Octorara /townlively
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXX • NO 40
we are so thankful for our readers and the local businesses and organizations that help to make our communities thrive PABA Honors Business Leader Of The Year BY FRANCINE FULTON
Members of the Parkesburg Area Business Association (PABA) have selected Judy Dougherty, director of the Octorara Area Food Cupboard (OAFC), as the 2019 Business Leader of the Year. Since PABA’s annual awards banquet was canceled in May because of the coronavirus pandemic, Allan Fellman, PABA president, recently presented the award to Dougherty in person at the OAFC. See PABA pg 5
The community is invited to participate in a local history scavenger hunt on Nov. 21 to celebrate Atglen Public Library’s 75th anniversary. The hunt will begin and end in front of the library’s new building on Main Street.
BY FRANCINE FULTON
tglen-area residents are invited to participate in a local history scavenger hunt to celebrate Atglen Public Library’s 75th anniversary on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 1 to 4 p.m. As part of the first-time event, participants will pick up a free scavenger hunt passport at the hunt headquarters tent, located on Main Street across from Parkesburg Borough Hall, and then walk through town to solve riddles and answer a question at each destination.
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Attendees will be asked to wear a mask and social distance while on the hunt. When finished, participants will return their passport to hunt headquarters, where ice cream treats and hot chocolate will be served. “The whole idea of the ice cream is that it’s our birthday,” explained library director Robbyn Kehoe. “Seventy-five years ago on that weekend is when we first opened our doors.” Kehoe explained that the scavenger hunt will involve searching for buildings in the borough and then answering a specific question about each building. “You will get a passport, and
it will have clues in it and a map from 1876. The borough was incorporated in 1876, and the buildings from back then (will be featured in the scavenger hunt),” she noted. “There will be questions for each building that you have to answer. You will need to see the building to know the answer to the question.” For example, Kehoe noted, the question might ask scavenger hunt participants to identify the date imprinted on a building’s cornerstone. Individuals, as well as local families, are encouraged to take part in the event at their own pace. Those
who do not reside in Atglen but are interested in local history are also invited to participate. “It is a walking tour, and it’s not far,” said Kehoe. The library’s scavenger hunt will be a mini version of the Town Tours and Village Walks program, which is hosted each summer by the Chester County Planning Commission. “The Chester County Planning office has been encouraging us to do that, but there is no entity that can host one. We don’t have a historical society or commission,” Kehoe said. “Local history is one of my hobbies and I (wanted to do) one.”
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See Atglen Library pg 6
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