|
Crisis Management Course to Begin
A 4-5 week Crisis Management course will be
held on Monday nights, starting April
14, 2003. The course is free and open to everyone.
The course will explore crises caused by
disasters. Natural disasters, including hurricanes and storms, flooding,
tornadoes, earthquakes, as well as man-made disasters including fires,
chemical spills, and biological and chemical warfare will also be discussed.
The intent of this course is to increase
awareness and preparedness. Participants will learn how to make survival
kits. Class will consist of a lecture period followed by open discussion.
The 4-5 week course (depending on class
interaction) will take place Monday nights at 8 p.m. at the CAMP Rehoboth
Community Center, 39 Baltimore Avenue. To register, or for more information,
call Dianna Jarosch at 302-226-1555.
Dianna Jarosch has worked for the American
Red Cross as Director of Services to Military Families, and has participated
in relief operations. A former New York City crisis hot line director,
Dianna has also been Director of Training for a crisis hotline in Texas.
Dianna has spent many years researching crises we all experience.
Lambda Owners Are Gay Business Leaders
The Potomac Executive Network (PEN) today
named Deacon Maccubbin and James Bennett, owners of Lambda Rising
Bookstores, as this year’s Gay Business Leaders of the Year award
recipients.
The award was presented by PEN’s outgoing
president, Paul Cooper, at an awards dinner in the Wyndham City Center Hotel
in Washington DC. PEN is a nonprofit nonpartisan network of over 1000 gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender professionals who work for business,
nonprofits, or government in Washington, DC, Virginia, and Maryland.
Maccubbin and Bennett were recognized “For
their stewardship of Lambda Rising, a bookstore that has long been a
centerpiece of the gay and lesbian community,” Cooper said.
Lambda Rising was founded in Washington in
1974 and now operates four bookstores in Washington DC, Baltimore MD,
Rehoboth Beach DE, and Norfolk VA, as well as the Oscar Wilde Bookshop in
New York City.
The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, founded in 1967, is
the world’s oldest gay and lesbian bookstore. It was slated to close
earlier this year before Maccubbin and Bennett took over operations and
vowed to keep the historic Greenwich Village store open.
CAMP Women Tee Off
Beginning in early May, the CAMP Rehoboth
Women’s Project will tee off a golf league. Golfers at all levels are
welcome to participate. The league will be playing 9 holes weekly on
Wednesdays with tee offs starting at 3:30 p.m. at Marsh Island Golf Club in
Lewes. Anyone interested should provide name(s), address, phone number and
email address to:
Golf League, 353 Locust Lane, Lewes, DE 19958
or email: kamaga@snip.net. Responses
should be sent by April 22. Interested golfers will be contacted with final
details. We hope to see all you duffers on the links.
Doggies for Diapers Annual Drive
A Wizard of Paws grooming shop and Bear Hugs
for Babies will hold their second annual diaper drive on April 17, 18 and
19.
Bear Hugs For Babies is a local charity that
supplies diapers and other necessary items to newborns affected by HIV and
poverty. The team at A Wizard of Paws invites everyone, whether you have a
pet or not, to join them in this wonderful event by dropping off size1
diapers at their Route 1 location.
Bear Hugs For Babies is an all volunteer,
locally run charity that is now in their second year of helping the tiny
tots of our area. A Wizard of Paws grooming shop is located in the Camelot
Shopping Center, Highway One, Rehoboth Beach.
For more information on the diaper drive or
how you can help, call Bear Hugs For Babies at 302-226-5523 or email BearHugs4Babies@aol.com.
Small Rehoboth Does BIG Dolphin Project
Over the past few months, more than two dozen
Rehoboth area artists have been clandestinely working on 23 six-foot tall
dolphin statues, getting them ready for installation on the boardwalk and in
selected sites in Downtown Rehoboth Beach.
On Tuesday, April 8, the suspense will be
over, as the colorful, creative and personality-filled dolphins will be
ready to greet the public. The kick-off event will take place at 11 a.m. on
the boardwalk in front of the Atlantic Seafood Company at the Atlantic Sands
Hotel.
“Rehoboth Beach is probably the smallest
town to tackle a huge outdoor art project modeled after the Chicago Cow
Parade,” says Main Street Executive Director Fay Jacobs. “The Rehoboth
Art League and Rehoboth Beach Main Street have partnered so that our one
square mile town can follow in the hoof prints of those cows, and
Wilmington’s dinosaurs.”
Main Street and the Art League commissioned
23 six foot statues, made to order by Massachusetts sculptor Edmund Silver.
Local businesses stepped up to sponsor the dolphins at $1500 apiece.
The grey, unadorned acrylic statues were
delivered to the Art League campus just after Thanksgiving and were then
transferred to the artists’ studios. For a small town, Rehoboth has an
extraordinarily large community of artists, many of whom are pitching in to
make this project happen.
Artist Andrew Criss assisted sculptor Silver
with the delivery of the dolphins to the studios. “I’ve seen the
elephants and donkeys in D.C., the pigs in Cincinnati, and the fish in
Baltimore and these sculptures are every bit the same high quality as those
statues,” said Criss. “We’re starting out with a great looking, high
quality product. For a little city, we’re matching a big city effort.”
As in other cities, the sponsorships covered
the cost of the dolphins and were not a fundraising opportunity for the
organization putting together the project. The dolphin display is intended
to serve as an outdoor art project and an attraction for tourists. However,
as in other cities, there will be an auction of the dolphin sculptures next
fall to celebrate the completion of the project and raise money for the
Rehoboth Art League and Main Street.
Sponsors include Abizaks, AerieArt Gallery,
Mark Aguirre for Rehoboth Historical Society, Movies at Midway,
Bellinger’s Jewelers, Blue Moon Restaurant, Alison Bateman at Lingo
Realtor and Bernie Bateman at Boulevard Ford, Laura Simon and Cathin Bishop
for CAMP Rehoboth, Carl Freeman Communities/Village at Bear Trap,
Carlton’s, Delaware National Bank, First Street Station, Richard and Cathy
Miller, The Mizzen Mast, Cathy Davies Harmon at Morgan Stanley, The Pelican
Loft, Prudential Gallo REALTORS, Ram’s Head Tavern, Rehoboth Beach-Dewey
Beach Chamber of Commerce, Rehoboth Toy and Kite Company, The Sea Shell
Shop, the Shops at 33 Baltimore and Sunshine Octopus.
The
artists include Jennifer August, Andrew Criss, Murray Archibald, Prof.
Jinchul Kim and Salisbury U. art students, Julie Baxendell, Rob Dick and
Blue Moon staff, Courtney Bateman, Sondra Arkin, Jean Doran, Gary Fisher,
Delaware National Bank staff, Julie Molyneaux, Patti Shreeve, Wendy Carr,
Linda Walsh, Aina Nergaard-Nammack, Karen Letanoff, Linda Minkowski, Joanne
DeFiore, Deborah Appleby, Marilyn Nugent and Kimberly Donald and Sharon
Meyer. The Delaware Division of the Arts funded part of the project.
|
Back to Top of Page 
