Community @pg3 Health @pg24 Food & Dining @pg16 Sports @pg27 Education @pg22 Town Square LIVE @TownSquareLive TownSquareLive.com July 1 2021 - Vol. 2, Issue 26 Stay Connected @pg30 Government @pg9 Business @pg19 Town Square LIVE @TownSquareLive TownSquareLive.com 1 Photo Credit: joann kingsley Contents Community ..... ...........................3 Government ..............................9 Food & Dining .......................... 16 Business ...................................... 19 Education .................................. 22 Health .........................................24 Sports ........................................... 27 Stay Connected ...................30 Miss Delawares’ are incredibly bill to help grow trade professions nah’shon “bizzy bones” hyland accomplished Town Square LIVE @TownSquareLive TownSquareLive.com 2 Photo credit: brian k. leonard CommunityTown Square LIVE @TownSquareLive TownSquareLive.com 3 Community NEW MISS DELAWARE USAs: ONE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, THE OTHER HELPS THOSE WHO ARE BY BETSY PRICE A Wilmington teen who talked about being sexually questions out of a fish bowl, and one of hers was about assaulted by a teacher became Miss Delaware Teen USA whether parents should police their children’s social media. 2021 Sunday, and the new Miss Delaware USA is a medical She said that social media can be a way that children are student who runs a charity that helps women who have exposed to unsavory and upsetting things. She pointed been sexually assaulted. out that she herself had been sexually assaulted by a Sky Knox, who had been Miss Wilmington Teen, and teacher, and she supported parental rights to monitor Drew Sanclemente, who had been Miss Odessa, will social media and what their children were doing online compete for the Miss USA Teen and Miss USA titles in as an effort to protect them. November at the River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa, A former Miss Delaware’s Outstanding Teen, Knox Oklahoma. graduated with high honors from The Baldwin School, They were crowned in a fast-moving pageant finals at where she was head of the Black Student Union, Service the Laird Performing Arts Center at Tatnall School. The League and Student Ambassadors Committee. She will show combined both contests into one event with active- be going to Cornell University, where she will focus on wear/swimsuit, gown and interview sections. Africana studies, psychology and communications. The young women dangled black masks from their arms Knox holds 10 competitive gymnast state and regional like a trendy bracelet during most of the competitions. titles in Delaware and Pennsylvania, is classically trained The contestants only wore the masks onstage at the end in violin, piano and vocals, and likes music so much, when they were all gathered together for the first time. she’s composed pieces she plans to record in the summer This year’s pageant took place 18 months after Miss and debut in fall. She founded a nonprofit, B.E.S.T., which Delaware USA 2020 Katie Guevarra and Miss Delaware stands for brave early screening teens, to encourage Teen 2020 Samantha Repass won their crowns. Both of teens to be their physical and mental best. them talked during the pageant Sunday about how much She also is the teen program manager at the Teen Sky Knox, left, is the new Miss Delaware Teen USA and Drew Sanclemente of their work ended up taking place online because their Warehouse in Northeast Wilmington, where she offers is Miss Delaware USA 2021. Photo by Jessielyn Palumbo Studio reigns coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic. a B.E.S.T program and others. Knox mentioned sexual assault during the interview portion of the night. All the contestants pulled two CLICK HERE TO READ MORE! Town Square LIVE @TownSquareLive TownSquareLive.com 4 Community FROM WILMINGTON TO BETHANY, YOUR HAVE A FIREWORKS GUIDE PLAN FOR YOUR PAIN Learn the risks BY BETSY PRICE involved with prescription opioids. Most Delaware places famous for their Fourth of July There won’t be fireworks in New Castle on the Fourth, fireworks shows have decided the show will go on. Of course, but there will be a symbolic ringing of independence Ask your doctor organizers will follow the latest pandemic guidelines. bells. Immanuel Church on the Green hosts the free about alternative therapies. Wilmington will host fireworks starting 9:15-9:30 on event, 1:30-2:30 p.m., which is part of national ceremony July 4. marking the birth of America. Francis A. Ianni, an Army Decide together The best viewing location is in Tubman-Garrett Park veteran, will be the keynote speaker. Period attire is invited. on a pain management plan that works for you. and other Riverfront locations, said Tina Betz, director Fireworks on (or near) the Fourth of the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Bethany Beach’s holiday celebration takes two days. Opioids can be addictive, dangerous, and even deadly. But they aren’t your only option. You can always talk with The accompanying recorded music will be played in Fireworks will be at 9:15 p.m. July 5, preceded by music your health care provider and choose a different path. Tubman-Garrett and partially along the river walk, she said. from local favorite Love Seed Mama Jump at the band- HelpIsHereDE.com can help you start the conversation. Hockessin will host fireworks at dusk on July 2, thanks stand. The 287th Army Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. to a groundswell of community support. Hockessin 4th July 4 at the bandstand. There will be no parade. Festival & Fireworks wrote on Facebook in April that Dewey Beach: “We are doing the fireworks, as in the fireworks were canceled, but the Facebook page credits past, on July Fourth,” businessman Alex Pires said. “several community partners and representatives” for their return. It also asks for funding. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE! HELP IS taking control of your pain Town Square LIVE @TownSquareLive TownSquareLive.com 5 Community CATHOLIC BISHOP’S ORDINATION MASS JULY 13 TO BE LIVESTREAMED BY BETSY PRICE The incoming bishop of It will be only the second time in history that an ordi- the Catholic Diocese of nation of this type has taken place within the diocese, a Wilmington will be press release said Wednesday. ordained and installed on The first was Bishop John J. Monaghan’s episcopal Sunday, June 13. in a consecration by Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore on May ceremony that will be live- 9, 1897, at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Wilmington. streamed from St. Eliza- All other Wilmington bishops were ordained to the beth’s Church in Wilmington on the Diocesan Order outside of Delaware or Maryland’s Eastern Shore YouTube channel. prior to being installed as Bishop of Wilmington. The Rev. Monsignor William Edward Koenig, vicar In addition to Archbishop Lori, Malooly and Arch- for clergy for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New bishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United York, was tapped as the 10th Bishop of Wilmington on States, will attend along with 20 Catholic bishops and April 30, 2021. two Cardinals, the diocese said. He will succeed The Rev. W. Francis Malooly, who The ordination mass also will be live on the Catholic served since 2008, and tendered his resignation when Faith Network serving New York, New Jersey and he turned 70, following church tradition. Connecticut, available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Roman Catholics are Delaware’s largest single faith Fire TV, Android or the free CFN app. CFN will also be group. The ordination Mass and installation is one of encoring the Mass at 8 p.m. that night. the church’s most elaborate and visual services, partly Additionally, viewers throughout the United States because of the number of priests, bishops and archbishops and Canada can watch a delayed broadcast on EWTN: who attend, all decked out in celebratory attire. Global Catholic Network, on Thursday, July 15, at 3 p.m. Koenig will be ordained to the Order of Bishop by Archbishop William Lori, metropolitan archbishop of CLICK HERE TO READ MORE! Baltimore. Town Square LIVE @TownSquareLive TownSquareLive.com 6 Community REMOVE BIRD FEEDERS UNTIL CAUSE OF MYSTERY 刀攀搀甀挀攀⸀ 刀攀甀猀攀⸀ 刀攀瀀攀愀琀⸀ ILLNESS IS FOUND 䬀攀渀渀礀 䘀愀洀椀氀礀 匀栀漀瀀刀椀琀攀猀 漀昀 䐀攀氀愀眀愀爀攀 挀愀爀攀 愀戀漀甀琀 琀栀攀 攀渀瘀椀爀漀渀洀攀渀琀⸀ 䤀渀猀琀攀愀搀 漀昀 甀猀椀渀最 birds, including 50 reported dead in Delaware. 㘀㔀 䬀 猀椀渀最氀攀ⴀ甀猀攀 瀀氀愀猀琀椀挀 戀愀最猀 愀 眀攀攀欀Ⰰ 漀甀爀 They have been stricken by an unknown disorder 挀甀猀琀漀洀攀爀猀 栀愀瘀攀 栀攀氀瀀攀搀 甀猀 爀攀搀甀挀攀 漀甀爀 瀀氀愀猀琀椀挀 characterized by swollen eyes with crusty discharge, as 眀愀猀琀攀 琀漀 樀甀猀琀 ㄀ Ⰰ㔀 爀攀甀猀愀戀氀攀 戀愀最猀 愀 眀攀攀欀℀ well as neurological signs such as erratic flight and 圀攀 氀漀漀欀 昀漀爀眀愀爀搀 琀漀 挀漀渀琀椀渀甀攀 氀漀眀攀爀椀渀最 stumbling, DNREC said in a press release. 琀栀愀琀琀 渀甀洀戀攀爀 眀椀琀栀 漀甀爀 挀甀猀琀漀洀攀爀猀밂 猀甀瀀瀀漀爀琀⸀ DNREC staff has observed similar symptoms in Delaware’s avian population. 吀栀愀渀欀 礀漀甀 昀漀爀 礀漀甀爀 挀漀洀洀椀琀洀攀渀琀 Juvenile birds appear to be more affected than adults, 琀漀 爀攀搀甀挀椀渀最 瀀氀愀猀琀椀挀 眀愀猀琀攀 椀渀 漀甀爀 挀漀洀洀甀渀椀琀礀Ⰰ with European starlings, blue jays and common grackles 洀愀欀椀渀最 漀甀爀 眀漀爀氀搀 愀 挀氀攀愀渀攀爀Ⰰ 洀漀爀攀 as the species most associated with the debilitating 戀攀愀甀琀椀昀甀氀 瀀氀愀挀攀⸀ event, DNREC said. Delaware’s samples are being sent to the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laboratory in New Bolton Center, Pennsylvania, but no definitive cause has been identified to date. Even though the cause is not known, wildlife health experts believe congregating birds may contribute to its spread, the press release said. BY BETSY PRICE Taking down bird feeders and bird baths will help. Delaware residents who have bird feeders or bird baths DNREC recommended: are being asked to take them down until the cause is • Cease feeding birds at feeders and providing water found for a mysterious illness killing birds in six Mid- in bird baths Atlantic and Central states. • Before reactivating bird feeders and baths when it is The Department of Natural Resources and Environ- deemed safe by animal health experts to do so, clean mental Control said in a press release Thursday that state them with a 10% bleach solution and federal wildlife experts are investigating reports in at least six mid-Atlantic and Central states of sick song- CLICK HERE TO READ MORE! Town Square LIVE @TownSquareLive TownSquareLive.com 7 Community WOMAN WHO DIDN’T CLEAN HOUSES AGREES TO MAKE don’t RESTITUTION wait.