March 7, 2021
Friends of Delaware Veterans Vice President Paul Davis, left, points out a photo of himself as a young Dover police officer to Anna M. Lopez, right, Commission of Veterans Affairs vice chair. In back is Friends of Delaware Veterans President Dave Skocik. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Several weeks before Christmas, photojournalist Gary Emeigh offered copies of “The Ink in My Blood,” to anyone who donated at least $35 to the Delaware Veterans Trust Fund.
The 432-page coffee table book with a suggested retail price of $80 documents 50 years of pictures and stories covered by Delaware s two daily newspapers and is a primer on state history.
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Lives in the Law Discussion Series, 5 p.m., via Zoom. Ronald Collins to present Laurence Tribe: Friend of the Court. Registration required at lewes.lib.de.us on Virtual Programs for Adults page. Instructions emailed to participants following registration.
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Delaware Humanities Program, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., online. Global Democracy & the Pandemic to be presented by Dr. Brian Klaas, free. To register go to dehumanities.org/event/4578 .
Commemorative events to culminate in Sept. 18 parade March 6, 2021
On Feb. 24, 1921, the Delaware Volunteer Firefighters Association was formed at a meeting in Milford.
The resolution unanimously passed on that day read as follows: “Resolved - That we, the delegates of the Volunteer Fire Companies in the State of Delaware, in convention, assembled, in order to form a more perfect organization, establish harmony, insure prosperity and success, obtain and compile statistics concerning the piratical workings of the various systems and the merits of the various apparatus, cultivate fraternal fellowship among the companies and promote the best interest of the Volunteer Firemen of Delaware, do hereby form an organization to be known as the Delaware State Firemen’s Association.”
March 6, 2021
The Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest invites writers to submit stories of 500-3,500 words that feature Rehoboth Beach and fit the year’s theme, which for 2021 is Beach Secrets.
The first-place winner will receive $500, second-place $250, and third-place $100. The top 20-25 stories will appear in the anthology “Beach Secrets,” to be published by Cat & Mouse Press in November.
Now in its ninth year, the contest is sponsored by Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach.
“There are many kinds of secrets at the beach,” said Nancy Sakaduski, owner of Cat & Mouse Press. “There are family secrets, romantic secrets, and secret spots for fishing or beachcombing. There might even be government secrets now. And then there are financial secrets, childhood secrets, criminal secrets, and otherworldly secrets.”