GDG- News release from state Rep. Harry Readshaw

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jay Purdy
House Democratic Communications Office
State Rep. Harry Readshaw 
D-Allegheny
www.pahouse.com/readshaw
  




Ride for the Monuments a ‘sixth-sess’
 
HARRISBURG, Oct. 6 – Despite a persistent drizzle, Saturday’s sixth annual Ride for the Monuments at Gettysburg marked another complete success for its sponsor, the Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education.
 
State Rep. Harry Readshaw, D-Allegheny, today said the ride from Harrisburg to Battlefield Harley Davidson in Gettysburg brought in approximately $8,000 for his Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monuments Project and for the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association in its work to preserve the historic Daniel Lady Farm on Hanover Road just outside the famed borough.
 
The annual procession benefits the Monuments Project’s endowment fund to meet future maintenance needs of the more than 140 Pennsylvania monuments and markers on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The monuments project has already ensured funding for current repair and cleaning needs. 
 
At the Daniel Lady Farm, the GBPA is nearing completion of the stone farmhouse that was a Confederate regimental headquarters and field hospital during the three-day battle. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee spent time at the farm on the first night of the epic clash.
 
At an award ceremony and chicken barbecue following the ride, 9-year-old Grant Sanders, a student at James Getty Elementary School in Gettysburg, presented Readshaw with $104 he raised selling battlefield photograph collages. He mounted the effort after three monuments were heavily damaged by vandals in February.
 
“It was especially heartening to see how many motorcyclists put on their leathers and rode despite the chilly, wet weather,” said Readshaw. “The money raised Saturday means at least a couple more monuments will be endowed so that they can stand for many more generations to come as testament to the struggle and sacrifice of those three days in 1863 when the course of the Civil War was changed.”
 
Information about the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monuments Project can be obtained by contacting Readshaw’s Harrisburg office at 717-783-0411 or by e-mail at Gettysburg at pahouse.net.  
 
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