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The weighting game Uplifting athletes hosted the 10th annual Lift For Life last week on the new lacrosse field on the Penn State campus./Page 18
July 19-25, 2012
Volume 4, Issue 29
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Fans, alumni react to details of Freeh report By SAMI HULINGS For The Gazette
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FAMILY FUN: Tanner Riley and her father, Clint, enjoyed the petting zoo at the People's Choice Arts Festival on the Military Museum lawn on July 15.
People’s Choice celebrates 20 years in Boalsburg By SAMI HULINGS For The Gazette
BOALSBURG — For almost 20 years, Jacalynn McCord, owner of Lion Paw Pottery, has been a staple at People’s Choice Festival of Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts — and this past weekend was no different. As a Penn State art education graduate and former art teacher, McCord creates pottery full time by throwing high-fire stoneware clay on a wheel. Because of her strong ties to the university, McCord features a specific line aimed at Penn State alums and fans, complete with Nittany Lion paw prints.
“It’s great for tailgating and things like that. It’s all functional ware. You can use it for baking for just serving things,” she said. The festival’s close proximity to Penn State and local feel is why McCord believes it is the perfect place to sell her pottery and catch up with former classmates. She said as an alum, she sees friends from college, as well as friends of her daughters, who are fourth-generation Penn State graduates. “Penn Staters always find me no matter where I am. Penn State alums are a class of their own, no
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Community invited to come out for Kids Day By MARJORIE S. MILLER mmiller@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — Sen. Jake Corman’s vision of giving families an opportunity to spend time together in the community will come to life again this year at Kids Day with the Spikes, held from noon to 2 p.m. on July 21 at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The event, which was started in 2007 by Corman, R-Centre, aims to provide a fun and informative opportunity for families, said Brandy Reiter, executive assistant for Corman’s office. “State College Spikes players are there to sign autographs and take pictures, and we have numerous non-profit businesses and agencies that participate,” Reiter said, such as police departments, state agencies, Boy and Girl Scouts
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and youth camps. Reiter said in previous years, the event has drawn as many as 800 people. “Sen. Corman very much enjoys this event and it is important to him as a way to provide an opportunity for families to be able to spend time together in a fun and educational way at no cost to them,” she said. Most vendors will bring items to hand out to the kids, and have games they can play, Reiter said. Additionally, there will be a variety of door prizes, such as a Spikes autographed replica jersey and a Spikes autographed bat, donated by the Spikes, she said. “Sen. Corman is there for the entire event and is able to greet families, hand out door prizes and help anyone that
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SAM STITZER/For The Gazette
LIVING HISTORY: David Klinepeter speaks to the crowd as Gov. Andrew Gregg Curtin during a Civil War muster re-enactment. Coverage on Page 12.
STATE COLLEGE — It’s time to become more aware, Centre County. On the heels of the Freeh report, advocates for children say it’s clear that a change needs to take place. According to Cameron Frantz, director of community outreach for the Centre County YMCA, people need to start talking — now. “Child sex abuse is such a taboo topic,” Frantz said. “But it’s an epidemic. By the time children are 18, one in four boys will be abused and one in six girls will be abused. As a society, we don’t want to deal with that. We have to stop it, we have to prevent it.” With that in mind, Stewards of Children will hold trainings aimed at prevention, awareness and education. According to Andrea Boyles, CEO of the Centre County Youth
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UNIVERSITY PARK — With the release of former FBI director Louis Freeh’s report, the integrity of Joe Paterno, the Penn State football program and Penn State Un i v e r s i t y as a whole has been thrown into question. For some Penn State LOUIS FREEH fans in the area who have been following the scandal from the beginning, the report came as no great surprise. Jessica Billet, of Sunbury, said by Saturday morning she had read every page of the Freeh report. She said though the information stated in the independent report done by Freeh didn’t shock her, she hopes its release will help to show that not everyone with a tie to Penn State is at fault. “I don’t think you can hold a group of individuals responsible for the whole university. Yes, they
were power players at the university, but not everybody at the university should be punished for what they did,” she said. Billet also said she was pleased with the way Freeh investigated the university and how he presented his findings in a non-biased way to the public. “I think they did a great job investigating in the time they took. I think that given the circumstances, they could only talk to so many people. The people that they could talk to, they got and they did what they needed to do,” she said. The Freeh report was released on July 12 and claimed that Paterno and other top Penn State officials concealed what they knew about Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children. The 267-page report on the Sandusky scandal asserted that Paterno and senior Penn State officials made a decision to protect Sandusky to avoid damaging the image of the school and its powerful football program. Penn State’s internal investigation into one of the worst scandals in sports history is unlikely to settle the debate about Pater-
Service Bureau, the Stewards of Children training is an invaluable tool. “By now, we’ve all thought about this, how to talk about it, how to deal with it,” Boyles said. “There’s an opportunity to learn more and that’s where the Stewards of Children training comes in. In our current culture, we are so afraid to ANDREA BOYLES say something. We need to put these children first.” The Stewards of Children program is the only nationally available program proven to increase knowledge, improve attitudes
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