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OCTOBER 13, 2023
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Ocean View council just says ‘no’ to pot
Volume 20, Issue 41
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By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter After hearing comments from those who want marijuana to be sold in Ocean View — including a resident who suggested banning it was an act of ignorance — the Ocean View Town Council this week not only banned sales, but also the cultivation, manufacturing and testing of marijuana within town limits. At the Tuesday, Oct. 10, meeting, the council also stopped related retail stores and smoking lounges from opening in any zoning districts in town, voting unanimously to amend the code relating to regulations as set out in Chapter 140, Land Use & Development. Before the vote, during the public comments portion of the meeting, Ocean View resident Brian Warnock told council members he hoped they hadn’t already made up their minds about how they were going to vote and See POT page 3
Public comment open on wind farms off the coast of Delaware By Mike Smith Staff Reporter The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) recently released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for offshore wind farm projects. The report evaluates several scenarios for future projects, including “no action” or disapproval of the projects, “proposed action,” or to approve U.S. Wind’s Skipjack project plans according to the company’s recommended approach and several alternate approaches that were conceived during the public scope-of-work process last year. BOEM will open a 45-day public comment period on Friday, Oct. 13, that will include four public meetings in the second half of October. It is an opporSee COMMENTS page 4
Coastal Point • Kerin Magill
Carlie Carey plays with son Arlo during a break in a speech therapy session in their home.
Local family shares journey following birth of son with Down syndrome By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter It’s 8 a.m. on a Thursday morning, and 6-month-old Arlo Carey is getting ready for speech therapy. Well, he’s having a bottle — which is perfect, because for Arlo, who has Down syndrome, feeding is a big part of speech therapy. At least, for now. As he eats, his mom, Carlie Carey, chats with speech therapist Sarah Walker, who tells Carlie that Arlo is ready to start trying solid food. The two discuss what foods they’ll try and how many “exposures” it takes before determining whether a food is a yes or no for a particular baby. (It’s 10, by the way). Walker tells Carlie they want to concentrate on having Arlo “pull the food off of the spoon,” rather than scraping the spoon on the top of his lips. “I would like him to get used to moving the food in his mouth and working on that downward pressure on the tongue so he learns how to clear food from the spoon,”
Walker says. Once he’s finished with his bottle, he gets some floor time with Walker, who crouches down there with him, almost at eye level. Even at his young age, Arlo has begun to imitate simple mouth movements, which he demonstrates when Walker makes “kissing” noises and he does his best to do the same. Then Walker, who works for Sunny Days Early Intervention — a contractor for the state’s Birth to Three program — plays “peek-a-boo” with Arlo, using a small cloth to cover his face. She pulls it off his face and puts it back on, saying “Where’s Arlo?” each time. Eventually, she says, she will move the game to a new level, encouraging him to remove the cloth by himself, and having his “mama” and “dada” be on the other side of it from time to time. Walker uses some sign language, moving his hands to the correct positions for simple words like “da-da” — which she immediately begins to say and sign when Arlo’s dad, Scott Carey, walks into the room. Arlo doesn’t have any hearing problems, but sign language is often used to help children with speech delays, which are common for children with Down syndrome. Even See JOURNEY page 2