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Corman reﬂects on two years of fighting the NCAA By MICHAEL MARTIN GARRETT StateCollege.com

BELLEFONTE — A lot can happen in two years. Just ask state Sen. Jake Corman, R-Bellefonte, whose lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association has been steadily progressing in Commonwealth Court. “As my first venture into the legal system, I had no idea how long this process might take,” Corman said. “Most lawsuits start out with high expectations that are then brought down, but this has gone in the opposite direction.” Corman, with the help of state treasurer Rob McCord, filed the lawsuit two years ago, on Jan. 4, 2013. Earlier, Corman led the charge in the state legislature to pass a law called the Endowment Act, requiring the NCAA to spend its $60 million fine against Penn State on child abuse prevention programs within Pennsylvania. The NCAA imposed the fine on Penn State as part of package of severe sanctions in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. The NCAA wants to disJAKE CORMAN tribute its fine money nationally, and filed a lawsuit to that end in federal court shortly after Corman and McCord brought their own lawsuit. Since the lawsuit is filed through Corman and McCord’s official capacities as state officials, Corman confirms that the lawsuit is funded by taxpayer money. Corman spokesperson Scott Sikorski says that, to date, the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus has paid $268,129 dollars in costs related to the lawsuit, though that’s only half of the total amount. McCord’s office has paid the other half, bringing the total so far to $536,258. However, it appears there are additional fees that have not been paid yet. Corman, Page 6

Building height restrictions on the rise in Harris Twp. By BRITTANY SVOBODA bsvoboda@centrecountygazette.com

BOALSBURG — At its Jan. 5 meeting, the Harris Township board of supervisors approved an ordinance that will amend the maximum building height regulation for nonresidential structures from 35 to 45 feet. According to the meeting’s agenda, the board received a request from Mountain View Country Club, located at 100 Elks Club Road, to review the township’s ordinance. It also stated in the agenda that the township’s planning commission reviewed the request with Boalsburg Fire Chief Van Winter, who said that the fire company does not object to increasing the maximum building height since all nonresidential buildings are required to have a sprinkler system. The planning commission recommended the approval of the ordinance to the board, which they passed unanimously. The board also approved a contract for $8,750 between the township and Fernsler Hutchinson to complete a study on the township’s maintenance facility master plan. This decision was first brought up at the board’s December meeting and was tabled until now. Township manager Amy Farkas said that in October, the board solicited bids from architectural firms to draft a “master plan” for the township’s maintenance facility. “The end result will be a document that includes conceptual drawings, a proposed construction schedule and a budget for the project,” Farkas said at the meeting. “This plan will then be used as the next step moving forward with the project.” The township also received bids from AP Architects for $14,800 and Hoffman Leakey Architects for $20,500. Farkas said that Fernsler Hutchinson previously completed similar projects for Ferguson and Patton townships, as well as the State College Borough Water Authority. The township’s current maintenance facility was built in 1976 Building, Page 6 Opinion ............................ 7 Health & Wellness ............ 8

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WORK ZONE: Several construction projects on the horizon in downtown Bellefonte could impact parking in the borough.

Bellefonte projects might spur parking, traffic issues By BRITTANY SVOBODA bsvoboda@centrecountygazette.com

BELLEFONTE — Construction season might be months away, but with several projects slated to take place in downtown Bellefonte all at once, parking and traffic control could become even more of an issue than it already is. Local and county government officials, as well as community members, started discussing these issues at a planning meeting on Jan. 6. “We want to start some dialogue about the upcoming construction projects that are going to take place,” said Bellefonte Borough manager Ralph Stewart. Five different projects that will involve construction components and the possible congestion of available parking spaces will take place downtown during the spring and summer. “We’re excited and we’re pleased that these projects are taking place,” Stewart said. “And we want to emphasize that, yet, we want to try to make sure that what we do does not have a detrimental impact on the existing businesses that are downtown.” Borough council president Frank Halderman also noted that downtown residents will likely be affected. In addition to several construction projects, the

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For Irwin, love of the game a driving force By CHRIS MORELLI editor@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — To call State College Area High School’s Kyla Irwin a gym rat might be an understatement. Irwin has been hanging out in the State College gym for as long as she can remember. “I love being in the gym,” Irwin said prior to a recent Lady Little Lion basketball practice. “I really have a passion for it. I really have a desire to win.” Irwin knows that the desire can only take you so far. There’s practice, film study and giving it all every time one steps on the court.

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downtown area will also play host to several annual community events, including the Bellefonte Arts and Craft Fair and the Bellefonte Cruise. Halderman said that possibly relocating events for one year will be discussed. At least some of the times lines when the projects take place are expected to overlap. Phase Two of the Temple Court Building project at North Allegheny and East High streets will start soon, but most of the work will take place inside the building, said Centre County Commissioner Chris Exarchos. Delivery of materials, parking for construction workers and the construction of a walkway between the Courthouse and Temple Court Building will cause the most congestion with that project, according to Exarchos. The Bellefonte Mews project will turn several historic properties — the Garman Theatre, Hotel Do-De and the Cadillac Building — into affordable housing for county residents. Troy Knecht, a project manager for Progress Development Group, said that construction is expected to begin at the end of March or early April. In order to reduce congestion around those sites, as many materials as possible will be put on the properties, he said.

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DEDICATED: State College Area High School’s Kyla Irwin recently reached the 1,000-point milestone. The Lady Little Lion has given a verbal commitment to UConn. What’s Happening ......... 20 Puzzles ............................ 21

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STAFF RESOLUTIONS: Staff members at the Centre County Gazette share their resolutions for 2015. From volunteering to eating healthier, there’s plenty to accomplish in the new year. Page 13 ROUGH START: The Penn State men’s basketball team has struggled in Big Ten play so far. The Nittany Lions fell to Michigan, 73-64 on Jan. 6 at the Bryce Jordan Center. Penn State is now 0-3 in conference play. PAGE 14

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STATE COLLEGE — It now appears that vandals did cause some damage to ice sculptures in downtown State College, but the most destructive scenes had nothing to do with bad behavior. The sculptures were carved out of large blocks of ice on Dec. 31 as part of the traditional First Night State College New Year’s Eve celebration. A team of talented sculptors transformed the ice into amazing works of art in the middle of South Allen Street, creating huge figures such as a stegosaurus, a donkey, a giant fish, an elephant and a miniature ice castle. According to First Night executive director Rick Bryant, someone damaged an ice carving that featured the year “2015” in 5-foot-tall numbers. That happened sometime during the early morning hours of Jan. 1.

A wishing well and a giant piggy bank were smashed to pieces — but not by vandals. Supporters are invited to drop money into slots on those two sculptures to help raise money for the annual First Night event. Bryant said the only way to get the money out requires brute force. “As for the piggy bank and the wishing well, we took the money out. We have to hit it with a sledge hammer to get the money out. We could use a chain saw but we don’t have one of those,” he said. Bryant said it appears that some smaller sculptures on display outside area businesses and at Sidney Friedman Park were vandalized. That’s something Bryant calls unfortunate, but a pretty common occurrence each year. “I especially don’t like it for the smaller ones because businesses like them to stay, Vandals, Page 4

NCAA fires back at critics By MICHAEL MARTIN GARRETT StateCollege.com

BELLEFONTE — The NCAA is getting tired of what it calls “misplaced” attacks from state Sen. Jake Corman, R-Bellefonte, and state treasurer Rob McCord. Ever since Corman and McCord filed their lawsuit in Commonwealth Court more than two years ago, the parties have battled back and forth about what documents are relevant to the case. The latest flare up in this fight is over 13 documents the NCAA voluntarily turned over to the plaintiffs in what the NCAA describes as an “good faith effort” — but Corman and McCord disagree. Commonwealth Court Judge Anne Covey ordered the NCAA last month to turn over nearly 500 documents that the athletic organization claims are protected by the legal tools of attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine. Covey will review these documents herself to determine which, if any, are relevant to the case. When turning over these document to Covey, the NCAA also withdrew

its claims of privilege on 13 documents, which they handed over to Corman and McCord. “Plaintiffs — once again — attempt to portray the NCAA’s continued and significant good faith efforts to maximize the documents and information available to Plaintiffs as somehow improper or nefarious,” attorneys for the NCAA wrote in a legal filing from last week. “But nothing could be further from the truth.” Attorneys for Corman and McCord wasted no time in firing back at the NCAA after the athletic organization provided the 13 documents in question, which mostly dealt with implementing public relations strategies with the Big Ten athletic conference. In a court filing last week, attorneys for Corman and McCord called the release of the documents an “astonishing admission” of wrongdoing. But the NCAA disagrees with this characterization. NCAA, Page 3

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Project Cahir helps fight student poverty By MICHAEL MARTIN GARRETT StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State student Natasha Bailey used to think that poverty didn’t exist on her college campus. She’d heard the stereotypes about broke college students living on ramen noodles, but to her they were just jokes. The deeper truths behind those jokes were obscured by the humor of what she thought were harmless stereotypes. Then she got involved with Project Cahir — a student organization on campus dedicated to fighting poverty at Penn State. “There’s a difference between being broke and being impoverished. There are students here who can’t afford textbooks or supplies for their classes.” Bailey said. “There are students who couch surf at friends’ apartments, or sleep in the HUB because they have no place to go. That’s what poverty looks like.” Doctoral student Emil Cunningham, adviser to Project Cahir, said it’s hard to estimate how many impoverished students there are at Penn State because of poverty’s difficult and elusive nature. However, the Office of Student Aid estimates that 10 percent of University Park’s roughly 40,000 students qualify for low-income status. Cunningham said the impacts of poverty vary from student to student. Some use food stamps to be able to eat, others rely on cheap and unhealthy fast food to survive, or some depend on food banks and churches to get by. Some are unable to afford basic school supplies and toiletries, while others take turns sleeping in friends’ dorms and apartments. Cunningham is sure of one thing, though — as Project Cahir helps more students, the need becomes more apparent. “The more our name gets out there, the more students we have reaching out to us,” Cunningham said. “We want to help every student that comes to us, but the more people we help, the more we decrease the funds we have available to us to help students.”

Bailey said the project has a number of initiatives to help students in need. Their poverty resource center on campus provides free toiletries. They help students purchase textbooks and groceries. They have an ongoing effort to make sure course materials are available at the library, and they can help find lodging for students who can’t afford to go home over breaks. They’ve also held events such as this semester’s “Poverty Fight Night,” when students slept in the Hub-Robseon Center to make more people aware of student poverty. John Cahir and his family are among the biggest supporters of the initiative. Project Cahir is named for his son, Bill Cahir, a 1990 Penn State graduate and influential reporter who died in the line of duty in Iraq with the U.S. Marines. “I think that when a lot of people hear that he was killed in action, they think he was some kind of ground pounder,” John Cahir said. “All Marines carry firearms and are prepared to go on patrol, but he wasn’t there to hurt anyone. That wasn’t his mission.” Cahir says his son always had a strong moral compass, and joined a special branch of the Marines with a focus on service. Bill Cahir built schools and roads, dedicating the last months of his life to bettering the lives of others living in a wartorn country. After Bill Cahir died, his brother worked with Penn State to create a memorial scholarship fund. John Cahir said this fund awards scholarships to a dozen students each year, who focus on trying to better the world in much the same way that Bill Cahir bettered the world around him. This is the scholarship fund’s third year in existence, and the students who receive the scholarships form the core of Project Cahir. “I don’t know that I would have picked the issue that they’re working on, but student poverty is sort of invisible,” John Cahir said. “This project has been an eye opener for me. Poverty doesn’t mean that

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THE FUTURE is bright for Project Cahir, a student group aimed at ending student poverty. you’re dying of starvation. It means that your life and your options for having better health, or a better education, or a better job, are limited by your finances.” Cunningham says the future is bright for Project Cahir. They’ve begun handing out information during freshman orienta-

tion to bring greater awareness to the issue of student poverty. The group has also started working with resident assistants, department heads and deans of colleges to create a wider network of support. “Penn State has really rallied behind us,” Bailey said.

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NCAA in an attempt to keep the athletic organization’s $60 million fine against Penn State within Pennsylvania. The scope of the lawsuit has since expanded, with an upcoming February trial scheduled to examine the validity of the consent decree. Penn State, which is a nominal defendant in the lawsuit, signed the consent decree with the NCAA in July 2012, allowing the NCAA to impose its fine and other sanctions.

“The fact that NCAA counsel determined that a single, effectively non-substantive communication ... was not protected from disclosure suggests neither improper intent by the NCAA in its privilege assertions nor that other communications between counsel for the NCAA and Big Ten do not qualify for the common interest privilege,” NCAA attorneys write. Corman and McCord initially sued the

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GNC opens new store in downtown location By MICHAEL MARTIN GARRETT StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State student Alex Martin has always been a fitness fanatic. As an avid runner and aspiring fitness instructor, the second-semester freshman says its important for her to stay on top of her nutrition. She used to shop at the General Nutrition Corp. store in her hometown of Williamsport, but hasn’t been to the GNC stores in State College since moving here because they’re too far from downtown. That’s no longer a problem now that a new GNC store has opened its doors at the corner of Pugh Street and College Avenue. “This is a very convenient spot for me,” Martin said of the new GNC. “They have my favorite protein bars here, so I don’t have to go all the way to Wegmans anymore. They also have my protein powder, so I don’t have to order that online.” Jake Brown, the manager of the new GNC location, says the store has been operation since Dec. 31. Though the holidays made the timing a little stressful, Brown says he wanted to be up and running in full force before students come back for the start of the spring semester. He was brought on board in November, after the site of Vandals, from page 2 and let Mother Nature take care of them,” he said. “Vandals make it harder to sell sponsorships to those businesses.” Area businesses pay $255 for each of those smaller statues which are often carved into whimsical shapes, such as a ring outside a jewelry store or a toothbrush made for a dentist’s office.

the former Snappy’s convenience store was acquired by GNC and the conversion was already underway. Brown calls the new store “the best location in State College, hands down.” Located right across from campus, he expects to do plenty of business with Penn State students. The new store joins three other locations, one at the Nittany Mall, one in Hills Plaza and another on North Atherton Street. Brown expects two items to be especially popular: protein bars and protein shakes, both of which are ready for consumption right out the door. For the busy college student with little time to sit down and eat, he says these snacks can help fill a hungry stomach between meals without needing to resort to fast food or energy drinks. But getting the store ready wasn’t a walk in the park. “We had 693 boxes of product dropped off in one day that we had to put away,” Brown said. “It was like a maze of boxes in here. There were at least 10 people, working nine-to-10-hour shifts, working to get this place running.” The store no longer resembles a maze of boxes, with racks of vitamins and supplements carefully arranged on the shelves. Though the bulk of the set-up is done, Brown is still working to make sure that every price tag and sign is correct. With some luck, he hopes to have two additional part-time employees soon to help handle the increase in business he expects.

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GNC HAS OPENED new store in downtown State College. Snappy’s convenience store previously occupied the space.

In the meantime, Brown says the new store is giving away free gold cards with each purchase to celebrate the grand opening. The cards normally cost $15 and grant customer discounts on many items in the store. With about 200 left to give away, Brown looks forward to building a customer base for a busy semester.

In a message posted on its Twitter account, the State College police department said it was “investigating the damaged ice sculptures.” Of course, since they’re made out of ice, the sculptures are temporary — and all of the larger statues on South Allen Street and at the park have already been removed. Many will continue standing outside area businesses as long as the weather stays cold.

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WORK CREWS will be picking up Christmas trees curbside.

Tree recycling begins By STEVE BAUER StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — It’s nearly time for the final chore of the holiday season — getting that Christmas tree out of the house. With any luck, most of the needles will stay on the tree, at least until it gets outside. State College work crews will be out collecting trees for recycling until Friday, Jan. 16. Through Friday, Jan. 9, residents in College, Ferguson, Harris and Patton townships will also have have an opportunity to have their Christmas trees recycled. Trash crews will pick up trees left at the curb on customers’ regular trash collection days. Trees from those townships will be taken to the State College compost facility and recycled into mulch. After Jan. 9, trees will be hauled away as part of normal trash pick-up. Road crews in College Township will continue collecting trees for recycling through early February, as long as weather permits.

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January 8-14, 2015 Irwin, from page 1 “I think the way that I want the ball … I really go after it and that’s contagious for the other girls. I think it rubs off on them. Hopefully, it shows,” Irwin said. Irwin, a junior, has been dribbling a basketball since she could walk. Her mother, Bethany Irwin, is the State High girls’ coach. Her father, Rob, is an assistant coach. A family affair? Uh, yeah, you could say that. Over the weekend, the Lady Little Lions captured the Kiwanis Holiday Basketball Classic. In the title game, the Lady Little Lions had to rally from an 18-8 deficit to defeat Burrell, 50-46. In the locker room at halftime, Irwin said that the coaching staff — Mom and Dad — had some choice words for the squad. “I’ve never heard them yell like that,” Kyla said with a smile. Bethany Irwin has been the head coach at State High for 22 seasons. To put things in perspective, that’s longer than Kyla’s been around. She’s been coming to the gym for as long as she can remember. “I’d take my naps right over there,” Kyla said, pointing to a corner of the gym. Seriously, though, she said that she can’t imagine it being any other way. “A lot of people might think it would be weird or difficult. Everything has its ups and downs, but I think we handle things really well,” Kyla said. “We have a great chemistry and we work together really well. We think a lot of the same ways, so we don’t really disagree. It’s nice; they don’t ever miss my games.” The Lady Little Lions have

The Centre County Gazette enjoyed a good deal of success under Bethany Irwin and things have only gotten better since Kyla joined the varsity squad. She’s been a stellar studentathlete. On and off the court, her performance has garnered the attention of some of the women’s basketball teams in the nation. She recently gave a verbal commitment to UConn, arguably the greatest dynasty in collegiate athletics. According to Irwin, it wasn’t a hard decision. “The atmosphere of the the practices was great and the girls were so welcoming. I ate lunch with (the players) and I didn’t feel like I was a burden sitting with them. They were asking me questions and I was telling them stories. It was just great chemistry. The campus is really nice. It’s awesome,” Kyla said. Although UConn is in the horizon, Kyla still has about a season and a half left at State High. Bethany has watched Kyla’s progression from the first time she touched a basketball. “She’s been part of the program and she really has grown up with it. She is a true Little Lady Lion and she has been from the get-go. She’s had some great role models to look up to and learn from,” Bethany said. Bethany wouldn’t say it in so many words, but one thing is clear — Kyla has been raised right. Sure, basketball has always been a passion. However, one doesn’t get an offer from UConn without stellar grades, a great attitude and a phenomenal work ethic. Kyla has it all. She is the complete package. Bethany is often wowed by her

knowledge of the game of basketball. “She understands the game and that’s probably one of her biggest strengths,” Bethany said. “She understands little parts of the game that some people don’t even think about or take for granted.” According to Bethany, Kyla’s had nothing handed to her. She’s worked extremely hard for everything — from earning a starting job to reaching scoring milestones to getting a scholarship to UConn. Bethany said that her work ethic has helped deliver all of the accolades. “I think a lot of people think, ‘Oh, she’s the coach’s kid, she’s going to play no matter what.’ I don’t think so. She did the same thing in volleyball. She worked her tail off. She’s been a starter there since her freshman year. I haven’t coached one ounce of volleyball. She’s a workaholic and she loves the strategy,” Bethany said. It has been a memorable junior season for Kyla. In the fall, the 6-foot-2 middle hitter was named to the Class AAA All-State team by the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association after leading State High to the District 6 title and a berth in the PIAA tournament. In December, Irwin notched a milestone on the hardwood when she reached 1,000 points for her career. In a 57-41 drubbing of Central Dauphin, she needed just nine points to hit 1,000. She poured in 21 that night. Needless to say, it was a special night for the Irwin family. “It’s been a lot of fun watching her grow,” Bethany said. “I love

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BELLEFONTE — The Centre County board of commissioners approved two contracts for the county’s emergency communications and 911 department at its Jan. 6 meeting. The first contract is between the county and L. Robert Kimball for $16,500 for Automatic Location Identification database management system maintenance services. Emergency communications and 911 director Dale Neff said that the system will keep the emergency location database upto-date. “In 911, location discovery is at the heart of what we do,” he said. “For those people who may not be able to talk to us, children who call 911 for caregivers who can’t talk, location discovery can save a life. It’s very important.” The contract also included services for the department’s wireless location tech-

nology, Neff said, which locates people calling from cell phones. The commissioners also approved a contract for $660 with Allied Mechanical and Electrical for preventative maintenance on the HVAC unit in the department’s equipment room. “All the electronics that make everything work down there are housed in a large room,” Neff said. “All of this has to be kept temperature-controlled. We rely on one very large air conditioner to keep all this cool.” Last year, the county’s emergency communications and 911 center, which is located in the basement of the Willowbank Building, was revamped with all new equipment and modern technology. The project cost the county between $19 million and $20 million to complete. “When you spend all those millions of dollars on a new system, you better make sure you don’t cook it,” Commissioner Steve Dershem said.

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STATE COLLEGE AREA High School’s Kyla Irwin guided her team to the Kiwanis Holiday Basketball Classic title last weekend. the fact that I’m her coach, but I really love the fact that I’m her mom.” Kyla can’t imagine it any other way.

Bellefonte, from page 1 The Waterfront Improvement Project is also expected to begin this spring. Stewart said that one last permit needs to be secured before the project can start, but that it will soon go out to bid. The project will include the development of a flood wall and walkway on the land above Spring Creek between West High and West Lamb streets. This is being done since the area is prone to flooding. Once completed, the land will be sold to a developer. The borough, Stewart said, will revamp West Lamb Street near the borough building. The street was damaged several years ago during a flood. According to Stewart, the borough expects to begin the project in April and be done by June at the latest. The Department of Transportation also announced recently that it will resurface Route 144. Allegheny Street, as well as parts of West Bishop and West Linn streets, which run through downtown, will be part of that, Stewart said. PennDOT will also redo curbs that do not comply with the

“It’s everything. There’s nothing I don’t love about basketball,” Kyla said. “To grow up with a life like this? It couldn’t be any better.”

Americans with Disabilities Act. This will likely take place during the resurfacing, he said. East Cherry Lane is expected to stay closed like it has been for the past several months while phase one of the Temple Court Project has taken place, Halderman said. The parking spaces there and on East High Street where part of the Bellefonte Mews project will take place are already out of commission so work trucks can use them, he said. A big unknown right now, Halderman added, is where construction equipment will be stored and where workers will then park. “It looks like it’s going to be a very congested summer,” he said. “On the positive side,” Exarchos said, “you’re getting a lot of new buildings.” Several locations were mentioned that could be used for temporary parking, including the Bellefonte Armory, the Undine field, St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, the site of the former Bellefonte Academy, Hyde Park and a lot at the Train Station.

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Corman, from page 1 Documents shared with StateCollege.com by activist Ryan Bagwell indicate that legal fees for work performed between January 2013 and October 2014 total more than $650,000. Invoices from the law firm of Conrad O’Brien, which represents Corman and McCord, were obtained through a Right-to-Know request from Bagwell, a university alumnus who operates the Penn State Sunshine Fund. Through the Sunshine Fund, Bagwell has made numerous other Rightto-Know requests for information related to the Sandusky scandal. State College attorney James Rayback says it’s almost impossible to estimate estimate how much a lawsuit like Corman’s should cost because of its “phenomenally large” scale. “This is some really massive-scale litigation,” Rayback said. “A lot of hours of work have to go into something like this.” Corman says he’s received nothing but support from his constituents, many of whom are deeply and personally invested in the outcome. He plans to follow this process as long as it goes, including through any appeals, if needed. Corman’s complaint also asks the court to force the NCAA to pay for the state’s attorney fees and legal costs, which would eliminate the cost to the public if Corman and McCord are ultimately victorious. The lawsuit currently sits at a curious legal intersection, in what’s known as the discovery phase, in which the parties share information and documents relevant to the case. Despite being in this early stage, Commonwealth Court Judge Anne Covey has already repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of the Endowment Act. Covey has also shown a strict hand to the NCAA, reprimanding the athletic organization for “despicable ... forum shopping” for trying to fight its battle in federal court instead of Commonwealth Court. And now the lawsuit has come to mean even more.

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“When the NCAA made their filing that the Endowment Act was unconstitutional and their bylaws allowed them to take the $60 million and spread it nationwide, the judge reviewed the bylaws,” Corman says. “She said there’s a new question: the NCAA’s whole ability to impose to consent decree to begin with.” Penn State signed the consent decree with the NCAA in July 2012, allowing the NCAA to impose its fine and other sanctions. The other sanctions include severe reductions in football scholarships, the loss of all football wins between 1998 and 2012 and a recently-lifted ban on post-season bowl game appearances. The validity of the consent decree will likely be under intense scrutiny when the trial begins on Tuesday, Feb. 17. Everyone from NCAA president Mark Emmert to former FBI director Louis Freeh, as well as various university lawyers and members of the Penn State board of trustees, are slated to appear. The trial was originally scheduled to begin on Jan. 6, but Covey delayed proceedings to allow herself more time to review several hundred documents in the case. Corman said he and his lawyers have dealt with a “frustrating lack of cooperation” in the discovery process of his lawsuit. Corman and the NCAA have gone toe-to-toe in legal filings for months over what documents are relevant to the case and should be made available in the courtroom. The NCAA has invoked the legal tools of attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine to avoid releasing some internal emails and other documents, but Corman has repeatedly argued the NCAA is wrongly trying to keep relevant information out of the public eye. Corman has requested that Covey review the nearly 500 disputed documents herself to determine which, if any, are relevant to the case. She has agreed, though she has not issued a ruling yet. Several court filings from the Corman side of the lawsuit have included hundreds of pages of internal NCAA emails and other documents that Corman received from the

NCAA, many of which have caused a firestorm of media attention. One filing in November contained internal emails between top NCAA officials from 2012, in which they refer to the threat of sanctions against Penn State as “a bluff” and question their authority to impose them. Another filing includes correspondence between the NCAA and Freeh’s investigative team, which Corman suggests implies collaboration between the NCAA and Freeh’s investigators. The Freeh report, released in July 2012, formed the basis of the NCAA’s sanctions by concluding that top Penn State administrators hid knowledge of Sandusky’s crimes from the public. “With the fact that the Endowment Act has been ruled constitutional, we’ve already accomplished a lot,” Corman said. “We’ve been able to get a little bit of a look inside what happened at the NCAA when the consent decree was imposed, and a lot of questions have been raised about whether the NCAA manipulated the process and Penn State.” Corman rejects claims that he is fighting his lawsuit in the press instead of the courtroom. He says the decision to release court documents to the public through his court filings is one that was forced by the NCAA. If the athletic organization had initially complied with his requests for documents, then he wouldn’t have been forced to release documents to demonstrate how important they are to the case, Corman says. For Corman, the lawsuit is ultimately less about the NCAA’s fine, and more about one of the cornerstones of the American legal system. “A horrible thing happened and a predator preyed upon young boys, but he was afforded due process of law, sat before a jury of his peers and was duly convicted ... due process is very important,” Corman said. “For the NCAA to manipulate Penn State into accepting harsh sanctions without the facts of the case is not correct and consistent with our system.” Representatives for the NCAA did not return requests for comment.

Building, from page 1 and is too outdated and small to house the equipment, Farkas said in an email. In 2016, a bond will free up $145,000 to be used toward a new facility, she added. A new maintenance facility is part of Harris Township’s plan that also includes the replacement of several pieces of their maintenance equipment. Farkas said that beginning this year, a tax increase was implemented to raise money to replace the equipment and will net about $92,000 annually. The tax will be collected through 2017. This year, funds from the tax will help purchase a single-axle truck, Farkas said. Another truck will be purchased in 2016 and a back hoe in 2017. “We are also creating an equipment replacement fund that will help ensure adequate funds for equipment replacement in the future,” she said.

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Lower gas prices give us more cash By Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — If oil and gasoline prices remain at their current unusually low levels, Americans will have a lot more to spend on other things. That’s the conclusion of the AAA Motor Club, which on Dec. 31 projected huge savings for 2015. In its December gas price report, AAA concluded that Americans saved about $14 billion on gasoline last year compared to 2013. The trend will only accelerate if things stay as they are, with the price for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil in the ballpark of $53 on Friday, and in the international reference Brent crude oil at $56 a barrel. “It would not be surprising for U.S. consumers to save $50-75 billion on gasoline in 2015 if prices remain low,” said Michael Green, a AAA spokesman. U.S. average gasoline prices declined $1.44 per gallon, or about 39 percent, AAA said, since reaching their high of $3.70 a gallon last April 28. Over the entire year, gasoline averaged about $3.34 a gallon nationwide, about 15 cents below the 2013 average. Absent a shock to oil supplies, the annual average is likely to be considerably lower in 2015, perhaps below $3.00 a gallon, AAA said. Historically, gasoline prices begin rising in late February, by as much as 30 cents to 50 cents a gallon, as refiners begin maintenance in preparations for fuels used in warmer spring and summer weather. On the first work day of 2015, the national average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline stood at $2.231 on Friday. That’s down from $2.76 a month ago and $3.325 a year ago.

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Time to think about our time My resolution for 2015 is to change The gyms and health clubs will my focus on how I spend my time. be filled with people pledging to find Humans are great about talking health and fitness for 2015. and thinking about “when.” We are Marie Osmond is once again reportedly among the few creatures hawking made-to-order food along on this earth who understand that with the other commercials for every there is a next or an after. When I rekind of diet or diet pill available on tire. When I pay off my bills. the market. When I win the lottery. After People on social media I lose 10 or 20 or 30 pounds. and around the water coolers When I find a mate. My next and dinner tables are pledgpromotion. When. When. ing to give more, swear less, When. forgive, forget, find peace, be We are so good about kind, eat healthy and make thinking and focusing on changes. the when, we forget to conI’m just trying to hold on. sider the now. I don’t know if it is a funcIn 2015, I am going to tion of age or aging but it make better use of my now. seems like we just started When my husband asks fall semester. Here it is Janu“Do you want to go walk ary, and I’m packing up the around at Lowe’s for absoChristmas stuff and my kids lutely no reason?” instead are talking about summer of thinking about laundry vacation plans. What hapand cleaning the kitchen pened to October? Did I lose Patty Kleban is and that I don’t have makeNovember? Did I cook the an instructor up on and how cold it is outturkey? Who wrapped the at Penn State, side, I’m going to say yes. presents? Did we win the mother of three and a community On that beautiful Saturbowl game? day afternoon that screams Sometimes it feels like life volunteer. She is a is moving faster than I can Penn State alumna for yard work and weeding who lives with her the garden, I’m going to keep up. family in Patton pack up the dogs and head Time has a way of playing Township. Her tricks on us. On some days it views and opinions to Colyer Lake with a few tennis balls and a towel for feels like time is slipping by do not necessarily me. On others, I could wake reﬂect those of Penn the ride home. Starting now, I’m going up in the night to muffled State. to unplug, turn off and tune cries from the next room and in. little hands reaching out for Mom in In the presence of my children, the dark. I’m going to put down my phone and On the inside, time feels pretty sit and make eye contact and listen much the same. like I used to when they were little. I My resolution for 2015 is to make am not going to allow their increasing better use of my time. independence steal anymore time It isn’t about time management. from me than it has to. I am a pretty good multi-tasker. I I’m going to try to make better use can let the dogs out, start the coffee, of my now. switch the laundry loads and get a I’m going to take the time to call run in while the other members of my that friend who is having a low point household are still in REM sleep.

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Here’s an idea that periodically develops traction across the political spectrum, even though it’s not particularly likely to be implemented: A one-year, non-mandatory national service program for Americans ages 18-28. One focus for this notion is the Franklin Project, which grew out of discussions at the Aspen Institute in the summer of 2013. The project believes that America is “suffering from a deficit of citizenship and a general lack of connectedness.” Its solution is a program that provides opportunities for young people to perform one year of fulltime service that addresses community needs — “education, poverty alleviation, food security” — in exchange for a modest stipend, scholarships, or help with student debt. Such service won’t be mandatory, but will become a social expectation, a “civic rite of passage” that connects young citizens to something bigger than they are. The Franklin Project’s Leadership Council is an impressive collection of CEOs, academics, foundation directors, politicians and public figures from the left and the right, from Mad-

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or who has hit some bumps and ask her to go for a walk. I’m not going to waste another minute on the “friend” who has shown me again and again that she doesn’t value our friendship. I am going to spend more time with people I care about and less time thinking “I should spend more time with people I care about.” Aging and time is a funny thing. As I stand solidly at middle age, I see people around me giving in and others giving it a fight. There are those who say “I’m too old to do that or wear that or think about that” while others fight with a fervor that includes plastic surgeons and the search for the proverbial fountain of youth. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle. Either way, time is going to catch up with all of us eventually but it is our attitude about time that makes the difference. One of my colleagues uses the concept of time with incoming university freshmen. At an average estimated life span of almost 79 years in today’s United States, we have almost 41,522,400 minutes to spend in our lifetime. His question to the new kids on campus is “How will you spend your minutes while you are here? Will you use them on alcohol and parties and wasted opportunities or will you spend them to gain experiences and to fill your life’s bucket list?” My resolution for this year is to use my remaining minutes to the best of my ability. In the words of Dr. Seuss “How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” It’s what we do with our time that can make the difference. Best wishes to all for a happy and healthy 2015.

National service? OK, you go first eleine Albright to Condoleezza Rice, from Barbara Bush to Tom Brokaw. In the summer of 2013 columnists E.J. Dionne and Michael Gerson, again spanning the political spectrum, wrote in support of national service, as did David Ignatius and Dana Milbank. In short, a national service program sounds like a grand idea that many people of all political stripes support. Why can’t I work up more enthusiasm for it? It might be because I’m skeptical about the idea of solving a problem by the imposition of an obligation by one group on another. It’s worth noting that, as far as I can tell, no one on the Franklin Project’s Leadership Council appears to be 18-28 years of age. And while the lives of many of the members of the council have been devoted to service in one form or another, if the idea of national service becomes a political issue — in the next presidential campaign, for example — no doubt it will be used to appeal to and will find support among many older citizens who did not themselves practice enough citizenship to bother to vote in the recent mid-terms. If our country suffers from a lack of civic engagement and shared experience, I wonder if there are other ways

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of addressing the problem besides asking the young, who didn’t create the problem to begin with, to devote a low-paid year of their lives to it. Consider the American public school, for example. No institution embodied the divisiveness and “lack of connectedness” of American life more than the segregated public schools that prevailed between the Civil War and the mid-60s. And apart from the military, no institution has done more to connect and provide a common experience for all Americans, regardless of race or economic status, than integrated, post-civil rights era public schools. At least in theory. Even though we’ve always known how to create and maintain very good public schools, we have failed to provide common, equivalent experiences for all students. Students know this. If we want to connect students with our culture, to make them feel like they’re part of a larger enterprise, why not provide them with an engaging, wellresourced public education that embodies a common experience, identical in every respect regardless of race or economic status? This would be a way of showing them that they are, in fact, living in a society that’s worth belonging to. R

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Noisy toys can be harmful to your childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health By LESLIE PURCELL

only two hours per day. If employees in an industrial setting are exposed to that noise level they are required to wear hearing protection. Even minimal exposure to these toys can do some serious damage to childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hearing. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ears are very sensitive to loud sounds, and over time, these noises damage structures in the ear. The effects may not be seen immediately, but noise at this level is painful, and could have a cumulative impact throughout childhood and into adulthood. Here are some tips to limit such exposure to noise and long-term hearing damage: â&#x2013; Test a toy in the store before buying it. If it sounds too loud to you, then it is too loud for your child. Either donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t purchase the toy, or limit the duration of play. â&#x2013; Turn the volume down if it has a variable volume control. If not, place clear packing tape over the speaker. â&#x2013; Monitor childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play to ensure they are using the toys correctly and not holding them closer to their face or ears than necessary. â&#x2013; Take an inventory of your childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current toys. If theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re too loud, consider replacing them with something less noisy. Another popular item for older children is a music player and headphones/ear

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If your child got some noisy toys for Christmas, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not alone. One of the things that you may not realize, though, is that those noisy toys your children received may be harmful to their hearing. Sure, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always funny to see the look on parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; faces when their child opens the coolest drum set or the newest guitar on the market. What about the racetrack with real racetrack sounds? Children love noisy toys. They love to sing and dance along with the music of that new guitar, and they love all the sound effects that go along with a new remotecontrol car or truck. But when you stop to think about it, some of these noisy toys can be detrimental to childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hearing, even affecting it later in life. Pay close attention the next time you watch your children playing with a toy. It is frequently near their faces, and they are typically on the floor in close proximity to the toy. Oftentimes, toys can produce sounds in excess of 100 decibels. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s louder than a lawn mower and almost as loud as a jet plane taking off. Federal regulations restrict exposure to noise of 100 decibels to

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NOISY TOYS might be a fun gift, but they can cause serious damage to a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hearing, recent studies show. buds. Limiting use to one hour at a time is recommended, and the volume control should not be any louder than 50 percent.

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Center for the Protection of Children launches online program tection of Children. â&#x20AC;&#x153;iLook Out for Child Abuse provides evidence-based training to help them learn about these new requirements, especially as they pertain to reporting incidents of suspected child abuse.â&#x20AC;? Levi notes this is particularly important for Pennsylvania, where the reporting rate of 9.8 cases of abuse per 1,000 children is significantly lower than the national average of 45.8 reports per 1,000. iLook Out for Child Abuseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interactive video format provides the legally required three hours of training, and is designed to help early child care providers better

HERSHEY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Penn State Hershey Center for the Protection of Children has created an online training module â&#x20AC;&#x201D; iLook Out for Child Abuse â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to help early child care professionals meet new state laws regarding training and reporting of suspected child abuse. The regulations under Act 31 of 2014 took effect on Dec. 31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This free resource is currently the only approved online learning module specifically designed for Pennsylvaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early child care professionals,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Benjamin Levi, director of the Center for the Pro-

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Department of Human Servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new webbased portal. Failure to report suspected child abuse may result in fines of up to $15,000 and either misdemeanor or felony charges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;iLook Out for Child Abuse has been shown in a research study to increase knowledge and change attitudes about reporting abuse in Pennsylvania,â&#x20AC;? Levi added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our hope to eventually make this online training program available to early child care professionals across the country.â&#x20AC;? For more information about the iLook Out for Child Abuse program, visit www. ilookoutforchildabuse.com.

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MICHELLE MYERS is the first recipient of the quarterly Juniper Spirit Award at Juniper Village Rehabilitation and Skilled Care at Brookline community in State College. Pictured, from left, are Diane Byrne, of Juniper Communities, and Kori Bingaman, Myers, Lisa Park and Janice Whitaker, all of Juniper Village Rehabilitation and Skilled Care at Brookline.

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STATE COLLEGE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wellness nurse Michelle Myers has been named as the first recipient of the quarterly Juniper Spirit Award at Juniper Village Rehabilitation and Skilled Care at Brookline community in State College. Myers started her career in long-term care as a nursing assistant. She then pursued education and training at the Clearfield County Career and Technical Center, becoming licensed as a practical nurse. Myers began employment at the former Fairways at Brookline in January 2010, after seeking â&#x20AC;&#x153;a more family-like atmosphere.â&#x20AC;? She joined Juniper Communities as part of a change in ownership in July 2014. During her more than four years of service to residents at Juniper Village, Myers has been recognized by her supervisors, fellow associates, residents and family

members for providing exemplary service. Myers lives in Osceola Mills with her husband, Eddie, and four children, Lexi, Mackenzie, Sadie and R.J. As a nurse, Myers â&#x20AC;&#x153;nurtures the spirit of lifeâ&#x20AC;? by developing caring and trusting relationships with each of the residents who reside on the 3 West Neighborhood, as well as their family members. One of her nominators was a resident family member, who stated that Myersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; genuine concern and kind heart made the care that she provides his wife nurturing and comfortable. He also noted that Myers will even call him at home to check on his health if he misses a daily visit. According to the resident, this kind of care makes a situation that could be stressful and difficult one that is comfortable and welcoming.

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Farm Show visitors to learn gardening from ‘masters’ UNIVERSITY PARK — If you enjoy gardening and then preserving the fruits of your labor for consumption yearround, you may want to visit the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences exhibit at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, Saturday, Jan. 10, to Saturday, Jan. 17, in Harrisburg. The college will offer a series of daily presentations, many featuring the expertise of Penn State Master Gardeners, who will offer tips and advice for maximizing the productivity of vegetable and flower gardens. Master Gardeners receive horticultural training through Penn State Extension, and then share their knowledge with the public via workshops, speaking engagements, media outreaches and other community activities. In addition, Penn State Extension food-safety educators will cover the basics of home food preservation, according to Jonathan Ziegler, marketing specialist and coordinator of the college’s Farm Show exhibit. “You can get information about how to grow and harvest food from your garden, then how to preserve it safely so you can enjoy it long after the growing season is over,” he said. “We’ll also offer visitors important information on water-quality issues affecting farms and rural homeowners. In addition, staff from Penn State’s Pasto Agricultural Museum will demonstrate antique farm and home implements that highlight historical aspects of farming and rural life and how they set the stage for modern technology.” A popular presentation returning this year will focus on the 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy Project, which engages 4-H members in raising and socializing puppies before the canines receive specialized training as service dogs. 4-H youth and volunteer leaders will describe the project, and visitors will be able to interact with the puppies. The College of Agricultural Sciences’ Farm Show exhibit also will engage prospective students of all ages, providing them with information on the many educational and career opportunities available in agriculture and related fields. High school students can learn more about the college’s diverse majors, scholarships and student life, and younger students will get to explore agriculture through hands-on activities taking place in the college’s Farm Show Detectives Learning Station. Tracy Hoover, associate dean for undergraduate education, noted that the college joined the Farm Show Detectives program this year so that younger visitors to the exhibit would have a chance to participate in fun activities that provide an important lesson about the role of agriculture in their lives — and the potential opportunities the industry may hold for them in the future. “The Farm Show is a great place to help younger visitors not only better understand and appreciate agriculture, but also think about the potential that agriculture holds for their education and careers,” Hoover said. “We are excited to host a learning station where we can help students connect with agriculture and think about how the fun activity they completed could be a topic that they study in college one day.”

In addition, the college’s undergraduate education team will welcome Pennsylvania FFA and 4-H members to visit, highlighting the connection between Penn State and these two agricultural youth organizations. Elsewhere at Farm Show, specialists from the college will conduct the Pennsylvania Farm Safety and Health Quiz Bowl. Four FFA and four 4-H teams will compete in a quiz show format to demonstrate their knowledge of farm safety and health hazards and recommended practices. To be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Weis Exposition Hall stage, the quiz bowl helps young people learn about hazards and safety on farms in a fun way, according to Dennis Murphy, Nationwide Insurance Professor of Agricultural Safety and Health. “The kids can enjoy friendly competition while learning information that they can use for the rest of their lives,” Murphy said. “Teens answer questions covering many farm-safety issues, such as safety with tractors, mowers and other farm machinery, child safety, first aid, animal care and disease control.” In Exhibit Room B off the Maclay Street lobby, Pennsylvania 4-H — which is administered by Penn State Extension — will focus on the science of water, including the links between water and nutrition. “Our exhibit — with the theme ‘How Much Water Do You Eat?’ — will feature a hands-on activity that will help youth understand that there is water in all of the food we consume,” said Deb Dietrich, 4-H extension educator based in Berks County. “We hope they come away appreciating the value of water, not only as a drink but as a component of food, and how important staying hydrated is to healthy living.” Pennsylvania 4-H and the Farm Show also will sponsor an Ag Olympics from 4 to 9 p.m. on the opening Saturday in the Equine Arena. “This fun, family event will feature individuals and teams weaving through a course of stick horses, pedal tractors and hay bale tossing as they compete for fitness and agility bragging rights and a grand prize of Pennsylvania food products,” said Mya Rushton, Penn State Extension 4-H teen program manager. “A ‘professional’ competition, complete with celebrity coaches, will showcase teams from the Department of Agriculture, Delaware Valley College and Penn State.” Throughout the complex, many other Farm Show events and activities depend on behind-the-scenes contributions from College of Agricultural Sciences personnel. Each year, as many as 150 faculty, county-based extension educators and staff from the college chair and participate on Farm Show committees, staff displays, and coordinate competitive exhibits and shows ranging from dairy cattle and poultry to maple products and mushrooms. The college’s role at the Farm Show is part of Penn State’s land-grant partnership with the state. Sponsored by the state Department of Agriculture, the Pennsylvania Farm Show is the largest indoor agricul-

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PENN STATE EXTENSION food safety and nutrition educators Rick Kralj, left, and Marcia Weber discuss food preservation methods with a Pennsylvania Cable Network crew at the 2014 Pennsylvania Farm Show. tural event in America, with 24 acres under roof, spread throughout 11 buildings including three arenas. Farm Show officials expect nearly 600,000 spectators, some 6,000 animals, more than 13,000 competitive exhibits and about 300 commercial exhibitors at the eight-day event. More than $500,000 in premiums will be offered to competitive exhibitors. The show is held at the Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, at the corner of Cameron and Maclay streets in Harrisburg, off Exit 67 of Interstate 81. Hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17. Admission is free, and parking is $10.

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IN THE SPIRIT of Christmas, students from South Hills School of Business and Technology collected Toys for Tots and clothing items for the local organization Hearts for the Homeless. Pictured, from left, are Lauren Filipowicz, Joshua Lee, Kayla Benner, Emily Baughman, Megan Forgy, Lane Brion, Ann Davis and Maryann Lingenfelter.

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January 8-14, 2015

Museum’s ‘First Sunday’ events prove to be delightful BELLEFONTE — Attending a First Sunday opening reception at the Bellefonte Art Museum is always a delight, and the reception for the shows that opened on Jan. 4 was no disappointment. As always, the galleries held a variety of artists’ works. Just inside the museum’s entryway is the Sieg Gallery. This month, the work of artist Leslie Larson is featured there. Walking straight back to the Tea Room Gallery, visitors will find works by artists Roxanne Naydan, Dave Kolafa and Connie Cousins Patricia Pap. covers a wide variety of events in Remember to Centre County for look up, bethe Centre County cause eye- and Gazette. Email her light-catching at ccous67@gmail. mobiles dangle com. from overhead in both downstairs rooms. In the Windows of the World Gallery, “Landscapes of Central Pennsylvania — Vistas: Light, Color and Perspective” opened with several artists showcasing their skills in water color, oils and other mediums. Among the artists showing through Sunday, Feb. 22, are Alice Kelsey, Jeff Mathison, Brienne Brown, Milt Trask, Sean Bodley, Elody Gyekis, Karl Eric Leitzel, Jeanne McKinney, Barb Pennypacker, Lena Thynell, Holly Fritchman, Anna Kenyon, Kathleen Chovit, Marianne Fyda and Jennifer

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Shuey. The variety in this collection is stunning. Upstairs in the Jewelry Gallery, the “Felt and Fiber Art” exhibit showcased yet another aspect of art and craftsmanship, featuring the works of Ann Pangborn, Diane Maurer, Lena Thynell and Judith Finkelstein. These artists are displaying their works, which include items created in silk, yarn, felted wool and fabric combinations, through Sunday, Jan. 25. During the reception, Liza Johnson, an art teacher in the Bellefonte Area School District, was directing a children’s art activity in the museum’s Creativity Room. The kids were making 3-D landscapes out of paper. Each first Sunday includes a free art activity for children. The event also featured an artistically displayed array of food, as well as tureens of soup sitting ready on a rainy Sunday afternoon. The museum’s refreshment committee does not just open some crackers and pour some wine — although there was wine. According to coordinator Dona Goldman, the group meets every four months and makes a schedule to organize the monthly receptions. Other committee members include Karen Baker, who makes the lovely centerpieces, as well as Pam Von Flotow, Catherine Brown, Connie Levine, Judy Catherman, Sally Houser, Mary Ellen Hill and Susan Hardy. If you’ve never stopped in at the Bellefonte Art Museum, you are cheating yourself out of a wonderful cultural experience. There’s something new to see each month. And, you’ll meet some very nice people, too. The museum is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

FIRST SUNDAYS at the Bellefonte Art Museum feature art exhibits, as well as plenty of delicious food and wine.

CONNIE COUSINS/For the Gazette

The Blonde Cucina: Time to plan for the big game I know everyone was rooting for the Steelers on Jan. 3, hoping that they were going to crush the Baltimore Ravens because — let’s be real — there’s nothing better than planning a Super Bowl Party, especially when it’s for a hometown favorite. Now, while I pause in a moment of silence to let you die-hard Steelers fans wipe away your tears again after a tough loss, I’m going to help you plan a Super Bowl Party that will allow you focus more on the party, and less on who is or isn’t in the big game. Super Bowl parties are one of the least elaborate parties you can throw all year long. You can go Ciara Semack is all out and you don’t the owner of Bella have the extra baggage II in Bellefonte. you did during the holHer column will idays. This is actually appear every dynamite because you other week in the can serve everyone’s Gazette. Questions, favorite party foods suggestions and and — guess what — comments can be you’re still just weardirected to ciara@ semack.net. ing a football jersey. Remember, Super Bowl parties are not frilly — they’re about football, food, friends and, as I’m sure a lot of you are thinking, beer. There’s no need to be overly elaborate in the decorating because people will be focused on the food and game. Go simple! Place football-related items around, like pennants, football jerseys and footballs. Your game-loving partygoers will be happy that you didn’t distract from the TV. As for your plates, cups, and napkins just pick colors — don’t purchase the themed napkins and plates. For example, let’s say the big game is the Baltimore Ravens and Seattle Seahawks. Pick up some

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paper items in purple and black and navy and bright green. (Yes, yes, I know how much everyone wanted to buy black and gold. Maybe next year, folks!) Now, let’s discuss some super Super Bowl party food items. First, remember that the food must be portable and it should not keep you locked in the kitchen all night. I’m not going to overwhelm you with tons of recipes, as we all know the basics of traditional football party food. But, here are three recipes for great things that I always serve: Simple Crockpot Beer Fondue, Ciara’s Homemade Buffalo Chicken Dip and Beer Brats.

SIMPLE CROCKPOT BEER FONDUE

Start to finish: 45 minutes Servings: 20 1 1/4 cup beer 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce 2 pounds processed cheese spread loaf, cut into cubes 1/4 cup crumbled bacon 1/2 cup shredded cheddar Mix all ingredients in a slow cooker. Cover and cook on high for 40 minutes until cheese melts. Stir until mixture is smooth. Turn heat to low. Stir occasionally to keep smooth and prevent sticking. Serve with pretzels, bread cubes or crackers.

CIARA’S HOMEMADE BUFFALO CHICKEN DIP

Start to finish: 15 minutes Servings: 8 4 pounds chicken breast, cooked and cubed 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons olive oil salt and pepper 8 ounces sour cream 4 ounces whipped cream cheese 8 ounces Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo Sauce Sauté cubed chicken in butter and oil and season liberally with salt and pepper. Once cooked, put chicken and all other ingredients in a food processor. Turn on high and spin until chunky, yet smooth.

CIARA SEMACK/For the Gazette

BUFFALO CHICKEN DIP has become a staple party food for football fans everywhere. BEER BRATS

Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 6 2 tablespoons salted butter, divided 6 bratwurst sausages (or substitute hot dogs or other sausages) 1 teaspoon pepper 1 large sweet onion, sliced into 1/4-inch rings 6 ounces beer Heat 1 tablespoon of butter in a large pasta pot on medium heat. Brown bratwurst sausages just until golden brown. (To prevent drying brats out, use soft tongs or a plastic spatula when turning bratwursts so their skins are not punctured.) Remove sausages to a holding plate. Add remaining butter, pepper and on-

ions to pot. Toss the onions to coat with the butter. Cook onions, stirring frequently to ensure they become soft and golden. Return the bratwurst sausages to the pot with the onions and add the beer. Continue to cook over medium heat for about 14 minutes, turning midway through, until beer has cooked down to a viscous sauce. (I use Yuengling in all my recipes, but if you want to use a dark beer, the flavor will be more dense and rich.) That’s it folks! Super simple and super yummy! Remember, I’m still taking recipes and questions to help you plan your Super Bowl extravaganza. Drop them off at the Gazette office or email me at ciara@ semack.net.

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Railroad society’s 1950s-era train car to be restored By JENN BUCKWALTER Special to the Gazette

BELLEFONTE — The Bellefonte Train Station, 320 W. High St., is home to the Bellefonte Intervalley Area Chamber of Commerce and the Bellefonte Visitors Center, as well as the Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society. Visitors to the building may have noticed the society’s two train cars located behind the building. One of these Budd Rail Diesel Cars is now missing, as it was lifted by crane onto a set of highway wheels on Dec. 15 and transported to Rail Mechanical Services in Columbia. This is where the car’s heavy mechanical and body restoration is now taking place. The Bellefonte Railroad Historical Society was chartered in 1984 with the intent of offering excursion service on the Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad. In December of that year, the society acquired Budd RDC No. 9167 as its first major piece of rolling stock. A self-propelled car, it began its long career in 1953 as New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad RDC No. 40. It was built by the Edward G. Budd Co., of Philadelphia, and was operated in commuter and short-haul service in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The rail car came under Penn Central ownership when Penn Central absorbed the New Haven in 1969. It was then

acquired by PennDOT in 1975 and given its new number, 9167. In 1983, the car was placed in storage. One year later, it was transferred to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and loaned to the Bellefonte Railroad Historical Society to strengthen attendance at Curtin Village before its title was transferred to the society. RDC No. 9167 and RDC No. 9153, which also belongs to the BHRS, were retired from service in 2005. Both have been kept out of service due to regulatory compliance and mechanical issues. After several years of the BHRS working tirelessly with supporting partners, including the Centre Regional Planning Agency and the Bellefonte Intervalley Area Chamber of Commerce, and meetings with state and federal officials to meet exacting standards, RDC No. 9167 will finally be restored for passenger service. What does this mean for Bellefonte? By next summer, RDC No. 9167 will be fully restored and the BHRS will be able to offer smaller and more frequent train excursions from the Bellefonte Train Station for the enjoyment of visitors and residents. The newly restored car will also add space for frequently sold-out excursions, such as the Fall Foliage ride in October and the Santa Express in December. For more information, visit www.bellefontetrain.org.

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A CLASSIC RAIL CAR is being restored so it can be used on excursions in and around Bellefonte.

Potpie dinner planned SPRING MILLS — New Hope Lutheran Church of Spring Mills will serve a ham potpie dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, at the church, 119 Cobblestone Court in Spring Mills. The dinner is open to the public. For more information, call the church at (814) 422-8417.

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THE BELLEFONTE ELKS hosted 70 area senior citizens at its annual Thanksgiving luncheon. Nearly 20 Elks volunteers assisted with preparing and serving the luncheon at the Elks Club.

2015 dog licenses available BELLEFONTE — Centre County 2015 dog licenses are now available, according to Richard A. Fornicola, Centre County treasurer. They can be purchased at the following locations: ■ Bellefonte — Centre County Treasurer’s Office and Lyons Kennels ■ Lemont — Mount Nittany General Store ■ Milesburg — Valley Home Supply ■ Millheim — Hosterman and Stover Hardware ■ Philipsburg — Kephart’s Hardware ■ Pleasant Gap — Adrian’s Dog House ■ Port Matilda — Port Matilda Borough Building ■ Snow Shoe — Mountaintp True Value Hardware ■ Spring Mills — E&L Supplies ■ State College — Patton Township Building, State College Borough Building and Wiscoy Pet Food Company ■ Stormstown — Halfmoon Township Office Building ■ Zion — Nittany Valley Hardware. According to Fornicola, all types of dog licenses, including senior citizen, are available at the outlets. However, arrangements for lifetime licenses must be made at the treasurer’s office and owners must be prepared to go to a veterinarian to have the dog tattooed or microchipped. State law requires that all dogs 3 months or older must be licensed in the county where they are maintained. New tags should be displayed now.

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Penn State offers resources to help resolutions stick By CHRIS KOLENO UNIVERSITY PARK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that time of year again when individuals vow to turn over a new leaf and shed old habits â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and sometimes some pounds. We call these pseudo-promises New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolutions, and many focus on embracing new routines to improve our health and wellbeing. The good news is that resources abound in the Penn State community to help faculty, staff and students stick with these New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolutions. Fitness facilities, healthy eating options, programs to help shed bad habits and even in-house experts on diets are available. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be realistic about diets, try to think about what you can sustain because continuing to disappoint yourself is not good at all,â&#x20AC;? said Barbara J. Rolls, professor and the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you do decide you want to lose weight, choose something you can do consistently, because research shows that doing something regularly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not giving yourself weekends off â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is what tends to work best. So opt for an approach thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainable, consistent and perhaps not too ambitious, because you really want to succeed.â&#x20AC;? Rolls has written three books based on her decades of research on diet and nutrition, which shows that lowering the calorie density of food can help people feel full while eating fewer calories. Her latest book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet,â&#x20AC;? offers tips for incorporating fruits and vegetables into recipes without sacrificing taste. The book continues to be among the best diet books according to U.S. News & World Reportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rankings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and government-sponsored type diets rank higher. The healthy eating that Rolls advocates is easy to find

on campus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are plenty of choices around here, now,â&#x20AC;? said Rolls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gosh, so many more each year that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doable and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affordable. A lot of healthy choices donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be expensive, so look around you and figure out how this will fit into your Penn State environment.â&#x20AC;? The other resolution that goes hand-in-hand with eating healthier and losing weight is getting fit. Penn State is at the forefront in that category as well with four fitness centers and almost 60,000 square feet of workout space. These facilities lead to 1 million visits per year, with 23,000 yearly fitness memberships, 210 weekly fitness classes, 800 pieces of equipment and more than 18,000 pounds of weights. The university was recently listed among the healthiest colleges in a number of different rankings, including Greatistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ranking. Despite good intentions, one annual event oftentimes derails the best-laid plans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We see a huge increase in fitness participants beginning just after the new year when everyone has a lot of time and enthusiasm,â&#x20AC;? said Jill Garrigan, fitness coordinator at Penn State. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conversely, as a general rule, our first major drop off in fitness participation comes just after Super Bowl Sunday, when there is less free time and life tends to get in the way of good intentions.â&#x20AC;? Garrigan, echoing Rollsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sentiment to be realistic with your goals, offered another strategy for keeping resolutions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sign up for a challenge, such as a fun run, walk or other contest to help keep yourself engaged,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This also will help hold you accountable for a long-term goal. Pick an event that is several months away and work toward it.â&#x20AC;? For information on Penn Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fitness opportunities or to sign up for a membership, go to www.athletics.psu. edu/fitness. In addition to classes available for employees and students, there are opportunities for employees to work out exclusively with other employees.

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A HEALTHIER DIET and finding time for exercise in the weekly schedule are resolutions that can lead to a very happy new year. This Penn State student is participating in a fitness class at the White Building â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of four areas to workout on the University Park campus.

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The Centre County Gazette

A new year brings a clean slate. With a new year upon us, the staff at the Centre County Gazette thought it would be a good idea to share our resolutions with you, the readers. On this page, you’ll find the resolutions of several staff members. There are some unique resolutions here. Our hope is that you’ll find them entertaining and perhaps a bit inspirational. Enjoy. — Chris Morelli

Andrea Ebeling

Don Bedell

Centre County Gazette sales manager As I get older, I realize more and more how valuable time is. How often have you sat through a terrible movie only to say at the end, “There’s two hours of my life that I can never get back!” My resolution for 2015 is to stop wasting one of our most valuable commodities. This year, I will read more, work out more, spend more time with family and friends, listen to more good music and play my guitar more, to name a few. I resolve to spend more time doing things that help make me better, well-rounded and healthier, which, in turn, allows me to be a better husband, father, son, friend, consultant and colleague.

Sam Stitzer

Centre County Gazette correspondent I’ve generally avoided making any resolutions because they tend to be forgotten when life gets in the way of carrying them out. This year, however, I have decided to make one promise to improve my physical condition. I’m 65 years old. I used to walk fast and bound up stairs, but now I lag behind and handrails are my best friends. The aches and pains of aging are taking their toll: I’m getting slower, my muscles are weaker and joints are stiffer. My resolution for 2015 is to exercise more than in my past, especially this winter when it’s so easy to sit around watching TV and snacking instead of getting up and moving. Perhaps this will help to retard the ravages of Mother Nature and Father Time, whom I consider to be the ultimate abusive parents — they eventually kill us all. So, I’ll spend time on the Gazelle and the stationary bike until warmer weather arrives, then I’ll head outside to put some significant miles on my recumbent trike. This time next year, hopefully I’ll feel better, stronger and healthier.

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Tim Weight

Centre County Gazette staff writer

Centre County Gazette photographer I believe there is always room for improvement as well as something new to learn in all aspects of life. That’s why this year, my New Year’s resolution is to be relentless in my passion of photography. I resolve to find the means to expand my knowledge, equipment and skill in every way possible. I further want to set new and reasonable goals in my endeavors for and achieve them just as I have been fortunate enough to do over the past year with the help and support of many good friends and family.

Centre County Gazette copy editor Like so many families, mine gets mired in the daily minutiae of work, school, extracurricular activities, chores and errands. We’re just always so “busy.” This year, I resolve that my husband, our two boys and I travel more, whether it be weeklong vacations, visits to see extended family or just day trips. Time together is precious, and as our oldest prepares to head to college in the fall, I believe it’s important to use that resource wisely. Traveling gives us the opportunity to be together while we experience the fun, the new, the different, the interesting. And, in the end, it’s those experiences that create the memories we carry with us.

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In 2014, I lost several close family members. Looking back on my relationships with them, I don’t regret the time we did or didn’t share, but I do wish I had communicated with them more frequently. When I do see my relatives, which is rare because I live six hours away from most of them, they tell me how nice it is when they randomly hear from me. In 2015, I want to do more of that. Keeping in touch with beloved ones has always been important to me, but this year, even if I can only contact them once or twice more a month, I want them to really know how much I care about them.

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Centre County Gazette account executive I’ve never been one for chatting on the phone and prefer to schedule a block of time to catch up with friends and family. The problem is that distance and busy schedules make finding that block of time more and more difficult. In the New Year, I would like to begin using Skype to stay in touch with friends and family. It will give me the ability to see and hear the person I am speaking to, making it a more personal experience. I used Skype for the first time a few months ago, when my daughter went away to college. Talking to her that way made the whole experience much easier because I was reassured to see the happiness on her face and also knew she was doing well on her own. The technology is out there, so why not use it more often, with more people?

Katie Myers

I have not made a deliberate New Year’s resolution in a long time. I found that, like most people, I chose targets that were too large or too vague. I think it is better to set a specific goal that is something you are likely to be able to accomplish. An example of that would be: “I will eat at least two fruits daily.” In talking with some friends recently I made the statement: “I hope that my grandchildren will have good memories of me someday and that I will have left them with a lesson or two about a good life.” In 2015, I will restate that in the form of a resolution: I will stay close to all nine of my grandchildren by writing or texting them more frequently — not just sending a greeting through their parents or waiting for a visit. For my resolution to succeed I will need to set up reminders, but I think it is within reason. Whether my grandchildren get anything worthwhile out of it — well, that is for another discussion far down the road and one I probably won’t be present to hear!

Centre County Gazette ad coordinator When I was a kid, I was in a church youth group in Centre Hall that volunteered for lots of charities and events. After graduating from Penns Valley Area High School, I moved to State College to begin my college career at Penn State University. Although it wasn’t a far move, I quit going to youth group and I stopped volunteering. I had lots of school work to do and I worked several part-time jobs — my excuse for not volunteering anymore was that I was too busy. I’ve recently been motivated by one of my co-workers, who volunteers for several organizations, to get back into that work. In 2015, I want to give back to the community that has always given so much to me.

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Centre County Gazette managing editor In 2014, I had a health scare. I was having chest pains and was kept overnight at the hospital. While it was found to be nothing of great significance, it was a wakeup call for me. I needed to start eating healthier and become more active. In 2015, I hope to expand upon the progress I made in the final three months of last year. With that in mind, I have joined a local gym and resolve to get there several days a week. Heart problems run in my family, so I need to do all I can to make sure I am around for a very long time. My goal for 2015 is simple: Become even more active and eat even healthier. If I can do that, 2015 will be a great year!

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Centre County Gazette correspondent Over the past few years I have been truly blessed to have a beautiful wife, Deborah, and a wonderful home and to be back in Philipsburg area where I was raised. In 2015, I want to become more involved with community affairs! I feel I have the ability to share my time with and for others. I already volunteer for several agencies but feel I have more talent and time to make the Centre Region better.

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January 8-14, 2015

Third time is not the charm

Penn State drops its third consecutive conference game, falling to Michigan By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State fell to 12-4 on the year and a disappointing 0-3 in the Big Ten, losing to Michigan 73-64 Tuesday night at the Bryce Jordan Center. Coming off of an ugly game and even uglier loss to Rutgers this past weekend, Penn State came out with higher energy and efficiency, but it wasn’t quite enough. The Nittany Lions battled back from an early deficit to take a 21-17 lead with 7:17 to play in the first half. Michigan responded with a quick run of its own. The Wolverines outscored Penn State 7-2 in the final 1:30 of the opening 20 minutes of play. Michigan shot “I’M A LITTLE below 40 percent crazy, I would from inside the arc in the first half but rather play to- made 6-of-7 threes, morrow as soon giving a spark to the offense. as possible. Get Wolverine Penn State had a back on the spark of its own. court, get the John Johnson scored 10 points in the half jersey on and backed by Geno Thorpe and D.J. compete.” Newbill’s 6 points Pat Chambers apiece. A Newbill jumper Head coach, Nittany Lions cut the lead to 5 to open the second but Michigan’s own run pushed the lead back out to 10 just five minutes into the stanza. Michigan and Penn State traded baskets for the middle five minutes of play before a Newbill layup tied the game at 53 with 7:41 in regulation. Unfortunately for Penn State there wasn’t enough offense at key junctures in the contest. Brandon Taylor went 1-for10 from the floor and Ross Travis picked up 1 point and 2 rebounds on the night. While DJ Newbill finished with 20 points

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PENN STATE’S D.J. Newbill drives to the basket during Tuesday night’s game at the Bryce Jordan Center. The Nittany Lions lost the contest, 73-64. and Johnson with 16, missed open shots plagued Taylor as the Nittany Lions looked to hang on. Michigan on the other hand saw Caris LeVert go 6-for-8 from the field for 18 points with nearly all 8 of his second half scores coming at key moments. LeVert answered every big Penn State bucket with one of his own. The Wolverines backed up LeVert’s effort with 17 points from Zak Irvin and 12 from Derrick Walton Jr. Penn State never took the lead after tying the game and two late turnovers by Newbill with the Nittany Lions down 4 with just over a minute to play doomed the

final comeback attempt. Despite the loss Penn State did see Donovon Jack go 4-of-4 from the floor for 9 points and the bench scored 33 points in the losing effort. It was a better effort and performance than we saw in that shaky 50-46 loss to Rutgers, but unfortunately for Penn State they do not award wins based on improvement. The Nittany Lions will have some time off to regroup before traveling to Indiana next Tuesday. Head coach Pat Chambers said the team would not practice Wednesday.

“I’m a little crazy, I would rather play tomorrow as soon as possible. Get back on the court, get the jersey on and compete,” Chambers said. “Since we have a few days to let this simmer, we’re going to give them a day off tomorrow, we’re going to re-boot, reset and get back to work. That’s what you do. It’s one game at a time, now we have to travel to Indiana. That’s going to be a tough task. My mindset right now is get this team in a better place. My mindset is defend, rebound and play harder. We need to do that in practice, because we haven’t changed much.”

Gazette sports: The year in review Another year is in the books. Now is probably a good time to look back at the more interesting stories, both good and not-so-good, about sports here in the county. If it was anything, 2014 was a busy year, filled with the accounts of dramatic games played by our local teams every week. Actually, almost every day. There were a few of these stories, however, that stood out from the rest. They were events that transcended the year in which they happened and that will be rePat Rothdeutsch membered far into the covers sports for future. The Centre County So, in no particular Gazette. Email him order and with categoat sports@ ries completely and centrecounty arbitrarily made up by gazette.com me, here are some of the happenings that made 2014 special.

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GAME OF THE YEAR

When I was headed into the Penn State softball complex for the Bald Eagle Area and Philipsburg-Osceola PIAA softball semifinal showdown last spring, earlier than usual and waiting in a line of traffic, I began to realize that this was going to be something far out of the ordinary. A big game, yes, but there were people everywhere. It was standing-room-only in the park, and then that ran out. Hundreds of people — who knows how many — had to watch the game from outside the stadium. They were all around, standing or sitting on lawn chairs anywhere where they could see the game.

And the game — between two of the AA softball powers in the state that happen to be just a few miles apart — had the chance to play for the state championship up for grabs. Predictably, with teams of this caliber, the game was initially close and well played. BEA’s Makennah Dyke and P-O’s Maggie Peck were locked in a pitching duel, but after the first three innings, there was a growing feeling that one of these teams would get some kind of break — a big hit, an error, a couple walks — and immediately jump on it. After five innings, and the game tied 1-1, BEA broke through. The Eagles sent eight players to the plate in the sixth inning and put up four runs on an RBI ground out and three consecutive RBI singles to take a 5-1 lead. P-O stayed in it after a two-run double by Abby Showers in the bottom of the inning, but BEA added two more in the seventh to take the game, 7-3, and move to the state championship. It was a special night, and the climax of special seasons for both teams. Afterwards, there was talk about the Penn State stadium actually being too small. At that, a reporter asked, “How many times will there be a game like this?” Not often.

EVENT OF THE YEAR THAT WAS NOT A GAME

I for one was very disappointed to see Bill O’Brien leave Penn State for the pros. But the handwriting was on the wall. He was a coach who wanted to be in the NFL, there was a great offer from Houston, and O’Brien was a hot item after two tumultuously successful seasons at PSU. So, O’Brien left, and immediately the speculation started. And patient Penn State fans seemingly wanted someone

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BILL O’BRIEN left Penn State after just two seasons to pursue his dream of coaching in the National Football League. hired now, today. Or tomorrow at the latest. Athletic director Dave Joyner took his time, though, and a new name emerged with almost every passing day. Finally, in the second week in January, Penn State made its choice, and James Franklin was introduced at a press conference on the 12th as the new Nittany Lion head coach. That day, Franklin was thankful, confident, brash (see: “dominate the state”), energetic, committed and determined. It was almost as if the guy couldn’t be like that all the time. Actually, as we found out, he is like that all the time — and more.

From that day, Franklin set a breakneck pace all year that ended in the Lions’ exciting 31-30 victory over Boston College in the Pinstripe Bowl. In between, there was impressive recruiting successes, a last minute win in Ireland, a 4-0 start, rough going in the Big Ten, and an invitation to a bowl game perfect for Penn State fans in many ways. Some say that Yankee Stadium seemed like a mid-Bronx version of Beaver Stadium. And the win over Boston College, after hopes began to sink as the season progressed, restored much of the optimism Review, Page 17

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Mixed results for teams at holiday wrestling tourneys Centre County’s high school wrestling teams recently participated in holiday tournaments with a variety of outcomes. Here’s a closer look at the action:

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BALD EAGLE AREA

At the Manheim Holiday Wrestling Tournament, Bald Eagle Area placed 10th with 63 points, while the Eagles’ Seth Koleno placed second at 126 for the best finish from the Centre Region. BEA also got third-place finishes from Clint McCaslin at 138 and Josh Fye at 285. Koleno placed second in the 126-pound John Dixon weight class, recordcovers high school ing two falls in 3:10 wrestling for the and 4:50 and a 9-5 deCentre County cision to advance to Gazette. Email him at sports@ the finals. He lost an centrecounty exciting 11-10 decigazette.com. sion to Garnet Valley’s Mathew Marino. McCaslin advanced to the semifinals with a fall in 2:55 and a 5-2 decision, before falling 3-2 to Kiski’s Vaughn Curico. McCaslin won by injury default over La Salle College’s Andrew McClaren for third place. Fye advanced to the semifinals with a bye and a 10-8 decision before falling 5-4 in overtime to Spring-Ford’s Zach Dorsey. Fye won by a 3-0 decision in a consolation semifinal before winning a 6-2 decision against State College’s Jack Vandevort for third place.

BELLEFONTE

Following the first day of the Conestoga Valley Holiday Classic Wrestling Tournament, the Red Raiders sat in fifth place of the 32-team field. The Bellefonte’s Aaron Witherite, Luke Leathers, Brock Port and Trevor Corl went

2-0 and wrestled in the semifinals. Following losses, Shafiq Blake (2-1), Nate Rosenberger (3-1) and Dillon Kephart (2-1) dropped into the consolations and were guaranteed Top 8 finishes. The Red Raiders’ Port was crowned a champion and Bellefonte finished seventh as a team at the event. Bellefonte put seven wrestlers on the medal stand to rack up 105.5 points. Owen J. Roberts, with two champions and seven in the top four, took the team title with 206 points and Exeter had 185 for second. Philipsburg-Osceola finished 20th with 56.5 points. Port rolled to his title with a 4-0 record for the two-day tournament, earning a 4-3 decision over Ian Moritz, of Fox Chapel, in the 132 final. Earlier, Port dropped Tyler Bagoly, of Exeter, 7-1 in the morning semifinals. Also medaling for Bellefonte were Corl, third at 152; Witherite, fourth at 120; Rosenberger, fifth at 145; Leathers, sixth at 126; Blake, eighth at 106; and Kephart, eighth at 170. “Overall, I think we wrestled well,” said Bellefonte coach Mike Maney. “For Shafiq Blake, it was good for him to get on the podium for the first time in his limited experience in the sport. Aaron Witherite had a solid tournament, beating a guy who had beaten him earlier in the year and his losing a one-point match to a guy who majored him last year. Brock Port wrestled well throughout the tournament beating some good guys. Nate Rosenberger rebounded after a tough opening round lose to finish fifth. Trevor Corl rebounded from a tough one-point loss in the semifinals to finish third in a strong weight class. “It was a good tournament for us to see some teams from District 1 and 3 we normally don’t see and prepare us for the postseason.”

PENNS VALLEY

If there is one thing the Penns Valley wrestling team learned in its trip to the Panther Valley Duals in Carbon County, it’s that it has the resilience to withstand

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the season-ending districts, regionals and PIAA State Tournament. The Rams made the 242-mile road trip to Lansford to participate in the annual Panther Valley Duals and made the most of the journey, posting a 3-2 mark in the event. The Rams opened with a 56-21 win over host Panther Valley. The results: Curtis Decker, fall in 2:32 at 126; Jacob Confer, 1-0 decision at 132; Jared Hurd, 15-0 technical fall at 138; Andrew Hurd, fall in 1:07 at 160; Allen Cain, fall in 1:16 at 170; Corey Rimmey, fall in 3:55 at 182; Corey Hazel, fall in 1:56 at 195; Lucas Sharer, fall in :54 at 220; Jared Bressler, forfeit at 285; and Darren Yearick, fall in 1:18 at 106. Penns Valley fell to North Schuylkill, 3631, in its second match, as the Spartans opened the match with a decision and a pair of forfeits for a 15-0 lead. The Rams then ran off six straight wins by Decker (fall in 2:20 at 126), Confer (3-1 decision, 132), Jared Hurd (3-2 decision, 138), Dylan Homan (11-2 major decision, 145), Isaac Bierly (3-0 decision, 152) and Andrew Hurd (fall in 1:18 at 160) that enabled Penns Valley to take a 25-15 lead. Unfortunately, the Rams would win just one of the final five bouts, a fall by Hazel in 2:18, to three fall in the last three matches by the Spartans. Penns Valley then dropped a 44-27 match to Tri Valley, as the Bulldogs opened a 16-6 lead to start the match with the Rams lone win coming from Jared Hurd’s forfeit win. Penns Valley’s wins came from a forfeit win for Jared Hurd, 138; a 5-4 decision by Andrew Hurd at 160; a fall in :30 by Hazel at 182; a fall in 1:48 by Sharer at 195 and a forfeit win for Yearick at 106. The Rams rebounded from the loss and thumped Williams Valley 60-24, thanks to four consecutive falls: Decker, 1:33 at 126; Confer, 5:24 at 132; Jared Hurd, 3:01 at 138; and Bierly, :39 at 145. Penns Valley followed the falls with forfeits from the Vikings in six of the final eight bouts to set the final. The Rams continued to ride the mo-

mentum from the win over Williams Valley by stopping Wilson Area, 54-21. Penns Valley’s Bressler, 285, gave the Rams a 6-0 lead with a fall in 2:50 before the Warriors ran off three straight wins to take a 15-6 lead. The Rams responded by winning nine straight matches to put the match out of reach for Wilson Area. Decker, 126, won by fall in 1:40; Confer, 132, had a 4-1 decision; Jared Hurd, 138, posted a fall in 1:42; Bierly, 145, recorded a pin in :59; Homan, 152, won by tie breaker 4-3; Andrew Hurd, 160, won by forfeit; Cain, 170, had a fall in 1:42; Hazel, 182, had a fall in 1:02 and Sharer, 195, picked up a forfeit for the Rams final points.

PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA

P-O fell hard to undefeated Chestnut Ridge, 65-8, with the Mounties winning a mere two bouts in Levi Hughes, 132, who posted a 10-1 major decision, and in Dakota Weitoish, 138, who also recorded a major decision, 9-1. At the Conestoga Valley Holiday Classic Wrestling Tournament, the Mounties had one grappler reach the semifinals in Weitoish, 138, posting a fall in 1:05 and a 6-1 decision. He faced top-seeded Demetri Dorsaneo, of Owen J. Roberts High School, in the semifinals, losing 7-1 to drop into the consolations, where he placed fifth. P-O’s two grapplers still alive in the consolations were Matt Johnson, 113, and Bryce Bennett, 120. Johnson posted a pair of decisions before falling in the consolations and finished fifth. Bennett lost his first consolation bout but stayed alive in the tourney before losing to finish seventh.

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January 8-14, 2015

KIWANIS CHAMPIONS

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THE STATE COLLEGE AREA HIGH SCHOOL girls’ basketball team captured the Kiwanis Holiday Basketball Classic with a 40-36 victory over Burrell in the title game. Pictured, front row, from left, Casey Witter, Jessie Orndorff, Maggie Hurley, Abby Allen, Kayla Hawbaker, Brenna Adams, Allison Williams, Jalyn Shelton Burleigh, Kyla Irwin and Ali Treglia. Back row, assistant coach Kelsey Gill, Barrett McMurtry, Ellie Strauss, Taylor Love, head coach Bethany Irwin and assistant coach Rob Irwin.

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P-O looks to turn things around this season By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

PHILIPSBURG — A closer look at the 2014-15 Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School basketball team: Head coach — Matt Curtis, first season. 2013-14 record — 0-18. Key losses — Curtis Matsko and Dan Fowler. Key returnees — Collin Kerfoot, Jadaah O’Neill, Lewis Jones, Caleb Belinda, Trent Harrington and Lucas Fetters. Outlook — New PhilipsburgOsceola boys basketball coach Matt Curtis seemingly has the unenviable job of taking over a program that is coming off a season in which the Mounties did not win a game. Yet Curtis doesn’t look at it that way. To him, this is a new season and a new start — even though that start has to go all the way back to square one. “We are starting to try to get over what is in the past, and we don’t know what is in the future, what is ahead of us,” Curtis said. “We want to get better every time we’re on the floor right now. We are trying to relearn the game of basketball. We are starting with the basics like passing and dribbling, and we are just trying to get to know each other.” With a good turnout of 24 play-

ers for Curtis’ first team, P-O will be able to reestablish a JV program, something important with young and inexperienced players. Yet the Mounties also have experienced and older players that Curtis and his staff will be counting on. “We have seven seniors this year,” Curtis said. “On varsity we have point guard Trent Harrington, Lucas Fetters, Tanner Lamb, who just came back out this year, J. O’Neill and Collin Kerfoot.” Except for Lamb, everyone in that group saw extensive playing time last season and will take leadership roles on this year’s team. “Our hustle so far has been unbelievable,” Curtis said. “The guys just don’t quit. And they are starting to see some things, and I feel like we are just going to get better as the season goes on. I know that the other teams will also, but I think our learning curve is much higher. “We may not have basketball players, but we have good athletes. We have the kind of players that we will be able to get out and go. So we are going to be a little bit of a mix. You never know where the night will take us.” Despite everything, Curtis is positively upbeat about his team and this season. “We are not going to measure things in wins and losses,” he said, “but in improvement. Last year

Wrestling, from page 15 The event, hosted by Mount St. Joseph’s High School, featured 32 teams from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. The Wolves’ junior Austin Emel, at 152 pounds, finished eighth, and was the only wrestler to medal in the event for St. Joseph’s. The other two members of the team, Max Wortman at 113 and Joey Wheeler at 106, lost in the consolation bracket. Emel lost a 20-9 major decision to Dylan Gumaer, of Brentville in Nokesville, Va., in his opening bout at 152 pounds. Emel responded to the setback and won three straight bouts by falls in wrestle backs to reach the medal round. The first two falls in 35 seconds came against Matt Sciammana, of Bohemia Manor in Chesapeake, Md., and Jordan Leikin, of Severn Park, Md., while the third in 1:45 was against Nate Malinowski, of Boys Latin in Baltimore. Emel then dropped a 7-1 decision to Michael Budock, of Glenelg, Md., in the consolation quarterfinals, and was pinned in 2:30 in the seventh-place bout by Joe Rocca, of Queen of Peace in North Arlington, N.J. Wortman, a freshman, lost his first bout at 113 pounds by fall to Victor Echeverria, of Centerville, Va., in :58. Dropping into the consolations, he responded with a fall in :56 over Luca Review, from page 14 about the program, especially after the play of Christian Hackenberg and the offense. Stay tuned — it doesn’t look like Franklin is about to slow down any time soon.

HOW DO THEY KEEP THAT UP? PART I

The Penn State women’s volleyball team surprised many people by returning to this year’s NCAA final four in Oklahoma City. No. 1 Stanford, Texas and BYU were there also, and Penn State took on Stanford in the semifinal. Took them out, 3-1. Then, another surprise, it was not Texas in the final, but BYU. No matter, this one was 3-0, and Penn State had its seventh national title.

HOW DO THEY KEEP THAT UP? PART II

The Penn State wrestlers overcame a final-day deficit to claim their fourth consecutive NCAA

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THE PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOL boys’ basketball team returns six letter winners for the 2014-15 season. Pictured, front row, from left, are Trenton Harrington and Lucas Fetters. Back row, from left, are Collin Kerfoot, Jadaah O’Neill, Lewis Jones and Caleb Belinda. was obviously a tough year, but this group is the group that is going to change Mountie basketball.

Decicco, of Severn Park. Wortman’s tourney then ended when Jared Butler, of Pallotti in Laurel, Md., posted a 15-0 technical fall in his second-round consolation bout. At 106, freshman Wheeler also lost two bouts, both by falls, to Myles Thomas, of Pallotti, in :28 and to Ryan Thomas, of Loyola in Laurel, Md., in 2:36. Archbishop Spalding, of Severn, Md., won the team title with 172.5 points, with Georgetown Prep, of Washington, DC, second at 146.5 points.

STATE COLLEGE

The Little Lions participated in the Manheim Tournament and managed an eighth-place finish with 76 points to overall winner SpringFord’s 218.5 total. Five State College grapplers had top-five results. The Little Lions’ Adam Stover placed third at 106, reaching the semifinals with a 19-6 major decision and a fall in 5:13, before dropping a 6-5 decision to Spring-Ford’s Brandon Meredith. Stover won by decision in the consolation semifinals and then pinned La Salle College’s Michael McLaren in 1:27 for third place. At 285, Jack Vandevort pinned Tucker Insko, of Kiski Area, in 1:47 before falling 10-8 to BEA’s Josh Fye in the quarterfinals. He received a bye in his first consolation match, and then won

wrestling championship in 2014. Like their volleyball counterparts, the wrestling team has emerged as the dominant program in the country, and coach Cael Sanderson’s group looks so far this season like it is prepping for another run.

HOW DID THEY DO THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?

The State College Area High School football team finished the regular season with a 4-6 record and far down in the conference standings. But that conference was the Mid-Penn, and State High emerged ready for anything, which it proved with a run into the PIAA state AAAA quarterfinal against eventual finalist Pine-Richland. The Little Lions lost in a wild up-and-down game, but athletically, they were right there. Lots to look forward to in coach Matt Lintal’s upcoming second year.

They are going to get better, and they are going to set the tone for the years to come.”

with a pin in 2:35 and a 10-6 decision before falling again to Fye, 6-2, in the third-place match. The Little Lions also had fifth-place finishes from Anthony Myers (126), William Roeshot (170) and Cory Dreibelbis (195). Myers topped Easton’s Anthony Roche, 5-4, in the fifth-place match. Roeshot pinned Solanco’s Hunter Smith in 1:35 for fifth, while Dreibelbis took a 4-3 decision over Council Rock North’s Mike Rademacher. State College fell to 3-2 on the season when the Little Lions dropped a 48-23 decision to Jersey Shore on Jan. 3. State College was also scheduled to meet Central Dauphin earlier in the day, but that meet was postponed due to the weather, with no makeup date announced. At 106, Stover gave the Little Lions a 5-0 start with a 17-1 technical fall in 4:00, but the Bulldogs responded with a fall from Hunter Zondory in 4:27. State’s Trey Millward upped the team score to 8-6 with a 10-5 decision, but then the roof fell in on the Little Lions. Jersey Shore ran off five straight wins, three by falls, to take a 30-8 lead before Jarred Price, 160, stopped the bleeding with an 11-5 decision. At 170, Roeshot recorded a fall in 1:17 to get the Little Lions within 30-17 with four bouts remaining. Unfortunately for State College, Jersey Shore swept the final four bouts, all by falls, to set the final, 48-23.

OTHERS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THIS LIST

n The State College girls’ basketball team, with UConn recruit Kyla Irwin. n The State College baseball team — another solid playoff run. n Bellefonte’s football team beats Bald Eagle Area and actually takes the county series — after not winning a game for more than two years. n Clarence upends the Philipsburg Pirates to win the Centre County League championship. n Penn State’s women’s basketball team advanced to the regional semifinal but lost to Stanford to end another very successful season. The team’s seniors — Maggie Lucas, Talia East, Dara Taylor and Ariel Edwards — finished with 101 total wins in their careers. So, it was quite a year, and there’s no reason to think that 2015 will not be even more eventful. Let’s hope so, anyway.

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January 8-14, 2015

For P-O, the uphill battle continues By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH

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THERE IS NO off-season for Penn State head coach James Franklin. The Nittany Lions will have several early players enroll in January.

As one season ends, another begins By BEN JONES StateCollege.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — The 2014 season may have only just ended, but college football never really stops. Three future Nittany Lions are set to enroll early at Penn State this month. The advantage for early enrollees is the chance to get familiar with the system on and off the field. It’s a head start on the physical aspect of the game in the weight room, and also a chance to adjust to everything about college life. Football teams are limited to only five early enrollees per cycle, so space is limited for those players who have graduated early from high school and are ready to trek to Happy Valley. So far the picture is pretty clear, with three soon-to-be freshman headed to town, all in important areas on the roster. Quarterback Tommy Stevens, of Indianapolis, will join the Nittany Lions as Penn State looks to secure the position behind Christian Hackenberg following the departure of Michael O’Connor. The three-star dual-threat quarterback will give Penn State some mobility in the

post-Hackenberg future a year or two from now. Stevens will also join two key offensive linemen prospects, as Penn State hopes to add depth and skill to what was a highly scrutinized position in 2014. The first is Lackawanna College offensive tackle Paris Palmer. Palmer had committed to South Carolina before deciding to take his talents to State College. He is a 6-foot-8, 305-pound prospect who will bring size and a college-ready body to the table. It will be some time before Palmer finds his role on the line, but it’s hard to say no to that kind of size. Speaking of size, Pittsburgh native Sterling Jenkins will be the final freshman to enroll early, as Penn State adds another 6-foot-8, 305-pound building block to the front line. We’ll have to wait to see what kind of impact these three players have on James Franklin’s program. But, for at least Palmer and Jenkins, an early jump on the offense and weight training certainly can’t hurt with spring ball not that far off. Penn State’s season may only have ended days ago, but another one is just about to begin.

State College Elks Hoop Shoot set STATE COLLEGE — The State College Elks Lodge 2015 Local Hoop Shoot will take place at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Mount Nittany Middle School in Boalsburg. Girls and boys ages 8 through 13 are

eligible to compete in this free-throw contest. For more information, contact Van Arvin, local Hoop Shoot director, at vanarvin101@gmail.com.

PHILIPSBURG — By any means, this season was not going to be easy for new head coach Matt Curtis and his Philipsburg-Osceola basketball players. Curtis, a former star point guard at P-O, took over a program last spring that had been in decline in recent years and suffered through a winless season in 2013-14. The new coach had no illusions about what he was getting into, but he dove in immediately and began to make positive changes. The turnout for the team went up to 24 players, and some older players, who for one reason or another were not playing, came back out. P-O was able to reinstate a junior varsity program that will allow younger players to get valuable experience. Improved numbers was obviously a huge step forward, but then Curtis and his staff were faced with the challenge of molding these players into their image of a good basketball team. “We are starting to try to get over what is in the past,” Curtis said in a preseason interview. “We want to get better every time we’re on the floor right now. We are trying to relearn the game of basketball. We are starting with the basics like passing and dribbling, and we are just trying to get to know each other.” Now is the difficult part. Four weeks into the season, the Mounties are still working toward — and hoping for — some positive results. They haven’t come yet. After eight games, P-O is still winless and at times has seemed overmatched by its opponents. According to Curtis, it’s not a matter of effort or athletic ability, it’s about playing basketball. “We have a lot of athletes, and our kids play hard,” Curtis said, “but basketball experience is a major part of the game. Just knowing when to cut, recognizing defenses, and, for these guys, they need to see that. The more they see things, the more they’ll learn. It is a learning curve.” Their Jan. 5 Mountain League game at home against Central was a perfect example of P-O’s problems. The Dragons came in with a quick, fundamentally sound defensive team that pressures all over the floor and shoots very well. All things that, at this point, the Mounties find difficult to handle. Central scored the first 10 points in the game, sprinted out to a 23-4 first-quarter lead, and then coasted home with a 70-26 victory.

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The Dragons got points from 11 different players, including double figures from Brendon Volkommer (16), Alex Lafferty (12) and Colton Kensinger (12). Except for a good second quarter by P-O, Central had little trouble forcing Mountie turnovers and turning them into easy shots. P-O made a serious effort to climb back into the game with that 16-point second quarter, but the Mounties’ shooting woes returned and they managed just six points after halftime. For P-O, the only player to get into double figures was forward Josiah Davis who scored 12, mostly on baseline drives and jumpers. Payton Guelich chipped in with five. “They (Central) are a very good team,” Curtis said. “They’re organized, they share the ball, and their two shooters, Volkommer and Lafferty, were lights out. It was an all-around team effort for them. “Their pressure gave us problems. When you don’t handle pressure, and you give a team like that more possessions, it’s tough to win a game. We stuck with them for a while, but then they kept shooting, and we went ice cold. “In the second quarter, we were right there. We took care of the ball and we attacked offensively. So we try to pick out the little positives and show them, that when they do buy into what we are showing them it is there. We just have to get more consistent.” After the loss to Central, things do not get any easier for the Mounties with games against West Branch, Huntingdon and Clearfield coming up in quick succession. “The other teams that we see,” Curtis said, “are so well coached. Every night, the other teams are ready. It’s not that we aren’t, but we have to make sure that we are ready to play. The minute you let it down, they pounce on you. They don’t let you hang around in games. They finish you.” Still, Curtis believes that his team, however slowly, is making progress. “We are getting better at the little things,” he said. “We still are a second late, which is why we are still turning it over, but they are starting to see it. So there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The more we play, the more we get it. We just need to have a night when we put it all together. “This has been a frustrating season so far, so to see the effort we still get out of these kids is a real positive. But we have to make sure they still have fun. “We need them to be out there confident, having fun, and being in games to the end.”

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PSU math alum is Wall Street Journal’s puzzle guru By CARLEY MOSSBROOK Special to the Gazette

Inside a boxy Manhattan office — surrounded by bookcases littered with magazines, dictionaries and encyclopedias — Mike Shenk hunches over his desk and pecks the keyboard of his double-screen Mac desktop. Shenk is doing what big-city commuters, diner patrons, college professors and your Uncle Charlie do every Tuesday morning with a pencil and steaming mug in hand. He is solving a crossword puzzle. He is also working. Shenk, 56, is a puzzle creator and the crossword editor of The Wall Street Journal. He’s a Lancaster County farm boy with a Penn State math degree who decided decades ago that he would rather stump everyday people with words and puzzles than challenge high school students with numbers and equations. As one of three partners who run Puzzability, a puzzlewriting company, he can see his handiwork in the boxed calendar sets resting on office desks across the country, on the U.S. Navy’s Facebook page, and in magazines in the netting on the backs of Amtrak seats up and down the East Coast. What most people do as a hobby, Shenk does to pay the bills. Shenk, now one of the country’s leading enigmatologists, was never trained in puzzle creation, nor did he seek help from experts. He learned his craft through observation and by relying on his greatest asset, his brain. The boy who once paged through his mother’s puzzle books on the family farm carried his interest to Penn State. There, in the late 1970s, he was the first person to construct daily crosswords for the student-run newspaper, The Daily Collegian. In his college days, he yearned to be able to earn a living in puzzles. Concluding that it was an impossible dream, however, he focused on a more conventional career: teaching math. He began his first teaching job in rural York County in 1979. Barely a year later, finding that his teaching bored both him and his students, Shenk began submitting puzzles to Games magazine. He described Games as a publication known for “obscure, tricky” puzzles rather than the typical “dry, educational” variety. The connection to Games proved to be pivotal — his work came to the attention of a rising enigmatology superstar, Will Shortz. When the magazine expanded and needed to hire more editors in 1981, Shortz, one of the editors, threw Shenk’s name into the mix. After a trip to New York City and an interview, Shenk had a job in the world of puzzles. Shenk created and edited puzzles for the bimonthly magazine until it went out of business in 1990. Shenk found work elsewhere, including a six-month stint at Dell magazines as a puzzle editor. A year later, Games returned, as did Shenk’s job. He continued to produce fresh puzzles for the next five years before the company officials decided to move operations to Blue Bell, Pa., in 1996. Shenk, who lived in New York, was jobless again. Not long after, he and two former Games colleagues, Amy Goldstein and Robert Leighton, kickstarted Puzzability out of his Manhattan apartment. The Wall Street Journal soon came calling. Since then, Shenk said, his workload has grown, his puzzles have strengthened, and his craft has become his life. The hobby that attracted him with its playfulness, variety and entertainment has evolved into a flourishing career. It is a career that any puzzle-lovers would envy, and it is one that he does not need to be coaxed out of bed for.

THE PUZZLE GUY AT WORK

Warm October air blows through the tall windows of the Puzzability office as Shenk’s lean frame perches at his desk. His black and red Nikes are wrapped around the wheels of his chair; his hands lay cupped in his lap. A stack of No. 2 mechanical pencils rests to his right. Their pink erasers are rubbed raw to a nub. “Pen or pencil?” he is asked — the question any crossword puzzle solver would ask an expert puzzler. “Pen,” he replied, adding that he doesn’t often solve puzzles as a leisure activity. “It’s kind of like a busman’s holiday,” he said. “The Saturday puzzles don’t usually stump me. I’ve been making and solving puzzles so long now that I know most of the tricks.” In his own estimation, Shenk may not be the fastest solver but he is unchallenged by even the trickiest puzzles. “When I solve crosswords, I usually try to solve them with just the downs. I don’t look at the across clues,” he said. “As a crossword constructor, I can sort of see words forming across that I don’t need to look at the clues. I can just say ‘I bet this is going to be ...’ and that helps me get the downs.” The trick to solving the puzzles, in many instances, is understanding the clues and how they are worded. For example, if the clue is “the day after Wed.,” the answer would be “Thurs.,” because both days are abbreviated. Other clues are obvious to frequent solvers, such as clues and answers using the same parts of speech and plural clues leading to plural solutions. “There are some words that come up much more in

crosswords than in real life and some words that come up nowhere in the world but crosswords,” Shenk said. “Etui” (“an ornamental case for small articles,” according to Webster’s) and “ogee” (“a molding having an Sshaped curve”) would be examples of the latter; “Oreo” (the cookie) and “emir” (an Islamic ruler) would be examples of the former. Shenk said editors and constructors often try to avoid these. While his solving skills may be down pat, Shenk spends most of his time creating and editing puzzles. Shenk’s life can be described as more work, less play. His bachelor pad, a few blocks from his office, easily transitions into work space. Despite being surrounded by one of the largest nightlife centers in the world, Shenk, a self-described introvert, said he doesn’t participate in Manhattan’s hustle and bustle. When he decides to take a night off of editing and designing for Puzzability and The Journal, Shenk is likely to be watching “The Walking Dead” and “Dr. Who” on television. He gets together with buddies on Friday nights to play card games such as Guillotine — a game set during the French Revolution, where, Shenk said, “the point is sort of to make the other players miserable.” “My favorite thing is to just have time to myself,” Shenk said. “I’m not a hugely social person. I don’t go out and do night club stuff, and I don’t go to shows too often.” A nice thing about puzzles as a career, he added, “is it’s also fun, so it’s also my main hobby.”

HOW HE GOT STARTED

Beneath Shenk’s peppery hair and furrowed brows is a mind that works in a constant stream of letters and clues. Words are not just words, and phrases are not only phrases. Both are arrangements of letters waiting to be plugged into the white cells of crossword puzzles. “My mind probably works a lot different than everybody’s,” he said. “I’m very often thinking puzzles. Any free time, I’m playing with ideas and trying to come up with new themes for crosswords.” Shenk said that is not uncommon for puzzlers. Ideas stick in their heads and become fixations. “For me, it’s counting the number of letters in phrases and saying, ‘Oh, that would be a good length for a daily puzzle,’” he said. “We puzzle people find ourselves always looking at words as things to manipulate.” This is a quirk that propelled his puzzle-making from a childhood hobby to a career. Shenk’s interest in crosswords was sparked at his farm home in Manheim. His mother, Joan, liked to buy crossword-puzzle books, and she started leaving some of the puzzles for him to solve. Joan Shenk recalled that her son became interested in puzzles as soon as he was a good reader, far ahead of his classmates. While other boys signed up for tee-ball and played in packs, Mike opted for composing games and puzzles for the family. Often he could be found designing mazes of hay in the family’s barn instead of doing his assigned chores. “I enjoy my job now doing cerebral stuff, but I was very lazy and I wasn’t very happy to be doing the actual physical work as a kid,” he said. “I did a lot of work but never really enjoyed it.” His passion for numbers and logical thinking drove him to pursue a degree in mathematics at Penn State. At the end of his freshman year, Shenk opened his college newspaper to find an ad for a job that would become a stepping stone in his career. The new editor-in-chief of The Daily Collegian was calling for someone to create crossword puzzles, and Shenk was up for the job. As he remembers it: “I said, ‘Ooh! I’m going to give her some samples.’ So I gave her some samples and she said, ‘Sure!’” Shenk went on to make five daily puzzles each week over the next three years. That output far exceeds that of professional crossword-puzzle creators. Today, in an average week Shenk creates three to four crosswords and edits about three more. Shortz, who is now the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times and puzzlemaster on NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” is still amazed by Shenk’s puzzle production as a college student. “There have been lots of people over the years that make crosswords for their college newspapers, but it’s usually been weekly or less frequently,” Shortz said. “Mike is the only person I’ve ever known to do it daily. It’s astonishing.” Shenk was also earning straight As as a math major. “The Collegian was really where I learned to make crossword puzzles,” he said. At first he was breaking all the rules, but by the time he graduated, “they were real puzzles.” Shenk graduated with a bachelor of science degree in 1979 and began teaching at York County Area VocationalTechnical School, now York County School of Technology. It was a short-lived career that he found “was no fun at all.” That’s when he decided to send submissions to Games in his free time. Shortz remembers how impressed he was with those puzzles. “They were so far above most other submissions I was getting,” he said. “He does everything. He comes up with clever puzzle themes. He does whistle-clean grids with colorful vocabulary. And then his cluing is precise and interesting.”

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MIKE SHENK’S avocation turned into his vocation — solving, creating and editing crossword puzzles, something he got his start doing decades ago. PUZZLES AS A CAREER

With print publications beginning to decline as the public started using the Internet, the members of the Puzzability team decided in 1996 to follow the trend onto digital platforms. They set up shop for what they hoped would be a growing market for online puzzles. Nearly 20 years later, their intent of creating an interactive base for puzzlers hasn’t taken off. Instead, their company has found its niche in puzzles on paper. “We did think that everything was going to be moving onto online,” Shenk said. “Certainly, a lot of other things have, but puzzles haven’t really moved as fast as we thought they would.” The partners thought advertisers and online sites like Amazon would offer interactive puzzles and games to draw in an audience. Instead, they found these sites were attracting a strong clientele without entertainment. Shenk said it wasn’t all that surprising that “a lot of solvers still prefer their puzzles on paper.” He thinks it “feels more natural,” more satisfying. “It feels like you’re filling in the grid, not the computer doing it,” he said. Shortz, who has accumulated one of the largest online puzzle subscription readerships in the country at The Times, concurs with his protégé’s assessment. “Crosswords are ideally suited for the print medium,” he said, citing the aesthetics of solving a puzzle by hand and dismissing a computer as inefficient. “That being said,” Shortz added, “crosswords are making the jump to digital media.” Goldstein, the Puzzability webmaster, oversees the online content of the company. While she has seen a mediocre audience for Puzzability’s interactive puzzles, she said the challenge is figuring out how to expand the crosswords into the evolving world. “Sure, I worry about it as more and more sophisticated ways of solving electronically” emerge, she said. “I feel like we’re all waiting around to see whether things are going to disappear.” Shenk said at one point he tried to develop an app for Puzzability, but that idea is on hold. Instead, he said he is focused on perfecting his print puzzles for Puzzability and for The Wall Street Journal, which made him its puzzle editor and puzzle constructor in 1998. Shenk’s work can be found online and in print throughout the week, sometimes under pseudonyms. He explains that when the credit for a puzzle said it was created by Mike Shenk and was edited by Mike Shenk, it looks strange. Sometimes, he creates anagrams out of words and phrases to come up with his pseudonyms. For an October puzzle, he listed the pseudonym Colin Gale. “It’s a tribute to where I got my puzzle start,” he hinted. “The Collegian.”

WORKING, LETTER BY LETTER

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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.centrecounty library.org for days and times. Club — The Centre Region Model Investment Club will meet the second Monday of every month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Mazza Room at the South Hills Business School, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Call (814) 234-8775 or contact cr20mic@aol. com. Safety Checks — Mount Nittany Health will sponsor free car seat safety checks from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at their 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) 4667921. Exhibit — The works of Leslie Laron will be on display through Sunday, Jan. 25, in the Sieg Gallery at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. The museum is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Call (814)355-4280 or visit www.bellefontemuseum.org. Exhibit — “Felt and Fiber Art,” featuring the works of Ann Pangborn, Diane Maurer, Lena Thynell and Judith Finkelstein, will be on display through Sunday, Jan. 25, in the Jewelry Gallery at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. The museum is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Call (814)355-4280 or visit www.bellefontemuseum.org. Exhibit — The works of Roxanne Naydan, Patricia Lynn Pap and Dave Kolasa will be on display through Sunday, Jan. 25, in the Tea Room Gallery at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. The museum is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Call (814)355-4280 or visit www.bellefontemuseum.org. Exhibit — “Hidden Mother,” curated by Laura Larson, will be on display through Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Palmer Museum of Art, Curtin Road, University Park. Several parts of the exhibition will be shown Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sundays, noon to 4 p.m. Call (814) 865-7672 or visit www.palmermuseum.psu.edu. Exhibit — “Song of Myself” will be on display from Tuesday, Jan. 13, through Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Palmer Museum of Art, Curtin Road, University Park. This display will be shown Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sundays, noon to 4 p.m. Call (814) 865-7672 or visit www.palmermuseum. psu.edu. Exhibit — “Landscapes of Central Pennsylvania” will be on display through Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 North Allegheny Street, Bellefonte. Call (814)355-4280 or visit www.bellefonte museum.org. Contest — The Centre County Library and

Historical Museum is hosting a “Young Author & Illustrators” contest. Completed entries are due on or before Monday, March 30. Stop by any library branch to pick up a brochure and guidelines, or visit www. centrecountylibrary.org. Exhibit — “Jazz Riffs: Breaking Boundaries and Crossing Borders,” will be on display through Sunday, April 12, in the Diversity Studies Room, 203 Pattee Library, on the campus of Penn State.

THURSDAY, JAN. 8

Story Time — Preschoolers can enjoy stories and songs at the Thursday story time from 10:30 to 10:50 a.m. at Discovery Space, 112 W. Foster Ave., Suite 1, State College. Story times are free with paid admission. Call (814) 234-0200 or email info@mydiscovery space.org. Children’s Program — Preschoolers ages 3 to 5 can work on science-themed activities with “Science Adventures” from 11 to 11:30 a.m. at Discovery Space, 112 W. Foster Ave., Suite 1, State College. Activities are free with paid admission. Call (814) 234-0200, email info@mydiscoveryspace.org or visit www mydiscoveryspace.org. Knitting Club — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will host “Hooks & Needles,” an adult knitting club, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecounty library.org. Story Time — Holt Memorial Library will have preschool story time from 2 to 2:30 p.m. at 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Today’s theme is “Fun With Fairy Tales.” Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org. Children’s Program — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will host its Lego club from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecounty library.org. Comic Club — Schlow Centre Region Library will host a comic club for high school students from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Musser Room, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org. Embroidery Club — An embroidery club will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Sun Room, Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. All skill levels are welcome. Call (814) 237-6236. Support Group — Mount Nittany Medical Center will be hosting a diabetes support group from 6 to 7 p.m. in Conference Rooms 1 and 2, Entrance E, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. Call (814) 231-7095 or contact aleffard@mountnittany.org. Class — Mount Nittany Health will host a “parents-to-be” class from 7 to 8 p.m. at 3901 S. Atherton Street, State College. Call (814) 466-7921.

FRIDAY, JAN. 9

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

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to noon, in the Downsbrough Community Room at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. The program includes music learning with singing, moving and playing of simple instruments. Call (814) 235-7817. Adult Program — “Gadgets for Grownups” will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Musser Room at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. This week’s focus will be on how to use an iPad. Call (814) 235-7816. Children’s Activity — The Go Club, for young people ages 12 and up, will meet to do arts and crafts and play games from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in the Sun Room at Schlow Centre Region Library, State College. Visit www. schlowlibrary.org. Activity — A chess club for all ages will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Musser Room at Schlow Centre Region Library, State College. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org. Dinner — New Hope Lutheran Church of Spring Mills will host a ham potpie dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at 119 Cobblestone Court, Spring Mills. Contact psumacawslave@ yahoo.com. Games — Snow Shoe EMS will host bingo at 7 p.m. at 492 W. Sycamore St., Snow Shoe. Doors open at 5 p.m.

SUNDAY, JAN. 11

Support Group — Mount Nittany Medical Center will be hosting an ostomy support group from 2 to 3 p.m. in the conference rooms of 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. Call (814) 234-6195. Event — Celebrate 165 years of “National Kazoo Day” from 2 to 4 p.m. at Schlow Centre Region Library, State College. Visit www. schlowlibrary.org.

MONDAY, JAN. 12

Story Time — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will have toddler story time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Today’s theme is “Snowmen.” Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centre countylibrary.org. Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation presents line dancing at 10:50 a.m. at the Centre Region Senior Center, 131 S. Fraser St., No. 1, State College. No experience necessary or partners needed. Call (814) 231-3076. Class — Attend a creative art and journaling class at 6 p.m. at Kalina’s Studio in Indigo Wren’s Nest Wellness Center, 111 S. Spring St., Suite 8, Bellefonte. Create mixed-media art while honing your creative writing, painting and other artistic skills. Bingo — The State College Knights of Columbus will host bingo at 7 p.m. at 850 Stratford Drive, State College.

TUESDAY, JAN. 13

Seniors Hiking Group — Enjoy a moderate hike in the great outdoors at 9 a.m. at various locations in and around State College. The hikes are free except for car pool donations. Call (814) 231-3076 or visit www. crpr.org. Coffee Time — Bring a friend and savor that second cup of coffee and conversation from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in Fellowship Hall, Howard United Methodist Church, 144 W. Main St., Howard. Children’s Program — Holt Memorial Library will host “Mother Goose On the Loose,” a program for children ages 3 and under with the assistance of a favorite adult, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecounty library.org. Yoga Classes — Gentle yoga and basic level yoga classes will take place at the Howard United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 144 W. Main St., Howard. Gentle yoga

Puzzle, from page 1 Shenk is seeking a word that will fit within seven lights, the white cells of the puzzle, and contains the letter ‘d’ in the third cell. “Ardmore, bedsore, odds are,” he reads. “It’s just this long list of words and phrases.” Long, as in 390,000 entries. “I can look to see what’s in my list and try to pick one that’s the most lively,” he said. Shenk said the key to constructing a great puzzle is to challenge its solvers but not to frustrate them. “The best way to put it is that it’s sort of a competition between the puzzle writer and the solver, but the puzzle writer wants the solver to win,” he said. If the solver doesn’t solve the puzzle, he said, the puzzle is not successful.

classes will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. and basic level yoga classes will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Call (814) 625-2852 or contact kathieb1@comcast.net. Story Time — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will have evening story time from 6:30 to 7 p.m. for preschoolers and their siblings at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www. centrecountylibrary.org. Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation presents line dancing at 7 p.m. at the Mt. Nittany Residence, 301 Rolling Ridge Drive, State College. No experience necessary or partners needed. Call (814) 231-3076. Model Railroad Club — Nittany Valley Model Railroad Club meets at 7 p.m. at Old Gregg School Community and Recreation Center, Room No. 1A, 106 School St., Spring Mills. Call Fred at (814) 422-7667.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14

Story Time — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will have baby book time from 9:30 to 10 a.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Book themes will vary throughout January. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www. centrecountylibrary.org. Support Group — Centre Region Senior Center will be hosting a diabetes support group from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. at 131 S. Fraser Street, No. 1, State College. Call (814) 2313076. Children’s Program — Children ages 6 months to 2 can explore science through books and movement during “Baby Explorers” from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at Discovery Space, 112 W. Foster Ave., Suite 1, State College. Activities are free with paid admission. Call (814) 234-0200, email info@mydiscovery space.org or visit www.mydiscoveryspace. org. Story Time — Holt Memorial Library will have preschool story time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. Today’s theme is “Fabulous Folk Tales.” Call (814) 342-1987 or visit www.centrecountylibrary. org. Story Time — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will have preschool story time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Today’s theme is “Snowmen.” Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centre countylibrary.org. Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation presents line dancing at 10:50 a.m. at the Centre Region Senior Center, 131 S. Fraser St., No. 1, State College. No experience necessary or partners needed. Call (814) 231-3076. Volunteering — Bellefonte Area Mission Central HUB will be open from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church, 128 W. Howard St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-9425. Zumba — New Hope United Methodist Church will sponsor a free Zumba class at 6 p.m. at the church, 1089 E. College Ave., Bellefonte. Call Amanda at (814) 321-4528. Group Meeting — Celebrate Recovery will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Christ Community Church, 200 Ellis Place, State College. The group uses the “Eight Recovery Principles,” with a 12-step approach to help members cope with life’s troubles. For more information, visit www.cccsc.org or call (814) 2340711. Support Group — “Fertility Issues and Loss Support Group,” sponsored by HEART, will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Choices, Upper Level, 2214 N. Atherton St., State College. Contact info@heartofpa.org or visit heartofcpa.org. Club — Oakwood Presbyterian Church will host the Women’s Welcome Club at 7 p.m. at 1865 Waddle Road, State College. Contact wwcmembership@gmail.com. — Compiled by Gazette staff

Shenk is admired in the puzzle world for his clues full of puns, fresh puzzle constructions and, most importantly, for his appreciation of authentic puzzle-making. The shift from print to digital is evident in the construction phase of the puzzle world. Acknowledging Shenk at work across the office, Goldstein said: “Almost everybody else uses software except him.” Shenk himself noted that “there’s been a big move to a lot of people using software.” He said, however, that he uses software as an aid but not to fill in his grid. He hand-selects each word, theme and clue. Shenk said he is always looking for new challenges. “When you make enough crosswords,” Shenk said, “you start saying, ‘Well, what if the grid went in a different direction?’ ” After creating nearly 10,000 puzzles in his lifetime, who could blame him?

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PUZZLES CLUES ACROSS

31. Plastic, paper or shopping

1. Humbug

32. Electronic countermeasures

4. Meaningless talk 10. Conceit

35. Language along the lower Yenisei River

11. Not studied 12. Megabyte 14. When born (abbr.) 15. Placed on a golf ball stand 16. Melekeok is the capital

37. Institute legal proceedings against

24. Genus salvia

61. Having negative qualities

30. Livestock enclosure

26. About senator

32. Work units CLUES DOWN

33. Hebrew name meaning dog

1. Besmear 2. Genus dasyprocta

34. A tumor composed of muscle tissue

3. A male ferret 4. Unit of volume (abbr.)

36. Satisfy to excess

5. Italian hors d’oeuvres

42. A horse’s strut

40. Latch onto

21. Mason’s mortars

42. Physical therapy

23. Spain’s former monetary unit

43. Conditions of balance

25. Small fries

48. Half pro

27. Article

50. Resounded

28. Capital of Yemen

52. Sales event

29. Type of Theater companies

53. Separates seating areas

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60. Rests on one’s knees

39. Old World buffalo

54. N.M. Pueblo people

Sudoku #1

22. Withered; dry

38. Beam

18. Mischievous

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41. Third mast

6. N.W. German city & port 7. Signal sounds 8. Adult females 9. -__, denotes past

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12. Gas usage measurement

47. Ego

13. Fishhook point

51. Young woman of society

49. Hesitancy

55. Bridge building degree

17. Mauna __, Hawaiian volcano

56. Fullback

19. In a way, thrusts

57. Mark (abbr.)

57. Peyote

20. Grimm brothers birthplace

58. Jeans maker’s initials

55. Founder of Babism

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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.

RECORDED DEC. 15-19, 2014 BELLEFONTE BOROUGH

J. Adam Condo estate, Kathy K. Condo executrix & heir and Frances Z. Condo estate to Joshua M. Lucas and Jeana Lucas, 618 E. Linn St., Bellefonte, $190,000. Irvin A. Weaver estate, Linda Kline coexecutor, Elaine Fike co-executor, Janet Weaver-Miller co-executor and Daniel Weaver co-executor to Patrick J. Bernhard and Cristy N. Bernhard, Halfmoon Street, Bellefonte, $148,000.

BENNER TOWNSHIP

Reliance Savings Bank and Reliance Bank to Joshua C. Chalfa and Elizabeth A. Plozner, 327 Meadow Flower Circle, Bellefonte, $125,000.

CENTRE HALL BOROUGH

Pamela J. Gingrich, David Gingrich, Elaine S. Muthersbaugh and Eugene Muthersbaugh to Michael E. Weaver and Michele L. Weaver, 101 W. Locust St., Centre Hall, $138,000.

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP

Lincoln Associates Joint Venture to J. Monroe Associates LLC, 1951 Pine Hall Road, Suite 150, State College, $1. Niamh J. O’Leary to Robert W. Beadle, 127 Birchtree Court, State College, $167,000. S&A Homes Inc. to Evgeny M. Agranovskiy and Olga A. Esakova, 271 Florence Way, State College, $347,068.

FERGUSON TOWNSHIP

Russell R. Barton and Robin H. Barton to Woody J. Maynard and Susan E. Maynard, 2522 Tara Circle, State College, $425,000. James M. California and Mary E. California to Emmanouil Chatzakis and Kalliopi Biraki, 2357 Setter Run Lane, State College, $330,000. Circleville Road Partners C. LP to Berks Homes, 127 Rushcliffe St., State College, $23,100. Circleville Road Partners C. LP to Berks Homes, 129 Rushcliffe St., State College,

$23,100. Brent A. Craven and Emily R. Craven to Katharine P. Kile and Charles O. Kile, 2068 Pine Cliff Road, State College, $359,000. Steven L. Garrett to S. L. Garrett Living Trust and Steven L. Garrett trustee, 151 Sycamore Drive, State College, $1. Daniel J. Larson to Daniel J. Larson and Tanya Furman Larson, 2525 Tara Circle, State College, $1. Ralph A. Long to Lesley A. Ward, 872 N. Allen St., State College, $1. Lawrence J. McAleer and Salme Deanna McAleer to Richard A. Akers and Kimberly B. Akers, 667 Berkshire Drive, State College, $262,000. S&A Homes Inc. to John M. Sampson and Thida Kalayasilpin, 146 Red Willow Road, State College, $425,337. Dorothy E. Schumacher to Jeremy M. Peck and Rachelle R. Peck, 796 Tanager Drive, State College, $230,000. Thomas F. Songer, S&A Homes Inc. and Johnson Farm Associates to Centre County Properties LLC, 2452 Raven Hollow Road, State College, $241,068. Thomas F. Songer, S&A Homes Inc. and Johnson Farm Associates to Centre County Properties LLC, 421 Hawknest Road, State College, $248,068.

GREGG TOWNSHIP

Gregg Township to C. Wayne Company LP, 166 Brush Mountain Road, Spring Mills, $50,501.

HAINES TOWNSHIP

Haines Township to Con-Stone Inc. and Haines Township, $0. Robin L. Sweeley by sheriff, William L. Sweeley by sheriff and Robin L. Bartges by sheriff to M&T Bank, 133 Tattletown Road, Aaronsburg, $5,586.42.

HALFMOON TOWNSHIP

Donald W. Barger to Donald W. Barger and Lucia F. Barger, Smith Road, Port Matilda, $1. Donald W. Barger to Donald W. Barger and Lucia F. Barger, 481 Smith Road, Port Matilda, $1.

HARRIS TOWNSHIP

Raymond E. Clouser and Joyce L. Clouser to Kayla M. Horner, 803 Boal Ave., Boalsburg, $137,900. Michael R. Gabrovsek to Michael R. Gabrovsek and Susan Traynor, 1312 Andover Drive, Boalsburg, $1. Douglas R. Henry to Douglas R. Henry and Elizabeth A. Crisfield, 110 Chambers Alley, Boalsburg, $1.

Yvonne M. Riley and Christopher Riley to Carrie L. Friday and James E. Friday Jr., 810 Hemlock St., Boalsburg, $199,900. Bruce J. Rutter and Jacqueline M. Rutter to Brian A. Spencer and Maria Spencer, 220 S. Academy St., Boalsburg, $380,000. TOA PA IV LP to Keith R. Ellmann and Sandra A. Ellmann, 330 Beacon Circle, Boalsburg, $421,395.71. TOA PA IV LP to Claudia L. Gulley, 117 Settlers Way, Boalsburg, $388,719.23.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

Amber Rae Miller, Craig Miller, Craig Miler and Craig E. Miller Jr. to Craig E. Miler Jr., 125 Creek Side Lane, Beech Creek, $1.

MILLHEIM BOROUGH

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Timothy L. Hertlein Sr. by receiver and Christine M. Hertlein by receiver to Matthew T. Foster, 518 Walnut St., Philipsburg, $14,000. Justin M. Mason by sheriff and Angel M. Mason by sheriff to Federal National Mortgage Association, 3044 Port Matilda Highway, Philipsburg, $4,662.60. John Wheeler and Laura Wheeler to Monica R. Bittinger, 185 Tomahawk Drive, Philipsburg, $109,000.

SNOW SHOE TOWNSHIP

MILES TOWNSHIP

Elsie M. Fetterolf by attorney to Amos E. Stoltzfus and Edna Ruth Stoltzfus, 4631 Brush Valley Road, Madisonburg, $130,000.

PATTON TOWNSHIP

SPRING TOWNSHIP

Denise A. Kozminsky and Mark E. Kozminsky to Ronald S. Dvorkin and Ellyn E. Exley, 113 Wildernest Lane, Port Matilda, $375,000. Heunggi Lee by sheriff and Kyunghwa Lee by sheriff to M&T Bank, 109 Heiskel Drive, Port Matilda, $12,758.06. Reed McCormick to Scott L. Lucchesi, 5461 W. Buffalo Run Road, Port Matilda, $12,500. Brian A. Spencer and Maria Spencer to Alexander G. Woskob, 115 Picadilly Road, Port Matilda, $635,000. Floyd E. Whitman to Anthony W. Marrara, 143 Horner Lane, Port Matilda, $86,124.08.

PENN TOWNSHIP

Mary M. Shaffer estate, Thomas C. Shaffer co-executor and Larry S. Shaffer coexecutor to Ashley L. Shaffer and Nathan C. Besecker, 112 Weaver Ave., Coburn, $80,000.

PHILIPSBURG BOROUGH

Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Wells Fargo Bank, 422 E. Pine St., Philipsburg, $1.

POTTER TOWNSHIP

Betty J. Benner by attorney to Laura D. Homan, 115 Wynnewood Drive, Centre Hall, $175,000.

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Barbara A. Hahn to Five Guys Camp LLC, 132 Ponderosa Road, Moshannon, $25,000. Harold R. Hetrick to Thomas H. Salisbury, 123 Rock Ridge Road, Clarence, $28,500. Jose A. Santiago by sheriff, Mayra Santiago by sheriff and Mayra Melendez by sheriff to Bank of America, Clarence Road, Clarence, $5,114.91.

Jean E. Smith by attorney to Lori A. Fetterolf, 201 Hillcrest Ave., State College, $150,000.

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Dennis L. Robinson and Cynthia E. Robinson to Timothy C. Houser Jr., 108 Tusseyville Road, Centre Hall, $585,000.

Centre Lime & Stone Company Inc. to Centre Lime & Stone Company Inc., 121 N. Harrison Road, Pleasant Gap, $1. Judy S. Haranin to Henry Scott Haranin and Jane L. Haranin, 421 Valentine Hill Road, Bellefonte, $1. Jonathan Mortensen and Jonathan J. Mortensen to Brittany E. Glenn and Keith E. McGrory, 124 Danielle Drive, Pleasant Gap, $177,900. Ronald Leroy Sager estate and Ronald Lee Sager administrator to Andrew M. Casper, Jessica D. Shaffer and Barbara J. Casper, 722 W. Lamb St., Bellefonte, $120,000. Allen L. Strouse to Strouse Properties LLC, E. Rolling Ridge Drive, Bellefonte, $1.

STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH

Bethany Inc. to Xiaogong Zhao and Lei Zhao, 458 E. College Ave., State College, $415,000. James D. Geren and Christine A. Geren to Austin K. Heller and Allison L. Heller, 925 Grace St., State College, $253,000. Marie C. Hardin and Gerard Joseph Kammer to Temporary Housing Foundation Inc., 151 W. Prospect Ave., State College, $193,000. Penelope L. Sandoval and Penelope L. Zuck-Sandoval to Temporary Housing Foundation Inc., 1101 Center Lane, State College, $157,000. Temporary Housing Foundation Inc. to Joseph C. Lee and Heather M. Lee, 112 East Lytle Ave., State College, $170,000.

TAYLOR TOWNSHIP

Norman A. Robinson Jr. by sheriff to Wells Fargo Bank, 510 Orvis Beckwith Lane, Port Matilda, $8,887.34.

WALKER TOWNSHIP

Brian R. Hoy, Kate B. Hoy and David A. Vonada by attorney to J. A. 1 Rentals LLC, 151 Pike Road, Howard, $115,000. — Compiled by Gazette staff

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SEMESTER PARKING LEASES Parking 600 block of East Prospect Ave. 24/7 access. Spaces available for Spring Semester at $260.00 First Church of Christ, Scientist. Before 12/31/14, Call Mike at 814â&#x20AC;&#x2018;237â&#x20AC;&#x2018;8711 or email at m7h@psu.edu. Starting 1/1/15, email jeff.stalzer@ieee .org MCAT Prep Course MCAT University $79.95 BEST MCAT prep course that has over 50 hours science videos, 10 Verbal Reasoning practice tests, 6 fullâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;length MCAT practice tests & online review commentaries at a monthly subscription. Visit http:// www.mcatâ&#x20AC;&#x2018; prep.com/University DISNEY movies. VHS. $1 each, approximately 15 of them. (814) 574â&#x20AC;&#x2018;6387

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1995 FORD Fâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;150, 4x4, extended cab, automatic, 133K, inspected until 10/15. $1,900. Call (814) 364â&#x20AC;&#x2018;9773

Centre County Mutual Fire Ins. Co., P. of H. will hold its Annual Policyholders Meeting on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at 10:00 A.M., in Windmere Hall, 454 Rolling Ridge Drive, State College, PA. The purpose of the meeting is to review the 2014 financial report, election of directors, and conduct any other business which may be presented. Darlene W. Confer, Secretary

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