Christiana Library Sponsors Golf Tourney

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So what does the 2nd Annual Christiana Moores Memorial Library Golf Tournament have to do with Parkesburg?

Funny you should ask.

Aside from the fact that Christiana is a our neighbor and one of the seven municipalities covered by the Octorara Area School District, there's also the small matter of Jack Assetto.

Many of you know Jack as the town's barber, cutting hair and regaling customers who come to his First Avenue shop with stories (Ever heard the one about his fishing trip with former president Jimmy Carter?), opinions (always conservative and never politically correct) and jokes, some political, a few off color (he is a barber after all!).

What many don't know is that behind the scenes Jack is a tireless worker for the area's causes.

In recent years he's done time (it felt like hard labor sometimes!) on  Sadsbury Township's Board of Supervisors.

He currently serves as Treasurer and keeper of the checkbooks and secret bank accounts for Atglen's all volunteer fire company AND, this is where Christiana comes in, Jack serves as Chair of Christiana's Moores Memorial Library's $1.9M Capital Campaign Committee.

Read more about the fund raising initiative and watch a video of the library's move into the old Wachovia bank building here.

The 2nd Annual Moores Memorial Library Golf Tournament will be held May 16, 2011 at Moccasin Run Golf Course, 402 Schoff Rd. Atglen, Pa. 

This is a best ball tournament.  Shotgun Start at 1:00 PM. 

Light lunch will provided at noon and dinner after the tournament. 

Single player fee of $85.00 includes green fees, cart, range balls, lunch, dinner,  soda, water and beer.

For an application call Jack Assetto at 610-857-1920 or 610-675-5815 or Walt Crellin at 717-475-1268 

Additional details of the golf tournament are below:

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Lest We Forget . . .

An Honor Guard waits patiently at Arlington National Cemetery

As we cheer the bittersweet death of Osama bin Laden and his burial at sea, may we take a moment to remember the soldiers listed to the left who died late last week on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and the nearly 6,000 men and women who went before them.

Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.  Never.

We're Getting Bigger

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If the numbers from the 2010 United States Census are to be believed, Parkesburg's population is growing and becoming more diverse.

Census takers recorded 3,593 men, women and children living in Parkesburg, an increase of 237 people from the year 2000 rates when the last census was taken.

Of the nearly 3,600 people living in town, 2,910 were counted as white, 323 African-Americans and 287 as Hispanic.  All other racial categories, including   'Multiracial,' registered less than 2% of Parkesburg's total population.

Parkesburg's neighboring townships and municipalities grew and diversified at about the same rate as Parkesburg, the exception being the Sadesburyville and Pomeroy Census Track. Population in that track to the east of Parkesburg grew nearly 40% in the last ten years.

Here are the maps from each of the 5 census tracts surrounding Parkesburg:

Sadsbury Township / Pomeroy 

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Atglen Borough and West Sadsbury Township

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 Highland Township

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West Fallowfield Township

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