SATURDAYS: Tony Sacco Raising Funds to Send Rising Star to NYC
Good folks of Cape Charles and visiting tourists: I [Tony Sacco] will be performing, playing my clarinet in front of the Palace Theatre on Saturdays to raise money badly needed for Miss Hannah DeMarino to attend school in NYC to further her career in voice, drama, and dance. Hannah is struggling to raise money to enter the school; although she received a grant she needs more funds. I am donating my time playing my clarinet on the street and accepting your donation as I have the children dance to my music. I pray this will be a success for Hannah. If you missed her debut in ESO Live, “a star was born” when she electrified the audience. [Read more…]
SATURDAY 6/6: CBES Clean the Bay Day at Oyster
Team CBES wants you for CLEAN THE BAY DAY. The Chesapeake Bay gives the Eastern Shore so much: great seafood, jobs, recreation, and an amazing way of life. On Saturday, June 6, let’s give back during the 27th Annual Clean the Bay Day. Join Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore, “Team CBES,” and lend a hand with shoreline litter and debris clean-up in Oyster. [Read more…]
THURSDAY 6/11: Train to Be an Oyster Farmer
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is looking for a few good men, women, and children to grow oysters from backyard piers and docks to help restore the Chesapeake Bay. CBF will host a workshop to train volunteers on Thursday, June 11, from 6-8 p.m. at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science Eastern Shore Laboratory, 40 Atlantic Avenue in Wachapreague. Volunteers at the workshop will receive a batch of spat-on-shell oysters (baby oysters attached to shells), two 18” x 9” oyster growing cages, and instructions on how to maintain an “oyster garden” throughout the coming year. [Read more…]
SATURDAYS: Freestyle Yoga at Cape Charles Yacht Center
Saturdays beginning May 23 through September 5 at Cape Charles Yacht Center, 8-9:15 a.m.: Slow Flow Yoga. This class is a beautiful way to start your day by the Chesapeake Bay. [Read more…]
Children’s Summer Programs at Northampton Library
The Northampton Free Library in Nassawadox has opened registration for several of its children’s summer programs. We have events for different age groups and some for all ages. Our full schedule with descriptions can be seen on the library website, www.espl.org or you can stop by or call the library (757-414-0010) for more info. There are programs on boating safety, container gardening, owl pellet dissection, book bingo and dinosaur model creation to name a few.
Andy Teeling Rallies School Supporters; Supervisors Approve Eyre Baldwin’s Plans for Oyster
By WAYNE CREED
Cape Charles Wave
May 18, 2015
The May 12 regular meeting of the Northampton Board of Supervisors once again hosted a standing room only crowd, and once more, it was education that dominated the discussion.
Andy Teeling addressed the board with his vision of a “small, rural, waterfront county” that, at all levels, is a community fully invested in revitalizing our schools and getting personally connected with the students. With this came a resolution calling for a renewed partnership between the Board of Supervisors, the School Board, and the community to use education as driver for future economic development.
“The path to economic recovery, the path is simple,” said Teeling. “We must improve our schools. We each have to ask, ‘what can we do for our schools?’ By helping each student reach their potential . . . we will reap dividends for our economy.”
The core of Teeling’s vision included a county that takes the initiative to promote education to drive the economy, that launches a mentorship program that involves retirees with trade and business backgrounds, that sees a surge of parental involvement, and finally, that brings new business to the Shore that are attracted by the education initiatives.
Supervisor Granville Hogg said, “We have just given back $20,000 that was a grant for industry-specific technical training, for workplace skills for entry level jobs — industrial technology. Though I’m fully in support of the resolution, we have let another opportunity slip through our fingers, only because there were not enough enrollments in the course. That, ladies and gentleman, falls on you all. We need to bring students in, to interest them, to provide them with a job and a way to make a living.”
A resolution that echoed Teeling’s call for a renewed partnership passed unanimously. Although several commentators piled on the Teeling presentation with heartstring, backslapping appeals, others, feeling the full weight of the reality on the ground, and a sense of just how daunting the task really is, also addressed the board. [Read more…]
LETTER
Chief Pruitt Urges Citizens to ‘Thank a Policeman’
May 18, 2015
DEAR EDITOR,
Today in the United States, approximately 900,000 law enforcement officers put their lives on the line for the safety and protection of others. With great success, they serve with valor and distinction.
Federal statistics show that violent crime and property crime rates in the United States are at historic lows, thanks to the dedicated service of the men and women in law enforcement. The national Law Enforcement Memorial is ever-changing as new names are added to the memorial every year due to the selfless sacrifice of the men and women that serve our communities.
In 2014, 127 police officers were killed in the line of duty, leaving 159 children without a parent — and as of today 44 officers have fallen in 2015. These numbers are tragic on their own, not to mention the void that will never be filled.
In what other occupation is one expected to make correct, split-second, serious, and possibly life-and-death decisions while navigating complicated laws and procedures, in addition to having to lay his or her life on the line for total strangers?
The men and women of law enforcement are content in doing a difficult job, one most people in the world could not or would not do, and they do it well. It truly takes an extraordinary person to be a police officer. [Read more…]
Should Town Follow its Own Historic Guidelines?
Former town library, now Civic Center, risks losing both its chimneys. (Wave photos)
CAPE CHARLES WAVE
May 18, 2015
Would the historic structure at 500 Tazewell Avenue be just as historic without its two chimneys? That’s a decision to be made by the Historic District Review Board at its Tuesday, May 19, meeting.
The building, once a Methodist Church and more recently the Cape Charles Memorial Library, is now the town’s “Civic Center” hosting public meetings. Town officials have recommended removal of both chimneys due to leaking around the flashing. Despite their best efforts, town maintenance workers have not been able to stop the leaks.
Town Planner Larry DiRe has advised that “the guidelines are rather quiet on the status of chimneys.” But then, curiously, he quotes the guidelines as explicitly stating that “historic building roof types, including elements such as chimneys and light wells, should be retained (Building Element 1, page 34).”
The Historic Review Board ruled in May 2013 that a non-historic house at 621 Jefferson Avenue undergoing remodeling had to install a fake chimney to replace a decrepit flue being removed (CLICK). Following community ridicule the Board reversed itself. [Read more…]
