The Centre County Gazette, February 2, 2017

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Penn State football coach James Franklin and his staff reeled in a highly regarded recruiting class on Wednesday, Feb. 1, that continues to build on the foundation put in place since his arrival in January 2014. Take a look at the newest Nittany Lions./Page 19

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County seeks $8M grant to upgrade equine facilities

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By G. KERRY WEBSTER kerry.ccgazette@gmail.com

Photo courtesy of Geisinger Health System

LINDSAY DUNKLE, a research technician at the genomics lab at the Weis Center for Research in Danville, checks some samples.

BELLEFONTE — Make no mistake about it: people love attending horse shows in Centre County, particularly at the Grange Park Equine Center, where, in 2016, more than 5,000 horses were shown.

That’s a huge increase from the 1,600 horses shown in 2011. And, according to Darlene Confer, Grange Fair general manager, those numbers could have been even bigger.

Confer, along with Sue Hannegan from the Centre County Planning Office, visited the Centre County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 31 to ask commissioners if they would support the submission of an $8

million grant request to the state Office of Budget-Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program on behalf of the Centre County Grange and Encampment Fair for the construction of additional facilities at the Grange Park Equine Center.

The commissioners unanimously agreed to support the request.

“We are completely booked from March through October with horse shows,” said Confer, “and, we’ve been having to turn away a lot of business because we just can’t accommodate everyone that wants to use our facilities. People really enjoy coming here for a variety of reasons, but especially because of Equine, Page 4

Geisinger genetics research offers big health, economic impact for region

By MARK BRACKENBURY editor@centrecountygazette.com

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GENETICS COUNSELOR Miranda Hallquist in her office in Geisinger’s Scenery Park facility in State College.

As Geisinger Health System’s MyCode genetics research initiative grows to more than 132,000 participants, the community is seeing results in more ways than one.

And now the MyCode project is helping serve as a springboard to local participation in a federal initiative that could pump $40 million to $50 million of government funds and bring numerous jobs into

Photo courtesy of Darlene Confer

AN OVERVIEW of the Grange Park Equine Center.

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Florists already gearing up for Valentine’s Day

By HARRY ZIMBLER correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

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RANDY AMMERMAN, co-owner of George’s Floral Boutique in State College, prepares an arrangement in the downtown store. Valentine’s Day is approaching quickly and area florists are busy getting ready for the Feb. 14 holiday.

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STATE COLLEGE — Every year, more than $40 billion is spent worldwide on flowers, according to author Amy Stewart. Much of that is spent on gifts for Valentine’s Day. While the impact is global, local florists find themselves caught up in the various challenges facing the flower industry, from weather to the ability to get orders filled.

More than 75 percent of flowers sold

by American florists are imported, and the world’s leading producer of quality roses is Ecuador.

“Valentine’s Day is the biggest single day of the year for sales,” said Mitch Ballas, co-owner of George’s Floral

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Boutique on College Avenue in State College. “And the fact that it is on a Tuesday this year is going to mean even better sales, because people will be more focused on the holiday than they would on a weekend, when people have other things to do.”

Ballas, co-owner Randy Ammerman and store manager Brooke Thomas agreed that orders for Valentine’s Day will be about 100 times the amount on a normal day.

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MAX’S IMPACT: FaithCentre of Bellefonte Executive Director Nicole Summers tells the story of Max, a stray dog that inspired the Pet Food Pantry.

Max passed away recently but his impact is lasting.

Page 9 IMPRESSIVE CAREER: Linda Brown recently retired after working for a remarkable 47 years at what is now First National Bank’s Old Fort branch. Brown says she took satisfaction in helping people meet financial needs.

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This Valentine’s Day, Give the Gift of Time.

ALL-AROUND FORCE: State College Area High School center Taylor Love has been a major difference-maker for the Lady Little Lions this season, leading the team in scoring and rebounding and serving as a calming influence in a year of transition.

Page 20 LIFE IS A CABARET: FUSE Productions will present the classic “Cabaret” at Schwab Auditorium on the Penn State campus from Feb. 16-18. The cast will feature local performers and two professional actors.

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Police reported the investigation into a reported theft by deception that occurred along Runville Road in Boggs Township between 2:32 p.m. Nov. 3 and 4:23 p.m.

Nov. 29. Police said the victim is a 59-yearold man and the suspects are unknown. ❑❑❑ A 51-year-old Howard woman reported numerous items were missing from her jewelry chest following a visit by a 30-yearold Lancaster man to her Grove Street, Howard Borough, apartment, sometime between Dec. 30 and Jan. 23. ❑❑❑ Police said items reported stolen include $470 in cash, a gold engagement ring with a floral setting a small diamond, a gold engagement ring with a large central diamond and two smaller diamonds on each side, two Harley-Davidson logo Zippo lighters and a gold Harley-Davidson wedding band. Police continue to investigate. ❑❑❑ Police reported 34-year-old Kristopher Latorre was found to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia following a routine traffic stop along Interstate 80 in Marion Township at 4:34 p.m. Jan. 13. ❑❑❑ Authorities reported the arrest of 30-year-old Justin Brown on harassment charges following a Jan. 15 domestic dispute involving a 29-year-old woman along Upper Georges Valley Road in Gregg Township at 5:52 a.m. ❑❑❑ A Howard couple was scammed out of $6,000 in Walmart and Target gift cards Jan. 19, police said. According to authorities, the couple was contacted by a man claiming to be their grandson and said he was involved in a crash where he caused injury to another person. He told the couple he needed $6,000 to pay his attorney, but the money had to be sent via Walmart and Target gift cards. Police continue to investigate. ❑❑❑ No injuries were reported in a single-vehicle crash that occurred at 11:05 a.m. Jan. 22 along Main Street in Spring Township. Police said Curtis L. Swartz, of Millheim, was southbound and failed to negotiate a right curve in the roadway because he was traveling too fast. His 1999 Nissan Sentra traveled across two travel lanes and drove off the left side of the roadway before striking a rock wall. Police said Swartz was cited for not driving his vehicle at a safe speed. ❑❑❑ Police were called to state Route 45 in Haines Township at 5:35 p.m. Jan. 23 to investigate a single-vehicle crash. Police said William Detterline, of Danville, was northbound when a deer entered the roadway. Detterline applied the brakes to his 2015 Toyota Corolla prior to striking the deer with the front end of the vehicle.

The Corolla then slid off the right side of the roadway and struck a culvert. No injuries were reported.

❑❑❑ No injuries were reported in a single-vehicle crash that occurred at 4:50 a.m. Jan. 24 along Curtin Hollow Road, at the intersection with township Route 425. Police said Dale Davis, of Bellefonte, was operating his 2016 Dodge Ram southbound, and while attempting to negotiate a left turn, the vehicle slid through the intersection, traveled down an embankment and rolled onto its side. Police said Davis was cited for not driving on roadways laned for traffic. ❑❑❑ Authorities were called to the 900 block of Runville Road in Boggs Township at 3:37 a.m. Jan. 26 to investigate a hit-andrun crash. Police said someone operating a dark gray Hyundai Tucsan was southbound on Runville Road when the vehicle traveled off the left edge of the roadway and struck a utility pole support wire. The impact with the support wire then pulled down the top portion of the utility pole and power wires onto the roadway. The right-front bumper of the vehicle was torn off during the crash, and remained at the scene. Police continue to investigate. ❑❑❑ Police received a report concerning a 28-year-old Munson man alleged to be intoxicated and threatening to drive his vehicle into a residence along Whipporwill Lane in Snow Shoe Township at 3:07 a.m. Jan. 28. Police located the man about a mile away in the woods, and he was observed to be under the influence of alcohol. He was transported to Mount Nittany Medical Center, where he refused to consent to a legal blood draw. Charges are pending. ❑❑❑ No injuries were reported in a single-vehicle crash that occurred at 3:27 a.m. Jan. 29 on SR 26, near Reservoir Road, in Benner Township. Police said Garrett A. Singer, of Pleasant Gap, was westbound when his 2010 Cadillac SRX struck a deer, which had entered the roadway.

STATE POLICE AT PHILIPSBURG Police reported 36-year-old Justin Nodinwakoda Hollabaugh, 36, of Philipsburg, was charged with a summary count of harassment after he struck a 14-year-old in the leg with a newspaper at 3:27 p.m. Jan. 13 at a residence on North Fourth Street in Philipsburg. ❑❑❑ No injuries were reported in a two-vehicle crash that occurred at 12:45 p.m.

Jan. 17 along Pine Street in Philipsburg.

Police said Autumn Klingler, of Philipsburg, failed to stop at a steady red light at the intersection with Ninth Street and crashed into a vehicle operated by John W. Timko, of Osceola Mills. Police said Klingler was cited for not obeying traffic control signals. ❑❑❑ An 80-year-old Spike Island Road, Rush Township, woman reported she was scammed. According to police, the woman received a call Jan. 19 from somePolice blotter, Page 8

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Girls see firsthand that STEM not just for boys

By CONNIE COUSINS correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

BELLEFONTE — Eight fifth-grade girls, accompanied by personnel from Discovery Space, recently traveled to Actuated Medical Inc. in Bellefonte for a tour and demonstrations.

There they heard the company’s CEO, Maureen L. Mulvihill, assure them, “Don’t ever let the boys tell you engineering is for boys!”

The students attend Benner Elementary and are interested in science, technology, engineering and math — the four pillars of what is known as STEM. There has been an effort to educate more women in these fields since the 1970s, with an upswing in women in STEM jobs until in the 1990s, when there was a decrease. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2011 women’s employment in STEM had slowed because their share in computer occupations declined to 27 percent, after reaching a high of 34 percent in 1990.

Programs such as the one at Actuated Medical may pique the interest of more girls to enter STEM fields.

Olivia Perdew, education manager of Discovery Space Children’s Science Museum, said there had been reading and other pre-tour work to prepare the students for their experience at Actuated Medical.

Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania is a growing science museum of interactive exhibits and hands-on programs designed to provide valuable informal science education, especially in STEM areas, according to its website, www.my discoveryspace.org.

Mulvihill met the students at the door and talked to them about both her background and the purpose of her company.

“Everything we make here is to make outcomes better for the patients,” she said.

Mulvihill earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in science from Penn State University. She next worked as a researcher in Germany.

She also worked for Xinetics Inc. in

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CONNIE COUSINS/For the Gazette

GIRLS FROM Benner Elementary School and representatives of Discovery Space listen to biomedical engineer Jenna Greaser, right, at Actuated Medical Inc. in Bellefonte.

Massachusetts as a staff scientist.

From 2004 to 2006, Mulvihill was director of research and development at Micromechatronics Inc. in State College.

From the time she was young, Mulvihill explained, she was always curious about many things. She traveled to the Netherlands as an exchange student, and to Tokyo as a visiting scientist in 1991.

“That curiosity is what leads many people to be attracted to science and technology,” said Mulvihill.

Actuated Medical is a 32-person company that makes medical equipment.

They have 12 products that all reflect efforts to make the outcomes of patients’ procedures better. For example, the company has designed a tube cleaning system that clears feeding tube clogs more quick-

ly and efficiently than previous models.

This saves time for critical care nurses and allows the patients to receive nutrients and medications as prescribed.

The students were shown a bone biopsy system that, because of its ability to enter bone tangentially, retrieves longer bone samples with more ease. The girls donned gloves and goggles and were able to try the technique using pig bone.

Before the hands-on work, biomedical engineer Jenna Greaser discussed scientific method and the processes necessary to prove a theory. The students also learned that each piece of medical equipment must pass dozens of tests before it is ready to seek a patent application.

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THE LOCAL BAND Grain performs “Wild Horses” at the Rolling Stones tribute show Jan. 28 at the State Theatre. The sold-out show was a benefit for the theater and Strawberry Fields, a nonprofit that provides a range of services in the areas of intellectual disabilities, mental health and early intervention.

ClearWater gets $80,000 grant for waterways

By G. KERRY WEBSTER kerry.ccgazette@gmail.com

STATE COLLEGE — Water quality in the Juniata and Susquehanna watersheds will soon be on the rise thanks to a recently announced riparian buffer grant awarded to ClearWater Conservancy through the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

The grant, according to ClearWater’s habitat biologist Colleen DeLong, will allow the group to introduce vegetated areas to local streams — in particular Spring Creek in Halfmoon Township — to help shade and partially protect the waterway from the impact of adjacent land uses.

DeLong also said riparian buffers play a key role in increasing water quality in associated streams, rivers and lakes, thus providing environmental benefits.

“We’re very excited to know we received this grant,” said DeLong. “It really takes a lot of things to put these buffers in. We have to rebuild steam banks, fix any damages that have occurred in the area and do any necessary landscaping.

There’s a lot more to it.”

In total, DCNR awarded $790,000 for 13 grants for riparian buffer projects.

“Streamside forest buffers provide a wide range of benefits to both the environment and to landowners, including better water quality, habitat for pollina-

tors that can assist with crop production and increased opportunities for recreational activities,” said DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn.

According to Debra Nardone, executive director of ClearWater Conservancy, the grant will be distributed over a fouryear period at $20,000 each year.

“We can actually do quite a bit with $20,000 because we have such great partners in the community to work with that will provide matching funds,” said Nardone. “The landowners have been fabulous working with us on these projects and allowing us access to their properties.”

The grant award was announced by state Rep. Mike Hanna, D-Lock Haven. It is administered through the Community Conservation Partnership Program with dollars from the Keystone Fund, which is generated from a portion of the realty transfer tax and the Environmental Stewardship Fund, which receives its funding from landfill tipping fees.

“This funding will provide sustainable income for landowners through what DCNR calls a multi-functional buffer option,” said Hanna. “This is great news for our waterways and for enhancement of fish habitat in our region.”

Nardone said ClearWater Conservancy has installed riparian buffers to more than 18 miles of streams in and around Centre County.

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We’re close to Penn State University and there’s plenty of hotel accommodations available. However, our facilities here just can’t fit the needs of so many horses and horse show participants. That’s why we need to expand.”

NEW ARENA

According to Confer, if the state grant were to be awarded, the money would be used to roof two existing outdoor horse pens, build new restroom facilities, construct permanent barns and build a new outdoor arena.

She said prior to the construction of the current equine center, the facilities would see up to 200 to 300 horses per event, and since the new buildings went up in 2011, that number ballooned to more than 700 horses at some. She said now is the time for the expansion.

“We don’t want to sit on this and be stagnant,” said Confer. “There’s a lot of money involved in this, especially for the county. People come from 23 states and Canada to attend or participate in these horse shows, and as soon as they cross the border into Pennsylvania, they start spending money.”

ECONOMIC IMPACT

She said she estimates about a $5 million boon to the local economy during horse show season, and said that number could reach $20 million annually with the new facilities.

“Our thought is that with larger facilities, we will be able to accommodate

THE CENTRE COUNTY GAZETTE two shows at the same time,” Confer said. “And, with bigger facilities, we will no longer have to turn away the bigger shows with 1,200 or more horses. That’s what we have to do now simply because we can’t handle that many horses and people.”

Currently, on site, there is a barn that can house 258 horses. She said the construction of a new covered barn would increase the number of stalls by 300.

“People don’t want to keep their horses in temporary housing when they come to shows, and that’s what we’ve been doing,” Confer said. “We rent huge tents and fit them with portable stalls to house the animals, but like I said, many people don’t want their horses kept this way.”

She also said covering the two existing pens would better protect the animals from inclement weather.

“There are just so many positive things that will go along with expanding the equine area,” said Confer. “We have an opportunity here to get some state money that will benefit all of Centre County in one form or another.”

“The economic impact these shows have to the area has been incredible and can’t be denied,” said Chairman Commissioner Michael Pipe. “We’re hopeful we get this grant, although it’s not guaranteed.”

Confer said should the county not be awarded the grant, other funding sources will be looked at.

“We have support from Harrisburg and from the agriculture secretary, so we’re very, very hopeful,” she said.

The deadline for the grant application is Friday, Feb. 3.

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PROTESTERS GATHERED at the Allen Street gates in State College on Jan. 29 to voice their opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.

Protests decry Trump immigration order

By GEOFF RUSHTON statecollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — Members of the State College and Penn State communities gathered in front of the Allen Street gates Jan. 29 to voice their opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.

Signed by Trump on Jan. 27, the order bans individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — from entering or re-entering the United States for 90 days, suspends refugee admissions for 120 days and suspends the admission of Syrian refugees indefinitely.

Protests erupted nationwide on Jan. 28 and 29 as individuals from those countries were detained or turned away at airports.

A smaller protest came together spontaneously the night of Jan. 28 in the same spot in downtown State College. Pasma Ayad, a Penn State junior, helped organize the protests.

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“The message is to show that this land is welcoming to everyone,” Ayad said. “It’s for all refugees. No one should be not allowed to enter if they’re legally supposed to be allowed.”

Fellow Penn State junior Fanta Conde also helped organize the protests. She said she wants refugees and immigrants to know that there are people standing with them.

“We will keep fighting for their rights and their freedoms,” Conde said. “We cannot be free ourselves so long as they are not. We’re glad to see such an amazing turnout and that so many people are supporting this. We want to convey the message that this is what America looks like.”

State College Borough Council member Jesse Barlow was among the protes-

tors. Barlow helped to initiate an immigration enforcement resolution that the council passed unanimously on Jan. 9. It states that the council “believes that enforcing immigration law is a federal responsibility and it is not the responsibility of local officials to enforce immigration law,” and adds that “the State College Council will not voluntarily assist in any efforts by the federal government to apprehend, detain or deport community members.”

Enforcing immigration laws, according to the resolution, would negatively affect the borough’s “commitment to non-discrimination, public safety and the equal provision of local services.” The resolution also opposes any policies that would “register or track individuals based on religion, ethnicity, national origin, nationality, or citizenship as a law enforcement tool.”

NOT A ‘SANCTUARY CITY’

Borough leadership said Jan. 27 that the resolution does not establish State College as a so-called “sanctuary city.”

At the Jan. 29 protest, Barlow said he wants the immigrant communities of State College to know they are welcome.

“This is an area that we have a strong immigrant community here. They are very important to us,” Barlow said. “This is a diverse community. We want our people to feel safe and welcome in this community. That’s why we passed the resolution.

These recent executive orders on immigration are an offense to our Constitution and our values.”

In December, the borough council passed a resolution on its commitment to equity and inclusion that condemned “Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, sexism and homophobia, in rhetoric or action.”

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Active Adult Center celebrates opening of new location

By GEOFF RUSHTON statecollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — Formerly known as the Centre Region Senior Center, the Active Adult Center has come a long way, literally and figuratively.

It started out in 1953 as the Senior Citizens Club, meeting in the parish house of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. In 1976, it became the Centre Region Senior Citizens Center, a joint venture of the Borough of State College and the Centre County Office of Aging.

Ten years later, the Centre Region Parks and Recreation Authority Board became administrator of the program and it moved to the Fraser Garage complex.

In the fall of 2015, the center moved to a temporary space in the Nittany Mall and, on Jan. 13, the center, renamed the Active Adult Center, moved into its new 7,000-square-foot space in Suite 990 of the mall, near the interior entrance to Sears.

On Jan. 27, center members and many of the people who made the move happen gathered for a grand opening.

“It’s a very happy day for us,” said Pam Salokangas, Centre Region Parks and Recreation director.

The new space includes multipurpose rooms, a dance and exercise studio, a reception area, offices and a commercial kitchen. Center supervisor Cindy Stahlman said the move to the mall, and now a larger space with more amenities, has attracted more participants in the center and its programs.

In January 2015, when it was still in downtown State College, the center had 125 active seniors participating in 1,457 activities. Last January, after moving to the temporary space in the mall, that increased to 164 members and 2,500 activities for the month.

Before this month was out, the numbers had climbed again to 210 participants and 2,800 activities. In total, the center serves about 3,000 Centre Region residents.

Free parking and a controlled environment are keys to the mall location’s success.

“Just being here at the mall, it’s a great place to be,” Stahlman said. “The parking is great. It’s a nice environment. You’re safe, you’re not going to be out on the sidewalks.”

The new center is the result of collaboration between Centre Region Council of Government members and Centre County, which together have invested $270,000 in the first phase of the project.

Jim Steff, CRCOG executive director, said the project is an example of the willingness of local governments and community members to work together toward a common goal for the public good, something, he noted, that is not common in other areas.

“The elected officials in the townships and the borough see the advantage of working with each other, neighbors helping neighbors do good things,” Steff said.

“The elected officials from Centre Region and Centre County government have all agreed to pay the rent here, pay the operating expenses and staffing expenses.

To have that number of elected officials agree to do a singular thing, it’s common in our area but it’s uncommon throughout Pennsylvania.”

County Commissioner Michael Pipe said officials recognized the value the center will have now and in the future.

“Truly, this is an investment of not just tax dollars, but also energy and hours of staff time into something that will serve this community for many years to come,” Pipe said. “We at the county really believe in empowering and supporting our elder population. There are so many people in the community that find a lot of joy and friendship here in the center.”

The center also has received support from the local community. Mall manager Polly Welch and her staff have worked closely with CRPR and center staff to accommodate the move.

“Polly and her crew have really stretched their financial responsibilities

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ACTIVE ADULT CENTER members and other community members listen to remarks during the center’s grand opening event Jan. 27. beyond what we anticipated them to be,” Steff said.

“While in the temporary space, I got to know a lot of the members of the Active Adult Center,” Welch said. “They are an amazing group of people and I can honestly say making them a member of our Nittany Mall family has been a blessing.”

A partnership with the Builders Association of Central Pennsylvania helped to make the commercial kitchen a reality much sooner than expected. It was initially planned for Phase 2 of the project, but a $65,774 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Aging helped speed the process. Builders Association members then helped to make it even more affordable.

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nets at cost and S&A Homes handled the kitchen installation. Stahlman estimated that the partnership with the Builders Association saved about $20,000.

Mike’s Video, TV & Appliance also provided the appliances at cost.

The center serves meals each day it is open (Monday through Friday) and previous locations did not have a kitchen.

State Rep. Scott Conklin, D-Rush Township, attended the grand opening and he also credited the center as a testament to the local community.

“I’ve been blessed to see many things in my life, and I’ve never seen a community with so many individuals, for no pay, work so hard to make sure every single person … is made to feel warm and taken care of,” he said.

SCASD students outperform state, national averages

By GEOFF RUSHTON statecollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — State College Area School District students outperformed state and national averages on assessment tests in 2015-16.

In a report to the school board of directors Jan. 30, district staff said State College Area High School SAT scores ranked 24th

out of 650 in the state. Students in Advanced Placement classes scored a 3 or higher (out of a possible high score of 5) at a rate of 88 percent, besting the state rate of 68 percent.

Keystone exam results for algebra, biology and literature showed growth in the three-year average, with historically

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A LOCAL GoFundMe effort resulted in an entire 82-seat theater being bought out for a Jan. 29 showing of “Hidden Figures” at the College 9 theater in State College. Girls from all over Centre County were in attendance, thanks to the ticket distribution of several local nonprofit organizations, including Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania, Youth Service Bureau, YMCA of Centre County, Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania and Centre County Women’s Resource Center. Attendees were greeted by pink uplighting and a red carpet, thanks to Eric Stoner, of Nittany Entertainment.

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FEBRUARY 2-8, 2017

Spring Creek center stage at quarry hearing

By MARK BRACKENBURY editor@centrecountygazette.com

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP — With about 125 residents listening intently Jan. 27, state Department of Environmental Protection official Mike Smith addressed what he called the “No. 1 question” on Hanson Aggregates’ application to dig 200 feet deeper for limestone at Oak Hall Quarry.

How, a resident asked in a written question, are risks of sinkholes and water flow disruptions evaluated and avoided?

“That’s probably one of the biggest issues we’re going to look at in this permit revision,’’ Smith said at a public hearing at Mount Nittany Middle School, noting that the problem has occurred at some other mines in Pennsylvania.

“We’re going to do an intensive analysis … to minimize the risk of disruption to the water flow of Spring Creek,” which runs adjacent to the quarry off Boalsburg Road, said Smith, mining program manager with the DEP’s Moshannon District office.

Along with officials from the DEP and Hanson, 16 residents spoke at the hearing, with three-quarters of them raising concerns about the application.

The project “shouldn’t go on,” said David Stone, of the Nittany Valley Water Coalition. He noted that Clearwater Conservancy is buying easements on property to try to protect Spring Creek “and here we have something like this that poses significant and clear risks,” adding later, “it really kind of boggles the mind.”

Resident William Hechinger likened the quarry plan to State College itself, where he said development is a source of pollution and is creating a threat to water quality. He cited pollution from diesel used in equipment at the quarry and trucks running to and from it. He urged the DEP to make sure “this doesn’t turn into a boom quarry. A boom town and a boom quarry — I don’t think we need that.”

Robert Vierck, president of the Spring Creek Chapter of Trout Unlimited, which has more than 500 members, noted that Spring Creek has the highest population of trout of any stream in Pennsylvania.

Increasing the depth of the mine “increases the probability that water could be lost, thus endangering the aquatic life downstream.”

Resident Jim Marden said that while it would be great to hear from Hanson “what their sink hole repair plan is,” he added, “I don’t have a lot of inherent faith in sink hole repair plans.”

‘GOOD NEIGHBORS’

But a few residents stood up to say that while they also value the creek, they support Hanson’s application to dig deeper.

Hanson and their employees “are good neighbors, in fact they are excellent stewards of the stream,” said Tom Palchak, noting the operation has been going on for nearly 100 years. He asked the DEP to allow the quarry “to continue providing jobs for people who work there.”

Sam Baker, a senior in Penn State’s mining engineering program who grew up in Houserville, said he has “complete confidence in Hanson to do this correctly.”

Baker noted that the area will continue to need limestone and that it was better environmentally and economically to get it locally than to have it trucked in from greater distances.

The quarry has about 15 local employees. Mark Kendrick, Hanson vice president and general manager for eastern and central Pennsylvania and New Jersey, said the plan to dig deeper will not result in new positions or greater sales, but “just adds to the life of the mine.”

In response to a question, DEP officials said there has been one violation at the quarry in the past five years, in which a sediment pond had to be reconstructed. There was also one blasting violation in the past 10 years, involving a monitoring issue.

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DAVID STONE, of the Nittany Valley Water Coalition, speaks at a public hearing on Oak Hall Quarry on Jan. 27 at Mount Nittany Middle School.

But several residents who spoke said they have felt the impact of blasting, citing things like cracks in walls and shaking doors. Skip Dreibelbis said seismic readings have not been done properly. He has hired an attorney because of the blasting and invited others who have had problems to get in touch with him.

Andrew Gutshall, area environmental manager for

Hanson, said Hanson welcomed dialogue with residents, and posted a sign-up sheet to open lines of communication.

Smith said the public record will remain open until Friday, Feb. 3, for additional written comments. A decision will be made within 60 days to approve the application, deny it, or request additional information. He noted that the DEP could require modifications in approving the application. Those impacted will have a right to appeal within 30 days.

The decision “has to be grounded in regulations,” he said. “It’s a technical decision we have to make based on the facts.”

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While one group tried the bone biopsy sampling, another group watched slides of the heart and discussed the names of the upper and lower chambers. They learned about the major vessels carrying blood to the heart, then to the lungs and then sending the oxygenated blood out to the rest of the body. The discussion included learning what happens when the vessels become blocked or cannot deliver oxygen to the heart. The group then was able, with instruction and gloves, to cut into a pig heart and see how the vessels and chambers were connected. After 20 minutes, the groups switched so that all students could participate in both demonstrations.

Mulvihill talked to the girls about what an engineer does and explained her own pathway to CEO of her company. The girls enjoyed that she was the “boss” and started Actuated Medical in 2006. The company has 17 patents for its products. Mulvihill spoke to the students about how a love of puzzles, Legos and building could very likely be a clue to a future career.

Engineers apply math, science and common sense to innovate and build things, according to Mulvihill. “Being a CEO is all about logistics — coordination of people, facilities or supplies. It involves computers, data tracking and organizing.”

Mulvihill pointed out that only 14 percent of CEOs of large companies are women, and there is work to be done to more equally represent women in science, technology, engineering and math.

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underperforming students showing the most growth, assistant superintendent Jason Perrin said.

For grades 2 through 6, 68 percent of district students met or exceeded one-year growth in math, ahead of the national rate of 50 percent. In grades 3 through 6, 56 percent of students met or exceeded one-year growth in reading, better than the national average of 50 percent.

In grades 3 through 8, PSSA scores were above the state average by 15 to 25 percent. District students also met or exceeded the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System growth standard for reading in grades 4 through 8 and math in grades 6 through 8.

Perrin said the district is planning measures to continue progress.

NATURAL RESOURCE, ECONOMIC DRIVER

Several speakers referenced the special value of Spring Creek as not only a natural resource, but as an economic driver that boosts tourism.

Sport fishing is a $2 billion to $4 billion industry in Pennsylvania, and Spring Creek is “the best wild trout stream in the state,” said Steve Swensky, owner of Flyfisher’s Paradise in State College.

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While protesters were gathered at the foot of the Penn State campus, university President Eric Barron issued a message that said Penn State is joining with other universities in calling for an end to the immigration ban.

Barron said that to his knowledge no Penn State students or faculty from those countries were traveling abroad.

“But the problems that are surfacing with the order are clear, and we join the Association of American Universities and universities all across the country in asking that the order be ended as soon as possible,” Barron wrote, noting reports of students and faculty at other U.S. universities being stranded because of the order.

Barron urged international students and faculty to carry their immigration documentation while traveling in the United States and to avoid traveling abroad until “greater clarity is apparent.”

Also on Jan. 29, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro joined attorneys general from 16 states in a joint statement condemning Trump’s immigration order, calling it “unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful.”

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The extended winter break is needed for the high school construction project. Classrooms from the north and south buildings will be moved into the new, three-story units on the south campus during that time. Schools will be closed from Saturday, Dec. 23, through Sunday, Jan. 7, with students returning Monday, Jan. 8.

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Natural gas task force moved to ‘inactive’ status

By G. KERRY WEBSTER kerry.ccgazette@gmail.com

BELLEFONTE — In 2010, there were 41 natural gas wells drilled in Centre County. In 2011, that number dropped to eight. And, in the last five years, just four of these wells were drilled in the county — none in 2013 or in 2016. Those drastically declining numbers show how little natural gas activity is occurring in Centre County.

As a result, the Centre County Board of Commissioners, at the Jan. 31 meeting, voted to place the Centre County Natural Gas Task Force in “inactive status.”

According to Susan Benedict, chairman of the CCNGTF, since the group started in 2010, it was able to accomplish “good things” in coping with the changes and rapid development brought to rural areas of the county because of natural gas collection. However, she said because the activity has decreased, there is no need for the board of directors of CCNGTF to continue meeting.

“We think it’s time to place the group into inactive status until things in the industry pick up again,” she said.

According to Ken Hall, CCNGTF secretary, things will pick up again.

“Of course, God only knows what’s going to happen next, but I think things will pick up in the natural gas industry again here real soon,” said Hall. He said, previously, there were issues piping natural gas out of rural Centre County sites, but noted, without going into heavy detail, that problem is “being partially solved.” He also said the gas company Dominion South has become interested in Centre County’s natural gas supply.

“I’m certain this group ultimately will need to form again,” said Hall. “I’m sure we’ll be back at some point in time asking for the group to be reinstated, but for right now, we don’t think the task force is necessary.”

In other business, the commissioners: ■ Approved a contract between the county and the American Philatelic Center for the rental of Sundman Hall

for a Heroin and Opioid Prevention Education Initiative outreach event March 29 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The rental fee is $280.

■ Approved a contract between the county and The HR Office to provide consulting services in regards to auditing the overtime schedule and related work scheduling process used for employees who are working in the position of telecommunicator. The contract total is $4,000.

■ Approved a contract renewal between the county and SBM Electronics for annual maintenance for the Verint Audiolog Voice Logging Equipment. The contract total is $24,850.80.

■ Approved a contract renewal between the county and Allied Mechanical and Electrical to provide preventative maintenance on the equipment room HVAC unit. The contract total is $690 ■ Approved a contract between the county and Bobbie Rabuck to perform duties as an attorney for the county’s Office of Aging. The contract total is $6,840.

Conservation easements discussed at recent meeting

By G. KERRY WEBSTER kerry.ccgazette@gmail.com

BELLEFONTE — Conservation easements were at the forefront of a recent Centre County Board of Commissioners meeting.

Sarah Walters, Centre County’s senior planner and agricultural land preservation coordinator, discussed a matching partnership between Centre County and Potter and Ferguson townships for the purchase of conservation easements in 2017 at the Jan. 24 meeting. Although no monetary amount was discussed concerning these easements, the meeting was to formally acknowledge the partnerships.

In addition, Walters asked the commissioners to certify a total of $375,834.13 in appropriations for the 2017 program year of the Agricultural Land Preservation Program.

The county’s allocation for the program is $80,000 and

there will be an additional $16,135.47 in 2016 Clean and Green interest. Walters said Halfmoon Township has contributed the program’s biggest monetary commitment to date with the addition of $262,718.66 in funding. Potter Township has also stated it would commit $10,000 to the program.

“We’re just shy of purchasing easements on a total of about 7,000 acres on 46 farms,” said Walters. She said more than $1.88 million has been invested in ag land preservation in Centre County, and more than $16 million has been leveraged with federal funding.

“For a small county, we have a very good ag land program,” said Walters. “And, there’s still lots of work to be done.”

The commissioners moved the certification to the consent agenda and official action will be taken during the Tuesday, Feb. 21, meeting.

In other business on Jan. 24, the commissioners: ■ Tabled a proposed survey on a .5-acre parcel on

Wood Street in Bellefonte Borough. The property was recently discovered as being owned by the county and initial steps were taken to identify its purpose or potential purpose.

The issue was tabled as more cost-efficient ways of surveying the property are explored.

■ Approved a contract renewal between the county and Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association for 24/7 maintenance for CPIN and LiveScan. The contract total is $6,800.

■ Executed the Community Development Block Grant sub-grantee agreements between the county and Huston Township (130,200), Mountain Top Regional Water Authority East ($28,000) and Unionville Borough ($81,000) for the 2015 Community Development Block Grant Program for a total of $239,200.

■ Approved an agreement between the county and state Department of Environmental Protection for the 2017 West Nile Virus Grant. The grant total is $4,000.

Commissioners recused from county election board

By G. KERRY WEBSTER kerry.ccgazette@gmail.com

BELLEFONTE — Ongoing litigation between Centre County District Attorney Stacey Parks Miller and county officials has caused the Centre County Board of Commissioners — Michael Pipe, Steve Dershem and Mark Higgins — to recuse themselves from the county Board of Election.

The announcement was made during the Jan. 31 meeting of the commissioners under the recommendation of county solicitor Elizabeth Dupuis.

The Pennsylvania Election Code states county commissioners also act as the county’s election board.

Parks Miller has announced her intention to seek

re-election as the county’s top prosecutor. Her lawsuit, which was filed two years ago in relation to forgery allegations, is still being weighed in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

This follows a dismissal of the case by a federal judge.

Dupuis said should Parks Miller’s name officially appear on the 2017 ballot, the commissioners, because they were named individually in the lawsuit, were in direct conflict serving as election board members.

Several individuals were named in Parks Miller’s lawsuit, including Pipe and Dershem. Higgins was not an acting commissioner at the time the lawsuit was filed so his name was not included in the lawsuit.

In addition to Pipe and Dershem, others named in the

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STATE COLLEGE — A State College man who was arrested earlier in January for allegedly selling cocaine to a confidential informant is facing new drug charges.

Abdullah Haywood, 31, had been charged Jan. 11 with four felony counts of possession with intent to deliver and other charges after police alleged he sold cocaine to the informant twice last fall.

According to a criminal complaint filed Jan. 27, when police arrested Haywood at a Waupelani Drive residence, he told them unprompted that he knew why they were there and that he wanted to show them where he had marijuana in the house. He allegedly took police to a laundry room and pointed out a black plastic bag he said contained marijuana.

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President Judge Thomas King Kistler appointed Keith Bierly, Suzette Sims and Joseph Davidson to act as the Board of Elections.

“This is truly regrettable,” said Dershem. “I’ve been a member of the election board for a number of terms now, and this is the first time this type of event has ever happened in Centre County.”

Dupuis said the federal appeal could be resolved by the end of the year. The commissioners will not be able to act as the board of elections until there is a disposition in the case.

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The DNA of the first participants in the study that began in 2007 has been read, and 148 people were found to have gene mutations that put them at greater risk for developing certain diseases or conditions such as cancer, heart disease or dangerously high cholesterol.

One finding of particular note: The research so far suggests that the incidence of familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disorder characterized by high cholesterol, is much higher than previously believed.

While national data has shown about one in 500 people affected by FH, the Geisinger data is showing about one in 225 to 250, according to Andy Faucett, director of policy and education with Geisinger’s Genomic ANDY FAUCETT Medicine Institute in Danville.

“We’re starting to be able to provide results that will guide research around the world,” Faucett noted.

Findings like this are significant because they can help improve health care by finding ways to diagnose medical conditions earlier or before they appear and also to help find new treatments or medications to manage these diseases, according to Geisinger.

INFORMATION ‘EMPOWERING’

For patients, the information can also be “empowering,” said Miranda Hallquist, genetic counselor with the Genomic Medicine Institute in State College.

“Knowing it is related to genetics frequency empowers them to take steps,” Hallquist said, adding that “we’re changing people’s health care, giving them information they would not otherwise have gotten” as quickly.

The MyCode initiative includes a biobank that stores blood and saliva samples from Geisinger patients who have agreed to participate. Geisinger has already far surpassed its initial goal of 100,000 participants and has set its next goal at 250,000.

Consenters at various Geisinger facilities approach patents to see if they want to participate in the program, and to answer questions they might have. Patients can also sign up at www.mygeisinger.org.

Participation is relatively simple, generally involving donation of an extra 2 tablespoons of blood at the patient’s next blood draw. Participants also allow Geisinger to access information in their medical records.

About 90 percent of patients asked have agreed to participate, according to Geisinger.

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“People are more concerned not so much about the information for themselves, but for their children and grandchildren,” he said.

Currently Geisinger has between 1 million and 1.4 million active patients, “so we have talked with about 10 percent of the patient population,” Faucett said. His goal is that every patient have the opportunity to participate.

GENETIC MARKERS

Of those who provide samples, about 4 percent will hear back because they have genetic markers that make them susceptible to a certain disease. Other participants do not hear back because nothing of concern was found in their DNA. For those who are found to be at increased risk, meetings are scheduled to discuss the results and appropriate next steps, Hallquist said.

“We talk about what the result means for them and their family members,” she said.

Part of that education process, Hallquist said, means helping patients sort through the “genetics gobbledygook.”

For the 96 percent of participants whose genetics don’t show increased risks, their data is still “imperative” to the research project, Hallquist said.

The turnaround time from MyCode samples to results can take a year or more. Hallquist said that while that process should get faster as more staff are added, she emphasized that MyCode is not a substitute for clinical testing for those with health concerns.

PRECISION MEDICINE INITIATIVE

Geisinger’s experience with the MyCode project helped it become one of four new health care provider organizations selected to participate in the federal Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program to help build a nationwide million-person study.

The PMI was launched by then President Barack Obama in 2015 “to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes, and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier.”

Ultimately depending on final funding from the National Institutes of Health, the program could bring $40 million to $50 million to Geisinger over the course of five years, Faucett said. These funds will be used to recruit participants, providing multiple jobs throughout the Geisinger footprint. NIH provides funding on a yearly basis, he said.

Participants in the MyCode initiative will be approached about joining the PMI study as well, but it will ask more of patients than MyCode does, Faucett and Hallquist said.

Central Pennsylvania is fertile ground for such studies.

It is a “very stable community, with patients willing to participate,” Faucett said.

Additionally Geisinger officials noted that its electronic health records system goes back to the late 1990s.

“For many families, we have three generations of patient records,” Hallquist said. This includes an average of 14 years of health information for MyCode participants.

MyCode has allowed Geisinger to recruit “amazing scientists,” Faucett said. “The types of research we are doing is growing every day.”

Faucett sees a future in which physicians will order a patient’s genetic profile and use it to help guide care over a lifetime.

It was the MyCode project that brought Hallquist to Geisinger.

“Precision medicine is the future,” she said, while noting that healthy lifestyle choices are still as important as ever. “Being able to look at someone’s DNA to help determine what their risks are, it’s spectacular that it’s moving in that direction.”

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“We try to get local products when possible,” Ballas said. “Our roses come from a farm that we have a close relationship with in Ecuador.”

Mike Albright, manager of Woodring’s Floral Gardens on Allen Street in State College, said that on Valentine’s Day, his staff will sell 10 times the volume of a normal day.

Albright said his store’s orders for Valentine’s Day were placed before last Christmas. “There is only so much supply of flowers,” he said. He ought to know when to order.

He’s been in the floral business for more than 40 years.

While the sales volume is a boon to the flower industry — including small local florists — there are also many challenges to be faced.

“Two things that I worry about are the weather on the day and being able to get enough staff to help, people who are good, experienced people. We have a bank of people we can call on,” Albright said.

Bad weather can impede business in two ways. First, by discouraging customers from going to the store and second, by making deliveries difficult.

Ballas and Ammerman discussed an even greater challenge — the sale of flowers in big box and grocery stores.

“The grocery stores deal in volume. We can’t buy out entire flower farms. We like to see local businesses supporting one another,” said Ballas.

Flowers are a commodity, traded on the commodities market the same as oil and Florida oranges. “And flowers are graded, the same way that eggs are graded. We only sell the top two grades.”

Every florist worries that their flower orders will be delivered on time and in perfect condition. “We don’t want them sitting in a truck overnight in freezing temperatures,” said Ballas.

Both staffs focus on happy customers.

“We can’t compete with grocery stores on price,” said Albright. “We compete with excellent customer service.

To some online companies, service means dropping a box at your doorstep.”

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BELLEFONTE BOROUGH POLICE Police received a report at 1:20 a.m. Jan. 14 of a vehicle driving with a missing front wheel. The vehicle was located after following scrape marks on the roadway to a residence on North Ridge Street. ❑❑❑ Authorities said Alexander Patterson was the driver and he said he had fallen asleep and crashed in the 700 block of Willowbank Street, then attempted to drive the crashed truck home.

Police said he was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. ❑❑❑ Police were called to investigate a report of a protection from abuse order violation via text messaging Jan. 20. After talking with the victim, authorities determined a PFA violation occurred and an arrest warrant was obtained for the violation. ❑❑❑ Authorities reported the arrest of 29-year-old Charles Lose, following their response to a domestic disturbance Jan. 24. Police said Lose was intoxicated and arguing with his ex-girlfriend, and during the incident, caused some minor injuries to the woman.

When advised he was being arrested for the incident, Lose resisted officers and was uncooperative, police said.

He was placed in the Centre County Jail. ❑❑❑ Officers were called to a traffic crash at the intersection of High and Spring streets Jan. 25. During the investigation, police discovered the driver of the vehicle at fault, Arthur Snook, was driving without a license. He was cited for driving without a license, false statements to police and failing to stop at a stop sign. ❑❑❑ During routine patrol, police said they made contact with 45-year-old Dawn Marie Willey, who was walking at 12:30 a.m. Jan. 26 throughout the borough, allegedly intoxicated and yelling loudly. Police attempted to speak with Willey and get her to stop yelling; however, she became agitated and was advised she was being cited for disorderly conduct, police said She attempted to leave the scene, but was stopped by a Spring Township police officer. She struck the officer, police reported, then began fighting with other law enforcement personnel by hitting and kicking at the officers. She was eventually restrained and arrested for simple assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She was placed in the Centre County Jail. ❑❑❑ Police were called to North Thomas Street on Jan. 28 to investigate a reported domestic dispute. During the course of the investigation, police said they discovered that Andrew Fisher, 49, was in a physical domestic dispute with his partner. After authorities observed injuries to the other individual, Fisher was arrested for domestic violence and placed in the Centre County Jail.

— Compiled by G. Kerry Webster

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A bungled effort to keep U.S. safe

By Newsday President Donald Trump and his administration have every right to make a case to reduce the threat of terrorism by tightening procedures for allowing foreigners into the United States, and then to implement those new steps carefully and fairly.

That’s not what happened when Trump only inflamed an already stressful situation.

His executive order to stop refugees and people from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States is confusing, arbitrary and overreaching. It was enforced hastily and likely illegally, creating chaos at airports worldwide and sparking nationwide protests. It bypassed processes necessary for the effective functioning of government.

It also achieved an unintended irony: A president and administration that have made the country’s safety a top priority might have accomplished the opposite. The biggest consequence of this fiasco is not what happened to the 200 or so people detained at U.S. airports, or the greater number left in limbo overseas. It’s how the rest of the world now looks at America.

What are others to think when the new policy ensnares a doctor in a residency program at the renowned Cleveland Clinic? An interpreter who worked for the U.S. military in Iraq for more than 10 years? A Ph.D. student in linguistics at Stony Brook University? Husband-and-wife green-card holders, both disabled, ages 88 and 83?

The potential damage is far-reaching. Our military personnel in dangerous places overseas are more at risk of not getting cooperation from local residents. International business and critical research at American universities are threatened. This bungled exercise, an expression of intolerance, is a calling card for Islamic State recruitment. And worries about homegrown terrorists harboring grudges about America’s treatment of Muslims are now only heightened.

Denying entry to people with valid visas when they started their travel likely is illegal. A blanket ban of greencard holders returning to the country, or submitting them to extra scrutiny without probable cause, is flat out wrong.

All day Dec. 29, the White House struggled to tamp down criticism and finally seemed to back off that directive.

Trump is right to want to make it difficult for terrorists to enter the country. But he denies reality when he says it is easy for refugees to come here. The vetting process already involves multiple agencies and takes up to two years. Permission once granted cannot be arbitrarily snatched away. That betrays our procedures and our ideals.

Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman got it right when he said this extreme vetting proposal was not well-vetted, and that Congress and agency heads should be involved.

Trump has to set this right.

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Max the dog inspired a ministry

By NICOLE SUMMERS Special to the Gazette

A few days before Christmas 2008, a local woman carried a spindly legged, black-and-white, pointynosed dog into the FaithCentre.

The young animal was so skinny his hip bones jutted out, but his tail wagged gleefully and he was intent on showering anyone within range with doggie kisses.

The woman explained that she found the short-haired dog wandering the streets of Bellefonte and couldn’t keep him in her home because her four dogs objected to his presence.

Since evening was approaching and everyone at the Centre was afflicted with a serious case of Christmas compassion, I bundled up the dog and brought him to my house.

Our golden retriever, Spencer, seemed delighted to have a 16pound companion and, after a quick courtesy call to my husband, we decided to host the dog until the owners were found.

When my husband, Terry, returned from work, he promptly named the dog Max after the Grinch’s dog. We don’t know if the dog had always been named Max but the pup was absolutely fine with his new name.

He answered my husband’s “Come here, Max!” call on the first trial run and the tough, stoic karate master was instantly and irretrievably smitten.

We called the SPCA in several counties, PAWS and Lyons Kennels.

No one had reported a missing dog fitting his description.

So, after several unsuccessful days of attempting to locate Max’s original owners, Max took up perma-

nent residence in our home and, as frequently as possible, on Terry’s lap.

During my calls to animal welfare agencies, I learned that because of the downturn in the economy and the financial strains of providing for the care and feeding of their animals, people were surrendering or even abandoning pets in alarming numbers.

Nothing causes me greater heartache and fury than knowing that a helpless creature is willfully neglected, starved, abused or abandoned.

Merely writing those words is painful. Yet, I did understand that keeping animals well-fed can be expensive for even the most well-intentioned and loving pet owner.

Since the FaithCentre is home to the food bank for the greater Bellefonte area, helping people keep their companion animals nourished seemed like a natural extension of our ministries.

So, shortly after Max joined our small family, the FaithCentre began stocking donated dog and cat food.

Over the years, the Pet Food Pantry has grown and now serves locations throughout Centre County.

Hundreds of area residents know that they can receive supplemental pet food at the FaithCentre, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in State College and at several Centre County food banks.

The Pet Food Pantry has helped feed scores of cats and dogs, several rabbits, a guinea pig, one hamster and a turtle.

During the months following Max’s rescue and the nine years in our home, he gained weight, was updated on all of his shots, and, to our surprise, was identified by our vet as an Italian greyhound — a breed that most certainly has no desire to

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MAX DEVELOPED a deep affection for the recliner, a habit of climbing onto tables and an ability to turn on the kitchen faucet and flood the kitchen, the author writes. be wandering the winter streets. Max developed a deep affection for the recliner, a habit of climbing onto tables and an ability to turn on the kitchen faucet and flood the kitchen.

To our great grief and distress and, despite relentless veterinarian visits, Max passed away recently after a prolonged battle with illness.

He died loved, warm and attended to with the highest level of professional care.

While I would gladly let my kitchen be flooded if Max were with us again, he left a legacy. In response to Max’s early plight, our county has the Pet Food Pantry and no animal in our region has to needlessly starve. Although Max might have maintained that his purpose was to snuggle with Terry, he served a role beyond that of being a cherished companion — he inspired a ministry and left our little section of the world better than he found it.

Nicole Summers is executive director of the FaithCentre in Bellefonte.

The power of a walk

By ORLANDO R. BARONE For The Philadelphia Inquirer

Let’s take a walk. We all know what that means. I am inviting you to go out with me, on foot, and the arriving is entirely secondary to the walking. It makes every bit as much sense to take a walk to the store as it does to take a walk around the block, right back to where we started.

Pope Francis is a big fan of walking. He said, “When you are walking, anything can happen.” It’s catching on, too. One of the most famous walks in the world, the Camino de Santiago in northwestern Spain, attracts more pilgrims than ever, and the 500-mile trek has existed for more than a thousand years. I was there a few years ago — my wife’s family is from Galicia — and marveled at the mishmash of humanity ambling to the end point, the Cathedral of St. James.

Walking is an attention-getter. If your boss says, “Come to my office,” you sense something formal or instructive is about to be related. If, instead, the boss comes up to you and says, “Walk with me,” you might detect an imminent moment of intimacy, revelation, even vulnerability.

A walk is an empty thing. We fill it as we go. That squirrel crossing our path, grabbing an acorn and scurrying up a nearby tree could not have

been planned. You simply encounter it, feel it, perhaps try to figure out a meaning for it.

Even walks with purpose have this quality of emptiness, a waiting container that will be filled by whatever stands in the path. A friend who attended a political march and rally was rocked, not by the affirmation of her reason for being there but by the overwhelming encounters with so many different people and passions.

A walk is also about the future.

You may glance side to side, at your companion maybe, and you might even look back for a second, but your eyes are forced forward. Your orientation is toward where you are going, not where you are. In the Boy Scouts I sometimes took night hikes in which my only illumination was a measly flashlight trained on the ground directly in front of me. “It’s all you need,” Mr. McCusker would say, correctly.

Walking is a deceleration of life. I slow down to a walk; I don’t speed up to a walk. That means I am choosing to invest precious time and effort to the trip. It can be momentous. If I am walking the 10 miles to work instead of driving, I am doing something astonishing. If I commit to the 470mile “Camino” across Spain or a portion of the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, I am likely making a life-altering investment.

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Walking is a shedding. Ask any college student about the care it takes to strut around campus all day, making sure that backpack is not too cumbersome.

When you walk, you ask, seriously and not frivolously, Do I really need to take this with me?

It’s no wonder that many religions make walking sacred. The Hajj.

The Kumano Kodo. The Camino de Santiago, the Stations of the Cross.

One of the most revered speeches of our history, Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, took place after a walk. When we humans want to memorialize a cause or an event, as often as not we do it by walking — from the Thanksgiving Day parade to the Walk to Defeat ALS. Ultimately, walking is a gift. To fully realize this, imagine a doctor saying you’ll never walk again, or helping a loved one rehab a knee replacement, or witnessing a child’s first step.

So, let’s take a walk, you and me.

You’ll meet your future, squirrels and all. You’ll be fascinated, bored, excited, confused, exhausted, exhilarated, and, finally, at rest.

Anything can happen. Like life, for instance.

Orlando R. Barone is a writer in Doylestown. Readers may send him email at orby114@aol.com.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Yoga program aims to cut cancer risk

By MARJORIE S. MILLER Penn State News

UNIVERSITY PARK — Obesity is recognized as one of the leading causes of cancer and accounts for roughly 14 to 20 percent of cancer deaths. Physical activity can reduce obesity and cancer risk, but most U.S. adults fail to meet leisure-time physical activity recommendations.

Scherezade K. Mama, assistant professor of kinesiology at Penn State, seeks to better understand and reduce these risks.

A recently awarded American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant for $29,717 from the Penn State Cancer Institute will allow Mama and colleagues to study a faith-based, mind-body interven-

tion that seeks to increase physical activity and reduce health disparities, including cancer risks, among those who reside in rural areas.

Mama and her team are currently recruiting study participants.

The intervention, “Harmony & Health,” is a yoga-focused mind and body intervention that uses stretching, breathing, prayer and relaxation strategies to increase physical activity, reduce sedentary time and reduce stress among adults in Centre County.

“Physical inactivity and obesity are especially prevalent among African-American and rural adults, contributing to health disparities in these populations and putting them at greater risk for cancer and other chronic diseases. Thus, innova-

tive and sustainable strategies to increase physical activity are needed in this population,” Mama said.

Fifty men and 50 women will participate in Harmony & Health for 14 weeks.

Participants will complete three in-person assessments, participate in a mindbody relaxation and stretching program twice a week for eight weeks, and practice stretching and breathing at home.

The study will be conducted at the Health Disparities and Physical Activity Research Laboratory at Penn State and at the Unity Church of Jesus Christ in State College.

The study is a replication of a pilot study conducted by Mama at a church in Texas.

“If effective, findings from this study

will expand our understanding on the use of mind-body practices to improve overall health and wellness in underserved populations and will inform future research efforts,” Mama said.

Eligible participants must be at least 18 years of age, overweight or obese, able to read and write in English, exercise less fewer two hours per week, and not have any health conditions that will be worsened by physical activity.

Participants can be any race or ethnicity.

No equipment is needed for the study, and participants will be compensated for their time. Space is limited.

For more information, call the HDPAR Laboratory at (814) 863-0132 or email HDPAR@psu.edu.

Scientists get best view yet of cancer-causing virus HPV Penn State News HERSHEY — New details of the structure of the human papillomavirus may lead to better vaccines and HPV anti-viral medications, according to studies led by a Penn State College of Medicine researcher.

Using a new imaging technique called cryo-electron microscopy — or cryo-EM — the researchers discovered never-before-seen details of the virus that causes cervical, anal and throat cancers. The first-ever high-resolution 3-D maps of HPV reveal key characteristics of its outer shell, or capsid, and the proteins that assemble it.

With better understanding of the HPV capsid, scientists may be able to prevent

the virus from binding to receptors on human cells, a crucial step in the infection process, said Susan Hafenstein, associate professor of medicine, and microbiology and immunology. Researchers reported their results in the journal Structure.

Hafenstein and colleagues at Penn State College of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine focused on HPV16, the strain that causes most HPV-related cancers, and made a number of important structural discoveries about the virus.

Although HPV is perhaps best known as the cause of almost all cervical cancers in women, it also is a major culprit in the alarming increase of throat cancers in men, Hafenstein said. The current vaccine only protects against one strain of

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The HPV shell is made up of two types of proteins, called L1 and L2. Zooming in on the virus with atomic resolution, the researchers found that there are far fewer L2 proteins than were previously thought. They also discovered that these proteins are incorporated asymmetrically in the shell.

In HPV, L1 proteins are the major structural component, while L2 proteins play a more functional role, helping to move the virus into the infected cell. Interfering with how the virus enters the cells is an attractive area of research because it presents a key target to stop the virus.

“It’s (the L2 protein) a key point in the virus life cycle, and won’t tolerate mutation,” Hafenstein explained. “Viruses can’t change and do entry a different way, typically.”

Although the new findings about L2 create new challenges, they also will help researchers target the proteins better to thwart infection, Hafenstein said. The L2 proteins are nearly the same for every strain of HPV, whereas L1 proteins can differ widely from strain to strain.

The researchers also discovered that HPV capsids differ in size and that L1 proteins take on different shapes to hold the shell together. They were also able to vi-

sualize the virus binding to a cell receptor at a single site. This was in contrast to previous work using a highly simplified HPV model, which found multiple binding sites.

In the new study, the virus appeared to change shape as it locked on to the cell. Even better resolution — something Hafenstein and her colleagues are working on — will confirm if this is the case and if those changes involve L1 as well as L2 proteins.

The improved imaging could lead to better HPV research approaches. HPV is challenging to culture and grow in the lab, so researchers who study the virus use one of three stand-ins, made up of one or both types of capsid proteins. Recent research has shown that these stand-ins react differently to antibodies against the virus and to host cell receptors.

Other researchers on this project were Jian Guan and Robert E. Ashley, Department of Medicine; Sarah A. Brendle and Neil D. Christensen, Department of Pathology; Stephanie M. Bywaters, graduate student, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; and Alexander M. Makhov and James F. Conway, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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Maintain fitness regimen during winter months Special to the Gazette JOHNSTOWN — When snow falls and sidewalks ice over in winter, the idea of getting out to do something as simple as going for a walk becomes a potentially life-threatening activity. With more and more research showing that regular exercise benefits overall health and specifically brain health, it is not a good idea to give up your fitness routine as the seasons change, according to HomeWatch CareGivers of Central PA. Shorter days and decreased daylight can impact well-being, so maintaining energy levels with exercise is beneficial.

The choices for exercise in the winter are to stay indoors or to safely continue working out in the colder weather. For those who opt for being outside, the Mayo Clinic offers these tips: ■ People living with certain conditions should check with their doctor before venturing outside to exercise in cold temperatures. These include heart disease, asthma or Raynaud’s disease.

■ Check the weather and factor in the wind chill, as this can increase the likelihood of frostbite. Also, factor in the potential for rain or snowfall during your time outdoors and dress accordingly in waterproof gear.

■ Educate yourself on the symptoms of frostbite and hypothermia so you can get indoors and get help. Dress properly in layers, protecting areas such as ears, feet, head and hands that are most vulnerable to frostbite, and wear sunscreen on exposed skin.

■ Stay hydrated. Just because you are cold does not mean you cannot become dehydrated.

For those who want to keep exercising but do not want to take the risks of going outside when it is chilly and slippery, consider these ideas: ■ Swim or do water exercise at an indoor pool. Not only can water activities improve balance and get your heart rate up, they also can be a way to socialize. Swimming and water exercise can have benefits for people living with arthritis, too, as there is minimal impact on the joints.

■ Join SilverSneakers for an affordable workout. This program is often covered by health insurance plans and includes access to fitness equipment and group exercise classes.

■ Take a spinning class for that indoor cycling experience.

■ Keep on walking. Even if you choose to just stay home, do some extra laps up and down the stairs or from room to room.

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Young Scholars becomes IB World School STATE COLLEGE — Young Scholars of Central PA Charter School has become an International Baccalaureate World School. YSCP is the first IB World School in Centre County and the ninth school in Pennsylvania to implement the “Middle Years Programme.”

IB schools aim to graduate citizens who receive well-rounded educations and are not only knowledgeable in core content areas, but also immersed in the concepts they will encounter in life. The students who complete their middle school years at YSCP will be given certificates at the end of the program recognizing them as IB students.

For more information on IB World School, visit www. ibo.org.

Young Scholars is a free public charter school in State College with 350 students in grades kindergarten through eighth grades. For more information, contact CEO Levent Kaya at (814) 237-9727 or kaya@yscp.org.

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Elks name St. Joseph’s students of the month BOALSBURG —State College Elks Lodge No. 1600 recently announced the selection of a male and female students of the month for October from St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy.

Selected as the female student of the month was Anna G. Henderson, daughter of Barbara and Jeff Henderson, of Pennsylvania Furnace.

Henderson is a senior at St. Joseph’s and carries a 4.2 grade point average, as well as being on the Dean’s List and a member of the National Honor Society.

Named an outstanding student in theology, Henderson has been awarded a Provost’s Scholarship to ANNA HENDERSON Messiah College. She has participated in musical programs, a capella choir and theater.

Henderson served on a mission trip to Jamaica and was a member of the Photography Club and the Prom Committee.

The male student of the month is Bryce Herman, son of Michelle Robison and Gregory Herman, of Bellefonte.

BRYCE HERMAN A junior, Herman carries a 4.1 grade point average. He served as president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and vice president of the National Honor Society, and has been on the Dean’s List throughout his academic career.

Herman played baseball, and also was a baseball trainer and instructor for Own the Plate, which is a developmental program for young baseball players.

‘Innovate the State’ to focus on campus, community UNIVERSITY PARK — State of State will host its annual conference Saturday, Feb. 11, in Alumni Hall, HUB-Robeson Center.

This year’s theme is “Innovate the State,” focusing on bringing innovation to various areas on Penn State’s campus and in the surrounding community.

Anyone from the Penn State and State College community is invited to attend. The conference focuses on problems concerning Penn State students, faculty and State College community members.

Registration for the conference is currently open and can be accessed at www.psustateofstate.com. It will remain open until Sunday, Feb. 5. Those not registering online by the deadline can register at the event if space remains.

Check-in on the day of the conference will begin at 9 a.m. The opening speaker will go on at 10 a.m. The conference will last no longer than 4 p.m. The event and lunch are both free.

There will be three sets, each with different speakers who have various viewpoints on a topic.

“Our Community Responsibility” will focus on how all can get more involved and take better care of the greater Penn State and State College communities. The speakers for the set are Kelly Mroz, director of Student Legal Services; Chris Buchignani, president of the Nittany Valley Society; Will Quaranta, past president of the Interfraternity Council; Madeline Strasser, past president of the Panhellenic Council; and Terry Ford, president of UPUA. “Sustainable Practices” will focus on how Penn State can be a more sustainable university and how seemingly innocent actions can affect the environment. Speakers for this set include Nate Larkin, executive director of Fossil Free PSU; Hayly Hoch, president of the Student Farm; Doug Goodstein, student program coordinator for the

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Speakers in the “Serving Our Penn State Family” set will talk about the students and people in the Penn State community who are being overlooked by the university and State College. This set will include subjects such as graduate students and young professionals. The speakers include Jaden Rankin-Wahlers, co-president of Lion’s Pantry; Maria Walls, founder of WINGS; Anthony Pinter, graduate student; Paul Clifford, CEO of the PSU Alumni Association; and Bob Orndoff, director of Career Services.

The emcee for the conference is Abby Kennedy, who spoke at State of State 2016. There will also be an opening speaker.

For those who cannot attend in person, there will be a live stream for the event. The link can be found on the day of the conference at ww.wpsu.org or www. psustateofstate.com.

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Brown retires after nearly 5 decades in banking

By SAM STITZER

filled in with soil, compacted and leveled, and the bank building, a modified mobile home, was placed on the site.

“It (the building) was very small,” said Brown. “I worked there for 21 years.” In 2001, the current building was constructed on the site.

Brown saw many changes in banking over the years.

“When I first started working, you wrote everything out,” she said. “We were handwriting receipts, and all the internal things we had to do were written by hand. If you made a mistake, then you had to find it. Now, everything is on your computer.”

Brown plans a busy retirement. She and her husband of 40 years, Garth Brown, who retired a month ago, plan to do some traveling. One of their two daughters resides near Pittsburgh, and is expecting her second child. “We have a fifth wheel (camper), and we’re prepared to go,” said Brown. “We’re going to be out there, hopefully, when the baby’s born.”

She said her daughters didn’t like when she had to work on Saturdays. “They used to bug me, saying, ‘Do you have to work today?’ That was the worst part of working — Friday nights and Saturdays.”

But, Brown has derived satisfaction from her long banking career, working for an entity that has helped many people buy houses and cars, and to meet other financial needs.

“It felt good when people got what they wanted,” she said. “People are thankful for what you do.

“I’ve really liked my job.”

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OLD FORT — When Linda Brown accepted a job as a teller for Peoples National Bank in June 1969, she had no idea she would still be employed there 47 years later. On Jan. 25, Brown worked her last day at what is now First National Bank’s Old Fort branch, encouraged by a steady stream of well-wishers.

Brown, the daughter of Bob and Helen Weaver, of Spring Mills, graduated from Penns Valley High School on June 6, 1969, having taken the school’s highly respected business course. Just 10 days later, she began working at the bank’s Westerly Parkway branch in State College.

When she was interviewed for the job, the bank president said, “Those girls from Penns Valley tend to stay here a while.”

“Little did I know I would be here 47 and a half years later,” said Brown. She recalled that her starting salary was $280 a month, before taxes.

“The night I got my job, a guy came around selling cookware,” Brown said. “I knew then I needed a job because I had a payment.” She said she still has that same cookware.

Brown worked at the Westerly Parkway branch for 11 years. In 1980, she was transferred to a newly erected branch at Old Fort and promoted to the position of head teller.

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LINDA BROWN retired from the First National Bank in Old Fort after 47 years of employment.

Klondike Derby features ‘Chisholm Trail’ theme

By SAM STITZER pennsvalley@centrecountygazette.com

POTTER TOWNSHIP — The Juniata Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America hosted its 46th annual Klondike Derby at the Seven Mountains Scout Camp in Potter Township on Jan. 28.

During the event, Boy Scout patrols pull dog sleds to several stations around the camp. Each station presents a task for the boys, and they are judged by Scout leaders and volunteers on their skills, efficiency and teamwork.

The Klondike Derby, which is the largest annual event held at the Seven Mountains Camp, is sponsored by the Juniata Boy Scouts Council, which includes troops from Mifflin, Juniata, Huntingdon and Centre counties.

Organizing the derby was Paul T. Fagley, who was a participant in the third Klondike Derby as a Boy Scout in 1974.

Fagley’s father, the late Paul J. Fagley, was chairman of the event for 36 years.

This year, the younger Fagley celebrated his 36th anniversary serving as chair-

man or co-chairman of the event, tying his father’s record of service.

About 350 Scouts from all around Pennsylvania and northern Maryland brought 71 sled teams to compete this year.

The sleds are manned by patrols of three to five boys in either the Scouts (Iditarod) class or the Webelos (Malamute) class. They compete in groups of eight evenly divided between the two classes.

The boys spend several hours moving from station to station, completing tasks that include, among others, cooking breakfast, archery, skeet shooting and first aid.

The Scouts learn lessons in teamwork, leadership and working in cold weather while competing.

The theme of this year’s derby was “The Chisholm Trail,” celebrating the 150th anniversary of the famous cattle drive trail of Western lore which ran from southern Texas to Kansas, where cattle were shipped eastward.

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WEBELOS PACK 226 from McConnellstown moved their sled during the 46th annual Klondike Derby at the Seven Mountains Scout Camp in Potter Township.

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Sadly, people even buy premade hamburger patties. Who knows what’s in those to hold them together?

Or, what kind of meat was actually used to assemble them? It’s not that hard to go to your local butcher or neighborhood grocery store and buy some 80 percent lean, 20 percent fat ground beef (for the juiciness it will

provide to your burgers). Add your favorite flavorings to create a dynamite burger for you and your family.

I know it’s hard to cook from scratch all the time, but find ways to squeeze it in. You are showing people how much you care about them when you take the extra time, plus you save calories, save money and will never be disappointed with the taste.

Making homemade macaroni and cheese isn’t hard. It’s actually very simple. I’ll even go as far to say it will take only as long as that boxed stuff does, and with this recipe it can be finished in the microwave.

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Event to bring Southeast Asia culture to Happy Valley Special to the Gazette STATE COLLEGE — The Passport on a Plate Gala, Global Connection’s flagship fundraiser, will take place from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday, March 26, in the Nittany Lion Inn’s ballroom.

The Essence of Southeast Asia will feature food, entertainment and auction offerings.

Nittany Lion Inn executive chef Marissa Schaeffer will lead the creation of culinary delights from countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines.

“As the new executive chef at The Nittany Lion Inn, I am both proud and excited to present the Southeast Asian menu for this year’s Global Connections Passport on a Plate Gala,” Schaeffer said.

“The event will be held at the inn for the first time this year. It’s a menu alive with lemongrass, ginger, garlic, coconut and a little bit of spice. Traditional combinations of these flavors excite and invigorate the palate and make both chef and diner step out of our culinary comfort zones. “‘Making Life Better’ is the PSU motto, and I think that’s what we are doing when we challenge ourselves with new, beautiful and delicious food and do it in the name of a tremendous cause in this community.”

Proceeds will go to funding Global Connection pro-

grams that promote cultural understanding and benefit both international and American community members in the area. These include the Conversation Partners Program, the International Friendship Program, the International Children’s Festival, various cultural luncheons and the Women’s Intercultural Book Groups.

Last year, with community support, Global Connections served nearly 6,000 individuals through its programs and events.

David Price will be the master of ceremonies.

The event will include a silent auction featuring items such as golf packages, getaways, food and dining options and two autographed items by world-renowned photographer and distinguished alumnus from Penn State Steve McCurry.

A community-based organization affiliated with the United Way of Centre County and the Pennsylvania State University, Global Connections’ mission for more than 50 years is to promote intercultural sharing and understanding, and to build a strong, inclusive community through service, education, advocacy and partnerships.

Tickets are $150 per person and are available at www. gc-cc.org/passport-on-a-plate/essence-of-southeastasia, by calling (814) 863-3927 or by mailing a check to 314 Boucke Building, University Park, PA 16802.

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PSU alumnus to direct Super Bowl broadcast Penn State News UNIVERSITY PARK— More than 160 million people will watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 5, with many focused on the commercials as much — or maybe more than — the game itself.

For the Penn State alumnus who will shape how all those TV viewers see the game, though, the commercials are not a consideration. That’s because Rich Russo, director of the game’s broadcast for Fox, has a lot of other things on his mind during the game.

“We’re not even aware of the commercials. We’re just thinking about what we’re going to be doing coming out of commercial breaks,” RICH RUSSO Russo said. “I do go back every Monday after a game and watch what we did. So, maybe if something looks interesting, I’ll see it then.”

Russo earned his degree in speech communication in 1984 and was a varsity athlete for the Nittany Lions. His 10 goals still stand as a single-game scoring record for the men’s lacrosse team.

This year’s Super Bowl will be the third Russo has directed for Fox and the 14th he has worked overall, including six as director of the international broadcast. His first Super Bowl was in 1986, when he was a broadcast associate with CBS. Russo and producer Richie Zyontz lead what may be the No. 1 broadcast team covering NFL games. For the Super Bowl it’s a big group, nearly 350 people. That includes booth talent Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, sideline reporters Erin Andrews and Chris Myers, and the dozens of associate directors and producers, camera operators and statisticians who Russo credits for a team approach to games.

For those weekly broadcasts, Russo chooses what appears on TV from more than a dozen camera angles. This week, he’ll have 40 camera angles -- although most beyond a core set of views will be reserved for replays.

“You want to give the viewer the best seat in the house,” said Russo, who has earned 10 Emmy Awards for his work.

Each week before a game he crafts a detailed camera game plan that he shares with camera operators. It outlines which cameras focus on which players in specific down-and-distance situations. It also offers numerous ifthen options based on game situation -- meaning the TV team enters a game with a storytelling approach specific to the teams involved and players on the field.

Russo relies on all the additional postseason camera angles to make the storytelling game plan personal and practical. That means reaction shots and replays that help clarify and personalize what’s happening.

Still, Russo’s work has its critics -- most notably his teenage son Jack.

“He’s a good critic, but tough,” Russo said. “He’ll see me the day after the game and it’s, ‘Dad how come you didn’t do this?’ Or, when we did the Pittsburgh-Dallas this season game my wife told me she was watching with him.

There was a Le’Veon Bell fumble and Jack said, ‘Watch, Dad’s going to show a replay on that in three, two, one …’ and that’s what we did.”

Russo has a strong appreciation for Penn State and one Penn State-related storyline at this year’s Super Bowl.

That’s New England Patriots receiver Chris Hogan, who, like Russo, is a former Penn State men’s lacrosse player.

Hogan finished his career at Penn State, played one season of football at Monmouth University and entered the NFL in 2011. He just completed his best season, including a breakout in the AFC Championship Game.

Medical center charity ball set for Feb. 11 STATE COLLEGE — Mount Nittany Health Foundation will hold its 69th annual Mount Nittany Medical Center Charity Ball at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.

The event, “A Starlit Evening on the Serengeti,” benefits the Children’s Advocacy Center of Centre County.

All are welcome to participate in an online silent auction, held through Monday, Feb. 13, at www.biddingforgood.com/mnmc. Bidders will have the opportunity to try for approximately 100 items, ranging from local gift cards to a Disney vacation package, Steelers tickets, a Hotel Hershey Sweet Spa retreat, fine jewelry and more.

The Charity Ball Committee will once again be holding the Mercedes-Benz European Driving Adventure raffle.

Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz of State College, this trip includes round-trip airfare for two from Philadelphia or Newark, N.J., and the opportunity to spend five nights and six days in first-class hotels while enjoying a self-guided tour through the Black Forest Alps of Germany and into the Austrian Alps in a Mercedes-Benz.

The charity ball will feature musical entertainment

by Yamoussa Camara Drum and Dance, followed by the band Monte Carlo. An open cocktail hour will start off the evening, with African-themed food stations throughout.

The cost to attend the event is $375 per couple.

For more information, call (814) 234-6777 or visit www. foundation.mountnittany.org/events/charity-ball.

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MEMBERS OF Boy Scout Troop 769 from Odenton, Md., worked on cooking breakfast while competing in the Klondike Derby at the Seven Mountains Scout Camp in Potter Township.

Derby, from page 13 The Chisholm Trail was used in the post-Civil War era and was named for fur trader Jesse Chisholm, whose portion of the trail went from his southern trading post near the Red River to his northern trading post near Kansas City, Kan. It is estimated that approximately 5 million head of Texas cattle reached Kansas over the Chisholm Trail from 1867 to about 1880.

Songs such as “Home on the Range,” “Red River Valley” and “The Old Chisholm Trail” became popular with the cow-

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THE STATE COLLEGE ELKS recently held its Local Lodge Hoop Shoot. Pictured in the top photo, from left, are hoop shoot director Van Arvin, first-place winners Alaina Warraich (girls 8-9), Clare Banker (girls 10-11), Delia Lower (girls 12-13), Zachary Lambert (boys 12-13), Michael Lower (boys 10-11) and Joey Lu (boys 8-9), and hoop shoot volunteer Anna Aiello. Pictured in the bottom photo, from left, are Arvin, runners-up Diane Samuels (girls 10-11), Jonathan Dean (boys 12-13), Nick Belinc (boys 10-11) and Derrick Campbell (boys 8-9), and Aiello. The first-place winners advance to the District Hoop Shoot Contest.

Volunteers sought for powwow STATE COLLEGE — Planning for the popular Traditional American Indian Powwow in early April at Mount Nittany Middle School is underway and organizers are looking for volunteers to help with the event.

Volunteers are needed to assist with the logistical aspects of the powwow, including setup; assistance in the American Indian kitchen; errands, supplies and facilities; takedown; and various other duties.

A volunteer orientation meeting will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in 104 Rackley Building on the Penn State campus.

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The 13th annual New Faces of an Ancient People: Traditional American Indian Powwow will be held Saturday, April 1, and Sunday, April 2. It’s a celebration of community, featuring American Indian drum music and songs, Native American dance and foods, and American Indian vendors showing and selling their arts and crafts.

The family-friendly event, which has earned a national reputation as one of the best in the country, usually attracts about 5,000 people to Mount Nittany Middle School.

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Owens noted that “The Old Chisholm Trail” has more than 1,000 documented verses, as well as an unknown number of undocumented verses composed by cowboys along the trail.

The Scouts collected written song verses at each of the 12 stations in the derby, then wrote their own verses. The 10 best Scout-written verses will be posted on the Juniata Council’s Facebook page.

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Celebrate Valent ine’s Day

Get creative this Valentine’s Day

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There are many thoughts on the origins of Valentine’s Day. The History Channel website listed a few of the claims.

One of the popular stories involves a Catholic priest named Valentine Valentinus, one of three recognized by that name. The one most historians think is related to the start of Valentine’s Day lived during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius ll decided that single men made better soldiers, he outlawed marriage. Valentine defied the decree and secretly continued to perform marriages for young lovers.

He was put to death when Claudius discovered what he was doing.

Another legend goes that Valentine himself sent the first “valentine” after falling in love with a young girl who visited him while he was imprisoned. Before his death, he sent a letter signed, “From Your Valentine.”

Some claim the Christian church

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CANDY, like that seen here at C and R Candies and More in the Nittany Mall, is always a popular gift choice for Valentine’s Day.

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Anyone can appreciate the ideas for Valentine’s Day that are represented at 2000 Degrees in State College.

Stop in and paint a valentine mug with a raised heart on it or choose a plate and print a name on it. Many ideas will surface as you gaze around at the shelves of pottery.

According to Gary Filkins, owner of 2000 Degrees, “People of all ages come in here, experience art, relax and enjoy themselves. I see fathers bringing in their daughters and spending some quality time with them. I have kids who used to come in and now they’re making memories with their kids.”

Another interesting fact — three grooms-to-be have chosen the studio to propose to their “valentines.”

If you’re looking for an entire evening of entertainment, consider the Valentine’s Dinner and Comedy Show at Celebration Hall in State College on Saturday, Feb. 11.

A dinner buffet at 6 p.m. by Hoag’s Catering and a comedy show at 8 p.m. offer a combination of romance, good food and laughter.

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VALENTINE’S DAY-THEMED pottery is on display at 2000 Degrees in State College.

may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February to “Christianize” the pagan fertility festival known as Lupercalia.

No matter its origins, Valentine’s Day has become a very big deal. In card-giving, it is second only to Christmas. Around Centre County, if you investigate, you can find unique remembrance items for your special guy or girl.

Walk into the Douglas Albert Gallery on McAllister Alley in State College and you are surrounded by an array of choices. Douglas Albert pointed out some items that might not be obvious options, but rather thoughtful gifts for a special person.

A personalized fountain pen might be just the ticket for a writer or someone who likes to use a special writing instrument. “Give the pen early and suggest the guy write his own Valentine message with it,” suggested Albert.

Beautiful handmade and unusual jewelry is available, as are the popular mouse miniatures “Wee Forest Folk,” which are handcrafted in the USA. These little cuties are available for most holidays and other occasions, making them a desirable collectible.

Snow globes are not just for Christmas any more.

There are some lovely ones on display at Douglas Albert that feature interesting structures inside.

There also are wine and champagne glasses, kaleidoscopes, personalized picture frames and paper weights.

Albert said his other store, Uncle Eli’s, at 129 E. Beaver Ave., sells letter press cards and other art supplies — perfect for constructing your own valentine.

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A PERSONALIZED fountain pen, like the ones seen here at Douglas Albert Gallery, might be the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for a writer.

Casey Grove, of Hoag’s, said this is an annual event with a great menu, from the complimentary glass of champagne to the delicious desserts.

Candy and flowers for Valentine’s Day are still good choices. Most recipients enjoy the gestures and the romantic notions of candy and flowers. Many have saved a heart-shaped box at some point in their lives and remember fondly the gifts of Valentine’s Days past.

C and R Candies and More in the Nittany Mall has a varied selection of chocolates and old-fashioned types of candy such as Turkish taffy. Cathy Williamson has owned the business since December 2015.

From Saturday, Feb. 11, through Tuesday, Feb. 14, you can buy chocolate-covered strawberries at C and R. Orders should be placed in advance; after orders are distributed, the strawberries will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Tips for buying jewelry for that special someone

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer

NEW YORK — Shopping for jewelry for a loved one ahead of Valentine’s Day can be stressful. But learning some tricks should help anyone have an easier time finding the perfect gift. That means understanding a partner’s tastes, shopping at reputable jewelry stores and learning what the wording means in terms of how gemstones are graded.

And there’s plenty of opportunity to haggle for the best price.

“It is a big time to buy jewelry,” said Amanda Gizzi, a spokeswoman at the Jewelers of America, a trade association with more than 8,000 retail members.

“There are some wonderful sales to be had. Look for the best pieces for your budget, but don’t be dazzled by the discounts.”

Above all, start researching with time to spare, figure out how much you want to spend, and shop to take advantage of post-holiday sales or limited-time Valentine’s Day deals.

The median price for a piece of jewelry is $350, excluding engagement rings and wedding bands, the trade group said. But there’s a wide range of jewelry sellers from Target to Tiffany.

“You really do need to shop early if you are budget-minded,” said Benjamin Glaser, features editor at DealNews.com, an online deal comparison site.

Here are some tips: ■ Know your loved one’s taste Look at what your partner is wearing and what’s in the jewelry box. If your special someone likes small earrings, don’t get big hoops. And if that person is active, don’t buy rings with high settings, says Gizzi.

Among the trends this year: updated classics such as hoop earrings with diamond chips, or layering rings or bracelets.

If you plan to buy diamonds, see if there’s a way — subtly — to find out if your partner would rather sacrifice size over quality or vice versa.

■ Do research and learn the lingo Check out sites like Jewelers of America and online retail sites like Blue Nile for help understanding key terms such as what clarity means when you are talking about diamonds, or how gemstones are graded. Bluenile.com, which has also begun opening in-person showrooms, offers tools to compare prices from 150,000 independently graded diamonds.

■ Take precautions against fraud First, be cautious about a store always offering discounts of more than 50 percent. Consumers may find the discount price is actually the average retail price elsewhere, said the Jewelers of America.

Buy from a trusted retailer. Ask friends for recommendations, or go to websites such as the American Gem Society, which lets you search for reputable jewelry stores by ZIP code.

As for diamonds, consumers should insist a stone be accompanied by an independent grading report from a respected lab like the Gemological Institute of America, said Josh Holland, Blue Nile’s director of brand experience.

Also, check out the return policy and find out whether you’d get your money back or would have to exchange an item for credit. And haggle — it’s a common practice in the jewelry business, Glaser said.

■ Consider synthetic diamonds If you want something sparkly but want to avoid gems from conflict zones, synthetic or man-made diamonds are about 20 to 40 percent less expensive, according to DealNews. Produced in a laboratory, they are chemically the same as mined diamonds, as opposed to simulated diamonds, which are usually cubic zirconia or moissanite.

Pure Grown Diamonds, the world’s largest distributor of them, has a directory on its website of stores by ZIP code that offer lab-grown diamonds.

While a gemologist wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between mined and synthetic diamonds, a jeweler needs to tell buyers the origin.

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Learning some jewelry-buying tricks should help anyone have an easier time finding the perfect gift.

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A kiss is just a kiss, unless it’s the very first one

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press

NEW YORK — A kiss is just a kiss, but as time goes by the first one can be everlasting.

“I can tell you the exact date,” declared stylist and fashion designer Nicole Grays Owens, of Atlanta. “It was Aug. 16, 1985, three days after my sweet 16th. He was my first true love and I his.”

We all have a first-kiss story, from the playground, park or basement, most likely. But do we all know what happened to the people with whom we shared that delicate snip of time? Do we care?

Writer Rachel Vail, of Manhattan, may not have been in capital L-love with the first boy she kissed, but they were a thing, elementary-school style.

She was a fifth-grade Kim to his sixthgrade Hugo in their suburban New York school’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie.”

There was supposed to be a kiss between the two in the play. This being elementary school, there was not.

Then came curtain call opening night.

“We met at center stage. He had a bouquet of flowers and he leaned forward and kissed me in front of a packed auditorium, in front of our parents and teachers and everybody else,” Vail recalled. “It was a sweet, chaste kiss, but I wiped it right off my mouth. My dad filmed the whole thing.”

Vail, 50, has worked a few memorable kisses into some of the more than 30 books she has written for young people. In real life, there was a big twist to her first.

Though it left her a “little shaken,” she took her spot at the end of the stage as planned during bows. And that put her

next to the boy who played her father.

And it was he, years later, who became her husband. They’ve been married 24 years come spring.

“More than sex, that idea of kissing, connecting with somebody, it can be very innocent and it can be so very powerful,” Vail said. “It’s that first thought of yourself as a romantic and eventually a sexual being. First kisses can knock you down and make you feel so different about yourself and about the world.”

Owens, 47, feels the same. She and her first beau, back in Los Angeles where she grew up, courted over scoops of mint chip at the ice cream shop where he worked.

“It was awkward, tentative at first, then it morphed into everything I’d seen in a movie or on television,” she said. “It was passionate, romantic and seemed to go on forever. Maybe passionate is too heady a word for two virginal teenagers, but it felt like passion to me.”

The two drifted after high school, but she doesn’t have to wonder what became of him. Through social media she has learned that he’s the married father of four, a police officer in a small California town. She keeps her distance out of respect.

“He was the greatest first everything I could have had and I still possess every picture, card, love letter,” Owens said, “and the dress I wore to his senior prom, which still fits, by the way.”

For David Rivera, a 62-year-old doctor in suburban Chicago, the first is now bittersweet.

The date: “May 27, 1968, behind the hedges in front of the house where she was baby-sitting! Life was never the same after that. Her name was Cheryl and we

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SEAN GIAMBRONE, left, as Adam, and Natalie Alyn Lind, as Dana, in a scene from the comedy series “The Goldbergs.” The series is based on creator Adam Goldberg’s 1980s childhood. used to leave notes for each other tucked into the post for a stop sign near her house,” he said.

They exchanged Christmas cards occasionally over the years. She had a longterm temp job about a mile from where he lives.

“I saw her in 2004 for the first time in 32 years. We met for lunch. That would be the last time,” Rivera said. “She died in December 2012. I didn’t know until I had dinner with three other friends from high school a couple of years later.”

Dana Marlowe, 40, also reconnected with her first kisser, 25 years after the act.

She’s a federal agency IT consultant in suburban Washington, D.C., and new software to access a payment portal included the security question: “What is the name of your first kiss?” Marlowe treated her assistant to the story behind the answer since she’s the one who had to input the name.

The scene: A summer camp in Pennsylvania one hot July night in 1989, near the tree line. Marlowe was 12. Adam was 13.

Marlowe was so tickled by the crush reminder that she tracked him down on Facebook, where they had a couple of old camp friends in common, and privately messaged him his new security role in her life.

“He wrote back within seconds and we wound up chatting,” she said. “He said, ‘If you think that’s funny, I’ve got a story for YOU, Dana.’”

Adam is Adam Goldberg, a Hollywood writer and producer. At the time they reconnected, he was pitching a TV series based on his 1980s childhood, “The Goldbergs,” which was picked up by ABC and includes a noteworthy young kiss and the pursuit of same in a story line involving a character he left as Dana.

Goldberg uses real-life home movies and other memorabilia to end each episode and it was Marlowe’s turn that time around, in a short snippet of young them.

“So, that’s what happens when you look up your first kiss, courtesy of needing to get paid by the government,” Marlowe said.

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2017 Penn State Football Recruits National Signing Day was Wednesday, Feb. 1, and Penn State’s football team added a number of highly regarded players. Below is a breakdown of the Nittany Lions’ 2017 class. For complete Penn State recruiting information, go to FightOnState.com (part of the Scout.com network), which provided this content.

Damion Barber

Sean Clifford

Mac Hippenhammer

Mike Miranda

POS: DE POS Rank: 28 HT: 6’3” WT: 240 Harrisburg HS, PA

POS: QB POS Rank: 24 HT: 6’2” WT: 211 St. Xavier HS, OH

POS: WR POS Rank: 65 HT: 6’0” WT: 166 R Nelson Snider HS, IN

POS: OG POS Rank: 40 HT: 6’3” WT: 290 Stow-Monroe Falls HS, OH

Corey Bolds

Brelin Faison-Walden

Desmond Holmes

Cameron Sullivan-Brown

POS: DT POS Rank: 93 HT: 6’3” WT: 286 Paramus Catholic HS, NJ

POS: S POS Rank: 33 HT: 6’1” WT: 195 Grimsley HS, NC

POS: OT POS Rank: 107 HT: 6’5” WT: 325 Cardinal O’Hara HS, PA

POS: WR POS Rank: 90 HT: 6’0” WT: 176 St. Vincent Pallotti HS, MD

Ellis Brooks

Brailyn Franklin

Donovan Johnson

Jonathan Sutherland

POS: ILB POS Rank: 15 HT: 6’1” WT: 225 Benedictine HS, VA

POS: OLB POS Rank: 52 HT: 6’2” WT: 205 Battlefield HS, VA

POS: CB POS Rank: 37 HT: 5’10” WT: 170 Cass Technical HS, MI

POS: S POS Rank: 16 HT: 6’0” WT: 191 Episcopal HS, VA

D. J. Brown

K. J. Hamler

Rob Martin

C. J. Thorpe

POS: CB POS Rank: 78 HT: 5’11” WT: 166 Creekside HS, GA

POS: WR POS Rank: 54 HT: 5’9” WT: 160 IMG Academy, FL

POS: OG POS Rank: 53 HT: 6’5” WT: 265 St. Joseph Regional HS, NJ

POS: OG POS Rank: 10 HT: 6’3” WT: 314 Central Catholic HS, PA

Journey Brown

Fred Hansard

Yetur Matos

Lamont Wade

POS: RB POS Rank: NA HT: 5’11” WT: 194 Meadville HS, PA

POS: DT POS Rank: 19 HT: 6’3” WT: 306 The Hun School, NJ

POS: DE POS Rank: 24 HT: 6’5” WT: 245 Chancellor HS, VA

POS: CB POS Rank: 3 HT: 5’10” WT: 185 Clairton HS, PA

How Franklin has stocked roster since 2014

By MIKE POORMAN statecollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Feb. 1 marked James Franklin’s fourth National Signing Day in a little over three years at Penn State.

That’s quite a pace.

It is still too early to get an exact idea of how Franklin likes to stock his roster and do long-term roster management.

There were still scholarship sanctions in place when he arrived on Jan. 11, 2014.

Plus, he had fewer than four weeks to get his first class signed. As it was, of the 25 players who signed on Feb. 5, 2014, 16 had already verbally committed to Bill O’Brien.

That meant only nine were true Franklin recruits.

And, there was a lot of building to do. As Franklin has pointed out, the Nittany Lions had only nine offensive linemen on scholarships when he came to town. (By comparison Franklin will have signed 16 offensive linemen since he came to campus.)

Throw in a big course correction as far as the scheming and subsequent position needs of Joe Moorhead’s offense

go, and simply by counting numbers we still can’t be sure of Franklin’s overall philosophy in regard to building his team year after year via the draft … er, signing day scholarships.

But we’ll try.

Using Penn State’s official signing day lists for 2014 (25 scholarships handed out), 2015 (25) and 2016 (20), plus the 20 slated for the Class of 2017, Franklin will have handed out 90 scholarships in 37 months.

That doesn’t include the annual addition of walk-ons, or walk-ons who were later awarded scholarships. The 89 are the players Franklin wanted the most, at least at the time. The following lists are based solely on what Penn State announced in February of the past three years, plus PSU’s four January 2017 early enrollees — Lamont Wade, Kahlee Hamler, Brelin Faison-Walden and Michael Miranda — and at least 15 more who were expected Feb. 1.

Given those numbers, we are starting to get an overall feel for Franklin’s roster-stocking strategy, at least to date.

(Again, 2014-15 was a totally different ballgame.) And it includes the following: Franklin, Page 23

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PENN STATE head coach James Franklin, left, greets quarterback Trace McSorley before the Rose Bowl game against Southern California on Jan. 2.

Hogan’s long run from PSU lacrosse to Super Bowl

By ANTHONY RIEBER Newsday (TNS)

Unheralded Chris Hogan became famous Jan. 22 by making nine catches for 180 yards and two touchdowns in the Patriots’ 36-17 win over the Steelers in the AFC Championship Game.

But when an interested Steelers fan saw Hogan’s exploits, he knew exactly where those moves came from.

Glenn Thiel, Hogan’s former lacrosse coach at Penn State, saw the player he knew at State College — just running without a stick.

“He’s big and strong and he’s got good footwork,” Thiel said of Hogan, who will look to catch some more passes from Brady next Sunday in Houston against the Falcons in Super Bowl LI. “I mean, when you run a lacrosse ball up and down the field, you’ve got the footwork like a tailback or like a wide receiver, making moves around people and whatnot to protect your stick. That’s kind of how he runs patterns, I think.”

Leave it to Brady, Bill Belichick and the Patriots to turn a former college lacrosse player with one year of FCS football experience at Monmouth into a prime target in one of the biggest games of the season.

Hogan, a star football and lacrosse player at Ramapo (N.J.) High School, chose lacrosse for college and played three full seasons at Penn State. But an ankle injury in his sophomore year led to a redshirt season. Hogan decided he wanted to spend that on the gridiron and not the lacrosse field.

“He had come to me before his last year at Penn State and said he wanted to play football,” said Thiel, who retired in 2012. “I knew he was going to play somewhere. I just didn’t know where. It turned out Monmouth was the perfect situation for him, I guess.”

Monmouth coach Kevin Callahan knew of Hogan from his high school days. When some mutual friends reported that Hogan wanted to return to football, the Hawks pounced.

“Immediately I said, ‘I know who Chris Hogan is. I remember Chris Hogan,’ ” Callahan said. “And he came down and spoke to us and decided to come and went on from there.”

Hogan put away his lacrosse gear and headed to West Long Branch to play wide receiver.

“He comes out and basically the first day of practice, it was very obvious immediately that he was extremely Hogan, Page 22

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NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS wide receiver Chris Hogan runs after catching a pass during the second half of the AFC championship game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Jan. 22 in Foxborough, Mass.

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State College girls get gritty win over Altoona

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — It is no secret that the State College girls’ basketball team has been struggling through the always-tough Mid-Penn Conference schedule this season.

After an encouraging 4-2 start, the Little Lions have gone just 2-7 in their last nine games and have fallen to 3-7 in the conference.

So it was with some apprehension that State College welcomed 11-win, District 6 archrival Altoona to the North Gym on Jan. 30.

These two teams have a long history, and recently it has been all in favor of State College. The Little Lions beat Altoona three times last season, once both home and away and then for the D-6 championship at Aloysius College in a 30-point blowout.

Altoona came in for this game almost certainly looking for a measure of retribution, but it didn’t work out that way.

State College sold out on defense, and coupled with some arctic-like shooting by the Mountain Lions, held on for a gritty 39-33 win.

Senior center Taylor Love scored 19 points and was a stalwart on both ends for the Lions as State College took a big early lead and then held on down the stretch for the victory.

Playing against the ultra-aggressive State College zone defenses, Altoona couldn’t find the range from inside or out. The Mountain Lions managed just two points in the first quarter and needed two steals in the final seconds of the second quarter to total nine points for the first half.

Fortunately for Altoona, an aggressive defense of their own, along with some errant ball handling and shooting

by State College, kept it within striking distance at 18-9 going into the break.

“We just couldn’t get started,” Altoona coach Miriam Colledge said. “They were changing up defenses on us, but it shouldn’t have mattered. We needed to execute and finish our shots. We got open looks, good shots, we just didn’t finish them.”

Things began to improve for the Mountain Lions in the

second half, and they rallied to within a point twice midway through the final quarter.

But State College, led by Love and point guard Kayla Hawbaker, had enough to answer the call and was able to hold on.

It was SC’s sixth win of the season, against nine losses, and Altoona fell to 11-7 with the defeat.

“Altoona, they are a really good team,” State College coach Jamie Brennan said, “and I have to give our girls credit. It’s a rivalry. Altoona and State College are bitter rivals, and our girls came to play.”

Love, who finished the night with 19 points, started things early for State College. She scored five of SC’s eight first-quarter points and 13 of the Little Lions’ first 19. Her jump shot with just over a minute to play in the second quarter put SC ahead 18-5.

At that point, Altoona guard Madison Shetrom brought her team back into contention by making two steals in the final 27 seconds of the second quarter. One she broke away for the score herself, and the other was finished by Jessica Stevens. The baskets left Altoona within striking distance.

“We knew they (Altoona) were going to have the momentum having the two steals right at the end of the first half,” Love said, “and they were double teaming us a lot in the second half.”

Those double teams, and the Mountain Lions’ pressure in general, fueled Altoona’s comeback. Baskets by Shetrom, Shaina Lear, Amber Newberry and Paige Whitfield sparked an 11-2 run that brought the Mountain Lions to within a point, 30-29, midway through the fourth quarter.

Love responded with a basket to make it 32-29, but a Shetrom drive again brought Altoona back to within a point.

“What really got us was their press,” Brennan said.

“They came on strong when they started to press, and we had to put in a new press break. They (the SC players) adjusted, and our seniors stepped up.”

With State College finally finding holes in the Altoona pressure, the Mountain Lions’ rally lost its steam. Love scored again, Becky Vankirk made two foul shots, and despite two free throws by Lear, State College pulled away

Taylor Love a force for Little Lions

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — State College center Taylor Love has been waiting a long time to get her chance to shine for the Little Lions, and now that it has come, she is taking full advantage.

The 6-foot-1 senior has been a force with the ball, on defense, and on the boards for State College. She leads the team in scoring and rebounding, and she has been the voice of experience and a calming influence in what has been a transition to a completely new coaching staff in 2016-17.

“Taylor Love is one of our senior leaders,” State College assistant coach Jamie Brennan said after the Little Lions’ big 39-33 win over Altoona on Jan. 30. “I spoke to her before the game today and told her that she is really the heart and soul of the team.

“When she plays well, everybody else plays well. She needed to get her head straight and focus on this game.

And she did. She came through.”

Love’s play was the determining factor in the Altoona win. She was instrumental in helping build a big early lead, and then she scored three times in crunch time as SC held on for its sixth win.

Love ended the night with 19 points, just under half of State College’s points. She scored five of the Lions’ eight first-quarter points, 13 of their first 19, and then she scored twice in the final 90 second of the game. She also pulled three big rebounds late as her team ultimately fended off an Altoona five that was determined to pull off a big comeback win.

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STATE COLLEGE’S Jessica Lingenfelter (20) gets a shot off over Altoona’s Paige Whitfield in the Lady Little Lions’ 39-33 home win Jan. 30.

in the final minute to take the win.

“We don’t play against too many presses,” Love said, “so we tried to dribble a little too much. But then we started to get our passing down, and we could break it with that.”

Beside Love’s 19, Maya Bokunewicz added eight points and Hawbaker scored seven. For Altoona, Shetrom and Whitfield both scored eight points, with Lear adding six and Jessica Stevens five.

“It’s hard when you are losing games,” Brennan said, “but we coaches see the progress the players are making.

You have to give these girls credit. We came in with a brand new system, very different, and they are adjusting.

“But the progress has been steady game to game. It’s steps and we are getting there.”

High School Sports Schedules Feb. 2-8 BALD EAGLE AREA

Boys’ basketball — Feb. 3, at Tyrone; Feb. 6, West Branch; Feb. 8, at Bellefonte Girls’ basketball — Feb. 3, Tyrone; Feb. 7, Bellefonte Wrestling — Feb. 4, D-6 Team Duals, Tyrone High School

BELLEFONTE

Boys’ basketball — Feb. 3, at Central; Feb. 7, Central; Feb. 8, BEA Girls’ basketball — Feb. 3, Central; Feb. 6, Juniata; Feb. 7, at BEA Gymnastics — Feb. 6, at DuBois; Feb. 8, at Ridgeway Swimming — Feb. 2, at Central Mountain; Feb. 6, at Central Cambria Wrestling — Feb. 4, D-6 Team Duals, Tyrone High School; Feb. 7, at State College

PENNS VALLEY

Boys’ basketball — Feb. 3, Clearfield; Feb. 6, Williamsburg; Feb. 8, Tyrone Girls’ basketball — Feb. 3, at Clearfield; Feb. 7, Tyrone Swimming — Feb. 2, at Central Mountain Wrestling — Feb. 2, Tyrone, Senior Night; Feb. 8, at West Branch TIM WEIGHT/For the Gazette

TAYLOR LOVE has had plenty of reason to smile this year, as she leads State College in scoring and rebounding.

said. “Everyone was helping and everyone was rebounding. Our coaches were saying 32 minutes of defense, and I think we brought that.”

It was State College’s sixth win of the season, not the number the team was hoping for, but it came at the right time over a good opponent.

SC now is entering the final stages of its season, a stretch that will begin Friday, Feb. 3, at Central Dauphin.

After that, the team will travel to Altoona (Thursday, Feb. 9) and Hollidaysburg (Tuesday, Feb. 14) before finishing at home against Williamsport on Thursday, Feb. 16. There is also a postponed game against Carlisle to be rescheduled.

Love sees playing those games — her final regular season outings as a player — as an opportunity for the Little Lions.

“I think we are definitely getting better each game,” she said. “We’re sharing the ball more, working through the offense instead of just shooting off one pass, so we are making strides.

“We definitely want to win districts so we are going to have them (Altoona) or Mifflin County. Mifflin County has given us tough games, so we have to keep up our defense and keep getting better each game.”

PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA

Boys’ basketball — Feb. 3, Huntingdon; Feb. 6, DCC; Feb. 8, at Clearfield; Girls’ basketball — Feb. 3, at Huntingdon; Feb. 7, Clearfield; Feb. 8, SJCA Wrestling — Feb. 2, Clearfield

ST. JOSEPH’S ACADEMY

Boys’ basketball — Feb. 6, at Jersey Shore; Feb. 7, Grace Prep Girls’ basketball — Feb. 3, Conemaugh Valley; Feb. 7, Grace Prep Wrestling — Feb. 7, Juniata Valley Invitational

STATE COLLEGE

Boys’ basketball — Feb. 3, Central Dauphin; Feb. 6, Johnstown Girls’ basketball — Feb. 3, at Central Dauphin Indoor track — Feb. 4, Vaultworx Pole Vault Tournament, Camp Hill Swimming and diving — Feb. 4, Upper St. Clair; Feb. 8, Mid-Penn Championships, Cumberland Valley Wrestling — Feb. 7, Bellefonte

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Defense helps Bellefonte girls get on track

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

BELLEFONTE — The Bellefonte girls’ basketball team did not have very much fun in the opening weeks of the 2016-17 season.

The Lady Raiders lost their first three games and four of their first five. They were struggling on offense and absorbed those losses by an average of 16 points, while the only win was a low-scoring, 38-37 squeaker at Huntingdon.

It takes time and patience to develop a cohesive offense, especially on a young team without a high-averaging scorer.

That was time, perhaps, that the Raiders did not have.

So they came up with another solution: Don’t allow the opposition to score.

Bellefonte began sharpening its defenses — primarily a trapping 1-3-1 — and that has since more than paid off.

After the slow 1-4 start, only two teams — league-leading Central and Tyrone — have scored more than 60 points against the Raiders, and only one other has gone over 50. Everyone else was held to 43 points or less, and seven teams did not

make it to 40. Central Mountain, twice, didn’t score 30.

Predictably, the Raiders have been winning. They have won nine of their last 12 games, and after their 47-30 win at Philipsburg-Osceola on Jan. 27 and a 38-29 win at St. Mary’s on Jan. 30, they had an 11-7 overall record going in to a home game Feb. 1 against Tyrone (after Gazette press time).

The win over the Mounties is a perfect example of Bellefonte’s winning formula: Sell out on defense and play a balanced offense.

P-O came into the game with a wideopen attack and with the highest scoring player, boy or girl, in the area in Halle Herrington.

Herrington is averaging nearly 30 points per game and is a threat from anywhere closer than 30 feet from the basket.

“You play this team (Philipsburg), your eyes are on Herrington,” Bellefonte coach Adam Gearhart said. “They have some other girls who can score, Lacey Potter and the Hughes girls (Cassidy and Loryn) can knock down some shots, but all eyes are on Herrington.”

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BELLEFONTE’S ABBIE CARR (23) goes up for a shot Jan. 27 against Philipsburg-Osceola.

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Nittany Lions survive Illini, to host Rutgers next statecollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State avoided blowing a 20-point halftime lead Jan. 28 as the Nittany Lions hung on to beat Illinois 71-67.

The win improved Penn State’s record to 12-10 overall, 4-5 in Big Ten play heading into a game at Indiana on Feb. 1 (after Gazette press time).

The Lions return home to take on Rutgers on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 1 p.m. at the Bryce Jordan Center.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Nittany Lions couldn’t have started

any hotter Jan. 28, making their first seven shots as Penn State looked to bounce back from three straight losses in conference play. The result of their efforts was a runway opening half as the Nittany Lions shot 60 percent from the floor and opened the game with a near-knockout blow to the visiting Illini, who have won just one road game all season.

Penn State shot 6-of-11 from beyond the arc in the opening 20 minutes of play to eventually take a 25-15 lead midway through the half.

From there, Penn State continued to push forward as Illinois failed to find any offensive momentum. The Illini kept it from getting too out of hand as a Tony

game. A few seconds later, Penn State led by just six points.

Beyond that, Penn State hung on for dear life leading by eight with 4:16 to go before a Kipper Nichols free throw following a dunk cut made it just three. Payton Banks responded with his only basket of the half to push the lead back out to six, but Jalen Coleman-Lands answered with one of his own to make it a 65-62 game with 1:58 to go.

Carr layup with a second to go made it a 45-25 halftime lead.

It was reasonable to assume that Penn State’s white hot shooting wouldn’t continue, and that was the case early in the second half as Illinois slowly chipped away at Penn State’s lead. With just more than 12 minutes to go in the game, it was just a 12-point margin that separated the two teams. Penn State was able to muster up enough offense to keep it in double figures, but a jumper by Malcolm Hill with 7:12 to go made it just an eight-point

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Wrestling lineup solidifies as post-season looms

By ANDY ELDER sports@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — As the calendar turns to February, the Big Ten Wrestling Championships and the NCAA Wrestling Championships are looming larger for the No. 2 Penn State wrestling team.

Just three regular-season dual meets remain — Friday, Feb. 3, at Ohio State, Friday, Feb. 10, vs. Illinois and Sunday, Feb. 12, vs. Maryland — as well as a possible NWCA Championship Dual Series showdown Sunday, Feb. 19, at No. 1 Oklahoma State.

At this point in the season, most teams have solidified their starting lineups and, for the most part, Penn State has.

Jimmy Gulibon’s recent resurgence, seemingly spurred by his brilliant comeback win at Iowa, erases any questions about 141.

And, the question of who would emerge as the starter at 174, Geno Morelli or Shakur Rasheed, was settled at Iowa when Mark Hall was brought out of redshirt and inserted into the lineup.

Head coach Cael Sanderson may have tipped his hand when he said he and his staff thought they had an All-America candidate in either Morelli or Rasheed, but they wanted more certainty. Enter Hall.

Still, the decision to burn Hall’s redshirt was most likely influenced by starting 133-pounder Jered Cortez’s season-ending shoulder surgery.

No. 2 Penn State — 45 Northwestern — 3

George Carpenter was the immediate replacement.

While his effort can’t be questioned, his skill level doesn’t quite measure up to Big Ten or All-America standards.

Another option emerged Jan. 27 at Wisconsin, as Triston Law took a turn. He scored the first takedown of the bout but was then steamrolled in a 17-2 technical fall loss.

Carpenter got the call Jan. 29 against Northwestern and dropped a close, 4-3 decision.

Who mans that spot in the postseason remains a question with a month to go.

In the meantime, Penn State kept rolling along with two more wins — 33-11 over Wisconsin and 45-3 over Northwestern — to run its overall record to 10-0 and Big Ten mark to 6-0.

The Nittany Lions outscored the Badgers and Wildcats by a combined 78-14, winning 16 of 20 individual bouts.

Penn State accumulated a combined 47-5 edge in takedowns.

The only losses other than the two at 133 came against established Wisconsin stalwarts. As disappointing as both were, each was also encouraging.

Freshman 165-pounder Vincenzo Joseph, ranked No. 4, scored a late takedown against three-time All-American and 2016 finalist Isaac Jordan, ranked No. 3, to take a 4-2 lead. Joseph was well on his way to a breakthrough win, but Jordan emerged from a scramble with a tying reversal with one second left in regulation. Jordan won in the sudden victory period, but Joseph had served notice that he’s right there with the best in the country at that weight.

A similar scenario followed at 285, where No. 4 Nick Nevills, a sophomore, tangled with No. 2 Connor Medbery, a senior All-American. Nevills escaped with 1:35

(Jan. 29 at University Park) 125: No. 3 Nick Suriano, PSU, pinned Anthony Rubinetti, 3:10.

No. 2 Penn State — 33

133: Jason Ipsarides, NW, dec. George Carpenter, 4-3.

No. 16 Wisconsin — 11

141: No. 12 Jimmy Gulibon, PSU, won by tech. fall over Alex McKenna, 20-5 (5:25).

(Jan. 27 at Madison, Wis.)

149: No.1 Zain Retherford, PSU, won by forfeit.

157: No. 1 Jason Nolf, PSU, pinned Jared Scharenbrock, 3:48.

157: No.1 Jason Nolf, PSU, pinned Ben Sullivan, 3:39.

165: No. 3 Isaac Jordan, W, dec. No. 4 Vincenzo Joseph, 6-4 SV.

165: Caleb Livingston, PSU, pinned Anthony Petrone, 2:19.

174: No. 7 Mark Hall, PSU, maj. dec. Ryan Christensen, 18-4.

174: No. 7 Mark Hall, PSU, won by forfeit.

184: No. 2 Bo Nickal, PSU, pinned Hunter Ritter, 2:35.

184: No. 2 Bo Nickal. PSU, maj. dec. No. 20 Mitch Sliga, 10-1.

197: No. 10 Matt McCutcheon, PSU, dec. No. 12 Ricky Robertson, 2-0.

197: No. 10 Matt McCutcheon, PSU, dec. Jacob Berkowitz, 10-3

285: No. 4 Connor Medbery, W, dec. No. 4 Nick Nevills, 4-3.

285: No. 4 Nick Nevills, PSU, dec. Conan Jennings, 5-4.

125: No. 3 Nick Suriano, PSU, maj. dec. Jens Lantz, 15-4.

Ridge Riley Award winner: Caleb Livingston, 165 pounds.

133: Eli Stickley, W, won by tech. fall over Triston Law, 17-2 (7:00).

Attendance: 6,630.

141: No. 12 Jimmy Gulibon, PSU, maj. dec. No. 15 Cole Martin, 15-3.

Takedowns: Northwestern 3; Penn State 22.

149: No. 1 Zain Retherford, PSU, pinned Andrew Crone, 4:30.

Records: Northwestern 6-6, 1-5 Big Ten; Penn State 10-0, 6-0.

Referee: J.R. Johnson

Next match: Illinois at Northwestern, 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3; Penn State at Ohio State, 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3.

Takedowns: Penn State 25; Wisconsin 2.

Hogan, from page 19 talented,” Callahan said. “He was very athletic. He had the size, the strength, the athleticism, the speed, all the things you look for. Great hands. We knew right away he was going to be a very, very talented player. In the first game he ever played, in the season opener against Colgate, his first catch goes for a 17-yard touchdown.”

Hogan showed his lacrosse-honed versatility later that season when the Hawks were short of defensive backs.

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cornerback, and after two practices, he did just that — and continued to play wide receiver.

“On the surface, you would say that Chris is very quiet, somewhat laid-back,” Callahan said. “He doesn’t say a lot — operates under the radar. But under the surface, he’s extremely confident, he’s extremely competitive, and he’s highly motivated and driven to succeed.

“He’s a guy that sets a high standard for himself. If he ever senses that there’s something or someone saying he can’t be successful or saying, ‘Hey, we don’t think you can do this,’ he’s going to even work that much harder to prove those people wrong.”

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PENN STATE’S Caleb Livingston celebrates a pin over Northwestern’s Anthony Petrone at 165 on Jan. 29.

to go in the third period to take a 3-2 lead, but Medbery countered with the winning takedown with 43 seconds left to claim a 4-3 win. Again, Nevills showed his No. 4 ranking is well-founded.

The Nittany Lions travel to Columbus, Ohio, for a 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, showdown with Ohio State at the Schottenstein Center. The bout will be aired live on Big Ten Network.

The Buckeyes are coming off a 21-13 loss to Iowa, but that was without defending NCAA champion and Olympic gold medalist 285-pounder Kyle Snyder, who was competing in a freestyle tournament overseas.

Penn State should be considered favorites at five weights: 125, 149, 157, 165 and 184. Ohio State should be considered favorites at four weights: 133, 174, 197 and 285. The bout at 141 is a tossup.

While there are intriguing matchups throughout, one with particular intrigue will be at 184. No. 2 Bo Nickal takes on No. 10 Myles Martin in a rematch of the 2016 NCAA 174-pound final in which Martin won, 11-9, scoring the bulk of his points countering moves by Nickal.

After his year at Monmouth, an NFL career did not seem likely for the 6-1, 210-pound Hogan. He signed with the 49ers, spent time on the practice squads of the Giants and Dolphins, and eventually hooked on with the Bills.

He caught 10 balls for Buffalo in 2013, 41 in 2014 and 36 in 2015. The story would be good enough if it ended there. But then Hogan signed with the Patriots and caught 38 passes for 680 yards and four touchdowns during the 2016 regular season.

In his first playoff game, Hogan caught four passes for 95 yards in the Patriots’ 34-16 win over Houston. Then came his breakout game against Pittsburgh, which made Hogan’s former lacrosse coach smile.

“I remember when he left Buffalo and got picked up by New England,” Thiel said. “I said to myself, ‘He’s going to enjoy catching Brady passes.’ He’s had a great year, that’s for sure. It’s exciting. It’s good to see him make it like that.

I always thought he was the kind of athlete that could do those kind of things.”

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Franklin, from page 19 ■ He has given the most scholarships to linemen and defensive backs, and has perfectly divided his scholarships between offense and defense.

■ Players from Pennsylvania have received the most scholarships, with 25 of the 89 (28 percent overall) going to Keystone State high school seniors, followed by New Jersey (12), Maryland (10) and Virginia (8).

■ While Franklin may covet five-stars — Wade is his first Rivals five-star at Penn State — about 60 percent of his players have been three-stars and 36 percent have been four-stars.

Likely, things will continue to change down the road, as the roster reaches more of an equilibrium and the Nittany Lions’ wide-open offense, introduced by Moorhead last spring, becomes more of the long-term norm.

But for now, here’s a closer look at how Franklin has stocked his roster via scholarships:

BY YEAR

■ Franklin and his staff awarded 25 scholarships on signing day in 2014, 25 in 2015 and 20 in 2016. Projections had the Lions at 20 for 2017. That’s 90 in all. But attrition via graduation, declaring for the NFL, transfers and leaving school has dropped the number below that.

■ Original scholarship players still on the official Penn State roster, as of Jan. 23, include five of 17 from 2013 Nittany Lions, from page 21 Illinois wouldn’t get any closer, though, and key free throws by Shep Garner and Josh Reaves gave Penn State six big points in the final 38 seconds to seal the deal. The entire sequence was set up by a Reaves’ rebound with 47 seconds to go after Banks missed a 3-pointer just moments earlier, giving Penn State a new shot clock.

(O’Brien’s second class), 18 of 25 from 2014, 22 of 25 from 2015 and 19 of 20 from 2016. The five from 2013 are DaeSean Hamilton, Curtis Cothran, Parker Cothren, Brendan Mahon and Andrew Nelson.

■ In 2014, recruits included one two-star, 19 threestars and five four-stars.

■ Average rating: 3.35 stars.

BY POSITION

After Feb. 1, over the past four years Penn State will have handed out scholarships to players from 18 states, plus the District of Columbia and Canada. Only one has been to a high schooler west of the Mississippi (Koa Farmer, from California, in 2014). And other than Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and Maryland, only six have come from states where other Big Ten schools are located.

On the day he was hired, here’s what Franklin said his recruiting strategy would be geographically: “I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but were going to dominate the state. That is the first thing that we’re going to do … .”

Franklin then said, mentioning it for about the fifth time, “then, obviously being able to recruit aggressively in this region as well. New Jersey, obviously Pennsylvania, New York, New England, Virginia, Delaware has been very good to Penn State traditionally. I think also we were going to take a national approach by position. We will do that as well.

“So, everybody will have recruiting areas, everybody will be in the state. Every one of our staff members will have an area in the state. We’ll also have areas in the region and the states that surround Pennsylvania.

“We’ll recruit nationally as well, because I think you sell yourself short when you don’t do that. We could have a Penn State alumni in California whose son always grew up wanting to go to Penn State. So, having the ability to recruit nationally so that we’re aware of where all the great players are in this country, I think that’s important.

“But, our team will be comprised and mainly made up of Pennsylvania young men.”

Here’s the breakdown from 2014-17. States listed are what Penn State reported on each player’s signing day, and 2017 is based on reported verbal commitments. The list also includes four junior college transfers and their hometowns: ■ Pennsylvania, 25 ■ New Jersey, 14 ■ Maryland, 10 ■ Virginia, nine ■ Ohio, six ■ Georgia, five ■ Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina, two each ■ California, Canada, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Michigan and Wisconsin, one each.

After Feb. 1, under Franklin the Nittany Lions will have given out 18 scholarships to D-linemen, followed by 17 to DBs and 16 to O-linemen. (Positions are based on what Penn State listed on its official signing day press releases. For example, Troy Apke and Nick Scott are currently safeties, but they came in as a wide receiver and running back, respectively, according to Penn State’s initial signing charts.)

Franklin has handed out 43 signing day scholarships to players Penn State originally listed as offense, and 44 to players originally listed as defense, plus one each to a kicker and a punter.

■ On offense, it breaks down this way: offensive line (16, four each year), wide receiver (11), running back (seven), quarterback (five) and tight end (four).

■ On defense, the breakdown is defensive line (18, including seven in 2016), defensive back (17, including six in 2014) and linebacker (nine).

BY STARS

The average Penn State scholarship recruit is above average. Based on Rivals’ annual rankings — and reported

by Penn State in 2014-16 — the Nittany Lions will have signed three two-stars, 52 three-stars, 32 four-stars and one five-star (the aforementioned Wade.)

■ In 2017, there were nine three-stars, nine four-stars and one five-star.

■ In 2016, Penn State claimed two two-stars, 11 threestars and seven four-stars.

■ 2015 saw 13 three-stars and 12 four-stars.

IT WAS OVER WHEN …

An intentional foul with 8.7 seconds to go sent Garner to the free throw line and both shots fell giving the Nittany Lions a 69-65 lead. Illinois would hit a deep three to cut the lead to two points, but free throws by Reaves made it a four-point game with not enough time for the Illini.

STAT OF THE GAME

If Penn State wants to look back and find a big reason that Illinois was able to work its way back into the game, it may not be much more complicated than 16 total offensive rebounds. The Illini grabbed nine of them in the second half and coupled with Penn State’s 34.8 percent shooting it was suddenly a game again at the BJC. If Illinois wants to look at why the game was never close in the first half, all it needs to do is see the Nittany Lions shooting 60 percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes of play to the tune of 18-of-30 from the floor, including 6-of-11 from beyond the arc. In the second half, the scripts nearly flipped as Illinois shot 52.9 percent from the field to Penn State’s 34.8 percent. The results were nearly the same kinds of halves for both teams. Penn State won the first half 45-25, while Illinois won the second 4226.

For overall outcome of the game, Garner’s timely free throws, baskets and strong first half were key to the Nittany Lions’ victory. Garner finished the night with 18 points on 5-of-11 shooting, making four from beyond the arc.

Payton Banks poured in 4-of-5 from beyond the arc to hit 17 points, but was held to just a basket in the second half.

Tony Carr gets the nod here, though, because of the freshman’s complete all-around performance, going 6-of11 with 13 keys points. At one point, Carr had scored seven of Penn State’s 17 second-half points and made a few baskets to stop Illinois’ runs in the second half.

While several players were key for Penn State’s win each in their own way, making it hard to single out any one player, Carr’s contributions in the second half give him the edge here.

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PENN STATE’S Josh Reaves soars for a dunk following a steal in the Nittany Lions’ 71-67 win over Illinois on Jan. 28 at the Bryce Jordan Center.

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BELLEFONTE FRESHMAN Maddie Steiner (11) tries to dribble past Philipsburg-Osceola’s Lacey Potter during the Lady Raiders’ 47-30 road win Jan. 27.

Bellefonte, from page 21

Mindful of the P-O sophomore, and led by the quick start of freshman Maddie Steiner, Bellefonte raced out to a 15-4 first quarter lead and 24-14 going into halftime.

Herrington scored as advertised — she had all of P-O’s first-half points—but the Bellefonte defense kept everyone else from scoring.

“The girls played excellent team defense,” Gearhart said, “not only on Herrington, but on all around. We have been running the 1-3-1 most of the season, that’s been our defense. We’ll go man every so often, and we’ll run a 3-2 every now and then, but 1-3-1 has been our bread and butter this year.

“We have some quick athletes and we’re looking to get steals out of that. When we ran it early (against P-O), that was the plan, push Herrington to a wing and make her go left and take her out of her comfort zone.”

In the third quarter, Bellefonte kept the pressure on Herrington and the Mounties and pushed its lead up to as much as 25 points. Herrington led a fourth-quarter Philipsburg charge, finishing with 24 of the Mounties’ 30 points for the night, but Bellefonte kept a safe margin throughout on the way to its 10th win of the season.

“When we come up here, we never anticipate an easy game because they (the Mounties) will fight and scrap.

You give girls up here an ounce of confidence, and they’ll turn it into a pound real quick.”

Steiner led the way for the Raiders with 12 points, but as has usually been the case lately for them, the scoring was balanced. Raisa Gregor (11 points) and Lauren Young (10) were also in double figures, and Mallory Smith chipped in with six.

“I don’t really care about points,” Steiner said. “It’s more about a team effort. Raisa Gregor was right behind me and the team just followed up.

“Playing as a freshman is new, and I am just trying my best. It’s overwhelming, but the team helps you and has your back. We all get along really well.”

The Lady Raiders turn the corner now toward the final games of the season and the playoffs.

“We’re happy, but we want to go farther,” Steiner said.

“We wanted more wins, but early in the season we weren’t sure of how far we could go. But now we are and we are going to keep at it.”

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State hosted Illinois on Jan. 29 following a loss to Indiana on the road Jan. 23. The Illini (8-14, 3-6 Big Ten) hadn’t won a game on the road this season and left Happy Valley with that streak extended another day, as the Lady Lions defeated them 82-66.

The win left the Lady Lions at 14-7, 4-5 in the Big Ten, heading in to a game Feb. 1 at Ohio State (after Gazette press time).

HOW IT HAPPENED

Penn State got off to a quick start from the field, going 5-for-6 on its opening looks and taking an early 12-6 lead.

Solid defense and a full-court press led to multiple steals for fast break points from Sierra Moore in the first five minutes. After coming out cold, the Illini went on a 7-0 run in the final few minutes of the first to close the quarter with Penn State leading 21-18.

After a more than two-minute-long cold streak, carrying over from the first quarter, Teniya Page ended the silence by sinking a 3-pointer. Illini guard Brandi Beasley gave the Lions headaches for the majority of the first half, scoring 12 points and snagging four rebounds. Good ball movement by Illinois seemed to rattle the Lions momentarily, but as the half wound down Penn State extended its lead to 46-39.

Both the Lady Lions and Illini shot 52 percent from the field and 100 percent from the foul line in the first half.

Penn State’s bench scored 20 of its 46 points with forward Kaliyah Mitchell contributing 11.

Penn State started off hot again early in the second half with good shooting from Page and completed an and-one play by Moore. Beasley continued to have her way with the Lions’ defense and was just too fast for Penn State to pick up before she drove to the bucket on multiple occasions. A few fast breaks again let the Lady Lions maintain their lead over the Illini, pushing their lead to 63-53 at the end of the third.

The pace of the game slowed down significantly in the fourth quarter with Penn State adding another 10 points to the lead in the first three minutes. The Illini did not score at all as Penn State’s lead grew to 73-53 with six minutes left.

The Illini would not get within 10 points of the Lions as Penn State held on to its lead and finished the game 82-66.

Moore finished with 19 points — a season-high and career-best for a Big Ten game.

WHAT’S NEXT

Next for the Lady Lions is a matchup at Northwestern on Sunday, Feb. 5, at 3 p.m.

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‘Cabaret’ gets set to take stage at Schwab

By ANNE WALKER correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — An enthusiastic group of revelers drink, dance, joke and sing while trying to deny the emergence of unspeakable horror and oppression lurking just beyond the dull glow of lights that never quite brighten their lives.

Welcome to 1930s Berlin, the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the faint stirrings that heralded the birth of the Nazi Party.

FUSE Productions, under the direction of Richard Biever, will present the Kander and Ebb classic “Cabaret” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, through Saturday, Feb. 18, at Schwab Auditorium on the Penn State campus.

The cast consists of mostly local performers, but also two professional actors. Melissa Hart will play the resilient Frau Schneider who runs a boarding house. Seth Tucker will play the emcee of the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy symbol of a society consumed with pursuing pleasure.

Local residents Cat Rokavec, Tyler Sperazza and Tom McClary will play Sally Bowles, Cliff Bradshaw and Herr Schultz.

The show opens with the

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emcee welcoming everyone to the Klub with the song “Wilkommen.” He urges patrons to leave their troubles “outside!” In here, he insists, “life is beautiful!”

In the film version, Joel Grey made this role iconic with a combination of gender-bending malevolence and gleeful deviance.

Expect creepy leers and chortles as it becomes apparent that the Klub doesn’t so much welcome its guests as swallow them.

Sally sings and dances at the Klub. She leads a hedonistic life in a hedonistic city and surrounds herself with hedonistic people.

“She doesn’t care what anyone thinks,” Rokavec said, “she’ll get what she wants and she wants attention from men.”

Writer Cliff Bradshaw comes from America, hoping to find material for his work. Boy meets girl when he hits the Kit Kat Klub and encounters Sally. The usual trajectory of the expected plot hits too many bumps and hairpin curves to turn out any way but disastrous. Cliff’s bisexuality and Sally’s narcissism keep the pair drinking, partying and doing anything they can to try to convince themselves that they work as a couple.

“He has to distance himself,” according to Sperazza.

Sally’s accidental pregnancy and its subsequent termination drive the wedge further between the two and they can’t salvage the relationship.

“But he thinks he’s socially aware,” Sperazza continued, “and he sees the conditions going on around them.”

Rounding out the main characters, Frau Schneider and Herr Schultz have their own doomed romance to work through. The

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TYLER SPERAZZA and Melissa Hart will play Cliff Bradshaw and Frau Schneider in “Cabaret” at Schwab Auditorium, Feb. 16 through 18.

Jewish gentleman Schultz runs a fruit shop, and the two bring a grace and maturity in glaring contrast to the drama fueling Sally and Cliff’s relationship.

“Along with Fraulein Schneider, he serves as a contrast to Sally Bowles and Clifford Bradshaw,” McClary said. “His love for and with Schneider may be less passionate and dramatic than the others’, but it is potentially more lasting and true.”

In the late 1960s, Hart played

the role of Sally Bowles on Broadway under legendary director Hal Prince. And, she has story after story of those days.

“Sally is flamboyant and charming,” Hart said of the character. “Her amorality and self-absorption were very wearing and that made it a challenge.”

Schneider, on the other hand, “is the voice of a lot of people in Germany,” she continued. “She has survived and she has spirit.”

The sinister menace of Na-

zism always lingers just behind the curtain. Each character deals with this reality in their own way.

In the final song, “Cabaret,” Sally tries to convince herself of her own words. She can’t quite do it. She has a desperate tone, indicating she can no longer believe that “life is a cabaret.”

Yet, the emcee once again maniacally insists that we’ve left all our troubles outside as he bids us an ominous “Auf Wiedersehen.”

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will present a lecture, “A Conversation with Therman Statom,” at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium located on the museum’s first floor.

Known as a pioneer in the field of contemporary studio glass, Statom transforms plates into complex architectural constructions that incorporate blown glass and found objects. More recently, he has used his work as a catalyst for social change through collaborative workshops with students and community members. His work appears in the exhibition and are part of the Palmer Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Commission on Racial/Ethnic Diversity and the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art. ■ Jo Megas, an art history graduate student, will lead a Gallery Talk titled “A Kaleidoscope of Color: Studio Glass at the Palmer” at 12:10 p.m. Friday, April 7, in the exhibition gallery located on the museum’s second floor.

■ James F. Byrnes, glass artist, will provide a flameworking demonstration from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 9, on the Palmer Museum Plaza located in front of the museum.

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All programs are held at the Palmer Museum of Art and are sponsored by the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art unless otherwise noted.

Also on view at the Palmer Museum of Art this spring

UNIVERSITY PARK — “A Kaleidoscope of Color: Studio Glass at the Palmer,” a new exhibition on view through Sunday, April 30, at the Palmer Museum of Art, highlights newly acquired works from the studio glass collection of Bette and Arnold Hoffman. Recent gifts from Audrey and Norbert Gaelen and Julia K. Muller and Earl K. Shreckengast will also be featured, as well as a selection of pieces from private collections, including promised gifts from Barbara Palmer and Bill and Honey Jaffe.

Interest in contemporary glass among collectors, galleries and museums has grown exponentially in recent years, more than a half century after the founding of the studio glass movement in the early 1960s. Thanks to the generosity of numerous donors, the Palmer Museum of Art is poised to become one of the preeminent destinations for studio glass on the East Coast.

Represented in the exhibition will be an international roster of glass artists working today, including Therman Statom, Lino Tagliapietra, Martin Janecky, Tobias Møhl, Etsuko Nishi, Oben Abright, Daniel Clayman, Hiroshi Yamano, John Kiley, Dante Marioni, Nick Mount, Richard Marquis, Youko Sano and many others.

A number of tours and lectures are scheduled to coincide with the exhibit: ■ Joyce Robinson, curator, will lead a Gallery Talk, “A Kaleidoscope of Color: Studio Glass at the Palmer,” at 12:10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in the exhibition gallery located on the museum’s second floor.

■ Susan McCartney, docent, will lead a Docent Choice Tour, “Contemporary Studio Glass,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, beginning in the Christoffers Lobby located on the museum’s first floor.

■ Therman Statom, sculptor, glass artist and painter,

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MARY VAN CLINE’S “Torso with Gold Leaves,” a gift of Bette and Arnold Hoffman, is on display at the Palmer Museum of Art. are “Eva Watson-Schütze: Pictorialist Portraits” and “Morris Blackburn: Prints and Paintings in Process,” both through Sunday, April 30.

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is located on Curtin Road and admission is free. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. The museum is closed Mondays and some holidays. The museum will have modified hours of noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 4, through Sunday, March 12. The museum will be closed Sunday, April 16, and Monday, May 1, through Monday, Sept. 4.

The Palmer Museum of Art receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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The show will feature direction by Erin Speer, musical direction by Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer and choreography by Michele Dunleavey.

“American Idiot,” based on the 2004 Green Day album of the same name, follows the journey of a new generation of young Americans as they struggle to find meaning in a post–9/11 world.

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This punk rock opera follows the story of Jesus of Suburbia, an adolescent anti-hero who is divided between “rage and love.”

Previews will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, and Thursday, Feb. 16. Evening performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, Saturday, Feb. 18, and Monday, Feb. 20, through Saturday, Feb. 25. Matinees are scheduled for 2 p.m. on two Saturdays, Feb. 18 and 25.

Tickets are $20 for previews and matinees, $25 for evening performances and $12.50 for Penn State students.

An opening night reception will be held at the Playhouse Friday, Feb. 17. Cost is $30 for pre-show hors d’ouerves and post-show desserts; tickets must be purchased separately. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Tickets are available at the Penn State Downtown Ticket Center, Eisenhower Box Office, Bryce Jordan Center or by calling (814) 863-0255 or (800) ARTS-TIX. Student and group sales discounts are available.

Penn State Centre Stage is the professional arm of the Penn State School of Theatre and serves as a training program for emerging theater professionals.

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AROUND & IN TOWN

Bellefonte High to host performing arts students Special to the Gazette BELLEFONTE — Tournament Indoor Association Region 4 will begin its 2017 season Saturday, Feb. 4, at Bellefonte Area High School.

This event, featuring more than 300 color guard, dance, twirler and percussion students from the Susquehanna Valley Region of central Pennsylvania, is sponsored by the Bellefonte Performing Arts Boosters in conjunction with the National Judges Association.

Tournament Indoor Association represents schools and organizations in nine states, divided into geographic regions.

Sixty weekend shows are scheduled from January through April, leading into the Annual Re-

gion Championship. This year’s TIA Region 4 Championships will be held Sunday, April 30, at Lock Haven University.

The following weekend, the 45th TIA Atlantic Coast Championships will feature more than 200 competing units and more than 400 performances during four days at three venues in Wildwood, N.J. Bellefonte Area High School will welcome students representing Bald Eagle Area, Bellefonte Area, Central Mountain and Mifflin County School Districts, as well as independent performing units from Lock Haven, Sunbury, Bellefonte, Mount Union and Tamaqua.

The day-long event will start at 10 a.m. with closed-to-the-public

educational clinics for all performing students and staff members.

These clinics will include hands-on instrumentation, equipment and movement sessions for the students with the NJA adjudicators, as well as a review of each unit’s 2017 full production for the staff members.

The evening competition will be open to spectators beginning at 6 p.m. in the high school gymnasium.

The performances will be adjudicated and ranked.

Doors will open to the public at 5:15 p.m. The Bellefonte Performing Arts Boosters will have food and beverages available in the school cafeteria and also be offering raffles and flower and candy grams.

Photo by Bill Bernhard

THE BELLEFONTE High School percussion group performs at Bald Eagle High School’s 2016 show.

Museum’s art library features more than 200 volumes Special to the Gazette BELLEFONTE — The “Art of Words, Stories and Poetry” is a special 2017 theme at the Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County. The museum, located at 133 N. Allegheny St., is celebrating its art library, which started one year ago and now attracts folks who want to browse the many books about artists and their art.

The museum also is celebrating the success of its poetry program, “Out Loud,” and announcing more events about authors and books that will happen this year.

In April, author Anne Hillerman will give

a talk, and on Sunday, Feb. 19, the museum will host the launch of Centre County Reads.

The museum library was started in January 2016 and shares space with the photography gallery. There, visitors can discover the visual wonders of color, line, form and beautiful stories in the growing collection of art books donated by artists, museum benefactors and art lovers.

In warm weather months, visitors can take library books out to the museum garden.

Museum members are welcome to sign out books to borrow for up to three

Photo courtesy of Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County

THE LIBRARY at the Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County shares space with the photography gallery.

CUT PAPER

“A RETROSPECTIVE OF CUT PAPER,” a Harriet M. Rosenberg exhibit, will be featured through March 2 at the HUB Gallery in the HUB-Robeson Center on the Penn State University campus.

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months at a time, giving readers the opportunity to practice what they are interested in.

The library collection of more than 200 volumes covers a wide variety of subject matter including photography; painting in oils, watercolors and pastels; drawing; mosaic design; architecture; art genres such as Impressionism, Cubism and landscape art; artists such as Georgia O’Keefe, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky; and more.

The vision behind the museum’s library acquisitions is for visitors, members, artists and people of all ages to have

access to visual excellence in the arts, to grow their imaginations and to learn to express themselves with encouragement and guidance from a multitude of creative spirits, both contemporary and historical.

Jennifer Berghage works as a volunteer managing the library and accepting donations. Art book donations are still being accepted. For more information, call (814) 355-4280.

The shows in Bellefonte Art Museum’s seven galleries change monthly and admission is free. Hours are noon to 4:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, or by appointment.

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AROUND & IN TOWN WHAT’S HAPPENING To be included in What’s Happening, submit your events by Wednesday one week prior to publication to community@centrecountygazette.com or mail information to The Centre County Gazette, ATTN: What’s Happening, 403 S. Allen St., State College, PA 16801.

ONGOING

Bookmobile — Centre County Library Bookmobile is a fully accessible library on wheels. Look for it in your community and join Miss Laura for story times, songs and fun.

Visit www.centrecountylibrary.org .

Safety checks — Mount Nittany Health sponsors free car seat safety checks from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at its Boalsburg location, 3901 S. Atherton St., State College. Certified car seat safety educators will check to make sure car seats are installed correctly. Call (814) 466-7921.

Book workshop — AAUW’s Used Book Workshop is open 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays and 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 176 Technology Drive in Boalsburg Technology Park. During workshop hours, book donations may be made directly to the “AAUW Deliveries” door; blue donation bins are available at the driveway entrance for days the workshop is not open. Visit www. aauwstatecollege.org/booksale/location.htm or call (814) 466-6041.

Performance — The Nittany Knights practice at 7:15 p.m. every Monday at South Hills School of Business and Technology, Visitors Welcome. 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Visit www.nittanyknights.org.

Club — The Schlow Knitting Club meets at 5:30 p.m. every first and third Monday. Knitters of all skill levels are welcome. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

Club — The Centre Region Model Investment Club meets from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the second Monday of every month in the Mazza Room at the South Hills Business School, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Call (814) 234-8775 or contact cr20mic@aol.com.

Support group — The Bellefonte chapter of the Compassionate Friends Support Group, for bereaved families and friends following the death of a child, holds a meeting from 7 to 8:30 p.m. the second Monday of every month at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 134 E. Bishop St., Bellefonte. Contact Peg Herbstritt at (814) 353-4526 or mherb162@gmail.com.

Support group — A drug and alcohol support meeting for families struggling with loved ones’ addictions is held at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Watermarke Church, 116 S. Spring St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 571-1240.

Meeting — The Centre County Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission holds a meeting the second Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. in the State College Municipal Building, 243 S. Allen St., State College. Meetings can also be broadcast to laptops and iOS or Android devices, or participants can join by phone. Call (814) 689-9081.

Meeting — The State College Sunrise Rotary Club

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meets every Wednesday at 7:15 a.m. at the Hotel State College, 100 W. College Ave., State College. Visit www. statecollegesunriserotary.org.

Meeting — The Nittany Mineralogical Society meets at 6:45 p.m. for a social hour and 7:45 p.m. for the main program the third Wednesday of each month, except June, July and December, in Penn State’s Earth and Engineering Science Building. All are welcome to attend; parents must supervise minors. Visit www.nittanymineral. org.

Support group — The Home Nursing Agency hosts a free grief support group from 2 to 3:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of every month at its Centre County office, 450 Windmere Drive, Suite 100, State College. Call (800) 445-6262.

Kids’ program — The Nittany Baptist Church will be holding Master’s Clubs for children ages 3 to 11 and small groups for teens and adults at 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the church, 3939 S. Atherton St. Visit www.nittany baptist.org.

Healing circle — A healing circle will be held from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month at Inspired Holistic Wellness, 111 S. Spring St., Bellefonte.

Contact Beth Whitman at beth@inspiredholisticwellness. com or (814) 883-0957.

Thrift shop — The State College Woman’s Club Thrift Shop will be having “Open Thursdays” from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 902 S. Allen St., State College. Call (814) 2382322.

Community meal — A free hot meal is served from 5 to 7 p.m. every Thursday at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Community Cafe, 208 W. Foster Ave., State College.

Meeting — The Nittany Valley Model Railroad Club meets every Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Old Gregg School, 106 School St., Spring Mills. Call (814) 422-7667.

Meeting — The State College Toastmasters meet from 6 to 8 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at Mission Critical Partners, 690 Grays Woods Blvd., Port Matilda. Visit statecollegetoastmasters.toastmasters clubs.org.

Meeting — Celebrate Recovery, a faith-based recovery program, meets at 6 p.m every Friday at Freedom Life Church,113 Sunset Acres, Milesburg. Registration is not required and individuals are welcome to join at any time. Email restorationCR@freedomlife.tv or call (814) 571-1240.

Meeting — The State College Alliance Church hosts a Christian Recovery meeting every Friday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 1221 W. White Road, State College. Visit www. liferecoverystatecollege.com.

Pet adoption — Nittany Beagle Rescue holds an adoption event from 10 a.m. to noon every Saturday at Petco, 40 Colonnade Way, State College. Call (814) 6924369.

Pet adoption — A kitten and cat adoption event is held from 2 to 8:30 p.m. every Saturday at Petco, 40 Colonnade Way, State College. Call (814) 238-4758.

Community sing — Rise Up Singing, a community singing group, meets from 4 to 6 p.m. the third Sunday of the month at the State College Friends Meeting, 611 E. Prospect St., State College.

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Activity — Penn Skates will hold public skating sessions from 6 to 9 p.m. every Friday through April 14. Admission is $9, or $6 with own skates. Call (814) 357-6898 or email vdench@pennskates.com.

Support group — GriefShare, a free support group for anyone experiencing loss, will be offered at 1 p.m and 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, through April 19, at Bethel Church of the Nazarene, 3601 S. Atherton St., State College.

THURSDAY, FEB. 2

Fundraiser — St. Vincent de Paul will hold a St. Valentine’s Sweethearts Silent Auction, featuring music by Fourfold Jazz, wine tasting and refreshments, from 7 to 9 p.m. at 820 Westerly Parkway, State College. Admission is free; proceeds benefit those in need in the commu-

Fun to Play.

Book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer • Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Music by Green Day • Directed by Erin Farrell Speer American Idiot follows the exhilarating journey of a new generation of young Americans as they struggle to find meaning in a post–9/11 world. With an electrifying score by Green Day, this punk rock opera tells the story of Jesus of Suburbia, an adolescent anti-hero who is divided between “rage and love.”

Contains explicit content, partial nudity, language, drug and sexual references, and violence.

February 14–25 ▪ Playhouse Theatre Evenings: $25 • Preview/Matinee: $20 Penn State Student (with valid PSU ID): $12.50

Even Better to Win! Monday, Feb. 6 at 7:00 PM

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THE DANCE MARATHON Alumni Interest Group will reveal a years-long project, the DMAIG Mosaic, in an event at 11 a.m. Feb. 18 outside of the THON Store at the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State’s campus. The mosaic is a collection of photographs submitted by Penn State students, alumni, THON volunteers and THON supporters from around the globe. nity. Visit www.facebook.com/st-vincent-de-paul-thriftstore-state-college-pa-150486695075435 or call (814) 8673131.

Open house — South Hills School of Business and Technology will host “A Day at the Hills” from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at its State College, Altoona and Lewistown campuses. Visit www.southhills.edu or call (888) 282-7427

SATURDAY, FEB. 4

Book fair — The annual Free Book Fair and Costless Closet, featuring free books, magazines, puzzles and clothing, will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Mark Lutheran Church, Snydertown. Donation of a canned item for the local food bank is requested. Coffee and tea will be provided; other food will be offered for sale. Call (814) 383-4882.

SUNDAY, FEB. 5

Class — Rhoneymeade will hold a pig butchering workshop starting at 11 a.m at 177 Rimmey Road, Centre Hall. Attendees will receive a demo, guided practice, cut charts and a meal by experienced restaurateur and chef.

Fee is $50; space is limited to 10 people. Visit www.rhoneymeade.org or call (814) 571-2401.

MONDAY, FEB. 6

Meeting — 100 Women Who Care Centre County will hold its quarterly meeting from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m at the S&A Village Homes Clubhouse, 108 Tradition Drive, State College. The meeting is open to the public. Contact Renee at 100wwc.cc@gmail.com.

TUESDAY, FEB. 7

Kids’ activity — The Centre County Library & Historical Museum will have a trained therapy dog available for kids who struggle to read from 3:30 to 5 p.m at 200 Allegheny St, Bellefonte. Designed by Therapy Dogs International, the program provides a relaxed atmosphere for students to practice. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit the library to register for a 20-minute session.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8

Meeting — The Women’s Welcome Club of State College will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. at 1865 Waddle Road, State College. Dr. Kristine Clark, director of sports nutrition at Penn State, will give a presentation. Visit www. womenswelcomeclub.org or call (814) 237-734.

Meeting — The 148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company C, Civil War Reenactment Group will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Hoss’s Restaurant, 1450 N. Atherton St., State College. Anyone who is interested in the Civil War or wants to join the group is welcome to attend.

— Compiled by Jayla Andrulonis

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Centre County United Way welcomes new board members Special to the Gazette PINE GROVE MILLS — The Centre County United Way board of directors recently announced its officers and new board members.

Leading the board as chairman is Betsy Dupuis, an attorney with Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir. Mary Kay Williams, of Mind Shift Consulting, will serve as vice chairman. Marnie Derabasse, of Penn State Federal Credit Union, will serve as treasurer, and transportation consultant Hugh Mose will fill the secretary seat.

Joining the board for their first terms are Derabasse; Jeannine Lozier, commu-

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nity outreach coordinator with Mount Nittany Health; and Steve Sampsell, director of strategic communications with the Penn State College of Communications.

The Centre County United Way board is 25 volunteer community members representing all areas of the county. The role of the board is to steer CCUW toward a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical and legal governance and financial management policies, as well as making sure CCUW has adequate resources to advance its mission.

For more information, visit www. ccunitedway.org.

Low Vision Store closes its doors BELLEFONTE —North Central Sight Services Inc. recently announced it has closed its Low Vision Store at 221 W. High St., Bellefonte.

North Central Sight Services will be streamlining operations in order to remain true to its mission of providing programs, services and employment to the blind and visually impaired, as well as education, prevention services and products to all customers, the agency said in the release.

Low-vision products will still be available at the Williamsport Low Vision Store, located at 2121 Reach Road.

North Central Sight Services will continue to provide services to community members located in Centre County.

For more information on service needs in Centre County, contact Heather Engle at heathere@ncsight.org or (570) 3239401. For questions related to low-vision tools, contact Lori Love at loril@ncsight. org or (570) 323-9401, extension 123.

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GARY JOHNSON, a graduate of the Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology’s new CDL A Extended Program and current driver for Trans Am Trucking, returned to recruit students from his alma mater. Johnson graduated from the CPI program in September, then took a job with Trans Am. Having quickly demonstrated his capabilities, he was given the additional responsibility of driver/recruiter. Pictured is Johnson, right, with CPI’s lead CDL instructor Dave Priester.

Nonprofit to offer money management sessions in Philipsburg Special to the Gazette PHILIPSBURG — Interfaith Human Services, a nonprofit organization that supports struggling families in Centre County, is providing one-on-one money management sessions at no cost to low-income individuals who need help with personal finances.

“We decided to hold the sessions in Philipsburg, because there are families who could benefit from help with money management, but do not have reliable transportation to travel to our State College office for services,” said Wendy Vinhage, executive director of Interfaith Human Services.

Financial care case managers from IHS

will be available at Grace United Methodist Church in Philipsburg for individual money management sessions on Tuesday, Feb. 14, and Tuesday, March 14, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Starting in April, sessions will be held on the second and third Tuesday of each month.

At the sessions, a financial care case manager will work with an individual to develop and maintain a balanced budget, pay bills, review spending habits, make recommendations to reduce expenses and determine long-term goals in order to achieve financial stability.

The Philipsburg money management sessions are an extension of IHS’s financial care program, which assists individu-

als who are experiencing short and longterm money issues. Many of the people referred to IHS have various mental health diagnoses or intellectual disabilities, are vulnerable to financial scams and abuse and are unable to oversee their personal financial matters.

IHS asks human service agencies, nonprofits and congregations to refer people to IHS if they know families who are having issues with money management.

The money management sessions are made possible through Centre Foundation’s Giving Circle Grant.

Those interested in making an appointment for a money management session can contact IHS at (814) 234-7731 or interfaith@ihs-centrecounty.org.

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JUDY KENNEDY, financial care case manager at IHS, offers money management support to low-income families.

DEED TRANSFERS The following property transactions were compiled from information provided by the Centre County recorder of deeds, Joseph Davidson.

The Gazette is not responsible for typographical errors. The published information is believed to be accurate; however, the Gazette neither warrants nor accepts any liability or responsibility for inaccurate information.

CURTIN TOWNSHIP

Byan R. Zeamer to Heather R. Zeamer, 266 Turkey Trail Road, Manheim, $1.

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Catherine Mary Amante, Catherine M. Amante Estate and Robert Amante, administrator, to John R. Marchione and Eva T. Marchione, 235 N. Penn St., Bellefonte, $57,900.

Richard Mizerny, Jan Freeman Cheney and Jan Freeman Knisely to Jan Freeman Cheney, 1316 Joanna Drive, Bellefonte, $1.

Mary J. Dewitt Estate, Mary Julia Dewitt Estate and Sandra L. Evans, personal representative, to Sandra L. Evans, 555 E. High St., Bellefonte, $1.

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP

100 Elm Shade Drive, State College, $1.

Laura M. Vanderhook to Bokai Chen and Shanting Chen, 200 Wiltree Court, State College, $276,500.

Karen W. Roush, Karen W. Martinec and Keith A. Roush to Michael Jeffrey Barney, 526 Hickory Lane, State College, $190,000.

Peter K. Forster and Catherine S. Forster to Jennifer L. Frank and Katherine A. Fiegel,1221 Haymaker Road, State College, $315,000.

Branch Banking and Trust Company to Pennsylvania Investment Properties II, 2501 E. College Ave., State College, $500,000.

Kathryn M. Croyle, Kathryn Putt and Jay E. Croyle to Kathryn M. Croyle and Jay E. Croyle,

Rockey Ridge Partnership to Bidong Sun, 140 Derek Drive, Boalsburg, $545,000.

Philip S. Gelenberg andf Pene S. Gelenberg to R6onald B. Then Jr. and Sarah E. Lehman, 817 Brookside Drive, Boalsburg, $142,000.

HOWARD BOROUGH

John G. Shawver and Louisa N. Shawver to John G. and Louisa N. Shawver Primary Residency Protector Trust, John G. Shawver, trustee, and Louisa N. Shawver, trustee, 153 W. Clearview Ave., State College, $1.

Brian M. Kissinger, Chole R. Kissinger and Chloe R. Kissinger to Lori A. Losch, Robin W. Losch, and Kyle A. Losch, 2990 Buffalo Run Road, Bellefonte, $1.

Daniel R. Hawbaker, GW Centure One LP and Gray’s Woods to R. Kevin Murray and Pamela A. Murray, 1411 Deer Brook Drive, Centre Hall, $90,000.

PENN TOWNSHIP

Andrew G. Kotzur to Drew Miller Kotzur, 753 Spearing St., Howard, $1.

Kristopher J. Myers and Elisia Myers to Robert J. Shawver and Andrea L. Shawver, First Alley, Waynesburg, $165,000.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

PHILIPSBURG BOROUGH

Charles E. Rider, Nena Marie Haines, Trent S. Heizman and Brenda Jeanne Heizman to Dwayne H. Haines and Darla J. Haines, 11067 N. Eagle Valley Road, Howard, $1.

MARION TOWNSHIP

Martin S. Hlay and Carolee Hlay to Brian M. Park and Jennifer L. Park, Two Mile Road, Bellefonte, $42,000.

PATTON TOWNSHIP

Amy L. Gaver to Trent A. Marsh and Jessica R. Fenton, 422 Amblewood Way, State College, $172,000.

Susan G. Bannon, Gary J. Bannon, Nancy T. Kerly, Nancy K. Townsend, Kenneth J. Kerly, Kenneth J. Kerley and Donald Alan Townsend to Tara Storck, 321 Hampton St., Philipsburg, $85,000.

POTTER TOWNSHIP

James D. Walker and Cathy A.Walker to Craig T. Anthony and Katherine M. Anthony, Upper Georges Valley Road, Spring Mills, $112,000.

RUSH TOWNSHIP

Leroy E. Myers and Sandra L. Myers to Dan-

iel John Myers, 139 Womer Road, Philipsburg, $208,000.

Brenda M. Adams by sheriff to Bank of New York Mellon, 212 Walker St., Osceola Mills, $4,456.10.

SPRING TOWNSHIP

Witherite Property Management Inc. to Michael P. Logsdon and Angel A. Walter, 205 Bilger Ave., Pleasant Gap, $209,900.

STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH

Daniel R. Nold and Lynn S. Nold to Philip W. Martin and Jill L. Martin, 1197 Smithfield St., State College, $395,000.

Anita Kaplan Linker to Rudy L. Slingerland and Ellen W. Slingerland, 636 Sunset Road, State College, $455,000.

Ora Ben-David to Jing Zhu and Zianrui Fu, 522 E. College Ave., State College, $144,680.

Fiore Brothers Inc. to Konstantinos Mikropoulos and Despina Mikropoulos, 403 S. Allen St., State College, $355,000.

Joel N. Myers and Maria E. Myers to Joel N. Myers, 619 W. College Ave., State College, $1.

College Township IDA to Joel N. Myers, 619 W. College Ave., State College, $109,000.

WALKER TOWNSHIP

Dennis J. Ebeling and Myrna Beth Ebeling to Dennis J. Ebeling, 176 Scenic Drive, Bellefonte, $1.

— Compiled by Jayla Andrulonis

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