Octorara AUGUST 12, 2026
SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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VOL XXXVI • NO 24
Annual Yard Sale Set in Gap
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BY LOGAN MOYER
The event is being held in support of Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors.
A.B.A.T.E. to Hold Annual Ride and Picnic
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he Chester County chapter of the Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education (A.B.A.T.E.) organization will hold its annual bike ride and picnic to benefit Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors on Saturday, Aug. 22, beginning and ending at the Parkesburg VFW (Post 4480), 406 W. Fourth Ave., Parkesburg. Registration will be held from 8 to 8:45 a.m., and the ride will
begin at 9 a.m. Participants will be asked to pay a registration donation, which will include lunch after the ride. This year’s lunch will be cold cuts. Instead of premade sandwiches, all of the ingredients will be laid out, and hoagies can be made to each individual’s choosing. The Parkesburg Wawa will also provide breakfast before the ride. The travel plan for this year’s ride is around 55 miles, starting in Parkesburg and looping around
through Hockessin, Delaware, and Kennett Square. The group makes every effort to keep riders safe during the event, sticking to smaller roads while relying on local municipalities to block major intersections at various different points of the ride. “ T he cool thing is that we have assistance from many fire polices,” explained chapter chaplain and event chair Jeff Smack. “It’s almost that once we leave Parkesburg VFW, you don’t have See A.B.A.T.E. pg 4
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The event usually draws between 50 and 100 motorcyclists, depending on the weather.
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A communitywide yard sale will be held in Gap from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 15. The sale will be held on Pequea Avenue; on Newport Avenue; on Bellevue Avenue; at Sunset Village; and at the Gap Fire Hall, 802 Pequea Ave., Gap. Communitywide yard sales, o r g a n i z e d b y J i m S h a f fe r, were held annually in Gap for roughly 30 years. The effort was brought back last year on a smaller scale. “It is really just tr ying to revitalize the yard sales in Gap,” local resident Paula Diem said. “It always ran with Rough and Tumble week, so it used to be a three-day yard sale on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.” L ast year, the community tried the sale for just two days. Roughly 20 to 25 homes participated, although Diem would love to see it go back to the 50-plus homes that took part in the sale’s glory days. Diem said that last year, most of the homes that participated had items that would typically be found at a yard sale, including old toys, books and kitchenware. “There’s new faces, new families in Gap,” Diem said. “So lots of new things that they can clean out and get rid of.” Those outside of Gap who would like to participate in the sale are welcome to set up at the Gap Fire Hall, Diem said. “It is a nice community thing that everybody gets so involved,” she said. “We just really want to get it back out there so that people know that we’re having it.”
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