THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008
VOL. 13 NO. 31
News HOMELESS - Woodbridge receives a grant to help students who are homeless or who are in danger of becoming homeless. Page 5 ENTREPRENEURS - Business owners throughout Sussex County attend the first Sussex County Entrepreneurship Conference. Page 6 CROSS COUNTRY - Bike trip across America covers 5,000 miles. Page 8 PAYMENTS - IRS seeks people missing economic stimulus payments and issues warning. Page 9 SAFETY FIRST - David G. Horsey & Sons, Inc. of Laurel wins national safety award. Page 10 OUTREACH - ATV giveaway helps DSP Needy Family project. Page 14 RETURNS - Delaware Electric Cooperative returns $1 million to members. Page 15
Sports ALL-CONFERENCE - See Sports for photos of local all-conference soccer and field hockey players and the list of football players named to the all-conference teams. Coverage begins on page 41. POP WARNER - The Woodbridge and Laurel Junior Pee Wee teams met in the conference semifinals last weekend in Laurel. Page 43 BANQUET - Woodbridge High School honored its Fall sports athletes last week with a banquet. Page 41
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Nanticoke Memorial Hospital pays tribute to philanthropist and former employees By Lynn R. Parks Louise Riddle Hansen had a way with nervous expectant mothers. She knew just the right things to say to calm them down. So said Dr. John Rawlins at the fourth annual Nanticoke Health Services tribute dinner, held Thursday evening at Heritage Shores, Bridgeville. “I know this,” Rawlins added, “because my wife, June, happened to be one of those mothers.” Hansen, 90, went to work in the maternity department at Nanticoke in 1953, the year after the hospital opened. She retired in 1984 and until recently, volunteered at the hospital. She received one of two Nanticoke Founders Awards that were handed out at Thursday night’s dinner. “You don’t know how many babies this lady delivered and some of us doctors got credit for,” Rawlins said. Hansen told the group of about 215 people that she was especially proud of the fact that she founded the hospital’s pastoral care program. “That is one of the things I would like people to remember me for,” she said. Also given a Founders Award was the late William Allen “Skip” Hastings, for whom the Hastings Wing of the hospital is named. Hastings, who died of cancer in 1960 at the age of 50, was instrumental in the formation of Seaford’s First Aid Squad, a forerunner of the hospital. “His final days were spent in the very hospital to which he contributed so much,” said Rex Mears, member and past president of the Nanticoke board of directors. “The contributions he made are still strongly felt today.” “Thank you for remembering the sacrifices we all made in working to bring a medical center to Seaford,” Hastings’ widow, Mary Jane Hastings Miller, said in a statement read by her daughter, Carole Carpenter, Milford. Miller, 95, is a resident of Continued to page four
Nanticoke Health Services recognized several people last week at its annual tribute dinner. Clockwise from top left: Dr. Martin J. Cosgrove, who retired in 2006, was inducted into the Nanticoke Physicians Hall of Fame. Dr. Mario Rosales, a general surgeon who retired in 2000, was also inducted into the hall of fame. Louise Riddle Hansen, who worked as a maternity nurse at the hospital, received a founders award. Bottom, Frank ‘Snubby’ Anderson, center, is given the Charles C. Allen Jr. Leadership in Philanthropy Award by new CEO Steve Rose (left) and president of the board Bob Boyd. Photos by Daniel Richardson