The flight restriction
for Biden's visit has been extended through Wednesday although he may leave
on Tuesday.
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19 DAYS UNTIL REHOBOTH BEACH ELECTION DAY!
The four candidates for the two soon-to-be-open Rehoboth Beach commissioner
seats -- Suzanne
Goode, Rachel Macha, Mark
Saunders and Craig
Thier -- attended the Rehoboth Beach
Homeowners' Association candidate forum this past Saturday.
The forum had only six questions covering consensus building with fellow
commissioners, code enforcement, balancing budgets, growth and development,
traffic and parking, and working with existing commissioners. The candidates
did offer opening and closing statements.
You can listen to the entire discussion
here. The video may be posted soon on the RBHA
website. About 150 people attended the forum!
Candidates have been busy attending various other events.
Macha attended a meet-and-greet on Friday at the lovely home of Sonie and
Hoyte Decker. Topics here included the CDP, preservation, community standards,
balancing commercial and residential, supporting the arts community, library,
parking fees and day-trippers, and managing city revenue. She also discussed
her experiences on the planning commission and on Main Street.
For the next two Saturdays through August 3, from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., Macha
is inviting voters to join her for coffee at The
Coffee Mill on Rehoboth Avenue.
Goode is meeting each Monday at 3 p.m. until election day with voters at
the Rehoboth Avenue Starbucks.
Candidate bios/statements are on the RBHA
website. The Rehoboth Beach municipal election will be held on Saturday,
August 10. See additional important info on the city's
website.
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2 CAPE STUDENTS DIE IN FIERY CRASH NEAR LEWES
Two Cape Henlopen High School students died in a horrific crash just before
11:30 p.m. last Monday near Lewes.
The two were riding in a BMW 328 along Gills Neck Road "at an apparent
high rate of speed" when the driver lost control at the sharp curve and
the BMW continued into this residential property where it struck a wall/pillar,
a tree and a metal fence, according to the state
police news release.
After striking the tree, the BMW burst into flames which spread to the house
causing extensive damage. The occupants of the house exited and were not injured.
The driver and passenger died at the scene.
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THINKING OF BRINGING YOUR DOG TO THE REHOBOTH BOARDWALK
OR BEACH? DON'T!
This is "T.A." who was visiting last week from West Falls Church,
Virginia. He became the 34th dog person to receive a fine for bringing his
dog on the beach or boardwalk since May. His four-year-old Chihuahua got him
a $25 ticket around 7:15 p.m. last Tuesday at Grenoble Place.
In June alone, Rehoboth Beach police issued 22 similar dog citations. So
far in July, there have only been 10 written.
"I'm really shocked and it's 99 degrees outside. So walking the dog
on the asphalt is just devastating," T.A. stated. "It's very hard
to breathe. So this is the best place to walk with a dog," he added.
He asked the officer if it would be ok if he carried his dog on the boardwalk
but was told he couldn't do that either. He did say an officer a couple of
100 meters away had warned him. He stated he was going to take his dog to
his car and he was cited as he continued along the boardwalk.
"Next time we will leave her at home," he added.
The police department is caught in the middle of what to do about the dogs
on the beach and boardwalk having to deal with recent resident complaints.
Chief Keith Banks provided this response concerning these ongoing dog
complaints:
In the beginning of this summer season, the Department received a number
of complaints concerning animals to include dogs on the beach and boardwalk,
and dogs off leashes. We always respond to calls for service and attempt to
address concerns brought to our attention, particularly those that are violations
of the law. In doing so, our officers have discretion on how to handle a particular
violation, whether it be a warning or by issuing a citation. When warnings
no longer have the intended effect of gaining compliance with the law, a citation
may be the only way to proceed.
In response to the complaints, we have been utilizing our ATV on the
beach in the early mornings before there are large crowds. We also addressed
the City's southern boundary with groups of people entering the beach at the
end of Prospect Street. Those groups were still in City Limits being north
of Penn Street. We advised them of the boundaries and further explained that
taking dogs onto the beach at Prospect Street would still be a violation even
if they were moving further south. There have been a few complaints from outside
our jurisdiction of people entering private property to go onto the unincorporated
section of beach south of town. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to
handle minor complaints in another agency's jurisdiction without their expressed
request through mutual aid.
At times, it may seem like our officers are not addressing dog violations,
seemingly to pass by a dog and its owner. It is difficult to know without
specifically asking at each instance if that officer may have already spoken
to that owner, only to discover that the dog is a service animal. Even if
an onlooker observes perceived inaction, they may not be aware whether that
officer has been contacted by another officer advising the dog is a service
animal.
I don't want to suggest that animals on the beach and boardwalk are a
complicated issue, but it certainly is nuanced. While the law is clear, there
are many who disagree with the law, still others who disagree with the level
of enforcement, and staunch supporters of the law who believe the issue is
black and white. It is sometimes a balancing act to make sure that we are
enforcing the law, while still creating an environment that is welcoming to
our residents and visitors.
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POLICE TAKE 6 INTO CUSTODY AFTER BRAWL AT BANDSTAND
Shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, just as activity at the bandstand was getting
set up for the evening, a fight broke out at the foot of Rehoboth Avenue.
No word yet from police on exactly what happened, but witnesses said it involved
two groups, one in the car and another who were pedestrians.
The pedestrians supposedly cut in front of the car or did something to provoke
them. That is when words were exchanged and the two groups started fighting
on the roadway. An ambulance was called for one man who was punched in the
face and made his way to the restrooms while bleeding from the nose. He declined
the ambulance.
Police took him and three other men and two women to the police station.
That is where the ambulance returned to examine the injuries of the four men.
None sounded like they had any serious injuries.
This one guy gets a "goodbye kiss" before the police took him to
the station. One bystander said he was defending her from some nasty comments
made by the other guys.
No word yet on any charges.
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GALLERY 50 OPENS "RETROSPECTIVE" BY JONATHAN
SPIVAK
Jonathan Spivak, an artist and colorist, opened his latest show "Retrospective"
at Rehoboth's Gallery 50 this
past Friday.
"Most of my art is a series of paintings that I've cut up and reassembled
and so that most of the paintings you look at are a compilation of individual
pieces, each of which is a separate painting," Spivak explains.
For example, he cut up three or four of his paintings into one-inch squares,
each one is a miniature painting. When he assembles 60 or so of those squares
together, he creates a new painting.
This one he stands before is called "cityscape." It's his rendition
of what the street pattern of the city looks like. The colors represent what
part of the city it is. "My early influences were the Southwest,"
he explains as he opened up a restaurant in Bethany called Sedona and it was
a Southwestern restaurant. "I began to paint some Southwestern art to
hang in my restaurant. I don't own it any longer, but it's still there,"
he added.
Spivak uses liquid acrylics because they mix well together and he finds
them easy to work with using a palette knife. Then he uses a paper-cutter
to cut them up!
Spivak's exhibition runs through August 7.
RAL OPENS 86th MEMBERS' FINE ART EXHIBITION
The Members'
Fine Art Exhibition, which opened this past Friday, is the longest-running
show the Rehoboth Art League has, says Sara Ganter, the league's executive
director. The league has 15 or so new members this year, a big increase from
last year, along with a good variety of work and this is the league's show
with the most awards, she points out.
"This is probably the most popular show of the year. We get a huge turnout
for submissions and then also for the opening, this is a summer favorite,"
she explains. They have work from more than 140 artists this year!
The league gets a lot of works with coastal themes, she says, but this year
they have some good abstract, a few sculptural pieces, and a wider array of
works from both novice artists as well as professional, full-time artists.
Guillermo Silveira's "Look Up" is a self-portrait intended to hang
looking down at you from the ceiling as it was taken of him looking down!
Clever!
Nancy Horan from Lewes says she was heavily influenced by the Impressionist
movement. "But more than anything, I'm driven by finding the unusual
in ordinary things. So a lot of my work has kind of a twist on things you
might not notice or an everyday kind of thing," she explains.
"This is what I was trying to convey with 'taking the plunge,' the idea
of taking a deep dive, taking a dive in the nude, hoping you are not being
seen. So it's not just her swimming down to try to get something from the
coral reef but the idea of metaphorically taking the plunge and whatever it
is you're going to do, right now almost feel the full-water excitement and
adrenaline rush," she says.
Also opening at the league on Friday was "Dreamscapes,"
a solo exhibition of acrylic paintings by W.A.S. Hatch. Hatch says she evolved
from creating prints and etching as a lithographer who taught in the Midwest
for many years. "I wound up in Delaware, and went on to raise a family
and realized the acids, the solvents, were not going to be compatible with
a young family," she points out. But easel painting to watercolor was
her next step. She found that fast, easy, and enjoyable and did that for several
years before finally moving over to the kinds of acrylic paintings she features
in her show.
"This particular show is really an exercise in color for me. I really
liked moving the color up a little bit," she says, mixed with a "little
bit of fantasy imagination. Yeah, and once these skies are painted, that sets
the sequence for everything to follow!"
Both shows run through August 18. The league also opened the Outdoor
Show Artists: A Collections Showcase in the Homestead this past Friday.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
Rehoboth Sunrise by Tim Devine
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OTHER NEWS:
THE MERR REPORT--- Suzanne Thurman from the MERR
Institute says her organization had a deceased Kemps Ridley sea turtle
Friday up at South Bowers. MERR also held its annual dolphin count this past
Saturday, with coverage at 45 sites along the ocean and bay coasts with 150
volunteers. She won't have the numbers until later next week. Early Sunday
morning they tracked a dead dolphin in the surf from Dewey to Rehoboth, but
it washed back out to sea. The next MERR
fundraiser sunset dolphin tour is set for August 11.
CHECK YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS--- Delaware state troopers, among
other agencies on the Delmarva shore, are investigating after bandits removed
hundreds of dollars from accounts at various ATMs early Sunday including Tidemark
in Lewes and Long Neck. Investigators are trying to determine how they were
able to get the machines into a service mode, enter victims' account info
and make a withdrawal. Expect a press release from the police hopefully later
today.
MAN DIES AFTER OFFSHORE SCUBA INCIDENT--- The Coast Guard
is investigating after a death early Sunday morning involving a local charter
boat, the Miss ENE III. Coast Guard Petty Officer Olinda Romero says the vessel
had been in international waters but since it is registered in the United
States, the Coast Guard would lead the investigation. Radio reports suggested
that a man had been scuba diving and was in cardiac arrest when he surfaced.
The Coast Guard brought the Miss ENE III to the Indian River Coast Guard Station
while DNREC brought the victim, a man approximately 50. He was taken to the
hospital where he was pronounced dead. The boat remains at the Coast Guard
station, she says, for the investigation.
