The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 45

Inside: Remember the poltergeists? They're back, D4 A remarkable Italian feast, D9 Two sides of Bad Sneakers, D6 More for the weekend, D2 Movies, D3 People, D4 Stage, D4 Books, D5 Eater's digest, D5 Music, D6 Galleries, D7 Atlantic City, D7 Television, D8 Gardens, D9 Rod and gun, D10 Tj, Vvm lOMt-LI JU HU I i Mill. MUM. If Ijyyp. MUB-JU M.fWWW "ff. pw If If A 1 I I i This weekend Veterans, churches co-sponsor events In honor of Memorial Day, service clubs, veterans organizations and churches have joined to plan two events for the weekend.

Sunday, several groups will gather at 12:30 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial in front of the Sussex County Court House, The Circle, Georgetown. Guests are the Rev. Sam McWilliams, Sussex Central Senior High School Band, the American Legion Color Guard and a firing squad from the Delaware Army National Guard. The Rev.

Wayne Grier of Grace United Methodist Church will speak. Veterans clubs will lay wreaths. Monday, the Dover-area Veterans Council's Memorial Day activities include a parade and memorial services at the Veterans' Memorial Triangle, State Street and Kings Highway. Participants in the parade will assemble at William Henry Middle School and march east on Forest and Loockerman streets at 10 a.m. The ceremony at Veterans' Memorial Triangle will begin at 11 a.m.

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4 Connector 3 Delaware 4 4 Churcnmans Rd, DELAWAREANS won't soon find an event much bigger in scope than the one coming this weekend. It's Hands Across America, a Los Aneeles-to-New York human Jim Granam pnoto Delaware 52 is site of Centreville festival. Artists, craftsmen at Centreville fest 5 Delaware Park 6 Del aware 4 7 Wilmington Blvd. 8 Market St. 9 Philadelphia Pike WILMINGTON STANTON NEWPORT NEWARK OGtETOWN chain that will stretch right across New Castle County.

Its purpose is to raise money for America's hungry and homeless. But people who take part in the 3 p.m. link-up Sunday also will be sharing an experience that might not happen or even be attempted again. Millions of people will be involved simultaneously in one unifying, symbolic, historic and patriotic gesture, all in the name of brotherhood. It's a linear Woodstock, linking 16 states and the District of Columbia.

Peter Tovar, Delaware director for Hands Across America, hopes participants will celebrate in grand style. "We want people to make a day of it, bring picnic lunches, bring their Frisbees, bring their lawn chairs," he said. "The issue of hunger and homelessness is a serious one. But on this day, we feel we can make (he chain fun for people, too." Forming on Memorial Day weekend, when many Americans honor those who sacrificed so 'others could live in freedom, the hand-holding chain will be a celebration of, for and by the people. Promoters of the event hope to raise between $50 million and $100 million to help the needy.

Hands Across America is asking people to pledge money contributors who donate $10, $25 or $35 receive commemorative gifts by calling (800) USA-9000. But those who can't afford to contribute shouldn't let that stop them from joining the line. Tovar says there will be pledge envelopes at the 110 checkpoints along Delaware's 25-mile section of the chain, which stretches from New- point location and street name in the mail. Those who signed up after that date should get an assignment from the Delaware Hands Across America office (654-7373), or they can go to a place in the line closest to where they live. In neighboring Cecil County, which contains an 18-mile section of the chain, organizers of Hands Across America faced the threat of a big gap in the line when Maryland State Police, for reasons of safety, prohibited pedestrians from standing on the Susquehanna River bridge between Perryville and Havre de Grace.

But a local divers' club came to the rescue. "It's only nine-tenths of a mile across," says Gene Weisheit, co-chairman of the Tri-County Diving and Rescue Club in Havre de Grace. "We figured we could get enough boaters to lash their boats together and form a raft, and people could hold hands in the boats. And for the channel, which is 40 feet and has to be kept open, we'll get 30 divers who can hold hands under water in order to save the line." Portions along the human chain that probably will go unfilled include stretches in Texas and Arizona, where intemperate cli- See A CHAIN D7 The annual Centreville Arts and Crafts Festival will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday on Delaware 52 in Centreville. More than 100 artists will display their wares, including sculpture, painting, photography and crafts. There will be entertainers, antique autos "and food. Each day at 4:30 p.m., two hot-air balloons will be launched. Chances to ride will be raffled.

Saturday there will be a parade of antique cars and bands. Jugglers and mimes will perform. Other entertainment will be the Ulster Scottish Pipe Band, noon Saturday; the Dixieland Jazz Band, 3 p.m. Saturday; and the First State Symphonic Band, 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

There also will be a strolling folk guitarist Sunday. Proceeds from the festival will support the Centreville Civic Association beautif ication fund. Museum's workers hold antiques sale The Brandywine River Museum volunteers will hold their annual antiques show and sale in the art galleries and cobblestone-lined courtyard. Friends will provide entertainment from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday and 10:30 a.m.

to 12:30 p.m. Monday on the second floor of the museum. The flute, cello and keyboard trio will perform a selection of baroque light classical music. The Brandywine Heritage galleries and Andrew Wyeth Gallery will be open to visitors during the antique show. The show at the museum, U.S.

1, Chadds Ford, is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and Monday.

Admission is $4. ark to Claymont. People who don't have money to give but would like to be part of the event can mail in a pledge later. Premiums visors, T-shirts, lapel pins and participation certificates will be honored through Dec. 31.

Contributions will not be collected on the line, and participants are warned that no one has been authorized to collect money for the charity on the day of the event. People who made a pledge or sent in donations by May 15 should receive a specific route assignment including a segment number, check- -s 1 Wis lt A record 182 horses have been entered in the two-day event, which has $36,500 in purse money and some top-notch steeplechase fields At Fair Hill, the feeling is pari-mutuel Patterson, vice president of Patterson-Schwartz Realtors. Jimmy Kelly will be ridden by Paddy Neilson, whom Groat calls "probably the best timber rider in the history of the sport." Neilson came out of retirement this spring. Fair Hill is on Maryland 273 a few miles west of Newark. Gates open at 10:30 a.m.

General admission tickets can be purchased for $2 at the following Wilmington- and Newark-area businesses: the Beehive (Du Pont Building and Christiana Mall), the Smoke Shop, Lincoln Camera Shop, Kennett News, House of Watches, Shields Lumber, Newark Newsstand, Dilorio Variety, Chrichton Beverages and Nutters Market. Children younger than 12 get in free. For more information, call (301) 398-6565. served in the Tea behind the stands containing box seats. Those 134 boxes belong to folks who pay $100 a day to sit in them; they are passed from generation to generation.

Box holders and railbird picnickers meet at the betting windows. Fair Hill is the only steeplechase track in the country with pari-mutuel betting. Proceeds go to Union Hospital in Elkton, Md. Steve Groat, executive director of the Fair Hill Races, expects "a very strong card" to compete for the $36,500 in purse money Monday. The feature race is the $20,000 Navigate.

Favorites include Mrs. Miles Valentine's Meal Ticket and George Strawbridge Gateshead. Gateshead is trained by Jonathan Sheppard of Unionville, consistently one of the top steeplechase A record 182 horses have been entered for Monday's steeplechase races at Fair Hill, as the Cecil County track begins its two-day spring meet. Horses will race again on June 7. Racing at Fair Hill brings out picnickers and sun worshippers who spread blankets and set up lawn chairs near the rail that divides the track's home stretch from the patrons.

The best vantage points for those who buy a $3 general admission ticket at the gate put them just a few feet from the final jump the horses must clear before reaching the finish line. Hot dogs and hamburgers are available behind the grandstand, and draft beer flows from taps in the side of large trucks driven onto the grounds for the occasion. Lunch and cocktails are trainers in the country. Post time for the first race is 1:30 p.m. There are five hurdle races, one timber race and two flat races over turf.

Groat said he is particularly enthusiastic about the 3-mile timber race. Timber races are generally longer than hurdle races and require horses to clear high timber fences instead of the lower brush barriers of hurdle racing. "It should be one hell of a good one," Groat said. "There are so many good horses in there. The first sanctioned timber race was in Maryland, and we feel we have one of the fairest timber courses around." Horses in the timber race include Jimmy Kelly, Netherby and Spouting Creeque, owned by William C.

Lickle, chairman of the board of Delaware Trust and trained by W. Duncan Warner Bros, photo Eddie Rabbitt will perform at Delaware Park. Horses, Rabbitt, chicken on the side Country singer Eddie Rabbitt will perform at noon before Memorial Day races at Delaware Park. Admission to the concert and races is $2. For $7, a special package includes the concert, races and a chicken barbecue.

Rabbitt's biggest success has been with the songs, "I Love a Rainy Night," "Drivin' My Life Away," and "Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight." For package reservations, call 994-2521. Compiled by Andy Watt XAi ill At tit L-h A 4 juA. IX I I.