Laurel’s Randy Lee Inducted into the Eastern Shore Baseball HOF

On May 28, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame inducted this year's new members. This yearLaurel's Randy Lee was honored as one of the new inductees. Randy was a draft choice of the Baltimore Orioles in the 1970 amateurdraft. He pitched two seasons in the minorleague system forBluefield, West Virginia, and Aberdeen, South Dakota. Upon returning to Delaware, Lee starred with several fast pitch as well as slow pitch softball teams across Delmarva. He has served his community tirelessly as a 20yeartown councilman and a 50-yearmemberof the Laurel Fire Department, where he is Past Chief. He has also served as a memberof the Town Redevelopment Committee. He is also, active with Centenary United Methodist Church. Randy’s nephew, Brad Lee, is a 2018 inductee of the Hall of Fame. Pictured: Randy Lee accepted into the Eastern Shore Hall of Fame being congratulated by Al Bumbry, the American League 1973 Rookie of the Year, who was a teammate of Lee's at Aberdeen, South Dakota.

- Submitted by Michael Lowe

In March 2023 George Benson and Kevin Keating were contacted by Diane Glenn of DoverPolice with a request forhelp. Kaiden Berge y, a five-yearold from the Doverarea was in A.I. Hospital with a fourth incident of a rare form of brain cancer. Diane asked if we could reach out to the fire service to do something to lift his spirits. George and myself said that we would try and put something together; the date chosen was March 23, 2023. The response from the emergency response community was overwhelming. Not only fire apparatus but medic units, hazmat units, police vehicles, including a large numberof motorcycle officers, and line trucks from Delmarva Power. With support of the Concord Mall the staging area was in the parking lot. In the late afternoon the first to arrive was F-100 from New Castle County Emergency Communications Center. They were followed by DoverPD, DSP, NPD, WPD and NCCPD motorcycles and the DuPont Experimental Station Emergency Response Team, who rolled the house to support this event. In the planning stages it was decided that not only would this be a sign of support forKaiden but forall the patients and also the staff of A.I. Children’s Hospital. “ForThe Kids” as the event was being called was in full effect. It wasn’t long before the parking lot was full of emergency response vehicles of every type.

- Submitted by Kevin Keating