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Chamber Easter Egg Hunt is back to know your neighbors.” Jebaily has ordered 4,000 plastic eggs from Sunny Bunny The Seaford Chamber of Easter Eggs, an online company Commerce will host its third known for employing people annual Easter Egg Hunt on Sat- with disabilities and making urday in Washington Avenue special Easter eggs that are easiPark, which will feature a live er to open. The eggs will be performance by DJ Brian and a filled with small toys rather special visit from than candy because the Easter Bunny. of dietary restricThe event was tions children may created by the have. chamber’s first vice The event will be president, Donna staf fed by volunJebaily, in 2019. It teers from the Seawas intended to be a ford school district, yearly gathering, including students but it had to be canwho will give chilceled in 2020 due to dren temporary tatt h e c o r o n av i r u s DoNNA JEBAIly toos. Jebaily’s chilpandemic, and last First vice president, dren will be among year a socially dis- Seaford Chamber t h e vo l u n t e e r s, tanced egg “givesomething she says of Commerce away” took place. they enjoy doing for “Covid really put a the community. The lot of holds on community hunt will also offer teens the events,” Jebaily said. “No one opportunity to earn community saw each other.” service hours. Looking to get the communiThe eggs will be “hidden” ty involved — and together around the park on the morning again — after the relaxation of of the hunt by the volunteers. Covid regulations, Jebaily has “The Seaford Chamber of been planning the event, once Commerce is happy to bring the again a normal egg hunt, for Easter Egg Hunt back to Seaford months. “We’d like to see every- for the community to enjoy,” one have a good time,” she said, chamber President Margaret “and it’s really important to get Continued on page 7
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SEAFoRD RESIDENT ElMA Hasi has a gaping hole in the back corner of her sinking garage, which formed after a contractor attempted to fix it in 2018.
‘Sinking’ properties are leaving residents in distress By KATE NAlEPINSKI knalepinski@liherald.com
Some Seaford residents are claiming that their homes, garages and sheds are sinking into the ground. Despite spending thousands of dollars on repairs, few have any idea what’s causing the damages. Janet Romeo, who lives on Old Post Road, said she has spent at least $35,000 to repair and raise her home, which she purchased in 1986. She expects that total will only continue to rise, and she has taken out a second mortgage to pay all the bills. Every five years, Romeo and her husband, Frank, pay an engineering company to keep
their house from sinking farther into the ground. The company also installed helical piles to the base of the house for foundational support. Romeo said her family first discovered cracks in the foundation of the home in 1997, when she wanted to put an extension on it. The cracks were hidden behind a storage area for garbage bins. She had the house inspected that year, and found that the basement had severe foundational damage. It was finished with knotty pine paneling, so the cracking had been disguised. “These were pretty big cracks,” Romeo said. “We’re not just talking about cracks the size of Continued on page 3
e’d like to see everyone have a good time.