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JUNE 7, 2024
THE LOCAL VOICE OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
Magic for Morgan event set for Saturday
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Fundraiser to benef it local girl, family By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter As a local child continues her fight with cancer in an upstate hospital, her home community will come together this weekend for the second time to help her and her family. Morgan Speigel, 8, of Dagsboro, has been hospitalized at Nemours Children’s Hospital since early April, when she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She underwent surgery to remove a grape-sized tumor at the center of her brain, next to her pituitary gland. The Magic for Morgan fundraiser set for Saturday, June 8, at Millville’s Evans Park will be a fun, family-oriented event, according to organizers. Morgan would have been finishing second grade with her twin brother, Asher, this week at John M. Clayton Elementary School if she had not been in the hospital since just after Easter. Before the surgery, she “went into See EVENT page 4
Millsboro man arrested in homicide By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter A 19-year-old Millsboro-area man was identified by Delaware State Police this week as the suspect in a shooting that killed a 26-year-old man on the morning of Tuesday, June 4. Malachi Waters was arrested in Delmar, Md., near the border between Delaware and Maryland, shortly after 10:47 a.m. on Tuesday, after the preliminary investigation into the shooting identified him as the suspect. Police said that after he was extradited to Delaware he would be charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm durSee HOMICIDE page 5
Coastal Point • Kerin Magill
Artist McKenzie West is nearly finished the mural she created for Dagsboro’s Kisa Cafe. West and the cafe’s owners collaborated on the design, which integrates West’s love of flowers, the cafe’s location near Delaware Botanic Gardens and the cafe’s name. (‘Kisa’ means cat in Russian and Norwegian.)
Bethany artist celebrates Dagsboro, cafe in colorful mural By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Just down the road from Dagsboro’s Main Street, the Delaware Botanic Gardens are in full bloom, but there’s another “garden” blooming right in the center of town. Bethany Beach artist McKenzie West has been hard at work for the past few weeks, painting a bright, bold mural on the brick exterior of the Kisa Café. The project, on which she collaborated with café owners Ryan and Ksenia Litvinova, was one that was near and dear to West’s heart, she said. Having grown up in Bethany Beach, West — the daughter of Hope and Michael Orhelein — has traveled
the world with her husband, photographer Ryan West, but she said this week that she has “been an artist my whole life. “I’ve always had a passion for it,” she said. But her career was “kick-started” when she won an “artist of the month” contest put on by a company in Puerto Rico in 2018. The company then began selling her art, she said. Before that, she had devoted her spare time to art while doing other work. “I started off drawing surfer-girls. They’ve always kind of been my muse,” West said. “They glide so gracefully on the water.” West’s website, at www.mkensea.com, shows a photo of her on a jetty, carrying a surfboard. While she grew up near the beach in Delaware, she said she learned to surf
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