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Time for brain gain By GERRY WEISS gerry.weiss@timesnews.com
Sean Fedorko is giving the region reason for optimism after years of Erie wringing its collective hands over the ongoing loss of its brightest young people. Fedorko, 30, likes to refer to his circumstance, and the surge of several other new young entrepre-
Forward together neurs in the area, as brain retain. “The city is finding a way to keep the talent it trained,” said Fedorko, co-founder of Radius CoWork, which opened in May inside
Renaissance Centre and is believed to be Erie’s first co-working center, providing startup business owners with a professional office. Fedorko, a Millcreek Township native, earned degrees in political science and philosophy at Mercyhurst University before leaving Erie for graduate school in Indiana and then a job in Washington, D.C.
He eventually returned here, just like his business partner, Bill Scholz, 29, an Erie native and Gannon University graduate who left town to study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. “We’re seeing young people staying in Erie and starting companies now that we wouldn’t
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PENN STATE BEHREND’S NEW CENTER OF BRICK, GLASS AND STEEL INSPIRES MODERN APPROACH INSIDE TODAY Erie 2016, in four sections and 44 pages, takes a look at the state of Erie’s economy.
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By JIM MARTIN jim.martin@timesnews.com There’s not much Penn State Behrend can do about some of the biggest economic headwinds facing Erie. A slowing economy in China, jobs lost due to falling energy prices and the challenges that a strong dollar poses to exporters — they all defy easy fixes.
But Ralph Ford, who was recently named chancellor, is convinced that Behrend can play an important role in making Erie a place where companies want to do business. Workers are busy putting the finishing touches on the most visible manifestation of that commitment along Technology Drive in Knowledge Park, where the $16.5 million Advanced Manufacturing and Inno-
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vation Center is expected to open in March. The 59,000-square-foot building isn’t the school’s first step toward building partnerships with business, but it’s likely the most ambitious. Designed to advance the notion of the so-called open laboratory, the building will house the school’s
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ne of the perks of my gig is that I get an early peek at this newspaper’s annual report on the Erie region’s economic successes and challenges, which is included in today’s edition.
Paging through the sections of Erie 2016 on Friday and Saturday yielded a penetrating look at where we’re at, where we need to go and what we’ll need to get there. It’s must reading. But from where I sit this year, all of the stories, photos, graphics and advertising add up to something larger — a sense of mission and resolve. And a feeling of being in good company at a critical time. Some of that comes from the evolution of my professional role, a couple of years in the making. That’s meant spending less of my time on day-to-day management, and more on mixing it up in the community. It’s a big adjustment that likely will amount to the final act of my journalism career. And it includes an active role in our newly launched Erie Next initiative, focused squarely on issues crucial to Erie’s future and on holding community leaders, and each other, accountable for progress and results. Erie’s future can be better than its present, and its troubling trend lines can be stabilized and reversed. Whether that happens or not is on all of us. A lot of what comes with that challenge is tough stuff. It requires embracing change, letting go of outdated assumptions and pushing past, around or over self-interested defenders of the status quo. It involves actually digging into problems we’ve been content to just talk about or paper over. None of the above has been our collective strong suit. And the structural forces and enablers of inertia can be confounding and discouraging.
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Pat Howard But leafing through Erie 2016 supplies an antidote of sorts. Those pages catalog a lot of what this community has to work with, and how many businesses, organizations and people are grappling with changing realities and awake to new possibilities. A variety of prominent community figures were asked, for example, to answer an open-ended question: “What Erie needs is ...” One of them was Terry Cavanaugh, chief executive of Erie Insurance since 2008. Erie Insurance is deeply invested in Erie, financially and figuratively, and particularly in its urban core. But in a community in which elected officials are facing an impasse over whether our transit system should become more regional, listen to what Cavanaugh has in mind. “Erie would be better off if we had one county government,” he said. “Get rid of the city and the county and put them all under one heading. That is not a statement on the individuals who hold these jobs. But if we could combine all this under one effective organization, that would be very powerful.” Sign me up. Cavanaugh, 62, has said he’ll retire by the end of the year.
Perhaps a run for mayor in 2017? I’m sure Cavanaugh has no appetite for elective office, but there’s clearly a need for more farsighted, energetic and inventive political leadership in the region. The political class is probably the weakest link in Erie’s prospects for progress, though there’s some promise here and there even in that arena. But the journalism and ads in Erie 2016 are full of organizations, people and resources bent on pushing Erie and its economy ahead. They aren’t waiting for the pols to get out in front. And the idea behind Erie Next is that the Erie TimesNews and GoErie.com have a key role to play in focusing on solutions and connecting the dots of what’s already in motion. We’re not waiting either. One of the themes of today’s economic report is the need to foster an entrepreneurial culture in Erie to create businesses today that will sustain families tomorrow. Support and services have been put in place to help turn ideas into enterprises. How much traction can be generated in that realm will be a key indicator of Erie’s prospects. But the existence and growing reach of those efforts are heartening in a community where too many have too often looked in the rearview mirror for the way forward. As I’ve gotten away from my desk and out into the community more, it’s been reassuring to encounter a lot of people who get it. The challenge on a variety of fronts, as always, is to get it done. Write to Pat Howard at 205 W. 12th St., Erie, PA 16534, or e-mail him at pat.howard@timesnews. com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNhoward.
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SARASOTA, Fla. — Is a breakup bringing you heartache for Valentine’s Day? Goodwill stores in the Sarasota and Las Vegas areas have an anti-Valentine’s Day antidote. They’re asking people to donate their ex’s stuff with a “don’t hate, donate” campaign. In a news release, Goodwill Manasota Foundation Vice President Veronica Brandon Miller said the agency is “having a little fun at the expense of Valentine’s Day.” But she notes that breakups are never easy and that it is important to “get rid of the items that keep exes stuck in the past.”
BOSTON — The city of Boston is trying to rid the streets of unsightly cigarette butts by placing special receptacles in high traffic areas that will allow smokers to vote on a simple question. The butt receptacles, with two disposal holes each, will be placed in seven areas of the city. Each is decorated with a question that has two possible answers. For example, one butt receptacle asks smokers: “Which superpower would you want?” Smokers can deposit their butts in an opening for “Flight” or for “Invisibility.”
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Sunday talk shows ▀ “This Week,” ABC, 9 a.m.: Republican presidential candidates John Kasich and Marco Rubio; Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. ▀ “Meet the Press,” NBC, 10 a.m.: Kasich, Rubio; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. ▀ “Face the Nation,” CBS, 10:30 a.m.: Trump, Rubio, Sanders.
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▀ “State of the Union,” CNN, 9 a.m.: Rubio; Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush. ▀ “Fox News Sunday,” Fox, 9 a.m.: Rubio, Sanders.
Twin sisters give birth to girls minutes apart VOORHEES, N.J. — Twin sisters in New Jersey have given birth to girls just minutes apart at the same hospital. WPVI-TV reported that Stephanie Edginton and Nicole Montgomery delivered their daughters Cora and Louisa six minutes apart on Monday afternoon at Virtua Hospital in Voorhees. The twins said they were born three minutes apart.
Abigail Quinn, 7, of Erie, receives a hands-on, field hockey lesson from Mercyhurst University sophomore field hockey player Taylor Balser, 19, of Buffalo, during Mercyhurst University’s fifth annual Girls & Women in Sports Day at Mercyhurst Athletic Center in Erie on Saturday.
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Today In History Highlight in History: On Feb. 14, 1849, President James K. Polk became the first U.S. chief executive to be photographed while in office as he posed for Matthew Brady in New York City. On this date: ▀ 1778, the American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France. ▀ 1859, Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state. ▀ 1895, Oscar Wilde’s final play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” opened at the St. James’ Theatre in London. ▀ 1903, the Department of Commerce and Labor was established. (It was divided into separate departments of Commerce and Labor in 1913.) ▀ 1912, Arizona became the 48th state of the Union as President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation. ▀ 1946, the film noir “Gilda,” starring Rita Hayworth, was released by Columbia Pictures.
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Correction ▀ A story in today’s Feb. 14 Living section incorrectly states that Pulakos sells chocolate-covered raspberries for Valentine’s Day. The store does not offer them Valentine’s Day.
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BIRMINGHAM — Growing up in the 1950s, William Bell had to enter Birmingham’s segregated Lyric Theatre through a side entrance, marked “COLORED,” that was walledoff from the elegant lobby. He climbed a dimly lit stairwell to watch movies from the steep balcony where black patrons had to sit for generations. Now the mayor of Birmingham, Bell recalls the Lyric’s beauty, but also the way it isolated black people. The inequity built into the Lyric Theatre’s very architecture is a painful reminder of the city’s ugly past as one of the most segregated places in America. But it also serves as a living history lesson, a symbol of how the Deep South has changed since the courts ended discriminatory Jim Crow laws. Preservationists had to decide whether to keep reminders of the Lyric’s discarded color line before they unveiled an $11 million restoration of the 102-year-old theater, which had been closed for decades. In this case, they chose to highlight the history, installing a glass door etched with the words “Historic Colored
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A woman stands at the Historic Colored Entrance at the Lyric Theatre in Birmingham, Ala. Preservationists decided to keep the door as a segregation history lesson. Entrance” in the lobby wall, so that patrons can peer into the past. Across the South, people are struggling with similar questions: What does a changing region do with the vestiges of back-alley service windows, segregated waiting rooms, dual water fountains and abandoned schools that once formed the skeleton of a society built on oppression? Northern states have such reminders, too. A black heritage trail in Portsmouth, N.H., includes all-black burial grounds and a plaque explaining that blacks had to sit in designated pews in New England churches through the mid-1800s. In Detroit, murals decorate
a 6-foot-tall concrete wall built in 1941 to separate a new development meant for whites from an existing black neighborhood. But the issue has become particularly acute in the South, where millions still remember living through segregation — and where reminders of that not-too-distant past are prevalent. In Ellisville, Miss., for example, metal plaques attached to two concrete water fountains outside the Jones County Courthouse hide an ugly truth: one fountain was exclusively for whites and the other for blacks. But some preservationists are choosing to keep the relics as history les-
sons. At President James Madison’s Montpelier estate in Virginia kept separate waiting rooms at the Montpelier Train Depot. The depot is now equipped with exhibits explaining the history of Jim Crow laws and “separate but equal.” More so than in the past, many older people and younger generations feel a need now to discuss the legacy of Jim Crow, said Robert Weyeneth, a University of South Carolina history professor who specializes in preservation. “It has become more complicated today because people are more willing to think about the preservation of the architecture of white supremacy,” Weyeneth said. “Initially, no one wanted to save these things.” It makes some people uncomfortable to be reminded of segregation at the Lyric, but the mayor believes people must see history as it really was, even if that means glancing up at the segregated balcony where he sat as a young boy. The ornate theater was beautiful, he recalls, but blacks up there could never mingle with the white patrons far below. “We should not shield ourselves from our past,” he said.
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6 with Afghan security killed in Taliban attacks KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents killed six Afghan security personnel Saturday in two separate attacks, Afghan officials said. In one incident, four policemen were killed and seven others wounded in double-suicide attacks on their checkpoint outside a security forces station in the southern province of Helmand, said Gen. Abdul Rahman Sarjang, the provincial police chief. Sarjang said five insurgents equipped with suicide vests were shot and killed by security forces. Mohammad Rasoul Zazi, an army spokesman in Helmand, said one army soldier was killed and another was wounded in the attack. The incident took place in Sangin, where the Taliban have been launching attacks against Afghan army and police for several weeks.
114 bodies pulled from toppled building; 1 missing TAIPEI, Taiwan — Workers have pulled out 114 bodies from the rubble of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed in an earthquake in Taiwan’s oldest city, leaving only one missing, authorities said Saturday, a week after the disaster. All but two of the 116 bodies recovered in Tainan after the magnitude-6.4 quake struck the city on Feb. 6 were found in the ruins of the Weiguan Golden Dragon building. A total of 327 people in the 17-story building survived. According to Taiwan’s Interior Ministry, workers extracted more than 60 more bodies on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. One person is unaccounted for, local authorities said Saturday.
5 killed when car going wrong way slams into SUV DAYTON, Ohio — A suspected drunken driver going the wrong way on an Ohio interstate slammed head-on into an SUV, killing himself and four people inside the other vehicle early Saturday, police said. Police said the driver who caused the crash on Interstate 75 in downtown Dayton also may have been arrested on a DUI charge in the last few days, the Dayton Daily News reported. Friends of those inside the SUV told investigators they were in another vehicle and had to swerve to avoid the wrong-way driver, said police Sgt. Matthew Beavers. Three men and one woman were in the SUV, said Beavers, who estimated that the victims were in their late teens or early 20s. The driver of the car was in his 60s, he said. All five were pronounced dead at the scene.
Counselors on hand at school day after shooting GLENDALE, Ariz. — Social workers offered counsel to students at a suburban Phoenix high school Saturday, a day after two 15-year-old girls died in a murder-suicide shooting. Counselors were available throughout the morning for students, as well as their families at Independence High School in Glendale, according to a statement issued by Principal Rob Ambrose. Glendale police said the bodies of the two students were discovered Friday just before the start of classes in an area near the cafeteria, Glendale police said. Each had been shot once and was declared dead at the scene. Investigators recovered a weapon and a suicide note at the scene, but police did not release the contents of the note. Police said nobody witnessed the shooting, but the incident initially caused widespread panic among parents who could not reach their children. — from wire reports
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WASHINGTON — Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without its conservative majority and setting up an ideological confrontation over his successor in the maelstrom of a presidential election year. Scalia was 79. The U.S. Marshals Service in Washington confirmed Scalia’s death at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas. Spokeswoman Donna Sellers said Scalia had gone to his room the previous evening and was found dead Saturday morning after he did not appear for breakfast. Scalia was part of a 5-4 conservative majority — with one of the five, Anthony Kennedy, sometimes voting with liberals on the court. Scalia’s death leaves President Barack Obama weighing when to nominate a successor, a decision that immediately sparked a political struggle drawing in Congress and the presidential candidates. The immediate impact of his death for the current term means that the justices will now be divided 4-4 in many of those cases. If there is a tie vote, then the lower court opinion remains in place. Cases in which the current court was expected to split 5-4 include disputes over abortion, affirmative action and immigration policy. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, said the nomination should fall to the next president. Democrats were outraged at that idea, with Sen. Harry Reid, the chamber’s top Democrat, saying it would be “unprecedented in recent history” for the court to have a vacancy for a year. Leaders in both parties were likely to use the high court vacancy to implore voters to nominate candidates with the best chance of winning in the November general election. Scalia used his keen intellect and missionary zeal in an unyielding attempt to move the court further to the right after his 1986 selection by President Ronald Reagan. He also advocated tirelessly in favor of originalism, the method of constitutional interpretation that looks to the meaning of words and concepts as they were understood by the Founding Fathers. Scalia’s impact on the court was muted by his seeming disregard for moderating his views to help build consensus, although he was held in deep affection by his ideological opposites Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. Scalia and Ginsburg shared a love of opera. He persuaded
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday morning at a private residence in Texas. Scalia, who service on the court since 1986, was 79.
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President Ronald Reagan, center, speaks at a news briefing at the White House in 1986 announcing the nomination of Antonin Scalia, left, to the Supreme Court. Then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist is at right. Kagan to join him on hunting trips. His 2008 opinion for the court in favor of gun rights drew heavily on the history of the Second Amendment and was his crowning moment on the bench. He could be a strong supporter of privacy in cases involving police searches and defendants’ rights. Indeed, Scalia often said he should be the “poster child” for the criminal defense bar. But he also voted consistently to let states outlaw abortions, to allow a closer relationship between government and religion, to permit executions and to limit lawsuits. He was in the court’s majority in the 2000 Bush v. Gore decision, which effectively decided
the presidential election for Republican George W. Bush. “Get over it,” Scalia would famously say at speaking engagements in the ensuing years whenever the topic arose. Bush later named one of Scalia’s sons, Eugene, to an administration job, but the Senate refused to confirm him. Eugene Scalia served as the Labor Department solicitor temporarily in a recess appointment. A smoker of cigarettes and pipes, Scalia enjoyed baseball, poker, hunting and the piano. He was an enthusiastic singer at court Christmas parties and other musical gatherings, and once appeared on stage with Ginsburg as a Washington Opera extra.
Ginsburg once said that Scalia was “an absolutely charming man, and he can make even the most sober judge laugh.” She said that she urged her friend to tone down his dissenting opinions “because he’ll be more effective if he is not so polemical. I’m not always successful.” Scalia showed a deep commitment to originalism, which he later began calling textualism. Judges had a duty to give the same meaning to the Constitution and laws as they had when they were written. Otherwise, he said disparagingly, judges could decide that “the Constitution means exactly what I think it ought to mean.” His dissents in cases involving gay rights could be as biting as they were prescient. “By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition,” Scalia wrote in dissent in 2013 when the court struck down part of a federal anti-gay marriage law. Six months later, a federal judge in Utah cited Scalia’s dissent in his opinion striking down that state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Scalia also supported free speech rights, but complained, too. “I do not like scruffy people who burn the American flag,” he said in 2002, but “regrettably, the First Amendment gives them the right to do that.”
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FREDERICKSBURG — A pileup involving dozens of vehicles on a Pennsylvania interstate that killed three people and sent scores to hospitals appears to have been related to a passing snow squall, authorities said Saturday. Trooper Justin Summa said three fatalities had been confirmed and an unknown number of critically injured patients were flown to hospitals. Seventy more were transported by ambulance to other facilities after the crash on Interstate 78 in Fredericksburg. Statepolicesaidmorethan 50 vehicles were involved in thecrash,whichhappenedat about9:45a.m.Thepileupleft tractor-trailers, box trucks and cars tangled together across three traffic lanes and into the snow-covered median about 75 miles
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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a crash near Fredericksburg on Saturday. Police said three people died and many others were injured in the 50-plus vehicle pileup. northwest of Philadelphia. Megan Manlove, of Penn State Hershey Medical Center, said 10 patients had been brought in from the crash, three in critical condition, three with moderate to severe injuries and four with minor injuries. Trooper Adam Reed said investigators believe that “passingsnowsquallsplayed
a role in causing the crash.” Some witnesses reported sudden whiteout conditions on the interstate before the crash. “Itjustturnedrealwhite,” Raul Jardine, of Allentown, said,addingthatallhecould see were the brake lights of the car in front of him, so he slowed down and was hit from behind.
MUNICH — Hopes of securing a temporary truce in Syria within a week dimmed Saturday as Syrian government forces tightened the noose around rebel-held parts of Aleppo and Russia’s foreign minister put the chances of a quick truce at less than 50 percent. His comments and strong words from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry underscored deep U.S.Russian disagreements over Syria. Further complicating the picture, Turkey’s foreign minister said his country and Saudi Arabia may launch ground operations against the Islamic State group in Syria. The United States, Russia, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed Friday to work toward a temporary “cessation of hostilities” within a week. However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov — pressed to say how confident he is that a “cessation of hostilities” will be implemented — replied: “49” out of 100 percent. He indicated that Russia remains deeply suspicious of U.S. intentions.
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‘It’s crucial. There’s a life cycle for industries, and it takes new firms and new ideas to replace ones that are dying or leaving the area.’
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have seen five, 10 years ago,” Fedorko said. “Part of it, I believe, is more of a willingness to take risks. Part of it is a change in culture. The notion of 30 years and a pension is a unicorn. None of us will ever Sean capture it. Fedorko: We either Says young have to entreprebuild for neurs are ourselves or willing to take risks. perish.” Through entrepreneurship in technology, art and culture, there has been an influx of young Erie-area college graduates who are either staying here or returning to start up new businesses, said Fedorko, a steering member of ErieCoLab, a group of community organizers and business leaders aiming to spur growth in Erie. ECL formed this past summer. FILE PHOTO ANDY COLWELL/Erie Times-News You also can see this in the number of new Mathew Silva, 27, is a software engineer and motion graphics designer who created the RendrFX platform. The breweries and bars under company is in the Erie Technology Incubator at Gannon University at 900 State St. Silva moved here from Naples, Fla., ownership of young pro- an example of a young entrepreneur who chose to come to Erie rather than leave it. fessionals who are either from Erie, went to college Two-tenths of in the region, or both. a percentage RadiusCoWork—whose point members pay a monthly fee for desk space, office Drop in Erie 20- and 30-year-olds equipment, a conference County’s 20- and as a percentage of room and a connection to 30-year-olds’ each municipalities high-speed Internet — is population, 2009-14 total population in 2014. one of nearly a dozen new local companies started Higher Lower by 20-somethings, includpercentage percentage ing the Picturesque Salon & Boutique, ApexDrop 4 5, B Influence Marketing, Erie Ale Works, and RendrFX, 3, A E which creates templates D that clients can use to genC erate customized videos. “Opportunity here is 1 vastly greater than it is in 2 a lot of other cities,” said Fedorko, whose business Areas with largest growth received a crucial head Municipalities with largest percentage of of county’s young, 2009-14 start when it won a con(in percentage points) test giving it free rent for 20- and 30-year-olds one year. “Resources are 1. Edinboro Borough .... 44.5% A. Elgin Borough .......13.3 available, and support 2. Conneaut Township .. 36.8% B. Girard Borough .......8.1 organizations are eager to 3. Elgin Borough .............. 32% C. McKean Township...6.8 provide assistance.” 4. City of Erie ................ 29.8% D. Lake City Borough ..4.1 Penn State Behrend’s E. Fairview Township...4.1 new Innovation Com- 5. Girard Borough ......... 28.5% mons, the Innovation Col- Note: Two items that could have skewed figures: Edinboro contains laborative, an Erie-based Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Conneaut Township contains nonprofit organization SCI-Albion prison. dedicated to boosting en- SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau CHRIS SIGMUND/Erie Times-News trepreneurism in the area, and the Erie Technology Incubator at Gannon University are playing key roles in helping entrepreFILE PHOTO GREG WOHLFORD/Erie Times-News neurs. The technology incuJason Lavery, now 34, has been producing beer bator has been a hub for commercially in midtown Erie since 2010. He expanded mentoring, nurturing and Lavery Brewing Co. a little more than two years ago by building startup and earlyopening a brewery pub at 128 W. 12th St. stage technology-oriented businesses in northwestwhen they applied to col- he said, will lead the way. ern Pennsylvania since lege and where they were “It’s crucial. There’s a 2008. living in 2011, tracking life cycle for industries, The incubator, which more than 17,000 gradu- and it takes new firms and often collaborates with ates over a 10-year period. new ideas to replace ones Gannon’s Small Business The study showed 17.3 that are dying or leaving Development Center, curpercent of Erie County the area,” the retired ecorently has about 25 cliresidents who attended nomics professor said. ents, several of whom are college locally ultimately The institute has not upstudents in their 20s, said moved somewhere else. dated its study since 2011. Jeff Parnell, the incuba“It’s a big project to do. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Some of that loss was offset tor’s executive director. by students from outside A major undertaking that “We commit to these Bill Scholz, 29, is a business partner with Radius CoWork, the area who stayed after is extremely time-consumcompanies, meet on a reg- a business that rents out shared office space in the attending college here. ing,” Kurre, who oversaw ular basis, track progress,” Renaissance Centre on State Street. The analysis did not in- the 2011 study, said recentParnell added. “There’s a clude data from thousands ly. “I’m not seeing many great deal of support for RendrFX platform. Silva people has proved to be of Erie students who at- localized brain drain studpeople wanting to build moved here from Naples, challenging to accurately tended college outside ies being done around the out.” Fla., in the summer, as he track and quantify, ac- the area. country, either.” RendrFX, which in- and his wife have relatives cording to officials with Keeping our “best and Kurresaidastudywould corporated less than six in Erie and Pittsburgh. the Economic Research brightest young minds” be possible to do in the fumonths ago, is located in “Mat could have started Institute of Erie and the in Erie is what Jim Kurre, ture with the proper fundthe technology incubator this business anywhere in Erie Community Founda- director emeritus of the ing, which he estimates to at 900 State St. the country,” Parnell said. tion. institute, calls “the most be at about $20,000. Parnell is especially “We’re thrilled to have him This wasn’t exactly the important long-term part George Espy, the Erie impressed with Mathew in Erie, and we certainly case five years ago, when of the puzzle” when it Community Foundation’s Silva, 27, a software engi- hope he stays.” the institute unveiled comes to bolstering the lo- vice president of comneer and motion graphics The brain drain and a study that compared cal economy. munity impact, echoed designer who created the brain gain of Erie’s young where students were living Young entrepreneurs, Kurre’s sentiment about
Where Erie County’s young live
the importance of tracking brain drain and brain gain. But Espy said the issue is “too fluid” for the foundation to continue to follow as a separate indicator in its Erie Vital Signs project, the data-driven civic enterprise that has been tracking trends and community indicators in eight of the region’s critical areas since 2010, and comparing local numbers with those in cities similar to Erie. Vital Signs dropped brain gain as a separate indicator in 2015. “We haven’t found good consistent data over time where we could see trends with hard evidence. “We’d like to have it, but without the evidence we can’t draw any hard conclusions,” Espy said. “You’re talking about finding out who leaves, and whether they come back, and did they get jobs, and did they then stay in the area. It’s very difficult to track and get good accurate numbers.” Young people, Kurre said, need to see promising employment and career opportunities in Erie to remain or return here. Opportunity and immediate success have followed the young Erie entrepreneurs behind two popular downtown bars and breweries. Bourbon Barrel, 1213 State St., has seen an increase in sales each month since it opened at the former Cell Block in July, according to its owners. Paradox Bars, the ownership and management team behind Bourbon Barrel, consists of several Erie natives who are all in their 20s or early 30s. Jason Lavery has been an integral part of the Erie region’s surging craft beer business since he was in his late 20s. The Albion native, who graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s in communications, has been producing beer commercially in midtown Erie since 2010. He expanded Lavery Brewing Co. a little more than two years ago by opening a brewery pub, 128 W. 12th St., that can accommodate about 65 people. Business, from the day he opened his doors, has thrived. Lavery, now 34, has seen the craft beer industry take off nationwide for much of the past decade, including in nearby Pittsburgh and Cleveland. And the award-winning beer he makes would likely be well-received by craft beer lovers anywhere. Starting a craft beer business anyplace other than Erie never entered his mind. “We’re very proud of being from Erie and promoting it,” Lavery said. “I think our faith in Erie has been good for other people and, I hope, other young entrepreneurs to see.” Fedorko, of Radius CoWork, and Lavery both believe businesses like theirs will continue to attract young people to the city, providing the quality of life that makes them want to live in Erie. And maybe keep them here.
G E R R Y W E I S S can be reached at 870-1884 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ ETNweiss.
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Behrend: Building pushes innovation Continued from 1A mechanical engineering department, classrooms, labs and offices, while providing space for business tenants. One commercial tenant, along with Tim Hortons — which will provide for the building’s doughnut and coffee needs — already had signed on. SKF Aerospace, which provides bearings, seals and structural components for aviation engines, will be moving from an existing research space at Knowledge Park into the new AMIC building. The school isn’t looking for just the next rentpaying tenant that comes along. The goal, Ford said, is a tenant that can benefit from access to students, faculty and facilities that will be found in the building, while providing those students with real-world experience. Amy Bridger, Behrend’s director of research and business development, said Behrend has been working since at least 2010 to find ways for its students and faculty to build relationships with the business community. “I think this is the next evolution we have talked about,” Bridger said recently as she walked through the unfinished building. The university’s students and faculty won’t be the only draw. A dedicated room, built with vibration-isolating technology, has been prepared for the arrival of a new $900,000 electron scanning microscope, funded by a grant through the National Science Foundation. “That is something our
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Amy Bridger, director of research and business development at Penn State Behrend, and Behrend Chancellor Ralph Ford visit the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center at the Harborcreek Township campus.
Center’s site Penn State Behrend’s $16.5 million Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center is expected to open in March. The building will house the school’s mechanical engineering department with space for business tenants. Ba
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students and faculty can use,” Ford said. “But the thing that I think was really key to the grant was it
is going to be a community asset that local companies, universities and hospitals can use.” That’s the kind of relationship this expanse of brick, glass and steel was designed to build. Bridger said she believes some tenants will likely be drawn to Penn State’s business-friendly policy that allows business partners to retain the rights to intellectual property that it develops jointly with the university. “It’s pretty unique,” she said. Ford said he wants what educators everywhere want. “We are all trying to make sure our students have experiences that prepare them,” he said. Internships and working side-by-side with industry are a means to achieving that goal, Ford said. The results of existing
relationships with other Knowledge Park tenants and with other companies in Erie have demonstrated the value of turning students loose on some of the challenges facing business. “They are not makework projects,” Ford said. “They are true problems they have to solve. The students come out with a true industry experience, and our industry partners believe they are getting value.” Time will tell the extent to which industry embrace the concept. Bridger said she expects it could take three years or so to fill the spaces inside the new building that have been set aside for tenants. Already, though, there
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Michael Sundquist, with Landmark Painting, puts on a first finish coat inside a stairwell at the Penn State Behrend Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center. is proof that the model works. Existing Knowledge Park tenants already are snapping up some of the space that Behrend will vacate when it moves into the AMIC building. Ford, who was previously director of Behrend’s school of engineering, said he believes the school is making a smart bet. “The idea of building
a connection between business and academia is something that most of us say is a great idea,” he said. “Like most things, it’s more easily said than done.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is getting an assist from a Republican super PAC founded by a top strategist to former President George W. Bush. American Crossroads is spending about $40,000 on an online advertisement that likens Sanders’ opponent, Hillary Clinton, to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when it comes to immigration policy. The ad is a mashup of brief and selectively edited Clinton and Trump comments, combined in a way to make it seem the two agree on immigration policy — including Trump’s call to build a massive wall along the border with Mexico. In fact, Trump and Clinton share widely divergent positions on immigration. Trump has called for the mass deportation of people living in the country illegally and a temporary ban on Muslims seeking to travel to and visit the U.S. Clinton favors creating a pathway to citizenship for people in the U.S. illegally and wants to expand President Barack Obama’s
gUn-ViolEnCE REsEaRCh: The House on Feb. 10 refused, 177-241, to designate gun-violence research as a National Science Foundation priority, so that science could potentially help reduce gun deaths. A yes vote was to adopt the amendment to HR 3293 (above).
ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, S.C. — John Kasich proudly cites hiseffortswhileinCongress tocutwhathebelievedwas wastefulmilitaryspending. But allies for Jeb Bush, a Republicanpresidentialrival,seeapotentialvulnerabilityforKasichinmilitarymindedSouthCarolinaand are trying to slow the Ohio governor’smomentumafter a strong showing in New Hampshire. An outside group backing Bush has begun airing
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bragging during campaign stops about his work to cut wasteful military spending during his 18 years on the House Armed Services and Budget Committees. “I was what they call a member of the ‘cheap hawk caucus,’” he said Thursday at a Pancake House in Pawleys Island. “In other words, we’re going to be as strong as we need to be, but we’re not going to waste money.” Kasich says his budget plan would increase military spending by $100 billion, focusing money on the front lines while cutting bureaucratic jobs at the Pentagon.
Feb. 11 voted, 267-151, to require the next Treasury secretary to provide Congress with a detailed report on the national debt. A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate, where it appears likely to fail.
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Army steps up effort on women More female recruiters planned ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Beginning this summer, a visit to a local Army recruiting office will include a new set of gymnastic tests to help determine what military jobs a recruit is physically capable of performing. Prospective soldiers will
be asked to run, jump, lift a weight and throw a heavy ball — all to help the Army figure out if the recruit can handleajobwithhighphysical demands or should be directed to a more sedentary assignment. The new tests come as the Pentagon is opening all combat posts to women, a process that involves setting physical standards for every job that both men and women will have to meet.
As part of the effort, the Army will increase the number of female recruiters to better target women. The goal will be to add 1 percent each year for the next three years in order to get at least one woman at each of the Army’s more than 780 larger recruiting centers across the country. Right now, only about 750 of the 8,800 Army and Army Reserve recruiters are women. The head of U.S. Army
Recruiting Command, Maj. Gen. Jeff Snow, said that adding more women as recruiters will give female recruits someone more credible to talk to about options for women in the military and how an Army career could affect married or family life. But he said getting that increase will be tough because other commands across the Army are also competing to get more women in their units.
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Officers investigate the scene of a shooting in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday. Two officers were wounded early Saturday during a confrontation with a suspect.
2 officers hurt in Baton Rouge Wounded suspect had ‘mental issues’ ASSOCIATED PRESS BATON ROUGE, La. — A Baton Rouge neighborhood was awakened before dawn Saturday by a hail of gunfire, with police saying two officers were wounded as they traded shots with a man they had been chasing. Neighbors say dozens of shots were fired in an exchange that also wounded the suspect. Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said the officers’ injuries didn’t appear to be lifethreatening. The suspect was undergoing surgery at the same area hospital. East Baton Rouge Par-
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5.1 magnitude quake, others strike Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY — A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook northwestern Oklahoma and was felt in seven other states Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, the third-strongest temblor ever recorded in the state where the power and frequency of earthquakes has dramatically increased in recent years. The earthquake centered about 17 miles north
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Pope offers tough love Pontiff: Mexico’s elite have duty ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Pope Francis issued a toughlove message to Mexico’s political and church elites Saturday, telling them they have a duty to provide their people with security, justice and courageous pastoral care to confront the drug-inspired violence and corruption that are tormenting the country. The raucous welcome Francis received from cheering Mexicans who lined his motorcade route seven-deep contrasted sharply with his pointed criticism of how church and state leaders here have often failed their peo-
ple, especially the poorest and most marginalized. “Experience teaches us that each time we seek the path of privileges or benefits Pope for a few to Francis the detriment of the good of all, sooner or later the life of society becomes a fertile soil for corruption, drug trade, exclusion of different cultures, violence and also human trafficking, kidnapping and death, bringing suffering and slowing down development,” he told government authorities at the presidential palace. In a subsequent hardhitting speech to his own
Ban lifted for priest in sex assault case NEW DELHI — The Roman Catholic church in southern India has lifted the suspension of a priest convicted in 2015 of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the United States more than a decade ago, a spokesman said Saturday. The suspension of the Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was lifted in January after the bishop of the Ootacamund Diocese in India’s Tamil Nadu state consulted with church authorities at the Vatican, said the Rev. Sebastian Selvanathan, a spokesman for the diocese. Bishop Arulappan Amalraj of Ootacamund had referred Jeyapaul’s case to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the suspension was lifted on the church body’s advice, Selvanathan said. “After Jeyapaul’s release from the United States and his return to India, this matter was referred to Rome, and ac-
cording to the guidelines of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the suspension against Jeyapaul was removed,” Selvanathan said. The Vatican office of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declined immediate comment. Jeyapaul was sent to Minnesota in 2004 and served at Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush, near the Canadian border. He was suspended in 2010 after being charged with sexually assaulting two girls who were both 14 at the time of the alleged abuse. Jeyapaul fled the United States, but was arrested in India by Interpol in 2012 and extradited to the U.S. Jeyapaul pleaded guilty to molesting one of the teenagers who hasn’t been identified publicly. The charges involving sexual abuse of the second teenager, Megan Peterson, were dropped as part of a plea deal.
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bishops, Francis challenged church leaders known for their deference to Mexico’s wealthy and powerful to courageously denounce the “insidious threat” posed by the drug trade and not hide behind their own privilege and careers. He told them to be true pastors, close to their people, and to develop a coherent plan to help Mexicans “finally escape the raging waters that drown so many, either victims of the drug trade or those who stand beforeGodwiththeirhands drenched in blood, though with pockets filled with sordid money and their consciences deadened.” The speech was met with tepid applause, with only a handful of bishops standing in ovation.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A boarding school for troubled teenagers in Iowa that is being investigated by the FBI routinely kept students in small concrete “isolation boxes” for days or weeks and wouldn’t let them out unless they sat in a specific posture for 24 hours, according to several former students. Six former students recently told the Associated Press about abuse they said they suffered while attending Midwest Academy in Keokuk, a city along the Mississippi River where Iowa borders Illinois and
elsewhere. She said an earlier escape attempt failed. The students, who attended the academy between 2008 and this past September, said they and their classmates mutilated themselves, hated the lack of activity and natural light andlostweightduetosmall meals.Somesaidtheywere scarred by the experience months or years later. Officers raided the academy Jan. 28 to investigate allegations that a staff membersexuallyassaulted astudent.Theinvestigation hassinceexpandedtoother possible criminal activity and abuse. Academy owner Ben Trane declined to comment on abuse claims at a news conference this month and didn’t respond to AP interview requests. The academy’s 90 students
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Missouri. They said the dark, cell-like punishment rooms were often filled with the sounds of students’ screams and motivational recordings piped in through speakers. Surveillance cameras and staff members kept watch. “You spend your time pounding your head against the wall. You can’t sleep because there is a lot of noise. A lot of girls like to scream in there. You basically look forward to bathroom breaks and those moments when you can get out of your box,” said Emily Beaman, 17, of Wheaton, Ill. Beaman said that after weeks of isolation, she got out in July only after cutting herself with a bottle cap and begging emergency responders to place her
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