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Getting ready for work after a great breakfast at All Saints’ Episcopal Church June 28 are ( l- r) Maxim Vivchar, who works at Safeway, and Yury Ovchinnikov and Stanislav Zabrodin who work at Lowe’s in Lewes. All three are Russian students working in the Cape Region until September.

More than 100 bicyclists on Route 1 were stopped Thursday, June 29, and given free helmets, lights and a mild lecture about how to ride safely on the highway.

Through a partnership between Ocean Atlantic Agency, Delaware Department of Transportation and Sussex Cyclists, bicycling safety checkpoints will be set up three times a week throughout July.

The goal is to save the lives of foreign students and others who ride Route 1 to and from work.

The summer season has kicked off in this resort city on the US Atlantic coast and thousands of eastern European college students are flocking here to fill seasonal jobs snubbed by their American counterparts.

Along a 16-kilometer (10-mile) concrete jungle of hotels, amusement parks, fast-food outlets, restaurants and mini-malls, one can hear snatches of Russian, Serbo-Croat, Bulgarian or Polish being spoken among clusters of students strolling on the streets.

The Lewes Rehoboth Association of Churches is offering meals, at no cost, throughout the summer at various locations as listed below:

* Dinner on Mondays June 12, 19, 26 and July 3, 5:30 - 8:00 PM - Lewes Presbyterian with Bethel and Groome United Methodist Church, 133 Kings Highway, Lewes, 645-5345 [Find this location]

* Dinner on Mondays starting July 10 - August 28, 5:30 - 8:00 PM - Bethel United Methodist Church with Groome United Methodist Church, 129 W. 4th St., Lewes, 645-9426 [Find this location]

* Dinner on Tuesdays from June 6 to August 31, 5:30-8:00 PM - Epworth United Methodist Church with Westminster Presbyterian Church, 20 Baltimore Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, 227-7743 [Find this location]

* Dinner on Thursdays from June 6 - August 31, 5:30 - 8:00 PM, Lutheran Church of our Savior, 7 Bay Vista Road, Rehoboth Beach, 227-3066 [Find this location]

* Breakfast on Wednesdays from June 6 - August 31, 7:00 - 9:00 AM, All Saints Episcopal Church, 18 Olive Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, 227-7202 [Find this location]

* Breakfast on Thursdays from June 8 - August 31, 7:00 - 9:00 AM, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 212 Second Street, Lewes, 645-8479 [Find this location]

Many foreign exchange students come to Rehoboth Beach in the summer for seasonal jobs, finding work in grocery stores, hotels and restaurants. But two Bulgarian students have come to Rehoboth to work as seasonal police officers. They hope to see what really happens, not from a service industry perspective, but from an insider’s point of view.

Dimitar Kosev and Ivan Kasev arrived in Rehoboth Beach May 23, in time for Memorial Day, with lots of curiosity but no experience in police work.

Kosev and Kasev, both 22, are college students at the University of Economics in Varna. They are working as community service officers in Rehoboth, where they have no arrest powers but they do have the ability to communicate in several languages. They said they look forward to helping foreign students who speak Russian, German or most any other Slovak language – meaning most Eastern European students except Romanians, whose language is quite different.

Margaret Szczepanska had spent nearly a day in the air, flying from Warsaw to Zurich, then to New York City. From there, she took a bus for the six-hour trip to Salisbury, Md., and after that, a taxi to Ocean City.

About 3 a.m. May 27, as America was sleeping off a long holiday weekend night, the Polish college student, who was in Maryland for a summer job, was stuck at Eighth Street, desperate and in need of help.

Margaret Szczepanska had spent nearly a day in the air, flying from Warsaw to Zurich, then to New York City. From there, she took a bus for the six-hour trip to Salisbury, Md., and after that, a taxi to Ocean City.

At about 3 a.m. May 27, as America was sleeping off a long holiday weekend night, the Polish college student coming to Maryland for a summer job was stuck at 8th Street, desperate and in need of help.

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Alexander Galkin could have left Russia to study for his doctorate in neuroscience in the USA. But instead he's at Humboldt and Free universities in Germany's capital, because, "I had better scientific opportunities."

Rising U.S. tuitions, increased tension between much of the world and the United States and post-9/11-related immigration issues have all fed a decline in foreign student enrollment. So, too, has heightened competition from the rest of the developed world.

Although there are more than 500,000 foreign students in U.S. universities, enrollment has dropped more than 3% since the 2001-02 academic year. The consequences are serious enough to lead President Bush to call Thursday for more federal spending on language training, the recruitment of foreign language experts to teach in the USA and a streamlining of immigration regulations to allow more students to study here. "We want young kids from around the world coming to our universities," Bush told a State Department-sponsored summit of more than 120 university presidents Thursday.

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The Summer Work/Travel program is a Congressionally authorized program. Under the authority of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, as amended, the Department of State (Department) designates private sector organizations and government agencies to conduct exchange visitor programs in one or more of 13 different exchange visitor program categories. The Summer Work/Travel program is one category. The Summer Work/Travel program is designed to achieve the educational objectives of international exchange by involving bona fide foreign college/university students directly in the daily life of the people of the United States through travel and temporary work opportunities. You can acquire a list of designated sponsors for this category by going to our website and clicking on ‘Catalog of Designated Sponsors’ and clicking on ‘Summer Work/Travel.’