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4 - CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2001
Route I Weekly Accident Update
Continued from page 3
Commissioners voted unanimous-
ly at the Jan. 16 meeting to revise
the real-estate transfer tax to ex-
empt the transfer of property be-
tween siblings, as has been done
with the state tax and in other mu-
nicipalities. The board also voted
to appropriate $2,000 to the Re-
hoboth Beach Patrol to help de-
fray the cost of putting on the 80th
Lifeguard Reunion, slated for July
28 at the BayCenter in Dewey
Beach. The 1996 75th reunion
brought out almost 200 past and
present guards, along with family
and friends. "The beach patrol
has a long history and we feel it's
important to maintain that histo-
ry," said Capt. Kent Buckson, not-
ing the bulk of the expense will be
borne by the attendees. Buckson
also noted that the event couldn't
be held in the city's own conven-
tion center due to parking prob-
lems for that many people in high
summer. Buckson was also
praised by the board for his per-
formance during his first year as
captain of the guards. In other
matters, the board awarded a
$363,429 bid to George & Lynch
to complete the Martin's Lawn
storm drain project which will
eliminate the pumping station.
The work will begin immediately
and expected to solve chronic
flooding problems in that area.
Drixing Under the Influence Re )ort
Cadbury continues to
search for Lewes site
Victor Amey, president of Cad-
bury at Lewes, said this week he
is "cautiously optimistic" that ef-
forts to find a new site for the pro-
posed 200-unit continuing care re-
tirement community will be suc-
cessful. "We feel that within a
couple of months, as spring
breaks, we will be able to come
forward with a positive result for
our efforts," said Amey this week.
"We're investigating a number of
opportunities. The site that we fi-
nally settle on will help dictate the
final size of the facility we con-
struct." Amey said more than 100
units have been reserved with dis-
counts, most of them for residents
of the Lewes area who are getting
older and who want to scale back
their living space and mainte-
nance responsibilities. We're en-
couraged by all of our depositors'
positive encouragement for us.
We could have moved our plans to
a number of different towns who
said they would help us find a site
but the people we have on our
reservation list want to be in or
near Lewes. Wherever we end up,
people will come to realize our
sensitivity to open spaces and ef-
fective development." Cadbury
had hoped to locate on lands near
New Road near University of
Delaware's College of Marine
Studies. That site, however, be-
came controversial for a number
of reasons expressed by neigh-
bors, and Cadbury withdrew its
plans. Cadbury is a nonprofit
Quaker-affiliated organization
that operates a continuing care re-
tirement community in Cherry
Hill, N.J.
Lewes parks commission
meeting set for Jan. 22
The Lewes Parks and Recre-
ation Commission will consider
the feasibility of providing a
fenced dog run when it meets at
7:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 22, in
council chambers of City Hall lo-
cated on East Third Street. The
public is welcome to attend. Beth
Ivens, who has been lobbying the
city for a fenced area in Block-
house Pond where dog owners
could let their dogs run free and
socialize with other dogs, will be
on hand to discuss the concept.
Other items on the agenda include
a discussion of street trees, review
of a tree ordinance and final re-
view of the 2001-02 budget.
Zakarian, MacDonald
honored by resorts
Karen L. Zakarian, Iongtime
Dewey Beach resident, has been
chosen Dewey Beach Volunteer of
the Year. Warren MacDonald, for-
mer Rehoboth Beach commis-
sioner, has been chosen as the
Mae Hall McCabe Community
Citizen of the Year. The two hon-
orees were announced and feted
Jan. 18, during the annual officer
installation dinner meeting of the
Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach
Chamber of Commerce. Zakarian,
assistant manager of The Breakers
Hotel and Suites, was a key mem-
ber of the first Dewey Beach Hol-
iday Committee which raised do-
nations for and erected the town's
holiday decorations last year. She
is the current chairwoman of the
American Heart Association's
Heart Ball Committee. MacDon-
ald, a Iongtime community ac-
tivist, is currently president of the
Rehoboth Beach Historical Soci-
ety. These two valued resort area
residents will be featured in next
week's Cape Gazette.
Cape board picks
school architects
The Wilmington firm of Buck
Simpers Architects & Associates
(BSA&A) has been selected as
design engineers and architects
for the two new Cape Henlopen
middle schools. In a unanimous
vote, Jan. 11, the Cape Henlopen
School District Board of Educa-
tion agreed with its professional
services selections committee,
which rated BSA&A at the top of
its short list of the firms that ex-
pressed interest in doing the work.
The contract cost of the design,
site preparation and architectural
work are determined by a state
formula. That cost has not yet
been announced by the state De-
partment of Education, said dis-
trict Superintendent Dr. Andy
Brandenberger. Margaret Foster,
director of business development
for BSA&A, said the firm will be
coordinating all design, engineer-
ing and development of the two
middle schools. She said BSA&A
has considerable experience in the
development of schools in
Delaware. The firm is currently
working on the William B. Keene
Elementary School in the Christi-
na School District. It also built the
170,000-square-foot Middletown
High School and is preparing for a
50,000-square-foot expansion of
that school. Foster said ground
should be broken for the middle
schools by March I, 2001 with a
completion date of June 2003.
The schools will open in Septem-
ber 2003.
Cape board to
meet Jan. 25
The Cape Henlopen School
District Board of Education will
hold its regular monthly meeting
at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 25, in the Milton
Middle School auditorium.
Agenda items for a possible
vote include personnel, state-
ments of budgetary activity, bids,
final budget for fiscal year 2001
and attendance deviation requests.
Items for presentation include
special recognition, Citizens' Par-
ticipation for Improvement and
the superintendenrs report.
And the surveys say:
people like ferry food
Of the l.l million people who
used the Cape May-Lewes Ferry
fleet last year, those who complet-
ed passenger surveys gave the
overall food service highly favor-
able ratings for 2000.
Delaware River & Bay Authori-
ty (DRBA) spokesman Jim
Salmon's annual review and
analysis of passenger surveys re-
veals that "the 2000 surveys were
within l percent of our record
year in 1999." Salmon attributed a
slight drop in ratings for the food
service's price and variety to the
fact that DRBA stopped offering
cooked-to-order entrees after a
federal Food and Drug Adminis-
tration surprise inspection in June
resulted in citations over food
preparation and handling onboard
the ships. "Despite the unfavor-
able attention last summer, it's ap-
parent from the surveys that our
passengers' perceptions have not
changed much at all since 1999,"
said Salmon. "People really do
appreciate our food, our service
and our cleanliness."
Salmon emphasized the author-
ity intends to reinstate its cooked-
to-order menu after its ferry food
service operations pass a fo!llow-
up inspection this spring.
The food service net revenue
for 2000 also suffered a hit, as
outlined in the December meeting
of DRBA commissioners. DRBA
Controller Joseph Larontonda re-
ported the year-to-date food serv-
ice net income as $312,316 ,com-
pared to a projected net income of
$565,5 i 3 for that period.
Sussex to consider many
local projects Jan. 25
The Sussex County Planning
and Zoning Commission will[ con-
sider a multitude of area projects
when it meets at 7 p.m., Thursday,
Jan. 25. Many of the projects are
controversial and it promises to be
a lively evening.
DATE
01/13/01
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1. Private property damage over $1,500
FOR WEEK OF JAN. 8 - JAN. 14. 2000
LOCATION TYPE
Rt. i and Sussex 283A, south of Lewes 5
Rt. I and Sussex 266B, north of Lewes 3
Rt. ! and Sussex 266B, north of Lewes 3
Rt. 1 and Sussex 266B, north of Lewes 3
Rt. l and Sussex 271, north of Rehoboth 2
Rt. ! and Sussex 283, north of Rehoboth 2
Rt. 1 and Rt. 24, north of Rehoboth 3
KEY:
5 - Personal injury;
5A -Imltrlan inlmy
2 - Property damage over $1,500 6. Hit and run over $1,500
3 - Pflvate property damage under $1,500 7- Fatal * Caused by DUI
- Property damage under $1,500 i 8- Hit and run
Route 1 accident information provided by Delaware State Police Troop 7
Numbers: first, total arrests; second, total involved in crashes
* Troop 7 Sussex County Kent County New Castle County
10, 2 25, 5 13, 2 25, 5
Of the 68 people arrested for DUI, 12 were involved in accidents.
* Troop 7 statistics included in Sussex County figures
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The agenda includes two proj-
ects deferred during the commis-
sion's last meeting: Woods Cove
and Sea Chase II. Both have been
proposed previously and are now
being considered with some mod-
ifications. Also on the agenda is a
request for a 62-acre cemetery
and a 91,167-square-foot shop-
ping center. A public hearing on a
large subdivision planned for the
Rehoboth Golf Properties site off
Country Club Road will also be
held.
Woods Cove is a planned 2t4-
lot development off Sussex 275
(Plantations Road). There was op-
position to the project, most of it
centered upon traffic and conges-
tion concerns. The project was
considered last year, but has been
revamped and no longer includes
a small neighborhood business
district that had been originally
proposed. The project is now only
residential.
Sea Chase II would be a 76-unit
project to be located at Sussex 274
and Sussex 275 and would be ad-
jacent to the existing Sea Chase I.
The Capano Shopping Center
plans were withdrawn from the
last meeting f6r some revision,
but will be presented Jan. 25.
Those plans call for the shopping
center to be located at Route 1 and
Sussex 270B, just south of the
Comfort Inn on southbound Route
1. No zoning change is needed for
the plans because the land is al-
ready zoned commercial.
Rehoboth Golf Properties wants
to develop part of its existing golf
course located one-fifth mile
south of Kingsbridge Road into
102 single-family homes and 46
duplexes. Owners of the course
have said they regret the decision,
but they need to make the change
for financial purposes. They have
said that the course did not attract
enough playersto make it finan-
cially profitable.
There is also a request for final
site plan approval for the Canal
Corkran project being developed
by William and Bryce Lingo. That
once controversial project is
planned for 62 acres of property
northeast of Hebron Road and just
to the west of the Lewes and Re-
hoboth Canal.
The meetings are held at the
Sussex County Administration
Building on the Georgetown Cir-
cle and the public is welcome to
attend.
Minor mullet
kill near Long Neck
Delaware's Department of Nat-
ural Resources and Environmen-
tal Control (DNREC) responded
to a minor fish kill involving mul-
let, a common bait fish, in the
Long Neck area recently. The fish
were found Jan. 15 in a canal in
Winding Creek Village. DNREC
spokesperson Melinda Carl said
it's uncertain what killed the fish,
but it could have been cold water
temperatures.
Carl said it is hard to estimate
the number of dead fish, but said
the fish kill does not appear to
have affected other species. A test
of dissolved oxygen levels found
that oxygen was found in suffi-
cient amounts in the area.
Carl termed the fish kill minor,
but said DNREC may send sam-
ples of the fish to a laboratory for
testing. There were a number of
inland bays fish kills last summer,
but it's very rare for such an inci-
dent to take place during the win-
ter.
Sussex Firemen's
Association meets Jan. 23
The Sussex County Volunteer's
Firemen's Association will meet
at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 23, at
Grace Methodist Church in
Georgetown. The meeting will
address distributing $235,746
from county council to the volun-
teer fire service. Those funds gen-
erated for the last quarter of calen-
dar year 2000 were collected on
the building property tax premi-
um.