Who Won at the Film Festival?
Once again, the Rehoboth Beach Film Society put on a fantastic festival. The festival, held over the Veteran’s holiday weekend, weathered the Nor’easter of the decade and was a huge success:
Best Debut Feature
First place: Skin
Second place: Necessities of Life
Third place: The Burning Plain
Best Documentary
First place: Out in the Silence
Second place: Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement
Third place: Herb and Dorothy
Best Short
First place: Toyland
Second place: Our Wonderful Nature
Third place: Western Spaghetti
Best Feature
First place: Departures
Second place: Marcello Marcello
Third place: Patrik, Age 1.5
Christmas at CAMP Is for the Kids
There’s a Snowman in Your Future
The Delaware HIV Consortium is selling holiday ornaments. This year’s design features a whimsical snowman with a jaunty top hat and a red scarf—a scarf that looks like the red ribbon for HIV/AIDS awareness. You can see it on page 80 of this issue of Letters from CAMP Rehoboth. Be careful, however, because once you see it, you’ll fall in love with it!
The ornament is priced at only $20, and it comes in an attractive gift box. It makes for a great hostess gift, a thoughtful remembrance for your family and friends...or a gift for yourself!
Supplies are limited, so call 302-227-5620 or stop by CAMP Rehoboth at 37 Baltimore Avenue today to buy yours!
Grief Group Begins at CAMP Rehoboth
CAMP Rehoboth will be offering an LGBT Grief Group this winter. The group will focus on LGBT individuals dealing with grief and loss in life and relationship in a safe environment for LGBT women and men to share in healthy grieving and healing.
The group will take place on Tuesdays starting January 19 through Feb 23 from 5-6:30 p.m. at CAMP Rehoboth. Sally Packard, LCSW, will be facilitating the group. To register, call 302-227-5620.
Candlelight Walk and Service in RB
The World AIDS Day activities on Dec. 1 starts with a candlelight walk at the Rehoboth bandstand and ends with a service at All Saints’ Church on Olive Avenue.
High Bidders Jazz It Up with Dave Koz
Saxaphonist Dave Koz (center) is pictured with Mark Roush and Dave Banick. They were high bidders at Sundance 2009 for a meet and greet with the openly gay musician.
VideOpera Artists at CAMP Center
Anita Peghini-Raber and Guillermo Silveira collaborated on Wild Vernissage —a VideOpera—premiering as a benefit for the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center on Saturday, November 21.
Bruce Pfeufer Dresses for CAMP
Bruce Pfeufer, a great supporter of CAMP Rehoboth, outdid himself once again raising nearly $8,500 with his annual Halloween Costume Party. This year’s event, held at the Rehoboth Beach Theatre of the Arts, presented an opportunity for friends to dig deep into their drag closets and pull out wigs, dresses, and boas before heading out to the party. More photos can be found in CAMPshots later in this issue.
Starburst Gayla New Year’s Eve Women’s Dance
Starburst Gayla—Dinner and Dance Tickets: $95; Dance Only (9 p.m.-1 a.m.) Tickets: $50—is December 31 at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center.
Dinner is by Nourish with music by Viki Dee starting the evening. Dancing continues with DJ Peggy Castle throughout the night. An open bar makes it a great evening. See page 8 for details.
Bryan Hecksher Sets Out to Be Biggest Loser
Local auto dealer, Bryan Hecksher (second from left), set a goal to lose 70 pounds by the new year. Hecksher, who weighed 408 at the end of October, plans to be fit enough to take a kayak trip down the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal by next summer. Bryan is pictured with supporters Mark Schmidt, Jason Rock, and Mark Noble.