rehoboth beach

59 Lake. DJ John Mixon, tonight. 59 Lake Ave., Rehoboth Beach. 226-5900

Adriatico. Cathy Gorman, tonight. Midway Shopping Center, Del. 1, Midway. 645-6160

Arena's Bar & Deli. Trisha Benton, Sat. Nazarites, Tue. 149 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach. 227-1272

Aspirations. Steel Drums, tonight. Shawn Wilhite, Sat. 227 N. Rehoboth Blvd., Milford. 424-4228

Blue Moon Restaurant. Pamela Stanley, Sun.-Tue. Sherry Vine, Wed. Pamela Stanley, Wed.-Thu. 35 Baltimore Ave., Rehoboth Beach. 227-6515

Foreign students are getting a local helping hand. The students picked up a survival guide Wednesday for working and living in Rehoboth Beach.

The booklets have local laws and safety rules written in four languages. Rehoboth Beach residents put the guide together. They also hope to make a database of the students who come from all over the world.

The orientation program gave students information about safety, banking accounts and even where to turn for medical help.

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.

It was the kind of early afternoon tourism planners dream of -- the sun was out, the sand was warm with a slight cooling breeze off the Atlantic and the beach off Rehoboth Avenue was packed.

There was barely room Saturday for Mike Miranda and Nina Filippelli to find a spot, catch the rays and enjoy the extra-long Memorial Day weekend.

"I used to go to Ocean City [Md.] until Mike brought me here," said Filippelli, who is from Baltimore. "But Ocean City can get too crowded. Rehoboth is a lot more relaxed and there are good restaurants here."

By Jim Westhoff
Cape Gazette staff

The international students are starting to arrive, and local leaders want to avoid any of the problems from last year, like traffic accidents, evictions, thefts and students unsure where to turn for help.

When the students arrive from Europe and other places around the globe, religious and business leaders in the Cape Region plan to have an entire program in place to help the students.

“We’re trying to look after their safety in any way we can,” said the Rev. Edward Kovacs of Lutheran Church of Our Savior. Kovacs is one of the many people poised to help this summer.

Under the umbrella of The Rehoboth Beach–Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce, groups as diverse as printing companies, police departments and churches have come together to help the international students.

“The churches, the police departments the businesses and area services all had different concerns about getting information to foreign students,” said Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Carol Everhart. “They came to the chamber and asked us to provide the umbrella and the coordination to make that happen. We said yes.”

By Bridin Reynolds-Hughes (www.capegazette.com)

Oú est votre maison?

Dove è la vostra sede?

Kur irtavas majas?

By Jim Westhoff Cape Gazette staff (www.capegazette.com)

They scoop ice cream, work drive-through windows, bus tables and groom dogs. Thousands of students from all over the world descend on the Cape Region during the summer to work and live like Americans.Known for their work ethic, punctuality and near-limitless quest for hours, foreign students are considered a godsend by many local business owners.They say young people with accented English fill a void left by a dwindling number of interested American youths. Many American young people have school commitments that last until mid-June and that start again in mid-August, while foreign workers arrive here and work for three months straight. Some of the students arrive in May and work until July; others will arrive as late as August and stay until October.While not every experience is rosy and police have occasionally been called for noisy parties and other complaints, most of the foreign students report they are happy to spend their summer in the Cape Region.