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Eagle Iron Works and Curtin Village was the site of Civil War Days on June 17 and 18. Dozens of Civil War re-enactors set up typical campsites of the period and offered demonstrations./Page 12

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EMS providers in need of funds, personnel

By SEAN YODER syoder@centrecountygazette.com

Emergency medical services professionals face an ever-tightening vise as they are squeezed for both personnel and funding.

It is not a new narrative for EMS agencies, especially in rural areas, complaining of lack of funding, low reimbursement rates for services, fewer volunteers and fewer willing candidates to take paid EMT jobs.

Now, the question is how long some of the agencies can continue under current conditions.

Scott Rhoat is director of Bellefonte EMS and president of the Centre County Ambulance Association, and sits on the board of the Seven Mountains EMS Council. He has worked at all levels of the industry, starting as a volunteer medic with a fire company and climbing his way up through the ranks. He also has worked on the administrative and advocacy sides of the industry.

Lately, Rhoat has been trying to shed

public light on the deteriorating situation in which independent EMS agencies find themselves.

MEAGER REIMBURSEMENTS

One of the most obvious problems for EMS agencies is the meager reimbursement they receive from Medicare and Medicaid.

Medicaid will reimburse about 20 cents on the dollar for transporting a patient to the hospital, if there is even a transport at all. If the patient does not get in the rig, EMS gets nothing.

Medicare is a little better, Rhoat said, and will reimburse about 60 cents on the dollar for a transport.

For a $600 basic life support ambulance ride, the EMS agency might get $360 back.

Medicare and Medicaid do not recognize EMTs or paramedics as providers.

They are recognized as suppliers of transportation.

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BELLEFONTE EMTS Luke Block, left, and Kerrie DeHaas pose for a photo at the station along Phoenix Avenue in Bellefonte between responding to calls June 19.

Area police departments deal with leadership changes

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

As local emergency medical service providers deal with limited funding sources and dwindling staff numbers, Centre Region law enforcement offices also are adapting to changing circumstances. In just one year, three police departments have seen, or will see, a change in leadership.

Late last year, State College Police Chief Tom King retired after 23 years in

the position and 35 years with the department. He moved into a new role as assistant borough manager and was succeeded as chief by John Gardner, who had previously been assistant chief.

Patton Township Police Chief John Petrick stepped down to take a position at Penn State after 15 years as top law enforcement officer in the township and 22 years with the department.

A search for his replacement is under way.

On June 19, the expected change in the

staff, other municipal managers, a community stakeholder group and a hiring consultant.

“Consistently and without exception during the recruitment process, his name was at the top of a long and competitive list,” Pribulka said. “He has earned the support and respect of his peers and fellow officers, and his passion and commitment to the profession of law enforcement is second to none.”

ranks at Ferguson Township was made official when the board of supervisors approved the appointment of Sgt. Chris Albright to become the next chief of police, effective Friday, June 30. Chief Diane Conrad has been with the department since 2004 and in March she announced she planned to retire.

Township manager Dave Pribulka said Albright was selected during a rigorous recruitment process from more than 30 qualified candidates, a list that was narrowed through a series of interviews with

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McLanahan’s applies for license to sell beer and wine

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By GEOFF RUSHTON and ELISSA HILL StateCollege.com

TIM WEIGHT/For the Gazette

STATE COLLEGE SPIKES super fan and honorary bench coach Josiah Viera greets coach Darwin Marrero during the Meet the Spikes get-together at Medlar Field. The Spikes opened the season with a loss to Williamsport. See a preview of the defending New York-Penn League champions and more photos on Pages 22 and 23.

Police Blotter .................... 2 Death Notices .................. 6

Opinion ............................ 8 Health & Wellness ............ 9

Community .................... 12 Sports .............................. 19

STATE COLLEGE — McLanahan’s Downtown Market hopes to soon sell wine and beer.

A notice of application to sell alcoholic beverages is posted in the window of the store and deli at 116 S. Allen St. McLanahan’s is applying as a restaurant and would be able to sell beer and wine for consumption inside and for takeout.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board limits takeout to 192 ounces of beer and four bottles of wine per customer.

McLanahan’s decided to move in this direction after hearing feedback from customers on what they would like to see in the store.

“We want to please our customers,” a manager said over the phone. “People have been coming in and asking, especially on big weekends, ‘Where’s the beer?’”

McLanahan’s, Page 4 Women’s Corner ............ 24 Around & In Town ......... 25

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McLANAHAN’S DOWNTOWN MARKET, located at 116 S. Allen St., State College, has applied to the state Liquor Control Board for permission to sell beer and wine at the location.

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CRUISE CAPPED: Find post coverage of the 2017 Bellefonte Cruise, including a photo gallery of the weekend’s festivities.

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CENTRE BAZAAR: Centre Hall will hold its town-wide yard sale on June 23 and 24, promising about 150 sales that line the streets of town.

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DRAFT DREAMS: Nick Raquet accomplished what many young ballplayers dream of: being drafted by a professional baseball team.

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POLICE BLOTTER STATE POLICE AT PHILIPSBURG

Troopers said someone stole a SNAP card and Social Security card from a lost wallet that was later returned to the owner, but with the cards missing. Police said purchases were made with the SNAP card at Weis Market in Philipsburg Borough on May 23. ❑❑❑ Andrew G. Godak, of DuBois, will face drug charges after troopers said he was found with drugs and marijuana during a traffic stop along Hillcrest Street in Philipsburg Borough at 1:45 a.m. May 27. ❑❑❑ Cody J. Stephenson, 30, of Philipsburg, suffered serious injuries when his car struck a tree at 11:50 a.m. May 30 along Rattlesnake Pike near Moshannon State Park in Rush Township, troopers said.

Stephenson was traveling east when he crossed over the westbound lane and off the north side of the road, struck a road sign then a tree. Troopers said he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and will face driving under the influence charges. ❑❑❑ No one was hurt in a two-vehicle crash along Interstate 99 near Skytop Mountain Road in Huston Township at 6:49 a.m.

May 31, police said. Troopers said a Peterbilt driven by Albaye Jallow, of Greensboro, was struck from behind by an SUV driven by Kyle A. Poorman, of Port Matilda, who attempted to pass a slow-moving vehicle. ❑❑❑ A 66-year-old Clearfield man will face a charge of harassment for a physical altercation with a 10-year-old West Decatur boy at 101 Weller Circle, Decatur Township, at 7 p.m. June 11, police said. ❑❑❑ Yvonne Reedy, 70, of Philipsburg, will face a charge of false alarm after state police said she raised five false alarms in a 12-month period at 324 E. Pine St. in Philipsburg. ❑❑❑ Police said they will charge a 21-yearold Houtzdale man with driving under the influence after he was found to be under the influence of marijuana and in possession of drug paraphernalia during a traffic stop along Irwin Drive in Decatur Township, Clearfield County, at 1:08 a.m. June 12. Police did not name the accused. ❑❑❑ Police said a 16-year-old Osceola Mills girl was not hurt when she lost control of her car along State Street near Barry Street in Rush Township on June 16. Troopers reported she was traveling north on State Street at 6:22 p.m. when she lost control while negotiating a curve and traveled off the west side of the road before striking an embankment. ❑❑❑ Barry L. Moyer, of Julian, was not hurt when a tree fell on the hood of his pickup truck at 5:45 a.m. June 16 along Eagle Valley Road near Poor Farm Lane in Union Township, state police said.

❑❑❑ Troopers said Rodger D. Peck, of Hagerstown, Md., was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia during a traffic stop at South Centre Street in Philipsburg Borough at 10:09 p.m. June 16. ❑❑❑ Troopers reported David J. Kozak, of Wormleysburg, was not hurt when his SUV struck a deer at 10:30 a.m. June 17 along Port Matilda Highway near Enterprise Drive in Rush Township.

STATE POLICE AT ROCKVIEW Troopers said Alicia L. Lutton, 41, took a black leather purse without paying for it from Unlimited Treasures at 3013 Benner Pike in Benner Township at 1:30 p.m.

Jan. 17. Lutton will face a charge of retail theft. ❑❑❑ Police said they arrested Owen Bechdel, 19, for possession of prescription medication and possession of drug paraphernalia at 6:35 p.m. June 3 along Commercial Street in Milesburg Borough. ❑❑❑ Linda R. Arble, of Centre Hall, was not hurt when she struck a deer with her SUV along Route 45 near Penns Valley Road in Haines Township at 6:31 a.m. June 11, state police said. ❑❑❑ A 22-year-old Snow Shoe woman told police someone entered her unlocked vehicle and took a blue wallet while she was parked at Dollar General in Snow Shoe Township from 9 to 9:15 p.m. June 11. ❑❑❑ Troy Ripka, 33, of Milesburg, will face a charge of criminal mischief after police said he broke the window of a vehicle at 200 Hazel St., Milesburg Borough, at 8:45 p.m. June 11. ❑❑❑ A Florida driver’s license belonging to Kalan McEuen, of Jacksonville, Fla., was found at 820 S. Eagle Valley Road in Boggs Township at about 6 p.m. June 13, according to state police. ❑❑❑ A Blanchard man will face a citation for disorderly conduct after police said he yelled obscenities at his neighbor near 110 Kunes St. in Liberty Township at about 6:40 p.m. June 13. ❑❑❑ Someone threw eggs at a red 2016 Chevrolet Cruz along Front Street in Milesburg sometime between 11:30 p.m.

June 15 and 7 a.m. June 16, according to police. ❑❑❑ Angelica M. Kilgus, of Moshannon, suffered minor injuries when she lost control of her car during heavy rains at 11 a.m. June 19 along Interstate 80 near mile marker 151.2, police said. Kilgus’ vehicle began to fishtail before it struck a culvert on the southern berm and came to a stop on its roof.

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Ferguson Twp. seeks to curb greenhouse emissions

By SEAN YODER syoder@centrecountygazette.com

FERGUSON TOWNSHIP — Rarely does a resolution from local government get a round of applause.

On June 19, members of the audience at Ferguson Township’s regular supervisors meeting were audibly pleased with the board’s approval of a resolution to develop a strategy to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions from the municipality’s vehicles and buildings by 2050.

The resolution, originally put forward

by Supervisor Peter Buckland in May, was approved June 19 with no votes against and amendments only for language changes and minor edits.

Ferguson Township is the latest municipality in the U.S. to declare its intention to cut or eliminate the use of fossil fuels to combat climate change, despite President Donald Trump’s announcement that he intended to withdraw from the agreement made at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Paris climate agreement has been ratified by 148 countries, according to the U.N. The township’s resolution cites a portion of the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that says the state’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. “As

trustees of these resources, the commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people,” the passage states.

According to the resolution, Pennsylvania contributes 1 percent of total greenhouse emissions.

The resolution also states that green building practices and standards and solar and wind electricity generation has reached price parity with non-renewable sources.

Buckland said in an interview with Public News Service on May 25 that state legislation could allow the township to then give municipally backed loans for clean development, and use zoning to encourage low-impact development and green building practices.

“I think it is absolutely incumbent on elected officials — who understand the risks, threats and opportunities of climate change — to take action,” he said in the interview. “It is our duty. It is our responsibility to do it.”

A handful of residents spoke in favor of the resolution during the public hearing portion of the meeting.

Todd Giddings, a trained groundwater geologist, suggested the supervisors add language naming geothermal technology as a possible tool. Giddings said his home, as well as his office, has been heated and cooled by geothermal for the last 30 years.

His office also has solar panels to run the geothermal pumps.

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ED PERRY, an outreach coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation, waited outside the Ferguson Township municipal building June 19 to support the resolution to develop a strategy to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Perry is a resident of Boalsburg.

Barron explains rationale behind Greek life decisions StateCollege.com reports UNIVERSITY PARK — In a letter posted to his “Digging Deeper” blog June 16, Penn State President Eric Barron said in the months since the death of Timothy Piazza following an alcohol-fueled fraternity event, he and university administrators have been working on addressing problems in Greek life, and he has received more than 1,000 emails and letters about what should be done.

But, he wrote, he had not yet communicated with the university community at large about the details and rationale behind the many decisions being made regarding the future of fraternities and sororities at Penn State.

Barron used the letter as an opportunity to describe the steps he and the university administration have taken to date. Though he praised aspects of the Greek community’s involvement in student life, he said the university needs to be much more involved in how the organizations are governed.

“We value (organizations that) give our students the chance to practice their leadership and organizational skills, to take responsibility for outcomes, to build community, and to better understand what it means to be responsible for one’s self and for others,” Barron wrote.

“These opportunities are abundant within our Greek-letter organizations and we want students to own their experiences within these groups to the fullest extent possible.

“But until fundamental change is achieved within our Greek-letter community, the risk of relying on self-governance among these organizations is simply too great.

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According to PLCB records, the status is pending. The license is being transferred from Limelight of Centre County LLC, which lists an address as 106 S. Atherton St., the former site of Arby’s, where The Metropolitan high-rise is being constructed.

Managers are not sure how long the application process could take through Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board, but they hope to start selling wine and beer as soon as possible if the application is approved.

Greek life, from page 3

are directly responsible for employees assigned to develop the implementation strategies for one or more of the 15 tasks,” Barron wrote.

The Greek Life Response Team will partner with another group that will review the implementation plan for each action item. That group will consist of “a dozen or more” individuals and may include student leaders, fraternity and sorority members, members of the board of trustees, various faculty and staff leaders and alumni.

Barron said he plans to release the implementation plans once they are completed and reviewed.

One of the tangible efforts that already has been initiated by the university is the Greek Life Response Team, which Barron explained in greater depth than had previously been offered.

The five-man team will be responsible for implementing changes in the Greek life system, but, as Barron said, it will primarily oversee and delegate to other individuals who will be working to sustain and improve Greek life.

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PITTSBURGH — Katie Schreckengast, a Penn State student and member of the Blue Band, took home the title of Miss Pennsylvania 2017 on June 18 at the annual scholarship competition held in Pittsburgh. She is a rising senior majoring in broadcast journalism.

Schreckengast is from Palmyra. She was crowned Miss Central Pennsylvania in Lewistown in January, earning the opportunity to compete for the state title. A saxophone player in the Blue Band, her pageant talent draws on the same skills she demonstrates on the football field at

halftime — she played “Listen” by Beyoncé at both the Miss Central Pennsylvania and Miss Pennsylvania competitions.

In addition to the title and the opportunity to compete nationally, Schreckengast received a $7,000 cash scholarship.

Schreckengast isn’t the first Penn Stater to compete for the title of Miss America. Alumna Emily Wills holds the title of Miss Pennsylvania 2006 and alumna Tara Wheeler was crowned Miss Virginia in 2008, both earning the opportunity to represent their states and alma mater in the Miss America competition.

Schreckengast will go on to represent Pennsylvania in the Miss America Pageant in September.

Federal Taphouse opening in Fraser Centre pushed back

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — The opening of Federal Taphouse’s State College location in the Fraser Centre has been moved back a few days.

The restaurant and bar announced on its website in May that it would open June 19, but that has been moved back to Saturday, July 1, according to general manager David Chubb. The change in opening date will allow Federal Taphouse to put the finishing touches on construction.

The State College location will be Federal Taphouse’s fourth in Pennsylvania, with others in Harrisburg, Lancaster and Camp Hill. It joins Hyatt Place Hotel, Target, H&M and

private condos in the Fraser Centre. Target and H&M were the first occupants to open their doors in the new building in October 2016 and Hyatt opened earlier this year.

Federal Taphouse will be located on the second floor of the Fraser Centre, with access through the hotel and from Fraser Street.

Owned by Penn State alumni Corey Fogarty and Judd Goodman, Federal Taphouse’s other locations boast hundreds of craft and bottled beers as well as craft spirits and a variety of wines on tap and bottled. Specializing in farm-to-table fare using local ingredients, they also offer lunch and dinner menus and a Sunday brunch.

Fogarty and Goodman opened the first Federal Taphouse in 2012.

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PSU backs proposed federal legislation on hazing

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — As Penn State continues to take action to reform Greek life in the wake of fraternity pledge Timothy Piazza’s death in February, university leaders have expressed their support for a federal bill that would require schools to report hazing under the Clery Act. The legislation also would require colleges and universities to provide educational programs about the dangers of hazing.

The Report and Educate About Campus Hazing Act is a bipartisan effort introduced June 16 by Rep. Patrick Meehan, a Republican who represents Pennsylvania’s 7th District, and Rep. Marcia Fudge, a Democrat who represents Ohio’s 11th District.

“The University community continues to mourn the loss of Timothy Piazza and our thoughts remain with his family and friends,” Penn State President Eric Barron said in a statement. “Penn State

supports the REACH Act and greatly appreciates Congressman Meehan’s and Congresswoman Fudge’s leadership on this important national issue. Our support for this legislation aligns with our commitment to implement significant reforms as a leader in ensuring the safety and well-being of our students, and of the entire University community.”

Under the bill, incidents of hazing would be added to the crimes and acts of misconduct that must be reported in a school’s annual security report, as required under the Clery Act. Schools also would be required to report statistics of referrals for discipline and arrests specific to hazing and implement a hazing education program for all students.

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act establishes requirements for colleges and universities to accurately and transparently report crime statistics and current policies.

“Each year, college students across the country are subjected to dangerous inci-

dents of hazing, the tragic death of Penn State student Timothy Piazza being just the latest example,” Meehan said. “The first step in combating this problem is understanding just how prevalent it is on campuses. By requiring colleges and universities to report hazing as part of their annual crime reports, we can both better understand the extent of the problem, and encourage administrators to partner with students to reduce risky behavior.”

Penn State’s board of trustees approved a list of measures June 2 to overhaul fraternity and sorority life and create a safer environment. Among them was a commitment to support Congressional proposals expanding the Clery Act to include hazing.

Piazza’s parents, Jim and Evelyn, also have called on the university to support changes to state and federal laws, along with taking a number of other actions.

Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore from Lebanon, N.J., died Feb. 4 after a bid acceptance event for pledges at Beta Theta Pi fraternity, which has since been perma-

nently banned by Penn State. Piazza consumed a significant amount of alcohol in a short period of time the night of Feb. 2 as part of an initiation ritual that prosecutors have described as hazing.

He fell head first down a flight of stairs, and surveillance video footage showed his condition worsening as he fell multiple times throughout the night while no one in attendance sought medical help. Paramedics were called the following morning after he was discovered unconscious, again apparently having fallen down the basement stairs.

Piazza died the morning of Feb. 4, having suffered non-recoverable brain injuries and a life-threatening spleen rupture. A medical examiner determined his blood alcohol content at the time of the first fall would have been as high as .36, a life-threatening level in itself.

After a grand jury investigation, 18 members of the fraternity and the fraternity chapter were charged with variety of Hazing, Page 7

Charges filed in string of State College burglaries

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — Two suspects were charged and several others are being sought in connection with a series of reported burglaries in State College.

On the morning of May 15, State College Police were dispatched for a report of several burglaries on the 300 block of South Burrowes Street.

According to a criminal complaint, Halfmoon Realty staff reported finding smashed windows at several of the company’s properties, along with signs of entry into several apartments and missing or stolen property. During the initial investigation, police found four different apartments or buildings had been entered.

Early on the morning of May 16, police responded to a report of an attempted robbery on the same block. Two suspects were taken into custody near the scene and a total of four people were ultimately charged in the incident.

Among them was Anthony L. Mittelman, 18, of State College, who allegedly admitted to being involved with numerous burglaries on the block along with three other individuals, including Alexander F. Bucknavage, 18, of State College.

According to the criminal complaint, Mittelman told police that they smashed several windows to enter the houses and gained entry to others through unlocked doors and windows. Mittelman said one of the suspects carried out a teal crate with phones, jewelry and other items from one of the apartments.

On May 20, police received a report from a woman who said she found no forced entry to her apartment but that several items were stolen, including a new iPhone, several other cell phones, jewelry, clothing, a jar of coins and a teal crate.

Officers executed a search warrant for the residence of the suspect identified by Mittelman and reportedly found the teal crate, which was positively identified by its owner. Police learned the suspect recently moved out of the residence and may have fled the area.

Police spoke to Bucknavage on May 22 and he reportedly admitted to being involved with the burglaries, along with Mittelman and three others. According to the complaint, Bucknavage said the suspect whose apartment was searched suggested they could enter some residences

because Penn State students were gone for the summer.

Bucknavage allegedly said Mittelman broke the windows on four apartments and that they lifted open a front porch window on another. They gained entry to a sixth when they found the door unlocked. Police said Bucknavage and Mittelman entered each residence first and then let the others in.

In several cases, two suspects acted as look-outs while the others entered the residences and took items, according to the complaint.

Police said Bucknavage admitted he and Mittelman stole and, along with the others, discharged two fire extinguishers, which they then discarded.

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Fran E. Levin June 27, 1951, to June 19, 2017

OSCEOLA MILLS — Ann Christine Bannon died Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at Wynwood House at Greenhills, State College. She was 87. Arrangements were under the direction of Beezer-Heath Funeral Home, Philipsburg. www.beezerheathfh.com

Fran E. Levin, 65, of State College, PA died Sunday, June 18, 2017 at Mount Nittany Medical Center.

Fran was loved by her friends, family, and colleagues and will be greatly missed.

She spent over 30 years in the hospitality industry. The first half of her career was in Washington D.C., where she was a member of the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International’s Executive Board and a past president of HSMAI’s Washington D.C. Chapter.

Fran was Director of Sales at the Vista International Hotel, the Omni Georgetown Hotel and part of the pre-opening team of the Renaissance Hotel at Techworld before moving to State College to become the general manager of the Atherton Hilton in 1988.

In 1994, Fran joined Penn State University as the Director of Sales and Marketing for Penn State Hospitality Services, which manages The Nittany Lion Inn and The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.

She served in this capacity until her retirement in 2012.

Fran also served on the board of the Pennsylvania Society of Association Executives and is a Certified Hospitality Marketing Executive (CHME). The Nittany Lion Inn has been a member of Historic Hotels of America since 1999, and Fran served as co-chair of their Sales & Marketing Committee.

During her career in State College, she was past president of the Centre County Convention and Visitors Bureau; former Secretary/Treasurer of Pennsylvania Travel Council, which became the Pennsylvania Tourism & Lodging Association; was a member of the Penn State Center for the Performing Arts Advisory Council from 2006-2012; a past board member of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and Pa Centre Stage; a past board member of the Centre County Meals on Wheels and the Nittany Valley Symphony; and a past board member of the HSMAI Foundation Board.

Fran was preceded in death by her father, Edgar, mother, Natalie, and brother, James Robert Levin.

A graveside ceremony was held at the Ohev Sholom Cemetery in Lewistown, PA on Tuesday, June 20th, followed by a Celebration of Life in State College at The Nittany Lion Inn.

SPRING MILLS — Wanda Moyer died Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at her home. She was 85. Arrangements were under the direction of Daughenbaugh Funeral Home, Centre Hall. www.daughenbaughfuneralhome.com PLEASANT GAP — Bruce L. Fowler died Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at her home. She was 85. Arrangements were under the direction of Daughenbaugh Funeral Home, Centre Hall. www.daughenbaughfuneralhome.com BELLEFONTE — Edward “Ned” L. Plumb Jr. died Thursday, June 15, 2017. He was 98. Arrangements were under the direction of Wetzler Funeral Service, Bellefonte. www.wetzlerfuneralhome.com CENTRE HALL — Dennis “Denny” G. Puff Sr. died Friday, June 16, 2017. He was 57. Arrangements were under the direction of Daughenbaugh Funeral Home, Centre Hall. www.daughenbaughfuneralhome.com JULIAN — Allen “Goat” W. Donley Sr. died Friday, June 16, 2017. He was 73. Arrangements were under the direction of Dean K. Wetzler Funeral Home, Milesburg. www.deankwetzlerfuneralhome.com STATE COLLEGE — Kathleen M. McClellan died Friday, June 16, 2017. She was 90. Arrangements were under the direction of Mark D. Heintzelman Funeral and Cremation Service, State College. www.heintzelmanfuneralhome.com BELLEFONTE — Ann Teresa Crowley died Sunday, June 18, 2017 at Centre Crest, Bellefonte. She was 83. Arrangements were under the direction of Wetzler Funeral Service, Bellefonte. www.wetzlerfuneralhome.com SPRING MILLS — Ardell Smith died Sunday, June 18, 2017. He was 88. Arrangements were under the direction of Steven R. Neff Funeral Home, Millheim. www.stevenrnefffuneralhome.com

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Work to begin on storm-damaged properties

By SEAN YODER syoder@centrecountygazette.com

BELLEFONTE — Work will begin soon on five Centre County properties damaged by intense storms last October, paid for mostly by Emergency Watershed Protection funds from the federal government.

Starting late in the evening Oct. 20, 2016, 8 to 10 inches of rain fell over the course of about four hours on some parts of the Bald Eagle Valley. Flooding hit multiple communities and damaged stream banks.

In December, the county said it would act as a sponsor to go after federal funds for qualifying projects to repair some of the damage as a result of the unprecedented rainfall.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service will provide 75 percent of the $187,800 for the work through EWP funds, with the state Department of Environmental Protection kicking in the other 25 percent. The project had initially been estimated at about $204,000, with the five properties divided into three projects.

The work in Coleville, Spring Township, is the most costly of the work to be done, with a $129,000 price tag on two properties. Another two properties in Julian will cost $33,000, and a property in Howard Township will cost $24,900.

The three projects are all stream bank stabilizations that are threatening homes or businesses, said Robert Sweitzer, director of the Centre County Conservation District, which did much of the local coordinating.

Sweitzer said a lot of collaboration was required between the USDA, the DEP and county government to acquire the funds, which is why EWP projects take months to come to fruition. Congress must approve the funds before they can be dispersed.

All three projects will not only repair erosion damage from the October storms, but hopefully mitigate the effects of high water events in the future, Sweitzer said.

On June 12, the county commissioners awarded all three projects to low-bidder Steven Kreiger Excavating of Saxton, Huntingdon County. Companies had the option to bid for each individual project.

The autumn storm wreaked havoc across the entire northeast as a non-tropical storm tapped into warm, summer-like weather, with much colder air following in subsequent days, according to AccuWeather. Temperatures plummeted to 30 to 40 degrees after record-high temperatures in the 70s and 80s.

Though central and western Pennsylvania were among the hardest regions hit, flooding was reported in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as 2 to 4 inches of rain fell over a short period of time throughout New England.

Destructive high winds also were reported in isolated areas.

The USDA provided $93 million for EWP projects in 2016, spread across 19 states. The most money last year went to 27 communities in Utah for severe flooding in late 2014 and early 2015. Pennsylvania had no projects on the docket last year.

These are not Centre County’s first EWP projects, Sweitzer said. In 1996, temperatures warmed up in January, bringing rainfall on top of an already large amount of snowpack, causing flooding in several locations. Another small EWP project was approved in 2011 for flooding.

Nighttime road work continues through June in State College Gazette staff reports STATE COLLEGE — Nighttime road work will continue in State College through June, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The work is expected to improve roadway ride quality while extending the life of the roadway surface.

On Thursday, June 29, paving will take place on Route 26 (College Avenue/Beaver Avenue) from Puddintown Road to Short Street.

Work will take place during evening and overnight hours, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. An alternating traffic pattern will be in place, controlled by flaggers in the roadway. Short travel delays should be expected, and drivers need to be on alert for slow-moving and stopped vehicles through the work zone.

Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc., of State College, is the contractor on this project. All work is weather- and schedule-dependent.

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EMS, from page 1 It does not matter what an EMS agency bills Medicare or Medicaid, because those programs will reimburse only a set amount.

Rhoat said about 15 to 20 percent of patients they serve are on Medicaid — a low amount compared to some areas in Pennsylvania — and about 40 percent of patients have Medicare.

That means some EMS agencies, like Bellefonte, cannot give staffers a raise.

Right now, entry-level EMTs start at $9.50 an hour. The average hourly rate across the entire station is $10.40. That’s $10.40 per hour to enter people’s houses at some of the worst moments of their lives; that’s $10.40 an hour to keep someone alive on the way to the hospital after a vicious car crash or other traumatic incident.

At the state level, there is support for increasing the amount Medicaid pays.

House Bill 699 passed with no votes against it in the House on June 7. The bill calls for increasing the rate in which EMS is reimbursed for basic and advanced life support by 50 percent, to bring it more in line with Medicare.

That is a good start, Rhoat said.

LOW MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS

Membership rates in Bellefonte’s coverage area are around 11 to 12 percent of the population. Rhoat said that equates to about 4 to 5 percent of its $900,000 budget. An increased membership would help the agency, and it also acts as a kind of second insurance for ambulance rides to the hospital, with Bellefonte EMS covering the out-of-pocket or deductible ex-

Hazing, from page 5 crimes in connection with his death and its aftermath. For some, those charges include involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault. Twelve members face multiple counts — ranging from 14 to 50 — of hazing.

In Pennsylvania, hazing is a third-degree misdemeanor, which has a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $2,500 fine. The state’s hazing law also requires colleges and universities to have an anti-hazing policy and enforcement of penalties that include fines, withholding of diplomas and transcripts, and probation, suspension or dismissal. Organizations found responsible for authorizing hazing are subject to penalties up to being banned from the school.

Hazing is already a violation of school policies and the law, but in announcing the reform measures June 2, Barron said, “Any hazing that involves alcohol, physical abuse or puts a student’s mental or Burglaries, from page 5 Property managers reported finding discharged fire extinguishers that had been missing from a garage. He also said that at the last apartment they entered, one of the suspects took cellphones, jewelry and clothing in a plastic crate, while Mittelman took a new iPhone and he took a jar of coins that he cashed in at a grocery store, according to the complaint.

Bucknavage reportedly went with police to the scenes of the alleged burglar-

penses for such a trip.

As of now, few municipalities contribute to EMS coverage. None of the eight municipalities in the Bellefonte EMS coverage area contribute.

It may seem odd to some to pay taxes for EMS coverage, but it is mandated that people pay for garbage, sewage and water, and municipalities will chip in or pay outright for a host of other services, such as street sweeping, swimming pools, police enforcement and street and sidewalk repair.

Each year, the EMS agencies lobby for increased state Department of Health appropriations, but again this year they will likely not see any increase, Rhoat said.

Poor finances lead to staffing problems, since it is tough for EMS agencies to compete with the market.

A YOUNG INDUSTRY

EMS is a relatively new industry when compared to firefighting. It really only got its start in the mid- to late 1960s in Centre County. Back then, Rhoat said, there were no guidelines or legislation governing an ambulance service. They mostly grew out of fire departments and also were completely volunteer-based.

At some point in the 1990s, Rhoat said most Centre County EMS agencies began to reconsider their staffing models, and paid staff were augmenting the volunteer organizations. Today, the model is totally flipped, with volunteers being the ones who are, for the most part, augmenting the paid staffers.

He said Snow Shoe EMS continues to be the sole 100 percent volunteer organization in the county.

SCOTT RHOAT

PAGE 7 While some of the financial difficulties are easier to understand, the lack of volunteers has a murkier answer.

Rhoat said several cultural factors could be contributing, but the main themes are a lack of time outside of work, family responsibilities and a weaker sense of

community.

It could be because more people in a household are working, people are not living in the same towns in which they work, there are more extracurricular activities for children and fewer employers may be willing to let their workers respond to an emergency call.

He added that internal politics has sometimes gotten the better of volunteer emergency organizations and could turn off potential volunteers.

Regardless of the number of volunteers, EMS staffing has declined in recent years. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reports that the number of people in the field declined from 57,032 in 2012 to 46,481 in 2016.

That means there are fewer people across the state to serve an aging population. According to 2010 census data, Pennsylvania was fourth in the nation for percentage of population age 65 and older, at 15.4 percent.

CONSEQUENCES

Staffing issues and funding can have

physical health at risk will result in swift and permanent revocation of the university’s recognition.”

“Penn State’s leadership will continue discussions with state officials on ways to strengthen penalties for hazing, especially hazing that includes alcohol, and on increased statewide educational initiatives on the dangers of hazing and dangerous drinking,” a university news release stated.

The REACH Act defines hazing as “Any intentional, knowing or reckless act committed by a student, or a former student, whether individually or in concert with other persons, against another student, and in which both of the following apply: (a) The act was committed in connection with an initiation into, an affiliation with or the maintenance of membership in any organization that is affiliated with such educational institution. (b) The act contributes to a substantial risk of potential physical injury, mental harm or degradation or causes physical injury, mental harm or personal degradation.”

Police, from page 1

ies and walked officers through each in the order they were committed, how they entered and what they took from each place.

Interviewed a second time, Mittelman corroborated most of the additional details Bucknavage offered, police said.

In total, six separate burglaries were reported. Halfmoon Realty staff told police that the estimated cost for glass replacement and cleanup of the scenes was more than $1,400. One alleged victim reported a total property loss of more than $1,000.

Forensic evidence was collected and submitted to the Pennsylvania State Police lab and further evidence processing is pending.

Mittelman, who has been in the Centre County Correctional Facility since his arrest in May on one felony conspiracy charge, is now charged with six counts of burglary, one count of conspiracy and six counts of criminal trespass, all felonies.

He also was charged with four misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief, and one count each of theft by unlawful taking

A lifelong resident of the township, Albright has worked in law enforcement for more than 30 years. He graduated from State College Area High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Penn State and a master’s in security management from Bellevue University.

“I’m honored and very excited to represent the community both in this new role as police chief and in my former role as a police officer,” Albright said. “Modern policing involves a lot of challenges and is always evolving. One of the things for me is my goal is to provide that leadership for the department to take us into that next step.”

Albright has been a bicycle officer, field training officer, a member of the tactical response team and a member of the hostage negotiation team.

As an administrative sergeant, he has managed the department’s vehicle fleet,

very real consequences for the populations served.

A gap in the coverage area can cause a ripple effect. If a neighboring agency to Bellefonte were to suddenly fold, Rhoat said Bellefonte would have to step up and take those dispatch calls. But, if an ambulance is 30 minutes away on a call and the other unit also is tied up, a patient right in Bellefonte may have to wait for Centre Life Link to respond, for example.

On June 17, Citizens’ Ambulance in Indiana County announced that if its financial situation did not improve through the rest of the year, it would end 24-hour service at some of its satellite locations.

That means fewer medics on the road and potentially longer response times.

SILVER LINING

Things are not as bleak all the way around. Centre Life Link in State College has consistently strong contingents of college students who are looking to go on to medical careers, said Scott Rawson, executive director.

Students will come in during their freshman or sophomore years, take the EMT classes and stick around for a couple of years until they finish school. While the turnover may be high, there is a steady stream of students looking to get handson patient care. Right now, 20 volunteers are taking the EMT course, Rawson said.

But, he also noted that the number of volunteers from the community has decreased. He said committing to the 220 hours of training is a lot, and could be part of why those living in the community are not getting involved at the same rate as in the past.

conducted internal affairs investigations and handled background checks for new hires while also supervising the records office and the detective unit and serving as traffic detail coordinator.

In his current CHRIS ALBRIGHT role, Albright has been second-in- command for the department.

“The goal for our department is to continue to grow to meet the expectations of the community. I look forward to that,” Albright said. “I’ve got a lot of family here and without their support I wouldn’t be here today. I want to thank everyone for this opportunity.”

Gazette managing editor G. Kerry Webster contributed to this story. and receiving stolen property. He faces additional misdemeanor charges of simple assault and possession of an instrument of crime in connection with the alleged robbery attempt May 16.

Bucknavage faces the same charges. He was arraigned before District Judge Carmine Prestia on June 29 and unsecured bail was set at $100,000.

Charges are pending and warrants have been issued for the other suspects identified by Mittelman and Bucknavage.

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Thank you to local media On behalf of the community of Lemont, the Lemont Village Association and Granary Committee, I would like to thank the Centre County Gazette, the Centre Daily Times and other media in Centre County for excellent coverage of our 36th annual Strawberry Festival. Thanks to the excellent publicity, we had a crowd of more than 600 strawberry lovers who enjoyed a beautiful afternoon, consuming 192 quarts of strawberries. The event helped raise funds for a “real” band shelter to be constructed in September.

This traditional community event involves too many people to name, but thank you to 17 people who washed, hulled and hauled strawberries from Mark and Marla Kurtz’s farm on Friday night. Forty people provided cakes and many more helped to set up and clean up, picked up strawberries, hung the banner and served the refreshments. Paul and Jude Simpson made smoothies with their bicycle-powered blender and Meyer Dairy graciously subsidized the ice cream costs.

We had a “waste-free” event, composting nearly all used materials. Weis Market in Hills Plaza subsidized the supplies, and the Art Alliance organized art activities for children. More than 100 children loved the pony rides provided by High Horse Farm, owner Amy Rominic and volunteers. College Township officials were cooperative as usual, as were the State College Police.

Music was provided, with payment in dessert, by E.S.P. and Todd Hill, and, for the sixth year, “speeder” rides and “pumper” rides were provided on the railroad tracks by volunteers from the Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society.

Summer fun on the Village Green continues with free concerts every Friday evening from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Bring your own chair or blanket. Check www.lemontvillage.org for details.

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OPINION

Alexandria shooter solely to blame The evidence is everywhere. It’s The news was shocking. Elected in the news and in our personal inofficials and members of their supteractions. We see it in the workplace port staff shot at and injured while and in schools. We see it in our chilthey practiced for a charity softball dren, our friends, our spouses and game. We learned of individual feats our co-workers. We see it in ourof heroism that brought the incident selves. to a halt before it could Someone makes a bad become even more hordecision or makes a mistake rible. The suspect evenand we look for someone tually died in police cuselse to blame. Our self-estody. Later, we learn that teem is so fragile that people the perpetrator had a list seem to be incapable of sayof names in his personal ing “I am at fault.” We look effects that police officers to explain or to relieve ourbelieve was a politically selves of the uncomfortable motivated kill list. burden of being responsible Within what seemed for our actions. Even worse, like minutes, people we point the finger elsebegan to assign blame. where to excuse the behavIt happened because of iors of others. the political vitriol that I see it all the time as a has become part of the Patty Kleban, university instructor. A studaily barrage of news and who writes for dent doesn’t do what he or opinions. The Republi- StateCollege.com, she needs to do or makes a cans are at fault for sup- is an instructor bad decision. It’s the fault of porting such an insen- at Penn State, the instructor or the comsitive and disrespectful mother of three puter or the bus or the stucandidate. The Demo- and a community dent’s alarm clock. crats are at fault because volunteer. She is a A young person drinks some are encouraging Penn State alumna to the point of blacking out outrage if not violence who lives with her family in Patton and it is taboo to mention in opposition to Trump. Township. Her personal responsibility when Blame it on social media. views and opinions that person is then victimFake news. Frustration do not necessarily with the economy. Class reflect those of Penn ized. Someone or something else is to blame. warfare. Racism. Sexism. State.

“It wasn’t my fault.”

Blame it on his mother.

What does it say about a culHis wife. A bad experience in high ture that reinforces placing blame school. His second-grade teacher. squarely on something or someone Unless the investigation eventuelse? ally tells us otherwise, in this writMore importantly, what does it er’s opinion, the man from Illinois, say when we look to the bad decithe one who drove to Virginia and sions of others to boost our political who had been living out of his van agendas? near our nation’s capitol, is the only From the riots on college camone in this case who took a gun to a puses to bullying on the elementary public park with the intention to do school playground, the trend since harm. Regardless of what he has seen the November election has been to or heard, or what he’s read, he alone blame President Trump. Blaming is the one who did it.

Trump has become the fall back Our culture has lost sight of perwhen individuals say or do stupid sonal accountability.

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Someone makes a racist comment. It’s because of Trump. Another person says or does something sexist or xenophobic. It’s the fault of the president. We are giving people carte blanche to say and do what they like without responsibility.

We are giving one person way more power than he deserves.

The Alexandria shooter, a 66-yearold unemployed home inspector, has undoubtedly had numerous positive and negative influences in his life.

And yet, in what seemed like minutes after the shooting in Virginia, newscasters began blaming Trump.

In this case, because the shooter was a Sanders campaign supporter, we also heard cries that Bernie Sanders and the Democrats are to blame.

Of all of the people with whom the shooter has come into contact in his lifetime, do we believe that the actions of one person or group affiliation influenced his decision more than others?

In truth, neither Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump is responsible for the shooting last week that almost cost the life of Rep. Steve Scalise. The responsible party is the individual who pulled the trigger.

The person responsible for making the decision is the person who we should hold accountable.

It goes without saying that we are impacted by our environment and the people in our lives. We are influenced by our personal history and our life experiences. The decisions we make come from who we are and what we know. Sometimes humans do dumb things. Sometimes we do bad things. Even with an understanding of the whys, we are individually responsible for the whats.

Until we start holding people accountable, we are not going to be able to fix that which ails our culture.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Sixth-graders organize Mini-THON fundraiser

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SPRING MILLS — Penn State University’s THON, the huge annual dance marathon held every February to raise money for Four Diamonds, attracts thousands of participants and raises millions of dollars each year for childhood cancer research. The event inspired two Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School sixth-graders, Faith Wolfe and Maggie Delaney, to organize a MiniTHON at their school to also raise money for Four Diamonds.

The girls began planning the event in March, and on June 2, all their hard work came to fruition. The PVEI school cafeteria and gymnasium rocked with music, as more than 200 kids danced for two hours. The students also made small craft items to be given to young cancer patients at Penn State Children’s Hospital in Hershey.

On June 15, Wolfe and Delaney presented a check for $4,418.36 to Gail Frassetta, assistant director of Four Diamonds Mini-THON. “You displayed the heart and soul of what Mini-THON is,” Frassetta said to the girls, as she thanked them for their efforts. Frassetta noted that Mini-THONs have been held in 275 schools in eight states over the past 25 years.

PVEI principal Danielle Yoder said the girls made many phone calls and wrote letters to local businesses seeking sponsors for their Mini-THON. “They did it on their own time, and still kept up with their school work,” said the girls’ teacher, Sharon Balban.

In addition to business sponsorship, each child paid a $5 admission fee to dance at the event. Balban said many students raised money on their own and donated it at the door, with one student handing over $256 for the cause.

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PENNS VALLEY Elementary and Intermediate School students Maggie Delaney, left, and Faith Wolfe presented a check for $4,418.36 from the school’s Mini-THON to Gail Frassetta, of Four Diamonds.

This fall, Wolfe and Delaney will be in seventh grade and attend Penns Valley Junior-Senior High School across the road. The girls have already begun enlisting other

PVEI students to take over the Mini-THON next year, and they are hoping to raise even more money to help kids with cancer.

Geisinger doctors author Harvard Business Review article Gazette staff reports DANVILLE — A pair of Geisinger physician leaders are among the authors of a new Harvard Business Review article, “Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Wal-Mart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees,” according to a press release.

Dr. Jaewon Ryu, Geisinger’s executive vice president and chief medical officer, and Dr. Jonathan Slotkin, director of spinal surgery for Geisinger’s Neuroscience Institute and medical director of Geisinger in Motion, joined Olivia Ross, associate director of the Employers Centers of Excellence Network at the Pacific Business Group on Health, and M. Ruth Coleman, founder and CEO of Health Design Plus, as authors.

The article details the development of bundled payments in U.S. health care, and how large employers now are directly purchasing bundled care for their employees through selected providers.

Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, McKesson and JetJAEWON Blue Airways have RYU recently partnered with the Pacific Business Group on Health and Health Design Plus to launch the Employers Centers of Excellence Network.

It helps employers identify quality

providers and negotiate bundled payments.

The network provides employees of participating companies with 100 percent coverage for all travel and medical expenses at carefully selected health care systems. Patients pay no JONATHAN out-of-pocket costs.

SLOTKIN The article reports that the ECEN program has led to lower patient costs and excellent patient satisfaction. The average Lowe’s associate having joint replacement surgery performed by one of the network

centers saves approximately $3,300 in copayments and other fees, compared to those patients who get the same care under traditional insurance.

A 12-month analysis also found 100 percent of Lowe’s joint surgery patients reported they would refer co-workers or family to the program for a similar surgery.

Geisinger Health System began partnering with Wal-Mart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. In 2016, Geisinger also began providing destination care for bariatric surgery patients.

Fewer than 5 percent of health care systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration.

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MyCode Community Health Initiative hits milestone Gazette staff reports DANVILLE — Geisinger Health System recently announced it has reached 150,000 participants in its major biobank and DNA sequencing study known as the MyCode Community Health Initiative.

“This is an important milestone for us and it’s only the beginning,” said Dr. David H. Ledbetter, Geisinger executive vice president and chief scientific officer, in a press release. “Each and every new participant allows us to perform research that will help us find new ways to anticipate or identify sometimes life-threatening medical conditions early and greatly improve health outcomes.”

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, nearly 2 million people in the United States are at increased risk for adverse health outcomes because they have genetic mutations which predispose them to one of just three conditions: breast and ovarian cancers, Lynch syndrome cancers and hereditary high cholesterol.

These are three key conditions among the total of 27 conditions or diseases that Geisinger is informing MyCode participants about as a result of the nation’s largest

genomic sequencing study.

Launched in January 2014 in collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center, the population genomics program originally set out to recruit 100,000 new study participants over five years. That target has been rapidly surpassed and the goal reset to 250,000.

In the past year, MyCode has increased enrollment and expanded its reach from Pennsylvania into Geisinger-affiliated hospitals in New Jersey.

“For me, population health is taking better care of our patients. But it also means anticipating their medical needs when we can,” said Geisinger president and CEO Dr. David T. Feinberg.

“We’re one of the only organizations taking a population approach to genomics with our MyCode Community Health Initiative. To me, what we’re doing is really anticipatory medicine. It’s coming up with medically actionable genomic results and giving that information back to our patients. And no one else is doing that on this scale.”

The growing database of information coming out of the MyCode precision health project represents a boon to current and future research but it is also providing

Geisinger patients with personalized health care information that is impacting lives and changing health outcomes.

Geisinger patients who participated in the program have had cancers detected earlier than they might otherwise have been and heart disease identified before any clinical symptoms were present.

Families are discovering possible explanations for medical events in their family histories and learning to take earlier pro-active measures for themselves and for their children.

On the research side, in the past six months, important scientific studies resulting from work on MyCode data have been published in major national journals, including Science and the New England Journal of Medicine.

One recent NEJM study found people with certain mutations in a gene associated with cholesterol levels are up to 41 percent less likely to get coronary artery disease, leading to the potential for life-saving new drugs that mimic the effect of the mutations.

For more information, visit www.go.geisinger.org/mycode.

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Dr. Tom Price, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, tops the list. At second is Dr. John Noseworthy, president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, followed by Feinberg in the third spot. Dr. Rodney Hochman, president and CEO of Providence St. Joseph Health came in at fourth, and Dr. Toby Cosgrove, president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic was fifth on the list.

Feinberg moved up six spots from last year on this esteemed list of innovators who excel in community service and demonstrate reputable executive authority.

In recognizing Feinberg, Modern Healthcare wrote: “Since 2015, Dr. David Feinberg has served as CEO of Geisinger Health System, one of the nation’s’ largest integrated health care systems, known for reinventing medical care. The 12-hospital system based in Danville, Pa., serves populations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

“A longtime champion of focusing on the patient experience, Feinberg caught the industry’s attention by introducing Geisinger’s latest evolution of its patient services guarantee, allowing patients to request a refund based on the outcome of their experience at the organization.”

Now in its 13th year, Modern Healthcare’s annual list honors physicians working in the health care industry who are deemed by their peers and an expert panel to be the most influential in terms of demonstrating leadership and impact.

Since becoming Geisinger’s CEO and president in May 2015, Feinberg has put the system focus on improving the patient experience. He has made it the stated goal that every Geisinger patient is treated with compassion, dignity and respect while receiving optimum care.

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Statins should not be used for protection against Parkinson’s Penn State News HERSHEY — Use of statins may speed up the onset of Parkinson’s disease symptoms in people who are susceptible to the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Statins, used to treat high cholesterol, have been suggested to protect against Parkinson’s disease. Research has been inconsistent, however, with some studies showing a lower risk, some showing no difference and some showing a higher risk of Parkinson’s disease in statin users.

“One of the reasons that may have explained these prior inconsistent results is that higher cholesterol, the main indication to use statins, has been related to lower occurrence of Parkinson’s disease,” said Xuemei Huang, professor of neurology. “This made it hard to know if the statin protective effect was due to the drug or preexisting cholesterol status.”

Another reason for the inconsistent results is that there are two types of statins.

Water soluble statins can’t get into the brain while fat soluble statins, called lipophilic, can. Since people with high cholesterol are treated for both kinds, the interpretation of results as it relates to Parkinson’s disease is not easy.

The researchers analyzed data in a commercially-available database of insurance claims for more than 50 million people. They identified nearly 22,000 people with Parkinson’s disease, and narrowed the number to 2,322 patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease. They paired each Parkinson’s patient with a person in the database who did not have Parkinson’s.

Researchers then determined which patients had been taking a statin and for how long before Parkinson’s disease symptoms appeared. Researchers reported their results in the journal Movement Disorders.

After analyzing the data, researchers found that prior statin use was associated with a higher risk of Parkinson’s disease and was more noticeable during the start of the drug use.

“Statin use was associated with higher, not lower, Parkinson’s disease risk, and the association was more noticeable for lipophilic statins, an observation inconsistent with the current hypothesis that these statins protect nerve cells,” Huang

said. “In addition, this association was most robust for use of statins less than two-and-a-half years, suggesting that statins may facilitate the onset of Parkinson’s disease.”

Guodong Liu, assistant professor of public health sciences, said, “Our analysis also showed that a diagnosis of hyperlipidemia, a marker of high cholesterol, was associated with lower Parkinson’s disease prevalence, consistent with prior research. We made sure to account for this factor in our analysis.”

A recent research study reported that people who stopped using statins were more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a finding interpreted as evidence that statins protect against Parkinson’s disease.

“Our new data suggests a different explanation,” Huang said. “Use of statins may lead to new Parkinson’s disease-related symptoms, thus causing patients to stop using statins.”

Huang stressed that more research needs to be completed and that those on statins should continue to take the medication their health care provider recommends.

“We are not saying that statins cause Parkinson’s disease, but rather that our study suggests that statins should not be used based on the idea that they will protect against Parkinson’s,” Huang said.

“People have individual levels of risk for heart problems or Parkinson’s disease. If your mom has Parkinson’s disease and your grandmother has Parkinson’s disease, and you don’t have a family history of heart attacks or strokes, then you might want to ask your physician more questions to understand the reasons and risks of taking statins.”

One limitation of this study was that the MarketScan data did not include Medicare patients, Medicaid patients or the uninsured. Also, because it was a private insurance sample, the patients were all under 65 years old, so the findings cannot be generalized to those who are older.

Other researchers on this study are Lan Kong and Douglas Leslie, Department of Public Health Sciences; Nicholas Sterling, MSTP student; Mechelle Lewis and Richard Mailman, Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology, all of Penn State College of Medicine; and Honglei Chen, Michigan State University.

St. Joseph’s raising funds for project

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Whether it is taking a shower, brushing teeth or brewing that morning cup of coffee, water is an essential part of our daily lives. However, approximately 663 million people throughout the world struggle to find adequate amounts of clean drinking water to fulfill these basic needs.

Across the globe, multiple organizations fight to combat these clean water issues, including the Thirst Project. Since 2007, the organization has raised more than $8 million traveling across the U.S. to raise awareness and unite communities to fight the water crisis.

The Thirst Project puts an emphasis on speaking to school groups, and its fundraising efforts are heavily student-driven. Locally, in 2016, St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy opened its own Thirst Project chapter.

St. Joseph’s service club runs the chapter. The group has set a goal of $12,000 to build a well in Swaziland to help end that country’s water crisis. The well could supply sustainable drinking water for up to 40 years, and the students involved with Thirst Project have already raised $5,816.

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Civil War Days return to Curtin Village

By CONNIE COUSINS correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

HOWARD — Civil War reenactors set up typical campsites of the period and offered demonstrations, lectures and displays for the enjoyment of visitors roaming the grounds of the Eagle Ironworks and Curtin Village historic sites June 17 and 18.

The weather cooperated in the morning for Saturday’s posting of the colors and troop inspection by Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, portrayed by his great-grandson Hank Curtin Spencer. Curtin was the Civil War-era governor of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1867.

“I try to stay in character to do the best for my great-grandfather,” said Spencer, impressive in his top hat and long coat. Following the troop inspection, he played a violin piece, “The Soldier’s Friend.” He then strolled the grounds, pausing to speak with visitors about the day and his famous relative.

Visitors to the encampment could view actual and reproductions of Civil War weapons. Gary Hoover, captain of Thompson’s Independent Battery C, was on hand to explain how the earlier pistols were loaded and how they differ from later models. The children nearby were fascinated by his discussion.

Another reenactor, John Contic, from Maryland, enjoyed telling stories about the group he belongs to and about others with whom he has participated in encampments. Thompson’s Battery C was present when President Abraham Lincoln was shot, and some of its members carried Lincoln across the street after the shooting. The reenactment group was invited to attend the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination in Washington in 2015.

“It was an amazing experience to be part of the group commemorating the death of Lincoln,” said Contic.

The 148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and Battery D, 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers reenactor groups also participated in the event.

Kathy Kershner was stationed at her tent to show off

CONNIE COUSINS/For the Gazette

REENACTORS PREPARE for a demonstration during the Civil War Days event recently held at the Eagle Ironworks and Curtin Village.

some of the clothing worn by women during the Civil War era. She described the dress she wore as a “camp dress.”

“It took me nearly a year to sew a ball gown for Civil War balls and formal affairs,” Kershner said. All the clothing the reenactors wear must be as authentic as possible.

Visitors to the event enjoyed the display of hard tack and the “typical food allotment” of a Civil War soldier.

Real food of today was available in the Carriage House behind the mansion.

Other happenings at the two-day event included a children’s musket drill, a cavalry equipment demonstration and a talk about Union spies. Author Jeffry Wert discussed his book, “The Common Soldier of the Civil War,” and the Coburn Brass performing Civil War songs.

The Roland Curtin Foundation sponsored the event.

CONNIE COUSINS/For the Gazette

DRESSED IN a period “camp dress,” Kathy Kershner spent the weekend talking about clothing worn by women during the Civil War.

Bellefonte Elks present Flag Day ceremony

By SAM STITZER correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

BELLEFONTE — Bellefonte Elks Lodge No. 1094 held its annual Flag Day ceremony, honoring the American flag and its long history, at Talleyrand Park in Bellefonte on June 14.

The ceremony opened with the Bellefonte Community Band playing the national anthem.

Bellefonte Elks Club members then presented the story of the American flag.

In 1775, a committee formed by the Continental Congress recommended the flag have 13 alternating red and white stripes, and a blue field with the red cross of St. George and the white cross of St. Andrew. This flag was hoisted on the mast of the flagship Alfred by Lt. John Paul Jones on Dec. 3, 1775, and one month later flew over George Washington’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

It is believed that in May or June of 1776, a committee composed of George Washington, Robert Morris and George Ross commissioned Betsy Ross, a Quaker from Philadelphia, to make the first flag with stars, based on a rough design they gave her. It is said that she suggested using five-point stars, rather than the six-point stars originally planned to represent the 13 Colonies.

In 1795, two stars and two stripes were added for the new

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AN HONOR GUARD of former U.S. Marines and members of Boy Scout Troop 370 prepare to present the history of the American flag at a ceremony in Bellefonte on Flag Day, June 14. states of Vermont and Kentucky.

The War of 1812 was fought under this flag, and it was the sight of this flag flying over Fort McHenry on Sept. 14, 1814, that inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

On April 14, 1818, Congress

adopted a resolution that declared the American flag will have 13 stripes and 20 stars for the 20 states in the Union at that time. It was further declared that a new star would be added for each additional state admitted to the Union thereafter. Since that

date, the only changes to the flag have been the addition of stars.

Members of Boy Scout Troop 370, of Bellefonte, carried the different historic versions of the flag past ceremony attendees as each was described. Following the flag history presentation,

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several well-worn and tattered American flags were destroyed by burning, according to official protocol.

A firing squad salute and the playing of taps by bugler Mike Gleixner concluded the ceremony.

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Centred Outdoors kicks off with family fishing event Gazette staff reports BOALSBURG — The exploration of the wilds of Centre County and the promotion of healthy living started with a family fishing picnic at Tussey Mountain Pond on June 11, followed by the first in a nine-part series of guided adventures.

Nearly 400 people were in attendance at Centred Outdoors kickoff event, jointly hosted by Spring Creek Chapter of Trout Unlimited and ClearWater Conservancy. From noon to 4 p.m., visitors of all ages enjoyed a picnic lunch, which fueled them up for a wide variety of activities taking place at the event.

According to Andrea Murrell, strategic communications coordinator with ClearWater Conservancy, the event gave guests an opportunity to try fishing, kayaking, fly casting, fly tying and more.

The YMCA of Centre County and Milbrook Marsh Nature Center hosted education stations, while young children had a chance to fish in a “little pond.”

“Guides Jim Flanagan and Lexie Orr

led the first guided adventures of the season on the Lonberger Trail in Rothrock State Forest,” said Murrell. “Hikers were treated to the scene of blooming mountain laurel and the cool shade of the forest on a hot summer day.”

The first “official” event of Centred Outdoors was held June 18 and June 21 at Black Moshannon State Park. There, hikers followed the Bog Trail near the lake, and looped up to the Seneca Trail to see the cranberry bog, carnivorous plants and a pond with an artesian spring.

The exploration of Centre County continues Sunday, June 25, and Wednesday, June 28, when tours of The Barrens to Bald Eagle Wildlife Corridor are scheduled. Hikers will visit the grass and wildflower meadows and woodland areas to learn about the importance of wildlife corridors and the diverse community of bird, mammal, plant, pollinator and amphibian species they support.

For more information, visit www. centredoutdoors.org or call (814) 2370400.

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CHILDREN ENJOYED the fishing, the picnic and the activities surrounding Centred Outdoors’ kickoff event, held June 11 at Tussey Mountain Pond.

The Avid Gardener: Global warming impacting plants LORA GAUSS

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”

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Try as we might, there is no escaping the present discussions on climate change. According to a recent Fine Gardening Magazine article authored by Dr. Bert Cregg, an asAvid gardener sociate professor in Lora Gauss lives in Michigan State UniPhilipsburg. Email versity’s horticulture her at community@ centrecountygazette. department, it is well documented that com. since the Industrial Revolution, “atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased from around 280 parts per million to over 400 ppm,” a shift that has the potential to impact plants and gardening.

Cregg believes there are two long-term effects this change will cause.

One is that most plants will increase their photosynthetic rate (photosynthesis is the taking up of carbon dioxide by the leaves to produce sugars for plant growth, defense and storage), resulting in a “carbon dioxide fertilization” effect. This will result in weedy and invasive plants that are better able to take advantage of this and spread more quickly.

The other result is since carbon dioxide traps heat near the earth’s surface, it will cause rising temperatures, which, in turn, will cause higher winter temperatures as well as erratic extremes in weather.

Warmer winters would seem to be a good thing, until it’s realized that they can cause the northern spread of many insect pests, such as the hemlock’s woolly adelgid.

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THIS MAP from 2012 shows optimal regional temperature ranges for growing plants, something that is useful to gardeners.

Another issue is that a warmer climate results in longer growing seasons for trees and shrubs. There is a downside to this, in that many are more liable to be damaged by spring frosts. For example, frost ruined many types of cherry and peach tree crops in March 2012.

As predicted by global models, Cregg said, there have already been extremes in weather, including more intense droughts and more extreme rain events. Recent and sudden bad flooding in Milesburg and surrounding areas could be an example of this.

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which plants can thrive in a certain location), meaning that some plants that were hardy in more southern states could be planted farther north. However, because plants respond to extremes rather than averages, plants from those warmer states thrived in mild winters, only to succumb to colder ones.

All of this, sadly, results in disruptions to relationships between pollinators, breeding birds, insects and the plants on which they depend.

Gardeners are a stalwart group and take seriously their role as stewards and guardians of the environment, so it seems a sure bet that they will be proactive in meeting this challenge.

Here are some proven ideas to help

mitigate climate change effects — in other words, to meet nature’s unpredictability halfway.

■ Gardens can be adapted by having plant diversity to help counteract new insect pests that may arrive. Experimental plants can be mixed in, especially annuals and herbaceous perennials, with a foundation of those that are known to thrive.

A good idea is not to invest more than can be lost.

I try to know my garden and its stress tolerance traits. I’ve learned that my succulents in containers, for example, cannot tolerate a series of heavy rains without roots rotting. I move them into the garage, when necessary, to minimize damage. Some plants are not flood tolerant; some, on the other hand, are not drought tolerant.

■ Mulching with a 2- to 3-inch layer of wood chips also is good advice because it helps the soil retain moisture and reduce soil temperatures when it is dry and hot, keeps weeds in check and insulates in the winter to help prevent frost heaving.

The National Wildlife Federation also recommends other actions to help reduce carbon footprints and slow future warming: ■ Use energy-efficient products like those that are LED or solar-powered and avoid using gas-powered yard tools, where possible, to reduce emissions. Substitute with tools that are human-powered, like push mowers (or even electric), hand clippers, rakes and brooms.

■ Burning just 1 gallon of gasoline releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, so having less lawn is also helpful (less mowing, too).

■ Reduce water consumption in the garden by using a rain barrel and drip irrigation and adjusting the watering schedule to water in the cooler times of the day.

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Norloff earns Eagle Scout award Special to the Gazette STATE COLLEGE — Erik Norloff, son of David and Deborah Norloff, of State College, recently received his Eagle Scout award at a ceremony held at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in State College. He is a member of State College Boy Scout Troop 31, which is under the leadership of Scoutmaster Ed Brezovec.

Norloff has earned 34 merit badges, accumulated more than 60 nights of camping and provided more than 130 hours of community service.

For his Eagle Scout Project, Norloff provided leadership to design, construct and install a kiosk, with an information board and bench, now in use at the Mount Nittany United Methodist Church Giving Garden.

Norloff is a freshman at State College Area High School, with high ERIK NORLOFF honors, and where he participates in cross-country and track.

Guest presentations included U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, William W. Asbury, of State College Elks Lodge No. 1600, Centre County Sheriff Bryan Sampsell, Centre County commissioners Steve Dershem and Mark Higgins and Jack Oakes, of the Nittany Leathernecks Detachment.

DIAPER DRIVE

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CASEY McCLAIN, left, and Patricia Doty, representing the Nurse-Family Partnership, recently teamed up with Goddard School for the second annual Diaper Drive. More than 1,000 diapers, hundreds of wipes and several canisters of formula were generously donated to the Home Nursing Agency. The products will benefit first-time mothers and their children.

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Bakelite-made products abounded in 1930s

JAN HAWBAKER

Those of us who have succumbed to “Bakelite fever” are lucky that Bakelite was so widely used throughout Europe and North America during the first half of the 20th century – there’s still a lot of Bakelite out there to be found.

Chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented and first patented the synthetic resin that we know as Bakelite in 1907. He publicly introduced Bakelite in 1909 and planned to license other companies to manufacture it.

But, those outside manufacturers made too many errors, so in 1910 he started the General Bakelite Company, later called the Bakelite CorporaJan Hawbaker has tion, to manufacture thermosetting been an antiques plastic. dealer at Apple At first, Bakelite was used for inHill since 2003. She dustrial products. But, in 1927 the specializes in the Bakelite patent on phenol-formaldecolorful antiques of hyde resin expired, and other manthe 1930s through ufacturers rushed to open plants. the 1950s.

Competition forced down the price of Bakelite and made production of inexpensive consumer products possible. Plastics became affordable substitutes for more expensive traditional materials. Molded plastic required less hand labor and was just what the machine age needed.

By the 1930s, phenolic resins were available in a stunning range of opaque, translucent, transparent and marbleized colors. This range of colors, combined with the fact that Bakelite was easy to work with and cheap to produce, meant that Bakelite and its relatives soon appeared virtually everywhere.

Women carried Bakelite purses, their shoes and belts featured Bakelite buckles, Bakelite buttons and dress clips adorned their clothing and seamstresses stored their supplies in Bakelite sewing kits.

Bakelite was used to make a fantastic and fabulous range of costume jewelry. Whimsical Bakelite pins and brooches brightened the day. Bakelite rings, earrings, necklaces and beads were inexpensive and fun to wear.

And, Bakelite was used to make bracelets of every sort: bangles, hinged bracelets, link bracelets, cuffs, stretch bracelets and charm bracelets. Because Bakelite could be carved and was easy to polish, it was the ideal medium for inexpensive jewelry, especially during the Great Depression.

Bakelite napkin rings and salt and pepper sets joined flatware with Bakelite handles on the dining table where meals that had been prepared with Bakelite kitchenware were served. People spoke on Bakelite telephones and listened to radios with Bakelite cases. They used Bakelite

Gazette staff reports STATE COLLEGE — “What project would you like to implement to meet a local need and encourage the people of Centre County to become more engaged in their community?”

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lamps and had Bakelite desk sets and clocks. Bakelite chess pieces, poker chips, dice and billiards balls featured in adult leisure time activities, while children played with Bakelite toys.

Bakelite was popular in the production of vanity items, too. Men’s razors were packaged in Bakelite boxes and often had Bakelite handles. Vanity boxes and hatpins made of Bakelite were popular, as were hand mirrors and hair brushes with Bakelite handles.

The Bakelite Corporation was a leader in convincing manufacturers to use plastic to beautify products. It worked with industrial designers, who in turn embraced plastics and applied them in the design of everything from telephones and radios to kitchen equipment, vanity cases and jewelry. Bakelite was “the material of a thousand uses.” Bakelite, along with other plastics, was celebrated in magazine articles and books. It was a material that could be transformed into “marvels of beauty” that “spoke” to modern man in the language of the 20th century, the language of “invention” and “synthesis.” It was a modern miracle that expressed the beauty of the new machine age and heralded the age of plastics.

Bakelite entered millions of homes in the 1920s and 1930s, in the form of radios, which had exploded in popularity. Bakelite Corporation advertisements told consumers that Bakelite and modern design would help move the country forward during the Depression.

More than 100 years after its invention, Bakelite is still made and used in a wide range of applications, ranging from automotive and electrical products to space shuttles. And Baekeland is known as “the father of plastics.”

Don’t forget!

This is the question that applicants are answering to secure funding from Centre Foundation’s $100,000 Centre Inspires granting program.

“We’re excited to see what ideas there are to make our community an even more engaging place to live,” said Molly Kunkel, executive director of Centre Foundation, in a press release. “In prior years, the Centre Inspires grant program has brought the community projects like the Book Benches, Food Centres and Centred Outdoors.”

To learn more about Centre Inspires, read the granting program guidelines and apply ahead of the Thursday, July 27, deadline, visit www.centre-foundation.org.

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Giving Circle accepting grant applications Gazette staff report STATE COLLEGE — Centre Foundation’s Giving Circle members are currently accepting proposals from Centre County nonprofits for a $10,000 grant. The deadline for applications is Friday, June 23.

“Organizations with a new idea, program or project have been historically popular with the Giving Circle members,” said Molly Kunkel, Centre Foundation executive director, in a press release. “Members like to see tangible impact projects completed in the near-term, especially projects that will serve some of the more vulnerable populations in Centre County.”

Previous recipients of Giving Circle grant include Interfaith Human Services, Centre Volunteers in Medicine, House of Care, Discovery Space, Housing Transitions, Strawberry Fields and Centre Helps. These grants have funded financial care programs, women’s reproductive health programs, a preschool remodeling and removal of asbestos, a new roof and many more crucial projects.

“After the grant proposals are received in June, the Giving Circle members will narrow the field to their top three organizations,” said Kunkel. “These final three organizations will make a live presentation at the Aug. 30 cocktail reception and are guaranteed a grant, but the Giving Circle members’ votes that evening will determine which organization receives the $10,000 grant.”

Since the Giving Circle was established in 2006 to commemorate the foundation’s 25th anniversary, the members have pooled their resources and voted to distribute $109,000 to programs throughout Centre County.

“Alone, someone may not be able to fund a $10,000 grant project,” said Kunkel. “Together, as part of the Giving Circle, members are able to make a big impact in our community.”

For more information about how to apply for the $10,000 Giving Circle grant or how to join the Giving Circle, contact Centre Foundation at (814) 237-6229.

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SEVERAL OF Ben Howell’s bridge-playing friends gathered at Juniper Village on June 12 to celebrate the centenarian’s 100th birthday. Howell is seated third from left.

Avid Gardener, from page 13 ■ Compost garden and kitchen waste, which can significantly reduce methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, and the finished product will be organic material to add to the soil.

■ Plant lots of longer-lived trees such as oaks or beeches that remove carbon dioxide from the soil and store it in their wood tissue, reducing it in the atmosphere.

“If every one of America’s 85 million gardening house-

holds planted just one young shade tree in their backyard or community, those trees would absorb more than 2 million tons of carbon dioxide each year,” according to the National Wildlife Federation.

■ Turn the backyard or community garden into a natural wildlife habitat, which can connect habitats or help maintain them.

No one can turn back time, but there are many small steps that can be taken now in gardens everywhere that can begin to provide a better, healthier future.

Centre Hall SALE

Yard Sale SALE

Town-Wide Yard Sale draws crowds to Centre Hall

By SAM STITZER

correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

CENTRE HALL — The Grange Fair packs Centre Hall with thousands of people each August, but running a close second for attendance is the community’s Town-Wide Yard Sale, held each year during the fourth weekend in June. This year’s event is scheduled for Friday, June 23, and Saturday, June 24.

The first Town-Wide Yard Sale was held in 1981, when members of the newly formed Centre Hall Business Owners Association decided to hold a community-wide shopping extravaganza.

“They (business owners) were in charge back then, but now nobody’s in charge — it just happens,” said borough councilman Joe Hammaker.

The event has grown steadily in size and popularity over the years. Today, it is estimated that nearly 150 sales are happening in the borough and surrounding area simultaneously, turning Centre Hall into a bargain hunter’s paradise.

Sales line Pennsylvania Avenue (Route 144) on both sides, from Old Fort to the foot of the mountain. Residential side streets, and even some alleys, are crowded with sellers and buyers. Items offered for sale include everything eager shoppers are seeking, including clothing, housewares, furniture, electronics, lawn mowers, bicycles, toys, vehicles and, yes, even the occasional kitchen sink.

As early as the Sunday evening before the event, canopies and folding tables are seen going up around the town. By Thursday, it seems the whole town is setting up sales in front yards, driveways and garages. Even though the event doesn’t officially start until Friday, by midday on Thursday, many early-bird shoppers appear, trolling the sales for bargains before

the big crowds arrive.

Many of the sales have become family traditions, and even reunions of sorts, with people who grew up in Centre Hall returning to their parents’ homes, bringing sale items and reconnecting with former neighbors, classmates and friends.

The event also has become large enough to attract food vendors. Several food trailers set up along Pennsylvania Avenue, filling the air with the aromas of hot sausage, French fries, cinnamon buns and other delights. Churches also get into the act, turning front lawns into roadside cafes, serving sandwiches, soft drinks and ice cream to raise money for various charity and mission projects.

Local businesses also benefit from the two-day population boom.

“We definitely get quite a bit more business on those days,” said Eddie Nicolosi, who operates Brothers Pizza and Italian Restaurant and the adjacent Sweet Scoops Gelato ice cream parlor on North Pennsylvania Avenue.

Even bad weather doesn’t stop the sales. Some close when rain arrives, but not everyone concedes to Mother Nature.

Many sales continue in garages and covered porches around town, patronized by umbrella-carrying shoppers, with their new-found treasures in plastic bags to protect them from the elements.

Often, the first to show up on Friday mornings are the local Amish. Arriving in horse-drawn buggies or vans driven by local “English,” the Amish come looking for bargains, and Centre Hall has them by the hundreds. The official start time for the sales was set long ago at 9 a.m., but throngs of shoppers begin arriving closer to 7 a.m., hoping to beat the heat and crowds.

When all is done, exhausted Centre Hall residents begin tearing down cano-

SAM STITZER/For the Gazette

BUSY YARD SALES line Pennsylvania Avenue in Centre Hall during the 2016 Town-Wide Yard Sale.

This year’s event is scheduled for June 23 and 24. pies and folding up tables. Piles of unsold items, bedecked with signs reading “free,” appear in yards and along the streets, attracting a crowd who looks for the ultimate bargains.

Many towns in the region hold popular community-wide yard sale events, but none can compare to the crowd-drawing magic of Centre Hall’s. The layout of the town, with its wide, paved berms along Route 144, provides ample room for sale setups and parking along the road. And, the sheer density of sales also is a draw

— shoppers can park their cars and easily walk to perhaps a dozen sites per block.

Centre Hall Women’s Club president LeDon Young offers yet another reason for the large crowds drawn to Centre Hall.

“We advertise the (Town-Wide Yard Sale) in papers in all the adjacent counties,” she said, referring to Blair, Clearfield, Clinton, Union, Mifflin and Huntingdon.

The yard sales are a win-win entity.

Shoppers have an enjoyable time finding bargains, the town makes some money and, best of all, everyone has a good time.

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29th Annual

JUNE 22-28, 2017

Historic Bellefonte Cruise

Thousands pack the streets for weekend cruise

By SAM STITZER correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

BELLEFONTE — The 29th annual Historic Bellefonte Cruise and Car Show — a three-day event featuring an open cruise, sock hop, car show and soap box derby — got off to a wet start June 16, but the rain didn’t stop the spirit of cruising.

The event, recognized as one of the biggest and best of its kind, found itself drenched when a rainstorm hit Bellefonte just before the 6 p.m. open cruise starting time. A few hearty souls cruised their antique and muscle cars around the block anyway, as diehard car fans huddled under store awnings and balconies to view the passing classic vehicles.

The next morning, hundreds of cars, trucks and motorcycles rolled into town for the car show. They were parked along the curbs of Allegheny, High and Howard streets, and spectators began showing up well before the noon starting time. Many of the cars were shown by local residents, but others came from locations across the state to participate in the well-known and prestigious event.

One local car of interest was a 1965 Plymouth Barracuda owned by Lenny Young, of Bellefonte. Young had owned a Barracuda in the 1960s, and wanted to find another one. An Internet search led him to this Barracuda in Sacramento, Calif.

“It was in good shape,” he said. “No rust in that California climate.”

The Plymouth Barracuda was introduced in mid-1964, two weeks before the famous Ford Mustang debuted. It was

based on the compact Plymouth Valiant, and featured a large wrap-around glass fastback rear window, the largest piece of glass ever installed in a production car at that time. Although greatly outsold by Mustangs, Barracudas became popular muscle cars and continued in production until 1974.

Young’s Barracuda features the “Commando” version of Chrysler’s 273-cubic-inch V8 engine, with a four-barrel carburetor, making 235 horsepower, coupled to a four-speed manual transmission. The car’s glove box door is signed by John Samsen, the Barracuda’s designer.

“He was a guest at a show in Carlisle,” said Young. “He was signing things for people, so I took the glove box door to him and he signed it for me.”

The third day of the Bellefonte Cruise highlighted soap box derby racing, held on Allegheny Street during the afternoon.

These gravity-powered racers have been around since 1933, when Myron Scott, a photographer for the Dayton Daily News, put together an impromptu race for 19 boys. There was so much interest that Scott arranged a bigger race with prize money, and a crowd of 362 kids showed up with homemade cars built of orange crates, sheet tin, wagon and baby-buggy wheels and, of course, soap boxes.

In 1935, the race was moved from Dayton to Akron, where the national title race is still held each year.

The June 18 race was sponsored and run by the Soap Box Derby Association’s DuBois chapter, which includes many members from Centre County.

According to race organizer Alan Uhler,

TIM WEIGHT/For the Gazette

THE STREETS of Bellefonte were packed with man and machine during Father’s Day weekend, as this year’s Historic Bellefonte Cruise got under way. there are three divisions in the derby: Stock, Super Stock and Masters.

Stock is for racers 7 to 13 years old, and car bodies are molded plastic and not allowed to be painted. The Super Stock division is designed for racers 9 to 18, and painting of the body shells is allowed. The Masters division is for more experienced racers, ages 10 to 20, and the fiberglass cars are of the lay-down, enclosed design.

Cars are built from kits, and must conform to Soap Box Derby Association standards.

JOHNNY GEMS and the Red Hot Bananas entertained throngs of cruise-goers on June 17 during the 29th annual Historic Bellefonte Cruise.

The races are double-elimination format — each racer must lose twice to be eliminated. Multiple runs are made with car wheels and race track lanes switched between runs.

“This helps eliminate one variable and levels the field,” said Matt Gehringer, the race’s announcer.

About a dozen boys and girls raced in all three divisions, cheered on by a crowd of spectators enjoying the last day of annual Bellefonte summer event.

TIM WEIGHT/For the Gazette

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SAM STITZER/For the Gazette

LENNY YOUNG stands beside his 1965 Plymouth Barracuda. The car’s glove box door was signed

by John Samsen, the designer of the Barracuda.

CHUCK CARROLL/Special to the Gazette

THE BEST OF SHOW winner at the 29th annual Historic Bellefonte Cruise was a 1969 Ford Torino GT owned by Jay and Joyce Rush, of Boalsburg. The show drew 293 cars and trucks and 47 motorcycles.

SAM STITZER/For the Gazette

BOB REYNOLDS, of Huntingdon, showed his 1931 Chevy pickup hot rod at the Historic Bellefonte Cruise Car Show.

TIM WEIGHT/For the Gazette

THE MOTORCYCLE CLASS saw several participants at the show. Dozens of bikes were on display, and riding demonstrations and contests were held during the event.

KASSIE HOCKENBERRY, of Bellefonte, was the winner of the free car giveaway sponsored by Douty Chalfa Automotive of Bellefonte. Hockenberry was present when her name was called and drove home in a 2007 Pontiac G6 convertible. There were 900 eligible people entered in the drawing. Standing with Hockenberry are Josh Chalfa and David Douty.

SAM STITZER/For the Gazette

SOAP BOX DERBY racers roll on Allegheny Street during the third day of Historic Bellefonte Cruise festivities.

TIM WEIGHT/For the Gazette

A GRACIOUS OWNER allows a passerby to take a seat on his steel horse at the Historic Bellefonte Cruise Car Show.

TIM WEIGHT/For the Gazette

THE COLORS WERE as varied as the makes and models at the annual Historic Bellefonte Cruise and Car Show, held June 17.

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JUNE 22-28, 2017

SPORTS

JUNE 22-28, 2017

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Raquet credits high school trainer for his success 2014 State High graduate selected in MLB draft by Nationals

By TOMMY BUTLER sports@centrecountygazette.com

Nick Raquet has had a week that thousands of young baseball players around the country and beyond dream about every night.

During the recent 2017 MLB draft, the 2014 graduate of State College Area High School and College of William & Mary standout heard his name called in the third round as the Washington Nationals selected him 103rd overall. The pick made him the third-highest draft pick in Tribe baseball history.

Soon, Raquet will be donning his first professional baseball uniform somewhere in the Nationals’ minor league system.

“It really hasn’t (sunk in yet),” said Raquet. “The last couple days here and the beginning of this week has kind of been a blur, it’s all happened very fast. Celebrating with family and friends and living in that moment, it’s very surreal at this point.”

It may be surreal for Raquet, but his high school trainer, Troy Allen, saw major league potential.

“He’s a bulldog,” said Allen. “He gives you everything you ask for. He’s competitive when he gets into the gym. He helped to make my training center a very competitive environment.”

Now the head coach of State High varsity baseball, Allen met Raquet during the winter of his junior year.

At the time, Raquet was throwing with a top speed in the mid-80s. Allen helped get Raquet to the upper 90s, as well as boost his control and athleticism, which eventually lead to the call from the Nationals.

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NICK RAQUET, a 2014 State College Area High School graduate and current player on the College of William & Mary baseball team, was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the third round of the 2017 MLB draft.

Allen’s help to earn this opportunity is something Raquet will never forget.

“I can’t say enough good things about him,” said Raquet. “He’s definitely the main reason I’m the player and the person I am today from a baseball standpoint.

I think that any young player that really has these dreams, these goals, has a good

work ethic and is willing to but some blood, sweat and tears into it needs to find Troy Allen.”

Raquet is so thankful for Allen’s help, that he was one of the first people Raquet called after the news.

“He was bouncing off walls, nervous and excited,” said Allen. “I was at lunch

and I hadn’t heard from him yet, so I figured something must be up. I got a text from my catcher at State High that he saw Nick go to the Nationals, and it was about five minutes later that (Raquet) called.”

Over the next few weeks, Raquet will tour the Nationals’ stadium and work out at the team’s spring training field in preparation for being placed on a minor league affiliate roster.

The Auburn Doubledays is one team that could host Raquet, meaning he could be coming back to town occasionally to play against the State College Spikes.

Where exactly he ends up on his first assignment isn’t something that Raquet is worrying about.

“I’m excited. I love the adventurous side of it,” said Raquet. “This whole thing is like a journey, not knowing where you’re going to go, how long you’re going to be there. That’s the great thing about minor league ball — you just keep trying to play better and move up the chain as fast as you can and go reach that dream.

“It’s going to be a blessing wherever I get put at, and I’m just really excited to get started.”

Allen, who knows Raquet’s ability better than anyone, has high expectations for the former Little Lion.

“When you get drafted, a lot of the time what happens to you depends on the organization you’re in,” said Allen. “In Nick’s case, he’s an upper-90s lefty with really nasty pitches in an organization that has no bullpen in the major leagues.

“Nick has the stuff to get major league hitters out right now. If he dials in his control a little bit, he should move through the system quickly, and I bet he has a long career.”

Clarence downs Philipsburg in county league tilt

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

PHILIPSBURG — Even though Clarence first baseman Brian Kochik had the extra responsibility of being player-manager in the Mounties’ game at Philipsburg on June 20, it certainly didn’t affect his concentration.

Kochik led the Mountie offense with two hits, including a roped, three-run double that set Clarence off to a 6-0 Centre County Baseball League victory over the Spike Island Pirates.

Kochik’s game-changing blast came in the third inning with the bases loaded, two outs and on a 3-2 count against Pirate starter Parker Watson. It broke open what had been, to that point, a close, one-run contest.

It also gave the Mounties’ hard-throwing Justin Taylor more than enough support as he pitched the defending county league champs to their eighth win against just one loss in 2017.

“Just trying not to strike out,” Kochik said. “Just trying to put the ball in play.

He hung it, and I put a good swing on it and it found a gap. It was a tight ball game there, and he made a mistake and I put good wood on it. Any way we can get runs, because Parker (Watson) is tough.”

With Watson and Taylor on the mound, runs figured to be hard to come by in this one. Yet when Clarence shortstop Bryce

Greene promptly scored after he opened the game with a triple to deep right-center field, the Mounties took a surprisingly early lead.

Then in the third, Clarence got a break when leadoff hitter Brandon Barnyak reached on an error. Catcher Bryan Greene followed with a single, and then with one out, a strikeout, Ryan McNamara was hit by a pitch to load the bases.

Watson here gave himself a chance to get out of the inning when he struck out Chuck Probst for the second out, but this brought up Kochik. The righthander ran the count to 3-and-2, and with the runners moving, slashed a liner to left center that rolled to the wall. Barnyak, Bryan Greene and McNamara all scored and Clarence had a four-run lead.

“That was huge,” Taylor said. “Had a bunch of clutch hits tonight, but we’ve relied mostly on our pitching this first half of the season. We’re not struggling, but we are not putting up six or eight runs a game so we have to keep grinding. And when we have to move runners up, we do.

“Kochik’s been hitting the ball well of late, and that was a big hit. Got three runs out of it, and we were able to stay ahead.”

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CLARENCE’S BRYCE GREENE slides into third base under Philipsburg’s Drew Bryan during a June 20 county league game. The Mounties defeated the Pirates 6-0.

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Centre County baseball defeated by Huntingdon

By TOMMY BUTLER sports@centrecountygazette.com

The few defeated the many at Governors Park in Bellefonte on June 18.

Nine all-stars from the Huntingdon City League took on 17 of the best players the Centre County League had to offer, and when the dust settled, strength in numbers turned out not to be the case, as the athletes from Huntingdon downed the local squad, 16-1, in the annual local all-star game.

The first inning passed quietly despite a couple of Huntingdon players making it to the base paths. In the second inning, Huntingdon’s pitcher, Tyler Lalli, singled to right field, driving in the first two runs of the ball game.

Centre County replied in the bottom of the second when Trent Fortney hit a sacrifice fly to center field, scoring starting pitcher and left fielder Tyler Womer.

The game calmed down again until the top of the sixth inning, when the flood gates opened. Huntingdon City scored five runs in the sixth and another nine in the seventh to finish the game.

Lalli was key in Huntingdon’s victory.

His stat line at the end of the game included five RBIs and a run, alongside a complete game on the mound, giving up just one earned run.

Huntingdon right fielder Rhett Stefchock and center fielder John Martinez both put on a show as well. Stefchock drove in four runs and crossed the plate

PAT ROTHDEUTSCH/For the Gazette

CLARENCE’S JUSTIN TAYLOR offers a pitch during a June 20 county league matchup in Philipsburg. The second half of the Centre County Baseball League is under way following the all-star break June 18.

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County league, from page 19 striking out eight.

His six walks, however, did give the Pirates some chances. Philipsburg had at least one runner on base in every inning, and the Pirates had people in scoring position in the first, third and sixth.

Their best chance came in the bottom of the third.

Watson and Drew Bryan led off with singles, and after a strikeout, Matt McCamley walked and loaded the bases.

Taylor bore down, though, and escaped by getting Rob Marcinko and Nate Kerlin to both fly out.

“We left too many guys on base,” Philipsburg coach McCamley said, “and that’s been the moral of the story so far. Once we get some of the guys back and clicking, I think that will be contagious throughout the lineup. But right now, we just have to pick it up as a team.”

Clarence added its final two runs in the fifth on a double by Bryan Greene, an RBI single by Bryce Greene and an overthrow at third base that allowed Bryce Greene to cross with the game’s final run.

“It’s always great games between Clarence and Philipsburg,” Taylor said. “They (the Pirates) are tough, and we’ve all known each other for a long time. But when we get between the lines, it’s all business. It’s a lot of fun, especially when you come out on top.”

twice, while Martinez had three RBIs and scored three times.

Eight of the nine players for Huntingdon had at least one RBI or run, with seven tallying at least one of each.

Despite the score, there are no hard feelings between the two leagues, according to Centre County All-Stars team captain and third baseman Brian Kochik. “(The plan) was just to have fun. It’s the all-star game,” said Kochik. “The main thing was to not get hurt; we have the rest of the year to go. It’s just nice to get together and talk, play ball.

“Usually, we’re ‘enemies,’ but it’s just nice to talk to the (other league players).

More or less, we just have a fun, beautiful day.”

Now that the all-star game is over, the Centre County Baseball League continues with the second half of the schedule. Players who played together for one game go back to being opponents as they race for the league championship.

Playing on the all-star team has brought Kochik and the other players across the league closer together.

“It’s a nice experience,” said Kochik.

“When I got pulled, I looked around and saw all of the different team hats and it’s cool for the whole league to get together.

It’s nice to talk to the guys, see how life’s going and stuff like that.”

For more information, visit www. centrecountybaseball.wordpress.com or follow @CentreCountyBB on Twitter.

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Hancock, Courtney named to Team USA

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UNIVERSITY PARK — South Salem, N.Y., guard Taylor Nussbaum committed to Pat Chambers’ Nittany Lions on June 16, accepting what is believed to be a preferred walk-on offer. Penn State already has its 13 scholarship spots filled.

The 6-foot-2 Nussbaum will join fellow incoming freshmen Jamari Wheeler, John Harrar and Trent Buttrick on campus this summer, but has yet to be listed on the current roster. He played his high school ball across state lines at Cheshire Academy in Connecticut.

Nussbaum’s highlight tape shows an athletic combo guard comfortable taking control of the pace and distributing from the point. He’s not afraid to crash the paint and mix it up with bigger forwards, routinely hanging in the air on acrobatic layups.

The addition of Nussbaum brings Penn State to 15 players for the 2017-18 campaign. He’ll be the sixth guard on a still predominantly young roster that was often inconsistent last season, but showed ample signs of taking that next step in the Big Ten.

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UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State women’s volleyball greats Micha Hancock and Megan Courtney will represent Team USA at the 2017 Pan American Cup in Peru, which takes place through Sunday, June 25.

Hancock and Courtney trained with head coach Karch Kiraly’s U.S. squad in the weeks leading up to the final roster selection. It’s the second year in a row they’ll represent the U.S. at the Pan Am Cup after winning bronze in 2016.

Hancock, who hails from Edmond, Okla., is one of two setters named to the team, joining recent Wisconsin grad Lauren Carlini. She’ll serve as captain for the upcoming tournament. Courtney, a Dayton, Ohio, native, is part of a group of six outside hitters to don the red, white and blue in Peru.

Big Ten grads Paige Tapp, of Minnesota, and Amber Rolfzen, of Nebraska, also are familiar faces on the roster.

Penn State joins Oregon and Nebraska as the only college programs to have multiple players selected to the team.

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Penguins and Sabres set for clash at Pegula arena

By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK —The Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres will take the ice at Pegula Ice Arena at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, to open their respective preseason schedules. The news was announced June 19.

“The opportunity to once again host the Buffalo Sabres at Pegula Ice Arena and bring the NHL back to Hockey Valley is tremendously exciting,” said assistant athletic director Michael Cross in a release.

“Both the Sabres and Penn State learned numerous things from each other during last year’s event and building upon the relationships that were established around this game last year will add value for both organizations.”

The Sabres will once again play the role of the home team for the game, meaning all pregame promotions and the general game day aesthetic will be Buffalo-centric.

It’s unknown at this time if the Stanley Cup, or the bulk of the known Penguin stars, will make an appearance.

Generally, preseason games — in particular early in the schedule — have a lim-

ited number of “big-name” players on the roster.

Either way, after just more than 4,000 fans made it to the rink to watch Buffalo take on the Minnesota Wild last fall, it stands to reason even more will come out to catch a glimpse of some NHL action this time around.

For this preseason event, hockey season ticket holders who renewed their tickets for the 2017-18 season will have right of first refusal for their ticket locations, up to the number of season tickets purchased for the 2017-18 campaign. The right-offirst-refusal period will begin Tuesday, June 27, and run through Monday, July 10.

The presale for Nittany Lion Club members and men’s hockey season ticket holders for the NHL preseason matchup will run Thursday, July 27, through Sunday, July 30. Season ticket holders who want to purchase additional tickets, up to an eight-ticket limit, can do so during the presale.

Tickets for the Sabres-Penguins contest will go on sale to the general public Tuesday, Aug. 1, subject to availability.

Penn State student tickets for the NHL preseason game will go on sale in mid-August and will cost $25.

Riley Keough to play Sara Ganim in HBO’s Joe Paterno movie

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

According to a report by Variety, actress Riley Keough will play reporter Sara Ganim in HBO’s upcoming movie about Joe Paterno. Al Pacino will star as the late Penn State football coach.

Keough is best known for her co-starring role in “Mad Max: Fury Road” and as the lead in the television series “The Girlfriend Experience.”

Ganim is a former Harrisburg Patriot-News reporter who, in 2011, was RILEY KEOUGH the first to report on a grand jury’s investigation of former Penn State football assistant and The Second Mile charity founder Jerry Sandusky for allegations of child sexual abuse. Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts related to child sexual abuse in 2012 and is serving a 30 to 60 year sentence while he continues to appeal.

Ganim won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage and now works at CNN. Earlier this month, it was reported that HBO had given the green light to a new, as yet untitled film starring Pacino as Paterno, with Barry Levinson attached to direct.

It was announced in late 2012 that Pacino was to star as Paterno in a film based on the Joe Posnanski biography “Paterno,” but in late 2014 HBO announced it was suspending the project because of

budget issues.

The casting of a relatively high-profile actress to play Ganim is another indication that the film will focus on the Sandusky scandal. That was apparent when the film was announced last month with an official logline, “After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure on behalf of the victims.”

Screenwriter David McKenna told StateCollege.com and Onward State in interviews in 2013 that the film he was working on was not entirely focused on the Sandusky scandal.

McKenna, who has penned scripts for films including “American History X,” is one of three reported screenwriters on the new project, along with Debora Cahn (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “The West Wing”) and John C. Richards (“Sahara,” “Nurse Betty”).

In addition to directing, Levinson will executive produce, along with Jason Sosnoff, Tom Fontana, Lindsay Sloane, Edward R. Pressman and Rick Nicita. Pressman and Nicita were executive producers on the original project announced in 2012.

HBO will produce the film in association with Sony Pictures Television.

A report by ProjectCasting.com last week said that HBO was ramping up production and that the film will shoot in New York City from July through September. Grant Wilfley Casting was looking for men and women ages 18 to 25 to portray college students in the movie.

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STATE COLLGE — The State College Spikes opened their season June 19, ready to defend their 2016 New York Penn League championship.

Of course, with any minor league team, the faces under those familiar Spikes caps can be starkly different compared to last year’s lineup — in this case, an inspiring championship team.

A minor league team cannot truly “defend” its championship with such copious amounts of turnover, and the Spikes are no exception.

New manager Joe Kruzel, a longtime veteran of the St. Louis Cardinals organization, steps in to replace the departed Johnny Rodriguez. Rodriguez now serves as the Cardinals’ Class AA manager, but Kruzel, too, comes from within the organization. Already familiar with how the organization is run, he acknowledges that it sets him off on the right foot.

It (coming from within the Cardinals’ system) is a great advantage for me,” Kruzel said. “I hope the Cardinals feel the same way. But, it really doesn’t matter what city you’re in, it’s just the opportunity to work with players and help their development.

“It’s a bit different with this team. You have new guys

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and a blend of older guys,” Kruzel continued. “Hopefully, the atmosphere that we have with these guys, we can give them an opportunity to just relax and perform.”

True, there are some returning players set to spend their summer in State College again. Pitchers Steven Farinaro and Spencer Trayner highlight pitcher returnees, while fan favorite outfielder Mick Fennell leads a returning group of position players, including infielders Danny Martin, Danny Hudson and Yariel Gonzalez, also set to return.

Outfielder Ricardo Bautista also made the trek back to Happy Valley, and his return was punctuated by a mammoth two-run home run in the Spikes’ home opener, a 9-2 loss to the Williamsport Crosscutters.

That is quite a large number of returnees to a “short-season” A-level club. Kruzel sees it as a blessing.

“With guys like Mick, they can come here out of extended (spring training) and get regular playing time that they maybe could not have gotten last year or even this year at another level,” said the manager.

Indeed, the same can be said for the rest of the club’s 2016 alumni. However, that is not to say that the new blood does not have some interesting talent on hand.

Outfielder Bryce Denton, a 2015 second-round draft

pick, is easily the “headline” talent on the Spikes, with a ranking of 25th-best overall prospect in the Cardinals system according to noted prospect website MLBPipeline. com. Denton has all-fields potential, with an ability to spread hits around. He’s just 19 years old, and the organization believes he will grow into his power. For his part, Denton understands exactly what he needs to work on.

“For me, the key is just slowing the game down, making sure that I’m getting the right kind of work in. I’m a competitor, and I want to win games, but I’ve got to look at the bigger picture,” said Denton.

His hitting coach, Roger LaFrancois, agrees.

“I had him down in extended for a little bit,” LaFrancois said. “He’s got a great future. He’s a talented young man.

“Had a little struggle in Peoria early on, so we sent him back to extended where he got some work. The key for him is going to be regular at-bats. He’s a good worker, and I think he’s going to do very well here.”

The Spikes’ opening night starter, Sam Tewes, did not fare so well, taking the loss, but the fact that he was on the mound at all is a small victory.

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The Cardinals’ 2016 eighth-round draft choice out of Wichita State was actually drafted two months after undergoing dreaded Tommy John surgery. Prior to that injury, he was sidelined by shoulder inflammation. Still, the Cardinals saw enough of him to allow him to rehab with the organization before throwing one pitch for them.

Earlier this season, Tewes threw four innings with the single-A Peoria Chiefs, all in relief.

June 19 represented the first professional start of his young career, and prior to the game he was raring to go.

“I want to just get out there and compete. It’s been so long,” Tewes said. His manager echoed those sentiments.

“With Sammy, you’re looking at a guy that didn’t pitch much at all last year. It’s going to be exciting to watch him go out and pitch on a regular basis,” said Kruzel. “Once he gets in that rhythm, he’ll be fun to watch. He is such a competitor.”

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Women’s Corner

Room-sharing with babies discouraged beyond four months Penn State News HERSHEY — The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends parents keep babies in the same room with them to sleep for the first year to prevent sudden infant death syndrome. But room-sharing between babies and mothers beyond the first four months is associated with less sleep for babies and unsafe sleeping practices the AAP is hoping to prevent, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

While room-sharing can be justified for the first six months based on the fact that 90 percent of SIDS cases happen in this timeframe, Dr. Ian Paul, professor of pediatrics, said evidence was lacking for the six-to-12-month recommendation made by the AAP, which also conflicts with infant sleep expert guidance. This lack of evidence led the researchers to address the question of the effects of parent-baby room-sharing on sleep habits and quality for infants 6 to 12 months old.

“Inadequate infant sleep can lead to obesity, poor sleep later in life and can negatively affect parents,” Paul said in a press release. “Many pediatricians and sleep experts question the room-sharing recommendation until one year because infants begin to experience separation anxiety in the second half of the first year, making it problematic to change sleep locations at that stage. Waiting too long can have negative effects on sleep quality for both parents and infants in both the short and long term.”

To study the association between room-sharing and sleep outcomes, researchers used data they had already collected from the INSIGHT study, which included 279 mothers who delivered at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and their babies. A questionnaire was completed by mothers when

their babies were 4 and 9 months old and assessed sleep duration, location, night waking, night feedings, bedtime routines and sleep behaviors. Sleep duration, location and patterns were also assessed at 12 and 30 months. Paul and colleagues report their findings in Pediatrics.

At 4 months, children who already slept independently in their own room averaged 45 minutes longer stretches of continuous sleep than those who shared a room with a parent. At 9 months, the gap widened: Those who learned to sleep independently by 4 months had sleep stretches that averaged one hour and 40 minutes longer than babies who were still sleeping in their parent’s room. Total sleep over the night was also greater for the babies who were in their own room.

These early decisions by parents had lasting effects. At 30 months, babies who room-shared at 9 months slept, on average, 45 minutes less per night than those who were independent sleepers at 4 and 9 months.

Room-sharing also affected sleep safety. Babies who shared a room at 4 months were more likely to have a blanket, pillow or other unapproved object that could increase chances of SIDS in their crib than those who slept in their own room. Additionally, babies who shared a room were more likely to be moved into their parent’s bed overnight at both 4 and 9 months old.

“Perhaps our most troubling finding was that room-sharing was associated with overnight transitions to bed-sharing, which is strongly discouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics,” Paul said. “Bed-sharing overnight was more common in our sample among 4- and 9-month-olds who began the night on a separate surface in their parents’ room.”

Paul said the study questions the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendation to room-share for the entire

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ROOM-SHARING BETWEEN babies and mothers beyond the age of 4 months is associated with less sleep for babies and unsafe sleeping practices, PSU researchers suggest. first year.

“Our findings showing poorer sleep-related outcomes and more unsafe sleep practices for babies who room-share beyond early infancy suggest that the American Academy of Pediatrics should reconsider and revise the recommendation pending evidence to support it.”

Paul said that parents should discuss this study and safe sleep guidance with their pediatrician and noted that breastfeeding outcomes were not different between groups at age 4 months and beyond.

Limitations of this study include the study population being mostly white with a lower number of low-income participants. The recommendations may not

translate into lower income homes that may not have a separate bedroom for baby.

Other researchers on the study are Patricia Carper, clinical trial coordinator, Penn State College of Medicine; Emily Hohman, research associate, Jennifer Savage, associate director and Michele Marini, research technologist, Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State; Eric Loken, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, University at Buffalo; and Leann Birch, University of Georgia.

National Institutes of Health, Children’s Miracle Network, USDA and Ashley Nicole Shellenberger SIDS Research Fund funded this study.

Sturm elected president of National Society of Genetic Counselors From Gazette staff reports DANVILLE — Amy Curry Sturm, professor and director of cardiovascular genomic counseling at Geisinger Health System, has been named president-elect of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.

The NNCGS advances the various roles of genetic counselors in health care by fostering education, research and public policy to ensure the availability of quality genetic services, according to a press release.

In part because of its nationally recognized genetics program, the MyCode Community Health Initiative, Geisinger employs more than 25 genetic counselors, working in both research and clinical positions, and is recruiting more.

Sturm’s research interests include car-

diovascular genetics with a special focus on familial hypercholesterolemia. She also is interested in developing innovative programs for the delivery of results to patients in large-scale, genetic population health programs — such as MyCode — which are so new there is little precedent to follow.

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THE WOMEN’S WELCOME CLUB of State College installed officers for the 2017-18 year during the group’s May membership banquet. Pictured, from left, are Carol Dwyer, co-vice president; Alma Mathis, treasurer; LaDonna Weiler, co-membership chairman; Amy Sue Martin, secretary; Janyce Condon, president; Liz Keller, interest group chairman; Libby Deans, co-membership chairman; and Marilyn Furry, co-vice president. The Women’s Welcome Club of State College has been actively involved in the community for 39 years. Women new to the area, as well as long-time residents, are welcome to join in building social, professional and community connections. For more information, call (814) 777-3307.

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2017 list of best books for family literacy announced Penn State News

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VIRGINIA EISENSTEIN, of State College, and her two grandchildren, right, visited the Scopex 2012 sales area while Mike Magyar, left, and Patrick Duffy browsed while seated at a vendor’s table.

Stamp Club presents show at Match Factory Place BELLEFONTE — Stamps, hallmarks and emblems of all sorts and vintages will fill 100 Match Factory Place in Bellefonte on Saturday, June 24, and Sunday, June 25, for the annual Scopex Stamp and Exhibition Show.

Fourteen dealers and exhibitors will attend the event, according to a press release. The Pennsylvania Postal Historical Society also will hold its annual meeting during the show. A special souvenir show cachet will be available for purchase.

The 19th-century-era Headsville Post Office and Country Store — on loan from the Smithsonian Institution to the APS — will be open during the show June 24 and offer current products from the U.S. Postal Service for sale. The structure served as a post office in Headsville, W.Va., from the 1860s to 1914.

The two nonprofit, internationally active philatelic occupants of the center also participate in Scopex. The American Philatelic Society, which has 30,000 members worldwide, and the American Philatelic Research Library will staff segments of the center for the public to visit.

The APRL has one of the world’s largest and most accessible collections of philatelic literature. Its nearly 3 miles of shelving contain more than 23,000 book titles and 5,700 journal titles — all dedicated to stamp collecting. The library, which relocated last year into its new state-ofthe-art space, will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 24 and from 3 to 6 p.m. June 25.

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UNIVERSITY PARK — Committed to providing an annual list of the best books to support family literacy, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book has announced its 13 books for the 2017 edition.

“A Baker’s Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy for 2017” was compiled by a panel of children’s literature experts from the many children’s books published last year.

The titles for the 2017 list include: ■ “123 Dream” by Kim Kranz (published by Random) ■ “ABCs on Wheels” by Ramon Olivera (Little Simon) ■ “D Is for Dress-Up: The ABC’s of What We Wear” by Maria Carluccio (Chronicle) ■ “Ella and Penguin Stick Together” by Megan Maynor, illustrated by Rosalinde Bonnet (HarperCollins) ■ “Faraway Fox” by Jolene Thomp-

son, illustrated by Justin K. Thompson (Houghton) ■ “Lion Lessons” by Jon Agee (Dial) ■ “Owl Sees Owl” by Laura Godwin, illustrated by Rob Dunlavey (Random/ Schwartz & Wade) ■ “The Saddest Toilet in the World”

by Sam Apple, illustrated by Sam Ricks (Simon/Aladdin) ■ “They All Saw A Cat” by Brendan Wenzel (Chronicle) ■ “Walter’s Wonderful Web” by Tim Hopgood (Farrar) ■ “We Found A Hat” by Jon Klassen (Candlewick) ■ “A Well-Mannered Young Wolf” by Jean Leroy, illustrated by Matthieu Maudet (Eerdmans) ■ “When Spring Comes” by Kevin Henkes, illustrated by Laura Dronzek (Greenwillow) Literacy, Page 26

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IN CONJUNCTION WITH the Young Artists Concert Series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, violinist Rachel Zimmerman, a high school junior, held a benefit concert June 11. Proceeds from the event, which raised more than $1,000, were donated to Railway Children, an international children’s nonprofit that provides protection and opportunity for children who run away or are forced to leave homes that have become unbearable through poverty, abuse, violence and neglect.

Zimmerman, right , is pictured with pianist Svetlana Rodionova.

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Literacy, from page 25 The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, assessing hundreds of new children’s books each year, prepares book lists, activities and curriculum materials.

Working with its youngest audience, preschool children, the Baker’s Dozen list complements the center’s family literacy activities to help parents and caregivers to create and nurture lifelong readers.

Tips for using the books with children and families, previous years’ selections, annotations, selection criterial and more

are available through the “A Baker’s Dozen” website.

The Pennsylvania Center for the Book is one of 51 similar organizations nationwide established by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Its mission is to study, honor, celebrate and promote books, reading, libraries and literacy to the citizens and residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

For more information, visit www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu or contact Caroline Wermuth, outreach coordinator, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, at cvw1@psu. edu or (814) 863-5472.

‘Home Economics’ opens at Woskob Family Gallery Penn State News

STATE COLLEGE — “Home Economics” — a new exhibition of works by 10 artists engaging with various understandings of home, what it means to belong and the intricacies of domestic relationships — will be featured at the Woskob Family Gallery, 146 S. Allen St., State College. The show begins with an opening reception Thursday, June 29, from 5 to 7 p.m., and runs through Saturday, Aug. 12.

Ranging from the deeply personal to the overtly political, the works in “Home Economics” engage with issues including debates over immigration, changing notions about gender and family roles and the growth of militant nationalism.

Through paintings of intimate interiors, cheeky reinterpretations of domestic artifacts and various representations of houses, “home” becomes a site for nostalgia, pride and even anxiety.

The show’s artists include Natalie Bax-

ter, Kim Beck, Laurent Chéhère, David Cuatlacuatl, Rachel Farbiarz, Adia Millett, Danielle Mužina, Nick Naber, Hillel O’Leary and Polly Shindler.

In addition to the works on view, the gallery is offering a series of related programs: ■ On Thursday, July 13, visitors can add their own artifacts of home to the gallery’s still life, or just drop in to draw during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

■ Curator Haley Finnegan will give a brief talk about the exhibition and the idea of “home” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20.

■ The gallery will host an ongoing series, “The Contemporary Context,” with Art Alliance Gallery manager Kelsey Rieger, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 27.

The Woskob Family Gallery is a contemporary art space in downtown State College that brings a cohesive program of exhibitions and events to central Pennsylvania.

WHAT’S HAPPENING To be included in What’s Happening, submit your events by Wednesday one week prior to publication to community@centrecountygazette.com or mail information to The Centre County Gazette, ATTN: What’s Happening, 403 S. Allen St., State College, PA 16801.

ONGOING

Bookmobile — Centre County Library Bookmobile is a fully accessible library on wheels. Look for it in your community and join Miss Laura for story times, songs and fun. Visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Safety checks — Mount Nittany Health sponsors free car seat safety checks from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at its Boalsburg location, 3901 S. Atherton St., State College. Certified car seat safety educators will check to make sure car seats are installed correctly. Call (814) 466-7921.

Children’s activity — Literacy-enriching activities for toddlers featuring books and music are held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. every Monday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — A story time featuring songs, rhymes, finger plays and crafts for kids ages 2 to 5 is held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. every Monday at Centre Hall Area Branch Library, 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall.

Performance — Visitors are welcome to view the Nittany Knights practice at 7:15 p.m. every Monday at South Hills School of Business and Technology, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Visit www.nittanyknights.org.

Club — The Schlow Knitting Club meets at 5:30 p.m. every first and third Monday. Knitters of all skill levels are welcome. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

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

Support group — The Bellefonte chapter of the Compassionate Friends Support Group, for bereaved families and friends following the death of a child, holds a meeting from 7 to 8:30 p.m. the second Monday of every month at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 134 E. Bishop St., Bellefonte. Contact Peg Herbstritt at (814) 353-4526 or mherb162@gmail.com.

Children’s activity — Children can improve reading skills by reading with Faolin, a trained therapy dog, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. every Tuesday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Register for 20-minute sessions by calling (814) 355-1516 or visiting the library.

Support group — A drug and alcohol support meeting for families struggling with loved ones’ addictions is held at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Watermarke Church, 116 S. Spring St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 571-1240.

Meeting — The Centre County Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission holds a meeting the second Tuesday of every month at What’s Happening, Page 27

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AROUND & IN TOWN What’s Happening, from page 26 7:30 p.m. in the State College Municipal Building, 243 S. Allen St., State College. Meetings can also be broadcast to laptops and iOS or Android devices, or participants can join by phone. Call (814) 689-9081.

Support group — The Narcotics Anonymous “Open Arms” group meets at 8 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at St. John’s United Church of Christ, 145 W. Linn St., Bellefonte.

Meeting — The State College Sunrise Rotary Club meets every Wednesday at 7:15 a.m. at the Hotel State College, 100 W. College Ave., State College. Visit www. statecollegesunriserotary.org.

Children’s activity — “Book Babies,” featuring interactive singing, reading and movement for babies 1 and younger, meets at 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — A pre-K story time featuring developmentally appropriate stories, songs and rhymes is held at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — A story time featuring related activities and interaction with peers for preschool-aged children is held at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday at Holt Memorial Library, 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Meetings — The Nittany Baptist Church holds master’s clubs for children ages 3 to 11 and small groups for teens and adults at 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the church, 3939 S. Atherton St, State College. Visit www. nittanybaptist.org.

Healing circle — A healing circle will be held from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month at Inspired Holistic Wellness, 111 S. Spring St., Bellefonte.

Contact Beth Whitman at beth@inspiredholisticwellness. com or (814) 883-0957.

Meeting — The Nittany Mineralogical Society meets at 6:45 p.m. for a social hour and 7:45 p.m. for the main program the third Wednesday of each month, except June, July and December, in Penn State’s Earth and Engineering Science Building. All are welcome to attend; parents must supervise minors. Visit www.nittanymineral.org.

Thrift shop — The State College Woman’s Club Thrift Shop will be having “Open Thursdays” from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 902 S. Allen St., State College. Call (814) 238-2322.

Meeting — The Hooks and Needles Club for knitters meets from 1 to 2:30 p.m. every Thursday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — A Lego club exploring block play and other activities that address topics in science, technology, engineering, art and math is held at 3:30 p.m. every Thursday at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Community meal — A free hot meal is served from 5 to 7 p.m. every Thursday at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Community Cafe, 208 W. Foster Ave.,State College.

Children’s activity — Activities and presentations for children in grades kindergarten through sixth are held from 6 to 7 p.m. every Thursday at Holt Memorial Library, 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg.

Meeting — The Nittany Valley Model Railroad Club meets every Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Old Gregg School, 106 School St., Spring Mills. Call (814) 422-7667.

Meeting — The State College Toastmasters meet from 6 to 8 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at Mission Critical Partners, 690 Gray’s Woods Blvd., Port Matilda. Visit www.statecollege Meeting — PARSE meets at noon on the third Thursday of each month, except for June, July and August, at Hoss’s, 1459 N. Atherton St., State College.

Meeting — Celebrate Recovery, a faith-based recovery program, meets at 6 p.m. every Friday at Freedom Life Church,113 Sunset Acres, Milesburg. Registration is not required and individuals are welcome to join at any time. Email restorationCR@freedomlife.tv or call (814) 571-1240.

Pet adoption — Nittany Beagle Rescue holds an adoption event from 10 a.m. to noon every Saturday at Petco, 40 Colonnade Way, State College. Call (814) 692-4369.

Pet adoption — A kitten and cat adoption event is held from 2 to 8:30 p.m. every Saturday at Petco, 40 Colonnade Way, State College. Call (814) 238-4758.

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Community sing — Rise Up Singing, a community singing group, meets from 4 to 6 p.m. the third Sunday of the month at the State College Friends Meeting, 611 E. Prospect St., State College.

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Children’s activity — “The Armor of God” Vacation Bible School begins with a kickoff from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 23, and continues through Tuesday, June 27, at Curtin United Methodist Church, 305 Curtin Village Road, Howard. Call (814) 880-6654.

Support group — Life After Loss, an educational support group for those experiencing a loss through death, will be held from noon to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4, 11, 18 and 25, at Howard UMC, 144 Main St., Howard. Contact Craig Rose at (814) 933-7333 or craigqr@yahoo.com.

Exhibition — “Unraveling the Threads of History,” featuring examples of 19th-century samplers from Centre County and afar, will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays, through Sept. 24, at Centre Furnace Mansion, 1001 E. College Ave. Visit www. centrehistory.org.

Tours — Guided tours of Boal Mansion and Columbus Chapel will be held from 1:30 to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Sundays through October, at Boal Mansion, 163 Boal Estate Drive, Boalsburg. Visit www.boalmuseum.com or call (814) 466-6210.

Program — The Spring Creek Chapter of the Veterans Service Program assists veterans transitioning from military service to civilian life by involving fly fishing instruction from 1 to 5 p.m. on the second and fourth Sundays of each month through November. There is no charge, and all equipment, a license and lunch are provided.

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

Baseball — The State College Spikes will take on Batavia at 7:03 p.m. at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23

Performance — Jazz pianist Arthur Goldstein will give a free performance from 6 to 8 p.m. at Big Spring Spirits at Match Factory Place, Bellefonte.

Baseball — The State College Spikes will take on Batavia at 7:05 p.m. at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

Performance — Steve Van Hook and Jim Colbert will perform from 7:30 to 9 p.m. during the free Friday Evenings on the Lemont Village Green Concert series. A Food for Thought truck will have food available; picnics are welcome.

Performance — George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will perform at 8 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Call (814) 272-0606.

SATURDAY, JUNE 24

Event — The annual Scopex Stamp Show and Exhibition will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the American Philatelic Center, 100 Match Factory Place, Bellefonte, Centre County. Parking and admission are free.

Fundraiser — Relay For Life of Happy Valley is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Grange Fairgrounds. Call (814) 238-3430.

Film — A free screening of “Hidden Figures” will be had at 2 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Call (814) 272-0606.

Event — Tait Farm Harvest Shop will host “Sampling Saturday: Bites on Board” from 2 to 4 p.m. at 179 Tait Road, Centre Hall. Call (814) 466-3411.

Event — Logan Fire Company No. 1 will host a parade starting at 5 p.m. Registration begins at 2 p.m. at the Logan Fire Station, 120 E. Howard St., Bellefonte.

Performance — The Triple A Blues Band will perform from 6 to 10 p.m. at The Brookmere Winery Pavillion at Brookmere Winery, state Route 655, Belleville. Wine and beer will be available for purchase. Call (717) 935-5380.

Performance — The Penn’s Woods Music Festival will feature works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and more at 7:30 p.m. at Esber Recital Hall, Music Building 1, University Park. A pre-concert conversation with Maestro Gerardo Edelstein will be held at 6:30 p.m. Visit www.mpw.psu. edu or call (814) 863-0255.

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Activity — Centre Outdoors Guided Adventures features “The Barrens to Bald Eagle Wildlife Corridor” from 2 to 5 p.m. Hikers will tour the grass and wildflower meadows and woodland areas; the event is free.

Presentation — Carolyn Kitch, author of “Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past,” will speak at 2 p.m. at Centre Furnace Mansion. Call (814) 234-4779.

Performance — The free South Hills’ 2017 Music Picnic Series presents its fourth event of the season, featuring Rick Hirsch, beginning at 5 p.m. at South Hills’ main campus, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, chairs and a picnic supper; refreshments also will be available for purchase.

Music starts at 6 p.m. Free parking and restrooms are available. Call (814) 234-7755 or (814) 278-1990.

Performance — The Capitol Steps, a troupe of Congressional staffers-turned-comedians, will perform at 7:30 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Call (814) 272-0606.

MONDAY, JUNE 26

Activity — A tech coordinator will offer free one-onone training and answer technology questions from 1 to 2 p.m. at Centre County Library, Bellefonte. Attendees should bring gadgets or computers.

Activity — The Holt Memorial Library Gardening Club will travel to Penn State University’s Arboretum at 5:30 p.m. Call (814) 342-1987.

TUESDAY, JUNE 27

Children’s activity — “Wee Build,” an opportunity to construct and create with age-appropriate building toys, will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at Holt Memorial Library, Front Street, Philipsburg.

Children’s activity — The Construction Club, an opportunity for children to express themselves through block play, will be held from noon to 1 p.m. at Centre County Library, 200 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Children’s activity — The Lego Engineering Club for children in grades 5 and up will meet from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Centre County Library, 200 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Space is limited.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28

Children’s activity — The “Build a Better World” Summer Reading Program will feature Jon Kauffman, of Shaver’s Creek, discussing conservation issues from 3 to 4 p.m. at Centre County Library, 200 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

Baseball — The State College Spikes will take on Auburn at 7:05 p.m. at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

Activity — Centre Outdoors Guided Adventures features “The Barrens to Bald Eagle Wildlife Corridor” from 6 to 9 p.m. Hikers will tour the grass and wildflower meadows and woodland areas; the event is free.

— Compiled by Gazette staff

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Restek employees stay active with Corporate Olympics Special to the Gazette BELLEFONTE — Restek recently held opening ceremonies for its Corporate Olympics. The month-long competition encourages employees to have fun, engage in friendly competition and take ownership of their health, all in the spirit of the company’s Wellness Team motto, “Live well. Work well.”

The kickoff festivities were followed the next day by Restek’s 15th annual Plus1 5K. This year, the company invited its health and wellness partners to join the race, and almost 200 runners and walkers participated. After the run, employees visited with the partners to learn about available benefits and ask questions.

“The Restek Olympics are a great way for employees to take a break from their everyday jobs and have some fun with their coworkers,” said Mike Perlozzo, wellness coordinator at Restek, in a press release. “It is also a way to interact with coworkers you may not otherwise, and have the opportunity to do so in a relaxed, ‘nonworking’ atmosphere.”

Throughout the month, teams of employees compete in five events: volleyball, basketball, bean bag toss, pong and a fitness challenge. Teams are comprised of people from at least five different departments to allow stronger bonds to form throughout the organization.

The Restek Olympics and Plus1 5K are just a few of many wellness events organized for employees and their families each year by the company. As a result, Restek and its employee-owners enjoy greater energy, productivity, healthy stress management, improved quality of life and, over time, a reduction of more significant life-threatening diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer.

Restek also is celebrating the official opening of its brand-new 17,000-square-foot gymnasium, Founder’s Point. Last month, the company installed the finishing touch — a custom-painted basketball floor.

“This space will allow employees and their families to enjoy a number of different activities, such as basketball, soccer and volleyball,” Perlozzo said. “There were a number of groups setting up times to use the space for soccer

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RESTEK EMPLOYEES in Bellefonte will compete in volleyball as one of the events in the company’s Corporate Olympics, a monthlong fitness-oriented program. and basketball just minutes after we officially opened it.

The response has been great, and the space will get a lot of use.”

Restek founder Paul Silvis started Restek Wellness in the late 1980s in an empty corner of the original building,

with just a universal weight machine and punching bag.

By 2004, Restek hired its first full-time wellness coordinator, and in 2005 the official Restek Wellness Program was born.

For more information, visit www.restek.com.

SEDA-COG executive director retiring after four decades Gazette staff reports LEWISBURG — The executive director of SEDA-Council of Governments has submitted his plans for retirement after 44 years at the helm of the agency.

Dennis Robinson has helped to forge partnerships with local, state and federal agencies and has led SEDA-COG’s 11-county, 22-member board in carrying out board policies and directives that represent its multi-county partnership.

“We have built a solid, well-performing organization comprised of extremely purposeful and dedicated staff that exemplified how public and private sector interests can work collaboratively to achieve many worthwhile objectives that positively affect the region,” said Robinson. “We are much more impactful together than not.”

Robinson was hired and began his employment with SEDA-COG in 1973, and has been its executive director for 39 years. During the beginning of his tenure, he took a fledging agency’s staff of 13 profession-

als through a development process leading to today’s complement of 94 staff members who serve 13 diverse departments.

His last day at work will be Friday, Sept.

15.

“Regretfully, one of the things in life that I enjoy the most must come to an end. I will miss SEDA-COG and all of its employees who serve so diligently. They are indeed a second family,” he said.

SEDA-COG’s services fall into several broad categories: economic development, community development, environmental development and direct community and county support. SEDA-COG helps the region’s counties and local communities meet needs in areas such as business and manufacturing services, housing, community revitalization, water and sewer system development and other infrastructure improvements.

The agency provides supplemental financing to assist new and expanding businesses. The SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority owns nearly 200 miles of rail line, preserving transportation service vital to key

Auction company employee earns award STATE COLLEGE — Tiffany Earnest, vice president of operations for Tammy Miller Auctions, recently received second place in the National Auctioneers Association Marketing Competition Awards’ real estate category.

“The Stables at Winsome,” a photography piece, was part of a national marketing campaign for The Winsome, a Hollidaysburg property sold by the Tammy Miller Auctions.

Earnest’s photographs have been featured in national publications and she has won numerous awards for her work.

NAA award recipients will be formally recognized during the 68th International Auctioneers Conference and Show in July. The annual competition, presented in partnership with USA TODAY, features entries from

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Tammy Miller Auctions provides auction and speaking services locally and around the globe, specializing in real estate and benefit auctions. Owner Tammy Miller and Earnest are both members of the National Auctioneers Association and the Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association, and have received numerous professional designations as part of the auction industry.

Of all the auctioneers worldwide, approximately only 10 percent are women.

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employers in the region. SEDA-COG also has established programs that help families rehabilitate or weatherize their homes.

Under the county-collaborative Intergovernmental Cooperation Act 180 that originally formed SEDA-COG in 1972, other legal entities have been formed over the years to implement regional objectives of the board. In 1972, the SEDA Foundation Inc. was formed, followed by the SEDA-COG Local Development Corporation in 1982, the SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority in 1983, the SEDA-COG Housing Development and Investment Corporation in 1993 and the SEDA-COG Regional Gas Nonprofit Cooperative Corporation in 2016.

SEDA-COG’s staff provides the services for these legal entities and assists them in planning, development and implementation.

Since 1966, SEDA-COG has received or administered more than 385 U.S. Appalachian Regional Commission grants, and since 1972, the agency has administered more than 50 U.S. Economic Development Administration grants.

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JAMES SHILLING, executive vice president and chief business banking officer of Kish Bank, was recently recognized for serving 40 or more years in the banking industry. Pictured, from left, are Pennsylvania Bankers Association’s Group 5 chairman Wesley Weymers, Shilling and 2016-17 PA Bankers Association chairman Joseph B. Bower Jr.

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LARRY BURGER, vice president and commercial relationship manager of Kish Bank, recently was recognized for as a member of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association’s 40-Year Club. Pictured, from left, are PA Bankers Association’s Group 6 chairman Ted Chwatek, Burger and 2016-17 PA Bankers Association chairman Joseph B. Bower Jr.

Two Kish bankers join association’s 40-Year Club STATE COLLEGE —James Shilling, executive vice president and chief business banking officer, and Larry Burger, vice president and commercial relationship manager, both of Kish Bank, were recently recognized as members of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association’s 40-Year Club for serving for 40 or more years in the banking industry.

Shilling has been involved in banking for 42 years.

He joined Kish Bank in 1991, and currently is responsible for the development and delivery of all lending and

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 MAY 29 TO JUNE 2 BELLEFONTE

Pablo Garaitonandia, Emily I. Garaitonandia and Emily I. Haskell to Kathyrn R. Colby, 413 W. High St., Bellefonte, $188,000 Thomas P. Praskovich Estate and David H. Praskovich, executor, to David Defilippis, 133 Brown Ave., Bellefonte, $155,000 Joseph D. Kraus and Geralyn S. Kaminski to David E. Lipka, 1215 Fox Meadow Circle, Bellefonte, $349,000 David W. Bixel and Madeline L. Bixel to Mark D. Dello Stritto and Jodie M. Dello Stritto, 439 E. Linn St., Bellefonte, $239,900 Ted H. Conklin, Carla M. Conklin and Donald L. Conklin to Jeffrey R. Scipione, Thomas St., State College, $155,000

BENNER TOWNSHIP

Adam C. McGovern, Alicelyn Edwards and Alicelyn McGovern to Adam C. McGovern and Alicelyn McGovern, 221 Millgate Road, Bellefonte, $1 Lori A. Hawn and Lori A. Stania to John M. Fala and Carrie Fala, 294 Raymonds Lane, Bellefonte, $265,000 William D. Semple and Rebecca M. Semple to Lauren M. Mrsa, 181 Exeter Lane, Bellefonte, $179,900 Mark R. Chirumbole to Tamara L. Calhoun, 166 Fultons Run Road, Bellefonte, $187,500

BOGGS TOWNSHIP

Genevieve Catherman to Toby C. Newman and Christie L. Newman, 127 Jack Pine Lane, Bellefonte, $25,000 Meriah Port and Dustin Coakley to Kayla A. Meyer, 1221 Runville Road, Belleftone, $145,000

CENTRE HALL BOROUGH

C.C. Butts and C.C. Cooper to C.C. Cooper, 148 W. Ridge St., Centre Hall, $1 Lynn W. Miller Estate, Judy C. Spotts, personal representative, and Alvin G. Spotts, personal representative, to Parking Lot Services, 234 S. Hoffer St., Centre Hall, $150,000 Benjamin C. Metcalf to Parking Lot Services, 107 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Centre Hall, $159,000

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP

Connie McChesney Estate, Connie H. McChesney Esate, Brien L. McChesney, co-executor, and Cindy H. Zimmerman, co-executor, to

non-lending business banking services at the bank. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State in economics and is a graduate of the National Commercial Lending Graduate School, the Pennsylvania Bankers Association’s Advanced School of Banking and the School of Commercial Lending.

Burger also has been in banking for 42 years. He joined Kish Bank in 2003, and leads the bank’s commercial lending activities in Huntingdon County. He holds an asso-

ciate’s degree in accounting from the Altoona School of Commerce and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association’s School of Commercial Lending.

The Pennsylvania Bankers Association, located in Harrisburg, is the state’s leading banking trade association. It offers continuing education programs and government relations representation on behalf of the industry, and provides numerous products and services for banks and their employees.

DEED TRANSFERS

Brien L. McChesney, trustee, and McChesney Family Trust, 722 Tussey Lane, State College, $1 VBK Properties LLC to Joel W. Burd, 548 Pike St., State College, $189,000 Louise C. Tarman to Christopher A. Dochat and Melissa A. Dochat, 1024 Greenbriar Drive, State College, $1 Matthew L. Rutschky, executor, and Charles W. Rutschky Estate to Louise C. Tarman, 305 Village Heights Drive, No. 124, State College, $180,000 McChesney Family Trust and Brien L. McChesney, trustee, to Cindy H. Zimmerman, 917 Lillian Circle, State College, $173,900 Gloria L. Enis to Martin A. Mondock and Tara L. Mondock, 1469 Chaumont Ave., State College, $295,000 Spetzer Development Company LLC to Bonnie Y. Spetzer, Nicholas C. Spetzer, Keri N. Spetzer and Caitlyn J. Spetzer, 3475 E. College Ave., State College, $1 Lingle Family Irrevocable Trust and Cynthia I. Treweek, trustee, to Charlene Gross and Stephen Spoonamore, 2005 E. Branch Road, State College, $242,000 S&A Homes Inc. to Thomas P. Harrington and Jennifer L. Harrington, 139 Windrush Road, State College, $424,202 Smith Living Trust, Eric P. Smith, trustee, Mark N. Smith, trustee. and Neil D. Smith, trustee, to Steven C. Loerch and Karen W. Loerch, 941 Shamrock Ave., State College, $319,800 Ernest A. Erdeky and Deborah J. Erdeky to Heng Xu, 248 Ivy Hill Drive, State College, $530,000 Nicholas Lanz to Penelope S. Eifrig and Christian S. Eifrig, 173 Dale St., Lemont, $210,000 Jerry K. Thornton and Robert F. Thornton to Michael W. Wissemann and Jennifer E. Wissemann, Rock Road, State College, $145,000

CURTIN TOWNSHIP

Michael T. Eveler, Jody L. Eveler, Stephen M. Eveler and Danielle M. Eveler to Ernie L. Frey and Denise M. Frey, 540 Deer Ridge Road, Orviston, $102,000

FERGUSON TOWNSHIP

Campbell Associates of Ferguson Township to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Ferguson Township and Centre County, Plainfield Drive, Ferguson, $428,989 Brad M. Rickabaugh and Angela M. Rickabaugh to Samuel J. Tanner and Katherine M. Tanner, 211 Greenlee Lane, Pennsylvania Furnace, $232,900 Christopher A. Dochat and Melissa A. Dochat to Doreen Perks, 1137 Longfellow Lane, State College, $650,000 Dennis P. Sheehan to Michael D. Stefan and Samantha G. Stefan,

1752 High Ridge Circle, State College, $327,000

GREGG TOWNSHIP

Eric D. Fetzer and Linda M. Fetzer to Dean A. Spayd, 111 Blue Ball Road, Centre Hall, $1 Dean A. Spayd to Dean A. Spayd, 111 Blue Ball Road, Centre Hall, $1 Dean A. Spayd to Eric D. Fetzer and Linda M. Fetzer, 136 Blue Ball Road, Centre Hall, $1 Eric D. Fetzer and Linda M. Fetzer to Eric D. Fetzer and Linda M. Fetzer, 135 Blue Ball Road, Centre Hall, $1 Eric D. Fetzer and Linda M. Fetzer to Eric D. Fetzer and Linda M. Fetzer, 135 Blue Ball Road, Centre Hall, $1 Charlton W. Thom and Karen A. Thom to John R. Scott, 149 Stone Road Lane, Spring Mills, $360,000

HALFMOON TOWNSHIP

M&T Bank to Zachary E. Ciolkosz and Bridget A. Ciolkosz, 457 Sawmill Road, Port Matilda, $280,000

HARRIS TOWNSHIP

Robert A. Raquet and Elizabeth M. Raquet to R.J. Frego and James D. Bliek, 130 Aspen Drive, Boalsburg, $615,000 Gordon C. Handte and Cheryl J. Handte to William S. Malerich and Patricia G. Malerich, 119 Aspen Drive, Boalsburg, $980,000 Douglas J. Thomas and Traci M. Thomas to Karl E. Schurter and Anna T. Schurter, 101 Kaywood Drive, Boalsburg, $565,000 Nathan J. Hutchinson and Mary C. Hutchinson to Thomas S. Vella, 127 S. Academy St., Boalsburg, $98,000 KBBH Partnership to Joseph D. Sarra Jr. and Joseph B. Sarra, 254 Kestrel Lane, Boalsburg, $232,740 KBBH Partnership to Kelli L. Fernandez-Medina, trustee, Nicolas L Fernandez-Medina, trustee, and Nicolas & Kelli Fernandez-Medina, 1220 Sawgrass Circle, State College, $188,900 Robert L. Ceres Jr. and Elizabeth G. Ceres to Scott T. Modzeski and Mara C. Modzeski, 502 Windmill Road, Boalsburg, $695,000

HOWARD TOWNSHIP

Stephan T. Lewis to Tim M. Fehr and Cindy L. Fehr, 399 Bullit Run Road, Howard, $320,000

HUSTON TOWNSHIP

John A. Hale to Lee A. Welch and Donald L. Welch, 976 Ulrich Road, Julian, $57,600

MARION TOWNSHIP

Thomas J. Martin, Heidi J. Martin to Richard B. Yingling Jr. and Denise E. Yingling, 880 Sand Ridge Road, Howard, $270,000

MILLHEIM BOROUGH

Gary Gyekis and Loanne Snavely to Calvary Baptist Church of State Col-

lege, 117 Penn St., Boalsburg, $87,000

PATTON TOWNSHIP

Daniel Bruner and Judith Bruner to Daniel Bruner, Judith Bruner, James L. Andreyo and Jayna E. Andreyo, 116 Clemson Court, State College, $1 J. Patrick Campbell and Myra L. Campbell to James S. Lee and Catherine Z. Lee, 651 Exeter Court, State College, $370,000 Michael J. Leidy and Dawn M. Leidy to BBPC Properties LLC, 325 Oakwood Ave., State College, $174,000 Wayne P. Makatche and Diedre Makatche to Brant W. Hoover, 1882 Park Forest Ave., State College, $238,000 J. Randall Woolridge to Coventry Chalet LLC, 37 Coventry Lane, State College, $280,000 Michael T. Huben and Carol A. Huben to Robert M. Chiles and Alicia G. Van Orman, 673 Earl Drive, State College, $333,619 Daniel Nestlerode and Mary Jo Depp to Heidi L. Urbanski, 633 W. Hillside Ave., State College, $250,000 Pier L. Bandini and Ingrid G. Bottausci to Vivian N. Ma and Hue N. Ma, 807 Galen Drive, State College, $190,000 Steven W. Sampsell and Susan D. Sampsell to Joshua C. Wrights and Heidi L. Wrights, 128 Clemson Court, State College, $274,900 Christopher J. Long and Jodie C. Long to Carlos P. Zalaquett and Christine Zalaquette, 461 Westgate Drive, State College, $211,400 Warren J. Baker and Janelle C. Baker to Daniel V. Locasale and Juliette Locasale, 301 Ghaner Drive, State College, $225,000

PHILIPSBURG BOROUGH

James S. Henderson to Jonathan K. Henderson and Marie R. Henderson, 108 Hillcrest St., Philipsburg, $1 Leigh A. Schmeck and Daniel H. Schmeck to Jackie L. Zang, 1128 E. Pine St., Philipsburg, $113,300

POTTER TOWNSHIP

Vivian Welch by agent to Nancy Wintersteen, 122 Williams St. Extension, Centre Hall, $168,000 Pamela K. Mussey to Michael D. Emery and Martha M. Emery, Bethany Lane, Potter, $72,000 Ronald J. Murphy and Katherine R. Murphy to Ronald J. Murphy and Katherine R. Murphy, 299 Lower Georges Valley Road, Spring Mills, $1

RUSH TOWNSHIP

Garth E. Longley Estate and Mary L. Rohm, executrix, to Garth E. Longley and Jacob M. Longley, 500 State St., Sandy Ridge, $1 Joel M. Confer and Donna L. Confer to Douglas I. Feaster, 285 State St., Sandy Ridge, $56,404 James S. Henderson to Jonathan K. Henderson and Marie R. Hender-

son, Coaldale Road, Philipsburg, $1 Brenda S. Hill, administratrix, and Shirley R. Hill Estate to Brenda S. Hill and Robin H. Baran, 1743 Black Moshannon Road, Philipsburg, $7,000 Mary L. Smith to Mary L. Smith, 3314 Casanova Road, Munson, $1

SPRING TOWNSHIP

Lulu M. Hoy to Nathan W. Walters, 400 Irish Hollow Road, Bellefonte, $92,900 Kenneth L. Roan and Marti J. Roan to Joseph M. Subalusky and Constance L. Subalusky, 1856 Zion Road, Bellefonte, $135,000 Curtis J. Unger and Elizabeth Unger to Jonathan J. Sunner and Lauren A. Sunner, 158 Rosehill Drive, Bellefonte, $286,000 Joel W. Burd to Adam James and Melissa James, Axemann Road, Bellefonte, $5,000 Rosewood Homeowners Association Inc. and Koltay Homes Inc. to Gary A. Shultz and Cinda S. Shultz, Rosewood Cove, Bellefonte, $271,181.89 Jonathan J. Sunner and Lauren A. Sunner to Garin M. Peck, 204 Danielle Drive, Pleasant Gap, $186,750 Michael J. Pieniazek and Megan S. Pieniazek to Ryan Campbell-Tubbs and Katherine Campbell-Tubbs, 216 Gwenedd Lane, Pleasant Gap, $241,000

STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH

Richard M. Robichaux Jr. and Natalie G. Robichaux to Gregory A. Kufner and Katherine S. Kufner, 131 W. Mitchell Ave., State College, $355,000 Dennis C. Winkler and Carolyn Winkler to April Santos, 735 Westerly Parkway, State College, $325,000 Jeanne C. Porter to Yunjuan Jiang and Guangqing Chi, 1014 Walnut St., State College, $211,000 Michael B. Hoyt and Jessica A. Hoyt to Zachary D. Kavo, 1769 Blue Course Drive, State College, $143,000 Sara K. Dymond Estate, Sara Kaplan Dymond Estate and Maxine Y. Dade, executrix, to Childhoods Gate LLC, 200 Highland Ave., State College, $213,500 Lionel I. Stanton to South Atherton Real Estate I LP, 1401 S. Atherton St., State College, $1

WALKER TOWNSHIP

Dereck J. Rogers and Wendy L. Rogers to Daniel M. Coons and Kellie D. Coons, 291 Archers Glen Circle, Bellefonte, $325,000 Patricia A. Kovacs to Patrick R. Dean and Kristen R. Adams, 105 Meadow Lane, Bellefonte, $170,000 William H. Mead II and Cheryl L. Mead to Joshua A. Shirk, 646 Nittany Valley Drive, Bellefonte, $202,500 — Compiled by James Turchick

JUNE 22-28, 2017

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The tenant is responsible for electric, internet and gas. The monthly rent is $1275.

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State College Office Space

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3 bedroom, 1 fi bath Townhouse for rent, located at 519 Marjorie Mae Street in State College, PA. Includes 3 parking spaces (2 covered), also includes washer/dryer, refrigerator, stove & dishwasher. Water and garbage removal included in rent.

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