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Playing at the beach can feel like the world’s biggest sand box to a wide-eyed kid.
Dressed in bright bathing suits and covered in a dusting of sand, kids can often be seen lugging sloshing buckets of water back to the trenches they recently dug. The grins that stretch across their faces reflect the joy that digging in the sand can bring.
But as families prepare for summer vacations at the Delaware beaches, beach patrols and resort towns want people to remember that digging deep holes – and not filling them in – can be a serious and even deadly safety concern.
Jeff Giles returns to his marine-life roots capegazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capegazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Giles starts Feb. 1 and will be supervised by Banks. City Manager Sharon Lynn delegated the job to Banks when the pandemic began. It was the first time a Rehoboth Beach Patrol captain had been supervised by anyone other than the city manager in Rehoboth.
Kent Buckson, Rehoboth s beach patrol captain of 21 years, resigned Dec. 18 due to the change. He said it wasn t a good fit and claimed it was a violation of the city charter. He filed an appeal with the city commissioners, but they declined to hear his complaint.
A few weeks later, the city solicitor presented a plan to change the charter to the commissioners. It would clarify the city manager s ability to delegate supervisory powers freely.