Separate building houses a workshop & a full kitchen beside the back yard patio & entertaining area. $349,900 (#569956)
Well-maintained home in Broad Creek Estates, a lovely wooded development outside Historic Bethel, DE. 3-BR, 2.5-BA Colonial with sunroom, porch, deck, garage & many extras! $289,000 (#566750)
Here’s that “hard-to-find prop-erty” with an honest-to-good-ness 18’x30’ in-law suite! In ad-dition there are 4 other BRs, LR, DR, FR, kit., & more—a total of over 2,300 sq. ft. on 2.5 acres near Bridgeville. $289,000 (#569802)
Commercial Package: Large stately dwelling, duplex, large det garage/shop, & 3 unimproved lots, all located within the City of Sea-ford. Magnificent dwelling could be a restaurant, tea room, day spa, or professional offices w/ plenty of off-street parking. Duplex is income producing. $599,000. Call for more info. (MLS 562844)
Historic “Sudler House,” circa 1750, on 2.7 acres in Brid-geville. Completely restored 5-BR, 3.5-BA landmark dwell-ing along with new construction of a modern wing housing the new kitchen, FR & master BR suite. Call for details. $695,000 (#564084)
Brick cape cod in Sea-ford offers 2 BRs, 1.5 BAs, LR, DR, kit, den & det. garage. Home war-ranty & extras included for $179,000 (#564260) Licensed agent/owner
“Like New” Cape Cod on one acre lot on a quiet road—no chicken houses in view! LR, country kit., 2 BR & 2 BA on 1st floor. 3rd BR/of-fice plus unfinished “bonus” rm w/roughed-in BA on 2nd floor. 26’x40’ pole building w/workshop and (3) 9’ overhead doors. $270,000 (MLS 566720)
There’s potential for more bedrooms in this “Like New” 3-BR home with den & upstairs FR, 2.5 BAs, deck, double att. garage & large outbldg. Nicely landscaped lot outside Seaford + extras! $295,000 (#567737)
Lovely Colonial – This 4-BR, 3-BA home in Laurel has been refurbished right down to the studs! New siding, roofing & windows, plumbing, heating, electrical & interior features. Finished walk-up attic, deck & more! $235,000 (#563020)
Country living at an afford-able price! Just move into this 2-BR mobile home on 7/10 acre lot near Seaford. Includes det. 2-car garage, stg. shed, porch, paved driveway & more! Only $119,900 (#566163)
3-BR Cape Cod in Seaford offers a first-floor BR, a wood-burning fireplace in the LR, sep-arate DR, kitchen w/appliances, front scr. porch, rear deck, 2-car garage, & unfinished basement storage. Only $149,900 (MLS 560075)
Pick your ¾-acre building lot from several available in this restricted community near Sea-ford. “Country Acres” will ac-commodate stick-built homes, modulars, & some doublewides. Site work is complete, so start building soon! Prices start at $62,000 (#568178)
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Lots of Charac-ter! 3-BR home on a 1.5-acre lot in Fawn Grove, near Greenwood.
Built in 2002 with apx. 1,800 sq. ft. Includes 1.5 baths, rear deck, double garage, stg. shed & more for $229,900. (#569572)
