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equea Valley School District and the Factory Ministries have once again partnered up to ensure that kids in the area have everything they need ahead of the new school year. The two entities will hold their annual Back to School Supply Shop on Wednesday, Aug. 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. inside the gym at the Factory, 3293 Lincoln Highway East, Paradise. The program offers backpacks, notebooks, pencils, folders and a vast array of other supplies to students in need. Families must sign up for a shopping slot in advance; there will be five slots every 15 minutes within the allotted window. “This is our fifth year running the program,” said Lisa Eckert, director of early learning at Pequea Valley. “In previous years, we would just collect backpacks and kind of hand
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It takes a village. Octorara Area Little League has its village. The league’s homebase, Lions Park in Christiana, needed a new scoreboard on the main field. The new scoreboard, donated by Houghton Enterprises, was recently installed by a group of nearly a dozen dads on a warm Monday night at the park, 4 Sadsbury Ave., Christiana. The new scoreboard is nearly twice as large as its predecessor and can be controlled remotely and wirelessly from anywhere around the field. Previously, wired cables had to be run from the dugouts to control the scoreboard remotely.
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Annual Yard Sale Set in Gap BY LOGAN MOYER
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. T he s ale w ill b e 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, or ga n i z e d by 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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