Thursday, April 28, 2011

A Job Well Done

Nan Mulligan, Delmarva Sussex Weeklies, received the following letter of thanks from Bromwell & Brown Estate Buyers.


“We would like to give special thanks to Nan Mulligan for a job well done. Her expert assistance enabled us to have a very successful event. We are planning another meeting in your city within a year. Our company is looking forward to working with you again. Sincerely, Stanley Brown, Pres.”

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

May Anniversary List

5/1 , 5 YRS , David Chambers , Delaware State News
5/1 , 8 YRS , Debra Wisk , Delaware State News
5/4 , 7 YRS , Jaclyn Fuller , Delaware Printing Company
5/5 , 3 YRS , Anna Hines , Okeechobee News
5/5 , 12 YRS , David Hughes , Delaware State News
5/5 , 15 YRS , William Mitchell , Sussex Post
5/6 , 6 YRS , Jamie-Leigh Bissett , Delaware State News
5/9 , 17 YRS , Timothy Spong , Delaware State News
5/10 , 1 YRS , Nanette Mulligan , Sussex Post
5/14 , 26 YRS , Roger Leslie , Delaware Printing Company
5/16 , 6 YRS , Matthew Porterfield , Delaware State News
5/20 , 4 YRS , Joshua Langley , Valley Newspaper Printing
5/21 , 8 YRS , Cynthia Paquette , Delaware State News
5/25 , 12 YRS , Angela Hicks , Delaware State News
5/26 , 3 YRS , Brian Keller , Northeast Group Independent
5/29 , 15 YRS , Darel Laprade , Sussex Post

May Birthday List

5/1 , Gerald Bradshaw , Sun City Independent
5/2 , Timothy Buzzard , Delaware Printing Company
5/3 , Farshid Yousefi , Delaware Printing Company
5/4 , Deborah Hanson , Valley Newspaper Printing
5/12 , Barbara Calfee , Caloosa Belle
5/12 , Michael Martinez , Valley Newspaper Printing
5/16 , Charles Adams , Valley Newspaper Printing
5/18 , Daniel Meisinger , Delaware Printing Company
5/20 , Judith Sheedy , Okeechobee News
5/23 , Jason Coffman , Daily Banner
5/25 , Maria Orozco , Valley Newspaper Printing
5/25 , Darin Powell , Corporate
5/27 , Franklin Powell , Okeechobee News
5/30 , Eric Kopp , Okeechobee News

Thursday, April 21, 2011

DAVE CHAMBERS CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS

ANNIVERSARY PROFILE
5 YEARS

Dave Chambers

Name: David Wade Chambers

Newspaper: Delaware State News

Position: Photo Editor

Number of years in the newspaper or printing business: Five

Job description: I provide photographic coverage of spot news, enterprise and sports assignments, primarily in Kent County, and edit all published photographs using Photoshop. I hire and manage freelance photographers, maintain all digital equipment and update the digital photo archives. I also create layouts, graphics, maps & illustrations as needed.

What I like best (about my job): After 5 years as a photojournalist in Dover, I enjoy finding myself in the role of “memory maker”. Every time I take a snapshot, I am basically making memories for people and families. Whether it’s a football game, a school play, an election, a parade, etc…. they are memories they may cut out and hang on their refrigerator, keep forever in a scrapbook and hopefully cherish forever. I also like how working at the State News has allowed me to get the opportunity to teach photography at Delaware Technical and Community College one night a week per semester.

Most memorable moment with INI: I have two. First, in January 2009 when then President-Elect Obama came to Wilmington during his whistle stop tour to Washington before his inauguration. It was a Saturday in January. I was in Wilmington at 6am (I was the second photog there) and it was a frigid six degrees. The media gathered in a huge park and waited for the thousands of people to arrive. Obama and Biden didn’t get there until 2pm. So, I was outside for approx. 8 hours in freezing temperatures, with thousands of Obama supporters, I saw a President, a Vice-President and I almost lost all ten toes due to frostbite. Unforgettable.

Secondly, the Case of The Hartly Monkey. In 2007, we did a story on a garage demolition in Hartly. The garage sat on the town’s four corners and was beloved by the townspeople for generations apparently. One hundred or so Hartly residents came out to witness the demolition and most told stories to each other of how they had heard from an older family member that there were monkey bones buried in one of the concrete columns of the garage. Apparently an eccentric owner of the garage in the 40s or 50s had a menagerie of exotic animals behind the building and after one of his pet monkeys had died he buried it in the concrete. After a while, I realized I was hearing about a local town legend….one the townspeople didn’t really know for sure was real or not. After getting my photographs of the bulldozers, I left. But as I was leaving, I asked the people to call the State News if they indeed found monkey bones. I wasn’t back in the newsroom 5 minutes when the phone rang. 20 minutes later I was back at the destroyed garage and had taken a photo of a Hartly woman holding a very small monkey skull. It was on the front page the next day. It was a local town legend proved true and it happened on my watch. Unforgettable.

Hobbies/Interests: I enjoy photography, Adobe Photoshop and graphic design obviously. I also enjoy painting (I was a Painting major at the University of Delaware in the 80s), watching British television, drinking Pepsi, eating pizza, listening to old school hip-hop, and driving BMWs. I like the New York Yankees, going to the beach, playing golf and riding my mountain bike. Someday I hope to get married and have a kid named Schmitty, Jr.

Fun facts (about myself):

1. At age 11, I was the first black belt to graduate from the Delaware Institute of Martial Arts (sounds cooler than it is, really)

2. I have never been outside of the Eastern Time Zone (even more embarrassing than it sounds, really).

3. My former jobs were (in chronological order) fast food cook, athletic sneaker salesman, sign maker, banker, bartender (one night), substitute teacher, Photoshop technician, graphic designer and Trash Can Dan (don’t ask...really).