Job openings with Dogfish Head Brewery.

Interested in the microbrew industry?  Live or have the means to live in Sussex County?  Dogfish Head Brewery is searching for two people to work in the packaging department for their web operations. 

The job descriptions are here, as well as some earlier job openings that may or may not still exist:

http://www.dogfish.com/company/jobs/index.htm

Bad beach day alert

If you were planning on heading to Rehoboth early this week (hey, some of us don't work your typical Monday-Friday), be aware that thousands of "partially processed" menhaden have washed up on the shores of Rehoboth and Cape Henlopen, and many more have been seen floating off of the beaches.  They are headless and tailless, and it's believed they were dumped by a fishing vessel in the Delaware Bay.  Menhaden are used as bait food, and also to make fish oil. 
Currently, nobody is being allowed in the water, and officials aren't saying when the swimming ban will be lifted.  Other resorts may be affected.  Needless to say, the beach has smelled better. 

The News Journal has the full story:

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110604/NEWS/110604008/Thousands-fish-wash-ashore-state-beaches?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CHome

Cape Henlopen is hiring ocean lifeguards for the upcoming summer season.

Ocean lifeguards, especially at Cape Henlopen which is known for its undertows, are the cream of the crop amongst lifeguards.  Cape Henlopen lifeguards are responsible for multiple rescues every week, during the swimming season.  If you think you have what it takes, contact Bryan.John@state.de.us .

Two outdoors events for those heading to the beach this weekend:

1) Kite festival in Lewes:

It's called the Great Delaware Kite Festival, it's competitive, and there is a category for adults (as well as kids).  Your kite can be home-made or store-bought.  Register at 9am on Friday at Cape Henlopen State Park.  Competitors get in free, Delaware cars pay $4.  No word on how having or not having a parks annual pass affects the fee.  (By the way, if you don't have a state parks annual pass and you go to the parks more than, say, twice a year, get one.  It pays for itself after something like 5 visits, and it's actually a great motivator to get out into the parks more often for some hiking, disc golf, or whatever your pleasure is.  You can pick one up at any state park office).

2) Bethany / Fenwick Island Beach Clean-up:
Meet on Saturday morning "at the main beach Bath House parking lot at the south end of Fenwick Island State Park (just north of the Bethany-Fenwick Chamber of Commerce building)". 9am-noon.  Clean-up materials will be provided. Call 227-6991 if you  need more info, or visit:
http://www.visitsoutherndelaware.com/events/6th_Annual_Earth_Day_Beach_Clean-Up/1908/detail.htm

This weekend, 4/15 - 4/18:

UPDATE:  Any outdoor event on my weekend lists will probably have been rescheduled due to the rain.  But there's still plenty to do.

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"Get Outside" is hosting Kite Day tomorrow, 4/16, 1pm-3pm. Make and fly your own kite for $3! Call 655-5740 to register.
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Record Store Day is tomorrow, 4/16.  Rainbow Records has some beautiful t-shirts for sale to commemorate the day.  Now that their store is half the size it was, it's too small a space to host an in-store performance.  However, they will be giving away tickets to future WCL at the Queen Theatre concerts, plus releases of recordings that were made only for Record Store Day.  If you're passing by the store tomorrow, stop in - it's the last Rainbow Records in the state, and they could use some love (and I'm telling you, those blue t-shirts are great).  They're also holding sales all weekend.

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Brandywine Village's "Taste Of Brandywine" event has been rescheduled for May 14, due to weather concerns.

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In Philly this weekend, The Mountain Goats are at the TLA and Yoni Wolf is at the First Unitarian Church.

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Admission is free at the Brandywine River Museum on Sundays from 9:30 am to noon.  I did not know this!  Will definitely be going down there some Sundays from now on, with picnic blanket, lunch, and sweetheart.

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A Civil Unions bill was just approved in Delaware.  Will write more about this later.

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For prospective students at DCAD, today is preview day.  Stop in for tours of the campus.

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For a dose of nonrelevance: Wilmingtonic is bummed that she missed the O'Death show at Kung Fu Necktie this week.  Didn't even know about it, but was out of town anyway.  Saw them open for Dr. Dog in New York a few years ago, and they're pretty amazing.

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Okay, gotta run to work.  But I'm finding quite a few good things to blog about in the next few days.  Stay tuned!