For decades before the mid-1990s, Rehoboth city officials insisted that the city was too busy to have fireworks on the Fourth of July weekend, and it was just too expensive and complex for Rehoboth to organize.
In 1996, one woman, Kathy McGuiness, founder of Rehoboth Beach Main Street, almost single-handedly took on the task and organized the event. Kathy led Main Street in raising the money and rounded up volunteers, business owners and residents to present Rehoboth fireworks for the first time in modern history.
She built the program to be bigger and better over more than 18 years before the city took it over and kept it going.
This is the kind of action, passion, intensity and progress Kathy will bring home to this area from a seat at the table in Dover. Vote for Kathy McGuiness for state representative in the Sept. 10 primary.
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