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Fourteen Centre County wrestlers from five schools — Bald Eagle Area, Bellefonte, Penns Valley, St. Joseph’s and State College — will compete in the PIAA state tournament about to get under way in Hershey. The wrestlers earned spots in the tourney by excelling in regional competitions./Page 24

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DOLLARS AND SENSE: Prime downtown parcel listed for sale RENOVATING BEAVER STADIUM Commercial property sits at East College and South Pugh

By MARK BRACKENBURY editor@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — A piece of prime property in the heart of the downtown retail district is for sale.

Keystone Commercial Real Estate is marketing 26,804 square feet at East College Avenue and South Pugh Street, with a listing address of 114 S. Pugh St. The mixed-used property includes nine commercial spaces and 16 apartments, with frontage on East College Avenue, according to the listing.

The listing makes note of “longstanding, established commercial tenants.” A photo with the listing shows Spats Café, The Clothesline, The Apple Tree and Old Main Frame Shop, as well as apartments.

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PENN STATE is scheduled to release its facilities master plan March 13. Beaver Stadium, a major cash generator for the university, is expected to receive considerable attention.

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DOWNTOWN PROPERTY at East College Avenue and South Pugh Street is listed for sale by Keystone Commercial Real Estate.

Meetings set to discuss $5 vehicle fee hike

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

BELLEFONTE — The Centre County Board of Commissioners has scheduled a series of town hall meetings to focus on a possible $5 vehicle registration fee increase.

On March 7, Chairman Commissioner Michael Pipe announced the town hall meetings will be held Tuesday, March 14, at 6:30 p.m. on the third floor of the Courthouse Annex building, Bellefonte; Wednesday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Patton Township Municipal Building, and Monday, March 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the YMCA in Philipsburg.

According to Pipe, the idea of the town hall meetings is to get people and communities more familiar with the measure.

Pipe said increasing the cost of state vehicle registration by $5 for non-exempt vehicles would increase funding to handle the much-needed road work around the county. The fee would be labeled as a “county fee” and be collected by the state Department of Transportation at the time a vehicle is registered or renewed.

According to Pipe, when the state passed its Act 89 transportation bill in November 2013, a special fund with the state treasury was established called “Local Use Fund.” This allowed municipalities, beginning in 2015, to add the $5 county fee. Fourteen other Pennsylvania counties already collect the fee.

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Plan could near $500M; concerts, soccer, hockey — even golf — may add revenue

By MIKE POORMAN StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK —Monday, March 13, we’ll know the long-anticipated, long-term fate of Beaver Stadium.

That is when Penn State plans to release its facilities master plan.

The plan will cover all of Penn State’s athletic facilities, but the crown jewel of the report — and PSU sports overall — is Beaver Stadium.

Built in 1960 at a cost of $1.6 million, while repurposing more than 1,000 tons of steel from New Beaver Field that was moved by train tracks from nearby Rec Hall to its present location, Beaver Stadium is likely to get the bulk of attention when Penn State’s 20-year plan is released to the public.

For good reason.

Beaver Stadium is the cash register that runs Penn State’s athletics. According to its 2015-16 budget, as submitted to the NCAA and recently released, the biggest chunk of Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics’ revenue came from football ticket sales.

To be exact, $31,399,691 of the $132.25 million generated by PSU sports last fiscal year came from 2015 football ticket sales. That is almost 24 percent — more than alumni and booster donations ($26 million), more than media rights ($22 million), and more than licensing, royalties and sponsorships ($12.7 million). That is pure football ticket sales, not even counting donations made just for the right, ostensibly, to buy tickets.

We already know that Penn State is going to

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AS ALWAYS, fans flock to Beaver Stadium on fall Saturdays, but going forward expect to see the stadium used more often for events in addition to football.

renovate, not rebuild, Beaver Stadium. Fixing the stadium will not be cheap. Based on what has been spent on renovating and constructing stadiums for elite college football programs over the past decade, the price tag for upgrading Penn State football’s home field and stadium could be stunning. A half-billion dollars would not be surprising.

The gold standard for stadium renovations is Texas A&M’s Kyle Field, which was completed — and almost completely redone — over 18 months to the tune of $485 million. Nearly 90 percent of the stadium was new, by the time construction was Beaver Stadium, Page 5

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Puzzles .................................... 36 Business .................................. 37

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Page 10 SCHOLARSHIPS AWAIT: More than 100 scholarship funds held at the Centre Foundation are accepting applications from area students. Last year, more than $220,000 in scholarship funds was distributed to 95 students attending 39 post-secondary schools.

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TOURNEY TIME: The State College Area High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams and the Bellefonte girls’ team are set to head into PIAA state tournament action. The State High girls play Friday, March 10, and the State High boys and the Bellefonte girls start play Saturday, March 11. We preview the action.

Page 25 BENEFIT CONCERT: The DSCH Trio will perform a benefit concert Sunday, March 19, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County in State College.

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Authorities investigated a physical assault involving an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old woman at The Meadows in Potter Township at 6 p.m. Feb. 18. ❑❑❑ Police reported a person whose identity is known trespassed into Bierly’s Towing impound car lot in Potter Township on March 3. Police are continuing to investigate. ❑❑❑ Minor injuries were reported in a two-vehicle crash that occurred along Interstate 80, in Snow Shoe Township, at 11:23 a.m. March 3.

Police said Steven Gentilcore, of Hollywood, Fla., failed to stop in time for traffic slowing in front of him.

As a result, his 1999 Toyota Camry crashed into the rear of a truck operated by Jason Jones, of Waverly. Jones was transported to Mount Nittany Medical Center for treatment. ❑❑❑ Authorities were called to Sinking Creek Road in Potter Township at 2 a.m. March 3 to investigate a single-vehicle crash. Police said someone operating a Honda Civic at a high rate of speed crashed into a utility pole and struck a fence post.

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Police reported a 42-year-old State College man attempted to purchase a firearm at Belding and Mull in Rush Township at 9:37 a.m. Oct. 17, although his was not permitted to do so. Police are continuing to investigate. ❑❑❑ A 51-year-old Hawk Run woman reported to police someone removed a metal stand, flowers and a wreath from two separate grave sites in Philipsburg Cemetery between Jan. 20 and Feb. 25.

Police are continuing to investigate. ❑❑❑ Authorities reported someone attempted to gain forced entry into a mobile home along Hemlock Street in Rush Township between midnight and 8:24 p.m. Feb. 8. Police said those responsible did not enter the residence; however, the door was damaged. Police are continuing to investigate. ❑❑❑ Charges of disorderly conduct were filed against two 15-year-old males following a physical altercation at the Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School at 11:30 a.m. March 2. ❑❑❑ Police were called to Interstate 99 in Taylor Township at 10:01 a.m. March 3 to investigate a single-vehicle crash. Police said Craig Walor, of Greensburg, was

southbound when he lost control of his Dodge Dakota while negotiating a left turn. The vehicle traveled off the roadway and struck an embankment. No injuries were reported. ❑❑❑ Authorities reported someone damaged a door of the women’s restroom at the Project 70 soccer fields in Philipsburg between March 4 and 6. Police are continuing to investigate.

BELLEFONTE BOROUGH POLICE Police were called to a business on North Allegheny Street on March 1 to investigate a report of suspicious activity.

According to police, two people were observed on security camera footage behind the business in what appeared to be a drug transaction.

Further investigation and interviews were conducted and resulted in Jeffrey Lee Guiser being accused of selling 60 prescription Gabapentin pills to the other person seen in the video.

Guiser was arrested and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, March 15. ❑❑❑ On March 1, police were requested by the Centre County Sheriff’s Office to respond to the courthouse.

It was reported there was a man handing out pamphlets to jurors, and it was believed this was an attempt to sway the jurors’ opinion. Two males were identified.

The jurors who had already received the pamphlets were seated in a criminal case filed by Bellefonte Borough Police.

Because of the direct conflict, this investigation was turned over to state police at Rockview for further action. ❑❑❑ Police contacted a borough resident March 3 regarding a scam. The complainant received a telephone call and the other caller identified herself as “Barbara” and asked for donations for the Bellefonte Borough Police Department.

The complainant said she did not provide information to the caller and that the caller then became angry.

Bellefonte Police remind residents that the department does not solicit by telephone.

Any other potential scam activity can be reported to dispatch at (800) 479-0050. ❑❑❑ Police were called to the parking lot of the former Gamble Mill restaurant March 4 to investigate a report of a suspicious vehicle.

As officers approached, the male occupant of the vehicle was observed placing a handgun into a bag. Contact was made with the man and authorities determined the handgun was loaded and the man did not possess a concealed carry weapons permit.

A criminal complaint was prepared and charges are pending.

— Compiled by G. Kerry Webster

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Thompson talks Obamacare with constituents

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

BELLEFONTE — U.S. Rep. Glenn “G.T.” Thompson, R-Bellefonte, opened the doors to his Bellefonte office March 6 to hear from residents of the 5th Congressional District.

According to Mike Glazer, district representative, Thompson met with constituents of the district from about 8 a.m. to noon.

The Gazette had an opportunity to sit in during a couple of the discussions. The congressman addressed issues related to environmental policies, Second Amendment rights and health care. Visitors who attended during the Gazette’s visit asked to remain unnamed.

Perhaps the most pressing issue on the minds of 5th Congressional District constituents is the Affordable Care Act, and what the new administration is doing to repeal Obamacare.

Thompson, according to pubic voting records, voted 65 times against the Affordable Care Act. He said an initial plan has been enacted, and by the end of the week any amendments made to the document must be completed.

“The proposal should be on the House floor by maybe next week,” said Thompson. “The goal is to send it to the Senate

by March 22 because they want it to be on the president’s desk

by Easter. Now, something could always go off the rails and mess the timing up, but this is what we’re looking at right now.”

Thompson said the new plan is called “A Better Way” and will protect people with pre-existing conditions, keep young adults on their parents’ plan and provide universal access to quality, affordable health care.

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U.S. REP. Glenn “G.T.” Thompson, center, discusses local issues with a group of constituents at his Bellefonte office March 6.

He said the new plan includes lower costs, patients being in control and more choices.

“In the current system, people with pre-existing conditions drive up costs and drive out health care options,” said Thompson. “Our solution to this is through state innovation grants, which will offer protection for the sick, as well as lower premiums.”

Under Obamacare, he said, there are limits in place on how individuals can spend and save money on their health care.

Thompson said through enhanced health saving accounts there will be more competition in the field, resulting in lower costs.

The plan also aims to bring Medicaid into the 22st century.

The current system is controlled in Washington, discourages doctor participation and includes ballooning costs. Thompson said through Medicaid modernization, the country would see more efficient spending, with a safety net in place for those who are most vulnerable and greater local control for specific needs.

He also noted lower costs, more competition and more choices if a new, vibrant health insurance market was created.

He said to battle a market with skyrocketing premiums and dwindling choices, a portable, monthly tax credit could be established.

“I think we have some very solid things in there that will make a huge difference in America,” said Thompson. “There’s still work to be done with it, but at least we have a start.”

Thompson also discussed the Violence Against Women Act, with some believing he would support monetary cutbacks.

“I think this measure is grossly misnamed, as it’s about preventing violence against women, men, children, the elderly or the disabled,” said Thompson.

“I’ve always supported this, and I would never, every support a cut on it.”

Thompson also addressed a bill preventing mentally disabled persons, benefiting from

Social Security, to legally purchase a firearm.

“This bill just wasn’t limited to people with mental illness,” said Thompson. “It was created for anyone who received Social Security disability. The law is very clear. If you are a felon, or even a veteran who came home with PTSD, you can’t purchase a gun. I think this is wrong, and there ought to be due recourse so you can get off that list. I think if you show you aren’t a threat to yourself or others, you should be able to come off that list.”

Rumor has also swirled that Thompson supported legislation that allows Pennsylvania coal companies to discharge coal waste into local waterways.

“That’s just not the case at all and is widely misreported,” he said. “I’ve been the nation’s leader in the House for conservation, forestry and watersheds.

I would never do anything to put those things at risk.”

Thompson said he would continue to support legislation for clean Pennsylvania water, and noted he recently sponsored a bill to redo abandoned mine legislation in the state.

“The only way to clean up the mines is to re-mine down below where we have already mined,” said the congressman. “That’s the only way to deal with it is to re-mine it. When we do, the coal can be sold and active and passive systems can be installed to convert these waterways back to pristine trout streams. It does work. It happened at Kettle Creek.”

Thompson also addressed his absence at a Feb. 25 town hall meeting, organized by a Penn State lecturer and IST Student Government, at The Forum on the Penn State campus.

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Protesters continue to rally for town hall

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

BELLEFONTE — About three dozen constituents of Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District rallied once again March 6 outside Rep. Glenn Thompson’s Bellefonte office asking for the congressman to hold a town hall meeting.

It is the fourth time in the past two months that a group of residents, dubbed “Where’s Thompson,” have gathered outside the Benner Pike office requesting a town hall meeting for Thompson to hear their concerns.

Residents organized a town hall meeting for Feb. 25 and, aware the Congress would be in recess at the time, invited Thompson.

Through a spokesperson, he said at the time because of prior commitments he would be unable to attend. The town hall went on anyway, with about 350 people in attendance.

The session was recorded and a link to the video sent to Thompson.

“I think we’ve drawn a lot of attention to the need for a town hall,” said Marc Friedenberg, of Ferguson Township, who has helped organize the rallies. “We had a fantastic turnout last Saturday. The congressman has responded saying he’s going to be scheduling a town hall. Our message for today is, when and where?”

While no specific date was offered, Thompson’s communications director Renee Gamela confirmed that the congressman was planning a town hall.

“Rep. Thompson uses many methods of communication with his constituents, so he can listen to their concerns and bring their homegrown solutions to Washington, D.C.,” Gamela said in an email. “This includes individual meetings, like today, telephone town halls once a month, and traditional town halls, including one in the Centre Region that Mr. Thompson is planning later this spring.”

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CONSTITUENTS OF Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District held a fourth rally outside Rep. Glenn Thompson’s office in Bellefonte on March 6, demanding he hold a town hall meeting.

Thompson was holding scheduled one-on-one meetings with constituents while the rally was going on outside.

Three members of the “Where’s Thompson” group went into the office and briefly spoke with him.

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“We reiterated our position that we are calling for a town hall and (reminded) him that his personal meetings, while they are admirable, are not a matter of public record and we all serve to benefit from hear-

ing his positions on the issues,” said Justin Wheeler, of State College. “He reiterated that he prefers one-on-one conversations as a method of working out problems.

“Those are admirable, but they are just not enough in the current political climate. We have executive orders being rushed through. We have complications with foreign relations, and things happening that his whole constituency is worried about.”

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Businessman Black to run for mayor

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — Local business owner Michael Black said March 7 that he is seeking the Democratic nomination for State College mayor in this spring’s primary election.

Black is the owner and founder of Black Sun Studio, which specializes in digital and film services for advertising, commercial and editorial enterprises. “There is already so much that is good about State College,� Black said in a release. “My goal as mayor is to work with all of our residents, neighborhoods and businesses to make it even better. I want State College to be an even more attractive, vibrant MICHAEL BLACK and welcoming community — economically, culturally, recreationally and logistically. I will reach out to Penn State and surrounding communities to help position State College and Centre County as premier locations to live, work, learn and play.�

Black moved to State College in 1991 to pursue a doctoral degree in higher education from Penn State. He started Black Sun in 1994 and in 1997 decided to work full-time as a photographer, designer and creative director.

In 2005, he designed and built the LABB creative studio at 700 E. Beaver Ave. Prior to moving to State College, Black received a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Springfield College in 1985 and a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He worked for three years as a student affairs professional at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Black is a graduate and executive board member of Leadership Centre County. He volunteers as a coach for State College Little League, Centre Soccer, Our Lady of Victory HOOPS, Grow the Game and SC AIR, and has served on the advisory council for the Penn State Center for Public Diplomacy’s World in Conversation project. “As mayor, I will be guided by five core values: inclusivity, mindfulness, compassion, creativity and vibrancy,� he said. “I believe these five values will enable State College to be better and reach its full potential in every aspect of what we do, how we do it and why we do it. “We must be honest, reflect on who we are and challenge ourselves to improve. I promise to listen carefully, to consider all sides of an issue and to make decisions with the utmost integrity.�

He and his wife, Tonya, a State College Area School District teacher, have a son, who is a student in the Delta program.

Mayor Elizabeth Goreham said in February that she would not seek a third term. Attorney and former borough council member Don Hahn also has announced that he is seeking the Democratic nomination for mayor.

The primary election is Tuesday, May 16.

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STATE COLLEGE — Robert Bascom Jr., an attorney and president of Tussey Settlement Inc., announced March 6 that he will be a candidate for magisterial district judge.

An attorney for 25 years, Bascom will seek election for district judge representing District 49-2-01, which includes Patton Township, Ferguson Township, Halfmoon Township and parts of College Township.

Bascom has cross-filed to be on the Democratic and Republican ballots in the primary. “Rob aims to increase confidence in the judicial system by being accountable to the community and setting a high ethical standard for himself and his staff,� a release announcing his candidacy stated. “He will provide those who appear in the courtroom with a fair and impartial hearing using his experience to make decisions based on the law and common sense.�

Bascom began his legal career in the Dauphin County public defender’s office before moving to State College and joining the local practice now known as The Mazza Law Group. In addition to Tussey Settlement, which helps homebuyers and sellers with the closing process, Bascom also runs his own law firm.

A graduate of the National Criminal Defense College, Bascom taught at Widener University’s trial advocaROBERT BASCOM cy program for several years. He has worked with the College Township Zoning Hearing Board and the Centre County Drug and Alcohol Planning Council. Bascom also is a graduate of Leadership Centre County and was on the board of directors for the Pennsylvania High School Rodeo Association. “Rob will use the experience and knowledge he has obtained in the courtroom and in private practice to make fair decisions based on the law,� the release said. “Rob has always been known as approachable, and will remain so, by law enforcement and the community he serves.�

Bascom lives in Pennsylvania Furnace with his wife, Dr. Karen Bascom, and their two children.

Former District Judge Leslie Dutchcot vacated the seat Bascom is seeking in November 2015 to take a position with a private law firm.

Senior Judge Ronald Horner was chosen by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts to temporarily fill the position until the next municipal election, which will be held this year. The primary election is Tuesday, May 16.

Bascom is the fifth candidate to announce he will run for the seat. Attorney and Penn State Law Veterans Clinic co-founder Justin Bish, Centre County assistant public defender Casey McClain, business owner and former constable Robert W. Stewart and retiring State College Police officer Dave White also have announced they would run.

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“I was notified of the event just a few days prior and I had prior commitments,� said Thompson. “We’ve been in Washington five days a week since Jan.3.�

He said he prefers to meet with folks, seated at a table, discussing issues in a respectable manner. He said large meetings do not allow everyone with questions to be addressed. “If I put 100 people in a room, then 10 of those people may leave happy because I could talk to them,� he said. “The other 90 will leave angry, and that’s a situation that’s just counter-productive. Sitting here at a table, that’s where it’s at.�

Thompson said he is readily available and has open hours at his Bellefonte office nearly every Monday morning.

He said he also encourages people to tune into his teleconference he holds on the first Tuesday of every month.

The link to the teleconference call can be found at www. gtthompson.com. “The telecommunication doesn’t replace my face-toface talks with people,� said Thompson. “Those are still very, very important to me. In 2016, I had more than 1,000 face-to-face discussions with constituents in the districts.

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STATE COLLEGE — Robert W. Stewart, of State College, announced that he will be a candidate for magisterial district judge.

A small business owner and former Pennsylvania State Constable, Stewart will seek election for district judge representing district 49-2-01, which includes Patton Township, Ferguson Township, Halfmoon Township and parts of College Township.

He has cross-filed to run on the Democratic and Republican ballots. “He plans to establish a Veteran’s Court for summary offenses; ROBERT establish a mediation program for STEWART civil cases, designed to save time and money for litigants; and to continue the Youth Offenders Program/Youth Aid Panel for first time offenders who show a willingness to take responsibility for their actions,� a news release announcing his candidacy said. “His approach is to offer a common sense practical application of the law.�

Stewart is a lifelong resident of Centre County and owner of Stewart Realty, a property management company. He said he twice previously was certified by Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve as magisterial district judge. “Stewart’s life experiences have given him the opportunity to work with and help people from all walks of life, which he feels will help him to be a fair and compassionate District Judge,� the release said.

He has been involved with State College Elks, PAWS, Children’s Miracle Network, Meals on Wheels, the Salvation Army, Coaches vs. Cancer and Centre County Camp Cadet. He and his wife, Jerilynn, have two children, a daughter who is a college student in South Carolina and a son who attends State College Area High School.

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Geisinger to hire 2,000, including 50 in State College Special to the Gazette DANVILLE — Six months after launching a recruitment campaign to hire 1,500 employees, Geisinger Health System has announced further efforts to hire an additional 2,000 new employees in 2017.

The new hires — including both clinical and non-clinical staff — will reach across the system’s footprint, including State College. In addition, hiring will take place in Bloomsburg, Danville, Shamokin, Harrisburg, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Lewistown.

About half of those positions will be direct caregivers, including registered nurses, advanced practitioners and physicians.

“Our ability to provide exceptional patient care is the direct result of our dedicated employees,” Julene Campion,

vice president of talent management at Geisinger, said in a press release. “Geisinger prides itself in innovation, quality and service to create the perfect patient experience, and as patient needs evolve so must our workforce.”

RECRUITING NURSES

As part of this initiative, Geisinger is recruiting for more than 500 nursing positions — including 200 in the central region, 200 in the Northeast, 75 in the Harrisburg market and 50 in the State College market.

Since first announcing its goal to hire 1,500 new employees in September 2016, Geisinger hired nearly 2,000 employees across the health system. Campion noted that this latest hiring campaign could take more than 18 months because of specialty positions.

Some of the hires are filling positions that were vacated, while others are new positions, Geisinger said.

As Geisinger hires additional physicians, other support staff are needed, such as nurses, medical assistants and office staff.

The average annual turnover rate across the system is about 10 percent.

In the past decade, Geisinger has grown from two to 12 hospitals, expanded its service area to 45 counties, including southern New Jersey, and tripled its number of employees. Geisinger also leverages an estimated $8.9 billion impact on the Pennsylvania economy, according to the release.

Geisinger trains more than 400 residents and fellows each year. On Jan. 1, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of

the Geisinger family, bringing with it more than 200 new employees.

Geisinger is also involved in cutting-edge research in the realm of genomics. The health system’s MyCode Community Health Initiative currently has enrolled more than 130,000 participants, combining precision medicine with Geisinger’s long-established population health efforts. In 2016, Geisinger was named one of the new health care provider organizations to participate in the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program to help build a nationwide million-person strong study.

Geisinger employs more than 30,000, with a medical staff of more than 1,600 physicians. In 2015, Geisinger implemented a $10 minimum wage for all employees.

For more information, visit www. geisinger.org.

Borough council to make recommendations on high-rise

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

STATE COLLEGE — The Residences at College and Atherton, a proposed 12-story housing high-rise, was on the agenda of the State College Borough Council again March 6 as council members continue to work toward passing a conditional land use ordinance for the developers.

The latest meeting was a follow-up to a public hearing held Feb. 13. Due to time constraints at that meeting, the comment portion of the hearing was postponed until March 6.

The proposal is for the construction of a 447,000-squarefoot building, reaching 12 stories high, with three stories of underground parking below.

The first two floors of the building will contain retail space, and the 10 floors above will in-

clude 232 residential units and a total of 725 beds. In addition, the inclusionary housing unit, required by borough ordinance, will consist of 31 two-bedroom apartments.

The proposal includes three levels of underground parking, with a total of 272 parking spots, as well as a mid-block pedestrian crossing, linking College Avenue with Calder Way. The proposed building would encompass nearly the entire block of West College Avenue and Calder Way, between South Burrowes Street and South Atherton Street.

Jeff Stover, board solicitor, explained a number of recommendations brought to his attention since that initial hearing. Items of interest, he said, included: ■ A traffic study, focusing on the exit and entrance to the building’s parking facility ■ Provided assistance with

Beaver Stadium, from page 1 completed. Its 102,000 seats were sold out in 18 minutes.

The company that engineered the A&M total makeover was Populous, the same firm that is behind Penn State’s master plan. Former PSU linebacker Scott Radecic is a principal of Populous. He was the lead for Penn State’s last $100 million re-do of Beaver Stadium in 2001, when he was with HOK. It will not be that cheap this time around, that is for sure.

THE GOING RATE

Here is a look at recent price tags for college football stadium renovations: ■ $485 million — Kyle Field, Texas A&M, completed in 2015 ■ $400 million — Notre Dame Stadium, Notre Dame, to be completed this year Termed the “Campus Crossroads Project,” it is slated to include a new student center, space for its anthropology, psychology and music departments, as well as premium seating and suites.

■ $321 million — Memorial Stadium, University of Cal-Berkley, completed in 2012 Current Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour was AD at Cal at that time and oversaw the project. It was complicated by the fact the stadium was situated on a fault line and required a seismic retrofit, and was hindered time- and publicity-wise by protesters.

■ $285 million — Husky Stadium, University of Washington, completed in 2013 ■ $268 million — Sun Devil Stadium, Arizona State, ongoing ■ $226 million — Michigan Stadium, University of Michigan, completed in 2010 ■ $164 million — Amon J. Carter Stadium, Texas Christian University, completed in 2012 ■ $160 million — Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, University of Oklahoma, completed in 2016 The stadium co-namesakes gave more than $50 million to the university, some of it earmarked for stadium improvements.

■ $150 million — Camp Randall Stadium, University of Wisconsin According to Wisconsin’s master plan, released in January, the cost to renovate Camp Randall, based on three different options, could range from $39.6 million to $150 million.

■ $132 million — Memorial Stadium, University of Illinois, to be completed by 2020 ■ $63.5 million — Memorial Stadium, University of Nebraska, completed in 2013

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Council member Evan Myers said he feels a residential manager or on-site person should be at the facility 24-hours a day. He said such measures are in effect at The Retreat and that facility has proven a success in downtown State College.

“I just think it’s important to have someone on-site, 24-hours a day,” said Myers. “I think it’s important to the people who will reside in that building to

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■ $42 million — Ohio Stadium, Ohio State University, to be completed by 2020

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Barbour is experienced at stadium reconstructions.

Her deputy athletic athletic director and chief operating officer, Phil Esten, oversaw the construction of a new on-campus stadium at the University of Minnesota. As associate athletic director at Minnesota, Esten was the point person for the $300 million TCF Bank Stadium, which opened in 2009. Esten played a key role in securing funding for about $90 million in individual and corporate support.

Funding the stadium renovation at Cal was much more complicated for Barbour, as the university faced a debt load of more than $450 million following the stadium expansion and a corresponding $153 million student athletic center.

The sources of funding for any renovation of Beaver Stadium are likely to be multifaceted. At Texas A&M, the funding was broken down this way: $232 million in seat license revenue, $75 million in student ticket revenue and fees, $18 million in a facilities access agreement, $35 million that was undisclosed and $125 million from the school’s booster club, the 12th Man Foundation.

Penn State hopes to pay for at least some of the renovations by maximizing the football game day experience at Beaver Stadium — meaning everything from suites with grills, open-ended “social setting areas” and, possibly, premium alcohol sales.

According to the aforementioned 2015-2016 budget submitted to the NCAA, Penn State made $5.3 million from football-related novelty, program, parking and concession sales in 2015-16.

In addition, look for Penn State to make much greater use of a renovated Beaver Stadium than just eight times a year — the Blue-White Game and seven regular season games.

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Penn State has indicated that it hopes to host outdoor NHL games, like the one at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field in late February between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers, which drew 67,318. The current stumbling block, Penn State officials have said, is that Beaver Stadium is not weatherized. Temperatures in Pittsburgh were in the 70s a few days before the game, although it was 36 degrees for opening face-off.

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New revenue opportunities will likely be under the purview of Esten and Michael Cross, who in 2015 was hired by Penn State an as assistant athletic director for new business development. Cross, who was the athletic director at Bradley University for five years, is “charged with identifying new business and revenue generation opportunities, engaging with various constituencies within the Penn State communities and intercollegiate athletics.”

In the future, Beaver Stadium could host state high school football playoffs, big-time soccer friendlies — Michigan Stadium drew 109,318 and made $3 million for a Manchester U-Real Madrid game in 2014 — and even stadium golf, which has been all the rage at Petco Park in San Diego the past two years.

The golf idea is no laughing matter — night-time tee times went for $450 for a twosome and $900 for a foursome, as more than 2,700 golfers played the The Links at Petco last year. (Penn State’s White Course is $20, if you walk.)

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Penn State changes access to campus rec buildings

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Visitors to Rec Hall, McCoy Natatorium and the White Building on Penn State’s campus will see some changes in how they access the buildings.

Non-Penn State community members will still be able to use the recreational facilities, but will be required to get free, temporary-access cards from the registration desks.

To receive a card, the visitor will have to provide some basic information, including name and contact information.

Penn State students, faculty and staff will need to show their university ID cards to enter. Identification is already required to enter paid membership areas, such as the fitness centers in Rec Hall and White Building The change will go into effect starting Monday, March 13, at Rec Hall, when staff from Campus Recreation, a division of Penn State’s Student Affairs, will be at desks at the entrances to Rec Hall. They will begin staffing desks at the White Building and Natatorium on Monday, May 8.

According to a university release, no one under the age of 18 will be permitted in the three buildings unless they are a Penn State student or enrolled in a Penn State program such as sports camps.

“By monitoring how and when people are using recreation facilities, the Campus Recreation staff will be able to better monitor traffic in and out of the building, and also gain a better understanding of usage trends, which will help with future improvements,” the release said.

“In addition, monitoring entrances to the facilities helps keep the buildings safe and in compliance with Penn State policy AD73 Accessing Athletic and Recre-

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NON-PENN STATE community members will still have access to campus recreational facilities, such as Rec Hall, but will be required to get free, temporary access cards from the registration desks.

ational Facilities.”

Josh Davis, assistant director of Campus Recreation for Membership Services and Outreach, said the university could, in the future, adopt a membership arrangement for non-Penn State community members.

“These changes are part of a larger initiative to take a holistic look at our campus recreation facilities and memberships to ensure we are offering the best recreational experience to our students,” said Davis. “In the future, we hope to adopt a community membership arrangement, which has been standard practice at many of our peer institutions, so that we may continue to serve the State College community.”

3-week-old hospitalized, parents jailed

By GEOFF RUSHTON

OSCEOLA MILLS (AP) — A 3-week-old girl was hospitalized with broken legs and other injuries as state police jailed her parents on assault and child endangerment charges.

Authorities say the girl was taken to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, while 32-year-old Aaron Mills and 22-year-old Stephanie McGuire remained in the Clearfield County jail. Online court records did not list attorneys for them.

They were arrested Feb. 28 on charges including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child, after the girl was also found with a fractured rib, bruised nose, facial abrasions, a rectal tear and severe diaper rash among other injuries.

Police said the other injuries were discovered when McGuire took the girl to a doctor because of the diaper rash.

The baby is in the custody of county caseworkers.

BENNER TOWNSHIP — A man serving a life sentence for murder faces multiple charges in connection with the alleged assault of a corrections officer at SCI-Benner.

If convicted, Jacob Amenuvor, 42, formerly of East Stroudsburg, could receive a second life sentence, according to the Centre County District Attorney’s Office.

Amenuvor, who was convicted of second-degree murder, aggravated assault and robbery in 2000 in Monroe County, was reportedly angry Feb. 8 that he could not access his cell, and punched the corrections officer in the face multiple times. He JACOB allegedly then began to choke the officer.

AMENUVOR The officer told Pennsylvania State Police at Rockview that he began to lose his vision and black out. The officer grabbed and squeezed Amenuvor’s genitals, causing Amenuvor to lose his grip. Another inmate also reportedly yelled at Amenuvor to stop.

Amenuvor was charged with assault by a life prisoner, which according to the District Attorney’s Office carries the same penalty as second-degree murder if convicted.

He also is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, one count of strangulation and one count of simple assault.

Preliminary arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday, March 14, before District Judge Kelley Gillette-Walker, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, March 29.

Amenuvor has since been relocated to SCI-Smithfield in Monroe County, according to Pennsylvania Department of Corrections records.

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High-rise, from page 5 dent air quality studies. He said prevailing winds around State College normally push the “plume” from Penn State’s power factory toward the downtown, but noted that during specific wind conditions, that plume could be pushed to different areas of the community.

“We can alter that somewhat by changing our zoning, but why should we do that,” said Myers. “The university needs to make changes, not us. They need to move that power plant out of our way.”

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Council member David Brown said he “feels it may be too late to bring this up” but wanted to express for the record that he feels downtown is growing too large with student housing and feels overcrowding will be a hurdle in the not-so-distant future.

“I understand that importance of student housing, but I think it’s getting a little out of hand,” said Brown. “The density at this end of town is just too much.”

Councilwoman Catherine Dauler was concerned with signage in the retail sections of the building. She said she did not want to see a business go in that used large advertisements in the storefront windows, thus blocking light from entering the building.

Stover said he would include Dauler’s concerns, as well as other concerns raised by council members, in his report to the developer. He explained Collegiate Development Group of St. Louis, the project developer, has asked for and was granted an extension to address these recommendations. A meeting will be scheduled for May. The construction of The Residences at College and Atherton will mark the fourth high-rise building scheduled for construction in the downtown.

Work has already begun on The Rise at State College, which will be a 12-story, 140-foot building on College Avenue, where Kildare’s Irish Pub used to call home. The building will contain a street-level grocery store, graduate and professional apartments and underground student apartments.

Scheduled to open later this year is The Metropolitan, which is located directly across Atherton from the proposed site of The Residences at College and Atherton.

This building will be used strictly for residential housing and will contain 540 bedrooms.

A seven-story, mixed-use building is planned for 260 Beaver Ave., the site of the former Canyon Pizza. This 98,000-square-foot building will include first-floor retail space, 40 apartments on the next five floors and office space on the top level. Underground parking is also in the plans for this project.

In October, the first of these high-rise buildings opened with the Fraser Centre, located on Beaver Avenue. This 12-story building partially opened with retail giant Target and H&M clothing. The 158-room Hyatt Place hotel, Federal Taphouse restaurant and bar and residential condominiums are expected to open this spring.

In other business, the council: ■ Awarded the Pugh Garage relighting project to PBCI-Allen Mechanical and Electrical in the amount of $449,114.

■ Approved a resolution for the destruction of records in the tax office.

■ Approved the closure of Calder Alley, between Locust Lane and McAllister Street, for St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Vacation Bible School, from Monday, June 19, through Friday, June 23, each evening between 5:30 and 8:45 p.m.

■ Approved the use of Sidney Friedman Park, the closing of D Alley and the use of various sidewalks from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the closing of Fraser Street, between Sidney Friedman Park and East Fairmount, from 1:30 to 2 p.m. for the annual American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Walk — Out of the Darkness, on Sunday, April 30.

■ Approved the closure of various roads for the 2017 Penn State home football game schedule.

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According to Pipe, several letters of interest were sent to Centre County municipalities, and he visited a number of local government meetings to talk about the program.

He said he believes the program has “been well received.”

He said the commissioners have received responses to 20 of the 35 letters of interest that were mailed out. Of those, he said about a dozen communities indicated their support in the matter, whereas another six or seven were against it. He said the others responded they would support the measure if the county supported it.

In other business, the commissioners: ■ Welcomed Ken Pendleton as the new director of the Centre County Office of Aging.

■ Approved a contract renewal between the county and the Center for Alternatives in Community Justice for the Pretrial Release Program for eligible defendants currently incarcerated. The contract total is $131,500.

■ Executed a memorandum of understanding for the Final Land Development Plan for Sullivan’s Mini Storage, Phase VII. This proposal constitutes a final plan submission showing the storage buildings as well as corresponding infrastructure to service the proposed land development activity, located off Rolling Ridge Drive within the Penn Eagle Industrial Park in Benner Township.

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Remembrance to kick off addiction resource fair

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

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ALL LANES were closed on Interstate 99 southbound and northbound between exit 52 at Bald Eagle and exit 68 at Gray’s Woods on March 3 after accidents involving about 40 vehicles.

65 vehicles crash on I-99, I-80

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

Sections of Interstate 99 and Interstate 80 in Centre County were shut down for part of the day March 3 following three accidents involving a combined 65 vehicles.

Snow squalls moving through the area late in the morning and into the afternoon caused whiteout conditions that contributed to the crashes.

All lanes were closed on I-99 southbound and northbound between exit 52 at Bald Eagle and exit 68 at Gray’s Woods.

Multi-vehicle accidents were reported in both directions at around 2 p.m.

About 40 vehicles were involved in the two crashes, Parcel, from page 1 According to the Centre County assessor’s office, the property is listed in records under 134 E. College Ave. with a mailing address of 114. S. Pugh. It includes multiple buildings owned by Gentzel Corp. and has an assessed value of $804,120.

A representative of Keystone Commercial Real Estate declined comment. Owners of several of the tenant businesses could not immediately be reached for comment.

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according to a PennDOT spokesperson, and traffic was backed up for miles in both directions for several hours.

Vehicles were detoured to Old Route 220 during the closure.

Shortly before 5 p.m., I-99 southbound reopened to one-lane traffic. By 7 p.m., all lanes in both directions had fully reopened.

An accident involving at least 25 vehicles occurred just before noon near exit 144 at Snow Shoe on I-80 eastbound and the road was closed between exit 133 at Kylertown and exit 144. The road was fully reopened by about 4:45 p.m.

A section of I-80 westbound in nearby Clinton County between exit 192 at Jersey Shore and exit 185 at Loganton was closed after another multi-vehicle accident.

State College Improvement District, said he had not been aware of the listing but noted that the property has some businesses “that are classics to town,” including Spats, the Rathskeller and Sadie’s.

The apartment mix consists of nine one-bedroom units, three two-bedroom units and four five-bedroom units, according to the listing.

The listing was distributed to some via direct mail and is posted on Keystone’s web site.

The online listing references a bid opportunity, with an award notification date of Monday, May 1.

BELLEFONTE — A candlelight remembrance ceremony for loved ones lost to the disease of addiction will serve as a precursor to an addiction resource fair scheduled for Wednesday, March 29, at Match Factory Place in Bellefonte.

“We have lost so many county residents, and loved ones of county residents to this horrible disease,” said Gene Lauri, director of Centre County’s criminal justice planning department. “Last year, we had 21 deaths attributed to opioid overdoses, and already this year, we have five. We want to take a moment to start the event by remembering these people, and honor their lives.”

The candlelight vigil will be held from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and is sponsored by Centre County’s HOPE (Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education) initiative, which is made up of several county and local organizations, all determined to lessen the effect of dangerous opioids on the community.

As part of the remembrance ceremony, there will be a memorial wall where photos of loved ones lost can be displayed. To submit a photo, email contact@centrecountyhope.org by Monday, March 27.

“This is really our fifth public get-together, but it’s going to be different than the first four,” said Lauri. “This one will be much more personal towards the families of people affected.”

Lauri explained HOPE has sponsored four town hall meetings concerning the heroin and opioid epidemic in Centre County. He said each of these meetings had a different subject; however, they were all designed as a way experts from various fields could discuss different aspects of addiction, recovery and treatment.

“What we want to do on March 29 is have people come in and interact with different groups that offer treatment and recovery,” Lauri said. “We want these people to get some one-on-one time with some service providers so they can talk about the issues they are dealing with, and what are the best ways to deal with them.”

Lauri said, as of March 3, about two dozen service providers and government agencies noted they would participate.

“If there isn’t someone there with the help someone needs, rest assured, someone there will know where to go for that help,” he said.

This event is free and open to the community. Light refreshments will be served.

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County sports hall of fame names 13 to first class

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

It took a long time to finally become a reality, but the Centre County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame has released the names of its first class of inductees.

The chapter officially became a member of the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame last May, and it immediately began working on nominating and electing its first class.

The chapter announced that the honorees will be inducted Sunday, Oct. 15, at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center in State College.

According to chapter treasurer Lloyd Rhoades, there were more than 40 nominees for the 13 positions available, which were divided into three categories — legends, deceased and living.

Nominees can be from any sport or related activity and from any time period, but every athlete must either have been a native of Centre County or spent significant time here after retiring.

The purpose of the hall, according to the bylaws, is to perpetuate the memory of individuals who have brought fame and recognition to the people of Pennsylvania through their achievements in athletics.

The members of the class of 2017 include: ■ Living — Dave Adams, two-time PIAA wrestling champion from Bellefonte; Joe Hammaker, Penns Valley wrestling coach; Joe Humphries, noted fly fisherman, Penn State wrestler and BEA and Penns Valley coach; Denny Leathers, Bellefonte baseball coach and player; Rich Lorenzo, Penn State wrestling coach; Doug McDonald, editor and sportswriter from the Centre Daily Times; Bruce Parkhill, State College basketball player and Penn State head coach; Thad Turner, Philipsburg-Osceola wrestler and Lehigh All-American and coach; and Ward Whitehill, Bellefonte County Baseball League pitcher.

■ Legends — John Montgomery Ward, Bellefonte baseball player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964, and Myles Thomas, State College baseball player.

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■ Deceased — Bill Luther, Bellefonte football coach, and Gene Wettstone, Penn State and U.S. Olympic gymnastics coach.

“It’s the inaugural class, and we are indeed excited about it,” Rhoades said. “Centre County has needed one of these for a long time. Ron Bracken, who wrote for the Centre Daily Times, was pushing this for a number of years, but he couldn’t gather any momentum on it.

“But then, about two years ago, a few of us got together and decided it was far beyond time and that we were going to make it happen. So we started doing everything we had to do to get the organization established.”

The initial class is made up entirely of men.

“Girls athletics really did not get underway (in a big way) until the ’80s,” Rhoades said. “For the most part, there might have been a couple here and there, but to earn the kind of criteria that you would need to have to be elected into a lifelong thing like this with a hall of fame, a lot of those women are just now coming of age.

“I mean there will be women going in there for sure.

There were women nominated this year, but they didn’t get the vote. But it will happen. There are women who I plan to nominate.

“We do have a woman on our board of directors, Nan Sichler Moerschbacher. She was an outstanding softball

player for State College and led them to great heights in high school. Then she was a four-year starter for Penn State. I think she still owns the career homerun record by a Penn State softball player.”

The chapter is led by a 12-person board of directors that includes representatives from all the area school districts, private high schools and Penn State, and four at-large directors.

RON PIFER The officers are Ron Pifer, president; Bucky Quici, vice president; Don Burris, secretary; and Rhoades, treasurer.

Membership is open to anyone, and members can nominate and vote for inductees in this chapter as well as the state hall of fame. Information is available from any of the officers or board members, as well as on the chapter’s Facebook page.

“This will be every year,” Rhoades said. “We will put together a slate of nominees, probably in the fall, about the time we’re having the banquet. We’ll put them out before Thanksgiving again and our members will vote on them. We will just reiterate the process annually from there on out.”

But this class and this induction banquet will be the first one, and, according to Rhoades, that will make it always special.

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Bills said her family attended the town hall Feb. 25 and that many questions and concerns were raised that she would like Thompson to answer.

“What we’ve been doing so far, we’ve been doing as a family,” Bills said. “We were all at the town hall together. This affects them, affects their futures, even though they’re not able to vote yet.”

She cited health care, education and government ethics issues as concerns she would like Thompson to address.

“I think our country is facing a real ethics problem right now and I’d like to know what Mr. Thompson is prepared to do to protect our democracy,” Bills said. “There are so many things, and every day there is more stuff coming that is very disturbing. This is our way of trying to do something.”

Wheeler presented Thompson with a letter outlining the group’s request, noting that Thompson represented the largest district in the state and one of the largest in the nation and that “Periodic town hall meetings across your district require a minimal demand on your time, yet allow you to effectively reach hundreds of your constituents at once.”

The group suggested 24 dates between now and the end of April and offered to help with scheduling, booking a venue and finding an impartial moderator.

“Everybody has their own issues and this isn’t a partisan thing,” Friedenberg said. “We really just want a chance to be heard. However many of us are here today, we could probably have a thousand or more who would want to hear from him. I think a town hall is the optimal way to do that.”

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That rally, according to a release from Thompson’s office, demanded that Congress come together to find solutions for issues related to jobs, the economy and national security.

“Proudly, I gathered with nearly 1,000 people to share a message of bipartisanship,” Thompson said. “I spoke to the fact that I do not introduce legislation without a Democrat to cosponsor the bill. This is because it is so important to build consensus.

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New food labeling makes good sense By the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This newspaper is safe to read after the date printed; the news in it just won’t be as timely.

Similarly, food is often safe to eat after the date on the package, just less tasty — and it may not even be that.

Yet many consumers discard “expired” food without checking whether it’s still good.

New food-labeling standards effective in mid-2018 should help.

The voluntary guidelines adopted by two industry groups call for explaining the date on a package with one of two phrases: “use by” if the company thinks the food will go bad, “best if used by” if it’s merely concerned about flavor.

If that helps consumers understand what the dates mean, they’ll be less likely to throw away wholesome food because of its date.

Most expiration dates reflect producers’ predictions about subjective matters such as taste, yet consumers often treat them as if they are safety warnings.

Federal regulations do not require dates on food, aside from baby formula; they do govern how manufacturers who choose to date-stamp certain other foods do so. State laws may require dates in some cases.

The new standardization may be, in part, an effort to avoid new federal laws. It shows that such laws may not be necessary: Food producers applied date labels without mandates, to ensure quality, and now they’re standardizing them without having to, to reduce waste.

Regardless of labeling, the Department of Agriculture urges consumers to check the quality of perishable foods before using or discarding them: Foods that have passed the printed date may still be good.

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Constituents request town hall meeting I’m writing in response to your March 2 article about the town hall meeting that took place in State College on Saturday, Feb. 25. Although Congressman Thompson was not present, the event — which arose organically, not as a paid protest — allowed a packed hall of attendees to voice questions and concerns that we believe the congressman is not addressing.

Many of us who attended the town hall had been asking for a meeting since November. The aides working the phones at his offices across the district acknowledged that they were “overwhelmed” by the number of calls and often unable to return calls or respond to emails. When asked about his schedule during the recent District Work Period — a time expressly set aside for members of Congress to meet with their constitu-

ents — the aide at his Titusville office said that he was unavailable because “he (was) booked out on the road for the entire time.” And yet, constituents in DuBois, Bradford, Clarion and Erie have had similar difficulties meeting with him.

Mr. Thompson’s defense, that “the level of engagement (he has) with constituents” is being misrepresented, rings hollow in light of repeated attempts on our part to meet with him to discuss our concerns.

An hour-long teleconference, half of which is devoted to an update from the congressman, is not enough.

Likewise, holding 15-minute meetings with a small group of constituents who have been hand-picked by him is not enough. Mr. Thompson is employing selective hearing, virtually ignoring those constituents who are raising tough questions.

The third paragraph of the Gazette’s article on page 7 in the Feb. 16-22 issue includes this passage: “... the (State College borough) council passed an ordinance effectively decriminalizing the use or possession of a small amount of marijuana (30 grams or less) ... within the borough.”

Although I’m not a lawyer, I think that statement is at best misleading.

It seems to me that the ordinance does not decriminalize possessing a small amount of marijuana. That would require an act of the state Legislature and a signature by the

governor. I think it merely authorizes the State College police to impose more lenient penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana than are required by Pennsylvania law.

In other words, the ordinance is not consistent with state law. I don’t understand how it can possibly pass legal muster or how State College police, presumably sworn to uphold the Pennsylvania constitution and enforce state laws, can in good conscience enforce it.

Possessing a small amount of marijuana, under Pennsylvania law

By Dan K. Thomasson

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s animosity toward the press may be softening somewhat as he bumps up against the reality that we in print used to remind politicians of every once in awhile: It doesn’t pay to get into a fight with someone who buys his ink by the barrel.

Today’s electronic version of the Fourth Estate has taken over that same power as Americans have turned toward new technologies in the consumption of their daily news diet. So, the other day, our supreme leader, who has made a habit of portraying the media as a threat to society, had lunch with the glamour pusses of the television industry — the guys we used to deride as the “rip and readers” of the “this just in” class.

For the unwashed, this refers to men and women from local to national TV and radio desks who used to pass on to viewers and listeners what they had just dragged off the national wires. That still goes on to some degree, but now those who occupy the highly sought-after desks for morning and evening bulletins of the moment receive them from a producer speaking into their ear plugs or by reading them off a camera teleprompter.

Their reward for good diction, good looks and a sense of drama: big bucks and the celebrity of movie stars. Oh yeah!

And access to guys like The Donald. The luncheon, according to reports, went well and even included

some jocular moments and a longer stay than planned. Donald, it seems, didn’t even touch his crab salad during the 90 minutes.

One must realize that these superstars aren’t the frontline guys and gals who are assigned a few seconds each day to ask the tough questions to the president and his minions. They may or may not have cut their teeth on confrontational reporting, but they are now mainly spreading the expensive seconds and minutes around — often in increments of nanoseconds that include an introduction and a thank you — to those in the proverbial trenches. The reward for these secondary men and women for being able to take a punch is mainly that of a title like White House correspondent and a hefty salary.

Despite the celebrity-on-celebrity nature of the luncheon, one could hope it may be a start to improved relations between Trump and those who are recognized by the Constitution as the official watchdogs of government.

There comes a time in the tenure of every president when he realizes things will go much more smoothly without the impediment of journalism’s constant presence. Franklin Roosevelt’s animosity toward publishers grew to the point that his columnist wife suggested he appeal directly to those who form and report the news.

A daily columnist herself, Mrs. Roosevelt took on the chore with liberal columnist Heywood Broun, and they founded the American Newspaper Guild to improve pay and other

(35 P.S. 780-133(a)(31), is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 30 days imprisonment and a fine of up to $500.

Under federal law (21 U.S.C. 844), possessing any amount of marijuana (the first such offense) is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year imprisonment and a minimum fine of $1,000. Penalties for second and subsequent offenses are more severe.

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conditions for those who wrote and edited the more than 2,000 daily and hundreds of weekly newspapers at the time.

Few, however, have condemned the institution as defiantly as the current occupant of the Oval Office.

How easy it is to blame the guardians. Perhaps he should listen to his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, who reminded a nationwide television audience in no uncertain terms recently of the importance of a free and independent press, even though he himself has been beaten around the head and shoulders by that same press.

But whining about how one is treated is never a good idea for the men and women who still labor in the news business, electronic or print. The public isn’t interested.

We should not be intimidated but go quietly about the job of being as fair and accurate and balanced and complete in our task as is possible. Above all, we should keep in mind we are never infallible.

Remember, in public affairs reporting, it is only a short distance between being leaked to and leaked on. You have to treat your sources accordingly.

Donald Trump has his own obligations in this necessarily adversarial relationship. Paramount is not to yell fire in a crowded theater.

The Washington Post’s rejoinder that “Democracy Dies in Darkness” says it well as the Scripps Howard pledge I was proud to work under for 55 years: “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

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When asked specifically about holding a town hall, Congressman Thompson replied that he is not willing to “offer a venue for paid activists and political opposition …” The issues we care most about — health care for all, a clean and safe environment, a democracy that works for everyone — might not be the issues to which he gives highest priority, but there is no arguing the fact that we are his constituents — not “the opposition” — and we deserve a town hall meeting.

We applaud Congressman Thompson for wanting to “sit down at the table and find out how we can solve problems,” but no problem can be solved until it is first given a chance to be heard.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Exercise a key aspect of cancer recovery

By SCOTT GILBERT Penn State News

HERSHEY — In a second-floor, 300-square-foot chemotherapy infusion suite in Penn State Cancer Institute are some dumbbells and stretchy bands, two treadmills, a recumbent bike, a weight bench, a few physical therapy tools and a raised mat. It is not much, and it is not very big, but for researcher Kathryn Schmitz, it is what she wanted.

“What I asked for and got in coming to Penn State Cancer Institute was the exercise medicine unit in an oncology clinical setting,” Schmitz said. She needed it for her work.

With the help of an experienced master trainer, this is where she and her team plan to make exercise part of the standard of care for cancer patients as they research the role of nutrition and exercise in cancer treatment and recovery. She has several clinical research studies underway or in development.

While she has been a professional dancer and a personal trainer, Schmitz is now a professor of epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine and the associate director of population sciences at the Cancer Institute.

She worked in executive fitness on Wall Street for about six years and managed the Solomon Brothers Fitness Center at 7 World Trade.

“I had this beautiful office at the top of this amazing building and I was paid handsomely, but I had a terminal case of

boredom,” she said. “I decided I wanted more.”

She returned to school to earn her master’s and doctoral degrees. There, she developed a love for research that led to a postdoctoral research fellowship and a master’s in public health.

Schmitz later joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in the School of Public Health in the Division of Epidemiology and later the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She said joining Penn State was a natural fit because of its strong exercise physiology program.

While her research initially focused on obesity and heart disease, she now finds herself in a growing field studying the relationship between exercise and cancer.

“It’s been really exciting,” Schmitz said. “It’s rare that you get an opportunity to work in an area of science where you can do a study that changes clinical practice. By the end of my career, I want us to be using exercise in oncology the same way that we already do for heart disease.”

While it is common knowledge that exercise is good for the heart, Schmitz believes it is time to teach people that exercise is also important in prevention of, as part of treatment and during recovery from cancer. Currently, that is not always happening.

“Right now, we’re still in a place where in many community-based oncology settings, oncologists are telling people not to exercise once they’ve had a diagnosis of cancer,” she said.

At one time, patients with back injuries were told to rest, people who had heart at-

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KATHRYN SCHMITZ is professor of epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine and the associate director of population sciences at the Cancer Institute. tacks were bedridden and mothers would stay in a hospital bed for a week after giving birth. Eventually, each specialty realized that the best treatment in all those cases was to get up and move.

“Unfortunately, for cancer patients, that news has yet to reach the clinic,” she said.

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Study: Education key after BMI screenings Special to the Gazette DANVILLE — Parents of elementary school children who received body mass index screening results together with educational material were significantly more likely to say they would change at least one obesity-related risk factor, compared with parents who received only the BMI measure.

In a study led by Geisinger Health System researcher Dr. Lisa Bailey-Davis and

published Feb. 8 in the peer-reviewed journal Childhood Obesity, researchers found that parental education may be the key to improving the utility of schoolbased BMI screening — a practice that has been controversial and, so far, ineffective at reversing the childhood obesity epidemic.

Researchers from Geisinger, Iowa State University and the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga analyzed nearly 1,500 parental surveys from 31 Pennsylvania el-

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Youths with autism more likely to visit ER

By ABBY SAJID Penn State News

HERSHEY— Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder use emergency-department services four times as often as their peers without autism, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

The findings suggest that youths with autism may need better access to primary care and specialist services.

The researchers looked at private insurance health care claims from 2005 to 2013 in 12- to 21-year-olds. Adolescents with autism included in the study received at least two separate diagnoses of ASD over the timeframe. Two diagnoses reduce the chance of including misdiagnoses.

Although there was no significant increase in autism rates among adolescents in the study over the nine-year period, emergency-department use in adolescents with autism increased five-fold, from 3 percent in 2005 to 16 percent in 2013. During the same time period, emergency-department use in adolescents without an autism diagnosis remained steady at around 3 percent.

Researchers reported their results in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

On average, adolescents with autism had a four-times higher risk of visiting the emergency department than ado-

lescents without ASD. Older adolescents with autism also visited the emergency department more often than their younger counterparts. A third of middle and late adolescents in this group had medical emergencies, compared to just one-tenth of early adolescents.

Females were more likely to visit the emergency room than males, and individuals living in rural areas were more likely to visit the emergency room than those living in urban areas.

There was an increase over the study period in adolescents with autism who visited the emergency department for a mental health crisis. By 2013, 22 percent of emergency-department visits included a behavioral health concern, compared to 12 percent in 2005.

Previous research has shown that although youth with autism should be visiting primary care doctors and specialists more often than their peers, these services are underused in adolescents with ASD. Guodong Liu, assistant professor of public health sciences and lead author of the study, said there could be a link between this underuse of preventive care services and overuse of emergency-department services. “We believe if their regular medical and behavioral specialist services served them better, a big portion of them would end up with fewer emergency-department visits,� he said.

In addition, Liu said, changes related

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RESEARCH SUGGESTS that adolescents with autism may need better access to primary care and specialist services. to puberty and the transition to adulthood may be more difficult to manage for youth with autism compared to their peers.

However, their parents and other caregivers may not be aware that they need extra guidance and support at this vulnerable time.

Some adolescents with ASD may in-

jure themselves physically — by cutting themselves, for example — during times of stress. “The consequence is they’re more likely to end up in the emergency department,� Liu said.

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Grant enables better forecast of disease outbreaks

By SARA LAJEUNESSE Penn State News

UNIVERSITY PARK — Researchers at Penn State have received $2.35 million from the National Science Foundation to study disease transmission among animals with a goal of better predicting outbreaks of infectious diseases within humans.

Specifically, the researchers are investigating the collection of viruses — known as the virome — that live within the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, and the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis, both of which are common throughout the eastern and midwestern United States. “The rodents that live in our homes and garages are the primary reservoirs for several of the emerging infectious viruses that we’ve seen in humans so far, including babesiosis, Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever,� said Kurt Vandegrift, research associate in the Department of Biology and the grant’s principal investigator. “And, we are frequently discovering new viruses in these rodents, and in the ticks that feed upon these rodents and then upon us. “For example, we have found that both white-footed mice and black-legged ticks harbor many previously undescribed microbes, including close relatives of human pathogens such as hepatitis C viruses and hantaviruses. Our work may allow us to identify new infectious viruses in these animals before they spill over into hu-

mans.�

According to Vandegrift, emerging infectious diseases threaten global health and security, but little is known about where or when we should expect these outbreaks. “This may be because pathogens are virtually always considered in isolation,� he said. “In reality, these pathogens are members of an ecological community of interacting microbes, and their behavior and success may be influenced by each other.�

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To investigate the viromes of white-footed mice, Vandegrift and his colleagues have, for 15 years, monitored thousands of individuals per year. Upon capture, the scientists collect various data, such as body length and mass and reproductive status. They also count and identify the ticks and other parasites the mice contain. Finally, the team takes a blood and fecal sample from each mouse, marks the animal with a transponder and releases it for eventual recapture. “We recapture these mice many times, sometimes up to 36 times,� said Vandegrift. “This gives us a sort of ‘movie’ showing how parasites move through individual mice within populations, and from both mouse to tick and tick to mouse.�

The team also is examining the viromes of ticks during their various life stages, as well as comparing the viromes of ticks that have fed on mice with those that have not.

In addition, the research team is addressing whether human-caused disturbances such as urbanization, as well as natural fluctuations in mouse and tick abundances, affect mouse and tick viromes and pathogen transmission patterns. “Anthropogenic disturbance, particularly forest fragmentation and degradation, can affect abundances of mice and ticks,� said Vandegrift. “Similarly, longterm studies show that mouse abundance can be predicted many months in advance based on acorn production, and that human contact rates with the pathogens harbored by mice and ticks are generally more frequent during acorn-driven mouse outbreaks. “As a result, we seek to determine whether virome composition and transmission dynamics differ between habitat types and between years of high and low mouse abundance.�

Ultimately, the scientists will use “machine learning,� a type of artificial intelligence in which computers learn without being explicitly programmed, to pull together all of their data and make predictions about the future. “Despite the staggering diversity of viruses and their prominence in causing many of the most virulent human emerging infectious diseases, very little is known about viral communities,� said Vandegrift. “We hope that our research will shed light on these important communities and how they spread through animal hosts, including humans.�

Other investigators on the grant include Barbara Han and Richard Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Peter Hudson, Penn State; Laura Kramer, New York State Department of Health; Felicia Keesing, Bard University; and Amit Kapoor, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

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Volunteers sought for hospice program Special to the Gazette Home Nursing Agency is seeking individuals who have a desire to help others to serve as volunteers in the Family Hospice program.

Volunteers are an essential part of Family Hospice, which serves patients with life-limiting illnesses and their caregivers, the agency said in a press release.

Family Hospice volunteers support patients and their families through a significant and inevitable season of life.

Hospice volunteers make an impact in various ways: visiting with patients, providing relief for caregivers, assisting with office work, making weekly phone calls, supporting grieving family members and more. Volunteer involvement is tailored to the volunteer’s individual skills, desires and schedule.

“Hospice volunteers are an integral part of the hospice team,” said volunteer coordinator Catherine Zimmerman. “Their unique role of companioning someone during their end-of-life journey while allowing a family member to take a break is a small deed but a powerful gesture.

“Volunteers are silent angels, giving of their time, skills

and compassionate hearts. Their simple acts of kindness are always seen and felt by patients and families they serve.”

Volunteers should be good listeners who display flexibility, understanding and empathy. The time commitment for a volunteer can vary from several times per month to weekly.

Locations also vary, as volunteers may help in patients’ homes, provide clerical assistance at local Home Nursing Agency offices or do work from their own homes. There are differing volunteer needs to match the strength and availability of volunteers.

As part of the Home Nursing Agency team, Family Hospice volunteers receive mileage reimbursement, free flu shots and other benefits. Individualized training is provided for new volunteers.

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Centre Moves challenges countians to get fit Special to the Gazette STATE COLLEGE — The second annual Centre Moves Fit Families Challenge is scheduled for April.

The community coalition dedicated to encouraging healthy habits in Centre County is once again hosting this monthlong, countywide health initiative to get people moving, according to a press release from Mount Nittany Health.

To participate, families — parents, grandparents, children, colleagues or friends — should register at www. centremoves.org, exercise at least 15 times from Saturday, April 1, through Sunday, April 30, and log workouts to be entered to win a variety of prizes.

Grand prize items, donated by area businesses, include a one-year Centre County YMCA family membership, $1,200 in vouchers for one adult and one youth bike sponsored by the Bicycle Shop and the Bestwick Foundation, a nutrition consultation with One on One Fitness registered dietitian Paige Whitmire and a State College Spikes gift package.

There is no time or activity requirement for workouts, and exercise can be tracked online at www.centremoves. org. Tracking forms are also available at all Centre County YMCA branches or Mount Nittany Health Fit for Play, or can be printed from the website.

Paper forms can be turned in at any Centre County YMCA location or Mount Nittany Health Fit for Play, or scanned or photographed and emailed to info@centremoves.org.

Deadline for form submission is Friday, May 5.

Mount Nittany Health is a partner of the Centre Moves Fit Families Challenge. Chronic disease, including heart disease and diabetes, was identified as a key priority in the 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment, conducted by Mount Nittany Health in partnership with Centre Foundation, Centre County United Way and Centre County Partnership for Community Health.

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Exercise, from page 10 Schmitz has been one of a vanguard of researchers in the area of exercise oncology. Evidence is mounting to show that exercise is not only safe during cancer and after treatment therapies like chemotherapy and radiation, it actually is likely to reduce the persistent, adverse effects.

This work has occurred at the same time that there has been exponential growth in the number of cancer survivors living in the United States. Between the 1970s and 2005, the number of cancer survivors living in the United States grew from 2 million to 10 million and is predicted to be 20 million by 2025. This is largely due to improvements in screenings, diagnosis and treatments.

With the increase in survivors has come a need to address treatment side effects: fatigue, pain, nerve damage, memory and concentration issues, heart issues, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, anger, anxiety and depression are common during or after cancer treatment.

“Exercise is being looked at as a potential addition after primary therapy to help prevent secondary tumor formation, and potentially may reduce the likelihood of mortality or recurrence of hormonally related cancers like breast and colon,” she said.

Exercise may also be useful for helping people to maintain employment and func-

tion, and to get back to feeling more like themselves.

Working within the Cancer Institute, her team will work with patients, nurses and doctors and make changes as necessary to ensure that participation in one of her exercise studies does not interfere with chemotherapy.

“They’re there to get their chemotherapy and we need to make sure we don’t work somebody so hard that they can’t get their chemo,” Schmitz said. “We also want to make sure they can benefit from the exercise, so we have to find the right balance.”

Patients undergoing chemotherapy may be asked if they are interested in joining a study and participation is completely voluntary.

While publishing in medical journals for peers is certainly an objective for any researcher, Schmitz’s ultimate goal is to make a difference for cancer patients.

“If you have a heart attack, there is a very well-defined protocol for your cardiac rehabilitation,” she said. “Why is it we don’t have standardized rehabilitation after cancer?”

Schmitz has already developed a study for breast cancer patients and will work toward specific studies for other cancers as well. Her team has launched a small study to look at the feasibility of a larger study of colon cancer patients who lift weights twice a week.

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ER, from page 11 Liu hopes the study brings more attention to the behavioral and physical health needs of autistic adolescents, whom he said are both underserved and understudied — especially compared to younger children with ASD. He wants to see more data on adolescents with ASD to confirm his findings. He is planning a similar study of emergency-department use in adolescent Medicaid patients with autism. His goal is to plot an unbiased nationally representative picture of how this special population fares in terms of their emergency-department usage and, in related work, hospitalizations.

With an extensive background in data mining, Liu is also searching for modifiable factors that could be addressed to reduce emergency visits and resulting hospitalizations in adolescents with autism.

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For now, he said, “These patients need to be actively taken care of and monitored. There should be better communication between these adolescents and their caregivers and with their regular pediatricians and specialists. If we can do those kinds of things, we may help them have less frequent emergencies.”

Other researchers on this study were Amanda M. Pearl and Michael J. Murray, Department of Psychiatry; Lan Kong, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Public Health Sciences; and Douglas L. Leslie, Division of Health Services and Behavioral Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, all at Penn State College of Medicine.

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Centre Foundation offering more than 100 scholarships Special to the Gazette STATE COLLEGE — More than 100 scholarship funds held at Centre Foundation are accepting applications from students in Centre County, Clearfield and Tyrone school districts.

“Students should work with their high school guidance offices to gain access to the online application platform, Academic Works,” said Molly Kunkel, executive director of Centre Foundation, in a press release.

Students planning for any type of post-secondary education will find a variety of scholarships, including academic, athletic and arts-based.

“These scholarship funds are established for a variety of reasons,” said Kunkel. “Honoring a teacher’s legacy, memorializing a student who was lost too soon and encouraging athletic or musical ability are just a few examples of events that have catalyzed the formation of some of the scholarships housed at Centre Foundation.”

The American Association of University Women and

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the P.E.O. Sisterhood also hold scholarship funds for students who are pursuing their educations later in life.

In 2016, a total of $221,240 was distributed through scholarship funds to 95 students attending 39 post-secondary schools.

“Our application process is streamlined through an online system that facilitates a more user-friendly experience,” said Ashley Pipe, grants and scholarship coordinator. “Our office works with the school districts and scholarship fund holders to facilitate the annual scholarship process.”

Students should check with their school guidance counselors about application deadlines, the foundation said. While deadlines have passed in Bellefonte, other school districts have deadlines of various dates in April.

Centre Foundation can assist those interested in establishing a fund of any type.

For more information, visit www.centre-foundation. org/funds or call (814) 237-6229.

St. Joe’s students to study overseas BOALSBURG —Three students from St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy will study abroad next school year through the Rotary Exchange Program, according to school counselor Jean Kozak.

Senior Mary Elliot will study in Belgium and complete a gap year between graduation from St. Joseph’s and beginning college.

Junior Meghan Caswell will study in Finland. She’s completed four years of study in Spanish and three years of study in Arabic, and plans to continue her language studies.

Junior Greta Miller will study in Denmark and is seeking opportunities to fulfill her passion for community service and world cultures.

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Caswell expressed her excitement about immersing herself in a new language and culture.

“I would love to have a career in international affairs, so it’s important for me to gain a better understanding of how people live in other parts of the world. I’m also excited to take part in Finland’s incredible education system,” she said in a press release from St. Joseph’s.

As a transfer student, Caswell said she’s well-prepared for the experience.

“When I transferred to St. Joe’s, I had to make friends and build relationships in a new environment. Also, at St. Joe’s I’ve been encouraged to study new languages, and my teachers and classmates are very supportive of my desire to study abroad.”

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ST. JOSEPH’S has three students who will study abroad next year through the Rotary Exchange Program. Pictured, from left, are Mary Elliott, Greta Miller and Meghan Caswell.

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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA Institute of Science and Technology senior Mackenzie Stine operates an E32 Bobcat mini-excavator using skills she developed in the school’s heavy equipment operations program. Stine was digging a 5-foot-deep opening for the base of a pillar jib crane. The installation of the crane is part of a natural gas compressor training program in partnership with Caterpillar and Ariel Corp. The program is targeted for a fall opening at CPI.

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TO HELP celebrate National Read Across America Day, Aaron Johnson and other students at Soaring Heights School in State College visited Barnes & Noble on the Benner Pike to purchase books for their school. The funds for the purchases came from a Scholastic James Patterson Grant the school received last year. March 2 was the 18th annual celebration of Read Across America Day.

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Centre Gives, West Arete partner on new platform Special to the Gazette STATE COLLEGE — Centre Gives will debut a new look in May through work with West Arete, a local software development company that was hired by Centre Foundation to customize its giving day platform.

“Centre Gives is all about local people supporting Centre County — loving where they live and giving where they live,” Molly Kunkel, executive director of Centre Foundation, said in a press release. “West Arete is a local company that not only understands this, but is committed to being a community partner through the projects it takes on and the way the company is run, being B Corp certified.”

West Arete, located on South Allen Street, offers software that is rooted in robust technology architecture, which provides user confidence in the security and traffic that its platforms can handle, according to the release.

Last year, Centre Gives and other giving campaigns across the nation were impacted by a technical glitch involving a different vendor. Despite that, Centre Gives raised more than $1 million.

“Last year, the nationwide outage that affected many giving day events was something that galvanized our staff, who have been longtime supporters of Centre Gives and Centre Foundation,” said Scott Woods, CEO of West Arete.

“We were confident that we could build a strong product that would ensure giving days like Centre Gives would have the security donors deserve, the re-

sults the community depended on, and the gamification that makes these online events such a fun experience for all involved.”

The $25,000 in prizes is an integral part of Centre Gives. Prizes create friendly competition that results in immediate gratification, which can sometimes even exceed the idea of competing for a larger share of the $100,000 stretch pool that Centre Foundation also provides, according to the release.

“We knew that prizes and tracking the results were something that people really enjoyed,” said Kunkel. “West Arete has done a great job in creating a spotlight for the prizes — the results are more visual, the prizes are front and center, and the power hours have unique pages that allow competing organizations to hone in on their goal.”

The story of the total community impact is also more prominently featured, along with the results of each organization’s efforts.

“Based on what we knew people were interested in watching, we’ve designed the organization pages with the user experience in mind,” said Woods. “Users will now be able to simultaneously search and sort organizations, according to the inter-

est area they want to support or according to the results they want to follow.”

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By partnering with West Arete, Centre Foundation was able to find a local vendor to build a secure, custom product that will benefit Centre County for years to come, the foundation said in the release.

“We’re not only supporting a local company and local jobs, but we’re also investing in technology that is strengthening our community,” Kunkel said.

As Centre Gives launches Tuesday, May 9, so does a new product.

“West Arete is excited for the future of this giving day platform,” Woods said. “We know firsthand the power that giving days can have in a community and we know the importance of making sure a giving day platform is built strongly, securely and with an eye towards what will engage and inspire people.

“As part of West Arete’s mission of designing custom software that can improve communities, we are happy to announce that this software will be available for other community foundations across the country to purchase as an investment in their own community’s future.”

As soon as Centre Gives 2016 wrapped

up, Centre Foundation’s staff began exploring new vendor options before ultimately selecting West Arete to build the new platform for the online giving event.

“Centre Foundation’s board oversaw an exhaustive vetting of potential vendors and concluded that West Arete would be able to provide the product capacity, security and usability that an event like Centre Gives must have to succeed,” said Oscar “O.J.” Johnston, Centre Foundation board member.

“Centre Foundation’s staff worked side-by-side with West Arete to develop this customized product and our board oversaw the process. We are confident that this product investment will pay dividends across Centre County.”

Since the Centre Gives launched in 2012, more than $4 million has been invested into Centre County’s local nonprofit network. There have been more than 23,500 gifts made, which have benefited more than 130 local organizations.

Centre Gives 2017 will have another record number of local organizations participating — nearly 150 organizations serving all types of interest areas including arts, animals, education, environment and health and social services.

Centre Foundation will host Success Series trainings throughout March for these organizations to build communication and fundraising skills that will be helpful beyond this 36-hour online giving event.

For more information, contact Centre Foundation’s office at (814) 237-6229.

Penns Valley students dig into gardening, reading

By SAM STITZER pennsvalley@centrecountygazette.com

SPINRG MILLS — Jim Flanagan, of the Penns Valley Conservation Association, assisted by Dan Shimp, known as Farmer Dan, visited Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School on March 2 to assist sixth-grade students with a courtyard garden and read to first-graders.

Several sixth-graders volunteered to help with leveling ground to place a small shed in the courtyard, located on the school building’s south side. The shed walls and floor were pre-constructed by

high school students who are members of the Technical Student Association.

A time capsule had been buried in the courtyard by the 2001 sixth-grade class, but its exact location was unknown. Current students began digging furiously to locate it, concerned that the capsule might be under the shed floor. They had no luck, but a student called her uncle, a member of the 2001 class, and he was able to pinpoint the capsule’s location — not under the shed.

School librarian Kristin Albright said the garden project was funded by a grant from Lowe’s. The garden area contains

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JIM FLANAGAN, of the Penns Valley Conservation Association, reads “The Lorax” to Penns Valley Elementary first-graders on Read Across America Day.

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SIXTH-GRADERS from Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School dig in a courtyard, trying to locate a time capsule placed by the sixth-grade class of 2001.

several wood-framed raised beds, some of which are filled with cabbage, garlic, broccoli, eggplant and flowers.

Albright serves as resource coordinator for the garden project and helped write the grant.

According to Albright, the school now has a functioning hydroponic garden in the science room, thanks to a second grant. She also noted that the lumber for the raised beds and flower bulbs for the garden were supplied by Penns Valley area businesses.

While the sixth-graders were digging, Flanagan read the Dr. Seuss book “The Lorax” to first-graders in Robin Barton’s

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classroom as part of Read Across America Day. This annual event is held on Dr. Seuss’ (Theodore Geisel) birthday in honor of the late children’s author. A student book swap was also held.

Read Across America Day was started by the National Education Association in 1997 to encourage reading awareness initiatives across the country. Teachers, librarians and parents host and participate in different activities created to inspire a love of reading.

After his reading, Flanagan fielded questions from the students regarding environmental protection and conservation.

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Applications open PennTAP to hold for nonprofit to energy-efficiency get free rebrand workshop Special to the Gazette STATE COLLEGE — Local nonprofits looking to refresh their brand are encouraged to apply to “Brand[Aid],” a free philanthropic effort offered by a regional group of creative professionals.

Central Pennsylvania Creative Professionals — known as [CP]2 for short — will host its second Brand[Aid] this year when it guides a local nonprofit through a rebrand, the organization announced in a press release.

While the process takes several months of collaboration, Brand[Aid] centers around a massive work session in June, when dozens of professionals come together for a weekend of brainstorming and designing.

But, first, the group needs a client.

“Most nonprofits spend all their time helping others in our community. Brand[Aid] is our way of helping them,” said Mark D. Dello Stritto, president of [CP]2 and founder of Bellefonte-based Loaded Creative. “We’re looking for a local nonprofit whose dusty old marketing is holding them back, and with a nice refresh of its branding and marketing will thrive and better serve our community.”

Nonprofits have until Friday, April 14, to apply through [CP]2’s website. The top candidates will be interviewed and the chosen nonprofit will be announced Saturday, May 13, during the Bracket Awards, [CP]2’s annual ceremony celebrating the best of regionally produced advertising and design.

In 2015, [CP]2 worked with Housing Transitions to update its logo, website, messaging, marketing materials and fundraising strategy.

Local professionals involved in last year’s Brand[Aid] included employees from Blue Mountain Quality Resources, CL Associates, Groznik PR, Impressions, Loaded Creative, Penn State and Rowland Creative.

Central Pennsylvania Creative Professionals is a nonprofit membership organization that supports professionals across the entire marketing communications arena by providing opportunities for education, networking and recognition.

For more information, visit www.cpsquared.com.

Tire recycling underway BELLEFONTE — Tires can be recycled at the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority for a minimal fee.

Tires, on or off the rim, are accepted during regular transfer station operating hours, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. The station is located at 253 Transfer Road, Bellefonte.

Cost is $15 for tires weighing up to 440 pounds. If the total weight is greater than 440 pounds, the tires are charged at $67 per ton. For commercial accounts, the rate is $100 per ton.

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UNIVERSITY PARK — The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program will hold a workshop to educate businesses about how to save money by becoming more energy-efficient.

The all-day Facility Operations Workshop will take place from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.

The workshop is open to building operators, energy and facility managers, engineers and HVAC technicians who are interested in earning Building Operator Certification maintenance points and building re-tuning training.

Denise Bechdel, environment and energy team lead, said attendees will gain essential skills and expertise in energy efficient building maintenance.

“Participants will be able to network with peers to discuss relevant issues when trying to implement energy efficiency projects and update older buildings,” Bechdel said in a press release. “They will acquire insight on new technologies and best management practices pertaining to lighting, HVAC systems and building automation.”

Walt Dinda, energy program specialist for the Office of Pollution Prevention and Energy Assistance from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, will give the keynote address.

Attendees will also get a chance to hear from building operators who have implemented some of the practices that will be discussed at the workshop. Michael Wetzel, director of buildings and grounds for Brandywine Heights Area School District, will be talking about upgrades.

“In my presentation, I will be sharing some examples of upgrades with LED lighting, florescent lighting and energy management strategy changes completed within my school district,” Wetzel said.

He said he recommends the workshop and Building Operator Certification program to anyone in a facility management role.

“The BOC program teaches you to look at all aspects, no matter the size or scope of the project,” Wetzel said.

“There is great benefit, even to a seasoned facilities person.”

The cost is $25 per person.

To register, visit www.penntap.psu.edu.

Scholar-athlete awards dinner is March 12 STATE COLLEGE — The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Central Pennsylvania Chapter will hold its 20th annual Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 12, at The Penn Stater Hotel and Convention Center, 215 Innovation Blvd., State College The NFF will honor 54 high school and collegiate football players from across Central Pennsylvania for their outstanding performances on the field, in the classroom and in their communities. Several of the honorees will be awarded $1,000 scholarships to be used toward higher education. In addition, coach of the year and several lifetime achievement awards will be presented.

This year’s featured speaker is former Penn State defensive lineman Brandon Noble, who tallied 147 tackles and 14 sacks during his Nittany Lions career. He was the MVP of the 1997 Fiesta Bowl and played professionally for 10 years.

The event is open to the public. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by calling (814) 933-6201.

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ETHICISTS WILL discuss topics affecting the sports world during a conference hosted by the Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society.

Penn State to present sports ethics conference Penn State News UNIVERSITY PARK — Integrating ethics into sports organizations and practices will be the topic of the Sports Ethics Conference to be held at Penn State in April.

Hosted by the Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society, and co-sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute, the College of Health and Human Development and the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State, sessions will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 6, and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 7.

At the conference, sport practitioners and administrators will raise issues and ethical concerns they face in their day-to-day engagement in sport.

To help navigate the concerns, some of the world’s leading sport ethicists at Penn State and from other universities will provide a critical analysis of the issues in an ethically sound manner.

Topics that will be explored include: ■ Athlete role modeling ■ Pedagogical potential of sport participation ■ Environmental impact of sport events organization ■ Commercialization of sport Also during the conference, a student-essay contest winner will be announced. The center will grant the award to an essay of outstanding quality addressing any ethical issue arising in sport.

Sessions will be held in the Bennett Pierce Living Center, 110 Henderson Building, and in the courtroom of the Lewis Katz Building.

The event is free and open to the public.

Registration is recommended. Attendees do not need to attend the entire conference to register.

The event is approved for SARI@PSU participation credit.

The full schedule can be found at www.rockethics.psu. edu/events/sport-ethics-conference.

Additional sponsors of the event include Penn State’s Department of Kinesiology and the Paterno Family Liberal Arts Professorship in Literature from the College of the Liberal Arts.

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Businesses invited to SEDA-COG exporting workshop Special to the Gazette STATE COLLEGE — Companies can learn how to export their goods smoothly and successfully at a workshop being held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 21,

by SEDA-Council of Governments’ Export Development Program.

Adam Mook, of Logistics Plus Inc., will be the presenter.

The first part of the day will focus on a system that ensures efficient shipping and landed cost for customers — the harmonized commodity description and coding system. This system is an internationally standardized system of names and numbers for classifying traded products developed and maintained by the World Customs Organization.

Attendees of the workshop will learn how to navigate the system for their products. This ties into free trade agreements, duty rates and statistics.

From 12:30 to 4 p.m., participants will learn how to comply with U.S. export control requirements on exports of defense articles, technical data or military-related offshore procurement or service agreements.

This part is relevant for company owners, sales staff, export compliance officers, traffic managers, engineers, corporate attorneys, customer service staff and shipping personnel, according to the release.

Cost is $50 per session, or $75 for both, and includes course materials, refreshments and lunch. Registration is required by Tuesday, March 14, at www.seda-cog.org/ export.

Cosponsors for the event are the Penn State Small Business Development Center and the state Department of Community and Economic Development.

For more information, contact Noelle Long at (570) 524-4491.

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CATA WILL feature an electric bus for a limited time on its White Loop or Blue Loop starting March 13.

CATA hosting no-emissions bus

By JAMES TURCHICK StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — An electric bus will soon be buzzing around State College.

CATA will be hosting the Xcelsior Electric, a specially designed no-emissions vehicle. CATA public relations manager Jackie Sheader announced that the bus will be active as either a White or Blue Loop from Monday, March 13, to Friday, March 17. Each day, CATA will announce on Twitter and Facebook which route the bus will take.

The electric bus is a product of the Winnipeg-based

company New Flyer. According to New Flyer, up to 160 tons of greenhouse gases can be saved in a year with the Xcelsior compared to an average bus.

The Xcelsior Electric can be charged on the move and is linked to CATA’s headquarters, where monitors track the bus’ location, fuel efficiency and safety.

Passengers riding the electric bus will be asked for feedback and. in return, will be entered into a raffle for an undisclosed prize.

Most of CATA’s current buses are run on compressed natural gas, according to Sheader. The company switched to CNG — which produces future emissions than traditional diesel — in 2005 to reduce its carbon footprint.

Titley to speak on climate change March 22 STATE COLLEGE — “Climate Change: A Threat to National Security,” will be the topic of a talk given by David Titley at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, in Room 337 of the State College Borough Building, 243 S. Allen St. The event is free and open to the public.

Titley will explain the military’s concerns that climate change is multiplying the threats to American security.

Discussion will follow the lecture.

A professor of meteorology at Penn State University, Titley is founding director of the PSU Center for Solutions

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THE COUNTRY’S veterans are never forgotten, according to the Elks motto. To exemplify its commitment to veterans in the State College Elks service area, the Veterans Service Program cochairmen recently donated to the Veterans Assistance Fund of Centre County. Shown presenting the donation to Walter Mayes, center, of the Veterans Assistance Fund, are State College Elks representatives Vernon Crawford, left, and Jack McKinley.

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The Avid Gardener: Succulents are trendy this year LORA GAUSS

What’s new? What are some of the popular types of plants, outside décor trends, philosophies and practices that are all the rage? I’ve come across some interesting and perhaps surprising answers.

As 5 million of the 6 million new gardeners last year were 18- to 34-year-olds, according to the 2016 National Gardening Avid gardener Report, it’s no surLora Gauss lives in prise that millennial Philipsburg. Email demographic influher at community@ centrecountygazette. ences are being felt.

The types of com. plants that seem to be trending now are succulents. No doubt it is because of all the varieties available, their easy care and their great form and color. On a garden walk I took last summer in Buffalo, N.Y., succulents were very prominent. They were featured on wire or wooden trellises used to highlight exterior walls, as well as in many containers and as ground covers.

Since “everything old will be new again,” it comes as little surprise that as a result of popular interior designer Justina Blakeney’s The Jungalow Instagram blog, a 1970s-style interest with houseplants has also returned. Blakeney features them prominently in her Bohemian room designs (apparently fiddle-leaf fig is the “it” plant right now).

The idea is to bring nature into the indoors, whether at home or in the workplace, and display plants as part of the room aesthetics. One theory is that younger gardeners view nature as a positive counter to their technology-driven existence and want to be more enveloped by it.

DESIGN AND DÉCOR

There are also new trends in exterior garden design and décor. An article at Gardendesign.com mentions that designers are no longer seeing as much of a min-

imalist modern desire; instead, there is a renewed interest in more “real feeling” older-fashioned DIY projects, often using recycled materials. Things like railway ties, smaller furniture, free-form decks and porch swings are all making comebacks.

In addition, using one garden style of ornamentation, whether modern or traditional, and sticking with it, is becoming passé. It is not so much what styles are chosen, but how they are thoughtfully combined. This is a relief to those of us who fretted about putting a Victorian flower urn near a mid-century modern fence mirror. Things like handmade artisan wares are being combined with sleek modern design, something that was once avoided but is becoming more and more in style.

HYPER-LOCALISM

Another shift is back to hyper-localism, or regionalism, using building materials and plants which are locally found. This includes a desire for plants that are native to an area’s ecosystem.

For example, I recently viewed a film narrated by Doug Tallamy, an advocate for using native plants in local habitats.

It was interesting to see how a condo development in the Midwest had recreated prairie-type lands along their walking paths to encourage native wildlife and pollinators.

Not surprisingly, then, there is also a move away from large expanses of lawn because of the droughts, environmental impact of fertilizers and pesticides and mowing. The trend now is in favor of smaller lawn-like alternatives like ground covers, ornamental grasses, beds of flowers and shrubs, or even artificial turf in places like California and the Pacific Northwest. There are also more advanced and efficient irrigation systems that can be programmed and monitored from your phone.

Other ongoing trends have been edible and cutting gardens, chicken coops, beehives and hydroponics. Young people today have a desire for locally grown organic plants, making the best use of space and preserving the environment.

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A newly popular idea is to include a dye garden, where home-grown plants are used to make dyes for coloring textiles, yarn and clothing. Plants used include types of vegetables, fruits and trees. Flowers like coreopsis, cosmos, marigold and blue cornflower are examples of dye garden selections.

A book, “Natural Color: Vibrant Plant Dye Projects” by Sasha Duerr, includes seasonal projects for using colors that come from plant dyes and attests to their popularity.

A final upcoming trend involves experiencing the great outdoors in a more “contemplative” way. This fitness trend is called “forest bathing.” A May 2016 Washington Post article described it as “taking in the forest atmosphere,” a translation of the Japanese practice called Shinrin-yoku, which was named by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 1982.

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Spending time in natural environments has been linked to “lower stress levels, improved working memory, and feeling more alive,” among other positive attributes.

No matter which trends, indoors or out, you adopt this year, enjoy. Mother Nature never ceases to reward and amaze.

GARDENING SCHOOL

Interested in adding to your gardening knowledge? The Penn State Master Gardeners of Centre County will be hosting their third annual all-day Home Gardening School on Saturday, March 18. The event is open to the public. It will include workshops on the themes of best practices and garden design, door prizes, and lunch. Registration deadline is Friday, March 10. Visit www.extension.psu.edu/ home-gardening or call (814) 355-4897 for a complete schedule and to register.

‘March Madness’ to be discussion topic at Schlow STATE COLLEGE — Journalist Brian Toolan and Penn State’s John Affleck will discuss the politics, press and promotion involved in “March Madness,” the annual NCAA college basketball tourney, and college sports, at noon Tuesday, March 21, at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St. Toolan’s book, “Snubbed: A Basketball Season of Triumph, Crisis and Despair,” is the story of the 2015-16 St. Bonaventure University winning basketball team.

Despite their outstanding performance, the team’s aspirations to the center stage were ultimately dashed, as described in this close look at a beloved and successful small college sports program.

Toolan served as the national editor for the Associated Press, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor-in-chief of the Hartford Courant and business editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Affleck is Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society and Director of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, Penn State University, after serving as a national manager in sports and news at the Associated Press.

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Plans move forward for new building in East Halls

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State will build a second new residence hall and renovate two other buildings in the next phase of its long-term plan to improve the East Halls area at University Park.

The Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning on Feb. 23 recommended approval of plans and funds for Phase 1b of the project. The plan was presented to the full board Feb. 24.

A new 119,100-square-foot, seven-story building will be constructed along Curtin Road, in the area where a sand volleyball court is currently located. The building will have 413 beds, in mostly standard double rooms, and shared private bathrooms.

It also will include an apartment for a residence life professional, common areas, a kitchen, quiet room, music practice room, laundry room and open lounges at the center of each upper floor.

McKean and Pennypacker halls will undergo significant renovations as well.

Ford Stryker, associate vice president for physical plant, said “aging and inefficient systems” will be replaced, along with other interior and exterior improvements.

Both buildings will maintain their bed counts of 273 each.

All three buildings will be connected to the campus chilled water system for air conditioning. Updated recreational spaces and landscaping and improved parking and pedestrian areas are included in the site plans.

The total cost for this phase of the project is $106 million, funded by self-sup-

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A NEW seven-story, 119,100-square-foot residence hall will be constructed at East Halls at University Park. ported borrowing and housing and food services reserves. The university implemented a capital assessment to room and board fees last year to expedite housing projects at University Park and other campuses.

The university began Phase 1a of the East Halls project last year. The construction on the new Earle Hall near Park Avenue is well under way and is expected

the University Park campus at a cost of $11.1 million. Replacement will be based on results of a 2012 condition assessment and will focus on maximizing longevity and accommodating future maintenance.

Stryker said the campus has about 10 million square feet of roofing in total.

■ Approved $1.1 million for upgrades to the chilled water piping system in Old Main to correct cooling issues.

to be completed in time for the fall 2017 semester. When finished, Earle Hall will house 336 beds. Upgrades to Stuart Hall are also included in that phase of the project, which totals $65.1 million.

East Halls is home to about 3,900 mostly first-year students.

In other business the committee: ■ Approved the replacement of more than 200,000 square feet of roofing across

Ferguson police department closer to accreditation

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BELLEFONTE — For the last several years, the Ferguson Township Police Department has been working to make sure all its policies and practices were “up to snuff.”

Now, according to department Chief Diane Conrad, the hard work is paying off, and soon, the department may achieve PA Police Accreditation, making it the final policing source in Centre County to be awarded the designation.

Gene Lauri, Centre County’s criminal justice administrator, visited a meeting of the county Board of Commissioners recently with Conrad to seek the commissioners’ approval to submit a grant application for $13,500 to fund the process.

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The commissioners unanimously approved the grant application.

“It’s been a lot of work getting to this point … a lot of documentation,” Conrad said. “We’re about a third of the way through the process and this grant would be a huge help.”

According to Conrad, being accredited means the police force is staying on par with policies and practices set forth locally and through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. She said the designation allows the public to feel a sense of safety and security in the

department’s daily duties.

In addition, she said being accredited establishes a credible framework for evaluating agency practices and procedures; reduces agency risk and exposure to lawsuits; decreases some liability insurance expenditures; improves law enforcement and community relations; increases employee input, interaction and confidence in the agency; enlarges the outlook and viewpoints of managers, officers and employees; and identifies and highlights the capabilities and competence of the agency.

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Family Matters

Create a healthy village for children with five steps JESSICA DIRSMITH

“It takes a village to raise a child” remains just as true today as it did many decades ago. And, it is important that the village is equipped with the tools needed to teach and model values and behaviors the villagers (home, school, community) deem to be important life skills and attributes. A healthy village can be created by following these five steps: ■ Share a common language Sharing a common language is not requiring all villagers to speak English, but rather having similar words or phrases when speaking with kids so they understand the rules or expectations in all settings.

Jessica Dirsmith is For example, some schools ima certified school plement three rules — we are safe, psychologist. She we are respectful and we are kind. practices in the These schools teach all students State College Area what these behaviors look like in all School District and settings of the school day. The chilalso teaches at Penn dren know what these three rules or State. expectations mean, and all adults in the school building are speaking the same language.

■ Implement and reinforce Once all adults are on the same language page, schools should continuously teach and reinforce expected behaviors in all settings. For example, students can earn tickets for exhibiting the expected behaviors, then trade them in

for things such as eating lunch with the school principal, earning an extra five minutes of recess or being able to choose an additional book for the week at library.

Are these bribes? No. Bribery refers to illegal transactions. Are these incentives? Absolutely. Do adults work toward incentives? Well, let’s put it this way: Would you continue to work without earning a paycheck?

■ Keep the common language going at home Remember, it takes a village. If possible, use the same language at home with your child. At home, we are expected to be safe, be respectful and be kind, and this is what it looks like here.

Some parents wish to continue to implement the ticket system or a behavior chart at home in which their children can “cash in” to earn incentives for exhibiting behavioral expectations. For example, in our home, one way that we are safe is keeping our surroundings clean.

We know that clutter can lead to accidents. As a result, we keep our bedrooms safe by cleaning up after ourselves.

Completion of this daily chore earns a specified amount of payment per day.

See Dr. Laura Riffel’s website, www.behaviordoctor. org, for free or inexpensive incentive ideas to use at home or school.

Remember to keep your shared language simple; the shorter the better, especially for our younger children.

■ Communicate Convey this common language to other important adults in your child’s life, including babysitters, grandparents, relatives and neighbors.

Communication also can occur through modeling.

This happens when others observe you speak and interact with your child and student.

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From the time students enter high school, they are directed toward choosing careers and locating the kind of post-secondary schools they’ll need to move those career choices forward.

Although teachers present some ideas about careers in the middle grades, high school educators have the responsibility to help students narrow the myriad choices into a more direct path.

“The parents must be involved in goal-setting and recognizing how they envision the opportunities that exist for the student,” said Jean Kozak, guidance counselor at St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy. “The kids can’t do it all alone.”

College admission time is a family matter.

When students begin ninth grade at St. Joe’s, the students and their parents meet with Kozak and have a

discussion about the importance of the work ahead. The students take a personality test and explore their career interests at the beginning of ninth grade.

Each year’s career-planning builds on the previous year’s work.

JOB SHADOWING

Tenth-grade students at St. Joseph’s do research for job shadowing by thinking about what jobs they would like to see in person.

With Kozak’s help, students study jobs they are interested in. They consider a number of questions. What does the job entail? What are the hours and the pay? What is the current market like for this job? What is the projected job market like?

“I want them to meet a stranger, introduce themselves and then, after shadowing, follow up with a written thankyou letter,” Kozak said.

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Researchers: Ideal apps balance parental, teen control

By MATT SWAYNE Penn State News

UNIVERSITY PARK — Mobile apps designed to keep teens safe online are overwhelmingly focused on parental control, which may be only a short-term solution that hinders a teen’s ability to learn coping strategies in the long run, according to a team of researchers.

In a study of 74 Android mobile apps designed to promote adolescent online safety, the researchers said that 89 percent of security features on the apps are focused on parental control, while about 11 percent supported teen self-regulation.

“The apps are focused on what the phone is capable of doing and how parents can restrict and monitor those capabilities,” said Pamela Wisniewski, formerly a post-doctoral scholar in information sciences and technology, Penn State, and

currently an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Central Florida.

“I equate this to a governor on a vehicle that will only let you drive at a certain speed limit. In a way, the apps just trying to monitor or restrict — or act like a governor on — what the mobile phone is designed to do.”

The security features aim at online activities that teens are most likely to engage in, for example, using a browser or app, texting or accessing social media.

While these features may initially help curb unwanted activity, they do not improve communication between parents and their children, or help teens develop the necessary skills to navigate the online world in the long run, according to the researchers, who presented their findings at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing on Feb. 27.

“These features weren’t helping parents actually mediate what their teens are doing online,” said Wisniewski. “They weren’t enhancing communication, or helping a teen become more self-aware of his or her behavior.”

Without this type of instruction, teens may find it difficult to develop strategies to cope with future online encounters, she added.

The researchers suggest that app designers incorporate features that balance both parental control with teen self-regulation.

“These parental control features may not even be congruent with most parenting styles,” said Wisniewski. “Parents probably don’t feel comfortable policing every text message their teen sends, or want to set tight restrictions on what their teen can or cannot do on the phone.

“I believe that parents want ways to

be engaged in what their teen is doing and give them the autonomy to learn from what they’re doing.”

The researchers conducted online searches of Android apps on Google Play app store. They used keyword terms such as “teen safety,” “online safety,” “cyberbullying” and “sexting.” They then examined apps that were found in the “similar apps” section. They continued this process until no new relevant apps were identified.

More than half — 59 percent — were free for download, 24 percent had a limited free trial period and 16 percent had both a free and paid version.

The researchers said they expect similar results from Apple iOS products.

Wisniewski found similar parental control-dominated apps during an initial review of Apple products.

The National Science Foundation supported this work.

Kids want help with online risk, but fear parental ‘freak-outs’ Penn State News

UNIVERSITY PARK — Although it may come as no surprise to the Fresh Prince, kids think that parents just don’t understand what it is like to be a teen in an Internet-connected world and this lack of understanding may hinder the development of skills necessary to safely navigate online, according to a team of researchers.

In a study, teens rarely talked to their parents about potentially risky online experiences, according to Pamela Wisniewski, formerly a post-doctoral scholar in information sciences and technology, Penn State, and currently an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Central Florida.

She added that parents and children often have much different perceptions of College, from page 20 By the time the junior year of high school arrives, most schools offer some sort of pre-college seminar. At St. Joe’s, the guidance counselor spends one day a week with the students, and other teachers fill the other days of the week with preparation for the ACT and SAT tests.

This is done in a nine-week session.

FINANCIAL CHALLENGES

During the first two months of their senior year, the students at St. Joe’s and their parents have a meeting with Kozak to talk about financial applications and the jargon they need to understand to fill out the forms. Students also practice writing essays and letters of recommendation. There are also conversations about whether their career choices will provide enough money to live on, and about budgeting and similar practices.

In years past, some parents have declared that their children should work their way through college like they did.

But, that often isn’t possible with today’s prices for a four-year college degree.

That’s what makes it a family matter.

“You are purchasing an education,”

and reactions to the same online situations. Some of these situations may include cyberbullying, sexual exchanges and viewing inappropriate content online.

“There seems to be a disconnect between what types of situations teens experience every day and what types of experiences parents have online,” said Wisniewski. “Teens tended to be more nonchalant and say that the incident made them embarrassed, while parents, even though they were reporting more low-risk events, emoted much stronger feelings, becoming angry and scared. For teens, some felt these types of experiences were just par for the course.”

The researchers suggest that this disconnect may lead teens to refrain from talking about situations that may upset their parents.

“When you asked why teens didn’t talk to their parents, a lot of times they mention risky situations, which they didn’t think were a big deal, but they add that if they told their parents, they would just freak out and make things worse,” Wisniewski said.

She added that while overreacting may curb communication, parents should avoid acting dismissive when a teen does come to them with an issue.

“When teens actually talked to their parents about what had happened, they often wanted help understanding or navigating the situation, but parents tended to misinterpret their intent, not realizing that their teens were trying to open lines of communication,” said Wisniewski.

“It seemed like a missed opportunity.

One of the takeaways for parents, then, is that if their teen goes to them with some-

thing that they are experiencing online, parents might realize that there are likely other events that their teen doesn’t come to them about. If it’s important enough for the teen to bring up to the parent, it may be important enough to use as a teachable, yet nonjudgmental, moment.”

The researchers, who recently presented their findings at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing in Portland, Ore., suggest that parental reactions — both overreactions or underreactions — may not just thwart teens from seeking their parents’ help with a current problem, but also diminish the teens’ ability to successfully navigate future online encounters that may be even more risky.

The National Science Foundation supported this work.

said Susan Marshall, head of counseling at State College Area High School. “It’s a huge financial burden and many students by senior year in college are $100,000 in debt.”

Students and their families should look at colleges with the same care they use when buying a new car. Students can get a sense of fit, or a feel for the place, by going on campus, looking at the dorms and talking with students who attend there.

Once a student is enrolled in college, budgets may be strained for the rest of the family. This is a possibility that needs to be discussed with everyone, just like you would discuss planning a big vacation.

“Although the PSAT can be taken as early as 10th grade, the one taken in the 11th grade is the one looked at by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation,” said Marshall.

With certain scores, a student can be recognized as a National Merit Scholar and advance to a semifinalist level for his or her senior year. Semifinalists are designated on a state-representative basis so that opportunities are equal no matter where you live.

In the senior year, the SAT test scores must live up to the previous year’s PSAT to continue to be considered. In addi-

tion, the principal of a semifinalist’s high school must write a recommendation. The students themselves write essays and they must request that the SAT Board send the scores to the NMSC. Visit www.nationalmerit.org for more information.

The best-prepared and smartest kids still need guidance and support as they set goals for the next four or more years.

For parents, helping children navigate through the maze of researching, visit colleges and understand the processes involved are among the most important duties they can perform.

PLAN AHEAD

Marshall said career planning starts in ninth grade at State High, and in 11th grade, students take a junior college unit.

They have access to college planning guides. Parents and students can look at websites for scholarship ideas, too.

In their senior year, students can look early in the year at the many local scholarships that are available and make applications to those they are eligible to pursue.

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MARCH 9-15, 2017 Healthy village, from page 20

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SPIKESFEST 2017 drew a crowd March 5 to the Penn State Indoor Multi-Sport Facility for a range of family fun and activities geared toward kids. Activities included inflatable games, batting cages and displays from the Center for Arts and Crafts at Penn State, Discovery Space of Central PA, the Mid-State Literacy Council, Centre Bulldogs Youth Football and Cheerleading, the Juniata Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Centre Soccer Association, Soccer Shots, State College Lion Youth Football, the March of Dimes, Mind, Body, Art School of Dance, CenClear Child Services and others. More coverage on page 30.

■ Enjoy your child and solve problems Hopefully, a clear, consistent home and school environment has freed up your time. But, if behavioral concerns persist, review your expectations at home or school.

Have you spent enough time teaching these behavioral expectations? If not, plan to re-teach. Have you been consistently reinforcing these behavioral expectations? (I have suggested four positives to one negative in previous articles.)

Problem-admiring statements, such as “my child won’t follow rules” or “he is a bad kid,” are really not helpful and can lead to a negative global view of a child. Problem solving involves ensuring that a child’s foundational skill needs are met.

If not, then we need to adjust. If the needs are being met, we need to plan on what the next steps should be.

Sometimes, simple steps such as additional practice of the behavioral skill/expectation in the home or school will do the trick.

For example, “Charlie Brown” leaves paper towels on the floor after washing his hands at school. The teacher could individually review the rules with Charlie, indicating that paper towels are to be tossed in the trash bin. She may also choose to reinforce with Charlie the need to toss his trash in the bin and follow the school expectation — “being safe” by keeping the floor clean of debris.

If needed, parents and teachers can seek out the expertise of other “village members,” such as school psychologists or behavioral specialists who are trained in behavioral management. These professionals can provide support to parents and schools.

Together, your child’s own village will be communicating behavioral expectations more clearly and will be more in sync.

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COLE URBAS, of State High, right, scored a takedown of Jake Paulson, of Erie McDowell, in the final minute to secure the 182-pound title, 6-3, at the AAA Northwest Regional Wrestling Championships on March 4 at Altoona High School.

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BELLEFONTE’S BROCK PORT, right, edged Bald Eagle Area’s Gage McClenahan 1-0 in the 145-pound championship bout of the AAA Northwest Regional Wrestling Championships on March 4 at Altoona High School.

5 from county earn AAA regional titles

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

ALTOONA — One point. That’s all there was.

Bellefonte’s undefeated and defending 145-pound champion Brock Port scored a single point on a second-period escape against Bald Eagle Area’s Gage McClenahan and he made it stand up for a 1-0 win over his season-long rival.

The two squared off in the championship bout of the AAA Northwest Regional Wrestling Championships on March 4 at Altoona High School, and for the second week in a row, Port came away a champion in heart-pounding fashion.

In the District 6 Championships on Feb. 25, Port needed overtime to best McClenahan, but in this one, Port scored on an escape one minute into the second period and held on through charge after charge by McClenahan to take the win in regulation.

Both wrestlers will now move on to the PIAA state tournament that will be held on Thursday, March 9, through Saturday, March 11, at the Giant Center in Hershey.

“It was just a very defensive match,” Port said. “You have to do what you have to do. It’s tough. You just have to try to find a way to win.”

McClenahan, though disappointed, sensed what kind of match this would be

and already began looking ahead to the state tournament.

“We were both wresting our style,” he said, “and we were waiting for someone to make a mistake and it just didn’t happen.

“I was trying everything I could, but it didn’t happen for me. I’ll keep working and I’ll find it here soon. Just next week.

That’s all that matters now, next week.”

As impressive as Port and McClenahan were, they were not the only Centre County entrants to find success. In all, five county wrestlers won Northwest titles — Port, Cole Urbas (State College) at 182, Pete Haffner (State College) at 220, Garrett Rigg (BEA) at 126 and Seth Koleno (BEA) at 138.

Rigg, after flying through his bracket with two falls and a 7-1 decision, matched up again with Noah Myers from Mifflin County. Myers defeated Rigg, 7-4, in the D-6 championship, but this time it was Rigg’s turn.

‘DREAM COME TRUE’

The regional match went into overtime tied, 4-4, but Rigg scored a takedown less than 45 seconds into OT to take the championship with a 6-4 win.

“I just stayed calm and relaxed and didn’t get tense about being in overtime,” Rigg said. “I’ve practiced thousands and thousands of takedowns, and this was just another thing.

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BEA’S SETH KOLENO, right, defeated Hollidaysburg’s Nathan Swartz 10-3 in the 138-pound final March 4.

“This is a dream come true. I came in fourth last year and came up short of what I wanted to complete. So to come in and get first this year is awesome. I got beat by him (Myers) last week in districts in the

finals and in my freshman year he beat me out for third at the districts, so this is awesome to go into overtime with him.

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14 local wrestlers set for PIAA tournament HERSHEY — The 2017 PIAA State Wrestling Tournament will be held Thursday, March 9, through Saturday, March 11, at the Giant Center in Hershey.

Five Centre County high schools will be well represented, with a total of 14 wrestlers entered in the events. In the AA brackets, St. Joseph’s Academy and Penns Valley will combine to send six wrestlers, and in AAA, State College, Bald Eagle Area and Bellefonte will have eight contestants.

Bellefonte’s undefeated 145-pound Brock Port (36-0) will get a bye in the first round in AAA and await the winner of the match between Ryan Stocku, of Penncrest (39-7), and Luke Carty, of Bethlehem Catholic (22-8).

Also in the 145 bracket, BEA’s Gage McClenahan (30-5), who lost to Port in the District 6 and Northwest Regional finals, will wrestle in the first round against Tucker Brough, of Big Spring (39-5).

The area’s other undefeated wrestler, Cole Urbas (28-0) will take on Ryan Deloach, of Freedom (28-7), at 182.

According to the PIAA website, these are the matches involving county wrestlers:

AA BRACKETS

■ 106 — Ethan Kauffman, St. Joseph’s (31-14), vs. Ethan Paul, Upper Dauphin (29-18) Baylor Shunk, Penns Valley (37-7), vs.

Noah Hunt, Warrior Run (27-14) ■ 120 — Jacob Powers, St. Joseph’s (23-5), vs. the winner of John Wheeler, Northwestern (33-5), vs. Colin Leonard, Northern Lebanon (36-18) ■ 120 — Darren Yearick, Penns Valley (35-7), vs. Kenny Kiser, Saegertown (39-8) ■ 132 — Caleb Dowling, St. Joseph’s (35-6), vs. R.J. Driscoll, Lake-Lehman (2813) ■ 145 — Jared Hurd, Penns Valley (317), vs. Josh Hancock, Cranberry (34-6)

AAA BRACKETS

■ 106 — Cole Stewart, Bellefonte (308), vs. Josiah Gehr, Cocalico (25-4) ■ 126 — Garrett Rigg, Bald Eagle Area (31-6), vs. the winner of Matt Oblock, Canon-McMillan (36-16), vs. Brett Kaliner, W.C. Rustin (37-6) ■ 138 — Seth Koleno, Bald Eagle Area (31-3), vs. the winner of Luca Frinzi, Bethlehem Catholic (25-16), vs. Cary Palmer, Council Rock South (31-7) ■ 145 — Brock Port, Bellefonte (36-0), vs. the winner of Ryan Stocku, Penncrest (39-7), vs. Luke Carty, Bethlehem Catholic (22-8) ■ 145 — Gage McClenahan, Bald Eagle Area (30-5), vs. Tucker Brough, Big Spring (39-5) ■ 160 — Ian Barr, State College (22-9), vs. Dylan Gurreri, Red Lion (28-7) ■ 182 — Cole Urbas, State College (280), vs. Ryan Deloach, Freedom (28-7)

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STATE HIGH’S Pete Haffner, left, defeated Jeff Craig, of Meadville, 7-4, at 220 pounds March 4 to earn his first regional title.

■ 220 — Pete Haffner, State College (25-3), vs. the winner of Michael Leyland, Roman Catholic (35-6), vs. Michael Mo-

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Little Lions prepare for ascending Woodland Hills

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — The State College boys’ basketball team has done this before.

In 2016, after beating Altoona in the District 6 championship game, the Little Lions entered the first round of the PIAA state tournament and took on familiar Mid-Penn opponent Carlisle at Bald Eagle Area High School.

Unfortunately, that did not turn out to be a very good day. Carlisle won the rubber match between the two teams, 64-54, and ended State College’s season.

Now, coming off another big D6 championship victory over Altoona, the Little Lions will again be back at BEA, this time for the first round of the 2017 PIAA tournament at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 11.

Instead of meeting up with an old rival, however, the Little Lions will take on up-and-coming Woodland Hills (16-9), the No. 4 team out of Pittsburgh’s District 7.

The Wolverines are quite a story. Just four years ago, when their current seniors were freshmen, they went 0-21 for the season, and it has been a slow climb back to respectability since then.

That journey, if the latter part of this season and the WPIAL playoffs are any indication, is quickly coming to a close. Woodland Hills won its last five games of the regular season and finally returned to the playoffs as the No. 11 seed in the WPIAL tournament.

The Wolverines proved they belonged when they immediately took out No. 6 Mount Lebanon in the first round. It was Woodland Hills’ first playoff win since 1995.

Fox Chapel was next in the quarterfinals, and the Wolverines advanced into the semifinals for only the second time in school history with a 52-47 win over the Foxes.

Their run came to an end against eventual runner-up

Bellefonte girls face another big test in Trinity

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

BELLEFONTE — The Bellefonte girls’ basketball team waded into deep water when it matched up against Obama Academy in the 5-A District 6-8 regional championship game at Mount Aloysius on Feb. 25.

The academy, with a big-time recruit and three 6-foot starters, nevertheless had all it could handle from the Lady Raiders before finally escaping with a 12-point win.

Bellefonte led at halftime in that game, and size disadvantage or not, was a short run away from pulling off a big upset before wearing down in the final minutes.

The loss dropped the Raiders down to the No. 2 seed, and they will now enter the PIAA state tournament Saturday, March 11, against a team that has even more impressive credentials than Obama Academy.

That team is Trinity, the No. 3 finisher from District 7.

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Butler, 54-38, on March 1, but they nonetheless qualified for their first state tournament berth in more than 20 years.

Two of those aforementioned seniors have emerged as the leaders for Woodland Hills. Deonte Robertson and Amante Britt both average more than 15 points per game, and both were instrumental in the late stages in the wins over Mount Lebanon and Fox Chapel. Against Mount Lebanon, Robertson sank two free throws with 10 seconds left to ice that game for the Wolverines.

Robertson and Britt are not the only scorers, though, as Woodland Hills plays all-out and routinely scores more than 70 points in a game. In fact, it scored more than 80 points five times this season and once topped 90 (a 94-79 win over Penn-Trafford).

How all that running and scoring will fly against the potent Little Lions (20-4) will be one of Saturday’s big questions.

Altoona tried it, and the Mountain Lions found themselves down by more than 30 by the time the fourth quarter began in the D6 championship.

MATCHUP HEADACHES

All season, State College has relied on the scoring of senior Tommy Sekunda and junior Drew Friberg. Both are over 6-foot-5, both can score from inside or out, and both are matchup headaches for opponents.

But like all good teams, SC has been developing other scorers, and if a team (like Altoona) crowds Sekunda and Friberg, the Little Lions have many other options. Keaton Ellis, Ryan McNulty, Brandon Clark and Tommy Friberg combine for more than 27 points per game, and all of them are especially good in transition.

The difference against Woodland Hills may come on the defensive end of the floor, however. The Little Lions turned the heat up on Altoona and forced the Mountain

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — The State College Lady Little Lions began the 2016-17 basketball season with a long list of new things on their “to deal with” list.

There was a new coaching staff, new systems, new offenses, defenses and, most of all, four new starters and a whole cast of new players.

The team progressed slowly and not without its share of setbacks, yet here the Little Lions are preparing for the first round of the 2017 6-A PIAA state basketball tournament.

The team finished with a 9-13 regular season record that included some impressive wins, but also a mid-January seven-game losing streak. Then, as the playoffs began, SC turned to ice and was beaten by Altoona in the District 6 championship game, forcing the Lions into the consolation game against Erie McDowell for the remaining spot in the state tournament.

To its credit, and behind 14 points by Maya Bokunewicz, State College hung on for a gritty 32-22 win over McDowell and grabbed a place in the annual Pennsylvania get-together.

First up for SC will be the No. 3 team out of District 7, Mount Lebanon (18-6), at 6 p.m. Friday, March 10, at Bald Eagle Area High School.

Mount Lebanon, the Section 3 champion in 2017, made it to the District 7 semifinals after a tense 47-44 victory over favored Norwin. The Blue Devils then lost, 6144, to eventual champion North Allegheny and dropped to the No. 3 seed.

Mount Lebanon is led by forward Kenzie Bushee, a Stony Brook recruit, who is averaging more than 16 points per game. Bushee is joined by all-section guard Kate Sramac (12 ppg), Alyssa Highland, Jess Wilhelm and Jamey Napoleon.

The Devils came out on top in a section that includes Baldwin, Bethel Park, Canon-McMillan and Peters Township, and they also had wins over Villa Maria (Erie), Altoona and Upper St. Clair.

Altoona, of course, was a common opponent with State College, but Mount Lebanon also played, and lost to, defending state champion and Mid-Penn foe Cumberland Valley.

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STATE HIGH’S Maya Bokunewicz (11) scored 14 of the Lady Little Lions’ 32 points in a recent win over McDowell to propel the team into the state playoffs.

State College center Taylor Love has been the leader of the Lions (she had 17 rebounds against McDowell), but some cold shooting and streaks of turnovers and mistakes have held the Lions back. If Bokunewicz, Kayla Hawbaker, Jessica Lingenfelter and the other SC ball-handlers get good looks, the Lions can be competitive with anyone.

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Lions’ 2017 edition bursting with experience

By MIKE POORMAN StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Suddenly, and finally, Penn State is bursting at the seams with seniors.

With its 2017 spring practice around the corner, Penn State has a football roster heavily populated with seniors: super seniors, regular seniors and seniors with junior eligibility. Thirty-six, in all, if you count non-scholarship players.

Of that group, 20 have starting experience (21 if you count kicker Tyler Davis, with his 30 career field goals and 163 points). And, 20 are in their final season — 13 of those, plus Davis, have started for the Nittany Lions.

Penn State’s roster is not only chockfull of seniors. It is also packed with players who have starting experience. It’s been awhile since the Nittany Lions were so top-heavy, or game-ready. A long while.

Overall, in 2017 the Nittany Lions have 32 players back with starting experience.

That breaks down to 359 career starts returning on the spring roster, including 88 starts spread among six returning offensive linemen — Brendon Mahon (29), Andrew Nelson (27), Ryan Bates (14), Connor McGovern (10), Chasz Wright (5) and Steven Gonzalez (3).

That’s a far cry from the nadir of the NCAA sanctions, in 2012, when a mass exodus of players — including the leading rusher, receiver and kicker — left Penn State and first-year head coach Bill O’Brien with a team so young and inexperienced that it had a combined total of 132 starts to its collective name heading into the 2012 season-opener against Ohio.

How tough was it for that 2012 squad?

It entered the season without its top 15

tacklers from the 2011 season (returning D-tackle Jordan Hill was No. 16), and four O-linemen who started every game the previous year. Penn State entered the 2012 season with just 15 starts along the offensive line, all in the person of Matt Stankiewitch.

Now, as James Franklin enters his fourth season as Penn State’s head coach, he has five players who collectively have more starts under their belts than that entire 2012 squad combined — Mahon, Nelson, DaeSean Hamilton (38), Marcus Allen (33) and Jason Cabinda (23). Together, that’s 150.

Remarkably, Hamilton — who has started all but two games of his Penn State career (Army, 2015; Purdue, 2016) — has a great shot at 50 career starts.

FORGING A TEAM

Franklin, more than anyone, is well aware of what depth and experience like that mean for his Nittany Lions. And, he said as much on National Signing Day two weeks ago, in an interview with CBS, when he noted his 2017 squad must replace just one starter on offense (center Brian Gaia) and three on defense (ends Garrett Sickels and Evan Schwan, plus linebacker Brandon Bell).

“Iron sharpens iron,” Franklin said.

“Our practices are going to be unbelievably competitive with great depth across the board.”

That wasn’t the case when Franklin arrived in January 2014, after the Nittany Lions were still caught in the turbulent seas of weathering the heaviest of the NCAA sanctions.

“When I first got here, there were only 65 scholarships, and the year after that there were 75,” Franklin said. “That was

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PENN STATE wide receiver DaeSean Hamilton has a chance to start a remarkable 50 games in his career with the Nittany Lions. hard to do. We had to limit reps, we didn’t have depth, guys knew there was no one behind them who really could take their job.”

Now, after Franklin signed 91 commits in his first 37 months, there is not only depth. There is experience and leadership, a decent chunk of it gained during back-to-back 7-6 seasons and a 2016 campaign full of injuries. Franklin has led quite the reconstruction, under challenging circumstances and, at times, under heavy fire.

SENIOR MOMENTS

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PENN STATE safety Marcus Allen (2) is among the returning Nittany Lions who bring the team a wealth of experience. Allen has 33 career starts.

Now, the Nittany Lions’ most recent roster (dated Jan. 23, 2017) is senior-heavy, breaking down this way: ■ Fifth-year seniors (and career starts) — Hamilton (38), Mahon (29), Nelson (27), Parker Cothren (13), Curtis Cothran (8), Brandon Smith (2), Tyler Davis, Josh McPhearson, Tom Pancoast, Irvine Paye and Cody Hodgens ■ Seniors in final year of eligibility — Allen (33), Mike Gesicki (23), Cabinda (23), Grant Haley (21), Saaed Blacknall (11), Christian Campbell (4), Troy Apke (2), Tyrell Chavis and Daniel Pasquariello ■ Seniors with two years of eligibility — Trace McSorley (14), DeAndre Thompkins (7), Wright (5), Torrence Brown (4), Koa Farmer (2), Nick Scott (1), Mark Allen (1), Noah Beh, Brendan Brosnan, Desi Davis, Billy Fessler, Joey Julius, Amani Oruwariye, Charlie Shuman, Jonathan Thomas and Kyle Vasey (remember this name; he’ll be the Lions’ long snapper in 2017) In some ways — but definitely not on offense — the 2017 roster might even be reminiscent of that of the 1986 Nittany

Lions. Joe Paterno’s squad entered the season on the heels of a demoralizing 25-10 defeat to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, in what was the de facto national championship game. Penn State in 1986 featured a ton of veteran players determined to avenge that loss and get another shot at the title, and they did both.

A FIESTA

In 1986, Penn State had 14 fifth-year seniors, all important contributors, led by all-everything Shane Conlan, top-notch punter John Bruno and place-kicker Massimo Manca, and a cast of solid veterans.

Those veterans included Don Graham, Duffy Cobbs and Bobby White on defense, and Dave Clark, Darrell Giles, Eric Hamilton, Sid Lewis, Dan Morgan, Keith Radecic, Brian Siverling and Steve Smith on offense.

Overall, the 1986 team returned 37 of its top 44 players — 84 percent of its twodeep on the offensive and defensive depth charts.

Penn State’s 2017 squad comes very close to matching that. If you count Blacknall and linebacker Manny Bowen, both suspended for the Rose Bowl, among the Nittany Lions’ season-ending two-deep depth chart as listed in PSU’s Rose Bowl media guide, Penn State has 36 of its top 44 players (82 percent) — 19 on offense, 17 on defense — back this season. Plus, kickers Davis and Julius, as well as punter Blake Gillikin, return.

You don’t need me to remind you, but, all that 1986 team full of seniors and veteran players did was go 12-0 and win the national championship.

And James Franklin thought expectations were high last season.

State High dominates at swimming, diving championships

By ZACH SEYKO sports@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — The McCoy Natatorium was host of the District 6 AA and AAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 3 and 4, and the hometown State College Area High School swimmers dominated.

Leading competitors were able to clinch their spots in the AA and AAA PIAA state championships, which will take place Wednesday, March 15, through Saturday, March 18, at Bucknell University.

The State High boys’ (503 points) and girls’ (505 points) teams finished in first place overall in AAA. State High also took home first place in a number of team and individual competitions, sending 22 swimmers, relay teams and divers to the PIAA championships.

In the AA swimming championships, the Bellefonte boys’ team ended the overall competition in second place with 179.5 points.

The Bellefonte girls placed eighth overall in the team rankings with 80 points. The Penns Valley girls placed just behind Bellefonte in ninth, with a total of 76 points.

State College boys’ and girls’ relay teams both finished in first place in the 200-yard medley relay, the 200-yard freestyle relay, the 500-yard freestyle relay and the 400yard freestyle relay. Junior Matt Morris, senior Tobias Van Dyke, senior Benjamin Gingher and freshman Matt Brownstead combined to set the 200-yard freestyle relay record at 1:26.32.

Van Dyke and Brownstead set more records individually. Van Dyke earned the meet records in both the 200yard and 500-yard freestyle races at 1:40.42 and 4:27.85, respectively.

Brownstead made an enormous impact in his first year of high school level competition by placing himself in the record books. He now owns the meet records for the 50-yard freestyle (21.04) and the 100-yard freestyle (46.71).

The State High girls were as successful as the boys.

Sophomore Sarah Finton achieved first place in the 200-yard freestyle (1:59.79), senior Ruth Dangelo finished first in the 200-yard individual medley (2:11.08), freshman Abbey Whipple clinched first in the 50-yard freestyle

(24.75) and Grace Dangelo finished first in the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.14).

State High divers Morgan Fusco and Jacob Whipple will join their fellow schoolmates at the state championships after finishing in the top spots during the girls’ and boys’ 1-meter diving competitions.

BELLEFONTE QUALIFIERS

Bellefonte will be sending four swimmers to the state championships after they qualified in four different events during the AA district championships.

The Bellefonte boys’ 200-yard medley relay team, which included sophomore Ian Lowery, junior Brian Feldman, senior Dmitry Wall and junior Zach Malinich, finished in first with a time of 1:44.37.

Lowery will also represent Bellefonte at the state championships in the 100-yard backstroke, as will Feldman in the 100-yard breaststroke and Malinich in the 100-yard butterfly.

Junior Peter Forstmeier, of St. Joseph’s, took first place in the 200-yard individual medley and the 500-yard freestyle, qualifying him for the state championship events.

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After Big Ten stumble, Lions look ahead to NCAAs

By ANDY ELDER sports@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — For some, the fact that the Penn State wrestling team failed to defend its Big Ten title and crowned only two champions March 5 at Indiana University during the 2017 championships will be considered a disappointment, a failure even.

The Nittany Lions did all of that, however, with just eight wrestlers scoring points and its only senior getting pinned three times, finishing eighth and contributing a half point.

So, essentially, Penn State was waging a 7-on-10 battle and still placed second, only 9.5 points behind Ohio State (139.5130).

The Nittany Lions’ two champs were transcendent stars Zain Retherford (149), who was named Outstanding Wrestler of the Championships, and Jason Nolf (157), who was named Big Ten Wrestler of the Year. Mark Hall (174) lost in the championship final.

“Zain and Nolf both wrestled great, tough opponents, just relentless in their attacks and their mindset and consistent so I’m very proud of them — and Mark Hall,” Penn State coach Cael Sanderson told GoPSUsports.com. “Mark wrestled a great match. He showed that he can win and in two weeks he could be the national champion. He has got as good a chance as anybody, and these matches, he is just going to grow from the experience every time he steps out on the mat.”

Vincenzo Joseph (165), Bo Nickal (184), Matt McCutcheon (197) and Nick Nevills (285) all placed third. Jimmy Gulibon (141) placed eighth. All eight placers earned automatic bids to the NCAA Championships, scheduled for Thursday, March 16, through Saturday, March 18 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.

Nick Suriano, apparently still nursing a left ankle injury he suffered in the Nation-

al Dual Championship win over Oklahoma State on Feb. 19, received an at-large bid.

Triston Law (133) went 0-2 at the Big Ten championships. Suriano (125) lost his first match by a one-second injury default and medically forfeited his second match.

“I thought our guys wrestled really well today. We lost a couple matches, but the guys responded and they gave us a chance to get back in and we had a chance to win, so I’m proud. They competed with honor, and that’s what it’s all about, so I can’t complain about that,” Sanderson said.

Despite their first three wrestlers scoring only a half point, the Nittany Lions were in contention for the team championship until Hall’s upset bid in the 174pound final was ended by Ohio State’s Bo Jordan, with a takedown in sudden victory, 6-4.

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BONUS POINTS

How was the team championship possible? Because the Lions scored bonus points in more than half of the matches they won.

Penn State compiled a 23-11 overall record, with seven of 10 wrestlers finishing with winning records. Six Lions combined to produce 23.5 bonus points with 11 pins, one short of Iowa’s Big Ten tournament record, and a technical fall.

Retherford led the charge, going 4-0 with three falls and a technical fall in the final, 16-1, over Ohio State’s Micah Jordan.

Nolf posted two falls, and then an 8-2 win over Iowa’s Michael Kemerer. The Hawkeyes freshman is the only opponent who has prevented Nolf from scoring bonus points in his 22 bouts this year, including a 9-4 decision in the dual meet.

Nevills added three falls and Joseph, Hall and Nickal one each.

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GARRETT RIGG, of BEA, said winning the 126-pound championship at the AAA Northwest Regionals on March 4 was a “dream come true.”

Regional titles, from page 24 “I’m pumped for states. I’ve been dreaming about this for a long time and it’s finally come true.”

MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES

The two bigs from State College had memorable nights as well.

Urbas, 27-0, was pitted against Jake Paulson (29-5), the District 10 champion from Erie McDowell in the 182-pound bracket.

Paulson, built close to the ground and very strong, seemed to have an advantage over the much-taller Urbas, especially in close. But Urbas long ago learned to use his length and leverage, and he employed both to his advantage in this match.

After a scoreless first period, Paulson escaped early in the second, but Urbas immediately took him down for a 2-1 lead going into the third period. Urbas escaped for a 3-1 lead, but Paulson came back to tie the match at 3-3 with a mid-period takedown.

Urbas was not deterred, however, and he escaped and then scored a takedown in the final minute to secure the title, 6-3.

“At first, it (his height) was a disadvantage,” Urbas said, “but I had to learn how to use this to my advantage and it has really changed my success with the sport.

CENTRE COUNTY AAA TITLISTS 126: Garrett Rigg, BEA 138: Seth Koleno, BEA 145: Brock Port, Bellefonte 182: Cole Urbas, State College 220: Pete Haffner, State College

I just wrestled my game and didn’t worry about it. I just went at it one-hundred percent.”

Haffner lost in the 220-pound D-6 finals to Micah Sidorick, of Philipsburg-Osceola, but Sidorick faltered in the semifinals against D-10 champ Jeff Craig (27-4), of Meadville.

Rematch with Sidorick or not, Haffner was ready. He took an early lead against Craig and then rode it out for a 7-4 win and his first regional title.

“I was really disappointed with my performance last week,” Haffner said, “and I wanted to come out and make states and win the regionals.

“I knew he (Craig) was going to come out aggressive, and I am really confident on my feet. I knew I could take him down and let him up, so I was going for as many as possible.”

BEA’s Seth Koleno was the third Eagle in the finals and the second winner. He squared off against Nathan Swartz from Hollidaysburg in the 138 final and wasted little time in taking control of the match.

After Swartz scored first with a takedown, Koleno responded with an escape, takedown and then a near fall for a 6-2 first period lead. Koleno extended that to 9-2 after the second period and won 10-3 for the championship.

“I’ve been wanting to get back at this for a while,” Koleno said. “He (Swartz) beat me twice this year and it’s been my goal to get another match and win.”

In state-qualifying third-place matches, Bellefonte’s Cole Stewart beat Andrew Brest, of General McLane, 3-0 at 106, and Ian Barr, of State College, defeated DuBois’ Carson Hanna in the 160-pound bracket.

Erie Cathedral Prep won the 2017 AAA Regional Team Championship.

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MARCH 9-15, 2017

Lady Lions await tourney fate after loss

By STEVE CONNELLY StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State (1910, 9-7 Big Ten) fell to Minnesota (15-15, 5-11 Big Ten), 70-64, in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament on March 2 in Indianapolis, despite a historic day from Teniya Page, who scored 35 points and hit a milestone in the action.

Nothing’s official, but it’s almost certain the Lady Lions won’t be heading to the NCAA Tournament for the thirdstraight year. Penn State could possibly secure a spot in the WNIT, which would also be announced during Selection Monday on March 13.

The Lady Lions had no answers for Carlie Wagner, who led the Golden Gophers to a quick start and finished with a double-double.

Minnesota came out firing on the offensive end, sinking five from 3-point range in the first quarter. Wagner, after one of her weakest performances of the season against Penn State in early February, started with three of those from beyond the arc and 11 points in the opening quarter of play to give the Golden Gophers a 26-17 lead after 10 minutes.

Bellefonte girls, from page 25 The Hillers come into the game with a 22-3 record and after a tough loss in

Page was a huge help in keeping the Lady Lions in the game early — scoring 15 of her team’s first 19 points. Minnesota wasn’t as prolific from the field in the second quarter, and despite a dominant performance on the offensive boards, let its 12-point lead slip away toward the end of the half — ahead just 33-29 at the break.

A 9-2 run helped Penn State take its first lead of the game with just more than three minutes to go in the third quarter, but that’s the last taste of the lead it would get during this one. Outside of Page, the Lady Lions could not get their shots to fall, hitting just 23 percent of their attempts.

Wagner helped Minnesota get to this point with 26 points, but Kenisha Bell pushed the Golden Gophers over the top.

Her 13 points, most of which came down the stretch, closed out the Lady Lions after they managed to cut a double-digit deficit down to two. It was Bell’s three-point play that ended the 8-0 Penn State run late.

The Golden Gophers held off the rest of the way, going on to win 70-64.

Page hit a milestone to start the day.

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She went on to have a big game as well, scoring 35 points for the third-highest

points total ever in a Big Ten Tournament game.

47-35. CV then went on to beat Oakland Catholic, 52-36, in the final, with Trinity taking the No. 3 spot.

Trinity is led by all-everything guard and career scoring leader Sierra Kotchman. Kotchman averages 19 points per game and has already signed to play college ball at Fairmont State.

Kotchman, third-team All State last season, obviously draws a lot of attention, but the Hillers present big problems because she’s not alone.

Senior forward Abbey O’Connor and junior point guard Alayna Capelli are both returning starters and scoring threats, and they are joined on the starting team by freshman guard Riley DeRubbo and leading rebounder Rachel Lemons.

If that’s not enough, the Hillers play a disciplined game and tight defense. Trinity allows opponents just 34 points per game.

Bellefonte prides itself in its teamwork and positive attitude, and both of those qualities showed in the Obama Academy game.

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Penn State skates closer to NCAA bid

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — For more than a year, Penn State men’s ice hockey captain David Goodwin has saved a tweet on his phone. The 140 characters outline a simple statistic: Penn State’s chances of making the NCAA Tournament with a win and its chances of making it with a loss.

The team in question, that weekend, was Wisconsin.

The result — a loss.

And, ultimately, the Nittany Lions came up short of receiving a first-ever NCAA Tournament berth.

Fast forward months down the road and Goodwin once again finds himself facing Wisconsin, in a similar situation, with a similar need for a positive result.

Coming off of a 7-4 loss to Wisconsin on March 3, it was Penn State facing what amounted to a must-win game. A victory would set the table for that first-ever berth. A loss and road would be far less straightforward.

So, as Goodwin skated down the ice with 11:34 gone by in the first period, the puck found his stick. It was a beautiful sequence from linemates Denis Smirnov and Nate Sucese, and all Goodwin really had to do was finish.

And he did.

Up 2-0, there was a sense of relief within Pegula Ice Arena. Kris Myllari’s goal 10:44 into the game broke the tension, but Goodwin’s score just under a minute later blew the roof off.

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CAPTAIN DAVID GOODWIN, front, and Penn State teammates salute the crowd March 4 at Pegula Ice Arena.

Suddenly, fans — who had witnessed five straight winless games at home — could sense that one of the nation’s most explosive offenses was back, and in turn a shot at history.

The second period was far less open, but David Thompson’s shot was mistakenly redirected into the net by a Wisconsin defender, and a safe 2-0 lead turned into a 3-0 blowout in the making.

Goodwin made sure that blowout hap-

pened.

Once again working down the middle of the ice, Goodwin took a pass from Smirnov and slotted it past Matt Jurusik to make it a 4-0 game. The floodgates opened, and the joy that came with it in inside the building was palpable.

“I think it’s an honor to play in these games,” Guy Gadowsky said, following the game. “To play in really meaningful games in March is a wonderful thing. It’s stress-

ful, and it’s fun. The mood right now, I think they’re very proud of themselves to have a performance at a really crucial time and on a really emotional night.”

Two minutes later, it was Alec Marsh putting his name on the scoresheet, a slick pass from Chase Berger that was tapped home, seemingly putting a bow on the most important night of the season.

In the game’s dying minutes, Wisconsin took two penalties and, facing a 5-on-3 advantage, Penn State rolled out all five seniors on the power play. With nine seconds to go in regulation, Zach Saar, often scratched, often finding the penalty box, found the back of the net.

With at least three games remaining in the Nittany Lions’ season, an NCAA Tournament bid isn’t unequivocally locked up; there is work left to be done.

But, on March 4, there was a sense of history as the Nittany Lions left the ice following win No. 21 of the year. And, if nothing else, a sense that Goodwin won’t have to keep that tweet around for much longer.

ON TO MICHIGAN

Up next is Michigan on Friday, March 10, and Saturday, March 11, in Ann Arbor.

“They’re playing great hockey, and I can promise you that playing at Yost it doesn’t matter how Michigan is playing, it’s a tough place to play,” Goodwin said.

“So, we know going into this week it’s going to be business as usual and we’re going to be prepared to play two really tough games.”

Chambers, Lions have much on line in 2017-18

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — As anticipated, but now officially on the record, Penn State coach Pat Chambers will return for the 2017-18 season.

“Pat’s our coach and is going to continue to be our coach next year,” Penn State director of athletics Sandy Barbour told StateCollege.com on March 5. “Pat and I will meet at the end of the season, as we do every year, to continue discussing how

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PENN STATE coach Patrick Chambers reacts to a call during the first half of the Nittany Lions’ 90-79 loss at Iowa on March 5.

we can best provide support to the success of the program moving forward, but this week our focus is on helping the team prepare for the Big Ten Tournament.”

The news comes on the heels of Penn State’s regular season finale, a 90-79 loss to Iowa on the road March 5. Penn State finished 13th in the conference and was set to play Nebraska at 4:30 p.m. March 8 in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament (after Gazette press time).

The Nittany Lions figure to look back at 2016-17 with mixed emotions. Penn State’s trio of highly touted freshman — Tony Carr, Mike Watkins and Lamar Stevens — lived up to their billing, all contributing on both ends of the court. All three were the result of several years’ worth of recruiting efforts in Philadelphia, a city in which Penn State had, until recently, been seen as an afterthought.

Conversely, it was a season of near-misses with moments of great potential sprinkled in. All told, Penn State fell six times by a single possession or in overtime during conference play. In addition, the Nittany Lions held last-second leads on at least two occasions, losing both games, and saw an overtime game on the road against Indiana extended by a made basket with .1 left on the clock.

Those close defeats came on the heels of two Top 25 victories over Maryland and Minnesota, as well as wins over Michigan State, Rutgers and Illinois twice.

Penn State will shortly look toward what is almost undoubtedly a make-orbreak season for the Chambers’ era. Keeping the roster intact, improving during the offseason and seeing the likes of seniorsto-be Shep Garner and Payton Banks re-

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MARCH 9-15, 2017

For Spikes, fun a key part of strategy JASON ROLLISON

UNIVERSITY PARK — Christopher Grella brought his family of four to SpikesFest on March 5, and the first thing he did was hit the season ticket booth to purchase a 20game plan.

“For me, it’s good family fun,” he said.

“My family and I moved to the area last year and fell in love with the State College Spikes, and Jason Rollison Medlar Park. It’s is a sports an amazing spot to commentator. watch a game.”

Email him Indeed, the State at jason@ College Spikes have piratesbreakdown. consistently providcom. ed affordable family fun since relocating to State College in 2006. Managers come and go, the players who put on the jerseys each year are certainly fluid; even Major League Baseball affiliations have changed hands. But the fun remains.

And, so it was on a confusing early March Sunday — the weather was bitingly frigid at times yet a persistent sun tried to muscle its way into the day — that the mood inside the Penn State University multi-sport indoor facility was light.

Though many, like Grella, would pick up season tickets at promotional rates, Spikes general manager Scott Walker was more concerned about getting out and mingling with the community.

“SpikesFest is definitely more about outreach than season ticket sales,” Walker said. “It’s always fulfilling for us to get out here and meet and greet with the team’s fans.”

The Spikes are a Class A short season

team, which means that the paramount goal their parent club, the St. Louis Cardinals, has for the team is to help develop young players into future stars. The baseball on the field is still baseball, but many minor league clubs come up with many, let’s say interesting, promotions throughout their season.

Case in point, the highly popular Monkeys Riding Dogs Herding Sheep promo which has held court the past two seasons.

Walker was tight-lipped about a third act for that unique attraction, as well as stingy with promotion details overall. He did drop hints on two substantial promotions for us, however.

“I can tell you that we have two pretty fun bobbleheads coming up,” he said.

“Both are former Penn State football legends … one may or may not be a current player … and one may or may not have been featured in the Big Ten Network’s PSU Mount Rushmore in 2014.”

Fans have myriad options to get those bobbleheads and see some future St. Louis Cardinals in action.

“Probably the best bang for the buck is our Diamond Club package, which provides great seats at a fantastic price if you make a three-year commitment,” Walker said.

“But, if you want to just spend a great night at the ballpark, our luxury suites are for you. We set you up with food, refrigerators, servers, everything,” Walker said.

Though so much changes from year to year with the Spikes, being connected to such a well-run and equally well-respected organization such as the Cardinals all but guarantees that fans will see a quality product on the field.

They may not all end as last year’s did, with the Spikes hoisting the New York Penn League Championship Trophy, but each season is remarkably consistent in that a fun, festive atmosphere is always present.

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Lions, from page 27 “I think we’re in good shape,” Sanderson said. “We knew we were going to have a heavy load to try to win but obviously we were going to give it our best shot and we did and we got beat, so we’ll lick our wounds and get ready to roll in another couple of weeks.”

WORK TO DO

Penn State clearly has some work to do and some things to fix to be able to defend its NCAA championship.

First on that list is the health of Suriano’s left ankle. It wasn’t surprising that the coaching staff chose to not have him test that ankle at Big Tens. They want him healthy for nationals. He’s done enough during the regular season to still earn a high seed at NCAAs, if he’s healthy enough to wrestle.

Seedings were to be announced March 8, after Gazette press time. Retherford and Nolf were likely to be seeded first at their respective weights and will be favorites to win titles.

Joseph, Hall, Nickal and Nevills were contenders for Top 5 seeds at their weights. Under the right conditions, any of those four could challenge for a high

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placing, if not a title.

Since his move from 184 to 197, McCutcheon’s margin for error has narrowed, but he has pulled out close wins against quality competition repeatedly.

So, an All-America performance from him wouldn’t be a big surprise.

It’s anyone’s guess where Gulibon’s head is after being pinned three times in four matches over the weekend. Penn State could certainly use some points from him to bolster its total in the team race. He knows how to get to the podium, having placed fifth in 2015.

The great unknown is Suriano. He proved throughout his true freshman campaign that he’s capable of beating all opponents except for top-ranked Thomas Gilman, of Iowa, who won their bout, 3-2.

Penn State nearly pulled off a storybook, come-from-behind championship at the Big Ten tournament. The frustration and disappointment over coming up just short is sure to motivate the Lions in the next week.

Whether the Nittany Lions can repeat as champs and make it six titles in the past seven years remains to be seen. You can be certain, however, that Penn State will have a say in who ultimately wins this year’s title.

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“ANTHRACITE FIELDS” at Eisenhower Auditorium will feature Bang on a Can All-Stars accompanied by the Penn State Concert Choir.

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Pulitzer-winning ‘Anthracite Fields’ heads to Eisenhower Special to the Gazette UNIVERSITY PARK — Bang on a Can All-Stars will present a chapter in Pennsylvania labor history with ensemble co-founder Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning experimental-classical composition “Anthracite Fields” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30, in Eisenhower Auditorium.

The Penn State Concert Choir, conducted by Christopher Kiver, will accompany the ensemble, according to a release from Penn State.

A folk and classical music-inspired

piece, “Anthracite Fields” debuted in Philadelphia in 2014 and earned the Pulitzer the following year.

The five-movement oratorio for choir and sextet commemorates the history of coal-mining life in Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th century. A recording of the work received a 2015 Grammy nomination for best contemporary classical composition.

Wolfe, co-founder of Bang on a Can (with composers Michael Gordon and David Lang) and a professor of music composition at New York University, has written myriad works for string ensembles, quartets

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She has mined the history of labor in America to inspire her most recent compositions — coal in “Anthracite Fields” and man vs. machine in “Steel Hammer.”

In addition to the 2015 Pulitzer, the Philadelphia-area native is the recipient of many awards and grants, including the 2015 Herb Albert Award and a 2016 MacArthur “genius” Fellowship.

“Steel Hammer,” which Bang on a Can All-Stars performed at the Center for the Performing Arts in 2009, was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

Bang on a Can All-Stars, the touring arm of “marathon” performing ensemble Bang on a Can, is a cross-genre music organization dedicated to presenting new concert music.

Penn State Concert Choir has performed throughout the United States and in several foreign countries at venues including Heinz Hall and Kimmel Center, and with The Rolling Stones at Heinz Field. Kiver, choral director at Penn State’s School of Music, teaches choral conducting and literature courses.

For more information, visit www.cpa. psu.edu or call (814) 863-0255.

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AROUND & IN TOWN Concert to benefit Ethiopian girls’ home Special to the Gazette

‘Get Out’ evokes squirms, if not screams

By BOB GARVER Special to the Gazette

“Get Out” is a horror movie that opened on a non-holiday weekend in February. It’s rated R, so it can kiss a big chunk of the teen audience goodbye. It’s not part of an established franchise, so it can’t get by on a familiar character or concept. Its cast includes some reliable hands, but nobody with a lot of box office clout. It’s directed by Jordan Peele of “Key & Peele,” and he’s a familiar name, but not one known for either directing or horror.

And, yet, the movie was a huge hit its opening weekend.

What made the film so popular? Was it intrigue over the trailers and TV spots? That was part of it, I’m sure.

Was it the audience’s need to see something that wasn’t a Valentine’s weekend leftover? That certainly didn’t hurt.

But, I’d like to think that the biggest factor was word of mouth.

I’m a big follower of review compiler Rotten Tomatoes, and by the time I saw the film, it had racked up 120 positive reviews vs. zero negatives. I thought every movie got at least one negative review, even if it’s by some contrarian who just wants to throw off its Rotten Tomatoes score.

But, no, this one seemed to be unanimously beloved. And my theory is that people wanted to see just what made it so widely appreciated.

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THE DSCH TRIO, featuring Messiah College and Penn State graduates Daniel Glessner, Tania Pyatovolenko and Gregory Glessner, takes its name from 20th-centry Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. monic and Penn State Chamber Orchestra, as well as performing with the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra and the Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra.

He currently is learning string instrument and bow repair under the tutelage of luthier Scott Hershey in Mechanicsburg.

Open Music sets shows in State College, Millheim Special to the Gazette The Open Music series continues its third season with “Our Sense of the Real, Part Two,” an evening of homegrown experimental music by nine local performers. The evening-length piece is by percussionist/director Kevin Sims.

Shows are set for Friday, March 17, at the State Theatre in State College and Saturday, March 18, at the Bremen Town Ballroom in Millheim. Both are at 7:30 p.m.

“Our Sense of the Real, Part One” was a silent film about the changing landscape of housing in and around State College.

Part Two is a collage of words from authors Eula Biss and Roy Scranton, as well as articles from the Centre Daily Times and the Centre County Gazette, combined with a wild musical score and a short film to make a multimedia “opera.”

Speaking, singing and screaming voices, electronics, guitar, flute, euphonium, drums, bass, harmonicas and

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The DSCH Trio was founded in 2014 and takes its name from the musical monogram of the 20th-century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who is admired by the trio members.

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STATE COLLEGE — The DSCH Trio will perform a benefit concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 19, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, 780 Waupelani Drive Extension.

Members of the trio are pianist Daniel Glessner, violinist Gregory Glessner and cellist Tania Pyatovolenko. They recently earned degrees in music performance from the Penn State School of Music.

The concert will benefit Hiwot House, a home for girls attending the St. Lalibela School in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Donations will help provide a sustainable food program for the girls living at the home.

The trio will present a program of Mozart, Halvorsen and Brahms.

Pyatovolenko learned about Hiwot House from Dr. Helen Walker, her English teacher and mentor at Messiah College, where she earned a degree in music. Walker encouraged Pyatovolenko to use her talent and passion for music as a way to benefit others.

Walker will attend the concert and speak about the project.

Before coming to the United States from her native Ukraine, Pyatovolenko won awards for her solo performances and was the principal cellist of the Young Virtuosi chamber orchestra. She holds degrees in cello performance from Messiah and Penn State, where she studied with Kim Cook. Pyatovolenko has been actively involved in arts, entrepreneurship and philanthropy during her studies.

She currently works in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at Penn State.

Daniel Glessner majored in music also at Messiah College, where he studied both piano and composition. He received a master’s degree in piano performance and a professional performance certificate from Penn State, where he studied with Steven Herbert Smith and served as a graduate assistant.

He maintains a private piano teaching studio in Mechanicsburg and serves as an organist and choir director at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Enola.

Gregory Glessner holds a bachelor of music degree from Messiah and a master of music degree from Penn State, where he studied with James Lyon and Timothy Deighton. He was a member of the Penn State Philhar-

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AROUND & IN TOWN Fred Hersch Trio, Cohen to perform at Schwab

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It’s nothing heinous, and Chris knows he can’t call them out on it because it would make him look overly sensitive, but it’s enough to make him feel uncomfortable. Soon, the discomfort turns to fear.

Rose’s brother (Caleb Landry Jones) wants to practice MMA moves on Chris, if you can call what he wants to do “practicing.” The family’s black servants (Marcus Henderson and Betty Gabriel) are skittish and look like they’re about a second away from going crazy (especially Gabriel, whose smile is going to haunt me for a while). Rose’s mother is a hypnotist, and she wants Chris for a session where she

The film stars Daniel Kaluuya as Chris, the black boyfriend of white Rose (Allison Williams). She takes him to upstate New York to meet her upper-crust white parents (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener). The family throws a party where almost all of the guests are white, and while none of them are quite on-thenose “racists,” they commit some unintentional faux pas by using slang like “my man” and turning the conversation a little too quickly to Barack Obama and Tiger Woods.

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UNIVERSITY PARK — The Fred Hersch Trio, described by a Wall Street Journal writer as “one of the major ensembles of our time,” will take the stage with special guest Anat Cohen on clarinet and saxophone for a jazz performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, in Penn State’s Schwab Auditorium.

Hersch, a contemporary jazz composer, band leader and collaborator, was creating music by age 8 and winning piano competitions at 10. He and other jazz artists have recorded more than 90 of his works. In addition to a prolific discography numbering in the dozens, he has been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards, including two for his trio’s 2016 release “Sunday Night at the Vanguard” (Best Instrumental Jazz Album and Best Improvised Jazz Solo).

Hersch was named a 2016 Doris Duke can “get him to quit smoking.” And, the one black guy at the party is a man who’s been missing for months.

Chris’s best friend, Rod (Lil Rel Howery), warned him before leaving that he should be suspicious of all the white people, and he was definitely onto something.

That “something” isn’t as scary as what led up to it. There comes a point where certain characters drop the charade and the film is just a standard thriller after that. It’s disappointing to see these characters (and the film along with them) give up the psychological advantage they had been enjoying in favor of timewasting, chasing, fighting and a logistical gap involving a chair that I couldn’t get past.

Only one character is an effective villain in the film’s third act, and that character’s reign of terror is brief. I will say that I’m glad the film did something with the

Artist and the Jazz Journalist Association’s 2016 Jazz Pianist of the Year. He also is a committed music educator and advocate for AIDS research and fundraising.

Cohen is known for her enthusiastic and extroverted musical delivery and making jazz music accessible. The Jazz Journalists Associated chose her as Clarinetist of the Year for eight consecutive years, and she has topped the Downbeat critics and readers polls every year since 2011. She released her seventh album, renditions of Brazilian classics called “Luminosa,” in 2015.

The appearance with Hersch will be Cohen’s third visit to the Center for the Performing Arts. She performed with the Diva Jazz Orchestra in 2007 in Eisenhower Auditorium and led her own quartet in Schwab in 2011.

For more information about the concert, visit www.cpa.psu.edu or call (814) 863-0255. character, who had been mostly useless up to that point.

The finale squanders a lot of opportunities, but “Get Out” gets in a good hour or so before it decides that it’s done toying with us. That’s when the movie is at its best, when it’s about social horror instead of actual horror.

And, this is where Peele’s comedic background comes in handy. creating awkward situations where Chris realizes he can’t win and he can’t excuse himself gracefully. The movie isn’t great at invoking screams, but it’s great at invoking squirms. ★★★ out of five stars.

“Get Out” is rated R for violence, bloody images and language, including sexual references. Its running time is 103 minutes.

Contact Bob Garver at rrg251@nyu.edu.

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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, through March 18. 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.

Children’s activity — Literacy-enriching activities for toddlers featuring books and music are held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. every Monday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — A story time featuring songs, rhymes, finger plays and crafts for kids ages 2 to 5 is held 10:30 to 11 a.m. every Monday at Centre Hall Area Branch Library, 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall.

Performance — Visitors are welcome to view the Nittany Knights practice at 7:15 p.m. every Monday at South Hills School of Business and Technology, 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.

Children’s activity — Children can improve reading skills by reading with Faolin, a trained therapy dog, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. every Tuesday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Register for 20-minute sessions by calling (814) 355-1516 or visiting the library.

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 meets every Wednesday at 7:15 a.m. at the Hotel State College, 100 W. College Ave., State College. Visit www. statecollegesunriserotary.org.

Children’s activity — “Book Babies,” featuring interactive singing, reading and movement for babies 1 and younger, meets at 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — A pre-K story time featuring developmentally appropriate stories, songs and rhymes is held at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — A story time featuring related activities and interaction with peers for preschool-aged children is held at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday at Holt

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Meetings — The Nittany Baptist Church holds 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, State College. Visit www. nittanybaptist.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.

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.

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.

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) 238-2322.

Meeting — The Hooks and Needles Club for knitters meets from 1 to 2:30 p.m. every Thursday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — A Lego club exploring block play and other activities that address topics in science, technology, engineering, art and math is held at 3:30 p.m. every Thursday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

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.

Children’s activity — Activities and presentations for children in grades kindergarten through sixth are held from 6 to 7 p.m. every Thursday at Holt Memorial Library, 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg.

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)5711240.

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) 692-4369.

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, MARCH 9

Support group — A support group for people with diabetes and their loved ones will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. at Mount Nittany Medical Center, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College.

Yard sale — A multi-family yard sale will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at Howard United Methodist Church, 144 Main St., Howard.

Class — A free parents-to-be class will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at Mount Nittany Health–Boalsburg, 3901 S. Atherton St. Call (814) 466-7921.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

Yard sale — A multi-family yard sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Howard United Methodist Church, 144 Main St., Howard.

Dinner — A Lenten dinner will be held from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in Agape Hall at Good Shepherd Church, 867 Grays Woods Blvd., Port Matilda. The menu features parmesan-crusted tilapia and whipped potatoes. Dinners are $10 for adults,$12 for spaghetti with fresh clam sauce and $5 for macaroni and cheese for children. Tickets can be purchased at the door; takeout is available. Call (814) 238-2110.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11

Yard sale — A multi-family yard sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Howard United Methodist Church, 144 Main St., Howard.

Dinner — A roast beef dinner will be held from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at New Hope Lutheran Church, 119 Cobblestone Court, Spring Mills. Takeout will be available.

SUNDAY, MARCH 12

Support group — An ostomy support group will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. at Mount Nittany Medical Center, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. Contact Judy Faux at (814) 234-6195.

TUESDAY, MARCH 14

Luncheon — The Women’s Mid Day Connection luncheon will be held at 11:45 a.m. at Mountain View Country Club, Boalsburg. Reservations and cancellations are necessary by Friday, March 10. Call Barb at (814) 404-3704.

Meeting — The Nittany Valley Writers Network will meet at 6 p.m. at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St, State College. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15

Book club — The Active Adult Book Club, reading “A Spool of Blue Thread” by Anne Taylor, will meet at 12:15 p.m. at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

— Compiled by Gazette staff

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Assess needs before picking financial adviser JUDY LOY

I debated writing this particular column as it seems rather self-serving: a financial adviser telling you why you should use a financial adviser.

It seems like the basic concept is a conflict of interest, but I’m not sure people actually realize what we bring to the table.

Before you decide to “do it yourself,” Judy Loy is consider your opa registered tions among advisers investment and varying levels of adviser and CEO assistance. at Nestlerode & Traditional broLoy Investment kers are the historical Advisors in State model and the way College. She can be reached at jloy@ the industry started. nestlerode.com.

They still exist today and may play a much smaller part due to the Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule.

Brokers work on commissions. This means they get paid on the product you purchase and make money when you trade.

This is not necessarily a problem, but some products pay more than others. For example, an annuity will pay a commission of 5 to 8 percent and typically have higher underlying fees.

A mutual fund will pay a commission of 4 to 5 percent. This means a broker automatically has a conflict, because more money can be made selling the client an annuity.

A broker makes sense when you plan on a very long buy-and-hold strategy with mutual funds. When you trade rarely, a broker might be less expensive.

Brokers have a suitability requirement to their clients, which means a product

can pay more than another and still be considered suitable.

A fee-based adviser gets paid by assets under management. This helps to eliminate some of the perceived conflicts of being paid by a product or by trading. If you want to retain assets or grow your portfolio, it can align your adviser with you. If your account grows, they make more money too.

Fee-based advisers are typically registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or state exchange commissions. They have a fiduciary duty to their clients, which means they need to avoid conflicts of interest and put their clients’ needs first.

Finally, advisers can work as consultants, who are paid on an hourly basis or on work done. This creates the least conflict, and they merely review the information and provide independent advice.

However, they do not provide ongoing advice, which might be needed.

Vanguard, the low-cost mutual fund behemoth, in 2014 put out a research paper, “The Added Value of Financial Advisors.” The Vanguard research quantified the assistance of financial advisers as adding up to 3 percent to investor returns.

They provide this through portfolio construction, behavioral coaching and wealth management.

Portfolio construction involves knowing the best places to put assets for tax purposes and making sure there is proper diversification.

Behavioral coaching is helping clients adhere to a financial plan. Wealth management involves rebalancing and withdrawal strategies. The benefit of this knowledge can add 3 percent to a client’s assets over time.

Does this mean every year you will see a 3 percent greater return on your portfolios compared to indices? No, I can guarantee you it will not. Advisers will not beat the markets year in and year out and give huge, oversized returns. However, it does

mean that the added value of an adviser will help you over time.

OBJECTIVE ADVICE

In my experience, having an objective third party to discuss financial matters is important to some families.

I have fielded questions ranging from whether parents can afford to help with the down payment on a home for their grown children without hurting their retirement to whether a vacation home can be purchased. I love being able to provide peace of mind and a successful retirement plan.

A financial adviser can help a client work through options on investment or retirement plans. Is a Roth contribution or a traditional IRA contribution better for you?

Because of your income, are you eligible

to make a contribution? Should you be invested in exchange-traded funds or mutual funds? With expectations of rising interest rates, how will that affect fixed income (bonds)? A financial adviser will share knowledge with you to help you understand the why and where of investments.

If you decide a financial adviser is the right thing for you, decide what your top priorities are and find an adviser who fits you. Do you want quick responses? Do you want to be involved in the investment choices? Do you prefer regular meetings or do you want limited contact? Will the adviser work through a detailed financial plan with you?

There are many good reasons to work with an adviser, but each one, first and foremost, is tied to a family’s or individual’s needs.

Dangel joins AmeriServ STATE COLLEGE — AmeriServ Trust and Financial Services Co. recently announced that Arthur J. Dangel Jr., of State College, has joined the organization as vice president and wealth adviser.

Dangel will be headquartered in the North Atherton Street AmeriServ Bank office. He most recently was the director of trust services at Kish Bank.

In his new position at AmeriServ, he will be responsible for business development as it relates to trust services and wealth management for clients in Centre, Blair, Clinton and Lycoming counties.

Dangel earned a master’s degree in finance and marketing from Penn State University, and has been helping people successfully manage investments and financial needs since 1994.

He is involved with many civic and nonprofit organizations, including United Way of Centre County, Centre County

Office of Aging, the Centre County Natural Gas Task Force, the Centre County Super Fair Committee and the Chamber of Business and Industry of Centre County.

Arthur and his wife, Tina, have lived in State College for ARTHUR DANGEL more than 25 years.

AmeriServ Trust and Financial Services Co., based in Johnstown, currently has more than $2 billion in assets under management. AmeriServ Trust and Financial Services Co. operates as a subsidiary of AmeriServ Financial Inc., the holding company for AmeriServ Financial Bank.

AmeriServ is publicly traded under the symbol ASRV on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

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.

RECORDED FEB. 13 TO FEB. 17 BENNER TOWNSHIP

Roger H. Bird to Roger H. Bird and Rhonda Bird, 152 Aster Ave., Bellefonte, $1.

Tonya L. Jackson to Logan F. Sherman and Kirsten R. Guckes, 209 Edward Drive, Bellefonte, $252,000.

FERGUSON TOWNSHIP

John U. Baker to Eric Nagy and Carrie Nagy, 2052 Pine Cliff Road, State College, $325,000.

Min-Hui Wu and Sheng-Tung, by attorney, to Erin Crown and Gregory B. Somers, 3010 Wells Terrace, State College, $278,000.

GREGG TOWNSHIP

Keystone Central Homes LLC to Susan E. Randolph, 174 Rider Lane, Spring Mills, $135,800.

Jeffrey A. Solt, Jacqueline K. Solt, Robert D. Solt, Rodney L. Solt and Ellen J. Solt to Michael A. Rowles and Tyler M. Rowles, 765 Lower Georges Valley Road, $30,000.

HAINES TOWNSHIP

George E. Fultz and Nancy W. Fultz to Justin L. Lose, 531 Old 220 Road, Bellefonte, $1.

Randall W. Musser Sr. Trust, Grace I. Miller Trust, Kelli L. Musser, co-trustee, and Krissy Norton, co-trustee, to Kelli L. Musser, 322 N. Pine St., Aaronsburg, $1.

CENTRE HALL BOROUGH

HALFMOON TOWNSHIP

BOGGS TOWNSHIP

R. Dennis Myers and Ruth Myers to R. Dennis and Ruth Ann Myers Real Estate Trust, Ruth Ann Myers Trust and R. Dennis Myers Trust, 242 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Centre Hall, $1.

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP

Gregory R. Kunes and Patricia M. Kunes to Robert J. Thorpe and Regina G. Thorpe, 110 Meadowsweet Drive, State College, $750,000.

Guillermo Zayas, Vicenta Zayas and Vincenta Zayas to Guillermo Zayas and Vicenta Zayas, 214 Birchtree Court, State College, $1.

John S. Purnell Jr. and Karen Brown Purnell to Cyril C. Moerschbacher and Jacquelyn A. Casale, 1000 E. Branch Road, State College, $400,000.

Sandra R. Shinham, Sandra K. Shinham and John L. Shinham to Sandra K. Shinham and John L. Shinham, 216 Horizon Drive, State College, $10.

Eric Lowey and Li Zhang to Matthew L. Gouty, Cassie J. Gouty and Michele R. Clausen, 91 Lutz Lane, Port Matilda, $165,000.

thia Shawley and Donald A. Shawley, 156 Bald Eagle Forest Road, $233,680.

SPRING TOWNSHIP

MARION TOWNSHIP

Levi F. Zook and Naomi G. Zook to Travis Robinson and Kristen Robinson, Jacksonville Road, $45,000.

MILESBURG BOROUGH

Alan J. Stever Sr. to Sheila M. Stever, 201 Iddings St., Milesburg, $1.

Bank of New York Mellon to Adam A. Caputo and Suzanne C. Caputo, 120 Hunter Wood Way, Port Matilda, $323,095.

POTTER TOWNSHIP

Orvis E. Corman and Kama J. Corman to Kama J. Corman, 213 Luse Road, Centre Hall, $1.

William S. Curran and Lucille M. Curran to Diana B. Underwood and Jason S. Herrington, 127 Flyhart Lane, Centre Hall, $425,000.

PHILIPSBURG BOROUGH

GTW Associates to Scott M. Henty and Susan M. Henty, 114 Emma Court, $59,500.

Janet S. Staiano Trust and Janet S. Staiano and Trust to Staiano Family Trust, Edward F. Staiano Trust, Janet S. Staiano Trust and Eva Staiano Tomashefski Trust, 132 Aspen Drive, $1.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

POTTER TOWNSHIP

Casper Peters Estate, Casper L. Peters Estate and Kelly Jo Baney, executrix, to Kelly Jo Baney, 11207 N. Eagle Valley Road, $1.

Kelly Jo Baney and William J. Baney to William J. Baney and Kelly J. Baney, 11207 N. Eagle Valley Road, $1.

Steven Walters and Kamara Walters to Cyn-

Romayne Verna Rider, Romayne B. Naylor, co-executrix, and Paula O. Lutz, co-executrix, to Timothy C. DeFurio and Korena J. DeFurio, Valentine Hill Road, $33,000.

Michael G. Keller and Gloria J. Keller to Michael Scott Rains, 211 Danielle Drive, Pleasant Gap, $165,000.

STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH

PATTON TOWNSHIP

RRC Real Estate Holding LLC to James D. Detrich and Pamela L. Detrich, 201 E. Locust St., Philipsburg, $72,000.

Georgiana M. Schnarrs, Laurie Ann Schnarrs and Laurie Kennedy to HBS Real Estate LLC, 307 10th St., Philipsburg, $6,000.

Bar Realty to Alt Holdings LLC, 415 N. Second St., Philipsburg, $340,000.

HARRIS TOWNSHIP

225 Dogwood Drive, Philipsburg, $1.

Richard S. Morgan estate and Nicholas H. Morgan, executor, to Rhoneymade Inc., 117 Rimmey Road, Centre Hall, $1.

RUSH TOWNSHIP

Presbyterian Homes Presbytery Huntingdon to Presbyterian Homes Presbytery Huntingdon,

450 Waupelani Drive LLC to State College Real Property LLC, 450 Waupelani Drive, State College, $11,042,094.

Bryce G. Burkentine to Bryce G. Burkentine and Kaitlin Burkentine, 122 E. Irvin Ave., State College, $10.

Maureen Robertson Baggett Family Trust and Maureen Robertson Baggett to Erin Maureen Baggett Torres, 1745 Blue Course Drive, State College, $1.

Virginia M. Robertson and Maureen R. Baggett to Jeffrey Eliott Chalmas Baggett, 503 Easterly Parkway, State College, $1.

Virginia M. Robertson and Maureen R. Baggett to Laura Megan Baggett Gregor, 1204 S. Allen St., State College, $1.

South Atherton Real Estate I LP to South Atherton Real Estate I LP, 1405 S. Atherton St., State College, $1.

SNOW SHOE BOROUGH

Clair H. Hall, Leota I. Hall Family Trust, Thomas Elmer, T.R. Hall, Clair Roger Hall, Nancy E. Hall, Lucille M. Hall and Richard G. Hall to Jenny M. Hall, 123 E. Park Ave., Snow Shoe, $40,000.

WALKER TOWNSHIP

Linda Kay Stover to Linda Kay Stover and Doris Jean Stover, 305 Pike Road, Howard, $1.

— Compiled by G. Kerry Webster

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