WEEKEND #15, 2024
(Labor Day Weekend)
September 3, 2024
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
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BIDENS ENJOY A WEEK AT THE BEACH
President Joe Biden and the First Lady spent eight nights together at the
Biden beach house in North Shores. He
departed via Marine One on Labor Day morning. Other than visits to the
beach last Wednesday and Saturday, the only time the President was seen in
public was here at Saint Edmond for mass. There were no bike trips for him
during this visit.
A larger-than-usual crowd greeted the President when he arrived
and departed the church. The historical
significance of the President's final few months of his term and the role
that Rehoboth Beach played can't easily be overlooked.
He spent more than two hours on the beach in North Shores on both Wednesday
and Saturday. The Biden's usual spot is at the far north edge of North Shores
just south of the Gordons Pond area of the Cape Henlopen State Park.
The President and his entourage arrived on the beach around 3 p.m. on Wednesday
and spent about two hours and 15 minutes on the beach. Here's 22
minutes of video from that 2+ hours!
President Biden joined the First Lady and two of her sisters. Senior adviser
Anthony Bernal later sat with them as well. The President talked on the cell
phone while reviewing some papers.
Secret Service agents would stop and screen anybody walking along the surf.
While they did not want to admit the President was sitting "right over
there," they warned people they could travel through but not stop or
approach him.
This woman had already been sitting on the beach with him and was one of
the few who got a selfie!
Crystal Ryan who comes from Mechanicville, New York, said she came here for
a week's vacation for the first time. She added that she "never would
have expected to see the President, but after all, I was in his backyard,
I guess. I didn't know he had a house here." She took this photo as she
walked along the surf!
The press pool reported that the First Lady was joined by two of her four
sisters.
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Counter-snipers were on the lookout.
Coast Guard Cutter Richard Snyder and a 26-foot patrol boat, 26294, covered
the surf.
That's as far as the press pool was allowed and not for long.
The national and even international media loved the presidential beach visits.
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FORT MILES REMEMBERS VJ DAY
The 8th Annual VJ Day Ceremony at Fort Miles honored veterans and their families
and remembered the official end of World War II.
It's not often that Labor Day and VJ Day end up on the same date as they
did this year. It brought a crowd of a couple of hundred visitors. This was
an appropriate venue to remember VJ
Day, at Fort Miles adjacent to Barrel 371, one of the 16-inch guns that
was mounted on the U.S.S. Missouri near the table where the Japanese delegation
signed the surrender documents on September 2, 1945, officially ending the
war. Lani Spahr, an Air Force veteran, is seen here playing the bagpipes.
"Estimates of the total number of people who died in World War II range
from 50 to 85 million, which is about three percent of the world's population
at the time, says Will Short, the master of ceremonies. "This makes World
War II the deadliest conflict in human history," he pointed out.
Most deaths were a direct result of military engagement, Short explained,
but many died from war-related disease and starvation. United States casualties
included 419,400 civilian and military personnel killed in action and another
671,801 wounded. That's more than a million casualties suffered by just the
United States.
"I want people to remember the Delawareans who made the ultimate sacrifice
to preserve freedom during World War II, without any question, they went out
and put it all on the line," Short says, "... and I want people
to appreciate the cost of war and realize that we should do everything we
can to preserve the peace. To do that sometimes requires demonstrating to
the world that we are prepared for war."
The ceremony, Short said, was also a tribute to these two surviving World
War II Delaware veterans, 99-year-old John Reichert and 100-year-old George
McCarthy!
Reichert, pictured on the left, who served as an aviation machinist flight
engineer, is the oldest living crew member of the oldest continuously operating
patrol squadron in the Navy. He lives now in Bay Vista.
Reichert says we have to make sure this "doesn't happen again. We don't
have to go through this mess and lose all these wonderful people." He
credits his long life to his wonderful family, healthy living and eating including
the daily oatmeal made for him by his wife!
"I don't know how God spared me this long way around. I'm very fortunate,"
says McCarthy who was a sergeant in the Army Air Corps and now lives with
family in Lewes.
Mason Fyock played the trumpet wearing the same Army uniform his great-grandfather
wore in World War II. He is an avid World War II Army buff and participates
with the coastal artillery re-enactors.
The ceremony also honored the 774 Delawareans who died in World War II with
the tolling of the bell as their names were read. About 50 of them are being
honored during each year's memorial service.
The ceremony was followed by a flyover of this actual
1944 B-25 bomber which had been delayed because of the President's departure.
Here's
video of the speech Gen. Douglas MacArthur delivered on that date in 1945
before the signing of the surrender documents.
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TRUMP BOATERS RALLY AT RUSTY RUDDER
"It was a phenomenal event, with well over 250 patriots who waved flags,
danced to music and just enjoyed the beautiful day," says Matthew T.
Degli Obizzi, one of the participants in this past Saturday's Trump
boat rally at the Rudder dock.
He estimated they had more than 75 boats participating.
"It's the last big weekend of the summer and we want to thank everyone
for attending this rally for a guy who is just trying to keep America great,"
he added.
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DON'T DRINK IN PUBLIC IN REHOBOTH BEACH!
And year-to-date crime stats
Rehoboth Beach does not tolerate drinking in public and that is the message
the city has sent this past summer.
Around 5 p.m. last Tuesday, the woman on the bottom left became one of the
nearly 200 people cited by police this year for open containers of alcohol
in public, glass containers on the beach (typically alcohol), alcohol on the
beach/boardwalk or underage consumption.
Here are the totals but these numbers do not include additional citations
from Labor Day Weekend.
Open containers of alcohol - 154
Alcohol on the beach/boardwalk - 7
Glass containers on the beach - 26
Minors/juveniles with alcohol - 9
Capt. Jaime Riddle also provided these year-to-date stats for serious crimes
in Rehoboth.
Murder - 0
Rape - 1
Robbery - 2
Vehicle Theft - 1
Carjacking - 0
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ROTARY CLUB UNVEILS AEDs FOR REHOBOTH!
As planned, the Rotary Club presented the lifesaving automated
external defibrillators (AEDs) at the Rehoboth Beach Bandstand this past
Wednesday.
They are available along the boardwalk at the pavilions on Maryland and Laurel
Avenues, at the Delaware Avenue info booth and at the restrooms near the bandstand.
A fifth AED will be placed at the new RBP headquarters when it is completed.
Lisa Grossman said she had seen them in past years on the boardwalk in Ocean
City and at the Cape May-Lewes Ferry. "We need those in Rehoboth and
this was a vision and a dream before I even became a member of the Rotary
Club," she said. She received the needed support through her volunteer
work with the Bayhealth Kent Campus Junior Board, where she had previously
gotten AEDs donated for parks in Dover and for a daycare center.
Shown are Benjamin Collins from Bayhealth along with Ryan McCoy of the Long
Neck Rotary Club, Brendan Crotty of the Southern Sussex Rotary Club, Lisa
Grossman of the Rehoboth Beach Sunrise Rotary Club where she is the president,
and her husband, Steve Grossman, Area 40-41 Assistant Gov District 7630.
"Heart disease, cardiovascular disease has a big impact on my life,"
Grossman adds, "because my mother passed away from it, and her father
passed away from it, and her brother passed away from it. So I just want to
help people and show that you know the community cares."
Larry Majchrzak from Heart to Beat,
who installed the units, said accompanying each AED are various size gloves,
CPR masks and trauma shears, a pediatric and two adult electrode kits. Opening
the units does not automatically call 9-1-1 so that still must be done for
such an emergency.
THIS IS THE LAST WEEKEND UPDATE
FOR 2024!
Thank you for the photos, tips and stories that kept
me reporting this summer. Thanks also to our regular photographer friends,
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Please forgive me as I missed a few emails and "photos
of the week." I feel a bit overwhelmed these days.
As for continuing this report next summer, I have not
decided. I might take the summer off and travel the world before I get too
old. Or maybe I will just stay here and play tourist. So please don't worry
if you don't hear from me in 2025.
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NEPENTHE GALLERY POPS UP IN REHOBOTH'S LINGO'S MARKET!
The owners of the Nepenthe Gallery,
a well-known Alexandria, Va. fine art gallery, have opened a "pop-up"
gallery for September in the old Lingo's Market on the corner of 1st Street
and Baltimore Avenue.
Carrie Garland, who owns the gallery with her husband, Jim, said they "talked
to Dinah Lingo and asked if we could pop up here with a collection of original
works by a famous Brazilian artist named Romero
Britto. We're going to have this exciting collection of works by Romero,
who's a globally known, phenomenal artist. That was the inspiration to hit
the road and get his works into different communities throughout the month,"
she says. They will be including works from a few other artists as well.
Here's Jim and Carrie Garland with Dinah Lingo at this past Sunday's opening!
In the spirit of pop-up, she says they plan to let it "twist and turn
a little bit organically... So we're going to keep it fresh so that if people
wanted to stop by throughout the month, they would see something different."
Their goal is to be open every day in September from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with
a weekly "Happy Hump Day Happy Hour" every Wednesday from 4 to 6
p.m.
"They love art, but they love Lingo's," Garland explains. "So
I think seeing colorful art in this space is making people feel good and that's
what art does right and in its best form," she adds.
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JUSTYN FOTH OPENS AT ELEGANT SLUMMING
Justyn Foth is an artist and a migratory bird biologist who has always loved
birds. He works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and was the state game
bird biologist for Delaware.
He started this art while working on his PhD dissertation in wildlife habitat
management at Mississippi State University to help him "get out of his
headspace." His show opened this past Friday at Elegant Slumming.
Each piece is made from reclaimed and re-purposed materials. "All of
my birds are made out of paper, and then I detail them with paint, and in
the background, after I've ripped all the colors out of a magazine, I'm left
with the text and I use conservation magazines, so there's a conservation
message throughout the background as it is all paper, even for the canvas,"
he points out.
He searches through the magazines first to source the colors he needs. Then
he starts at the tail to get the feathers to all lay correctly. "You
build the bird in reverse and you end in the bill and then I go back through
and touch-up with paint any places where the paper didn't rip correctly, or
the color's a little off, or I just ripped a color that was a base color,"
he explains.
He has some 30 pieces in this show, all birds except for a pair of whales
he did "just as something fun and different."
Foth's exhibition will be on display at Elegant
Slumming in downtown Rehoboth Beach through September 30.
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JUDITY JUDY "VISIONS OF NATURE" OPENS AT
GALLERY 50
Judith Judy's work is consistently landscape and most of the images come
from her imagination. This show, which opened last Friday at Gallery 50, consists
of all oil-on-board pieces.
She says she is heavily influenced having lived in the mid-Atlantic region
most of her life. The Chesapeake Bay and the back bays here and near the ocean
have all had a significant impact on her work.
Judy describes her style as "a little abstracted landscape" with
some being more realistic-looking than others. Those with the trees and the
drippy roots are purely "fantastical" works, she says, none are
based on an actual place.
Her work will be on display through September 25 at Gallery
50 in downtown Rehoboth Beach.
NEW SONG PAYS TRIBUTE TO DEWEY BEACH
The Drunken Crabs is a group of musicians who came together to create this
catchy tune,
Summertime in Dewey Beach, that pays homage to the popular beach town!
"This is just a single I put out because I love the town," says
Rev. Robert 'Boots' DiGiacomo who has been a Dewey Beach regular since 1989.
Digiacomo, who had a store in Dewey which is now only
online, is also a reverend,
a nondenominational ordained minister.
He's been singing his entire life in bands from Delaware including Mother
Nature's Blacklight Rainbow, Hellbomber and now, Blood Law. Digiacomo has
produced a few albums over the years but in a different genre than this song.
Digiacomo (shown singing, bottom right) and Michael Protokowicz (standing
on guitar, bottom left) wrote the song and then tapped bass player Christopher
'Soup' Campbell (sitting on base, bottom left) and drummer Jeremy Green (top
right) from Blood Law, their present group, to join the project.
"They wrote their own parts so I feel like all four of us wrote the
song together," he explains. The album was recorded at Sletner Sound
Studio in Wilmington. "The song is available everywhere, anywhere you
stream music and you can also use it on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat
behind your pictures or videos of the good times you have in Dewey Beach,"
Digiacomo points out.
"With this song," he says, "just trying to get some streams.
Hopefully, it will be the go-to summertime song in Dewey! There's a few of
the awesome cover bands and acoustic acts that are covering it around town
and in Wilmington. I'm trying to get all the bars and restaurants and stores
in Dewey to play it, like it and add it on their playlists so it comes on
randomly while they're open."
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OTHER NEWS:
THE MERR REPORT--- Suzanne Thurman from the MERR
Institute says her organization investigated a dead loggerhead sea turtle
at Kitts Hummock and a dead seal at Slaughter Beach. The seal was badly decomposed
so they could not determine much info, she said. The turtle was an apparent
boat-strike victim.
TROOPERS INVESTIGATING CIRCUIT-BREAKER THEFTS--- Delaware
State Police are investigating thefts of electrical circuit breakers from
homes under construction in the Smyrna and Dover area in Kent County and in
the Lewes and Millsboro area in Sussex County. Currently, Cpl. Lewis Briggs
says, "we don't have any information to share. We are asking anyone with
information in Kent County to please call Detective K. Adkins at Troop 3 at
302-697-4454. In Sussex County please call Detective J. Mitchell at Troop
4 at 302-856-5850." Also, please report any other suspicious activity
by calling 9-1-1, he says.
WOMAN ON SCOOTER SERIOUSLY INJURED IN CRASH OUTSIDE LEWES---
A woman riding a scooter suffered a serious head injury when she collided
with a Tesla Model Y on southbound Coastal Highway at the entrance to Home
Depot near Lewes around 3:35 p.m. last Wednesday. She was later flown to a
trauma center.
BETHANY LIFEGUARDS RESUSCITATE MAN AFTER SUSPECTED NECK INJURY---
Capt. Joseph Donnelly of the Bethany Beach Patrol says lifeguards rescued
and removed a man with a suspected spinal injury that occurred in the surf
around 1 p.m. this past Saturday. "The patient was responsive at first,
but we lost pulses/breathing while assessing his condition," Capt. Donnelly
says. Lifeguards performed CPR and he said early Saturday evening that "we
are happy to report that he was breathing and had pulses when we took the
patient off the beach to the ambulance." He was then flown to a trauma
center.
