FRIDAY 7/20: ‘Thanksgiving in July’ Public Dinner at Trinity United Methodist Church
The public is invited to a “Thanksgiving in July” dinner from 5-7 p.m. Friday, July 20, at the Trinity United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 410 Tazewell Avenue.
A traditional Thanksgiving meal will be served. A donation is suggested, with proceeds going to the Heifer International Program, which provides farm animals and instruction to developing countries.
JULY 23-27: Sports Camp/Vacation Bible School at Baptist Church
Monday, July 23 through Friday, July 27, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (dinner provided each night for the kids)
Cape Charles Baptist Church is offering kids K-through 6th grade a free Mega Sports Camp — Beyond the Gold.
We want to give kids the chance to learn more about sports, discover character-building concepts, and discover God’s great love for them.
Kids can choose one sport to focus on for the week: football, basketball, soccer, tennis, cheerleading, or group games/crafts. It doesn’t matter if they’ve played sports all their life or just started. Mega Sports Camp helps kids improve their skills. All sorts of drills and practice games will get kids focused on the fundamentals that make athletes great. Each child will also receive a free t-shirt for the week.
Call or email Jenn Philpot at 757-678-7671 or [email protected] to receive a registration packet, or check out our church website at www.capecharlesbaptist.org to print a registration packet.
SUNDAY 7/29: ‘Christmas in July’ Boy Scout Pancake Breakfast
A “Christmas in July” Boy Scout Pancake Breakfast will be open to the public on Sunday, July 29, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon at the American Legion Post 56 in Cheriton. Lots of festive decorations, music, and holiday cheer. All you care to eat pancake breakfast, served with bacon, eggs, OJ, and coffee, all for $5.
Bring a new toy to donate to Northampton County Social Services for children in need for Christmas.
Call 757-630-9490 with any questions.
AUGUST 3-5: Inaugural Clam Slam Festival
The Inaugural Cape Charles Clam Slam Festival is Friday through Sunday, August 3-5.
FRIDAY
6-10 p.m. – Live music by John Baldwin & the Original Sinners at the Harbor. Food, beverages, corn hole contest, moonwalk and games for kids.
SATURDAY
8 a.m. – Trash to Treasures Town-wide yard sale
10 a.m. – Shriners Parade and Car Show
10 a.m. – Artists & Crafters along Mason Avenue
10 a.m. – Food vendors at the Harbor
12 noon – Moonwalk and games for kids open
12 noon – Horseshoe registration and contest
2 p.m. – Smith Island crab skiff race
3 p.m. – Crab pot cork race
4 p.m. – Live music by Vedette
7 p.m. – Live music by Big Mighty
SUNDAY
10 a.m. – Artists & Crafters along Mason Avenue
11 a.m. – Captains registration at Harbor
12:30 p.m. – Captains Practice
1 p.m. – 2nd Annual Boat Docking Contest ($5 admission fee)
SATURDAY 8/4: Clam Slam Library Book Sale
The Friends of the Cape Charles Memorial Library will hold a book sale on Saturday, August 4, in conjunction with the Cape Charles Clam Slam events. The sale runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the library grounds at 500 Tazewell Avenue.
The sale includes a great selection of light summer beach reading, romance books, and a wide variety of titles and authors. New this month is a large selection of books on birding from around the world.
All proceeds from the 2012 book sales will be used to buy DVDs for the library.
Over the last six weeks the Friends have purchased over two dozen new children’s movies and an equal number of new release movies, television programs and documentaries. New titles arrive each week and are added to the collection.
SHORE THING
Scandinavian Scandal in the Historic District
By GEORGE SOUTHERN
Cape Charles Wave
July 16, 2012
This town is a little bit business-unfriendly. That’s my observation, anyway, as someone who’s lived here all of two years.
And not just business-unfriendly – it’s also more than a little bit improvement-unfriendly.
You just have to jump through so many hoops to get permission to do anything.
Latest case in point: The Cape Charles Hotel. Two years ago, the hotel had shut down and was a blight on Mason Avenue. Obviously, there’s no town rule against empty storefronts – we’ve got plenty of them.
The old hotel was particularly ugly, in my humble opinion, with its orange-salmon paint job. But there’s no law against ugly, apparently.
So – along comes an investor, buys the hotel at bank auction, pumps who knows how many million $$ into it, and opens up an elegant, tony boutique facility that is, or should be, the pride of the Town.
And now come the complaints. Folks don’t like the plate glass dividers on the balconies. Looks too Scandinavian for the Historic District.
At last week’s Town Council meeting, Town Planner Tom Bonadeo reported that the hotel is not in compliance with the architectural guidelines approved for it. There were supposed to be wrought iron partitions, and instead we got plate glass.
And it sounds like the Town’s planning to do something about it.
Meanwhile, as a property owner who does vacation rentals, I think about tourists’ first impression of Cape Charles – which is not Mason Avenue, but Randolph Avenue. As they drive into town, that’s what they see first. [Read more…]
TOWN COUNCIL
Veber, Bannon Back; Bay Creekers Not Flushing Enough
Larry Veber was off Town Council only 13 days before being reappointed.
By DORIE SOUTHERN
Cape Charles Wave
July 13, 2012
Cape Charles Town Council last night appointed Larry Veber to fill the vacancy created by the death of Councilman-elect Donald Clarke last month, and also re-elected Chris Bannon as vice mayor.
Veber was an incumbent Councilman, but lost his re-election bid. His appointment to Council will last until a special election can be held.
Council is requesting the Northampton County Circuit Court to set a special election for the seat on the same day as the November 6 general election.
In other Council news, MaryAnn Roehm announced that Arts Enter has received a $50,000 “Our Town” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Cape Charles and Roanoke were the only grant recipients in Virginia.
Our Town grants support projects to transform communities into “lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core,” Roehn said. The Our Town project will complement the Town’s Comprehensive Plan, Community Trail master plan, and the Harbor Plan.”
Other reports to Council were not so sweet. During Dave Fauber’s Public Works report, he was asked what can be done about the strong smell at the Town’s new sewage treatment plant.
“It is what it is — a sewage treatment plant,” Fauber said. “You can encapsulate it, but at some point you have to let it out into the air. To stop the smell completely is probably cost prohibitive.”
Bernice DeJarnette Wendell, May 10, 1926 – July 11, 2012
Click here to view a family video tribute: http://video.mbdkeepsakes.com/video/45721334
Bernice DeJarnette Wendell, 86, wife of the late Francis Edward Wendell, Sr., and a resident of Cape Charles, passed away July 11 at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox. A native of Nathalie, VA, located in Halifax County, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Virginia D. DeJarnette. She was corporate secretary for Wendell Distributing Co. and a charter member and former treasurer of the Young Women’s Club of Cape Charles.
Mrs. Wendell is survived by three children, Virginia Wendell Gibson of Ashland, VA, Francis Edward Wendell, Jr., of Cape Charles, and Elizabeth Wendell Harman and her husband, Brian, of Cape Charles; and four grandchildren, Jonathan Gibson, Gregory Harman, Andrew Harman and Katie Wendell. [Read more…]
