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All six Centre County schools are ready to kick off the 2013 football season! Find team previews, photos, schedules and last year’s results in the Gazette’s special football guide. Also included are previews of the Penn State Nittany Lions and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Volume 5, Issue 35
Mountain Rocks aims to aid in fight against cancer
Women’s expo scheduled for October By SAMI HULINGS
shulings@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — Bringing together smart, dynamic and motivated women, the Entrepreneurial Women’s Expo provides female business owners with exhibits, workshops, speakers and a day away from the office to learn, network and have fun. In its fifth year, the expo will take place on Oct. 2 at Celebration Hall in State College. EWE founder Jessica Dolan said the idea for the expo came to her after starting her business, Room to Breathe Home Organizing & Staging, in 2004. After attending dry business conferences where she felt uncomfortable, Dolan said it became a goal of hers to create a women-owned business event. “I’m a little bit of an introvert and I don’t network well at big events,” she said. “I’m very uncomfortable, so I wanted to create a day kind of based on how I would like something to go so I feel comfortable.” In Jan. 2009, Dolan decided it was time the plan the event. By May 1, EWE was organized and registration was open. With just a bit of marketing and word of mouth the first expo was very widely received, with more than 150 women attending. EWE’s success and attendance has continued to grow each year.
By CHRIS MORELLI
editor@centrecountygazette.com
MARA TICCINO/For The Gazette
ON THE MOVE: Jamie Green, left, helps her daughter Gaby move in to her dorm on Penn State’s campus on Sunday.
Students return for fall semester
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By NATALIE HAMILTON
correspondent@centrecountygazette.com
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COMING SOON: The fifth Entrepreneurial Women’s Expo will be held on Oct. 2 at Celebration Hall in State College. Opinion ............................. 7 Health & Wellness .......... 8, 9
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UNIVERSITY PARK — They came in droves with their pop-up hampers, their mini fridges. They were looking for their fraternities. They were looking for the Creamery. They were looking for a parking space. On Aug. 24 and 25, much of campus and downtown State College was turned into a temporary construction zone of sorts — it was move-in weekend at Penn State. There were the sounds of rickety carts being pulled across the sidewalks. Orange cones and yellow-vested workers, directing traffic and people, were parked at every corner. There were signs in front of every building, making the names visible from the street, as well as “No left turns” and “No thru traffic.” Of the roads that did remain open, multitudes of cars inched on by, bumper to bumper, and filed into parking lots of some of the clearly labeled dorms and apartment complexes. Moving trucks were in the streets, their blinkers on, taking up what are usually vacant corners. Throngs of students roamed the sidewalks, strolling at a leisurely pace and enjoying the last weekend before the responsibility of
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Gazette Gameday ...... 19-22 Sports .......................... 23-29
BOALSBURG — Labor Day weekend is traditionally known as the final weekend of the summer. The last lazy days of summer are filled with cookouts, campfires and a few final laps in the pool. This year, it will be filled with music. The best part? It’s for a good cause. The Bestwick Foundation presents 2013 Mountain Rocks beginning at 6 p.m. on Sept. 1 at the Tussey Mountain Ampitheatre. Doors open at 5 p.m. Steve Greer is the event chair. “This is a great local event,” Greer said. “Everyone involved is passionate about what they do. We’re expecting a great night of music.” The lineup of musical acts includes: Ted and HiFi’s, Pure Cane Sugar, Jason McIntyre, Miss Melanie and the Valley Rats, Sons of Resonance and The Whatleys. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Tussey Mountain box office. All proceeds go to the Bestwick Foundation, which provides financial support for individuals and families in Centre County who are dealing with cancer.
classes and homework began on Monday, the start of the fall semester. Benches were occupied with tired-looking parents waiting on their children to meet up for a lunch break or to get that last load out of the car. Along College Avenue, there was a line out the door of The Waffle Shop, the doors opening and closing so frequently that the smell of hash browns and pancake batter seemed to fill the whole block. Many businesses had tents set up with coupons, discounts and deals to draw in the sudden swell of new residents. “Now hiring” signs littered the storefronts. Nearly everyone was carrying storage of some type; bins, boxes and tubs were everywhere. Local businesses, like McLanahan’s, were extremely busy. Waiting in the check-out line were John Tyrrell and Aaron Carreras, both freshman engineering students who went to high school together in Doylestown. The duo had just moved into Stewart Hall. Tyrrell’s parents drove three and a half hours on Sunday to help their son move in. They were picking up a few random odds and ends. Carreras pur-
“That’s the big thing,” Greer said. “The money stays local. We’re looking to help the people who can’t pay their bills, can’t make their mortgage. It means a lot to someone when they get a check for $2,500 to help pay their back rent.” If anyone knows what it’s like to fight cancer, it’s Greer. He’s a cancer survivor himself. Mountain Rocks is near and dear to his heart. “I know what it’s like. I’ve been there,” he said matter-of-factly. Mountain Rocks is just one of three events that the Bestwick Foundation is involved with. The others are the Eighth annual Reverse Car
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HELPING THE FIGHT: Pure Cane Sugar, shown here at Benefest, will perform at Mountain Rocks, a concert for the Bestwick Foundation.
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