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Turnover on Delaware's Supreme Court to carry into 2015
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Judicial openings have come with some regularity in 2014, specifically vacancies on Delaware’s Supreme Court where as the year ends Gov. Jack Markell is looking to fill a fourth opening in just over a year. That turnover included the Chief Justice slot, which Leo Strine assumed last February.
The latest opening was created last month when Justice Henry duPont Ridgely announced his retirement.
Delaware Law Weekly’s Jeff Mordock followed the changes all year long and offer his perspective on this latest vacancy and who may be in line to fill it. (More)
Sussex Co. physician's assistant recounts work in India
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In India, access to medical care can be hard to come by. The world’s second most populous country spends only around 4.2 percent of its national GDP towards healthcare goods and services and wide gaps between the rural and urban populations make creating an effective healthcare system a challenge. Seventy percent of the population still lives in rural areas and has no, or limited access to hospitals and clinics.
Recently, Claudia Halstead, a physician’s assistant from Sussex County paid her own airfare and then drove six hours to an orphanage in India as part of a 10-day medical mission.
She treated children as well as people from across the region, often seeing up to 250 patients per day, working with interpreters and an Indian doctor.
Halstead recently shared her experience with Delaware Public Media’s Cathy Carter and reflected on how humanitarian work affects her job here in the First State. (More)
History Matters: The Land of Holly
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Milton, Delaware has long prided itself on its ability to adapt. When one industry fades, the town finds a new one to take its place.
In the 1920s and 30s, as shipbuilding moved away from Milton, a new industry grew to take its place - one that for a time took root enough to influence naming the Holly tree Delaware’s state tree in 1939.
In the 1930s, wreath making generated around $1 million a year in revenue in Milton and other southern Delaware towns. A family could make up to $500 in a season harvesting holly to make about 10,000 wreaths.
In this month ’s History Matters, produced in collaboration with the Delaware Historical Society, Delaware Public Media’s Anne Hoffman and Karl Malgiero visit the town of Milton to learn all about its once booming holly production and wreath making industry.. (More)
Arts Playlist: Delaware Symphony Orchestra's David Amado
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Back in October, 6 individuals and 2 organizations were honored with Governors Awards for the Arts at a ceremony at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington.
Among those honored was The Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s music director David Amado – who was recognized for his arts leadership.
For our Arts Playlist - Delaware Public Media Contributor Pam George sat down with Amado at his Greenville home just before receiving the award to discuss his career and bringing the Orchestra back from its near demise two years ago due to financial difficulties. (More)
Enlighten Me: Latin American seniors ring in the holidays with Los Abuelos program
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The los Abuelos Program is specifically designed for low-income, mostly Latino seniors. The program offers weekly activities for seniors and with its coffee parties and field trips, almost recreates the distant homelands these seniors left behind. For this week's Enlighten Me, Anne Hoffman went to their yearly Christmas party to get a taste of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean right here in Delaware. (More)
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