Dancing With The Delmarva Stars Part I

Before the main event took place, many of the dancers went to Peninsula Plastic Surgery and met with Deneene to have their makeup and hair done. Stacy Sakai was kind enough to show the before and after on her hair. Can you see that, "I Hate You Joe" look on her face in the first picture? ;-)

I had the pleasure of meeting most of the women I had never met before and quite frankly these were some well chosen individuals. The hard work they put into this event was unbelievable.

Between nerves and lack of sleep the night before, to be there and watch them take the stage one by one, you'd never know any one of them had been affected by either/or.

Dancing With The Delmarva Stars Part II

The crowd started piling into the sold out arena and people were standing out front trying to purchase any tickets they could get, even if it meant buying one ticket at a time.

The Dancers started taking the stage and quite frankly I had no idea the kind of images I would actually get in the end because it was so dark inside. To my great surprise and pleasure, what I'm posting is just a small sample of the hundreds of photos I snapped off that evening.

Dancing With The Delmarva Stars Part III

While the formal winners were Bernadette DiPino and Instructor Bill Goschen, there wasn't a single performance that didn't absolutely amaze each and every one of us. I'll give credit where credit is due, Police Chief DiPino clearly was having the time of her life. Her children and friends were in the audience giving praise and I'm sure they couldn't be more proud.

The outfits, stunning, each and every one of them. The Judges, (Chuck Sugent, Carol Wright & Amanda Showell) what a classy group of people! OK, now for the best part of all. This charity event was for the Wellness Center and to every one's amazement, this event alone brought in $49,000.00!

The Dancers & their Instructors were:

Adrienne Neleppa & Bob Klinger

Howard Crossan & Agnieszka Beletsky

Susan Pernell & Nick Pasch

April Brilliant & Bill Goschen

Davis Cowall & Pam Wood

Steve Grant & Pam Showell

Stacy Sakai & Dick White

Mary McCurdy & Nick Pasch

Chris Eccleston & Pam Webster

Tom Jones & Cora Elliott

Stevie Prettyman & Marcus Taggart

Dancing With The Delmarva Stars After Party

Hundreds of people who purchased VIP Tickets enjoyed the after party for dancing, drinks and a ice cream spread to die for! Yes, even Fernando Guerrero joined in the party and showed up some of the dancers on the dance floor.

Skate Park Fundraiser A Huge Success

Talent, balance, skills, energy, practice, encouragement and a place to achieve such interests is what's been the driving force behind a place for all of our children to go and enjoy.

Rather than asking the taxpayers to front the money to achieve the goal of a new Skate Park, many adults and children have been getting together to fund raise to get what it takes to make this dream a reality.

Mayor Jim Ireton attended the event in what seemed like the busiest Saturday I have seen in years, filled with activities everywhere. To those of you who invited Salisbury News to your event, we're sorry we couldn't make them all. This one seemed to be one of the many we felt we wanted to be sure we participated with.

We have provided many photos over two posts I thought you might enjoy seeing. I'm not sure just how much they raised on Saturday but hopefully someone can chime in and let us know how well things went. I had to leave somewhat early because of all of the other events going on. One thing we know for sure though, they're much closer to reaching their goal with the turn out that they had.

Skateboard Park Fundraiser

They came both young and old to participate in raising money for a new Skate Board Park in Salisbury.

This time the participants were close to double what they had the last time they held this event with well more than 100+ skaters.

Even John Robinson joined in after opening his new Skate Board Shop in the Court Plaza and gave away free tee shirts for the first 50 participants.

John, they make helmets to save lives or at least to keep you from banging your head and becoming a Dee, Dee, Deeeee. That strap thing, it's supposed to be secured. We do need to set the example, for what it's worth.