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Students in Paula Hendershot’s third grade class at Pleasant Gap Elementary wrote essays and drew pictures for their moms to wish them a Happy Mother’s Day. Be sure to check out their artwork in a very special Centre Spread./Pages 19-23

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University, CBICC forge business partnership

By HARRY ZIMBLER correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Hailed as a major leap forward in economic development in Central Pennsylvania, Penn State President Eric Barron and CBICC president and CEO Vern Squier signed a memorandum of agreement on May 1 at the Penn State Hotel and Conference Center.

The memorandum represents the beginning of a new era in business recruitment, retention and creation.

It is a serious effort to leverage the research being done at the university to create entrepreneurial opportunities and family-sustaining jobs, officials said.

Some 300 business, university and community leaders were on hand to witness the signing.

“This is an important day in Central Pennsylvania,” said Barron. “We are going to build a nurturing and collaborative environment. I want to brag about the power that Penn State has in driving the economy of this state. Penn State generates $16 billion for the economy. But we want to do more.”

In January, Barron announced the creation of the Invent Penn State program, dedicating $30 million for a variety of economic and workforce development initiatives.

Long a national leader in research

dollars from many sources — both public and private — the university currently ranks 62nd in transfer and commercialization of intellectual property from that research. Invent Penn State is designed to eliminate the gap between research and its commercial use, according to Neil Sharkey, Penn State vice president for research.

Penn State is in the top 20 in research funding with more than $800 million this year, up 17 percent over last year’s pace. The university ranks near the top in many of its science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs. “We have 12 fields in the top 10,” Barron noted.

“Invent Penn State will leverage the university in a new way,” said Barron. “This is a journey and we are on our way. This is only the beginning.”

“We will seize opportunities when they present themselves,” said Squier. “This program is going to be practical, achievable and unprecedented. We want to harness our resources.”

According to the Memorandum of Agreement, Penn State and the CBICC will be partners in a variety of economic development activities.

There will be a special focus on encouraging student entrepreneurship Partnership, Page 6

PATRICK MANSELL/Penn State University

SIGNING DAY: Penn State President Eric Barron, along with CBICC president Vern Squier, signed a memorandum of agreement that is designed to enhance economic and workforce development in Central Pennsylvania through a partnership with Penn State. The signing took place during an economic development luncheon held May 1 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.

DUI rates drop in Centre County

Weaver-Gates adds Miss PA title to impressive résumé

By CHRIS MORELLI editor@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — When it comes to battling an illness, it’s often said that a great attitude is a big part of the fight.

If that truly is the case, Brandi Weaver-Gates will win her battle with ease.

In March 2013, Weaver-Gates, 23, was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Since that time, she hasn’t let the disease slow her down. In fact, she’s doing more than ever before and accomplishing great things.

Weaver-Gates recently added to an already impressive resume when she was crowned as Miss PA U.S. International in Allentown.

“I was in shock. I think I’m still in shock. I’ll think, ‘Oh my

gosh, I’m one of the Miss Pennsylvanias,’” Weaver-Gates said.

“There are four main pageants in the world. It’s been an amazing experience.”

Weaver-Gates has already begun preparing for the next step, the Miss U.S. International Pageant, which will be held on Thursday, June 25, at the International Palms Resort in Orlando, Fla. However, between now and then, Weaver-Gates has a lot of preparation — and work — to do.

“As soon as I won, I went into work mode. I know we have to do 12 appearances. I started thinking, ‘I can do this one, this one and this one.’ It just went from there,” Weaver-Gates said.

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MISS PA: Brandi Weaver-Gates was recently crowned Miss PA U.S. International. The 23-year-old Milesburg native will compete at the National Pageant on June 25 in Orlando, Fla.

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STATE COLLEGE — Rates of arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol have trended downward in the last few years, and it is not because police are letting people off the hook.

“We are still doing specific and aggressive enforcement,” said Penn State’s police chief Tyrone Parham.

Centre County Judge Bradley Lunsford said he is confident that the county’s 2010 adoption of a DUI court program has contributed to the 35 percent decrease in DUI arrests from 2010 to 2014 and has help end recidivism among many former offenders.

The DUI court program is a therapeutic approach dedicated to changing the behavior of individuals with at least three offenses within a 10-year look-back period.

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from 1,045 arrests in 2010, and then down to 884 in 2011, Lunsford said.

In 2013 to 2014 there was a 7 percent decrease, which is significant, Lunsford said in an email.

County courts can adopt either an incarceration or therapeutic approach in response to DUI offenders.

“We adopted this approach because we felt that it was our most serious public health and law enforcement issue at the time,” Lunsford said.

In Centre County, 1,045 DUI arrests were made in 2010, the highest they had reached in the 2005 to 2014 report that included eight police agencies in the county. Bellefonte, Ferguson, State College, Penn State and Patton Township police were among those agencies that were part of the report.

According to the National Center for DWI Courts, DWI court offenders are up to 19 times DUI, Page 6

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May 7-13, 2015

Front and Centre DOWN AND DIRTY: A Mud Run was held in Centre Hall recently. Runners were forced to climb over, under and through obstacles on the course.

Page 12 IT’S ACADEMIC: Penns Valley’s Academic Decathlon team, which won the small school division at the Pennsylvania State Championships, recently competed in the national online finals.

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SWEET SWEEP: The Penn State baseball team bounced back in a big way by sweeping Big Ten foe Rutgers during a weekend series at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

Page 24 SUMMER PREVIEW: Gazette correspondent Harry Zimbler takes a closer look at the summer theatre season. There are a variety of productions on tap in Centre County.

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Officer under investigation

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Police chief Tom King says the department first began to suspect the thefts on April 22, after discovering irregularities in the way certain pieces of evidence were filed and stored. Further investigation led the department to suspect that one of three department personnel with access to the evidence room had been stealing evidence.

The next day, King says the department contacted Pennsylvania State Police and requested a full criminal investigation, which is currently underway. The department is also conducting its own internal affairs investigation.

The suspected officer — who King says has been with the department “a long time” — has been suspended and will have no access to police department facilities while the investigations are underway.

Until charges are filed, the police officer will continue to be paid by the department, as required by state law. The department will not release the name of the officer unless charges are filed.

“I feel very much betrayed, but this isn’t just about the department. It’s about the public,” King said. “I worry about how this will impact the public’s trust in this department.”

King says the department’s evidence

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room contains “everything you can think of,” ranging from seized drugs to lost wallets and cell phones. Exactly what pieces of evidence were stolen — and for what purposes they may have been used — is still being determined. King says a complete audit of the evidence room will be complete by next week, which will give the state police a better idea of what evidence may have been stolen.

Although King says the thefts appear to be limited to a single officer, he was unable to speculate on how long the alleged thefts may have been taking place.

As the investigations move further along, King says the department will be able to evaluate whether the stolen evidence will impact any ongoing investigations.

“Out of 77 employees, only three (including the officer under investigation) had access to our evidence room,” King said. “We clearly follow best practices, but when something like this happens we’d be foolish not to look at what we can do to prevent similar instances in the future.”

King says the department made its announcement as soon there was enough evidence to support such a serious accusation. He says he values the relationship between the public and the police department, and he asks for the community’s continued support during this trying time.

“When something like this happens, the public can rest assured that it will be dealt with seriously, that it won’t be covered up, and that it will be treated harshly,” King said.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The legal fight between three Penn State trustees and the Penn State Alumni Association is nearly over.

Both sides exchanged one final blow on May 4, laying out their arguments in new court filings for Centre County President Judge Tom Kistler to use as the basis for his final ruling in the case.

Anthony Lubrano, one of the three trustees suing the PSAA, told StateCollege. com he hopes for a ruling by the end of the week.

Trustees Lubrano, Alice Pope, Ted Brown and William Oldsey filed suit against the PSAA last month. The four trustees had submitted self-nomination forms to appear on the ballot for elections to the PSAA’s governing body. Elections for the alumni council run from Tuesday, May 12, to Sunday, May 31.

The four trustees were kept off the ballot, and the PSAA publicly explained that sitting university trustees would likely have more influence than regular alumni council members. Then, on April 17, the PSAA updated its bylaws to include a clause that explicitly states university trustees can not serve on council.

But in the court documents filed on May 4, the trustees argue that those new bylaws have no bearing on the issue before the court. The trustees argue that because they submitted their names for the ballot and filed their lawsuit before the bylaws were changed, the new rule against trustees doesn’t apply in this case.

The trustees go on to argue that the PSAA led them to incorrectly believe that filling out a nomination form guaranteed their name on the ballot. And, according to the trustees, the PSAA’s reasoning for cat-

egorically excluding trustees doesn’t hold water.

“PSAA is run by employees of Penn State University,” the filing reads. “Having Penn State University Trustees sit on Alumni Council will not allow Penn State University to exert any more influence over PSAA than having Penn State University employees run the daily operations of PSAA.” But attorneys for the alumni association fire back at the trustees in court filings of their own, saying the trustees are distorting the relationship between the university and the association for their own benefit.

The PSAA may be “aligned with Penn State by mission, but it is a separate, distinct and legally independent entity with its own governance structure,” the filing reads.

PSAA attorneys also write that under the 12-year tenure of current association director Roger Williams, “trustees seeking nomination for Alumni Council was unprecedented.”

They also claim that even if the bylaw excluding trustees was made recently, it had been discussed since last year and is a binding rule approved by 87 percent of alumni council members.

The PSAA claims it never led the trustees to believe their names were guaranteed to appear on the ballot, and that PSAA’s bylaws and election guidelines were available on its website at any point for the trustees to read through.

Kistler heard similar arguments at a previous hearing on the lawsuit. He also heard arguments in a similar lawsuit between the PSAA and university alumni James Smith.

Smith sued the PSAA after he was denied ballot access, but has since been added to the ballot and has reached a tentative settlement with the association.

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School district will offer tax rebates to elderly, disabled

By MICHAEL MARTIN GARRETT StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — Some State College residents will now be able to get a refund from the State College Area School District for taxes used to pay for the high school project.

At its May 4 meeting, the State College school board approved a new property tax rebate program to help some of State College’s least affluent residents.

Applicants must be homeowners, and there is both an age and an income requirement.

Applicants must have a household income of less than $35,000 per year. Applicants must also be 65 years or older, a widow or widower who is 50 years or older, or someone with a disability who is at least 18 years old.

Depending on household income, the rebates range from $250 to $650 and will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested residents can apply between June 1 and June 30, and checks will be mailed on a monthly basis.

Superintendent Robert O’Donnell said the idea for a rebate program first came up when the district started pitching the idea of large-scale high school renovation to the community. Many senior citizens and other residents who live on a fixed income expressed concerns about how increased taxes would impact their standard of living, O’Donnell said.

The high school project — approved by a public referendum last year — will cost taxpayers $85 million dollars.

The school district’s proposed 2015-2016 budget includes a 5.49 percent tax increase, most of which will go toward

the new high school.

“I’m troubled by the age requirement, though I do understand the reasoning,” said board member Laurel Zydney. “But at the same time, this puts us in the position of dividing the populace by age when the whole idea is to give relief to those for whom the school taxes are an inordinate burden.”

Board member Scott Fozard called the rebate program “an imperfect situation.” He said that even though the board will renew the rebate program annually, he still had concerns that it would be very difficult to change the program after it was passed. Both Fozard and Zydney voted against the program, but were outnumbered by the rest of the board.

The board also trashed a contract with an outside firm that provides substitute teachers.

The school district has worked with the Pennsylvaniabased Substitute Teacher Services for the past several years, but that changed on May 4. The board voted 7-1 to bring the hiring and coordination of substitute teachers back in-house.

Board member Jim Pawelczyk suggested the switch back wasn’t necessary because the contract was originally portrayed as a savings for the district, and the contract did not cost more than expected. But school district human resources director Linda Pierce said new information shows that ending the contract will end up saving the district about $174,000 annually.

Pierce said the decision to end the contact with STS will reduce the pool of possible substitutes from about 260 to 160 teachers.

The district will also have to create and hire a new substitute coordinator who will work closely with school principals and secretaries to keep track of the district’s substitute needs.

Pierce said hiring a new substitute coordinator will be a new cost to the district, but one that will be more than offset by the $174,000 in savings. Every board member except Pawelczyk voted to terminate the contract with STS. The board also continued to nail down many of the small details of the high school project, with a focus on the buildings’ exact floor plans.

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STATE COLLEGE — For Penn State student leaders, the safety of their constituents is of the utmost importance.

That’s why a group of representatives from student government and Greek life stopped by the May 4 borough council meeting.

“For the past few years, UPUA has received numerous complaints from our constituents that the Highlands area is excessively dark at night,” said Terry Ford, the vice president of the University Park Undergraduate Association, Penn State’s student government.

“A lot of our students specifically don’t feel safe walking in the area,” Ford added. “We formed a coalition with several other student groups and went on a tour and identified over 10 locations that we deemed to be excessively dark.”

The UPUA later included the Highlands Civic Association and borough council in the discussion. The coalition invited the civic association for a second walking tour of the neighborhood, which makes up the bulk of the downtown residential area south of Beaver Avenue, between Atherton Street and University Drive.

The group identified six areas of concern. The UPUA general assembly unanimously passed a resolution on April 29 that asks borough council to fund the installation of lights at those locations.

“In our view, if there is anything we can do as student leaders or that you can do as community leaders to enhance student safety, that’s important,” Ford said. “This isn’t so much about the cost or crime statistics, but it’s about making students feel more safe here in the community. If there is just one student that I represent that could feel more safe in this community they call home as a result of these lights, I have to speak on their behalf.”

David Stone, a State College resident running for borough council, offered mixed feelings on the idea of added lights to the Highlands.

“What I don’t want to see happen is a couple token lights as some kind of window dressing and make this all go away,” Stone said, referencing the problems with sexual assaults at fraternities. “I’m just concerned that a few lights, which may or may not be controversial, are an interesting starting point but may not be enough.”

Most of the council members seemed very receptive to the request and interested in exploring it further. Theresa Lafer, however, had some harsh words for the student representatives at the meeting.

“I grant that you need safety, but I walk my dog every night, sometimes as late as 3 a.m.,” she said. “I feel safest on the unlighted areas. I have never been accosted by an aggressive drunk anywhere other than the lighted area of Student leaders, Page 6

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Bellefonte student prepares for national competition

By CHRIS MORELLI

“Being a hands-on school, it helps a lot.

You’re actually doing things you’re interested in. Being here, you know you are going to use this later on in life because it’s what you want to do,” Benner said.

Mindi Tobias is the instructor for the dental assisting program at CPI. Tobias is thrilled that Benner was able to make nationals as a junior.

“She’s an outstanding student. Only being an 11th grader, she hasn’t covered probably a good 10 chapters that are part of the knowledge test she took down at states. She has to work above and at a faster rate than the rest of her class, which she has to do on her own time,” Tobias said.

Between now and nationals, Tobias will help Benner get prepared for the next level. “(Benner) has to practice with me. I like to monitor them weekly. She’ll have to make time for that as well. It’s on top of her regular work,” Tobias said. “It means she’ll be taking on an extra amount of work that she’s not required to do.”

Tobias will accompany Benner to Louisville. It’s the first time she’s gone with a student to nationals.

“I’m very excited,” Tobias said.

But at the end of the day, it’s not about medals or competitions. It’s about getting students prepared for their careers.

“When (students) leave here, we want them to be prepared,” Tobias said, “and they are.”

Benner said that Tobias has been a key part of her success.

“She’s one of the best teachers I’ve ever had,” Benner said. “She’s always there.

When I get nervous, she knows how to talk to me and she knows how to calm me down. At states, I was really nervous but she told me I’d do great.”

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PLEASANT GAP — Over the years, the Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology has produced its share of award-winning students.

Add Bellefonte’s Kierra Benner to the list.

The Bellefonte Area High School and CPI student will head to Louisville, Ky., in June to compete in the SkillsUSA Championships. The Bellefonte junior, who is in CPI’s dental assisting program, took first place in the SkillsUSA Pennsylvania Championships, which were held in Hershey April 8-10.

“I was so excited that I cried,” Benner said. “I wasn’t expecting it to make me feel that way, but it did. Skills was a lot of fun and winning the medal just added to that.”

Benner was up against 10 students in her division.

With that victory behind her, Benner has now begun preparing for the next stage in Louisville.

She’s going down there with the hopes of winning another medal.

“It’s exciting … it’s something for me to strive for. I really want to win nationals. It’s a big deal,” Benner said.

In Louisville, everything will be magnified. Benner is trying to make certain she is well-prepared for nationals.

“We have stations set up and I’ve been practicing those at least twice a week,” she said. “I also take things home and practice.

I study all the time.”

According to Benner, CPI has done a wonderful job preparing her for the competition as well as her career, which will come down the road.

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KIERRA BENNER, a student at CPI, will head to the SkillsUSA Championships in Louisville, Ky., next month.

It turns out that was an understatement.

With a trip to Louisville looming, Benner is doing all she can to prepare for nationals.

In addition to Tobias, her family will be traveling with her.

“Everyone is looking forward to it,” Benner said. “I think everyone is super excited.”

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Barron condemns trustees behind lawsuit

By MICHAEL MARTIN GARRETT StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State President Eric Barron, to put it mildly, is not happy with the recent actions of certain members of the university board of trustees.

In a statement released Tuesday, Barron lambasts six alumni-elected trustees for launching “a campaign against Penn State” by filing a lawsuit over certain information related to the trustee election process.

Barron goes so far as to question their approach to their duties to the university.

“As you are aware, your last lawsuit was completely unnecessary,” the letter reads. “... It is difficult to fathom why you would squander University resources in such a manner.”

The six alumni-elects — Anthony Lubrano, Ted Brown, Barbara Doran, Robert Jubelirer, Ryan McCombie, and Alice Pope — filed a petition in Centre County Court for information about business and industry candidates for the board of trustees they claimed they were unfairly denied access to.

With the election slated for Friday’s board, they demanded the court put the elections on hold. They also wanted the university to cover their legal costs, which Barron describes as “outrageous.”

Barron, as well as board chairman Keith Masser, said they have already agreed to give them the details and that no lawsuit was required.

“Board communications to you over the past few days clearly offered to make available to you the requested materials subject only to your commitment that you would

have used or threatened legal action in the past.

Most recently, the trustees filed a similar petition to the one under fire. They asked for information gathered during Louis Freeh’s investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. But Barron (who has expressed doubts about the Freeh Report and pledged to personally review it) offered the trustees the information they wanted under confidentiality restrictions, similar to his response now.

“I now hear regularly from students, faculty, staff and alumni expressing both concern and fatigue in seeing our own Trustees suing their University,” Barron said. “Penn State’s mission is teaching, research and service. Your actions are not serving that mission.”

Lubrano and Doran did not immediately return requests for comment.

keep the information confidential,” Barron wrote. “Rather than simply agree to maintain that confidence, which, as fiduciaries, you are obligated by law and Board policies to do, you elected to litigate.”

The university president explains ERIC BARRON confidentially “is a standard practice among non-profits to ensure that highcaliber candidates apply.”

Barron continued, accusing the alumni-elects of “a growing number of failures to abide by the Board’s Expectations of Membership.”

He pointed out that trustees in question

Trustee chairman slams alumni-elects over new lawsuit

By MICHAEL MARTIN GARRETT StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State board of trustees chairman Keith Masser is firing back at a new lawsuit from six of the alumni-elected trustees, calling it “yet another unfortunate, unnecessary, time-consuming and expensive distraction.”

Alumni-elects Anthony Lubrano, Ted Brown, Barbara Doran, Robert Jubelirer, William Oldsey and Alice Pope filed a petition in the Centre County Court of Common Pleas on May 4. They want the court to force the board of trustees to give them access to information used by the board’s nominating committee to evaluate business and industry candidates for the board.

In a prepared statement, Masser said it is an “accepted practice” of nonprofit boards and other institutions to keep candidate names and other sensitive information confidential “out of respect to the candidates.”

Masser also said that, even though the requested information has traditionally been kept under wraps, he is willing to release it to the alumni-elects to avoid another “waste of university resources” in court.

“Last week I agreed to make the requested information available to trustees if they would simply commit to main-

tain the confidentiality of that information,” Masser said. “… Because they have now agreed to keep the information confidential, which they could have easily done instead of suing the university, we will provide the requested information.”

But Lubrano said he and the other alumni-elects have received “absolutely zero” communication to that effect from Masser. He takes issue with Masser publicly saying the issue has been resolved, when he says the alumnielects have not received the information they seek.

“We fully intend to move forward in court,” Lubrano said.

The alumni-elects want the court to issue an injunction that would put the upcoming board of trustees elections on hold. The board is supposed to vote on new members at its Friday, May 8, meeting, but that might be delayed if this legal conflict isn’t resolved beforehand.

This is the second time in recent memory that alumnielects have petitioned board leadership for access to confidential information. Earlier this year, the same group of trustees filed a petition in court demanding access to materials gathered during Louis Freeh’s investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Masser gave a similar response to that request, granting access if the alumni-elects would agree to certain con-

Oak Hall Regional Park opens

By ZACH BERGER StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — When the Centre County Council of Governments purchased 68 acres of land from Penn State University a decade ago, leaders envisioned a beautiful, state-of-the-art park.

That plan came to fruition on Monday when the Oak Hall Regional Park opened. A grand opening ceremony was held Saturday.

The spacious park includes softball fields, a 1-mile perimeter trail and more. Arthur Conner came out to the park for the first time Saturday afternoon, walking the trail with his wife and son.

“It’s really just a gorgeous addition to the community,” Conner said. “I had to drive from about 15 minutes away to get here, but it certainly won’t be the last time I make that trip.

This is the kind of park that can be a real draw for a community.”

Jeff Hall, the sports supervisor for the Cen-

tre Region Parks & Recreation Authority, was at Oak Hall on Saturday to enjoy the festivities.

It wasn’t all work for Hall, though, as he spent some time playing in a softball tournament.

Hall says the park was years in the making and he’s proud of the end result. A kite-flying event, softball tournament, and other events were held Saturday to mark the grand opening.

“A lot of time and effort went into getting this park ready for today and everybody is enjoying it,” he said. “We’ve had a pretty good crowd here.”

As the sports supervisor, Hall said he is excited about the recreational features that a park like Oak Hall can provide for the community.

“This creates a lot of opportunities, not just for active recreation but for passive recreation with the path,” he said. “It’s a great place to come out to. It’s a great addition to the park system and everybody is just enjoying themselves out here today.”

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ANTHONY LUBRANO, left, and Keith Masser, right, of the Penn State Board of Trustees. Masser has fired back at a lawsuit filed by six of the alumni-elected trustees. fidentiality restrictions. They have since doubled down on their demands for unrestricted access, and the issue remains unresolved.

Man facing domestic abuse charges

By StateCollege.com staff

STATE COLLEGE — It began as a report about a car accident.

It ended with a State College man being arrested for allegedly beating his wife repeatedly over the past seven years.

Police responded to a call on May 4 after Benjamin Budd had accidentally totaled his wife’s car, according to court documents. While looking into the accident, police discovered that Budd’s wife had been hospitalized with back injuries.

Officers went to speak with Budd’s wife at the hospital, where they made an unexpected discovery, according to court papers. She told police that her injuries had nothing to do with the accident, and were inflicted by her husband over the weekend, reports indicate.

Budd’s wife told investigators

that she and her husband were having some kind of dispute on Saturday, when Budd allegedly began choking her.

Police said he then slammed her into a coffee table and pulled her along the floor.

He also allegedly threatened to kill her if she ever left him, according to court papers.

According to court documents, Budd’s wife had bruises consistent with being choked, as well as numerous bruises and scrapes along her back, shoulders and limbs.

She reportedly told officers that she had been abused on multiple occasions over the past seven years.

Budd was arrested and arraigned on $75,000 bail.

He faces charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, making terroristic threats and harassment.

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Partnership, from page 1

excellent example of the positive impact the university can have on economic development. “It is a groundbreaking effort that has many benefits for the university and the natural gas industry,” he said.

Last September, General Electric announced that it will invest up to $10 million in Penn State to establish a new innovation center focused on driving cutting-edge advancements in the natural gas industry.

“On behalf of the chamber, its Centre County Economic Development partnership investors and regional economic partners, I applaud President Barron for his thoughtful vision on what the university can bring to the table to foster entrepreneurial and economic development, and for recognizing the value of a formal partnership,” said Squier. “We look forward to working with university leadership on the successful implementation on Invent Penn State and realizing progress on these shared goals.”

in University Park and several Commonwealth Campuses.

The creation of new companies and jobs will be a focus of the effort.

One of the specific goals of the Invent Penn State initiative is the creation of flexible spaces for entrepreneurs, including faculty, staff and students.

“The New Leaf Initiative (in State College) is a community model that is working,” said Sharkey in his introductory remarks. “Penn State will piggyback on this model.”

Sharkey also noted that the Ben Franklin Technology Partners TechCelerator will remain an important service for fledgling businesses. The TechCelerator offers an intensive exploration of a new business’ potential for success.

Sharkey added that the relationship Penn State has with General Electric is an ALEXA LEWIS/For the Gazette

DUI RATES are on the decline in Centre County. There were 675 DUI arrests in the county 2014, down from 727 in 2013.

DUI, from page 1 less likely to get a new DWI offense than offenders sentenced by a traditional court based an evaluation of a county in Michigan.

Lunsford said 32 participants have graduated from the court program, with only one person from the program re-offending.

Law enforcement has also increased its presence in the community, with more police enforcing the DUI statues, Lunsford added.

“Ultimately we would love for the numbers to be zero,” Parham said.

Aside from aggressive enforcement, Parham said that Penn State’s police host DUI awareness programs and mandatory programs covered online for incoming students.

“Anytime we are in front of students talking about the impacts of alcohol, we

always talk about the impacts of driving under the influence,” he said.

The DUI task force also heightens enforcement during events in Centre County including football weekends, holidays and Arts Fest, Lunsford said.

Not all the eight police agencies in the report, which also include Philipsburg, Rockview and Spring Township police, reported lower DUI rates in their respective jurisdictions in 2014.

Patton Township, Rockview and Spring Township had more DUI arrests in 2014 than they did in 2013. State College Borough, however, saw the biggest decline, going from 218 arrests in 2013 to 162 arrests in 2014.

“There are people who are still not getting caught,” Parham said. “By the time someone gets stopped it might have been numerous times they have done it and not gotten caught.”

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Weaver-Gates, from page 1 Over the next couple of months, Weaver-Gates will be representing Pennsylvania. Needless to say, she’s excited.

“Being able to get out on a larger scale and be an inspiration to others … that’s what I am most excited about. I’ll have a lot more opportunities to make a difference,” she said.

Being crowned Miss Pennsylvania U.S. International simply adds to Weaver-Gates already busy life. She works two jobs — one at Strawberry Fields and one as a cheerleading instructor. She also volunteers her time and has a strong devotion to her faith.

Weaver-Gates likes to be busy. Some might even say she thrives off it.

Being busy is nothing new, she said.

“I learned at a young age how to balance things. In school, I wanted to try everything. My junior year, between school and community, I was in 21 different activities. I had a lot going on. I learned how to balance schoolwork and activities. But I also learned that you can’t say yes to everybody,” Weaver-Gates said.

In the midst of everything — pageants, work and the like — Weaver-Gates has a real battle on her hands. She’s still battling the leukemia. She recently underwent a series of chemotherapy treatments at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Overall, she said she feels good.

“I get tired a lot easier. I’ve always been a go, go, go type of person. But other than being tired, I’m doing OK. I’m still going through treatment. I’ve had two treatments so far. I have four more to go,” Weaver-Gates explained.

In August, she will have a mutated protein treatment. That’s when a protein is injected to attack the cancer cells instead of all of the cells, which is what chemotherapy does.

Throughout her treatments, WeaverGates has relied heavily on friends and family. In April, they held a “Bingo for Brandi” fundraiser, which raised money to Student leaders, from page 3 my street. Practical experience tells me that those lights increase the danger for people who live here not for two years or four years, but for five or 10 or 20 years.”

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“It was amazing. I didn’t know half of the people there. It really did surprise me,” an emotional Weaver-Gates said. “It speaks to how great our community is.

They wanted to come and support someone who is going through a hard time in their life.”

Weaver-Gates grew up in Milesburg and graduated from Bald Eagle Area High School. She’s extremely close with her parents. Telling them she was sick was one of the most difficult things she’s ever had to do, she said.

“I know that’s a parent’s worst fear, possibly losing a child. That was the hardest part, making my parents go through this. I mean, I know I’m not making them, but that’s how it feels,” Weaver-Gates said.

When she’s not working or making appearances as Miss PA U.S. International, she likes to get in touch with nature.

She said she spends a lot of time at camp.

“I love to ride four-wheelers,” WeaverGates said. “I know it sounds strange, but my goal is to get the dustiest or the muddiest. I just love getting dirty out there.”

Whether she’s competing in a pageant or riding a four-wheeler, Weaver-Gates goes all out. She lives life to the fullest.

That’s just something she’s always done, she said.

She also believes in service.

“When I was about 10 years old, I decided that I really wanted to make a difference in others’ lives and make a big difference in the world,” she said.

Her illness hasn’t changed things, she said.

“It really puts things into perspective.

It makes you think … you really need to do what you want to do now because you don’t know what’s next,” Weaver-Gates said. “I like to think this has been an inspiration to other people. Even though it’s a struggle, it’s a blessing because it has made a difference in my life and in other people’s lives.”

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Generous Centre Gives donors help us to provide compassionate care to people in need down the street, across the country and around the world. Every year the Red Cross: ■ Responds to approximately 70,000 disasters in the United States. more than 500 right here in Central Pennsylvania. Red Cross volunteers have responded to seven Centre County house fires already in 2015.

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Every nine minutes, the American Red Cross brings help and hope to people in need.

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Fighting over common ground six officers charged in Baltimore the In 1954, researchers from the Unicase belong to both communities. versity of Oklahoma conducted a It is believed that the phenomegroundbreaking study on what they non of in-group favoritism leads to called in-group favoritism. rationalization of negative behaviors Using boys at a summer camp, the within our own group and of fear, steresearchers split the boys into two reotypes and bigotry toward others. random groups and drew firm geoI remember a documentary shown graphic and interpersonal lines bein a sociology class from my days as tween the groups. an undergraduate student It didn’t take long before at Penn State about the the boys were figuratively conflict in Ireland between linking arms with the boys in the Protestants and the their own group and pointCatholics. ing their fingers at the other The filmmakers asked group — despite the fact that children about the conflict. some had been friends with “I hate Catholics,” said one kids from the other group belittle boy. “What’s a Cathofore arriving at camp. lic?” asked the interviewer.

The results of this study “It’s a monster with horns and other studies like it demwho comes at night to hurt onstrate that when human the children,” the boy anbeings identify with a group, swered. we tend to accept, encourage In-group favoritism and and support the members of out-group discrimination our own group and their bePatty Kleban, has been the foundation haviors and decisions. for a whole lot of nasty in Similarly, we are more who writes for StateCollege.com, our collective history. Last likely to be disrespectful, sus- is an instructor week’s trial and testimony picious and critical of those at Penn State, of a 93-year-old former SS in the other groups. Despite mother of three Guard at the concentration any commonalities with and a community camps should serve as a remembers of another group, volunteer. She is a in-group favoritism often Penn State alumna minder of the dangers of us versus them. leads to stereotyping and who lives with her family in Patton Republicans versus bigotry about “them.”

Democrats. Liberals versus I thought about the “us Township. Her views and opinions conservatives. Men against versus them” of in-group do not necessarily favoritism as I watched the reflect those of Penn women. Women against men. Members of one renews of the protests and riot- State. ligion against another. Ining in Baltimore. ter-group conflict. A fan of the San A young man suffers a horrific and Francisco Giants is almost beaten to fatal injury while in the custody of death by fans wearing the team shirts Baltimore police. On the day of his of the Los Angeles Dodgers despite funeral, members of his community their common enthusiasm for the began a protest which escalated to game of baseball. When others are rioting, looting and damage to propidentified as part of “them” it is easier erty. They — the police officers. Us to be critical and to assign negative — the minority community of Balticharacteristics, even though we have more. common ground.

And then we learn that three of the

By ELIZABETH GREIWE Chicago Tribune

When I was in sixth grade, I had one goal: to be on Broadway. By eighth grade, I wanted to be a teacher. The following years brought fantasies of being a baker, journalist, environmental crusader, crayon color-namer, taste tester, photographer and rock band drummer.

I trudged off to college with a vague idea of being all those things.

Now, as I’m about to graduate, I’m left with one nagging question: What do I do with my life?

I’m not the only one asking. From day one, we millennials have been told we can do anything, be anyone — as if we know what we want to do and be.

This month, masses of soon-tobe college graduates will sit through commencement speeches with the same message comedian Ellen DeGeneres gave at Tulane University in New Orleans in 2009: “Follow your passion, stay true to yourself.”

Or what Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin told Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania in 2008: “You must continue to dream the wild dream that you dreamed when you were young.”

“Dream” and “passion” are empty words at this point. They’re meant to be printed on pillows and posters, not bandied about at graduation ceremonies.

Dreams are finicky things, after all.

They fleet. They fly. They rarely stick around for long. We flirt with dreams; we don’t marry them. And yet commencement speakers — often the “1 percent” of dream achievers — tell college students year after year that dreams do, in fact, come true.

The idea is so common that a nationwide study conducted over 17 years by Arizona State University researchers Jenifer Partch and Richard Kinnier found “never give up” and “be true to yourself” were two of the most-used college commencement speech themes.

Which, to be honest, isn’t terrible advice. But you have to take a commencement speech for what it really is: a last-ditch effort to give students well-grounded advice. It’s a way to wrap up the college experience in an easy-to-digest, 15-minute package.

What’s the real best advice for students?

Don’t limit yourself.

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them to go after it. For every other lost college kid, though, this idea of a dream — some guiding life goal — carries too much baggage. It leaves no wiggle room and paralyzes graduates.

So speakers, spend your precious amount of time spreading another message. Don’t tell us what we want to hear; tell us what we need to hear.

Remind us that it’s OK to be lost, and that we don’t have to define ourselves by our careers.

Say it’s possible to lead a meaningful, fulfilling life while working a job you only sort of like. Hobbies exist for a reason. A life lived for family, friends and Sunday afternoons is one well-lived.

To some, this sounds like a copout — a scared almost-college grad’s self-pacifying cry for help. A passionfree future doesn’t negate the importance of hard work and determination, though. Instead, it puts an emphasis on reinvention and flexibility.

Life is a lot less scary if you’re not stuck to one version of yourself.

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I see it all of the time when I talk to businesses and organizations about the inclusion of people with disabilities. I often hear “we don’t have any of them” or “I am not sure what they need.” By lumping people together and assigning them to another group, we focus on characteristics of the individuals in the group that we believe sets them apart from us and emphasizes our differences.

Regardless of the label we use, we are more likely to patronize, objectify and stereotype those that we don’t consider part of our group.

If you listen closely, you can hear that the unrest in Baltimore is about more than a young man losing his life while in police custody. In this writer’s opinion, the divide has more to do with the distrust of people who live outside our own geographical and interpersonal boundaries — and looking the other way and acceptance of outrageous and illegal behaviors by the members of “our side.”

In the study from 1954, the researchers structured opportunities for the two groups to bond and join together. They found that contrived activities established to bring the two groups together did little to reduce the conflict. However, when researchers set up a situation in which both groups had to come together to solve a problem that impacted the whole community (in this instance, a fake threat to the camp’s water supply) the boys started to work together and understand that the collective “we” had the power to solve the problem.

Politicians, community activists, law enforcement and experts on communities in crisis don’t seem to agree on how to fix these problems.

It’s clear that pointing fingers and assigning blame to the other group — regardless of which group you are in — is not the way to go.

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Health & Wellness

Students give Jared Box Project a facelift

By AMY MILGRUB MARSHALL Special to the Gazette

UNIVERSITY PARK — The goal of the Jared Box Project is to uplift the spirits of children in the hospital. The boxes themselves — as well as the project website and related materials — recently got a “lift” of their own, thanks to Penn State graphic design students Meagh Cafferty and Annie Seighman.

After designing a new logo for the Jared Box Project as part of a class assignment, Cafferty and Seighman went on to volunteer their time to redesign the nonprofit organization’s website and marketing materials.

A Jared Box — named for a State College boy who died of cancer in 2001 — is a plastic storage box filled with age- and genderappropriate gifts, toys and other activities.

Individuals and organizations across the country buy and fill the boxes, affix Jared Box labels, and deliver them to local hospitals. The labels, which now feature the new logo, are downloaded from the Jared Box Project website. More than 200,000 Jared Boxes have been delivered in 47 states.

The project relies solely on word of mouth and donations from individuals and groups, explained Cindy Kolarik, founder and director of the Jared Box Proj-

ect. What started as a small activity during vacation Bible school at a State College Catholic church has evolved into a nationwide effort to put a smile on the faces of children in the hospital.

While the Jared Boxes were serving their purpose, Kolarik knew the organization’s logo and the labels used on the boxes could use a facelift. So, she got in touch with neighbor Kristin Sommese, a graphic design professor at Penn State, who gave her students the assignment of redesigning the Jared Box logo. Kolarik chose Cafferty and Seighman’s logo because of its whimsical, yet polished, design.

“The ‘smile’ logo that they created is perfect for us, because it crosses all ages,” said Kolarik.

Kolarik was happy to have a new logo, but was ecstatic when Cafferty and Seighman volunteered to redesign the Jared Box Project’s website and other marketing materials.

“Meagh and Annie really wanted to help the Jared Box Project. They had little experience in web design and development, but they learned as they went along. They were phenomenal to work with.”

Annie and Meagh said they enjoyed working for an “amazing cause.”

“Cindy was so appreciative of everything we did, the entire time,” said Seigh-

man, noting the project is a great addition to her portfolio. “It’s nice for our career goals because this is an extensive portfolio piece, and along the way we were able to teach ourselves to code a responsive website. That skill is a huge plus for designers in our field.”

According to Cafferty, this project was different from other class assignments.

“This is one of the most relevant projects we’ve had because it actually came to fruition and is live, instead of just a proof-ofconcept like most of our student work.”

For Kolarik, the project is a “gamechanger.”

“The materials they designed are so polished, and will help the project grow even more,” she said. “They are professional quality, top-notch. They will be a huge help for the Jared Box Project.”

Kolarik noted the Jared Box Project has been fortunate to have assistance from other Penn Staters, including public relations students who developed a marketing plan and business students who will be helping the organization gain corporate sponsorship.

“The Jared Box Project is such a feelgood project,” said Kolarik. “As soon as people hear about it, they want to make boxes. I love volunteering for this — it’s very rewarding.”

Submitted graphic

THE NEW Jared Box Project logo was designed

by Penn State students Meagh Cafferty and Annie Seighman.

For more information and to see some of the materials designed by Cafferty and Seighman, visit www.thejaredbox.com.

It’s time to give your health a spring cleaning You may worry about keeping your house in good order, but your health is even more important. Just like you need to defrost the freezer and steam clean the drapes to spruce up your house, spring cleaning your health can be beneficial, too.

If you haven’t done some regularly scheduled maintenance in awhile, it’s time to get started. Here are 10 ways to give your body a thorough spring cleaning: ■ Sweep out the cobwebs.

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It’s time to revitalize your body’s most important organ: the brain. Ways to keep your thinking sharp include eating brainhealthy foods such as salmon and spinach, challenging yourself mentally by reading and solving puzzles, and getting plenty of exercise.

■ Clear out the cupboards.

Spring is a great time to detox from highly processed snacks. Hit the farmers’ market and replace those expensive, unhealthy packaged foods with fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables.

■ Let in the fresh air.

When you smoke, you breathe in more than 7,000 deadly chemicals. Some tips to help you kick the habit include writing down the reasons you want to quit, creating a personal goal for being smoke-free, getting support from the PA Free Quitline at (800) QUIT-NOW, avoiding triggers, chewing gum to beat cravings and joining a support group.

Not only will quitting help prevent cancer, but it has a fringe benefit, too — your house will smell nicer.

■ Dust off your track shoes.

Spring is the perfect time to get rid of those unwelcome pounds that may have crept in over the winter months, and regular exercise also helps relieve stress, promotes better sleep, reduces your risk of heart disease and boosts your mood.

■ Flush out your system.

Not only is water a go-to household cleaner, but it does wonders for flushing out toxins in your body. Drinking water also maintains your body fluids, controls calories, clears up skin and boosts productivity.

In order to get the recommended daily 64 ounces or water, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests taking a drink every time you walk past a water fountain, keeping a bottle of water at your desk and eating foods that are high in water, such as lettuce and watermelon.

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Just as you’d scrub behind the refrigerator or dust the top of the light fixture, you need to see a professional dermatologist to see if that mole on your back has changed. Your doctor will check for any moles with asymmetry, border irregularity, color variation or a diameter larger than a pencil eraser.

■ Tidy up your checkup habits.

Looking good on the surface is not enough. Every year, you should look deeply into your health with a checkup that includes cholesterol and triglyceride tests, a Pap smear, a breast exam and a mammogram if you’re over a certain age.

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Strucko to serve as top financial officer for College of Medicine HERSHEY — Eric Strucko has been named Penn State’s associate vice president for finance and business and controller for Penn State College of Medicine. He will replace Wayne Zolko, who intends to retire on June 30 after 31 years of service to Penn State, the College of Medicine and Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

Since 2007, Strucko has served as the chief financial officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group, the physician practice plan for the University of Virginia Health System.

That organization includes more than 900 faculty-physicians and 400 allied health professionals and administrative staff. It produces more than $392 million in annual revenue as well as $16 million in direct academic support for the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

In his role as CFO, Strucko had administrative respon-

sibility for finance, accounting, treasury, revenue cycle, facilities management and information technology functions for the group. He also served as interim chief executive officer of the organization for six months in 2010.

From 1999 to 2007, Strucko was vice president and director of financial planning and analysis for CFA Institute, where he oversaw financial and corporate planning, budgeting, ERIC STRUCKO sales forecasting, pricing policy development, economic appraisals, investment and reserve policy and accounting.

Strucko’s background also includes serving as both

the director of budget and manager of financial planning and analysis for University of Virginia Medical Center, various roles as a financial analyst for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and two years as a budget specialist in President Bill Clinton’s Office of Management and Budget.

Strucko earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and business administration from Vanderbilt University and holds several graduate degrees, including a master’s of public administration from George Washington University, a master’s of public policy from Georgetown University and a master’s of public health from the University of Virginia.

He is currently working to complete studies for his doctorate in health administration at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Parent named vice dean for research and graduate studies HERSHEY — Dr. Leslie Parent, chief of Penn State College of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, has been named vice dean for research and graduate studies for the College of Medicine and Medical Center, and associate vice president for research at Penn State University, effective June 1.

Parent graduated from Dartmouth College in 1983 and earned her doctor of medicine degree at Duke University School of Medicine in 1987.

During medical school, she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar at the National Institutes of Health, and she was elected into Alpha Omega Alpha.

She completed her residency in the clinician-investigator pathway in internal medicine at Duke.

In 1991, she arrived at the College of Medicine as a fellow in infectious diseases, and in 1995 she was appointed

as an assistant professor.

Parent rose through the ranks until achieving her current position as a tenured professor of medicine with a joint appointment in microbiology and immunology and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology.

She has served in several leadership roles, including co-director of the MD/PhD Program, co-leader of pilot studies in the Penn State Clinical LESLIE PARENT and Translational Science Institute, chair of the College of Medicine Promotion and Tenure Committee and co-chair of the Scientific Review Committee.

She has been recognized with numerous honors and awards, including the Hinkle Society Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Department of Medicine.

She also is a fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology, American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America.

As a physician-scientist, Parent’s research focuses on understanding how retroviruses, including the human immunodeficiency virus, co-opt cellular machinery to assemble new virus particles to spread infection. She has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1993.

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May 7-13, 2015

Military historian appointed Penn State Laureate UNIVERSITY PARK — Carol Reardon, the George Winfree Professor of American History, has been named the Penn State laureate for the 2015-16 academic year.

The Penn State laureate, an honorary position established in 2008, is a full-time faculty member in the humanities or the arts who is assigned half-time for one academic year to bring an enhanced level of social, cultural, artistic and human perspective and awareness to a broad array of audiences.

The laureate appears at university events at Penn State campuses and throughout the state at various community programs, with the hope of adding a more human dimension to the conduct of the usual affairs and business of these locations. Reardon succeeds Susan Russell, an associate professor of theatre.

“Carol Reardon’s scholarship and teaching on military history, Civil War strategy and leadership have helped shape our nation’s understanding of military conflicts,” said Penn State President Eric Barron. “She is an engaging speaker with great stories about Gettysburg, Vietnam and other wars; she is sure to make a lasting impact on our community during her laureate year.”

Reardon’s teaching and research center on American military history — especially the Civil War and Vietnam eras. She is the author of numerous publications, including the award-winning book “Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory.” In this work, she used the famous Confederate assault at Gettysburg to explore the ways in which the power of memory can shape and, over time, even reshape our perceptions of important events.

“We view the past through two sets of lenses,” Reardon noted. “The first is an intellectually centered force we call ‘history,’ one that is objective, analytical and seeks a truthful accounting of an episode in the past.” The second force, she added, “is an emotionally centered one called ‘memory,’ that — with or without premeditation — selects, sentimentalizes or sanitizes past events to create a narrative designed to satisfy a particular social need or to appease or to appeal to a specific audience.” Much of the popular understanding of Pickett’s Charge today, she concludes, relies heavily on the pull of memory and the truth of history has suffered for it.

Reardon also has published “Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972,” a required reading at the Air Command and Staff College, “With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other” about military theory in the Civil War North, and the award-winning “A Field Guide to Gettysburg,” with retired U.S. Army Col. Tom Vossler.

A highly sought-after speaker, Reardon regularly addresses public historical interest groups including the Get-

tysburg Foundation, the Seminary Ridge Museum at Gettysburg, the Pennsylvania Military Museum at Boalsburg and the Smithsonian Institute. Her talks have been broadcast on the Pennsylvania Cable Network and on C-SPAN. She has contributed to a number of historical documentaries on topics as diverse as the history of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Civil War generalship and battle commemorations.

Reardon served as a visiting professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served two terms as the Gen. Harold K. Johnson Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army War College. For nearly 14 years, she served on the board of visitors of the Marine Corps University, including a term as board chair, and received the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for her contributions to that institution. She also became the first woman to be elected to serve as president of the Society for Military History, the most noted international scholarly organization in the field.

Among her many honors, Reardon received the Victor Gondos Memorial Service award from the Society for Military History for contributions to the society’s efforts to advance the study of military history. In 2007, she received the coveted George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest award given for teaching at Penn State.

Reardon plans to use her year as university laureate to encourage informed reflection and open dialogue on war, peace and remembrance. “As a military historian, I am interested in the causes, conduct, cost and consequences of wars, as well as the lessons we learn or — just as important — fail to learn from these transformational events,” she said.

With the recent close of the War of 1812 bicentennial and the Civil War’s sesquicentennial commemorations, as well as the start of the centennial of World War I and the 50-year anniversary of the landing of Marines at Danang to start the American combat mission in Vietnam, it is an appropriate time to do this — and to remember that these events touched everyone in their times regardless of political views, social position or economic status.

Not surprisingly, Reardon takes a very serious interest in leadership and decision-making in such high-risk and high-stakes moments, and she has applied her knowledge extensively in what she readily admits is her “favorite classroom” — Gettysburg. Each year, she leads leadership “staff rides” there for ROTC and West Point cadets, international officers and even senior Pentagon officials, to analyze and critique the command decisions of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. George G. Meade and then to consider how modern commanders — and their political superi-

Local St. Francis University students inducted into NHS

Deardorff recognized at Lebanon Valley College

LORETTO — More than 100 students from St. Francis University were inducted into the Delta Epsilon Sigma National Honor Society.

To achieve induction, students must have completed at least 50 percent of the credit requirements toward their degree, have a minimum GPA of 3.7 and have St. Francis University faculty support for candidacy.

The following local residents were among those inducted: Michelle Simpson, of Port Matilda; Megan Yoder, of State College; Sara Benfer, of Millheim; and Alex Raup, of State College.

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CAROL REARDON, the George Winfree Professor of American History, has been named Penn State’s laureate for the 2015-16 academic year. ors and the folks on the home front — might respond to similar challenges today. She also developed specially tailored versions of these programs for leaders of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and law enforcement groups; for journalists; for educators in history, literature, art history and other academic disciplines; for agriculture and forestry specialists; and more. As part of her laureate year, she extends an invitation to interested groups in the greater Penn State community to join her in Gettysburg to talk about war, peace, remembrance and leadership.

Barron made the final selection for laureate following a recommendation by the review committee. The committee, chaired by Blannie Bowen, vice provost for academic affairs, included David Christiansen, associate vice president and senior associate dean for academic programs in the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses; Barbara Korner, dean of the College of Arts and Architecture; Ryan McCombie, a member of the board of trustees; Ken Womack, professor of English and integrative arts at Penn State Altoona and the 2013-14 Penn State laureate; Bonj Szczygiel, associate professor of landscape architecture and women’s studies in the College of Arts and Architecture; and Susan Welch, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts.

For more details about current and past Penn State laureates, visit laureate.psu.edu. Additional information about the Penn State laureate program is available at www. psu.edu/vpaa/laureate.htm.

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ANNVILLE — Andrew Deardorff, of Spring Mills, was among 130 students recognized by Lebanon Valley College for making an impact on the campus as a new student.

The Celebration of Student Success reception, held April 7 in Mund College Center, honored students’ achievements.

Deardorff is a graduate of Penns Valley Area High School and is pursuing a bachelor of science degree in health science.

The honorees were nominated by faculty and administrators for standing out in the classroom, in their work with classmates, as student leaders, in on-campus employment, or in extracurricular activities such as athletics, performance or volunteerism.

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DR. KAREN WISER and Larry Walker recently presented the International Technology and Engineering Education Association award to Jeff Seamans, a Park Forest Middle School technology education instructor. Seamans was recognized at the spring ITEEA conference as a 2015 Middle School Technology Teacher of the Year.

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CHELSEA BOUCHER, of State College, an accounting major at South Hills School of Business and Technology, recently won several awards at the State Leadership Conference of Phi Beta Lambda in Harrisburg. She placed first in the accounting for professionals competition and second in cost accounting. Boucher was also the recipient of a Who’s Who Award, one of only four honorary awards given to collegiate business leaders for their outstanding community service work. Several hundred college students from across the state participated in the motivational seminars and competitive events at the annual convention. Pictured, from left, are Brenna Shutika, South Hills School accounting instructor, Boucher and Wendy Eismont, accounting instructor.

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ONE OF THE highlights of the recent CPI open house was a dirt track race car that featured a 900-horsepower engine. Pictured, from left, are crew member and car owner’s wife Pam Wilson, CPI collision repair instructor Brian Hummel, and car owner and driver Tim Wilson, who was the 2013 Port Royal Speedway super-late model track champion.

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MUD RUN competitors leave the start line and dive into a muddy pool.

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May 7-13, 2015

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PARTICIPANTS HAD TO climb on suspended rope netting as part of the Mud Run.

Mud Run benefits Jared Box Project

By SAM STITZER pennsvalley@centrecountygazette.com

CENTRE HALL — About 150 people got down and dirty to raise money for charity during the recent Mud Run, sponsored by Left Right Repeat, a motivational running events company. The run was held at the Grange fairgrounds in Centre Hall on May 2 and 3 to benefit the Jared Box Project, which strives to lift the spirits of hospitalized children.

A Jared Box is a plastic storage box filled with small gifts, toys, games and fun activities. Each box contains items selected for a specific age and gender. The boxes

provide a diversion for young patients in emergency rooms, patient rooms, surgical centers and clinics and as they receive chemotherapy and other medical treatments.

More than 200,000 Jared Boxes have been delivered across the United States. The Jared Box project was started in 2001 by the children at Our Lady of Victory School in State College to honor Jared, their classmate and friend.

The Mud Run consisted of a nearly 6-mile course traversing the entire 267 acres of the fairgrounds. Scattered around the course were 18 obstacles for the runners to surmount. Runners had to dive through watery mud pits, climb

Md., so Ron could run in the race.

“He’s 53 years old, and he never did this before,” said Angela Fletcher.

The Fletchers’ daughter Tyler, a student at Juniata College in Huntingdon, heard about the Mud Run and challenged her dad to run with her.

Prizes, including gift cards from Appalachian Outdoor House, the Hotel State College and others, were awarded to the top three male and female finishers of the run. The first man to cross the finish line was 19-year-old Jonathan Sponsler, of State College. He was cheered on by his grandparents, Jackie and Glenn Stone, of State College.

plywood walls, run up and down ramps, climb across large nets, slide down flooded plastic sheets, and generally have their strength and endurance tested as they ran the course. Runners were started in groups of about 30 people each at intervals throughout the day.

Mud Run co-founder Michael Olmstead said this event was the third of its kind in this area, and this was the first time it was held at the Grange fairgrounds. He was grateful to the Grange organization for allowing the use of the grounds.

The event attracted many local competitors, as well as some from out of the area.

Ron and Angela Fletcher came from Street,

Country star Brooks holds sports event for kids

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — With a week between the second half his six-show stop in State College, country star Garth Brooks used at least some of that time to help with a great cause.

Teammates for Kids is a program that was started in 1999 by Brooks and Bo Mitchell. The program’s camps focus on the importance of teamwork, family and respect. In addition, the program teams up with athletes from multiple sports to convert their stats into donations that help kids in need. While on tour, Brooks attends the camps as frequently as he can, making the most of every stop along the way.

The foundation has raised more than $100 million to help children in more than 60 countries around the globe.

On May 2, the focus was hockey. Even with the ice melted from the Pegula Ice Arena surface, nearly 50 kids broke into teams to play floor hockey with the help of players from both Penn State’s men’s and women’s ice hockey teams.

Brooks, dressed in a jeans and sweatshirt and cheering the entire time, made it hard to pinpoint him as one of the nation’s most famous music stars. But, as he said later, elementary-age kids don’t have any idea who he is, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have a good time with him.

“The most fun I’ve ever had on tour are the camps,” Brooks said, standing on the arena floor. “These camps right here, over all of the years, are the most fun. I’m so glad that this foundation has been around long enough for us to make the impact that we have. If we make one of these kid’s days better or help them feel better about themselves, this whole camp, this whole tour, was worth it.”

Even if the camp was a casual affair, that didn’t mean Penn State’s hockey players weren’t in a competitive mode. Goaltender Matthew Skoff coached up his noteven-4-foot-tall goaltender while Eric Scheid worked on quick passes with players not bigger than their hockey sticks.

“Obviously, I’d like to beat Skoff if our teams face off,” Scheid said, laughing. “But I think the biggest thing for me is to show kids about our game. It’s growing, but it still has plenty of room to grow, especially college hockey. If one or two of these kids today come out of here and grow their love of the game, I think that’s great.”

“To believe in themselves and love each other, if that comes through the game of hockey or the game of life, that’s all we’re after,” Brooks said as a ball rolled by his feet.

On the stage, Brooks finished his long stay in State College on May 2. But, for a few hours inside Pegula Ice Arena earlier that day, he hoped to make a memory that will last far longer than just a few days.

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GARTH BROOKS, shown here during a news conference at the Bryce Jordan Center, held a special sports event for kids at Pegula Ice Arena on May 2.

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Academic team takes second place in nationals

By SAM STITZER pennsvalley@centrecountygazette.com

SPRING MILLS — Penns Valley’s Academic Decathlon team, which won the small school division at the Pennsylvania state competition in March, faced 15 other statechampionship teams in the national online finals on April 17.

They competed in eight categories — essay, art, music, literature, science, social science, economics and math — coming away with 11 subject area medals and the second place banner. First place was claimed by the team from University High School in Fresno, Calif., whose win was their eighth consecutive victory.

Penns Valley, in the school’s first-ever competition at the national level, edged out schools from Nebraska and Arizona, and defeated teams from 12 other states to claim second place.

Maria McQuaide, whose score at the state competition set a new Pennsylvania record, came in fourth place overall at nationals. She won six medals in literature, music, science, art, economics and social science.

Ben Kupp, who won medals in math and science, took fifth place, and Haley Brown placed 10th in the honors division.

In the scholastic division, Samantha Bastress, who won a medal in literature, placed seventh, and James Steffen placed ninth. In the varsity division, Dan Kozar won medals in math and art, placing fifth.

Harrison Burd, Jeremy Shawley and Josh Martin also posted strong scores.

For the national online competition, coaches Cory Zatek and Sarah Farrant decorated a room in the high school to resemble California, since that is where nationals were being held.

Only one team from each state travels to the nationals (North Penn High School was Pennsylvania’s representative), but divisional winners in small, medium and large school categories compete online at the same time from their home schools.

English teacher Megan Hull proctored the tests for Penns Valley.
 When preparing for the state competition, the hashtag #PlaqueQuest2015 was the team’s rallying cry. The original goal had been to win the third-place small school plaque, which Penns Valley had narrowly missed the previous two

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PENNS VALLEY High School’s Academic Decathlon team recently placed second during online national finals. Pictured, from left, are Haley Brown, Josh Martin, Maria McQuaide, Samantha Bastress, Ben Kupp, James Steffen, Harrison Burd, Jeremy Shawley and Dan Kozar. 

 years. Since the team had exceeded that goal, earning two first-place plaques — one for winning the small school division, and the other for winning the Super Quiz relay — their next focus became a national banner, as seen on the team’s T-shirts, which had #BannerQuest2015 on the front. “Coming in second place in the nation in our divi-

Farmers’ Market to open LEMONT — The Lemont Farmers’ Market will be open from 3 to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays beginning May 20.

The market runs until Oct. 21. It will be held in the Coal Sheds, the lower part of the Granary buildings, between the Grain Elevator and the Center for Well Being, at 133 Mount Nittany Road in Lemont.

Vendors include: The Bee Tree Berry Farm, Brazilian Munchies, Food for Thought, Garden Secrets, Garlic 101, Jane Robson Crafts, Mt. Nittany Vineyard and Winery, Rothrock Botanicals, Scenic View Farm, Serendipity’s Cakes of Distinction, Surly Hedgehog, Veg Out and Wing Haven Nursery.

There is still room for more vendors. For more information, contact Anna Kochersperger at kochrose@gmail.com.

Composting workshop set STATE COLLEGE — Learn how to turn kitchen scraps and yard waste into black gold at the upcoming Backyard Composting Workshop.

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A banquet to celebrate the achievements of the team and to present the national banner and medals will be held at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 29, at the Penns Valley Area High School cafeteria.

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Penns Valley school to host Color-A-Thon fundraiser

By SAM STITZER pennsvalley@centrecountygazette.com

SPRING MILLS — This is the time of year when the stark colors of winter give way to the bright colors of spring — green grass returns to yards, trees sprout pink and white blossoms, yellow daffodils and dandelion flowers bloom — all under bright blue skies.

Some folks in Penns Valley will get an additional dose of color on Saturday, May 9, during a Color-A-Thon that will be held on the Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School grounds.

The event is a 3K non-competitive run/ walk during which participants are showered with colored, powdered corn starch at locations around the course.

The event is being held as a fundraiser for the school’s Parent-Teacher Organization.

Participating students are required to raise $30 in donations, and each student receives a white event T-shirt and a color dye pack. Larger donation amounts are rewarded with additional prizes, such as white wigs, tutus, windshield-wiper glasses and multi-colored socks to wear on the run.

PTO president Denny McCloskey said that about 200 students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade are registered for the event, but it is open to anyone, with walk-ins paying a $30 fee to participate.

Registration begins at 8 a.m., and the first group of runners steps off at 9 a.m.

Event co-organizer Amy Smith said the colored powder washes out, or can be blown off skin and clothing easily. But, soaking the T-shirts in vinegar permanently sets the colors for those wanting a multicolored memento of the event.

McCloskey and Smith noted that the Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School is the first school in the region to hold a Color-A-Thon. “We’re the guinea pig school,” said Smith.

McCloskey said that some other schools in Pennsylvania and other states have begun holding similar events recently, and the trend is catching on.

The focus of the PTO’s fundraising efforts is the construction of an outdoor classroom area in a courtyard at the Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School building.

“Right now they have picnic tables there for when kids want to go outside and eat when the weather is nice,” said McCloskey. “It’s going to be a combination space. The picnic tables will remain, and the other half will be built in phases as we can afford them.”

He said plans for the space include a weather station, a garden, a sustainable energy station (possibly solar panels or a small wind turbine) and a worm farm, among other items.

“We have plans set for certain phases of

Free coffee for bike riders STATE COLLEGE — May is National Bike to Work Month, and to celebrate, CentreBike will be giving out free coffee to commuting cyclists in State College from 8 to 8:45 a.m. every Friday in May. On May 8, coffee will be handed out at the Old Main steps, with a group photo scheduled for 8 a.m. On May 15, coffee will be handed out

at the Bicycle Shop, 441 W. College Ave. On May 22, the event will take place at Freeze Thaw Cycles, 109 S. Allen St. The final event will take place on May 29 at the State College Borough Building.

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PENNS VALLEY Color-A-Thon organizers Denny McCloskey and Amy Smith show some of the prizes students receive for raising donations for the 3K run and walk to be held on May 9. it, and in the meantime, we don’t want to ruin any of the space,” he said. He said the space would be available to all schools in

the Penns Valley district to use.

For more information on the Color-AThon, call McCloskey at (814) 360-1094.

Spelling bee held at Foxdale Village STATE COLLEGE — The Mid-State Literacy Council held its 17th annual Ron and Mary Maxwell Community Spelling Bee, in honor of Ruth Kistler, on April 8 at Foxdale Village.

The evening included a double-elimination competition of 18 teams and 56 spellers. Each team was sponsored by area businesses.

In the end, spellers Jenna Knaff, Helen Warren and Sarah Sinclair, sponsored by

community developer Galen Dreibelbis, were the winners.

Food and basket raffle items were also donated by local businesses for the event.

All proceeds from the spelling bee will go toward adult literacy programs at MidState Literacy Council.

To learn more about Mid-State Literacy Council, visit www.mid-stateliteracycouncil.org. To view the bee on C-Net, visit http://cnet.pegcentral.com.

Tudek Park to host Skywatch STATE COLLEGE — The free Central PA Observers Skywatch will take place from 9 to 11 p.m. on Friday, May 8, at Tudek Park, 400 Herman Drive in State College.

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will take place at 7 p.m.

Telescopes are provided, but participants can also bring their own.

Visit www.cpoclub.org/skywatches or contact Mike Renne at mjr211@psu.edu.

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Plant sale scheduled LEMONT — A plant sale will be held in Lemont from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, at the Village Green between Dale Street and Mount Nittany Road, just off Pike Street in Lemont.

Proceeds will benefit the Lemont Village Association Granary Project.

Annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, herbs, vegetables and more will be available. The plants are from Patchwork Farms and Lemont Gardens.

For more information, contact Sue Smith at (814) 2381288.

Day of prayer planned HOWARD — Curtin United Methodist Church will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, for the National Day of Prayer. The church is located at 305 Curtin Village Road in Howard, three miles north of Milesburg near historic Curtin Village.

For more information, contact Paula Workman at (814) 359-3459.

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CENTRE CREST held its Mini Relay for Life on April 25. Pictured, from left, are Gail Miller, Jen Leydig, Karen Barner, Kalan Turner and Bobbie Salvaterra.

Centre Crest celebrates fundraising efforts

BELLEFONTE — On April 25, Centre Crest hosted its Mini Relay for Life to celebrate the fundraising efforts of its team. Centre Crest raised $1,820 for the American Cancer Society.

A quarters auction was held in March and a basket auction was held in April.

The theme for the mini relay was “Strike Out Cancer.”

The resident dining room was festooned with baseballthemed decorations, the residents received fun door prizes, and entertainment was provided by Bellefonte’s Ramblin’ Dan Stevens.

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Gail Miller, fundraising chair for the Bellefonte Relay for Life, was on hand to assist with the event. She and Jen Leydig, ACS Relay for Life specialist, received Centre Crest’s fundraising check.

Centre Crest staff who organized the event were Bobbie Salvaterra, director of therapeutic recreation, Kalan Turner, certified therapeutic recreation specialist, and Karen Barner, certified music therapist.

The Bellefonte Relay for Life will take place on Friday, May 29, and Saturday, May 30, at Bellefonte Governor’s Park.

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The Great War Remembered: World War One

Saturday, May 9 & Sunday May 10 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Living historians encamp on the grounds demonstrating life on the Western Front.

Daily lecture topics in the museum theater.

THE FIFTH ANNUAL Race Day Soiree was held on May 2 to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. Pictured, from left, are committee members Karen Infield, Jen Driscoll, Michele Sebastianelli, Mary Brown, Susan Lauth, Linda Gall and Sharon Lieb. Missing from the photo is Christine Zlupko. The event raised $84,000.

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MEMBERS OF Phi Kappa Psi fraternity recently helped clean up Graysville Cemetery. Pictured, from left, are Pat Terry, Palmer Casses, John Armstrong, Steve Herron, Rob Gueriera, Michael Snyder and Alex Bunney.

Fraternity helps with cemetery clean-up GRAYSVILLE —The Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity at Penn State recently conducted its fifth annual Volunteer Clean-up at the Graysville Cemetery.

The cemetery, located in the village of Graysville, is 8 miles west of Pine Grove Mills along Route 45 in northern Huntingdon County.

This historic site is often referred to as the best kept secret in the area, nestled atop the hill behind the Upper Spruce Creek Presbyterian Church in a remarkably beautiful and peaceful setting.

The oldest marked grave in the cemetery dates to 1720, 12 years before George Washington’s birth. Veterans from all wars dating to the Revolutionary War are interred at Graysville.

In 2011, the brothers of Phi Kappa Psi assisted members of the cemetery’s board of directors and area volunteers during their annual day-long spring clean-up. The fraternity has volunteered every year since, donning glove, bringing rakes and tackling the clean-up of the 20-plus-acre cemetery, much to the appreciation of the cemetery’s board.

Run for Rwanda set Legion to hold service BOALSBURG — The 4K Run for Rwanda will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 16, at the Boalsburg Military Museum. All proceeds will go to Hope Made Real.

Registration is $20 and can be done on site beginning at 9 a.m. or online at www.imathlete.com/events/4k4rwanda.

For more information, contact Lauren Sonsteby at 4k4rwanda@gmail.com.

Book signing scheduled HOWARD — A book signing for “The Shaman’s Dilemma,” by Howard Hatton, will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 9, at Howard United Methodist Church, 144 W. Main St. Books will be for sale at the signing and refreshments will be provided.

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STATE COLLEGE — American Legion Post 245 will conduct a Memorial Day service at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 24, at the Pine Hall Cemetery.

The guest speaker is Kathy Brown. Brown is an IT manager at Penn State and is a member of the Toastmaster Club in State College.

The Centre Heritage Singers will provide music. Directed by Miriam Locklin, the Centre Heritage Singers have 18 members from around Centre County.

For more information about the Pine Hall Cemetery, visit www.pinehallcemetery.org.

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Authority reports results STATE COLLEGE — People from 1,070 households took advantage of Centre County’s Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program last weekend at the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority.

Approximately 57,000 pounds of material was collected during the two-day event. In all, 964 vehicles brought hazardous chemicals to the facility, with residents from 33 of the county’s 35 municipalities participating.

There also were several dozen people from seven surrounding counties and as far away as Erie County who participated. One person made the trek to the collection on a bicycle.

The next collection event will be held a year from now.

Museum offers grad photos UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State All-Sports Museum will offer graduation photos in Beaver Stadium during commencement weekend. Registration is not required, and photos will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.

Three different times are available: noon to 4 p.m., Friday, May 8; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 9; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, May 10.

The cost is $35, and proceeds benefit the Penn State All-Sports Museum’s collections and public programming.

For more information, contact the museum at (814) 865-0044.

Open house to be held STATE COLLEGE — Foxdale Village will celebrate its 25th anniversary with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 7. Foxdale Village is located at 500 E. Marilyn Ave. in State College.

Guests can enjoy refreshments and explore the campus.

Those attending will have the chance to tour the community building, apartments, cottages and wellness and fitness center, as well as meet residents.

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Habitat for Humanity walks for affordable housing

By ZACH BERGER StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — The sun shone down on Tudek Memorial Park on May 3 as a group of dedicated volunteers and supporters walked through the grass.

They walked for those less fortunate in Centre County, those who can’t afford to buy their own home because of financial hardship.

About 40 walkers participated in the annual event, which raises money for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County.

The HouseWalk aims to help put families in homes with an affordable mortgage.

“Affordable housing continues to be a hot topic issue in the Centre County region,” said Jill Redman, the organization’s executive director.

“Habitat continues to be one of the few organizations that serves families. The importance of it is that there’s really very few opportunities for them. They are families that would not qualify for a traditional mortgage.”

Redman said Habitat’s mission is to lessen the burden on less-privileged families to allow them to focus on the other aspects of life.

“It’s an amazing opportunity to provide that stable home environment, which ultimately enriches the rest of their lives,” she said. “They have stability in their home and it allows them to focus on other areas

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of their lives and their kids’ lives and things like that.”

The HouseWalk raised $5,600, money that will go toward renovations on two homes that will eventually house two Habitat partner families. The walk has become a tradition for the organization, and Redman described it as a “low-key event with more dedicated volunteers and supporters.”

One such volunteer is Cecilia Eastman, who said the work Habitat does is important not just for financial assistance but also because it raises awareness for a pressing and prevalent issue.

“There are so many families in our community that really need this kind of support. From a community aspect, I’m really interested in helping the good work they do,” Eastman said. “Sometimes the families that need this support are kind of invisible in communities like this, so calling attention to their needs is very important.”

Joan Wertz also came out to the park to support Habitat and participate in the HouseWalk. Wertz said that Habitat’s work helps boost the confidence and spirit of those in need of housing.

“You need organizations like Habitat.

The people can’t see and figure out all the facets of home ownership,” she said.

“There’s no way they would be able to walk through that maze by themselves. And then Habitat encourages them to give back

through work equity, which build their self-esteem because they’re able to help others.

“People who are stuck renting forever are able to get into their own home and take so much pride in home ownership and themselves and what they can accomplish,” Wertz added. “It boosts the whole person’s self-morale.”

While events like the HouseWalk are integral for Habitat’s continued success and impact in Centre County, Redman said the organization also needs help from local

government to push for more affordable housing.

“The local jurisdictions can help pave the way. A lot of them have done a good job drafting zoning ordinances that require an affordable housing option in new developments,” she said. “Every developer or builder ultimately has to make the decision if they’re building for families in our income bracket or outside of it. The townships can continue to be supportive and thoughtful by pushing their hand to include affordable housing.”

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‘Mama Arlene’ leads Rwandan orphanage With Mother’s Day approaching, our thoughts turn to moms and all that they do for us. One former Clearfield woman, Arlene Brown, or “Mama Arlene” as she is known at the Urukundo Home in Rwanda, is mother to 54 children.

Brown grew up in Clearfield and spent her early career in nursing. For 18 years she stayed home with her children and then worked at GTE Sylvania. At the age of 65, looking for something more meaningful to do with her remaining years, Brown traveled to Africa.

First, she was in the the Democratic Republic of Congo, working for a nonprofit and helping in a refugee Connie Cousins camp. A volcano erupcovers a wide variety of events in tion forced the group Centre County for to flee to Rwanda, and the Centre County there she felt a calling Gazette. Email her for new work. Brown at ccous67@gmail. decided to dedicate com. herself to making the lives of orphaned and abandoned children better.

The nonprofit Brown started in 2004 after moving permanently to Rwanda is called Hope Made Real. Little by little, she managed to build the Urukundo Home for Children to care for orphans. As she got the money, she expanded the home, and now 54 children live there. Others attend boarding school for high school and college years with the support of Hope Made Real. Additionally, 300 children from the community attend a nursery school that Brown also manages.

The teachers at the Urukundo School either have teaching degrees or are attending university to receive one. The school’s head teacher, Irene, is in the process of gaining a certificate in school administration. The school receives many inquiries about job oppportunities because it is now recognized for its excellence.

“My strong points are my faith and my bossiness,” said the 80-year-old Brown.

“My awareness of the community serves me well in dealing with the needs of my children and the local population. The school was built room by room as the funds came. We now have three rooms of preschool and kindergarten and two (for) each grade level through grade three.

“Children are the victims and suffer the most,” said Brown. “It is important to give them a home and a chance. The children at the home are not ‘thrown-away’ children — they are thrown to us for care and an opportunity to thrive.”

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ARLENE BROWN has made it her life’s mission to help and educate children at the Urukundo Home in Rwanda. one fifth-grade room. Brown is well on her way to reaching her goal of having rooms for every grade through sixth.

As the school continues to grow, Brown is also busy with her latest project — the Mama and Baby Love Center.

“About four years ago, we got little Hildebrandt, or ‘So-So,’ as the children named him,” said Brown.

His mother, a few hours after giving birth, rode home on a motorbike and hemorrhaged to death. There were no places for mothers to rest after giving birth, and some died as a result. This was intolerable to Mama Arlene.

Soon, she had obtained a building that had previously served as a guesthouse. Although complete, it needed to be renovated for its new purpose.

There are now five rooms and one isolation room where new mothers can rest and recuperate for two or three days before going home.

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Falke returned recently from three weeks in Rwanda, and another group will go this summer. They will carry more supplies to the school and the new home for mothers.

The thought of a new mother not even having a day to rest before traveling touches the heartstrings of many. This Mother’s Day, the volunteers at Home Made Real hope that even more people will respond with their time, talents, prayers and support. What better way to honor your own mother than to make a donation in her name to a project such as the Mother and Baby Love Center?

For a chance to hear more about the Urukundo Children’s Home or the Mama and Baby Love Center, contact Falke at falkes@verizon.net. And, to see pictures of the home and its children, visit the Hope Made Real website, www.hopemadereal. org.

To operate a house for mothers and babies requires hiring midwives and nurses, who will provide information on baby care and hygiene to the women.

Carol Falke, of State College — who has taken seven trips to Rwanda as a volunteer — has been key in the success of the Urukundo School and now is involved in the fundraising for the Mama and Baby Love Home.

Falke has worked tirelessly to involve churches, community groups, friends and Girl Scouts in her work. Local teachers have reciprocal programs and lessons with teachers in Rwanda and the kids have sent messages and projects back and forth across the globe.

Sewing and knitting groups have knitted dozens of blankets and washcloths and collected onesies to be given to the newborns. Young Girl Scouts have had a wonderful time assembling layette kits, matching colors of blankets and caps and

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Pleasant Gap students pen Mother’s Day essays PLEASANT GAP — We asked the students in Paula Hendershot’s third-grade class at Pleasant Gap Elementary to write some essays about their moms for Mother’s Day. On the pages that follow are some of the select essays and drawings. We hope you enjoy their efforts.

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THE PENN STATE baseball team celebrates a weekend sweep of Rutgers at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

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Penn State baseball team sweeps Rutgers in weekend series

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — On one hand, the Penn State baseball team has forgotten about the losses it suffered in a three-game sweep at the hands of Illinois last week.

On the other, the Nittany Lions remembered how well they played — and how they did it — against an Illini team that is one of the best in the country.

Since then they’ve taken that kind of play and turned it into a four-game winning streak that began with an 8-7 victory over Pitt on April 29 and continued through a three-game sweep of Rutgers over the weekend of May 1-3.

Penn State took the first game of the series, 8-1, and then came roaring back from a seven-run deficit to steal a 12-10 win over the Scarlet Knights in the second game.

On May 3, in the finale on Senior Day, the Lions scored six runs in their final two at bats to sprint past Rutgers, 8-5, and complete the sweep of the Big Ten series at

Medlar Field.

“Even though we didn’t have anything to show for it,” Penn State coach Rob Cooper said, “against Illinois we had great atbats.

“What’s hard is, last year when we had a series like Illinois and had great at-bats and great approaches, because we didn’t have anything to show for it, guys would say they had to do something different next time and get away from their approach.

“This year, they’re more mature, and they said we are going to take the same approach this weekend, and we now have something to show for it.”

That something was Penn State’s first Big Ten home sweep of the season and a satisfying Senior Day win that increased PSU’s overall record to 17-26 and 5-12 in the conference.

Jim Haley, Aaron Novak and Tyler Kendall led the Lions on May 3 with two hits each and with all three coming up with big RBI hits. Reliever Jack Anderson turned in a near-perfect appearance that saved the

Lions’ win.

But, it was senior pinch hitter Ryan Richter who set the stage for Penn State with what looked like a simple grounder to second base.

Leading off the bottom of the eighth inning with the score tied at 5-5, Richter sent a slow hopper toward second, but instead of it being a routine out, Richter’s hustle beat the throw of Rutger’s Chris Suseck and put a runner on first with none out.

Gregg Guers, who homered in the first inning, sacrificed Richter to second to set up Haley and Novak with the potential winning run on second.

Both would come through in big ways.

“We felt like, even though Guers gives us a pop factor,” Cooper said, “the way Jimmy Haley and Novak have been swinging the bat behind him, we were bunting all the way.”

It was the right decision. Haley sent a long double into left-center field that drove in Richter, and then Novak followed with a triple to dead-center, scoring Haley, and

suddenly it was 7-5. J.J. White was next, and he also doubled, driving in the eighth PSU run of the game.

“I was watching the kid warm up as he came in,” Haley said, “and I saw that he seemed like a fast ball guy. So I came out looking first-pitch fastball, and he started one out to me, and I took advantage of it.

“First pitch fastball, right over the middle of the plate.”

Ahead now by three runs, Anderson took the ball and closed out Rutgers to seal the PSU win.

“This was huge,” Haley said. “We knew coming into the series we wanted to take it one game at a time, but to come out at the end of the weekend with three wins in the Big Ten, it was huge.

“I know in my time we’ve never had a sweep in the Big Ten.” Penn State will now travel to Michigan State and Purdue for its final six games beginning on Friday, May 8, before the start of the Big Ten tournament in Minnesota on Wednesday, May 20.

Huntingdon edges P-O in pitcher’s duel, 2-1

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

PHILIPSBURG — The PhilipsburgOsceola High School baseball team’s season was in serious jeopardy before it was barely two weeks old.

P-O got off to a near disastrous start.

After a difficult and injury-plagued campaign last year, the Mounties lost their first five games this season, were 10-runned twice, and had already fallen to 0-3 in the Mountain League — all before April 15.

Yet the Mounties have proven to be a resilient group, and the team began to right itself after a double-header sweep of Tyrone on April 17. P-O went on to win four of its next six games and was actually looking to even its record when Huntingdon came to visit on May 4 for a Mountain League contest.

“That 0-5 start really hurt,” P-O head

coach Doug Sankey said, “but we’re playing much better. Since then, the last 10-11 games, we’re playing pretty well. It’s tough to start out that way, dig yourself a hole.”

P-O’s quest to get out of that hole, or at least to .500, against Huntingdon was thwarted by a ground ball, a home run and an outstanding pitching effort by Bearcat starter Hunter Price.

The grounder came off the bat of Chris Allerman in the first inning and drove in the first run of the game.

Kodiak Heaton hit the homer in the seventh inning for the Bearcats’ second run, and Price pitched a complete-game, fivehitter that was just good enough to edge the Mounties, 2-1.

The Huntingdon win marred an equally outstanding pitching effort by Philipsburg freshman Josh Earnest. Earnest also pitched a complete-game, five hitter, but he was unable to hold the Bearcats after

the Mounties tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Heaton’s blast, leading off the top of the seventh, proved to be the difference in the game.

“That was like a playoff game,” Huntingdon coach TANNER LAMB George Zanic said.

“Philipsburg swept Penns Valley last weekend, and they are a nice hitting baseball team.

“Hunter (Price) spotted his fastball all day. Probably 85 percent of his pitches were fastballs today, and he was able to keep them off balance.”

The Bearcats spotted Price a run in the first inning that was almost all he needed.

Jonathan Wagner led off the game with a single, stole second, moved to third on a fielder’s choice and then scored on Allerman’s ground out to second base.

That was all the scoring in the game until the sixth inning, as Price and Earnest battled each other in the 1-0 game.

After the first inning, Earnest allowed only one base runner until Heaton came up in the seventh.

“Both kids pitched extremely well,” Sankey said. “Price beat us twice this year, and I think he beat us last year. He is tough.

“And Earnest threw great. It was his third outing, and he’s only a freshman.

He’s going to be tough. We are happy with him. He was outstanding today.”

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Henderson one-hits Cumberland Valley in State High win

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — State College Area High School softball pitcher Jess Henderson was just six outs away from a perfect game against Cumberland Valley on May 5 when the Lady Eagles’ Cara Holtzman broke it all up with a clean single to right.

Not a problem, though.

Henderson simply hit reset, retired six of the final seven Cumberland Valley batters without another hit, and closed out State College’s razor-thin 1-0 Mid Penn Conference victory over the 15-3 Eagles.

Henderson’s gem included just the one hit to Holtzman, seven strikeouts and no walks. She faced only two hitters over the minimum (State High had one error), all the while protecting the single run the Lady Little Lions put up in the bottom of the first inning.

“It was all about Jess today,” State College coach Mike Harper said. “She has been getting better each game she’s played — she is recovering from that knee injury — and that was a terrific performance.

“She has gotten stronger as she has gone through the season, which we were hoping would happen, and I couldn’t be more proud of her. She did a great job today.”

Anyone who came even 10 minutes late for the game missed all of the scoring.

Kayla Hawbaker led off the SC first with a single, stole second and, after an out,

scored on an infield single by Aylssa Shedlock.

That was it.

State College did put at least one runner on in every inning, and in fact loaded the bases in the sixth, but Cumberland Valley pitcher Jen Hanshaw was equally as stingy as Henderson.

“I was so happy that we got that run early,” Henderson said, “because it got our momentum going and it was something we were able to build on defensively the whole game.

“We kept knocking offensively the whole game, and I felt really good about that, and I can’t say enough about how my team did in the field today. They were incredible, and I had complete trust in them that they were going to take care of anything that came their way, and they did.”

After State College scored its run, the game settled into a tight chess match — bunts, slap hits, hit and runs. Yet through it all, neither team could break through.

All the while, Henderson was perfect — until Holtzman came up in the sixth. The Cumberland Valley third baseman ran the count to two strikes and then drove a linedrive single to right field for the Eagles’ first, and ultimately only, hit of the game.

“You honestly have to put it (the hit) out of your head and focus on the next batter,” Henderson said. “I trusted that my team would do what they had to behind me, and they did perfectly all game. It happens, and you just have to focus on the next batter.”

That next batter popped out to the

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STATE COLLEGE Area High School pitcher Jess Henderson is congratulated by her teammates following a 1-0 win over Cumberland Valley on May 5 at Community Field. catcher, the next struck out, and then another fly out to the third baseman ended the inning and the Cumberland Valley threat.

There was a bit of drama in the seventh when the Eagles’ shortstop Taylor Haupt reached second base after a throwing error at first with one out.

But Henderson again was undaunted.

She struck out Alexa Erney next, and then, fittingly, caught Katie Wingert’s popup to

end the game.

“We’re doing really well right now,” Henderson said, “and we are just getting better as the season goes on.”

State College finished with eight hits in the game, with Henderson herself leading the way with two, and the Lady Lions finally pushed themselves over the .500 mark with an overall record of 9-8. The loss was only the third of the season for Cumberland Valley against 15 wins.

Mountain View C.C. holds Spring Open, Masters tourney BOALSBURG — The Mountain View Country Club in Boalsburg recently held its Spring Open.

The men’s gross resulted in a tie for first place with a score of 71 by the teams of Todd Cable and Steve Kirby and John Gibbons and Garret Bastardi. Placing third, shooting a round of 72, were Don Fetzer and Brian Mehalick.

As low as

The men’s net winners, with a round of 63 resulting in a three-way tie, were Tom Bruce and Dave Lingenfelter, Jim Pringle and Matt Dougherty and Matt Hagan and Tim Maggi.

Other winners included Bob Horner and Dan Swanson carding a round of 64 for fourth and the duo of Greg Ferguson and Andrew Ferguson coming in at fifth

with a score of 65.

The women’s gross score of 85 was posted by Kathy Knechtel and Geri Stonebraker, while the women’s’ team net score of 62 was carded by Shea McGowan and Suzi Owens.

Mountain View also recently held its annual “Play With a Masters Pro” Golf Tournament. Participants were paired

with a Masters pro, and the winners, with a tie for first place, were Bill Fleckenstein paired with Phil Mickelson (139) and Mike Sgriccia paired with Rickie Fowler (139).

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Penn State free agent picture comes into focus

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — In many ways, not being drafted can be a positive.

Certainly, being a drafted NFL player has its benefits — that much is obvious. But when it comes to controlling your future as a player, being a free agent can bring with it certain freedoms.

For one, when multiple teams come calling, you have options. Maybe one team has a better depth situation at a position.

Another team might have a coaching staff that has a record of turning players into stars. Whatever the reason, a free agent offers some flexibility.

So, with Adrian Amos, Donovan Smith and Jesse James the only Nittany Lions drafted in the seven rounds of the NFL draft, there are plenty of former Penn State players making decisions.

At the end of the day, each player has to earn a spot on the roster, no matter how he gets there.

So far, that journey to a roster spot on an NFL team has started for many former Nittany Lions beyond the three who were drafted.

As of May 3, the free agent market has panned out as follows: ■ Linebacker Mike Hull has signed with the Miami Dolphins. Hull joins Jelani Jenkins at the linebacker position and former Nittany Lion and defensive end Cameron Wake. Hull was briefly linked with the Eagles according to a few NFL reports.

■ Defensive end Deion Barnes has signed with the New York Jets. Barnes will work alongside 10-year NFL veteran Stephen Bowen at defensive end. Barnes will also likely be in direct competition with third-year player Ikemefuna Enemkpali.

■ Offensive lineman Miles Dieffenbach will join the Pittsburgh Steelers. Dieffenbach will work with an experienced offensive line unit that has been known as one of the more physical units during the past few seasons.

■ Zach Zwinak and Ross Travis will both join Bill O’Brien in Houston.

The free agent market will continue to be a fluid situation over the next few days as undrafted players weigh their options. Penn State fans will have to wait and see where their favorite Nittany Lions end up.

SPORTS BULLETIN BOARD Adult baseball players sought STATE COLLEGE — Adult baseball is alive and well in State College, but still looking for a few good men (or women). The 15th season is about to start. There are nine teams in a 28-plus division that plays on Sundays, and four teams in a 40-plus division that plays on weeknights. The leagues play at the State College Teener League fields and use wooden bats. There are opportunities for new players in both divisions.

Visit www.centresluggers.com for more information about either division.

Penn United holding sign ups STATE COLLEGE — Penn United Soccer has opened registration for all of its spring programs for children ages 5 and older. Programs are for boys and girls of all skill levels and ages. For more information, visit www.pusasoccer.org.

Sportsmen’s events to be held HOWARD — The Liberty Township Sportsmen’s Association has several events coming up.

A fishing derby for children will be held at 9 a.m.

Sunday, May 3.

A hunter safety course will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 16. Then, at 9 a.m. Sunday, May 17, at CMP shoot will be held.

For more information, visit www.libertysportsmen. com or call Gary at (814) 355-7784.

The sports bulletin board is a weekly feature of The Centre County Gazette. To have your sports event listed here, email editor@centrecountygazette.com.

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Penn State-Syracuse series doesn’t appear imminent

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State doesn’t have Syracuse football on the radar anytime soon. The possible clashes during the 2020 and 2021 seasons are off the table.

“Penn State and Syracuse are not scheduled to play in 2020-21,” A Penn State spokesperson said. “When the schools announced the 2013 game at MetLife Stadium, there was discussion about playing a home-and-home series in early 2020s, but the games did not materialize.”

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For the most part, Penn State’s future schedules are fairly well mapped out until 2019. It will be interesting to see if any of the upcoming schedules are modified, but so far there is no reason to think that will be the case.

While Penn State’s next-decade meeting with Syracuse might be off the table, those looking to plan for a showdown with Virginia Tech in 2025 can start making plans.

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After obstacle-filled career, Bolden lands in the NFL

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

DETROIT — If you had gone to bed at any decent hour on May 2, you would have missed it.

A single tweet by former Penn State quarterback Rob Bolden stated what may have otherwise seemed impossible a few short years ago — the Detroit native had signed as a free agent with the Detroit Lions.

“Coming from my city man I’m so hype for his opportunity,” Bolden tweeted. “I get to show what I can do right in my backyard! I’m forever thankful I thank God for this chance.”

For Bolden, it is a fitting end to incredible and unlikely journey, from the great young hope of Penn State football as a freshman to the personification of the dysfunction that would become the final years of the Paterno era. Bolden’s struggles at Penn State were equal parts mismanagement and his perhaps steeper-than-advertised learning curve as a true freshman tasked with guiding the offense.

Whatever the true cause of his issues, Bolden faced an obstacle-filled career. He faced being booed. He faced

being replaced on the field at random intervals. He faced a reality that even as he tried to leave Penn State, his transfer request was initially blocked. He could not even leave a school where he was essentially no longer wanted or needed.

When the release finally came, it saw Bolden travel from Penn State to Lousiana State University before finally finishing his career at quarterback for Eastern Michigan. Bolden tested the limits of how long an athlete can stretch out his eligiblity.

During very little of this would anyone have pegged Bolden for a future in the NFL. Be it his own struggles at the quarterback position or the turbulent nature in which his career has progressed, the odds simply didn’t seem to be stacked in his favor.

But in sports, much like in life, Bolden was rewarded for staying the course. He could have left the dream behind long ago, and nobody would have blamed him.

Bolden kept fighting, though, and now he will try to find a roster spot on an NFL team that he has grown up loving.

And, there are few rewards in sports greater than that

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FORMER PENN STATE and LSU quarterback Rob Bolden has inked a free agent deal with the Detroit Lions.

Bostick commits to Penn State basketball program

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State’s men’s basketball program took a important step forward on April 30, landing a verbal commitment from Roman Catholic High School guard Nazeer Bostick.

A 6-foot-5 product of Philadelphia, Bostick gives Penn State its first commitment of the 2016 class since forward Joe Hampton reopened his recruitment just days prior to the Big Ten tournament.

Bostick joins current Nittany Lion sophomore guard Shep Garner as the second Roman Catholic player to call Happy Valley home during the Pat Chambers era.

“They’ve got a real good coaching staff that has faith

in me and I see the program is on the rise,” Bostick told City of Basketball Love. “I decided tonight because it was the all-Catholic banquet and I wanted to do it after the banquet was over; that’s why I chose tonight.”

Ranked No. 129 in the 247 Network composite rankings and sixth best in the state, Bostick entertained offers from regional schools such as Drexel, Virginia Commonweath and James Madison, but had always been NAZEER BOSTICK favored to land at Penn State.

Perhaps most importantly, the Bostick commitment continues the forward momentum in

the race to land four-star recruits Tony Carr and Lamar Stevens. Both are teammates of Bostick’s and both are primary recruiting targets during a crucial summer for Chambers and his staff.

As an added twist, Carr and Stevens have frequently indicated a shared interest in playing college basketball together.

While it’s hard to say how much the Bostick commitment impacts Carr’s and Stevens’ future decisions, it might have improved Penn State’s chances.

Ultimately, Penn State’s staff will still have to put in the long hours, but sometimes a player can be the biggest recruiting asset a team has to work with.

And, for that, Bostick’s commitment isn’t one to overlook.

Penn State assistant coach departs hoops program

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State basketball assistant coach Brian Daly will leave the program and return to Philadelphia to spend time with his family, according to a university press release.

“I have valued my time at Penn State and wish the program nothing but the best moving forward,” Daly said. “I have been away from my family for the last few years and as my children are getting older and our oldest son is entering his senior year, I want to be in Philadelphia with them.”

Daly spent four season as a member of the Penn State basketball coaching staff and was in his second season serving as an associate head coach. He had previously worked with head coach Patrick Cham-

bers at Boston University prior to taking the job at Penn State.

While at Penn State, Daly was responsible for the development of big men. While the Nittany Lions generally struggled to generate offensive production at that position, Donovon Jack BRIAN DALY and Jordan Dickerson both developed into viable shot blockers during the past two years.

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FORMER PENN STATE offensive lineman Donovan Smith was selected 34th overall by Tampa Bay during the second round of the NFL draft.

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PENN STATE fans broke the 100,000 mark four times in 2014. The highlight, of course, was the sold-out game with eventual national champion, Ohio State.

Ticket renewals roll in for PSU football

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — As expectations rise, so do season football ticket sales according to Penn State’s athletic department.

The university reports new season ticket sales of almost 3,000 seats. That increase is coupled with what a Penn State spokesperson describes as a renewal percentage rate “in the mid-90s” for current season ticket holders.

In addition, Penn State announced that 5,000 group tickets have been sold so far this year. In what has become an annual event, 3,000 “Seats for Service Members” tickets have been sold for the Oct. 3 game against Army.

The Seats for Service Members program allows Penn State supporters to purchase $35 tickets for an active or

retired military member to attend the game against Army for free.

Penn State also sold more than 100 ticket packages over the Blue-White Weekend as part of a limited-time offer for some of Penn State’s out-of-conference games.

The Nittany Lions open the 2015-16 season with a home-heavy schedule. After kicking off the campaign in Philadelphia against Temple, Penn State will return home for five straight contests. The Nittany Lions will then head on the road to face Ohio State in Columbus during Week 7.

Despite up-and-down attendance figures during the past several seasons, Penn State has remained in the top five of annual total attendance. Last season, Penn State fans broke the 100,000 mark four times. What would have been a fifth 100,000-fan game came up just 88 people shy of the six-figure mark.

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By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Donovan Smith made the trip to Chicago for the NFL Draft and didn’t need to wait long, as he was selected 34th overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on May 1.

Smith, who was the No. 2 pick of the draft’s second round, will work alongside No. 1 overall draft choice Jameis Winston.

A three-year starter at left tackle for Penn State, Smith had become a reliable pass protector during his time in Happy Valley. Opting to forgo his final year of eligibility for the NFL, Smith saw his stock increase with solid performances at the Senior Bowl, the NFL Combine and at his Pro Day appearance.

“It seems like it was yesterday that I was sitting at the kitchen table talking with the greatest college football coach in history, Joseph Vincent Paterno,” Smith said when he announced his plans to go pro.

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Penn State coaches kick off annual caravan

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

HARRISBURG — James Franklin is hitting the recruiting trail, but this time he’s looking to pick up key season ticket holders as Penn State’s annual public relations tour kicked off on May 5 in Harrisburg.

And, in year two of the Coaches Caravan Tour, everything is easier, because Franklin understands his audience even better. “I think we’re still kind of going through that,� Franklin said of getting to know everyone. “We know Penn State better, we know the university, we know the community, our own players, so much better. I think the fact that our leadership is in place right now is very important, President Barron and our AD, Sandy Barbour. That all those people are in place now is great. I think overall, it’s still a process.�

For Franklin, the 12-stop tour is a chance to provide updates, to provide insight and to provide confidence for the biggest wallets in the fan base.

As for Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour, she’s still in the introductory stage. She’s learning what Penn State is all about and how the university’s supporters think and function. It might seem like a small thing, but it’s part of Barbour’s bigger mission to be active at the the most basic level of how the athletic program operates: the fans. “I think there’s so much good that comes from this, and one of the things for me, being new is my 12 months of firsts, is to continue to get to know our fan base, our alumni, ones that really care deeply and passionately about Penn State and Penn State athletics,� Barbour said. “We get to know each other better, and that’s always a really, really good thing.�

From here, Barbour and Franklin will travel to 11 more stops, from New York to New Jersey and to every corner of Pennsylvania. Along the way they’ll bring with them the most basic message — “Be a part of what we’re building.�

With that delivery — the face-to-face interactions and getting to know everyone — they’re banking on the fact that relationships will help build an athletic department everyone can be proud of. From coaches to players to fans, everyone who shows up to the tour will get a handshake and a conversation.

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PENN STATE football head coach James Franklin speaks with New York Yankees’ manager Joe Girardi prior to throwing out the first pitch last week at Yankee Stadium. Franklin is currently on the Penn State Coaches Caravan, which travels throughout the state. “That’s always an ongoing thing, and if I have any frustration in my first year, and I have very few, I haven’t had time to do all the things I’d like to do. I’d love to spend more time with every one of our student-athletes and coaches,� Barbour said.

An evening stop in Lancaster will kick off more of the

substantial conversations. From the offense to recruiting, everything will be on the table.

But for now, it’s about a reintroduction and a chance to remind everyone what they’re all about. “We get to know each other better,� Barbour said. “And that’s always a really, really good thing.�

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have helped Penn State basketball make massive recruiting strides within the city of Philadelphia the past few years, there is little doubt the program will need to replace the crucial ties Daly brought to the table.

No timetable has been indicated for finding Daly’s replacement, but as Penn State embarks on a crucial recruiting cycle it’s hard to imagine the vacancy going unfilled for long. The university recently listed the opening on its job site.

our program,� Chambers said. “We wish him the very best as he pursues other professional opportunities in the Philadelphia area. Our program is built around family and nothing is more important than one’s own. I know he is looking forward to being with his wife, Tracie, and three children again.�

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Medical Viewpoints Compounding pharmacies create specialty medicines In the late 1800s and early 1900s, most drugs taken by patients were compounded by a pharmacist who derived them from plant materials that were crushed or distilled to extract the active ingredients. In 1902, the Biological Control Act required the federal government to grant approval to every biological drug and the facilities in which they were made. During World War II, research and development of chemicals intensified; after the war focus turned to the manufacture of medicines. The role of the pharmacist changed from drug Wayne Foster maker to drug dishas been the penser. compounding Although the art pharmacist at The Boalsburg and science of making Apothecary since drugs continues to be 2001 and has served taught in pharmacy area residents for 35 schools, most pharyears. macists today primarily monitor and package medications, and dispense knowledge about the medications to their patients.

But, during the last 20 years there has been a resurgence of compounding pharmacies that specialize in making medications that are not commercially available, or for a variety of reasons may not be appropriate for a patient. The patient may have allergies or canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tolerate an ingredi-

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ent, or the strength may not be right. A medication can be made by a compounding pharmacy for a specific patient by order of his or her doctor. Compounding pharmacies require special equipment, training and formulas that are not available in most pharmacies.

Some of the more popular compounds are bio-identical hormones (estrogens, progesterone and testosterone) made into creams that allow the hormones to be absorbed through the skin, avoiding degradation by the stomach and liver. Bio-identical means the hormones are the same as those naturally found in the body and not something similar that is often used in commercial formulations.

Creams and gels containing pain relievers, muscle relaxants and anesthetics can also be absorbed through the skin to relieve pain, without systemic side effects or narcotic addiction. Compounded preparations to treat or prevent scars and to help heal wounds, such as decubitus ulcers, are other areas of interest and growth.

Compounds are also frequently made for infants and children, when manufactured products may not exist in small enough doses or in a liquid form required by a child.

Pets often require compounded medications to make them appropriate for them. A dog may prefer something that tastes like beef or chicken, while a guinea pig likes it sweet. Cats often wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take anything by mouth without a struggle, and compounding pharmacies are able to put some medicines into gels that can be rubbed into their ear and get absorbed into the blood stream.

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DURING THE LAST two decades, there has been a resurgence of pharmacies that make medications which are not commercially available.

The Boalsburg Apothecary, located in the Boalsburg Medical Building at the corner of South Atherton Street and Warner Boulevard, has been compounding medications since it opened in 1980. In 2002, the Boalsburg Apothecary joined the Professional Compounding Associates of America.

PCCA is the largest and most recognized organization for compounding expertise.

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Artificial tanning can lead to melanoma, cataracts HERSHEY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Young women may be up on the latest fashions and trends as they prepare for prom season. But, what many donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know is that the tan that looks oh-sogood with their dress may be the first step toward skin cancer.

And cancer is not glamorous.

These may be the same children whose parents slathered them with 30 SPF sunscreen during beach vacations. Dr. Rogerio Neves, deputy director of the Penn State Hershey Melanoma and Skin Cancer Center, says artificial tanning is where the problem lies.

Melanoma is no longer showing up only in women who have had five or six decades of sun exposure during their lives. It is now the second most common cancer found in women ages 20 to 30 years old. In just the past decade, the number of young women in that age bracket who have been diagnosed with melanoma has increased eightfold. The numbers also increased fourfold for young men of the same age. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow, why is that?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Neves says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was clearly not related only to reg-

ular exposure.â&#x20AC;? Childhood sunburns and ultraviolet exposure in adulthood may also contribute to melanoma risk, but the rise in the use of indoors tanning beds is one of the main reasons behind this trend.

Many gyms and fitness centers offer free, unlimited tanning as a perk of membership and market to high school and college students. Although many of the young users are introduced to tanning beds as a one-time thing they plan to do for prom, it can become addicting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you are under that lamp, it helps release endorphins, which make you feel relaxed and well,â&#x20AC;? Neves says.

Nearly a quarter of 5,600 high school students who participated in a recent study said they participated in indoor tanning more than once. More than half said they had used an artificial tanning bed more than 10 times in the past year.

The lamps used in tanning beds emit more than 95 percent UVA rays and minimal UVB rays. The UVB rays that come from natural sunshine are what make you feel burned and red and cause you to seek

shade and protection. Because they are present in such small quantities in the tanning beds, Neves says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can stay in there frying and you are not feeling any bad sensations.â&#x20AC;?

UVA radiation is also more harmful than UVB in that it penetrates deeper into the skin and creates more harmful mutations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no such thing as a healthy tan,â&#x20AC;? Neves says. That is why individuals who have darker skin because of their ethnic backgrounds must still use sunscreen and other precautions to avoid prolonged exposure outdoors.

As if skin cancer werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough of a danger, artificial tanning can cause other problems such as cataracts, reactions with medications and early-onset aging of the

skin which makes people look older than they really are.

Nevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; native Brazil banned artificial tanning nationwide in 2009, and Australia and several European countries have followed suit since then.

In May 2014, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed a law that teenagers 16 and younger cannot use indoor tanning facilities and those who are 17 must have parental consent.

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arTS & enTerTaInMenT Local theater companies gear up for summer

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STATE COLLEGE — The summer of 2015 promises a great deal of variety in its theater offerings, from the ambitious production of “Les Miserables” to the hilarious comedy “Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” Three companies will be seeking to please every theatrical taste and preference in Happy Valley.

FUSE Productions is a company that combines the talents of local performers, Penn State students and faculty, and professionals from Broadway and other theaters. It will present the musical “Parade” from Thursday, May 14, to Saturday, May 16, at Penn State’s Downtown Theatre Center.

“FUSE” started at the State Theatre several years ago and has since moved into other venues.

“The Downtown Theatre Center is perfect for ‘Parade,’” said Richard Biever, FUSE artistic director. Biever will direct the production, which will have choreography by Jill Brighton and music direction

by Sarah Hirsch.

“The show has been revised by its authors. It has a smaller cast than the original. It’s very powerful and really appealed to me,” said Biever. “It is a true story about

a Penn State School of Law student; “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” the great American classic by Tennessee Williams; and “Gypsy,” a Golden Age musical at the State Theatre.

With the SCCT leaving the Boal Barn Playhouse, the new Nittany Theatre at the Barn stepped into the breach to keep the famous playhouse open. David Saxe has been the driving force behind the move to keep the Barn’s doors open.

According to the company’s website, the Nittany Theatre at the Barn plans to merge good old-fashioned summer stock theater with state-of-the-art technology.

With the SCCT looking to offer shows on year-round basis, Nittany Theatre at the Barn saw an opportunity to keep the Barn open in the summer. This summer, the group will present a full slate of musicals and a world premiere of a 50s-era comedy.

The season includes: “Always Patsy Cline,” Thursday, May 7, through Saturday, May 30; “Forever Plaid” and “The Taffetas,” Thursday, June 4, through Saturday, June 27; “1776,” Thursday, July 2, through Saturday, July 25; “Betty Crocker, Kinsey, and Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Thursday, July 30, through Saturday, Aug. 15; and “The Addams Family,” Thursday, Aug. 27, through Saturday, Sept. 19.

Leo Frank, a Jewish man accused of murdering a girl in his company. So much of it is relevant today.”

Later in the summer, FUSE will offer a production of “Les Miserables” at Eisenhower Auditorium. It will be the last local production before the show goes on a national tour.

The State College Community Theatre group will continue its relationship with the Downtown Theatre Center, offering up a production of the Christopher Durang play “Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” The comedy will run Thursday, May 21, to Sunday, May 24.

“Dan Carter (head of Penn State’s School of Theatre) and Travis DeCastro (head of production for the Penn State School of Theatre) want to reach out to the community. They have been very supportive of our efforts,” said Bruce Fleischer, president of the SCCT. “As we moved out of the Boal Barn and the State Theatre, we knew we had to find more venues for performances. We had to get financially straight from our relationship with the State Theatre. Our goals for this year are more financial than anything else,” said Fleischer.

The SCCT 2015 season will include productions of the musical “Grease”at the State Theatre, directed by Rachael Giger,

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DAVID SAXE has been the driving force behind keeping the Boal Barn Playhouse’s doors open.

The new Nittany Theatre at the Barn has a full line-up of shows scheduled this summer.

Musical ‘Parade’ is an emotional roller coaster

By ANNE WALKER correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — Musical theater allows for the exploration of a character’s insight, thoughts and motivation through song, according to Richard Biever, director of FUSE Production’s upcoming presentation of the Tony Award-winning show “Parade.”

“Parade” doesn’t have the happy-golucky quality of so many musicals, though.

It deals with some pretty grim subject matter, starting with the murder of a young girl.

“Characters have so many pent-up emotions,” Biever said. “Music gets into the psyche of a character and delves deep-

IF YOU GO What: FUSE Productions’ “Parade” Where: Citizens Bank Downtown Theatre When: May 14-16 More info: www.fuseproductions.org

of the judicial system and the community.

People knew him and would believe him over the outsider Frank.

“The prosecution coached him,” Biever said. “They coached people to say things that weren’t true.”

Newspapers from all over the nation descended on the trial the way the media covered O.J. Simpson’s trial 20 years ago. It became, to that point, the trial of the century. And everyone had an opinion about the northern Jew who held a prosperous position in a manufacturing facility in the South.

“It stoked fears that were there to begin with,” Biever said.

So, the genre of musical theater suits the story perfectly, with its score written

by Jason Robert Brown. “The music is gorgeous,” McCready said. “It has some beautifully tragic melodies.”

Biever’s daughter, Madeline, plays Frank’s wife, Lucille. She says that Lucille rarely spoke her mind, allowing her husband to make all the decisions. But the conviction more or less forced her to take charge. She even went to the governor for a pardon.

er into who they are and what their emotions are.”

“Parade” will hit the stage Thursday, May 14, through Saturday, May 16, at the Citizens Bank Downtown Theatre.

“Parade” tells the story, in accurate detail, of Leo Frank, convicted 102 years ago of a murder he didn’t commit. Frank, a Jewish Brooklynite, managed a pencil factory in Atlanta.

When Mary Phagan, a 14-year-old girl employed there, turned up raped and strangled, the community turned on Frank. The lack of evidence didn’t save him from conviction.

“The town thought of him as a weirdo,” said James McCready, who plays Frank.

“He had a quiet, sort of anxious demeanor which made him come across as more suspicious.”

As the show unfolds, it portrays a time and place where anti-Semitism and bigotry comprise an important cultural aspect. The trial hinged on testimony from a black man, Jim Conley. Conley worked as a janitor in the factory, and testified against Frank.

Although black, Conley had the support

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MADELINE BIEVER plays Lucille, the wife of Leo Frank, in “Parade.”

“It’s also a love story,” she said, “and it’s about how Lucille never gave up hope.”

And history always has relevance.

“It makes you wonder how much has actually changed in the last 100 years,” Biever said.

The LION app brings Penn State radio to mobile devices

By STEPHANIE KOONS

which users can access content for The LION 90.7 FM (WKPS), a multi-format student radio station in University Park. In addition to allowing people to listen to the station’s music and programs, the app enables users to view the station’s programming schedules as well as its Facebook and Twitter feeds.

“It’s more customized and personalized to the radio station than streaming it (on the Web),” Walsh said.

Walsh said that he took Ritter’s class because he “wanted to learn to program for mobile operating systems.” He said The LION was very receptive to the app, and would like to add more interactive features such as a system in which users can submit requests.

The LION 90.7 FM app, which is designed for both iPhone and iPad, can be accessed for free at the App Store.

UNIVERSITY PARK — In Frank Ritter’s Foundations of Human-Centered Design course, which he teaches at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, he encourages his students to think outside the box and design projects that have an impact in the real world. A team of students in the class recently designed an app that enables anyone on the University Park campus to access Penn State’s student radio station on their smartphones.

“Radio stations are increasingly using apps to allow users to access content,” Ritter said.

The team, which was led by John Barclay Walsh, a junior IST major, also included Connor Kelly, Tim Costaglula and Cody Hubley. The students designed The LION 90.7 FM app, through

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“It really helps,” are very pleased, proud convicted on had two children, in state prison last chance “We teaching job to that activity.” live wife, Mary Ann, 2006 following to 30 to 60 years the community. may be Sandusky’s filed last week we’ve gotten John and his Jeffrey. They lost B.J. in all of whom conand This latest appeal his sentence. The motion in bled by the response She was 27. to appeal his that they’re have six grandchildren, becca Jo (B.J.) heartmelanoma cancer.worst fear. But that The Wetzlers turning or lessening previously attemptedthe state Supreme say, he’s thrilled as much time a battle with Needless to is a parent’s wife make Court and — raising money his Bellefonte. child notes that Sandusky life a in and in Superior He Losing the another purpose must viction to both which failed. such close proximity. relief,” which bebreak gave John of B.J. WetCourt — both the annual judgment seeks “post-conviction in her honor. raises 6 Wetzler organizes their The new appealone year of the day a criminal Wetzler, Page The tournament the court of Every spring, of to a member Golf Tournament. be sought within attorneys notified before the one-year zler Memorial that is awarded Sandusky’s scholarship comes final. relief on April 1 — one day reject Sanmoney for a decision to intent to seek the Supreme Court’s of anniversary

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Guide leads public through State College artwork The State College Art in Public Places Committee has published a guide to the public art in downtown State College.

The brochure, “Downtown State College Art Walk,” covers the full range of public art in downtown including sculpture, outdoor murals, fresco and stained glass windows.

“Our public art is one of State College’s unappreciated assets” said Christy Rambeau, chair of the committee.

“We’re taking the first steps to change that.”

Stops covered in the art walk range in age from the 1907 Centennial Fountain, in Sidney Friedman Park, to 2014 Downtown Eugene Brown, located in front of the Centre Area Transportation Authority office in Schlow Centre Region Library on Beaver Avenue. There are 25 different stops on the art walk.

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Center for Arts and Crafts plans youth arts camps UNIVERSITY PARK — The Center for Arts and Crafts at Penn State is now taking registrations for its Summer 2015 Art Camps.

Topics include color, nature, animals, art around the world, dinosaurs, drawing and painting, and mixed media.

One-week camps, being held Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for ages 6 and 7 and 8 to 10, include: Session 1, June 15-19; Session 2, June 22-26; Session 3, July 6-10; Session 4, July 13-17; and Session 5, July 20-24.

Two-week camps, which start on Mondays and end on the Fridays of the second week, are being held from either 9 a.m. to noon or 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. for ages 11 to 14. They include: Session 1, June 15-26; Session 3, July 6-17; and Session 5, July 20-24 (one week only, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

Camps are held in Ritenour and the HUB-Robeson Center.

To register, visit www.studentaffairs.psu.edu/hub/ craftcenter/camps.shtml.

For more information, email craftcenter@psu.edu.

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“PIETY” is a watercolor by Michele Rivera. It will be on display at the Mount Nittany Medical Center beginning in June.

Rivera’s art featured at medical center STATE COLLEGE — “Healing Transformations,” an art exhibit of watercolors by Michele Rivera, will be on display from Monday, June 1, through Tuesday, July 30, at the Mount Nittany Medical Center, 1800 Park Ave. in State College.

The exhibit showcases paintings that speak of an artist’s inner healing journey, with the creative process being a major part of that journey.

For more information about the exhibit, contact Rivera at (814) 234-3441.

art walk

An expanded version of the brochure is available online at www.statecollegepublicart.com.

“Visitors can access the site from their mobile device and enjoy the work of art as they learn about its backstory,” said Rambeau.

The brochure is available at the following locations in State College: Central Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau, 800 E. Park Ave.; Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St.; Borough of State College Tax and Planning Offices, 243 S. Allen St.; and Downtown State College Improvement District, 127 S. Fraser St. In addition to Rambeau, members of the State College Art in Public Places Committee include George Arnold, executive director of the Downtown State College Improvement District; Zoe Boniface, community activist; Rick Bryant, executive director of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts; Jonathan Friedman, of Friedman Real Estate Group; Elizabeth Goreham, mayor of State College; and William Snyder III, artist and arts advocate.

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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 for days and times.

Club — The Centre Region Model Investment Club meets the second Monday of every month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Mazza Room at the South Hills Business School, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Call (814) 234-8775 or contact cr20mic@aol.com.

Meeting — The Calvary Church will host a Christian Recovery meeting every Monday night from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 1250 University Drive, State College. For more information, visit www.liferecovery statecollege.com.

Meeting — The State College Alliance Church will host a Christian Recovery meeting every Friday night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 1221 W. White Road, State College. For more information, visit www.life recoverystatecollege.com.

Safety Checks — Mount Nittany Health sponsors free car seat safety checks from 8

a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 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.

Exhibit — An exhibit of photographs

by Dan Mohney will be on display through mid-May in Founder’s Hall, Lock Haven University-Clearfield Campus, 201 University Drive, Clearfield. The exhibit is available for viewing from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays. For more information, contact Rebecca Ogden at rogden@lhup. edu.

Exhibit — “Art of the Bellefonte Schools” will be on display through Sunday, May 24, at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. A special school/community reception will take place on Tuesday, May 12, from 6 to 8 p.m.

This show will consist of art from all four elementary, middle and high schools. For more information, call (814) 355-4280 or visit www.bellefontemuseum.org.

Exhibit — An exhibit of jewelry by Elizabeth Hay will be on display through Sunday, May 31, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. For more information, call (814) 355-4280 or visit www.bellefontemuseum.org.

Exhibit — An exhibit of photographs by Marlee Erwin will be on display through Sunday, June 28, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on

Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. For more information, call (814) 355-4280 or visit www.bellefontemuseum.org.

Exhibit — An exhibit of photographs

by Marianne Fyda and Karl Eric Leitzel will be on display through Sunday, June 28, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. For more information, call (814) 355-4280 or visit www.bellefonte museum.org.

Exhibit — “Everyday Iron” will be on display through November from 2 to 4 p.m. every Saturday at the Boalsburg Heritage Museum, 304 E. Main St., Boalsburg.

Visit www.boalsburgheritagemuseum.org.

THURSDAY, MAY 7

Story Time — Preschoolers can enjoy stories and songs at the Thursday story time from 10:30 to 10:50 a.m. at Discovery Space, 112 W. Foster Ave., Suite 1, State College. Story times are free with paid admission. Call (814) 234-0200 or email info@ mydiscoveryspace.org.

Children’s Program — Preschoolers ages 3 to 5 can work on science-themed activities with “Science Adventures” from 11 to 11:30 a.m. at Discovery Space, 112 W. Foster Ave., Suite 1, State College. Activities are free with paid admission. Call (814) 234-0200, email info@mydiscoveryspace. org or visit www.mydiscoveryspace.org.

Knitting Club — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will host “Hooks & Needles,” an adult knitting club, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

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Children’s Program — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will host its Lego club from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecounty library.org.

Family Program — Holt Memorial Library will host “It’s Elementary,” a series of activities and presentations for elementary school students and their families, at 6 p.m. at 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Tonight’s theme is “Book Bingo.” Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

FRIDAY, MAY 8

Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation presents line dancing at 10:50 a.m. at the Centre Region Senior Center, 131 S. Fraser St., No. 1, State College. No experience necessary or partners needed. Call (814) 231-3076.

Event — The Central Pennsylvania Observers will host a free public sky watch from 9 to 11 p.m. at Tudek Park, 400 Herman Drive, State College. Kids’ experiments with Discovery Space will also take place. Telescopes are provided. For more information, visit www.cpoclub.org/ skywatches.

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May 7-13, 2015 What’s Happening, from page 34 1 p.m. at the Village Green, 133 Mt. Nittany Road, Lemont.

For more information, call Sue Smith at (814) 238-1288 or visit www.lemontvillage.org.

Sale — The 54th annual AAUW used book sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Snider Agricultural Arena, University Park. For more information, visit www. aauwstatecollege.org.

Event — The United Methodist Church will be hosting a book signing for “The Shaman’s Dilemma,” by Howard Hatton, from 10 a.m. to noon at 144 W. Main St., Howard.

Adult Program — “Gadgets for Grownups” will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Musser Room at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. This week’s focus will be on iPad basics. Call (814) 235-7816 to register.

Children’s Activity — Join Schlow Centre Region Library for “Let’s Play Music,” recommended for children ages 4 to 6, from 11 a.m. to noon at 211 S. Allen St., State College. This program emphasizes total musicianship through piano-playing, singing, classical music, notereading and ear-training. For more information, visit www. schlowlibrary.org.

Event — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will host an author visit and book signing with Mary Devlin-Lynch and Debbie Devlin-Zook from 1 to 3 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. For more information,visit www.devlinsbooks.com.

Activity — A club for all ages will meet to do arts and crafts and play games from 2 to 4 p.m. at Schlow Centre Region Library, State College. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

Dinner — New Hope Lutheran Church of Spring Mills will host a ham pot-pie dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at 119 Cobblestone Court, Spring Mills. For more information, contact Allison Brown at psumacawslave@yahoo.com.

Games — Snow Shoe EMS will host bingo at 7 p.m. at 492 W. Sycamore St., Snow Shoe. Doors open at 5 p.m.

SUNDAY, MAY 10

Sale — The 54th annual AAUW used book sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Snider Agricultural Arena, University Park. For more information, visit www. aauwstatecollege.org.

Story Time — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will have toddler story time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Today’s theme is “Frogs.”

Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

MONDAY, MAY 11

Sale — The 54th annual AAUW used book sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Snider Agricultural Arena, University Park. For more information, visit www. aauwstatecollege.org.

Story Time — The Centre Hall Branch Library will have preschool story time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall. Today’s theme is “Feathered Friends.” Call (814) 364-2580 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation presents line dancing at 10:50 a.m. at the Centre Region Senior Center, 131 S. Fraser St., No. 1, State College. No experience necessary or partners needed. Call (814) 2313076.

Adult Program — Holt Memorial Library will host book bingo from 6 to 7 p.m. at 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Class — Attend a creative art and journaling class at 6 p.m. at Kalina’s Studio in Indigo Wren’s Nest Wellness

The CenTre CounTy gazeTTe Center, 111 S. Spring St., Suite 8, Bellefonte. Create mixedmedia art while honing your creative writing, painting and other artistic skills.

Bingo — The State College Knights of Columbus will host bingo at 7 p.m. at 850 Stratford Drive, State College.

TUESDAY, MAY 12

Program — Centre Region Parks and Recreation will host an “Early Morning Bird Walk” at 7:30 a.m. at the Millbrook Marsh Nature Center, , 548 Puddintown Road, State College. For more information, contact Molly Hetrick at mhetrick@crcog.net, call Centre Region Parks and Recreation at (814) 231-3071 or visit www.crpr.org.

Sale — The 54th annual AAUW used book sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Snider Agricultural Arena, University Park. For more information, visit www. aauwstatecollege.org.

Seniors Hiking Group — Enjoy a moderate hike in the great outdoors at 9 a.m. at various locations in and around State College. The hikes are free except for car pool donations. To register, call (814) 231-3076 or visit www.crpr. org.

Coffee Time — Bring a friend and savor that second cup of coffee and conversation from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall, Howard United Methodist Church, West Main St., Howard.

Story Time — Holt Memorial Library will have a toddler story time from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecounty library.org.

Luncheon — Mountain View Club will be hosting the Women’s Mid-Day Connection luncheon at 11:45 a.m. at 100 T366-1, Boalsburg. For more information, call Barb at (814) 404-3704.

Children’s Program — The Centre Hall Branch Library will host a program for home-schooled students in grades six through 12 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall. The group will discuss the preservation and celebration of military achievements by studying the Robert Shaw Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the painting “Allies Day, May 1917” by Childe Hassam. Call (814) 364-2580 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Yoga Class — A gentle yoga class will take place from 4:30 to 5 p.m. at the Howard United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 144 W. Main St., Howard. The class is designed to have all flows on the floor. Gain flexibility and strength and leave feeling calm, open and rejuvenated.

Call Kathie at (814) 625-2852 or email kathieb1@comcast. net.

Meeting — The Nittany Valley Writer’s Network will meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Downsbrough Community Room, Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. This group is open to writers of all ages and skill levels. NVWN also serves as a connecting point for local critique groups. For more information, contact Mark T. Shirey at mts@uplink.net.

Story Time — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will have an evening story time from 6:30 to 7 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Listen to stories, sing and rhyme, and end with craft for the whole family. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation

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Model Railroad Club — Nittany Valley Model Railroad Club meets at 7 p.m. at Old Gregg School Community and Recreation Center, Room No. 1A, 106 School St., Spring Mills. Call Fred at (814) 422-7667.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13

Story Time — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will have baby book time from 9:30 to 10 a.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Book themes will vary throughout May. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centre countylibrary.org.

Meeting — Living Hope Alliance Church will host a meeting at 10 a.m. in the sanctuary, 321 E. Howard St., Bellefonte. Coffee, tea and goodies will be served at 9:30 a.m. in Fellowship Hall.

Children’s Program — Children ages 6 months to 2 can explore science through books and movement during “Baby Explorers” from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at Discovery Space, 112 W. Foster Ave., Suite 1, State College. Activities are free with paid admission. Call (814) 234-0200, email info@ mydiscoveryspace.org or visit www.mydiscoveryspace. org.

Story Time — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will have preschool story time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Today’s theme is “Frogs.” Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecounty library.org.

Story Time — Holt Memorial Library will have preschool story time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Today’s theme is “Doll and Stuffed Animal Tea Party.” Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecounty library.org.

Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation presents line dancing at 10:50 a.m. at the Centre Region Senior Center, 131 S. Fraser St., No. 1, State College. No experience necessary or partners needed. Call (814) 2313076.

Volunteering — Bellefonte Area Mission Central HUB will be open from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church, 128 W. Howard St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-9425.

Children’s Program — The Centre Hall Branch Library will host an afterschool science club from 3 to 3:30 p.m. and 3:45 to 4:15 p.m. at 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall. Today’s theme is “Build a Spinning Airfoil.” Call (814) 3642580 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Zumba — New Hope United Methodist Church will sponsor a free Zumba class at 6 p.m. at the church, 1089 E. College Ave., Bellefonte. Call Amanda at (814) 3214528.

Group Meeting — Celebrate Recovery will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Christ Community Church, 200 Ellis Place, State College. The group uses the “Eight Recovery Principles,” with a 12-step approach to help members cope with life’s troubles. For more information, visit www.cccsc. org or call (814) 234-0711.

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SBDC helped award-winning entrepreneurs UNIVERSITY PARK — Lydia Myers, owner of Pick ‘em Up Productions and Rugrats Resale, struggled to set up her first business when she moved to State College from Virginia.

“In Pennsylvania, I couldn’t figure out what forms I should fill out or who I needed to talk to. I finally learned about the Penn State Small Business Development Center, set up a meeting, and literally, by the end of the day, I had my employee ID number,” she said.

The SBDC specializes in assisting entrepreneurs to start, improve or expand a business by providing free, confidential consulting services.

Myers worked with Linda Feltman, senior consultant at the SBDC, to start her first venture and again, recently, to purchase Rugrats Resale. Myers was familiar with the business — a website and biannual sale to recycle kids’ clothing and toys — but not the process of purchasing and running it herself.

“They were able to help us navigate through all the paperwork and made sure all the i’s were dotted and the t’s were crossed,” Myers said.

In 2014, the SBDC assisted more than 500 clients in Centre and Mifflin counties. The services and seminars offered by the SBDC helped to start 23 businesses, create 130 jobs and secure

more than $3.3 million in financing opportunities.

Michelle Mierwald, owner of Sweet Heat Gourmet, said the SBDC not only assisted with launching her business, but also continued to create awareness about her products and helped her expand into new retail space.

“The vote of confidence that comes with the backing of the staff at the SBDC, as well as Linda personally, has really helped me get my foot in the door with local businesses who know and trust the SBDC,” Mierwald said.

Several businesses that have worked closely with the SBDC have recently been recognized on a state and national level.

Sweet Heat Gourmet, Otto’s Pub and Brewery and The UPS Store are all nominated for the 2015 Governor’s ImPAct Awards.

Jim and Connie Small — owners of the UPS Store in State College and Altoona — have been named the Pittsburgh Region’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

David Letterman, owner of Bonfatto’s in Bellefonte, was chosen by the Food Network to appear on a recent episode of “Food Fortunes.”

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RUGRATS RESALE is one of Centre County’s success stories. Pictured, from left, are Centre County Commissioner Steve Dershem, SBDC senior business consultant Linda Feltman, and Lydia and Andy Myers, owners of Rugrats Resale.

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 APRIL 13-17, 2015 BELLEFONTE BOROUGH

Marjorie L. Gardner Income-Only Trust, Donald T. Gardner Jr. trustee and Victoria S. Shultz trustee to Victoria S. Shultz, 512 S. Shope St., Bellefonte, $1.

Conor M. Nelson and Bridget Nelson to Oren Z. Gall and Heather E. Gall, 111 W. Logan St., Bellefonte, $125,500.

BENNER TOWNSHIP

Robert D. Cohen Revocable Trust and Robert D. Cohen trustee to Marianne Taylor, 146 Dorchester Lane, Bellefonte, $189,900.

BURNSIDE TOWNSHIP

Ronald W. Sopko estate and Alyce S. Agostinella executrix to Alyce S. Agostinella, Pine Glen Road, Moshannon, $1.

BOGGS TOWNSHIP

Charles L. Fisher and Linda L. Fisher to Michael Fisher and Whitney Fisher, 290 Curtin Narrows Road, Bellefonte, $200,000.

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Gary A. Bontrager, Stephen R. Hackman, Jeffrey Scott Long and Bontrager Hackman & Long to Gary A. Bontrager, Stephen R. Hackman, Jeffrey Scott Long and Bontrager Hackman & Long, South Miles Alley, Centre Hall, $1.

Gary A. Bontrager, Stephen R. Hackman, Jeffrey Scott Long and Bontrager Hackman & Long to Gary A. Bontrager, Stephen R. Hackman, Jeffrey Scott Long and Bontrager Hackman & Long, 236 S. Miles Alley, Centre Hall, $1.

Gary A. Bontrager, Stephen R. Hackman, Jeffrey Scott Long and Bontrager Hackman & Long to Gary A. Bontrager, Stephen R.

Hackman, Jeffrey Scott Long and Bontrager Hackman & Long, 107 Manor Road, Centre Hall, $1.

George C. Meyers Jr. to Brooks C. Meyers, 107 Water St., Centre Hall, $95,000.

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP

Christopher W. Craighead and Michelle M. Craighead to Clayton J. Synard and Sejal Synard, 150 Fernleaf Court, State College, $510,000.

Benjamin F. Howell to Howell Property LLC, West Whitehall Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, $1.

Benjamin F. Howell to Howell Property LLC, West Whitehall Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, $1.

Jersey Shore State Bank to Dreibelbis Road State College I. LP, Dreibelbis St., State College, $1.

Forrest J. Remick and Soon J. Remick to John M. Faust and Mary E. Faust, 439 Brandywine Drive, State College, $1.

S&A Homes Inc. to George W. Johnstone and Ann K. Johnstone, 161 Florence Way, State College, $532,654.

Spin Corporation to Marcon and Wild Real Estate, 2544 Clyde Ave., State College, $300,000.

Anthony L. Stauffer to Melissa Beattie-Moss, 115 Tug Circle, State College, $209,000.

Spiro E. Stefanou and Candice R. Stefanou to Barbara J. Horne, 553 Balmoral Circle, State College, $485,000.

E. Hicks, 114 Ramblewood Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, $189,900.

David A. Mallen and Jennifer Mallen to Jamie J. Wagner and David A. Korman Jr., 3106 Sheffield Drive, State College, $259,000.

Michael J. Naputano and Amy Jo Naputano to Chad Jeffery Sweigart and Caelie McCormick, 104 Gala Drive, State College, $218,500.

GREGG TOWNSHIP

Patrick D. Armer and Melanie D. Armer to John P. Shawver and Bethany E. Shawver, 741 Upper Georges Valley Road, Spring Mills, $140,000.

Terry L. Brown by sheriff and Michele L. Brown by sheriff to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, 149 Bach Lane, Spring Mills, $10,144.52.

Jeffrey A. Dreibelbis and Lisa G. Dreibelbis to Robert Caverly and Krista D. Caverly, 3162 Brush Valley Road, Centre Hall, $229,100.

HAINES TOWNSHIP

Russell L. Vonada by sheriff, Russell Vonada by sheriff and June Marie Vonada by sheriff to Bank of New York Mellon, 309 Pine Creek Road, Woodward, $5,795.59.

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FERGUSON TOWNSHIP

Berks Homes LLC to Anthony C. Barrile Jr. and Judith C. Barrile, 125 Rushcliffe St., State College, $416,370.29.

Henrietta Burnett to William L. Butler and Jean S. Giddings, 220 Val Verda Drive, Pennsylvania Furnace, $185,000.

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Deed Transfers, from page 37 HARRIS TOWNSHIP

Robert J. Flipse estate, W. Scott Flipse co-executor and Barbara J. McFarland co-executor to W. Scott Flipse, Hemlock St., Boalsburg, $1.

Robert J. Flipse estate, W. Scott Flipse co-executor and Barbara J. McFarland co-executor to W. Scott Flipse, Hemlock St., Boalsburg, $1.

Robert J. Flipse estate, W. Scott Flipse co-executor and Barbara J. McFarland co-executor to W. Scott Flipse, 832 Hemlock St., Boalsburg, $1.

Byron C. Jones and Judith A. Jones to John S. Packard and Carol A. Packard, 1134 Kay St., Boalsburg, $340,000.

William R. Lamb to Shamrock Family Partnership, 728 Oak Hall St., Boalsburg, $154,000.

Deirdre C. Mandryk and John Mandryk to Deirdre C. Mandryk, 223 Mountain Road, Boalsburg, $1.

Kathryn M. Putt to Thomas M. Rudy, 447 Bailey Lane, Boalsburg, $1.

HOWARD TOWNSHIP

Robbie A. Jones and Tamara K. Jones to Matthew Lawrence Boobar and Courtney J. Boobar, 125 McNichol Lane, Howard, $250,000.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

Harold T. Parker Sr. and Harold T. Parker to Harold T. Parker Jr., Robert S. Parker and Tania L. Parker, 122 N. Liberty St., Blanchard, $42,000.

Andrew Wertz and Tricia Wertz to Daniel W. Achenbach and Patricia L. Achenbach, Eagles Nest Road, Beech Creek, $0.

MARION TOWNSHIP

Robert E. Stover estate and Valerie Stover Anderson executrix to Valerie Stover Anderson, 325 Hidden Valley Lane, Howard, $1.

Henry W. Weight Jr. to James R. Ensor Sr., Karla L. Musser, Shane K. Ensor and Megan M. Querns, Weights Lane, Bellefonte, $75,000.

MILES TOWNSHIP

Ronald W. Hough and Donna K. Hough to Mark W. Hough, 6512 Brush Valley Road, Rebersburg, $1.

Ronald W. Hough, Donna K. Hough and Mark W. Hough to Ronald W. Hough and Donna K. Hough, Brush Valley Road, Rebersburg, $1.

Aaron W. Lucas and Alicia V. Lucas to Kevin D. Auman and Angel R. Auman, Town Lane Road, Rebersburg, $38,500.

Anita M. Tressler, Keith A. Tressler, Joyce E. Bridgens and Marc E. Bridgens to Keith A. Tressler, Anita M. Tressler and Stephen K. Tressler, 756 Bull Run Road, Loganton, $1.

Samuel J. Zook and Mary Z. Zook to Michael S. Esh and Kathryn S. Esh, 6149 Brush Valley Road, Rebersburg, $450,000.

Marianne Taylor to David R. Barnhart and Rebecca L. Barnhart, 303 Second St., Bellefonte, $255,000.

Marilyn J. Beesley and Marilyn Harrington Wagner to Anthony J. Delgrippo and Toni L. Davis, 2102 Axemann Road, Bellefonte, $14,000.

Doris M. Bittner to David J. Grasser and Janeen M. Grasser, 13 Rosewood Cove, Bellefonte, $205,000.

Michael W. Fisher and Whitney Fisher to Whitney E. Rupert, 640 Hillary Road, Bellefonte, $125,700.

Harold E. Reichert and Linda A. Reichert to Shawn J. Cleary and Nickol M. Cleary, 1110 W. Springfield Drive, Bellefonte, $278,000.

Dolores J. Weaver to Stewart Michael Boyer and Heather L. Boyer, 1302 E. College Ave., Bellefonte, $215,000.

PATTON TOWNSHIP

STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH

Peggy A. Johnson to John R. Affleck and Jessica S. Ancker, 1524 Woodledge Circle, State College, $254,000.

Brian W. Lambert and Ellen B. Weiss to Ellen B. Weiss, 138 Haverford Circle, State College, $1.

Darrell L. Robinson, Linda Robinson and Linda Sue Robinson to Linda Sue Robinson, 242 W. Crestmont Ave., State College, $1.

Temporary Housing Foundation Inc. to Christine M. Andrus, 151 W. Prospect Ave., State College, $180,000.

PHILIPSBURG BOROUGH

TAYLOR TOWNSHIP

MILESBURG BOROUGH

Michael Bonetti and Simone C. Bonetti to Chester E. Defurio Jr. and Helen Carol Defurio, 121 Weaver Road, Spring Mills, $56,777.

Martorana Family Trust, Sebastian V. Martorana estate, Vincenne M. Kirmss co-trustee, Francis Stephen Martorana co-trustee and John Charles Martorana co-trustee to Vincenne M. Kirmss, Francis Stephen Martorana and John Charles Martorana, Rimmey Road, Centre Hall, $1.

William B. Malcom and Diana W. Malcom to Mark S. Morrisson and Laura A. Reed-Morrisson, 1226 S. Pugh St., State College, $450,000.

Charles Reese estate and Melvin L. Reese Sr. & executor to Melvin L. Reese Sr. and Melvin L. Reese Jr., Bald Eagle Pike, Tyrone, $1.

Melvin L. Reese and Levin L. Reese Sr. to Melvin L. Reese Sr. and Melvin L. Reese Jr., 1573 Bald Eagle Pike, Tyrone, $1.

Theresa M. Scheidell by prothonotar to Adam P. Scheidell and Shirley E. Scheidell, 10363 S. Eagle Valley Road, Bellefonte, $70,000.

RUSH TOWNSHIP

UNION TOWNSHIP

Anita A. Hurwitz by attorney and Gary C. Page, 307 Curtis St., Philipsburg, $132,000.

POTTER TOWNSHIP

THE CENTRE COUNTY

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• Brown $26/yd., Dark Brown $26/yd.

All Dyed Mulch $30/yd.

Triple Play service $99.95/mo. for 1 year

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SAMUEL L. DETWEILER 814.644.8474 FLAT OR LOW SLOPE ROOF COATING

Susan Carnevale, MS, CCC-SLP

Helping people communicate at their best Acquired Neurogenic Disorders/ Stuttering Specialist

scarnevale52@gmail.com www.susancarnevaleslp.com Lemont Physical Therapy, Ste. 300, 2766 W. College Ave., State College, PA 16801 c 276-782-2824 ph 814-861-6608

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We buy junk cars, trucks & scrap metals 1806 Zion Rd. Bellefonte

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Market & Greenhouse

HOURS: Monday-Saturday 8-6; Sunday Noon-5pm

Hanging Baskets, Flowers, Vegetable Plants, Bedding Plants

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We have over 25 Premium, Grain Free and Holistic Pet Foods!

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SHUEY’S (814) 237-4578 LYONS SALVAGE LLC.

Robert J. Domingo to Frank Emmerling, 602 Mountain Stone Road, Pine Grove Mills, $128,000.

David J. Grasser and Janeen M. Grasser to Harold E. Reichert and Linda A. Reichert, 1123 E. Springfield Drive, Bellefonte, $310,000.

Daniel L. Mattern Family Revocable Trust, Daniel L. Mattern trustee and Madeline F. Mattern trustee to Daniel L. Mattern Family Revocable Trust, Daniel L. Mattern trustee and Madeline F. Mattern trustee, 555 Nittany Ridge Road, Howard, $1.

George Bathurst to George T. Bathurst and Jean M. Bathurst, 188 Upper Coleville Road, Bellefonte, $1.

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Bark Mulch

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Vernon R. Holderman by sheriff to Alexandre D. Tishchenko, 174 Dix Run Road, Julian, $55,000.

King Coal Sales Inc. to Crown Prince Investments LLC, 162 Snowy Mountain Lane, Philipsburg, $140,000.

Anthony William Pavlick Sr. and Beatrice Marie Pavlick to Anthony William Pavlick Sr., Beatrice Marie Pavlick and Patricia A. Shaw, 304 High St., Philipsburg, $1.

Price Living Trust, Jesse D. Price Jr. & trustee and Susan C. Davidson trustee to Susan C. Davidson, Tyrone Pike, Philipsburg, $1.

Armeda J. Sawtelle by attorney to Jeffrey S. Belinda and Rebecca L. Belinda, 518 Hemlock St., Philipsburg, $90,000.

Christine Ann Snyder and John T. Snyder Jr. to Christine Ann Snyder and John T. Snyder Jr., 683 Tyrone Pike, Philipsburg, $1.

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PERMANENT Camper site near Poe Valley State Park in private camp grounds. Can accomodate maximine 30 ft camper. Electric & water at site. Available immediately.

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REDUCED! Glass and silver metal, very sturdy. 41â&#x20AC;? wide24â&#x20AC;? high 19â&#x20AC;? high. Very nice.

Spring Mills pick up.

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Now accepting applications for seasonal, part-time and full-time Cave Tour Guide positions as well as Cafeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Servers.

If you would like to become a member of our growing Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cave Team, you must possess a positive attitude and strong work ethic.

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Applicants must be at least 16 years of age, and have reliable transportation to work.

High school & college students seeking summer employment; recent graduates, as well as active adults are all encouraged to apply.

Apply in person at our Visitors Center OR email info@pennscave.com for more information & to request an application. No phone calls, please. www.pennscave.com

Antiques

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Service areas: Boalsburg / Colyer Lake / State College.

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Friday May 8th & Saturday May 9th from 8am - 3pm. Rain or shine. Lots of families.

Off Bristol Ave from W. College Ave. Beyond Forever Broadcasting.

Google Map 2551 Park Center Boulevard, 16801 and keep driving.

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COMPUTER REPAIRS Over 14 years of experience in repairing desktops, servers and laptops.

I can easily remove viruses, spyware, and malware and get your PC back to top form.

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The Landings Spring 2015 COMMUNITY YARD SALE

BARKLESS OAK FOR SALE $175.00 for approximately 1 cord $325.00 for full trailer load (approx. 2 cords) CUT TO 18 inch standard size can be cut to any size additional fee may apply FREE DELIVERY WITHIN 15 MILES OF CENTRE HALL CALL 814-364-2007

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Spring Cleanup, Landscape, Lawnmowing, Mulch, Brush Remocal, Driveway Sealing, Deck Staining, Painting, Electrical, Carpentry, Plumbing, Flooring

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Very nice beveled smoked glass tops solid oak frames.

Coffee table 42â&#x20AC;?x42â&#x20AC;?x16.5â&#x20AC;? $50.00.

End table 30x 30x 20.5 $35.00. End table 30x25.5x20.5 $30.00.

All three $100.00.

Spring Mills pick up.

814-558-2200

WINE Handle Chaise Recliner $495.00 Rolled and padded arms. Banded base rail.

Dimensions 45â&#x20AC;? W x 47â&#x20AC;?

D x 49â&#x20AC;? H. Comes with new (never used) arm pads. Recliner was used very little. This recliner is in great shape with no damage and from a smoke-free home. $495 Hardly used. (610) 588-1884

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Outdoor Living For Sale

DAHIA Hot tub, 13 years old, works good, with new motors, needs thermostat, $200. You remove. (814) 355-5962

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WALKS Firewood & Lawn Care Seasoned, Barkless, Oak Firewood. Cut to your length, Split, & Delivered. We sell our firewood year round.

Dont hesitate to call.

Call Now: Matthew R. Walk (814) 937-3206

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Garage Sales

BELLEFONTE: Brockerhoff Heights (off Howard St) development yard sale: Fri. 5/8 & Sat. 5/9; 8-2pm. Rain/Shine!

HOUSES FOR SALE 124

Campers & Tents For Sale

Miscellaneous For Sale

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ADORABLE English BULLDOG PUPPIES Ready to go home

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Sports Equipment For Sale

TWO 17 FT CANOES $375.00 Two 17ft. Canoes. One a Coleman Ram-X. One aluminum. Both in great shape. $375 each.

814 355-0556

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Oak-n-Glass 45.45!!!) ( 4% 4//3 *4/)$4' Tables-$100 077 4,5$1225 ) 090 Cleaning Services

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031 utilities on site, $26,500. "$" # $ " Apartments $" $ " " $! You must have a valid Call George, (814) PA drivers license.

237-1000 VERY SPACIOUS You MUST have a clean record and pass a 1 Bedroom Apt. 038 Rooms background check.

In State College For Rent $1200.00 Experience helpful but This one bedroom not necessary. Wage Apartment is situated will be discussed at $545.00 ROOM near the university. It interview.

This Summer contains large open Burrowes Corner Please call plan living/dining area Room available at 814-308-8786 or e-mail with floor to ceiling Burrowes Corner info@nittanycleaning.net windows flooding the Perfect downtown room with plenty of location natural light. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 119 S. Burrowes St. large double bedroom It will be available with built in wardrobes for both summer HELP WANTED with automatic lights sessions 2015 Spicer Welding is when you open the Call Alex looking for motivated, wardrobe doors,with (949) 246-4283 hardworking, certified fully fitted kitchen including electric oven, welders and construction ceramic hob, extractor laborers. hood, integrated fridge Competitive salary and / freezer, dishwasher, benefits. washer / dryer. large M-F. Hours are 7:00 a.m. double bedroom with ONE BEDROOM built in wardrobes with to 4 pm.

Some weekend in a 4 bedroom automatic lights when work may be needed. apartment for 500 a you open the month plus electric and Clean drug screening, wardrobe gas. Apartment is furbackground check and doors. There is a stylish nished and there is free valid license is a must. bathroom with white parking and other comsuite and shower and a Submit your resume to modities. Own room large storage room. spicerweldinginc and bathroom, and 710 S. Atherton Street, @yahoo.com. or stop by dryer/washer included.

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we currently have puppies English bulldog that are now available for their forever homes. They are all so sweet and wonderful. They are up to date on shots, deworming, vet checks and health guarantee. text or call (619) 350-1816

COUNTRY 5 min. fromRV COACHMAN CALIFORNIA Raisin Colhome TRAILER lection, 20 little guys,town.

T- This 3 bdrn sits on 1/2 $7,500.00 acre with shirts, towels, piggy bank 2006 Coachmen birthday party supplies, open living room, din30 and foot kitchen. trailer. New, throw carpet & much ing room, unused, keep under more. Mint condition.

Three cover car mostly. garage.

Sleeps $150 obo.

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Asking six or eight.

Located 353-0755 $250,000 firm. in State College.

Ph. 814.222.3331.

Call (814)238-1736 for a showing.

AIR COMPRESSOR $500 Titan industrial / commercial air compressor. 5.5HP, 8 Gallon, gas powered.

Excellent condition (814) 769-1752

GENERATOR $250.00 Portable Generator, Generac ix800 watts, digital inverter generator, flex power fuel management 3.5 hour run time, super compact and quiet, clean power, brand new.

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HARRY POTTER DVDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S. $25.00 Four Harry Potter DVDs. (Six DVDs in all, two are doubles.) Three are still factory sealed, one viewed once. Prisoner of Azkaban, Chamber of Secrets, Sorcererâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stone, Goblet of Fire.

All for $25. Phone calls only. NO EMAIL (814) 237-2024

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WANTED Musical Instruments Wanted to buy, musical instruments in any condition.

Mainly brass and woodwind instruments but would consider string instruments.

Sorry no interest in guitars or drum equipment.

Call / Text 610-588-1884.

1980 Fairwood Lane State College 16803

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

P265/70R17 113S Goodyear Wrangler AT/S outlined white letter tires, very good cond., 8/32â&#x20AC;?-11/32â&#x20AC;? tread left, no plugs, patches or cracks, 4 yrs. old, even tread, $210 for the 3; please call or text (814) 571-4549.

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Autos For Sale

Cheap Auto Repairs

We offer all repairs at very affordable prices.

Brakes 10 per wheel, oil changes 10, tune ups 25, tire balance and rotation 20. All prices plus parts! Other major and minor repairs prices at 20 per hour no flat rate charging. Can call or text (814) 441-0272 for an estimate.

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Trucks For Sale

Pickup Truck For Sale $600.00 / offer 1990 CHEVY 2500 P/UP TRUCK BOUGHT FROM PENN STATE AUCTION AS IS AND SELLING IT AS IS BASIS. BOUGHT FOR $1200 AND SELLING FOR $ 600 OR BEST OFFER RUNS GOOD please call 814-571-3817

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