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Bellefonte savoring first baseball title

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH and CHRIS MORELLI

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON

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UNIVERSITY PARK — The long tradition of Centre County baseball excellence continued in spectacular fashion June 17 in the PIAA Class AAA State Baseball Championship at Medlar Field on the Penn State campus.

The Bellefonte Red Raiders, seemingly coming from out of nowhere, captured the Class AAA Pennsylvania state championship with a taut 2-0 victory over Susquehanna Township in front of a large whiteclad crowd of hometown fans.

The win captured the first baseball championship ever for the school and its first ever state championship in a boys’ sport. The school’s only other state title came in 2010 when a Gregg Kohlhepp-led softball team won it all with a 3-2 victory over Jersey Shore at Shippensburg University.

Fighting through a difficult start, the Raiders slowly righted themselves through a challenging baseball season and entered the playoffs confident in their back-to-basics style of play.

“I always knew there was a formula for success,” Bellefonte head coach Dan Fravel said after his team’s biggest win in history. “Pitching and defense. You cannot waver on those two things.”

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PIAA First round Bellefonte 2, Chartiers Valley 1 PIAA Quarterfinals Bellefonte 1, Cathedral Prep 0 PIAA Semifinals Bellefonte 5, Hamburg 4 PIAA Finals Bellefonte 2, Susquehanna Twp. 0

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FIRST-TIME CHAMPS: Bellefonte Area High School’s Storm Smith holds the PIAA championship trophy high after the Red Raiders won the state title June 17, 2-0. playoffs, the Raiders never did. Bellefonte won seven straight games after the beginning of the “second season” and scored more than seven runs only once. The Raiders also never gave up more than five.

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The championship game against Susquehanna was a mirror image of what got Bellefonte into the game in the first place. Dom Masullo pitched a five-hit shutout as he and the Raider defenders

clamped down on every threat the Indians posed.

Tyler Kreger’s RBI hit in the third inning — the only RBI in the game — gave Bellefonte the lead, and then an unearned run in the fifth inning completed the scoring.

It wasn’t much, but it was all Masullo and the “D” would need.

“I’m speechless right now,” Kreger said as what he and his teammates accomplished began to set in. “It doesn’t get any better than this.”

Following the trophy presentation at the field, the team was led through Bellefonte by fire trucks and police cars as the celebration carried back to the high school.

INSIDE: For more on the Red Raiders’ amazing run to their state title, see Pages 15-18

Red Raiders give Bellefonte a reason to celebrate hero. Your job is to get on base and let the BELLEFONTE — Fans lined the street next guy knock you in.” near Bellefonte Area High School waitMake no mistake about it — the Red ing for the PIAA Class AAA State Baseball Raiders’ season was in shambles just Champions to arrive. eight games into the campaign. They sat Arrive they did. at 1-7 and looked nothing like a Escorted by a host of fire district playoff team, let alone a trucks and police cars, a school state champion. bus filled with Red Raiders made However, this group of young its way through Bellefonte. Simen turned their season around rens blared. Horns honked. and kept piling up improbFans clapped. The school bus — able win after improbable win loaded with the 2016 Red Raidon their way to Medlar Field on ers — was last in the procession.

June 17.

Players hung out of the windows With the hometown crowd on with their index fingers pointed their side on a beautiful afterhigh in the air. noon, there was no way the Red Finally, the Red Raiders were Raiders were going to lose this indeed No. 1. one. Although there were some Bellefonte’s biggest celebrashaky moments, they never tion since 2010 when the Belletrailed in the contest. fonte Area High School softball And when the final out was team captured PIAA gold was made, the celebration began. in full swing thanks to a thrill- Chris Morelli is the ing 2-0 win over Susquehanna managing editor of For the seniors, it was extra speThe Centre County cial. Only a select few will be Township on June 17.

And while pitcher Dom Ma- Gazette. Email him playing at the next level. Needless to say, they wanted to go out sullo was the hero of the cham- at editor@centre pionship win, this was truly a countygazette.com. with a victory.

Senior Nick Jabco was one of team victory. Head coach Dan the players who gave Fravel the traditionFravel made sure his team never forgot al Gatorade shower after the win. that.

“It’s a team ballgame,” Fravel said.

Celebrate, Page 5 “You just set your next buddy up to be the

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SWEET SOUNDS: The Sounds of the Valleys recently held a fundraiser for the community radio station. The party took place in Millheim and featured, food, entertainment and games.

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DERBY DAYS: The soap box derby cars made an appearance at the 28th annual Bellefonte Cruise on June 17 and 18.

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Authorities reported a 60-year-old man was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana and was found to be in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia following a routine traffic stop in the 5100 block of Tyrone Pike in Taylor Township at 1:47 a.m. June 12.

Police reported Jason C. Skinner, 41, of Columbus, Ohio, was discovered walking along Interstate 80 in Snow Shoe Township at 2:30 a.m. June 15. Police said Skinner had an active warrant for a stolen vehicle in New Jersey.

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Police were called to The Meadows in Potter Township to investigate a report of harassment. Police said a known person struck another person during a group session. The individual was charged with harassment.

Police reported a 26-year-old Blanchard man was arrested for driving under the influence following a routine traffic stop along South Eagle Valley Road in Howard Township at 11:35 p.m. June 18.

Two individuals were taken into custody following traffic stops on North Eagle Valley Road in Liberty Township on June 18. Police said a 40-year-old Beech Creek man and a 56-year-old Beech Creek woman were each taken for a blood draw to determine how intoxicated they were at the time of the stop.

Police reported a 32-year-old Moshannon woman was stopped for a traffic violation at 2:27 a.m. June 18 along North Eagle Valley Road in Boggs Township. Police suspected the woman of driving while intoxicated and transported her for a legal blood draw. Police said she was also found

Police reported two bows, a quiver with arrows and a chainsaw were found along state Route 26 in Marion Township on June 20. The owner can claim the items by contacting police.

PHILIPSBURG STATE POLICE Police received a report from an individual stating an unknown man wearing a hot pink shirt was urinating on the roadway, near his parked vehicle, at 6:59 p.m.

June 6. The incident occurred on Jacobs Road. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact police.

Police reported a juvenile was observed operating an ATV on state Route 504 at about 4:55 p.m. June 14. Authorities said he initially stopped; however, he then fled the scene and turned onto Ammerman Road. The pursuit was terminated after the suspect turned onto Ammerman Road.

Police later identified the operator as a 14-year-old from Bellefonte. He was interviewed and admitted to the violations.

Charges are pending.

Police were called to 164 Walnut St. in Decatur Township, Clearfield County, at 3 p.m. June 16 to investigate a report of harassment. Police said a 47-year-old Osceola Mills man harassed a 24-year-old Osceola Mills woman. The investigation is continuing.

Authorities reported a 75-year-old Osceola Mills man and a 51-year-old Philipsburg woman were scammed out of more than $3,400 after sending money grams to people in South Africa on June 17.

According to police, the victims were told they were “one of the second prize winners in the second category of the European, African and USA Consumer sweepstakes, in conjunction with the USA Departmental Stores.”

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At the board of commissioners meeting July 21, Centre County Planning Office director Bob Jacobs and senior planner Mike Bloom asked the board to support the Greenways Trails and Recreation Program, which would create a 2.5-mile multi-use trail connecting Bellefonte and Milesburg boroughs.

“We’ve been working with the local municipalities on this and it seems like everyone is on board,” said Jacobs. “There’s still lots of work to be done with this to get it all going, but we need to get the support of the commissioners before we can proceed.”

According to Jacobs, the grant amount for the study is about $80,750, of which a 15 percent match is required. Commissioner Mark Higgins announced Bellefonte Borough has already pledged $10,000 and about $3,500 in additional money has been pledged by other sources.

“We still need about $750, so if there are any local businesses or organization that wants to make a pledge, we will most certainly accept it,” Higgins said. “And, please understand this is only a pledge of money in writing. If we’re not awarded the grant for the study, those pledges won’t be necessary.”

According to Bloom, the project would see a 2.5-mile trail extending between the Bellefonte Waterfront to the Mileburg Community Park. He said the trail would provide a health-conscious walking and biking experience through an area once used by early settlers to transport goods and move livestock between the two communities.

“Actually, we’ll be doing something that has already been done,” said Bloom.

Bloom said there is about $250,000 in grant money available through the GTRP program. In 2012, this money came available through the Marcellus Legacy Fund and allocates money to the Commonwealth Financing Authority for planning, acquisition, development, rehabilitation and repair of greenways, recreational trails, open space, parks and beautification projects.

“There is no guarantee we’ll get the money,” said Bloom. “It’s highly competitive.”

With the commissioners approval, the planning commission will move forward with the grant application process. Bloom said, if approved, and the remaining $750 in pledges secured, a consultant for the project would be selected by March 2017 and the study — which is estimated to take about nine months — would begin. Application for DCNR and PennDOT funding would be made in 2018 and engineering and permitting would occur in 2019. The actual project, if awarded, would begin and be completed in 2020.

In other business, the commissioners: Signed a memorandum of understanding between the county and various partners, including the Court of Common Pleas, the Centre County Criminal Justice Advisory Board, the district attorney, the public defender and several other entities, for the Centre County Specialty Court Viability Assessment Project. It part of an application Centre County is submitting for a federal Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant. The grant proposal seeks funding to help determine whether a specialty drug or mental health treatment court is a viable option for the county.

Approved a grant application to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency for Byrne JAG funds in the amount of $24,400 to engage a consultant to assist the county in determining the viability of creating a specialty court.

Approved a contract addendum between the county and Tyler Technologies for a standard annual software maintenance agreement for the mobile component of the new Computer Aided Dispatch that will be used in the 911 Emergency Communication Center. This agreement will be paid annually, in increments, for a five-year term, with the first installment being invoiced and payable this month. The contract addendum total is $89,563.

Also approved a contract addendum between the county and Tyler Technologies for a standard annual software maintenance agreement for the 911 Emergency Communication Center’s Computer Aided Dispatch software. This agreement will be paid annually, in increments, for a fiveyear term, with the first installment being invoiced and payable in June 2016. The contract addendum total is $232.94.

Approved an application from Centre Hall Borough in the amount of $10,000 for resurfacing projects.

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Sandusky will return to court to argue for new trial

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

BELLEFONTE — Jerry Sandusky has been granted hearings over three days in August to develop various claims he has made arguing for a new trial.

Specially presiding Judge John Cleland this week ordered the hearings to address 10 issues raised in Sandusky’s petition for a new trial under the Post Conviction Relief Act. The hearings are scheduled for Friday, Aug. 12, Monday, Aug. 22, and Tuesday, Aug. 23.

Most of the issues center on Sandusky’s claims that he received ineffective counsel before during and after his initial trial in 2012, when he was convicted on 45 counts related to child sexual abuse. Two of the issues focus specifically on whether prosecutors knew the identity of Victim 2 in the case.

Victim 2 was the boy a former Penn State football assistant coach told an investigating grand jury he saw being assaulted by Sandusky in a locker room shower at Penn State in 2001. That case led to questions about what university leaders knew about allegations of sexual abuse, criminal charges against administrators — most of which have since been dropped — and the firing of coach Joe Paterno and removal of Graham Spanier as president.

But Sandusky’s current lawyers have argued that both prosecutors and Sandusky’s trial attorneys did know his identity and agreed neither side would present him as a witness. Attorneys Al Lindsay and Andrew Salemme have said that Sandusky’s trial counsel Joe Amendola and Karl Rominger were ineffective in neglecting to inform their client of the agreement.

They also argue that Amendola was ineffective in not objecting to what they term prosecutorial misconduct when, during closing arguments, lead prosecutor Joe McGettigan told the jury that two victims were “known only to God.” Both Victim 2 and Victim 8 were unidentified at trial. “(T)he focus on the hearing will be on whether or not Mr. McGettigan lied to the jury when he said the identity of Victim No. 2 was unknown. ... The question is what Mr. McGettigan believed to be true when he made the statement to the jury,” Cleland wrote in this week’s order.

The hearings will also address other claims of ineffective counsel, including failure to attempt to quash the grand jury presentment and its resulting charges related to nine of the victims based on alleged government miscon-

duct. Sandusky’s attorneys have claimed that information from the grand jury was leaked to the press and that the government was the source. “(T)he defendant will be expected to present affirmative proof that there was a leak from the grand jury and the the Commonwealth was the source of the leaked grand jury information,” Cleland wrote. “Assuming the existence of a leak is proven, evidence that arguable rules out other possible sources of the information will be insufficient to meet the defendant’s burden that the source of the leak was the Commonwealth.”

Other claims of ineffective counsel to be addressed include: Waiving Sandusky’s preliminary hearing, which could have been used for discovery and cross-examination of witnesses who had previously given inconsistent statements.

Allowing Sandusky to be interviewed by Bob Costas on NBC without adequately preparing him, which provided prosecutors with additional evidence.

Not making a motion to preclude Sandusky’s adopted son Matt Sandusky from testifying as a rebuttal witness and failing to advise Sandusky about any strategy that would be pursued if he was permitted to testify after the Commonwealth indicated it would call Matt Sandusky.

Matt Sandusky initially expressed support for his adoptive father, but later said he was abused by the elder Sandusky.

Plane crash victims identified

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — Centre County coroner Scott Sayers has positively identified the two individuals killed in a small plane crash near University Park Airport on June 16.

The pilot was identified as Gary Orner, of White Oak, Pa. The passenger was identified as Dr. Robert C. Arffa, of Pittsburgh. Arffa was a LASIK eye surgeon who regularly traveled to State College to perform surgery for Nittany Eye Associates.

Nittany Eye Associates issued a statement June 17: “Robert Arffa, M.D., noted corneal specialist and LASIK surgeon, was in a plane that crashed during landing yesterday at University Park Airport. There were no survivors.

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Not calling to Sandusky to testify and inadequately advising him about testifying after the commonwealth provided it would seek to call Matt Sandusky for rebuttal purposes. Lindsay and Salemme said Sandusky’s trial attorneys told him if he testified, the state would call Matt Sandusky as a rebuttal witness, which they believe would not have been permitted had Amendola and Rominger taken appropriate action.

Failing to present grand jury testimony of Penn State administrators Tim Curley, Gary Schultz and Graham Spanier, which Sandusky claims would have cast doubt on the credibility of McQueary’s account in the Victim 2 case.

Calling a psychological expert to explain Sandusky’s behavior in the context of “histrionic personality disorder” opened the door for prosecutors to get the expert to say the same symptoms occur in psychosexual disorders, as well as calling a rebuttal witness who stated Sandusky’s behavior appeared to represent a psychosexual disorder focused on adolescents.

Neglecting to object to incorrect instructions given to the jury. The instructions on character evidence given to the jury, according to the court record stated, “If on all the evidence you are not satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find — that he is guilty, you should find him guilty.” The correct instruction would have been to find him guilty “if on all evidence you are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation into the cause of the crash. Senior Air Safety Investigator Brian Rayner arrived in State College the day of the crash and began assembling a team of experts from the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and elsewhere to piece together what happened.

The plane was approaching the airport near Barnes Lane the morning of June 16 when the air traffic control tower noticed smoke coming from the plane. The tower attempted to contact the plane and received no response.

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Celebrate, from page 1 He was still beaming as he left the Medlar Field turf.

“It really hasn’t sunk in yet,” a wide-eyed Jabco said.

“Everyone always puts the No. 1 up in pictures and I’ve never done that because we’ve never been No. 1. I finally got to do it. I just cannot believe it.”

Jabco has been playing baseball for as long as he can remember. He’d never won a state title at any level.

That all changed in one magical afternoon.

“I think it is for most of the guys,” Jabco said of capturing a state title. “It’s just incredible. Starting off 1-7 and coming here … people thought we were nobodies. To come here and win … it’s just awesome.”

Jabco is a three-sport star at Bellefonte — he’s also on the football and basketball teams. He graduated on June 3 and had a beach trip planned for the following week.

Needless to say, those plans were scrapped when the baseball team got on its roll.

“This is 3,000 times better than anything else we could have been doing with our lives and I’m just so happy we made it here,” he said.

Once the on-field celebration ended, players made their way through the stands, collecting high-fives and slaps on the back from the Bellefonte crowd.

Another senior, Gehrig Schuster, stood on the concourse and looked around, soaking it all in.

“It’s pretty special, especially winning here at home,” Schuster said. “I’m thankful for all the great coaches I’ve had over the years. It’s pretty amazing right now.”

Like his coach, Schuster talked about the importance of being a team.

“It’s crazy, we started 1-7, but we just bonded as a team,” Schuster said. “We started playing really well at the right time.”

It was once said that great teams aren’t always great — they’re only great when they need to be.

Congratulations, Bellefonte Red Raiders. You were great when you needed to be.

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PINE GROVE MILLS — Pine Grove Mills residents experienced a hiccup in their mail service after a car crashed into the Pine Grove Mills post office June 19.

The community in Ferguson Township does not have regular carrier delivery and, after the accident, the building at 112 E. Pine Grove Road was temporarily condemned until the Centre Region Code Administration could deem it safe. On June 20, residents were directed to the State College post office to pick up their mail.

A sign posted outside of the Pine Grove Mills post office said that residents would be able to receive their mail at the rear entry of the building beginning June 21.

Ferguson Township Police responded to the call of a one-vehicle accident at 12:04 p.m. June 19. According to police reports, Ruth Dorpowsky, 77, accidentally pressed on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal, crashing into the side of the building. Dorpowsky was not injured in the accident.

The Code Administration said a detailed inspection could take several days.

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JUNE 23-29, 2016

Centre County picked as one of the best places to live

By GEOFF RUSHTON StateCollege.com

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BALD EAGLE AREA senior Skyler Woodward recently won the 2016 DuBois Business Achievement award for excelling and leading in the field of business. Pictured, from left, are yearbook adviser Amy Smyers, Woodward and FBLA adviser Carri Donmoyer.

STATE COLLEGE — Centre County is well-represented in new rankings of Best Places to Live in America and Pennsylvania.

College Township is rated the No. 7 Best Place to Live in America and No. 1 in Pennsylvania, while Ferguson Township is No. 12 in the U.S. and No. 3 in the state in the 2016 rankings from Niche, a website that analyzes public data to provide rankings and ratings of schools and neighborhoods.

The rankings use data from sources such as the U.S. Census, FBI crime statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Center for Disease Control to assess a number of factors, including the quality of

local schools, crime rates, housing trends, employment statistics and access to amenities.

College Township received grades of A+ for education, public schools, health and fitness and shortest commute. It received grades of A for nightlife, jobs and outdoor activities. Cost of living and diversity both got a B-.

Ferguson Township got a grade of A+ for education, public schools, health and fitness, nightlife and shortest commute.

It received an A for outdoor activities and A- for diversity, crime and safety and jobs.

Cost of living received a C. Harris Township (No. 9) and Patton Township (No. 11) also represent the Centre Region on Niche’s Best Places to Live in Pennsylvania. State College is No. 50.

BEA’s Woodward wins award Paint and Sip fundraiser set

By ANTONIA JARAMILLO

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WINGATE — Skyler Woodward, a junior at Bald Eagle Area High School, was awarded the 2016 DuBois Business Achievement award for excelling and leading in the field of business.

Woodward, who has attended every business class in her high school thus far, is also a part of her school’s student government and yearbook, a varsity softball player and a member of the National Honor Society, Future Business Leaders in America and other clubs.

FBLA “brings business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs,” according to the FBLA website.

The organization’s programs strive to help students focus on leadership development, academic competition, education programs, membership benefits, community service and awards and recognition.

FLBA has more than 214,000 members and more than 5,000 high school chapters.

Woodward has not only participated in FBLA competitions, she qualified for states her freshmen year and has since placed every year.

Carri Donmoyer, Woodward’s accounting teacher and FBLA adviser, and Amy Smyers, Woodward’s concepts teacher and yearbook adviser, nominated Woodward for the Business Achievement Award.

The Business Achievement Awards is a high school leadership development program that enhances a student’s leadership skills and business knowledge and helps students contribute to their local communities, according to the website.

“At first, I was shocked, and then I was simply ecstatic; receiving this award was a huge honor,” Woodward said.

Woodward, who will be starting her senior year of high school in the fall, is planning on attending Penn State to major in business.

By JAIMIE WILLIAMS correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — Janis’ Angels will host a nonprofit paint and sip fundraiser Thursday, June 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Mount Nittany Winery.

The event is open to anyone 21 and older and tickets are being sold online or at the door for $45, which includes wine, a home-cooked meal and painting supplies.

An artist and two assistants will go explain the techniques used to paint a portrait.

The money raised by the event allows Janis’ Angels to give comfort baskets to patients with cancer during the holidays.

Janis Siebel, namesake of the group, died in April 2003. While receiving chemotherapy at a hospital in Pittsburgh, a random stranger stopped by and handed her a gift basket with cosmetics in it.

To honor Siebel’s memory, her family decided to make their own basket dona-

tions to others. Janis’ Angels has provided more than 1,300 baskets since 2003 in Pittsburgh and State College.

Each year, Susan Sampsell and her family pick out a day, usually in December around New Year’s Eve, to visit a hospital and give out the baskets. Sampsell calls the hospital and the staff provides her with an estimate of how many patients they’re going to have on that day.

“Usually, around average, the Pittsburgh hospital would have around 30 to 50 patients and since Mount Nittany Medical Center has been growing, they have been receiving 50 to 65 patients on any given day,” Sampsell said.

The patients always feel appreciated when receiving a gift basket for the holidays.

“Most of them are like, ‘Why I get to do this?’ or a lot of them want to reach into their pockets and give a donation and we tell them, ‘No, we don’t want their money,’” Sampsell said.

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Lawmakers need to act on mental health care

By Bloomberg editors When more than half of people who need mental health care can’t or don’t get it — as is true in the U.S. — other problems arise. For sufferers, these include physical illness, lost earnings, substance abuse and suicide. For society, there is greater crime and homelessness.

So legislation in the House of Representatives meant to expand mental health care is welcome. The bill, which could soon get a vote, would give mental health issues more weight within the Department of Health and Human Services and improve tracking of wait times for psychiatric beds. It would also provide small grants for suicide prevention, for educating new psychologists, and for training police to better engage with the mentally ill.

And it would remove various restraints on mental health care — for instance, an anti-fraud restriction that prevents Medicaid from paying for two services at the same location on the same day. This rule has kept many people from getting treatment for depression as part of a regular checkup.

Yet mental health services in the U.S. are so inadequate that these changes would still leave many Americans without the care they need.

In the past two decades, mental health services have been shrinking, not growing. From 1992 to 2012, the number of psychiatric beds per capita fell by two-thirds, to just two for every 10,000 people. The U.S. is the only affluent country where the number of psychiatrists per capita fell from 2000 to 2011, even as it spends twice as much as others on health care.

To expand psychiatric care as much as is needed would necessarily increase that spending. Federal money is required to pay for more treatment via Medicaid and Medicare.

Sponsors of the House legislation note that their approach won’t add to the federal budget; that may be what it takes to get any bill through this Congress. Certainly, more federal spending isn’t the only way to fill the mental health gap.

The legislation will push private health insurers to adequately cover mental illness, as well.

But wider coverage by government health plans is still needed. Adequate spending on mental health would save other social and government costs down the road. Left untreated, mental illness drains the public purse one way or another.

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LeBron James for president with those who say the problem with The knock on California sports basketball is that it’s too easy to score fans has always been that they lack (just as the problem with soccer is passion. that it’s too hard to score): Therefore, Dodgers fans famously come late none of the baskets matter until the and leave early. 49ers fans can’t shake end of the game. An old joke about their reputation as “wine-sipping, the NBA is that you might as well quiche-eating snobs.” And so on. spot both teams 100 points Many Californians cheerand have them play the last fully plead guilty to these three minutes. charges. The weather is so A corollary problem with splendid here, they say, and the pro game is that specthe outdoor recreation optacular drives, dunks and portunities so plenteous, that long-range shots occur so they would rather sail/surf/ routinely that they become, ski/hike/cycle, etc., than well, routine. watch other people pitch/ All of which is to say pass/catch/shoot/hit, etc. that I knew that the WarRabid sports fandom, acriors collectively and Steph cording to this line of reaCurry individually had had soning, is a function of living this amazing season, but in places where there isn’t I hadn’t really seen them much else to do. play. In Northern CaliforThe alternative explanania, though, interest in the tion for Californians’ supplayoffs was keen, if not feposed lackluster support for Russell Frank verish, so I started watchtheir teams is that so many worked as a ing the Finals with friends of them moved here from reporter, editor and, as will happen with someplace else and brought and columnist sports, once you start paytheir old allegiances with at newspapers in California and ing attention you become them.

Pennsylvania for 13 Who knows if any of this years before joining emotionally invested in the outcomes. stuff is true? (In fairness, I the journalism I watched most of the must recall the panda hats faculty at Penn games at people’s houses; that were all the rage when State in 1998. His Pablo Sandoval was the Gi- views and opinions my impression of Warriors’ fan behavior is limited to ants’ third baseman, and the do not necessarily false black beards that one reflect those of Penn the two games I watched in restaurants. Neither was a saw at the ballpark when State University. sports bar per se, though both had Brian Wilson was the Giants’ closer. multiple screens. Both were in SoI also know some pretty fanatical Cal noma County, which, while part of Bears fans.) the Bay Area, is a world away from Still, I thought of the knock on Oakland, where the Warriors play, California sports fans during the past and where one might expect the fans week while watching the NBA Finals to be more rabid. in the San Francisco Bay Area.

All that said, for a home crowd Before I got here, I had only watching the NBA Finals, the rewatched one half of one NBA game all sponse seemed pretty tepid. Yes, evseason. In fact, I haven’t been much eryone kept an eye on the game, but of a hoops fan since the Magic Johnthe bursts of enthusiasm were few, son-Larry Bird era. short-lived and confined to a hardPart of the reason is that I’m a New core handful at the bar.

York Knicks fan — no further explaI strongly suspect things were livenation needed. Mostly, though, I’m

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By the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A United Nations Global Trends survey released Monday reported that the world reached in 2015 an allnew high in refugees and internally displaced persons, a total of 65 million, with another 19 million forced to move by natural disasters.

The first costs are humanitarian. Half of the refugees are children; 100,000 of those children have fled alone, presenting unique problems.

Few of them are receiving schooling.

The financial costs of dealing with those fleeing, internally or outside their countries of origin, have far surpassed the willingness and ability of donor countries to cope with the problem they present.

Finally, the problem is political.

Migration into Europe, from both the east through Turkey and Greece and south across the Mediterranean, is testing severely the willingness of European populations to absorb refugees.

Governments led by people such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel may wish to keep their countries’ doors open, but not necessarily at the price of losing their own jobs at the polls to xenophobic, resistant opponents.

Immigration is certainly an issue in the referendum to be held on Thursday in the United Kingdom on whether to stay or leave the European Union. One member of Parliament, Jo Cox, was murdered last week; her views favoring immigration and remaining in the EU were certainly one stimulant to her assassin.

An aspect of the refugee problem that is frequently overlooked can be identified by looking at the countries of origin of the refugees and the internally displaced. They are mostly coming from countries where longstanding wars rage — Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.

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Most of the refugees have ended up, for the time being anyway, in nearby poor and middle-income countries such as Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Turkey alone has 3.5 million.

The matter will be addressed once more at the U.N. General Assembly in September.

Obama could do worse than use whatever punch he still retains to end a war or two, in the process relieving the misery of the refugees and pressure they are causing.

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Again, I’m not knocking the laidback attitude of these California sports fans, if that’s indeed what I was seeing. On the contrary. As a sports fan who thinks too many of us care too much about sports, I find the mindset healthier here.

After the Cavaliers, led by the indomitable LeBron James, snatched the crown from the defending champs’ heads, I went out for a burrito, because there is always a good burrito within walking distance of wherever you are in California. If the people in the Warriors T-shirts I saw on the street and at the taqueria were grieving, they hid it well.

The mood, if I read it correctly, was: The Warriors had a great run, the Cavs were worthy successors and King James had to be given his due.

A fun game, all in all, and my, it’s a beautiful evening with the full moon rising, the sea breeze blowing and the setting sun kissing the hills goodnight.

Of course there were extenuating circumstances: The Warriors were the defending champs and for all the talk about repeats, to say nothing of “threepeats,” the first championship is always the most thrilling.

The Cavs, meanwhile, had never won, and as we heard over and over, the city of Cleveland hadn’t celebrated a major sports championship of any kind in more than half a century.

Who could begrudge them this night of triumph, especially since, when the glow of victory wears off, Cavs fans will still be living in Cleveland, soon to be the scene of Donald Trump’s coronation as the Republican presidential nominee? Already, the Mistake on the Lake jokes are flying.

Cleveland gets a bad rap, just like California sports fans get a bad rap.

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JUNE 23-29, 2016

Women’s Corner State College’s Chen aspires to be a school counselor The Centre County Gazette continues its end-of-the-school-year interviews with local graduating seniors. This week’s Senior Spotlight shines on Tiffany Chen, of State College Area High School.

Centre County Gazette: What are you most looking forward to about graduating from high school?

Tiffany Chen: I am most looking forward to making my own decisions and trying my best to be my own person.

CCG: Where are you going to college?

Chen: Penn State, University Park.

CCG: What is your area of interest?

Chen: I am interested in working in the high school system somehow, hopefully as a guidance counselor.

CCG: Where do you hope your plans after college will take you?

Chen: I want to relocate to Seattle, Wash., and become a high school English teacher; and, while I do that, I want to get my master’s so I can be a guidance counselor.

CCG: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Chen: I see myself relocated to Seattle, Wash., working as a guidance counselor for a high school.

CCG: Who do you look up to? Who is your role model?

Chen: I look most up to my aunt, Winnie, who immigrated to America at the age of 12. It’s difficult being an Asian in America sometimes (especially as a firstgeneration immigrant), and she has done a lot to overcome that and be successful (she’s a pharmacist now, with her own small family).

CCG: Where is your dream vacation?

Chen: Taipei, Taiwan. My family is Taiwanese and I’ve heard beautiful stories about it.

CCG: Name three things we could find in your refrigerator.

Chen: Pickles, pineapple and eggs.

CCG: What one thing would you take to

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Chen: An “s,” so it could be a dessert island.

CCG: Favorite TV show and movie of all-time?

Chen: My favorite TV show is “The Office” and my favorite movie is “Fight Club”.

CCG: What would you do with a million dollars?

Chen: I would take my family out to eat and invest in some real estate.

CCG: Is there anything else Gazette readers should know about you?

Chen: I am very involved in mental health advocacy and I want to be able to stay involved for a very long time.

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Use fruit to put refreshing summer flavors on your table Thinking seasonal is always a recipe for success. The colors of the summer and sweet, tart, cool flavors of fruits of the season can decorate your table in creative, elegant and refreshing ways.

When most of us think of summer fruit, we envision smoothies, salads or pies. Think beyond the dessert course: There are many ways to imbue appetizers, cocktails and main courses with seasonal colors and fruity flavors.

Here are some fresh ways to introduce summer fruits into your summer meals and cocktails:

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Light appetizer ideas include fruit and cheese crostini. All you need is creativity and French bread, goat cheese and your favorite summer fruit. You can add strawberries and a balsamic reduction or honey and raspberries. And, consider a twist on prosciutto and melon by wrapping fresh peach slices instead. Or, toss wa-

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Your favorite main courses can take on different flavor nuances with the season. Consider grilling steak with warm peaches and onions as a topper. Or, poach fresh plums and serve with turkey breast or grilled chicken, bringing a tartness to poultry not unlike that from cranberry sauce.

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Don’t just add fresh fruit as a garnish to summer cocktails; consider using fruit-imbued spirits instead of plain ones. Whether blended into margaritas, shaken in martinis, mixed into sangrias or drizzled atop sparkling wine, fruit-infused vodkas are well suited for summer entertaining.

Summer is the perfect time to live in color with fruit-infused cocktails — whether it’s a simple Bellini mixed with prosecco and peach vodka or a more complicated peach punch that blends the infused vodka with gin, elderflower liquor and honey.

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Easing anxiety around school-related transitions HERSHEY — Change can be hard for many people. For kids — who often thrive on routine and predictability — the transition from school year to summer and into a new academic year can bring uncertainty that can trigger anxiety and behavioral problems.

“Schools and classrooms are very structured, and when summer comes around, things can become a lot less routine. This is typically the case whether the child is with a parent, grandparent, babysitter or at a summer camp,” said Dr. Timothy Zeiger, a clinical psychologist at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

The challenge reverses itself as a new school year approaches. Kids start to worry about being in a new classroom with a different teacher, new rules and a different mix of peers. They may mourn the end of carefree days and get anxious about the new routine to come.

For children moving from elementary to middle school or middle school to high school, the transition can be intensified by a new building, schedule and concerns about increased academic and social pressures.

Yet it isn’t always so obvious what the problem is. Zeiger said children with anxiety often complain of physical complaints such as headaches and stomach aches that don’t have a physical cause. In other cases, changes in sleep patterns — trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or nightmares — may signal a problem, as can changes in appetite.

Zeiger said parents can make things better — or worse —by the way they handle such transitions themselves and how they interact with their children about them.

“I think as a parent you have to identify what your own emotional response is and

manage your own level of anxiety because kids will feed off that,” he said. “Don’t make it out to be this terrible, catastrophic thing — let them know that a little bit of anxiety is normal and put your heads together and brainstorm how to cope with it.

Open communication is critical.”

Yet many parents think avoiding the issue is the best way to keep from upsetting their children, Zeiger said.

“Start the conversation as soon as possible — several weeks prior to the end of the school year or before going back,” he said. “Ask open-ended questions that won’t agitate the kids, such as ‘How do you feel about … ?’”

Some children seem to navigate transitions without much problem, while others may find the slightest change traumatic.

“Just like adults, some cope better than others,” Zeiger said. “Some people can tolerate stress very well, while for others, the slightest amount of stress pushes them past the breaking point. You have to recognize that it’s different for each person.”

Zeiger said while the most variation is seen among individuals of any age, anxiety about transitions is much more common in younger children. Older children may show it differently, or may never have identified it as anxiety.

When the symptoms disrupt a child’s ability to function on a regular basis, it’s time to seek help from a mental health professional. “Maybe you can’t get the kid to go to daycare, or he’s not functioning well with friends — those are telltale signs that something is going on,” Zeiger said.

Zeiger runs an eight-week cognitive behavioral therapy program for school-aged children to help them deal with a variety of anxiety issues. These sessions run throughout the year at the outpatient psychiatry clinic through Penn State Health

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Soap box derby racers debut at Bellefonte Cruise

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BELLEFONTE — The 28th Historic Bellefonte Cruise has come and gone.

Thousands of spectators admired the many show cars and their powerful engines, but one group of cars that received admiring looks had no engines at all. Soap box derby cars are powered by the force that powers the universe — gravity.

Soap box derby racing dates back to 1933, when Myron Scott, a photographer for the Dayton Daily News in Ohio, put together an impromptu race for 19 boys.

There was so much interest, 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 because of its central location and hilly terrain. The national title race is still held there each year.

Alan Uhler, a member of the Bald Eagle Gravity Team, a group of racers headquartered in Bald Eagle Valley, said soap box derby races used to be held in Bellefonte.

“I raced soap box derby as a kid in the mid-80s,” he said. “We raced on Allegheny Street starting above the elementary school, and coming to a stop by the library.”

Uhler said that interest in the races

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SOAP BOX DERBY cars were a new addition to this year’s Historic Bellefonte Cruise. faded, and they were eventually discontinued, but his group is campaigning to bring them back. He and his group now

races with the DuBois chapter of the Soap Box Derby Association. “I got my kids involved in the DuBois chapter, and within

four weeks of that, I was running a team of eight kids,” said Uhler.

Two months later, when the director of the association retired, Uhler advanced to the director’s position, which he enjoys.

“I’m having as much fun as I had when I was a kid,” he said.

Uhler noted that half of the fleet of racers in the DuBois chapter is from Bald Eagle Valley. “We’re growing the organization, and we hope to be running races both here (Bellefonte) and in DuBois.”

There are three divisions in the derby: stock, super stock and masters.

The stock division is for racers ages 7 to 13. Stock car bodies are molded plastic, and are not allowed to be painted. The super stock division is designed for racers ages 9 to 18, and painting of the body shells is allowed.

The masters division is for 10-to-20year-olds and is driven by the more experienced drivers. Masters division cars are of the lay-down, or enclosed, design and are made of fiberglass.

At the Bellefonte Cruise show, the derby group allowed kids to take short demo rides in derby cars on Pike Lane.

Many smiles were seen among the young drivers.

“The kids learn a lot in soap box derby, and it’s just a lot of fun,” said Uhler.

For more information, contact Uhler at (814) 353-0149 or alan@uhlerand associates.com.

Local farmer supports Penns Valley Youth Center SPRING MILLS — The Penns Valley Youth Center has received a $2,500 donation from America’s Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund and directed by local farmer Bonnie Wolfe, of Oak Spring Farm in Spring Mills. The donation will help the organization continue its afterschool program and impact the youth of Penns Valley.

“I selected the Penns Valley Youth Center to receive the America’s Farmers Grow Communities grant because of what they are doing for the youth of this area and the Christian values they represent. They continue to make a difference in the lives of kids who need help or a place to go. I am very proud to be have the opportunity to bless this group,” said Wolfe.

For six years, America’s Farmers Grow Communities has collaborated with farmers to donate more than $22 million to more than 8,000 community organizations across rural America. Winning farmers direct donations

to nonprofits to help fight rural hunger, purchase life-saving fire and EMS equipment, support ag youth leadership programs, buy much needed classroom resources and more.

Grow Communities is just one program in the America’s Farmers community outreach effort. Other programs include America’s Farmers Grow Ag Leaders, which encourages rural youth to remain in agriculture and provides $1,500 college scholarships to high school and college students pursuing ag-related degrees and America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education, which works with farmers to nominate rural school districts to compete for $10,000 and $25,000 math and science grants.

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The Penns Valley Youth Center is located at the Old Gregg School Community Center is Spring Mills.

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THE PENNS VALLEY Youth Center recently received a $2,500 donation from America’s Farmers Grow Communities.

NEW MEMBER THE STATE COLLEGE Elks Lodge No. 1600 recently initiated new member Mark McKnight into the order.

Pictured, from left, are Jack McKinley, Chris Carver, Lynne Corl, McKnight, William Asbury, David Harry, Exalted Ruler Brenda Kephart and David Immel.

BELLEFONTE — Benner Township resident R. Thomas Berner has been elected to the board of the Historic Barn and Farm Foundation of Pennsylvania.

One of many activities the group conducts is an annual barn tour. Next year’s is scheduled for Union County and 2018’s tour will be held in Centre County. Anyone wishing to propose historical or unique barns for the tour can contact Berner at bx2@psu. edu or (814) 753-2302.

Berner has self-published two books on rural Pennsylvania, “Pennsylvania Barn Stories” and “Pennsylvania Quilt Barns.” In addition, he is a member of Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania, the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania and the Bellefonte Art Museum.

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Bellefonte student receives Eagle Scout Award PLEASANT GAP — Stephen M. Giacobe, of Pleasant Gap Boy Scout Troop 66, recently received his Eagle Scout Award during an Eagle Scout Court of Honor. The ceremony took place at the Pleasant Gap United Methodist Church in Pleasant Gap. Giacobe is the son of Dr. Nicklaus A. and Lisa Kay Giacobe, of Bellefonte.

Giacobe has earned 29 merit badges and served his troop in leadership positions of assistant senior patrol leader, patrol leader, patrol guide, troop guide, webmaster and librarian. In addition, he attended the 100th Anniversary Scouting National Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia, serving as a patrol leader.

For his Eagle Scout Project, Giacobe refurbished and installed a wall-mounted trophy case and a support pedestal in the Bellefonte Area High School theater lobby.

Giacobe is a senior at the Bellefonte Area High School, and is heavily involved in the drama club, marching band, chorus and select chorus.

Presenters at the Court of Honor were Bob Johnson, from the Marine Corps League, Centre County commissioners Michael Pipe, Mark Higgins and Steve Dershem, Centre County sheriff Bryan Sampsel, Bellefonte Area High School District board director Kim Hearn and Bellefonte Elks representative Patrick Corbett.

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THE BRUSH MOUNTAIN Mud Skippers take a dive into the muck during the Penns Valley Kiwanis Club’s Mud Volleyball Tournament.

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By SAM STITZER pennsvalley@centrecountygazette.com

CENTRE HALL — The Penns Valley Kiwanis Club hosted its seventh annual Mud Volleyball Tournament, a fundraiser for the Kiwanis Club, on June 18 on the grounds of the Old Fort American Legion Post No. 779.

Each participating team paid a fee for the privilege of eating dirt and competing for medals and bragging rights.

The Kiwanis Club uses all proceeds from the event to benefit local charities, including the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America, Penns Valley food banks and several other organizations.

The volleyball court is located in a field at the eastern end of the American Legion’s parking lot. The Centre Hall Fire Company brought in a tanker truck and pumped the area full of water, resulting in a 5-inch-deep pit of thick, gooey mud.

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Kiwanis member Jim Shunk noted that the court was relocated since the original court was lost last year during the construction of a Sheetz store nearby.

Four teams competed, with each match consisting of a best two-out-of-three format, with teams switching sides of the net after each game.

Penns Valley High School physical education teacher Carol Fultz served as the tournament’s referee, perched well above the flying mud on a platform at mid-court.

The action was fast and furious, with plenty of slips, falls and dives.

A Centre Hall Fire Company tanker truck was present with a hose and shower nozzle for the players to do some quick cleanups between matches.

At the tournament’s end, the Brush Mountain Mud Skippers, as they have done for several years running, emerged victorious, followed by the I’d Hit That team in second place.

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Open house planned for two new affordable homes STATE COLLEGE — The Centre County Housing and Land Trust is completing construction of two brand new homes at its Thompson Place development in Patton Township.

Located at 119 and 133 Woodycrest Street, each of the 1,236-square-foot homes offers three bedrooms, two baths, a full basement and natural gas appliances. The properties are part of a program geared toward bringing affordable housing to moderate- and lower-income buyers in an otherwise cost-prohibitive local market.

There will an open house for both homes from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 26. Light barbecue and refreshments will be served.

In utilizing the community land trust model, which involves splitting the deed between land and improvements, CCHLT retains ownership of the land, and purchasers need only qualify and pay for the improvements upon the land as well as a small monthly land lease. To qualify, the purchaser must have an annual income of between 60 percent and 120 percent of the Centre County Area Median Income, as determined by HUD, and must also be mortgage-eligible.

The CCHLT is offering each of these two homes for $167,000.

This event is open to the public, and those considering homeownership in Centre County, or who are interested in affordable housing opportunities in the community, are invited to both view the homes and find out more about the CCHLT.

MERRITT SPEAKS PLENTY OF donated local food was available at the block party fundraiser for radio station WSOV.

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LAURA MERRITT, donor recruitment representative for the American Red Cross, recently spoke at the Bellefonte Lodge No. 268 Free and Accepted Masons. She is shown with David Alexander, junior warden of the lodge and chairman of the blood donor program. Merritt reported the need for blood and platelet donations is constant throughout the year, and blood donations can be made every 56 days.

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MILLHEIM — WSOV, the Sounds of the Valleys, a lowpower FM community radio station for Penns Valley, recently hosted a block party fundraiser.

The party was held on both sides of Penn Street, at the St. Luke’s Cultural Center and The Millheim Theatre, directly across the street. The party featured free entertainment and great local food for sale to benefit WSOV. A wide variety of local musicians performed live at St. Luke’s, and there was assorted entertainment in the theater and games for kids of all ages.

Proceeds from the event will help WSOV purchase its emergency broadcast system, necessary for going on the air.

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WSOV, 101.7 on the FM dial, is a project of the Penns Valley Conservation Association, and received its license to build in March 2014. Since then, organizers have been raising money, planning programs and building studios in the St. Luke’s Cultural Center. Wolken said that about $9,000 is still needed for transmitting equipment before the station can begin broadcasting.

Wolken noted that community radio stations like WSOV are subject to commercial restrictions much like Public Broadcasting System stations. They cannot air commercials like privately owned stations, but businesses, organizations or individuals may sponsor shows and receive recognition on those shows. He said that the group has raised $3,000 of its original $12,000 goal.

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JUNE 23-29, 2016

Colyer Lake reopens with ceremony

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POTTER TOWNSHIP — Colyer Lake, in Potter Township, was formally reopened in a lakeside ceremony June 12. The lake was filled to its design level after having been completely drained for nearly two years.

Colyer Lake was constructed in the 1960s by the then Pennsylvania Fish Commission. Construction of the earthen dam was completed in 1966, encompassing a drainage area of 8.4 square miles with a maximum depth of 38 feet.

In 2002, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection deemed Colyer Lake unsafe according to updated design storm requirements. The spillway could pass less than the 24 percent of the design storm water, and 100 percent is required.

The lake was drawn down 10 feet in 2003. A dam inspection in 2012 revealed that Colyer Lake was unsafe according to current required standards of safety. A water release was ordered, lowering the lake to a level approximately 17 feet below the “full” level in the spring of 2013.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, a selffunded state agency, lacked the funds to make the necessary repairs, which were expected to cost about $6 million.

In 2013, Save Colyer Lake Inc., a nonprofit corporation, was formed, headed by Colyer resident and Centre County

Judge Tom Kistler. Its goal was to raise funds to help pay for the dam’s repairs and to act as leverage for state funding.

In November 2013, a transportation bill was signed by the state legislature. It allocated state funds for numerous road and infrastructure projects, including the repairing of high-hazard unsafe dams. This provided the funding needed to repair Colyer Lake.

The project was put on the PFBC’s fast track, and repairs to the dam, spillway and bypass channel were completed earlier this year.

The reopening ceremony drew a crowd of about 100 people, many of whom brought their canoes, rowboats or kayaks to launch on the lake for the first time in several years.

Kistler welcomed everyone to the ceremony and thanked the supporters of Colyer Lake Inc. “We’re back in business,” said Kistler.

Kistler then introduced John Arway, the executive director of the PAFB, calling him a “tremendous friend of this effort.” Arway recognized the benefits provided by Colyer Lake to the community.

“It’s not only an important project for recreation, but also an important project for local businesses. Anglers and boaters spend $1.2 billion a year in our state on fishing and boating,” said Arway. “We’re a major league sport, and you’re part of it.” He noted that interest in fishing and boating in the state is waning, but having facilities like Colyer Lake helps to maintain interest in those activities in many communities.

Arway said the restocking of fish in the lake will be a multiyear process, beginning with flathead minnows. “We get the bait fish established first,” he said. “They’ll grow to be a bigger size, then we’ll gradually release other sport fish to the lake — largemouth bass, crappies, bluegills, yellow perch and chain pickerel.”

Ed Miller, who was in charge of the lake’s design and construction in the 1960s and who later served as PAFB’s executive director, spoke next. He gave credit to the dam’s design engineer, Roy Frank, and its construction engineer, Eugene Smith, both now deceased. He said the original design placed the dam in a different location, but it was changed when additional funding became available, to the present location, which allowed the lake to be considerable larger than originally planned.

Miller noted that, because of the acidic water feeding

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PENNSYLVANIA FISH and Boat Commission executive director John Arway thanked his staff and Colyer community members for their work in restoring Colyer Lake.

the lake from Sinking Creek, the designers added a bypass channel with controls allowing the creek water to be diverted around the lake when acidity rose to high levels, threatening the aquatic habitat. This was considered a very innovative solution for a lake of this size in the 1960s, according to Miller.

State Rep. Kerry Benninghoff spoke, thanking the Save Colyer Lake group for their fundraising efforts, which he said helped legislators to acquire state funding for the lake repair project. He told of his own experiences boating on the lake, and praised the beauty of the lake and its surroundings. “There’s not an inch, that if you look around here, that there’s not something beautiful to see,” he said.

“This truly a happy day in Happy Valley.”

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The focus of Centre Inspires rotates each year, with this year’s emphasis on environmental conservation and awareness. Proposals should answer the question: What project(s) would you like to implement to encourage the people of Centre County to be more engaged in their community by focusing on the environment around them?

Projects must be both highly engaging and highly visible in the community and may focus on aesthetics, enjoyment, conservation or general engagement with the land and animals that are part of our region.

One-page letters of intent answering the question are due to Centre Foundation by Thursday, July 21. There are many opportunities to get the creative juices flowing before the deadline.

“Centre Inspires is not your typical grant process, so we are holding two informational sessions to explain how the process will work,” Kunkel said. “There will also be four brainstorming sessions to facilitate the flow of ideas and partnerships between interested parties.”

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Long and winding road ended with gold for Red Raiders PAT ROTHDEUTSCH

MaxPreps is a respected information and entertainment website about high school sports, and even after the Bellefonte baseball team’s cataclysmic win the PIAA state championship on June 17, MaxPreps still has the Red Raiders ranked the No. 66 team in Pennsylvania.

Wrong.

It’s apparent where the site is coming from, however. Bellefonte’s final record was 16-11. The Raiders were 4-4 at home, 7-7 on the road and 5-0 on neutral fields. The team did not reach the .500 mark until two games into the playoffs, and it was 12-11 after Pat Rothdeutsch is winning the District 6 championship. a sports writer for Sure sounds like a No. 66 group, The Centre County Gazette. Email him but this is a team that won its last nine games — seven of them in the playoffs at sports@ centrecounty — and took home the first Pennsylvagazette.com nia state baseball championship in its school’s history.

What happened?

The story of the 2016 Bellefonte team will no doubt be repeated time and again by coaches (and fans) trying to re-energize their teams — no matter how bad things may look. After all, if a team can do that after a miserable 1-7 start, why can’t others?

Everybody knows, though, that turning talk into results is no easy matter, yet Bellefonte found a way to do exactly that.

“They (the Bellefonte players) learned a life lesson real fast,” Raider coach Dan Fravel said. “You just can’t show up and have things work perfect every day. And it didn’t for us for a month. We could have folded it early.

“But seniors, captains, we had a couple sit-downs, and we said it’s not that difficult to do. Just have to refocus, regroup, convince each other that we’re on the same page, and just go back to work every single day.

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We take great pride in our defense and it’s a focus of ours.

Really, what won us all those games in the playoffs is great defense all the way through.”

The numbers bear out what Fravel said. The Raiders finished with a nine-game win streak, and the most runs any opponent scored was the five that Hollidaysburg put up in the D6 championship.

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After that Penns Valley loss, on April 1, Fravel’s teachings seemed to start taking hold. There were still losses — 3-0 to Clearfield, 1-0 to Central Mountain, 3-1 to Philipsburg — but the Raiders were just a hit or two away from perhaps even winning those games.

Then, on April 18, Bald Eagle Area came to visit for a Mountain League contest.

Bellefonte was still just 2-7 at this point, but Dom Masullo pitched a one-hit shutout, Greg Watson drove in a run in the bottom of the fifth inning, and Bellefonte pulled out a 1-0 win.

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Bellefonte had just two hits, but the Raiders didn’t commit an error and no BEA runner made it to third base. It was a winning formula that they would use again. And again.

From that point, Bellefonte went 13-4 in the rest of its games. Masullo and Adam Armstrong turned into lightsout starters, and runs against the Raider defense were very hard to come by. Central (8) and State College (7) were the only ones to get more than four.

By the time the playoffs rolled around, Bellefonte expected (and probably wanted) to be involved in close, defense-dominated games in which a big hit or two would make the difference. And they expected to win those games.

After his near no-hitter against BEA, Masullo said, “The one-hitter, or whatever it is, I’m not too concerned. I’m really concerned about the win. Right now we are a team fighting, and we really had to grind it out for this one. But we’ll be all right. I think we are going to hit a streak here where we’ll do really well.”

At that point in the season, Masullo couldn’t possibly have known how prophetic that statement would become.

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2016 BELLEFONTE RED RAIDERS

RECORD: 16-11, PIAA CLASS AAA STATE CHAMPIONS

RED RAIDERS supporters turned out in droves for the PIAA championship game at Medlar Field.

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UNIVERSITY PARK — It wasn’t exactly a White Out, and with the way the Bellefonte defense was playing, the Raiders really didn’t need a 10th guy out there.

Yet the throng of white-clad Bellefonte fans in Medlar Field for the Raiders’ state title contest against Susquehanna Township strongly made its presence felt nonetheless.

Originally, the plan was for everyone to wear red, but since Susquehanna’s colors were also primarily red, the plan was changed: everybody in white.

How many Bellefonte fans attended, exactly, is difficult to determine. Almost all of the field-level seats were filled with white T-shirted people (including quite a number of banners), and many of the second-level box seats were taken up by Bellefonte people as well. One fan said that there were more people in Medlar Field for the Raider game than were at the State College Spikes’ home opener.

Along with its color and number, the Bellefonte crowd’s cheering and enthusiasm was difficult to miss. Every pitch, every strike, every hit, every defensive play, and the end of every Susquehanna at-bat was met with cheers and loud fanfare. They cheered almost every time a Raider hit the ball — outs and all.

As the game progressed, and as Bellefonte tenuously held on to its 2-0 lead, the tumult only grew louder.

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“This was unbelievable,” Bellefonte coach Dan Fravel said about the support from the fans. “Compliments to the community for supporting the boys. This is a hard-core, baseball community. The kids have grown up here, and I think they take it for granted that everybody loves baseball like they do here. But it’s not true.

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THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON

After a coaching change and a rocky 1-7 start, the Bellefonte Area High School baseball team just wanted to get to .500.

They did that — and then some.

The Red Raiders went on an unlikely run that ended with a PIAA state title. A 2-0 win over Susquehanna Township on June 17 gave the school its first-ever PIAA baseball title.

First-year coach Dan Fravel got the most from his squad and they delivered — big time.

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It went on through the picture sessions, the medal presentations, and the TV and radio interviews on the field.

It still wasn’t done when everyone left the park. There was a police-and-fire-escorted parade back to Bellefonte and then more festivity at the high school following that.

After all, there aren’t very many state championships to go around, and to win one is a very special occasion indeed — and one that this team gladly shared with the whole town.

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Meet The Spikes!

Spikes gun for playoff run in 2016

By ZACH SEYKO correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — The State College Spikes return to Medlar Field this summer for their second season under head coach Johnny Rodriguez. In 2015, the Spikes finished 41-35 to earn their third straight 40-win campaign, but ultimately missed out on the New York-Pennsylvania League playoffs by just a game.

The Spikes look to continue their season wins streak, as well as make an appearance in the playoffs. The St. Louis Cardinals’ affiliate welcomed back a total of 12 Spikes from the past two seasons in addition to bringing in 13 new players acquired through the draft and free agency.

On the staff, the Spikes hired two new athletic trainers, Chris Whitman and Frank Spinelli, and brought in former professional player C.J. Beatty as an assistant coach.

The Spikes’ strong suit is pitching, as they were ranked third in the league in earned run average at 3.20 and allowed the second lowest amount of home runs with 21. Led by State College veteran starting pitchers Carson Cross and Dailyn Martinez, the Spikes’ pitching staff and bullpen hopes to shut opposing teams down with their ability to overwhelm hitters. “This year, (I) really want to give the team a chance and hopefully pitch six to seven innings at a time,� said Cross.

Cross prides himself on his deceptive motion and his off-speed pitches to help him keep opposing hitters off balance. The University of Connecticut graduate uses his slider as his go-to pitch to sit hitters down. Cross owned the second lowest ERA among Spikes starters in 2015. “I’m deceptive with my delivery and I get good late movement on my pitches. It might not be 95 miles an hour like some guys, but when it’s coming in hard enough and it moves late at the end, it’ll give the guys a hard time when hitting.�

At the plate, the Spikes were middle of the pack at the conclusion of the 2015 season. As a team, State College posted a .256 batting average, which ranked sixth in the league. The Spikes also ranked third to last with only 19 long balls.

The Spikes will look to their rookie bats to come alive and fuel the batting order.

The lineup will have a new look to it in 2016 with only four hitters returning to the organization.

Harrison Bader and Orlando Olivera, who led the team with .379 and .347 averages, did not come back to the Spikes for another season. Olivera was the main source of power for the Spikes, crushing five home runs in 2015.

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Energetic Rodriguez a perfect fit for Spikes JASON ROLLISON

STATE COLLEGE — The New York Penn League is unique among minor league baseball.

But, don’t take it from me. Hear it straight from the mouth of Jonathan Mayo, noted draft analyst for MLB. com.

“There are a mixture of players in the New York Penn League,” Mayo told me during the State College Spikes’ home opener. “You have some that are just getting their pro careers started, fresh out of the draft. Some are getting the first taste of what it means to play every day at a professional level.

“Other guys have played at lower level rookie leagues, even overseas.

Jason Rollison is a This might be their first time in the Pittsburgh Pirates states. The New York Penn League is commentator. mostly about laying a foundation for Email him younger players in a relatively conat jason@ trolled environment.” piratesbreakdown.

Controlling the Spikes’ environcom. ment for the second consecutive year will be manager Johnny Rodriguez.

For his part, Rodriguez is as energetic as ever about his charges.

“I see better athletes than last year,” Rodriguez told reporters during the club’s media day.

“You have such a short time with these players,” Rodriguez told me. It’s almost as if the first two weeks … being in games is like spring training. So I’m going to make it simple for them.”

Don’t let Rodriguez fool you. As much as he puts the player’s development first, the anatomy of winning a baseball game still matters to the skipper.

In discussing the team’s scrappy home-opening win, the Spikes’ chief was downright bubbly as he described the small-ball tactics that went into the team’s half of the sixth inning, trailing the Williamsport Cross Cutters 3-2.

“Here’s the thing. They did the little things,” Rodriguez said. “Had two sac bunts, a sac fly, good at-bats … we got the starter out, got to the pen … the bottom line is when you do the little things, you’re going to have a shot.”

Rodriguez sat up in his chair, and the energy that accompanied his next words spoke to his enthusiasm.

“In my heart I said, ‘Let’s tie this game.’ Most people would swing away in the sixth inning. But, I said, ‘No, let’s play like it’s 0-0.’ Perfect executed bunt, and you know why? Because you don’t do it in the sixth inning.

“It’s a new year, a new team … let’s make it 0-0 again.

The little things.”

The Spikes will return seven players from last year’s roster, but the key returnees may be found among Rodriguez’s lieutenants.

When I asked Rodriguez how vital it was that hitting coach Roger LaFrancois and pitching coach Darin Marrero returned for a second consecutive year at his side, the lively skipper was effusive in his praise.

“It’s everything. It’s important because I can trust them.

I know what they do. Roger’s been with me in the Florida State League. Darwin played for me in the Expos. With both of them, it’s about trust.

“I know I don’t have to worry about anything.”

Among the many new faces comprising the opening day roster, an intriguing young Stanford product stood out during the team’s first weekend of action.

Tommy Edman, 22, strikes a rather unassuming profile.

If you were to see him roaming the streets of State College, you would easily mistake him for just another student staying on campus for the summer.

Edman wasn’t able to work out with the team until June

16, which makes his six-for-nine debut weekend all the more impressive. Edman nabbed 10 total bases in his first two games, and showed a natural attack with his swing when he gets his pitch. In the Spikes’ June 19 win over the Hudson Valley Renegades, Edman made his debut in the field at shortstop. He looks every bit as comfortable as one might expect a sixth-round pick to be, but Rodriguez happens to think that his best attributes come between the ears.

“The kid is smart,” Rodriguez told reporters after Edman’s four-for-five debut. “(Edman) is from Stanford.

Smart. Good hitter and good patience.”

Edman and the other Spikes’ hitters will have to translate their baseball IQ into production if the team is going to replace departed stalwarts such as Casey Grayson and Harrison Bader. The offensive leaders from last year’s club have moved up within the Cardinals’ system and in its place is a lineup that Rodriguez believes can actually be better than last year’s.

“I like this lineup, 1-9, better than last year’s,” Rodriguez told reporters. “Ryan McCarvel’s got power. He can make this ballpark look small. He’s working on his approach, but if he can harness everything in, he can give us more power than Grayson.

“Grayson gave us a solid professional approach, day in, day out … it’s tough to match that. But Danny (Martin), some outfielders that have great power, great approach … we are going to be better than last year. Last year we were thin at spots … I think we are going to be better.”

The bulk of the Spikes’ returnees come from the pitching staff, headlined by two of the team’s frontline starting pitchers.

Dailyn Martinez and Carson Cross will look to anchor the rotation in 2016 after successful 2015 campaigns.

Martinez posted a 3.30 ERA in 79 innings last year, while Cross, a later 2015 addition, bested that with a 2.70 ERA across 43.1 innings.

A common thread across all of the Spikes’ pitching is control. State College allowed the fewest walks of any team in the New York Penn League in 2015, and Marrero will look to instill that philosophy into some raw talent.

The staff will carry five international free agents, a minor league free agent and a non-draftee free agent among the usual selection of draft picks. Ronnie Williams, a secondround pick in 2014, carries the most notable pedigree among the staff.

Ranked as the Cardinals’ No. 20 overall prospect, Williams has a plus fastball to go along with a developing curveball and capable changeup. Employing three developed pitches already puts him ahead of the curve. As he grows into his frame — Williams was drafted straight out of high school and has a slight build — his fastball figures to gain velocity allowing his other pitches to play.

Rodriguez waxed poetic during the team’s media day as he commented on returning to State College for a second season.

“I’ve been in some nice places,” Rodriguez said. “There is something about this place. This is such a good baseball atmosphere. The fans, clubhouse, management from (Spikes’ general manager) Scott Walker on down. I love it.

“For me, it’s not me making any adjustment. I walked into it last year and it was a great baseball feel.”

Spikes, from page 19 Rodriguez believes that power can be replenished through catcher Ryan McCarvel and the other promising youngsters. Danny Hudzina, a 2016 10th round choice, is more than capable of providing a spark to Spikes’ lineup.

Hudzina was a first-team All-Conference USA selection in his final season at Western Kentucky University.

The former Hilltopper led the way batting .408 and 89 hits, 18 of which were doubles, and held a 29-game hit streak.

Rodriguez expects to see improvement from his team after scouting the new players.

“We are going to be a better lineup one to nine. I thought we were thin at certain spots last year,” said Rodriguez.

Fellow draft pick and Butler resident Mick Fennel is ready to contribute to the Spikes’ hitting. In 2016, Fennel continued where he left off his junior season and batted .392 with eight home runs as a lead off hitter.

“I’m going to bring my type of game. I’m going to come out here everyday and do the best that I can. I’ll compete and hustle hard and do what I can to help this team,” said the California University of Pennsylvania graduate.

The Spikes are extremely motivated going into the 2016 season and have a lot of talent to work with. Their goal is to not only make the playoffs, but to set the franchise wins record at 46 by playing inspired baseball.

“Enjoy the moment (because) the game is hard enough.

If you do that, you’ll have a chance to react to things. You can’t be grinding yourself down because then you’ll fail too much in this game,” said Rodriguez.

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Ice water in their veins

Bellefonte baseball team finishes amazing run with PIAA state championship

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Just because the Bellefonte Red Raiders’ baseball game against Susquehanna Township on June 17 at Medlar Park was for the Pennsylvania Class AAA State Baseball Championship doesn’t mean the Raiders looked or played any differently.

They didn’t. In fact, the game was not unlike any of the others in Bellefonte’s incredible run through the District 6 and the state playoffs. Biggest game of the year or not, the Raiders simply stuck with what they knew best.

Dom Masullo pitched a complete-game, five-hit shutout; the Raider defense was a stone wall again — despite two errors — and third baseman Tyler Kreger knocked in the winning run with an RBI single in the third inning against Susquehanna starter Dan Warshawsky. Kreger’s RBI was the only one in the game and, for that matter, the only earned run.

The pitching-defense-timely hitting equation held together one final time, only this 2-0 win brought home Bellefonte baseball’s first ever state championship and the first ever in a boys’ sport at Bellefonte High School.

“To run the table here at the end in high school baseball is really tough to do in the state of Pennsylvania,” Bellefonte head coach Dan Fravel said. “There are a lot of teams. You have to travel all over. You have to win seven games, so to do that is awesome.

“I always knew there was a formula for success — pitching and defense. You cannot waver on those two things. The boys bought in, and where Dom (Masullo) finished the year compared to the beginning of the year is a 180, 360, 720. He was a completely different ball player trusting his defense. I would love to pitch with the defense that’s in

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BELLEFONTE PITCHER Dom Masullo (19) and first baseman Logan Mathieu (34) celebrate the game’s final out on June 17. The Red Raiders won the PIAA state title with a 2-0 victory over Susquehanna Township. place here. “… Put a stamp on the concept that pitching and defense wins. It doesn’t have to be a slugfest. It’s never a slugfest at the end of the year. Stick to those core values, and that’s what it takes to win.”

This two-run victory over the Indians matched the Raiders’ biggest winning margin since the 10-run romp over Greater Johnstown in the first round of the D6 tournament.

Bellefonte beat Somerset and Hollidaysburg by two runs as it advanced to the state tournament, but all the other wins were by a single run.

Like all close wins, moreover, this one had its share of trepidation for the winners as well.

The Raiders’ first run crossed in the blink of an eye in the third inning. With Warshawsky yet to give up a hit, Bellefonte’s Greg Watson worked a walk with two outs. Watson promptly stole second and then scored when Kreger lined a single into left-center

field. It was Bellefonte’s first hit of the game and one of only four all day, but it still put up the only run Masullo would need.

“He (Warshawsky) threw me a strike to begin with,” Kreger said, “and then he threw one outside.

So I was looking for my pitch. I knew he would come back inside because that’s how he pitched me my first at bat, and I was looking for one to drive. I got it above the shortstop’s head and knew Watson was going to score, so I was pretty pumped.”

Bellefonte extended its lead to 2-0 with an unearned run in the fifth. Garrett Reiter opened the inning with a single and then moved to second on a balk by Susquehanna reliever Austin Dressler. Dylan Deitrich then attempted a sacrifice bunt, but Susquehanna threw the ball past first base and allowed Reiter to come around and score the Raiders’ second run.

Bellefonte would not score again, so the lead was in the hands of Masullo and the Raider

defense.

And the Indians far from being done.

Susquehanna had its share of come-back wins too, and it threatened to do so again by loading the bases with one out in both the fifth and sixth innings.

In the fifth, pinch hitter Jeremy Gismondi reached on an infield single with one out. Masullo then hit Jordan Caruso with a pitch and walked Joel Watts to load the bases. Masullo was up to the challenge, however, and he forced both Eli Weikert and Jacoby Pate to fly out and end the threat.

The Indians were at it again in the sixth. This time, consecutive hits by Dressler and Jake Pae, along with an infield error, loaded the bases once more with one out.

At this point, the Raiders called time out and Fravel came to the mound.

“It was just this simple,” Fravel said about his trip to the mound, “and I knew the answer.

‘You alright, Dom?’ “‘Yeah.’

“So then we just set our defense. Roll up in the middle looking for a double play, corners whatever way the ball takes them. Calm it down a little bit, remind them that it’s just one catch and one throw that we need at that point.”

Turned out, the Raiders didn’t need any catches or throws. Masullo struck out Warshawsky and Caruso to end the inning and put his team three outs away from the title.

“I wasn’t really too worried, honestly,” Masullo said. “I’ve gotten into jams all through my baseball career, and once they had the bases loaded, I just pitched the way I know I can pitch. Get the guys behind me to do their work and get the outs.

“I knew I could not do this alone. I had the best defense in the state behind me and the best catcher in front of me. Let them hit the ball and make the outs.”

In the seventh, as the large and enthusiastic Bellefonte crowd grew more animated, Masullo retired the first two hitters.

A sliver of hope opened for Susquehanna when Pate singled and Chris Ciotti reached on Bellefonte’s second error of the game.

A team isn’t going to live waiting for Raider errors, however, and the subsequent grounder by Dressler was smothered by Reiter at second base. The game ended when Reiter threw him out at first base, and the celebration — on the field and in the stands — began in earnest.

“I mean the goal all year has been to win the last game of the year,” Masullo said, “and that’s what we just did. When we were 1-7, alright we’ll win the last regular-season game. Then we got into the playoffs, and everybody started to get hot at the same time. And here we are at the last game of the year with the state championship.”

Dom-inating effort delivers for Red Raiders

By CHRIS MORELLI editor@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — Even though he had shed his Bellefonte jersey, senior pitcher Dom Masullo was easy to spot following the Red Raiders’ 2-0 victory in the PIAA Class AAA state title game on June 17.

As the postgame celebration moved from the infield to the outfield and everywhere in between at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Masullo kept drawing the biggest crowd.

Coaches hugged him. Players hugged him. Parents hugged him.

And why not? Masullo delivered a Herculean effort on a day when the Red Raiders needed it most.

He fired a complete-game 2-0 shutout at Susquehanna Township as the Red Raiders claimed their first baseball title in school history.

Masullo, however, didn’t see it as a oneman effort. After the game, he kept talking about the importance of team.

“This is the best group of kids,” Masullo said of his teammates. “Every single one of us works day in and day out. All we wanted at the beginning of the year was this.”

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“We got off to a rocky start, but that’s OK because we showed up whenever we needed to and we won the biggest game that we could,” Masullo said.

Although he had to work out of a couple of jams in the District 6 Class AAA title game, Masullo dominated. He struck out five, walked just one and scattered five hits in the complete-game effort.

He finished the championship season

with an 8-3 record and a sparking 2.15 ERA. Masullo said that the jams never frazzled him.

“I’m pretty composed as a pitcher when it comes to stuff like that. The bases were loaded with one out. I just thought ‘I’ve gotta pitch as well as I can and get out of the jam,’” Masullo said.

Masullo was the team’s workhorse in the postseason, pitching in six of the squad’s seven district and PIAA playoff games. In those appearances, he went 5-0 with a save.

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Dom-inating, from page 21 He stood in the outfied, sweat dripping down his face and tried to take it all in.

“It’s insane. We started … I think we were 0-5 and then we got to 1-7. We got on a nice run eventually … we got hot when we needed to be hot. And that’s how we got here,” he said matter-of-factly.

How did the Red Raiders stay in the postseason, let alone make such an improbable run? Masullo said it was easy to figure out, actually.

“The pitching and the defense has been stellar and that’s an understatement to be honest with you. Everyone has been so solid defensively. Our bats came alive eventually, but pitching and defense is how you win games in baseball. That’s what we did,” Masullo said.

Masullo did a nice job mixing his pitches in the biggest game of the year. He said that his two-seam fastball was working well as was his slider. He threw in the 80s for much of the afternoon and the Medlar Field guns had him topping out in the low 90s.

In the end, Masullo was dominant. But even with the gold medal hanging around his neck, he said it still didn’t feel real.

“I can’t even fathom what’s happened, but it’s awesome,” he said.

Now, Masullo will set his sights on Morehead State.

He’s headed there in the fall.

“I can’t believe this is over,” he said. “I’m like ‘when’s practice?’ We’ve been practicing since February. To end that cycle on a high note like this is just incredible.”

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PHILIPSBURG — Mike Mann has been coached by some of the most legendary people in Philipsburg-Osceola athletics. He played football under Jack Bailey and Don Folmar and he wrestled under Dave Caslow.

Now, the 1987 P-O graduate is hoping to use the knowledge he learned from those men to bring back pride to the P-O gridiron, and make the struggling football program successful again. Mann was hired as head varsity coach of the Mounties during a school board meeting June 14.

“It was kind of a shock. I was going to be an assistant under (Mike) Soyster this year, but after he resigned, I decided to put my name in, “ Mann said about his hiring.

“There were other good candidates for the position, so I feel a little lucky I got it. I’m looking forward to taking over the program and moving it into the future.”

Soyster, a Bellefonte High School graduate, was the head coach of the Mounties for the past two seasons and failed to produce a win in 20 games. He resigned on May 20 after failing to assemble a full roster of coaches.

“I learned just about everything I know about football from coach Bailey and coach Folmar,” said Mann. “They knew how to make their athletes respond, and they did it in a way that left an impression. When I was interviewed for the position, I was asked about my coaching philosophy, and I talked about coach Bailey and coach Folmar, and of course coach Caslow, as well. The kind of sportsmanship and integrity they instilled in me is what I want to give our young athletes and make P-O fans proud again.”

Mann has some football coaching experience. He coached the ninth-grade West Branch team for several years, and most recently, coached in the youth program at P-O. He has also assisted with the Moshannon Valley wrestling program and coached Little League baseball for the past four years. “(He) brings passion and enthusiasm to the position,” said P-O Superintendent Gregg Paladina. “The students and athletes respond well to him. He’s coached at different levels in the past, and his dedication to P-O and the students is strong.”

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Miss the U.S. Open? There’s another one around the corner JOHN DIXON

The closest any Centre County golfing enthusiast can get to witnessing one of the grand slams of golf is to travel to the greater Pittsburgh area. No venue within central Pennsylvania has the ability to stage a PGA golf tournament.

So, if you missed the 2016 U. S. Open Championship held recently at the fabled Oakmont Country Club in suburban John Dixon covers Pittsburgh, you will get golf for The Centre another chance as the County Gazette.

United States Golf AsEmail him at sociation announced sports@centre countygazette.com. that the 2025 U.S. Open Championships will return to Oakmont.

“Bringing the U.S. Open Championship to Oakmont for the 10th time, in 2025, is testament to the quality of this fine golf course and the longevity of the strong relationship the USGA has with the club,” said Diana Murphy, president of the USGA. “It is an honor to make this announcement during the 116th U.S. Open, when everyone here can celebrate the open’s return to this iconic course in nine years.”

The 2025 tourney will mark the 10th U.S. Open and the 17th USGA championship on the iconic H.C. Fownes design — the most of any U.S. Club.

“We are thrilled to host the 2025 U.S. Open,” said Ed Stack, president of Oakmont Country Club. “Oakmont and the USGA have had a very special relationship for nearly a century, and we are honored they have chosen Oakmont to host a record 10th U.S. Open in 2025.”

Oakmont’s illustrious past is filled with historic moments, including Jack Nicklaus’ first career victory as a professional in the 1962 U.S. Open, when he defeated Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole playoff. Eleven years later, Johnny Miller scored the lowest round ever posted in any major championship at that time with an 8-under-par 63 in the final round, earning his only U.S. Open victory.

Oakmont’s 17 USGA championships are tied for second-most among U.S. clubs, behind only Merion Golf Club, which has hosted 18.

Henry Clay Fownes remained president of the Oakmont club from its inception in 1903 until his death in 1935. His son, William Clay Fownes, was the 1910 U.S. amateur champion and a former USGA president who served as the club’s president until his resignation in 1946. Father and son, who were very close and shared a determination to make Oakmont the sternest championship test possible, tweaked the course throughout their tenure to maintain its exacting standards.

The birth of Oakmont is a story of chance. Fownes began seeing alarming spots in his vision after using a welding torch in 1898, and a doctor gave him a prognosis of just a few years to live. He wanted to enjoy his final years and developed a passion for golf. Later, a second opinion from another doctor lifted the death sentence. After becoming one of the best golfers in the area, Fownes wanted to

build a course that would challenge even the most talented players of the day.

“We are truly honored to return to historic Oakmont,” said Mike Davis, USGA executive director/CEO. “The architectural genius of the courses offers a complete test of golf for the world’s best players and a fascinating spectacle for the fans.”

WHITE DEER JUNIOR GOLFERS LEAD AT NCPGA EVENT

The opening event for the 2016 NCPGA Junior Tour was a fun-filled event for all of the golfers, who enjoyed both instruction and competition at the White Deer Golf Complex in Montgomery.

Head golf professional Ray Knight and his staff helped open the season by providing a complimentary 90-minute instructional clinic to all interested junior golfers prior to the first competition of the season.

Local knowledge paid off, as the White Deer duo of William Knauth and Vincent Bender both finished under par.

Knauth claimed medalist honors on the day leading the Division I Advanced group with a 4-under-par 67. Playing in the same pairing, Bender carded the only other under-par score, finishing three shots back with a 70.

Finishing with a pair of 79s were Tanner Adriance, of River Valley Golf Club, and Jack Mangene, of Mountain View Country Club.

The closest contested group, which saw 15 different golfers, was the Division I Intermediate group. Morgan Sohosky, of Tee-To-Green Golf Center, came in first place with an impressive 6-over-par 77.

Brandyn Tuttle, of Tyoga Country Club, took second, finishing seven strokes off of the pace with an 84. Benjamin Barnett was just a stroke behind him with 85, and rounding out the top five were Nate Ewing and Nathaniel Mathias, each carding 92.

Local results in Division I Intermediate had Devin Heverly, of Clinton Country Club, posting a round of 49-50 99, followed

by Maeve McFeely, of Mountain View, with a 48-51 99, and John Duda, also of Clinton, carding a 54-52 106.

In Division II Advanced, it was Cooper Kitchen, of Corey Creek Golf Club, bettering Ben Sohosky, of Tee to Green Golf, by one stroke as they carded rounds of 44 and 45, respectively.

William Groundlund, of Bucknell Golf Club, had a 48 to lead the way for Division II Intermediate by eight strokes. Finishing in a tie for second in the division were Bucknell’s Max Wirnsberger and Christian Kisner, of Sunny Hills Golf Club, both with 56s.

Locally, Griffin Walizer, of Belles Springs Golf Course, posted a 57, and Nathan Laubscher, of Clinton Country Club, carded a 74.

Division III Beginner played five holes of the executive course. It saw a five-hole total of 27 from Shade Mountain’s Bren Crossgrove. Finishing second was Bucknell’s Chase Wirnsberger, with a 30, and Reese Walizer, of Belles Springs, coming in third with a 31 on five holes. Walizer also won the putting competition at the kickoff event.

cently hosted its 2016 member-guest tournament.

First-place gross went to Bob Stonebraker and Jerry Tressler with 139. Secondplace gross was taken by Steve Kirby and Mike Gates with 140.

First-place net winner were Jim Hunter and Dave Hummel, carding a 126, followed in second by Dan Leitzell and Albert Leitzell with 127. Two ties rounded up the event, with third going to Todd Horner and Doug Wagner and Kurt Kyle and Josh Muir with 128s, and fifth taken by Jim Bierly and Cody Smith and Scott Braniff and Bob Lucas with 129s.

TOFTREES TO HOLD LOCAL GOLF EVENTS

The Toftrees Golf Resort will be the site of two local fundraising events on the par72 golf course.

On Thursday, June 23, the resort will host the Rex Energy Charity Golf Tournament, while on Friday, June 24, the St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy Four Pillars Golf Tournament will take place.

For more information on either event, contact Toftrees Country Club’s Charles Sheppard, director of golf, at (814) 2387600.

MOUNTAIN VIEW ANNOUNCES WOMEN GOLF LEAGUE RESULTS

The Mountain View Country Club’s Women Golf League held its weekly event, the fewest putts on the front nine game played during even holes on the front nine.

The winner of the event was Shai McGowan, posting a net 9, followed by Brenda Wagner at net 10 and Judy Bechman and Kathy Knechtel tying for third with a score of net 11.

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COMING UP ACES AGAIN AT PHILIPSBURG ELKS COUNTY CLUB

After having six holes-in-one reported last week, the aces keep on coming with two reported at the Philipsburg Elks Country Club.

Using a 5-hybrid, Fred Lucas aced the 130-yard fourth hole for his first career ace. Lucas was playing with Gerry McCully, Sandi Myers and Paul Neidrick in the Scotch foursome event.

Craig Wood also aced the fourth hole with a pitching wedge for his first career ace. Wood’s witnesses to the hole-in-one were Terry Smith, Andrew Mann and Dave Belko during the club’s U.S. Open event.

PHILIPSBURG SHOWCASES U.S. OPEN WITH LOCAL EVENT

The Philipsburg Elks Country Club, in conjunction with the U.S. Open, held a tournament June 19 that matched a U.S. Open participant with a member of the Elks club.

Paul Neidrick paired with Jason Day to post a winning round of 129 in the net division. Todd Reifer and Dustin Johnson carded a 133 for second. A three-way tied existed for third place with a round of 135

by Max Miller and Jason Day, Chris Sherkel and Sergio Garcia and Tom Dunsmore and Jason Day. The gross division winners, carding a round of 143, were Adam Timchak and Zach Johnson. Nate Lucas paired with Jason Day, while Doug Goss had Branden Grace as his partner, creating a tie for second with a 145.

Matt Johnson and Tim Ronan also paired with Jason Day to post a 146 and 147, respectively, for fourth and fifth places.

The U.S. Open event was a make up for the Masters event that was snowed out in April.

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Mann, from page 22 Mann said his immediate plans as head of the program is to recruit more players.

Last season, the Mounties’ active roster hovered between 24 and 26 from week-toweek.

“We need more kids playing,” said Mann. “I think that’s been the major issue with the program these past few seasons.

We need to get our numbers up, then work from there.”

Mann said for the past year, he has been promoting the P-O football program and has been talking with younger kids that may not have played football before. Most recently, he has been visiting the weight room at the P-O high school to talk to athletes about participating in football this season.

“I think it’s working,” said Mann. “Ideally, we’ll have more than 40 kids on the

team this year. If we can get to around that number, we’re going to start seeing things change within the program.”

Mann said he already has a knowledgeable coaching staff in place, which include Mike Saggesse, who was an assistant under Soyster last year.

“I’m glad Saggesse is with us this year,” said Mann. “He knows the offense we’re going to run.”

Other assistant coaches include Jeff Johnson and Scott Davis.

“We’re all excited for the season,” said Mann. “We’re going to continue to recruit kids all summer, and hopefully, when the first practice rolls around, we’ll have a nice stable of kids to work with.”

Mann played tight end and defensive end for the Mounties in the mid-1980s.

He currently teaches seventh-grade social studies at the P-O Middle School.

Pataky takes over as P-O wrestling head coach

By G. KERRY WEBSTER kwebster@centrecountygazette.com

PHILIPSBURG — The PhilipsburgOsceola Area School board of directors went with success and experience on June 14 when it hired 2005 Clearfield graduate Brad Pataky as the new varsity wrestling coach.

Pataky was a PIAA state champion for the Bisons in 2004, and was a two-time runner-up in 2001 and 2005. He continued his success on the mat with the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning fourth place finishes in the Big Ten Tournament twice in four years, and qualifying for the NCAA Wrestling Tournament three times.

After his graduation from Penn State University, he spent two years as an assistant coach on the Lock Haven University wrestling staff, followed by two years coaching at Army West Point. He moved back to Pennsylvania to focus on training to make the Olympic team with the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club after his stint at West Point.

“I’m excited to be able to get back into coaching,” Pataky said. “I loved the sport since I was a little kid, and I’ve been fortunate enough to wrestle some great people and be coached by some great coaches.

I’m glad to be able to pass on some of my knowledge and experience to a program with a tradition that P-O has.”

Pataky said he applied once learning the position was being vacated by Tim McCamley, who put together a 75-71 record

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McCamley retired at the conclusion last school year as a coach and a teacher.

“I realize I have some big shoes to fill,” said Pataky. “Dave (Caslow) and Tim have made P-O a very, very strong wrestling program, and I want to be able to continue to build on the success they have already established.” “(He) will add to the wonderful wrestling tradition at P-O,” said Gregg Paladina, P-O’s superintendent. “He was supported by our booster club, boar and administration. Brad’s experience as a collegiate coach, Penn State wrestler, Olympic trial wrestler and a teacher will benefit our program greatly. We see this as a continuation of a great tradition at P-O.” The next step is getting a coaching staff in place and meeting with the kids, Pataky said.

“There are some new obstacles in high school coaching that I didn’t experience at the collegiate level,” he said. “I am thankful for the opportunities I have had in the past and grateful for this new experience. I would really like to thank LHU, Army West Point, PSU and the NLWC for providing me with the opportunities to reach my goals.”

Pataky said he’s looking forward to blending the coaching styles of his mentors, such as Caslow, McCamley, PSU coaches Cael Sanderson and Troy Sunderland, with his own techniques.

“P-O was a powerhouse in wrestling in the past, and I want to restore that tradition to such a great program,” said Pataky.

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‘The Prints of Jules Heller’ featured at Palmer UNIVERSITY PARK — “The Prints of Jules Heller,” a retrospective exhibition on view at the Palmer Museum of Art through Monday, Aug. 14, was organized to mark the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts’ 50th year and celebrates six decades of Heller’s printmaking efforts.

In 1963, Penn State President Eric Walker enlisted Jules Heller, then the director of the university’s School of Fine and Applied Arts, to serve as the founding dean of the College of Arts and Architecture. One of Heller’s crowning achievements during his tenure as head of the college was the role he played in 1967 as general chairman of the planning committee for the first Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

“This year we only scratched the surface,” he announced at the close of first year’s festivities. “In years to come, when people want to know what is going on in all the arts, they will come to Central Pennsylvania to find out.”

The event now attracts more than 125,000 visitors per year.

Prior to coming to Penn State, Heller taught for 15 years at the University of Southern California, where he developed an international reputation for printmaking.

His text, “Printmaking Today,” issued in 1958, was the first studio-oriented book on the graphic arts ever published, and the Jules Heller Print Study Room in the Art Museum at Arizona State University, where he served as dean of the College of Fine Arts from 1976 through 1985, is named in his honor.

Patrick McGrady, Charles V. Hallman, curator, and Nancy Heller, professor of art history, University of the Arts, will lead a Gallery Talk titled “The Prints of Jules Heller,” on Friday, June 24, at 12:10 p.m. in the exhibition gallery located on the museum’s first floor.

Michele Randall, artist and printmaking instructor, will instruct a workshop for adults, “Gelli Plate Monotypes,” on Saturday, June 25, noon to 3:00 p.m.

Participants will create their own painterly monotype using a Gelli printing plate, a reference photo and ink or paint.

Those attending should meet in the lobby and wear appropriate clothing for working with materials.

Sue Uhlig, art educator and graduate student in art education, will instruct a workshop for children and youth, “Celebrate the Arts through Printmaking,” from 10:15 a.m.

to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 9. Participants will view “The Prints of Jules Heller,” exhibition and discuss Heller’s prints, in addition to his role as one of the founding members of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. They then will design their own series of prints to commemorate the 50th Festival of the Arts using a variety of printmaking techniques, such as screenprinting and gel printing.

The workshop is for children ages 8 to 12.

Natalia Pilato, artist and graduate student, art education, will instruct another workshop for children and youth, “Arts Festival Mini-Banners,” from 10:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 16.

Children in attendence will make a family banner using printmaking and fabric transfer techniques. All ages are encouraged to participate and each family will take home a banner like those seen displayed over the Arts Festival route each year.

A parent or adult learning partner is encouraged to accompany young attendees to children’s workshops. Participants should meet in the lobby and wear appropriate clothing for working with materials.

Workshops are free, but participants must register by contacting the curator of education at (814) 863-9188 or dck10@psu.edu. Space is limited.

Children’s and family programs are partially funded by the James E. Hess and Suzanne Scurfield Hess Endowment for Art Education in the Palmer Museum of Art and the Ruth Anne and Ralph Papa Endowment. All other programs are sponsored by the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art. Also on view at the Palmer Museum of Art this summer are “American Art in the Shadow of World War I,” through Sunday, Aug. 7, and “Still Moving: Photographs by Steve McCurry,” through Sunday, Sept. 18.

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is located on Curtin Road and admission is free. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. The museum is closed Mondays and some holidays.

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

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THE PALMER MUSEUM of Art will offer a number of workshops based on the works of Penn State professor and graphic artist Jules Heller.

Keystone Society of Swing to play free concert STATE COLLEGE — South Hills School of Business and Technology will host a free concert at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 26, featuring the Keystone Society of Swing.

The group will recreate the sound of the big bands of the past, when swing was king.

South Hills’ free outdoor concerts are held rain or shine at the school’s main campus, located at 480 Waupelani Drive in State College.

Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, chairs and a picnic supper. Refreshments and light picnic fare will be available for purchase.

Grounds open at 5 p.m. and music starts at 6 p.m., lasting until 7:30 p.m.

Plenty of free parking and restrooms are available.

For more information, call (814) 234-7755 or (814) 2781990.

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THE TENDERLOINS, known better as truTV’s “Impractical Jokers,” will be appearing at the Bryce Jordan Center on Oct. 9

Tenderloins to appear UNIVERSITY PARK — truTV’s hit series “Impractical Jokers,” now in its fifth season, follows the Tenderloins as they coerce one another into doing public pranks while being filmed by hidden cameras.

With each new season, the show continues to take dares to outrageous levels with new over-the-top hijinks.

The troupe has toured steadily nationwide over the last two years playing to thousands of fans. The new tour, “Santiago Sent Us,” will be will be appearing live at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9 at the Bryce Jordan Center. Tickets are $29.75 and $49.75 and go on sale at noon Friday, June 24. They can be purchased at the Bryce Jordan Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State

Downtown Theatre, Ticketmaster.com or by calling (800) 745-3000.

Natives of Staten Island, N.Y., Sal Vulcano, Joe Gatto, James Murray and Brian Quinn met while attending high school and later formed the Tenderloins Comedy Troupe in 1999.

After years of performing live improv and sketch comedy shows, the Tenderloins crossed over to the web, garnering millions of views for their Internet sketches and eventually creating “Impractical Jokers” for truTV. “Impractical Jokers” is Top 5 in its time slot on cable in the U.S. and is the No. 1 show on Comedy Central in the United Kingdom and India.

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“Long Island Medium” follows Caputo’s life as a Long Island wife and mom with one very big difference — she can communicate with the dead.

Caputo will share personal stories about her life and explain how her gift works. She will deliver healing messages to audience members and give people comfort knowing that their loved ones who passed are still with them, just in a different way.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 24, and can be purchased at the Bryce Jordan Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Downtown Theater, Ticketmaster. com or (800) 745-3000. Ticket prices start at $41.75. Purchasing a ticket does not guarantee a reading.

“The Experience,” as the live show is called, brings Caputo face-to-face with her fans, as she lets spirit guide her through the audience. A video display ensures everyone in the venue has an up-close-handson experience regardless of seat location.

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Caputo has been a practicing medium for more than 15 years, helping individuals find closure by delivering healing messages from their departed loved ones.

Beatles tribute band to perform UNIVERSITY PARK — The cast of “Beatlemania” will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, on the Old Main lawn at Penn State.

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The performance is free and for all ages.

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

ONGOING

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

Visit the website at www.centrecountylibrary.org for days and times.

Open house — Rhoneymeade Sculpture Garden and Arboretum will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Sunday through October at 177 Rimmey Road, Centre Hall.

Visit www.rhoneymeade.org.

Meeting — Calvary Church hosts a Christian Recovery meeting every Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 1250 University Drive, State College. Visit www.liferecoverystatecollege.com.

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 the second Monday of every month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Mazza Room at the South Hills Business School, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Call (814) 2348775 or contact cr20mic@aol.com.

Performance — The Nittany Knights perform at 7:15 every Monday night at South Hills School of Business and Technology, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Visit www.nittanyknights.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.

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

Meeting — The Centre County Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission holds a meeting the second Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. in the State College Municipal Building, 243 S. Allen St., State College. Meetings can also be broadcast to laptops and iOS or Android devices, or participants can join by phone. Call (814) 689-9081.

Club — Bellefonte Community Children’s Garden Club will be having “Ask a Gardener” from 6 to 8 p.m. every Wednesday through September behind the Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Visit www.bellefontegardenclub.org.

Meeting — The Nittany Baptist Chucrch will be conducting a series on “Spiritual Building” at 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday at Mount Nittany Residences, 201 Rolling Ridge Drive, State College. Visit www.nittanybaptist.org.

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.

Support group — The Home Nursing Agency hosts a free grief support group from 2 to 3:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of every month at its Centre County office, 450 Windmere Drive, Suite 100, State College. Call (800) 445-6262.

Club — The Nittany Valley Writers Network meets from 7 to 8 a.m. every third Wednesday of the month at the Waffle Shop, 1610 W. College Ave., State College. Email nvwn@ yahoogroups.com.

Community meal — A free hot meal is from 5 to 7 p.m. every Thursday at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Community Cafe.

Meeting — The State College Alliance Church hosts a Christian Recovery meeting every Friday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 1221 W. White Road, State College. Visit www.liferecoverystatecollege.com.

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Children’s activity — A preschool story time will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Mondays throughout June at the Centre Hall Area Branch Library, 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall. Visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Children’s activity — A variety of story time groups will be held throughout June at the Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Toddler story time will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Mondays.

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Family story time will be held from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays.

Book Babies will be held from 9:30 to 10 a.m. Wednesdays.

And, a preschool story time will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays. Visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Children’s activity — A variety of story time groups will be held throughout June at Holt Memorial Library, 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. “Mother Goose on the Loose,” a baby story time group, will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Tuesdays. Preschool story time will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays. Visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Exhibit — “White Ironstone China, c. 1840 – 1914” will be on display will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day in June at Apple Hill Antiques, 169 Gerald St., State College.

Concert — The Nittany Theatre presents “12 Angry Men” through Saturday, June 25, at Nittany Theatre at the Barn, Boal Estate Drive, Boalsburg. Call (814) 321-2799 or visit www.nittanytheatre.org.

Club — The Schlow Library will have a comics club for teens at 3:30 p.m. every Thursday through June 30 at the Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Call (814) 237-6236 or visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

THURSDAY, JUNE 23

Event — “Genealogy Using World War I Records,” a talk by Richard Wade, vice president of the Centre County Genealogical Society, will be presented from 11 a.m. to noon at Centre County Library Historical Museum, 203 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www. centrecountylibrary.org.

Performance — Captain Aesop’s All-Star Galaxy Games Puppet Show will be presented at 2:30 p.m. at the Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Call (814) 237-6236 or visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

Club — The Embroider Club will be meeting from 5:30 to 7: 30 p.m. at the Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Call (814) 237-6236 or visit www. schlowlibrary.org.

Event — “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will be shown as part of Movies on the Mountain at 8 p.m. at Tussey Mountain Amphitheater, 301 Bear Meadows Road, Boalsburg. Call (814) 466-6266 or visit www.tusseymountain. com.

FRIDAY, JUNE 24

Class — The Centre Hall Area Branch Library will be hosting “Technology @ the Library,” from 11 a.m. to noon at the Centre Hall Area Branch Library, 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall. Visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Discussion — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will be hosting a book discussion group on “A Man Called Ove” at 1 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte.

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

Fundraiser — Mount Nittany Night will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Mountain View Country Club, 100 Elks Club Road, Boalsburg. Visit www.mtnittany.org.

Concert — The Acoustic Artifacts will perform from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Lemont Village Green, 133 Mount Nittany Road, Lemont. Visit www.lemontvillage.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25

Event — “Cycling for Care” will be held at 7 a.m. at Fairbrook United Methodist Church, 4201 W. Whitehall Road, Pennsylvania Furnace. Call (814) 231-4043 or visit www. cvim.net.

Fundraiser — The Ryan-Seitz family will be holding a spaghetti dinner fundraiser to help offset medical and household expenses from 5 to 8 p.m. at New Hope Lutheran Church, Springs Mills. For tickets, email teamadam2016@gmail.com.

Concert — Music at Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra will be performing Schubert, Mouquet and Lutoslawski at 7:30 p.m. at Esber Recital Hall in Music Building 1, North Allen Street, University Park. Call (814) 863-1118 or visit www.mpw.psu.edu.

SUNDAY, JUNE 26

Class — There will be a reiki origins energy work share at 4 p.m. at the Philipsburg Massage Clinic and Studios, 123 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Call (814) 343-6299 or visit www.philipsburgmassage.com.

Concert — “JT” Thompson will be performing at 7 p.m. at Talleyrand Park, 300-398 W. High St., Bellefonte. Visit www.bellefontearts.org.

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Call (814) 466-6266 for more information. seum will be hosting “Technology @ the Library” from 1 to 2 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Club — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will be hosting a garden club from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Holt Memorial Library, 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28

Class — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will be hosting “Technology @ the Library” from 11 a.m. to noon at the Holt Memorial Library, 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Event — There will be a ukulele jam/sing-along at 5:30 p.m. at the Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Call (814) 826-4232 or visit www.alleghenyukes.com.

Event — The State College Spikes vs. Brooklyn will be hosting a $2 Walking Taco Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Visit www.statecollegespikes.com.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29

Children’s activity — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will be hosting a block party from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Holt Memorial Library, 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.

Event — The State Theatre will be showing “The Lego Movie” at noon at the State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Call (814) 272-0606 or visit www.thestatetheatre.org.

Event — The State College Spikes vs. Brooklyn will be hosting a State College Borough Water Authority Water Conservation Awareness Night at 7:05 p.m. at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Visit www.statecollegespikes.com.

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Public support for corporate-sponsored parks increasing

By JENNIFER MILLER Special to the Gazette

UNIVERSITY PARK — The public has given a cautious yellow light to park sponsorships, according to a recently published Penn State study.

This study compared public opinions 14 years apart and found people are now more supportive of corporate sponsorship of public park and recreation services.

In 2012, 56 percent of study participants were classified as feeling “positive” about the impact of sponsorship on their recreation experience, compared to 38 percent in 1998.

“Sponsorship is often viewed as a dirty word when it comes to public parks, but our data indicate people have become more accustomed to this practice over the years,” said Andrew Mowen, associate professor of recreation, park, and tourism management at Penn State and lead study investigator.

However, the public’s increased support of sponsorship comes with caveats.

Participants felt the type of company factored into whether or not they would support park sponsorships. Participants were more likely to support a recreation or health-related company sponsoring a park than an energy corporation.

Further, naming rights and visible sponsor recognition at natural areas and historic sites remain contentious. The study found that negative opinions of these activities have remained generally consistent across the two time periods.

The survey results indicate that local governments proceed carefully and develop sensible guidelines to minimize the negative impact of corporate sponsorship, researchers said.

For years, researchers have analyzed the concept of corporations sponsoring public parks as local governments struggle with dwindling tax bases and increased expenses.

Often, local recreation and parks programs are the first line items to see cuts during a difficult budget season.

Since 1998, the public has been more exposed to corporate sponsorship, which could explain why the 2012 study shows there is increased support for sponsorship at local parks.

“It’s possible that our daily exposures to corporate sponsorship have simply desensitized us to them across a range of settings, including public parks,” Mowen said. “Still, the public remains leery of obtrusive sponsorship activities such as facility naming rights.”

The article outlining the findings ap-

pears in the summer 2016 edition of the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, which published June 15.

Co-investigators included Nate Trauntvein at the University of New Hampshire

New book documents the rise and impact of women in agriculture

By KRISTEN DEVLIN Special to the Gazette

UNIVERSITY PARK — Researchers from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Ohio University have co-authored a new book that examines a recent cultural shift in agriculture, marked by an unprecedented number of women who have entered into farming.

In “The Rise of Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture,” the authors explore the societal changes that have empowered women to claim the farmer identity, describe barriers that are broadly encountered by women farmers, and posit that their innovative responses to these barriers are helping to redefine agriculture.

“This book came out of 10 years of doing research and working closely with women farmers in Pennsylvania and in the Northeast,” said the book’s lead author, Carolyn Sachs, professor of rural sociology and women’s studies at Penn State. “We were so impressed with the kind of work women were doing on farms — oftentimes with minimal resources, little capital, maybe little land — but doing creative things to try to transform the agricultural system. We felt like we needed to get their stories out there.”

Through interviews and focus groups, Sachs and her co-authors collected hundreds of anecdotes, which are woven throughout the book (using pseudonyms) to lend context to the book’s themes, beginning with a discussion of barriers these women farmers have experienced. For example, several describe encountering resistance to the very idea that they are farmers, as well as more tangible difficulties accessing land, labor and financing.

Despite such challenges, the number of women entering farming has risen substantially since the turn of this century; as of 2012, 30 percent of all farm operators and 14 percent of all principal farm operators in the U.S. are women. That women farmers are creatively finding ways to work past the barriers they encounter is clear and is at the center of the authors’ feminist agrifood systems theory, or FAST, which Sachs said was developed to provide a framework for understanding the different ways that women farm, what kind of resistance they experience and how they might be changing the food system.

“What we’re arguing in this book is because of women’s particular place in agriculture — they don’t often step into mainstream agriculture, inheriting a 1,000-acre farm or a 500-cow dairy from their fathers or their families — they oftentimes have this space to be more creative,” said Sachs.

For instance, some of the women they interviewed access land by farming on public land or in cities where land is more accessible. Others approach acquiring labor and financing with similar ingenuity. All of them quite intentionally incorporate their values — particularly those related to producing healthy food, engaging in satisfying work and farming in harmony with their land and their communities — into their operations, said Sachs.

The book also documents the rise of women-centered farming organizations such as the Pennsylvania Women’s Agricultural Network, which Sachs helped to establish.

Networks like these fill a void left by traditional farmereducation models that deliver content based on the type of farm enterprise, said co-author Mary Barbercheck, professor of entomology, Penn State.

“Women have some of the same issues as any farmer

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but also have their own special sets of challenges and opportunities, which don’t always fit into neat disciplinary categories,” she said. “In PA-WAgN, what we’ve tried to do is to listen to our stakeholders, which are women farmers of all kinds, and deliver what they say they want.”

Barbercheck hopes that their book helps people to “broaden their definition of what a farmer is and who can be a farmer,” she said. “Most of the farmers we worked with are self-defined as sustainable — mostly smaller, serving local markets. Our book gives people the opportunity to hear from those farmers about what they do and how they’ve managed to be successful as they’ve defined success in their own way.”

Other co-authors include Kathryn Brasier, associate professor of rural sociology, and Nancy Ellen Kiernan, professor emerita, both of Penn State, and Anna Rachel Terman, assistant professor of sociology, of Ohio University.

The book is published by the University of Iowa Press.

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El-Chabib named outstanding reviewer UNIVERSITY PARK — The Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, recently selected Hassan El-Chabib, instructor in civil engineering at Penn State, as an ASCE 2015 outstanding reviewer.

The Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering covers the development, processing, evaluation, applications and performance of construction materials in civil engineering.

“Being named an outstanding reviewer of 2015 from a journal such as the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering is, of course, an honor,” El-Chabib said. “Acknowledging hard work is always appreciated.”

El-Chabib has been a member of HASSAN the Penn State faculty since 2013.

EL-CHABIB His research interests include concrete technology, blended cement, recycling industrial byproduct, rheological and structural behavior of special concretes, sustainability of concrete infrastructures, structural behavior of FRP-reinforced concrete members and application of artificial intelligence in modeling the behavior of cement-based materials.

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DEED TRANSFERS The following property transactions were compiled from information provided by the Centre County recorder of deeds, Joseph Davidson. The Gazette is not responsible for typographical errors. The published information is believed to be accurate; however, the Gazette neither warrants nor accepts any liability or responsibility for inaccurate information.

FERGUSON TOWNSHIP

Melissa J. Davis to Lacey R. Bryan and Marvin R. Bryan Jr., 818 Circle Road, Bellefonte, $249,900.

Anouk Patel-Campillo to Michele Gray Rosenblum and John Christopher, 1331 N. Allen St., State College, $223,000.

Lois J. Sturniolo to Lois J. Sturniolo and Jeffrey J. Sturniolo, 1312 Harris St., State College, $1.

CSC Northland LP to Bre RC Northland PA LP, 1300 N. Atherton St., State College, $14,737,556.

Benjamin Hickerson and Larissa Witmer to Shawn D. Dick and Heather A. Dick, 745 Devonshire Drive, State College, $288,000.

S&A Homes Inc. to Lu Fei Zeng and Wei Qiang Gao, 156 Red Willow Road, State College, $365,638.

Timothy S. Sleeth and Ruth E. Sleeth to Timothy P. Bryant and April L. Bryant, 2844 S. Mountain Road, Port Matilda, $466,000.

Christopher J. Zorn and Zaryab Iqbal to Christopher J. Zorn and Zaryab Iqbal, 1736 Princeton Drive, State College, $1.

Patricia Harpster to Dawn Rosenbaum, 183 W. Pine Grove Road, Pine Grove Mills, $195,000.

Bernard J. Fritz and Joyce D. Fritz to David A. Macdonald and Elizabeth W. Macdonald, 1460 Blue Course Drive No. 25, State College, $254,000.

Bonnie Schoenbeck to Bonnie Schoenbeck and Clemens S. Schoenbeck, 1400 Linn St., State College, $1.

Sean C. Williams to Elizabeth J. Lasher, 1460 Blue Course Drive, State College, $225,000.

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GREGG TOWNSHIP

RECORDED MAY 30-JUNE 3 BELLEFONTE BOROUGH

Matthew L. Jones to Edward Presnal and Marie Elaine Loughlin, 336 E. Lamb St., Bellefonte, $139,900.

Faith United Methodist Church to Christopher B. Rees and Kerry L. Rees, 1193 Centre St., Bellefonte, $219,900.

BENNER TOWNSHIP

Cynthia Coslo, Dennis F. Coslo, Lisa J. Bublinec and Gregory Alan Bublinec to Cynthia Coslo, Dennis F. Coslo, Jason B. Coslo and Suzanne M. Coslo, 124 Flower Lane, Bellefonte, $1.

Glen D. Hogard and Paula A. Hogard to Brandon Robson and Samantha Kling, 118 Exeter Lane, Bellefonte, $280,000.

BOGGS TOWNSHIP

Bank of America to Secretary of Housing & Urban Development, 325 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Centre Hall, $1.

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP

Christine Clinefelter to 1199 East College Ave State College I LP, 1199 E. College Ave, State College, $425,000.

Karen Marie Peters and Donald R. Peters Jr. to Raylene M. Demorest, 169 Spring St., State College, $195,000.

Kieran Kempton, Linsey Kempton and Linsey Smith to Kieran Kempton and Kenneth Kempton, 242 Spring St., State College, $1.

Susan G. Strauss to Winston T. Shank and Kristy L. Lambe, 121 Grandview Road, State College, $303,450.

Jason D. Heffner and Melissa J. Heffner to Nicolas J. Cuccurullo and Dorthea Crystal Cuccurullo, 2629 Penbrook Lane, State College, $193,900.

Steven K. Hamilton and Debra S. Hamilton to Steven K. Hamilton and Debra S. Hamilton, 113 Grandview Drive, State College, $1.

Michael D. Coyle to Rebecca J. Passonneau, 219 Ronan Drive, State College, $570,000.

Bank of America to Campbell & Starks LLC, 128 Cooper St., Spring Mills, $60,401.

David L. Immel to David L. Immel, Theodore L. Sunday Jr., Tyler E. Tressler, Mark C. Campbell and Tyler L. Sunday, 335 Blue Ball Road, Centre Hall, $1.

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S&A Homes Inc. to Dinakar Mylavarapu and Kranthi Rupanagunta, 53 Stable View Drive, Port Matilda, $444,877.

Julian Taylor and Jennifer S. Taylor to Charles Trust, 37 Fay Circle, Port Matilda, $238,000.

HARRIS TOWNSHIP

Janice S. Abelove-Donahue and Janice S. Abelove to Janice S. Abelove-Donahue and William J. Donahue, 186 Beacon Circle, Boalsburg, $1.

Stuart H. Frost Estate and Roger R. Zellner, executor, to Roger R. Zellner, 139 E. Hubler Road, State College, $1.

Joanne M. Perry to Jason Heffner and Melissa J. Heffner, 420 Loop Road, Boalsburg, $295,000.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

Sherry L. Chaplain and Harry N. Conway, 1158

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MILESBURG BOROUGH

Clayre Alexander Estate, Clayre N. Alexander Estate, Matthew W. Alexander and David N. Alexander to Matthew W. Alexander, 301 Catherine St., Bellefonte, $1.

MILLHEIM BOROUGH

George H. Ebeling to Michael T. McGrath and Linda M. Wilson, 176 North St., Millheim, $155,000.

PATTON TOWNSHIP

Keith A. Lysiak and Lori A. Lysiak to Michael J. Bogdash Jr. and Juli Bogdash, 328 Timberton Cirlce, Bellefonte, $560,000.

Wells Fargo Bank to Michael Rushing, 1984 Park Forest Ave., State College, $165,999.

Steven H, Weaver and Allison E. Glenny to Gerald L. Hoy and Melissa J. Hoy, 126 Harvard Road, Port Matilda, $187,500.

Ruben J. Echemendia and Janet M. Echemendia to Ferdidun Ayata and Olcay Ayata, 1929 Lauck St., State College, $182,000.

Brandon H. Robson and Samantha M. Kling to Brent G. Shaffer, 823 Galen Drive, State College, $169,900.

Charles B. Mills and Marian S. Mills to Elizabethanne E. Evans, 902 Arbor St., Philipsburg, $1.

Brian G. Beish and Brea D. Beish to Brian G. Beish, 100 N. Seventh St., Philipsburg, $1.

James L. Gonder and Sandra P. Gonder to Gregory Gonder and Leslie Gonder, 503 Berkley St., Philipsburg, $1.

Nathaniel P. Murarik and Sara M. Murarick to George T. Emel III, 300 N. 10th St., Philipsburg, $82,000.

SNOW SHOE TOWNSHIP

Cordes W. Chambers III to Matthew E. Carlson and Deneen N. Carlson, 427 Clarence Road, Snow Shoe, $52,000.

SPRING TOWNSHIP

STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH

Bryan R. Woodward, Cindy M. Woodward and Jay Woodward to RockCorp 7195S LP, 719 S. Garner St., State College, $300,000.

Judith Kroll and David A. Rosenbaum to Robert M. Hall and Jane D. Hall, 931 McKee St., State College, $415,000.

Jean M. Sanders to Susan T. Sanders and Philip Miller Spangler, 511 Clarence Ave., State College, $300,000.

Christopher L. Counts and Marie Debye Counts to Joshua G. Rosenberger and Derya Tufan, 309 Hillcrest Ave., State College, $274,000.

Michael J. Talone and Tonya L. Talone to Robert E. Fenza and Marcy G. Fenza, 520 Sunset Road, State College, $465,000.

Elena S. Slobounov and Semyon M. Slobounov to Legion Lane LLC, 184 Legion Lane, State College, $840,000.

Dan H. Wise Estate and David R. Wise, adminstratix, to William Roll, 1127 S. Allen St., State College, $185,000.

TAYLOR TOWNSHIP

Ray E. Golden Jr., James M. Golden, Cherie M. Larosa and Cherie M. Golden to Ray E. Golden Jr., Cherie M. Golden, Cherie M. Larosa, Matthew D. Golden, James M. Golden and Jeremy M. Larosa, 699 Richards Lane, Port Matilda, $1.

Jamie A. Bauman, Jamie A. McCord and Joseph R. Bauman to James R. Haney, 4011 S. Mountain Road, Tyrone, $97,500.

UNIONVILLE BOROUGH

Marvin R. Bryan Jr., Lacey R. Bryan and Lacey R. Walker to Matthew D. Christopher, 280 E. Union St., Fleming, $102,000.

UNION TOWNSHIP

U.S. Bank and Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency to Jeffrey Jenkins and Laurie West-Jenkins, 117 Cheyenne Court, Julian, $45,000.

WALKER TOWNSHIP

Timothy B. Graham and Melissa J. Graham to Matthew Floravit and Rachel Floravit, 325 Nittany Valley Drive, Bellefonte, $224,900.

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Hoy Family Revocable Trust and Earl Hoy, trustee, to Tyler R. Ruble and Emily E. Ruble, 248 S. Main St., Pleasant Gap, $153,000.

Bryan D. Quay to Bryan D. Quay and Angela L. Quay, 268 Lower Coleville Road, Bellefonte, $1.

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Ruth M. Heichel Estate and John R. Heichel Executor to Jerry L. Emerick, 120 Liberty St., Blanchard, $60,000.

Richard Eric Yanda to Joseph Ballard, 87 Main St. Extension, Blanchard, $55,000.

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Clean and comfortable top floor of housing rental unit - 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath apartment for rent on quiet street, located just one mile from Penn State University or 1.6 miles by bike on the Sunset Park bike path.

Bus stop is located just down the street.

Many shops, restaurants and grocery stores are located within walking distance.

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF DINING SERVICES Centre Crest is rec ruiting for an A ssistant D irec tor of D ining Servic es. T his position will work in unison with the direc tor to oversee dining servic e operations with a primary foc us on produc tion, menu enhanc ements, food proc urement, with a strong oversight of dining servic es team. Candidate must b e ex perienc ed in health c are food produc tion, c ulinary sk ills, menu management, proc urement programs and c ost c ontainment. Strong k nowledge of menu software programs, M ic rosoft E X CE L would be beneficial. Position requires leadership, flexibility with hours, and excellent organizational skills. Requirements include at least 1 year experience and CFPP and CDM preferred. D egrees in Culinary Servic e and F ood Servic e Hospitality and M anagement, may also b e c onsidered.

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MEDICAL RECORDS DIRECTOR Centre Crest is seek ing a M edic al R ec ords D irec tor due to an advanc ement opportunity. he qualified candidate would be responsible for overseeing the HI M department and staff. hould possess knowledge and application o the current nternational Classification o Diseases c oding appropriate to long term c are. orking knowledge o electronic in ormation systems used in long term c are. M ust possess supervisory and management ex perienc e, along with being organized. he qualified candidate could possess but not required the Registered Health I nformation T ec hnic ian degree.

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