WEEKEND #5, 2024
(Juneteenth)
June 24, 2024
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
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REHOBOTH POLICE SAFELY TAKEDOWN VIOLENT MAN ON A RANT
Rehoboth Beach police were called to the second block of Olive Avenue around 6:35 p.m. Saturday when this man was heard yelling, cursing and acting irrationally.
Officers tried to get him to leave the area. But he continued his rant and bizarre behavior, at one point charging, spitting and yelling at an officer in a police car as he approached 3rd Street.
Around 7 p.m., he came to the corner of 4th Street and Sussex Street where police had just received another complaint. That is where an officer held him at Taser-point as backup arrived. They had him surrounded.
As he continued his "You the people... You the people..." rant, an officer grabs him and brings him safely to the ground and they place him under arrest.
Kent Anderson recorded this video of the confrontation with police along with the takedown.
Photos/Video courtesy Kent Anderson
Capt. Jaime Riddle said Sunday that the man was later identified as Shawn Q. White, 27, from Cambridge, Maryland. He was charged with resisting arrest with force or violence that intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a peace officer from effecting an arrest; Failure to comply with taking of photos and fingerprints; and Disorderly conduct by fighting or violent tumultuous or threatening behavior.
He says updates on this case will be posted on the RBPD's Facebook this week.
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POLICE: TEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ON BEACH
IN REHOBOTH
Suspect remains at large
Rehoboth Beach police have been tight-lipped about an alleged sex assault involving a teen girl on the beach in the area of Brooklyn Avenue. That is where police started investigating just before midnight Tuesday.
Police posted this news release the following morning on Facebook.
Photo courtesy Richard Tananis
Police will not speculate if a suspect has been identified or even if they know each other.
Officers were seen on Thursday checking with boardwalk businesses for video. Capt. Jaime Riddle said Friday night that the investigation was progressing and he had no new info on Sunday.
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BIDENS RETURN FOR RARE MID-WEEK VISIT
The President and First Lady arrived around 11 p.m. last Tuesday by helicopter at Gordon's Pond.
Coast Guard Cutter Angela McShan anchored in the usual spot off Gordon's Pond. It was an appropriate choice of cutters to assign to the Presidential detail especially on Juneteenth as Angela McShan was the first African-American woman to be promoted to master chief petty officer. Here's the cutter in the early morning fog last Wednesday.
Photo courtesy Richard Tananis
The President departed around 8 p.m. Thursday for Camp David. Oddly, a kite was allowed to fly as the helicopters landed!
Photo courtesy David Koster, portraitsinthesand.com
The First Lady remained in town and attended a fundraiser in the Rehoboth Beach Yacht & Country Club on Saturday evening. She motorcaded to Dover around 1 p.m. on Sunday.
TENT, CANOPY VIOLATIONS PERSIST IN EIGHTH SEASON
The Rehoboth Beach tent and canopy ban is now in its eighth season and continues to be a daily challenge for officials to enforce.
The Rehoboth Beach Patrol ambassador called for the police three times on Saturday to help when beach visitors refused to cooperate.
This couple received visits from the beach ambassador and a police cadet who issued him a $25 citation around noon. But he did not take the canopy down until about an hour later when a full-time officer came. He is from Virginia but was staying at the Boardwalk Plaza and set up his canopy here in front of the hotel.
"What's the difference between this canopy and people behind me that have four umbrellas?" he asked. "You put four umbrellas together, it's actually bigger than this canopy," he pointed out.
He admits they didn't do their "due diligence and read the rules and regulations," but on the other hand, he says the city should get its "priorities straight. They want to prioritize this freaking canopy over an umbrella. Some of these women are walking around with next-to-nothing-on in front of children. Does that make any sense to you? Doesn't make any sense to me! Put your priorities in order," he added.
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REHOBOTH BEACH COMMISSIONERS APPROVE CANDIDATES
The Rehoboth Beach Board of Commissioners approved all five commissioner candidates. Suzanne Goode, Mark Saunders and Craig Thier are running as full-time residents while Joseph Cardinale and Rachel Macha are part-time resident candidates.
This past week, Suzanne Goode says she met with Henry Matlosz, public works director, and continues going door to door. She has an event in formation for July.
Rachel Macha says her signs are already popping up and she expects meet-and-greets to be scheduled after the July 4th holiday weekend.
Saunders says he began putting up signs on Friday and will be scheduling events soon.
OTHER CANDIDATE NEWS...
No new candidate news to report this past week from Joseph Cardinale and Craig Thier.
The voter registration deadline is July 11. More election dates and info is on the city's website.
The Rehoboth Beach Homeowners' Association is hosting a candidate forum on Saturday, July 20, at 10 a.m. at the firehouse on Rehoboth Avenue. This survey is intended to produce questions and topic areas that will be covered in the forum. This survey closes at midnight today!
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CAMP REHOBOTH HOSTS "PRIDE IN THE COURTYARD" EVENT
CAMP Rehoboth hosted a social this past Thursday to bring people together during Pride Month. "This was just a really nice laid-back event and gave everybody the space and the time to connect with each other, especially here in Pride Month and in a location that's really near and dear to the queer community here in Rehoboth," says Dr. Kim Leisey, CAMP Rehoboth's executive director.
She says this could become a yearly event.
Food was donated from Downtown Blues and beer from Dogfish Head. "So all we had to do is provide the venue," she pointed out!
Dr. Leisey is coming up on her first anniversary as executive director of CAMP Rehoboth. "I feel very, very blessed to be here," she added.
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DIORAMA COMES TO REHOBOTH BEACH MUSEUM!
It could become a permanent museum exhibition
The Rehoboth Beach Museum hosted a reception for historian Paul Lovett's diorama, the "Golden Age of Rehoboth Beach," this past Thursday. The diorama is a miniature model of the city from around 1910 when the railroad ran down Rehoboth Avenue.
The railroad, as Lovett explains, is what influenced so much of Rehoboth Beach during that time.
Lovett has done a meticulous job depicting the town during the railroad era. "I became obsessed with studying the history of Rehoboth to the point where I couldn't read anything else. I couldn't read anything else," he told the audience.
He has pictures from many different sources in his files. Between those pictures and insurance maps, which existed from 1910, 1922, and 1933, he says the buildings are accurate down to the shutters!
"The positioning of the buildings on the lots is correct. The buildings, the number of floors in each building is correct. We know the porch arrangement is correct because the insurance map gave me that detail. This is what makes this diorama different than the train exhibits you find at other museums. This is historically very accurate," he explains.
The exhibition will be available for the public to visit through Labor Day and could become permanent. "We're looking forward to a bright future and we're planning a fundraiser for the museum with Mr. Lovett's diorama as its centerpiece," says Dr. Heidi Nasstrom Evans, the museum's executive director. "This vision would install Mr. Lovett's diorama in the downstairs galleries in a permanent museum-quality case with interactive touch screens surrounding the table," she said.
Here is Dr. Evans with Comm. Francis "Bunky" Markert, Lovett, Comm. Patrick Gossett and Taylour Tedder, city manager.
For this season, the diorama will remain on display upstairs through Labor Day. Assuming it becomes a permanent installation in the downstairs galleries, Dr. Evans says the museum will have rotating blockbuster exhibitions upstairs every summer.
On Thursday, July 11, Lovett will present the first of three upcoming talks at the museum. The first is "Lorenzo Dow Martin: Founding of Rehoboth."
This lecture is about the founding of Rehoboth set in the early 1870s when Methodist Episcopalians from Wilmington found a location for their camp meetings on Lorenzo Dow Martin's farm, located on what later became the commercial hub of the City of Rehoboth Beach. That farmhouse, now more than 200 years old -- built with wooden pegs and resting on a foundation of tree trunks -- still stands at 30 Christian Street.
Reservations can be made on the museum's events page. His other two talks are: "Boardwalk Barons and the Takeover of Rehoboth's Government" on Thursday, August 1, and "Rehoboth's Railroad: Servicing Our Town for 85 Years" on Thursday, August 15.
He also has weekly diorama talks which appear on the museum's calendar page.
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BLACK ARTISTS SHINE AT WEST REHOBOTH JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION
Last Wednesday's Juneteenth celebration in West Rehoboth brought many talented African-American artists, artisans and entrepreneurs to the West Side Creative Market, the popular public art destination.
On the top right is Jene Duffy. She's a registered nurse from Milton who during the pandemic started a candle-making business. She makes the candles with 100 percent soy wax and has been trying to perfect her craft since the pandemic. "This is my line. The name is 'Jenesta Candle Co.' and here are my team of workers who helped make this all possible," she says.
Her two daughters and three grandchildren are part of the team. "I always had a fascination with candles. I love candles," she says. Since the pandemic, Duffy continued her candle-making in her spare time for relaxation, trying to make the perfect candle.
Tina Hudson-Beamer from Dover is the owner of Tina's Timeless Threads, a vintage boutique that carries clothing and novelty gifts for men and women mostly from the 50s to the 90s. She does vintage shows and travels to nearby states to source many of her pieces. She had a shop in downtown Dover for four years and a six-month pop-up at the Tanger Outlets. Her career has been in retail management, but vintage clothing is her passion. She also participated in several entrepreneurship programs that gave her the confidence to build her business.
Her customers are people who come to her for that vintage look. Her customers are shopping for an occasion, like a party with a theme from a particular time period. "My wedding was 1920 themes so I had all my guests dressed up in 1920s, and it was amazing," she added.
Maxx Kerr is another young entrepreneur. He started the Walking Angelz clothing brand. Kerr was showing off his handmade and printed tote bag collection for the show."It's a whole bunch of nude colors... gray, cream, army green... and we're working towards starting a different type of apparel when it comes to gym and clothing and socks, hats and in that nature," he said.
A 'Walking Angel', Kerr explains, "is a person who has an extraordinary gift. That means that can be anyone in the world, no matter what you've been through, no matter what you know or had to accomplish, no matter the trials and tribulations that you had to go through. You are a walking angel. You have made it through life. You're still walking. You're still surviving to this day. You're an extraordinary individual in this world."
How did he get the idea for his product line? "Life has been rough," Kerr says. "So at any given time, I had to find my outlook... I grew up in a rough neighborhood, a rough place, so I had to find a different outlook so that I could be different from the rest of the people around me," he says noting that he was raised in the Rehoboth area but grew up in the Harrington-Dover area and is currently in the Millville area.
The cinder block for the mural wall that was struck by the truck the previous week has already been replaced. As of Thursday, state police say no arrest has been made for that case.
Also noteworthy about the new Juneteenth holiday was the traffic congestion reminiscent of Independence Day week!
This was outbound Rehoboth Avenue just after 5 p.m. It was backed all the way up to the bandstand.
Even outbound Columbia Avenue was crawling more than 90 minutes later.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
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OTHER NEWS:
THE MERR REPORT--- Suzanne Thurman from the MERR Institute says her organization investigated a badly decomposed loggerhead sea turtle up at Port Mahon. That was all from last week.
