THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008
VOL. 12 NO. 52
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NEWS HEADLINES Nanticoke Derby is Saturday Nanticoke Health Services will be hosting the 22nd annual Dinner and Auction on April 19 at the Heritage Shores Clubhouse. Page 13 NEW BUSINESS - Steel joints for concrete pilings will be made locally and sales will top $30 million. Page 4 GIVING BACK - Trinity Transport, Seaford, has given away more than $100,000 to more than 100 organizations. Page 5 VETERANS - The invasion of the Italian beach has been largely categorized by military analysts as one of, if not the biggest, Allied blunder during the war. Page 8 OFFICER OF YEAR - The Bridgeville Commission presented the 2007 officer of the year award to Robert H. James. Page 17 STRETCHING DOLLARS - The generosity of members of the Seaford community has enabled Fred Douglass to stretch its Beautification Project budget. Page 32 5-0 WINS - The Seaford boys’ and girls’ tennis teams each earned 5-0 wins over Polytech last week. Page 41 STARS OF THE WEEK - A Seaford golfer and a Sussex Tech softball player are this week’s Seaford Stars of the Week. Page 43
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Karen Johnson, director of the Bridgeville Public Library, stands in front of a display featuring the Jack Lewis works that will be auctioned off Friday night during a friends of the library fundraiser. Three of the six paintings are water scenes; the others are of a Delmarva village, the St. Jones River and the marsh near the Dover Air Base. Photo by Lynn R. Parks
Friends of the Bridgeville Library hope to raise $50,000 towards new building By Lynn R. Parks So far, the Friends of the Bridgeville Library have raised more than $20,000 toward the construction of a new facility. And their Art for Books and Bricks fundraiser hasn’t even been held yet. Ruth Skala, treasurer of the friends group and chairwoman for Friday’s art auction, hopes that by the time the auction is over, the friends group will have raised more than $50,000 for the library construction. “We are just thrilled by the response” to the auction, said Skala, who predicted that the event will be a sellout. “We’ve heard from people from Dover, from Rehoboth. This goes
way beyond Bridgeville.” That does not mean that the citizens of Bridgeville themselves are not enthusiastic. “This has been a total community effort,” Skala said. “All of Bridgeville is in back of this.” That enthusiasm is evident in the way people have responded to a plea for items to include in a display about artist and former Bridgeville resident Jack Lewis. Several Lewis paintings will be included in the auction. “That display will be fantastic,” Skala said. “People have opened their homes and their hearts to share the items they have.” “Including the Jack Lewis paintings has really brought the entire community together,” added library director
Karen Johnson. “Jack touched a lot of people in the community.” The half dozen Lewis paintings that will be featured in the auction are from the Raubacher Gallery, Dover, which has been the sole representative of Lewis’ work for 20 years. Gallery owner Chris Raubacher said that Lewis’ paintings sell for from $1,000 to $6,000. The auction will also feature original paintings, prints, collectibles and sports memorabilia provided by Regency Fine Arts, Atlanta, Ga. The evening’s silent auction will feature 40 items donated by area businesses and individuals. “The friends of the library have put Continued to page 4
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