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Butterfly Bolt flies high on Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk

Lewes-area What is Your Voice hosts event to raise awareness about domestic violence
Hosted by What is Your Voice, the second annual Butterfly Bold drew more than 100 people for a walk on the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood
October 10, 2024

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Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States

More than 100 people participated Oct. 4 in the second annual Butterfly Bolt on the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk.

The event is hosted by What is Your Voice, a Lewes-area nonprofit that has a mission to provide critical services to victims of domestic violence, such as shelter, counseling, linking victims to legal assistance, and more.

Following the walk, there was a gathering at Kiwi’s Cove.

For more information on What is Your Voice, go to whatisyourvoice.com, email helpline@whatisyourvoice.org or call 302-467-3310.

What is Your Voice is a Lewesarea nonprofit that provides services to victims of domestic violence. Shown cutting the walk’s ceremonial ribbon are (l-r) Abbagail Collick, Tiffany Havens, What is Your Voice founder Jacqueline Sterbach and Patty Rickman.
The walk started at Kiwi’s Cove and headed south to Funland, before turning around.
Members of the Village Improvement Association are on hand to show their support. Shown are (l-r) Jan Conant, Maribeth Dockety, Edith Caputo, Jane Fisher, Sue Youngquist, Lynn Dignazio, Pat Jurewicz, Cathy Hutchinson, Meg Collins and Paula Evans.
What is Your Voice founder Jacqueline Sterbach and volunteer Patty Rickman rally the troops before the walk begins.
This is the second year in a row this group of students from Sussex Academy has participated in the walk. In front are (l-r) Cindy DeEmedio and her granddaughter Alex DeEmedio. In back are (l-r) Elaina Marsch, Aidan Wiggins, Zachary Burger, Carter Hoffman and Abby Whitcomb.
In addition to spreading the word, participants brought donations.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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