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MORNING STAR
SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2006
Entertainment Delmarva Bike Week features music, thrill shows, rides Foghat, a classic rock band, will turn back the clock 35 years Saturday, Sept. 16, for Delmarva Bike Week. The four-day Delmarva Bike Week is set for Sept. 14-17 at Ocean Downs Raceway. Delmarva Bike Week is free admission and free concerts (including Foghat) thanks to sponsors. Bike parking is free and cars are welcome, but car parking is $10. It is a motorcycle event after all. Foghat is just part of a very strong musical lineup under the sponsorship of Coors Light, The Grand Hotel, Tri Supply & Equipment, The Maryland Beachcomber and the dynamic restaurant duo of Micky Finns and Teasers at Sunset Marina. Foghat takes the stage Saturday at 7:30
p.m., preceded by bike week favorites Cross Cut Saw and Random Impact. Silverado Band and the blues-driven Crossroads Band also play Saturday afternoon. The lineup Friday evening is just as strong. It’s Random Impact and Cross Cut Saw leading into the featured Blackfoot. Coors Light sponsors the guitar-driven band for this date. Also playing on Friday will be the Rhythm Pigs and the Silverado Band. On Thursday the Classic Southern Rockers are the featured performers. They are made up of musicians who have played with some of the biggest names in the music industry. Delmarva Bike Week is made possible by Harley-Davidson of Ocean City,
Seaford and Rehoboth Beach. The event features the outstanding lineup of music along with thrill shows like the Globe of Death and the Extreme Jumpers as well as the Wall of Death thrill seekers. There are also contests for all sorts of bikes with the Bike Games sponsored by Ocean 98 Radio, Pudding Wrestling sponsored by 96 Rock and more. There is even a 150-mile-per-hour JCB backhoe, brought to Delmarva Bike Week by Tri Supply & Equipment. There is the Cruzin The Coast Party Pin Run that goes all four days and cumulates in a drawing for a jackpot that should exceed $2,000. Stops along the way include the three long hauls with Billy Bob’s Bike
Barn near Milford, Crabby Dick’s Restaurant in Rehoboth Beach and the Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce. In between is BJs On The Water and the Caribbean Pool Bar in Ocean City, the wild, wild West Ocean City stops of Teaser’s at Sunset Marina, Micky Fins Restaurant and Bar, Harborside Bar & Restaurant, the 707 Sports Bar & Grille and the hometown of Delmarva Bike Week, the Berlin Chamber of Commerce. There is also the Red Knights Md. Chapter 3 Mr. Whippie’s Ride set for Friday (leaving from Harley-Davidson of Ocean City). Delmarva Bike Week is from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 14-16, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 17.
Harrington will celebrate 28th annual Heritage Day On Saturday, Sept. 16, Harrington will celebrate its 28th Annual Heritage Day. Events will get underway at 10 a.m. with a downtown parade and the opening of craft and flea market booths and continue with a variety of attractions throughout the afternoon. Official opening ceremonies presided over by Harrington Mayor Gene Price are set for 11 a.m. on the stage at the corner of Fleming and Mechanic streets. Delaware State Fair president William DiMondi will be the keynote speaker. During opening ceremonies, both a business and an individual will be honored for their contributions to the community. Free entertainment will fill the rest of the afternoon beginning at noon with a
performance by the Mid-State Stompers (the Harrington Senior Center’s line dancers). Sussex County’s Singing Sweetheart, Cathy Gorman, will take the stage at 12:45 p.m. She will be followed by the Destiny Christian Band and vocalist Harry Benson at 1:45 p.m., and Southern Gospel music at 2:45 p.m.. Between the acts, there will be a Cake Wheel with the opportunity to win dessert to take home. The entertainment concludes with a Youth Talent Contest at 4 p.m. Much more is in store for Heritage visitors. “Olde time” crafters will demonstrate the intricacies of such arts as basket making, wood working, soap making, spinning and chair caning. Modern day crafters will be on hand as well, and there will be an
Marshall Tucker coming to November Punkin Chunkin The Punkin Chunkin Association is anticipating raising thousands of dollars for local and national charities during the 21st annual world championships scheduled for Nov. 3-5. The first day of competition will culminate with a Marshall Tucker Band concert. Opening for the Marshall Tucker Band will be country artist Danielle Peck. The Marshall Tucker Band is known for hits such as “Can’t You See,” “Fire on the Mountain” and “Heard it in a Love Song.” Peck is a newcomer to the country music scene, making a name for herself with the song, “Findin’ a Good Man.” She was ranked No. 18 on CMT’s top-20 list during the third week of August 2006. Concert tickets are $25 and will go on sale Sept. 18. They will be available at Mugs & Stitches in Lewes, the Cape Gazette office in Nassau Commons, west of Lewes, by contacting Frank Shade at 854-5382, or at the Punkin Chunkin office at 684-8196. For more information about the 2006 event, visit the website www.punkinchunkin.com. The gourd-hurtling competition will be in the same location as in the last several years: the intersection of Sussex 305 and Sussex 306 - Hollyville Road and Harmony Cemetery Road in Millsboro. This is the last year the event will be in Millsboro. The association recently contracted with Bridgeville officials and the Dale Wheatley family to use a nearly 1,000-acre farm site for future chunks, beginning in the fall of 2007.
abundance of shopping opportunities including flea market bargains. Also during Heritage Day, there will be a classic car show, open museums to visit and a variety of activities just for young people. Good food of all kinds will be for sale throughout the day, and picnic tables will be provided near the entertainment area which will be tented this year. The Heritage Day celebration goes back 28 years, but the heritage celebrated spans nearly a century and a half. It was just 144 years ago, in 1862, that the former country crossroads (Clark’s Corner) officially became Harrington, a railroad town named for a railroad man, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, Chancellor of the State of
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Delaware and the Delaware Railroad’s first president. The city limits at that time were set at one mile north, south, east and west of the railroad tank house, and the rail line (eventually acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad) continued for many years to be a hub of passenger and freight traffic crucial to business, agricultural, community and family interests. The ascendancy of the automobile moved the center a little east to the intersection of U.S. 13 and Delaware 14, but with the growth of the Delaware State Fair, Harrington Raceway and Midway Slots, the community continued to thrive as the “Hub of Delmarva” and the focus of year-round activity.
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