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NEWS HEADLINES DINNER AUCTION - The Nanticoke Health Services Dinner Auction is committee is rattling their maracas with excitement. Page 2 GOLF TOURNAMENT - Organizers of the annual Nanticoke Rotary Club golf tournament hope to raise $50,000 from this year’s event. Page 3 CAMPUS MASSACRE - Virginia Tech’s massacre held special significance and cause for alarm for some area residents. Page 5 MARINE PATROL - The enforcement section of the state’s Division of Fish and Wildlife will have a boat stationed on the Nanticoke River. Page 8 HEALTHY LIFESTYLES - Woodbridge and the City of Seaford were recognized for creating an atmosphere of healthy lifestyles for youth. Page 10 MOTHER’S DAY - What Makes Your Mother Special? Enter the Star’s Mother’s Day Tribute and you could give your her some great gifts. Page 15 SEAFORD LIBRARY - Plans for the new Seaford Library are underway. Interior and exterior architectural drawings are being reviewed. Page 16 BLADES PROGRESS - The Putnam Group shares plans in Blades for single-family homes and townhouses. Page 18 GOLDEN DRAGONS - Tickets are on sale to see the fabulous Golden Dragons acrobatic troupe on Sunday, April 29. Page 30 SOFTBALL WIN - The Seaford varsity softball team edges Laurel, 4-3. Page 41 SUPER STARS - A Seaford softball player and a Woodbridge baseball player are this week’s Seaford Stars of the Week. Page 43 BUSINESS THREAT - Delaware State Police are warning the public about a threatening email scam that businesses have been receiving. Page 54

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MISHAP NEAR BLADES - Blades volunteer firemen are shown Tuesday morning at the scene of a truck accident on River Road near Blades. A truck carrying scrap metal turned onto its side after rounding a curve. Wayne Hill, a driver for Kroeger’s Salvage of Seaford, said he heard a loud bang before the truck went out of control. The load must have shifted, he said. The truck ended up against a utility pole. The road was closed for hours while the clean up was performed and the pole repaired.

A transformer on the pole was shaken loose from the impact. Related photo on page 4. Photo by Daniel Richardson

Kate LaPrad receives Emalea Warner Award

By Lynn R. Parks Kate LaPrad feels a special bond with Emalea Pusey Warner.

Warner, who lived from 1853 – 1948, was a major force in the founding of the Women’s College at the University of Delaware, where LaPrad, a 2003 graduate of Seaford High School, is a senior. “If education for women in Delaware had a founding mother, it was [Warner],” wrote Carol Hoffecker in her history of women at the university, “Beneath Thy Guiding Hand.”

Warner Hall, the dormitory for women on the university’s Newark campus where LaPrad has lived the last two years, was named for Warner.

And now, LaPrad has been named the 2007 recipient of the Emalea Pusey Warner Award, handed out each year to the outstanding woman in the senior class.

“It is cool that I live in Warner and that I am getting this recognition,” said LaPrad, 21. “I feel a lot of connections there.”

Understanding connections between the past and the present is LaPrad’s strength. A history and art history major, with minors in American material culture studies and medieval studies, she hopes one day to work at a history museum, helping other people to understand those connections.

“Education is where I will be, Continued on page 4

Kate LaPrad stands in the hallway of Warner Hall, near her dorm room. LaPrad, a 2003 graduate of Seaford High School, is this year’s recipient of the Emalea Pusey Warner Award, handed out each year to the outstanding woman in the senior class. Photo by Leslie Burnard.

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Craig Boggs, owner of Liquid Assets, showcases a few of the items that will be included in the "Wine of the Month" package up for bid at Nanticoke's dinner/auction "Cinco De Mayo at Nanticoke" on May 5.

Liquid Assets supports ‘Cinco De Mayo’ Auction The Nanticoke Health Services Dinner/Auction is still a few weeks away but the committee is rattling their maracas with excitement over the fantastic items that will be up for bid on May 5.

"The community has been very generous in their donations," says Auxiliary President Janet Hubbard. "There is an item for everyone. Actually there are so many great items up for bid that the guests of the dinner/auction will surely be involved in some fierce, but friendly bidding," says Hubbard.

Presenting Sponsor is Delaware National Bank. Wine enthusiasts will have the opportunity to bid on a "Wine of the Month" package, donated by Craig and Lyn Boggs of Liquid Assets.

The package will include from the Boggs' private collection a 3.0L Mailly Grand Cru Vintage Champagne from France and a 3.0L Shafer Napa Merlot. In addition the high bidder will receive a white and red wine each month.

Other items up for bid include golf packages, airline tickets, chartered fishing

trips, formal wear, antique school desk, hand-painted watercolors from local artist, estate jewelry, pet sitting services, catered dinners and much more.

A finishing touch on the colorful décor will be hand-painted scenes featuring the sites from South of the Border, compliments of Tammy Kearney.

Tammy not only is an accomplished painter, but for the past couple of years has gladly donated her time and talents to the Nanticoke Hospital Auxiliary.

“Anytime we need something decorated Tammy is there to help,” says Hubbard.

“She has transformed plain mirrors into sceneries that are just gorgeous.”

Limited seating still available. Tickets are available for $75 per person. Sponsorship packages available.

Proceeds from the evening will benefit "The Pegeen and Samantha Pediatric Fund" at the hospital.

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Golf tourney to benefit Brown Fund

By Lynn R. Parks Organizers of the annual Nanticoke Rotary Club golf tournament hope to raise $50,000 from this year’s event, set for May 18. All proceeds will go to the Pegeen and Samantha Brown Pediatric Fund for a pediatric area in the emergency department at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Seaford.

Rotary member and chairman of the golf tournament Greg Johnson said that the club decided to donate to the Brown Fund after Tom Brown, Pegeen’s husband and Samantha’s father, explained how a special area for children who need emergency care and who are recovering from day surgery would benefit the hospital. Tom Brown is a member and past president of the Rotary Club. He is also vice president of marketing and development at Nanticoke.

“Once Tom explained the need, we knew it was something we could get behind,” Johnson said.

The Samantha Brown Pediatric Fund was created by Tom and Pegeen Brown after the death of their daughter, Samantha, in a car accident Jan. 24. After Pegeen died Feb. 26 of a brain aneurysm, Tom Brown said that there was no question of giving up on the effort.

“Sam volunteered here and had an affinity for young people,” her father said. “Pegeen and I wanted to do something to benefit the community’s children. Then after Pegeen died, there was no way I couldn’t follow through with it.”

Brown said that now, when a child visits Nanticoke’s emergency department, he or she is “commingled with all the other patients.” The same happens when a child is recovering from day surgery. “A child is put in the recovery room right next to adults,” Brown said.

The pediatric center would allow children to have rooms of their own. “There would be one central area that would serve all the children’s needs,” Brown said.

The Pegeen and Samantha Brown Pediatric Fund already has about $25,000, Brown said. In addition to the money from the golf tournament, the fund will also receive the proceeds from the upcoming Nanticoke Hospital Auction and Dinner. (See story, page 2.)

Brown could not say how much the pediatric center will cost, or even how large it will be. “I’m leaving that up to the clinicians,” he said. “I want them to have whatever they need.

I’ve told them to dream big.”

Any money that is left over from the fund after the pediatric center is complete will go toward the establishment of a stroke center at Nanticoke, where patients suspected of having suffered a stroke will get a quick diagnosis, Brown said.

For your information: The Nanticoke Rotary Club Golf Tournament will be Friday, May 18, at the Seaford Golf and Country Club. Registration is at 8 a.m. Cost is $100. For details, call Greg Johnson, 381-2670, or Don Hollenbeck, 6289900.

Donations to the Pegeen and Samantha Brown Pediatric Fund may be sent to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, 801 Middleford Rd., Seaford, DE 19973, attn.: Tom Brown.

Checks may be made out to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, and designated for the Pegeen and Samantha Brown Pediatric Fund.

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LaPrad equates history with good citizenship Continued from page one

involving everyone across the social and ethnic spectrums in the museum,” she said. “I want to help make the museum a place where everyone can feel welcome.”

Understanding history is an important component of good citizenry, she said.

“History tells us who we are as a people and as Americans, and teaches us about our experiences in this country and in relation to other countries,” she said. “History is important to help us understand politics and the way our country deals with other countries.”

LaPrad was nominated for the Warner award by Katharine Kerrane, senior associate director of the honors program at the university. “The award is for the outstanding woman in the senior class and Kate absolutely fits that,” Kerrane said. “She excels in leadership and in academics.”

LaPrad is a student in the university’s honors program and is one of a handful of DuPont Scholars in her class. In her sophomore and junior years, she was chairwoman of the DuPont Scholars’ lecture series, responsible for arranging for speakers to visit the campus. This year, she is acting as a mentor for students who will

take care of the series after she has graduated.

She is a four-year member of Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE), for which she was treasurer for three years. As a freshman, she was inducted into the history honor society, Thi Alpha Theta, and is its president this year.

She has participated in three studies abroad, in London, where she studied music, in Paris, where she studied European history, and in Italy, where the focus of her study was the Italian language and music.

During the summer between her freshman and sophomore years, she was a summer intern at the Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover. Since then, she has spent her summers at Plymouth Plantation, Plymouth, Mass., where she was an intern then coordinator of the summer program.

During the university’s 2007 winter session, she returned to Plymouth to work in the development office, writing grant requests.

For two years, she was a mentor in the university’s program for incoming freshmen. She traveled weekly to the university’s southern campus in Georgetown to

meet with classes of 20 freshmen, one when she was a junior, two when she was a senior. “That was fun — exhausting, but really fun,” she said. “It was a way to give back to a county that has done a lot for me.”

In September, LaPrad helped to found Uganda Untold, a campus organization designed to raise awareness of the 20-year civil war in that African nation. “That war has been going on for most of our lives, and most of us had no idea,” she said. The group wants “to raise awareness so everybody on campus knows what’s going on.

Maybe it’s a little thing, but we want to do our part to inform citizens about the war.”

LaPrad, who describes herself as a “very energetic person,” said that it is her passion about the many activities in which she is engaged that “really help to get me up in the morning.” She also credits the “support of the many people I’ve met" at the university, and the conversations she has with them, for keeping her energized.

“I always look forward to going to the dining hall and hearing from other people,” she said. “We have some amazing people on campus and I always like to hear about what they are doing.”

As for next year, LaPrad said that she is waiting to hear from Teach for America, a program through which college graduates agree to teach for two years in rural or urban schools. She is interested in teaching in a rural school, she said. She has also applied for several jobs in museum devel-

opment. She expects in a few years to return to college, to study toward an advanced degree in history as well as in business administration. “I believe that it is helpful for people in museums to have a solid background in business,” she said.

The best advice she can give to graduating high school seniors who will start college next year is to get involved in campus organizations.

“You will meet people and opportunities will open up for you,” she said. “Don’t be afraid to speak up, to ask questions and to let people know how you feel. People really can make a difference.”

Kerrane believes that one of those people who will be making a difference is LaPrad herself. “Kate is a wonderful person,” she said. “There is no question that when she graduates, she will make a real contribution.”

Personal file Kathryn LaPrad Age: 21 Hometown: Seaford Education: 2003 graduate of Seaford High School and soon-to-be graduate of the University of Delaware Accomplishment: Winner of the Emalea Pusey Warner Award for the outstanding woman in the senior class Family: Parents Phil and Penny LaPrad, Seaford, grandparents Kathryn LaPrad, Seaford, and the late Peter LaPrad, and the late John and Lois Stetz, Claymont

RIVER ROAD ACCIDENT - Wayne Hill, a driver for Kroeger’s Salvage of Seaford, surveys the damage to his truck. Hill said he climbed out of the cab as soon as he could after the accident, because he was concerned about the truck catching fire. Fortunately, the utility pole that was struck did not drop its wires or the truck may have become electrified. Hill received a couple of bumps on his head and was treated at the scene by Blades Vol. Fire Company rescue personnel. Photo by Daniel Richardson

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Epworth graduate was in dorm at time of shootings

By Lynn R. Parks At 7:15 Monday morning, two people, a young woman and a college resident advisor, were shot dead on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. In the same dorm building, two floors down from the fourth-floor room where the shooting took place, Kyle Johnston was asleep.

“I woke up at around 8:45, to get to my 9 o’clock class,” said Johnston, 20, a horticulture major and a 2005 graduate of Epworth Christian School, Laurel. “I had an e-mail from my [resident advisor], saying that there had been an incident on the fourth floor and that the police didn’t want anyone leaving the building.”

He stayed in the dorm, figuring that he would go to his later classes. But around 10 a.m., he got a second e-mail, telling all students to stay in their rooms. By that time, more than 30 people were dead, gunned down in Norris Hall, an engineering and science building.

“At first, I didn’t know anything about a shooting,” said Johnston, the son of Gary and Karen Johnston, Seaford. “All I knew was that there had been some kind of incident. But by 11, we all knew what had happened.”

In Seaford, Johnston’s sister, Katie, who works at her parents’ store, Tulls, the Shoppes at Dairy Lane, had seen news of the shootings on the Internet.

“She was scanning through the news story and she saw Ambler Johnston Hall mentioned,” her mother said. That is the dormitory where the first shootings took place and where Kyle Johnston lives.

“That really scared her.”

Katie tried to call her brother.

“There were so many people calling, it was impossible to get through,” Kyle said.

At the same time his sister was trying to call him, he was trying to call his parents.

Finally, shortly after 11 a.m., Kyle was able to send a text message to his sister.

He told her that he was fine. At around 3 in the afternoon, he talked with his parents.

Tuesday evening, after classes were cancelled for the remainder of the week, Johnston came home to Seaford. He plans to return to the Virginia Tech campus on Sunday.

“I don’t feel like I will be afraid,” he said. “I have always felt safe on the campus, and I will still feel that way. This was an isolated incident.”

Tuesday, police said that the shooter in Norris Hall was Cho Seung-Hui, a senior English major at the school. By Wednesday, they still had not confirmed that he had killed the two students in Johnston’s dorm.

After the deaths, stories emerged about Cho’s writings, drenched in violence, professors and students said, and laced with obscenities. A spokesman for the school described him as a loner, and his creative writing professor said that his writings were so disturbing that she had referred him for counseling. Many described him as someone who had no friends.

Johnston said that he did not know Cho. He was slightly acquainted with a girl who was shot, he said, and had “seen in passing” the resident advisor who was killed in Ambler Johnston Hall. “I never talked to him,” he said.

Johnston, headed home Tuesday night and talking on his cell phone, said that he does not believe that the shootings will affect him much. “I was really kind of distant from the whole thing,” he said. “I was in the dorm all that day.”

Even so, thinking about Cho and what drove him to commit such a terrible act of violence, Johnston said that he is taking at least one lesson away from the incident.

“I will try to be aware of the people around me,” he said. “If I see someone with no friends, I will try to befriend him.

I will try my best to be nice to him.”

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Business Big Lots opens Seaford store Big Lots opened a new store at 900 Norman A. Eskridge Highway in the Ames Plaza in Seaford on April 15. As part of the grand opening celebration, Big Lots will make a $2,500 donation to the Seaford School District during its ribboncutting ceremony from 9 a.m.-noon on April 20.

"We are committed to making a difference where it matters - in the communities we serve," said Rob Claxton, senior vice president of marketing for Big Lots.

"By providing a donation to Seaford School District, we are empowering young people to realize their dreams and their potential. We hope this small gift will provide support to local educators."

In celebration of the grand opening, for the first few weeks the Seaford store will hold many activities, including hundreds of free customer giveaways, weekend special events, and more.

Big Lots, the nation's largest broadline closeout retailer, typically sells items for 20 to 40 percent less than discount stores and up to 70 percent below traditional retailers.

As consumers continue to seek ways to stretch their budgets, dollar stores and closeout chains have been among the most successful retailers.

"We're the smart shopper's first place to look for everyday items and unexpected deals," said Claxton.

"In the past, we've offered closeouts on 50-inch plasma TVs, bass boats, golf carts, computers and slot machines. That's part of what makes closeout shopping fun you never know what you're going to find, so our customers shop often because they know they will find a great deal."

At 25,100 square feet, the new Big Lots will feature the following departments: • More than 700 always-in-stock items including essentials like toothpaste, batteries, diapers and household chemicals; • Furniture, leather recliners, solid wood bedroom suits, five-piece living room suits, dining room suits and kitchen tables are among the broad assortment of fully assembled furniture from quality name brand manufacturers;

• A wide array of non-perishable foods and an expanded selection of international foods; • High-quality brand-name seasonal products, home décor, housewares, toys, gifts and one-time closeouts.

With the buying power of nearly 1,400 stores nationwide, Big Lots works with more than 3,000 manufacturers to locate and negotiate the best deals on a variety of products to meet customers' wants and needs.

Most closeout merchandise is acquired from manufacturers as a result of package changes, cancelled orders, product discontinuation, test market products, or a general need to alleviate excess inventory.

Big Lots carries top-quality products sold at a fraction of their original prices.

Company provides safe pet food Until the recent pet food recall, feeding your pets was an easy, safe thing to do.

You opened the bag and poured the food into the bowl. Then the recall came and now people have to seek safe alternatives to the pet foods they have been using.

A local producer and distributor of pet foods in Greenwood is providing that alternative.

“Beaverdam Premium Pet Foods is here to help people keep their pets healthy and safe,” stated president of Beaverdam, E. Truman Schrock. “This recent scare has really made folks take a look at what they have been feeding their pets. Some of the folks we have talked to really have no idea what was in the food they were pouring in the bowls.”

“If you look at most labels, you will find ingredients such as poultry by-products, soybean, meat and bone meal with various preservatives,” Schrock said.

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✳ APRIL 19 - 25, 2007

Marine patrols will focus on Nanticoke

By Lynn R. Parks Starting this summer, the enforcement section of the state’s Division of Fish and Wildlife will have a boat permanently stationed on the Nanticoke River.

One of the seven enforcement officers working in Sussex County will be assigned to the boat, according to Sgt. Greg Rhodes, the state’s boating education specialist. While the boat will not be manned at all times, “someone will be on call every single day,” Rhodes said. “And we will try to get out on the river when other people are out there.”

This comes as traffic on the Nanticoke, commercial barges as well as pleasure boats, is greatly increasing. “Commercial traffic alone on the river has increased tenfold in just the past five years,” said Rhodes.

Teresa Coffee, executive director of the Delmarva Water Transport Authority, which monitors commercial traffic on Delmarva waterways, including the Nanticoke River, was not able to give current statistics about barge traffic on the Nanticoke.

In 2006, barges were expected to carry

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about 1.536 tons of cargo on the river, up from 770,000 tons in 2002 and 900,000 tons in 2003.

No one keeps track of the number of pleasure boats using the river. But people who live along the river say that that too has increased since the opening in 2002 of the 87-slip Blades Marina.

“Boating use of the river has changed,” Rhodes said. “We have big pleasure boats now, as well as kayaks, canoes and jet skis. There are all kinds of different users of the river, and we are trying to be responsive to them all.”

“I really like the idea of the police boat,” said Tom Darby, who lives on the river near Woodland. “I would like to see the officers undertake a strong education effort to teach boaters about the damage they can do to the environment.” Most of that damage, he added, comes from the wake that boats, particularly large boats moving quickly, generate. That wake causes erosion of the riverbanks and can also damage shoreline nests, he said.

Darby is also concerned that someone will get hurt on the Nanticoke, where speeding boats often make the river “look like a speedway.”

Rhodes said that his office’s primary mission is safety. “We want people to use common sense on the river, and nothing impacts how people act like seeing a patrol boat on the river,” he said.

The marine patrol will enforce life jacket and licensing laws. The state requires that all children wear life jackets. It also requires that anyone driving a boat who was born after Jan. 1, 1978, have taken boating education classes.

“We will be checking for both those things,” Rhodes said. “We will also be checking that boats have on board the required safety equipment, like fire extinguishers.”

The patrol will also monitor Jet Ski use. Operators of jet skis have to be 16 (14 if they are with their parents) and have taken a safe boating course.

In addition, the marine patrol will enforce the no-wake zones posted along the river. Such zones are posted near the city of Seaford’s boat ramp, at Phillip’s Landing and where the Woodland Ferry crosses the river. Boaters are also asked to go slowly enough that their boats don’t create a wake when they are within 100 feet of the shore and of a dock.

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Above is an aerial view of the Nanticoke River with Blades and the Marina on the left and Seaford on the right. The river will be patrolled by the state’s Division of Fish and Wildlife. File photo by Phil Livingston

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Healthy lifestyle advocates are honored

By Tony E. Windsor The Woodbridge and Laurel school districts and the City of Seaford were among those recognized recently for creating an atmosphere of healthy lifestyles for youth and families in their communities. On Thursday, April 12, the Sussex Child Health Promotion Coalition paid tribute to organizations and individuals in Sussex County who are helping to promote health and fitness.

The Sussex Child Health Promotion Coalition (SCHPC) is an initiative of Nemours Health and Prevention Services in collaboration with citizens of Sussex County. The initiative is the first in what Nemours hopes will be a trend in such collaborations targeting healthy lifestyles for youth and families.

Last week, at the coalition’s quarterly meeting, representatives awarded "Promoting Healthy Lifestyles Awards." John Hollis, Nemours Health and Prevention Services Director of Community Relations, set the tone of the meeting by offering sobering facts about youth obesity in Delaware and the nation.

"We now have the first generation of Americans to have a shorter life span than their parents," he said. "This happened on our watch over the last 20 years. This is a tragedy and a national disaster."

Hollis went on to say that like the group of mothers who joined to form Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in the 1980s, people are starting to join together to address the issue of childhood obesity. Referring to the SCHPC's work in Sussex County to promote healthy lifestyles, Hollis told those gathered at the meeting, "We are all here on behalf of children and families."

Recently, the SCHPC held a community event in Bridgeville, Seaford, Laurel and Georgetown to promote its health and fitness message by encouraging citizens to "Walk to a Healthy Start." On Saturday, March 31, more than 400 people turned out in the four communities to walk for health awareness.

Ron Breeding, a representative of

Nemours Health Prevention Services, was on hand at the Seaford leg of the walk and said he feels though the turnout was not as high as had been hoped; it was an enthusiastic event nonetheless. "We have something great to build on," he said. "We believe we will have something even bigger and better next year. This was all about raising awareness, not money. The participants were enthusiastic and everybody had a great time."

Breeding credited sponsors of the Seaford event including Wal-Mart, Comcast and Delmarva Power & Light, with helping to create added excitement. "WalMart not only supported the overall event, but they had a team taking part in the walk who really made things a lot of fun."

Darrell Meade, of ASAP Printing, and a SCHPC member, said the March 31, health walk was "an awesome event." He said he felt the event was well put together. "Instead of thousands, we got hundreds participating in the walk," he said. "But, this was a great event and we are looking forward to next year's walk and another awesome event."

During the meeting the group awarded its first "School Challenge Cup" award.

The award was given to the school district that had the greatest participation in the March 31 "Walk to a Healthy Start."

Hollis said he recently met with ABC television network health expert David Katz, who told him that in order to meet the goal of reducing the trend of obesity in the United States, it was imperative to have schools take a leading role. "David Katz said we can never get the job done until the schools get involved," he said. "It is necessary for the schools to begin looking at health as being as important to their students as their report cards."

The Woodbridge School District was presented with the "School Challenge Award" trophy and in making the presentation, Hollis called district superintendent, Dr. Kevin Carson, "a visionary and a leader in education in Delaware."

Carson expressed his desire to see that the school district continues to be a leader in the SCHPC's mission. "I see this as only

the beginning," He said, "I applaud what this great coalition is doing for the children of our community and state. I would like to extend a friendly, but competitive challenge to other communities to try and take this trophy away from us next year."

Hollis also honored the Laurel School District for its commitment to promoting a healthy lifestyle among its students. During the past six weeks, the students and staff of North Laurel Elementary School, under the direction of principal Christie

Greaves and Physical Education instructor and Delaware "Teacher of the Year," Garrett Lydic, have been using the "Lt. Governor's Challenge" log sheets to keep track of all of their physical activities as well as the number of minutes and points earned for each day of physical activity. For every 30 minutes of activity, students earned a certain number of points depending on the type of activity. Challenge participants earned a bronze, silver or gold medal based on the total number of points earned

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Laurel School District administrator, Karen Hughes, was presented the "School Sector" award by the Sussex Child Health Promotion Coalition for North Laurel Elementary School's health initiative. Presenting the award is John Hollis, of Nemours Health and Prevention Services. Photo by Tony Windsor

Dr. Kevin Carson, center, superintendent of the Woodbridge School District, received the "School Challenge Cup Award" for his school district's participation in the recent Sussex Child Health Promotion Coalition's “Walk to a Healthy Start.” At left is Wayne Morgan of Mercantile Bank, a corporate sponsor, and at right is Ron Breeding of the Nemours Health Prevention Services. Photo by Cathy Shufelt

during the six-week Challenge. A special awards ceremony was held in March and was attended by Delaware Lt. Governor John Carney who congratulated each of the students. On hand to accept the award for the school district was district administrator, Karen Hughes.

Peggy Geisler, a representative of Nemours Health and Prevention Services and a leader in the SCHPC project, recognized Seaford Mayor Ed Butler and City Manager Dolores Slatcher for the city's ef-

A special presentation was given by students of the Phyllis Wheatley Middle School. The students wrote and acted out a skit on the subject of healthy eating. The skit is part of the students‚ participation in the 4-H of Delaware's "Odyssey of the Mind" educational program at the school.

The program promotes creative problem solving.

Other community-based individuals and organizations who were honored during the recent meeting included, Capt. Willie

forts to promote recreational opportunities in Sussex County. Geisler said the city had expanded greenways and park areas throughout the community, donated land to enable the construction of the Western Sussex Boys & Girls Club, constructed a new multi-field sports complex with adjoining walkways and supported a volunteer effort to build a large family play area known as "The Jay's Nest."

Geisler presented Butler and Slatcher with the SCHPC's "Community Award."

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Health Treatments are discussed at Cancer Conferences

By Anthony Policastro, M.D

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has a formal accreditation process for cancer programs in hospitals.

Part of the requirement for accreditation is to hold cancer conferences. At these conferences, patient treatments are discussed.

Sometimes this includes discussion about patients with a recent diagnosis of cancer. Sometimes it includes discussion about patients with a difficult to treat older cancer.

The ACS has certain required physicians who must attend the conference.

Radiologists are expected to attend.

They give information on the various tests that were used to diagnose the cancer. The X-rays are reviewed at the conference.

Surgeons are expected to attend. They give information on making the diagnosis of cancer. They give information on planning the surgical treatment of cancer.

Pathologists are expected to attend.

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Radiation Oncologists are expected to attend. They give information on planning radiation therapy for the cancer.

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The social worker might provide input on the patient's financial status.

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The goal (of a Cancer Conference) is to get information from as many experts as possible to provide a fully coordinated treatment plan. about these patients are fairly clear-cut.

Other patients might require a combination of therapy. In these cases the discussion includes several aspects. One is which therapies should be used.

A second is what order should the therapies be given in. A third is related to how sick the patient is. Some patients with bad heart or lung disease tolerate some treatments better than others.

When everyone agrees upon the type of therapy, the next step is simple. The treating physician will meet with the patient and explain the suggested therapy.

However, it is not always clear as to which therapy is the best one. Sometimes, there are advantages and disadvantages to the different types of therapy. This becomes a little more complicated. In those instances, the treating physician needs to explain those options to the patient.

That can be a difficult decision for the patient. He/she does not have a lot of knowledge about medicine. For that reason, they often rely on the physician to help make that decision.

It is sometimes not easy for the physician as well. Therefore, the goal is for it to be a joint decision. The advantages and disadvantages need to be discussed in partnership. That is the best way to consider all the alternatives.

The ACS has set up the program like this on purpose. They realize that there is not always just one way to treat cancer. By having a cancer conference, all the experts can be in the room for the discussion. The goal is that putting all those heads together, the patient will benefit from a plan that has been carefully thought out ahead of time.

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Delaware's receives good grades for Stockpile preparation Delaware's Division of Public Health received a 94 percent average on its Strategic National Stockpile preparedness assessment released Feb. 28 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The federal Strategic National Stockpile is a supply of essential medications and health equipment available to states during a disaster. The SNS contains more than 100 specialized containers of bulk oral antibiotics, bandages, intravenous medications and antidotes that states would repackage into individual doses.

DPH's ratings are as follows: Developing a stockpile plan -100% Management of stockpile -92% Requesting stockpile -100% Tactical communication -100% Public info & communication -92% Security -90% Receipt, storage and staging -96% Controlling inventory -92% Repackaging medications -100% Distribution of medications -86% Dispensing prophylaxis - 94% Treatment center coordination -100% Training exercise/evaluation -100% DPH partnerships with the state's pharmacists, Delaware State Police, Delaware National Guard, City of Wilmington, City of Dover, Department of Safety and Homeland Security, and Delaware Emergency Management Agency are crucial in managing the transportation, security, storage and dispensing of this national asset. The CDC team met with DPH program managers and partners in determining the grades.

Nanticoke Memorial is 2 years without any cases of VAP Nanticoke Memorial Hospital is very pleased to announce great success in their efforts to prevent Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP). According to Cheri Porcelli, Patient Safety Officer for the organization, Nanticoke Memorial Hospital has had no reported incidents of ventilatorassociated pneumonia for two consecutive years.

Ventilator associated pneumonia is a lung infection that can develop in patients dependent on mechanical ventilation to help them breathe. It typically occurs in intensive care units.

Fifteen percent of patients on ventilators develop this serious complication and is a leading killer among all hospital-acquired infections, causing an estimated 26,000 deaths every year. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, as a partner with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) 5 Million Lives Campaign, implemented a bundling concept to prevent VAP. Nanticoke Memorial Hospitals ZAP VAP program was introduced in December 2005 after realizing they were already performing the bundling concept on mechanically ventilated patients.

It is with a deep sense of sadness and loss that

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S. Deborah Bailey, CFNP, will be leaving the practice to relocate to Florida. All patients will be accommodated by Marie C. Wolfgang, M.D. and Cynthia S. Knight, APRN and will be contacted to reschedule their appointments.

We wish Debbie the best of luck in this new adventure.

The IHI 5 Million Lives Campaign is a national campaign to dramatically reduce incidents of medical harm in U.S. Hospitals. Nanticoke is proud to be a partner in this effort.

"All our ventilated patients receive a standard order set," says Tres Pelot, BS RRT, director for Respiratory Care Services at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital.

"Deviations from the standard must be documented."

In addition to the bundle elements- elevating the head of the bed, daily sedation vacation, assessing the patients readiness to be removed from mechanical ventilation daily, peptic ulcer and deep venous throm-

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Special recognition is given to the hospital's Pulmonologist's, Amir Quefatieh M.D. and Hicham Krayem M.D. who manage all mechanically ventilated patients at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital.

Since their arrival Nanticoke's Ventilator Length of Stay has been reduced from 8.5 days in 2002 to 3.2 days in 2006.

Also, special recognition goes out to the entire Respiratory Therapy and Intensive Care Unit Staff for making the ZAP VAP campaign a huge success.

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Health Bulletins Life Line Screening Painless, non-invasive ultrasound technology can visually reveal plaque build-up in the carotid arteries, a condition that can lead to stroke. Using this technology preventively, before a person feels sick or experiences symptoms, can identify blockages when intervention, be it lifestyle changes, medical management, or surgery, can actually prevent the stroke from happening.

Residents living in and around the Seaford community can take advantage of such ultrasound screenings when Life Line Screening comes to the Seaford Volunteer Fire Department on April 27. Appointments will begin at 9 a.m.

A complete wellness package, including the stroke/Carotid Artery, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Ankle Brachial Index (hardening of the arteries) and Osteoporosis screenings, is only $129 (a savings of $41).

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Casino Night fund raiser Delaware Hospice's Casino Nigh fundraiser will be held on Thursday, May 3 from 6:30-10 p.m., at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center.

Texas Hold-Em, Blackjack, Craps, Poker and more will be dealt by local celebrities. Guests will enjoy refreshments provided

by LHR Seafood and Catering, wine tasting compliments of Kemp's Liquors, raffles, and a silent auction.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Delaware Hospice in its efforts to provide choice, expert care, and comfort to local families in need.

Tickets are $30 per person in advance, $35 at the door, and include a drink ticket and $10 in chips.

To purchase tickets, call Joyce Bensinger at 856-7717 or 800838-9800, or email: jbensinger @delawarehospice.org.

Health Care Conference Individuals and organizations focused on improving the quality of Delmarva's social service delivery will gather at Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus, Georgetown, on Friday, May 4, for the annual "Families, Individuals & Communities" conference.

Formerly the "Families in Crisis" conference, this year's theme is "It's All About Me - Helping You Helps Others." Nurses,

health care workers and counselors can earn continuing education credits and gain valuable information from conference presentations, workshops, exhibits and networking opportunities.

The conference begins at 8 a.m. with exhibits by area agencies; free health screenings for cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure will be offered by Beebe Medical Center from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The keynote presentation focuses on basic, necessary skills that will give health care professionals an edge in their professional roles. It will be given by Dr. Sharon R. Yoder, president of "Make it Happen Training Programs," and offers a humorous look into what should, and should not, be done by workers in the health-care world.

There will also be workshops available throughout the day on a variety of topics including anger management, women's health, living wills, holistic modalities and stress.

Cost for the conference, including meals, is $35 for the general public and $20 for full-time students. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations must contact Lori Westcott at 302-855-5988 by May 1.

Family Caregiver Training The Alzheimer's Association Delaware Valley Chapter sponsors The Family Caregiver Education Series four times per year in each of Delaware's three counties. Easter Seals at 22317 N. DuPont Blvd. in Georgetown will host the training on April 26, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. This program includes a Medical Overview; Legal and Financial Issues, Communications, Behaviors and Activities of Daily Living and Community Resources.

This training, for family caregivers, is free and lunch will be provided, but pre-registration is required. For more information or to register, call Jamie Magee, 854-9788.

Relay for Life Friendraiser The Western Sussex Relay for Life committee members are busy making preparations for this year's Relay for Life. This year's event will be held on May 18, at the Mears Campus in Seaford.

The Relay for Life is an overnight event that helps raise money for the American Cancer Society. If you are interested in receiving information on how to register a team or for further information, contact Mary Catherine Hopkins at 875-7308.

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Woodbridge reports better attendance figures

By Cathy Shufelt Woodbridge Elementary School’s School Improvement Team (SIT) presented an update on their School Improvement Plan to the Woodbridge School Board on Tuesday, April 3.

Members of the Woodbridge Elementary School’s School Improvement Team are Karen Sheets (Facilitator), Carren Wright (4th Grade), Angie Taylor (3rd Grade), Ginger Brown (2nd Grade), Betty Hall (1st Grade), Kim Hastings (Kindergarten), Helen Hammond (Related Arts), Paulette Hyland (Guidance Counselor), Faith Woods (Parent Representative), and Becky King (Principal).

Objectives and goals from the plan were presented and the various activities which address these stated goals were discussed.

The list of goals and objectives created by the School Improvement Team include mental and physical health education and

awareness, increasing test scores, improving attendance, improving educational materials, creating a safe school environment, professional development, and enhancing and improving technology.

Woodbridge Elementary School Principal Becky King stated that Woodbridge School District has “a diverse population with many needs” and that along with scholastic skills “health and physical fitness are important in order to be ready to learn.”

Woodbridge is the only school district in the state which offers comprehensive and regular institutional health standards.

Focusing on the whole student has resulted in increases in attendance rates and test scores.

To address the technological needs of Woodbridge Elementary School, the school board approved $150,000 to purchase technology upgrades for both Woodbridge Elementary and Phillis Wheatley Middle School.

These upgrades will allow teachers in the district to better communicate with each other and administrative offices by using a “common platform” called “Eschool.” The “E-school” platform is used by schools throughout the state.

Upgrading the computer systems at both schools will have a “variety of benefits such as helping with grading, attendance, and communicating with parents, among others,” said Dr. Kevin Carson.

Echoing compliments made by other board members, board member Deborah Stogner commented that the School Improvement Team’s presentation was “wonderful” and that she is “never disappointed by a presentation at Woodbridge Elementary School.”

Also present for Tuesday’s meeting were members of Woodbridge Elementary School’s 1st and 2nd, and 3rd and 4th Grade choruses.

They performed several songs from their list of favorites directed by Jolene

Workman. A graduate of the Woodbridge School District herself, Workman spoke enthusiastically about the district’s elementary school choral program and the dedication of the students. The school has also recently purchased a new curtain for the stage as well as new sound equipment which Workman stated has been “a huge step forward” in addressing the needs of the performing arts programs at Woodbridge Elementary School.

Each grade level will now offer a public performance each year, which is a new development in the school’s curriculum.

Along with learning fun new songs students learn stage presence as well as concert and stage performance etiquette.

“She’s (Ms. Workman) been working very hard on improving facilities here at Woodbridge Elementary School and has been able to provide a nice choral program for students,” said Superintendent Dr. Kevin Carson.

Seaford Library interior and exterior architectural plans reviewed

By Anne Nesbitt Plans for the new Seaford Library are underway. Interior and exterior architectural drawings are being reviewed.

The new facility will be located south of the Ross Mansion on what was formerly known as North Pine Street Extended but is now designated as Ross Station Road. This building will be slightly over

17,000-square-feet as compared to the 6,000-square-feet in the present library on Porter Street.

Statistics confirm why this greatly enlarged structure is so much needed. The total number of registered borrowers is approximately 10,000. Patron registrations have increased by 63 percent per year for the last three years. Patron visits average 8,108 per month of 312 per day.

There are only eight public access computers with an average of 90 sessions per day. Computer usage is up 67 percent over the last two years.

All library sponsored programs take place in the Community Room with an average of 13.5 of these per month.

Usage of the room by non-library affiliated groups averages 12 per month. The room is in use about 19 days per month

with sometimes two or three functions per day.

Kids programs average 7.5 per month with the greatest increase in June and July for the summer reading programs.

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National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week The Seaford 911 Center honored the men and women who serve as public safety dispatchers during National Public Safety Telecommunicator's Week, April 8-14.

Introduced to Congress by the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International in 1991, National Public Safety Telecommunicator's Week is the second full week of April each year.

This week is dedicated to the Public Safety Dispatchers who aid in providing 911 emergency assistance to citizens everywhere.

Everyday, millions of people depend on the skill, expertise and commitment of the men and women who work as Public Safety Dispatchers.

These individuals help save countless lives by responding to emergency calls, dispatching emergency professionals and equipment, and providing moral support to

citizens in distress.

The term "911" is often associated with rapid emergency response, poise under pressure, aid and compassion in times of distress and critical decision-making within seconds. Many people don't stop to think about these seemingly nameless, faceless individuals until they experience actual emergencies themselves. These professionals make the difference between life and death in many instances.

Seaford 911 Center's nine Public Safety Dispatchers handle more than 30,000 911 calls and non-emergency telephone calls each year and dispatch for Seaford's Police, Fire, Ambulance and City Utility agencies.

On April 11 at 10 a.m., at the Seaford Police Department, State Rep. Dan Short read a proclamation proclaiming the week of April 8 through 14, 2007, as National Public Safety Telecommunicator's Week.

From left are State Representative Dan Short, 911 Dispatcher Tracy Torbert, Seaford Police Dispatch Administrator Stanley Hardesty, 911 Dispatcher Sammy Jo Britingham and Seaford Mayor Ed Butler. Photo by Daniel Richardson

Seaford Library will present ‘Women Who Spied’ “Women Who Spied”, a dramatic program, will be presented by storyteller Marie Gormley-Tarleton on Monday, April 30 at 7 p.m. in the meeting room of the Seaford District Library.

“I’ll be portraying an American Revolution spy, a woman who spied for the Union during the Civil War, and an inter-

Fire reported in historic schoolhouse near Laurel

By Lynn R. Parks Fire has destroyed the Ross Point School east of Laurel. The abandoned one-room schoolhouse for African-American students burned down Tuesday, April 10, assistant fire marshal Randall Lee said.

All that’s left of the building are the four walls, Lee said. Estimated damages are $5,000.

Lee said that the investigation of the cause of the fire is still ongoing. Investigators have talked with a homeless man who lived in the old school building for about 10 years.

“We would like to talk with him again,” Lee said. His office does not suspect the man of having set the fire, Lee added.

“We believe the fire was unintentional,” he said.

The building did not have any utilities.

Neighbors have told investigators that the man who lived there never set fires in the building.

The schoolhouse, built in 1923, is owned by the St. John’s AME Zion Church that sits across the street from it.

It was last used as a schoolhouse in 1964, when the Laurel School District was integrated. The Ross Improvement Club met there until 1987; in 1999, an effort was announced to rehabilitate the building for a community center. At that time, volunteers said that the building needed about $75,000 in repairs.

Cora Selby, Laurel, who taught at Ross Point from 1941 until the school closed, was heading up the effort to renovate the old building.

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of her programs. She has performed for audiences of three-year olds to senior citizens in many venues.

A native Delawarean, she taught for twenty-five years in Delaware public schools, has been a newspaperwoman, and most recently a guide at Hagley Museum.

She has performed in many community

theater productions and began storytelling about nine years ago.

“Women Who Spied” will follow a very brief annual business meeting of the Friends of the Seaford District Library, sponsor of the presentation.

Refreshments will follow the program, which is open to the public.

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Members hear from developers, discuss police protection issues

By Cathy Shufelt

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Blades Town Council members voted 6-0 during their April 9 meeting to approve the zoning change requested by the Putnam Group, new owners of property located on River Road in Blades.

The zoning will be changed from Commercial to Residential (R3) and Neighborhood Business. Clean up of the property has begun and several large tanks formerly used for fuel are in the process of being removed.

During the public hearing The Putnam Group shared plans for the property which include single-family homes and townhouses with prices starting in the upper $100,000 range.

During the Blades Town Council meeting, Police Chief Edwin Cooke reported that both police officer candidates are "doing well" at the Delaware State Police Academy after their first four weeks of training.

When Officers Nathan Benson and Nigel Golding are done at the academy, both are obligated to work for the Town of Blades for a period of three years. They should complete their training on July 27, 2007 and will begin their on-the-job training in Blades.

Chief Cooke also reported that several grants have been awarded to the Blades Police Department and with funds being marked to purchase much-needed new equipment, such as office computers, digital cameras, binoculars, as well as portable computers and printers for police vehicles, among other things.

Chief Cooke told the council that by June 2007 all police cars in the state will be able to print "E Tickets" and other paperwork which will greatly enhance their ability to work in the community.

Police Commissioner Donald Trice reported that he is working with Chief Cooke on more grants as well as to find at least two part-time police officers for the Town of Blades. He also thanked the community for their patience while the council addresses various safety issues.

Councilman Trice and Chief Cooke are also working with the Captain John Smith 400 Committee and the Delaware State Police among others to organize their event in May as well as arranging appropriate security for the event.

The event begins on May 29 at Phillips Landing in Bethel at 9 a.m. with the replica Shallop and her crew stopping to meet with visitors and to erect a monument dedicated to Captain Smith’s exploration of the Nanticoke River.

On May 30, at 10 a.m. the Shallop and her crew will row into the Nanticoke River Marina in Blades to meet with visitors and set up their land-based display containing information about Captain Smith’s voyage and the 17th Century Chesapeake region. For more information contact the Greater Seaford Chamber of Commerce at 629-9690 or visit their website at

www.seafordchamber.com or www.visitsoutherndelaware.com. These events are free and open to the public.

Residents of Blades concerned about ongoing illegal activity in their town addressed the Blades Town Council.

Among concerns about speeding cars, trash, and fast-paced new development, residents are most concerned about perceived drug activity occurring in and around various neighborhoods in Blades and the danger this poses to local families.

Stating that some areas in Blades seem like "open air drug markets," residents asked what state and local police are doing to address these issues.

Mayor David Ruff and council members spoke with community members about efforts to combat illegal activities in Sussex County as well as the State of Delaware, and encouraged anyone with concerns to feel free to contact them directly.

Chief Cooke spoke with residents about the concept of “Community policing” and the need for everyone in the community to work together to insure the safety of the town’s residents.

The next Blades Town Council meeting will be held in Hardin Hall at 7 p.m. on May 7.

Bridgeville Clean-Up Day Bridgeville will hold a Neighborhood Clean-Up Day on Saturday, May 12. All items must be curbside by 6 a.m., as M-T Trash will only go down each street once.

Allowable items for pick-up include: furniture, household trash, stoves, and limbs bundled in 4-ft. lengths. Items that will not be picked up include tires, batteries, oil, construction materials, dirt, rocks, bricks, etc.

M-T Trash will have a truck available to pick-up refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners, as long as the Freon has been removed.

M-T Trash will also have a truck to pick up paint, stain, etc. Note: These items must be kept in a separate area from the rest of the trash.

Large tree limbs can be delivered to the Town's wastewater treatment plant. Residents will be directed to an area for placement of limbs.

A scrap metal container will be placed at the Town Hall parking lot for the disposal of such items as aluminum siding, window frames, barbecue grills, tire rims, bicycles and stainless steel. Residents are asked not to place any other types of trash in this container.

Questions may be directed to Town Manager Bonnie Walls at 337-7135.

Bridgeville Yard Sale The Town of Bridgeville hosts a Community-Wide Yard Sale on Saturday, May 5, from 7 a.m. until ?. You will find great bargains at many homes throughout the town. Be sure to put Bridgeville on your list of Yard Sale stops on May 5.

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Captain John Smith 400th anniversary schedule of events A series of events and activities is continuing, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Captain John Smith's exploration of the Chesapeake Bay and the Nanticoke River.

Programs are sponsored by the Seaford Historical Society and the Methodist Manor House and will be at the Manor House. For further information call Anne Nesbitt at 628-7788.

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Tuesday, April 24, at the Manor House, 7 p.m. - Darlene Antezana, History Professor at St. George's College, will be speaking, "The Real John Smith."

Monday, May 7, at the Manor House, 7 p.m. - Russ McCabe, director of Delaware Public Archives, will be speaking, "The Story of the Recreation of Captain John Smith's Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay." Thursday, May 17, at the Seaford Museum, 1 p.m. - Grand Opening of Exhibit from Delaware Public Archives, "Memorabilia from 17th Century Delaware" (John Smith era).

Thursday, May 17 through July 15, at the Seaford Museum - Exhibit from Delaware Public Archives, "Memorabilia from 17th Century Delaware." Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sundays, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Mondays museum is closed.

Saturday, May 26 at the Manor House, 7 p.m. - Movie, "Captain John Smith and Pocahontas."

Tuesday, May 29, at Phillips Landing, Bethel, 11 a.m. - Dedication of Captain John Smith Monument.

Wednesday, May 30, A replica of the John Smith shallop will visit the Nanticoke River Marine Park in Blades on May 30 for a commemoration of Smith’s first contact with Native Americans.

The shallop will be on display in the marina basin near the Nanticoke River Yacht Club. In addition to educational displays, curators and re-enactors from Sultana Projects, Inc. – the group from Chestertown, Md., that built the shallop replica and is retracing the 1608 voyage of the Chesapeake Bay — will be on hand from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to answer questions.

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Wintry outside, but asparagus brings spring into the kitchen Sunday is Earth Day and if I may be so bold as to speak for the planet to Mother Nature: Helloooo, it’s Spring! Driving rains, howling winds, gray skies and bonechilling dampness isn’t what we bargained for, this far into the season. You’ve had your little joke, now quit it.

When it gets as bad as it is outside, I fight back with food. Since I found asparagus (that veggie symbol of the season we’re supposed to be enjoying) for ninetynine cents a pound, I say, “Bring me my spears!”

Here are a bunch of really fast and really good asparagus recipes, courtesy of Food & Wine.

Asparagus with Sesame Dressing Serves 4

Penne with Roasted Asparagus and Balsamic Butter Serves 4 1 pound asparagus 1 tablespoon olive oil

By Loretta Knorr 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon fresh-ground black pepper 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar 1 pound penne 1/4 pound butter, cut into pieces 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese, plus more for serving Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Snap the tough ends off the asparagus and discard them. Cut the spears into 1-inch pieces.

Put the asparagus on a baking sheet and toss with the oil and 1/4 teaspoon each of the salt and pepper. Roast until tender, about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, put the vinegar in a small saucepan. Simmer until 3 tablespoons remain. Stir in the brown sugar and the remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Remove from the heat.

Cook the penne in a large pot of boiling, salted water until just done, about 13 minutes. Drain the pasta and toss with the butter, vinegar, asparagus, Parmesan, and the remaining 1 and 3/4 teaspoons salt.

Serve with additional Parmesan.

Asparagus Salad with Roasted Peppers and Goat Cheese Serves 8

In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the asparagus until bright green and tender, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a colander and refresh under cold water.

Drain and pat dry.

Roast the peppers directly over a gas flame or under the broiler, turning, until charred all over. Transfer to a medium bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let steam for 10 minutes. Peel the peppers and cut them into 1/4-inch thick strips.

In a medium bowl, stir together the vinegar, capers, mustard, tarragon, garlic and onion, season with salt and pepper.

Whisk in the olive oil.

Arrange the asparagus on a serving platter. Lay the roasted pepper strips over the asparagus and drizzle with half of the vinaigrette.

Crumble the goat cheese on top. Garnish with the chopped olives and the Parmigiano shavings and serve, passing the remaining vinaigrette at the table.

Make ahead: This recipe can be prepared through the third step up to 8 hours ahead. Refrigerate the asparagus, peppers and vinaigrette separately.

Prosciutto-Wrapped Halibut with Asparagus Sauce Serves 4 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 4 scallions, thinly sliced 1 pound asparagus spears sliced 1⁄2 -inch

thick, tips reserved separately 1 cup water 1 cup packed baby spinach leaves Salt and freshly ground pepper 8 thin slices of prosciutto 4 skinless halibut fillets (about 5 ounces each) 8 small sage leaves, halved lengthwise 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. In a skillet, melt 4 tablespoons of the butter.

Add the scallions and cook over low heat until softened, about 3 minutes. Add the asparagus spears and the water and cook until tender and the water is reduced to 1⁄4 cup, about 5 minutes.

Add the spinach and cook just until wilted, about 2 minutes. Puree the mixture in a blender until smooth; season with salt and pepper. Transfer the sauce to a small saucepan and keep warm.

Arrange the prosciutto slices in pairs, overlapping them slightly. Place a halibut fillet in the center of the prosciutto and top each fillet with 2 sage leaves. Season with salt and pepper and wrap the prosciutto around the fish.

In a large ovenproof skillet, melt the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter in the olive oil. Add the halibut and cook over high heat until browned on the bottom, about 3 minutes.

Carefully flip the fish and add the asparagus tips to the skillet. Transfer to the oven and roast the prosciutto-wrapped halibut for 5 minutes.

Spoon the asparagus-spinach puree onto plates. Arrange the prosciutto-wrapped halibut and asparagus tips alongside and serve immediately.

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Kosher salt Juice of 1 lemon 1/4 cup sesame seeds 1 and 1/2 pounds asparagus, cut into 3inch lengths 2 small carrots, quartered lengthwise and cut into 3-inch lengths 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon mayonnaise 2 teaspoons unseasoned rice vinegar 1 teaspoon soy sauce 1 teaspoon sugar Pinch of cayenne pepper Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil. Add a large pinch of salt and the lemon juice. In a medium skillet, toast the sesame seeds over moderate heat, shaking the pan a few times, until golden brown, about 4 minutes. Spread the sesame seeds on a plate and let cool completely.

Add the asparagus and carrots to the boiling water and cook for 3 minutes.

Drain and spread on a baking sheet to cool.

In a mini food processor, pulse the sesame seeds until coarsely ground. Add the mayonnaise, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and cayenne and process to blend.

Season the dressing with salt.

Transfer the asparagus and carrots to a platter. Drizzle the dressing on top or mix with the vegetables and serve.

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2 pounds medium asparagus, tough ends removed 2 red bell peppers 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar 2 tablespoons capers, drained 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons chopped tarragon or dill 1 garlic clove, very finely chopped 1/2 small red onion finely chopped Salt and freshly ground pepper 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

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No time for music? That’s sad for us, sadder for kids I have been in that Metro stop. I have taken that long escalator up to YNN ARKS light from dark, and have never noticed any music, live or canned, The part of the story that good or poor. had the greatest impact But maybe there was music — on me was Weingarten’s maybe I was too busy, or too distracted, or too focused on making description of the several sure that I didn’t trip when the children who walked moving steps suddenly hit solid past Bell. ground, to notice that musician standing against the wall, playing cussing why people would rush by what his heart out. could be a life-, or at least day-, changing If so, if I walked right past without experience. even glancing his way, I was probably not “If we can't take the time out of our alone. When world-class violinist Joshua lives to stay a moment and listen to one of Bell took his 1713 violin, hand-crafted by the best musicians on Earth play some of Antonio Stradivari himself, into D.C.’s the best music ever written; if the surge of L’Enfant Plaza Metro stop recently and played, standing next to a trash can, for al- modern life so overpowers us that we are deaf and blind to something like that -most an hour, nearly everyone walked by then what else are we missing?” he asks. without even looking.

The part of the story that had the greatThe performance was arranged by the est impact on me — that I read several Washington Post, and its tale is recounted times, never without coming close to tears in an April 8 Post story written by staff — was Weingarten’s description of the writer Gene Weingarten. According to several children who walked past Bell.

Weingarten, “In the three-quarters of an hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people “There was no ethnic or demographic pattern to distinguish the people who stayed stopped what they were doing to hang to watch Bell, or the ones who gave monaround and take in the performance, at ey, from that vast majority who hurried on least for a minute. Twenty-seven gave past, unheeding,” he writes. “Whites, money, most of them on the run -- for a blacks and Asians, young and old, men total of $32 and change. That leaves the and women, were represented in all three 1,070 people who hurried by, oblivious, many only three feet away, few even turn- groups. But the behavior of one demographic remained absolutely consistent. ing to look.”

Every single time a child walked past, he Bell, whose most recent recording, or she tried to stop and watch. And every “The Voice of the Violin,” has been called single time, a parent scooted the kid away. “unfailingly exquisite,” was playing “The poet Billy Collins once laughinganonymously. According to the article, ly observed that all babies are born with a only one person, a woman who had just heard him play at the Library of Congress, knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter,” recognized him. Stacy Furukawa “posiWeingarten says. “Then, Collins said, life tioned herself 10 feet away from Bell, slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. front row, center,” Weingarten writes.

It may be true with music, too.”

“She had a huge grin on her face. The Or, as my husband has often observed, grin, and Furukawa, remained planted in children are born brilliant, and we spend a that spot until the end.” lifetime making them stupid. They long I recommend that anyone who did not for complex, beautiful ideas and experisee that Washington Post article hunt it ences, and we stuff them full of pedantry. down and read it. (It is available online Mediocrity. “American Idol.” Talk radio. through the Washington Post Web site, Fast food. www.washingtonpost.com, as well as We should be ashamed. And we through a link on the National Public Rashould promise, even if we can do no dio Web site, www.npr.org.) Weingarten better for ourselves, to do better for our does a wonderful job describing Bell’s children. We should promise never to morning at the Metro station, and dishustle a child away from the music.

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CHURCH BULLETINS "Boys are Back in Town" April 20-22 Christian Church of Seaford is pleased to invite old friends, family, and everyone else to enjoy the messages brought by three young men who grew up here, entered the ministry, and are returnign to share the Good news of Christ April 20, 21 and 22 will feature Bill Kidwell, Chris Madox, and David McCants returning to their home congregation for services at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Bill Kidwell, ordaiend July 20, 1980, currently ministering with Smyrna Church of Christ, will bring the Friday evening message. Married for 34 years to the former Mary Ellen Sellers. He is the vice president of the Marnie Senior Center and administrator of Smyrna Christian School.

Chris Maddox, ordained Aug. 1, 1999, will bring the Saturday evening message.

Married to the former Christine Sirman, Chris currently preaches at the Countryside Christian Church in Cambridge, Md. David McCants, ordained June 13, 1993, will be ministering in music on Saturday evening and preaching Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. He and his wife Bonnie currently minister with Avalon Church of Christ in Virginia Beach, Va. Bible preaching and special music will be featured each evening. The public is invited to attend.

Woodland U.M.C. dinner April 21 The women of the Woodland United Methodist Church will serve a Chicken and Dumpling dinner on Saturday, April

21, at 6 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Cost is $8 for adults; children 6-12 years old is $4; and 5 years and under are free. Woodland Church is located 4.5 miles west of Seaford next to the Woodland Ferry house.

No carryouts. For additional information call 629-5404, or 629-4662.

Pancake Supper fundraiser Laurel Wesleyan Church is having a Pancake Supper on Friday, April 20, from 5-7:30 p.m. Cost is $6.50 for adults, $3 for 5-12years, under 4 years is free. Come and enjoy pancakes, scrapple, and scambled eggs and help the children raise money to go to Kids Camp. For more information call the church office at 875-5380.

Laurel Wesleyan Church is located 1/2 mile north of Laurel on Alt. 13.

Mt. Olivet Attic Sale April 21 Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church, 315 High St., Seaford will have an attic sale in fellowship hall on Saturday, April 21, from 7 a.m.-noon. Proceed's benefit mission projects.

Blades UMC hosts the O'Day Family The O'Day Family will be in concert at 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 22, at Blades United Methodist Church (4th and Market streets). The public is invited for a special hour of music and praise.

Seaford Prayer Breakfast Group The Wednesday morning Seaford prayer breakfast group will be meeting at the Eagle Diner on Rt. 13 in Seaford on

April 25 at 6:30 a.m. The guest speaker will be Dave Wiedis, director of development for Alliance Defense Fund (www.telladf.org), a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth. His subject will be "The War Against the Church and Christian Culture: A Strategic Response." For more information, call Ed Banning at 302-262-0659.

The breakfast group represents the newly renamed Seaford Mission in Seaford.

The mission, which serves men returning to independent living after substance abuse or incarceration, is now known as Mission of Hope. It is located on North Street in Seaford.

This program has been serving the community as The Seaford Mission for the last 11 years. The program has an impressive rate of success and instills self-confidence through the teachings of the Bible. Its emphasis is on spiritual healing, education, behavior modification, and training for the workplace. Details available by calling 629-2559.

Farm, Houston, on Friday, April 27, at 7 p.m.

Featuring: "Precious Memories," "Pink Grass," "Bethany Praise Ensemble."

This is a benefit concert to raise relief money for a family with health and financial concerns. A love offering will be taken.

Pastor Paul Dodd (302) 398-3481; F. Moore, Music Coordinator, (302) 4227484.

Union Station Diner April 25

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Union United Methodist Church, 2 N. Laws St., Bridgeville will have its 'Union Station Diner' on Wednesday, April 25, from 5-7 p.m., in its fellowship hall (across from the bank). Oven chicken will be served. Price for adults is $8, children 10 and under, $3.50. Proceeds benefit the church.

Central Worship Center (formerly Epworth Fellowship Church) in Laurel will host an evening Prayer, Praise & Worship service on Saturday, April 28 at 7 p.m.

This event is free and open to all. The CWC Worship Team will be sharing contemporary music. Intercessory prayer partners will be on hand to lift up your needs. COME EXPECTING! Nursery will

Mt. Calvary U.M.C. Choir Anniversary The Spirit of Mt. Calvary Choir Anniversary, Saturday, April 28, at 6 p.m. All Choirs and Praise Dancers welcome.

On Sunday, April 29, at 4 p.m, will be a service for one of our members, Sister Maxine Neal Hemmeian. Bishop James J. Green of Soul Outreach Christian Center, Cambridge and "The Anointed Five" will be our guest. The church is located at 28 Church St., Bridgeville. For more information contact Sister, Betty Murray at 3378880.

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DIRECTORY: Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship TRINITY UNITED METHODIST Trap Pond, CHURCH NearLaurel, Del. 875-7715 Sun. School 9:00 a.m.

Worship 10:00 a.m.

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“A caring church, a giving church, a sharing church; showing love, warmth and friendship to all.”

St. John’s United Methodist Church Pine & Poplar Sts., Seaford 302-629-9466 Web site: http://home.dmv.com/-stjohns/ E-mail: st_johns@verizon.net NURSERY & HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE

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Rush to judgement By the Rev. Todd K. Crofford Laurel Wesleyan Church

PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE

I think there is a subtle but By the time you read this harmful shift in American thinking there will likely be a lot of during my lifetime. It is our propensity to rush to judgment. information and....opinions As I write, the VA Tech. mason how the school did or sacre tragedy is just one day old, didn’t do. But here’s my but already news sources everypoint- it is just too soon where are roundly condemning the for us to know. leadership of the college.

The contention: they didn’t do the side of safety because we don’t want enough to protect the students from the to get sued. Remember last year’s E-Coli tragedy. spinach trouble?

Now, by the time you read this there Long after the issue was dealt with, will likely be a lot of information and a lot restaurants still refused to sell dishes with of opinions on how the school did or didfresh spinach. Better to leave customers n’t do. But here’s my point- it is just too unsatisfied than to have one get sick and soon for us to know. sue for $20 million.

How did we become such a society of Should every bomb threat close a arm chair quarterbacks who find it so school? Should every domestic dispute much easier to criticize our leaders than to lead to lock down? Where does this stop? support them? When did we become so Roads are slippery when wet, so should caustic that whenever something goes every school close when it rains for the wrong we need to have someone to safety of their students. Leaders are re“blame” within 3.7 seconds? quired to make a measured response.

One of the great difficulties of leaderDid they at VA Tech? I don’t know yet, ship is constantly dealing with those who but maybe we should be measured as we themselves cannot or will not lead, but judge. will methodically pick their leaders apart.

Consider a few basic facts about VA And the new risk to leaders, you aren’t Tech. The campus houses 9,000 students, given the opportunity to say “we just don’t and another 10,000-15,000 drive onto the know yet.” Be omniscient, and be right, or campus every day. Communicating to a you are gone. group that size is a mammoth task.

Take global warming for example.

Also remember that VA Tech is four There is no doubt that we are in a global square miles. “Locking it down” sounds warming trend. Even the recent cold snap like a great term, but doing so is not a does not disprove indicators that indeed quick or easy task. global temperatures are rising. But here’s Now once again, we may have many what we don’t know for sure- who or what more facts by the time you read this paper. is to blame?

By then, I might be calling for the PresiReputable scientists are offering condent’s resignation. But my point remains, flicting explanations. Some say greenthe day after the shooting is a little soon to house gases are doing us in, others simply be spouting off about what a failure the point to the trend as part of a geological campus leadership was. The fact people cycle that has existed for many thousands are already doing so tells us something of years. about our rush to judgment society.

Who’s right? The answer is… it’s too An old expression used to say, “let soon to tell. Now frankly I don’t know if cooler heads prevail.” I fear too few we are to blame or not, maybe we are, Americans have those cooler heads anymaybe we aren’t. But the rush to judgmore, and we rely more on the jerking ment crowd is screaming that if you aren’t knee than we should. on board with Al Gore’s panic train, then you just don’t care and you don’t deserve The Rev. Crofford is Senior Pastor to be heard. at Laurel Wesleyan Church. You may Another danger to leaders is the prolifemail pastortodd@laurelwesleyan.org eration of litigation. Anymore we err to

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Wed. 9 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.; First Sat. 9 a.m.

HOLY DAYS: Eve. 7:30 p.m.; 9 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.

NOVENA DEVOTIONS: Wed. 9 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.

CONFESSION: Sat. 4:30-5 p.m.; Sun. 8-8:25 a.m.

SEAFORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

Sunday School 9:30 am Worship 10:45 am & 6 pm Children’s Church 10:45 am SPANISH Worship 10:45 am Wednesday Activities 7 pm Pastor: Homer McKeithan Music: Jim Burket “The Cross Is Grounded In Grace”

LAUREL-MT. PLEASANT CHARGE 27225 Kaye Road, Laurel, DE 19956 Ph: (302) 875-7814

www.livingwaterworship.com Pastor: Rev. Timothy P. Jones

Sunday Morning Wed. Bible Study & Worship & Children’s Children’s Discovery Club 7:00 PM Ministries 10:00 AM “Flowing in Power and Love to a Parched and Thirsty World”

Passing on God’s Love and Grace in Laurel, Delmar & Surrounding Area United Methodist Churches

King’s St. George’s Mt. Pleasant

Worship Sun. Sch.

Gordy Rd. .......... 8:50....10:00 St. George Rd. .... 10:10..... 9:00

Mt. Pleasant Rd. 9:30,11:30..10:15 Pastor Barbara Auer

VICTORY TABERNACLE River of Life Christian Center CHURCH OF GOD

SUNDAY WORSHIP 11 AM and 6 PM ~ Sunday School 9:45 AM

WEDNESDAY NIGHT Ministry for the whole family 7 PM

Pastor Stacey Johnson 28261 Seaford Rd., Laurel, 2 miles N. of Laurel on Alt. 13

302-877-0443

The Atlanta Road Alliance Church 22625 Atlanta Rd., Seaford, DE (302) 629-5600 • www.atlantaroadcma.org Rev. Edward Laremore • Rev. Andrew Kerr SUNDAY WEDNESDAY 8:30 Worship 6:45 Pioneer Clubs (age 3 9:45 Sunday School thru grade 6) & Divorce Care® 11:00 Worship/Kids Church 7:00 Prayer Service & Youth Group (grades 7-12) 7:00 Evening Service

To Come! Revelation 2 ime 2:1 T The Ark 7 It's Seaford Wesleyan Church

Sunday School - all ages 9:30 a.m.

Worship 10:30 a.m.

Rainbow Day Care / Pre-School Rt. 13 South, Seaford, DE 302-628-1020

Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Serving Christ in the Heart of Seaford since 1830

17 W. Market St., Greenwood, DE 302349-9420 Pastors Joseph & Yvonne Dixon WORSHIP SERVICE: SUN. 11 AM BIBLE STUDY: WED. 7:30 PM

Proclaiming Faith 4 pm Sunday on WKDI 840 AM Radio

Food Outreach Emergency Food

www.river-oflife.org

Sailor’s Bethel United Methodist Church Bethel, DE Pastor Arthur Smith III Sunday School - 10 am Worship - 11:15 am Nursery Provided office 875-3628

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Front & King St., Seaford, DE 629-7979 Holy Eucharist: 9:00 a.m.

Sunday School & Adult Forum: 10:30 a.m.

Thurs. Eve. Service: 6 p.m.

The Rev’d. Jeanne W. Kirby-Coladonato, Rector

Seaford Church of Christ Acapella

(Rm. 16:16)

PROFESSIONAL NURSERY CARE PROVIDED

N. Dual 13, P.O. Box 783, Seaford, DE 19973 302-629-6206 Evangelist - Anthony Melakian - 629-3633 Elder - Don Birch - 629-8949 Elder - Ron Russell - 629-6033 Sunday School 10a.m.

Sun. Worship 11 a.m., Sun. Evening 6 p.m Wed. Evenings 7 p.m.

Live For God, Love Each Other, Light The World

Laurel Wesleyan Church

The Gift of His Love

315 High St. • Seaford, DE

Sunday Services: Informal Worship in Chapel 8:30 a.m.

Traditional Worship 11:00 a.m. Sanctuary 9:45 Sunday School Pastor: Rev. Thomas Gross • 302-629-4458

Rt. 13A, Just North of Laurel Sunday School - 9:30 Worship - 9:00 & 11:00 Sunday Evening Worship and Children’s Ministries 6 p.m.

Wednesday Youth Ministries 6:30 p.m.

Church 875-5380 • Sr. Pastor Todd Crofford Assistant Pastor Ken Deusa Asst. Pastor/Youth: Sue Boyce Children’s Pastor: Marilyn Searcey

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OBITUARIES John F. McGlaughlin, Sr., 81, Former Laurel Police Chief John F. McGlaughlin, Sr. of Laurel died Friday, April 6, 2007 at his home, with his beloved wife by his side. Born in Bishop Head, Md., he was a son of Charles F. and Edith Robinson McGlaughlin.

He proudly served Chief McGlaughlin his country in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Colorado Battleship. He was wounded in action in the South Pacific and was awarded the Purple Heart Award. He was a member of American Legion Post 19 in Laurel.

McGlaughlin started his police career in Cambridge, Md., where he served from 1951 through 1957. He worked on the force in Seaford from 1957 to 1963, before his move to Laurel in 1963. He retired in 1983 from the Laurel Police Department after serving as Chief of Police for his last 13 years.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, John McGlaughlin, Jr.; two sisters, Betty Kimmey and Isabella McGlaughlin; and a brother, Charles McGlaughlin.

He is survived by his wife, Jean, whom he loved dearly; two daughters, Dyan A. Anderson and Karen A. Kennedy; a sister, Elsie Mae Hubbard; and two step-daughters, Dale Bailey and Pamela Bradford. He is also survived by 15 grandchildren , five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

A celebration of life service was held April 13, at Laurel Baptist Church, with the Rev. Stephen Booth officiating. Internment with military honors followed at the Delaware Memorial Veterans Cemetery in Millsboro. Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to a charity of your choice. Arrangements were handled by Short Funeral Home, Delmar.

Henry G. Krause, 74 Henry G. Krause of Millsboro, died April 10, 2006 at Beebe Medical Center, Lewes.

He was born in Wilmington, a son of Mark R. and Mary Thompson Krause.

Mr. Krause was a U.S. Navy veteran, and served on the USS Randolf during the Korean War. He was a member of American Legion Post 24. He was also a member of the Armstrong Masonic Lodge #26, In Newport. He was devoted to his family and loved his grandchildren. He was an avid Eagles fan, loved dogs and was a good man.

Besides his parents, he was also preceded in death by a brother, Mark Krause in 2002.

He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Mildred L. Krause; two sons, Keith H. Krause and his wife Crystal of Millsboro, and Robert K. Krause of Charleston, S.C..

Also surviving him are three sisters, Mary Lou Balch and her husband Jack; Kitty Ann Toy, and a sister-in-law Ruth Krause; six grandchildren, Steph, Alicia, Karen, Bob, Sean and Cameron; four great-grandchildren, Ashley, Lillian, Haley and Taylor.

He is also survived by many nieces and nephews and his loving dogs Bubba and Ginger.

On Friday, April 13, a viewing was held

Obituaries are run without charge thanks to the support of area churches.

at Watson Funeral Home, Millsboro, followed by services with the Rev. Bob Hudson officiating, and interment at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Millsboro.

Benjamin W. Abell, 72 Benjamin W. Abell of Delmar died Sunday, April 8, 2007 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.

He was born Jan. 27, 1935 in Leonardtown, Md., a son of Charles Richley Abell and Martha Alberta Wilkinson Abell.

"Ben" was a mem- Benjamin Abell ber of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Delmar. For over 15 years he worked as a firefighter for the District of Columbia Fire Department, where he was a life member of the DC Firefighters Association, Local 36. He was also a member of Bi-State Ruritans, Salisbury Elks Lodge, The DCFD Emerald Society, Guns & Hoses, Golden Techites of McKinley Tech High School, and the Eastern Shore Threshermen's Association. He also enjoyed black-smithing at Furnace Town in Snow Hill.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by 3 brothers, Charles, Joseph and John Richley; a sister, Phyllis; and a son-in-law, William "Skip" Bingham.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Jacqueline L. Abell; four children, Michael Paul Abell and his wife Kimberly of Pasadena, Md., Laura Altman of Wilmington, Carolyn Harney and her husband John of Delmar, and Wendy Bingham of Delmar; eight grandchildren, Blaine, Melissa, Nena, Mandy, Meghan, Marcella, Robert and Ben; seven great-grandchildren, Sianna, Vincent, Nito, Isaiah, Javier, Selma and Donovan; brothers, Maurice, William, and Michael; and sisters, Edna, Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Angela, Judy, Linda and Margaret. He is also survived by many brothers- and sisters-in-law and numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation for family and friends was held on Wednesday, April 11, at Short Funeral Home, Delmar. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Thursday, April 12, at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church on the corner of Bi-State Blvd. and Chestnut Street in Delmar. Interment followed at Melson Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to: Heroes, Inc., 666 11th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, or the Washington Hospital Center Foundation/ Burn Unit, 110 Irving Street, NW, East Building-Suite 1001, Washington, DC 20010.

Thomas Lee Webb, 50 Thomas Lee Webb of Federalsburg, also known as "Tucker" or "Tommy" passed away on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at his home surrounded by his loving family.

He was born May 11, 1956 in Preston, Md., the son of Paul Butler Sr. of Salisbury and Alfreda Webb Holland of Preston.

In his earlier years he worked for Leon Schmick of Preston and had worked in raising chickens and grain for the Nagel Farm Service for the past 20 years. He attended Park Lane Church of God in Federalsburg.

Besides his parents is he survived by his wife of 23 years, Kim Boggs Webb, whom he married on March 5, 1984; three daughters, Fantasia Yvette Webb, Mallory Shkita Webb, and Lauren Qusha Webb, all of Federalsburg; six siblings, Brenda Fields (Farris) of Laurel, Vernon Webb, Sr. (Terri) and Anthony Holland, both of Preston, Monica Butler, Brian Butler, and Paul Butler, Jr., all of Salisbury; step mother, Doris Butler of Salisbury, in-laws Lettie and Roosevelt Boggs of Hurlock; paternal grandmother, Lula Butler of Preston; Roberta (David) Smith of Federalsburg who was like a sister of him; several nieces and nephews, a large extended family, church family and friends.

Services were held Sunday, April 15, at the Park Lane Church of God in Federalsburg with Bishop Ray Parsons officiating.

Interment followed in Federal Hill Cemetery in Federalsburg. Friends called at the Framptom Funeral Home in Federalsburg on Saturday and at Park Lane Church of God on Sunday. Donations may be made to the Webb Children College Fund, c/o BB & T Bank, 102 S. Main St., Federalsburg, MD 21632; or to Caroline Hospice Foundation, P.O. Box 362, Denton, MD 21629; or to Park Lane Church of God, P.O. Box 235, Federalsburg, MD 21632.

Deborah D. Reynolds, 62 Deborah “Debra” D. Reynolds of Princess Anne died Friday, April 13, 2007, at the home of her daughter, Jackie, in Mount Vernon.

Born in Milford on April 8, 1945, she was a daughter of Geraldine Dickerson of Laurel and John O. Dickerson.

Mrs. Reynolds grew up in Laurel where

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…

BETHEL WORSHIP CENTER 9431 Ginger Lane, Seaford (2.4 mi. north of Wal-Mart on US 13) 628-4240 Recorded Info 628-4241 Church Office

Pastor Joseph Lecates - 875-2059 Adult Sunday School 9:30 am Worship 10:30 am & 6:30 pm Children’s Church 10:30 am Nursery 10:30 am & 6:30 pm Youth Meeting Sun. 7 pm Promise Keepers Tues. 7 pm Wed. Night Bible Study 7 pm “We’re not building a church, we’re building God’s Kingdom!”

Christ Lutheran Church

SEAFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday School 9 am Morning Worship 10 am

she graduated from Laurel High School.

She later attended Strayer Junior College in Washington, D.C. She retired from the Somerset County Office of the State's Attorney after 25 years of service. Debra founded the Somerset County Soccer League and managed the league for more than a decade. She served for a number of years as the cheerleading coordinator for Salisbury University. She was a member of Asbury Untied Methodist church in Mount Vernon and Antioch United Methodist Church in Princess Anne. She enjoyed gardening, shopping and spending time with her family.

She will be remembered for her kind and caring nature. She continually gave to her family, friends and community. Her warmth and humanity enabled her to make friends easily and to enjoy their companionship to the fullest. Mere words cannot convey the degree to which Debra affected the lives of others. She will always remain in the hearts of her family and friends.

Besides her father, she was also preceded in death her first husband, William "Billy" Fisher; father-in-law, Hopkins "Hop" Fisher and Robert "Bob" Reynolds; and a sister-in-law, Beccy Fisher.

Besides her mother, she is survived by three children, Jackie Wheatley of Mount Vernon, Jill Ross and her husband, Willie, of Mount Vernon and Douglas Reynolds and his wife, Ashley, of Princess Anne; a brother, Jack Dickerson and his wife, Peggy, of Laurel; mothers-in-law, Dorothy Fisher of Mount Vernon and Eloise Reynolds of Princess Anne; sisters-in-law, Dottie Butler and her husband, John, of Salisbury, Ann Peacock and her husband, Greg, of Salisbury and Jetta Reynolds of

701 Bridgeville Road 629-9077

Corner of Shipley & Spruce Sts.

A Family Friendly Church Home for You Sunday Worship: 8:30 & 11 am Phone: 629-9755 www.ChristLC.net Bible School for the Mentally Challenged Saturday at 10 am

“Welcome Home!”

Senior Pastor

Wesley United Methodist Church

Mark Landon

22025 Atlanta Road, Seaford, DE Pastor Ed Kuhling Contemporary Worship 9 am Sunday School & Bible Education 10 am Traditional Worship 11 am Wednesday Worship 6:45 pm 302-629-3029 * Info Line 302-628-0112

7046 Seashore Hwy. Bridgeville, DE 19933

302-337-3044

Church of God

Fax 302-337-8769

Worship Services: Seeker Service 8:30 am • Sunday School 9:30 Morning Worship 10:45 am • Wed. Night 7 pm

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 Provided Pastor: Rev. Steven Booth Minister of Music: Rev. David James

302-875-7998

743 E. Clarence St., Seaford, Del. Carlton L. Cannon, Sr. Paster

629-9443, Cell: 448-0852 • cogclarence@verizon.net Sunday: Midweek Activities: Church School........9:45 am Call for Details Morning Worship......11 am Children’s Church & Youth Explosion ........6 pm Nursery Provided Evening Worship.........7 pm *Counseling by appt. only Tuesday: Thursday: Bible Study & Family Corporate Prayer.........7 pm ‘Come and Grow with Us!’ Training Hour ........... 7 pm

MORNING STAR ✳ APRIL 19 - 25, 2007 Princess Anne; brothers-in-law, Charles Fisher of Dames Quarter and Jerry Reynolds and Chris of Princess Anne; a son-in-law; Drew Wheatley; grandchildren, Michele Wheatley, Tyler Wheatley, Mitchell Ross, Mallory Ross, Mandie Kessinger, Jessica Ross and Willie Ross; great-grandchildren, Payton Kessinger and Ashton Kessinger; former husband, Richard "Dicky" Reynolds and his wife, Tammy of Princess Anne; several nieces and nephews including Ricky, John Paul, Amy, Ashley, Laney, Lyndi, Heather, Jerry and Jayna; special friends, Lisa Weil, Pat Klopp. Charlene Bozman and Lynn Cain; extended family, Donald and Beth Henderson of Salisbury.

A service was held Tuesday, April 17, at Antioch United Methodist Church in Princess Anne. The Rev. Olivia Costango officiated. Interment was in Asbury United Methodist Cemetery in Mount Vernon.

Contributions may be made to the Deborah Reynolds Youth Recreation Foundation, c/o Scott Tawes & Associates, 11760 Somerset Ave., Princess Anne, MD 21853 or to The Somerset Challengers, c/o Jackie Wheatley, 26739 Mt. Vernon Rd., Princess Anne, MD 21853, or to Asbury UMC, c/o Lori Laird, 31889 Wildwood Drive, Princess Anne, MD 21853.

Grace Lofland Himes, 94 Grace Lofland Himes of Seaford died Friday, April 13, 2007 at her residence.

Born in Bridgeville, a daughter of Pierce Smith and Robert C. Lofland, she was a homemaker. She attended the Bethel United Methodist Church, Oak Grove. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 7, and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Seaford Volunteer Fire Department.

In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband, William

James Himes, Sr. in 1996.

She is survived by her son, William J. Himes, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth of Seaford; and a daughter Isabelle M. Himes of Seaford; a sister, Alice Barrett of Wilmington; three grandchildren, Jack Barry and his wife Elinor; Bobby Ann Foxx and her husband, David; and Bonnie Griffith and her husband Mike, all of Seaford; five great-grandchildren and three great-greatgrandchildren.

Services were on Tuesday, April 17, in Watson-Yates Funeral Home, Seaford, where friends called prior to the services on Tuesday. The Reverend Wayne Mathis officiated. Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford.

Contributions may be made to Delaware Hospice, 20167 Office Circle, Georgetown, DE 19947; or to the Seaford Volunteer Fire Department/Ladies Auxiliary, PO Box 87, Seaford, DE 19973.

Faye Etta Koyanagi, 69 Faye Etta (Baker) Koyanagi of Millsboro, formerly of Laurel, was called by the Lord and entered the gates of heaven, on Friday April 13, 2007 at her son's home in Lewes, surrounded by her family.

Mrs. Koyanagi was Faye Koyanagi born on July 29, 1937 in Clintwood, Va., a daughter of John and Cinda (Sexton) Baker. Faye was a loving mother and grandmother. She was also a seamstress and loved collecting antiques.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Beaulah Singleton of Granville, Ohio, Corina Walters of Bel Air, Md., and Billie Jean Sockriter of Harbeson,; two brothers, Fred Bak-

In Loving Memory Of

er of Greenwood and Joseph Baker of Georgetown.

She is survived by a daughter Jill Smith and husband Donald of Millsboro; three sons Wendell Koyanagi and wife Cathy of Sharptown, Keith Koyanagi of Laurel and Brian Koyanagi and wife Mary of Lewes; six grandchildren, Keith and Haley Koyanagi, Hayden and Krista Smith, Lyndsey Koyanagi, and Jon Morris; and her furry companions Biff, Rue and Bob. She is also survived by two sisters, Rosella O'Day of Georgetown and Mary Price of Havre de Grace, Md.; and a brother Charles "Eddie" Baker of Dagsboro.

A memorial service was held Wednesday, April 18, at the Millsboro Wesleyan Church, Millsboro. Interment was private.

The family suggests memorial contributions in Faye's name to the Humane Society of Wicomico County, 5130 Citation Drive, Salisbury, MD 21801. Arrangements were by Melson Funeral Services.

John W. Sullivan, 86 John W. "Bill" Sullivan passed away on Friday, April 13, 2007 at his home in Laurel surrounded by his family.

He was born Dec. 21, 1920 in Delmar, Md., a son of John and Cora Ellen Figgs Sullivan.

Mr. Sullivan's military service began in 1943. He proudly served his country in World War II in Company C 193 Glider Infantry of the 17th Airborne. Being one of three survivors from Company C, he was transferred to Company L. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge and Operation Varsity, the one and only air invasion of Germany. He received the Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal and the Purple Heart to name a few.

"Jr" or " Whistling Bill" as he was known began his career in 1941 with the

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He worked for Penn Central, Con Rail and ended his 42 years of service for the railroad with Amtrak in 1982. After retirement he kept active and productive with opening a business at the Laurel Flea Market with his wife and family. The business was quite successful and he became known as "the guy with the good stuff."

In addition to his parents, he was preBill Sullivan ceded in death by a son, Chuck Sullivan; a sister, Nelly Kubish; and two brothers, William Cannon and Marion Cannon.

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Catherine Sullivan; a daughter, Jean Melvin and her husband John; five sons, John J. Sullivan and his wife Meri Jane, William P. Sullivan and his wife Ruth, Christopher Sullivan and his wife Penny, Thomas Sullivan and Mike Sullivan; 13 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Lois Morris and Amy McLaughlin of Philadelphia, Pa. He is also survived by several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 11:00 am at Short Funeral Home, Delmar, where family and friends called one hour prior to the service.

Interment followed the services at St. Stephens Cemetery in Delmar.

Memorial Contributions may be made in his memory to Delaware Hospice , 20167 Office Circle, Georgetown, DE 19947.

More obituaries on page 48

The Answer is in the Bible Question: In what period of Bible History are we now living?

Barry W. Cooper 1-24-49 ~ 4-20-05

Letting Go The angels gathered near your bed So very close to you For they knew the pain and suffering That you were going through

I struggled with my selfish thoughts For I wanted you to stay So we could walk and talk again Like we did - just yesterday

I thought about so many things But Jesus knew the answer As I held tightly to your hand And I knew He loved you so Oh, how I wished that you were strong So I gave to you life’s greatest gift And happy once again The gift of letting go Now my heart will carry But your eyes were looking homeward memories To that place beyond the sky Where Jesus held His outstretched Of the love you gave to me arms Until we meet again in Heaven It was time to say “goodbye” Where the best is yet to be Judith Bulock Morse

Greatly Missed by His Family & Friends

In the previous two articles, we discussed the first two periods of Bible history. The first of those is called the Patriarchal Age and lasted from the Creation of the world until the giving of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai. The second period of Bible history is called the Mosaic Age and lasted from the giving of God’s Law to Moses and the Israelites until the death and resurrection of Jesus. In each of these periods of Bible history, God communicated with man in a different way, first by speaking to the fathers of the families (patriarchs), then by speaking to His people (the Israelites) through the Law of Moses as well as various prophets He had appointed for that task. In each case, God revealed a little more of Himself.

Since the resurrection of Christ, God speaks to us through His Son, Jesus Christ. This means that we are now living in what is known as the Christian Age. In the book of Hebrews, chapter one, verses one and two, the Bible says, “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.”

This age is not only characterized by the authority of the words of Jesus (see John 12:48), but also by the reconciliation to God made available to mankind by the offering of Himself (in the person of Jesus) as a sacrifice for our sins. Man’s greatest need is to remove the wall of separation that exists between him and God, a wall created by man’s disobedience to God’s will. This wall is something man cannot bring down by himself, but God did by the once for all sacrifice accomplished by Jesus on the cross. The Bible speaking of this sacrifice says in Hebrews 9:12, “and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.”

The Christian Age is also characterized by the unique status of those who have allowed themselves to be cleansed of the guilt of their sins by applying the shed blood of Jesus to themselves. These individuals, who have accepted Christ’s offer of eternal life by virtue of their response to Him, a response consisting of turning away from their sinful practices, confessing the Lordship of Christ, and by being baptized into Christ for the forgiveness of their sins, constitute His church. Those who populate His church are known as Christians and they are adopted children of God. This adoption is made possible because God loved us enough to allow Himself to come to this earth in human flesh (see John 1:14), subjecting Himself to the humiliation of death on a cross (see Philippians 2:8). Not only do we have the opportunity for being reconciled to God now, but we can know so much more of what God is really like as a result of His having become a man in the person of Jesus Christ (John 1:18).

Yes, we are now privileged to live in the last period of Bible history, the Christian Age, which will last until Jesus returns to bring those who are His to live with Him eternally in heaven (I Thessalonians 4:16-17). Are YOU ready for His return, which will end this age and usher in eternity?

If you have any Bible questions you would like answered in this column, please call the Seaford Church of Christ at (302) 629-6206, or e-mail them to melakian1@dmv.com

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Community Bulletin Board Events Flower fair The Galestown Millpond Asscoiation will hold its first annual “Flower Fair” this Saturday, April 21, at the Galestown Community Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The “Flower Fair” will also be held Sunday, April 22, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The event is a fundraiser to help with restoration of the Galestown Millpond.

Ham/Turkey shoot The Ellendale Ruritat Club will hold a Ham/Turkey shoot on April 28 (rain date, May 5,) at 11:30 a.m. The event will be held at the Ellendale V.F.W. This is the last shoot of the season. Refreshments will be available. For more information, call 302422-2948

Vintage Car & Tractor Show On Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., an annual Vintage Car & Tractor Show and Plant Sale will be held on the grounds of Concord United Methodist Church near Seaford. The show will feature The Historic Vintage Car Club of Delaware and The First State Antique Tractor Club.

Anyone interested in showing an antique car or tractor is welcomed. There is no charge to exhibit a vehicle, and admission is free to the public. Breakfast and lunch items, homemade pies and cakes, and beverages will be for sale by the United Methodist Women. The show is located aproximately two miles east of Seaford, at 25322 Church Road. From Concord Road (Rt. 20 East) turn onto Church Road (Rt. 20A) in Concord. For more information, call 629-7706.

Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8276 with support from Eastern Shore Corvette Club and Late Great Chevrolet Club will be holding a Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show on May 19 from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. at their location near the Old Mill Crab House in Delmar, Md. Rain date is May 20. For information call 302-629-5183, or 410-896-3722. The show is to benefit Disabled American Veterans of Delaware, Chapter 9.

Relay for Life The American Cancer Society invites all residents of Seaford and Western Sussex communities to get involved in the fight against cancer. The Society needs volunteers for its signature event, Relay for Life, which will be held on Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19, at the Nanticoke Health Services Mears Campus in Seaford.

Volunteers are asked to form teams for the Relay for Life. A unique communitybased, overnight event. Relay for Life honors cancer survivors and remembers those who have lost their battle against the disease. Each Relay team consists of 10-15 participants. Relay teams set up a campsite and take turns walking or running. While the Relay is going on, a community party atmosphere is created by team members camping out, enjoying entertainment, food, games, and camaraderie.

All proceeds from Relay for Life benefit the American Cancer Society's programs of research, patient services, pre-

vention, advocacy, and public education. If you are interested in receiving information on how to register a team, or for further information, contact Mary Catherine Hopkins, chair, at 302-875-7308.

Kids' Fest Invites Exhibitors/Vendors Community organizations, particularly those serving youth and their families, are invited to participate in the 10th Annual Kids’ Fest to be held on Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., at the Delaware State Fairgrounds in Harrington. The event provides fun and games, education and entertainment while supporting youth activities in Southern Delaware.

It features a Healthy Kids Expo, a Teen Idol Youth Talent Contest, free entertainment, a variety of horse and pony events and hands-on activities, an Inflatable Fair and carnival games. Activities are planned to attract teens as well as the younger crowd.

Throughout the day, Nemours Health and Prevention Services will spotlight its "5-2-1 Almost None" message aimed at promoting good nutrition and physical activity among youth. Combined with all the fun on tap, this makes Kids' Fest a great opportunity for community organizations to participate and to highlight their activities and services. Participation is free to non-profit organizations.

Kids' Fest coordinators ask only that each organization provide a hands-on activity for young people as a part of the event. Kids’ Fest is a family friendly and affordable event. Admission is $1 per person; parking is free. Ride and game tickets may be purchased at 25 for $5; some activities are individually priced, and many, including all entertainment, are free. A variety of food will be for sale throughout the day.

For more information, call 302-3985194 or 302-242-0375 or visit the website: www.kidsfestde.org.

Geranium pick up Geraniums ordered to benefit the American Association of University Women (AAUW) scholarship program may be picked up and paid for at the West Seaford Elementary School parking lot on Saturday, April 28, between 8 and 11 a.m. Any orders not picked up by 11 a.m. will be sold to the public.

Alzheimers Association new office Alzheimers Association held an open house on April 16 at its new office, 109 North Bedford St., Georgetown, with the chamber having a ribbon cutting.

Vera Bradley Beach Raffle Vera Bradley Beach Raffle, sponsored

by Laurel Lioness, a Capri blue beach tote, beach hat and beach sandals. Tickets are $1 each, or 6 tickets for $5. Winner will be announced on June 7. For tickets contact Dianne at 875-5126, or Karen at 8752662, or any Lioness.

Car Show and Flea Market April 28 Woodbridge High School Music Boosters presents its second Annual Car Show and Flea Market on Saturday, April 28 (rain date April 29) from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The event will be held behind Woodbridge High School.

Flea Market Spaces are $10. Bring your own table. White elephant and Chinese auction to benefit the music boosters.

Car Show Entry, $10. Dash plaques to the first 50 entrants. Car show registration at 9 a.m. to noon, judging at 12:30 p.m.

Trophies to be awarded in four catagories: Best Car Pre-1970; Best Car 1971-1990; Best Car Post 1991; Best Truck or 4x4.

Concession stand available. To reserve your space call 628-3414 or 381-6581.

Woodbridge School district, its employees and/or organizations affiliated with the WSD will not be held liable if any injury, loss or damages occur to the participants, spectators or volunteers of this event.

Yard Sale Yacht Club-April 28 Nanticoke River Yacht Club at Sturgis Marine, Rt. 13 North, will hold a yard sale, rain or shine, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m on Saturday, April 28. Tables are $10. Call Carl for more information 875-7143.

Yard Sale April 28- tables A yard sale will be held on Saturday, April 28, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., sponsored by the Business Professionals of America at Delmar Junior/Senior High-School. The sale will be held in the Delmar High School northern parking lot.

Anyone, who may wish to, can rent a spot of land for $20 and/or a table for $10, which will allow them to display their wares during the entire yard sale. The money received will go toward the BPA of Delmar High and their trip to the National Leadership Conference in New York, N.Y. in May. If anyone has any questions or concerns, they may call Johnathon Layton at

302-249-1958 or e-mail him at jlayton@delmar.k12.de.us.

Learn Natural Horsemanship Area horsemen are invited to spend a day with Carroll Williams and his unique approach to natural horsemanship on Sunday, April 29 at Chick's, U S. 13 across from the fairgrounds, Harrington.

Williams, of Mardela Springs, Md., offers clinics, trail rides, individual instruction and demonstrates his unique approach that focuses on opening the lines of communication with the horse. He has appeared for the past three years at the annual Delaware Horse Expo.

Horse owners who would like to take part in one of the three demonstrations are encouraged to submit an application soon.

The cost is $100, and an updated Coggins is required; three horses will be chosen. If an application is submitted and the horse is not chosen for the April 29 event, the fee will be refunded, or another date will be made available.

The day will also be open to those who would just like to watch. The total cost of auditing all three demonstrations planned for 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. is $20. As a special treat during the lunch break, Jowana Lamb will perform with her paint horses. Those who attend are asked to bring a lunch. There will be door prizes.

For more information about auditing the event or details about having a horse considered for one of the demonstrations, call Jowana Lamb at 302-284-9898 or Carroll Williams at 443-235-7052

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DELMAR VFW POST 8276 DELMAR, MARYLAND

Saturday April 21, 2007

EACH GAME THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE VERA BRADLEY ITEM WITH ACCESSORIES ADMISSION $20.00 in advance $25.00 at the door Prize includes 20 games

Doors open - 5:00 p.m.

Regular Bingo - 6:30 p.m.

ProceedsDelmar H.S. Field Hockey

Jackpot game - $1.00 each Specials - $1.00 each Come early to play King Tutt (pull Tabs) for Vera Bradley Items

O ver $3,000 in Vera Bradley items to be given away!

New Hope Spectator w/Travel Clock Capri Blue Lola w/Checkbook Cover Bermuda Blue Betsy w/Zip Around Wallet Peacock Hobo w/Zip Around Wallet Bermuda Pink Bowler w/wrist watch Many, Many More!

To reserve tickets call Ronnie 410-726-7450 or Nancy 443-235-4463 This bingo is a fundraise for the Delmar High Field Hockey and is no way affiliated with the Vera Bradley Company.

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MORNING STAR ✳ APRIL 19 - 25, 2007

Basket Bingo Auxiliary Basket Bingo The Delmar Fire Dept.

Ladies Auxiliary will present a Longaberger Basket bingo on Thursday, April 19 at the Delmar Fire Hall. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and games begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Raffles: Dogwood Nested Plant Stand Set and Crock Basket Bundle, small, medium, large, and extra large. Refreshments will be provided. For tickets call Heather at 846-3314 or Crista at 410896-3773.

Basket Bingo April 24 On Tuesday, April 24, District III Little League will be hosting a basket bingo at the Georgetown Fire Hall located on North Bedford Street, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m., refreshments will be provided and concession stand type food will be available. More than 25 chances to win, including the spring organizer, the Laundry, and the American Craft basket. All proceeds will help to cover expenses of District, State, and World Series level play, baseball and softball. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Call Tara at 536-1262 for tickets or more information.

Beta Sigma Phi Laureate Epsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will be sponsoring a Basket Bingo on Thursday, April 26, at the Seaford Moose Lodge. Doors open at 6 p.m. - games start at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Refreshments will be available.

For tickets call Debbie at 629-8633.

The proceeds from this event will go to the "Western Sussex Relay for Life."

FOP, Lodge #9, Basket Bingo The Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #9 will hold a Longaberger Basket Bingo on Thursday, May 10, starting at 7pm at the Seaford Moose Lodge, located on Rout 13A in Seaford. The evening will consist of 20 exciting games and will feature several basket combinations including Medium OvalGathering, Mother's Day sets, Sunflower Serving Platter as prizes. Advance tickets are $20 per person, $25 at the door. Advance ticket includes a chance to win the Large Hamper with Lid or one of the several door prizes. Nearly 30 chances to win!. Refreshments will be available.

For ticket information contact the FOP at 302-629-8087.

Administrative Professionals The member services committee of the Greater Seaford Chamber of Commerce brings you the annual Administrative Professionals' Appreciation Luncheon, Wednesday, April 25, at noon, at the Seaford Golf and Country Club; $20 each including gratuity.

There will be gift bags, buffet lunch and door prizes. Guest speaker will be Jeff Banning, president and CEO, Trinity Transport, Inc. By reservation only, RSVP no later than April 19.

Miss and Little Miss Laurel Pageant The Exchange Club of Laurel will be sponsoring the 58th Miss Laurel and the 53rd Little Miss Laurel Pageant Saturday April 28 in the auditorium of the Laurel Sr. High School at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 adults and $4 students and senior citizens, and children 5 and under free. 50/50 available supporting today's youth.

Program Planning Sessions April 19 The Nanticoke Senior Center invites you to be part of the team. Join us on Thursday, April 19, at 5:30 p.m. at the City Recreation Building (Community Pool) on Virginia Avenue, Seaford, next to the Boys' & Girls' Club. If you can't make this planning session, call Sue or Pat at the Senior Center - 629-4939 with your ideas, so that we can include them in our planning sessions.

Huge yard sale May 5 Come join us on Saturday, May 5, from 7 a.m.-noon at the Rt. 13 office of Callaway, Farnell and Moore, Inc. for a yard sale. Proceeds for the Callaway, Farnell and Moore Scholarship Fund.

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up for grabs. This is your chance for huge winnings and lots of fun. Purchase tickets now at the Civic Center box office or online at www.wicomicociviccenter.org.

To charge by phone, call 410-548-4911.

Doors open at 5 p.m. for early bird games and regular games starting at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $45 in advance and $55 the day of the event.

All proceeds benefit the Mardela Junior/Senior High School Band. And don't forget... participants can lend a helping hand to the Maryland Food Bank by bringing three non-perishable food items to the games. In return for all this generosity, they will receive three free cards for the first early bird game, which has a payout of $500.

For more information call the Civic Center Box Office at 410-548-4911 or contact the Mardela Band-Aides at (410) 677-5170.

4th Annual Bike Rally The friends group of Trap Pond State Park announce the 4th Annual "Get In Gear" Family Bike Rally, on Saturday, May 5. The five-mile course meanders through the woods, around the water and wetlands to enable riders and hikers alike to enjoy the wild and plant life around the famous Bald Cypress trees at Trap Pond State Park. Registration is 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the open pavilion in the main picnic area of the park. Every rider will receive a tee shirt and a chance to win door prizes. All proceeds are used to enhance and improve your Trap Pond State Park experience. For more information on the Bike Rally visit our website at http://www.trappondpartners.com or call Betty Grossmann at 875-5088.

Stay and Play Children from birth to age 4, as well as their parents, are invited to play together, listen to stories, learn new songs and finger plays and network with other families.

Free. Now through May. Closed on school holidays. No registration required.

Call Anna Scovel at 856-5239 for more information. Seaford Parks & Recreation (SDPR), 320 Virginia Ave., Seaford, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Pork in the Park schedule With spring officially here, the Wicomico Tourism Department is revving up for the fourth annual Pork in the Park Festival which will be combined this year with a beer festival.

Slated for April 20-22 at Winterplace Park in Salisbury, the event will feature live entertainment, tasty barbeque, cold beverages, crafts, vendors and kiddy rides.

During the event, the Red Knights of Ocean City will have bikes on display.

Admission is just $2 daily for adults and kids under 12 are free.

The festival schedule is as follows: Friday, April 20 4 p.m.- Festival opens 4- 6 p.m. - “Brother Low Down” performs 6-8 p.m. - “Crossroads” performs 8-10 p.m. - “Crawdaddies” performs 10 p.m. - Festival closes Saturday, April 21 10 a.m. - Festival opens 5:30-7:30 p.m. - “Couch Potatoes” performs 8-10 p.m. - “Melanie Mason Band” performs 10 p.m. - Festival closes

Read Aloud Training April 24 Read Aloud Delaware volunteer training session will be held Tuesday, April 24, at 1 p.m. in the Seaford Public Library, 402 North Porter St. Call 856-2527 to sign up for training or for further information.

Volunteer readers are needed at various reading sites in Sussex County.

Laurel History Books Still Available A few copies of the 19th Century History of Laurel, published by the Laurel Historical Society may still be purchased at either the Laurel Town Office, Laurel Public Library, or O’Neal’s Antiques. The price remains at $45.00 each. For further information or to arrange to have a book mailed please call 875-4217. There is a $5 mailing fee.

AARP Safe driver program May 9-10 The Laurel Senior Center is sponsoring the AARP Driver Safety Program two-day Beginners Course. The Course will be offered on Wednesday, May 9 and Thursday, May 10, starting at 9 a.m. The cost is $10.

Call early to reserve your space. For reservations call 875-2536.

Trap Pond volunteers sought Trap Pond offers free camping in exchange for Volunteer Services (Required for free camping, 24 hours per week of volunteering). Host programs available in the campground, Nature Center, maintenance and administrative. Check out our other awards for short term volunteering.

(For more information contact: Glen.Stubbolo@state.de.us, Community and Volunteer Services 302-739-1960.

Bingomania returns Bingomania will return to the Wicomico Civic Center for the 44th time on Saturday, May 12, with $25,000 in prize money

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Buying 101 and Knowing and Repairing Your Credit.

If anyone is interested in participating, or if you would like more information or marketing materials for your employees or the general public, call 337-7990.

Find details and volunteer information, visit www.PorkInThePark.org. For more information, call 410-548-4914.

Picturing the past in Greenwood

Baseball Equipment Needed Any baseball equipment, used or unused, is needed for an Eagle Scout Project.

Equipment will be collected, refurbished, and sent to the Dominican Republic. Contact Kirby Mills via email at terps19947@yahoo.com or by phone 1302-690-2749 if you can be of any assistance.

Volunteers Needed The Disabled American Veterans Organization (DAV) needs volunteer drivers to take local veterans to the VA hospital in Elsmere, in a DAV van. Van expenses are paid.

One day per week needed or other times as a substitute. Valid drivers license and physical exam by VA required. Food allowance at the VA hospital cafeteria is provided. Time required is about 8 hours per trip. Van is at the VFW club on Middleford Rd., Seaford. Phone Chet Swift at 629-5143 or Jerry Chapman at 629-8108.

Instant Piano for Busy People A beginning class in chord piano, where, in one session, students will learn all the chords needed to play any pop song, any style, any key, reading chord symbols, not notes. They'll also learn how to embellish songs using the secrets and magical shortcuts of professional piano players.

Pre-requisites: If students don't know treble clef, they can send a SASE for free pamphlet to Music Masters, 90 Molly Lane, Ringed, GA 30736. Then they can enroll with confidence. To register call 854-6966. This is information about the unique piano workshop that teaches people how to play piano by looking at the guitar chords instead of reading the notes.

Golden Dragons acrobats Tickets are still on sale to see the fabulous Golden Dragons acrobatic troupe on Sunday, April 29, at Delaware Technical & Community College in Georgetown.

Sales are brisk for the 10 a.m. show, but choice seats still remain to see the world's leading Chinese acrobatic troupe in the theatre of the Arts & Science Center.

Tickets prices for the performance are $22 per adult, $18 per student with ID (must be presented at time of ticket purchase), and $10 for children 12 and younger.

The theatre will open one hour prior to each performance - it is open seating. Proceeds from the performance will benefit Owens Campus Student Enrichment Initiatives. Tickets are available for purchase Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; call 302-855-1617 to purchase by credit card or in person at Delaware Tech, Suite 109, Jason Technology Center.

Housing Symposium The Woodbridge School District will be hosting a Housing Symposium on May 5, from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. The event includes a key note presentation from the Delaware State Housing Authority followed by multiple break-out sessions in classrooms and displays in the auditorium.

The break-out sessions will focus on variety of housing topics including Home

The Greenwood Public Library invites all those who are interested in local history to a special celebration of Greenwood's past. Visit the library during National Library Week, April 14-21, to view historic pictures, many of which are on loan from the Delaware Archives and town residents.

While there, why not join the Friends of the Greenwood Library and receive coupons worth up to $10 and a raffle ticket for a gas barbecue.

Drawing will take place on Thursday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. And, after the drawing, be sure to stay around in order to share your memories and pictures of growing up in this wonderful town. Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, call the Greenwood Library at 349-539. The Greenwood Library is located next door to the Greenwood Post Office on the corner of Market and Mill streets.

Concerned Citizens spring yard sale The Concerned Citizens of Delmar will be sponsoring a spring yard sale on Saturday, April 21 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the State Street park.

The rain date for the event is Saturday, May 5. Contact Melane Boltz (846-3079) or Sharon Levadnuk (846-9574) for vendor information.

Civil War and Beyond The Southern Delaware Choral Society, under the direction of John Ranney, has received two grants from the Sussex County Council which will enable the society to provide a limited number of complimentary tickets to local veterans for its spring concerts.

Entitled, The Civil War and Beyond: a musical tribute to those who have served at home and abroad, the concerts will be performed at Woodbridge High School in Bridgeville on Saturday, April 28, 7:30 p.m., and the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center on Sunday, April 29, 3 p.m.

Tickets for the general public are $15 for adults and $10 for students and are available by calling 645-2013. Veterans may obtain their complimentary tickets by contacting Jack Emery at 934-6569.

Meetings Seaford Republican Women's Club On April 26, at 10:30 a.m., the Seaford Republican Women's Club will hold its monthly meeting at the Seaford Golf and Country Club. The Guest Speaker will be U.S. Senate Candidate, Christine O'Donnell. She was a write-in candidate in our last election.

In only five-weeks time with limited resources, close to 12,000 wrote her in, making Delaware history. Ms. O'Donnell resides in Wilmington and is a PR expert who has appeared regularly on all major networks and recently on the FOX news.

We will also be privileged with a visit from the president of the Delaware Federation of Republican Women, Betty Hammond.

She has been vocal about the stem cell research bills in both the Delaware House of Representatives and the Senate. All are invited to attend and we welcome new members at this meeting.

Democrat Club meets April 30 The Western Sussex Democrat Club will hold its regular meeting Monday, April 30 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will include a dish to pass dinner with a $5 contribution and the speaker for the evening will be Laurel resident, Jim Jestice. The club meets at Dukes Pool House on Sycamore Road about 3 miles east of Rt. 13 in Laurel. Members are asked to bring a friend and newcomers are always welcome. For more information persons may call Betsy Davis at 875-7091.

Sussex County Republican Women The next meeting of the Sussex County Republican Women's Club will be held at the Sussex Pines Country Club on Wednesday, April 25, at 10:45 a.m. This month's speaker will be Rep. Dan Short who replaced Rep. Tina Fallon from the 39th district. Lunch will be served at a cost of $15. For reservations contact Nancy Gunn at 302-537-4355.

Don't forget the club's Annual Banquet on Friday, May 5. Tickets are still available at $45 a person. A very eventful evening is planned. For more information on the banquet call Elaine Lupinetti at 302-945-1816, or Gale White at 302-6440777.

The banquet replaces the monthly meeting for May. For more information on the meeting or the banquet see the club web site at: www.SCRWC.net

Walking group The Seaford Department of Parks and Recreation will hold a walking group with the eight week sessions beginning April 9 and running through May 31. The sessions will take place on Monday and Thursday nights at 7 p.m. Register in the West

Seaford Elementary parking lot at the time of the walk. The walk will be the course around the Seaford Country Club. The person/family submitting the most distance walked at the end of the session will be awarded a free summer membership to the Seaford Community Pool. Call 629-6809 for more information.

Sons of Confederate Veterans The Maj. Gen. Arnold Elzey Camp #1940, Sons of Confederate Veterans meets the first Wednesday of each month in the lower level of the Salisbury Library at 7 p.m.

Republican Women's Club Banquet Sussex County Republican Women's Club Annual Banquet set for Friday, May 4, to feature silent and live auctions with auctioneer Dave Wilson, gala party.

The program booklet will list sponsors and patrons, and will include ads from local businesses. To purchase advertisement space, contact Bunny Parish at 945-4646.

To be a sponsor or patron or for ticket information, contact Co-Chairs Elaine Lupinetti at 945-1816 (elupinetti@hotmail.com) or Gale White at 644-0777 (galegwhite@erols.com).

AARP Chapter #5340 Board Meeting AARP Chapter #5340 will hold a Board Meeting 10 a.m. April 30, at the Nanticoke Tribe Lodge #21, Rt. 113, 1/2 mile South of 1st State Chevrolet, Georgetown. All members are encouraged to attend. For details call Cathey Betts, president 856-3441.

Cancer Support Group The Wellness Community-Delaware is offering a support group for people affected by cancer and their loved ones at the

Laurel : 6 a.m.- noon Mon. - Sat. Seaford : 7 a.m.- 7 p.m.

Mon.-Sat.

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Look for our kiosk in front of Tyndall’s Casual Furniture Mocha Mudd A caffe latte blended with thick chocolate topped with fresh whipped cream and dusted with chocolate sprinkles.

Look for our kiosk across from Bank of Delmarva Frozen Granita Premium cold slush made with real fruit or a cappuccino slush.

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MORNING STAR ✳ APRIL 19 - 25, 2007 Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford.

The group meets at the Cancer Care Center on the third Thursday of the month from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

To register for this program or for more information call Kaye or Lori at 645-9150.

All programs at The Wellness Community are free of charge for people affected by cancer and their loved ones.

Pa. The bus will leave Georgetown Square, East Market Street, near the Dollar General Store, Tuesday, June 19, at 8 a.m. and return approximately 8:30 p.m.

The cost for each person is $90, which includes dinner at Hershey Farm Restaurant. Registration and payment is due May 1. Call Hilda Parker at 856-2760. Everyone welcomed.

Georgetown Lions Club Meetings

Mary Poppins on Broadway

The Georgetown Lions Club meets at Bonanza Family Restaurant, Mid Sussex Shopping Center Millsboro, on the second Tuesday of the month from September to May. Dinner meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Visiting Lions and potential members are welcomed but are asked to call (302) 8562972 Sam Wilson, or Rev. Charles Covington’s phone (302) 855-1160 ahead of time.

Trap Pond Partners Trap Pond Partners’ monthly meeting will be held at the park's Nature Center, the second Wednesday of each month.

Anyone interested in Trap Pond State Park is invited to attend. For information, call 875-5153

Marine Corps League The Marine Corps League meets the first Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Log Cabin in Seaford.

Toastmasters Toastmasters of Southern Delaware meets every second and fourth Thursday of the month in Bay Shore Community Church at 6 p.m. Develop your public speaking skills in a supportive environment. Contact Joy Slabaugh at 846-9201, or joy@estfinancial.com.

Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 12-04 meets the second Thursday of each month at Nanticoke Yacht Club in Blades. Call Wayne Hickman at 629-6337 for details.

Embroiders’ Guild meeting The Sussex Chapter of Embroiders’ Guild meets on the second Monday of the month, September through June at 10 a.m. at the CHEER Center in Georgetown. All levels of stitchers from beginner to advanced are welcome. Call 410-208-9386.

Trips Adult Plus+ trips Active seniors can broaden their horizons with a variety of upcoming trips and activities sponsored by the Adult Plus+ program at Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus, Georgetown.

Experience fun, laughs and good times during a visit to Baltimore to see "Sweet Charity," starring Molly Ringwold.

On April 26, take a cruise down the Potomac River or spend the day exploring the historic streets of Old Town Alexandria, Va. On April 28, tour Eyre Hall, Pleasant Prospect Farms and Brownsville during an excursion to historic Virginia for the state's annual Historic Garden Week or see "Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in Wilmington on April 21.

For more information on these and other Adult Plus+ offerings, or to register, call 302-856-5618.

Trip to Sight and Sound Theater AARP Chapter #5340 of Georgetown is offering a trip to see "In The Beginning" at the Sight and Sound Theater, Lancaster,

The Adult Plus+ program at Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus, is currently taking reservations for a summertime trip to see the new Broadway musical "Mary Poppins."

The newest production from Oscarwinning director Richard Eyre tells the tale of the world's most famous nanny and is currently playing at New York's New Amsterdam Theatre.Featuring a dream team of vision and stagecraft, the production brings to life the story of the family, their magical nanny, and awardwinning songs.

Great orchestra seats are still available for the Wednesday, July 18 performance.For more information or to register, call the Adult Plus+ program office at 302-856-5618.

Amvets bike show Amvets Post 1694 and Post 2 will hold a bike show on April 28. Registration begins at 10 a.m. with the judging happening at 3 p.m.

The event will be at Amvets Post 2 located on Longneck road. Free hats are available to the first 50 entries. There will be 12 categories with first and second place trophies awarded. Rain date is April 29 and the registration fee is $12. For more information, call 629-5624 or 8751338.

Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Pigeon Forge, Tenn. trip, June 18-22, $589 per person, which includes roundtrip Motor Coach, four nights hotel accommodations, four breakfasts, four dinners and six shows. These include: Grand Illusion, Country Tonite Theatre, Comedy Barn Theatre, Blackwood Breakfast Variety Show, The Miracle Theatre, Black Bear Jamboree Dinner and Show, Dolly Parton's Dollywood, visiting Gatlinburg, Tenn., taxes, tips, and baggage handling. For more information call 875-2536.

Food Boy Scout Barbecue The Boy Scouts, troop 182, will hold a barbecue on Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will be held in the field next to Dover Electric on Stein Highway.

Annual Alumni Banquet The Seaford Alumni Association presents the Annual Alumni Banquet, Saturday, May 12, at Seaford Fire Hall, Conwell and King streets. A buffet dinner will be provided by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Seaford Volunteer Fire Department. There will be an Alumni Scholarship Awards Ceremony. An elevator with attendant will be provided all evening. Alumni and guests tickets are $20 each. Call Delores 629-8177. This year we invite you to join us in a tribute to the Fabulous Fifties, featuring the talents of Seaford Alumni and Associate Members.

Pasta dinner at Our Lady of Lourdes Pasta dinner - April 21 from 5 until 7:30 p.m. Choice of pasta and choice of meat. Join the Knights of Columbus for a great meal. Cost is $7 for adults and $4 for children. Held at the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Hall, next to the Seaford Middle School. Look for our sign on Stein Highway

Sunday Breakfast Buffet April 22 Sunday breakfast buffet, All-You-CareTo-Eat, served by the Galestown Ruritan Club on the fourth Sunday of each month, October through June, 7-10 a.m., at the Galestown, Md., Community Hall. Cost is $6 for adults, $4 children ages 6-12. This month it will be April 22.

Nanticoke Sr. Center Bake Sale The Nanticoke Senior Center is having a bake sale on Thursday, April 26, from 8 a.m. to noon. Donations and baked goods are being accepted at the Center. Call 6294939 for further information.

Breakfast Cafe VFW 4961 Breakfast Cafe, open Monday-Friday, 8-10 a.m., Seaford VFW, Middleford Road, to benefit Veterans Relief Fund. All are welcome.

Fried Chicken Buffet April 21 A fried chicken buffet will be held Saturday, April 21, at Bethany Church, Lowes Crossroads near Millsboro. Adults and carry-outs, $10; children, $5; serving 2 - 6 p.m. A bake table will be available.

Barbecue at Centenary UMC April 28 The Gospel Café will be holding its first annual barbecue at Centenary United Methodist Church in Laurel on Saturday,

PAGE 29 April 28, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is to be held at the old tennis courts beside the church parking lot on Market and Poplar streets. Plenty of music from "The Lights of Home," Ray and Trevor Marine and the Bruce Willey Gospel Café Band. Dinners are a $5 donation so bring your lawn chairs and enjoy an evening of gospel music and fun for all.

Steak Dinner April 21 A steak dinner will be held April 21, at Laurel Legion Post 19. Dinner, at 5 p.m., includes steak, baked potato and salad. Entertainment at 7 p.m. by Cathy Gorman.

Tickets at bar are $10 for the evening.

Benefits Delaware Children's Hospital. For more information call 875-9948.

Gov. Ruth Ann Minner Dinner The Sussex County Women's Democrat Club is honoring Gov. Ruth Ann Minner on Saturday, April 21. A chicken and dumpling dinner will be held at the Bridgeville Fire Hall at 6 p.m. The cost is $20 per person. There will be door prizes and an auction. Call Janet at 8546546 for tickets now, because seating capacity is limited to 250.

How to submit items Submit Bulletin Board items by Thursday at noon. Send to Morning Star Publications, PO Box 1000, Seaford, DE 19973, email editor@mspublications.com or drop off at 628 West Stein Highway, Seaford. Items appear in both the Seaford and Laurel Stars.

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MORNING STAR ✳ APRIL 19 - 25, 2007

Arts & Entertainment Tickets still on sale for Golden Dragons Tickets are still on sale to see the fabulous Golden Dragons acrobatic troupe on Sunday, April 29, at Delaware Technical & Community College in Georgetown.

Sales are brisk for the 10 a.m. show, but choice seats still remain to see the world's leading Chinese acrobatic troupe in the theatre of the Arts & Science Center.

The morning performance was added because the troupe's original show, scheduled for 2 p.m., quickly sold out.

The Dragons are in their 28th year of continuous touring in this country. Hailing from Cangzhou, Heibei province, the troupe represents the best of a time-honored tradition that began more than 27 centuries ago - no other folk art form has endured for so long. The Golden Dragons will also be the featured performer at "Starry, Starry Night," the college's annual spring gala, the previous evening.

Trained since their youth in this rigorous art for which they display an unmistakable love, the Golden Dragons has reached international acclaim and earned numerous awards. Rave reviews, glowing accolades, and sold-out audiences accompanied the troupe as it performed in all 50 states and more than 65 countries on five continents. Among the Golden Dragons prestigious performance venues are the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,

Caesar's Palace in Atlantic City, Germany's Elspe Festival, and the Seattle Children's Festival.

With a combination of award-wining acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, and ancient and contemporary theatrical techniques, the Golden Dragon Acrobats are consummate professionals.

The troupe fills its shows with "breathtaking skill and spell-binding beauty"; the performers' talent and athleticism have been compared to that possessed by Olympic champions. Bending like rubber, juggling the unbelievable, defying physical limitations - the artistry of the Golden Dragon Acrobats, accompanied by powerful music and explosive choreography, transcends culture, mesmerizes audiences, and brings joy to people of all ages.

Tickets prices for the performance are $22/adult, $18/student with ID (must be presented at time of ticket purchase), and $10 for children 12 and younger. The theatre will open one hour prior to each performance - it is open seating. Proceeds from the performance will benefit Owens Campus Student Enrichment Initiatives.

Tickets are available for purchase Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; call 855-1617 to purchase by credit card or in person at Delaware Tech, Suite 109, Jason Technology Center.

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Spring concert to honor veterans The 35-piece Chesapeake Silver Cornet Brass Band, under the direction of Ed Hockersmith, will accompany the Southern Delaware Choral Society during its spring concerts to honor veterans - The Civil War and Beyond - a musical tribute to those who have served at home and abroad, at Woodbridge High School in Bridgeville on Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m., and the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center on Sunday, April 29 at 3 p.m.

Also appearing on the guest roster will be guitarist/composer Jeffrey Van of Minnesota, composer/arranger Rosemary Galloway of Toronto, arranger Roo Brown of Lewes and bagpiper Henry DeWitt of Rehoboth.

“This concert will focus on choral and brass music evocative of the Civil War era and beyond and we are grateful to have such an incredible selection of guest talent,” said SDCS Executive Director Elizabeth Hochholzer of the choral society founded in 1985. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Newark, The Chesapeake Silver Cornet Brass Band uses the instrumentation and style of the British/American brass bands. These style bands are a rarity in North America, especially in Delaware where the only such band was stationed at Fort Delaware in 1963, ac-

cording to Hockersmith.

“The unique band instrumentation and the broad appeal of the band’s music, from big band to light classical to marches to seasonal favorites, have been well received by audiences of all ages,” he said.

Hockersmith is a well-known lower brass player, clinician, frequent guest conductor and graduate of the warrant Officer Advance Program U.S. Armed Forces School of Music.

The band has released five professional recordings and its many appearances include formal arts concerts and outdoor summer festivals with audiences ranging from 300 to 20,000.

In addition to performing, the band provides a narrative on the music to add personal interest, humor and educational value to performances.

Tickets for the general public are $15 for adults and $10 for students and are available by calling 645-2013.

There are a limited number of complimentary tickets for veterans who may obtain these tickets by contacting Jack Emery at 934-6569.

In addition to the generous support of the Sussex County Council, the concert is underwritten in part by the Delaware Division of the Arts.

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Handcraft Unlimited’s Spring Craft Show The Handcraft Unlimited's Spring Craft Show is coming to the Schabinger Pavilion at the Delaware State Fairgrounds Saturday, April 28, from 9-5, and Sunday, April 29, from 10-4.

There are crafters specializing in everything from clothing to hand-made jewelry to wrought iron works of art.

There are gift baskets for every occasion and hand-made country quilts. Decorator items such as pottery, birdhouses,

Annual Nanticoke River Shad Fest April 28 in Vienna For some good, old-fashioned family fun, come to the riverfront in Vienna, Md., for the 12th Annual Nanticoke River Shad Festival, Saturday, April 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This event - with historical exhibits, music, good food, vendors, and on-the-river fun - celebrates the annual migratory return of the American shad to the Nanticoke River. Special activities this year include a shad fingerling release, courtesy of NRG Energy, and Environmental Concern's new educational "Wetlands on Wheels" activity!

Shad restoration in Bay tributaries continues to show steady progress. While shad stocks are still far below historic levels, new fish passages combined with stocking and management programs have played key roles in the species' restoration.

Shad Fest will feature music performed by local bluegrass favorite, "Bittercreek," and "The String Dusters;" as well as two performances by last year's children's favorite, "Uncle Pete."

Other activities also include Nanticoke River boat rides aboard the Karen N., a fish toss competition, fish printing, cash raffle, arts and crafts, educational exhibits, children's games, vendors, and a variety of food (including the "famous" planked Shad).

The festival is hosted by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) Heart of the Chesapeake Project, Chicone Ruritans, Nanticoke Watershed Alliance, and the Town of Vienna. All proceeds support local shad restoration efforts.

For more information, visit www.viennamd.org or call (443) 569-3646.

Directions Take Route 50 to the Vienna Exit (Route 331). At the stop sign, turn south on Route 331 toward Vienna. Pass the NRG Energy Vienna Power Plant entrance on the left and go to the first stop sign (Shell Station on the left). This is Old Route 50. Cross Old Route 50 to the second stop sign and follow festival signs for parking information and event location.

candles, and flower arrangements are also featured.

There are crafts that kids will enjoy as well, like stuffed bears, dolls, clothing, and unique hair accessories.

But that's not all, come out and see everything this Craft Show has to offer.

Handcraft Unlimited has 'Mad Money' drawings every half-hour.

Customers over the age of 12 should submit an Entry Form near the Entrance of

the show to be eligible to win $20 in 'Mad Money' that can be used for purchases at any exhibitor booth at the show.

Stop by the Credit Card Booth for more details.

Also at the Delaware State Fairgrounds on April 28 and 29 is the "Delaware Spring Home Show" in the Exhibit Hall & Dover Building.

Handcraft Unlimited's Spring Craft Show will be held rain or shine in the

large enclosed Schabinger Pavilion at the Harrington State Fairgrounds just off of Rt. 13 in Harrington.

There is plenty of free parking. Admission for adults is $4 and children 12 and under are free.

To make shopping easier, credit cards are accepted at every stand.

For more information, coupons, directions, or examples of some of the craft items visit www.handcraft-unlimited.com.

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YARD SALE & CAR WASH - Christ UM Church, 510 S. Central Ave., Laurel, will hold a yard sale & car wash on May 5, 8 am - 1 pm.

Scrapple sandwiches, hot dogs & hamburgers. For more info call 875-4233.

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GARAGE & YARD SALE, Sat., 4/21, Hollywoods Park, 32556 Holly Oak Dr., Laurel, off Rt. 24 West.

Signs will be posted. Little bit of everything. 4/19

WANTED ADJ. BED OR HOSPITAL BED. 875-5549. 4/12 3 or 5 GAL. METAL GAS CAN in good cond. 3377494. 4/12 16’ PROJECT BOAT. 8752450. 3/22

AUTOMOTIVE PAYING MORE THAN $35 / Month for AUTO INSURANCE? 1-877-621-1030 Credit Cards accepted. tnc

2 GENERAL TIRES, 25570-16 size, 20k mi., $60.

628-9245. 4/5 ‘91 HARLEY DAVIDSON Motorcycle, Heritage Ultra Classic. Perfect cond., garage kept, 41K mi., $9500. 875-3115. 3/29 ‘91 CHEV. CAVALIER, $300, needs motor. 5426316. 3/29 ‘91 F150 FORD PU, 150K mi., runs but needs battery, $800 OBO. 349-9061. 3/29

ASSISTANT MANAGER POSITION Dairy Queen Seaford Must have previous manager experience, preferably in ice cream or fast food business. Position requires you to be able to work nights and weekends with some days. Must be in good physical condition because there is lifting involved. Must be willing and able to clean. This is a hands-on position, not an office job.

Please call between 9 a.m. and noon only, Monday - Friday. 628-8071.

Town of Laurel Public Works Maintenance Technician

4 USED TIRES, 275/60 R20 BW Wrangler HP, $50.

Call Ted 875-9480. 3/22 ‘90 DODGE CARAVAN, new engine, good cond., $850. 344-3093. 3/8

CAMPERS/ TRAILERS

Cheap • Cheap • Cheap AUTO INSURANCE? 1-877-621-1030 Credit Cards accepted. tnc

17’ VIKING POP-UP, sleeps 5, stoe, ref., heat, etc. $3500. 875-0714, ask for Anne. 4/5

AUTO STEREO SYSTEM, 3 mos. old, 1 - 1200 watt amp; 2 - 12” kickers; 1 - Pioneer Stereo, $600 OBO. 628-1912. 4/12

‘05 PROWLER, 5th Wheel Fleetwood Camper, 2 slides, extras, like new, must sell, $25,500. 8752754 or 344-3052. 3/8

The Town of Laurel is seeking to hire a Public Works Maintenance Technician, experience is preferred in water, sewer main repair, lawn maintenance, and the ability to do minor maintenance. Must possess the ability to lift at least 60 pounds, work in in-climate weather, have a high school diploma or GED, and have a valid driver’s license. Typical work week is Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, 40 hour work week.

Must be willing to work nights, weekends and holidays when necessary. This position reports directly to the Public Works Superintendent. Salary DOQ, plus town benefit package. Send resume and Town application to: The Town of Laurel, Attn: Public Works Director-PW Maint. Tech., 201 Mechanic Street, Laurel, Delaware 19956. Applications Due by May 2, 2007.

Victory Beverage , distributor of Red Bull Energy Drink, is looking for Route Sales Drivers and Merchandisers to work out of its warehouse in Seaford, DE. Territory covers Dover down to Ocean City, MD. Successful candidates will be selfmotivated, aggressive, and energetic, with a passion to succeed. Beverage experience a plus but not necessary.

All applicants considered for these positions will have an interview, background check, and preemployment drug test. Clean driving record a must.

Fax resume to 215-244-4702 or email: jobs@victorybeverage.com

TOWN OF LAUREL, DELAWARE Code Enforcement Officer - Part-Time The Town of Laurel is seeking to hire a part-time assistant Code Enforcement Officer to enforce town ordinances for building, zoning, and housing inspection.

The Code Enforcement Officer must be comfortable working with the public in the interpretation of town codes and regulations. Must obtain certification within six months of hire to use the Delaware Criminal Justice Information System. Must have knowledge of the building trades, a valid driver’s license, and a flexible schedule.

Applications and resumes are to be submitted to Part Time Code Officer, Att: Paul Frick, 201 Mechanic Street, Laurel, Delaware 19956. Applications will be received until April 27, 2007. Applications can be obtained online at www.townoflaurel.net. Salary DOQ. The Town of Laurel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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The Town of Laurel is seeking to hire a Wastewater Laboratory Technician, with a minimum of three years of laboratory experience. This ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of laboratory procedures and practices. This individual will also have skills in the operation of laboratory equipment and maintenance of the equipment. Strong computer, math, and organization skills a must. This position will be responsible for all NPDES laboratory testing, as well as daily operational testing. This position requires a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent and college is preferred but not required. Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Typical work week is Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, and is a 40 hour work week. Must be willing to work nights, weekends, and holidays when necessary.

This position reports directly to the Wastewater Superintendent. Salary DOQ, plus town benefit package. Send resume and town application to: The Town of Laurel, Attn: Public Works Director-Lab Tech., 201 Mechanic Street, Laurel, Delaware 19956.

Applications due May 2, 2007.

The Town of Laurel is seeking to hire a Wastewater Operator, with a minimum of three years wastewater treatment experience. The position requires the individual to perform daily wastewater test and perform maintenance and repairs of the wastewater treatment facilities, as well as the wastewater lift stations. This position requires a Delaware Wastewater Level II license or higher and be willing to secure a Delaware Water License within one year of hire. Must be able to lift at least 60 pounds and work in in-climate weather. This position requires a high school diploma or equivalent and possession of a valid driver’s license.

Typical work week is Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, and is a 40 hour work week. Must be willing to work nights, weekends, and holidays when necessary. This position reports directly to the Wastewater Superintendent. Salary DOQ, plus town benefit package. Send resume and town application to: The Town of Laurel, Attn: Public Works DirectorWWTP Operator, 201 Mechanic Street, Laurel, Delaware 19956. Applications due May 2, 2007.

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ANTIQUES/ COLLECTIBLES DE TAG, active, 5 digit, 39775, $650 OBO. 6297140. 4/12 DOLL COLLECTION, new in boxes, $2 - $10. 6282166. 4/5

FOR SALE ENTERTAINMENT STAND, solid wood oak w/storage & video holders behind doors.

Shelf for VCR or DVD. 28� tall, 38� long, like new. Asking $40. neg. 629-2135.

4/19 USED RADIO & TV TUBES, about 650, asking $300 for all. 629-4173, lv. msg. 4/19 SINGLE BED, good cond., $25. 875-7143. 4/19

REAR DRIVE TILLER, 6 hp, exc. cond., $175. 6289245. 4/12 CRAFTSMAN REAR TILLER, 7 hp, like new, $375.

542-6316. 4/12 RIDING LAWN MOWER, John Deere LT133, 5 spd., 38� cut, exc. cond. $895.

337-7494. 4/12 250 GAL. OIL TANK, above ground, good cond., about 80 gal of oil included. Must pump & remove tank. $100.

875-3066. 4/5

KENMORE WASHER/ DRYER, exc. cond., $200 for both OBO. 875-3051.

3/29 ELEC. WATER HEATER, 220V, 80 gal., like new, $50 OBO. 629-5242. 3/29 SNOWBLOWER, 5 hp, like new, $400 OBO. 15 Gal. Driveway Sealer, new, $25.

629-5242. 3/29 EXERCISE EQUIP: Orbitrek Pro, Lifestyler by Healthrider, Tunturi exercise bike, new to very good cond. All 3 for $100. 8759715. 3/29

DVD MOVIES, Adventure, horror & comedy, $3 ea.

Other DVD & VHS movies, 75¢ ea. 628-1880. 4/5

LADIES SUITES, beautiful, petite sz. 4, 6, 8, exc cond. orig. price $150-$200. Askign $40 ea. 629-0899. 3/29

LG. MARTIN HOUSE, homemade wooden bird house, new, 16’ treated 4x4 pole, $50. 629-4348. 4/5

GAS RANGE, 36� white, 5 butner, exc. cond., $100 OBO. 875-2754 or 3443052. 3/29

PATIO SET, cast alum. oval 84x42 w/6 arm chairs, exc. cond., $1100. 628-0548.

KIT. TABLE, lt. solid wood, 40� x 36� w/16� leaf & 4 windsor style wood chairs, $150 firm. 2 extra chairs, $50. Black steel frame full siz futon w/blk. mattress, gently used, $100. 8753066. 4/5

2 QUEEN ANN RECLINERS, exc. cond., colonial blue & cranberry, $600/pr.

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SYSTEMAX COMPUTER, Princeton 15� screen (ultra 73E), keyboard & mouse.

CD burner. Solid oak computer desk, separate top shelf unit for desk, 2 drawers & slide out for keyboard. $500 for all. 8753115. 3/29

3 LAWN MOWERS, hose reel, household tools, priced to go. 628-2166. 4/5

RIDING LAWN MOWER, Sears 20 hp, V-twin OHV, hydrostatic 42� cutting, top cond., garage kept. 6298324. 4/19 GE UPRIGHT FREEZER, 1400 cu. ft., exc. cond., moving must sell. 6296068. 4/19

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BROYHILL BR SUITE, 5 pc., exc. cond., queen bed, armoire, triple dresser, mirror, 2 night tables, $1200.

629-7696 after 5. 3/29 TAPAN GAS RANGE, self cleaning oven, used only 10-12 times, $200 OBO. 877-0790. 3/29 JOHN DEERE X475, 2002, 220 hrs., front end loader, 54� deck, turbo grass catcher, suitcase weights, tire chains & owners manuals, $6800. 877-0231. 3/29 SM. SOFA, burgandy, tan & greenplaid, like new, (cost $1500) asking $250. 3499061. 3/29 GOLF CLUBS, LEFT hand, Cleveland Launcher 330 driver, 3 wood irons, 6, 8, wedge & putter, golf bag, $250. Will separate. 3377494. 3/22

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ANIMALS, ETC. HORSE FOR SALE: $300 OBO. Gentle 23 yr. old bay w/pleasant disposition & great for young riders. 8754952. 4/19 8 GEESE $10 ea., $60 for all. 846-2681. 4/12 RABBITS, Brightly colored, ready to go! $5. 875-8620.

4/5 FEMALE BEAGLE PUPPY, 4 mos. old, $75. Lg. Gold Fish for pond, $4 ea. 5426316. 3/29 LG. BIRD CAGE w/access.

Exc. cond., 629-6159. 3/15 2 POMERANIANS, 1 blk. 5 month male; 1 blonde, 10 week female. $150 ea. 8757572. 3/15 DOG CARRIER, overall size 80” long, 62.5” wide, 21” high; 8 sections at 31.5” x 20”, $100. 875-3251. 3/15 2 FEMALE PIGMY GOATS, $150 for pair. 846-9788. 3/8 LG. GOLDFISH for your pond, $4 ea. 542-6316. 3/8

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LEGALS NOTICE I, LEROY CHROBOT, as of April 19, 2007, will not be responsible for any bills incurred by anyone other than myself.

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BIN SALE NOTICE On Saturday, May 19, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. Peninsula Mini Storage located at 40 S. Market St., Blades/ Seaford, Del. will hold a public auction pursuant to the State of Delaware SelfStorage Facility Act Title 25 Chapter 49. The following storage unit will be sold or disposed of for Non-Payment of storage rent. Tenants name and last known address are listed below.

Karen Crawford, Federalsburg, Md.; Unit #103, Unit Size 10x15. Bidding guidelines available on request at Peninsula Mini Storage, 302-629-5743.

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PUBLIC NOTICE On Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. local time or as soon as possible thereafter, the Planning Commission will be holding a public hearing in the Conference Room of the Laurel

✳ APRIL 19 - 25, 2007

Town Hall, 201 Mechanic Street, Laurel, Delaware, to publicly hear a site plan submission from Broadcreek Town Homes, LLC, concerning property located on South Central Avenue, Sussex County tax map and Town of Laurel account number 3-32/1.00/ 9.02, for the purpose of constructing town homes on the above referenced parcel. The property is located in a R-3, Multifamily District.

Planning Commission Town of Laurel 4/19/1tc

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT HEARING Broad Creek Hundred Case No. 9839 In accordance with Chapter 115, of the Code of Sussex County, a hearing will be held on a request for a variance as provided by: Chapter 115, Article IV, Subsection 115-25, Item A(1) of said ordinance of ANNA WARD who is seeking a variance from the minimum lot size requirement for a parcel, to be located north of Road 20A, east of Road 486A. The hearing will be held in the County Council

Chambers, County Administrative Office Building, Georgetown, Delaware, on Monday evening, MAY 21, 2007, at 7:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as may be heard.

All interested parties should attend and present their views. If unable to attend the public hearing, written comments will be accepted but must be received prior to public hearing.

For additional information, contact the Planning and Zoning Department at 302-855-7878.

4/19/1tc

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT HEARING Broad Creek Hundred Case No. 9843 In accordance with Chapter 115, of the Code of Sussex County, a hearing will be held on a request for a variance as provided by: Chapter 115, Article IV, Subsection 115-25, Item C of said ordinance of MARVIN AND DARLENE MCCRAY who are seeking a variance from the side yard setback requirement, to be located west of Road 493, north of Road 494, being lot See LEGALS—page 37

NOTICE SPECIAL ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A SPECIAL ELECTION WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, April 25, 2007 The Delmar School District of Sussex County, in the State of Delaware, pursuant to the Delmar Board of Education approval given March 6, 2007, in accordance with the provisions of Title 14, Chapter 19 of the Delaware Code as amended, in order to permit the voters of said district to vote for or against the transfer of fifteen cents [$0.15] per hundred dollars [$100.00] of assessed valuation of property from the debt service tax fund to current operating expenses for the specific purposes of materials, supplies, and other academic programs.

THIS SPECIAL REFERENDUM DOES NOT INCREASE THE SCHOOL TAX RATE AND WILL BE COMBINED WITH A FIVE CENT [0$.05] DECREASE IN SCHOOL TAX PER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS [$100.00] OF ASSESSED VALUATION OF PROPERTY. The polls for said election will open at 12:00 noon and will remain opened until 9:00PM prevailing time. The polling place will be open and voting facilities will be provided in the Delmar School District Board of Education meeting room.

Every person who is eighteen [18] years of age or older on the day of the election and who is a resident of the Delmar School District, Sussex County, and the State of Delaware, shall be eligible to vote at said Special School Election. The voter does not have to be a registered voter in order to cast a vote.

Qualified voters who will be unable to appear to cast their ballot at the polling place on the date of the Special Election may cast their vote by absentee ballot provided that the voter contacts the Department of Elections, 119 North Race Street, Georgetown, DE, 11147, [302] 856-5367, and executes the absentee ballot by the appropriate deadline.

4 Upcoming Auctions by Marshall Auctions www.marshallauctions.com Large Public Multi-Estate Auction This in an unreserved auction. All items sold to the highest bidder regardless of price & without reserve.

Marshall Auctions is honored to be selling from the well known local estate of Marie Hearn of Pittsville, MD, and several other local estates including estates from Seaford, Bridgeville, and Selbyville, DE.

Friday Night, April 27th at 5:00 PM Original counter desk from Bank of Pittsville, Antique Furniture, Decoys, & Firearms Held at the Marshall Auction Facility at 8000 Esham Rd., Parsonsburg, MD

Personal Property Preview: 2 hours prior to the Auction.

Directions: At the intersection of Rt. 50 & Forest Grove Rd., in Parsonsburg, turn North onto Forest Grove Rd. and follow for 0.5 miles to Old Ocean City Rd. Right onto Old O. C. Rd. and follow for 1.2 miles to Esham Rd. Left onto Esham Rd. and follow for 1.2 miles to burgundy/tan building on left. Signs Posted.

Glass/China/Collectables (5pm): Blue and Grey Stoneware Crocks, Butter Churns, Split oak baskets, 3 Antique Woodbury baby bottles dated 1886 w/ carrier and booklet, local bucket and bushel tokens, strawberry tickets, packing labels, antique wooden ice skates, Pottery from Roseville, Wedgewood, We ller, McCoy and Hull- cast iron elephant cigarette dispenser, very nice selection of hand stitched quilts, Ansonia mantle clock, Ingraham mantle clock, Gilbert tabletop clock, 2 Lionel train sets, U.S. Navy Star Boston Compass #11266, 1775 Indenture, nice selection of early block planes, Kansas pattern dew drop cake pedestal, coy fish charger, oriental and signed art, 3 walnut string back deep frames, oriental flask, cast British military figures, stoneware pitcher, butter, and cookie, British ships model, Knowles pink and white washbowl and pitcher set, gold rimmed washbowl and pitcher set, yellow ware bowls, hand painted jam pot, cobalt to clear champagne flutes, Bristol vases, carnival glass, 1912 GM Fisher calendar plate, children’s tea set in original box, Beaver Brand German double harmonica, Victorian pancake dish, tall handle green depression vase, Lenox, Lalique, Limoges, Delft, Noritake, Nippon, carved bellows, 2 Frank Purdue books, 2 Chesapeake Bay books, Leather-bound Air Force book, American Stamp book, slaw board, local milk bottles, arrowheads, post cards, misc silver, sealtest milk boxes, children’s toys, cut amethyst to clear vase and basket, antique double foot air pump, carved cane w/ cats head, Orlando Wooten photo, coal pick, potato ricer, and too much more to list!!

Furniture (7:30pm): Large Antique Bank Desk from the original Bank of Pittsville, Beautiful Oak Ball in Claw Mirrored Back Buffet, Colonial Manufacturing Co. grandfather clock, MOP inlaid settee, Empire Gentleman’s chest, small oak icebox, 4 drawer pine cottage chest, pine 4 drawer chest, small blue hand painted blanket chest, 2 carved back Victorian chairs, LR Furniture Camelback sofa, Pearson ivory upholstered ball and claw foot sofa, navy reclining chair, mahogany drop front secretary w/ hutch, large dome top dove tailed trunk, Mahogany Serpentine Front desk w/ clamshell inlay, pine 1 drawer 2 door dry sink, pine dough box, converted yarn winder table, unique 3 tier flip top pie stand w/ inlay, 2 Eastlake side chairs, mahogany dinning room suite w/ inlay, oak china cabinet, student desk, needlepoint stool, child’s oak rocker, oak drop-leaf table, 1 drawer over 2 door oak washstand, maple doughbox end stand, lg signed and number print Captain Waller’s Wharf, 2 brass double beds, dome top trunk, spinning wheel, walnut cradle, student lamp, maple wash stand, wicker desk, wicker arm chair and cushion, pine commode, brass floor lamp, French provincial style table and sideboard, console bar, 5 antique porch rockers, and still unpacking!!

Decoys/Guns: Hand Carved Duck Decoys from Madison Mitchell and others, Madison Mitchell 1/2 size goose decoy, Pennsylvania rifle w/ octagon barrel and birdseye stock, Lane and Read Boston Muzzleloader 1837, H&R single shot 28 gauge, Spanish Flint lock pistol, Marksman air pistol.

Box lots will be sold last: CD’s, knick-knacks, Milk glass vases, misc amber glass, lesser china, flatware, flower planters, cups and saucers, sewing machine, and still unpacking!!

Terms Personal Property: Cash Or Approved Check Day of sale. Visa/MC/Amex/Discover. 8% Buyer Premium. 3% Discount for cash or check. Everything Sold “As Is” with no warranties of any kind. Auction conducted inside & outside or 9,000 Sq. Ft. facility. Two Auctioneers. Some seating provided. Food served

by Station 7 Restaurant of Pittsville.

Public Real Estate Auction – Wonderfully updated 2 BR, 1 BA home in Laurel Marshall Auctions is honored to sell for the Estate of Betty Louise Scaggs of Laurel, DE

Thursday May 3, at 5:47 PM – 28559 Seaford Rd., Laurel, DE 2 BR, 1 BA, 947 Sq. Ft. home built on a 1/3 acre lot in a nice location!

Real Estate Preview: Apr. 25 th 6 – 7 PM & Apr. 29 th 1 – 2 PM Directions: At the intersection of Rt. 13 & Camp Rd. (Approx. 1.1 miles North or Rt. 9) in turn West onto Camp Rd. and follow for 0.7 miles to Seaford Rd. Turn right onto Seaford Rd. and follow to home on the right. Signs Posted.

Description: Wonderfully updated 2 BR, 1 BA 947 Sq. Ft. home located just north of Laurel. The homeowner recently had $34,000 in improvements including new siding, new roof, doors, brick steps, sidewalk, attic windows updated on the home. The central air & furnace were updated in 2004. The home is being sold to settle Mrs. Scaggs Estate. This would make an ideal starter home or home for someone looking to downsize.

UPCOMING Fri. May 18 th , 2007 - Four 3.8 to 4.5 Acre building lots with septic approvals in Felton, DE on Black Swamp Rd. Referred to as Kent Co Map 6-00-14700-01-1005-0001 Parcel 3047, Map 600-14700-01-1009-0001 Parcel 84726, Map 6-00-14700-01-1010-0001 Parcel 84727 & Map 6-0014700-01-1011-0001 Parcel 84728. Offer excellent location in Central Delaware. Located only 5 miles East of Rt. 13 directly across from Dovington Equestrian Training Center UPCOMING Thur May. 24 th , 2007 – 10181 Marvil Dr., Laurel, DE. Nicely maintained 2 BR, 1 BA 832 Sq. Ft. home featuring updated windows (1996), updated roof (10 years ago). Would make an ideal starter or investment home.

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By order of the Board of Education of the Delmar School District.

March 6, 2007 Herbert C. Wright President David C Ring Jr., Ed. D. Executive Secretary

Five Generations of Combined Auction Experience Doug Marshall, Jr., CAI, Christal Marshall, Auctioneers 888-986-SOLD(7653) 410-835-0383 www.marshallauctions.com

PAGE 37 LEGALS - from Page 36 15 within North Towns End development.

The hearing will be held in the County Council Chambers, County Administrative Office Building, Georgetown, Delaware, on Monday evening, MAY 21, 2007, at 7:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as may be heard.

All interested parties should attend and present their views. If unable to attend the public hearing, written comments will be accepted but must be received prior to public hearing.

For additional information, contact the Planning and Zoning Department at 302-855-7878.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT HEARING Broad Creek Hundred Case No. 9845 In accordance with Chapter 115, of the Code of Sussex County, a hearing will be held on a request for a variance as provided by: Chapter 115, Article IV, Subsection 115-25, Item C of said ordinance of KEVIN AND ABBY ALLEN who are seeking a variance from the side yard setback requirement, to be located east of Road 447, east of Megan Way, being lot 25 within Shiloh Woods II development.

The hearing will be held in the County Council Chambers, County Administrative Office Building, Georgetown, Delaware, on Monday evening, MAY 21, 2007, at 7:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as may be heard.

All interested parties should attend and present their views. If unable to attend the public hearing, written comments will be accepted but must be received prior to public hearing.

For additional information, contact the Planning and Zoning Department at 302-855-7878.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT HEARING Nanticoke Hundred Case No. 9844 In accordance with Chapter 115, of the Code of Sussex County, a hearing will be held on a request for a variance as provided by: Chapter 115, Article IV, Subsection 115-25, Item C of said ordinance of

MORNING STAR CAROL STEPHAN who is seeking a variance from the side yard setback requirement, to be located north of Road 483, east of Jana Circle, being lot 17 within Fleetwood Estates development.

The hearing will be held in the County Council Chambers, County Administrative Office Building, Georgetown, Delaware, on Monday evening, MAY 21, 2007, at 7:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as may be heard.

All interested parties should attend and present their views. If unable to attend the public hearing, written comments will be accepted but must be received prior to public hearing.

For additional information, contact the Planning and Zoning Department at 302-855-7878.

4/19/1tc IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE IN AND FOR SUSSEX COUNTY In Re: Change of Name of Terry Allen Ridnour, Petitioner to: Spencer Lee Keys.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Terry Allen Ridnour, Dogwood Lane, Laurel, Del. 19956 intends to present a Petition to the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Delaware in and for Sussex County to change his name to Spencer Lee Keys.

Terry Allen Ridnour, Petitioner 4/5/3tc

NOTICE Estate of Barry Lee Kingsbury, Jr., Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration upon the estate of Barry Lee Kingsbury, Jr. who departed this life on the 18th day of February, A.D. 2007 late of Bridgeville, DE were duly granted unto Kathy L. Roddey on the 4th day of April A.D. 2007, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Administratrix without delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Administratrix on or before the 18th day of October, A.D. 2007 or abide by the law in this behalf.

Administratrix: Kathy L. Roddey 22211 Brinsfield Ave., Seaford, DE 19973 David L. Wilson Register of Wills 4/19/3tc

NOTICE Estate of John J. Marine, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration upon the estate of John J. Marine who departed this life on the 8th day of March, A.D. 2007 late of Bridgeville, DE were duly granted unto Joanne Shockley on the 10th day of April A.D. 2007, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Administratrix without delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Administratrix on or before the 8th day of November, A.D. 2007 or abide by the law in this behalf.

Administratrix: Joanne Shockley 9556 Tharp Rd. Seaford, DE 19973 David L. Wilson Register of Wills 4/19/3tc

NOTICE Estate of Michael L. Gordy, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Testamentary upon the estate of Michael L. Gordy who departed this life on the 4th day of March, A.D. 2007 late of Laurel, DE were duly granted unto Cindy Gordy Mullins on the 2nd day of April A.D. 2007, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Executrix without 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 4th day of November, A.D. 2007 or abide by the law in this behalf.

Executrix: Cindy Gordy Mullins 207 North Front St., Georgetown, DE 19947 Attorney: James A. Yori, Esq. Fuqua & Yori, P.A. P.O. Box 250 Georgetown, DE 19947 David L. Wilson Register of Wills 4/12/3tc

NOTICE Estate of Anna E. West, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Testamentary upon the estate of Anna E. West who departed this life on the 12th day of March, A.D. 2007 late of Laurel, DE were duly granted unto Michael W. Gray on the 30th day of March A.D. 2007, and all persons indebted to the said de-

âœł APRIL 19 - 25, 2007 ceased are required to make payments to the said Executor without delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Executor on or before the 12th day of November, A.D. 2007 or abide by the law in this behalf.

Executor: Michael W. Gray 6509 Senator Lane, Bensalem, PA 19020 Attorney: Stephen P. Ellis, Esq. Sergovic & Ellis P.O. Box 875 Georgetown, DE 19947 David L. Wilson Register of Wills 4/12/3tc

NOTICE Estate of Gertrude J. Crossman, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Testamentary upon the estate of Gertrude J. Crossman who departed this life on the 19th day of March, A.D. 2007 late of Seaford, DE were duly granted unto Jack D. Crossman on the 29th day of March A.D. 2007, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Executor without delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Executor on or before the 19th day of November, A.D. 2007 or abide by the law in this behalf.

Executor: Jack D. Crossman 12563 Concord Rd., Seaford, DE19973 Attorney: Cindy L. Szabo, Esq. Sergovic & Ellis

P.O. Box 875 Georgetown, DE 19947 David L. Wilson Register of Wills 4/12/3tc

NOTICE Estate of Elsie G. Pase, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Testamentary upon the estate of Elsie G. Pase who departed this life on the 23rd day of March, A.D. 2007 late of Seaford, DE were duly granted unto Joyce P. Davis on the 29th day of March A.D. 2007, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Executrix without 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 23rd day of November, A.D. 2007 or abide by the law in this behalf.

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NOTICE Estate of Mildred M. Watson, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration upon the estate of Mildred M. Watson who departed this life on the 14th day of February, A.D. 2007 late of Seaford, DE were duly granted unto E. Elaine Watson on the 23rd day of March, A.D. 2007, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Administratrix without

delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Administratrix on or before the 14th day of October, A.D. 2007 or abide by the law in this behalf.

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NOTICE Estate of Vernon E. Hastings, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Testamentary upon the estate of Vernon E. Hastings who departed this life on the 26th day of February, A.D. 2007 late of Seaford, DE were duly granted unto David C. Hastings, Barry E. Hastings on the 26th day of March, A.D. 2007, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Co-Executors without delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Co-Executors on or before the 26th day of October, A.D. 2007 or abide by the law in this behalf.

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Letters Imus lost his job because of profits, pure and simple While everyone is still jumping for joy because of the courageous position CBS and NBC Universal took in taking radio host Don Imus off the airways, let us pause, as Paul Harvey says, to hear “the rest of the story.”

Staples, General Motors, Sprint Nextel, GlasoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble, PetMed Express, American Express and Bigelow Tea, all sponsors who helped the two networks report a profit of $2.5 million from this show after expenses, decided not to continue with their sponsorship of the Imus show after the Rutgers controversy.

CBS alone grossed $15 million a year with his show.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are taking credit for the firing. CBS and NBC Universal both have tried to convince America they spoke with their employees and as a result of their feelings pulled the plug on Imus. But none of that is true.

Imus was fired because sponsors pulled their advertising from the show after the Rutgers incident and more sponsors threatened to pull out. Supply and demand: No sponsors, no show.

Jackson and Sharpton need to stop using the black community for their personal gain, step aside from the spotlight, roll up their sleeves and address drugs, school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, AIDS and poverty, all of which are doing untold harm to the black community.

I’m sure the networks divided those profits each year with their minimum wage employees and gave no bonuses to the network executives. Yeah, right.

Give me a break; the almighty dollar is the driving force in decisions in this country, not what the working man wants.

If the networks felt that strongly about their employees’ feelings, why didn’t they fire Imus at the get-go instead of giving him a 2-week suspension? No, it was after the sponsors began pulling out that they pulled the plug. Had the major advertisers or most of them stayed with the program, Mr. Imus would have gotten off with a slap on the wrist and been allowed to continue insulting innocent people.

If anyone thinks this is the end of runaway talk show insults, guess again.

Talk show hosts who spew hatred and despair to followers who cannot think for themselves will continue to air. They are showmen, and they must psych up their audience for ratings which translate into charging advertisers premium rates for air time.

Since I’m not a basketball fan, Maude wants to know if anyone can remember that team defeated the Rutgers University women’s basketball team for the national title. We don’t recall seeing the champions on ESPN, any news network, or even Oprah. It’s a shame the spotlight had to be taken away from the winning team.

Frank B. Calio Laurel

Unmarried couples also deserve protection from abuse According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 1970 the percentage of American households fitting the traditional definition of the family as a husband and wife living with their children was only 40 percent.

By 1998 it had dropped to 25 percent. In 2007 it seems clear that domestic legislation should be based on reality — real households, real people.

Delaware Senate Bill 57 would include straight and gay unmarried couples in Delaware’s domestic violence statute and

thus allow the issuance of protective orders. Victims of abusive relationships can bleed and be killed just as easily whether they are married or unmarried.

Delaware Senate Bill 10 would mandate the same insurance and pension benefits for state employees’ straight and gay domestic partners as their married coworkers have for their spouses. This is called equal pay for equal work, something most of us believe in.

I encourage our legislators to do the right thing and pass these reasonable and broadly bipartisan bills and thus value all Delaware families, not just 25 percent of them. Delawareans wanting to lobby their lawmakers on these bills can find help at www.towardequality.org.

Douglas Marshall-Steele Milton

LHS students hear from alumni, community leaders During the month of February, some pretty remarkable people volunteered their time to speak to the student body of Laurel High School. I have not had the opportunity until now to let them know how much we appreciate their time and efforts. This was our second annual collaboration with Laurel High School alumni and community leaders in efforts to encourage all students to make positive, well thought-out choices and to take the planning of their futures very seriously.

The speakers also stressed the importance of having a strong educational foundation; which will in turn help them to explore many more options in the selection of a career choice. Many of the speakers talked to the students about character, integrity, and self-respect. The students saw examples of persons who have overcome many obstacles in their lives that

may have hindered a less determined person from attaining their goals. But these fine examples of success have proven themselves tenacious, and were happy to share some of their strategies to success with our students. These professionals have made their mark in their families, in their communities, in their workplace, and in every life they touch while sharing their message.

The impressive presenters were: Valentine Cottman, Seaford, retired administrator and teacher; Kevin Oney., Dover, U.S. Navy recruiter; Darlene Gregory, Seaford, Citizens Bank; Dominque Johnson, Dover, Citizens Bank; Monica Bell, Salisbury, Rep. Gilchrest’s office; Veronica Oney, Seaford, Delaware Tech; Naketa Beckett, Laurel, Delaware State Police; Marcealeate Ruffin, Georgetown, Magistrate Court Judge; Tammi Risper, Laurel, business owner; Michael Dale, Seaford, construction and first 1,000-point basketball player in LHS; Nakia Kellam, Maryland, food management and first and only female with a 1,000 point basketball career in LHS ; Titus Mims, Seaford, Nanticoke Hospital and 1,000- point basketball player at LHS. Also, thanks to Dean Ivory and Brent Moore, Laurel High School administrators, and the Laurel School District for approving the trip our students took to the Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 22. I believe that our students are more enriched and more enlightened individuals because of their exposure and participation during the celebration and activities during Black History Month.

Joyce A. Sessoms Guidance Counselor Black History Month Coordinator Laurel High School

A car ride in the 1960s was nothing like it is today Kids today are really well protected when their families go out ONY INDSOR for an afternoon drive in the family car. There are car seats, booster As Dad headed down the seats, seat belts, shoulder harnesses, you name it! That is great as far highway, the three of us as I am concerned.

I can remember the car seat that would be milling around Mom and Dad used for us when I the backseat like we were was a kid. It stretched from one side of the car to the other and visiting the mall.

Mom and Dad sat on the front one and we sat on the one in the rear. was a kid. The family car was no more And if there had been anything called seat than a portable storage shed. When it was belts in our family car, Dad probably would have cut them out to make room for time to take a family trip, Mom and Dad would take their place on the front seat another young’un. The closest thing we and we kids would commence to crawl had to a booster seat for my little brother into the back seat like a bunch of circus was when he was sitting in Mom’s lap on monkeys. the front seat.

There were no restraints in the back Things have come a long way in 45 seat either. As Dad headed down the highyears and safety is now a priority in the way, the three of us would be milling family car. Of course, car manufacturers around the backseat like we were visiting have been able to maintain safety, but also the mall. One of us would be in the floor, assure luxurious features as well. Today a another on our knees writing our name in ride in some vehicles is more like experithe window fog while the other was encing a living room on wheels. There are crammed up into the rear window area fold-down DVD players, satellite radio waving at passing cars. and built-in soft drink coolers.

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foot and leg up under Dad’s seat, a practice that for some reason really pushed Dad’s buttons. This would cause Dad to develop a slight sense of irritation.

Of course the fact that the three of us had started wrestling and rolling around the back seat and floor like Sea World dolphins did little to lower his patience threshold.

Unlike Mom, who would spend a great deal of time verbally assaulting us and telling us what she was going to do if we did not behave, Dad was more a man of less words and more action. Mom was more prone to warn us in great graphic terms about car behavior. For instance, she hated for us to put our hands out the window in the summertime while the car was moving.

Instead of simply telling us not to put our hands out the window, Mom would have to tell us, “Don’t put your hands out the window, a car will come by and rip your arms off.”

She apparently thought we had arms like an orangutan, because most cars were at least several feet from our car at any given time.

On the other hand, Dad wasted little time simply telling us what he was going

to do when we were acting like zoo animals. If for some reason Dad was in a particularly good mood, he would give us one verbal warning to “settle down” before beginning to swing his arm behind his back, attempting to strike the one child who may be within arm’s reach.

Of course, we were aware of this tactic and having free run of the backseat, we would all cram our bodies back as far against the passenger-side corner to avoid Dad’s Babe Ruth-like swing. The whole time, Dad was trying to drive with one hand and get at us with the other, and we would be trying to push each other into his field of discipline. I think one time he simply jammed on the brake and we all rolled up to the front of the car.

Perhaps I am embellishing my recollection of these episodes. I have to believe this type of behavior never went on to any extreme because we all three knew that at some point Dad would arrive at our destination and we would have to get out of the car. At that point Dad would have bounced us all into the house like basketballs at the Big Eight Conference.

Oh well, despite it all, life was good!

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Two letters from Florida stir up memories of family, work I received two letters from Florida last week, on the same day, AT URPHY as a matter of fact. No, neither one was from Howard McCrea, but I borrowed a big sponge they were both very enjoyable. from Doris Conaway, who One was from Dot Barlowe and had cut it out in the size the other from Kyle and Barbara Ewing. and shape of a big sheet Dot is Enoch Schwartz’s sister cake, and decorated it and lives in Fort Pierce. As I with orange and black icopened this letter — that, incidening, congratulating the tally, went to the other Pat Murphy Orioles fans on the win. first — a picture fell out. Upon looking at it, I instantly knew one of those people in the picture was my dad, great humor, he told me to get rid of the cake.

I believe I returned that fake cake to its Tom. The other, after looking at the reverse of the photo, I saw was Clifton Call- maker, Doris Conaway. That’s just one of the pranks she is famous for. Don’t eat any away, Dot’s father. of Doris’ cake!

The picture was taken in front of the present Wilmington Trust in Laurel and spread across the hood of the 1940 car Bruce Willey and his Gospel Café were four or five raccoons from the hunt group are excited about their first anniverthat Tom and Clifton had been on. Dot’s sary Outdoor Get-Together on May 5, at comment in the letter was one for the the old tennis courts in back of Centenary record: “You can tell Dick Whaley that you came from a long line of great hunters Church. Music, Bible, food and relaxation are the ingredients they will be using that and you have the photo to prove it,” she evening. Mark your calendars. wrote.

Well Dick, after years of plea bargaining and trying to get your lawyer Jake I see where Hardee’s in Seaford has reMorgan to work for no pay, your statute of limitations has run out — which means all moved that giant bush from the center island of their business. It blocked people’s those humble words of wisdom I wrote view as they exited from the store. Way to about you were true.

Bail is two rabbits and brother Bob, bad go, Hardee’s. leg and all, will have to get them for you.

Dot, good to hear from you and thanks The 46th Annual Lions Club Show is for the kind remarks.

The other letter came from Haines City, now history and I suppose it’s time for me Fla., and it was from my ol’ DuPont buddy Kyle Ewing. Kyle sent me greetings and two autographed ticket stubs from a spring training game. It was a game between the Tigers and Yankees and fittingly played at Joker Stadium.

Anyway, thanks, Kyle, for thinking of me. Can I tell our readers a story involving you and me? I may have told it before; anyway, here goes.

We offer The year was 1983 and the month was service October. Kyle was the second line supervisor in the power house at the DuPont and Company’s nylon plant in Seaford, and I repair on was in the early stages of my days in Service all makes maintenance. Well, the Phillies had been Plans edged out in the World Series by the OriAvailable and oles and I had heard just about enough of models of it. So I borrowed a big sponge from Doris Conaway, who had cut it out in the size air conditioning systems. and shape of a big sheet cake, and decoratWe also sell and install ed it with orange and black icing, congratheating and air conditioning ulating the Orioles fans on the win. Some of those agitating Oriole fans at the power systems to keep your home house, people such as Roy Lare, Barry comfortable year-round.

Brumbley, Roger Quillen, Paul Hudson, Posh Hudson and others, were to be the recipients of this well-covered sponge with thick layers of icing.

One problem though — Roy Lare had to try it before break time. His embarrassment as he hacked away at the “cake” was good enough for the movies.

I’m not sure of the chain of events after this, but I was soon told that my “cake” had made its way to our boss, Kyle. Kyle was so pleased with what he thought was a good pastry that he offered to buy coffee for everyone. Soon after, he tried to cut the cake and I soon heard over the plant’s inProudly Serving Laurel and Surrounding tercom, “Pat Murphy, report to the office Communities with Efficiency and Integrity immediately.”

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Runner-up has to be Ron Scott, who was in a skit about a talent search for Elvis.

There is a little ham in everybody and Frank Hastings, Pat Cahall, Kim Caulder, and Mike Moch, on Friday night, delighted the audience with their impressions of Elvis.

I must also mention the skit, “A Vegas Wedding.” Can you imagine lifting the veil of your new bride and seeing someone who looks just like Jeff Shields? Jeff, you have found your calling; as for poor Bill Trujillo — well, he’d better stick to the bride he has at home.

Last week in my efforts to do a good job in my column for Gerry Brown, I failed to mention that one of Laurel’s most friendly people, Johnny Hastings, also passed away suddenly. My son Brian made me aware of this upon our visit the other day. Brian, Corey Lecates, Larry Whaley and a few others worked for Pat & Johnny on their farm during their growing up days, and they had so much to do with their growing up. Johnny and Pat made work fun for them. For people who help shape others’ futures, I am always grateful and when it was one of my sons, I am especially grateful.

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Sierra Spicer, dressed to the nines, sings ‘I Love You for Sentimental Reasons’ during the annual Laurel Lions Club show last weekend. Photo by Pat Murphy

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Seaford Star Sports Gibson pitches three hitter, Jays roll over Middletown

By Gene Bleile

Seaford’s Danielle Haldeman, left, is shown with Leah Bowman following a two-run home run which gave the Blue Jays a 4-2 lead. Seaford went on to win by the score of 4-3. Photo by Mike McClure

The Seaford Blue Jays continued their winning streak, knocking off the Middletown Cavaliers 8-1 last week on the road.

Derrik Gibson went the distance and pitched a three hitter, striking out 13, walking one and only giving up three hits.

The weather did not appear to affect the Jays performance on a cold and blustery day. “Derrik did a great job and didn’t let the snow flurries and wind bother him,” head coach Kenny Cummings said after the game. “All our kids did a great job today,” he emphasized.

The Jays started their scoring in the first inning, when Gibson walked, went to second on a passed ball and scored on a double by Robby Payne. In the second inning, they pushed across another run, when Gibson singled to knock in Tyler Ruark, who had reached base on an error by the Middletown shortstop.

Seaford broke open the game in the top of the fifth inning, when they scored

five runs. The big hits came on a two RBI single by Paul Widerman and another two RBI single by Zack Schofer. Gibson iced the cake for himself in the top of the sixth with an RBI single to run the score to 8-0.

The Cavaliers got on the board in the bottom of the sixth, when first baseman Ryan Haas hit a wind blown solo homer to put Middletown on the board.

After the game, Cummings stressed that, “Our success has been timely hitting and our pitchers not walking hitters. We have to stay focused and take it one game at a time from here on out.”

Last Saturday, the Jays traveled to Wilmington to take on the Sallies and lost a close game 2-1. Seaford scored first in the top of the first inning; Gibson led off with a single, but was forced at second on a fielder’s choice off the bat of Widerman. Payne walked and Tyler Joseph followed with another single to load the bases with one out.

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Haldeman home run powers Seaford softball to 4-3 win

By Mike McClure The Seaford varsity softball team held off rival Laurel, 4-3, in a home contest last Wednesday. The Blue Jays used a two-run home run by catcher Danielle Haldeman to win the game, which was played under chilly conditions.

Laurel struck first in the top of the first when Amanda Horsey led off and was hit by a pitch. Horsey went to second on a sac bunt by Kelsey Oliphant and scored on a two-out single by Alexis Oliphant to make it 1-0.

The Blue Jays answered with a run in their half of the inning. Seaford leadoff hitter Amanda Swift was hit by a pitch, Danielle Haldeman walked; and Leah Bowman hit an RBI double to score Haldeman. Haley Quillen’s two-out single plated Jenna Adkins (fielder’s choice) for a 2-1 Seaford lead.

Laurel pitcher Caitlin Dolby helped her own cause with a solo homer in the top of the second to knot the score at 2-2.

In the bottom of the second, Kari Bergh reached first on an error, went to second on a sac bunt by Swift, and scored on the home run by Haldeman.

Seaford threatened again in the bottom of the third as Quillen reached on an infield single, pitcher Heather Draper reached first on fielder’s choice, and Quillen went to third on the fielder’s choice and a Laurel error. Pinch runner Shannon Wright was ruled out for leaving first too early and Bergh was ruled out for leaving the batter’s box on a bunt attempt to end the inning.

Draper worked a 1-2-3 fourth inning, striking out a pair. Dolby retired the side

Seaford pitcher Heather Draper prepares the throw to first during last week’s home win over Laurel. Photo by Mike McClure

in the bottom of the fifth.

In the top of the sixth, Laurel’s Jenna Cahall hit a leadoff double to right center, went to third on a ground out by Alexis Oliphant and scored on an error on a ball hit by Shiann Miller, making the score 43.

Dolby worked another 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the sixth, however, Draper nailed down the win by keeping the Bulldogs off the board in the final inning.

Stephanie Wheatley drew a one out walk and went to second on a ground out by Continued on page 43

Seaford’s third baseman Joey Mitchell, pictured here against St. Elizabeth, knocked in the Jays’ only run with a sacrifice fly in the first inning against the Sallies. The Jays loaded the bases with one out but couldn’t break the game open with a big inning. Photo by Gene Bleile

Woodbridge baseball team splits non-conference games The Woodbridge varsity baseball team picked up a 7-0 win over Wilmington Christian last Friday before falling to Arcadia, 5-4, on Saturday.

The Raiders collected nine hits and took advantage of six errors in the win over Wilmington Christian. Derek Nennstiehl had two hits including a double and drove in a run, Cory Richards hit a home run, and Greg Callaway added two hits and a run.

Nennstiehl worked three shutout innings for the win and combined with Dustin Richards and Greg Wheatley to hurl the three-hitter.

On Saturday, Vinny Gamba had two hits and an RBI; Cory Richards doubled and drove in a run; and Nennstiehl doubled for Woodbridge (3-5) which had six hits in the 5-4 loss. Arcadia had seven hits and scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh.

The baseball and softball teams will play at St. Thomas More on May 12 after their games on March 24 were rained out.

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Liberty University sophomore Rebekah Ricksecker of Laurel, right, ran a Big South season-best time of 2:13.33 in the 800 meters last Saturday

Ricksecker places first in 800 in Lynchburg College meet Sussex Tech graduate Rebekah Ricksecker of Laurel placed first in the Lynchburg College Track & Field Classic last weekend in Lynchburg. The Liberty University sophomore will compete in the Big South Track and Field Championships this week at Liberty, which is also located in Lynchburg.

Ricksecker turned in the fastest 800-meter time by a Big South athlete this season, 2:13.33, at Saturday’s meet. Her collegiate career best in the event is 2:12.88, which she achieved as a freshman during the 2006 outdoor track season.

Ricksecker recorded her season-best effort in the race. She also has the conference’s best time the 1,500 meter run (4:37.24). Her best time in the 1,500 meter run is 4:38.49 which she also achieved last spring.

Ricksecker placed seventh in Big South conference championships with a time of 18:26.02 last Fall during the cross country season. She placed 76th in the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional championship, which had 32 schools and 215 runners, with a time of 22:28 in the 6K. Rebekah finished second in the mile with a time of 5:10.82 in the indoor track conference meet this past winter. Following the conference meet she will compete in the Penn Relays. She is hoping to qualify for the East Coast Regionals in the 1500.

Laurel varsity softball coach Margo Morris and Seaford coach Dave Rogers look on from their vantage points along the third base line during last Wednesday’s game in Seaford. Seaford won the local battle, 4-3. Photo by Mike McClure

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Seaford Stars of the Week

Male Athlete of the WeekCory Richards- Woodbridge

Female Athlete of the WeekDanielle Haldeman- Seaford

Woodbridge senior Cory Richards hit a home run in his team’s 7-0 win over Wilmington Christian last Friday.

Richards also had a double and an RBI in the Raiders’ near loss to Arcadia on Saturday.

Seaford catcher Danielle Haldeman went 2-for-2 with a home run, two runs, and two RBIs in last Wednesday’s home win over Laurel. Haldeman’s two-run home run broke a 2-2 tie and gave the Jays the lead for good.

Honorable mention- Derrik Gibson- Seaford; Zach Shofer- Seaford; Paul Widerman- Seaford; Derek Nennstiehl- Woodbridge; Greg Callaway- Woodbridge; Vinny Gamba- Woodbridge; Steve Sharff- Sussex Tech; Zach Adkins- Sussex Tech; Hailey Quillen- Seaford; Jenna Adkins- Seaford; Heather Draper- Seaford; Leah BowmanSeaford; Heather Frech- Sussex Tech; Brittany Joseph- Sussex Tech; Katie Nennstiehl- Sussex Tech; Kylee Rickards- Sussex Tech

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Seaford’s Haley Quillen makes contact with a pitch during last week’s home game against Laurel. Quillen had two hits in the Jays’ 4-3 win. Photo by Mike McClure

Seaford softball continued Horsey, but Draper induced a game ending ground out.

Haldeman went 2-for-2 with a home run, two runs, two RBIs, and a walk; Adkins added a hit and a run; Bowman contributed a double and an RBI; and Quillen batted 2-for-3 with an RBI. Draper allowed three runs on five hits and a walk and struck out six in seven innings for the win.

Cahall went 1-for-3 with a double;

Horsey was 1-for-3 with two runs; Alexis Oliphant batted 1-for-3 with an RBI; Dolby added a home run, a run, and an RBI and allowed four runs on six hits in six innings.

Laurel dropped to 2-3 in the Henlopen Conference and 3-3 overall while Seaford moved to 3-4, 2-3. Seaford’s game against St. Elizabeth, scheduled for last Friday in Seaford, will take place on Saturday, April 28 at 11 a.m. at St. Elizabeth (Canby Park).

Seaford High boys’ tennis match, soccer game are rescheduled The Seaford boys’ tennis team’s home match against Polytech, originally scheduled for April 5 will now be played on Friday, April 20 beginning at 4 p.m. The Seaford girls’ soccer game at Cape Henlopen will now be played on Friday, April 20 with the JV game beginning at 6 p.m. with the varsity game to follow.

SDPR Pitch, Hit, and Run baseball competition to take place April 28 The Seaford Department of Parks and Recreation’s Pitch, Hit, and Run baseball competition will take place on Saturday, April 28 at Olympic Field in the Sports Complex. Signups will be held for the free event. Boys and girls-age groups are 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, and 13-14. Winners advance to next level of competition at Shorebird Stadium.

Call 629-6809 for more information.

Western Sussex Boys and Girls Club to hold indoor flag football league

SEAFORD SOCCER- Seaford’s Page Johnson (13) fights for the ball during a recent game against Dover. Photo by Gene Bleile

The Western Sussex Boys and Girls Club is holding registration for its Indoor Flag Football League. The league is open for the following divisions: girls 9-12 and 13-15 and boys 9-12 and 13-15. The registration fee is $10 per person and $25 for non-members. The proceeds benefit the club’s athletic department. Registration will take place Monday through Friday from 2:30-7 p.m. The girls’ league will take place on Wednesday evenings and the boys’ league will take place on Monday evenings. The leagues will run through June 6.

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By Gene Bleile, Seaford Sports reb60315@yahoo.com

It’s time for some e-mail updates and a thank you from Camp Liberty, Iraq One of the fun aspects of this column is hearing from former Seaford athletes, coaches, players, friends and readers of The Star sports.

During the past eight months, I have tried to open my readers’ minds to new and different subjects, always trying to promote more communication. This past week, I added my e-mail address to the column heading to encourage more feedback and exchange of ideas.

In this column, I want to update you on two e-mails from readers and a card my wife and I received from Iraq recently. After the shipment of food and goods arrived in Iraq from Central Elementary students and another package from my wife and I personally, we received this card and message: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Bleile, Thank you for the box of goodies. I really appreciate your support. It has been truly amazing how much support Seaford and the surrounding area has shown the soldiers in the Battalion. You are another example of the overwhelming generosity that has been shown. Once again, Thanks for the goodies, but even more importantly, thank you for the support and prayers that have also been provided.

Sincerely, LTC. Lee Merritt, Camp Liberty, Iraq After the column, I devoted to the passing of Coach Bob Dowd, I received this email: Gene, I read both articles on Dad and can’t thank you enough. I’m certain you were the last person to interview him. I appreciate everything you do for Seaford and did for Dad. Frank Dowd I recently received an e-mail about two former area female standout athletes, whose teams were named first and second in Pennsylvania’s Field Hockey Teams with the highest GPA. (Grade point average).

Hi Gene, Just a note to share how much our family is enjoying your sports reporting. Claire (Rekitzke) is the starting goalkeeper for the York College Spartans and her team won the Pennsylvania Field Hockey Highest GPA Award with a 3.65.

Leslie Messick from Bridgeville and Sussex Tech, who plays for the Eastern University Eagles team, came in second with a 3.52. The ranking is done by the Field Hockey Coaches Association out of 155 Division III NCAA field hockey program schools.

Phil Rekitzke Blue Jay Notebook: You can still send supplies to Iraq for the troops. They can use deodorant, disposable razors, microwave popcorn, cookies, candy, magazines and cards of support. Address your package to: LTC Lee Merritt, HHC 541st CSSB, Camp Liberty, Iraq, APO AE 09344 *Claire Rekitzke started all but the last five games of the season due to food poisoning. *The York College Spartans finished fourth in the Capital Conference with a 129 record. *Leslie Messick’s Eastern University Eagles finished first in their conference and lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. *Leslie and Claire did not play against each other during the season. They were teammates on Coach Lloydlee Heite’s Under 19 traveling U.S. Field Hockey team called the Delaware Stingers. *On April 24 at 6 pm at Blue Jay Stadium, the second battle of the soccer Bleiles will take place. Last year Scott Bleile, Sr. (Woodbridge girls’ head coach) defeated his son Scott Bleile, Jr. (Seaford girls’ head coach) 4-3. Since my brother coaches Woodbridge and my nephew coaches Seaford, I will take a neutral position covering the game. However, as a sports writer, I will predict that Seaford defeats Woodbridge 3-0.

✳ APRIL 19 - 25, 2007 Seaford baseball continued It looked like the Jays might have a big inning, but after Joey Mitchell hit a sacrifice fly to score one run; Schofer struck out to end the inning.

The Sallies tied the game in the bottom of the fourth inning on a single, two walks and a sacrifice fly. Schofer started for the Jays, but left the game in the fourth inning with the score knotted at 11.

He finished the day giving up three walks, two hits and striking out two.

Paul Widerman, the catcher, switched places with Schofer and pitched the last

two innings giving up the winning run in the bottom of the sixth inning on a backto-back Sallies double and single. Widerman took the loss and moved his record to 2-1, giving up two hits, walking two and striking out one.

“The kids fought hard today,” head coach Kenny Cummings said after the road loss. “Our pitchers fought hard and we had great defense, we just missed out with some timely hits. We outhit the Sallies 5-4, but couldn’t get the big hit when we needed it.”

Seaford is 6-2 overall and 3-1 in conference.

The Jays’ Robbie Payne, pictured here against St. Elizabeth, hit a double in the first inning against Middletown to give Seaford a 1-0 lead. The Jays went on to win 8-1 on a three-hitter by Derrik Gibson. Photo by Gene Bleile

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The Sallies won the game 2-1, when Seaford gave up a run in the bottom of the sixth inning.

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Seaford High School football boosters to meet on April 23 A Seaford High School football boosters meeting will be held on Monday, April 23 at 7 p.m. in the back room at Grotto’s in Seaford. Any parents or community members interested in being involved with this organization are asked to attend this meeting.

Call Artie Perdue at 410-627-6112 (c) or 628-8401 (h) for more information.

Woodbridge’s Heather Solomon places second in Burgess Invitational Woodbridge’s Heather Solomon placed second in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 16.48 seconds during the Keith S. Burgess Invitational which took place last Saturday at Lake Forest High School. The Lady Raiders finished 13th in the 16 team event.

Lovett Purnell to be inducted into the Delaware Hall of Fame Seaford graduate Lovett Purnell will be inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame on Tuesday, May 15 in Wilmington. Purnell, who played football at West Virginia University as well as for the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens in the NFL, joins Bernard Briggs, Jim Bundren, Bob Immediato, Vincent “Winnie” Mayer, Rick McCall, Vinnie Scott, Dave Whitcraft, and Val Whiting as a 2007 inductee.

4-H/YMCA announce first annual basketball tournament

LADY ROADRUNNERS- Delaware Tech pitcher Megan Street fires a pitch to the plate during the Lady Roadrunners game one victory over Anne Arundel Community College on Tuesday, April 10, in Georgetown. The Lady Roadrunners swept Anne Arundel by final scores of 15-6 and 13-1.

Seaford/Laurel Star sports section has a new e-mail address Got sports? Send your sports scores, photos, and press releases to the Star’s new sports e-mail address: sports@mspublications.com. If you have any technical difficulties you can still send info to publisher@laurelstar.com or fax to 302-629-9243. Call sports editor Mike McClure at 302-629-9788 with any questions.

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On Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19 the Sussex County 4-H after school programs will host a 3-on-3 basketball tournament for youth ages 6-17. Friday tournament hours begins at 5 p.m. and Saturday tournament begins at 9 a.m.

The tournament will be at the Phillis Wheatley Middle School in Bridgeville. Teams will consist of three youth in the same age group. Participants are encouraged to sign up by May 4. There is a team entry fee of $15.00 There will be four separate age divisions: 6-8, 9-11, 12-14 and 14-17. Teams are made up of three youth and each team member must be in the same age group.

The Sussex County 4-H after school programs currently operate at two locations: the Phillis Wheatley Middle School in Bridgeville and at Hickory Tree a Delaware State Housing Community in Selbyville.

Each of the programs are approved sites through the Office of Child Care Licensing and operate five days a week from approximately 3-6 p.m. Hickory Tree serves youth in grades K-4 and the 4-H/YMCA Afterschool Program in Bridgeville serves youth in grades 5-8.

Both programs are currently grant funded. All proceeds from this event will go towards sustaining these programs.

Chasing E lvis 6:00 pm Seaford Middle School Auditorium Cost: FREE

Concert Sponsored by the Greater Seaford Ministerium

The band “Chasing Elvis” has been in existence for about five years. The band has played all over the country and internationally in Eastern Europe. They play a mixture of alternative funky-pop tunes familiar to many, plus many originals. Their first CD, “Observe,” has recently been released and includes hits such as “Reach Me,” “Looking for Elvis”, and “Ghost in the Garden.”

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Thursday Nite Mixers High games and series James Larsen 294 John Bodencak 779 Kay Passwater 258 Christina Taylor 673

Friday Trios High games and series Jody Garber 270, 672 Tina Rawls 237 Tracy Thacker 643

Christian Fellowship High games and series Bill Ziolkowski 250 Eddie Joyner 657 Debbie Hawrylyshyn 240, 653

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Delaware Tech baseball team clinches top seed in tournament The Delaware Tech, Owens Campus, baseball team clinched the number one seed in next month’s regional playoffs with five more wins, coupled with a loss by their chief rivals.

Delaware Tech won single games over Anne Arundel Community College, Salem Community College and Gloucester Community College and earned a doubleheader sweep of Sussex County College in the week ending April 14.

With the five wins, and a loss by Lackawanna College to Mercer, the Roadrunners will be the top seed when the region 19 playoffs kick off on May 4 in Salem, N.J. With the top seed, Delaware Tech will be the home team in each tournament game, a big advantage for head coach Curtis Brock and the Roadrunners.

“It’s a big plus knowing that we’re going into our regional tournament and will always be the home team.” Brock said. “It’s always nice to have that last chance at bat.”

While regional wins against Salem and Sussex were the most important of the week in terms of postseason play, the win over Gloucester on Friday could have been the biggest of the year – a win that has Brock wondering if the 2007 Roadrunners are “a team of destiny.”

Spotted to a two-run lead, Delaware Tech starting pitcher Jason Wyatt was cruising along until the sixth inning. Then, with two outs and nobody on, the bottom fell out.

Wyatt suddenly lost the strike zone, and reliever Mike Albert had no luck finding it either. Before Brock and the Roadrunners knew it, Gloucester had scored 10 runs and taken a 10-2 lead going into the seventh inning.

It stayed that way until the ninth when Brock hoped his team could at least score a couple of runs to make the final score respectable. They did much more than that, tallying nine times to score an emotional 11-10 victory.

In Saturday’s wins over Sussex, Ben Gainer and Mike Castrignano earned the wins, each staying undefeated on the season. Delaware Tech is now 27-5 heading into home doubleheaders this weekend against CCBC Catonsville and Harford Community College.

Lady Roadrunners earn four more victories- The Delaware Tech softball team finished another undefeated week by earning doubleheader sweeps of Anne Arundel Community College and Lackawanna College.

The Lady Roadrunners again pounded opposing pitchers at the plate, outscoring their opponents 49-11 over the four games.

“The girls are just flat out hitting the ball,” said Delaware Tech head coach Andy Givens. “I actually felt the games last week would be closer than they were, but the girls simply have no fear right now. Everything just seems to be working.”

The Lady Roadrunners are also sitting in good position heading into the playoffs, but seeds are still up in the air because many postponed games are still to be made up.

In Tuesday’s sweep of Anne Arundel, Angela Griffith led the charge in game one.

The sophomore left fielder went 3-for-3 with a double and three RBI. Ravin Robinson was 2-for-4 with a triple and Jaimie Brittingham was 1-for-3 with a two-run home run for the Lady Roadrunners. Griffith was 2-for-3 with a double and three RBI in the second game.

On Saturday, Megan Street (Epworth Christian) and Tiffany Grove picked up the victories in the circle to help Delaware Tech improve to 24-4 on the season. The Lady Roadrunners are back in action this Saturday with a home doubleheader against Burlington County College. Game time is set for noon.

Delaware Tech golf team finishes second in six-team tourney - Travis Ralph (Delmar) led the way for Delaware Tech, earning low-score honors for the tournament in helping the Roadrunners to a second place finish in an April 11 tournament in New Jersey. Ralph shot a 78 to lead Delaware Tech to their best showing ever in a multi-team tournament.

“I was impressed with the way our guys held together as a team. Finishing in second place was definitely a pretty big deal for us,” said Delaware Tech head coach Tom Jackson. “As an individual, I think Travis played an excellent tournament. It was very cold and the course played very difficult, so for him to post a score like he did says a lot.”

The Roadrunners’ next tournament is Thursday, April 19, also in New Jersey.

Raven roundup: Sussex Tech soccer, softball teams earn wins

By Mike McClure The Sussex Tech girls’ soccer team moved to 5-1 overall with a 1-0 non-conference win over Sanford last Saturday. Kylee Rickards scored a first half goal on a pass from Regina Fiacco for the game’s only goal. Raven goalie Katie Nennstiehl made five saves in the win.

Lady Ravens improve to 6-0- The Sussex Tech softball team advanced to 6-0 with a 137 non-conference win over Chambersburg last Saturday. The Ravens pounded out 13 runs on 16 hits in the victory.

Melony Thompson had two hits and four RBIs; Heather Frech added two hits including three-run homer; and Hope Cornell also hit a three-run home run. Brittany Joseph collected three hits including a pair of doubles and scored three runs; Kim Owens had three hits including a double; and Brooke Tull, who earned the win, doubled.

Rescheduled games- The baseball and softball games will play at Sussex Central on May 14 after the games were rained out on April 4. The soccer team’s game at Concord, originally scheduled for March 24, has been rescheduled for May 12. The golf team (4-0) will visit Dover April 30 in a match originally slated for March 22.

Sussex Tech’s Heather Frech, shown making contact with a pitch during a game earlier this season, had a pair of hits including a threerun homer last week in a 13-7 Raven win. Photo by Mike McClure

The Salisbury Salvation Army girls’ basketball team is shown during last month’s Laurel Youth Sports town tournament. Salisbury defeated Laurel in the girls’ championship while the Laurel boys won the boys’ championship. Photo by Mike McClure

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Horsey to play softball, attend Trevecca University

By Mike McClure Laurel senior Amanda Horsey recently signed a letter of intent to attend Trevecca University in Nashville, Tenn. The softball team captain announced she will continue her softball career at the school during a press conference on Tuesday, April 17.

“It’s not every year or two or three that you have a player like Amanda Horsey that comes through,” said Laurel head coach Margo Morris.

Morris remembers one time during Horsey’s time with the softball team when she ripped into her team and later felt bad about it.

According to Morris, Horsey came up to her and thanked her “because we really needed that.”

“I’ve never had a player thank me for ripping into the team,” Morris added.

“She’s just a one in a million player and she’s another coach on the field. She’s not just a team captain.”

“I’m just trying to get them (young players) to understand the game a little more,” said Horsey, who became Laurel’s captain last season as a junior. “It’s a slow process. We have a lot of young talent.”

Amanda met coaches from Trevecca

during a showcase tournament in Florida.

She visited the school and fell in love with the campus and the softball team.

“The team bonds so well, it’s like a big family,” Horsey said. “I wanted to go a little bit away.”

Trevecca is a Division I NIAA school which placed sixth in the nation last year.

This year the team is 41-6 overall and is in first place in its conference with a 23-3 record.

Assistant coach Lisa Bergmann, who was present at the press conference on Tuesday, said Horsey visited the school and practiced with the team. The coaches recognized her talent on the field as well as her hard work and good character.

“We’re looking forward to her coming down to play for us. She’ll be a great addition to our team,” said Bergmann.

Bergmann added that the current team has a pair of senior middle infielders and that Horsey will have an opportunity to fill one of those positions.

“Their intensity and level of their play is high but it will push me to do better,” Horsey said.

Amanda thanked Morris and Sussex Storm travel ball coach Wayne Price for helping to teach her the game.

“If it wasn’t for Miss Morris I would-

Laurel senior shortstop Amanda Horsey is shown at a press conference signing a letter of intent to play softball at Trevecca University in Nashville. Shown (l to r) are: front- Sandy Horsey (Amanda’s mother), Amanda, Wayne Horsey (father); backTrevecca University assistant softball coach Lisa Bergmann, Laurel head coach Margo Morris, and D.W. Horsey (brother). Photo by Mike McClure

n’t be where I am today,” said Horsey.

“I wouldn’t know the game if it wasn’t for him (Price).”

Amanda also said her father, Wayne, and mother, Sandy, have supported her throughout her career. Her father transformed some old chicken houses on the family’s property into a hitting facility and built a also softball field for her. She

spends three or four times a week there working on her game.

“They’re (parents) always pushing me to do my best,” Horsey said.

Morris praised Horsey for her willingness to work on improving her game, the way she faces everything head on, and her loyalty to the Laurel community and Laurel High.

Seaford/Laurel Star Tuesday high school scoreboard Softball- Seaford 10, Lake Forest 0- Winning pitcher Heather Draper allowed two hits and struck out eight in the Blue Jay win.

Draper also went 2-for-3 with a two-run home run and four RBIs. Sussex Tech 12, Delmar 1- Brittany Joseph struck out 12 for the win, Megan Lathbury and Hope Cornell each had three hits and Kim Owens and Brooke Tull added two hits apiece for Tech. Alison Bloodsworth scored the Wildcats’ lone run.

Laurel 8, Cape Henlopen 6- Brittney Brittingham batted 2-for-4 with a home run and five RBIs, Amanda Horsey doubled, and Caitlin Dolby earned the win for the Bulldogs.

Sussex Central 12, Woodbridge 0 Baseball- Seaford 2, Lake Forest 1- Paul Widerman gave up four hits and three walks and struck out 10 in eight innings for the win.

Derrik Gibson went 3-for-4 and hit the game-winning home run in the eighth inning.

Sussex Tech 3, Delmar 2- Seth Hastings doubled in the go ahead run for Sussex Tech which broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the fifth.

Zach Adkins pitched a one-hitter while Delmar hurler Dylan Shupe allowed five hits in the loss.

Sussex Central 16, Woodbridge 1 Golf- Seaford 194, Sussex Central 232- Cory Ewing led the way for the Blue Jays with a 42. Matt Lank (48), Taylor Paul (50), and Ryan Budke (54) also helped Seaford to the win.

Girls’ soccer- Smyrna 6, Seaford 2- Amanda Merritt scored on an assist from Tyler Smith and Lindsay James netted a goal on a feed from Smith as the Jays held a 2-1 lead at the half.

Sussex Central 9, Woodbridge 0 Milford 9, Laurel 0 Boys’ track- Laurel 82, Sussex Central 32, Milford 97, Laurel 49- David Albert placed first in the long jump (19’ 4 1/2”) and triple jump (40’ 8”) and was on the winning 400 meter relay team in the Bulldogs’ win over Sussex Central. Jeremy Bagwell also placed first in the 100 (11.5) and was on the winning 400 meter relay team and L.J. Watts came in first in the 1,600 (5:27) and was on the winning 3,200 meter relay team. Tyrell Whitney also placed first in the shotput (34’3”) and the discus (87’11”).

Sussex Tech 81, Lake Forest 63, Sussex Tech 104, Polytech 37David Ricksecker finished first in the 1,600 (4:59.98) and the 3,200 (11:16) for the Ravens.

Girls’ track- Milford 121, Laurel 6, Sussex Central 42, Laurel 26- Lauren Hitch placed first in the 800 (3:19) and 1,600 (7:06) against Sussex Central. Twila McCrea was first in the 100 (1:07.4) and 200 (28.6).

Sussex Tech 97, Polytech 40- Ellen Rowe came in first in the pole vault (7’6”) and 800 meter run (2:37).

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OBITUARIES Judith A. Doyle, 53 Judith A. Doyle of Laurel died on Thursday, April 12, 2007 at home.

Mrs. Doyle was a receptionist for Callaway, Farnell and Moore in Seaford. She was a member of the American Legion in Laurel and the Moose Lodge in Seaford.

She is survived by her husband of 14 years, Paul J. Doyle Jr., her mother and stepfather, Patricia and Joseph Matthews of Laurel, two brothers, Michael Remeikas of Jessup, Md. and John Remeikas of Lansdowne, Md. Funeral services and burial were private.

Arrangements by the Cranston Funeral Home, Seaford.

Melvin M. White, 85 Melvin M. White passed away peacefully at his home in Federalsburg on Thursday, April 12, 2007.

He was born Sept.

Melvin White 20, 1921 in Oak Grove, a son of Elzie Martin White and Lyda Murphy White.

He was a United States Army Air Force veteran serving from 1942 to 1945, and had worked as a masonry contractor for many years. He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church in Federalsburg, and was also a member of the VFW Post 5246 in Federalsburg.

Besides his parents, he was also preceded in death by a sister Anna Mae Elrick.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Loleta Phillips White, whom he married April 14, 1946, a son, Ronald Melvin White of Federalsburg, two grandchildren, Jason Allen White of Federalsburg and Katie White Harding (Kevin) of Rhodesdale, Md., a great-granddaughter, Kelly Lynn Harding; a brother Donald Lee White of Laurel, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 17, at the Framptom Funeral Home in Federalsburg with the Rev. Dale Evans and the Rev. Conrad Cohen officiating. Interment followed in Hillcrest Cemetery in Federalsburg. A VFW service was also held.

Mary Frances Fleming, 67 Mary Frances Riddle Fleming of Goldsboro, N.C., died Friday, April 13, 2007 at Way Memorial Hospital.

Born in Seaford, a daughter of Willard C. and Clara Horn Riddle, she was formerly employed with Southern Optical. She was a

member of Emmaluel Free Will Baptist Church of La Grange, NC. Predeceased by her parents, she is survived by her husband John Fleming; two daughters, Louise Gerringer and Katherine Fleming, both of Seven Springs, N.C.; a brother, Myron Riddle of Ft. Myers, Fla.; two sisters, Ruth Mitchell of Seaford and Dorothy Baldwin of Ft. Myers, Fla.; three grandchildren, Miguel Fleming, Vernon Gerringer and Jordan Gerringer, nieces and nephews.

A funeral service was held Monday evening, April 16, in Emmanuel Free Will Baptist Church with Pastors Wayne Brown and Randy Herring officiating. A service was held Wednesday evening, April 18, in Watson-Yates FuneralHome , Seaford, where friends called prior to the service. Pastor Wayne Brown officiated. Graveside services were at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, April 19, in Blades Cemetery, Blades.

Memorial gifts may be directed to the Emmanuel Free Will Baptist Church, 5975 US Highway 70 East, LaGrange, NC 28551.

William Dean, 80 William "Bill" Dean of Delmar died Monday, April 2, 2007, surrounded by his loving family at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford.

William Dean Born in Baltimore, he was the son of William and Cleo Thomson Dean.

He was a member of Bay Shore Community Church in Gumboro. In his younger years, he served in the military as a Marine. He was a member of the VFW and American Legion. He served in several wars, including World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He was a Purple Heart recipient. Mr. Dean was also a Merchant Marine and served on the United States Navy Reserve Fleet. He was a deep sea hard hat diver for the Navy, where he retired after 20 years.

He enjoyed teaching at the Harry Linburg School For Seaman in Piney Point, Md. He worked for Stewart Petroleum as a barge captain and Interstate Petroleum. He was also a member of the SIU Union in Philadelphia.

He is survived by his wife, Diana Dean of Delmar; "his girls," Lisa Nero Bozman and her husband Chris, of Hebron and Tracy Nero Evans and her husband Jeff, of Laurel; a sister, Pauline Knight of Baltimore; six grandchildren, Davey Jones, Daniel Jones, Brooke Evans, Jessica Evans,

Hannah Jones and Abbie Evans; two nieces, Karen Scott of Florida and Mary Lou Knight of Baltimore; and three children from a previous marriage, Pat Sinclair, Pauline Riggins and Wayne Dean.

A funeral service is Thursday at 11:30 a.m. at Hannigan, Short and Disharoon Funeral Home, 700 West St. in Laurel, with Pastor Jeff Hudson officiating. Interment will follow in Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Millsboro, where he will receive full military honors. Friends may call from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the funeral home.

Contributions may be sent to the Juvenile Diabetes Association at Hebron Savings Bank, PO Box 59, Hebron, Md. 21830.

Joseph Henry Bailey, 76 Joseph "Joe" Henry Bailey of Millsboro died April 13, 2007 at his home in Millsboro, surrounded by family.

He was born on April 7, 1931, a son of James Bailey and Maggie Ann Mitchell Bailey of Cape Charles, Va. He was unable to finish his education because of the need to help out the family. But even though he had minimal education he was still able to become a successful Lawn Care Business owner for over 31 years, as well as a supervisor at Townsend's Inc. for 20 years.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his loving wife, Emma Margaret "Debbie" Thompson Bailey of 27 years; and two sisters, Betty Bailey of Pennsylvania and Maggie Hall of Seaford.

He leaves four daughters, Melissa Bailey Bridell and her husband Dortan, whom he lived with; Melinda Bailey Wright and her husband Carl, Celina Snead and her devoted friend Lennel Ayers, and Linda Hatchett and her husband Anthony. A brother, Clarence Bailey, and a sister, Connie Robinson of Pennsylvania. Also surviving him are 11 grandchildren, Tylissa, Debra, Degbra, Lesslie, Aubre, Star, Amber, Christin, Carla, Deja, Robert; seven great-grandchildren, Shawn, Jaylyn, Michael, Christian, Jamie, Curtis, Aniles; and two nieces' husbands, Kenneth Frazier, Curtis Fuhr. He also leaves behind two dear friends James Chandler "Chief" and Bartola Gray "Big Loader." He also leaves behind a host of nieces, nephews, and numerous friends.

If you knew "Joe" you always had a friend.

Services are Thursday, April 19, at 2 p.m., at Watson Funeral Home, 211 Washington St., Millsboro where friends may call two hours prior. Pastor Neil Murray from the Lighthouse Christian Center, Seaford, will officiate.

Internment, will be in the Friendship Baptist Cemetery, Lewes.

Arrangements were by Watson Funeral Home, Millsboro.

John Roland Shockley, 81 John Roland Shockley of Laurel passed away on Sunday, April 15, 2007 at his home surrounded by his family.

Born Jan. 26, 1926 in Bishopville, Md., he was a son of Walter Shockley and Katie Duncan Shockley. His family moved to Wilmington, when he was 11 years old, where he obtained his education at P.S. DuPont H.S. and Brown Vocational School.

John proudly served in the US Navy during World War II spending most of his time on the Destroyer USS Barry APD 29.

When it was attacked by Japanese Kamikazes off the Island of Okinawa, Japan, he, along with most of his shipmates were rescued from the seas.

John later worked for Ralston Purina Co. in Wilmington and Delmar, until an accident in 1966 left him disabled. He later enjoyed refinishing furniture and caning, sometimes teaching students at local schools.

John was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church and the American Legion Post 19 in Laurel.

For many years he was active in the Kiwanis Club and received the Chamber of Commerce Out-

standing Citizen Award in 1974 for his part in converting the old Waller Theatre into a community youth center.

In addition to his parents he was predeceased by one grandson Dennis L.Shockley, Jr. and two brothers, Walter Forrest Shockley and Gilbert E. Shockley.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Eva W. Shockley; one son, Dennis L. Shockley and his wife Sharon K. Shockley; a grandson, Christopher Shockley, and two great grandchildren, Dylan C. Shockley and Cassidy A. Shockley, all of Laurel; and one brother Paul Shockley of Somers, Wisc..

A Funeral Service is being held at Centenary United Methodist Church on 200 W. Market St. in Laurel, on Thursday, April 19, at 2 p.m., where friends and family may call one hour prior. The Rev. John Van Tine will officiate. Internment will follow at Odd Fellows Cemetery Laurel.

Contributions can be made in his name to: Alzheimers Association, 2306 Kirkwood Hwy., Wilmington, DE 19980; or Centenary UM Church, 200 W. Market St., Laurel, DE 19956.

Arrangements were handled by the Hannigan, Short, Disharoon Funeral Home, 700 West St., Laurel, DE 19956.

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People Calloway, Morris plan to wed

O’Day, Thomas are married

David Lee and Anna Mae Calloway of Seaford announce the engagement of their daughter, Ronda Lynn Calloway, to Alan Morris, son of Coleen and David Lane of Hurlock, Md. The bride-to-be graduated from North Dorchester High School, Hurlock, Md. She is employed at Country Rest Home.

Her fiancé graduated in Pennsylvania. He is employed at Invista in Seaford.

An April 27 wedding is planned. Invitations will be sent out.

Christine Margaret O’Day and Mark Andrew Thomas were united in marriage July 1, 2006 at Atlanta Road Alliance Church in Seaford. The Rev. Terry Baxley of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, California, Md., officiated the ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Jim and Carol O’Day of Seaford and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O’Day and Mrs. Peggy Hasenei. The groom is the son of Robert and Debbie Thomas of Watkins Glen, N.Y. and grandson of Mrs. Clara Rosen.

The maid of honor was Janice Griffith, sister of the bride. Teresa Blumberg, friend of the bride, was the bridesmaid and Abigail and Elizabeth Krams, cousins of the bride, were flower girls.

The best man was Brian Thomas, brother of the groom. Jim Victor, friend of the groom, was the groomsman, and Brian O’Day, brother of the bride, and Joe Fick, friend of the groom, were ushers.

Kelli O’Day and Renee Thomas, sister-inlaws of the bride & groom were guest book/program attendants.

A dinner reception was held at the church.

Following a honeymoon in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the couple resides in Great Mills, Md.

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Businesses at the complex include an aircraft auxiliary fuel tank installer and a poultry processing company.

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Education Libraries have science and math kits for pre-schoolers

Sixteen students from four technical high schools in Delaware competed in the 2007 statewide Skills USA-VICA competition hosted by Delaware Tech’s Owens Campus Engineering Technology department.

Del Tech hosts VICA contests The winners of the statewide Skills USA-VICA contest for architectural and technical drafting held at the Owens Campus of Delaware Technical & Community College on March 2 were announced at an awards banquet on April 4.

In the technical drafting competition, Lisa Peracchio of Sussex Technical High School won first place, Nick Dimarcello of Hodgson won second, and Cameron Sweeney of Polytech won third. The firstplace winner in the architectural drafting contest was Anthony McAllister of Sussex Tech, followed by Joshua Fader of Delcastle High School and Pamela Milligan of Sussex Tech.

“These competitions allow students to gain hands-on experience with real-world drafting and design problems, and they

also get to see the quality of Delaware Tech’s engineering technology programs and facilities,” said Dr. Doug Hicks, engineering department chair. “Students who are interested in careers in these fields can learn a lot about all the opportunities that are waiting for them after graduation from high school.”

Sixteen students from four technical high schools in Delaware competed in the contests, hosted by the Owens Campus Engineering Technology department. They were judged on problem solving, CAD technique, productivity, technical skills and knowledge of their discipline.

The winners advance to the national Skills USA-VICA competition, held June 22-28, in Kansas City, Mo.

The Delaware Division of Libraries (DDL) has introduced a series of science and math learning kits for children called “What’s the BIG Idea?” that are available for parents, teachers and caregivers to check out from their local public libraries.

Developed by the Vermont Center for the Book and funded by the National Science Foundation, the “BIG Idea” kits are designed to expose children ages 3 to 7 to math and science concepts before they enter school.

Each kit comes in a colorful box with a handle and contains one or two books relating to a specified concept, a set of materials for hands-on learning and an instruction manual. Six kits are currently available in the “What’s the BIG Idea” series: • Recognizing Same and Different • Building • Collecting and Sorting • Number Patterns • Shadows • Patterns and Relationships Everywhere Children are encouraged to explore, and in the process they practice important math and science skills, concepts and language. They learn to observe, measure, estimate, predict, communicate, ask questions and solve problems, among other things. The material is consistent with Delaware’s content standards, giving parents a tool they can use at home to help prepare their children for success in school.

“These kits offer a wonderful introduc-

tion to science and math, and really help parents build their own skills and confidence in working with their children and helping them develop a lifelong love of learning and exploring,” said Annie Norman, state librarian and director of the Division of Libraries.

For example, a kit on building features a set of 100 blocks in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes, as well as the book “Let’s Try it Out With Towers and Bridges” by Seymour Simon and Nicole Fateaux. As the book tells its story, children are encouraged to try building different structures and shapes, and test the strength of different foundations, bridge shapes and materials (including paper and corrugated cardboard). Materials are either included in the kit, or are items that can be found at home.

A kit on “Recognizing Same and Different” includes a collection of items for sorting and the book “Five Creatures” by Emily Jenkins, which describes the many ways that a mom, dad, daughter and two cats are the same and different. The kit teaches children to observe, describe and compare sizes, shapes, quantities, colors and functions; notice similarities and differences; and put objects into groups based on shared attributes.

What’s the BIG Idea? kits are available at public libraries throughout Delaware.

The kits can be reserved online at www.lib.de.us to be picked up at a local library. For more information about What’s the BIG Idea? kits, visit the Web site www.mothergooseprograms.org.

Christian academy grad on dean’s list Seaford resident Jennifer O’Bier has been placed on the dean’s list for the fall 2006 semester at Villa Julie College. To be eligible for placement on the dean’s list, the student must have at least a 3.5 GPA

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Students compete in math, writing, speaking On Friday, March 30, more than 70 students from Epworth Christian School, Laurel, participated in the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) Regional Super Day Activity at Salisbury Christian School, Salisbury, Md. They participated in Math Olympics, Science Fair, Speech Meet and Creative Writing competitions.

Third through eight graders participated in Math Olympics.

Epworth fifth grader T.J. Phillips received a superior rating for his ability in math reasoning. Also, placing in Math Olympics were third graders Angela Baker, Seth Slacum and Laurie Wroten; fourth graders Matthew Dykstra and Ike Wharton; sixth grader Jennifer Baker; and eighth grader Maegan Bourne.

Epworth students who placed in the Middle School Science Fair were Amanda Vannicola, Alexander Gordon, Isabel Wharton and Jennifer Baker. ACSI officials took special note of the entry by Isabel Wharton on the Power of Prayer.

More than 30 students from first through eighth grades participated in the Speech Meet, reciting poems, fables and Bible verses. Receiving superior ratings for their public speaking were Olivia Kane (first grade), Kyle Atkinson

Members of the Owens Campus chapter of Phi Theta Kappa recently attended the national honor society’s regional convention in Valley Forge, Pa. From left: Brian Spencer, president, Suzanne McKaskill, advisor, Ciprian Gherghescu, vice president, Yanina Gulidova, treasurer, and Annie BescheMartin, public relations officer. Not pictured is advisor Kerri Harmon.

Alexandra Murphy, daughter of Corey and Michelle Murphy of Laurel and a fourth grader at Epworth Christian School, accepts a ribbon for superior performance in reciting a poem about Harriet Tubman.

(third grade), Alexandra Murphy (fourth grade) and Megan Gherke (sixth grade). Sixth grader Jennifer Baker will advance to the ACSI Regional Festival after receiving a superior rating for her creative writing entry, “A Christmas Reminder.”

Del Tech students attend honor society’s regional convention Representatives from the Delaware Tech, Georgetown, chapter of Phi Theta Kappa recently attended the organization’s regional convention in Valley Forge, Pa., from March 2-4.

Attending the conference were advisors, officers, members and alumni of Phi Theta Kappa from Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. Phi Theta Kappa is the international honor society for two-year colleges.

“For new inductees and new members, it was a great experience to find out what Phi Theta Kappa is all about,” said Yanina Gulidova, the treasurer for the Owens Campus chapter. “There are other chapters that are involved we can learn from. It’s not only about community work or the work we do on campus, but it’s also about building relationships with your peers from different colleges, different states and different nations.”

Representatives from the Owens Campus Alpha Epsilon Epsilon chapter present at the conference included Gulidova, president Brian Spencer, vicepresident Ciprian Gherghescu, public relations officer Annie Besche-Martin and advisors Suzanne McKaskill and Kerri Harmon.

The Owens Campus chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has inducted 112 new members during the 2006-07 school year.

LHS grad is inducted into honor society Kyle Boyce, son of Blair and Kelley Boyce of Laurel, recently was inducted into Kappa Delta Phi international honor society in

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Tourism office seeks entries for Governor's Awards The Delaware Tourism Office, part of the Delaware Economic Development Office, today announced a call for entries for the 2007 Governor's Tourism Awards, recognizing significant contributions to the state tourism industry in 11 categories.

The Hall of Fame, Travel and Tourism Person of the Year, and Volunteer of the Year awards will recognize individuals and events that have made a significant contribution to the success of the industry through long-term commitment.

Seven additional awards will recognize an organization whose efforts have contributed to the achievement of the industry's common goals as defined by the

Emergency Road Closure for Blanchard Road in Greenwood The Department of Transportation (DelDOT) will close Blanchard Road between Adams Road and Epworth Church Road effective immediately due to crossroad pipe failure. DelDOT's maintenance crews will be removing and replacing the crossroad pipes. The road will re-open on Monday, May 14 or sooner.

Motorists are advised to use the posted detour routes when traveling through the area. Emergency vehicles will have local access.

For more information, visit DelDOT's Web site at www.deldot.gov or tune to WTMC-AM 1380.

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There are awards for each of these goals: Attract, Develop, and Promote.

Awarded annually, individuals and organizations in the tourism industry statewide are eligible.

An award will be presented in each category to an eligible tourism organization or individual that best demonstrates achievement of the industry's goals and objectives.

Each of the following 11 categories focuses on an important aspect of the Delaware tourism industry: • Hall of Fame: Individual Achievement • Hall of Fame: Annual Event • Travel & Tourism Person of the Year • Volunteer of the Year • Best Itinerary • Best Partnership • Best Targeted Demographic Campaign • Best Time-Targeted Campaign • Most Improved Tourism Product • Tourism Advocate Award • Tourism Awareness Award Awards Schedule Entries must be submitted by 4 p.m.

Friday, April 27, 2007. Nominations received after the deadline will not be considered.

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To enter, participants should download the entry form and mail their completed applications to the Delaware Tourism Office.

More information about the awards is also available by contacting JoAnn Walston, Marketing Coordinator, at 302-6726841.

About Delaware Tourism Office The Delaware Tourism Office, 99 Kings Highway in Dover, Del., a division of the Delaware Economic Development Office, promotes tourism and economic growth in Delaware. For more information, visit the official Delaware Tourism Web site at www.visitdelaware.com or call toll-free 866-284-7483.

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On the Record Building Permits • Greenwood Mennonite Conservative, SW/Rt. No. 631, 1550', East of Rt. No. 36, Nanticoke Hundred, Bathroom/Canopy, $80,000 • Douglass and Amy B. Robb, E/Rd. No. 600, 1769', N/Rd. No. 597, Lot No. 1, Nanticoke Hundred, Interior/Exterior Remodel, $80,000 • Johnny B. Farrington, NE/First Street, Corner of NW/Cooper, North West Fork Hundred, Bedroom, $18,480 • Passwaters Farm LLC, Heritage Shores, Lot No. 235, North West Fork Hundred, Dwelling w/Additions, $105,716 • Charles C. Stewart, Bridgeville Farms, Lot No. 13, Nanticoke Hundred, Dwelling w/Additions, $174,175 • Ruby M. West, c/o West Auto Repair, W/Rt. No. 13A, 175', N/Rt. No. 554A, Little Creek Hundred, Office, $26,000 • Raymond K. and Marilyn Anglin, Estates of Carriage Springs, Lot No. 7, Broadkill Hundred, Dwelling w/Additions, $176,446 • Atlantic Land Developers LLC, Chestnut Crossing, Lot NO. 9, Broadkill Hundred, Finish Basement, $739,650 • E. Brent and Bonnie C. Workman, W/Rt. No. 583, Greenwood, North West Fork Hundred, Manure Shed/Farm Use, $14,400 • John R. and Carole Maguire, S/Rt. No. 20, Lot No. 3, Broad Creek Hundred, Pole Barn/Carport, $17,976 • Clifford P. and Ann E. Meyer, N/Rt. No. 244, W/Rt. No. 319, Lot No. 8, Georgetown Hundred, Remodel, $1,325,950 • Angel Edgardo and Margar Alicea, Holly Shores, Lot No. 56, Broad Creek Hundred, Inground Pool/Fence, $51,911

Marraige Licenses Sussex County Clerk of the Peace George Parish joyfully announces the following couples have obtained marriage licenses: • Bartholomew A. Hicks, Georgetown to Yolando E. Short, Bridgeville • Jermaine Charles Holland, Delmar to Kristina Marie Taylor, Salisbury, Md.

• Aaron Thomas Langley, Greenwood to McKenna Amber Calhoun, Greenwood • Bobby Lee Holt, Laurel to Judith Marie Toomey, Laurel • Howard C. Smith, Bridgeville to Betty Jo Webb, Bridgeville • Christopher Scott Huey, Greenwood to Sherry Ann Lapierre, Greenwood

Divorces Family Court of Delaware signed these divorce decrees in Sussex County during March 2007.

• Bernard M. Denson from Laura Smith on March 28.

• Lucretia L. Johnson from Kevin Johnson on March 1.

• Sandra C. Griffin from Sheldon L. Griffin on March 26.

• Linda Dickerson from Edward Dickerson on March 26.

• Mechele J. Brennan from Paul W. Brennan on March 28.

• Heather D. Iacona from Nicholas M. Iacona on March 23.

• Wayne A. Taylor from Donna L. Taylor on March 28.

• Vicki Evans from Andrew W. Evans Jr. on March 7.

• Keith Gray from Jennifer L. Gray on March 28.

• Deborah Ash from Edward L. Ash 2 on March 7.

• Donna Andrew from Phillip E. Andrew on March 16.

• Molly J. Huey from Kevin D. Huey on March 26.

• Melinda T. Trice from Roland M. Warrington on March 20.

• Susan Walker from James E. Whitney II on March 7.

• Kimberlyn L. Satterfield from James W. Satterfield on March 28.

• Victoria Clark from Timothy T. Smith on March 6.

• David Francus from Susan Darling on March 28.

• Deborah M. Taylor from Joshua A. Taylor on March 26.

• Cheryl E. Pickett from Nathaniel B. Pickett on March 7.

• Jeffrey E. Smith from Michelle A. Smith on March 26.

• Angelita R. Jarvis from Robert A. Knox on March 14.

• Michele M. Jessup from James E. Jessup on March 14.

• Andrea Jones from Bechir Baghouli on March 26.

• Louise C. Buller from John R.

Buller on March 26.

• Beth A. Whitaker from Justin L. Whitaker on March 26.

• Wendy F. Shelbourne from Julian B. Shelbourne Jr. on March 6.

• Matthew Esterson from Patricia Esterson on March 26.

• Melissa Mitchell from Dirk A. Moore on March 26.

• Robert J. Jordan Sr. from Tarina Jordan on March 6.

• Renee L. Shuler from Justin A. Shuler on March 20.

• John H. Baine from Anna J. Baine on March 7.

• Carolyn M. Lingo from James D. Lingo on March 26.

• Keith S. Dorey from Leslie M. Dorey on March 26.

• Paul M. Selby from Darla Taylor on March 7.

• Michael J. Duschl III from Rebecca M. Duschl on March 8.

• Margaret A. Cornwell from Everett F. Cornwell on March 28.

• Sherman L. Jackson Jr. from Joyce I. Jackson on March 6.

• Sharon Kelly from Henri M. Blake Sr. on March 1.

• Miguel Domingo from Heather Delauder on March 26.

• Rosa Muniz from Jody E. Pimental on March 6.

• Joseph M. Capaldi from Jenny M. Capaldi on March 26.

• Christina L. Lawrence from Patrick W. Lawrence on March 6.

• Kimberly A. Peden from John C. Peden on March 6.

• Keith Graham from Glenda L. Graham on March 23.

• Myrtle P. Pruitt from Richard Costa on March 28.

• Sammie L. Price from Phycillia Price on March 7.

• Donna L. Fisher from David R. Owens on March 20.

• Particia Donnelly from William G. Silbaugh on March 6.

• Donna L. Zetts from Joseph J. Zetts Jr. on March 20.

• Rory L. Lewis from Judy M. Lewis on March 26.

• Antonio M. Winder from Ursula Farlow on March 2.

• Georgia Truitt from Elmo R. Lancaster on March 26.

• Ellen Tate from Calvin G. Whitney Sr. on March 6.

• John C. Siegrist from Danielle Lucietto on March 26.

• Brock E. Parsons from Dedra S. Parsons on March 28.

• Robert J. Robinson from Lisa M. Robinson on March 26.

• Joyce Bedard from Melvin J. Wheatley on March 26.

• Harvey M. Toomey Jr. from Judith M. Toomey on March 26.

• Amy Hickman from William J. Willey Sr. on March 23.

• Julie Phelps from Jason M. Russell on March 7.

• Robert L. Hearn from Virginia D. Hearn on March 26.

• Lesley H. Miller from David R. Miller on March 26.

• Timothy M. Benchoff from Lisa M. Benchoff on March 20.

• Victoria Schmitt from David J. Schmitt Jr. on March 26.

• Dean S. Baslenkoff-Elder from Jennifer M. Baslenkoff-Elder on March 23.

Deeds • 10/27/06, Joseph and Stephanie Burke to Edwin T. and Leila R. Engman, Unit No. 87, Yacht Basin Road, Phase II, Bethany Marina Townhouse, condos, Baltimore Hundred, $550,000 • 11/06/06, Miller and Smith Homes at the Peninsula LLC to John R. and Linda C. Kurpjuweit, Unit No. 21, Phase 8.2, The Veranda, The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay, condos, Indian River Hundred, $902,245 • 10/27/06, U.S. Home Corporation to Raymond F. Jr. and Elizabeth W. Coakley, Lot No. 122, Phase I, Heritage Shores, Town of Bridgeville, subdivision, Northwest Fork Hundred, $320,690 • 10/30/06, U.S. Home Corporation to Christopher A. and Patricia A. Morton, Lot No. 47, The Hamlet at Dirickson Pond, subdivision, Baltimore Hundred, $670,990

• 10/27/06, U.S. Home Corporation by Larry M. Weaver to Judith A. Martin, Lot No. 413, Phase II, Heritage Shores, Town of Bridgeville, subdivision, Northwest Fork Hundred, $184,990 • 10/30/06, U.S. Home Corporation to Muriel K. Waite, Lot No. 366, Phase II, Heritage Shores, Town of Bridgeville, subdivision, Northwest Fork Hundred, $169,990 • 10/27/06, U.S. Home Corporation to Joseph M. and Deborah N. Bevando, Lot No. 55, The Hamlet at Dirickson Pond, subdivision, Baltimore Hundred, $659,140 • 10/27/06, Bayville Shores Associates, L.L.C. to Jay N. and Judith S. Eskovitz, Unit No. 117, Building No. 40, Stage No. 39, Bayville Shores, condos, Baltimore Hundred, $755,000 • 10/31/06, Banning and Associates, LLC to Terrance M. and Maria A. Morawski, Lot Nos. 5455, Beaver Dam Heights, subdivision, Seaford Hundred, $225,000 • 11/03/06, Tilan Development, LLC to Abba First, LLC, parcel, Town of Seaford, Seaford Hundred, $31,500 • 11/02/06, Joseph M. Caboot, jr. to Aaron J. and Nicole M. Marchincin, Lot No. 4, Lands of William A. Hill, subdivision, Seaford Hundred, $167,900 • 10/27/06, Anthony A. and Celeste Andrews to Robert T. and Virginia Willing, Lot Nos. 6-7, River Vista, subdivision, Broad Creek Hundred, $173,000 • 11/06/06, Linda S. J. Schafer, f/k/a Linda S. Johnson to James I. Johnson, Lot No. 1, Lands of Linden E. Marvel, Wil-Mar Village, Town of Seaford, subdivision, Seaford Hundred, $143,000 • 11/01/06, Alfred and Joan Whaley to Marian Lorraine Morris, parcel, Seaford Hundred, $50,000 • 11/07/06, RuthAnn Gray to Ralph A. and Angela M. Zebley, Lot No. 5, Lands of Ruth Ann Gray, subdivision, Northwest Fork Hundred, $60,000

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Police Journal State Police warning of Hitman Email Scam Delaware State Police are warning the public about a threatening email scam that some Delaware businesses have reported receiving. The email claims to be from a hitman and demands money in exchange for the safety of the receiver’s life.

This is a new variation of the typical email fraud scam that attempts to trick the victim into sending money to an individual or bank account.

Delaware State Police detectives are currently investigating the source of these emails. Anyone who receives this type of email is urged to immediately delete it. If you fall victim to this type of scam report it to the Internet Crimes Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov/complaint/.

Do not respond to these types of emails and do not give out personal information. The goal of these scams is to steal your identity and money.

Five arrested during drug investigation The Delaware State Police Drug Task Force (DTF) along with the Governor’s Task Force (GTF) concluded a two-month undercover investigation with the arrest of five suspects on numerous drug charges.

On Tuesday, April 10, at approximately 9 p.m., officers stopped a 2004 Lincoln LS as it pulled into a driveway in Pepper Ridge Mobile Home Park. The front seat passenger in the vehicle, Billy Mumford, fled on foot from the vehicle and threw two plastic baggies underneath it. After a short foot pursuit, Mumford was apprehended and taken into custody. The two baggies that he attempted to discard were located and one contained approximately 71.3 grams of crack cocaine and the other contained 2.2 grams of marijuana.

Billy Mumford, 27, of Frankford, was charged with trafficking in cocaine, possession with intent to deliver cocaine, maintaining a vehicle, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest and possession of marijuana. Mumford was committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution in lieu of $49,000 secured bond.

At approximately 9:50 p.m., officers executed a search warrant for a home located on Dorothy Circle in Denton Manor outside of Ocean View. During the search, officers located four pipes that were allegedly used to smoke crack cocaine and numerous fireworks. The occupants of the home, Kimberly M. Zingo, 42, and John W. Shaw II, 25, were each charged with four counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, conspiracy 3rd degree and possession of fireworks.

Zingo was released on $3,000 un-

secured bond. Shaw was committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution in lieu of $2,000 bond.

At approximately 9:50 p.m., officers also executed a search warrant at a home on Sylvan Vue Drive outside of Dagsboro. During a search of the home, officers located approximately 11.9 grams of cocaine, a digital scale and other miscellaneous drug paraphernalia. The two occupants of the home had fled prior to the arrival of the police; however, they were subsequently apprehended and arrested on April 11.

Glenn C. Barmore, 43, and Karen M. Meckley, 37, were each charged with trafficking in cocaine, possession with intent to deliver cocaine, maintaining a dwelling, conspiracy 2nd degree and three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Barmore and Meckley were committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution in lieu of $29,500 bonds.

Khat dealer indicted on Federal Drug Charges On April 12, Mohamedkamal Kabira was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he possessed with the intent to distribute a plant known as "Khat," which contains Cathinone, a Schedule I controlled substance.

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"Khat" is a large shrub grown in southern Arabia and eastern Africa, primarily in the countries of Somalia, Yeman, Kenya and Ethiopia. The leaves of the plant contain the alkaloids Cathinone, a Schedule I controlled substance, and Cathine, a schedule IV controlled substance.

Khat is purchased from farmers in the Horn of Africa for approximately $.50 a pound, and then is sold for approximately $100 per pound to middlemen in Europe where it is legal. It is then shipped to the United States, where it generally sells for $150 to $300 per pound.

The availability of Khat in the United States has been increasing since 1995. According to the Federal Drug Seizure System, law enforcement seizures of Khat increased from 14 metric tons in 1995 to more than 37 metric tons in 2001.

According to the El Paso Intelligence Center, seizures of 32, 39, 37, 54, 47, and 32 metric tons of Khat occurred in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and through September 2005, respectively.

On March 16, 2007, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Smyrna Police Department executed a search warrant, and located 40 large cardboard boxes in a storage facility rented by Mohamedkamal Kabira.

The boxes contained approximately 700 pounds of what appeared to be Khat. The Khat

seized would be valued at approximately $105,000 to $210,000.

On March 20, Kabira was arrested on federal drug charges.

United States Attorney Colm F. Connolly remarked that this case is the first Khat prosecution in Delaware.

Prostitution, drug charges In a continuing response to citizen and area residents’ complaints, on Thurday, April 12, Seaford Police Dept. Criminal Investigations Division and members of the Dover Police Department’s Vice Unit conducted another joint undercover operation into prostitution in the Front Street area of Seaford.

The Seaford Police Dept. will continue enforcement efforts into this type of illegal activity.

Seven individuals were arrested on charges including prostitution, soliciting a prostitute, drinking and driving, criminal impersonation, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, maintaining a vehicle for keepinig a controlled substance, possession within 300 feet of a church and within 1,000 feet of a school, and driving while suspended.

The ages of the prostitutes were 48 and 50 years. Those arrested for soliciting a prostitute ranged in age from 25 to 44 years old.

Those arrested live in Seaford (4), Milton, Salisbury (Md.) and Laurel.

Greenwood fire investigated The Delaware State Fire Marshal’s Office investigated a mobile home fire that occurred on Monday, April 16, at approximately 5:22 a.m. in the 700 block of Todds Chapel Road in Greenwood.

The Greenwood, Bridgeville and Farmington fire departments responded to the scene. Upon arrival they encountered heavy fire showing.

The home, owned by Edgar Jones, was occupied by Robert Finkbinder at the time of the fire.

The home was equipped with working smoke detectors.

The fire destroyed the mobile home and spread to a motor home and shed located behind the residence. The Red Cross was contacted to assist with housing for the victim.

State Fire Marshal’s investigators have determined that the fire originated in the north bedroom and was caused by an electrical system failure. Damages have been estimated at $25,000.

Two injured in accident The Delaware State Police Collision Reconstruction Unit (CRU) is investigating a single vehicle crash that has left two men in critical condition. The crash occurred Monday, April 16, at approximately 6:03 p.m., on

Sussex County Road 388 (Deer Run Road) south of Roxana.

A 2002 Hyundai Sonata operated by Keith O. Bunting, 42, of Selbyville, was traveling east on CR 388 at an apparent high rate of speed.

As Bunting passed a slower moving car in front of him, in a no passing zone, he lost control of the vehicle. The Hyundai then traveled off the south edge of the roadway and struck a tree head on.

Bunting, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was admitted to Peninsula Regional Medical Center (PRMC) in critical condition with multiple internal injuries.

A passenger in the Hyundai, Edward R. Lynch II, 40, of Selbyville, was also admitted to PRMC in critical condition with multiple internal injuries. Mr. Lynch had been wearing a seatbelt.

Alcohol involvement is suspected in the crash on the part of Bunting, police said.

Robbery, endangerment Delaware State Police are investigating an attempted robbery and reckless endangering incident that occurred Friday, April 13, at approximately 9:30 p.m., in the parking lot of Hickory Tree Apartments, Selbyville.

Earlier in the evening, the suspect and two male victims had

been shooting pool at an establishment in the Georgetown area.

The three went to a friend’s house in the Georgetown area where a third male joined them.

All four then left this location to return the suspect to Hickory Tree Apartments.

Upon arrival at the suspect’s residence, the suspect went inside to allegedly get some beer. The suspect returned to the vehicle and got back inside, then displayed a long barreled handgun and waved it around the inside of the vehicle. The suspect pointed the gun at one of the victims and demanded money. This victim along with one of the other victims then got out of the vehicle and fled. The suspect began chasing the victim. While in pursuit he allegedly fired two shots.

The two victims were able to get away from the suspect and were eventually picked up by the third victim who had remained with the vehicle. The suspect fled the area and his whereabouts are unknown.

Raymond L. Morris, 27, of Hickory Tree Apartments, is currently wanted by the state police for attempted robbery 1st degree, two counts of reckless endangering 1st degree, three counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a deadly weapon by a person prohibited.

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be provided. Central Worship Center is located at 14545 Sycamore Road in Laurel, Delaware. For more information contact the church office at 8757995.

Healing and Miracle Services Messiah's Vineyard Church, Laurel, will have Healing and Miracle services on April 29.

Come and join us with Pastor Billy Burke, from Billy Burke World Outreach, for a life-changing healing and miracle service on Sunday morning, April 29, at 9:30 a.m., and Sunday evening, April 29, at 7 p.m. For more information visit www.billyburke.org.

Dr. Carl G. Vincent is Senior Minister, and Pastor Barry B. Dukes is Senior Pastor at the church, 875-4646.

National Day of Prayer On May 3rd at 12:15 p.m., the National Day of Prayer will be observed at the Seaford City Hall at 414 High Street in Seaford.

The services are expected to last approximately 30 minutes. Information can be obtained by calling the City of Seaford at 629-9173, or Richard Huston at 629-8778.

Bridgeville Prayer Breakfast The Kiwanis Club of Bridgeville will continue its sponsorship for the Community Prayer Breakfast. It will be held this year on Saturday, May 5, 8 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Union United Methodist Church, Market and Laws streets, Bridgeville. A delicious, all you can eat, buffet breakfast will be prepared and served by the church kitchen staff, followed by an inspirational speaker and special music. Tickets are $9 and are available at no charge from Corporate Sponsors while they last.

Our committee on Human and Spiritual Values oversee this program each year during the National Week of Prayer. Also, this annual program supports the objects of Kiwanis International, which, in part, includes the following: "To give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life. To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships. We strive to build better communities with sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and goodwill." Call Ralph at 337-8274 for more information.

Church Spring Festival May 5 Circle May 5 on your calendar for the Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church Spring Festival. Serving will be from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Menu includes oyster fritter, chicken salad and hot dog sandwiches, homemade vegetable soup, homemade ice cream and various bake items. The church is located on Mt. Pleasant Road approximately 3 miles west of Laurel off of Rt. 24. Carry-outs are available during the same hours.

Yard sale and car wash May 5 Christ United Methodist Church, 510 S. Central Ave., Laurel, will hold a yard sale and car wash on May 5, from 8 a.m. till 1 p.m. There will be scrapple sandwiches, hot dogs and hamburgers. For more information call 875-4233.

St. John's host dinner St. John's Methodist Men's Group is having a chicken and dumpling dinner in the Fellowship Hall Saturday, April 21. Call Jim Thompson at 629-3711 for tickets or call the church office.

Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children.

Union UMC Indoor Yard Sale Huge indoor yard sale in the Fellowship Hall of Union United Methodist Church located at 2 North Laws Street, Bridgeville on Saturday, April 21, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Too many "treasures" to list. For more information call the church office at 337-7409.

5, at 6 p.m. featuring, Jerry Jones, Kings Ambassadors, Cassandra Abbott and Tammy Bradford. Food and drinks will be available. For further information call 841-7589.

Old Christ Church opening Historic Old Christ Church welcomes everyone for Sunday morning worship at 9:30 a.m. from May 27 through Oct. 7. The church is located on Chipman's Pond Road off Rt. 24, Laurel.

The church is on the Historic Register, built in 1771 and original as it was in that period.

Laurel Baptist Concert Laurel Baptist Church is hosting its annual Spring Sing Sensation. Guest singers are The Girls, Revived, The O'Day Family and Frank Silva. The concert will be on April 22, at 7 p.m.

Come for a night of Praising the Lord. For more information, call Gertrude Smith at 875-7998.

'Greater Love' Sunday, April 22, at 11 a.m., the Seaford Church of the Nazarene at 520 South Dual Highway (Rt. 13 next to the Guide) is hosting the "Greater Love Quartet" in concert. All are welcome to join us in worship and celebration as we experience the ministry of this wonderful southern gospel quartet. Admission is free. A love offering will be received. For more information, call 629-3929 or 302-381-

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Trinity United Methodist Church in Laurel will host a Gospel Concert on Saturday, May

Centenary United Methodist Church, Poplar & Market Streets, Laurel, is hosting Christian music each Saturday beginning at 6 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the church. Bruce and Nancy Willey are presenting live Christian music, fellowship, and refreshments.

April Guest Singers: April 21: Sierra Spicer, "All 4 Him" Group, Dawn Hopkins, "Pink Grass" (all female bluegrass group).

April 28: "Lights of Home," Ray & Trevor Marine, Gospel Café first annual BBQ (outside).

Every week, Mary Ann Young joins us!

For more information, call the Church office at 875-3983 or Bruce Willey at 875-5539.

Cup of Joy Coffeehouse Friday, April 27, from 7-9 p.m. Coffee, music, and connection with Christian people is available, at the Seaford Church of the Nazarene. There will be an Open Mic from 7-9 p.m. Unplugged instruments (aka acoustical) only. Seaford Church of the Nazarene is located at 520 South Dual Highway. For information call 629-3929 or 302-381-6514.

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Galestown United Methodist Church will have a hymn sing Sunday, April 29 at 2 P.M. featuring The Lights of Home and Randy Marine.

There will be an afternoon of song, praise and fellowship. A buffet style hot meal will be held immediately following the service.

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fast buffet will be held in honor of Edward H. Butler, Jr., Mayor of the City of Seaford, at the Seaford Golf & Country Club.

Speaker for the special event will be Randy Chambers of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the newly renamed Seaford Mission in Seaford. The Mission, which serves men returning to independent living after substance abuse or incarceration, is now known as Mission of Hope. It is located on North Street in Seaford.

This program has been serving the community as The Seaford Mission for the last 11 years.

The program has an impressive rate of success and instills self confidence through the teachings of the Bible.

Its emphasis is on spiritual healing, education, behavior modification and training for the workplace.

Tickets for the prayer breakfast are $15 and benefit the Mission, which also feeds the homeless daily.

Tickets are available in Seaford at the Mission of Hope, at Trinity Transport, at the Seaford Chamber of Commerce and at the office of the Seaford Mayor & Council.

They will also be sold at the door. That's Wednesday, May 9 at 7 a.m. at the Seaford Golf & Country Club. For more information, call 629-2559.

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A yard and bake sale, will be on Saturday, April 21, beginning at 7 a.m., at Bethel Worship Center, Rt. 13, 1-1/2 miles north of Wal-Mart at Ginger Lane, across from Burton's Chrysler, Seaford.

Scrapple sandwiches, hot dogs and drinks available.

Information call 628-4240, or 629-7118. All proceeds go to help needy families.

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Students find out that math really is worth learning Greenwood Mennonite School, Greenwood, recently hosted a “What In The World” program, presented by the Delaware Business, Industry, and Education Alliance. The program is designed to expose elementary school students to careers that require a science, math, or technology background.

The program was held for fifth through eighth grade and was attended by approximately 80 students.

The presenters were a varied group with substantial experience in their fields.

Each presenter brought an object that was not easily recognized by the students in the context that the presenter was showing it. Then the presenters explained how the object would help them to do their job and

how math, science, or technology is important to their work.

The presenters spoke for about 10 minutes to a group of students. The students rotated to other presenters to be exposed to a wide base of careers.

At this program, Wayne Kling, a civil engineer from the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT), explained how important his job is to the state, while teaching the students just why manhole covers are round.

Robert Mitchell, apiary inspector from the Delaware Department of Agriculture, brought a bee colony and explained how important honey bees are to Delaware’s economy.

At another table, Melinda Huffman,

Colorectal Cancer Care coordinator from Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, showed students pictures and implements that she uses in her job while detailing the many educational routes that can be taken today to become a nurse.

Paula Chaffinch Moore, from the Delaware State Fire School, demonstrated the breathing apparatus that firefighters use.

Workers with the Sussex County Emergency Operations Center illustrated what they do at the 911 center and how imperative it is to use their services correctly.

Anna Montone, of DelDOT’s Environmental Studies group, used models and water to show how necessary wetlands are for our environment and how DelDOT

plans around them when building roads.

Joe Green, from the Delaware Electric Cooperative, Greenwood, had his laptop computer, on which students could type their addresses and see their houses on the screen. He used the computer to demonstrate how much the utility company depends on technology.

Sam Slabaugh, financial planner from EST Financial Inc., had the students come up with ways to become rich.

Volunteers are being recruited for this program in Sussex County. Anyone interested should contact Robin Agar, BIE Alliance, 202 Acorn Forest Drive, Felton, DE, 19943. She can be reached by phone at 302-284-8141, by fax at 302-284-2826 and by e-mail at robinagar@hotmail.com.

Habitat gets help in building Concord Village house

Above, the Sussex County Habitat for Humanity construction crew preparing the foundation for the house. From left: Bob Patterson, Tony Etze, Bob Hazeltine, Bob Kellner and Louis Raymos. Below, volunteers raise the first wall of the house. From left: Steve Poole, Ken Cooke, Carolyn Doong (Buffini and Company volunteers); Michael Stein (Habitat volunteer); an unknown Buffini and Company volunteer; Imelda Puac (Habitat partner); Tony Etze and Bob Kellner (Habitat volunteers); and Matt Godbey (Buffini and Company).

Sussex County Habitat for Humanity held a week-long Blitz Build beginning Saturday, April 7, in partnership with Buffini and Company of Carlsbad, Calif.

The company provided labor and supplies to build a house in Habitat’s Concord Village in Seaford.

Buffini and Company is one of the top real estate companies in the nation. In 2006, it entered into a partnership with Habitat for Humanity International to build four homes in Baton Rouge for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

In 2007, the company pledged to build 12 homes in seven months throughout the United States. Concord Village was chosen as one of the 12 sites.

Above, Imelda Puac, a Habitat family partner, works off some of her ‘sweat equity,’ required by every new homeowner. Left, Carolyn Doong, a volunteer with Buffini and Company, pounds a nail. Photos by Jessica Clark, Habitat volunteer.

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Students to host Bowl-a-Thon for Shiloh House of Hope As a requirement for their Honors English 9 class taught by Penny AustinRichardson, students must complete a group project that performs a community service.

Three of these Seaford High School freshmen, Katie Hickey, Michael Cherrix and Danielle Levredge, have chosen to host a bowl-a-thon to raise money for the Shiloh House of Hope in Bridgeville.

This will be held on Wednesday, May 2, at 6:30 p.m. at Seaford Bowling Lanes.

The students hope local businesses will sponsor teams to compete for fun and to raise money for this great cause.

They chose this project because Katie and Michael love to bowl and have bowled together on leagues at Seaford Bowling Lanes for several years.

Although there are many deserving causes, they decided on Shiloh House of Hope due to the help and hope they provide to local teens.

Shiloh House of Hope is a local nonprofit based on the National House of Hope in Orlando, Florida.

Its purpose is to provide a safe haven

where hurting teens can receive Christcentered counseling and education to bring healing to them and their families.

Many teens in the area are living with broken families, abuse, eating disorders or substance abuse, and Shiloh House gives them a place for hope. It is currently operating during regular business hours, but is in the process of getting donated farmland ready to house a residential program.

They students hope many people will come out for a fun evening of bowling for all ages.

Team Certificates will be presented and door prizes have been donated. Those partipating don’t have to be great bowlers, just come for fun for a great cause, the organizers said.

The cost is $20 per person, $80 for a team of four, and includes three games of bowling and shoe rental.

Please contact Katie Hickey (6293701), Michael Cherrix (875-4700) or Danielle Levredge (628-3518) to sign up.

You may sign up a team or just as an individual and the organizers will place you with a team.

Katie Hickey, Michael Cherrix and Danielle Levredge, have chosen to host a bowl-athon to raise money for the Shiloh House of Hope in Bridgeville.

2007 ‘Swinging With a Star’ Annual Greenwood Spring Women’s Golf Tournament Festival Saturday, June 2 Participants in the 2007 Swingin' With A Star Golf Tournament, benefiting the Fund for Women at the Delaware Community Foundation and the Christiana Care Breast Center Special Needs Fund, will Whitworth tee it up with two of the best-known players in women's golf.

The "star" of this year's 16th annual women's golf tournament is Kathy Whitworth. Her career includes 88 victories, six major championships, eight leading money-winning titles and 7 LPGA Player of the Year awards. Kathy will join LPGA Hall of Famer Betsy Rawls for the event, which will be played on Monday, June 18, 2007, at the DuPont Country Club. Rawls is a Delaware resident and co-founder of the Swingin' With A Star Tournament.

Whitworth will hit a shot with each group playing the 17th hole. The famous

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The 2007 Swingin' With A Star Tournament also features an important format change. Play will begin this year at 11:30 a.m. Snacks will be available before play begins and box lunches will be provided for participants.

Players or businesses interested in participating or contributing items for the auction may email Beryl Barmore at: bbarmore@wilmingtontrust.com.

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The day begins with an old-fashioned, All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m. At 9 a.m. the outdoor booths open featuring hundreds of items including fresh-made foods, chicken barbecue, pork barbecue, seafood - including crab cakes, baked goods, handcrafted items, books, plants, crafts; plus a petting zoo, children's games and rides, a quilting demonstration, a white elephant booth, and more.

A car show will also be featured this year, along with antique tractors, softball or basketball tournaments, the popular Spring Festival Auction, various entertainment on the main stage, and helicopter rides.

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A time to heal follows A good credit score another senseless act is worth the discipline Gov. Ruth Ann Minner ordered that U.S. and Delaware flags be RYANT ICHARDSON lowered to half-staff in memory of those killed in Monday’s tragic Our young people have the shootings on the campus of Virright idea about what needs ginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The to be done to begin the healorder is in conjunction with a ing process and what needs White House proclamation orderto be done to make sure that ing that U.S. flags be flown at half- such a tragedy does not take staff until sunset Sunday, April 22. place again.

“We are all deeply saddened by the tragic events that took place at noon. Prayers were offered for our young Virginia Tech this week,” Minner said. people, the families of the victims in the “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Virginia Tech shooting. families of those who died, as well as to And so it goes. A nation is in mourning the survivors and their families. This was over the loss of so many innocent lives. devastating news for not only the Virginia And while those in authority try to underTech community but for our nation, as stand what went wrong in the mind of 23well, and we mourn with all of those peryear-old Cho Seung-Hui, others are beginsonally affected by this tragedy.” ning the healing process.

In an article on page 5 of this edition of U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (Dthe Star newspapers, Kyle Johnston of DE) issued the following statement: Seaford, a graduate of Epworth Christian "Today's horrific events at Virginia School, has these words to say: Tech have shocked us all. There are few “I will try to be aware of the people comforting words in such senseless times around me,” he said. “If I see someone as these. Our humble thoughts and prayers with no friends, I will try to befriend him. go out to the victims' families and loved I will try my best to be nice to him.” ones. We will grieve as a nation together Kyle lives in the same dorm building, with all those affected by this terrible two floors down from the fourth-floor tragedy." room where the first shooting took place.

Our young people have the right idea Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) issued the about what needs to be done to begin the following statement late Monday, noting healing process and what needs to be done that last year his family visited the campus to make sure that such a tragedy does not with their son while touring prospective take place again. colleges: Metal detectors, police in hallways, “The events at Virginia Tech are heartstricter gun control laws, none of these breaking. My thoughts and prayers are measures will prevent such tragedies. with the families and friends of those who Some kindness, some thoughtfulness, can were killed and injured today. I join with do immeasurable good. the people of Delaware and the nation in

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In response to the tragic events at Virginia Tech, a vigil was held Tuesday evening at the University of Delaware in Newark at Memorial Hall on The Green.

The vigil was led by members of the University’s religious community.

The Rev. Laurie Hiller Brumbaugh at the Seaford Presbyterian Church, 701 Bridgeville Highway, Seaford, held a Prayer Time on Wednesday, April 18, at

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We will heal as a nation, but we must not forget that the unspeakable can occur at any time and we need to be sensitive to the needs of those around us.

And we must not forget that this nation has a wealth of young people who are decent and caring.

There are stories of young people who put themselves at risk and some who died to protect others.

I hope their actions are what is remembered as the nation works through the healing process.

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✳ APRIL 19 - 25, 2007

PAGE 59

Seven-Day forecast for Western Sussex County Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Tides Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Clouds and sun, a shower; cool

A blend of sun and clouds

Nice with brilliant sunshine

Mostly sunny and beautiful

Times of clouds and sun

Mostly cloudy

Intervals of clouds and sunshine

54/37

55/37

64/39

67/44

70/50

72/58

76/56

Almanac Statistics through Tuesday April 17 at Georgetown, Delaware

Temperatures

Precipitation

High for the week . . . . . . . . . . .

Low for the week . . . . . . . . . . .

Normal high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Normal low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Average temperature . . . . . . . .

. 65° . 28° . 63° . 40° 46.4°

Total for the week . . . . . . . . . . 2.89” Total for the month . . . . . . . . . . 3.85” Normal for the month . . . . . . . . 1.89” Total for the year . . . . . . . . . . 13.34”

Smyrna 54/39 Dover 50/39

Time 6:58 a.m.

11:11 a.m.

6:02 p.m.

1:08 p.m.

Apogee Perigee Apogee Perigee

Date June 24 July 9 July 22 August 3

. . . . . . .

. . . . . . .

Rise .6:21 a.m. .6:20 a.m. .6:19 a.m. .6:17 a.m. .6:16 a.m. .6:15 a.m. .6:13 a.m.

First Apr 24

Harrington 53/39

Time 10:26 a.m.

5:39 p.m.

4:44 a.m.

7:53 p.m.

Milford 53/39 Greenwood 54/37

Lewes 53/38

Bridgeville 54/37

Sun and Moon Sun Thursday .

Friday . . . .

Saturday . .

Sunday . . .

Monday . .

Tuesday . .

Wednesday

. . . . . . .

Set .7:43 p.m. .7:43 p.m. .7:44 p.m. .7:45 p.m. .7:46 p.m. .7:47 p.m. .7:48 p.m.

High 3:57 a 4:48 a 5:41 a 6:37 a 7:39 a 8:47 a 9:57 a

Low High 10:55 a 4:23 p 11:48 a 5:14 p 12:44 p 6:08 p 12:43 a 7:05 p 1:45 a 8:10 p 2:54 a 9:20 p 4:05 a 10:29 p

Low 10:54 p 11:46 p —1:43 p 2:46 p 3:51 p 4:51 p

Vienna, MD

The moon, and its relative distance to the Earth, affects tides on a monthly basis. When the moon is farthest from the Earth (apogee), tides of decreased range or currents of decreased speed occur.

When the moon is closest to the Earth (perigee), the occurrence of increased range or currents of speed is more prevalent.

Date April 30 May 15 May 27 June 12

Day Thurs.

Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues.

Wed.

Sharptown, MD Shown is Thursday’s weather.

High Low High Low Temperatures are Thursday’s highs Day and Thursday night’s lows.

Thurs. 7:16 a 12:56 a 7:42 p 1:48 p Fri. 8:07 a 1:47 a 8:33 p 2:41 p Sat. 9:00 a 2:39 a 9:27 p 3:37 p Sun. 9:56 a 3:36 a 10:24 p 4:36 p Mon. 10:58 a 4:38 a 11:29 p 5:39 p Tues. 12:06 p 5:47 a —- 6:44 p Wed. 12:39 a 6:58 a 1:16 p 7:44 p

Apogee and Perigee

Apogee Perigee Apogee Perigee

Nanticoke River Roaring Point, MD

Moon Rise Thursday . . . .7:26 a.m.

Friday . . . . . . .8:15 a.m.

Saturday . . . . .9:13 a.m.

Sunday . . . . .10:18 a.m.

Monday . . . .11:25 a.m.

Tuesday . . . .12:32 p.m.

Wednesday . . .1:37 p.m.

Full May 2

Last May 10

Set .11:02 p.m. . . . . . .none .12:14 a.m. . .1:14 a.m. . .2:02 a.m. . .2:40 a.m. . .3:11 a.m.

SEAFORD 54/37 Blades 54/37

Rehoboth Beach 51/37 Georgetown 54/37 Concord 54/37 Laurel 54/37 Delmar 55/37

Millsboro 54/37

Bethany Beach 50/38 Fenwick Island 51/38

New May 16

Day High Low High Thurs. 6:38 a 12:18 a 7:04 p Fri. 7:29 a 1:09 a 7:55 p Sat. 8:22 a 2:01 a 8:49 p Sun. 9:18 a 2:58 a 9:46 p Mon. 10:20 a 4:00 a 10:51 p Tues. 11:28 a 5:09 a —Wed. 12:01 a 6:20 a 12:38 p

Low 1:10 p 2:03 p 2:59 p 3:58 p 5:01 p 6:06 p 7:06 p

Rehoboth Beach Day High Thurs. 8:53 a Fri. 9:44 a Sat. 10:36 a Sun. 11:31 a Mon. 12:06 a Tues.

1:11 a Wed. 2:19 a

Low High Low 2:51 a 9:20 p 2:48 p 3:45 a 10:12 p 3:39 p 4:41 a 11:07 p 4:33 p 5:41 a —- 5:33 p 6:43 a 12:32 p 6:36 p 7:46 a 1:40 p 7:42 p 8:46 a 2:51 p 8:48 p

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