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Dobrich among
essay contest winners
Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey
will be honoring the winners of
the Bar-Bench-Media Conference
essay contest May 6 in the
Supreme Court Chambers in
Dover. For Sussex County, the
winner was Samantha Dobrich of
Sussex Central High School.
The purpose of the Bar-Bench-
Media Conference is to serve as a
forum for the discussion of mat-
ters of concern to media represen-
tatives, the legal profession and
the courts.
The winning essays will be pub-
lished in various local newspapers
and will be posted on the website
of the Conference at
www.courtsdstate.de.us/supreme.
LID students, staff
honored for contributions
Students, faculty and staff at the
University of Delaware Graduate
College of Marine Studies in
Lewes were recognized for their
accomplishments at Honors Day.
Honored for their teaching and
research were John S. Boyer,
E.I.duPont Professor of marine
biochemistry/biophysics; Charles
E. Epifanio, professor of marine
biology/biochemistry; Nancy M.
Targett, professor of marine biolo-
gy/biocbemistry; Timothy E. Tar-
gett, professor of marine biolo-
gy/biochemistry; and Melbourne
R. Carriker, professor emeritus.
Dr. Ann K. Masse, safety, health
and environmental manager of the
DuPont Chambers Works, was the
guest speaker.
Delaware Tech offers
pool operator's course
Learn to properly maintain
swimming pools by taking the
Pool Operator course offered at
Delaware Technical & Communi-
ty College, Owens campus. The
course covers pool maintenance,
supervision, troubleshooting, safe-
ty procedures, and chemical use
and dosages. It meets the Division
of Public Health requirements for
the state of Delaware.
For more information, call 854-
6966; to register, call 855-1617.
Kunzig wins prestigious
Columbia.press award
Rob Kunzig, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Kunzig of Lewes, has
won a prize in the prestigious Co-
lumbia Scholastic Press Associa-
tion Gold Circle Awards. Kunzig,
a junior at the Peddie School, won
a third place award for his story,
"Is George Bush Watching Too
Many Westerns?" He competed
among hundreds of entries from
around the couniry.
"The Peddie News," the month-
ly student newspaper of The Ped-
die School, won five awards over-
all from the Columbia Scholastic
Press Association.
Cell phones will be
allowed in schools
The Cape Henlopen School Dis-
trict's Safety Committee is draft-
ing a new policy that would ban
the use of electronic devises like
cell phones. The current policy
bans the possession of electronic
devises on school property. The
committee also hopes modify con-
sequences for use of electronic de-
vises so that administrators can
not confiscate them. The board of
education agrees with the direc-
tion of the committee, said Super-
intendent Dr. Andrew Branden-
berger.
Cape promises
summer sports busses
The Cape Henlopen Board of
Education has made a commit-
ment to provide transportation
during summer training for fall
athletes. "Some athletes can not
participate because they can not
make it to summer training," said
Superintendent Dr. Andrew Bran-
denberger. "Transportation super-
visor Marge Peck will figure out
which students need transporta-
tion and we will Work out the lo-
gistics."
Epworth Christian to
host spring festival May 3
Epworth Christian School in
Laurel will present its sixth annual
spring festival from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m., Saturday, May 3. An auction
takes center stage at 10 a.m., with
a wide variety of goods and serv-
ices offered.
Children's activities include
rock wall climbing, a police ca-
nine demonstration and the state
police helicopter, which flies in at
1 p.m.
For more information, call 875-
4488.
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Keenote Kids in concert May 2
About 20 members of Keenote Kids and Concert Choir re-
eently performed April 12 at the Lewes Physieal Therapy
Walk/Run. The singers included Whitley Gillespie, Margaux
Lopez, Morgan Kersey, Ashley Glanden and Lauren David of
the Concert Choir. Alexis Grece, Meghan Kersey, Logan Rios,
Holly Anderson, Joseph Anderson, Ryan Wolfe, Daniel Robin-
son, Oriuna Pando, Robin Haeker-Cary, Savanna Strange,
Cassie Herholdt, Sam Herholdt, Mackenzie Firth and Kierian
Fireh represented the Keenote Kids of Keenote Music Studio.
The students will present songs and dances from more than
25 countries in the Music Around the World performance at
the fourth annual Outdoor Spring Concert set for 6:30 p.m.,
Friday, May 2. For more information, call 422-0222.
