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News GOOD NEWS - In May, state Rep. Ben Ewing was told that he had two years to live. Today, no such death sentence hangs over his head. Page 2 CONCERT - A concert presented by the Southern Delaware Choral Society will begin at Old Christ Church at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Page 3 GOOD REPORT - Seaford ended the 2008 fiscal year with a $283,000 surplus. Page 5 VICTORIAN - Music at the Mansion is the theme for the 2008 Victorian Christmas. Page 12 SPORTSMANSHIP - The Woodbridge School Board heard the first reading of the district’s new ‘Sportsmanship Policy.’ Page 13 CLASS ACTS - Seaford High School’s thespians are using their acting skills and a bit of pixie dust to bring “Peter Pan and Wendy." Page 28 HEROES - There is something special in our Western Sussex community, something that demands that we stop for at least a few minutes and give it its due. See Editorial, page 54. STAR SEARCH - Looking for Morning Star's office? See details of our move on page 54.
Sports WINTER SPORTS - The winter sports season begins Friday. Preview stories begin on page 41. CHAMPIONSHIP - Laurel faced Milford in the Division II state championship game last Friday in Dover. See how the Bulldogs fared on page 45.
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FLIP TOP - The steeple was removed from Mt. Olivet Church in downtown Seaford on Tuesday, Nov. 25. According to a spokesperson, the church originally wanted to renovate the steeple, but when construction began, the wood supporting the steeple was found to be rotting. The contractors working on the church, George W. Plummer and Son and TJF and Sons, devised a plan to reinforce the steeple and lift it off without risking damage to the tower. The church does not plan to replace the steeple. Photo by Daniel Richardson
Caroling in the Park celebration included a tribute to our heroes By Lynn R. Parks Standing in the soft light of the newly-lit Christmas tree, Carol James sometimes listened to the carols and sometimes sang along. Friends and members of her family, including her husband, Jake, stood with her, talking and laughing. Nearby, a banner bearing the smiling face of her son was hanging on a lamppost. Rick James was killed in battle in Iraq May 13, 2006, and his parents were in Seaford’s Gateway Park Monday evening for the dedication of Hometown Heroes, a display of banners honoring Delaware’s war dead.
“I love that picture of Rick,” James said in a phone interview on Tuesday morning. “You can see his face clearly and he has a lizard in his pocket. He and the other Marines caught it and were playing with it. “I guess what I love most is the innocence the picture shows, playing with that lizard.” Rick James’ banner is among about 30 banners that are part of the Hometown Heroes display, and one of seven that honor local men. Also remembered are Richard K. Hill, Seaford, who was killed March 26, 1966, in Vietnam; Michael Hastings, Continued to page four
Christmas Parade Saturday The Seaford Christmas Parade, set for Saturday, Dec. 6, will get under way at 7 p.m. Ginny Short, Seaford-Blades Associated Charities, is grand marshal. The theme is “Winter Wonderland” and organizers hope to bring the spirit of Christmas to all. “We would like everyone - parade participants and spectators - to bring an unwrapped toy or canned food to the parade,” said Frank Raskauskas of the Downtown Seaford Association. Parade participants can drop their donations off at the registration trailer.
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Retired state representative calls his recovery a miracle By Lynn R. Parks In May, state Rep. Ben Ewing, from Bridgeville was told that he had two years to live. Today, no such death sentence hangs over his head. “I have never felt better in my whole life than I do today,” Ewing, 77, said. “I play golf — anything I want to do I do.” Ewing said that at his last visit to his doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, he was told that he is cancer free. “I had blood work done and an MRI and absolutely no cancer was there,” he said. “Both I and my doctor were absolutely delighted.” Ewing announced his retirement from the state House in June after learning that he had cancer in one kidney and in a lung. At the time of his diagnosis, Dr. Ronald Rodriguez, a urologist specializing in cancer of the kidney and prostate, told him to maintain a good attitude. “He told me that as we were speaking, technicians and physicians were working on a new type of surgery,” Ewing said. “He told me that they would do the best they can.” Ewing’s surgery was July 30. After the operation, Rodriguez told Ewing’s family members and friends that doctors had been able to perform a new type of surgery in which only half of the kidney was removed. Later, in the recovery room, he told Ewing that the surgery had been a success. “He walked into the room and he was waving a paper in the air,” Ewing said. “It had my blood count on it and he was very pleased how things had worked out. And he told me that there would be no chemotherapy or any other treatment.” In September, Ewing had his first checkup following the surgery. After his second checkup in November, Rodriguez told him that other than returning every six months for an examination, his treatment for cancer was finished. “I asked him, ‘How do you thank somebody who has saved your life?’” Ewing said. “I just told him that I am eternally grateful.” Ewing does not hesitate to call his recovery a miracle. He said that he told Rodriguez that a lot of churches and prayer
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groups had been praying for both men, the patient and the doctor. “I had told all my Catholic friends to light a candle for me,” he added. “I wanted the Lord to see a large glow coming out of Delaware.” And he said that he has just one regret: that he prematurely retired from the House. “If I had known that I was going to get a miracle, I wouldn’t have done it,” he said. But no matter — Dave Wilson, who won Ewing’s seat, defeating Democrat Aaron Chaffinch, is “a good man, a good Christian man,” he said. Ewing does not know why he would be cured when so many other people, “people who are more deserving,” he said, do not recover from illnesses. In thanks, he said, he is “telling everybody I meet” about his miraculous healing. And maybe, Ewing said, his situation isn’t so unusual. “I think that the Lord touches us every day in small ways,” he said. “We just don’t realize it.”
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Old church to ring once again with the sounds of Christmas Old Christ Church and historical society’s Cook House to be open Sunday Laurel groups are planning an old-fashioned Christmas event for Sunday, Dec. 7. The Old Christ Church League, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church and the Laurel Historical Society will host an afternoon concert of Christmas music and readings at Old Christ Church with an open house before and after at the historical society’s Cook House headquarters. The open house at Cook House will be from 2 to 5 p.m. The musical concert presented by the Southern Delaware Choral Society will begin at Old Christ Church on Chipman’s Pond Road at 3 p.m. This musical concert will mark the second year that a service has been held during the Christmas season at Old Christ Church, which was built in 1771. Music and history lovers will experience the
Music and history lovers will experience the singing of the Delaware Choral Society in the original manner of their ancestors, bundled up against the cold with only the twinkle of candles in greenery to light the way. This year the choral society will provide an opportunity for the audience to sing along. singing of the Delaware Choral Society in the original manner of their ancestors, bundled up against the cold with only the twinkle of candles in greenery to light the way. This year the choral society will provide an opportunity for the audience to sing along. Those who have attended Old Christ Church know that the acoustics in this building are beautiful. Before or after the concert, visitors are invited to warm up at the Cook House, home to the Laurel Historical Society, with warm cider and light refreshments. Located at 501 W. Fourth St., the Cook House was built around the time of the Civil War. The society headquarters was, for many years, the homeplace of the Laurel branch of the Hearne family. Visitors are welcome to tour the home that includes a Ralph Corner cupboard that is native to Laurel and a collection of Waller photographs. Both events, which are free to the public as a Christmas gift, are intended to broaden public awareness of the uniqueness of these buildings and to celebrate the joy of the season. Free will donations will be accepted at each location for the preservation and maintenance of these local treasures. For more information about the Old Christ Church League, call St. Philip’s office at 302875-3644. For more information about the Laurel Historical Society, call 302-875-2820 or email laurelhistoricalsociety@hotmail.com.
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Hometown Heroes display in Seaford through January Continued from page one
Seaford, who was killed Oct. 23, 1983, in a bomb blast in Beirut, Lebanon; Ryan Long, Seaford, who was killed by a suicide bomber April 3, 2003, in Iraq; Cory Palmer, Seaford, who died May 6, 2006, after his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq; Richard Samuel Dennison, Bethel, who was killed March 5, 1971, in Vietnam; and Elmer L. Faulkner Jr., Greenwood, who was killed June 18, 1968, in Vietnam. “These men are no longer with us tonight,” said Judy Campbell, who with the members of the Delaware chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Organization organized the Hometown Heroes display. “They gave their lives so we can continue to be blessed and have the freedoms that we have here tonight.” Campbell, who spoke at Monday night’s dedication, said that the banner display “touches the hearts of people who see them.”
She thanked the citizens of Sussex County for their financial support of the display, which has been traveling the state. “The majority of the funds we have received have come from downstate,” she said. “You people have big hearts.” As part of the dedication ceremony, members of the Seaford High School Junior ROTC placed red, white and blue ribbons on the trees in Gateway Park. The ceremony also included the lighting of Seaford’s Christmas tree and a visit by Santa Claus. James said that the mixture of the memorial banners and Christmas make the display even more poignant. “It tells us that we should take a moment and remember these men, and be thankful and grateful,” she said. “And it reminds us that freedom comes with a price.” The banner display will be in downtown Seaford through January. Campbell said that she does not know where it will go from here.
County Councilman Dukes honored by Seaford Council By Lynn R. Parks Outgoing county councilman Dale Dukes was honored last week by members of the Seaford City Council. A certificate of appreciation that Mayor Ed Butler read at Tuesday night’s council meeting recognized Dukes for his 20 years on the county council. He served “with enthusiasm and dedication,” Butler said. “He gave generously of his time in the interest of the betterment of the community.” In addition, “he supported the city,” Butler said. “He helped in any way he was able. He made his mark as a caring and a great leader.” In addition to the certificate, the council presented to Dukes and his wife, Dottie, a crystal bowl engraved with the City of Seaford seal. In his thank-you remarks, Dukes said
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The Seaford City Council will hold just one meeting in December. Because it would fall so close to the Christmas holiday, the meeting that was set for Dec. 23 has been cancelled. The council voted unanimously at its Nov. 23 meeting to cancel the late December meeting.
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City of Seaford ends fiscal year with surplus By Lynn R. Parks The city of Seaford operates according to a conservative economic credo, city manager Dolores Slatcher told the members of the Greater Seaford Chamber of Commerce at a recent Friday-morning breakfast meeting. “‘No, we can’t afford it,’ are my favorite words,” Slatcher said. “I say that a lot.” Slatcher told the nearly 50 people at the meeting that that conservatism is epitomized in the fact that the city does not include in its budget the realty transfer tax it gets from the state. Municipalities that have counted on the transfer tax, which the state collects on each property sale, are struggling now that housing sales are down. In addition, she said, the city is conservative in its hiring. To compensate, all 49 employees in city hall are cross-trained so that they can perform a variety of tasks. “Everybody jumps in to do what needs to be done,” she said. “It doesn’t matter who you are — you might find yourself out putting lights on a tree.” Slatcher told the group that the city is operating in the black. It ended the 2008 fiscal year with a $283,000 surplus and several projects that are part of this year’s $27.7 million budg-
et, including the police department renovation and the new lift station next to the Seaford Center retirement home on Norman Eskridge Highway, are costing less than was projected. The improvements at the police department were budgeted to cost $1.7 million and will end up costing $1.3 million. The lift station, budgeted to cost $1.62 million, will cost $1.15 million. This is because contracting firms, eager for work in a slowing economy, are submitting bids that are lower than they would be otherwise. “For everything we put out there, we get eight to 12 bidders,” Slatcher said. “And about two-thirds of them are bidding at half the cost of what was projected. It is a great time to be out there right now.” In addition to renovating the police department, a project that will allow the 30-year-old building to accommodate new radios given to the city by the state, and the new lift station, the city is installing new water lines along Middleford Road to the new Popeyes restaurant on U.S. 13. The new lines will mean that Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, LifeCare at Lofland Park nursing home and the Methodist Manor House will be able to get water from two directions. Now, if something happens to the one
water main that crosses Williams Pond, the healthcare facilities are out of water. Slatcher told the chamber members that all of the lots in the Seaford Industrial Park are sold. Century Window Fashions, the Queens, N.Y.-based company that in November 2006 agreed to buy the city’s speculative building in the park, is finally moving in after the city had to extend its sales contract three times. The spec building was constructed in 1999 as a joint project between the city and the state. Century Windows, which manufactures window blinds, will be its first occupant. At the city’s Ross Business Park, 112 acres on the north side of the Ross Plantation are still available, Slatcher said. The rest of the 200-acre park, including land for the new Seaford District Library and for a new senior center, is spoken for. At the conclusion of her talk, Slatcher received praise from Mayor Ed Butler. “I really believe that Dolores is the best city manager in the state,” Butler said. “We are very fortunate to have her.” Chamber member Al Temple agreed. “The state, with the budget mess it is in, could use some of the city of Seaford’s expertise,” he said.
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Associated Charities to participate in Toy Drive Seaford Blades Associated Charities will be packing Christmas boxes again this year according to Ed Butler, president of the organization. Ginny Short, Christmas chairperson, said what is collected will be distributed locally in the Seaford Blades area. A food drive will once again be done in all the schools in conjunction with Karen Schreiber and the Western Boys and Girls club. Check the dates on all can goods and items. No outdated please. Donations of unwrapped new toys, games and nonperishable items can be dropped off by Dec. 15 at the following places: Burton Bros, 407 High St. The Leader and State Register office, 302 W. Stein Highway; Harley Davidson of Seaford, 22586 Sussex Highway; Monetary donations can be mailed to: Seaford Blades Associated Charities, 723 Washington Ave., Seaford, DE 19973.
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HERITAGE SHORES ANNOUNCES PROMOTION - The Heritage Shores Club announces the promotion of Sous Chef, Frank Dubinski, who accepted the position of executive chef effective December 1. Dubinski is a 2004 graduate of Laurel High School. During his eight years experience in the hospitality industry, he has learned various cooking techniques with a special interest in hosting food demonstrations. When Dubinski is not busy in the kitchen, you may find him on the golf course or training for his next competition. “We are very anxious to welcome return guests and new faces to the Heritage Shores Club to taste our culinary delights. When you see Frank Dubinski out in our community, please give him a pat on the back for a job well done. The Heritage Shores Club is truly honored to call him one of our own,” a spokesperson said.
Century 21 Tull Ramey announces that it is collecting used ink jet printer cartridges and cell phones through the Cartridges for Kids program in an effort to generate funds to benefit Easter Seals. For each ink jet cartridge aNd cell phone collected, Century 21 Tull Ramey earns money for Easter Seals in order to help children and adults with disabilities lead fuller, more independent lives. In addition, Century 21 Tull Ramey encourages area residents to participate in the program by dropping off their used ink jet cartridges and cell phones to the office located at 107 Pennsylvania Ave., or 22350 Sussex Highway. “Our relationship with Easter Seals enables our sales associates and employees to give something back to our community. We’re pleased to participate in this worthwhile program that promises to garner substantial funds for Easter Seals,” Gordon Ramey said. Collectively, the Century 21® System, which includes all of the independently owned and operated Century 21 franchise offices, has been affiliated with Easter Seals since 1979 and has raised more than
$91 million to help children and adults with disabilities lead fuller, more independent lives. Easter Seals is the leading non-profit provider of services for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, physical and mental disabilities, and other special needs. For more than 85 years, we have been offering help and hope to children and adults living with disabilities, and to the families who love them. Through therapy, training, education and support services, Easter seals create life-changing solutions so that people with disabilities can live, learn, work and play in their communities.
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Mouse is feline version of local, free-range meat Not all in the Parks household were grateful on Thanksgiving. A YNN ARKS single mouse, separated from its pack and therefore helpless, was When her version of captured and tortured by Alpha, hamburger on the hoof one of our two cats. went scampering across Whether it died or eventually escaped, we don’t know. We the rug, what was she to haven’t found its carcass and the do? Forgo it in favor of the strong possibility remains that it cat food which is always was eaten. Alpha cares nothing downstairs in her bowl about the promises of the Geneva and which was probably Convention. If she could talk — and I am made in China? happy every day that neither she nor her brother Uno can — Alpha Fish and Wildlife says that they could would probably tell me that in eating the very well have been raised on a farm. mouse, she was just doing what I say I “I think I see some white in areas of want everyone to do. She has heard my the feathers that may indicate game farm preachings about eating locally, about re(domestic) genes,” Reynolds said after lying less on factory farms and industriallooking at a picture of the birds. He promized food production and more on what ised to forward the picture to someone we can produce in our own back yards. with the National Wild Turkey Federation The upstairs is her back yard. And for further analysis. when her version of hamburger on the A couple days after Thanksgiving, the hoof went scampering across the rug, what turkeys were spotted across busy Main was she to do? Forgo it in favor of the cat Street from my parents’ home, foraging food which is always downstairs in her underneath a large magnolia tree. Soon, as bowl and which was probably made in though of one mind, they gathered togethChina? er and headed toward the street. While Alpha, and maybe Uno, if he “They stood there and listened for cars could find the energy, were chasing the before they crossed,” my mother said latmouse, the rest of the family were at the er. We all laughed, but she insisted that it home of my parents, enjoying our own had at least seemed that way. Thanksgiving feast. There was no DelmarDespite the turkeys’ caution, several va Mouse on the menu, but we did have a cars had to stop to allow them to proceed. lot of local foods, including sweet potaMy sister, who was watching the parade, toes, turnips, pumpkin and collards, all said that one driver, dressed in camouproduced on Delmarva farms. flage, seemed particularly interested in the The turkey itself came from a farm in birds. “I think I could see him salivating,” Cecil County, Md. Not organic but freeshe said. range, and fed only non-genetically modiFortunately, the birds are large and easfied grains produced on its farm. ily seen by drivers. They don’t dart out If we had any of our ancestors’ wiles into the road and drivers in that section of about us, we perhaps could have bagged a town are going, or at least should be goturkey right there in my parents’ back ing, fairly slowly. yard. Yes, the three turkey hens that I It’s a good thing that Alpha never visits wrote about last week are still occasional in town. With her hunting skills, and her visitors there, wandering onto the deck apparent understanding of the value of and up to the back door as familiarly as do taking responsibility for her own food, the squirrels and birds whose ancestors once she spotted the birds she would be an have been there for decades. unstoppable force. We still don’t know where the hens “The Day I Bagged Three Turkeys.” If came from. They look to be wild but Ken there is any story that could get her talkReynolds with the Delaware Division of ing, that would be it.
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FTC urged to amend Used Car Rule to include damage history The Delaware Department of Justice is asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to amend its Used Car Rule to require car dealers to indicate prior title status and damage history on used cars, trucks or SUVs offered for sale. Delaware joined Attorneys General from 39 other states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Under the FTC’s Used Car Rule, car dealers are required to post “Buyer’s
Guide” notices on used vehicles, indicating whether the automobile is offered with a warranty, or is being sold “as-is,” without a warranty. While this warranty information is valuable for prospective buyers, the states noted in their letter that the Rule’s value is limited because it does not require notice about a vehicle’s damage history and prior use. In addition, damaged vehicles may pose safety hazards to consumers,
and that manufacturers void warranties on vehicles with damage histories. “Amending the Buyer’s Guide to require not only warranty information but also damage, prior use, and Lemon Law History, will help prevent fraud and help buyers make more informed purchasing decisions,” stated Timothy Mullaney, Director of the Delaware Department of Justice Fraud and Consumer Protection Division.
The states’ letter also indicates that Wisconsin already requires prior-damage information to be disclosed on Buyer’s Guides posted on used vehicles in that state, and that the FTC approved the Wisconsin regulation. This information is readily available to dealers through private data sources and title records that accompany vehicles they purchase at auction or take in trade.
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Police Journal Four arrested for cocaine
Over the past two months, the Delaware State Police Sussex County Drug Unit, the DEA Dover Task Force and the Wicomico County Narcotics Task Force conducted a narcotics investigation involving the distribution of cocaine in Sussex County and Wicomico County, Md. During the investigation, Eric D. Jones, 35, of Salisbury, Md.; Donte C. Dickerson, 31, of Tyaskin, Md.; Tracy M. Jones, 36, of Salisbury; and Cortez Brannock, 49, of Salisbury, were identified as suspects in the distribution of cocaine. On Nov. 21, the three forces, assisted by the Milford Police Department, concluded the investigation with an arrest. All four suspects were arrested at the Seaford Village Shopping Center while allegedly in possession of two kilograms of cocaine. During the arrest, police seized a loaded .357 Smith and Wesson revolver, a loaded 9 mm Smith and Wesson, a loaded .45 caliber Ruger, $24,311 in cash and drug paraphernalia. Eric D. Jones was charged with three counts of trafficking cocaine (felony); possession with intent to deliver cocaine (felony); two counts of delivery of cocaine (felony); two counts of maintaining a vehicle (felony); second degree conspiracy (felony); possession of a firearm by a person prohibited (felony); and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony (felony). Dickerson and Tracy M. Jones were charged with attempted trafficking cocaine (felony); possession with intent to deliver cocaine (felony); possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony (felony); possession of a firearm by a person prohibited (felony); and second degree conspiracy. Brannock was charged with attempted trafficking cocaine (felony); possession with intent to deliver cocaine (felony); possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony (felony); and second degree conspiracy. Eric Jones was committed to SCI in reference to default of $580,000 cash bond. Dickerson and Tracy Jones were committed to SCI in default of $310,000 cash bond. Brannock was committed to SCI in default of $280,000 cash bond.
Two charged in attempted murder
Delaware State Police have arrested two Felton men and charged them in the shooting of a 34-year-old Magnolia woman. On Thursday, Nov. 27, at 7:10 p.m., troopers were called to the unit block of Draper Circle, in Meadowbrook Acres, Magnolia, for a report of a woman shot. Police said that a 34-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man were inside the mobile home when a vehicle drove past the residence and fired multiple rounds into the home. The man and woman, who resided in the home, were not injured. A few minutes later, police said, the same vehicle drove by the home again and fired additional rounds into the home, this time striking the female in the left leg as
she was sitting in a bedroom. She suffered a severe leg injury and was taken by ambulance to Kent General Hospital, Dover. She was later transferred to Christiana Hospital near Wilmington, where she is in stable condition. Evidence technicians were able to recover several spent casings at the scene that came from a .22 caliber gun and a 9 mm handgun. They also recovered .22 caliber bullets from inside Henry the home. Witnesses to the shooting told police that the suspects were driving a dark colored Scion TC. One suspect was a white male wearing a light colored camouflage jacket and the other was a black male. One weapon was described as a rifle with a scope; witnesses said that they saw one of the suspects shooting at the home through the sun roof on the vehicle. State police linked the shooting to two Myer other shootings. In one, under investigation at the time by the Harrington Police Department, a vehicle was shot numerous times by a .22 caliber and 9 mm gun. Those weapons matched the caliber of the weapons in the Magnolia shooting. The second shooting was during an armed robbery at the Shore Stop at 12894 S. DuPont Hwy. near Felton on Nov. 26 at 4:10 a.m. Police said that the suspects robbed the store at gunpoint and took an undisclosed amount of money. The description of the suspects included one wearing a light colored camouflage jacket and in possession of a black handgun. Video surveillance revealed that the suspects involved in the Magnolia shooting match the description of the suspects in the robbery. As part of their investigation, Harrington Police went to a residence on Spectrum Farms Road where they located a dark colored Scion TC and the two subjects believed to have been involved in the Magnolia shooting. The suspects were apprehended and taken into custody. Police said that they recovered two weapons from the suspects, a .22 caliber Marlin Rifle and a 9 mm handgun. These are the weapons believed to have been used in the crimes. Delaware State Police have arrested Jordan P. Myer, 19 and Shane T. Henry, 17, both of Spectrum Farm Road, Felton. Both men are charged with two counts of attempted first degree murder; three counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony; first degree conspira-
cy; first degree robbery; aggravated menacing; wearing a disguise during commission of a felony; and second degree conspiracy.
DUI suspect charged in assault
A Laurel man who was stopped at a Delaware State Police DUI checkpoint ended up being charged with offensive touching of a law enforcement office. Police said that Troy Elzey, 22, was stopped at the checkpoint on the Seaford Laurel Road two miles south of Blades on Friday, Nov. 28, at 11:19 p.m. He showed signs of being impaired, police said, and officers undertook a DUI investigation. At the completion of the field sobriety Elzey tests, when Elzey was advised he was under arrest, he allegedly began to physically fight with officers. He was ultimately placed into a patrol car and transported back to Troop 5, Bridgeville. During the trip, Elzey reportedly used several racial slurs when speaking to the arresting officer and threatened the trooper and his family. At Troop 5, police said, Elzey refused to provide a breath sample. Police said that he struck a trooper in the face with his belt after taking it off. After a sobering period, Elzey was charged with resisting arrest (felony), offensive touching of a law enforcement officer (misdemeanor), DUI (traffic offense), terroristic threatening (misdemeanor), menacing (misdemeanor) and disorderly conduct (misdemeanor). He was committed to Sussex Correctional Institute in lieu of $34,500 bond. The trooper who was assaulted did not require medical attention.
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construction fraud scheme that allegedly took place between 2003 and 2007. Andrew Jones, also known as “Andre Jones,” was indicted on Oct. 27 by a New Castle County Grand Jury on 42 counts, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, theft of $100,000 or more, new home construction fraud, home improvement fraud, issuing a bad check, contractor’s unlawful retention of funds, and falsifying business records. The indictment followed an investigation by the Delaware Department of Justice’s Fraud and Consumer Protection Division. The criminal activity allegedly took place in all three Delaware counties, but was primarily concentrated in Sussex County. The indictment also charges Jason James with theft and new home construction fraud. James was not charged with racketeering, though he was named as a co-conspirator with Jones. Police said that Jones and James operated a company named Bavari Inc. that entered into contracts with prospective homeowners to build new homes in Sussex and Kent counties. The indictment alleges that Bavari Inc. and Jones stole more than $470,000 from homeowners and various subcontractors who worked for them. Jones was arrested in Sussex County by a Delaware Department of Correction Probation Officer and custody was turned over to Delaware State Police at Troop 4. His bail was set at $156,000 secured. He was living and doing business in Philadelphia under a company named Jepulte. Jones was sought by a joint operation of the Delaware Department of Justice and the Philadelphia Police Department Financial Crimes Unit.
Police cruiser sideswipes vehicle
Delaware State Police are investigating a crash that involved a Milford Police officer on Wednesday, Nov. 26, on US 113 south of the Dover Air Force Base. Police said that the police vehicle, a 2007 Ford Crown Victoria, was traveling northbound in the left lane of US 113 in the area of Clapham Road at around 10:54 a.m. when it sideswiped a 2007 Kia Spectra, operated by Catherine A. Yaeger, 20, of Harrington. The Kia was also northbound in the left-hand turn lane, waiting to turn onto Clapham Road.
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Pawn shop clerk robbed
On Nov. 20 at 6:55 p.m., Seaford Police responded to a report of a robbery at the pawn shop on Stein Highway in Seaford. Police said that two unknown male suspects confronted the clerk, who had left the building, and demanded money. A physical struggle ensued and the suspects obtained an undisclosed amount of money. The suspects fled the scene with the victim unable to obtain any further description. The Seaford Police Department is asking anyone with information about this crime to contact it at (302) 629-6648 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at 800-TIP-3333 or online at www.tipsubmit.com. Delaware Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved.
Employee wanted in robbery
Seaford police have issued a warrant for an employee of the Pizza Hut restaurant in Seaford in connection with a robbery at the restaurant. According to police, on Nov. 23 at 1:35 a.m., Fhungal J. Smith, 28, a Seaford resident and a Pizza Hut employee, and another unknown suspect, described as a black male, confronted a clerk while outside and demanded money. Police said that the men displayed a handgun and then fled with an undisclosed amount of money. The scene was processed by the Seaford Police Criminal Investigations Division and warrants are currently on file for Smith. The Seaford Police Department Crimi-
nal Investigations Division is asking anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Smith or the identity of the unknown suspect to contact it at (302) 6296648 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333 or online at www.tipsubmit.com. Delaware Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved.
Fire causes $10,000 in damages
The Delaware State Fire Marshal’s Office investigated a structure fire that occurred on Saturday, Nov. 29, at 10:07 p.m. on the 500 block of North Bradford Street, Seaford. The Seaford and Blades fire departments responded to the scene. On arrival, the fire departments encountered heavy smoke conditions in a detached garage. No injuries were reported. Damages have been estimated at $10,000. State Fire Marshal investigators have determined that the fire originated in the center of the garage on a mattress and was caused by improperly discarded smoking materials.
Man wanted for rape arrested
On Nov. 29 at 11:55 p.m., Laurel Police arrested Joshua Stanley on an active warrant for rape. The warrant was obtained after Stanley was accused of having sex with a minor in September. Stanley, 19, of Laurel, was charged with third degree rape and endangering the welfare of a child. He was committed to SCI on $11,000 cash bail only.
Fight leads to trafficking charge
On Nov. 26 at 11:45 p.m., Laurel Police responded to the House Bar after receiving a report of a fight. When officers approached Levonte Dockins, 20, of Laurel, suspected of being involved in the fight, they observed him throw something to the ground, police said. Police said that what he threw away was a large amount of crack cocaine. Dockins was arrested without further incident and was charged with trafficking cocaine of 10-50 grams, possession with intent to deliver cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia and underage possession of alcohol. He was committed to SCI on $30,000 cash bail only.
Vincent Jones, 26, of Salisbury, Md., several times to leave and when he allegedly refused, he was charged with disorderly conduct. Jones was released on a criminal summons.
Tossed item was marijuana, police say On Nov. 26, Laurel Police patrolling in the area of 900 Carvel Gardens saw Myron Hunt, 29, of Laurel, in the area of 900 Carvel Gardens. Police said that as the officers approached the subject, he tossed something under a vehicle. When police recovered it, they said, it was found to be marijuana packaged for delivery. Hunt was arrested without incident and charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. He was committed to SCI on $2,000 secured bond.
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Victorian Christmas to feature music, private collections Music at the Mansion is the theme for Sunday, Dec. 14, at the 2008 Victorian Christmas at the Ross Mansion. At 1 p.m. Carol Lynch will sing. At 2 p.m., the Sound Waves Handbell Choir of the Seaford Christian Academy will perform. At 3 p.m. the Seaford Middle School Chorus will entertain. Carol Lynch is an adopted Seafordian. She is a regular soloist at St. John’s Church and her talents are requested at many weddings, funerals and public functions. A frequently used quote heard throughout time is, “She sings like a bird.” The handbell program at Seaford Christian Academy began in 2003 with the purchase of 12 handchimes. They now have 61 handbells, 61 handchimes and a bass chime. Under the direction of Shelly Hopkins, they perform for school concerts, tours, churches, festivals and other community events. Playing handbells helps students understand the concept of teamwork and the joy of making music together. The Seaford Middle School Chorus is under the direction of Liz Baker who has a record of 18 years of teaching music. Singers from 6th 7th and 8th grades will participate in the offering of Christmas music. This group competed in Hershey Park in May of 2008 and won the Superior Rating which is the highest possible rating given. All musical presentations are included in the mansion tour price of $7 per person. Refreshments will be served in the dining room. Among the private collections that will be shown at the Victorian Christmas, Dec. 12, 13 and 14 is one that belongs to Mary Agnes Dennis. She lives in Wilmington and Lewes and has an intense interest in history. She belongs to the Seaford Historical Society and partakes in many of the Society’s activities and lectures. She has been collection curling irons for more than 40 years. She has a silver-plated mustache curler and a folding curling iron for use when traveling. The irons often were slipped into the globe of a lamp for heating. One iron is for a marcelle wave, one is for a spit curl. Mary Agnes always loved to go antiquing and because curling irons were rather inexpensive, she started collecting them. She bought her first one in 1960 for $1. Her display will be in the Governor’s bedroom. Carolyn Griffith and Loretta Barrett are
combining their collections in the nursery and the Gage bedroom. Carolyn’s doll collection was started by her mother in 1920. Some are china, some are bisque dating back to 1900. There will be a doll table and chairs and a children’s tea set. Loretta Barrett has probably the most impressive collection of dolls in this area. She has some rare German-Made Sasha dolls and many old toys. She is bringing only the very oldest samples. Elaine Vincent collects chocolate pots. Coffee pots and chocolate pots have distinctly different characteristics. A coffee pot has a spout and a filter. A chocolate pot has a short lip instead of a spout. Her collection was started when her husband’s great grandmother gave his grandmother one that she wanted to be kept in the family. It dated back to the late 1800s. Elaine was fascinated with the designs and colors and started noticing them in antique stores. She now has about 25 but will be bringing just 12 for display. She also has tatted doilies such as were used in the 1800s to be placed under the pots. Her collection will be on display in one of the corner cupboards in the dining room. Larry Manlove has a collection of mechanical banks that was started by his father. The banks actually came into use as a way to encourage children to save money. The moving parts offered an added incentive to the children to put coins in them. Larry keeps the collection in working order and ads more when he finds them. The mechanical banks will be on display in the Governor’s office. Sue Manlove is showing a collection of pressed glass. Most pressed glass was made in the 1880s and was usually used as a premium in general stores. Some products such as mustard were marketed in pressed glass containers. There are reproductions of pressed glass but they are fuzzy. The really genuine, old samples are noted for their clarity. This collection will be in place in the Governor’s writing room. All collections will be guarded during all open hours. The Victorian Christmas is sponsored by the Seaford Historical Society. All proceeds are used toward the maintenance and operation of the Ross Mansion/Plantation and the Seaford Museum. For further information call 628-9828.
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Sportsmanship, wellness policies heard at school board meeting By Cathy Shufelt The Woodbridge School Board heard the first reading of the district’s new “Sportsmanship Policy” during their November 18 meeting. The new policy is designed to cover all sports related activities from games to practices and more. The policy states, “Good sportsmanship must be displayed by all athletes, coaches, parents, fans, and officials by their good behavior and attitude. The sporting activities should be an extension of the classroom, where students strive for excellence and coaches and parents provide cooperation, ethics, and integrity as role models for the players. The Woodbridge School District will emphasize to all participants, the commitment to fair play, ethical behavior, integrity, to provide a safe and supportive environment for the playing of all sporting
events, to enhance the image of our school and district and for all to understand how to win and lose.” The policy is aligned with rules set forth by the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association, and is similar to other district’s policies throughout the state. The school board voted 4-0 to approve the first reading of the policy. The new policy will be heard by the board again at their December 2 meeting. The Woodbridge School District is also in the process of reviewing its Wellness Policy. The current policy, approved in 2006, has been designed to “promote the integration of nutrition education into all curriculum areas” because it has been shown that overall health and educational success are interrelated. School districts now work to help students, staff, and teachers be “healthy and fit, physically, mentally, and socially.”
The current policy contains guidelines for nutrition education and standards, physical activity, and a plan for monitoring the overall success of the Wellness Policy. Snacks, beverages, and meals offered to students meet federal standards as set by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Child Nutrition Program. The policy also promotes healthy eating by having nutrition education as a part of the regular curriculum. The policy will be reviewed by committee and revised if necessary. Any revisions will be presented to the board at an upcoming meeting. The Woodbridge School Board also held a public hearing to consider a waiver to Title 14 of the Delaware State Code. Subsections 1704(3) and 1705(A)(a) address the teacher to student ratio as well as allocation of the Division 1 units as generated by the unit count per district building. Subsection 1704(3) specifically states that
“all public school buildings to have allocated to them 98% of the Division 1 units generated by the actual unit count in that building by the last school day of October of the current school year.” Subsection 1705(A)(a) “requires any kindergarten or grades 1-3 public school classes to have no higher ratio of teacher to students that 1:22 by the last school day in October of the current school year.” It is not unusual to have a class with more than 22 students per teacher given the current enrollment growth of most schools. The school board must approve the increased number of students so the district will be in line with state regulations. For example, at this time the Woodbridge School District has several 3rd grade classes that have 24 students per one teacher. The Woodbridge School Board voted 40 to approve the waivers for these classes.
Western Sussex Boy’s and Girl’s Club receives JC Penney grant By Cathy Shufelt The Western Sussex Boy’s and Girl’s Club in Seaford has received a grant from JC Penny that will help pay for a number of local children to attend after school programs sponsored by the club. The club offers a number of after school activities that provide educational support and physical activity for area children. The membership fee for the Boy’s and Girl’s Club is $15. Additional programs are fee-based and require an activity fee to help cover some of the expenses. However, no child will be turned away because they cannot afford the fees. Any child who would benefit from participation in the programs, but cannot afford the fees, should contact club personnel. Various funding sources and the state provide money for after various programs which allows parents and caregivers of children participating in the programs to pay on a sliding scale. The club also provides childcare for children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old from 6:30 to 8:30 am and 2:30 and 6:30 pm. These hours last through the school year and
children must be enrolled as members of the club. Teen Supreme is for children between the ages of 13 and 18 years of age from 6:30 to 9 pm Monday through Thursday. Friday nights are Family Fun Nights from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Ballroom dancing is offered for children on Friday nights from 7 to 7:30 pm and for adults from 7:30 to 8:30 pm. In an effort to keep kids active during the cold winter months, the club is sponsoring an indoor soccer program for children 4 to 14 years of age. The newest age group is for 4 and 5 year olds. The club is still taking registrations for this program that costs $25 per child. The indoor soccer league will continue through January, and will conclude with an awards banquet. There is also an adult soccer league that plays from December 2008 through March 2009. 2009 is the 5th year that Pop Warner football will be offered through the Boy’s and Girl’s Club. The $65 fee includes membership in the club for children from 5 to 14 years of age. Signups will begin in February with the season starting in August. Board
members are also needed for the Pop Warner Board of Directors. Among the many things the Western Sussex Boy’s and Girl’s Club does is to provide the use of their facilities for a number of community sponsored activities. The Laurel Wesleyan Church is facili-
tating a faith based youth basketball program called “Upward Basketball” whose motto is “Every child plays. Every child learns. Every child is a winner.” For more information about programs or activities or to become a member, contact the Boy’s and Girl’s Club at 6283789 or 629-8740.
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Seaford Elk Hoop Shoot in the Laurel Field House The annual Seaford Lodge Elk Hoop Shoot will be held in the Laurel Field House at the middle school on Saturday, Dec. 6. Registration will be from 1 until 1:30 p.m. with the contest beginning at that time. All boys and girls who will be 8-years old before April 1, 2009 and will not be 14 before April 1, 2009 may participate in the event. This event is open to Seaford, Bridgeville and Laurel students. Trophies will be awarded locally to first, second and third place winners in each age and gender category. Hoop Shot T-shirts will also be awarded to all first place winners. A copy of their birth certificates is a
must for the child to bring with them at registration. There are three divisions for both boys and girls, ages 8-9, 10-11, and 12-13. If a seven-year old will be 8 before April 1, they shoot in the 8-9 category. The first place winners will go on to the district shoot-off on Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Salvation Army Gym in Salisbury, Md. to participate against the top winners of the other 10 lodges in this district. The winners there will proceed to Frederick, Md., in February to compete against the top state winners of 46 lodges. Any questions or concerns may be made by calling the Hoop Shoot chairman, Roger Hall at 875-5209.
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Delaware private landowners who seek to protect, enhance or restore habitat that benefit species-at-risk are encouraged to apply for grant funds through DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Landowner Incentive Program (LIP). The grant program, made possible with funding through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, provides landowners with cost-share funds and technical assistance with five of the 50 key wildlife habitats indentified in the 2006 Delaware Wildlife Action Plan (WAP). Grant applications are due by Monday, Dec. 8. “The Wildlife Action Plan identified habitat loss and fragmentation from current and projected development as one of the greatest threats to Delaware’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need,” said Shelley Tovell, private lands biologist. “With more than 80 percent of the state’s available or restorable wildlife habitat on private property, the future of Delaware’s wildlife and their habitat hinges on working cooperatively with private landowners to manage these resources.” The Request for Proposals and program guidelines can be found on DNREC’s website at www.fw.delaware.gov. For more information on the Delaware Landowner Incentive Program, visit www. dnrec.state.de.us.
Grant proposals should describe actions that manage, protect or restore habitat to benefit at least one Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN). To obtain a list of Delaware’s SGCN, visit www. dnrec.state.de.us, or contact Shelley Tovell at 302-735-3600. Since the Delaware LIP was established in 2003, 150 landowners have received funding and 1,236 acres of private property have been protected, restored or enhanced. To request a copy of the proposal guidelines and application, call 302-7353600, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Auto Alley Correction
In an Auto Alley article in the November 27 edition of the Star, and on redbud69racing.com it was stated that H. J. Bunting III placed 5th in the Delaware Dirt Track Championship Modified feature and that was correct. But it also stated that Bunting won the Modified track championship at Delaware International Speedway which was incorrect. Bunting finished 2nd in the track points standing and Jamie Mills was the track champion. Coming in December the Delaware Auto Alley will go into detail about the track champions for 2008.
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Education briefs ‘College and Career Fair’
Laurel Senior High School announces that they are sponsoring a “College and Career Fair” at the school on Thursday evening, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m. The theme is “Getting There: Setting the Pace for a Successful Future.” Join Laurel Senior High School and display your college or company materials for the students. All vendors are asked to arrive by 5 p.m. to set up in the gymnasium. RSVP to Dale Oddo, Laurel High School guidance registrar. She can be reached at 302-875-6124. You may also email her at dodo@laurel.k12.de.us.
Personal development courses
Take advantage of life enrichment and fitness courses offered in December at Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus, Georgetown. Acquire valuable information that can help you save money with special interest courses. On Dec. 6 and 13, Basic Defensive Driving will offer simple driving strategies to help avoid collisions and earn a 10 percent reduction on automobile insurance. On Dec. 13, graduates of the basic course can take Advanced Defensive Driving for additional road safety strategies and to earn a 15 percent reduction on liability insurance.
Fitness and wellness classes will help to improve your health and lower stress levels. From Dec. 2 to Jan. 20, combine the use of the mind, body and spirit into graceful and slow movements in beginning or advanced Tai Chi. Build strength without excess bulk to create a sleek, toned body in Pilates, beginning Dec. 8. Become a member of the Delaware Tech Fitness Center by signing up for the monthly or 16-week program. Personal training sessions also are available for individual help reaching fitness goals. For more information or to register, contact Delaware Tech’s Corporate and Community Programs at 302-8546966.
Educators should save receipts The Internal Revenue Service is advising teachers and other educators to save their receipts for purchases of books and other classroom supplies. They will be able to deduct up to $250 of such expenses again this year, following recently-enacted legislation. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) of 2008 reinstated the educator expense deduction, which had expired at the end of last year. The deduction has been reinstated for tax years 2008 and 2009. Expenses incurred any time during
2008 may qualify for the deduction, not just those since the Act was signed on Oct. 3. The deduction is available to eligible educators in public or private elementary or secondary schools. To be eligible, a person must work at least 900 hours during a school year as a teacher, instructor, counselor, principal or aide. An educator may subtract up to $250 of qualified out-of-pocket expenses when figuring adjusted gross income (AGI). This deduction is available whether or not the taxpayer itemizes deductions on Schedule A. Qualified expenses are nonreimbursed expenses paid or incurred for books, supplies, computer equipment including related software and services, other equipment, and supplementary materials that are used in the classroom. The IRS suggests that educators keep records of qualifying expenses in a folder or envelope with a label such as “Educator Expense Deduction,” noting the date, amount and purpose of each purchase. This will help prevent a missed deduction at tax time.
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Give the gift of continuing education, fitness, or fun day-long trips this holiday season with gift certificates for noncredit courses at Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus, Georgetown. Gift certificates can be used for all
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December 7th & 14th - Messiah’s Vineyard Church will present “Heaven Rejoices”. We will unfold the life changing miracle of Christmas in this two part drama series. Part 1 will begin on Sunday, December 7th at 9:30 a.m. and Part 2 will unfold Sunday, December 14th at 9:30 a.m. The stage will be set with Heavenly Thrones, The Nativity Scene, and the prophet Isaiah proclaiming the “Good news.” There will be live animals, special effects, actors gorgeously arrayed in beautiful costumes, and special singing. Come be apart as Heaven Rejoices in The Miracle of Christmas.
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Children’s Church will be presenting “Joy to the World”, a special program presented by our children. There will be fascinating props, costumes, and special singing. There will also be a special children’s party with games and fun after the program that your child would love to be apart of. Messiah’s Vineyard Praise Dancers will also be ministering at this service. Special refreshments will be served to all of those who attend this service. We look forward to worshiping and celebrating the Birth of Christ with you!
Wednesday, December 24th at 6:00 - 7 pm Messiah’s Vineyard will be holding a special Christmas Eve Service. We invite you to bring your whole family as we celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. We will have a candlelight service along with praise and worship, special singing, and a message.
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courses offered by Corporate and Community Programs including business and career, computer, environmental training, personal development courses, fitness programs, Kids on Campus, and Adult Plus+ programs. Start a new career or receive training in the following fields: real estate, resort & spa management, administrative office professional and small business. Learn how to use a computer or one of the Microsoft Office 2007 applications by taking computer courses. Environmental training offers the courses needed to begin an environmental career, such as wastewater operator certification and continuing education classes. Receive basic education or learn creative writing, defensive driving, language, music, cooking or photography in personal development courses. Get in shape with fitness programs such as membership to Delaware Tech’s fitness center, personal training sessions, aerobics, ballroom dancing, Pilates, Tai Chi, basketball and yoga classes. Children will enjoy participating in spring and summer camps, Saturday programs and youth fitness activities in our Kids on Campus program. Seniors will have fun socializing by participating in fun activities or taking a trip to a museum, theater, or event with Adult Plus+. For more information or to purchase gift certificates contact Delaware Tech’s Corporate & Community Programs at 854-6966.
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Jefferson School sings in concert A choir of students from the Jefferson School in Georgetown will sing with the Southern Delaware Choral Society in their Christmas concert, "A Newborn Child: Cantatas and Carols for Christmas," on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. at Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church in Seaford and Sunday, Dec. 14 at 3 p.m. at St. Edmond’s Roman Catholic Church, Rehoboth Beach. The 15 member school choir is comprised of students ages eight through 14 and has three sections, soprano, alto and tenors. They will join the choir in singing a Baroque Christmas cantata and traditional Christmas carols, "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Ding Dong Merrily On High," "What Child Is This," and "Silent Night". The students are especially looking for-
ward to singing the cantata, which is a medieval German carol with two verses in Latin. "It’s been quite an experience for the kids and they are especially taken with singing Latin," said Jefferson School Music Director Ann Freeman of Lewes. The music includes German cantatas written during the Baroque era, sung in German and accompanied by a string ensemble and organist. The program will be interspersed with traditional Christmas carols that the audience will be encouraged to join in singing along. Tickets, which are $20 for adults and $8 for students, are available at Puzzles in Lewes, Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, by contacting Dot Barlow 645-2013, or online at www.brownpapertickets.
The Jefferson School choir will sing a cantata and four traditional Christmas carols with the Southern Delaware Choral Society during their annual Christmas concert.
Internal Revenue Service releases 2009 standard mileage rates The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2009 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. Beginning Jan. 1, 2009, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups, or panel trucks) will be: • 55 cents per mile for business miles driven • 24 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes • 14 cents per mile driven in service of
charitable organizations The new rates for business, medical and moving purposes are slightly lower than rates for the second half of 2008 that were raised by a special adjustment mid-year in response to a spike in gasoline prices. The rate for charitable purposes is set by law and is unchanged from 2008. The business mileage rate was 50.5 cents in the first half of 2008 and 58.5 cents in the second half. The medical and moving rate was 19 cents in the first half and 27 cents in the second half.
The mileage rates for 2009 reflect generally higher transportation costs compared to a year ago, but the rates also factor in the recent reversal of rising gasoline prices. While gasoline is a significant factor in the mileage rate, other fixed and variable costs, such as depreciation, enter the calculation. The standard mileage rate for business is based on an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile. A taxpayer may not use the business standard mileage rate for a vehicle after using any depreciation
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Community Bulletin Board Leaf removal
Holiday safety
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A presentation on holiday safety and crime prevention will be presented by Jerry “Doc” Semper, on Monday, Dec. 8, at 10:30 a.m. at Nanticoke Senior Center.
Century 21 Tull Ramey Real Estate announces that again they are a collection site for the U.S. Maine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots. Donations are being accepted at both locations, on Rt 13 North of Seaford and at 107 Pennsylvania Ave., Seaford. All toys should be new and do not have to be wrapped. All donations go to Sussex County needy families.
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Left over leaves littering your lawn or lot? Seaford Lions will rake your Seaford City limits location of leaves (for a donation), so you can live leaf free. Call Lion Keller at 629-4179, or Lion George at 629-7982, to set up an appointment.
All-you-can-eat breakfast will be held at the Blades Fire Hall, located at the corner of 5th and Cannon streets, on Dec. 7, at 8 a.m. till 11 a.m. Cost is adults, $7; children, 12-and-under, $3. Sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Fire Company and the Blades Volunteer Fire Company.
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The Western Sussex Democrat Club will hold its annual Holiday and Christmas Party, Monday, Dec. 8, at Duke’s Pool House, Sycamore Road in Laurel at 6:30 p.m. There will be entertainment and turkey with dressing will be provided by the club, with members to bring covered dishes to complete the menu. Also, Dick Roller, is responsible for the distribution of small gifts and food items to needy families in the area. Club members are asked to bring these donations and small gifts to the party. Betsy Davis is also assisting in this club effort..
Regional Builders, Inc. has begun its annual toy collection drive for the Toys for Tots program. This program, conducted by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, collects and distributes toys to needy children in the community. Drop off new, unwrapped toys at Regional Builders, Inc., 300 High St., Seaford. Donations will be accepted on weekdays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. through Dec. 12. You may also make a tax-deductible donation to Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, PO Box 1947, Marine Corps Base, Quantico, VA 22134.
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Seaford display For several years Kenna Nethken and Cheryl Webster, owners of Cut’Em Up Tree Care of Delaware in Seaford, have been sponsoring a holiday display at their home and business in Middleford. This year they invite area residents to drive through the display. The drive through will be well marked and will be opening the first weekend in December for residents of the greater Seaford area. The display will be open every evening from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m. weather permitting, and will be open through New Year’s weekend. Donations are greatly appreciated. From Rt. 13 (Dunkin’Donuts) travel west on Middleford Road towards Georgetown. At the stop sign turn left and the display will be visible on the left.
Seaford Christian Academy students in grades 1st - 8th, and the High School Sound Waves will be presenting a concert on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. in the SCA Gym. Everyone is welcome to attend to hear what students have been learning in class this fall, and to enjoy beautiful Christmas music as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Call 629-7161, ext. 130, for further information.
Prayer breakfast Rise-n-Shine to a prayer breakfast at Seaford Golf & Country Club starting at 8 a.m. Advanced ticket sales only; $20 (No tickets will be sold after Jan 15, 2009). The MLK Community Recognition Award will be presented to Regina Batson, a longtime educator dedicated to Seaford School District. Come out and enjoy a scrumptious breakfast buffet, live entertainment, and gripping power points on the visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The celebration continues at the Seaford High School from 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is only $2. Special appearance by: Artist Earl Hardy Sobers, the Rev. Brian Nixon reciting, “I Have a Dream Speech,” also fea-
Christmas in Cricket County Itʼs the Social Clash of the Season, when the City Cousins, Oswald, Pete, Mimi & Petunia take the limo to Cricket County for the reading of Uncle Zekeʼs Will on Christmas Eve ... Will the Country Cousins, Elkin, Fester, Glenda Mae, Brenda Mae & Donna Jo keep the Christmas Spirit in Spite of the City Cousinsʼ Greed????
St. John’s United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall - Pine & Poplar Sts., Seaford Thursday & Friday, Dec. 11 & 12 -- 7 P.M. Admission: Non-Perishable Food Item to benefit the Seaford Community Food Closet
PAGE 18 turing a Teen Summit, open mic, live entertainment, creative dance, vendors, free lunch, step show, MLK Jr. trivia, theme contest, children’s games sponsored by the Seaford Parks & Recreation, and face painting by the Seaford District Library, and much, much more. For tickets call 628-1908.
Santa Claus visit On Saturday, Dec. 20, Seaford will welcome Santa Claus - The Shoppes of Historic High Street invite you to join them in welcoming Santa Claus. Retailers will be providing special treats, hot and cold beverages, and finger foods for last minute shoppers. Join us for a day filled with Christmas spirit, special sales, free drawings and pictures with Santa Claus.
Carols for Christmas The Southern Delaware Choral Society Christmas concert, “A Newborn Child: Cantatas and Carols for Christmas,” will be presented Saturday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m. at the Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church in Seaford, and on Sunday, Dec. 14, at 3 p.m. at St. Edmund’s Roman Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach. The cost for tickets will be $15 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets are available by calling 226-5231 or at www.brownpapertickets.com
Historical Society raffle The Seaford Historical Society raffle offers a luxurious condo in either Williamsburg or Myrtle Beach for a week in 2009 as the prize. Raffle tickets are $5 each or five tickets for $20 and may be purchased at either the Ross Mansion on Saturday or Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. or at the Seaford Museum on Thursday through Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The drawing will take place on the last day of the 2008 Victorian Christmas, which is Sunday, Dec. 14.
Victorian Christmas The annual Victorian Christmas at the Ross Mansion, Dec. 12, 13 and 14, will once again feature a Christmas Boutique. Each member of the Seaford Historical Society is asked to contribute one item. Handmade gifts in the price range of $10 to $20 are especially popular. Items may be left in the gray box on the front porch of the Ross Mansion at any time. For questions call Diane Thomas at 629-2085 or Shirley Skinner at 629-9378.
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Children’s Christmas party Laurel American Legion Post 19 and Unity 19 will be hosting their annual Children’s Christmas Party on Sunday, Dec. 14, from 2-4 p.m. Location is at the Post 19 home on Rt. 24 (Laurel-Millsboro Highway). All children up to 12-years old are welcome. Santa will be there.
Toy & coat drive The Laurel Police Department is once again holding a Christmas Toy & Coat Drive. The members of the Laurel Police Department are requesting donations of new unwrapped toys and coats. The items received will be distributed within the Laurel Communnity to those in need this holiday season. Donations can be dropped off at the Police Department, Monday-Friday, from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Donations will be accepted until Dec. 23.
The show will include raffles for a 5050 and antique furniture item. More than 40 door prizes will be given away. Admission is free and all proceeds benefit the non-profit Bridgeville Historical Society.
Caroling in the park The Town of Bridgeville will host their annual caroling in the park on Friday, Dec. 5, at 6:30 p.m. The event will take place at the Historical Society Park on the corner of Delaware Ave. and William St. Bring a canned good donation for needy families. Come for fun, fellowship and a visit from Santa Claus.
‘It’s a wonder-full life’ It’s a wonder-full life, but would it be without the real meaning of Christmas? The Children at Laurel Wesleyan Church invite you to a Christmas musical about the best gift at Christmas. Join us Saturday, Dec. 6, at 6 p.m. or Sunday, Dec. 7, at 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Nursery will be provided. Laurel Wesleyan Church is located north of Laurel on Rt. 13A. For more information call 875-5380.
Laurel Chamber events Dec. 5 – Christmas parade, 7 p.m. Dec. 9 – Open house/ribbon cutting, Members Christmas Party, Laurel chamber office 4-7:30 p.m.
Christmas craft night Do you have trouble finding a way to display your Christmas cards every year? Come to the Greenwood Library on Friday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. and make an adorable Christmas card wreath. The wreath, made of clothespins, craft wire and beads, is simple enough for younger children yet ready for an individual creative touch. The craft is free and open to all, but children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. To register, please call 349-5309 or stop by the front desk at the library.
Christmas concerts You are invited to join the students of Greenwood Mennonite School for their annual Christmas concert series celebrating the birth of Jesus. This Christmas season we will offer two opportunities for you to enjoy traditional Christmas music that celebrates the true meaning of Christmas. On Tuesday Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. join the Elementary K-6th grades. The program will feature a kindergarten class drama presentation of the Christmas story under the direction of Kevin Yoder. On Thursday Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. join middle and high school grades. The program will feature the Middle School Choir, the Junior High Chorus, Senior High School Chorale, Ensemble and a combined Mass Choir under the direction of Kevin Yoder. Also featured for the evening will be the Junior and Senior High School bands doing a number of instrumental selections under the direction of Lowell Bechtel. Admission is free. The school is located at 12802 Mennonite School Road between Routes 16 & 36 just east of Greenwood. Visit www.gms-flames.org for more information or call 302-349-4131, to learn more details about Greenwood Mennonite School.
Pearl Harbor Day There will be a service of remembrance for Pearl Harbor Day on Sunday, Dec. 7, at 3 p.m. at Greenwood Memorial VFW Post 7478 on Governors Ave. in
Holiday food drive SunKissed Tanning wants to donate a holiday dinner to four Laurel families who need a helping hand during this holiday season. Our goal is 250 non-perishable food items to be donated by Dec. 22. Help us meet this goal. In return for your generosity, every three non-perishable items you donate, you receive one free tan. You can earn up to ten free tans.
Mentors needed The Laurel Kids Connection Mentoring Program is seeking dedicated adults to spend one hour per week with a fifth, sixth, or seventh grader. Mentors and students meet at the Laurel Library. Contact Kim Trivits or Lynne Betts at 629-7790 for details.
VFW 4961 breakfast cafe, open Monday-Friday, 7-10 a.m., Seaford VFW, Middleford Road, to benefit Veterans Relief Fund.
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RT. 24, LAUREL Christmas in Bridgeville LHS class of ‘98 Laurel High School class of ‘98 is planning a class reunion. Contact Megan Jones at megj22@comcast.net or phone 841-5835 with contact information.
The Bridgeville Historical Society will host its 33rd Annual Christmas in Bridgeville Craft Show on Saturday, Dec. 6, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Woodbridge High School, Laws Street, Bridgeville. The craft show will include more than 60 vendors, selling a large assortment of holiday gift items.
2 pm - 4 pm Come and meet Santa on this special day!
MORNING STAR • DECEMBER 4 - 10, 2008 Greenwood. The program is sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Post and the public is invited to attend. Dr. Raymond Jervis Cooke, a retired United Methodist Minister with 70 years of service, will be the featured speaker. Dr. Cooke shares a long and varied career as a military chaplain and retired in 1972 with 28 years of service and the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in USAF. During WWII, Dr. Cooke served as a military chaplain in the U. S. Navy. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of this historical observance.
Lost Love Series On Tuesday, Dec. 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Greenwood Library’s Bound by Books discussion group will be discussing the two-book Lost Love series by Karen Kingsbury. The two books to be discussed are Even Now and Ever After. The program will be held in the library meeting room and is free and open to all. To obtain copies of the books, please drop by the Greenwood Public Library or call Robin Miller at 302-349-5309. The Greenwood Public Library is located at 100 Mill St., just east of the railroad tracks in Greenwood.
Christmas Caroling Party On Friday, Dec. 12, at 6:00 p.m., the Greenwood Public Library will be holding a Christmas Caroling Party at the Country Rest Home in Greenwood. We will meet in the lobby of the rest home at 6 p.m., sing carols throughout the facility, and end the evening with refreshments in the dining room. The activity is open to all; however, children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is helpful, but not required. The Country Rest Home is located at 12046 Sunset Lane in Greenwood. To register, or for directions to the Country Rest Home, please call 349-5309. If you are able to supply some of your Christmas cookies as refreshments, please contact Robin at the same number.
Wreaths Across America Wreaths Across America, an organization formed to promote and coordinate sponsorship of Maine wreaths for national and state cemeteries that have shown a desire to emulate the Arlington wreathlaying event, will have a ceremony in every state in the country on Dec. 8. This event kicks off a weeklong parade of wreath deliveries. Dec. 7 marks the start of the world’s Longest Veterans Parade from Maine to participating locations all across the country. On Saturday, Dec. 13, at 12 noon marks the simultaneous wreath-laying ceremonies at over 286 locations all across the world, including 24 foreign cemeteries and aboard naval ships in all seven seas. The Dept. of Del. VFW Ladies Auxiliary is working in conjunction with Wreaths Across America to sponsor this ceremony. Veterans and Family Support Eastern Chairman Sally Kubicki and Dept. of Del. Chairman Michaele Russell have arranged to hold this event on Dec. 8, at 11:30 a.m. at the Delaware Veterans Home in Milford. The public is invited to attend.
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Longaberger sale The Delmar Lions Club is holding a Longaberger basket sale with all proceeds going to the community and the visually impaired. Baskets, with blue and orange trim and Wildcat paws, cost $49 each. The price of the lid, with a Delmar and Wildcat logo, is $30. Liners and dividers are available upon request. For more information or to order a basket contact Mildred Riley at 8463846 or kragera@verizon.net
‘Sounds of the Season’ On Dec. 7, the 3rd Annual “Sounds of the Season” Christmas Concert will take place at Delmar Senior High School. As in prior years, all proceeds will benefit local programs for the American Cancer Society through Relay For Life. A Chinese auction will once again feature unique options for Christmas gifts, door prizes will be awarded, and refreshments will be sold throughout the concert. Local performers include Lori (Miller) Lee, Lori Jones, the Delmar High School and Seventh Grade Choirs, and the Greenwood Mennonite High School Ensemble. Doors will open at 1:30 p.m. with the concert beginning at 2 p.m. Tickets are available by calling 629-2366, or at the door the day of the concert.
Round trip bus transportation, four nights accommodations, four breakfasts, one box lunch on river cruise with live entertainment, four dinners, luggage handling, step on tour guide, shopping/free time, Broadway at the Beach, four live shows: Legends in Concert, Carolina Opry, Good Vibrations & the Alabama Theatre. Single: $1,171; Double: $885; Triple: $805; Quad: $800. Depart April 13 at 5 a.m., return April 17 at 8:30 p.m. Accommodations: The Caravelle Resort (ocean front rooms) www.thecaravelle.com. Must have full deposit by Feb. 1, 2009. RSVP with a $200 deposit. Contact: Kay Carrier at 875-7877 carrier29@msn.com, or DotWolfgang at 846-2366, dotw10@yahoo.com. You do not have to be a member of the Delmar Alumni Association.
AARP Chapter 1084 Our first trip for the year 2009 will be Connecticut’s Foxwoods & Mohegan Sun Casinos. This will be March 9 and 11. We will be staying at the Great Cedar Hotel. Breakfast & dinners are included plus bonus chips & more. The cost is $240 per person, double occupancy. We are planning a seven-day trip to Mackinac Island, Mich., for early next September. Staying two nights in Frankenmuth, two nights on Mackinac Island and some sightseeing in Sault Sainte Marie. More information later. To insure a bus seat, the trip cost must
be paid when making reservations. Total costs for day trips and one third cost of an overnight trip. Contact Rose Wheaton at 629-7180.
Mt. Calvary UMC Bus trip to Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo. sponsored by Mt Calvary United Methodist Church, 28 Church St., Bridgeville, on Aug. 8-15. Eight days and seven nights Cost is $980 per person, double occupancy which includes bus, breakfast, dinner, hotel accommodations, taxes and meal gratuities and baggage handling at hotels as well as admission to such sites as The Cross at the Crossroads (a 198 foot-high cross surrounded at the base by a 10 commandments display), Scout Joplin House “The King of Ragtime” Black World History Museum, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, American Jazz Museum, Grant Farms (Home of the Busch Family), tour of St. Louis and Kansas City, visit to Hallmark Visitors Center, shopping at the Crown Center and many more. Down payment of $200 is due by Jan. 15, 2009 – payments thereafter are $130 per month until July 4. For more information call. Mary Jones, 302-337-7335 for more information.
Sight & Sound Laurel Senior Center Trip to Sight & Sound, “Miracle of Christmas,” on Dec. 9. Cost is $90 and includes transportation, show & dinner at Shady Maple Smorgasbord.
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Join Us for this “Jolly Ol’ Time” ‘The Nutcracker’ “The Nutcracker,” acclaimed classical ballet performed by the First State Ballet Theatre; Saturday, Dec. 13, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the theater, Arts & Science Center, Delaware Technical & Community College, Route 18/Seashore Highway, Georgetown. Tickets: $20 general admission; $15 senior citizens/children/students. Call Delaware Tech at 302-858-5475 or 302856-5400, ext. 5545 for tickets.
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‘Narnia’ exhibit Nanticoke Senior Center’s trip to Franklin Institute ‘Narnia’ Exhibit will be on Thursday, Jan. 15 at 8 a.m. Trip includes: motor coach transportation, admission to Franklin Institute, lunch at Old Country Buffet, all tips and gratuities. Cost is $60 for members and $65 for non-members.
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Radio City
Olde Seaford Block Watch
Seaford Recreation’s 17th annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular is set for Sunday, Dec. 7, and is now taking registrations. Cost is $145 and seats are in orchestra section. There will be a few hours after the show to tour New York City. Call 629-6809.
Olde Seaford Block Watch invites you to a covered dish dinner meeting on Monday, Dec. 8, at 6:30 p.m., at Seaford City Hall. The Program: “Sherlock Holmes – Eye Witness.” Drink and desserts will be furnished. Call 629-5643 for information.
Republican Women
Embroiders’ Guild The Sussex Chapter of Embroiders’ Guild meets on the second Monday of the month at the CHEER Center in Georgetown. All levels of stitchers from beginner to advanced are welcome to attend. For details call 302539-9717.
Acorn Club The G.F.W.C. – Acorn Club of Seaford is having their annual reciprocity on Dec. 11, at the Nanticoke River Yacht Club from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The hostesses are Karen Brunken and Norma Lee Temple and their committee.
The Seaford Republican Women will meet, at Bon Appetite, for their Christmas luncheon. The date is Thursday, Dec. 11, at 1 p.m. Reservations are required. Please call Anne Nesbitt, at 628-7788.
SHS Alumni Association The SHS Alumni Association will hold an Executive meeting on Thursday, Dec. 4 at the Seaford Museum beginning at 7 p.m. For additional information please call Donna Hastings Angell @ 629-8077
Widowed Persons Service The Seaford Chapter of the Widowed Persons Service will have its next meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 12:15 p.m., at the Golden Corral. Bring an unwrapped gift, toy or canned goods for Associated
Charities. All widowed persons of all ages are invited to attend. Come join us - we all enjoy the trips, lunches/dinners, etc. that we do.
Coast Guard Auxiliary Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 12-04 meets the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Nanticoke River Yacht Club in Blades. Call Wayne Hickman at 629-6337 for details.
S.C. Advisory committee The Sussex County Advisory Committee for the Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities will meet at the Sussex County West Administrative Complex, North DuPont Highway, Georgetown, at 10 a.m. Agendas and minutes can be viewed on the county’s website at www.sussexcountyde.gov. All meetings are open to the public. For more information, call Raymond Moore, Chair, at 436-8132. Submit Bulletin Board items by noon, Thursday. Send to Morning Star Publications PO Box 1000, Seaford, DE 19973, email to editor@mspublications. com or drop off at 628 West Stein Hwy., Seaford.
In the front row on the floor from left are Taylor Hogan, Sara Dubhily, Shelby Grant, Jillian Kerr, Katie Mae Fields, Jill Wilkins and Jehnna Moore. In the middle row are Caitlin Carlisle, Rebecca Kleinfelder, Taylor Vincent and Emma Plump. In the third row are Alexandra Paquette, Becky Ball, Ashley Bononi, Justin Wilkins, Allison Wilkins, Abbie Gaunt, Morgan Parsley, Nicolle Leeuwen and Ian Boyan. In the back row are Tori Brown-O’Brien, Suzette Madanat, Caitlin Schanne, Bethany Berry, Marilyn Sloan as the Nutcracker, Destiny Clark, Taylor Gillan, Angela Zielen and Mandi Plump. Photo by Suzanne Madanat
Diamond Dance to perform “The Nutcracker” The Diamond Dance Company in Milford will perform its annual production of The Nutcracker on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7 in the Milford High School auditorium. The Saturday evening show begins at 7 p.m. and the Sunday performance is at 5 p.m. This is the 10th annual Nutcracker performed by Diamond
Dance Company which is located at the First State Academy of Dance on Maple Avenue in Milford. The cast includes dancers from Milford, Dover, Harrington, Felton, Lewes and Seaford. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students 18 and under and seniors 55 and older. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Lou’s Bootery on Walnut Street
in Milford during the day or at the First State Academy of Dance on Maple Avenue from 5 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. on weeknights. Tickets will also be on sale at the door with the box office opening one hour before each show. For more information, call the Diamond Dance Company at 302-943-7339.
SUDOKU Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
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That old, flaky, right-handed hall of famer Tommy Young I will give you a couple of hints whom I am writing about before I AT URPHY go into this and let’s see if you know who it is. ‘Feisty’ would be an un“Feisty” would be an understatement to describe him. He loves derstatement to describe his beloved town of Delmar with a him. He loves his beloved sincere, deep passion, and he has town of Delmar with a sinbeen close to his hometown for cere, deep passion, and most of his 84 years. he has been close to his After 10 years, he wrote his last hometown for most of his column for The Laurel Star on 84 years. Nov. 20. Before that, he wrote articles and did sports stories for the Salisbury Times under Ed Nichols Tommy has also been very involved as and later the Daily Times under Rick a board member of the Hall of Fame as Cullen. He also wrote a weekly column for well as a member of the Elks and East the Bi-State Weekly, a Delmar paper from Side Men’s Club in Salisbury. Tommy by 1950 through 1960. his own admission must have had 30 jobs Yup, it’s that old flaky, right-handed during his interesting life. Selling cars, inEastern Shore League Hall of Famer Tom- surance and a host of other jobs and then my Young. he finally settled in at the Delaware DeTommy graduated from Delmar High partment of Social Services for 15 years School in 1942, right after World War II before retiring. Tommy admits to an “unhad begun. He played all sports in high settled life” in those early years, being school, but a tryout with the St. Louis Car- married twice and saying to himself that dinals baseball team was cut short when that was enough of it. Of course that was they discovered he only had sight in one before he met Diana, his rock and foundaeye. tion for the last 38 years. His limited vision also kept him out of “Nobody thought I’d live to be 84 years the service. He was told if he lost sight in old,” said Tommy. “Give Diana a huge ashis other eye, the Army didn’t want to pay sist on that one.” him disability, so after working a few Tommy gave up golf a couple of years years he attended Salisbury State ago, something he enjoyed tremendously, Teacher’s College. He did this from 1945 but still exercises three times a week dethrough 1949. spite several medical problems the last few How did Tommy lose sight in that one years. Of course, he still attends many of eye? Tommy and his buddy “Peanut” Sullivan were playing with BB guns as 7 year olds. A BB lodged in Tommy’s gun, then came out and hit him right in the eye. It did not prevent him from playing five sports in high school, however, and later for the Delmar town team, for Princess Anne in the Delmarva League and for the Delmar Railroaders from 1945 through B ank-issued, FDIC- insured to $100,000 1954. Tommy has been kidded much over the *APY years about just how hard he threw a baseball. Some say his pitches would bounce off a pane of glass. However, Tommy av5-year Minimum deposit $5,000 eraged less than a walk per game and won perhaps 75 percent of his games, earning *Annual Percentage Yield (APY) effective 12/1 /08. CDs are federally insured up to $100,000 (principal and interest accrued him a place in the Eastern Shore League but not yet paid) per issuing institution. CDs are also federally Hall of Fame in 1998. Anybody who insured up to $250,000 (principal and interest accrued but not yet paid) in qualified retirement accounts per issuing institution. knows Tommy is well aware of the properSubject to availability and price change. CD values may decline in ly named “vanity” tag on Tommy’s car a rising interest rate environment, and the market value may fluctuate if sold prior to maturity. The amount received from the sale that says “Giants,” his favorite team for of a CD at current market value may be more than, less than or equal to the amount initially invested, FDIC Insurance does not more than 70 years. It’s just part of the cover losses in market value in these instances. Early withdrawal character of Tommy. may not be permitted. Yields quoted are net of all commissions. You pay no additional commissions, annual fees or periodic And Delmar community involvement? charges. The estate feature allows heirs to redeem the certificates Tommy is there as a 50-year member of of deposit upon the death of an owner at face value, interest earned, subject to limitations, CDs require the distribution of the Kiwanis and a three-time president. In interest and do not allow interest to compound. CDs offered through Edward Jones are issued by banks and thrifts nationwide. 1958, he was one of the founders of Del$5,000 minimum investment per issuing institution. 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the games — whether it’s football, baseball, hockey or whatever, Tommy Young is there to support his beloved town and their athletes. Tommy has not slowed down, just switched gears as he turns his attention with friend Wayne Mitchell to revitalize the Delmar Historical Society. After all, old “righty” pitchers keep tossing. The speed never matters, because it’s the commitment that counts. Tommy Young has it. This past weekend was moving day for the Star — boy, what a job. I worked as long as my body would take it on Saturday, and a little Sunday, but Bryant Richardson, wife Carol and others worked the entire weekend. This moving brought back memories of one of my many part time jobs many years ago. That was first delivering furniture for Roy Mitchell and Son and briefly for Johnny Janosik. It took all 118 pounds of me to do that job and to this day I respect all delivery people. Maybe that expression “until you’ve walked a mile in my shoes” really makes sense. Anyway, we are at our new location at 951 Stein Highway in the Home Team Realty building. Stop by and see us. Don’t forget our great Christmas parades coming up in Laurel, Delmar and Seaford. Date and time are on the front of the Star.
On this year’s Delmar Little League opening day this year, when the league observed its 50th year, there was vintage Tommy Young up in his old wool Railroader’s uniform. File photo by Mike McClure
Now, in closing, I must say it’s been a long time since I’ve seen my friend Jay Hastings. He must be out getting my Christmas gift. Better check with me Jay, there has been a slight redistribution of the weigh,t you know. I guess I’m just short for my height, or is it weight? Have a great week everyone and laugh at yourself — everyone else is.
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Church Bulletins Mt. Olivet Preschool openings Mt. Olivet Preschool has added another three-year-old class to its program. There are limited openings in the three and fouryear-old classes. Call Linda Stephenson at 629-2786 for details.
Christmas musical The Children at Laurel Wesleyan Church invite you to a Christmas musical about the best gift at Christmas. Join us Saturday, Dec. 6, at 6 p.m. or Sunday, Dec. 7, at 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Nursery will be provided. Laurel Wesleyan Church is located north of Laurel on Rt. 13A. For more information call 875-5380.
Sound Waves Handbell Choir The Sound Waves Handbell Choir of Seaford Christian Academy will be performing for the Seaford Historical Society’s, “A Victorian Christmas” at the Ross Mansion in Seaford, on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come out to enjoy this special Christmas celebration.
Open House Christ the Cornerstone Community Church open house, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Come see what we have to offer and bring the kids. There is a shop for the parents and a shop for the young ones to purchase gifts for family and friends at a price they can afford and we will even help them wrap their gifts to keep them a secret until Christmas. You can even purchase a light lunch to keep you going.
Ms. Santa will be available to tell a story at 11 a.m. and give the little ones a candy cane. The church is located on the corner of Bethel Road and 13A . Call 8758150 for more information.
Fall fundraiser begins Christ the Cornerstone Community Church is starting its fall fundraiser. A selection of crafts, gifts, and decorations available until Dec. 15. To view these items, stop by the church, or call 875-8150 for time availability. Church is located at the corner of Seaford Road and Bethel Road, Laurel.
Charlie Zahm concert Community Lutheran Church is privileged to have Celtic Singer, Charlie Zahm perform in its annual Christmas concert for the community. The concert is Sunday, Dec. 7, at 4 p.m. in the fellowship hall. The concert is free but donations will be accepted. He will be joined by the outstanding church choir in several musical numbers. Charlie Zahm is one of the most popular soloists at Celtic music festivals, Maritime and early American music events anywhere east of the Mississippi. Clips of all of Charlie’s recorded songs can be heard at www.charliezahm.com. Community Lutheran is located south of Dagsboro at the blinking light on Rt. 20 and Omar Road. Any questions, call 6440256, or visit www.clc19945.org. You may also contact the Livingstons at 6292201 for details.
Open house Christ the Cornerstone Community Church will hold an open house on Saturday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.There is a gift shop for the parents to browse through. Santa is setting up a craft table so visitors can have a decoration made by their little boy or girl. There is a shop for the young ones to purchase gifts for family and friends at a price they can afford, between 50 cents and $5. Members will even help them wrap their gifts to keep them a secret until Christmas. A light lunch can be purchased. Mrs. Santa will be available to tell a story at 11 a.m. and give the little ones a candy cane. The church is located on the corner of Bethel Road and 13A. The little white church with Thee Wedding Chapel. Phone 875-8150. The building once was a pickle factory. Stop by to see the church even if you don’t want to shop.
Gospel Café Centenary United Methodist Church, located on the corner of Poplar & Market streets, Laurel, holds its Gospel Café every Saturday night from 6 to 9 p.m., Featuring: Bruce & Nancy Willey Music Ministry – Live Christian Music – Fellowship – Refreshments. Saturday, Dec. 6 – Kaila Clucas, Milton Foskey, Ashley Yoder. Saturday, Dec. 13 – Amanda Jones, Bill Primose, Josh Palmer, Ray & Trevar Marine, Dan Welch. Saturday, Dec. 20 – Paul & Crystal
Grandell, Frank Silva, Cassandra Abbott, Kaila Clucas, ALL-4-HIM. Everyone is invited to attend (Come as you are.) For more information, contact Bruce & Nancy Willey at 875-5539, or 875-7339.
Living nativity Conley’s United Methodist Church in Angola will present its living nativity on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 12, 13 and 14. It will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Sunday evening presentation will be in both Spanish and English. Admission is free, and there will be ample free parking. Golf carts to help the handicapped will be available each night. All donations of cash and canned goods go to local charities. The living nativity is located at 33104 Jolyns Way off Camp Arrowhead Road. This is a half-mile from Peddler’s Village shopping center on Rt. 24. Signs will direct you to the parking area. The church’s phone number is 302-945-1881.
Jazz/Gospel gala Macedonia’s men sponsoring “Holiday Jazz/Gospel & Christmas Gala,” on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 6 p.m., at St. Luke’s Parish Hall - tickets $20. It will feature Ernest Greene & Born Again Ensemble of Felton, with Creative Movement by Joshua’s Crew of Clarence Street COG. Benefits Ministry, scholarships and holiday baskets. For information contact Brother Bruce Ricketts 302-448-1097 or men of Macedonia. Macedonia AME
DIRECTORY: Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship TRINITY UNITED METHODIST Trap Pond, CHURCH NearLaurel, D el. 875-7715 Sun. School 9:00 a.m. Worship 10:00 a.m. Pastor Julie A. Lewis
“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 E-mail: st_johns@verizon.net NURSERY & HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE
SUNDAY WORSHIP 8:30 & 11:15 am Traditional 9:45 Sunday School 10:00 am Hearts Afire (Contemporary) Come as you are… and be transformed in the love of Christ!
Centenary United Methodist Church “Where Caring is Sharing” “NEW SONG!” - Contemporary Celebration, 8:45 a.m. Sunday School, Classes for ALL ages, 9:45 a.m. Traditional Family Worship, 11:00 a.m.
Rev. K. Wayne Grier, Pastor, 875-3983 200 W. Market St., Laurel, Del.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
1010S .C entral Ave., Laurel Ph: 875-7748 Minister: Ian J. Drucker WorshipS ervices: Sunday 10 a.m. 6:00 p.m. BibleS tudy: Sun. 9:00 a.m.; Wed. 7:00 p.m. In The Interest Of New Testament Christianity
CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 510 S. Central Ave., Laurel, DE Rev. Donna Hinkle, Pastor Church: 875-4233 Sunday Services: 8:30 am Praise 9:30 am Sunday School,10:45 am Worship
DIAL DAILY DEVOTIONS: 875-4309
Christ Evangelistic Church Great Worship - Talented Singers Loving People - Powerful Preaching
Youth Group Wednesday 7:00 pm
Worship 10:45 a.m. • Sun. School 9:45 a.m. Wed. Night 7:00 p.m. • Sun. Night 7:00 p.m. Located on Camp Road between the Dual & Alt. 13 For info call: 629-3674 or 875-2915 Sr. Pastor Roland Tice
Christian Church of Seaford Dual 13N., Seaford, DE • 629-6298
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Morning Worship 10:30 Wed. Night Service & (Nursery & Jr. Church) Youth Groups 7:00 p.m. A Firm Foundation • A Sure Hope • An Unending Love
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church & Old Christ Church
“A Place to Belong”
600 S. Central Ave., Laurel, DE 19956 (302) 875-3644 The Rev. Dr. Howard G. Backus, Pastor www.dioceseofdelaware.net/churches/stphlps.html Holy Eucharist with Healing and Church School ~ Sunday @ 9:30 am
SUNDAY WEDNESDAY Underground Family Worship (7-12 grade) 6:15 p.m. 10:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Prayer Team ‘The Table’ God’s Big Back Yard (last Wed. of mo) 7:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m.
94 Walnut St. Laurel, DE 19956
875-7873
Centrally located at 14511 Sycamore Rd., Laurel, DE 19956
Sunday School - 9 a.m.; Worship Service - 10:30 a.m. FasTrak Children’s Ministry - 10:30 a.m.; E318 Youth - 6 p.m. Wednesday Midweek Services - 7 p.m.
For info, call 875.7995 or visit www.centralworshipcenter.org
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Road6 8, South of Laurel Laurel,D el.
Sun. School 10 a.m. • Worship 9 & 11 a.m. Wed. Night Bible Study 7 p.m. Hymn Sing: Last Sunday Each Month - 7 p.m. www.StPaulsUMCLaurelDE.org
Pastor - Donald Murray - 856-6107
Delmar Wesleyan Church 800 East Street Delmar, MD 21875 “The Church That Cares” 410-896-3600 Pastor James C. Hitch
Sunday: Sunday School 10 M Worship 11 AM & 6 PM
Wednesday: BibleS tudy 7P M
MORNING STAR • DECEMBER 4 - 10, 2008 Church is located at 431 North Street, Seaford. The Rev. Dania R. Griffin is Pastor and the Rev. Zakiya Griffin is Asst. Pastor
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side of 13A, approximately 2 miles south of town. Any questions, call Shirley at 875-2314.
Christmas evening service
Seaford Church of the Nazarene is hosting a children’s Christmas party on Saturday, Dec. 13, 3-5 p.m. There will be complimentary pictures with Santa, singing, games and holiday refreshments. Everything is free. Everyone is welcome. We are located at 520 South Dual Hwy. in Seaford. For more information call 6293929 or 381-6514.
A Christmas evening service with the Rev. Dan Walker and Everett Warrington providing music will be held at Wheatley’s United Methodist Church, on Sunday, Dec. 14, at 6 p.m. The church is located on Wheatley Church Road, at the intersection with the Sharptown Road (MD313) between Sharptown and Eldorado, Md. Call Beverly Wheatley at 410883-3246.
Hymn sing
A Watchnight Celebration
Galestown UMC will hold their annual winter hymn sing on Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. Featuring guest gospel singers Pastor J.R. Mayle, C. Bud Scott and Ray and Trevor Marine. Buffett style hot dinner served at the community center. Call 410-883-3046 for details.
Memorial Prayer Service Memorial Second Sunday Prayer Service will be held on Dec. 14, 4 p.m. As we approach the holidays, it is good to remember those we have lost. Feel free to join us at 701 Bridgeville Hwy., 6299077.
‘The Not-So-Silent Night’ The Atlanta Road Alliance Church youth will present a Christmas pageant entitled “The Not-So-Silent Night” on Sunday, Dec.14, at 7 p.m. Three young shepherds joyfully shout God’s praises after visiting the baby Jesus and find themselves on trial for “disturbing the peace.” Join them in a Bethlehem courtroom for a rib-tickling trial and a surprising verdict. The Atlanta Road Alliance Church is located at 22625 Atlanta Road, approximately 1-1/2 miles north of Stein Highway. For more information, call 629-5600.
‘The Wonder of Christmas’ The choir of the Atlanta Road Alliance Church will present a musical celebration, “The Wonder of Christmas”, on Friday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 21, at 7 p.m. The title encapsulates many emotions, memories and truths about this amazing event, and the collection of contemporary songs and traditional Christmas carols reminds us of the majesty of the Savior’s birth. The Atlanta Road Alliance Church is located at 22625 Atlanta Road, in Seaford, approximately 1-1/2 miles north of Stein Highway. For more information about this free concert, call 6295600.
‘Be Not Afraid’ Laurel Baptist Church invites you and your family to their Christmas presentation of the play, “Be Not Afraid” on Sunday evening, Dec. 21, at 7 p.m. The church is located on the 33506 Bi-State Boulevard, west side of 13A, approximately 2 miles south of town. Any questions, call Shirley at 875-2314.
Candlelight service Laurel Baptist Church will be hosting a Christmas Eve candlelight service at 8 p.m. Everyone is invited. The church is located at 33506 Bi-State Boulevard, west
Mt. Calvary United Methodist Church, 28 Church Street, Bridgeville invites you to join the Bridgeville Charge as they say goodbye to 2008 and welcome to 2009 at 10 p.m. on Dec. 31. They will be celebrating with prayer, praise, singing, preaching and worship. Refreshments will be served after the service. There will be a free will offering. The special guests will be the “Watson Four Gospel Singers” of Salisbury Md. The Watson Four Gospel Singers have appeared on the Bobby Jones Gospel Show, have performed with such artists as Aretha Franklin, the late James Cleveland, the Harmonizing Four, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Williams Brothers, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Canton Spirituals and many others. They have also been recognized by Simply Gospel Music Newsletter and the Gospel Truth Magazine. For more information call 302542-5752. The Rev. Baron N. Hopkins Sr, is the Pastor.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 543 N. BRADFORD ST., SEAFORD, DEL. • 629-7161
Rev. Michael A. Hopkins, Pastor WEDNESDAY SUNDAY Sunday School......9:45 a.m. Prayer & Praise 7:00 p.m. Worship...............11:00 a.m. Patch Club (kids) 7:00 p.m. Eve. Worship........7:00 p.m. Youth Group 6:00-8 p.m.
Messiah’sV ineyard Church Located at Tyndall’s Furniture Plaza on Discountland Rd & Rt. 13, Laurel 302- 875-4646 PO BOX 60, LAUREL, DE 19956
PRE-SCHOOL - 12TH GRADE - Office 629-7161 Quality Traditional Education Since 1973 Fully Accredited By Middle States in ACSI
Dr. Carl G Vincent, Senior Minister Pastor Barry B. Dukes, Music Minister Sunday 9:30 am Wednesday 7:00 pm Children’s Church • Nursery
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCH
SEAFORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
A Cooperative S.B.C. Church 805 Atlanta Rd., Seaford, DE
302-629-8434 • www.graceseaford.org Sunday School 9:30 am Worship 10:45 am & 6:30 pm Children’s Church 10:45 am SPANISH Worship 10:45 am Wednesday Activities 7 pm Pastor: Homer McKeithan Youth Minister: James Hollis Music: Jim Burket “The Cross Is Grounded In Grace”
A Gathering Of Faith Come together under Christ’s roof and share together in his love. Attend Church this Sunday
532 Stein Hwy., Seaford, DE 19973 Redemptorist Fathers • 629-3591
MASSES: SUNDAY: Sat. Eve. - Vigil 4:30 p.m.; Spanish 7:30 p.m. Sunday - 7 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. DAILY: Mon., Tues., Thurs. & Fri. 9 a.m. 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 p.m.
“The Pickle Church” CHRIST THE CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH PICKLE MINISTRIES OUTREACH & CORNERSTONE NOTE MUSIC MINISTRY Corner of Bethel Rd. & Alt. 13 • 302-875-8150 Church School -All Ages - 9:15 a.m. Worship Service - 10:00 a.m. Rev. Rick Elzey Wings of Prayer - Tues. 7:00 p.m. Come Join Our Family
VICTORY TABERNACLE CHURCH OF GOD
SUNDAY WORSHIP
11 AM and 6 PM ~ Sunday School 9:45 AM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT Ministry for the wholef amily 7 PM
Pastor Stacey Johnson 28261 Seaford Rd., Laurel, 2 miles N. of Laurel on Alt. 13
302-877-0443
22625 Atlanta Road, Seaford, DE (302) 629-5600 - www.atlantaroadcma.org
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH
315 N. Shipley St., Seaford, DE 19973 • 302-629-9755 Pastor: Rev. Andrew C. Watkins www.christlutheranseaford.com
Praise Worship 8:30 AM • Sunday School 9:30 AM • Traditional Worship 11 AM
ROCK CHURCH
Sunday
Wednesday Evening
9:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Worship, Nursery, Classes for Kids-Adults 7:00 p.m. Evening Service
6:45 Catalyst Youth (grades 7-12), DivorceCare 7:00 Prayer Meeting, Men’s Group, KidStuf 103 (K-6 Kids & their parents, 1 & 3rd Wed.)
30320 Seaford Road, Laurel, Del. Ph: 875-7275 • Pastor Bill Konkel Sunday School: 9a .m. Worship: 10:30 a.m. & 1st & 3rd Sunday Evening: 5 p.m. Thurs Evening Prayer: 7p .m.
COKESBURY CHURCH
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
All Welcome Where Love Abides -- John 3:16
The Church by the Side of the Road 15092 Cokesbury Rd, Georgetown, DE (302) 629-5222 • www.cokesburywc.org Pastor Harold Carmean & Congregation Sunday School 9 am Contemporary Church Service 10 am
Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Serving Christ in the Heart of Seaford since 1830 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. Jim Sipes • 302-629-4458 PROFESSIONAL NURSERY CARE PROVIDED
Laurel Wesleyan Church Rt. 13A, Just North of Laurel Sunday School - 9:30 Worship - 9:00 & 10:45 Sunday Evening Worship Wed. 6:30 p.m. - Youth Ministries & WKID, The Zone, Children’s Ministries Church 875-5380 • Sr. Pastor Ken Deusa Asst. Pastor: Rev. Rick Green; Youth: Kyle Horton Children’sP astor:M arilyn Searcey
629-7979 Holy Eucharist: 9:00 a.m. Sunday School & Adult Forum: 10:30 a.m. Thurs. Eve. Service: 6 p.m. Front & King St., Seaford, DE
The Rev’d. Jeanne W. Kirby-Coladonato, Rector
Seaford Church of Christ Acapella
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N. Dual 13, P.O. Box 783, Seaford, DE 19973 302-629-6206 Evangelist - G. W. Cliver - 629-6206 Elder - Don Birch - 629-8949 Elder - Ron Russell - 629-6033 Sunday School 10 a.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
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Obituaries Waneta R. Goodell, 84 Waneta R. Goodell passed away Nov. 25, 2008, at the Heartland Hospice House in Wilmington. She was born in Newburg, Maine, on Sept. 18, 1924, a daughter of Percy T. Hopper and Mabel Turner Hopper. Waneta graduated as valedictorian from Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine, and furthered her education at Beal Business College. She is survived by her husband Richard A. Goodell, Sr., with whom she recently celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary. She is also survived by four children Ronda Jean Friedel and her husband Pastor Dewey Friedel of Wall, N.J.; Dianne Lee Goodell of Newark, Del.; Marcia Ellen Reese and her husband Bill Reese of Newark, and Richard A. Goodell, Jr. of Richmond, Va. Waneta and Richard were also blessed with eight grandchildren Kari Reese, Moriah Goodell-Zimmerman, Isaac Friedel, Jacob Goodell-Zimmerman, Jeff Goodell, Ariana Goodell-Zimmerman, Jamie Goodell, and Katie Goodell. Waneta’s greatest joy was expressed through her roles as a dedicated homemaker, loving wife, a devoted mother, and proud grandmother. Family and friends celebrated her life at a memorial service at Christ Lutheran Church, Seaford, on Sunday, Nov. 30.
Joshua R. Monday Williams, 19 Joshua R. “Josh” Monday Williams of Greenwood passed away at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital after a single car accident on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, near Bridgeville. Josh was born in Seaford, the son of Horace A. Williams III and Sherry Monday. He attended Sussex Tech night school and got a certificate in plant maintenance. Josh loved sports and outdoor activities including football, baseball, snow skiing and hunting. He played quarterback for the Seaford Blue Jays football team and also played on their baseball team. He was a big Tennessee Titans fan. He loved to spend time with his family and was a great father. Josh was survived by his fiancée, April Buckler; his son, Joshua R. Williams Jr.; his parents, Horace and step-mother Terrie Williams of Bridgeville, and Sherry Monday and step-father Erin Remus of Seaford; his grandparents, Horace and Janet Williams of Greenwood and Joan and William Elliott of Seaford, a greatgrandmother Mildred O‘Day of Greenwood; four brothers, Michael and Brandon Remus of Seaford, and Barry and Bradley Williams of Bridgeville; a nephew, Horace Williams V; and extended family. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Nov. 25, at Fleischauer Funeral Home, Greenwood. Interment was held at Bridgeville Cemetery in Bridgeville. The family suggests donating to an ac-
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Obituaries are run without charge thanks to the support of area churches
count that will be set up at PNC Bank in Bridgeville for his son’s education.
Anna M. Griffith, 71 Anna M. Griffith, of Seaford, passed away Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, at Christiana Hospital in Newark. Mrs. Griffith was born March 27, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pa., a daughter of Frederick J. Mynar and Mary Bowden Howe. She was raised by her mother and step-father, Joseph W. Howe. She grew up in Seaford and graduated from Seaford High School, class of 1955. Her grandfather, George Bowden, was chief of police in Seaford from 1933-1953. Mrs. Griffith retired in 1999 after 30 years in the supermarket industry. She worked for the old Colonial Store in Salisbury, Md., and later for Meatland and Food City in Seaford. Throughout her life, Mrs. Griffith lived in Seaford, Salisbury, Md., Dover, and Florida. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Albert P. Griffith in 1978. She is survived by her daughters, Linda Shaffer and her husband Charles of Laurel, Christine Wands and her husband Ray of Seaford, and Cathy VanSciver and her husband Jon of Seaford; seven grandchildren, Matthew Shaffer of Seaford, Jeremy Shaffer and his wife Rebekah of Huntington, W.Va., Alexis Shaffer of Laurel, Amanda, Philip and Caitlin Wands of Seaford, and Shelby VanSciver of Seaford; one greatgranddaughter, Grace Caroline Shaffer of Huntington; her sister, Gertrude Cassel Pierce of Hudson, Fla.; sister-in-law, Ruth Vinyard Stradley of Salem, N.J.; her first husband, Ronald Cover of Cumberland, Md.; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Nov. 26, at Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Hardesty Chapel, Bridgeville. Interment was held at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Seaford. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Seaford Christian Academy, 110 Holly St., Seaford, DE 19973. Send online condolences to: condolences@parsellfuneralhomes.com
Don Edward Spicer, 59 Don Edward Spicer of Salisbury, died peacefully at his home on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Born in Lewes, he was the son of James E. and Jama Carter Spicer. Don was a 1967 graduate from Laurel High School. He entered the US Marine Corps in 1968 where he was a Radio Operator with the Recon Unit of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, and 3rd Marine Division serving in Vietnam. While in the Marine Corps he earned the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnamese Service Medal with three Bronze Stars, Vietnamese Campaign Medal with device, Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation (Gallantry Cross Color), Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Com-
bat Action Medal, Rifle Marksman Badge, Navy Commendation Medal with Combat Valor and the Purple Heart. After his honorable discharge from the USMC, he earned a B.A. in Construction ManDon Spicer agement from the University of Maryland. He later became a registered architect, licensed to practice in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. During his architectural career he worked for Todd and Associates and Davis Bowen & Friedel before founding AES Architectural Services. Don was self-employed for the past several years. His memberships include, Military Order of the Purple Heart, V.F.W., American Legion and the American Institute of Architects. He spent his free time with his family, reading, studying military history, traveling, and volunteering at Salisbury Christian School. He is survived by his loving wife of 25 years, Dawn Dorman Spicer; five children, Carter Don Spicer, Brittany Van Leer Spicer, Evan D. Spicer of Sharptown, Beau-Emory Spicer of Sharptown and Christopher Spicer and his wife, Theresa, a granddaughter, Hannah Spicer, all of Salisbury, and a mother and father-in-law, Roger and Laura Dorman of Berlin. A funeral service was held on Friday, Nov. 28, at Holloway Funeral Home in Salisbury. Interment will be at a later date at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Contributions may be made in Don’s memory to: “Fidelity Advisor 529 Plan” c/o CFS Financial Solutions, 318 E. Main Street, Salisbury, MD or Salisbury Christ-
Union United Methodist Church 2 North Laws St., Bridgeville, DE 19933 Across from Bank 337-7409 HandicapF riendly WORSHIP TIMES:
9 am Contemporary Service 10 am Sunday School 11 am Traditional Worship Youth Group (Sun. 6 p.m.)
ian School, 807 Parker Rd., Salisbury, MD 21804. Arrangements were in the care of Holloway Funeral Home, Salisbury, Md. Visit www.hollowayfh.com to send condolences to the family.
Olivia Rio Elliott, newborn Baby girl Olivia Rio Elliott was stillborn on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Seaford. She will be greatly missed by her Mommy, Daddy and her family. Olivia Rio is survived by her parents, Andrew D. and Melissa Hensley Elliott of Laurel; maternal grandparents, Nancy Lee and Lonnie Hensley of Seaford; paternal grandmother, Edna Patricia Elliott of Seaford; a brother, Adam Lee Elliott of Laurel; a sister, Lacey D. Elliott of Bridgeville; two uncles, GSGT Michael Hensley, U.S.M.C., returning from Iraq, and Joseph Hensley of Salisbury, Md., and several cousins. There will be a private service for Olivia Rio at a later date and at the decision of the family. The parents ask that donations in memory of Olivia Rio Elliott be made to the Seaford Wesleyan Church, Attn: Pastor Dave Kiser, 26630 Sussex Highway, Seaford, DE 19973. Arrangements by Watson Funeral Home, Millsboro. Letters of condolence may be emailed via www.watsonfh.com
James L. Beckett, Sr., 79 James L. Beckett, Sr. “Jimmy”, formerly of Laurel, passed away at LifeCare at Lofland Park in Seaford on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. He was born on Oct. 31, 1929 in Somerset Co., Maryland the son of Brown Beckett and Frances Jones Beckett. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Berdie Hunt Beckett on June 9, 2004.
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!”
Welcome… SEAFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday School 9 am Morning Worship 10 am
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Wesley United Methodist Church 22025 Atlanta Road, Seaford, DE Pastor James Bongard 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
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
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. NurseryP rovided Pastor: Rev. Steven Booth Music Director: Linda Lewis
302-875-7998
MORNING STAR • DECEMBER 4 - 10, 2008 He retired from the Delaware State School System as a janitor for the Laurel School District. He sung in the group “Sons of Allen” and was a member of the Baptist Men at St. Matthews First Baptist Church in Laurel, where he had also served as a missionary. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge. He also had a side business of laying carpet and was known as the “Carpet Man.” He was preceded in death by a son, James Wesley Stewart. He is survived by his wife, Mary Johnson Beckett of Delmar; 14 children, Gwendolyn Radtke and her husband, David of Vera Beach, Fla., Sabrina Sells and her husband, James of Dover, Delisa Gilbert and her husband, Rick of Chester, Pa., Penelope Harris and her husband John, Leslie Evans, James Beckett, Jr. all of Dover, Roseine Kellam and William Chase, both of Laurel, Dinah Hotten and her husband, Clifton, Jr. of Virginia Beach, Va., Kenneth Chase and his wife, Jackie, Teresa Foreman, all of Laurel, Audrey Beckett of Virginia Beach, Va., Percy Johnson and his wife, Brenda of Slaughters Neck, Barbara Jean Andrews and her husband, Phil of Dover; a sister, Frances Beckett of Philadelphia; and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and other relatives. Funeral services were held on Saturday, Nov. 29, at Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. Church in Laurel with Pastor Sharon Morgan officiating. Arrangements were handled by Framptom Funeral Home.
Grace Blackmore, 86 Grace Blackmore, of Laurel, passed away peacefully, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008, at Salisbury Nursing and Rehab Center with her loving daughters by her side. Grace was born in Laurel, a daughter to John W. Benson and Lulu Dunn Benson on Oct. 23, 1922. She was a graduate of Laurel High School. After graduation, she was employed as a secretary and a food worker. She met and married the love of her life, Victor S. Blackmore. They were married for 59 years. Their marriage produced two daughters, Candy Norcross and her husband, George, of Hebron, and Kim Littleton and her husband, Alan, of Laurel. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Victor Blackmore, and brothers Norris and Lester Benson. She is survived by five grandchildren: Josh and Sarah Littleton, Jody Neal, Kristi Truitt, and Michael Fletcher and his wife, Rachel. There are nine great-grandchildren: Lauren and Derek Neal, Brandon Grove and his wife, Ashley, Corey Grove, and Chad, Christian, Caleb and Chase Fletcher; one great-great-grandson, Karter Hastings; a brother, Jack Benson and his wife, Iris; many cousins, several nieces and nephews and a host of friends. During her 86 years, Grace was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and neighbor.
Much of her time was spent on her family’s projects and interest. She gladly helped with Scouting, PTA, school papers and projects, and cleaning fish. Grace was a wonderful cook. She will be especially missed for her Toll House cookies. She was a talented seamstress and would hand-sew clothing for her daughters, nieces, and grandchildren. Grace will be remembered for her sense of humor. She loved to make her friends and family laugh. A memorial service was held on Nov. 25, at St. Philips Episcopal Church, Laurel. Interment was private. Contributions may be made in her honor to the Laurel Alumni Association, American Cancer Society, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, or Salisbury Nursing and Rehab Center. Arrangements were in the care of Hannigan, Short, Disharoon Funeral Home, Laurel.
John H. Sturgis, 87 John H. Sturgis of Greenwood died on Nov. 25, 2008, at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. He was born in Wilmington, a son of John J. and Mildred Marr Sturgis. He retired as a powerhouse operator from the former E.I. DuPont Company in Seaford. He was an aircraft pilot for more than 50 years, receiving his pilots license at 14 years of age and he enjoyed aerial photography. John was a member of the American Legion and a 32nd Degree Mason. John is survived by his wife Alice H. Sturgis of Seaford. His sons: Jim Sturgis of Newark, and Bob Hamilton of Boca Raton, Fla. A funeral service was held at the Hannigan, Short, Disharoon Funeral Home, Laurel, on Saturday, Nov. 29, with the Rev. Wayne Grier officiating. Interment was private.
Richard M. Rubino, Sr., 54 Richard M. Rubino, Sr. of Laurel died on Nov. 20, 2008, at his home in Laurel. Born in Seaford, he was a son of Martin and Loretta Rubino of Laurel. Richard was a custodian at Laurel High School. He was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Seaford. He was a graduate of Laurel High School class of 1973. His family will cherish his memory as a family man whom enjoyed a day out fishing. He is survived by his wife, Maureen Rubino of Laurel; sons Marty and his wife Jamila Rubino of New York, Jordy Rubino of Seaford and Daniel Rubino of Laurel; his daughters, Sherri Rubino of Laurel and Erin Jemeny of Philadelphia; his brothers Mark Rubino and his wife Brenda of Laurel, Dean Rubino and his wife Linda of Georgetown and Steve Rubino and his wife Lil of Laurel; his sisters Terry Rubino Cline and her husband Fred of Laurel and Donna Rubino Wilan of Laurel. Two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive him. A mass of Christian burial was celebrated at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic
Church, Seaford, on Monday Nov. 24. Interment followed in Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Cemetery, in Seaford. Father Joseph Hurley officiated.
Phyllis A. Murphy, 63 Phyllis A. Murphy of Seaford died on Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Murphy was a cashier for the Cigarette Store in Seaford and then in Rehoboth for many years. Her husband, Fred L. Murphy Sr. died in 1985. She is survived by a son Fred L. Murphy Jr. and his wife, Sue; two daughters, Kelley Owens and Elsie Conolly and her husband Michael; a brother, Edward Jester and his wife Brenda; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be on Friday, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m., at Seaford Wesleyan Church, 26630 Sussex Hwy, Seaford. Friends may call at the Cranston Funeral Home, 300 Shipley St., on Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. and at church on Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford.
John E. Rollins, 47 John E. Rollins of Blades died on Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. John was a drywall finisher. He is survived by five children, John E. Jr, Greg, Erica, Joseph and Amber, three brothers, Robert, Joseph and David, two sisters, Carolyn Rokuski and Laura Brinton, his mother, Loretta Rollins and three grandchildren. He is also survived by his former wife, Lynette Baker. Funeral services were held on Monday, Dec.1, at the Cranston Funeral Home, Seaford, where friends called. The family suggests donations may be made to the John Rollins Memorial Fund, c/o PNC Bank, 1200 Stein Hwy, Seaford, DE 19973.
Gary A. Carmean, 56 Gary A. Carmean of Laurel passed away on Nov. 28, 2008, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md. Gary was born in Seaford, a son of Lewis and Iva Carmean. A brother, Charles D. Carmean also preceded him in death. He was a graduate of Laurel High School class of 1970 and later graduated from the University of Delaware class of 1974. Gary was a poultry and grain farmer owning and operating Chicken Little Farms in Laurel. He was a member of the Laurel American Legion Post #19, Delaware Farm Bureau, and the Laurel Grain. Mr. Carmean’s memory will be cherished by his many hunting and fishing friends. He will also be remembered by his family for being a wonderful brother, husband, and father. He is survived by his wife, Connie D. Carmean and his son Matthew L. Carmean, both of Laurel. His sisters, Nancy Allen and her husband Larry of Laurel and Lois West and
PAGE 25 her husband Ray of Millville. Several nieces and nephews also survive him. A funeral service was held at the Hannigan, Short, Disharoon Funeral Home on Dec. 2. The Rev. Ken Athey officiated. Internment followed in Laurel’s Odd Fellows Cemetery. Memorial donations can be made in his memory to the Laurel Alumni Association Scholarship Fund, PO Box 382, Laurel, DE. 19956.
Betsy L. Barnes, 71 Betsy L. Barnes of Seaford, passed away on Nov. 25, 2008. Betsy was born in Confluence, Pa.. and was a member of St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church in Laurel. She is survived by her husband Herbert L. Barnes of Seaford, where she had resided for the last 20 years. Betsy is also survived by her daughter, Ruthanne Aiken of S.C., a son, Richard Collopy of S.C. She is preceded in death by her other three sons. A healing farewell was held on Dec.1, at Borek Jennings Funeral Home, Lamb Chapel in Howell, Mich. Betsy’s Interment took place at Lakeview Cemetery in Howell, Mich. Donations are suggested to Delaware Hospice Center, 100 Patriots Way, Milford, DE 19963. Leave a Message of Comfort to Betsy’s family by calling 877-231-7900 or sign her guestbook at www.borekjennings.com.
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Health Briefs Information sessions at Del Tech
Become a member of the rapidly expanding health care field by taking the evening nurses’ assistant training program, offered through Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus, Georgetown. Free information sessions about this program will be held on Dec. 1, 8 or 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Delaware Tech. This 150-hour course teaches students to safely perform basic nursing skills under the supervision of a licensed nurse. Course begins on Feb. 2 at LifeCare at Lofland Park in Seaford; or April 6 at Atlantic Shores in Millsboro. Classes meet Monday through Thursday from 5 to 10:30 p.m. Free training is available to qualified applicants. For complete information or to register, contact Delaware Tech’s Corporate and Community Programs at 302-8546966.
New Program for Dietary Assistants
The Sussex Tech Adult Division is offering a new Dietary Assistants program to help prepare workers for the institutional
food service profession. Specific emphasis will be on hospital and long-term care facilities. Classes in this certification program will start Jan. 5, and be offered two nights each week at the Georgetown campus. Students will learn about the medical profession, nutrition, food service and gain computer skills. The industry-recognized ServeSafe certification is included in the program. Students will learn the skills necessary to get a job in institutional food service (primarily health care) to help dietary staff provide healthy, safe, and nutritious food. Duties of a Dietary Assistant usually include interacting with clients and/or patients and performing various food production and service tasks. The demand for dietary assistants is increasing. Individuals currently working in a related field may choose to schedule the 60hour portion of the class to earn ServeSafe certification. To register for the program, contact the Sussex Tech Adult Division at 302-8569035, or visit the website at HYPERLINK "http://www.SussexTechTraining.net" www.SussexTechTraining.net.
Use portion control By Karyl Rattay, MD, MS This time of year can be the most challenging when it comes to healthy eating. It starts right after Halloween as you and the kids munch on the leftover candy. Then Thanksgiving rolls around with pumpkin pie, stuffing and all the other “fixings”. Now, we’re in December and all bets are off - Christmas cookies, holiday feasts, eggnog and New Year’s Eve celebrations. Then you make the resolution that the whole family will eat better in the New Year. It’s okay for you and your family to enjoy your favorite holiday meals as long as you eat sensible portions. But in today’s “super-sized” world, how much is too much? You may be surprised to see what a healthy-sized meal for your kids really looks like. Let’s break it down by age: Toddlers (ages one to three) - one
ounce of protein (meat, poultry, fish, or alternate protein product); quarter cup of grains (rice, pasta, noodles, or cereal); and a quarter cup each of fruits and vegetables Kids (ages three to six) - one and a half ounces of protein; quarter cup of grains; and a half a cup each of fruits and vegetables Kids (ages six to 12) - two ounces of protein; a cup of grains; and a half a cup each of fruits and vegetables If you practice portion control at home, think how much easier it will be when you eat out, especially at a buffet-style restaurant! So, enjoy the holidays and all the meals that go along with them, but take control with portion control. Karyl Rattay, MD, MS, is a senior program and policy analyst and an expert in obesity prevention for Nemours Health and Prevention Services, based in Newark.
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Life-Line Screening will be at the Nanticoke Senior Center on Dec. 10. The site is located at 310 Virginia Ave. in Seaford.
Appointments will begin at 10 a.m. Screenings are non-invasive. They help identify potential health problems such as blocked arteries and irregular heart rhythm, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and hardening of the arteries in the legs, which is a strong predictor of heart disease. A bone density screening to assess osteoporosis risk is also offered and is appropriate for men and women. Register for a Wellness Package with Heart Rhythm for $149. All five screenings take 60 to 90 minutes to complete. For more information regarding the screenings or to schedule an appointment, call 1-877-237-1287 or visit us on the web at www.lifelinescreening.com. Pre-registration is required.
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The Look-In Glass Shoppe at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital will raffle a Wii gaming system console that includes a CD with five sports games, two nunchucks and two remotes (retail value $350). Tickets are on sale at The Look-In Glass Shoppe (located within Nanticoke Memorial Hospital) from now until Dec. 15 at noon. Tickets cost $5 each or five for $20. The drawing will be held at noon on Dec. 15. All proceeds from The Look-In Glass Shoppe benefit Nanticoke Health Services. For more information about the raffle, call 302-629-6611, ext. 4955.
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Health The current health care system needs repair By Anthony Policastro, M.D Prior to the election, I wrote a column about how expensive our current medical care system is. I recently found out about the “two pill rule” that Delaware Medicaid has. It is an example of why medical care in this country is so costly. I had two patients recently. One was on a medication that came in 5mg, 10 mg, 15 mg, 20 mg, 25 mg and 30mg doses. He was taking 45 mg daily. He was receiving one 30 mg tablet and one 15 mg tablet. I needed to increase his dose to 50 mg. I gave him a prescription for two 25 mg tablets. Medicaid would not fill it because they will not fill a double dose of a single pill. When I called them about it, they told me that I could rewrite the prescription. I could prescribe one 30 mg tablet and one 20 mg tablet. However, I could not prescribe two 25 mg tablets. The second patient was on a medication that came in 18 mg, 25 mg, 40 mg and 60 mg doses.
He was on 40 mg. I needed to increase his dose. I gave him a prescription for two 25 mg tablets. Medicaid would not fill it because they will not fill a double dose of a single pill. When I called them, they told me I could write the prescription for 60 mg. They would fill that even though I felt that dose was too high for the patient. The sequence of events was the same for both patients. I wrote the prescription. They took it to the pharmacy. The pharmacy tried to fill it as written. The prescription was refused as written. The pharmacy contacted the patient. The patient contacted me. I called Medicaid. I worked my way through their complicated phone system. The person I spoke to told me that I could write the prescriptions for 30 mg plus 20 mg for the first patient or for 60 mg for the second patient. Then I would not need an approval. I indicated getting approval was what I needed. I should not be writing a pre-
scription differently just to get around the system. They agreed to approve it. I then had to call the pharmacy to tell them that the approval would be in the system within 24 hours. I then had to call the patient to tell them the same thing. Both situations wasted the patient’s time. Both situations increased the time the pharmacist spent filling the prescription. That time would ultimately wind up in the cost of the medication that Medicaid would pay the pharmacy. Both situations increased my time on the phone.
That time would ultimately wind up in the costs that Medicaid would pay to my employer. Medicaid had to pay people to be able to answer phone calls like these. All of those costs would come from taxpayers. This is just a minor example of the excess costs in the current system that we have in our country. However, when these kinds of things go on every day, it makes the system far too expensive for us to have any kind of national health coverage. We need to fix the system first.
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Entertainment Seaford High presents “Peter Pan and Wendy” By S.D. Smith Seaford High School’s thespians are using their acting skills and a bit of pixie dust to bring “Peter Pan and Wendy,“ an adaptation from the novel of J.M. Barrie, to life on stage from Dec. 12-14. Imagine a world where you never grow old, fairies exist and children stand a chance against pirates. Alexandria Smith, a sophomore at Seaford High and a veteran of lead roles, plays the title character in Peter Pan. Peter Pan bonds with Wendy (played by junior, Jacqueline Torkelson) as they travel to Neverland. In tow are Wendy’s younger siblings John (Brianna Shuman) and Michael (Page Crouse). Captain Hook (played by Joshua Smith and Mark Naylor - playing dual roles as both Wendy's Papa and Captain Hook) is the evil-minded pirate waiting to take his revenge on the elusive Peter Pan. Hook’s sidekick Smee is played by Clayton Lester. Helping the group is Peter Pan’s fairy Tinkerbell played by Daniele Hernandez. Mother Darling is played by Susan Elkhayat who also juggles the roles of Neverbird and Jane, Wendy’s daughter. Other supporting roles are the Lost Boys played by Liz Ferber (Slightly), Danielle Levredge (Tootles), Meredith Dempsey (Curly), Christine Jannsen (Nibs), Anna Duryea and Lizzie Perciful (Twins), Anthony Moul and Kyle Kellam (Pirates) and Sean Fyffe (Nana). The cast captures the magic and humor
Siblings Joshua and Alexandria Smith both landed lead roles in the play "Peter Pan and Wendy" at Seaford High School. Alexandria plays Peter and Joshua plays the roles of Mr. Darling and Captain Hook. Alexandria and Joshua are the children of Dr. Kenneth and Suzanne Smith.
of Peter Pan, thanks to Director Heather Nason. “The costumes are complete, lines rehearsed and the set nearly ready. All sewing and costume designs, stage and set have been accomplished by the students, a few friends and family members.” The Drama Club is asking children to come dressed in costumes as pirates, fairies or lost boys to assist in the play. A concession stand will offer light drinks and food and the theater will also sell eye patches and pirate hats before the play begins. After the show, characters will come out in their costumes to sign autographs. With the humor, colorful cos-
From left are Danielle Levredge, Susan Elkhayat, Joshus Smith, Meredith Dempsey, Anna Duryea, Lizzie Perciful, Liz Ferber and Christine Jannsen practicing their lines.
tumes and professional looking set, I believe that everyone who shed a tear during the “Miracle Worker” is going to love “Peter Pan and Wendy.” The performance will be a great way to spend time with family and friends during
the holidays. Performances are Friday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 14 at 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $7 for adults and $5 for seniors and students. Children under three are free.
‘Scrooge!’ to appear at Del Tech What is Christmas without Scrooge? For the fourth year, Clear Space Productions will continue its holiday tradition with a production of “Scrooge!” which is an original musical with book and lyrics by Ken Skrzesz and music by Doug Yetter. The show premieres on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. in the theater of the Arts & Science Center at Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus Georgetown. This is the second production of the new partnership between Clear Space Productions & Delaware Tech. This year, Doug Yetter will play Ebenezer Scrooge. “Doug is the perfect Ebenezer,” commented Dana Peragallo, who is portraying the Ghost of Christmas Present and Lizzie in the production. “The emotion and honesty that Doug brings to the process is extraordinary. It is such a joy to work with him.” This is Yetter’s 14 production of some version of “A Christmas Carol,” the first one produced in his native town of Denver, Colo. at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
He then wrote a version that played off-Broadway in 1992 and directed another version in Annapolis, where the offBroadway production played for seven years. After moving to Delaware, Yetter wrote the current version with Ken Skrzesz, which has changed for the past three years. This version is viewed as a tale of redemption told as a ghost story. The entire cast is thrilled to be participating in this holiday adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” It is a show that the whole family is sure to enjoy with a focus on the cheerfulness and generosity of the holiday season. This year’s “Scrooge!” will feature new musical numbers, including a new opening number, “We’ll Work Like the Dickens!” and “Come to Supper.” Tickets to “Scrooge!” can be purchased online at the Clear Space web site www.ClearSpaceProductions.org or by calling the box office at 302-644-3810. Tickets are $25 general admission, $20 seniors, $15 for students, and $5 for children 12 and under.
Director Nina Galerstein (far right) works with Possum Point cast members, from left, Leah Marsh, Lewes; Kaila Clucas, Bridgeville; Rick Trice, Seaford; Ella Marsh, Lewes; Clarice Boslet, Milford; Isabella Robinson, Lewes; Sadie Davis, Milton and Leslie Boslet, Milford.
Holiday musical opens on Friday Time is running out to reserve seats for Possum Point Players’ “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” with music by Alan Menken. The show will open on Friday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. and closes with a matinee on Sunday, Dec. 14. “The first Sunday performance on Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. is totally sold out and other shows are filling fast,” reported Mary Cahill, Possum Point Players executive administrator. The theatre will update their Ticketline (302-856-4560) as shows sell out.
The Menken-Ahrens-Okrent musical adaptation of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” ran on Broadway from 1994 to 2004. Possums’ production will have six performances. The opening night performance will be followed by a reception where the audience can mingle with cast and crew. Performances are Dec. 5, 6, 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. and on Dec. 7 and 14 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available for $18 ($17 for seniors or students) by calling the Possum Ticketline at 302-856-4560.
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During busy holiday season, simple recipes are the best The last of the Thanksgiving leftovers were dispatched with the relatives. The house was blissfully quiet and it was time for me to sit down, put my feet up and chill. Unfortunately, a glance at the calendar was enough to quash my after-turkey euphoria. How could it be that the end of the weekend would find me plunked smack down into December? There are precious few days ahead to contain the amount of shopping, decorating and baking I have yet to begin. Now is the time — before I finalize my gift lists or determine when and if I’m going to bake those Christmas goodies — that I search for quick and easy dinner ideas. I try to find recipes which can provide more than one meal and if it seems like I slaved over the preparation, so much the better. Try these scrumptious ideas that are a zip to prepare. You’ll have more time for all the baking to come.
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Quick Sausage and Mushroom Lasagna Makes 8 to 10 servings 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 8-ounce packages sliced crimini (baby bella) mushrooms 1 large onion, chopped (about 2 cups) 2 tablespoons dried Italian seasoning blend 1 pound hot Italian sausages, casings removed 3 garlic cloves, pressed 1 cup dry red wine 4 and 2/3 cups marinara sauce (from two 26-ounce jars) 1 9-ounce package no-cook lasagna noodles 1 15-ounce container ricotta cheese 2 8-ounce bags Italian blend grated cheese Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Heat oil in heavy large pot over high heat. Add mushrooms, onion and seasoning blend; sauté until vegetables begin to soften, about 6 minutes. Add sausage and sauté until brown and cooked through, breaking up with back of spoon, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and stir 1 minute. Add wine; cook until almost all liquid evaporates, scraping up browned bits, about 2 minutes. Set aside. Spread 2/3 cup marinara sauce over bottom of 13- by 9- by 2-inch baking dish. Place noodles (about four) over sauce, forming one layer (noodles may overlap slightly). Spread 1 cup sauce over noodles.
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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on JANUARY 8, 2009, in the County Council Chambers, County Administrative Office Building, Georgetown, Delaware, the County Planning and Zoning Commission of Sussex County will hold a public hearing concerning the following proposed amendment to the Code of Sussex County: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 115, SECTION 172, OF THE CODE OF SUSSEX COUNTY, IN RESPECT TO THE REPLACEMENT OF SMALL ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS “SHEDS.” Planning and Zoning public hearings will begin at 6:00 P.M. Copies of this proposal may be examined by interested parties in the Planning and Zoning Office, County Administrative Office Building, Georgetown, Delaware, between 8:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. 12/4/1tc
PUBLIC NOTICE The following Ordinance has been proposed at the regular meeting of the Sussex County Council on October 21, 2008: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 115, SECTION 172, OF THE CODE OF SUSSEX COUNTY, IN RESPECT TO THE REPLACEMENT OF SMALL ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS “SHEDS.” Copies of the above Ordinance are available in the Office of the Clerk of the Sussex County Council, County Administrative Office Building, Georgetown, Delaware. Public hearings thereon will be held in the Chamber of the Sussex County Council, County Administrative Office Building, Georgetown, Delaware, on JANUARY 27, 2009 at 1:30 P.M. or as soon thereafter as may be heard. At that time and place, all persons interested shall have a reasonable opportunity to be heard. 12/4/1tc
NOTICE Estate of Thelma I. Young, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration upon the estate of Thelma I. Young who departed this life on the 29th day of October, A.D. 2008 late of Delmar, DE were duly
MORNING STAR granted unto Joshua J. Smith on the 25th day of November, A.D. 2008, and all persons indebted to the said deceased are required to make payments to the said Administrator without delay, and all persons having demands against the deceased are required to exhibit and present the same duly probated to the said Administrator on or before the 29th day of June, A.D. 2009 or abide by the law in this behalf. Administrator: Joshua J. Smith 4574 White Deer Rd. Delmar, DE 19940 David L. Wilson Register of Wills 12/4/3tc
NOTICE Estate of Elsie Madelyn Hearn, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Testamentary upon the estate of Elsie Madelyn Hearn who departed this life on the 4th day of November, A.D. 2008 late of Laurel, DE were duly granted unto Ruth E. Lewis on the 19th day of November, A.D. 2008, 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 July, A.D. 2009 or abide by the law in this behalf. Executrix: Ruth E. Lewis 16676 Sycamore Road Laurel, DE 19956 Attorney: Stephen P. Ellis P.O. Box 574 Georgetown, DE 19947 David L. Wilson Register of Wills 12/4/3tc
NOTICE Estate of Edwin Vernon Thomas, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Testamentary upon the estate of Edwin Vernon Thomas who departed this life on the 28th day of September, A.D. 2008 late of Seaford, DE were duly granted unto Sandy Thomas on the 14th day of November, A.D. 2008, 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 28th day of May, A.D. 2009 or abide by the law in this
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SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situated, lying and being in Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware and being more particularly described as foIlows, to wit: BEGINNING at a concrete monument in the Northerly right of way line of Road No. 64, 150.00 feet East of a pipe found at the corner of Lot 1 and lands now or formerly of Raymond Strick; thence turning and running North 18 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds East 300.00 feet to an iron rebar; thence turning and running South 71 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds East 150.00 feet to an iron rebar; thence turning and running South 18 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds Went 300.00 feet to a concrete monument found at the Southeast corner at these lands in the Northerly right of way line of Road No. 64 150.00 feet West of a concrete monument found at the corner of Lot No.3; thence turning and running North 71 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds West 150.00 feet to the place and point of beginning; said to contain 1.03 acres of land, more or less, as more fully shown on a survey performed by Brad A. Temple, dated May 19, 1993. BEING the same lands and premises which Norris L. Niblett, by Deed dated January _, 1996 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County and State of Delaware, in Deed Book 2099, Page 144, did grant and convey unto Kevin A. Gross, Sr. and Leah A. Gross, husband and wife. Tax Parcel: 5-32-7.0050.04
Property Address: 12841 Whitesville Road, Delmar Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of KEVIN A. GROSS (SR.) AND & LEAH A. GROSS and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Nanticoke Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, in the Country Glen Subdivision, being recorded as Lot #6, being bounded on the North by Glen Circle (50’ wide), on the East by a retention pond and recreational area as per record (corrected) plot, on the South by lands now or formerly of David and
Harold Lloyd and on the West by Lot #7 of the said Country Glen Subdivision, being more particularly described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at an iron pipe located on the Southerly right of way line of Glen Circle, said pipe being a corner for this lot and Lot 7; thence turning and running along Glen Circle, South 65 degrees 36 minutes 34 seconds East 195.00 feet to an iron pipe, said pipe being a corner for this lot and being located along a Retention Pond and Recreation Area; thence turning and running along the line of said Retention Pond and Recreation Area, South 64 degrees 34 minutes 11 seconds West 225.51, feet to an iron pipe, said pipe being a corner for this lot; thence turning and continuing along the line of the Retention Pond and Recreation Area, North 64 degrees 57 minutes 10 seconds West 34.82 feet to an iron pipe; thence running along the line of land now or formerly of David F. Lloyd, North 64 degrees 57 minutes 10 seconds West 14.69 feet to an iron pipe, said pipe being a corner for this lot and Lot 7; thence turning and running along the line of Lot 7, North 24 degrees 23 minutes 28 seconds East 171.73 feet to an iron pipe, said pipe being a corner for this lot and Lot 7 and being located on the Southerly right of way line of Glen Circle, and being the point and place of beginning. Said to contain 21,040 square feet, more or less, together with the improvements located thereon, as surveyed by Temple-Sellers, Inc., Registered Surveyors, dated November 16, 2006. BEING the same lands and premises which Scott R. Johnson, by Deed dated November 30, 2006 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County and State of Delaware, in Deed Book 3391, Page 322, did grant and convey unto William P. Miller, Jr. Tax Parcel: 4-30-19.0075.00 Property Address: 11689 Glen Circle, Bridgeville Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or be-
fore January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of WILLIAM P. MILLER, JR. and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Nanticoke Hundred, County of Sussex, State of Delaware, and being known and designated as Lot No. 2 on a plot of lands of Joseph and Patricia L. Juric, said plot filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, Georgetown, Delaware, in Plot Book 57, Page 101. BEING the same lands and premises which David P. Herrling and Elizabeth K. Herrling, by Deed dated June 2, 2006 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County and State of Delaware, in Deed Book 3319, Page 319, did grant and convey unto Michael A. Dale and Martina B. Dale. Tax Parcel: 2-31-9.0049.01 Property Address: 13693 Cokesbury Road, Georgetown Registration is required See LEGALS—page 36
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PAGE 36 LEGALS - from Page 34 for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of MICHAEL A. & MARTINA B. DALE and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that piece and parcel of land being known as Lot 13 “Hill-N-Dale” and situated in Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, and as shown on a survey by Temple-Sellers, dated February 28,2006, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a concrete monument found on the southerly side of Grace Circle and being a corner for this Lot and Lot 14;
MORNING STAR thence with Grace Circle, North 57 degrees 43 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance of 119.99 feet to a concrete monument found; thence along a curve to the right having a radius of 25.00 feet, a delta of 80 degrees 29 minutes 46 seconds, an arc of 35.12 feet, a chord of 32.30 feet and bearing of South 81 degrees 50 minutes 20 seconds East to a concrete monument found; thence with Grace Circle South 41 degrees 37 minutes 01 seconds East, a distance of 140.92 feet to a concrete monument found; thence with Lots 25 and 24, South 57 degrees 47 minutes 50 seconds West, a distance of 168.85 feet to a concrete monument found; thence with Lot 14, North 31 degrees 46 minutes 39 seconds West, a distance of 159.78 feet home to the point and place of beginning. AND BEING the same lands and premises which Gregory E. Arbuthnot and Karen L. Arbuthnot, by deed dated March 13, 2006 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Sussex County, Delaware in Deed Record 3282, Page 203 did grant and convey unto TERESA D. HILL, in fee. Tax Parcel: 1-32-6.00247.00 Property Address: 7716 Grace Circle, Seaford Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply
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with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of TERESA D. HILL and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of An Alias writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL THAT certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex County and State of Delaware, being part of Lot #11 of Nanticoke Estates, more particularly described on a survey plot prepared by Donald K. Miller dated July 27, 1998, as appearing in Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, at Georgetown, Delaware, in Deed Book 2311, Page 086. BEING the same land conveyed unto George R. Gilmore and Elizabeth F. Gilmore, co-trustees under revocable trust agreement of George R. Gilmore and Elizabeth F. Gilmore dated May 16, 1991, of 156 Rivershore Drive, Seaford, Delaware, 19973, and David J. Gilmore and Jodi L. Gilmore, then his wife, by Deed of George R. Gilmore and Elizabeth F. Gilmore on August 6, 1998, and filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, at Georgetown, Delaware, in Deed Book 2311, Page 085. Tax Parcel: 1-32-6.002.00 Property Address: 7447 Rivershore Drive, Seaford Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on Janu-
ary 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of DAVID J. GILMORE and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN lot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings thereon erected, commonly known as 17251 Hawk Road, Bridgeville, Delaware. ALL those certain lots, pieces or parcels of land situate, lying and being in the North part of the town of Bridgeville, County of Sussex, and States of Delaware, more particularly described as follows, to wit: NO. 1 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the North part of the town of Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware, located to the East of Church Street, and more particularly bounded and described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on the East side of a fifteen (15) foot alley, a comer for this lot and lot conveyed to Leon Cannon; thence with said alley in a Southerly direction for a distance of Sixty (60) feet to a lot conveyed to Noah Banks, Jr.: thence at right angles to said alley in an Easterly direction with said Banks lot for a distance of one hun-
dred (100) feet to other lands of John I. Neal; thence running with said Neal line in a Northerly direction and parallel with said alley for a distance of sixty (60) feet to said Cannon’s lot; thence with the Cannon lot in a Westerly direction one hundred (100) feet back to the place of beginning, containing six thousand (6,000) square feet of land, be the same more or less. NO. 2 ALL THAT CERTAIN other lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the North part of the town of Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware, located to the East of Church Street, and more particularly described as follow, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on the East side of a fifteen (15) foot alley, a corner for this lot and lot No. 1 hereinabove described; thence with said alley in an Southerly direction for a distance of sixty (60) feet to lot of Joe and Essie Williams; thence at right angles to said alley in an Easterly direction with said Williams lot for a distance of one hundred (100) feet to lands of John I. Neal; thence running with said Neal line in a Northerly direction and parallel with said alley to a distance of sixty (60) feet to the said Lee lot; thence with the Lee line in an Easterly direction one Hundred (100) feet to the place of beginning, containing six thousand (6,000) square feet of land, be the same more or less. BEING THE SAME LANDS and premises which Winifred Murray and Alice E. Murray by certain Deed dated the 23rd day of February, A.D., 1977 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Sussex County, Delaware, in Deed Book 829, page 261, did grant and convey to Delores E. McDowell, her heirs and assigns, in fee. Tax Parcel: 1-31-10.0810.00 Property Address: 17251 Hawk Road, Bridgeville Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on Janu-
ary 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of DELORES E. MCDOWELL and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, piece and parcel of land lying and being situate in Seaford Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, being more particularly described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point of beginning, said point of beginning located on the Northeastern right-of-Way of Riverside Drive (40 foot right-of-way). said point of beginning also being located 230 feet from the intersection of Route #13 and Riverside Drive; said point of beginning also being located at the corner of these lands and lands now or formerly of Ernest R. Eaton, Jr. Trustee, said point of being a concrete monument; thence turning and running from said concrete monument by and along the Northeastern right-of-way of Riverside Drive South 62° 00’ 00” West 132.48 feet to a concrete monument; thence turning and running by and along a common boundary line with these lands and Virginia Avenue See LEGALS—page 37
MORNING STAR LEGALS - from Page 36 and lands of Laurence P. & Kaye P. Moynihan North 05° 54’ 56” east 150.00 feet to a concrete monument; thence turning and running, South 84° 01’ 02” East 110.00 feet to a concrete monument; thence turning and running South O5° 57’ 39” West 75.95 feet home to the place of beginning and said to contain 12,423 square feet of land be the same, more less, with all improvements thereon, as surveyed by Temple Sellers, Inc., Registered Land Surveyors, on May 26, 1999. BEING the same lands conveyed to Romeo A. Escaro and Sarah E. Escaro, his wife, by Deed of J. A. Moore & Sons, Inc., a Delaware Corporation said Deed dated the 17th day of January 1989, and of record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, Delaware, in Deed Book 1687, Page 8. Tax Parcel: 3-31-7.0045.08 Property Address: The Island Development, Blk. G, P/O Lot 14 & 15, Seaford Hundred Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of ROMEO A. & SARAH E.
ESCARO and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that certain piece, and parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Blades, Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex County and Street of Delaware, lying on the Northwestern right-of-way of Arch Street and on the Southeastern right-of-way of East Third Street, being known and designated as Lot 71, Blades Ville, and being more particularly described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a POINT OF Beginning, said point of Beginning being a set pk nail in pavement located on the aforesaid Southeastern right-of-way of East Third Street; said set pk nail also being located at a corner for these lands and lands now or formerly of Bobby J. Miller; thence running from said point of Beginning by and along the Southeastern right-of-way of East Third Street, south 88 degrees 50 minutes 21 seconds East 69.15 feet to a set pk nail in pavement; said set pk nail also being located at the intersection of Eat Third Street and Arch Street; thence turning and running by and along the Northwestern right-of-way of Arch Street, south 02 degrees 18 minutes 31 seconds East 118.62 feet to a set iron bar; thence turning and running by and along the common boundary line between these lands and lands now or formerly of Dorothy L. Ramey and lands now or formerly of Stephen D. Ramey, North 88degrees 59 minutes 22 seconds West 73.99 feet to a set iron bar; thence turning and running by and along the comm09n boundary line between these lands and lands now or formerly of bobby J. Miller, North 00 degrees 01 minutes 48 seconds East 118.62 feet home to the place of Beginning, and said to contain 8,482 square feet of land, +/-, together with all improvements thereon, as surveyed by Adams-Kemp Associates, Inc., Registered Sur-
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veyors, on June 10, 1998. BEING the same lands and premises conveyed to Ray H. Millman and Joanna Millman, his wife, as Tenants by the entirety, with Right of Survivorship, by Deed from David A. Brown, dated June 12, 1998, and recorded June 15, 1998, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County and State of Delaware, in Deed Book 2295, Page 309. Tax Parcel: 1-32-1.1562.00 Property Address: 15 East Third Street, Blades Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of RAY H. & JOANNA MILLMAN and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a First Pluries writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Dela-
ware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that certain lot, piece and parcel of land situate, lying and being in Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, lying on the north side of Samuel Hill Rd (Rd 437) and being more particularly described according to a survey prepared by Lawrence R. Long, Registered Surveyor, dated December, 1997, as follows; to-wit: BEGINNING at a rebar set on the north side of Samuel Hill Rd (Rd 437) at a corner for this lot and for other lands now or formerly of David A. and Emelita A. Taylor, said rebar situate North 84 degrees 24 minutes 00 seconds West 150.00 feet from a rebar set; then, from this point of beginning running with the right of way line of road Samuel Hill rd (rd 437), North 83 degrees 29 minutes 22 seconds West 100.02 feet to a plastic pipe found; then, turning and running with other land of Mary J. Willing, North 05 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds East 340.10 feet to a plastic pipe found; thence, turning and running with the line of other lands now or formerly of David A. and Emelita A. Taylor, the next two courses and distances: 1) South 84 degrees 40 minutes 59 seconds East 100.00 feet to a rebar set, and 2) south 05 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds west 342.18 feet to the rebar set at the point and place of beginning, said to contain 34,115 square feet of land, more or less, together with any improvements located thereon. BEING the same land and premises that Mary 1. Willing, by Deed dated March 27, 2005 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Book 3122, Page 268, did grant and convey unto Thomas E. Enger 2nd and Kimberly A. Enger, in fee. Tax Parcel: 2-32-20.0020.13 Property Address: 32519 Samuel Hill Road, Laurel Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The bal-
PAGE 37 ance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of THOMAS E. & KIMBERLY A. ENGER and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that certain lot, piece and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex County and State of Delaware, known as 26802 Bethel Concord Road, Seaford, Delaware more particularly described as follows, to-wit: BEGINNING at a found concrete monument on the northerly side of Road No. 485 (25’ from the centerline thereon), a corner for this land and land of Joyce Jefferson et al; thence, by and with the said Road No. 485, South 47 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds West 150.00 feet to a pipe found, a corner for this land and lands of Richard K. Wilson, et ux.; thence, turning and running by and with lands of the said Richard K. Wilson et ux., North 44 degrees 11 minutes 07 seconds West 348.56 feet to a pipe found, a corner for this land; thence, turning and running
by and with lands of Richard K. Wilson et ux., North 47 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds East 150.00 feet to a concrete monument found, a corner for this land; thence, turning and running by and with lands of Joyce Jefferson, et al., South 44 degrees 11 minutes 07 seconds East 348.56 feet to the place of beginning, containing therein 1.20 acres of land, more or less as surveyed by Thomas A. Temple, Jr., dated December 12, 1994. BEING the same property conveyed to Charles E. Williams and Joyce A. Williams, husband and wife by deed from Faith A. Wilson Champlin, formerly known as Faith Ann Wilson, recorded 12/22/94 in Book 2024, Page 282, Sussex County Records, Delaware. Tax Parcel: 1-32-7.0054.04 Property Address: 26802 Bethel Concord Road, Seaford Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of CHARLES E. & JOYCE A. WILLIAMS and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc See LEGALS—page 38
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SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: All that certain lot, piece and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County, and State of Delaware, and being known and designated as Lot Twenty-One (21) on Road 2950 near White River Estates, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a concrete monument in the Southeasterly right of way line of County Road No. 2950, at 50 feet wide, which monument marks a corner for these lands and land for Lot No. 20, thence from this point of beginning running by and with said Lot No. 20, South 78 degrees 09 minutes 14 seconds East, 200.00 feet to an iron rebar in line of lands now or formerly of Norris L. Niblett and Donald T. Ralph; thence turning and running by with the same, South 11 degrees 50 minutes 46 seconds West, a distance of 150.00 feet to an iron rebar; thence turning and running with the Northeasterly side of a 50 foot wide unimproved roadway, North 78 degrees 09 minutes 14 seconds West, 175.00 feet; thence an arc to the right, the radius of which is 25.00 feet, the chord 35.36 feet and the arc distance of 39.27 feet to a an iron rebar in the Southeasterly right of way line of Road No. 2950; thence by and with said right of way line, North 11 degrees 50 minutes 46 seconds East, a distance of 125.00 feet to a concrete monument at point
and place of Beginning, together with improvements thereon, as shown upon a revised plat dated March 28, 1993 prepared by MillerLewis, Registered Land Surveyors. Being the same land conveyed unto Sean M. Dupre and Melisse C. Dupre by deed of Sean M. Dupre, dated February 7, 1997 and of record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, in Deed Book 2181, Page 319. ALSO BEING the same land conveyed to Sean M. DuPre by deed of Byard’s Construction & Sons, Co., Inc., dated April 8, 1993, filed for record in Deed Book 1906, Page 214. Being the same land conveyed unto Gary A. Lutz by deed of Sean M. Dupre and Melisse C. Dupre, dated May 13, 2002 and of record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, in Deed Book 2706, Page 339. Tax Parcel: 4-32-2.0064.00 Property Address: 30713 River Road, Laurel Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the re-
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sponsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of GARY A. LUTZ and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT, PIECE AND PARCEL OF LAND, LYING AND BEING IN NORTHWEST FORK HUNDRED, SUSSEX COUNTY AND STATE OF DELAWARE AND LYING ON THE SOUTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF COUNTY ROAD #590’ (50 FOOT RIGHT-OFWAY) BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, TO WIT: BEGINNING AT A SET IRON PIPE, SAID SET IRON PIPE LOCATED ON THE AFOREMENTIONED SOUTHWESTERN RIGHTOF-WAY OF COUNTY ROAD #590; SAID SET IRON PIPE ALSO BEING LOCATED 1520 FEET FROM THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD #590 AND COUNTY ROAD #32- THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING FROM THE
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AFOREMENTIONED SET IRON PIPE SOUTH 15 DEGREES 48 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST 210.00 FEET TO A FOUND REBAR; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING BY AND ALONG A COMMON BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THESE LANDS AND LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OF RODNEY L PETERMAN SOUTH 77 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 31 SECONDS WEST 210.00 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING BY AND ALONG THE COMMON BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THESE LANDS AND LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OF ROY L. PETERMAN AND SARAH E. PETERMAN NORTH 15 DEGREES 48 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST 210.00 FEET TO AN IRON PIPETHENCE TURNING AND RUNNING NORTH 77 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 31 SECONDS EAST 210.00 FEET HOME TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING AND SAID TO CONTAIN 1.0112 ACRES BE THE SAME MORE OR LESS AS SURVEYED BY COAST SURVEY, INC., REGISTERED LAND SURVEYORS, ON FEBRUARY 14, 1997. Together as an improvement to the land that certain mobile home 2003 E2EB023-HB/5228-1752 Make HBQS Manufacturing Serial# TO 30802 A/B, permanently affixed to the above described property. Being the same lands and premises which Lester M. Eck and Rhonda L. Peterman, n/k/a Rhonda L. Eck did grant and convey unto Michael L. Eck and Rhonda L. Eck by deed dated March 18, 2004 and recorded on March 23, 2004 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Book 02957 at Page 170. Tax Parcel: 5-30-13.006.03 Property Address: 13748 Mile Stretch Road, Greenwood Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject
to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of MICHAEL L. & RHONDA L. ECK and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN SEAFORD HUNDRED, SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO.7, BLOCK A, ON A PLAT OF SILO ACRES, FIELD FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF DEEDS, IN AND FOR SUSSEX COUNTY, AT G E O R G E T O W N , DELAWARE, IN PLOT BOOK 8, AT PAGE 243, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS TO WIT: BEGINNING AT A PIPE LOCATED ON THE SOUTHERLY SIDE OF ROAD NO. 553 (70° RIGHT -OF - WAY), SAID PIPE BEING A CORNER FOR THIS LAND AND FOR LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OF CONSTANCE 1, POWELL AND LAYTON PARSONS; THENCE BY AND WITH AFORESAID POWELL LANDS SOUTH 24 DEGREES 30 MINUTES WEST 145.00 FEET TO A FOUND CONCRETE MONUMENT; THENCE TURN-
ING AND RUNNING BY AND WITH A COMMON BOUNDARY LINE FOR THIS LAND AND FOR LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OF OAK LAWN ESTATES, INe. NORTH 65 DEGREES 30 MINUTES WEST 107.80 FEET TO A CONCRETE MONUMENT FOUND; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING BY AND WITH THE EASTERL Y RIGHT -OF - WAY LINE OF LOT LAND DRIVE (50° RIGHT -OF - WAY) NORTH 24 DEGREES 30 MINUTES EAST 125.00 FEET TO A FOUND PIPE MARKING THE BEGINNING OF A CURVE, SAID CURVE HAVING A RUDLUS OF 25.00 FEET, AN ARE DISTANCE OF 23.18 FEET WITH A CHORD OF NORTH 51 DEGREES 03 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST WITH A CHORD DISTANCE OF 22.36 FEET TO A POINT LYING ON THE SOUTHERLY RIGHT-OFWAY LINE OF COUNTY ROAD NO. 533 (70° RIGHTOF-WAY); THENCE BY AND WITH AFORESAID RIGHT-OF-WAY SOUTH 65 DEGREES 30 MINUTES EAST 97.80 FEET HOME TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING SAID TO CONTAIN 15584 SQUARE FEET OF LAND MORE OR LESS WITH IMPROVEMENTS THEREON AS SHOWN ON A SURVEY PREPARED BY THOMAS A. TEMPLE, JR. DATED DECEMBER 18, 2000, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO. Being the same lands and premises which Glen e. Barmore and Rosemary Barmore did grant and convey unto Glen e. Barmore by deed dated 2/28/2007 and recorded 4/13/2007 Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Record BK03436PG00223. Tax Parcel: 5-31-5.0029.01 Property Address: 3166 Neals School Road, Seaford Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller See LEGALS—page 39
MORNING STAR LEGALS - from Page 38 and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of CHAD W. & LINDA K. HOLLIS and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of an Alias writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that certain tract, piece and parcel of land situate, lying and being in Northwest Fork Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, being known and designated as LOT NOS. 3 and 4 as shown on a subdivision plot prepared by J. J. McCann, Inc., Surveyors, dated February, 1987, as filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, at Georgetown, Delaware, in Plot Book 36: Page 325 and being more particularly described as follows to wit BEGINNING at a found iron pipe on the aforementioned easterly right-of-way line of Sussex Highway (US Route 13. right-of-way varies) and at a corner for lands now or formerly of James and Joyce Cantiello, said point being distant 1.240 feet more or less from the right-of-way intersection
of Woodyard Road; thence running along the aforementioned right-of-way line North 20 degrees 24 minutes 39 seconds East 400.00 feet to a found iron pipe at a corner for lands now or formerly of Jeffery R. and Linda C. Kurtz; thence following said Kurtz lands South 69 degrees 34 minutes 33 seconds East passing over a found iron pipe at 689.77 feet a total distance of 706.94 feet to a point on line of lands now or formerly of John J. and Dorothy Yoder and in the center line of White Marsh Tax Ditch; thence following said Yoder lands and the centerline of said ditch the following two (2) courses and distances: 1) South 01 degree 18 minutes 28 seconds West 20.29 feet and 2) South 12 degrees 45 minutes 30 seconds East 455.55 feet to a corner for lands now or formerly of James and Joyce Cantiello; thence finally running with Cantiello lands North 69 degrees 33 minutes 00 seconds West passing over a found iron pipe at 22.52 feet a total distance 01962.81 feet to the place of beginning containing 7.64 acres of land more or less, together with all of the Improvements located thereon as surveyed by Charles D. Murphy Associates. Inc., dated August 6, 2006. Being the same lands and premises which John M. Mervine, Jr. and Jan Lynn Mervine did grant and convey unto Jose D. Villeda by deed dated August 10, 2006 and recorded on August 11, 2006 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Book 3347 Page 237. Tax Parcel: 5-30-5.003.08 & 3.09 Property Address: 11339 Sussex County Highway, Greenwood Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or be-
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fore January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of JOSE D. & MARLIN Y. VILLEDA and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a Second Pluries writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the City of Seaford, Seaford Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, more particularly described as follows to wit: Beginning at an iron stob located on the inside edge of 5.5 foot sidewalk, which is 4.5 feet from the face of the curb on the westerly side of Pine Street (said face of curb being 14.0 feet from the centerline thereof) at the intersection with the southerly side of Polar Street; thence with a line located on the inside of edge of a 4.6 foot sidewalk, which is 3.9 feet from the face of the curb on the southerly side of Popular Street (said face of curb being 11.0 feet from the centerline thereof), South 70 degrees 06 minutes West 92.23 feet to an iron stob located on the inside edge of the last described sidewalk at the intersection with the easterly side of Cannon Street; thence with a line located on the inside edge of a 4.9
foot sidewalk, which is located 6.4 feet from the face of the curb on the southerly side of Cannon Street (said face of curb being 18.1 feet from the centerline thereof), South 18 degrees 37 minutes East 59.86 feet to a point on the inside edge of the last described sidewalk at corner for lands of Lyman H. Jamison, et ux; thence with the line of lands of said Jamison, North 69 degrees 30 minutes East 108.33 feet to a pipe located on the inside edge of the first described sidewalk on the westerly side on Pine Street, thence with the inside edge of said sidewalk, North 34 degrees 00 minutes West 60.53 feet to the point and place of beginning, containing 5,947 square feet of land, more or less, as will fully and at large appear upon reference to a survey prepared by Thomas A. Temple, Jr., dated Apri19, 1998, and filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Georgetown, Delaware, in Deed Book 1562, page 278. Being the same lands and premises which Pierre R. Chevalier, Jeressy Chevalier and Henorck Lamur did grant and convey unto Richard A. Ashby by deed .dated May 3, 2004 and recorded on May 6, 2004 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Book 2974, Page 315 Tax Parcel: 4-31-5.00173.00 Property Address: 223 Arch Street, Seaford Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be re-
PAGE 39 funded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of RICHARD A. ASHBY and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc
SHERIFF SALE By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to Public sale on: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 At 9:30 A.M. & Thereafter At the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, West Complex, 22215 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, Delaware, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, the following described real estate to wit: ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County and State of Delaware, more particularly described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point, an axle found on the westerly side of White Avenue (50 feet), a corner for this lot and a corner for lands now or formerly of Mrs. Woodrow Doyle, said axle, found being 142 feet more or less from 4th Street; thence, by and with the said White Avenue, South 32 degrees 06 minutes 10 seconds West 76.60 feet to monument set; thence, turning and running North 62 degrees 37 minutes 55 seconds West 217.83 feet to a pipe set; thence, turning and running North 34 degrees 14 minutes 56 seconds East 72.00 feet to a monument found; thence, turning and running South 63 degrees 55 minutes 22 seconds East 215.58 feet to the place of beginning, as surveyed by Gene K. Littleton a Associates, dated March 1991. BEING the same lands and premises which Gary L. Nichols by deed dated April I, 1991, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, State of Delaware, in Deed Record 1775, Page 263, granted and conveyed unto Joseph B. Phiefer, in fee. Tax Parcel: 3-32-1.07328.02 Property Address: 98 White Avenue, Laurel Registration is required for all bidders prior to sale. A $4,000.00 deposit (Cash or Cashiers/certified check
payable to Sheriff of Sussex County) and valid driver’s license or photo I.D. are required to register. TERMS: 20 percent of the purchase money will be demanded on day of sale (The $4,000.00 Bidder Registration Fee will be credited to the 20% deposit). Cash, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, is required. The balance is to be paid on or before January 5, 2009. Sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court on January 9, 2009 and also subject to a 1 1/2 percent Delaware Realty Transfer Tax; 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Also subject to 1 1/2 percent Sussex County Realty Tax, 3/4 percent to be paid by the Seller and 3/4 percent to be paid by the Purchaser. Any further Transfer Tax is the responsibility of the Purchaser. The Purchaser will be required to pay the cost of the deed; a $200.00 deposit will be collected at the time of sale and will be refunded if a proper deed is presented to the Sheriff’s Office within Forty-Five days of confirmation. If the Purchaser fails to comply with these terms the percentum paid at the time of sale will be forfeited. Please make checks payable to: Sheriff of Sussex County. Seized and taken in execution the property of JOSEPH B. & LYNDA M. PHIEFER and will be sold by Eric D. Swanson, Sheriff 12/4/2tc NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE --COLLATERAL ON DEFAULT To: Amanda J. Pae 406 W. Central Avenue Federalsburg, MD 21632 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to a security agreement, dated October 12, 2007, between you and Massey=s Used Cars, Inc., of 24770 Sussex Highway, City of Seaford, County of Sussex, State of Delaware, the undersigned, shall sell at public sale, without reserve, your 2000 Mercury Cougar VIN 1ZWFT61L1Y 5603284, which was the collateral pledged pursuant to the security agreement described above, due to your default in payments. The sale shall be held at Massey=s Used Cars, Inc., 24770 Sussex Highway, City of Seaford, County of Sussex, State of Delaware on December 13, 2008 at 10:00 A.M.. This notice is given pursuant to 6 Del. C. Ss 9-504 (3). Dated, November 12, 2008 MASSEY’S USED CARS, INC. 12/4/1tc
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People LIBRARY DONATION - Ruth Skala, treasurer of The Friends of the Bridgeville Library, recently presented a $2,000 check to Karen Johnson, director of the Bridgeville Library. The check represents money that was raised by members of the friends
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60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Roy and Carolyn Brittingham, Laurel, were the guests of honor Saturday, Nov. 1, at a surprise dinner party at the Georgia House in Laurel to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary. The celebration was hosted by their two daughters and husbands, Ann and Randy Lee, Laurel, and Joan and Ron Marvel, Seaford, by their granddaughter and husband, Amanda and Phillip Lowe, Laurel, and great-granddaughter, Taylor Maddison Lowe. Guests included many family members and friends. Roy and Carolyn were married November 6, 1948, by the late Rev. Lee Elliott.
Re, James to be married Mr. and Mrs. Tim Re of Laurel announce the engagement of their daughter, Peggy Lou Re, to Jeffrey Kenneth James, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake James of Seaford. The bride-to-be is a home-school graduate and is a nationally-certified massage therapist. The groom to be is a 2002 graduate of Seaford Christian Academy and is employed by C. White & Sons of Seaford. A Dec. 6 wedding is planned.
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Seaford High varsity girls’ basketball team features youth, experience By Mike McClure The 2008-09 Seaford varsity girls’ basketball team has a mix of veteran leaders and young newcomers. The team is led by first year head coach Tracie Smith, who spent the last two seasons as the Seaford Middle School girls’ basketball coach. “It’s a fresh start for all of us. It’s everybody’s first year together,” said Smith. Gone from last year’s team, which went 14-8, are graduates Ambre Burbage and Samantha Savage. The Blue Jays’ returning players Dee Farlow include seniors Deandria Farlow (G) and Whitley Maddox (G), junior Anitra Hughes (G), and sophomore Asia Coverdale (G). “Dee is definitely an on court leader. Everybody looks to her for energy,” Smith said. She added that both Maddox and Hughes lead by example.
Seaford’s newcomers include seniors Tiffany Bennett (F/C) and Monserrat CelayosMartinez (G); sophomores Maryann Hicks (G) and Christil Maker (G); and freshmen Zoe Laws (F), Keona Hughes (C), Kadijah Purnell (G), and Whitley Maddox Courtney Rementer (F). Smith helped out with varsity practices over the last couple years. She also coached the freshmen and sophomores at the middle school level. “They’ve adjusted well,” Smith said of the freshmen. “It’s a lot more physical at the high school level.” Smith sees overall team speed and ball handling as the Blue Jays’ strengths. The team will look to use that speed to make up for a lack in height. At the beginning of the season Smith Continued on page 43
Woodbridge boys’ basketball reloads after reaching state semifinal round By Mike McClure Some teams would consider it a rebuilding year after losing four senior starters from a team that reached the state semifinals a year ago. The Woodbridge boys’ basketball team, which went 18-2 in the Henlopen Conference and 21-5 overall last season, is looking to build on last season’s success with four seniors returning with varsity experience. “The guys have been working hard,” said WoodMarc Nock bridge head coach Damon Ayers. “We lost some talented seniors. I think our underclassmen learned some valuable lessons from those guys. They came off the bench for us last year and provided some energy and some key minutes.” Gone from last year’s squad are senior starters Kyan Andrews, Deaven Horne, Vashad Whidbee, and Jordan Mosley. While the loss of those players leaves a Jervontae Dale
hole, Ayers believes his returning players and the newcomers to the varsity team can help fill the void. Returning from last year’s team are seniors Marc Nock (G), Jervontae Dale (G), Jorge Young (F), and Andre Dickerson (F) and Andre Dickerson sophomore Trez’mon Kane (G). Kane was limited by an injury last season and is looking to come back this year while all four of the seniors saw key minutes and helped the Raiders win the conference championship and advance to the state semifinals. “I’m pleased with the effort and Jorge Young the mental toughness,” Ayers said of his veteran players. The team’s newcomers include senior Rashawn Felder (F), a transfer from Laurel; juniors Austin Perry (G), Javon Kilgoe, and Greg Seay (F); sophomores Continued on page 43
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME- Laurel running back Chris Jones follows his blocks during last week’s state championship game in Dover. Jones ran for 91 yards in his team’s 20-0 loss to Milford. See story on page 45. Photo by Mike McClure
WORCESTER PREP CHEERLEADERS- Shown (l to r) are the Worcester Prep varsity cheerleaders: kneeling- Mary Mazcko, Berlin; Rachel Sharp, Snow Hill; Alexandra Smith, Ocean City; Katie Twilley, Salisbury; Lauren Mollichelli, Ocean City; Sarah Smith, Salisbury; row two- Alyssa Alicea, Seaford; Sydney Langeler, Salisbury; Lyndsey Odachowski, Ocean City; Betsy Desmarais, Salisbury; Katie Marshall, Salisbury; row three- Hope Evans, Selbyville; Erika Martin, Rehoboth Beach and Christina Adkins, Selbyville. The cheerleading coaches are Kira Gauger, Ocean City, and Megan Wallace, Ocean Pines.
Woodbridge High winter sports schedule changes The following Woodbridge winter sports games have changed dates and times since the schedule was released: Friday, Dec. 5- Woodbridge at Lake Forest- JV boys’ basketball 4 p.m., varsity boys’ basketball 5:30 p.m., varsity girls’ basketball 7:15 p.m.; Jan. 14- Lake Forest at Woodbridge boys’ basketball
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EPWORTH LIONS- Shown (l to r) is the the Epworth Lions U12 NYSA soccer team: back row: Coach Darrell Downes and Coach Ernie Dahling; middle row: Bailey Kinnikin, Logan Downes, Casey Kinnikin, Mackenzie Kinnikin, Josh Dahling, Logan Fluharty, Ike Wharton and Jeffrey Munro; front row: Carrie Kerins, Chanah Zrien, Jordan Tanner, Ryan Benjamin and Jacob Calloway.
Epworth U12 NYSA soccer team takes first place The U-12 Epworth Lions’ NYSA soccer team, led by coaches Darrell Downes and Ernie Dahling, went into the Sussex Cup Tournament on November 16 with a regular season 6-0 record. The team made it to the playoffs, then to the finals and then to the championship game. With two minutes left in the game and down by one point, the Lions tied the game up sending into sudden death overtime. The Lions then scored the winning goal to become the 2008 Champions.
COLLEGE SIGNING- Delmarva Christian High School Athletic Director Jeff Mohr congratulates his son senior Jeffrey Mohr upon signing his letter of intent with Manhattan College located in Riverdale, N.Y. See page 46 for the story.
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Woodbridge basketball continued Justin Benson-Reed (F) and Demond Anderson (G); freshmen Dayon Anderson (F) and Cedrick Fooks (F). Ayers has been pleased with the leadership point guard Demond Anderson has provided so far. “We’re looking for our young guys to come in and provide some toughness,” said Ayers. While the 2008-09 Raiders may not have the fire power that last year’s team
MORNING STAR had, Ayers likes his team’s speed and defensive ability. Inexperience is a concern at the start of the season. The Raiders are looking to repeat as Henlopen South champions and compete at a high level in the state tournament. “We have high expectations,” Ayers said. “I think it (reaching the state semifinals) was a great experience. It left a sour taste in our underclassmen’s mouths. They want to go back and go deeper.”
Seaford boys’ basketball team shoots for playoff berth Head coach- Art Doakes Years coaching- 19 Last season- 10-12 Returning players- Juniors Vincent Glover (SF), Julius Mullen (PG), and Lamar Meekins (SG) Newcomers- Seniors Johnny DeBaptiste (SG), Glenn Blake (PF), Jamar Brittingham (PF); sophomores Carl Stallings (PF), Jason Owens (C), Jeff Akins (SF), and Rashawn Church (SG) Team strengths- speed, hunger, coachable, athletic, depth Concerns- young team with little varsity experience Key losses- Josh Owens, Tyree Davis, Mavenson Saincy, Terry Hood Outlook for season- very competitive in South, playoff bound, will surprise some Northern Division teams Sports editor’s note- See next week’s Seaford Star for a full story on the Seaford vasity boys’ basketball team
Laurel girls’ basketball
Laurel boys’ basketball
Head coach- Kevin Walmsley Years coaching- three Last season- 8-4 conference, 15-7 overall Returning players- Seniors Tykia Briddell (G), Sharay Smith (F), Twila McCrea (F), and Diane Paul (F); juniors Tomorrow Briddell (G), Brooke Evans (G), and Mariah Dickerson (F) Newcomers- Seniors Kirsti Knight (G) and Morgan Johnson (F) and freshman Daneka Dixon (G) Team strengths- all five starters returning, senior dominated team full of leaders led by all-conference players Tomorrow and Tykia Briddell Key losses- Kelsy Gordy (graduation) Concerns- Learning a new offense Outlook for season- “With the experienced players we have coming back this season, we hope to compete for the Henlopen Conference Southern Division title and qualify for the state tournament.”
Head coach- Christopher Griffin Years coaching- two Last season- 5-15 overall, 4-18 in the conference Returning players- Seniors David Albert (guard/forward), Treyon Parker (guard), Dashawn Griffin (forward), Carey Shelton (forward/center), Kline Valentin (forward), Aaron Hitchens (center; juniors Ezra Owens (forward) and Jeff Robertson (guard) Newcomers- Seniors Jacob Dubinski (center) and Shane Walls (forward) and freshman Chris Jones (guard) Team stengths- speed Concerns- size Key losses- Lance Kelley
Kelsey Hoch- Seaford High First team All-Conference
• DEC. 4 - 10, 2008 Seaford basketball continued will be looking for the veteran leaders to lead the way as the newcomers gain varsity experience. “Expectations are high. We expect to have ourselves right in the mix at the top of the South,” said Smith. She added that her team will also be looking to be competitive against the Henlopen North teams it plays. Smith believes Seaford, Laurel, and Milford will battle it out for first place in
PAGE 43 the Henlopen South, while the rest of the conference should be pretty even. “I can’t wait for it to start. Even the girls are at the point ‘let’s just get started.’ They’re just ready to compete,” Smith said.
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Seaford Star varsity sports schedules for Dec. 4-10 Friday, Dec. 5- boys’ basketball- Woodbridge at Lake Forest, 5:30, Seaford Christian at Gunston Day, 5:30, Sussex Tech at Caesar Rodney, 7:15; girls’ basketballSeaford at Sussex Central, 6, Woodbridge at Lake Forest, 7:15, Seaford Christian at Gunston Day, 4, Sussex Tech home vs. Caesar Rodney, 7:15; wrestling- Sussex Tech at War on the Shore Saturday, Dec. 6- wrestling- Seaford at Polytech Invitational, Sussex Tech at War on the Shore; boys’ basketball- Seaford home vs. William Penn, 2:30 Tuesday, Dec. 9- boys’ basketball- Seaford at Woodbridge, 7:15, Seaford Christian at Worcester Prep, 5:15, Sussex Tech at Dover, 7:15; girls’ basketball- Woodbridge at Seaford, 6, Seaford Christian at Worcester Prep, 3:45, Sussex Tech home vs. Dover, 7:15; swimming- Sussex Tech and Milford at Lake Forest, 3:30 Wednesday, Dec. 10- Indoor track- Seaford, Woodbridge, Sussex Tech at Worcester County Rec Center; wrestling- Sussex Tech home vs. Sussex Central, 7:15 Thursday, Dec. 11- swimming- Seaford home vs. Sussex Central, 3:30
ON THE RUN- Laurel wide receiver David Albert looks for room to run after making a catch during last Friday’s Division II state championship game. Albert caught three passes for 52 yards. Photo by Mike McClure
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TURKEY BOWL- Shown above are scenes from the Seaford Department of Recreation’s Junior League football Turkey Bowl which took place recently in Seaford. Photos by Mike McClure
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Laurel football team falls to Milford in Division II state championship game The first quarter of last Friday’s Division II state championship game between Laurel and Milford summed up the game for the Bulldogs, who lost the contest by the score of 20-0. Laurel recovered a fumble and moved the ball deep into Milford territory. The Bucs got the ball back and drove 82 yards for a touchdown. “They took it to us up front. They outplayed us across the board,” Laurel head coach Ed Manlove said. “We had opportunities to make big plays we just didn’t capitalize.” The game, which took place at Delaware State University in Dover, was the Bulldogs’ first appearance in the state championship since 1992. Laurel’s last state championship came in 1991 with a win over Indian River. The win gave the Milford football team its first state title. Milford opened the game with the ball on its own 35 yard line. Laurel’s Justin Rife and Mike Heck stopped Brandon Legrand after a two-yard gain before Chris Drummond recovered his own fumble for a six-yard gain. Legrand picked up 17 yards to move the ball to the Laurel 40. Milford fumbled the ball again on second down, this time the ball was recovered by the Bulldogs’ Kline Valentin. Laurel took over on the 35 and moved the ball downfield. Tyler West had four runs for 42 yards to advance the ball into Buccaneer territory. Quarterback Brandon Hearne’s pass to Josh Kosiorowski on second and nine from the 25 fell incomplete, Jones ran for seven yards to set up fourth and two, and West was stopped at the line of scrimmage by Drummond to give the ball back to Milford. The Bucs started with the ball on their own 18 yard line. After a first down run by Drummond, Milford quarterback Marcus Jones was dropped for a two-yard loss by Valentin and West. Legrand galloped for a 68-yard touchdown run on third and eight from the 32. Ryan Mortimer’s extra point with 3:13 left in the opening quarter gave Milford a 7-0 lead. Laurel came right back with another drive, starting at the 35 yard line. Runs by Jones and West pushed the ball to the Milford 35 as the first quarter came to a close. West came inches short of a first down on fourth and two from the Milford 35. Once again the Buccaneer defense kept the Bulldogs out of the end zone and the Milford offense fed off the defensive stand to put together a scoring drive. Legrand had three carries for 24 yards to move the ball into Laurel territory.
Drummond ran four yards for a first down on third and four from the Laurel 36, Legrand had a 23-yard run, and Drummond scored from nine yards out. The extra point was no good, but Milford held a 13-0 lead with 8:29 remaining in the first half. Milford got the ball back following a Laurel punt, but the Bulldogs’ defense held tight. Jones was tripped up by Rife for a six-yard loss on second and seven on the Laurel 39 and Jones’ pass on fourth down fell incomplete. The Bucs went into half-time with a 13-0 lead. Laurel got the ball to open the second half and once again went with its running game. West ran two yards on fourth and inches from the 42 for a first down, but the Bulldogs were later forced to punt. Milford started with the ball on its own 16 yard line. Jones picked up 11 yards on third and eight from the 28. Legrand added a 16-yard run on third and 12 from the 47 to move the ball to the Laurel 37. The Bulldogs’ defense stopped the Bucs one yard short of a first down on a fourth down run from the 34. Laurel’s offense put together its biggest threat on its next possession. Brandon Hearne completed a 24-yard pass to David Albert, Jones had a 12-yard run on third and seven from the 47, and Albert added a 15-yard reception at the end of the third quarter. Milford’s Marcus Jones ended the threat with an interception on third and 14 from the Milford 30 early in the fourth quarter. The two teams exchanged punts before Milford scored the final points of the game. The Bucs started with the ball on their own 44 and moved the ball into Laurel territory on a 19-yard run by Jones. Jones added a 26-yard run with Chris Cutsail making a touchdown saving tackle. Legrand ran the ball in from three yards out and Mortimer added the PAT to make it 20-0 with 3:02 left in the game. Laurel moved the ball to midfield with a 13-yard pass from Hearne to Albert, but Hearne’s fourth down pass fell incomplete and Milford took a knee to clinch the championship win. “I’m proud of our kids because they fought all year. Nobody expected us to be here. I’m proud of our seniors, they worked real hard. Now we’re back to the drawing board,” said Manlove. “It’s an honor to get to play for a state championship.” Chris Jones ran for 91 yards, West added 69 yards rushing, and Albert caught three passes for 52 yards to lead the Bulldogs.
Laurel’s Jordan Brown, left, and Gaven Parker celebrate after a sack by Brown during the Division II state championship game against Milford. Photo by Mike McClure
Seaford Star Sports Story of the Year The Seaford Star will look back on the year in sports in its January 1 edition and we need your help. Readers can make their selection for the top local sports story of the year for a chance to win a free one year subscription to the Star. The following are the candidates for the Seaford Star sports story of the year: • Seaford wrestling coach Dave Rogers earns 200th win as a coach • Seaford boys swim team wins Henlopen conference title • Sussex Tech’s Alex Thomas earns 100th win in conference championship • Woodbridge boys’ basketball team wins Henlopen Conference championship • Seaford Christian girls’ basketball team takes PACC regular season and tournament titles • Seaford varsity baseball team tops St. Mark’s in state tournament • Darnell Savage Jr. is named the new head football coach at Seaford High • Derrik Gibson is drafted by the Boston Red Sox, chooses to go pro • Woodbridge Major League softball team wins District III title • Seaford field hockey boosters dedicate new Wilmer-Tull field
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Delmarva Christian’s Jeffrey Mohr signs letter of intent This past summer, Delmarva Christian High School senior and varsity lacrosse player Jeffrey Mohr competed in the Gait Cup National Tournament in Gettysburg, Pa. While there, Mohr attracted the attention of lacrosse coach Tim McIntee from Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y. As a result, McIntee offered Mohr an academic/athletic fouryear scholarship. On Friday, November 7, Mohr, ready to compete at the next level, signed his letter of intent with Manhattan College. “It’s a good feeling to know that all my hard work has been recognized,” said Mohr. “With all the players out there in all the tournaments, I have been blessed to have been noticed and recruited.” Mohr will play on the Jaspers’ defensive unit while pursuing a bachelor’s degree. Mohr plans to major in business/accounting and a minor in chemistry. Manhattan College is an independent, faith-based, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering.
Sussex Tech begins brick by brick athletic campaign Sussex Technical High School is proud to announce its “Brick By Brick” campaign. The Raven Athletic Center (RAC), which will house the Ravens’ strength and conditioning center and boys’ and girls’ locker rooms, is nearing completion. A courtyard around the new entrance will be constructed from bricks that have been personalized by Raven supporters. A personalized 4”x8” brick costs $75 and includes up to three lines of text. An 8”x8” brick costs $150 and includes up to six lines of text (including punctuation and spaces). Bricks can be ordered now by going to www.sussexvt.k12.de.us and clicking on the advertisement on the right side of the homepage. For more information, contact Brenda Villa at 302-856-2394.
Shown (l to r) are DCHS Principal Scott Kemerling, DCHS Counselor Mary Beth Rimmer, DCHS senior Jeffrey Mohr, and DCHS Athletic Director Jeff Mohr, Jeffrey’s father.
Seaford Recreation Department taking a trip to see the 76ers The Seaford Recreation Department is hosting a trip to see the Philadelphia 76ers vs the Miami Heat on Saturday, Feb. 7. The cost is $50 a ticket and this includes the lower level game ticket and transportation. You can sign up at the Recreation office or call 629-6809. All money is due by Dec 30. Signups are first come, first serve.
Delmarva Christian winter sports schedules Winter track- Dec. 10- at Worcester Rec Center, 1 p.m. Dec. 17- at Worcester Rec Center, 1 p.m. Jan. 7- at Worcester Rec Center, 1 p.m. Jan. 14- at Worcester Rec Center, 1 p.m. Jan. 21- at Worcester Rec Center, 1 p.m. Jan. 28- at Worcester Rec Center, 1 p.m. Feb. 14- Indoor state track meet at UD, 1 p.m. Girls’ basketball- Dec. 5- home vs. Campus Community, 4 p.m. Dec. 8- home vs. St. Thomas More, 5:30 p.m. Dec. 10- at Red Lion Christian, 5 p.m. Dec. 12- at Wilmington Christian, 4 p.m. Dec. 15- at Campus Community, 4 p.m. Dec. 16- home vs. Worcester Prep, 4 p.m. Dec. 20- home vs. Archmere Academy, 12:30 p.m. Jan. 6- home vs. Gunston Day School, 4 p.m. Jan. 8- at Archmere Academy, 6 p.m. Jan. 10- at St. Thomas More, 1:30 p.m. Jan. 16- at Worcester Prep, 3:45 p.m. Jan. 21- home vs. Salisbury School, 4 p.m. Jan. 23- at Gunston Day School, 4 p.m. Jan. 26- at Salisbury Christian, 3:45 p.m. Jan. 28- home vs. Wilmington Christian, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 30- home vs. Saints Peter and Paul, 4 p.m. Feb. 3- at Salisbury School, 5 p.m. Feb. 6- at Saints Peter and Paul, 4 p.m. Feb. 9- ESIAC play in game, TBD Feb. 10- home vs. Woodbridge, 4 p.m. Feb. 11- ESIAC semifinals, TBD Feb. 13- at ESIAC finals, TBD Feb. 16- home vs. Milford, 5:15 p.m. Feb. 18- home vs. Wilmington Friends, 4 p.m. Feb. 20- home vs. Red Lion Christian, 5:30 p.m. Boys’ basketball- Dec. 5- home vs. Campus Community, 5:30 Dec. 8- home vs. St. Thomas More, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10- home vs. Red Lion Christian, 5 p.m. Dec. 12- home vs. Wilmington Christian, 5:30 p.m. Dec. 15- at Campus Community, 5:30 p.m. Dec. 16- home vs. Worcester Prep, 5:30 p.m. Dec. 20- home vs. Archmere Academy, 3:30 p.m. Jan. 2-3- at Valley Forge Christian College tournament, TBD Jan. 6- home vs. Gunston Day School, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 8- at Archmere Academy, 4 p.m. Jan. 10- home vs. St. Thomas More, 1:30 p.m. Jan. 21- home vs. Salisbury School, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23- at Gunston Day School, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 26- at Salisbury Christian, 7 p.m. Jan. 28- at Wilmington Christian, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 30- at Wilmington Friends, 5:30 p.m. Feb. 3- at Salisbury School, 6:30 p.m. Feb. 4- at Worcester Prep, 5:15 p.m. Feb. 9- ESIAC play in game/home vs. Chincoteague, 5:30 p.m. Feb. 11- ESIAC semifinals, TBD Feb. 13- at ESIAC finals, TBD Feb. 16- at Milford, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 20- at Red Lion Christian, 6:15 p.m.
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Seaford Bowling Lanes Nite Owl High games and series Joe Holloway 320 William Gehring 724
Tuesday AM Mixed High games and series Clem Warrener 257, 628 Ginger Saxton 262, 644
Mardel ABC High games and series Mark Rhodes 270, 756
Wed. AM Mixed High games and series Randy Heath 277
Scott Sheridan, center seated, trainer for the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies, was the guest speaker at the Delmarva Football Officials Association banquet at Heritage Shores. Sheridan is a 1987 graduate of Laurel High School. Shown (l to r) are Charles Gibbs, Charlie Taylor, Pete Celiberti, Ron Scott, Mac Truxon, Byo Spence, Ben Parker, Bob Riddagh, Sherm Stevenson, Jeff Fleming, and Dave Frazier. Photo by Pat Murphy B L U E GOLDThe Blue and Gold teams battled during the recent SDR Turkey Bowl games. Shown is a Blue player on the run during the Junior Division game. Photo by Mike McClure
Laurel/Seaford Star local college stats (Fall ‘08) The following are the final stats for local graduates who played sports in college during the 2008 Fall season: Men’s soccer- Chris Phillips, Delmar, Wesley College- six games, one goal; Joshua Scotton, Delmar, Salisbury University- six games, three games started, three goals allowed, 10 saves Field hockey- Lauren Correll, Sussex Tech, Salisbury University19 games, 18 goals, two assists, 38 points; Alison Bloodsworth, Delmar, Salisbury University- 18 games, six goals, two assists, 14 points; Claire Rekitzke, Seaford, York College- 20 games started, 52 goals allowed, 2.71 goals per game, 113 saves; Candace Gaull, Laurel, Washington College- 17 games, 17 games started, five goals, two assists, 12 points; Chelsea Collison, Woodbridge, Washington College- five games, one goal; Ellen Rowe, Sussex Tech, Saint Joseph’s University- 26 games, three games started, two goals, four points Football- Brandon Hudson, Sussex Tech, Delaware State University- 13 punt returns for 112 yards, three interceptions for 33 yards, five kick returns for 70 yards; Cody Bristow, Laurel, University of Delaware- no stats available; Anthony West, Laurel, Wesley CollegeOL; T.J. Jenkins, Sussex Tech, Wesley College- 11 games, 12 solo tackles, 10 assists; Ryan Hubble, Laurel, Wesley- no stats available; Tyler Downes, Delmar, West Chester- 13 games, 41 solo tackles, 20 assists; Alan Preston, Delmar, Methodist- three games, 7-for-14 for 50 passing; Jeremy Layton, Delmar, Methodist- no stats available; Justin Layton, Delmar, Methodist- 10 games, three solo tackles, five receptions for 45 yards, 21 carries for 75 yards Cross country- David Ricksecker, Sussex Tech, Biola UniversityFreshman David Ricksecker placed 186th in the NAIA meet in Kenosha, Wisc., with a time of 26:48l.4 Rebekah Ricksecker, Sussex Tech, Liberty- Senior Rebekah Ricksecker placed 11th at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional championship with a time of 21:29.6 Women’s soccer- Jerilyn Sweeney (Idler), Woodbridge, Virginia Wesleyan- 17 games, 12 games started, nine goals, two assists, 20 points; Katie McMahon, Delmar, Virginia Wesleyan- 14 games, one game started, one assist, one point If you know of a local grad who is playing college sports this Fall and is not on this list please contact sports editor Mike McClure at sports@mspublications.com, 302-629-9243 (f), or 302-629-9788.
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Club 50 High games and series Roger Hall 306 Les Elliott 771 Elgi Austell 261 Edith Krause 720
Eastern Shore Men High games and series Tom Jones 293, 811
Baby Blue Jays High games and series Mason Whitelock 178 Nate Trammell 334 Athena Sammons 154, 279
Tuesday Early Mixed High games and series Buzzy Watson 290, 745 Tami Littleton 244
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Seaford City High games and series A.J. Ruark 306 Ken Bland 749
Senior Express High games and series Ray Gattis 316, 817 Jeannette Allen 279 Dorothy Strozier 781
Sunday Nite Mixed High games and series Matt Wheatley 315 Justin Imbs-Auf-Inga 823 Branda Layton 269, 775
Sunday Adult/Youth High games and series Gordon Hearn 294 Bill Graver, Jr. 757 Sherry Hastings 264, 772
Douglas Avery, Jr. 265, 754 Brittany Hastings 275, 753
Star High games and series Robert Bay 232 Shane Hallbrook 621 Kayla Arnett 233, 630
Christian Fellowship High games and series Eddie Joyner 234, 654 Joyce Tull 215 Lori Ames 607
Young Adults High games and series Michael Cherrix 268 Ben Hearn 650 Courtney Sherman 224, 620
Friday Trios High games and series Dale Parker 276 Ralph Dotson 750 Branda Layton 297, 722
Seaford Department of Recreation to hold winter signups The Seaford Department of Recreation is holding signups for the following winter programs: Boys’ and girls’ basketball- The boys’ and girls’ basketball league for children ages six and seven years old will start in February. The league, which will play games at Fredrick Douglass on Saturday morning, will cost $20. Junior Jordan Clinic- The Junior Jordan Clinic will be open to boys and girls in grades K-3 at a cost of $5. The clinics will take place Saturday mornings in January, starting Jan 10. Basic fundamentals will be stressed. Registration ends Dec. 31. All registrations take place at the rec office or you can call 629-6809 for more information.
Send us your sports scores - it’s easy! Coaches and parents are invited to send any team scores that they would like to see featured in the Star. Items can be e-mailed to sports@mspublications.com or faxed to 302-629-9243.
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Delmarva Driving Club celebrates 25th anniversary This year marked the 25th year for the local pleasure driving group known as The Delmarva Driving Club, Inc. To celebrate, a group of members drove their horses or ponies and carriages along the back roads near Pepperbox, Trussum Pond and Trap Pond just before noon on Sunday, Nov. 16. Following the excursion, they returned to Ed and Lois Evans’ Ed-Lo Acres Farm on Pepperbox Road for an afternoon dinner, reminiscing, and a renewed determination to continue this unique hobby known as pleasure driving. Evans, a charter member and host of this gathering, was joined by some past
presidents - Wirt Wolfe of Salisbury, Md.; Richard Calhoun of Georgetown; Linda Thomas of Delmar, Md.; George Parris of Delmar; John Bolinski of North East, Md.; and wife Lois Evans. Deceased members were remembered by Evans, who led the “remember when” sessions, geared towards bridging the new members and their interests with those who have experienced showing at Devon Horse Show, Return Day parades, Wagon Trains, and many club-sponsored pleasure drives throughout Delmarva. Formed in September 1983 with just seven members, the number of horse-andpony aficionados and their horse drawn
vehicles - carts, buggies, carriages, wagons, and sleighs — has grown tremendously. Boasting members from all over Delmarva and from surrounding states, the club currently has more than 70 participants, some as young as seven- or eightyears old, others recognized as “seniors.” Any of these folks can be found at driving events, which may include a fullweekend of judged events in showmanship, reinsmanship, or challenging crosscountry “hazards.” The youngsters are accompanied by a knowledgeable adult while competing, but all entrants have someone with them on the vehicle. The equines range in size
from what is commonly known as VSE — very small equines — to pony, horse, even draft. Other members prefer a quieter, more relaxing version of pleasure driving by traveling along country roads, carrying a full picnic basket and probably the family dog. Some other members use their equines in the fields, as they were used before there was tractor power, while others have amassed tremendous carriage and equinerelated collections, housed in climate-controlled museums. More information about the club and its activities can be found on its website: www.delmarvadrivingclub.com.
Department of Correction holds graduation for officers The Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) graduated and assigned 28 cadets to serve as Correctional Officers, four cadets to serve as Correctional Officer/Food Service Specialists and one cadet to serve as a Correctional Officer/Food Service Supervisor, during a Friday, Nov. 21 ceremony at the Department’s administrative headquarters in Dover. Cadets took the oath of office and received their assignments before family, friends, DOC officials and honored guest Gov. Ruth Ann Minner. Brooks Ogden Jr. of Dover was hon-
ored as the Outstanding Cadet of the class and George Iannetta of Wilmington was selected by his peers to represent the class as its speaker during the ceremony. Graduates completed nine weeks of training, including hands-on and classroom sessions in a multitude of areas, including weapons familiarization, defensive tactics, emergency preparedness, report writing, substance abuse training, CPR/Basic First Aid and inter-personal communication. The graduates will join the ranks of more than 1,700 DOC employees in the Correctional Officer series who uphold
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Ted Kaufman’s selection was no surprise to me For many Delaware citizens the naming of Ted Kaufman by GoverRANK ALIO nor Ruth Ann Minner was as much Naming Beau to the a surprise as John McCain picking Sara Palin as his running mate: Senate seat now with him Both unknowns while other better about to deploy to Iraq know names were being mentioned. would blemish his image Some Democrat party members among Delaware voters. and friends of Lt. Governor John Carney were disappointed the governor overlooked her long-time someday follow in his dad’s footsteps. running mate. Carney was loyal to her Naming Beau to the Senate seat now when he ran for her seat in this year’s Dewith him about to deploy to Iraq and havmocrat primary and took hits for her ading him pulled out of military service to ministration without saying an unkind serve in the Senate would blemish his imword about his boss. But it was not to be and her choice was age among Delaware voters. Two years before re-election is not nothing against Carney. It was not her seenough time to erase that memory while lection, it was vice-president elect Joe parents are losing their sons and daughters Biden’s call and she honored his wish. and others have family members serving. And those who know Biden well know Last week Beau announced he would Kaufman was his only choice. be fulfilling his military obligation as well Biden will soon resign his Senate seat. as his term as Delaware’s Attorney GenerThe seat will not be up for election again al. for two years. I’ve known, as have others So the next option was to have someclose to the senator, that his son, Beau, one who was willing to serve for two who has been campaigning beside his dad years as a “place holder,” someone who since he was a kid, was being groomed to would not seek reelection, someone who
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wouldn’t change their mind after getting sucked into the perks of being a U.S. Senator and take on Beau. Besides Joe’s sister, Valarie, the next person he trusted would be Kaufman. I got the tip at Return Day when I saw stickers saying send JC (John Carney) to D.C. Someone close to the Biden staff told me, “That wasn’t going to happen.” No successor was mentioned, but after Beau made his commitment not to take the appointment I narrowed the choice to Kaufman. Kaufman met Joe a year before he sought the Senate seat working on a community association project. Valarie sought Kaufman out to work on the campaign in ‘72. That’s when I was introduced to Ted and the entire Biden team, a bunch of excited, energized young kids planning to knock off a giant of a statesman and longtime U.S. Senator, Cale Boggs, a 1,000 to 1 shot. Biden upset Boggs, Kaufman took a year of absence from his marketing position with DuPont and never looked back. He joined Biden’s staff in ’72 and worked with him until ’96 which included most of
those years as Biden’s Chief of Staff and running the Delaware office and many of his campaigns. They say behind every successful man is his wife. But in Biden’s case it was Ted Kaufman. Biden said in a statement, “Kaufman’s job as chief of staff caused him to be involved in many of the most important decisions I’ve made in the Senate. “He has been personally involved in handling many of the most important issues we’ve face in Delaware,” Biden wrote. “From protecting Cape Henlopen, to putting more cops on the street, Ted has played a critical role in these accomplishments.” So we have a politician in Washington who will not be campaigning for reelection. You have a man who will work for a better Delaware and country and give it his best shot for two years, then move on. Ted Kaufman is an excellent choice who, because of his Washington experience, can step into his new position without having to worry about where the bathroom is. Kaufman needs little tutoring or orientation. Delaware is lucky to have him serve.
Is Christmas still 'the most wonderful time of the year?' Here it is just a few weeks before Christmas and it seems like INDSOR ONY the holidays have been here since June. Don’t get me wrong, I love Could there have been the holiday season. any desires which would I am the first one to make critical statements about how early the have led Mom to get up Christmas decorations and other before daylight and wait items are put on the store shelves. outside of Grants or SilHowever, I love walking down the brightly lit aisles hearing the holico’s in the winter cold? day music playing on the store speakers. was government “milk and cheese day” I think, as the song says, “It’s the most down in Crisfield. wonderful time of the year.” There is only I can’t recall anything else that we one thing that seems to put a damper on stood in line for. But, when Wednesday the magic of Christmas – people. rolled around and the monthly allotments I know that sounds cynical, but when I of government surplus food were availsee the news and hear about mall shootable, we were there. My grandmother ings and people being killed in a “Black lived with us and she was a widowed, Friday” stampede, I wonder how the spirit blind invalid. She qualified for the governof the Christmas season prevails. ment food. I suppose to the family of the 34-yearI would go with my mother and she old Wal-Mart worker killed in the store would be given a cardboard box with Carstampede, the term “Black Friday” is very nation powdered milk and enough cheese appropriate. to start a dairy store. It is obvious we live in a different I know that according to the food world than we did 50 years ago, but it’s pantries in the area, people are still standenough to make me want to invest the liting in line for food these days, so much so tle bit of money I have in a time machine. that there is actually a shortage. First of all, outside of meeting Jesus for I believe food is something someone lunch, there is nothing I want bad enough would be justified to stand in line to get. to cause me to wait in a line outside of a But, a HD TV, or the latest version of store at 4 a.m. “Guitar Hero,” don’t seem to be items That is especially true when it involves worth losing sleep, much less a human standing outside with 2,000 other people. I life, over. find the wee hours of the morning to be a I am sure the economy appreciates the time when I seem to be short on people surge in sales that “Black Friday” brings. skills. This year’s sales were up seven percent I remember back when I was a young over last year. That is pretty amazing givboy, the closest thing to “Black Friday” en the bleak economic cloud we have been
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one of us kids had which would have led Mom to get up before daylight and wait outside of Grants or Silco’s in the winter cold? No need to ponder that question too long. Unless it was a lung or kidney, I am sure the answer is a resounding “no.”
Gas Lines Dime a gallon drop Gas prices continued to fall this week. The price of gas fell about a dime on average across the country, bringing pump prices in some states, like Missouri, below the $1.50 benchmark. Shaky global financial markets, a stronger U.S. dollar and lower demand for crude oil are pushing prices at the gas pump down. Locally, one station on Stein Highway in Seaford as of Monday was selling regular gasoline for $1.64 a gallon, and in Delmar the price of gasoline was $1.60 a gallon.
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Letters to the Editor Teen Challenge is a blessing
We were deeply saddened and hurt to read the recent comments made about Teen Challenge of Delaware, which was criticized and referred to as being “cultish.” As parents of a Teen Challenge graduate in Fort Myers, Fla., we only saw how blessed our son and family have been since the program came into our lives. We can understand how people who have never been affected by addiction can have some reservation about the program. Out son is proof Teen Challenge works. As far as being “forced” to attend a certain church on Sunday mornings, we are sure the students do not feel that way. When they are heading off to a service at an Assembly of God church there seems to be much excitement and glory in the men as some of them have never been affiliated with any church in their lifetimes. Furthermore, the men attend two other churches in the local area each week. They hear speakers Monday through Friday who are from a variety of denominations at the Teen Challenge center. We can only pray our community will be open to this awesome program that God
has placed in Seaford to help the many hurting men find their way back to a life free of addiction and begin to serve Him. Our son has a new life and wonderful future in God’s graces. Thanks to Teen Challenge our family is truly witnessing miracles. Alton & Pam Isaacs Seaford
Editor’s note: Following is a testimony written by the Isaacs’ son, Justin. I am 20 years old from Seaford, Del. I grew up in a good home with a pretty normal childhood, but my life took a seriously wrong turn at about age 13. I began to experiment with marijuana as a social activity on the weekends. I was then introduced to cocaine, and taught to sell drugs for the first time in my life. I soon fell in love with cocaine and sadly the lifestyle that came along with it. When I entered high school, my grades became my last priority and I skipped school on a regular basis, selling drugs, getting high and causing more trouble than I could have ever imagined. It wasn’t long
A godless life, even at Christmas, is a life with no purpose or grace If you travel up to D.C. to see the national Christmas tree this EV ODD ROFFORD year, be prepared to discover a very interesting sign on the side of For too many of us, one of the Metro buses. The American Humanist Association just without coming to relaspent $40,000 to run ads on the sides of buses that read, “Why betionship with God, we lieve in a god? Just be good for are more like the weeds; goodness sake.” The signs are one more endeav- merely in proximity of or in a string of efforts to get the his grace and purpose. message of godlessness out to our nation. The same group, in partnership with American Atheists, has the fitting was not leak-proof. As a result, also sponsored 10 billboards nationally a weed or two have grown in the pathway. commending those who don’t believe in The weeds are merely benefactors of God. having been in proximity of the water. In a season already characterized by They are not the purposed expression of too much commercialism and increased the water, nor are they the full receptors of emptiness, I can hardly think of a more the blessing of the fullness of the water misguided message than this one. Tradiflow. tion for tradition's sake alone is the epitoIn the same way, God has purposed our me of meaninglessness. If the only reason lives to be much like these garden plants, we down the sweets, deck the halls, and where we find fullness of beauty and usewrap the gifts is because that's what we al- fulness. For too many of us, without comways do, we chase the wind. ing to a relationship with God, we are Christmas has meaning and purpose more like the weeds; merely in proximity centered in the historic birth of Jesus of His grace and purpose. We still have Christ. In turn, our rebirth into real life is jobs, spend money, and build relationships found when we come into relationship and family, but we do so apart from the with this living savior. Without such a refull flow of God’s received grace. lationship, our lives are a shadow of what This Christmas, go ahead and take a they are meant to be. side. Do you want to side with those who Imagine that you are planting some refuse the message of Christmas or with vegetables in a garden, and you run a hose those who embrace it? You are free to do to the proper area and each day you faithwhichever you choose, but choose wisely fully water that garden. In time that nurfor heaven’s sake! turing brings luscious fruit, healthy veg(For more information about the group etables and breathtaking flowers. listed above, you may find them at Meanwhile, you look back at the walkwww.whybelieveinagod.org and for more way where the hose was running through information on a godly response to this and you see where the few drips of water atheist group you can go to www.whybehave meandered down the hose because lieveinnothing.org.)
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before I got arrested and found myself looking at a minimum of 25 years in prison for a list of felony charges, as a 17 year old. I thought this was my wake-up call and tried to change my life with Narcotics Anonymous and other 12-step programs. I did good for a short time, but it wasn’t long before I was in the streets again, only to sink lower. I was soon a full-time drug dealer and a horrible cocaine addict. Life at this point became meaningless, and suicide was part of my daily thoughts. I remember having pockets full of money and drugs, yet still feeling completely empty inside all the time. I could never figure out what was missing, or why I felt so unhappy all the time. As a result of attempts to take my life, I landed in hospitals, mental treatment facilities and more rehabs. Through all of this I broke my relationships with all of my family and many good friends. I lost the trust of everyone who meant anything to me. Shortly after my 19th birthday, everything finally caught up with me. I ended up in a jail cell where I heard about Jesus. A couple days after being there, I lay on the floor listening to a couple of others talk about fasting and prayer, and speaking about God. At this point I didn’t know much about the Lord, but I did know I was tired of the
drug life. I knew I would soon be dead. So I cried out to God with everything I had in me and asked Him to help me. I had no idea that I was going to end up in Ft. Myers, Fla., at Teen Challenge for the next year of my life. I soon realized what I was missing all along and decided to give my life totally to God! Since coming to Teen Challenge on Dec. 4, 2007, I have built a relationship with Jesus Christ and learned who He really is. I have learned so much about the Lord and about myself. I wake up every day and embrace it now as an opportunity to learn more and grow closer to God. My heart and mind have been completely restored and now I have a great desire to help people who are like I once was. I also find joy in working with the youth in our drug awareness program called Stay Sharp. Along with all of this, my family has been restored and we are closer than ever before. In the midst of all that was going on in my life, God blessed me with a wonderful woman of God, whom I plan to marry next summer. After my graduation from Ft. Myers Teen Challenge this December, I will be doing an internship at the Delaware Teen Challenge center and continuing to embrace God’s wonderful plan for my life! Thank God for Teen Challenge!
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CFM DONATES GIFT BASKET - Realtors from Callaway, Farnell and Moore donated a gift basket to the annual Sussex County Association of REALTORS (SCAOR) Community Service Auction held at the Bay Center in Dewey Beach. The auction raised approximately $37,000 which will be used to purchase Christmas gifts for needy children throughout Sussex County. A total of 315 items were auctioned. Phyllis Parker, a realtor at CFM, was a member of the auctioneer team.
FUN WITH CRAFTS - Members of the Western Sussex Branch of the AAUW enjoyed an evening of crafts at a recent meeting in the Seaford District Library. Local Chapter president, Pat Davidson, left, explains the evening’s activities to members. Standing are Kathy Adams, Diane LeCompte and Brenda King Ree; seated left to right, Gerry Mitchell, Betty Hall and Josie Hunsburger. Photo by Anne Bleile. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS - State President Lana Cobb addressed the members of the Western Sussex Branch of the AAUW during their annual craft night. She spoke about the grant awarded to the Coastal Georgetown Branch of the AAUW for the purpose of increased involvement in the lobbying process for both state and national government. The grant allows training to take place and give the AAUW members the opportunity to learn how to lobby and approach lawmakers. Photo by Anne Bleile.
A CAPITOL CHRISTMAS - After a 23-day journey from Bitterroot National Forest in northwestern Montana, the 3,800-pound Capitol Christmas Tree is eased into place by crane on the West Lawn of the Capitol Building. The subalpine fir, along with 5,000 handmade ornaments and 70 smaller trees for government offices throughout Washington, were a gift from the people of Montana. Seaford, Del., native Don Booth, a forestry tech in the Darby Ranger District, climbed the then 97-foot-tall tree to rig it for cutting and loading onto an 80-foot trailer. In a special ceremony on Dec. 2, the tree will be illuminated with 10,000 lights.
POCKET PROTECTION - A team of Forestry Service personnel accompanied the tree on its 3,730-mile journey through Montana and across the country. They didn't get far in Washington, however, before being relieved of their pocket knives by security as they entered a museum for lunch.
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PAGE 53 HERO DONATES TO BURN CAMP Jacob Ricker of Georgetown, fourth from left, donates his $1,000 prize as a Husqvarna Hero to the Delaware Burn Camp. Ricker, one of the owners of Baker’s Hardware in Millsboro, was among five people nationwide to receive the award for community service from the Husqvarna outdoor power equipment company. At far right is 39th State Rep. Danny Short of Seaford who sponsored legislation to establish the burn camp for children. Accepting the camp’s first donation are (left to right) board members Bob Ricker, who is also Jacob’s father, John Lattomus, Joanne Hutchinson, chairwoman, Jeremy Locklear, Bonny King, Jacob Ricker and Bonnie Cahall. It is slated to start this summer at Camp Barnes. Photo by Ron MacArthur
SEAFORD DISTRICT LIBRARY EVENTS Here is what is happening at the Seaford District Library for the week of Dec. 4 to 11: Events • There will be a “Make and Take” Christmas craft on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. for elementary aged children at the Seaford District Library. For more information, contact Cindi Smith at 302-6292524. • Learn about Kwanzaa with “Make and Take” crafts on Saturday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, Dec. 13 at 1 p.m. Teresa Stevenson presents this program. • There will be Seaford District Board meetings on Tuesday, Dec. 9 and Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 5:30 p.m. • Winterthur Museum presents “Nursery Rhymes” during the preschool story time on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 10:30 p.m. • Mother Goose on the Loose, an infant story time, is held Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. A toddler story time is held Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Pre-school storytime for ages 3-5 is held Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. For more information, contact Cindi Smith at 302-629-2524. • The Seaford District Library has joined IHOP in an effort to raise money for the Library. Eat a meal at the Seaford,
Dover, Rehoboth or Salisbury, Md. IHOP locations and return an itemized receipt along with a comment card to the Seaford District Library. We must have the comment cards with itemized receipts in order to receive the reimbursement. The Seaford Library will receive 10% of the total receipt. Upcoming events • The “Science and Religion Book Discussion will meet on Monday, Dec. 15 at 6 p.m. The article being read is "Last of the Neanderthals" which is the cover article in the Oct. 2008 issue of National Geographic. For more information, contact the Seaford Library at 302-629-2524. • Raise your voices! The Seaford Library will host a Christmas Dulcimer concert and Sing Along featuring John Kisela at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16. This is a fun-filled event for the entire family. • The Manga/Anime Club will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 4:30 p.m. (this is a change in time for this meeting only.) The club is open to those between the ages of 13 and 26 who are interested in making recommendations for the library's purchases of manga and anime, watching anime, cosplay and other related programs. For more information, call Kenda at 302-629-
CFM DONATES GIFT BASKET - Deputy Clerk Craig Dickerson, left, and Sussex County Sheriff Eric Swanson deliver a Thanksgiving food package to D.J. Schunn and daughter Kindrah on Wednesday, Nov. 26. Ryan Homes and Wal-Mart contributed to the effort which will occur again for Christmas. Photo by Pat Murphy.
2524. • The Seaford District Library will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 25 for Christmas and will reopen on Friday, Dec. 26 at 9 a.m. • The Christian writers group Vines and Vessels will meet at the Seaford Library
on Saturday, Dec. 27 at 9 a.m. • The Seaford library will close early on Wednesday, Dec. 31 at 5 p.m. and will be closed on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. The Library will reopen at 9 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. Programs are free and open to the public.
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Opinion Editorial Pause to honor our heroes For many of us, this is the busiest time of the year. There are presents to buy, houses to decorate, cookies and pies to bake, friends to visit — not until next year, it seems, will we once again be able to take a deep breath and look around us. But this year, there is something special in our Western Sussex community, something that demands that we stop for at least a few minutes and give it its due. The 30 banners that comprise the state chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America’s tribute to Hometown Heroes are hanging in Gateway Park in downtown Seaford. The banners, each one of which honors a Delawarean who was killed in battle, will be on display in the park through January. Four of the banners honor men from Seaford: Michael Hastings, who was killed Oct. 23, 1983, in a bomb blast in Beirut, Lebanon; Ryan Long, who was killed by a suicide bomber April 3, 2003, in Iraq; Cory Palmer, who died May 6, 2006, after his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq; and Rick James, who was killed in battle in Iraq May 13, 2006. Two other banners honor Richard Samuel Dennison, Bethel, who was killed March 5, 1971, in Vietnam, and Elmer L. Faulkner Jr., Greenwood, who was killed on June 18, 1968, in Vietnam. It is especially poignant that the banners, which have been traveling the state throughout the year, are visiting our community in December, when thoughts of birth fill our minds and songs about “Peace on earth, good will to men,” fill the air. There, in the same park is a big, colorful Christmas tree, the banners remind us that our destinies are not always fulfilled in the way that we had planned. As you zip around town this holiday season, going here and there and tending to this chore and that, we encourage you to stop by Gateway Park and sit for a moment among the banners. Think about these young men, and the lives that were cut short by war. And think about their families, who have had to accept the reality of Christmas without their sons and brothers. We should never, even at the busiest time of year, forget the sacrifice that our country called on them to make.
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Look for us at our new address Morning Star Publications Inc. is RYANT ICHARDSON now located at 951 Norman Eskridge We may have missed Highway, Seaford. We started movsome calls during our ing to this location move, so if you have last week and conhad difficulty reaching cluded the move on Sunday. us, please try again. Our phone number remains the same, (302) 629below) were called upon to pack 9788 and our fax number is the up, help move, reorganize and elecsame, (302) 629-9243. You can still tronically reconnect to the outside send emails to me at brichardworld. son@mspublications.com. News Rick Ewing of RL Ewing Comand events can be emailed to edipany and electrical subcontractor tor@mspublications.com. John Hearn of Hearn Electric perWe may have missed some formed the impossible by completphone calls during our move, so if ing five new offices ready to occuyou have had difficulty reaching us, py in just three weeks time. please try again. Rick reported on the progress I have numerous people to thank daily and at the end of each day we for helping us move this past weekcould see progress. I know we had end. At the top of the list is Phil asked Rick to do the impossible, Livingston, who used his flatbed and he came through with flying and his muscle to bring our desks, colors. filing cabinets, shelving and other (Note: Rick is the son of state items across town to our new locaRep. Ben Ewing. See page two for tion. Phil’s son, Keith Livingston, an article about Ben’s encouraging also helped us make our final runs recovery from cancer.) across town from our former offices at 628 West Stein Highway. Josh Littleton, building official with the City of Seaford, made sure In addition to allowing us to pureverything was done properly. Bechase his offices, John Dalecki of cause he was kind enough to proC&F Mortgage Corp. supplied us a vide an inspection the day before flatbed and some muscle last week. Thanksgiving we were able to beA good friend, Joyce Walls, gave gin making our move Thursday afup much of her weekend to help ter turkey dinner. my wife, Carol, organize our new You accumulate a lot of stuff offices. over 12 years in one location. Bill Wennberg and his son, Evan Richard Horsey of Richard Lawn & Wennberg, worked with us most of Landscaping and his assistant, Darthe day Saturday, the most strenurell Bivens, did a great job helping ous of our moving days. us dispose of the excess desks and Nicky Bernstein helped with a equipment. trailer and some very useful wheeled contraptions that made our Our phone and email systems move easier. were transferred in time thanks to Mike James was a big help, supJason Silvis, Steve Bell and Bernie plying muscle and determination to Szymczak of Telepathy Networks. move the heaviest of the items. Mike Kauffman of BlackDog Computers moved our server and The healthiest of our staff memreconnected us at our new site. bers (names listed on the masthead Kauffman is also helping us add
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Another perspective on the Barack Obama presidency People in general like to feel that they are in control of their lives, their affairs and their destiny. Whenever there is a period of transition in any area of their lives, it has a tendency to neutralize that control with fear of the uncertainties, for it is in our nature to fear that which we can’t control. Men and women who say that they have a covenant relationship with God should be free from this kind of fear, because their steps are supposed to be ordered by the Lord (Ps 37-23). It doesn’t take a prophet or a degree in divinity to understand and realize that any king, queen, president, or men of power are ordained of God. For promotions do not come from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south, but from God (Ps 76-6-7). As God had anointed David to be king over Israel, so has he ordained and appointed Barack Obama to be 45th President of the United States for this time period. The wisdom and knowledge that he will need to accomplish his task will come from the Lord. The enemies that will rise up against this nation during his tenure will be dealt with, skillfully and swiftly. For as God had given David favor, so shall he give this president favor. The people, who are now afraid, are but a few. Their fears are legitimate, for they now see themselves in uncharted waters. If the one running for president had been a Caucasian, and won, their fears would have been without merit. Never before has this country been given such a challenge, and those who are weak in knowledge and understanding now quake with fear. However, Black America sees this as a year of jubilee, a time of healing the many wounds of the past. And now in this new day, in this land of diversity, her people shall unite this country for the purpose for which it was designed: to live out its creed, one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all. In Black America’s past, they were fearful of their new-found freedom because they never were in control of their lives. Today, we sing the song of freedom. Minister Alan Fletcher Seaford
Sportsbetting advocate
Sportsbetting in Delaware took a positive turn toward reality following the June recess of the 144th General Assembly. June 30, 2008, was the last legislative term of Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, who opposed Sportsbetting. Though the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.B. 190, (28-10) to start the creation of law, it now must be passed by the Senate upon return in January. Newly elected Gov. Jack Markell has gone on record as making the passage of Sportsbetting a priority to start his administration. There is a sense of urgency due to the State of Maryland passing their slots referendum earlier this month. The direct result of which will cause a huge reduction of slot revenue for Delaware (approximately
Final Word $100 million). It is imperative to put Sportsbetting in motion for Delaware to offset these losses. Like it or not, gaming will be a necessary component to Delaware’s balancing of its budget. Education, bridges and highways, capital improvements for colleges and courthouse construction are all issues to be addressed starting in January. Gaming revenues are presently declining in Delaware and will further decline at a faster rate as the State of Maryland initiates their slot programs (Pennsylvania is already decreasing Delaware’s revenue from slots). Delaware must act to bolster its budget to offset the losses that already are occurring. Just look at the lay-offs of our workforce over the last few months and you get he picture. Without Sportsbetting, teacher’s jobs will be lost, classroom size will increase and there is not one legislator you elected that can change the scenario. This is only an example of what will come. Fast reverse, circa 1976. If the powers of the day, of that era had only faced a
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small problem with sportsbetting, Delaware would presently be the richest state in the union. From that period to present we would have made millions and millions of dollars over the years. I won’t even mention the B word. Our schools would be the best in the country. Oh, what could have been. As an example, last year’s Superbowl. Almost a $100 million bet in Las Vegas. Both teams playing were from the northeast. Delaware certainly could have captured most of that money. We are the only state east of the Mississippi that can accept Sportsbets. For those of you that are against Sportsbetting, simply don’t go. We will pay your taxes as best we can. For all the jobs that are now being lost, Sportsbetting will at least provide a new form of employment. Four hundred new jobs to our state. As I have done for the last two years, I ask you to back this important issue for all of Delaware and not to lose one teacher’s job. Call your newly elected officials and let them know of your support. Gary Ward Seaford
Dislikes choice of picture
I wish you had used some other photograph from the “Pumpkin Chunkin” event than the one on page 19 of your Nov. 6-12 issue, showing the machine owned by Trey Melson of Lewes. It features, and your caption repeats, the
motto “Jesus hates a coward.” I don’t believe Jesus hates anyone. Surely there cannot be any figure whose entire message is so whole-heartedly about love than Jesus. Consequently, this motto is very offensive, and your newspaper is disappointing for promoting the viewpoint. Surely there were other machines at the event that could have been photographed, rather than one with such an offensive and inaccurate statement on it. J. Reid Williamson Annandale, Va.
Keeping our heads on straight
This headline almost slipped through this week: Hero Helps Burn Victims What a strange twist of fate that would be. Thanks, Daniel, for the catch.
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NEW LISTING! Recently remodeled 4-BR, 2-BA “Class C” home on apx. 1 acre near Seaford. New carpet & vinyl, fresh paint, all appliances, open floor plan with dual fireplaces, & more! $169,900 (MLS 565030)
NEW LISTING! This 2-BR, 2-BA home on one acre in the country west of Bridgeville is in move-in condition! Features replacement windows, updated 200 amp elec svc, appliances, new carpet, & more! Only $135,000 (MLS 564797)
REDUCED! Beautiful Colonial in the Heart of Laurel! Built in 1841, apx. 3,000 sq. ft. of living space includes 7 BRs & 3.5 BAs, plus 2-car garage, scr. porch, & corner lot w/inground pool. Extras include new roof & ext. paint, fireplace, central air, fire/burglar alarm, & much more! Now $295,000 (MLS 562407)
RIVER FRONT! Rare opportunity to acquire this spacious ranch in Snug Harbor. Apx. 1.02 acre site with replaced bulk heading & rip-rap. Competitively priced to sell at $515,000 (#564472)
Classic Cape Cod located in one of Seaford’s prettiest neighborhoods, less than 1 block from the golf & country club. Motivated seller! $199,900 (#550779)
Ready to downsize? This cozy cottage in a quiet Seaford neighborhood is a “must see!” Custom renovations blend charm & traditional style. All stainless steel, gourmet kit featuring Viking range & Corian countertops. Hardwood & ceramic tile floors, recessed lighting, central air, professional landscaping, & much more! $189,900 (Licensed agent/owner) (MLS 557303)
REDUCED! Priced at only $52,000 , this 3-BR house in Laurel has the potential to be “rehabbed.” Sold “as is,” some new windows have been installed. Special renovation financing may be available for qualified buyers. (MLS 562028)
BRING OFFERS! 4BR Cape Cod nestled on 2-acres conveniently located to Atlantic Beaches. 2 Outbuildings (80x28 & 150x25). Many mechanical & cosmetic upgrades have been made. $198,000 MLS #553187
Beautiful Waterfront Colonial with breathtaking views of Chipman’s Pond from an incredible 2.5-acre wooded parcel, the largest lot in Old Church Landing, nr Laurel. The home includes 4 BRs, 3.5 BAs, 12x40’ Florida rm, double fireplace, vaulted ceilings, skylights, & massive deck with steps leading to the pond. $949,900 (#558494)
Well-maintained brick professional building located near the hospital, most recently used as medical office. Includes 3 halfbaths, 5 exam rooms, 2 offices, receptionist office, waiting rm, kitchenette & 2nd floor efficiency apt w/ 2 rooms, full bath, & stg. Plenty of parking area. Zoned Gen Business for commercial use (MLS 563206)
GIVE UP THE YARD WORK! Move into this lovely 2-BR Condo in Crossgate Vlg. Sit on the patio & watch the seasons change. Enjoy the cathedral ceilinged living area & balcony w/ enough space for an office. Extras included for just $149,900. (MLS 560313)
Well-maintained 3-BR, 1.5-BA home on beautiful corner lot west of Seaford. In addition to the 1car att. garage, there’s a 2-car det. garage w/ workshop, plus an in-ground pool & pool shed, enclosed porch, & more! $224,900 (MLS 561683)
REDUCED! Great Location! Great Price! Nice 2-BR home features central air, fresh paint, updated bathroom & all appliances. Includes gazebo & stg. bldg. $149,900 (MLS 563377)
HILL-N-DALE - 3-BR, 2-BA home on a large lot offers fresh interior paint and new vinyl siding & shutters. Eat-in kit w/ adj scr porch. FR w/ new carpet & a gas FP that can easily be returned to a wood burning one. A 12’x12’ rear deck off the MBR. A great value at $192,500. (#564213)
REDUCED! Great location! Great price! Character & Charm! You’ll find all this & more in this 4BR, 2-BA cape cod in Seaford. FR, hardwood floors, great storage, nice yard, home warranty & extras for $189,000. (#563913)
Waterfront On The Nanticoke River! Cruise To The Chesapeake Bay From Your Back Yard! Enjoy Panoramic Views & Sunsets On The Dock. This Beautiful Home Has Wonderful Flow For Entertaining. Nicely Landscaped 1.86-Acre Site W/ In-Ground Pool & Many Special Features! $875,000 (#562846)
A LOT TO OFFER FOR THE MONEY! This 4-BR, 2.5-BA home has a sunroom w/6-person hot tub, full basement, a/g pool, & beautifully landscaped, irrigated lot in great location. Only $290,000 (MLS 563049)
3- BR Clinker Brick Colonial in town offers front porch, rear patio, & 1-car det garage. Inside you’ll enjoy the wood floors, fireplace, LR & FR. REDUCED to $189,000 (MLS 556116)
Charming 3BR, 1.5BA Colonial located just outside Bridgeville town limits. It offers hardwood floors, new furnace & water heater, a 3-year old septic system, & a delightful yard. REDUCED to $169,000 (MLS #551037)
Freshly Painted home in Morningside Vlg II is priced to sell at $169,900. Built in 2004, it offers apx. 1,200 sq. ft. w/ LR, eat-in kit w/appliances, 3 BRs, laundry, & 2 baths. (MLS 557655)
THREE RESTRICTED ESTATE LOTS in this new subdivision west of Seaford on Rt. 20. Great country location, yet convenient to town. Lot 1 is 2.64 acres for $135,000. Lot 2 is 2.53 acres for $130,000. Lot 3 is 5 acres for $180,000 (MLS 551544, 551546, 551548)
BUILDING LOTS – 4 lots ranging in size from .97 acre to 1.29 acres, priced from $65,000 to $68,000. (MLS 563242, 563310, 563312, 563313)
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RIVERS END – 4 unimproved building lots available with no builder tie-in. $89,900 each. MLS #552025-552029
2-BR DWELLING ON APX. 1 ACRE near Delmar for $89,500 (MLS 564535). ADJOINING 1 ACRE unimproved lot available for additional $45,000 (MLS 564537)