THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008
VOL. 13 NO. 25
50 cents
NEWS HEADLINES
Apple Scrapple 17-22 BUSINESS - The Seaford Chamber of Commerce announces the Business Person of the Year. Page 3 ORDINANCES - The Bridgeville Commission passes a permit renewal fee and takes steps to control peddling. Page 5 VETERANS - The final in the series on World War II veterans profiles John D. Hill. Page 8 ENTERTAINMENT - The Concert Association is starting the season with Pavlo, a dynamic composer, guitarist and singer. Page 32 HEALTH - The 2008 Nemours Conference on Child Health Promotion is coming. Here's why we should care. Page 52 POLICE - Another bicyclist dies in an accident in western Sussex County and a robbery suspect is arrested. Page 59
Sports FIRST WIN - The Seaford varsity football team earned its first win of the season with a one point victory over Lake Forest last Friday. Page 45 STARS OF THE WEEK - A Seaford boys’ soccer player and a Woodbridge field hockey player are this week’s Seaford Stars of the Week. Page 47
INSIDE THE STAR BUSINESS BULLETIN BOARD CHURCH CLASSIFIEDS EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT FINAL WORD FRANK CALIO GOURMET HEALTH LETTERS LYNN PARKS
6 23-26 28 34-43 10 32 63 58 33 52-55 56 16
©
MOVIES 7 OBITUARIES 29 62 OPINION PAT MURPHY 27 PEOPLE 44 POLICE JOURNAL 59 PUZZLES 26 SPORTS 45-51 TIDES 7 TODD CROFFORD 57 TONY WINDSOR 58 VETERANS OF WWII 8
At the Oct. 1 ground-breaking ceremony for the new Seaford Library and Cultural Center, board members, local and state dignitaries and contractors line up to turn over the sod. From left are board members Amy Russell, Edie Villasenor and Rose Adams; Seaford Mayor Ed Butler; Delaware Secretary of State Harriet Windsor; State Representative Danny Short; major contributor Warren Allen; board member Newton Crouse; board president Mary Ellen Torkelson; Acting Library Director Alisa Parker; Regional Builder's Don Dashiell; NASON construction manager Craig Hawkins; and Studio JAED architect James Nelson.
After seven years of planning, Seaford Library breaks ground By Lynn R. Parks After seven years in the planning, work on a new Seaford library is underway. Ground was broken last week for the 18,000 square foot Seaford Library and Cultural Center next to the Ross Plantation on the north edge of town. The facility will replace the current 7,000 square foot library on Porter Street. Construction is expected to be completed next fall. “This is what happens when the community all pulls together,” Mayor Ed Butler said at a groundbreaking last Wednesday, attended by about 40 people. “When we all work together, we can accomplish a lot.” Construction of the new facility will
cost $4.8 million, half of which will be paid by the state. The library board and a campaign steering committee are working to raise the remaining $2.4 million, as well as an additional $1.8 million to pay for furniture and equipment for the new building and for operations. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony, steering committee chairwoman Betty Wilbanks credited state Sen. Robert Venables and state Rep. Daniel Short for making sure that funding for construction was included in this year’s state bond bill. The Seaford District Library was notified in May that the matching grant that it had been promised would have to be eliminated from the budget due to an income shortfall.
“If Sen. Venables had not fought for us, we would not be here today,” said Kay Wheatley, a member of the campaign steering committee. Short “encourage the Bond Bill committee to support the library and to restore our funding,” added steering committee member Carol Sapna. “That was not a little feat.” In turn, Short gave credit to the members of the library campaign steering committee. “The accolades belong to these folks,” he said. “They came to Dover and gave us the figures that we needed to plead their case. I’m happy that the state came on board.” Honorary chairman of the fundraising campaign is Seaford resident Warren Allen of Allen Foods. He and his Continued to page four