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lation for a few acres to hold in re-
serve for more parking nearby.
Any delay in acquiring the neces-
sary parking space due to procras-
tination will steadily add to the
cost.
The beach belongs to us, the
residents, and I ask what good is
our beach if we cannot park near-
by?
One only has to consider the
dilemma of Marco Island resi-
dents who are separated from their
beach by wall-to-wall hotels.
Their beach is inaccessible. Even
any property owners who seldom
use the beach may keep in mind
that an accessible beach serving
residents is a major, non-replace-
able asset.
Henry C. Meier
Lewes
Lewes British Motorcar
Show a bloody success
The success of last weekend's
British 'invasion,' also known as
the British Motorcar Show spon-
sored by the Lewes Chamber of
Commerce, would not have been
possible without the generosity of
the following volunteers and
sponsors:
The City of Lewes for the use of
Block House Pond Park and May-
or Smith for escorting the Win-
ner's Circle parade; Roadster's
Restaurant for sponsoring the pa-
rade and silent auction gift certifi-
cate; Cape May-Lewes Ferry
Trolley for transporting attendees
to and from Second Street; Clown
mobile - Happy-Go-Lucky (a.k.a.
Nancy and Charlie Joseph) for
participating in the parade; B.J.
Larsen for the sound system and
music at Second Street; Mellon
Bank for the Parade podium loca-
tion; George Elliot for transport-
ing the podium; British Car Club
of Delaware for promotion and its
members Ed Barlow, Jerry Hirst,
Mike Greico, Carl Kaminski,
Frank Porter, and Henriette Fones
for their help throughout the day;
Louise and Jim Huebler for their
help at the admissions gate; Con-
fidential Services for supplying
walkie-talkies; our vendors - The
Union Jack, The Manor at Cool
Spring, Lavender Farm, St.
George A.M.E Church, and the
Lewes Lions Club; Bailey Lester
for assistance with the pai'ade;
Dennis Forney for co-hosting the
parade; Tony Boyd-Heron for co-
emceeing the parade and framing
Barefootin'
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Samuel Davidson married Ellen
Coulter, whose family founded
Coolspring presbyterian Church
in the ear!y 1700s. They had a son
who they named Jotm Wesley
Davidson who married Leah Rod-
ney Green.
John and Leah had a son in
1852 who they named George
Paynter White Davidson. That
May 30- June 5, 1997
the awards; and British Wire
Wheel and Sanford Hazzard of
Big A Auto Parts for donating car
registration prizes.
Special thanks to the car show
committee who worked from the
beginning: Mark Mastin, Jerry
Scott, Dave Hudson, Mickey Ves-
sels, Lou Braithwaite and Trenny
Elliott.
It was great to see so many local
British car owners participate this
year.
We thank them for making our
second "The British Are Com-
ing...Again!" Motor Car Show a
successful event.
Mike Tyler
British Car Show Chairman
Betsy Reamer
Executive Director
Lewes Chamber
of Commerce
Thanks for Buddy r
Poppy support
I personally would like to thank
the Cape Gazette for printing my
letter on our annual Poppy Drive.
On behalf of VFW Post #7447
and the Ladies Auxiliary, we
would like to recognize the mem-
bers of the business community
that made our Poppy Drive a suc-
cess:
The Lamp Post Restaurant,
Frogg Pond, Super Fresh, Roses,
K-Mart, The Outlets, Food Lion
and Ames.
A special thanks goes to the
members of the JROTC from
Cape Henlopen High School who
stood out there with us.
Last, but not least, we would
like to thank all the residents of
Sussex County who donated their
money to a very worthy cause,
knowing that without our veter-
ans, we wouldn't have the free-
doms we have in our country.
God bless you all.
Dottie Ahem
Ladies Auxiliary
VFW Post #7447
Delaware Music School
thanks supporters
Thanks to nearly 300 southern
Delaware corporations, business-
es, private supporters, Delaware
Music School (DMS) faculty, stu-
dent-families .and volunteers, the
Delaware Music School raised
$9,000 May 17, during its annual
Performathon at the Milford Hos-
pital Fair.
That's over $2,000 more than in
any of the previous five years of
this event. Another first is that stu-
dent pledges totaled more than
business contributions!
This funding allows the music
was the same year that Prudence
Collins of Milton was born. We
know that because Mildred Al-
bert, who lives in Harbeson with
her husband, Glen, was their
granddaughter and has records
about them. In the I930s they
were feted in one of the Vrilmin
ton papers, on the occasion of
their 65th wedding anniversary, as
being one of Delaware's longest
married couples. They sold their
Millsboro area farm in 1914 and
moved into Lewes on Madison
school to offer scholarships and
financial assistance to private and
group music lesson students of all
ages, plus outreach program sup-
port. As hard as DMS works to
raise money, we work at least that
hard to give it away to deserving
students and community and so-
cial services organizations.
Many, many thanks must go to
the Milford Hospital Auxiliary/
Fair Committee for allowing us to
participate.
Also, our gratitude to Jim
Hartzell and the Possum Point
Players for loaning us a portable
stage; Dr. and Mrs. Ray Sukumar
and sons for hauling their piano
from Lewes to Milford; DMS
board member Dana Reemsnyder
for coordinating volunteer shifts;
all the businesses and individuals
who made this success possible.
Because of the exceptional sue-
cess of the 1997 Performathon,
DMS plans to offer a new scholar-
ship in the form of a down pay-
ment on an instrument to a school
band student, who would other-
wise be unable to afford one.
DMS first became aware of the
school band instrument program
through its involvement in the
Lawrence "Scotty" Scott Jazz
Scholarship Program.
We noticed that very few under-
served kids even auditioned for
the jazz program. It turns out they
were often unable to get involved
in their school bands in the first
place, due to the high cost of in-
struments.
The music school recently do-
nated the balance of its "Scotty"
funds to Rehoboth and Wood-
bridge Elementary Schools to be
used toward much-needed band
instruments.
As the Delaware Music School
completes its 15th anniversary
year, thanks must also go to the
dedicated and talented staff, for its
creative had in making music edu-
cation-available to the community
of southern Delaware, as a means
to a better quality of life.
They are Brenda Beissel, office
and development manager, who is
greatly responsible for our current
fund-raising success; Diane Neut-
zling, program coordinator and
"Miss Debbie" Kee, Kinder-kor-
dinator.
I am proud to work in their
company.
Donna de Kuyper
DMS Executive Director
All Saints says
thanks for support
On behalf of All Saints' Parish
(All Saints' Episcopal Church in
Avenue where they continued to
support one another until he died
in April, t943 - four months shy
of his 91st birthday. Leah, a de-
scendant of Declaration of Inde-
pendence signer Caesar Rodney.
died a few months Jater meaning
tl Couple Was born in the same
year and died in the same year.
But that musi have been another
branch of the Davidsons than
Greenshury because neither Mil-
dred Albert nor Virginia Ehlers
had any information on the cap-
Rehoboth Planners continue
community preservation efforts
By Trish Vernon
Members of the Rehoboth
Beach Planning Commission con-
tinue to struggle with how to em-
bark upon a comprehensive com-
munity preservation plan for the
city.
"We need to state the problem
in a few brief sentences, outline
what the ordinance would do to
solve the problems and how the
ordinance links with the Long
Range Plan," advised Planning
Chairman Mary Campbell at the
May 12 Planning Commission
meeting.
Fellow planner Mable Granke"
took a different tack, however.
"We're not going to necessarily
come up with an umbrella ordi-
nance, but there are other things
that can be done that don't need a
formal ordinance. The issue has
many facets."
Planner Patti Shreeve added that
she sees a challenge in finding
consensus among their group, ad-
vising that they examine the pro-
posed Historic Preservation Ordi-
nance and see if they can't agree
to some of its tenets.
Campbell replied that the His-
toric Preservation Ordinance,
which was the subject of consider-
able criticism last year when it
was fashioned, termed it "a lead
balloon. The negative reaction far
outweighed the positive, because
such ordinances are so restric-
tive."
Rather, she said, they should
concentrate on attempting to pre-
serve the flavor of the city.
"There are buildings which are
only a few years old, but they are
in keeping with the ambiance of
their neighborhoods," she noted.
Robin Bodo from the state's
Historic Preservation Office told
them that conservation rather than
preservation may be the direction
in which they should turn.
A conservation district would
regulate relocation, demolition
and new construction, while his-
toric district zoning could regulate
the type of shutters, windows,
doors and color of a particular
structure.
However, Planner Ed Cerrullo
Rehoboth and St. George's Epis-
copal Church in Angola), I'd like
to thank those who supported the
musical Fisher Folk weekend at
All Saints' Church, the weekend
of April 25.
Those who attended had a great
tain. Nor did Howard Davidson
of New Road who was also famil-
iar with the other family history.
Hazel Briltingham provided the
only insight my brief research into
Capt. Greensbury Davidson un-
covered.
"! k/Ow that he and his wife,
Lizzie, donated money for one Of
the stained gtass windows in
Groome United Methodist Church
in Lewes," said Hazel. "But that's
the one window in the church I
haven't researched and written
cautioned that by placing restric-
tions on one particular home with
some historic value, the home-
owner will have to abide by these
restrictions, while his neighbor in
a new home will not.
The neighbor, however, will
reap the benefits of maintaining or
increasing property values. "Peo-
ple fear being told what they can
do with their property and they
don't see the benefits. That makes
it difficult from the get-go," he
said.
Shreeve agreed that they need to
put people's mind at ease on what
they are attempting to accomplish,
as now, "there's nothing in our or-
dinances that says you can't put
up a corrugated metal building,"
of an extreme example of what
they hope to prevent from being
built in Rehoboth Beach.
"If someone wants to take down
a house, we need to make sure
they build something that compli-
ments the neighborhood. In some
areas historic preservation is ap-
propriate, but in other areas com-
munity conservation is the way to
go," Shreeve continued.
Bodo said the planners need
time to convince the community
of the benefits of preservation,
with Campbell saying they must
concentrate on coming up with
guidelines.
Shreeve replied that the present
Historic Preservation Ordinance
has everything they need to help
them write the guidelines.
"Our goal then is to retain the
charm and ambiance and establish
what constitutes that charm and
ambiance. We need to find out
what the important elements are
and find a way to structure the
guidelines. I'm not sure where we
want to be at the end," planner
Bob Scala said.
Bodo offered the planners assis-
tance from her staff in fashioning
the guidelines in a way that's
palatable to the board of commis-
sioners and the community at
large.
They hope to Continue backing
away at these efforts at the next
meeting, slated for 7 p.m., Mon-
day, June 9.
time.
Many thanks, too, to our local
newspapers for helping us to pub-
licize this event.
Helen Abbott
Chairman
Fisher Folk weekend.
about. Lizzie was one of the orga-
nizers of Groome Methodist - in
the first few years of this century -
but I know nothing more about
Greensbury. I always had it in my
mind that he was a sea captain
from the Milton or Milford area
but I have nothing to prove that."
Does anyone out there know
anything further about Capt.
Greensbury Davidson? If so, pass
it on to me and whatever I hear
will be presented in this space
next week.
