Coastal Point • RUSLANA LAMBERT Maryanna Price, from Hereford, Md., displays her talents on the Bethany Beach boardwalk on Monday, Aug. 1.

Coastal Point ViewPoint 2005.08.05

Hold on a sec
A hectic hurricane season in Florida has delayed until September the start of Fenwick Island’s beach replenishment project.s

Bethany discusses character
The Bethany Beach Planning Commission met with area developers and architects Wednesday, Aug. 3, to discuss the options for enforcing design guidelines that would help maintain the character of the town.

South Bethany considers Artesian-Verizon deal
South Bethany Town Council considered an agreement between Artesian (water) and Verizon (telephone) that could bring in some extra rent money for the town, at a July 28 workshop.

Ocean View accepts police station plans
It was a night for the Citizens Auxiliary Patrol (CAP), and to review plans for a soon-to-be 15,000 square foot police station, at the Aug. 2 Ocean View Town Council meeting.

County wrangles road responsibility
Sussex County Council pointed out Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) shortcomings at the Aug. 2 council meeting, as County Administrator Bob Stickels prepares to add his requests to DelDOT’s Five-Year Capital Transportation Improvement Program.

Selbyville moves to improve water and sewer
After a public hearing Monday, Aug. 1, the Selbyville Town Council approved a resolution to proceed with plans to borrow more than $2 million for improvements to the town’s water and sewer distribution systems.

Carper talks health care costs at chamber
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) stopped by the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 1, for a mixed bag discussion ranging from transportation to health care.

Frankford water woes continue: 'terrible'
Frankford Town Council reported less than stellar service from the town’s venerable water plant and pressure from a private utility at the Aug. 1 council meeting.

Fenwick jumps into live music
At a special meeting Wednesday, the Fenwick Town Council approved an exception to its noise ordinance that will allow live jazz in a local commercial center.

Music moves area youth in different ways
By coincidence, when television’s Dr. Phil wanted to devote his Christmas 2003 show to the advantages of kids learning to play the guitar, 11-year old Kiki Freebery of Wilmington, was pestering her mother, Jodi, to switch from piano to guitar. Invited to be on the show and impressed with Dr. Phil’s evidence that learning the guitar both increases kid’s grades and enhances socialization skills, Mrs. Freebery allowed Kiki to accept the guitar that Dr Phil gave her (and indeed all members of the Show’s audience). When they got home, Freebery arranged lessons for her daughter and registered her in Mr. Hetfield’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Summer Camp in Rehoboth Beach.

Environmentalists canvass Bethany Beach
Pedestrians in downtown Bethany Beach on July 29 may have stumbled through a handful of clipboard-wielding environmentalists en route the boardwalk. Most folks breezed by, but for anyone who later entertained second thoughts, these young Environmental Action members were trying to raise public awareness regarding a plan to reduce air pollution known as the “Clear Skies Initiative” — specifically, why they thought the Clear Skies Initiative didn’t do enough to reduce mercury emissions.

Bethany Beach is getting the 'Blues'
If one is riding down Route 1 with the windows down, there is a chance of catching a whiff of what seems to be barbeque. And chances are the smell is coming from Bethany Blues.

Frankford adopts 2006 budget
Frankford Town Council President Robert Daisey presented a $366,300 operating budget for the coming year showing considerable line item adjustments, and a nearly 10 percent bottom line increase in expenditures since fiscal 2005, at a budget hearing on Aug. 1.

The daytripper: Snow Hill
Our trip this time will take us south into Maryland to the town of Snow Hill, located on the Pocomoke River. We will head inland (see “How Do We Get There” for detailed driving directions) this time and go through rural Delaware, which is quite different from the crowded areas along the shore. This is a nice change and an opportunity to see the countryside as you drive through green fields of soybeans, corn, and herds of plump grazing cattle.

Family starts with buoys and adds the rest
Hugh “Hughie” McBride has had a fair amount of ideas over the years. Back in 1989, perhaps wanting to disprove his wife Tina’s remonstration that he never did anything with those ideas — he did something.

Beautifying Bethany
The colorful arrangements of palm trees, desert petunias, crape myrtles and cannas that greet visitors in the heart of Bethany Beach are the brainchild of Chantal Douchard, supervisor of the town’s horticulure department.

Colored by the sun
The recent heat has taken its toll on the garden. Many flowering plants just give up completely in the kind of temperatures we’ve seen lately. This is why you have to love a plant that reaches its peak in the dog days of summer.

Lower Sussex takes state
“Coach [Conover] asked me if I wanted to bunt or drive it, and I told him I could hit it to the outfield,” said Lower Sussex Junior League third baseman Cory Showalter following the team’s dramatic 3-2 win over M.O.T. (Middletown-Odessa-Townsend) for the Delaware State Championship on Aug. 1.

Local Legion stars shine
With so many players to shuffle in and out in an all-star game playing time can be scarce, so a player must make the best of their limited opportunity, and that’s precisely what Post 28’s representatives did when they traveled up to New Castle on July 31 to take part in the American Legion All-Star game at Wilson Field.

VFW comes back for 10-9 win
One would think that playing softball at 10 a.m. would be cooler than in the afternoon, but on Aug. 2, the Wells Fargo squad squared up against the Veterans of Foreign Wars 55-and-over team in steamy 90 degree and rising temperatures for an Old Tymers Softball game.

Fencing comes to Bethany Beach
En Garde!

In English, that translates to “On guard” — a popular term heard in sword fights and duels in the movies. In the sport of fencing, however, it is the position that the fencers are to be in when they are ready to begin fencing.

Sharks attack opponents in second year
In only two years of existence, the Sea Colony Sharks swim team placed 11th overall and first in their division in the Delmarva Swimming Championship, at the Mid-Shore YMCA in Salisbury, Md. on July 30.