New Castle County Council member Joe Reda has died of heart complications yesterday at the age of 73.
The Wilmington News Journal notes that Reda was a sheet metal worker, a union man as well as a politician.
He was well known around town and called “Joe the Bartender” for his mixing drinks at high-class parties in Greenville.
Reda was named to the First District seat in 12 years ago when then Council member Robert Woods quit.
