Talk:Dewey Beach, Delaware

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Validation of rumored fact.

From the article; "The town's first mayor, Bruce Vavala, reportedly spent his first day in office surfing[citation needed]."

The other day, as Dewey's webmaster, I asked him about this. His response (via email):

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It is not clear to me how I should go about modifying the page to reflect this information;

It is not archived (except on my computers, although a corresponding positive statement is now on the town web site), and

It is a statement by the individual involved; is this an adequate citation?

RCleaveland (talk) 16:36, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting and funny as it might be, this statement shouldn't be in the article. Even if someone came up with a solid published source (after a year and a half of waiting for one), as it's written today it unjustly makes the mayor look irresponsible. Even if the source explained why he went surfing it would still be trivia, and less-interesting trivia at that. I think it should be removed. --CliffC (talk) 19:15, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:09:11 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Vavala" <bvavala@dmv.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Cleaveland <deweywebmaster@deweytown.us> Subject: Re: surfing? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes it is true. Pre cell phone times and they were trying to reach me and they kept calling the house bugging my wife and finally she told them they could not reach me because I was surfing. Hit AP and UPI and I got copies of news articles from overseas. Richard Cleaveland wrote: Bruce, there's a note in Wikipedia on Dewey that says "The town's first mayor, Bruce Vavala, reportedly spent his first day in office surfing." Any truth to that? Dick

vacation

Great vacation spot, very nice people and everything is so close and easily accessible. You can walk almost anywhere you need to go, with few exceptions.

Nll27 (talk) 01:41, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:09:11 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Vavala" <bvavala@dmv.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Cleaveland <deweywebmaster@deweytown.us> Subject: Re: surfing? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes it is true. Pre cell phone times and they were trying to reach me and they kept calling the house bugging my wife and finally she told them they could not reach me because I was surfing. Hit AP and UPI and I got copies of news articles from overseas. Richard Cleaveland wrote: Bruce, there's a note in Wikipedia on Dewey that says "The town's first mayor, Bruce Vavala, reportedly spent his first day in office surfing." Any truth to that? Dick

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