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Gifts of Gardening Besides making for attractive landscaping or helping to save money at the grocery store, gardens can benefit the environment and communities in a variety of ways

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features 28 / Wiring in on the Giving Now in its fifth year, Centre Gives, the 36hour online fundraising event, has become an increasingly popular time for nonprofits to “gather,” promote themselves and each other, and connect with the communities they serve • by Jenna Spinelle

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36 / The Gifts of Gardening Besides making for attractive landscaping or helping to save money at the grocery store, gardens can benefit the environment and communities in a variety of ways • by Dana Ray

44 / Rising above the Stigma As more young people are recognizing the importance of mental health, they are taking actions that are helping themselves and others better handle mental-health issues • by Jodi Morelli

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Thanks in part to discovered letters, local researchers rediscover and uncover details of how three women started Memorial Day in Boalsburg • by Mike Dawson On the cover: Photo by Darren Andrew Weimert/ Woody Wilson of Wilson Home Farms in State College is one of many people, businesses, and organizations that can help anyone start and maintain a garden that can benefit the environment and community.

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10 Letter from The Editor 12 Starting Off: The List, People in the Community, Q&A

20 Living Well: The power of decluttering your life • by Meghan Fritz 22 Health: Osteoporosis: The “Silent Disease” • by Roberta Millard, MD 26 On Center: Two orchestras, a pair of trios, Bach, and a Roomful of Teeth await 2016-17 audiences • by John Mark Rafacz 68 This Month on WPSU

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What’s Happening: NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship, AAUW Used Book Sale, Big Spring Festival, Memorial Day, and more highlight May’s events

80 From the Vine: The many reasons for rosé • by Lucy Rogers 84 Taste of the Month/Dining Out: Gigi’s brings tastes of the South to Happy Valley • by Vilma Shu Danz 96 Lunch with Mimi: Commission for Women cochair promotes equity issues at Penn State 106 State College Photo Club’s Winning Photos 108 Snapshot: South Hills’ Paul Mazza III leads the school his parents founded • by Madison Lippincott

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May’s Many Faces

The month acts as bridge between two sunny seasons and brings with it plenty of positivity May is one of the more interesting months of the year. It begins with the fresh feelings of spring — people are still getting their gardens ready for the warmer months, doing some spring cleaning, and making sure their homes didn’t suffer any damage from the winter (or some unexpected snow in April!).

The month ends with what’s considered the kickoff to summer — Memorial Day weekend — which means grills are fired up, pools are open, and school years are nearly over.

This year’s May issue of Town&Gown covers both parts of May — and everything in between.

On the spring side, Dana Ray’s story, “The Gifts of Gardening,” gives suggestions not only on where to go and what to do to help improve your home garden, but also how your garden can help the environment and your community. Also, for more home-care ideas and tips, be sure to check out this year’s edition of Town&Gown’s Home, which is a special insert with the May issue.

On the summer side, Memorial Day is a special day across the country, and especially in Boalsburg, which proudly claims to be where the holiday began. In “A Town and a Tradition,” Mike Dawson talks with the four local researchers who wrote a book after rediscovering the details behind the three women who helped start that first Memorial Day in Boalsburg.

May also is about goodbyes as Penn State graduates another class. For its class gift, the Class of 2016 is establishing an endowment to support Penn State’s Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), which helps thousands of Penn State students each year in group therapy, individual

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counseling, crisis intervention, and psychiatric services. It’s a remarkable gift and shows how more people are recognizing the importance of mental health and how we as a society handle mental-health issues — something you can read about in Jodi Morelli’s story, “Rising above the Stigma.”

Finally, when it comes to gifts and giving, May is when Centre Gives happens. The 36-hour online fundraising event hosted by Centre Foundation is in its fifth year and has raised nearly $3 million for participating organizations. It’s become a vital tool nonprofits in Centre County use to raise money and their profiles, and you can read about the effort in Jenna Spinelle’s story, “Wiring in on the Giving.”

Maybe it’s because of the spring cleaning and gardening at the beginning of the month or maybe it’s because of the start of summer at the end, or maybe it’s both, but May just has this aura of optimism about it.

Hopefully you can enjoy all aspects of this month, and maybe find some time to give — whether through your garden or your wallet — so that optimistic feeling can carry to others.

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The List What to know about MAY

May, among other things, is Military Appreciation Month — something that should actually be celebrated every month.

The PA Military Museum in Boalsburg is a great place to visit in honor of Military Appreciation Month, especially on May 22 when it holds its Celebration of Service: Honoring Pennsylvania Veterans.

May also is National Foster Care Month, and Centre County Children and Youth Services holds its annual Change a Lifetime event May 3 on the steps of the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte.

Time to enter the “real world!” Penn State holds its spring commencement ceremonies May 6-8 at the Bryce Jordan Center.

Congrats to all graduates — now, go get a job!

May 8 is Mother’s Day, so be sure to mail those cards, make those phone calls, and plan a special day.

We should feel lucky this year — there’s only one Friday the 13th in 2016, and it happens in May.

The Star Wars enterprise made a big return last year with with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. So this is a great year to celebrate Star Wars Day on May 4. May the 4th — get it!

The outdoor farmers’ markets open in May, including Downtown State College Farmers’ Market May 6 and North Atherton, Bellefonte, and Millheim markets May 7.

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Memorial Day is May 30, and Boalsburg becomes the place to be as it holds its annual Memorial Day events.

To find out more about how this tradition started in Boalsburg, read Mike Dawson’s story, “A Town and a Tradition,” in this month’s issue of Town&Gown. T&G

People in the Community Mike Herr

Mike Herr, better known as Mike the Mailman, retired from his job of manning the post office at Penn State, a position he held for 48 years.

Herr became one of the most famous people on the campus. His smile and light-hearted personality made everyone’s trip to the post office more enjoyable.

In an interview with Penn State, Herr said, “I just hope they always had good experiences with me and they appreciate that I tried to help them. I hope that they remember me as a nice guy who tried to help people. I’ve had a ball doing this.”

When asked what was the most fulfilling part of his job, he said, “I think it’s the interaction with all the students, faculty, and staff. … It’s funny — no matter where I go, there are always other alumni there, and once someone starts telling a story about me, someone else starts telling a story about me.”

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Andrew Mackiewicz & Jessie Radanovich

Penn State fencers Andrew Mackiewicz and Jessie Radanovich won individual national titles at this year’s NCAA Championships.

Mackiewicz, a sophomore, won his second consecutive national title in sabre. He defeated Ferenc Valaki of St. John’s, 15-11.

Radanovich, a junior, won the title in epee over Princeton’s Charlene Liu. The Lions finished sixth in the team race for the national title.

Rebecca Strzelec

Rebecca Strzelec, professor of visual arts at Penn State Altoona, has been named Penn State laureate for the 2016-17 academic year. She succeeds Carol Reardon.

Strzelec has been a Penn State faculty member since 2002 and is head of the degree program in visual art studies at Penn State Altoona.

Her work focuses on investigating the ways wearable objects interact with the surfaces of the body and includes the creation of these wearable objects through computer-aided design and rapid prototyping.

She received her degrees in metals, jewelry, and computer-aided manufacturing from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Her work has appeared in more than 65 exhibitions.

The laureate is a full-time faculty member in the arts or humanities who is assigned half time for one academic year to bring greater visibility to the arts, the humanities, and the university, as well as his or her own work. T&G

Q&A with Joe Horvath, museum educator at the Pennsylvania Military Museum

By Madison Lippincott The Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg was founded in 1968 as an honorable sanctuary of Pennsylvania’s military history, spanning from 1747 to the present.

Besides its exhibits, the museum holds many special events during the year.

With Memorial Day in May, Town&Gown talked with Joe Horvath, a veteran who is the museum educator and has been working at the museum for more than 20 years.

T&G: As museum educator, what are the responsibilities that you have in your position?

Horvath: I’m responsible for the interpretation of the site.

It’s really cool because I get to tell the story of our military history. I’m also responsible for the front desk operations, which means meeting and greeting people when they come in.

My job is to organize and coordinate the events and programs that go on on the grounds and inside the museum, with the exception of the Friends Lecture Series. I’m a logistical planner in taking in volunteers who love history and turning their love of history into programs that make history fun for the public when they visit — because history shouldn’t be boring.

We should know what our history is. It’s vital to know where you came from. It’s not just a matter of memorizing dates and names. History is constantly happening, and it’s always best not to forget what has happened lest you fall into the trap of doing the same thing over again.

T&G: What can people expect when visiting the museum?

Horvath: They can expect to learn things that they’ve never known about history and about the objects that are inside the museum. For example, we have the only known American tank based on a French design that was made to use the Marlin tank machine gun. That came in 1917, but in 1919, after the war, the Army decided to change out the Marlin tank machine gun for a Browning machine gun. That meant that all 500 tanks in the American arsenal inventory at the end of World War I were reconfigured to use the Browning machine gun. Somehow, this tank never got converted. There are about six other designs that exist that are museum-quality, but we have the only one that’s designed for the Marlin tank machine gun.

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T&G: What other services does the museum provide other than tours?

Horvath: We have a couple living-history programs, which are when reenactors pretend they’re from a particular period. In July, we do [a reenactment of] Vietnam where a lot of veterans come in and bring their families. They get together and talk amongst themselves as to where they were, because Vietnam was a very unique war. … In September, we offer a timeline where we’ll bring in actors in different period uniforms — from the Colonial trade all the way up to present day National Guard.

In addition to all that, we have a lecture series on the first Wednesday of every month.

T&G: What other big events are coming up?

Horvath: Well, we’ve started a lot of annual things that have really taken off. To honor or to commemorate the beginning of summer, we have Buzz Cut Saturday, which is on June 18 this year. You come in, and with your admission you get a free buzz cut. We’ve been doing it for three years now, and there are people who come in every year and that’s their summer haircut.

Another event that’s coming up on June 11 is a talk about the story of Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh actually came from Canada with a Canadian veterinary company in World War I. She was given up to the London Zoo to be taken care of by the officer that brought her over, and we have a little PowerPoint presentation and a movie that talks about the true story of the bear who inspired Winnie the Pooh. T&G For more information about the Pennsylvania Military Museum, visit pamilmuseum.org.

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Out with the Old, in with the New The power of decluttering your life

By Meghan Fritz

How we keep our physical space says a great deal about how we handle and process our emotions. Just the simple act of taking some time to organize our space every day can lead to more energy, greater productivity during the day, clearer direct communication, and more opportunities for success.

The fact is when we ignore and neglect our storage spaces we create a pattern of avoidance in our lives. This avoidance, over time, can cause us to feel stressed out, short-tempered, and often overwhelmed. One of the best ways to do a self-check is to open up your closets and look around your basement, attic, and garage. If you feel overwhelmed at the thought of decluttering these areas, that is a good indicator you have some clearing out to do physically and emotionally.

Often when we allow clutter to build up in our living space we may do the same with our feelings and emotions. Instead of addressing uncomfortable feelings or getting to the root of a conflict with a family member, friend, or colleague, you may find yourself consistently avoiding things, and this causes emotional clutter to build up within you, putting you at risk for depression and anxiety.

Don’t allow yourself to go through each day avoiding your emotions and racking up clutter emotionally and physically.

Take the time you need and have a strategy in place to begin to sort through the junk that is creating avoidance and dysfunction in your life.

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If you want to make room for change in your life on any level, you have to create the space for new things. We can’t bring in the new when our life is crammed with old clutter. If you are struggling to make a decision about a career change, relationship, or even to get healthy and begin to exercise, you have to create room for new healthy things in your life by letting go of the old.

Take the time to go through storage areas and throw away or donate anything that does not serve you in any way. A good rule of thumb is if you haven’t worn it or used it in a year, toss it. When you go through this process, pay attention to how you feel. Are you anxious, sad, or angry? What does this process bring up for you emotionally? Sometimes keeping our spaces full of clutter helps us avoid painful emotions or memories of the past.

If you have tons of things from your childhood and past, you may have anxieties of letting go of the old. The idea of making room for new things in your life may paralyze you with fear, causing you to cling to the old things you see as safe and comforting.

Years ago, I was helping a friend who was going through a very difficult divorce clear out her home to prepare to put it on the market. She had rented a dumpster to get rid of things, and when I offered to help her I was shocked to find that her very large basement was full of clutter and items from her past. As I encouraged her to throw things out, she became more and more uncomfortable and eventually had to leave the area and let me sort through things without asking her for help.

Later, when we had progressed through that stressful time, she shared that her parents’ divorce and inability to get along and coparent always made her feel anxious and

uncomfortable. Keeping things from her childhood became a source of comfort during a very difficult time. This behavior stayed with her into her adult life, and when she was facing her own divorce she once again found it difficult to let go of the old. During the process of clearing out her home, she realized that it was time to change this pattern of avoidance, and that to create the life she deserved she had to make room for new blessings.

If the thought of decluttering your space feels overwhelming, start small. A goal of 15 minutes a day can help you create a habit of organization daily, and it can help build momentum for you to tackle the bigger, messier areas. For instance, instead of starting with a garage full of junk, start by clearing out a desk drawer. Start with the smallest areas, one drawer at a time. This will help you become more comfortable and confident with the process, and you will eventually be ready to tackle the tougher areas.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help! If you find yourself being flooded with uncomfortable feelings and emotions, talk to a close friend or a therapist to sort through the feelings and free yourself of the emotional clutter. If you find it is difficult to

let go of old clothing and things you don’t use, ask a trusted friend for help in the process. This can help you stick to the task at hand and help you feel supported during the process.

Once you start, you will be amazed at how good it feels to let go of the old, become organized, and make room for new blessings in your life. The process of clearing things out physically also will help you clear out the emotional clutter that weighs you down. You will find that you aren’t as comfortable stuffing your feelings and avoiding conflict with others. You will become more direct and clear in your communication, which will build your confidence and self-esteem.

The process of decluttering and creating space opens you up for abundance in every area of your life! Remember, the simple act of 15 minutes a day with one drawer at a time is all you need to start the process. Be patient with yourself, get the help you need, and get ready for positive change and opportunity to enter into the new space! T&G Meghan Fritz is a psychotherapist practicing in State College.

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Osteoporosis: The “Silent Disease” Strengthen your bones to lessen the risk of fractures

By Roberta Millard, MD Osteoporosis literally means “porous bone.”

People with osteoporosis have fragile bones that are more likely to break, due to lost density or mass, often without them even realizing it is happening.

Because of this, osteoporosis is often called a silent disease. Many times, the first sign of osteoporosis is a broken bone, most commonly in the wrist, spine, or hip, often with little or no trauma.

Fractures from osteoporosis are a major health concern for the 54 million Americans with low bone mass. Approximately 2 million Americans each year suffer fractures related to osteoporosis.

Studies suggest that one in two women and one in four men age 50 and older will break a bone due to osteoporosis during their lifetimes. In fact, a woman’s lifetime risk for a hip fracture equals her combined risk of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers. A man age 50 or older is more likely to have an osteoporosis-associated fracture than he is to get prostate cancer.

The most common fractures related to osteoporosis are serious injuries. Spine or vertebral fractures are painful and heal slowly, causing a permanent loss of height and sometimes resulting in the upper back curving forward. Hip fractures require surgery and hospitalization — as many as 40 percent of people who have broken a hip are unable to walk independently one year later.

Understand the risk factors It is important to know if you are at-risk for osteoporosis and to discuss with your health-care provider a plan for protecting your bones. Risk factors include: • Age 50 and older.

• Family history of osteoporosis or hip fracture.

• Low body weight.

• Female, especially postmenopausal.

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Roberta Millard, MD, is a sports-medicine specialist with Penn State Bone and Joint Institute and Penn State Sports Medicine.

Risk factors that can be controlled by modifying your lifestyle include: • Smoking.

• Using excess alcohol.

• Having a diet deficient in calcium and vitamin D. • Being physically inactive.

In addition, medications, such as steroids and those used to treat certain chronic conditions, may increase your susceptibility to osteoporosis.

If you and your health-care provider determine that you are at-risk, a bone-density test called a DEXA scan may be recommended.

The DEXA is a quick, painless X-ray using very little radiation that helps predict the risk of facture and need for treatment.

Improve your bone health The good news is that 10 to 50 percent of bone structure can be influenced by our lifestyle. It is never too early or too late to integrate changes in your life to improve bone health. Childhood and young adulthood are the bone-building years, but it is important to promote bone health at all ages.

Getting enough calcium and vitamin D is essential to building strong, dense bones, and food is the best source of calcium.

Dairy products such as milk, yogurt, and cheese are high in calcium, while foods such as orange juice, cereals, and soy milk may be supplemented with calcium. Check the “nutrition facts panel” on the product to determine the amount of calcium per serving.

Women over age 50 and men over age 70 require 1,200 milligrams of calcium per day, while most other adults require 1,000 milligrams daily. If you are unable to obtain

the recommended daily amount of calcium from foods in your diet, you may need to take a calcium supplement to make up the difference. There is no benefit from taking more calcium than you need, and it may even have some risks.

Unlike calcium, it is very difficult to get the amount of recommended vitamin D you need from food alone. And although vitamin D can be produced in our skin

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In summer months, use of sunscreen may block up to 95 percent of our vitamin D production. Adults under age 50 require 400 to 800 IU of vitamin D daily, and those over 50 require 800 to 1,000 IU daily. This may be taken as a stand-alone vitamin D supplement or as part of a multivitamin or calcium supplement.

Two types of exercises are important for building and maintaining bone density: weight-bearing and muscle strengthening.

Weight-bearing exercises can be high impact, such as running, or low impact, such as walking or using an elliptical machine.

Muscle-strengthening exercises use weights, resistance bands, or body weight against gravity. Those with poor balance or a history of falls may want to consider balance exercises, such as tai chi, to increase muscle strength and decrease the risk of falls. Consult your healthcare provider to determine what exercise regimen is right for you.

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If you already have osteoporosis, your health-care provider may recommend prescription bone-building medications to improve your bone density. Increasing bone mass by just 10 percent can decrease fracture risk by up to 50 percent, so it is never too late to protect yourself.

Osteoporosis is common and potentially serious, and it can sneak up on you. Making lifestyle changes, taking in adequate calcium and vitamin D, and performing bonebuilding exercises regularly can protect you from silent bone loss. Now is always the right time in your life to build and maintain healthy bones. T&G Roberta Millard, MD, is a sportsmedicine specialist with the Penn State Bone and Joint Institute and Penn State Sports Medicine at 1850 East Park Avenue, Suite 112, in State College. To make an appointment, call (814) 865-3566 or visit PennStateHershey.org/statecollege.

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Two orchestras, a pair of trios, Bach, and a Roomful of Teeth await 2016-17 audiences

By John Mark Rafacz The sixth season of the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State’s Classical Music Project features six ensembles, including performances by Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra with Chopin International Piano Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra’s J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation.

The project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to raise awareness of classical music programming via university and community concerts and free engagement events.

Things get started with the Sphinx Virtuosi September 29. The orchestra consists of 18 black and Latino classical soloists who are alumni of the renowned Sphinx Competition. The ensemble’s Latin Voyages: Viajes Latinos takes audiences on a journey that includes Argentine tango, images of Mexico, and Catalan dance.

The program explores string music by composers of Latin heritage.

Warsaw Philharmonic performs October 28 under the baton of music and artistic director Jacek Kaspszyk, who has been at the helm since 2013. Cho, who won the Chopin competition in Warsaw in 2015, is the featured soloist for a piano concerto. Still in his early 20s, the South Korea native also has earned major prizes in Russia and Japan.

Roomful of Teeth, an eight-member vocal ensemble, creates a repertoire without borders. The Grammy Award-winning octet, which performs November 17, has studied Tuvan and Inuit throat singing, yodeling, Korean P’ansori, Georgian and Persian classical singing, Sardinian cantu a tenore, and Hindustani music.

Three exceptional musicians — pianist Inon Barnatan, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein — come together as a trio January 23. The program features a composition,

by Philadelphia’s Joseph Hallman, co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts.

Another world-class trio — pianist Wu Han, violinist Philip Setzer, and cellist David Finckel — performs February 23.

Han and Finckel, who won Musical America’s Musicians of the Year honor in 2012, are the artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. They appear at exclusive venues across three continents.

Setzer, a founding member of Emerson String Quartet, has earned acclaim around the world.

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The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State’s 2016-17 classical music presentations begin September 29 with Sphinx Virtuosi (top). Another performance on February 23 features the trio of violinist Philip Setzer, pianist Wu Han, and cellist David Finckel.

Using text, music, and projected video and images, J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation explores the world of the artisans — performers, papermakers, violin carvers, and string spinners — who aided Bach in attaining his genius.

The musicians perform the all-Bach program from memory.

Like House of Dreams and The Galileo Project, which Tafelmusik previously performed at the university, The Circle of Creation invigorates the concert experience. T&G For information about the Center for the Performing Arts 2016-17 classical music presentations, visit cmp.psu.edu.

John Mark Rafacz is editorial manager of the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State.

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Wiring in on the Giving Now in its fifth year, Centre Gives, the 36-hour online fundraising event, has become an increasingly popular time for nonprofits to “gather,� promote themselves and each other, and connect with the communities they serve

By Jenna Spinelle

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For 36 hours each May, Nicole Summers becomes a little skittish. During the annual Centre Gives fundraiser, Summers, who is executive director of Faith Centre in Bellefonte, checks fundraising totals and social media for information about new donations.

“I check the totals hourly — and, it is the first thing I check in the morning when I wake up, and the last thing I look at before I go to bed,” she says. “Everybody who works in a nonprofit wants their agency to be recognized.”

Faith Centre, which operates several faithbased programs and services, including a food bank and thrift store, is just one of about 100 community organizations that come together to raise money and awareness for their respective groups through the Centre Gives online fundraising event hosted by Centre Foundation.

Since 2012, the event has utilized social media — centered around the hashtag #CentreGives — to encourage people in Centre County and beyond to donate to organizations large and small — from the State Theatre to the Friends of the East Penns Valley Library. In addition to money raised, participating organizations receive information on how to utilize social media to tap into a new group of potential donors during the rest of the year.

According to the Knight Foundation’s “Giving Day Playbook,” a giving day is “a powerful 24-hour online fundraising competition that unites a community around local causes. Hosted by the area’s community foundation, the Giving Day raises money through a single online donation platform.”

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Top, Centre Foundation fundraising and event director Irene Miller helps gives organizations tools they can use to raise money for Centre Gives and during the rest of the year.

Interfaith Human Services executive director Wendy Vinhage attends an informational session hosted by Centre Foundation.

that year, and is expected to include more than 100 for this year’s event, which is May 3-4.

In its first four years, Centre Gives has raised nearly $3 million for participating organizations, and the money raised has increased each year.

In 2012, the event raised $540,000. Last year, it raised $892,000, and more than 5,000 individual contributions were received. Organizers hope to increase those numbers this year by spreading the word beyond the Centre Region.

“The community has really embraced the event, both in the number of organizations that participate and number of gifts that we have received,” says Irene Miller, fundraising and event director for Centre Foundation. “Our goal is to encourage more people in the community to be generous and

Miller talks to a group of nonprofit leaders during an informational session Centre Foundation hosted in March.

philanthropic. The more donations that come in, the more the organizations can benefit.”

Centre Gives 2016 will begin at 6 a.m. on May 3 and continue until 6 p.m. on May 4. During that time, donations will be accepted at centregives.org. The minimum donation is $25, and giving online is the only way to participate.

Participants can spread their donations out among any of the participating organizations, which will receive 95 percent of the money they raise plus a match from a stretch pool of $100,000 provided by Centre Foundation. The more money a group raises on its own, the bigger piece of the pool it receives.

In order to encourage some healthy competition among organizations, Centre Foundation offers prizes for social-media participation and individual “power hour” challenges during the event. Winnings from those prizes are part of the organization’s overall fundraising total.

With so many organizations vying for the financial attention of Centre County, the foundation encourages groups to support each other so as not to overwhelm supporters during the Centre Gives window.

“There is lots of overlap in our organizations and the people they serve,” says Tracy Carey, former grant and scholarship coordinator for Centre Foundation. “We encourage organizations to reach out to their supporters and have them give, and to support each other throughout the event.”

“Our goal is to encourage more people in the community to be generous and philanthropic.

The more donations that come in, the more the organizations can benefit.”

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“Our goal is to not only shine a spotlight on nonprofits, but to also give them tools they can use 365 days for the year.”

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Organizations who participate in Centre Gives monitor how much money they raise during the 36-hour online event.

Marc McCann, executive director of Global Connections, says his organization has set a goal of raising $1,200 during Centre Gives this year, which is nearly double what was raised last year.

While it might seem ambitions, he says the group hopes to reach a new pool of donors this year.

“We are hoping to put more time and energy into it this year and engage more people,” he says. “We’re looking to engage some of the international folks that we’ve helped in the past who might be in a position to give now when they were not before.”

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He adds that money raised from Centre Gives goes toward supporting Global Connections’ programming during the year.

The organization holds English classes for non-native speakers and seeks to foster relationships between international and native Center County residents.

“We sent 21 international residents to Marion-Walker Elementary School, which led to some great interactions on both sides,” McCann says. “We are able to support programs like this through Centre Gives and our other fundraisers.”

For the Faith Centre, Summers says the money raised through Centre Gives helps supplement a lack of funding that has resulted from an unstable state budget. The organization raised $15,000 last year and is hoping to match that amount this year.

“We want to earmark the funds for our food bank,” she says. “We want to make sure that we have funds available if we need to write large checks to stock our shelves due to a lack of funding from the state.”

Jennifer Cifelli, communications director for Centre County Library, says the library is hoping to double the number of donors who contribute during Centre Gives. The library had 115 donors last year and is hoping for around 200 this year.

“At the library, because fundraising isn’t easy … the people who come to the library aren’t always the ones who donate to the library,” she says. “We love Centre Gives because it helps even small nonprofits like us broaden the range of their fundraising.”

She says that the library uses social media extensively during Centre Gives — not just to promote itself.

“We’re on pretty much all day, reminding our patrons and friends to get online and donate to their favorite nonprofits,” she says.

“It’s actually a lot of fun, and there’s friendly competition among the staff to get donors, which makes the event really exciting.”

She says the library is planning to use a mix of new and old media to spread the word about Centre Gives to the library’s constituents. On the morning of May 3, the library’s Bellefonte location will hold a coffee and donuts breakfast and make its computers available to those who want to donate there.

Like Faith Centre, the library staff pays close attention to fundraising totals during the event.

“We love Centre Gives because it helps even small nonprofits like us broaden the range of their fundraising.”

Jennifer Cifelli of Centre County Library “We check the leaderboard and our totals at least hourly so that we know where we need to step up our efforts,” Cifelli says. “It’s also helpful to know who has donated so that we can be accurate when contacting our biggest supporters during the event.”

Planning for Centre Gives begins in November or December each year, and the foundation spends the months leading up to the event showing participating organizations how to promote themselves and the event online.

“Our goal is to not only shine a spotlight on nonprofits, but to also give them tools they can use 365 days for the year,” Miller says.

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Organizations such as Easter Seals (top) and Discovery Space find ways to promote donating to their organizations during the Centre Gives event.

In March, Centre Foundation held a series of workshops to provide best practices for online fundraising, public relations, and social-media promotion. The events featured local marketing and public relations strategists Anna Nelson and Brad Groznik and were open to all participating Centre Gives organizations.

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“We want to give them building blocks and a plan so they can spend April executing all the things we teach them,” Miller says.

Nelson, a digital marketing strategist in State College, led a workshop on social-media marketing in an effort to help organizations maximize their exposure during the 36 hours of Centre Gives.

“We’re trying to help them figure out how to tap into the energy that community has around Centre Gives,” she says. “There’s a lot of conversation among everyone, not just nonprofits. How do you join that conversation and build on that energy?”

Carey says Centre Foundation encourages organizations to support each other on social media during the event to ensure that a consistent message is being spread to all of their fans and followers.

At the end of the day, Miller says the awareness about nonprofits that is spread through Centre Gives and the resources they receive from Centre Foundation are perhaps just as important as the money raised during the event.

“We really enjoy putting on this event every year, and, anecdotally, we’ve heard from our organizations that they appreciate some of the best practices we are able to share,” she says. “It’s really all about helping to connect the nonprofit network to the community they support.” T&G For more information on Centre Gives, visit centregives.org.

Jenna Spinelle is a freelance writer and journalism instructor in State College.

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The Gifts of Gardening Besides making for attractive landscaping or helping to save money at the grocery store, gardens can benefit the environment and communities in a variety of ways

By Dana Ray May is a great time for gardeners in Centre County, with unique garden sales and opportunities to work on that green thumb.

And what if growing an annual garden could mean something? What are the ways that gardening impacts the larger Centre County region, from exhausted families to struggling ecosystems to widespread food insecurity?

The following are a few resources that can help turn your garden into a gift that keeps giving.

Penn State Extension Master Gardener’s of Centre County Molly Sturniolo and her team of master gardeners are an invaluable resource for Pennsylvania gardeners. Sturniolo works for Penn State Extension and oversees the annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale. She also coordinates Centre County’s master gardener program, which is offered in 58 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

Penn State Extension is an important link between the university and the state.

Without continuing education that it offers, gardening can be an impossible task. The landscape changes each year, including weather patterns that impact disease developments and insects that move in and can cause problems in different ways. Gardeners need to know the latest developments and research, and master gardeners are a first-stop resource.

“A master gardener is someone who wants to work with the public and provide horticultural outreach,” Sturniolo notes.

The horticultural projects by Penn State Extension are diverse. The “Home Grown” project is another way the extension gives to the community. Once a year, the Extension program goes to the State College Food Bank and takes live plants and distributes them to members of the food bank. It also teaches plant care.

Sturniolo says that the impact is profound with international communities, especially since growing food can provide a sense of home.

“We get a lot of people who don’t speak English and had gardens in their home countries, but they are struggling to grow plants in a new climate or did not have access to plants,” she says.

The biggest outreach the Extension program does is the Garden Fair and Plant Sale, an event entirely run by volunteers. The event will be held May 21 at the Ag Progress Days site. This year, the extension has “kicked it up a notch,” and the event is now the second largest plant event in Pennsylvania with more than 5,000 plants for sale. The event also features multiple educational opportunities, including two talks by celebrity gardener George Wiegal.

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a plant? Penn State Extension offers free counseling. Check out its Web site and bring your toughest questions. The Extension program also offers regular educational opportunities from experts in the region.

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Building a family farm Starting a garden can be tricky and requires a huge learning curve. How can you get in on the joys of the season if starting takes too much time or if you’ve struggled in the past?

Resources such as Wilson Home Farms in State College can make the difference and help kick-start a valuable practice.

“I loved farming. I loved the agriculture,” says Woody Wilson, who graduated from Penn State’s College of Agriculture and worked as farm manager at Tait Farm before founding Wilson Home Farms. In particular, he cared about giving people access to fresh, homegrown plants and vegetables. But what he saw again and again was that beginning gardeners would give up very quickly.

“I had to ask: What would keep these people gardening,” he says. “And it really came down to support.”

Wilson’s goal is to keep people gardening.

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His goal is to keep people gardening by helping them with the harder aspects of the process: planning, installation, regular maintenance, and education. Without a lot of background knowledge, it can be impossible to have a functioning garden in the first year.

“But with an installation designed around a family’s interest, needs, and free time, I can help people have a producing vegetable garden in their first season,” he says.

And his clients are 95 percent families with young children.

“These are families who care about giving great food to their kids. But families with young children? They literally have no time,” he says.

He also notes that more families are interested in gardening because of the gardening and environmental education in local schools. With a “family farm,” you can grow a giving garden by giving the best product to your friends and family.

“The feeling of being able to walk outside and harvest peas for dinner is so different from going to the store,” Wilson says. “It’s your peas and your salad that grew at your house, and you didn’t have to do that much to make it happen.

That’s what inspires me to keep people growing food for themselves.”

Helpful Tips: Tip 1: “Don’t put too many crops in the same spot.

The overgrowth will kill the plants. Pull crops that are crowding out others or at the end of their season.”

Tip 2: Avoiding and treating tomato blight: • Give your tomatoes adequate spacing — 2.5 feet from each other. They all need space and sun!

• Mulch the soil with straw or black plastic. Soilborn diseases travel when rain splashes soil on the leaves. The plastic keeps the soil from hitting the tomato.

• Prune. Wilson suggests Organic Garden Center opened in State College earlier this year and pruning after 2 feet above is helping to educate people on improving the organic movement. ground since most soil splashes can’t get that high. … we followed the momentum,” he says.

• Prune more! It’s all about airflow. The He became interested in organic farming longer a leaf stays wet, the longer the disease through photography. As a food photographer has a chance to spread. in Philadelphia, he visited a lot of restaurants • Treatment. Wilson uses certified organic sprays. and saw the different ways people prepared Copper sulfate and OxiDate kill fungus outbreaks. food. That led to some gigs photographing Serenade, which contains a bacteria that eats fungus, the farms where that food originated. should be sprayed as soon as flowers sprout.

“I began to feel way more connected to the earth and to my food,” he says.

Organic Garden Center It was a natural step to join his uncle The Organic Garden Center, a family-owned and brother in the family business with the and operated organic garden supply store, has seen Organic Garden Center in Williamsport and a long line of enthusiastic organic gardeners come now with the opening in State College. through their space since it opened in February.

And the public response has been positive. He is Now, with spring actually here, they are ready for excited to meet such a strong need in the community. the growing season and enjoying the connections “We’ve met people who were driving all over with new customers and community members the state, from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, to find passionate about organic gardening. the organic tools and supplies they needed,” he The Organic Garden Center is an implant from says. “People act like we’re heroes!” the Williamsport area. Brian Kinney, part owner, Part of that warm response is to the educational moved to the area with his wife, Gabrielle, to take aspect to their business, a feature in their business care of the new store and reach the new market. model from the very beginning. The store has He says that they were following the growing offered and will continue to offer free classes on organic food culture in State College. a range of gardening subjects. Most classes fill “We really saw that there was growing up. The business mission statement reads, “We momentum in this area, from the food industry believe that our success is built upon the using more farm-to-table models, more CSAs, education and success of our customers.” more organic vendors in the farmers’ markets 2016 May T&G - 39

Planting native plants such as pinxter-bloom azalea (left) and golden ragwort is good for the environment.

And that education is about “demystifying the process.” Kinney says that, “If we can give access to organic processes, it makes a better community as a whole. It makes us mindful of what we are putting into the ground and what we are putting into the environment.”

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Plant Sales

Centre County has several plant sales and events in May. Here are some to check out

Albright promotes the idea of planting native plants.

Central Pennsylvania Native Plant Festival and Sale The Central Pennsylvania Native Plant Festival and Sale, this year on May 7 at the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, is a unique opportunity to expand the positive impact of your garden. Adding a few Pennsylvania native plants creates healthier neighborhood ecosystems.

Oh, and did we mention that natives can be just downright beautiful?

Diane Albright, cochair of the sale, disagrees with a common misconception that native plants are “just weeds.” She says, “Really, they are just as beautiful as nonnative ornamentals, and they bring so much bird life to your garden!”

A native plant is one that occurs naturally in a particular region, ecosystem, or habitat without direct or indirect human intervention.

For North America, a native plant is any species present before the arrival of Europeans.

Native plants have evolved with communities of native insects and animals that benefit from the plants and help keep the plants in check. Nonnative, or introduced, plants, such as honeysuckle, tree-of-heaven, and barberry, with no natural enemies can escape home landscapes and become invasive species that grow rampant in fields, forests, and roadsides, throwing the ecosystem off-balance.

When you include native plants in your garden

May 7 Lemont Plant Sale 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Village Green, Lemont Features annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, herbs, vegetables, and more from Patchwork Farms and Lemont neighbors.

May 7 Pennsylvania Native Plant Festival and Sale 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Pennsylvania Military Museum, Boalsburg Talk to plant experts, educational opportunities, and more than 300 different plant varieties for sale.

May 14 Plant Celebration 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Centre Furnace Mansion, State College Features native and nonnative plants from local growers and Centre Furnace Mansion gardens.

May 21 Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Centre County’s Garden Fair & Plant Sale 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Ag Progress Days Site, Pennsylvania Furnace Second largest plant event in Pennsylvania.

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Kevin Sims (left) and Jessie Pierce hope to promote “food literacy” across the region with FoodCentres.

and landscape, you end up contributing to a whole system and seeing direct benefit such as more butterflies. You’ll also see more birds around your home because, in large part, native plants are supporting communities of native insects, and insects — notably caterpillar larvae — are a vital component of bird diets, especially baby birds

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who need the protein only insects can provide.

“If you have native plants, chances are they support native insects, and the insects, in turn, provide the food for birds and other animals,” Albright says. “It’s all part of the cycle of life.”

Native plants also can be easier to grow. They evolved with and became adapted to the local environment, including rainfall, temperature, and soil conditions of the local ecosystem.

Organizers of the Central Pennsylvania Native Plant Sale are careful to invite vendors who do not harvest directly from the wild but instead propagate native plants in nurseries.

“We use suppliers who are above board,” Albright says. “None of our vendors take plants from the wild, which is unethical, as well as illegal.”

Consider integrating native plants in your landscape this year. Just a few adjustments can create a garden that gives back to the world.

Helpful Tip: Replace or combine ornamental plants with native plants

Instead of forsythia, try a spicebush (Lindera benzoin), which is a host plant for the spicebush swallowtail butterfly. It has yellow flowers in the spring and red berries in the fall.

Instead of burning bush (which is becoming invasive), try Eastern Wahoo (Euonymus atropurpurea), a native plant that also gets red leaves in the fall as well as red berries.

Instead of just six-pack annuals, try a pollinator garden. Native perennials such as milkweed, mountain mint, sedums, and Joe Pye can attract butterflies and pollinators and increase the diversity of your garden.

FoodCentres A direct way to have a giving garden is to give a corner of your plot to FoodCentres, founded by Jessie Pierce and Kevin Sims. Last fall, FoodCentres won the Centre Inspires grant for the project. The aim of FoodCentres is to promote “food literacy” across the region.

“The project is comprehensive, but one piece specifically involves Centre County gardeners,” Pierce says. “You can volunteer some space in your garden. The donation is incredibly easy.

We even give you the seedlings for free and harvest it when the time is right!”

All food is used at FoodCentres in Spring Mills and distributed to local food pantries or used in community programing. Food pantries often do not have access to fresh produce because industrial standard refrigeration can be too expensive for a nonprofit’s budget.

FoodCentres is building a large refrigerator and freezer for overcoming that problem, which will allow it to give fresh produce that’s in season and essential for a healthy diet.

Community programs will include skill-building and food-based learning projects, including community dinners where everyone cooks together, cooking classes for children, and gardening tutorials.

“We really want to restore a sense of food literacy for Centre County residents,” Pierce says.

Helpful Tip: It doesn’t cost you more work to give food Visit foodcentres.org for a link to volunteer a corner of your garden for the cause. T&G Dana Ray is a freelance writer in State College.

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According to legend, the phoenix is a bird that represents new life. In Greek mythology, the bird is resurrected after rising up from ashes and is an ancient symbol of being able to emerge strong, even in the face of life’s greatest trials and tribulations.

This depiction of strength and resilience is what came to mind when a group of State College Area High School students were deciding on a logo to best represent the work they are doing in promoting mental and emotional health and well-being. Their work has resulted in the creation of My Mental Health Matters (MMHM), a school organization that is raising awareness about the importance of people paying just as much attention to their thoughts, feelings, and ideas as they do to their physical health.

Tiffany Chen, a senior and one of the founders of the club, says that the phoenix represents the belief that it’s just as important to be mentally strong as it is to be physically strong. Raising awareness about mental health is at the heart of MMHM and has come to light over the past year as students share their message with their peers, classmates, teachers, and other community members and professionals. The message is timely as May is Mental Health Month.

The message is increasingly reaching more young people who are recognizing the importance of mental health. For its class gift, Penn State’s Class of 2016 is establishing an endowment to support Penn State’s Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). CAPS staff members work with thousands of Penn State students each year in group therapy, individual counseling, crisis intervention, and psychiatric services. They

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also provide prevention, outreach, and consultation services for the university community.

Penn State executive vice president and provost Nicholas Jones said in a press release, “CAPS provides vital services every day by helping students manage a range of personal and mental-health challenges. College is an exciting time, and young adulthood can be stressful. The need for additional funding is growing as more students recognize the essential support that CAPS is able to provide them.”

Support for mental health has reached the high school level with organizations such as MMHM, which was formed in June 2015 before the end of the school year. Chen says that the idea for the organization was born by the results of the Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PAYS), sponsored by the PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency and administered to school students every two years to determine risk and protective factors for young people.

PAYS data indicated that students were experiencing high levels of stress, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts, she says.

Based on this information, and with the support of school counselors Suzanne Jury Lyke and Patty Devecka, a group of concerned students decided it was time to do something.

“The initiative came to be because of the students,” Devecka says. “There is a stigma around mental health. As counselors who follow them for four years, we know them well.

We didn’t have a preconceived idea of what this club would be — we’ve been figuring it out along the way.”

As the group has grown and evolved over the past year, two main themes have emerged, Lyke says, which are reducing stigma and promoting positive mental health.

“This matters because everyone’s mental health is important,” she says.

In fact, the simple message that “mental health matters” turned into one of the group’s biggest projects earlier this year. A simple idea turned hugely successful when the group made hundreds of brightly colored pieces of paper that simply read: “My mental health matters because _____.”

These papers were made available to students, and students from all walks of high school life snatched up the papers to fill in the blanks.

Devecka and Lyke say that students seemed to appreciate having the opportunity to express their feelings on this simple piece of paper. And the messages were powerful.

Members of the My Mental Health Matters organization at State High.

Stompers sculptures can be found in various locations in Centre County.

“My mental health matters because I deserve to be happy.”

“My mental health matters because I am important.”

These and hundreds of other self-affirming words were written on the papers, and the colorful display adorned walls and windows at the school. The counselors say that these types of projects are what MMHM is all about.

They emphasize the fact that it is not a therapy group but a way to allow students feel supported and to give them techniques to manage their lives when they feel overwhelmed.

“I think this group has contributed to the overall atmosphere of the school.

It has allowed students to feel empowered and accepted,” Lyke says.

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One Jana Marie Foundation Wellness Forum deals with “Crafting Your Identity.”

freshman, and Kaylah Urie, a senior, along with the other seven or eight students who have been instrumental in establishing MMHM, have taken their advocacy efforts to the next level. They have participated in trainings with Dr. Leo Flanagan of the Center for Resilience and are sharing this information not only with their peers but also with professionals. They recently went into ninth-grade health classes to talk about the work of MMHM and teach students guided meditation exercises and a multitasking exercise they learned from Flanagan.

The multitasking exercise was to give students a sense of how many things they juggle over the course of a day, and the realization that feeling exhausted and overwhelmed was natural and could be managed in a healthy way.

“Stress never really goes away,” Urie says.

“If students don’t find good ways to handle it now, it will eventually catch up to them.”

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fellow club members who are seniors.

“Trying to fit in and figure out high school is stressful. If we don’t find ways to manage stress now, our whole high school career might not be as strong as it could be,” she says.

The students, who have even presented at a conference recently for school administrators, say that community agencies such as the Jana Marie Foundation have been key in helping them build an identity for their group.

The Jana Marie Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young people (especially young women) to make positive choices, practice self-respect, and maintain healthy relationships by providing opportunities for personal growth and creative self-expression. Marisa Vicere is president and founder and started the organization after her sister, Jana, “completed suicide in 2011 at the tender age of 30.” She shares the State High students’ view about stigma associated with mental health, and in an effort to “stomp out” the stigma surrounding mental-health issues, the organization has created the Stompers Project in Centre County. The aptly-named Stompers are colorful, life-sized sculptures that can be found at various locations around the county.

The foundation is working with local artists, schools, and other organizations to create these sculptures out of old sneakers.

The sculptures, which take on a human form, are given names such as “Peace,” “Voice,” “Buddy,” “Recovery and Hope,” and the prototype “Sole.” New Stompers are introduced at various events during the year and have been featured at area art exhibits.

On April 12, four youth-sized Stompers were introduced at the YMCA of Centre County and named after YMCA character-development values: “Respect,” “Caring,” “Honesty,” and “Responsibility.” These four stompers were created by more than 220 children across Centre County. Vicere says the children participating in the project learned the

“The reality is that many people have lots of misconceptions about what mental health is and isn’t.”

— Marisa Vicere, founder of Jana Marie Foundation

benefits of community and discussed ways to get involved and how to support one another.

On April 24, a Suicide Survivor Stomper was unveiled at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) Out of the Darkness Walk. This Stomper is sponsored by the Jana Marie Foundation, Mount Nittany Health, and Central PA Chapter of AFSP. “Mental illness does not discriminate,” Vicere says. “It can affect people of all ages, gender, race,

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and socioeconomic status. According to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), one in five Americans will be affected by a mental-health condition in their lifetime, and every American is affected or impacted through friends and family. It is important to raise awareness through education, fight stigma, and provide support.”

In recognition of Mental Health Month, there will be a Stomper on display at the State College Municipal Building during May. “After losing my sister to suicide in 2011, I knew I wanted to find a way to educate about mental-health challenges, ignite conversations, and to let people know they are not alone,” Vicere says.

She believes there are many myths and stigmas regarding mental health and that people who are struggling could be embarrassed to talk about it or get help.

“The reality is that many people have lots of misconceptions about what mental health is and isn’t,” she says. “People may think it is something that someone can just ‘shake off’ or they are ‘over dramatizing.’ Raising awareness about mental health can help us to begin to have conversations — conversations that will help those struggling be understood and get the help they need, and allow those that are in a position to help be able to do so.”

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Amelia McGinnis, an outpatient therapist and owner of McGinnis Counseling and Consulting in Lemont, credits the Jana Marie Foundation for focusing on young people and giving them places to find their voice. She mentions that, in addition to the Stompers Project, Jana Marie Foundation also provides programs for parents through Straight Talk seminars and the Candid Conversation video series.

McGinnis highlights the importance of young people having a connection with safe adults as being a good starting point if they are feeling overwhelmed by life.

She says, “One of the things I often tell parents to look for are any drastic changes in mood, friends, schoolwork, etc. Does the youth seem to be struggling in multiple areas of their life right now: friends, school, home, work, etc. Have there been any drastic changes to personality or even how they are dressing? Are they isolating more than what they normally do?

“I often hear parents share that they are not sure what is ‘normal.’ I tell them that they should trust their instincts. They know their child, and if something feels off, talk to their child. See if something is going on — be open and caring. If other steps are then needed, talking to the school or a therapist, that can be done second.”

She uses the word “stigma,” as well.

According to McGinnis, there is a stigma that it is a person’s fault or that they are choosing to act in a certain way and that it is “easy” to stop how they act or feel.

“On the other extreme, I think sometimes people look at certain diagnoses and forget to see a person under it. Instead, they have a perception from media or television of what the diagnoses means, which is often not accurate,” she says.

According to Vicere, it is important to educate parents, caregivers, and concerned community members on what youth are faced with today. For that reason, Vicere has become a youth mental-health first aid instructor. In 2015, Jana Marie Foundation began offering this course to the area so adults could learn a five-step action plan to help youth who may be facing a crisis or noncrisis situation.

For parents and other important adults

Where to find help

State College and surrounding areas offer a wide web of support for those dealing with mental-health issues. The following is a partial list of hotlines and helplines that can provide support services or linkages to other resources. For a more complete list of community resources, please visit centrecountypa.gov. Whether a person is in a time of crisis or simply needs someone to talk to, help is only a phone call away.

• Centre County Can Help Crisis Line: 1-800-643-5432 • Community Help Centre: 1-800-494-2500 or (814) 237-5855 or (814) 235-1890 • Centre County Women’s Resource Center: 1-877-234-5050 or (814) 234-5050 • The Meadows Psychiatric Center: 1-800-641-7529 • Mount Nittany Medical Center: (814) 234-6110 • Centre County Base Service Unit: (814) 355-6786 • Seven Mountains Warm Line: 1-877-411-9102 • Youth Service Bureau: (814) 234-2100 • National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Centre County Chapter: (814) 238-1983 • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) • Reach Out: 1-800-448-3000 • Covenant House – Nineline: 1-800-999-9999 • Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network: 1-800-656-4675 • National Runaway Switchboard: 1-800-786-2929 • National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 • Al-Anon: 1-888-425-2666

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in young people’s lives, it is important to be aware of signs that might indicate that their children and teens are struggling.

“The adolescent years are full of change — knowing what typical adolescent behavior is and when it might be something more can be difficult,” Vicere says. “If you notice an adolescent is no longer engaged in activities that they used to love and has not replaced them with new activities, or if there are big shifts in behavior, or if you feel like there may be a reason for concern, it is important to seek help. Primary care physicians and school counselors are a great place to start.”

It’s just as important for adults to be aware of what they can do to promote positive emotional and mental health and wellbeing for their children. Lyke and Devecka recommend that parents ensure that young people get plenty of sleep, eat well, and are physically active and help them balance the demands of school, sports, and other activities.

Also, they suggest that parents make sure their

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children are taking a break from their phones and other technology.

The students in MMHM agree that giving themselves a break from outside pressures and stress can sometimes be the best way to feel calmer and more peaceful. The students say it is difficult to achieve if they are not in a good place mentally. And, they have some advice for adults, too.

Chen says, “Life is not just about grades.

It’s important for kids to take a breather and for parents to understand that sometimes kids need to take a break — don’t try to put all this added pressure on their kids. They just don’t necessarily have the right tool kit.”

Urie says that the message is the same for both adults and students: “We all want to help others.

But if we are not taking care of ourselves, we are not able to do anything else. Everyone needs to take care of themselves first.” T&G Jodi Morelli is a freelance writer who lives in Pleasant Gap with her husband and two children.

State College Community Land Trust The nonprofit State College Community Land Trust (SCCLT) has been providing affordable home-ownership opportunities in State College Borough since 1996, Serving over 50 first-time homebuyers and their families!

How SCCLT helps: Because the SCCLT holds the land permanently in trust, income-qualified buyers apply for mortgages based only on the cost of the house, reducing the price of a first-home purchase by as much as 30%. The SCCLT program benefits the community by attracting families and individuals to live in the State College Borough and creating affordable housing for future generations of homeowners.

Upcoming “Green” Projects:

The SCCLT, in partnership with the State College Borough

and Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture, Hamer Center for Community Design/Energy Efficient Housing Research Group, is designing and planning to build a moderately-priced, owner-occupied duplex on University Drive, utilizing advanced and cost-effective “green” technology. GreenBuild will not only serve two more first-time homebuyers but is also an effort to develop a prototype for building affordable homes which are extremely energy efficient. Through this shared learning experience, SCCLT, Penn State, other Centre County housing programs, and the community at large, will benefit.

Interested in gett ing involved? Contact the SCCLT.

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A Town & a T Thanks in part to discovered letters, local researchers rediscover and uncover details of how three women started Memorial Day in Boalsburg

Tradition

By M ike Dawson

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Every year, Boalsburg celebrates its Memorial Day heritage that’s well-known to locals. As the story goes, during the Civil War, three women decorated soldiers’ graves at the cemetery in Boalsburg in the fall of 1864. The following year, they returned to the cemetery, along with people from the town, giving Boalsburg its claim as the birthplace for what later became known as Memorial Day. Though the story was passed down for generations, there weren’t newspaper reports or photographs or other records to mark the event.

The names of the three women — Emma Hunter, Sophie Keller, and Elizabeth Myers — are known, but who they were and what brought them to the cemetery that day in October 1864 had been forgotten as the years turned into decades.

context in a book — A War, Three Women, and a Tradition: The History of Boalsburg in the Civil War — they hope will give future generations a richer understanding of the town’s significance.

“Hopefully, years from now people will read it and know the story,” Horner says. “Our goal was to keep that story alive.”

While the battleground of the Civil War in Pennsylvania was farther south from Boalsburg, the Centre County town bore witness to plenty of tragedy. Boalsburg lost three sons in May 1864 in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in northern Virginia, and two of the three women who went to the cemetery a few months later both lost loved ones. The researchers imagine that the war was very real on the minds of the townspeople.

Left, Boalsburg Cemetery includes the grave of Elizabeth Myers, one of the three women credited with starting Memorial Day in Boalsburg. Right, the former home of James Stuart and his wife, Emma, still stands in Boalsburg.

That’s all changed thanks to four local researchers.

After a fortuitous find brought them together, researchers Susan Evans, Bob Hazelton, Cathy Horner, and Nancy Taylor spent years studying the three women, their families, and Boalsburg during the Civil War. They uncovered new information, they rediscovered documents that hadn’t been associated with Boalsburg and Memorial Day for decades, and they put it all in 56 - T&G May 2016

“When the Civil War was raging, the people here in this area had to have been scared to death,” Horner says. “We figured out that after the second call [for soldiers] in Boalsburg, if you didn’t have someone in your family who went, you had a neighbor.”

Myers’s son, Amos, died in 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg while he was serving with the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Keller saw the war through her brother Daniel’s words,

as the two wrote letters back and forth. He was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville in spring 1863.

It was the death of Reuben Hunter, Emma’s father and the town surgeon, in September 1864 that was the catalyst for the event that helped create Memorial Day. Reuben died from yellow fever he contracted while caring for soldiers at a Union hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. A month later, on a Sunday, Emma was with her friend, Sophie Keller, at the Boalsburg Academy, putting together care packages to send to soldiers. Myers was there, too. Hunter told her friend that she planned to visit her father’s grave the following Sunday. Myers asked to go along, and they decided on a time to meet at the cemetery.

that information was waiting to be found at Penn State. Months earlier, Horner and Evans had been organizing some archives at the Pennsylvania Room at the Centre County Library and Historical Museum in Bellefonte when they stumbled upon more than 60 neatly folded letters. The family name was one they recognized — Keller — and immediately associated it with the Boalsburg Memorial Day story. Many of the letters were from Keller’s brother. The soldier wrote about the war — he even explained how hot his Union uniform was, and he asked his family to sew him a new, lighter one.

“They read like a story,” Horner says. “It’s all about Boalsburg.”

From right, the grave of James and Emma Stuart in Boalsburg Cemetery. A photo of Dan Keller, brother of Sophie Keller.

That piece of history was found in a trove of documents from Hunter’s husband, James Stuart, that have been preserved and housed in the special collections of Penn State’s Pattee Library, Hazelton says. The documents include wartime letters, photographs, and a diary in which Stuart began recording notes on Decoration Day services in Boalsburg starting in 1869.

If it hadn’t been for an earlier lucky find, the researchers wouldn’t have even known

Around the same time Horner and Evans discovered those letters, Hazelton rediscovered another set of Keller family letters. They’d been donated to the Centre County Historical Society by local businessman Gene Stocker, whose family once lived in the Keller home in Boalsburg and came into possession of the letters when the Kellers left them behind.

“I thought, Gee, what a treasure this is,” Hazelton says.

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Letters such as this one to Sophie Keller helped uncover more of the Mmeorial Day in Boalsburg story that led to the book A War, Three Women, and a Tradition.

He then enlisted the help of his friend Taylor, a genealogist, and not too long after that, they discovered that Horner and Evans came upon the other Keller letters. And that’s when the two groups started working together to advance the research behind the Boalsburg-Memorial Day story.

One of the additional finds they made was in a 1,000-page book published in 1904, The story of our regiment: a history of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers. It details the people in the infantry — its travels and battles. One of the chapters was written by Keller, who by then had been married for almost 30 years and was known as Sophie Keller Hall.

Keller’s piece, titled “The Sister’s Story,” described her brother Daniel going off to war in 1862 and the emotions she and her family had. At the end of her chapter was a note from the editor, who knew about her participating in decorating graves in Boalsburg some 40 years earlier. The editor, Joseph Muffly, a former adjutant of the Pennsylvania 148th, included a short testimonial from Keller, whom Muffly knew because Keller’s brother had gone on to work for James Beaver, who’d been governor of Pennsylvania and would be a future president of Penn State.

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The note read, in Keller’s words: “On the 4th of July, 1864 (I think that was the first 4th of July following the death of Dr. Reuben Hunter, of Boalsburg), Emma Hunter, now Mrs. James T. Stuart, and I went to the Boalsburg Cemetery to decorate her father’s grave.

While making a cross of flowers and wreath of same, the idea suggested itself to us that it would be appropriate, considering the day, to decorate all the graves of the soldiers buried there. Going home, we soon procured more flowers and laurel and made a wreath for every grave of a soldier, and as some of your boys of the 148th lie there. I think it can be said that the 148th was the first regiment to have its graves decorated.”

(The researchers see that Keller was mistaken about the month, as she wrote her recollection 40 years later.)

The researchers also rediscovered a series of local columns

by Myrtle Magargel, a longtime journalist and historian with the State College Times and then the Centre Daily Times. For a series on the history of Boalsburg, Magargel interviewed one of Myers’s daughters, Adeline, who said she remembered gathering summer flowers and going to the cemetery with others. The researchers also found that Keller’s obituary in the local newspaper after she died in 1936 made reference to her as “one of the originators of the movement that led up to the establishment of Grand Army Memorial Day.” While the researchers didn’t necessarily set out to prove that Boalsburg was the birthplace of Memorial Day, they didn’t expect to find the details they did. And while Waterloo, New York, has the official designation, the researchers are proud that Boalsburg has the stories and historical records to support the tradition that’s been handed down here.

Evans says she first saw the significance of her colleagues’ work in 2013, when a Girl Scout visiting the Boalsburg Heritage Museum asked whether Daniel Keller, pictured in a Civil War-era photograph they’d uncovered through the project, had lived.

“Bringing alive such buried history for future generations to examine,” Evans says, “was exactly the mission we hoped to accomplish.” T&G

Thanks to the research done by (from top) Susan Evans, Bob Hazelton, Cathy Horner, and Nancy Taylor, more is known about the women who started the Memorial Day tradition in Boalsburg.

A War, Three Women, and a Tradition: A History of Boalsburg in the Civil War is available for purchase at the Centre County Historical Society in State College and the Boalsburg Heritage Museum.

Mike Dawson is a freelance writer in State College who is interested in local history and genealogy.

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Family Fun

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National Memorial Day Concert Sunday, May 29, at 8 p.m.

This spring, volunteer storytellers from Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, came together to capture the close community spirit that spans generations in this small town. Watch as they share stories about their bicentennial, childhood memories, the 1942 flood, their awesome veterans, the Fire Department, their young people’s talent and energy, and much more. Find out what makes Johnsonburg a GREAT hometown! Out-of-town friends and family can watch the premiere LIVE online at wpsu.org/live.

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The NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship returns to Rec Hall with the semifinals on May 5 and the championship match on May 7.

Nittany Theatre at the Barn opens its 2016 season with the musical comedy Company.

6 It’s opening day for the Downtown State College Farmers’ Market on Locust Lane.

Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park hosts the 2016 Big Ten Softball Tournament.

22 The first Festa-Nic, a showcase

of local food and beverage, takes place at the Pleasant Gap Fire Company Carnival Grounds.

22 14-17 The AAUW Used Book Sale returns to Snider Agricultural Arena.

15 6-8 Penn State’s baseball team hosts national power TCU in a threegame series at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

18 As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band visits the State Theatre.

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6-8 Penn State holds its spring commencement ceremonies at the Bryce Jordan Center.

May

Bellefonte’s annual Big Spring Festival takes place in Talleyrand Park.

The Centre County Historical Society opens its exhibit Arts Festival at Fifty: Stories of the Early Years at Centre Furnace Mansion. The show runs through October 15.

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Boalsburg holds its annual Memorial Day events.

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Children & Families 4, 11, 18, 25 – Baby Explorers, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 10:30 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.

5, 12, 19, 26 – Science Adventures, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 10:30 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.

6, 13, 20, 27 – Music Makers, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 10:30 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.

7 – Block Party, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

7, 14, 21 – Saturday Stories Alive, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 11 a.m., schlowlibrary.org.

16 – Summer Reading registration begins!, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 9 a.m., schlowlibrary.org.

Classes & Lectures 1 – Docent Choice Tours: “Landscapes” by Mary Jo Everhart, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 2 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

3 – Central PA Civil War Round Table: “The Sultana Disaster” by Captain Jim Bloong, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 7 p.m., pamilmuseum.org.

3, 17 – “A Joint Venture,” information session on hip or knee replacement, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 11 a.m.

May 3, 7 p.m. May 17, 278-4810.

4 – Gallery Talk: Elizabeth Hanley, Penn State All-Sports Museum, PSU, noon, gopsusports.com/museum.

4 – Richard Koontz Memorial Lecture Series: “Of Myths and Men: Rethinking the Legend of Little Round Top” by George M. George & Dr. Daniel R. George, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 7:30 p.m., pamilmuseum.org.

6 – Amy Bleuel of Project Semicolon, Webster’s, SC, 6 p.m., janamariefoundation.org.

8 – Docent Choice Tours: “The Architecture of the Palmer” by Vinnie Scanlon, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 2 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

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17 – Straight Talk: Mental Health Matters, Mount Nittany Middle School, SC, 7 p.m., janamariefoundation.org.

26 – Geek Speak: From Home Brew to Brew Pub, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 6 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

Club Events 2, 16 – Knitting Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 5:30 p.m., schlowlibrary .org.

3, 10, 17, 24, 31 – State College Rotary Club, Nittany Lion Inn, SC, 5:30 p.m., statecollegerotary.org.

4, 11, 18, 25 – State College Sunrise Rotary Club, Hotel State College, SC, 7:15 a.m., kfragola@psualum.com.

4, 18 – Outreach Toastmasters Meeting, The 329 Building, Room 413, PSU, noon, kbs131@psu.edu.

5, 12, 19, 16 – Comics Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 3:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

7, 14, 21 – Chess Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

7, 14, 21 – Go Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

7, 14, 21, 28 – State College Downtown Rotary, Ramada Inn & Conference Center, SC, noon, centrecounty.org/rotary/club/.

10 – Nittany Valley Writers’ Network, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 6 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

11 – 148th PA Volunteer Infantry Civil War Reenactment Group, Hoss’s Steak and Sea House, SC, 7:30 p.m., 861-0770.

11 – Teen Book Club: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 3:45 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

11 – Women’s Welcome Club of State College, Oakwood Presbyterian Church (not church affiliated), SC, 7 p.m., womenswelcomeclub.org.

12, 26 – Embroidery Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 5:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

16 – Parrot Owner’s Group, Perkins, SC, 7 p.m., 237-2722.

17 – Evening Book Club: The All Girls Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 6:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

21 – Lego Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

25 – Afternoon Book Club: Orphan Train

by Christina Baker Kline, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

25 – Applique Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 6 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

Community Associations & Development 5 – CBICC Business After Hours: Gigi’s Southern Table & Bar, 5:30 p.m., cbicc.org.

17 – Spring Creek Watershed Association, Patton Township Municipal Building, SC, 7:30 a.m., springcreekwatershed.org.

19 – CBICC Business After Hours: Fulton Bank/Fulton Mortgage Company/Jersey Mike’s, 5:30 p.m., cbicc.org.

24 – CBICC Membership Breakfast: Centre County Judges’ Forum, Celebration Hall, SC, 8 a.m., cbicc.org.

25 – Patton Township Business Association, Patton Township Municipal Building, SC, noon, 237-2822.

Exhibits Ongoing-May 8 – Consciously Surreal: Photography, the Uncanny, and the Body, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum. psu.edu.

Ongoing-May 8 – From Dada to Dali: Surrealist Works on Paper, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

Ongoing-May 15 – Small Prints, Big Artists: Renaissance and Baroque Masterpieces from Carnegie Museum of Art, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

Lewis Hine’s “Red Cross Nurse with Patient” is part of the American Art in the Shadow of World War I exhibit that opens May 14 at the Palmer Museum of Art.

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Ongoing-May 29 – Class of 2016 Art Show — The Future of Art in Centre County, Bellefonte Art Museum of Centre County, Bellefonte, noon-4:30 p.m. Fri.-Sun., bellefontemuseum.org.

Ongoing – Underground Railroad: A Journey to Freedom, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, Bellefonte, noon-4:30 p.m. Fri-Sun., bellefontemuseum.org.

1-31 – Mental Health Awareness Month Art Exhibit, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, janamariefoundation.org.

1-31 – Stomper Project, State College Municipal Building, SC, stompersproject.org.

6-June 11 – Pastel Passions and Beyond, State College Framing Company, SC, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon., Fri., & Sat., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Tues., Wed., & Thurs., centralpapastel.com.

14-August 7 – American Art in the Shadow of World War I, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

17-August 14 – The Prints of Jules Heller, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

Greg Trooper performs May 20 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County.

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20-29 – Members Show, Art Alliance of Central PA, Lemont, artalliancepa.org.

22-October 15 – Arts Festival at Fifty: Stories of the Early Years, Centre Furnace Mansion, SC, 1-4 p.m. Sun., Mon., & Wed., centrehistory.org.

Health Care For schedule of blood drives visit redcross.org or givelife.org.

2 – Breast Cancer Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 5:30 p.m., 231-6870.

6, 10 – Juniper Village at Brookline’s Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group, Mount Nittany Dining Room at The Inn, SC, 1 p.m. Fri., 6:30 p.m. Tues., 231-3141.

10 – Brain Injury Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 7 p.m., 359-3421.

11 – Fertility Issues and Loss Support Group, Choices (2214 N. Atherton St.), SC, 6 p.m., heartofcpa.org.

15 – Ostomy Support Group of the Central Counties, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 2 p.m., 234-6195.

16 – Cancer Survivors’ Association, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 11:30 a.m., 238-6220.

18 – Alzheimer’s Support Group, Elmcroft Senior Living, SC, 6:30 p.m., 235-7675.

19 – Better Breathers Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 2 p.m., 842-6026.

19 – Parents-to-be Orientation, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 6:30 p.m., 231-3132.

22 – Neuropathy Support Group of Central PA, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 2 p.m., 531-1024.

23 – Heart Healthy Support Group for Heart Failure, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421.

24 – Multiple Sclerosis Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 6 p.m., 359-3421.

31 – Stroke Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421.

The Tall Trees perform May 7 at the Center for Well-Being in Lemont.

Music 1 – Easterly Chamber Players, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, SC, 3 p.m., uufcc.com.

6 – Jazz in the Attic: Rick Hirsch 4, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m. thestatetheatre.org.

7 – The Tall Trees, Center for Well-Being, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., acousticbrew.org.

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The Devil Makes Three performs May 21 at the State Theatre.

8– ­ State College Area Municipal Band presents “The Mother’s Day Concert," Mount Nittany Middle School, SC, 3 p.m.

15 – Curtin Street Chamber Players, Centre County Library Historical Museum, Bellefonte, 2:30 p.m., bellefontearts.org.

18 – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.

20 – Greg Trooper, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, SC, 7:30 p.m., uufcc.com dy Bun hard Ric ctor dire and eB Blu

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21 – Violinist Raina Arnett with pianist Svetlana Rodionova, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, SC, 7:30 p.m., uufcc.com.

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1 – Linden Loop, Linden Hall, 11:30 a.m. registration, rockhillschoolatlindenhall .blogspot.com.

1– ­WPSU Red Sweater Day, WPSU Studios, PSU, 2 p.m., wpsu.org.

3, 10, 17, 24, 31 – Tuesday Farmers’ Market, Locust Lane, SC, 11:30 a.m.

3, 10, 17, 24, 31 – Boalsburg Farmers’ Market, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 2 p.m., boalsburgfarmersmarket.com.

4, 11, 18, 25 – Lemont Farmers’ Market, The Granary, 2 p.m., visitpennstate.org.

6 – First Friday, Downtown State College, 5 p.m., firstfridaystatecollege.com.

6-7 – Birding Cup, Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center, Petersburg, shaverscreek.org.

6-8 – Penn State Spring 2016 Commencement, BJC, PSU, bjc.psu.edu.

6, 13, 20, 27 – Downtown State College Farmers Market, Locust Lane, SC, 11:30 a.m.

7 – Lemont Plant Sale, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, 9 a.m., lemontvillage.org.

7 – Central PA Native Plant Festival and Sale, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 10 a.m., panativeplantsociety.org.

7 – Fun Fair, State College Friends School, SC, 10 a.m., scfriends.org.

7, 14, 21, 28 – Bellefonte Farmers’ Market, Gamble Mill parking lot, Bellefonte, 8 a.m.

7, 14, 21, 28 – Philipsburg Farmers’ Market, Moshannon Building parking lot, Philipsburg, 9 a.m.

7, 14, 21, 28 – Millheim Farmers’ Market, American Legion, Millheim, 10 a.m., centralpafarmers.com.

7, 14, 21, 28 – North Atherton Farmers’ Market, Home Depot parking lot, SC, 10 a.m.

14 – Antique Appraisal Event, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, Bellefonte, TBA, bellefontemuseum.org.

14 – Plant Celebration, Centre Furnace Mansion, SC, 9 a.m., centrehistory.org.

15 – Big Spring Festival, Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, noon, visitbellefonte.com.

14-17 – AAUW Used Book Sale, Snider Agricultural Arena, PSU, 9 a.m., aauwstatecollege.org.

21 – Crafty Mamas of Centre County Spring Craft Market, Trinity Lutheran Church, SC, 9 a.m.

21 – Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Centre County’s Garden Fair & Plant Sale, Ag Progress Site, Pennsylvania Furnace, 9 a.m., extension.psu.edu.

22 – A Celebration of Service: Honoring Pennsylvania Veterans, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 10 a.m., pamilmuseum .org.

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22 – Festa-Nic, Pleasant Gap Fire Company Carnival Grounds, Pleasant Gap, 1 p.m., villageeatinghouse.net.

26-30 – Memorial Day in Boalsburg, Boalsburg, boalsburg.com.

28 – Plant Sale – Local Garden Club, 1401 Curtin Street, SC, 8 a.m., Albright@ penn.com.

28-29 – World War II Living History Bivouac, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 10 a.m., pamilmuseum.org.

30 – Allegheny Mountain Region A.S.C.A. Car Show, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 9 a.m., pamilmuseum.org.

Sports For tickets to Penn State sporting events, call (814) 865-5555 or visit gopsusports.com.

1 – PSU/Maryland, baseball, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 1 p.m.

1 – PSU/Michigan, softball, Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park, PSU, 1 p.m.

5, 7 – NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship, Rec Hall, PSU, TBA. 6 – Jim Thorpe Invite, track & field, Penn State Track, PSU, 2 p.m.

6-8 – PSU/Illinois, softball, Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park, PSU, 6 p.m. Fri., 3 p.m. Sat., 1 p.m. Sun. 6-8 – PSU/TCU, baseball, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 6:30 p.m. Fri., 2 p.m. Sat., 1 p.m. Sun. 12-14 – Big Ten Softball Tournament, Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park, PSU, TBA. 19-21 – PSU/Iowa, baseball, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 6:30 p.m. Thurs. & Fri., 1 p.m. Sat.

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Fuse Productions presents A Year with Frog and Toad May 10-11 at the State Theatre.

Theater 1 – Next Stage presents Betrayal, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., thestatetheatre.org.

10-11 – Fuse Productions presents A Year with Frog and Toad, State Theatre, SC, 10 a.m. Tues., 10 a.m. & 7 p.m. Wed., fuseproductions.org.

10-28 – Nittany Theatre at the Barn presents Company, Boal Barn Playhouse, Boalsburg, 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. (2 p.m. matinee May 28), nittanytheatre.org.

14 – Performing Arts School of Central PA presents The Spring Gala, State Theatre, SC, 3 & 7 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.

19-22 – State College Community Theatre presents Blithe Spirit, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, SC, 8 p.m.

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The Many Reasons for Rosé Versatility and diversity help make rosé wines the pick for this time of year — or any time of the year

By Lucy Rogers

It’s that time of year again — cooler days turn into warmer days; longer sunlight enables us to enjoy a few hours of sunshine when we get home from work.

One of my favorite things to do on a warm spring or summer evening is sit on the front porch with my husband and pop open a bottle of wine before dinner and talk about the day, as the kids enjoy playing outside before we eat. For us, there is something romantic and almost vacation-like about enjoying this “porch time” midweek. And I have to say, invariably the wine we choose to sip on these occasions is almost always a dry rosé. In fact, we enjoy drinking dry rosé all year long, but truly find it most appealing in these warmer months.

Let me wax poetic about the beauty of dry rosé.

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with almost everything — crisp salads, shellfish, seafood, poultry — but are perfect for spicy foods, too, such as tacos or empanadas or wine-challenging spicy Asian cuisine. Some of the fuller rosés can even hold up to stews and heartier fare associated with red wines.

Additionally, many dry rosés are lower in alcohol than their red counterparts, enabling drinkers to enjoy more wine with less risk of becoming, shall we say, socially compromised.

In addition to their versatility, dry rosés offer a broad range of appeal: Fruity enough to keep the sweet-wine folks happy, crisp enough to satisfy the Sauv Blanc fans in the crowd, and sturdy enough to put red wine drinkers at ease (at least for a course or two). These two reasons alone justify you serving dry rosé at your next gathering.

But wait — there’s more!

The diversity of styles among dry rosés makes them that much more intriguing. While you could pick a lighter-styled Cotes du Rhone blend rosé to pair with lighter fare in your sumptuous summer dinner, you could move on to a deeper, fuller, richer rosé made from Malbec from Argentina or a Bordeaux-blend from France (this might come in handy if you have to appease the “I only drink red wine” guests at your party). Regardless, there are dry rosés that are as light as the palest salmon you might serve it with, and those almost as dark as a light-bodied Pinot Noir. They range from crisp and acidic — the Cotes du Rhone varietal blends of Cinsault, Grenache, Syrah, and Mouvedre make this style — to medium-

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bodied — your Cabernet Franc, American Syrah, Spanish Riojan Tempranillo rosés, or Italian Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo — to those that are remarkably full-bodied, made from Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet, Petit Verdot, and even Zinfandel. And let’s not forget about sparkling rosé — there are so many of them out there with an equally broad range of styles: Delicate pink champagnes made from Pinot Noir and Pinot Muenier, Spanish cavas with an earthy dash of Pinot Noir blended in, refreshingly sweeter lambruscos from Italy, and lightly frizzante rosés from Portugal. (Try Arca Novo Vinho Verde, available in the state store for just $8.99, PLCB code 47934, a superbly refreshing wine that pairs well with daily meals, including tacos or meatloaf).

For a refined American treat, try Chandon Blanc de Noir from Napa Valley, which is consistently delicious year in and year out.

There are two remaining factors to discuss in terms of rosé. First, the PLCB Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores are carrying the widest range of rosés I’ve seen in a very long time (and trust me, I’m always looking for them). And so many of them are right here in State College at the North Atherton store. While France usually dominates what’s on the shelves in terms of dry rosé, I was thrilled to see more than a dozen countries represented the last time I was in the shop, showcasing wines made from an equally diverse number of grapes, including a few grapes I had never heard of, including Espadiero, Negrette, and Trepat. The second 82 - T&G May 2016

important factor is that none of these wines will break the bank. The Portuguese Arca Nova that we love is $8.99. We also loved La Vie en Rosé (Negrette) at $9.99; La Villa de Agnes (Cinsault), also $9.99; and many in our group were equally pleased with Finca del Origen (Malbec, $11.99), which was a bigger wine but still well balanced between fruit and acid. Another of our favorites was Domaine Ste. Lucie, MIP, Cotes du Provence, made from Cinsault, Syrah, and Grenache, which was worth every penny of $18, while the Chateau de Trinqueverdel from the region of Tavel was less impressive at the same price point. But those two wines were the most expensive of 20 wines that we tasted.

People who don’t understand — or haven’t tried enough — dry rosé often pooh-pooh them. And surely this is result of a long and sad association of these beautiful foodfriendly yet cocktail-worthy wines with cloying sweet wines such as California White Zinfandel. But all you really need to do to avoid making a mistake is to read the label.

If the pink wine you pick up off the shelf is from another country, you can be almost certain that it will not be sweet. And if it is from the United States, take a good look at the label and see what grape it’s made from — Syrahs, Cabernets, and Merlots all make great dry rosés that are worth trying.

Washington (look for Charles and Charles Syrah Rosé) and California are making lots of great pink wines that simply do not taste anything like White Zinfandel.

Finally, if you still haven’t found any of these reasons compelling enough to start exploring dry rosé, consider this: Nothing will look prettier on your dinner table than some lovely dry rosé poured into your guests’ wine glass at each place setting! T&G Lucy Rogers is the tasting room manager for Big Spring Spirits in Bellefonte. She can be reached at lucy@bigspringspirits.com, or you can find her in the tasting room.

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Taste of the Month Southern Charm Gigi’s brings tastes of the South to Happy Valley

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Gigi’s offers a menu of juleps.

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et ready to take a trip down South without getting on a plane. Gigi’s Southern Table & Bar, located at 2080 Cato Avenue in State College, captures the charming, relaxed atmosphere of the South with a menu that makes your tummy sing with soul. From fried chicken drizzled with honey served with house-made buttermilk biscuits to beignets topped with powdered sugar with raspberry sauce, Gigi’s is bringing simple but bold-flavored southern lowcountry cuisine to State College.

With seating for 200, Gigi’s can accommodate small or large groups. There are different seating areas in the restaurant that help set the right ambiance for any occasion.

There is a traditional dining room, the library, the low-country bar, a room with a fireplace, and the back porch.

Since summer 2015, under the management of Hospitality Asset Management Company, Gigi’s took the new direction of introducing a refined southern-inspired menu. In the kitchen, the talented duo of chefs John Clickner and Tyler Wood team up to serve southern favorites, such as spoon bread, a cornmeal baked soufflé, and gumbo with crawfish.

Pan-fried cornmeal catfish vermouth emulsion, Tait Farm Tomato Chutney, local bacon, and black bean salsa

Gumbo with Andouille sausage, chicken, and crawfish

Open for lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday, other specialty dishes include chipotle deviled eggs, southern catfish, skillet mac and cheese with tasso ham, fried green tomato BLT, inhouse smoked brisket, and country-fried pork chops.

Closed on Sundays, Gigi’s offers a Saturday brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The menu features a lowcountry boil filled with littleneck clams, mussels, shrimp, Andouille sausage, and corn on the cob. Also on the menu are eggs Benedict, peel and eat shrimp, country sausage and gravy, and baked clams with roasted corn.

Stop in Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m. for Gigi’s raw bar.

“From oysters on the half shell and crab claws to steamed clams and mussels and shrimp cocktail, it’s a very popular night,” says general manager Rebecca Larsen.

In addition to the amazing selection of food, the restaurant also is taking a traditional approach to cocktails.

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General manager Rebecca Larsen and chef John Clickner.

Chipotle deviled eggs

Ice is the most importatnt ingredient in a cocktail, according to Gigi’s mixologist Colin Bates.

“Our cocktail program is ingredient-driven with a respect to the authentic traditions of crafting cocktails from scratch ingredients, such as our own bitters, syrups, cordials, and infusions,” explains Larsen. “We are doing a menu of juleps inspired by the popular bourbon and mint cocktail typically enjoyed in the South — only with seasonal and unique twists.”

Beverage director and mixologist Colin Bates says, “Ice is the most important ingredient in a cocktail. The ice is used to control the composition of the drink, how well you dilute it, and the temperature of the drink.”

Clear, pure ice makes for the perfect cocktail.

Cloudy ice forms because of impurities in the water and oxygen bubbles becoming trapped.

Oxygen in your ice makes it melt quicker, and impurities can impart flavors into your drink.

Gigi’s also has a global wine menu and offers 50 different wines by the bottle and 12 by the glass. T&G

For a special offer for $5 off a Small Batch Saturday Brunch, visit townandgown.com.

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For more information, visit gigisdining.com or call (814) 861-3463 for reservations and to ask about off-site catering.

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All restaurants are in State College or on the Penn State campus, and in the 814 area code unless noted.

Full Course Dining bar bleu, 114 S. Garner St., 237-0374, bar-bleu.com. Socializing and sports viewing awaits at bar bleu. Don’t miss a minute of the action on 22 true 1080i HDMI high-definition flat-screen monitors displaying the night’s college and pro matchups. The bar serves up 16 draft beers in addition to crafted cocktails, including the “Fishbowl,” concocted in its own 43-ounce tank! Pub fare featuring authentic Kansas Citystyle barbecue is smoked daily on-site. AE, D, DC, ID+, MC, V. Full bar.

Barrel 21 Distillery & Dining, 2255 N. Atherton St., 308-9522, barrel21distillery.com.

A new dining experience brought to you by Otto’s Pub & Brewery, Barrel 21 presents a tapas menu featuring fusion cuisine highlighting our local resources. Menu inspirations will celebrate new culture and cuisine brought to Central PA from around the world. Tapas-style dining from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Sundays, brunch is served from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and tapas from 4 to 9 p.m. Closed on Mondays. The distillery is in full operation and the tasting room is now open with our bottled craft spirits available for purchase during the restaurants hours of operation.

AE, D, MC, V. Full bar.

Carnegie Inn & Spa Restaurant, 100 Cricklewood Drive, 234-2424. An exquisite boutique hotel offering fine dining in a relaxed yet gracious atmosphere. Your dining experience begins with a wide array of appetizers and entrees that compare to the best restaurants of the largest cities in the United States. Additionally, the Carnegie Inn & Spa Restaurant wine list is one of the best in the area and features a wide variety of wines from California, France, and other countries. Reservations suggested. AE, MC, D, V. Full bar.

Cozy Thai Bistro, 232 S. Allen St., 237-0139. A true authentic Thai restaurant offering casual and yet “cozy” family-friendly dining experience. Menu features wide selections of exotic Thai cuisine, both lunch and dinner (take-out available). BYO (wines and beer) is welcome after 5 p.m. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. 88 - T&G May 2016

The Deli Restaurant, 113 Hiester St., 237-5710, The DeliRestaurant.com. Since 1973, The Deli has served up New York-style deli favorites on an American menu offering everything from comfort food to pub favorites, all made from scratch. Soups, breads, sauces, and awardwinning desserts are homemade here early in the morning folks. Look for its rotating menu of food- themed festivals throughout the year. AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

The Dining Room at the Nittany Lion Inn, 200 W. Park Ave., 865-8590. Fine continental cuisine in a relaxed, gracious atmosphere.

Casual attire accept- able. Private dining rooms available. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

Duffy’s Boalsburg Tavern, On the Diamond, Boalsburg, 466-6241. The Boalsburg Tavern offers a fine, intimate setting reminiscent of Colonial times. Dining for all occasions with formal and casual menus, daily dinner features, specials, and plenty of free parking. AE, MC, V. Full bar.

Faccia Luna Pizzeria, 1229 S. Atherton St., 237-9000, faccialuna.com. A true neighborhood hang- out, famous for authentic New York-style wood-fired pizzas and fresh, homemade Italian cuisine. Seafood specialties, sumptuous salads, divine desserts, great service, and full bar.

Outside seating available. Sorry, reservations not accepted. Dine-in, Take out. MC/V.

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Galanga, 454 E. College Ave., 237-1718.

Another great addition to Cozy Thai Bistro.

Galanga by Cozy Thai offers a unique authentic Thai food featuring Northeastern Thai-style cuisine. Vegetarian menu selection available.

BYO (wines and beer) is welcome after 5 p.m.

AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. The Gardens Restaurant at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd., Innovation Park, 863-5090. Dining is a treat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in The Gardens Restaurant, where sumptuous buffets and à la carte dining are our special- ties. AE, CB, D, DC, MC, V. Full bar, beer.

Gigi’s, W. College Ave, on the corner of Cato Ave., 861-3463, gigisdining.com. Conveniently located 5 minutes from downtown State College, Gigi’s is a farm-to-table dining experience inspired by the hottest southern trends. Outdoor Patio. Lunch & Dinner. Full Bar. AE, D, MAC, MC, V.

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The Greek, 102 E. Clinton Ave., 308-8822, thegreekrestaurant.net. Located behind The Original Waffle Shop on North Atherton Street.

Visit our Greek tavern and enjoy authentic Greek cuisine. From fresh and abundant vegetables to the most succulent kebabs, each dish has been perfected to showcase genuine Greek flavors. When we say “authentic,” we mean it. Full service, BYOB. D, MC, V. Herwig’s Austrian Bistro, “Where Bacon Is An Herb,” 132 W. College Ave., 272-0738. Located next to the State Theatre. Serving authentic Austrian home cooking in Central PA. Ranked #1 Ethnic Restaurant in State College for 8 years in a row. Eat-in, Take-Out, Catering. Glutenfree options available. Bacon-based dessert.

Homemade breads, BYO beer or wine all day.

Sense of humor required. D, MAC, MC, V.

Hi-Way Pizza, 1688 N. Atherton St., 237-0375, HiWayPizza.com. The State College tradition for nearly 50 years, nobody does it better than HiWay! Offering more than 29 varieties of handspun pizzas made from scratch offer an endless combination of toppings. Its vodka “flaky” crust and red stuffed pizzas are simply a must have.

Hi-Way’s menu rounds out with pasta dishes, calzones, grinders, salads, and other Italian specialties. Eat-in, Take-out, or Hi-Way delivery.

AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

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India Pavilion, 222 E. Calder Way, 237-3400.

Large selection of vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes from northern India. Lunch buffet offered daily. We offer catering for groups and private parties. AE, D, MC, V.

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Inferno Brick Oven & Bar, 340 E. College Ave., 237-5718, InfernoBrickOvenBar.com.

With a casual yet sophisticated atmosphere, Inferno is a place to see and be seen. A fullservice bar boasts a unique specialty wine, beer, and cocktail menu. Foodies — Inferno offers a contemporary Neapolitan brick-oven experience featuring a focused menu of artisan pizzas and other modern-Italian plates. Lunch and dinner service transi- tions into night as a boutique nightclub with dance- floor lighting, club sound system, and the area’s most talented resident DJs. AE, D, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

Legends Pub at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd., Innovation Park, 863-5080. Unwind with beverages and a casual lounge menu. AE, D, MC, V. Full bar.

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Mario’s Italian Restaurant, 272 N. Atherton St., 234-4273, MariosItalianStateCollege.com.

Fresh specialty dishes, pasta, sauces, hand-tossed pizzas, and rotisserie wood-grilled chicken all made from scratch are just a few reasons why Mario’s is authentically Italian! At the heart of it all is a specialty wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie that imparts rustic flavors that can’t be beat! Mario’s loves wine and is honored with six consecutive Wine Spectator awards and a wine list of more than 550 Italian selections. Mario’s even pours 12 rotating specialty bottles on its WineStation® state-of-the-art preservation system. Reservations and Walk-Ins welcome. AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

Otto’s Pub & Brewery, 2235 N. Atherton St., 867-6886, ottospubandbrewery.com. State College’s most awarded craft-beer pub and brewery featuring more than a dozen fresh, house-brewed ales and lagers on tap as well as fine, affordably priced, local American food with vegan and vegetarian offerings, a kids’ menu, weekly features, and seasonal menu. Open for lunch and dinner in a family-friendly, casual atmosphere. AE, D, MC, V. Full bar.

Philipsburg Elks Lodge & Country Club, 1 Country Club Lane, Philipsburg, 342-0379, philipsburgelks.com. Restaurant open to the public! Monday-Saturday 11-9, Sunday 9-3.

Member-only bar. New golf-member special, visit our Web site for summer golf special. AE MC, V. Full Bar (members only).

The Tavern Restaurant, 220 E. College Ave., 238-6116. A unique gallery-in-a-restaurant preserving PA’s and Penn State’s past. Dinner at The Tavern is a Penn State tradition. Major credit cards accepted. Full bar.

Whiskers at the Nittany Lion Inn, 200 W. Park Ave., 865-8580. Casual dining featuring soups, salads, sandwiches and University Creamery ice cream. Major credit cards accepted.

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Zola Kitchen & Wine Bar, 324 W. College Ave., 237-8474. Zola Kitchen & Wine Bar features ingredient-driven, seasonal, new American cuisine paired with an extensive wine list, certified wine professional, and exceptional service. Zola’s also features a new climatecontrolled wine room, premium by-the-glass wine pours, fine liquor, and craft beer at its fullservice bar. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Reservations recommended. Catering.

Free parking after 5:30 p.m. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

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Fiddlehead, 134 W. College Ave., 237-0595, fiddleheadstatecollege.com. Fiddlehead is a soup-and-salad café offering soups made from scratch daily. Create your own salad from more than 40 fresh ingredients.

Irving’s, 110 E. College Ave., 231-0604, irvingsstatecollege.com. Irving’s is State College’s finest bakery café serving awardwinning bagels, espresso, sandwiches, salads, and smoothies.

HUB Dining, HUB-Robeson Center on campus, 865-7623. A Penn State tradition open to all! Enjoy 13 different eateries in the HUB-Robeson Center on campus. Jamba Juice, McAlister’s Deli, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Burger King, Higher Grounds, Sbarro, Soup & Garden, Diversions, Blue Burrito, Mixed Greens, Panda Express, and Sushi by Panda Express.V, MC, LC.

Meyer Dairy, 2390 S. Atherton St., 237-1849. A State College Classic! Meyer Dairy is the perfect choice for a quick, homemade lunch with fresh soups and sandwiches or treat yourself to your favorite flavor of ice cream or sundae at our ice cream parlor. Fresh milk from our own dairy cows (we do not inject our cows with BST), eggs, cheese, ice cream cakes, baked goods, and more! Plus, Meyer Dairy is the best place to pick up your Town&Gown magazine each month! T&G

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“Lifting” for Gender Equality Darren Andrew Weimert

Commission for Women cochair promotes equity issues at Penn State

Commission for Women cochair Angela Rogers (left) chats with Town&Gown founder Mimi Barash Coppersmith at Zola’s Kitchen & Wine Bar in State College.

Since 1981, the Commission for Women has served as an advisory group to the president of Penn State on the status of women at the university. The commission identifies areas of concern for the women employees and students and recommends solutions.

The university president appoints the members of the commission to recommend policies and programs to enhance the university’s working and learning environments. Some of the issues include recruitment, advancement, retention, salary equity, personal safety, and sexual-assault awareness.

The commission is currently chaired by Angela Rogers and Vicki Hoffman. Hoffman is a staff member in Information Technology Services facilities management, and Rogers is a marketing communications specialist in the Department of Geography.

A 1991 Penn State journalism grad, Rogers earned her master’s of science degree in 2004 in workforce education and development. She sat down with Town&Gown founder Mimi Barash Coppersmith at Zola’s Kitchen & Wine Bar in State College to discuss the mission of the commission and the barriers to advancement that women still face.

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Mimi: Angela, you’re an alumna of our freelance family of writers for Town&Gown dating back to the early 1990s.

Angela: That’s right.

Mimi: And we thank you for that part of Town&Gown.

We’re here today to discuss your ascension to cochairmanship on the Commission for Women. How did that happen?

Angela: I’ve been working at the university for almost 20 years, and after I left Outreach and started over again in the Department of Geography, a friend of mine said, “Why don’t you join my marketing committee on the Commission for Women.”

And I was looking for another way to really connect again with colleagues around the university. So I said Yes, and we worked together on the marketing committee. I found that my style of marketing was a little more assertive maybe than they were used to, but they liked it. That led to me being more involved. With the commission, it’s really up to each member how engaged they want to be. If you want to be engaged and you want to be a leader, there’s an opportunity for you to do that. If you just want to hang out on the fringes and do something here or there and be supportive, you can do that, too.

Mimi: Why are there two chairpersons?

Angela: There are cochairs simply because there’s so much work to be done and we’re all so busy. It’s a way to lighten the load.

Mimi: Ten years ago, I interviewed the chair of the commission, who was Karen

Shultz, and they had a theme for the 25th anniversary, “Reflect, Reassess, and Remove.” Do you have a theme now 10 years later?

Angela: Yes, we do have themes. The theme this year is “Lifting Ourselves and Each Other.”

Mimi: Not bad. So how are you doing it?

Angela: Well, one of the things that the commission does is we have educational programs once a month at our public meeting and we present a program or a speaker. That helps the rest of the people in the community learn a little bit more about the issues, the research, the facts about where we are, where women are, what we’re doing, and what are the

barriers and challenges that we’re still facing. Sometimes that information is underground — people don’t know it, they just see the surface.

Mimi: Some people would prefer not having to speak about it.

Angela: Sure. It’s very hard for women who have experienced discrimination to feel like they can talk about it.

Mimi: What are the things we should be doing together? Let’s use as an example of being paid for equal work. Do you have any idea how we are on that major concern of the women’s movement?

Angela: Well, all I can say about that is I’ve been reading some research lately that shows that the pay gap still

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exists. It’s not consistent, it differs across occupations. And the other thing about it is a lot of organizations are becoming more conscientious about starting women and men at an equal salary basis when they are right out of school when they start. But there are small differences, small disadvantages that women have in how their work is perceived or whether they’re promoted or whether they’re given raises over time, so then after seven to 12 years, there’s a big difference. Other research has shown that over the course of her career, a woman will leave a million dollars on the table compared to a man doing the same job.

Mimi: What can we, as the Penn State Commission for Women, do? Are there steps we can take?

Angela: I think there are two ways to approach the problem. The first way is to educate women on what they should be asking for.

Mimi: Let me interrupt you. Women tend to undervalue her talent.

Angela: Exactly — just as everyone else

does. A woman underestimates her value and her talent, and other men and women around her also do the same thing.

Mimi: That’s the education piece.

Angela: Educating women to be aware of the salaries in their field and to ask — don’t just take the offer they make — ask for more. A man would ask for more, so a woman should ask for more, too.

Although, it’s a double-edged sword there because if you’re perceived as pushy, then that works against you as a woman. The other thing is to educate the people who are doing the hiring and the people who are in administrative and supervisory roles so that they can be more aware of these unconscious biases they’re bringing to their hiring decisions and their decisions about promotions.

Mimi: Does the commission attempt to be a catalyst where if you find an area where there’s obvious inequality, that they can help the individual work on this?

Angela: No, we’re not set up to really be direct change agents. We’re set up more in

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educating and monitoring.

Mimi: An advisory to the president of the university is how the phrasing was then and apparently still is now.

Angela: That’s right.

Mimi: Has the commission ever thought about inviting the president to one of its meetings to talk openly about whether this is a problem at Penn State and how do we work together to begin making it more equitable?

Angela: Well, we do meet with the president and the provosts annually to report on what we’ve been doing and what our concerns are. But I think with President Barron, he’s very open and interested in this in a way that our previous presidents haven’t been as much.

Mimi: I think universally his style is very open to, and attentive to, the individual needs of others, starting with the economic-development base. Do you have a thread that will keep you on the path that will contribute to getting closer to equality for women in the workplace?

Angela: I think we do. Before I decided to run for chair, I talked with the other previous chairs, and they said that you have to take the long view. You can’t just think about how much you can accomplish in just one year. You have to think about how your work is building on the previous work and contributing to the future. Then, you can take a look back and see what you’ve accomplished over time with the work of everyone else on the commission.

So I try to keep that in mind when I start to feel impatient. We have people cycling on and off the commission, but we have committees that continue over time, and one of those committees is the assessment committee, which produces a status of women report every few years. We recently came out with a 10-year trend report on the status of women at Penn State.

Mimi: Can you give us the high points of that?

Angela: Yes, the high points, or low points actually, show very little progress has been made in terms of women

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moving up in academic ranks, in terms of women moving up into higher-level administrative positions. I’m sure you would not be surprised to hear that women are vastly overrepresented at the lowest levels, particularly in nontenured faculty positions.

Mimi: On the other hand, we have more female deans today than ever in the history of the institution.

Angela: That’s good news. One of the other things we do is we have a project that I started a couple of years ago called “Women with Influence,” where we did miniprofiles of the women in these leadership position — dean, director, and chancellor positions — to show that we do have women in these leadership positions and to get their advice for women who are more at the beginning of their careers on how they got there, what were some important events in their careers.

Mimi: Has the administrative fellows program lived up to its expectations of transferring women? And I know that now they have men in those positions, as well.

Statistically, has that worked?

Angela: I don’t know that it has statistically worked up to expectations.

I do know that the people that have gone through that program found it to be extremely valuable for their careers.

Mimi: And some have advanced as a result of it, but it would be interesting for the commission to examine specifically how well that’s done because that’s a program that could be expanded if it’s working. And if it’s not working, how do you infuse it with some oomph to make it work?

Angela: I think that’s a great idea, and you’ve hit on kind of one of the frustrations I have — that it’s very hard for us to get data. I just mentioned the status of women report at Penn State and how we did a 10-year trend report. It’s very difficult to get the data to do that kind of reporting, and for us to be able to do it more routinely and to do it with programs like administrative fellows would be wonderful, so that’s something we’re pushing for.

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Mimi: What else is the commission doing? What is the underlying mission of the Commission for Women?

Angela: I’d say our mission is to pay attention to the issues of equity and the concerns and barriers women are facing, advise the president and leadership about what those issues are and how we can address them, and to help women learn to be able to recognize those barriers and help themselves, too.

Mimi: What steps could you take that would formalize more of the reporting and make it possible for you to get more of the data? Going forward, I believe the current administration is an open administration.

Women are frequently mistreated in the workplace for all kinds of ridiculous reasons. Not to address this is improper, and we’ve had enough warning on a bigger problem of sexual assault. We’ve had enough to learn from that tragic experience that to neglect the real women’s issues will bite us one day, and the commission

for women has that opportunity. I would challenge you to try to find more formal ways to implement specific goals.

Angela: I accept that challenge!

Mimi: Do you still have your mentoring program?

Angela: We do.

Mimi: I think there’s a tremendous need and demand for stronger women to help mentor other women.

Angela: Definitely. Within the staff and the faculty, as well, and that’s something else that we’re looking at.

Mimi: I think that’s important and there’s a lot that could be done there, and when it’s done, women can rise to greater success. If you were to define the one, two, or three things that you could do to make [the commission] more effective, what would those be?

Angela: The first thing is that we want to improve the process that we use to recruit and work with our members. The second thing is that we need to have data

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Mimi: Part of my life was being at the right place at the right time to be able to use my voice for what I felt was legitimate.

We have come a long way, and you have implied that, as well. But we have a long way to go because it boils down to economics, and I leave with the idea of thinking about that. Don’t lose your enthusiasm and stamina to fight the fight gracefully and successfully — because it can be done.

Angela: Thanks for saying that. Well, I’m a fan of you, and I appreciate the time to talk about the Commission for Women!

Mimi: I’m a fan of you because you’re trying to improve the lives of women, and we all need to do it! Thanks so much! T&G

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State College Photo Club’s

Winning Photos

The State College Photo Club provides photo enthusiasts with the opportunity to share their passion for photography with others and to provide an environment for learning and developing new skills. The club welcomes individuals from amateurs to professionals. The club offers bimonthly workshops to improve skills and sponsors a bimonthly competition for its members.

Town&Gown is pleased to present the winning images from the club’s competition.

Shown this month are the first- and second-place winners in the category “Macrophotography” from the judged March meeting competition.

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March Meeting Theme “Macrophotography” First Place

“I had fried something in the pan, filled it with water, and let it sit overnight. The next morning I found that bubbles had formed and a very close look reminded me of images taken by the Hubble Telescope. This is one of several images taken from different vantage points.”

“Drip Drop”

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“This picture was taken by using a clear mixing bowl with wrapping paper underneath for color. I placed a plastic bag filled with water above the bowl with a pinhole in it to allow drops of water to drop into the bowl. I fixed the focus to the point of the droplets and used an off-camera flash. Then I would take as many pictures as the flash could shoot, and the photo is one of the end results.”

A copy of many photos taken by the State College Photo Club may be obtained with a $75 contribution to the Salvation Army of Centre County. Contact Captain Charles Niedermeyer at (814) 861-1785 and let him know you would like this image. You can select any size up to 11 inches wide.

The State College Photo Club meets on the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Foxdale Village Auditorium. Guests and new members are always welcome.

Visit statecollegephotoclub.org for more information about how to join.

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New President with Familiar Name South Hills’ Paul Mazza III leads the school his parents founded

By Madison Lippincott Paul Mazza III was born and raised in Centre County by S. Paul and Maralyn J. Mazza, who in 1970 founded South Hills School of Business and Technology in State College. Paul was 6 years old then, so little did he know that 45 years later he would be appointed the school’s president in its 45th year.

Mazza, who has remained active with the school over the years, became president in August 2015. The school has 11 specialized associate-degree programs, and, in addition to State College, it now has campuses in Lewistown and Altoona.

While Mazza grew up with a passion for the outdoors, during his late teen years he became fascinated with computers. When South Hills moved from Allen Street to the old Boalsburg High School building, he installed the first computer classrooms and taught computer classes that included BASIC programming, Visicalc, and Wordstar. In 1984, he founded Mazza Computer Systems, a company that specialized in designing and installing business-grade computer systems in Central Pennsylvania.

“As a self-employed individual, it was very exciting and very rewarding from a standpoint of being energizing and having great joy in what I did, but it was not going to pay the bills for my family, even though I didn’t have a family at that time,” says Mazza, who now has a wife and two kids. “I didn’t realize it at the time but it gave me the skills that I use every day here in running this school.”

Before returning to South Hills, he had several other accomplishments. For a few weeks every other year, beginning in 2006, he teamed up with his brother, David Mazza, to assist in bringing coverage of the Olympics to the Internet.

He has been awarded two Emmys as a result of his successful contributions and pioneering delivery of Olympic coverage.

While he had aspirations of his own, he believes that his upbringing had a great effect on his decision to return to South Hills.

“I had a normal childhood in a small town,” he says.

“Looking back, it was a phenomenal blessing for me and my siblings to live where we did. It had a safe environment and great opportunities for playtime. But more so than that, we grew up in a family that was always focused on learning.”

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Like his parents, he’s very community oriented and plans to uphold his parents’ original vision of the school by continuing to build relationships between students and businesses in the surrounding area to help ensure that as many graduates can land jobs in Central Pennsylvania as possible.

“If we’re not giving back to the community that our graduates are part of, then we’re not doing what we’ve been called to do,” he says.

He also plans to carry on a legacy of his father, who died in 2013, with the continuation of the South Hills School Music Picnic Series, which begins June 5 this year. Established by S. Paul Mazza 27 years ago, the series features free weekly concerts during the summer.

“When we got this building, my father designed the backyard, as we call it, that has a little miniamphitheater,” Mazza says. “Every summer on every Sunday between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we would have these free music picnics.

We’d have lemonade for a penny — and we still do! … In this community, there are so many opportunities to have events like this and encourage people to get out and meet one another. I guess that’s why people choose to move back here.” T&G

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