Chamber luncheon honors members, volunteers
The Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce hosted its second annual Awards Luncheon at the Cultured Pearl in Rehoboth Beach Nov. 20.
Peggy Raley and Eddie Sherman presented the $500 True Blue Jazz Scholarship to Cape Henlopen High School senior Isaac Weathersby. Rehoboth Beach Police Department Lt. Will Sullivan and Sgt. Raymond Edwards presented Rehoboth Beach Police Department Patrolman Cole Revel with the $500 Delaware Coast Press Educational Scholarship.
The Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce will host its annual awards banquet and installation of chamber board of directors from 5 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 4 at the Hyatt Place Dewey Beach, 1301 Coastal Hwy. Awards presented will include Business of the Year, Mae Hall McCabe Award, Volunteer of the Year and Dewey Lifeguard of the Year. Businesses with 50 years or more as members will be honored.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.