As a newcomer to southern Delaware, one of the things I’m coming to appreciate most about the area is the deep and generous sense of community that abounds. The City of Rehoboth Beach and the larger Rehoboth area are the beneficiaries of this generosity each year when community-minded organizations team together to deliver a donated Christmas tree to the Bandstand.
Harry Caswell Inc., George W. Plummer & Son and Delmarva Power donate personnel, time, equipment and know-how to this process each year. The team members take on the effort to bring a Christmas tree to the City of Rehoboth with love for the community and a great deal of personal pride. This year, as in years past, we are so grateful to this team of professionals who bring a little holiday magic to Rehoboth Beach. We’re also thankful to those who donate a tree from their yard to be shared with the larger community. This year, Kim Duggan and her children, Wil and Kate, shared a 40-foot evergreen beauty that has stood in the front yard of their Lewes family home since 2001.
But the story doesn’t end there this year. On the night that the tree was successfully installed and before it was decorated, strong winds caused a ring on one of the anchors to break at the weld – and our tree came down. Harry Caswell was one of the first people on the scene the next morning. He reassigned two of his go-to staff members from other jobs and brought the crane back in to get the tree back in place. And when the city’s public works director felt that heavier-duty chain and new binders were needed, he brought the crane back again that afternoon. We’re so grateful that our community has a friend like Harry Caswell.
As if to prove that there’s magic – and salt – in the air in Rehoboth Beach, immediately following the countdown to the lighting of the tree at the city’s Nov. 29 tree lighting and sing-along event, it briefly began to snow. I don’t know if Harry Caswell, George Plummer & Son and Delmarva Power had anything to do with the snow, but I do know they helped put the magic into the City of Rehoboth Beach’s holiday event this year. Thank you.
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