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Many of us make an effort to buy American-made products. This issue, we’re bringing that pledge closer to home and featuring items that are Made in Centre County, USA. Find out what some of our creative neighbors are dreaming up in kitchens, wineries, breweries, factories, and farms. Take a taste-test tour around the county, from Tait Farms to Elk Creek Cafe, Chocolate Madness to Seven Springs Winery. Discover soups, sauces, jellies, and desserts. Try hot sauces, ales, syrups, and cheeses. Make a trip to the indoor farmer’s market in the Borough building today and every Friday for a gathering of central PA products. Sam Stitzer offers a way to get involved with a memorial to an old school. Brian Baney found us a lovely little Hometown Hero. Judy Hazel offers some help to research your family tree. And a local law firm is stepping up to challenge others to fulfill this year’s United Way campaign, through a generous matching grant. Thanks to Kitty Wunderly, Pa. Room Manager and Museum Curator at Centre County Library & Historical Museum, we have a new feature called Centre County Scrapbook, with tidbits of interesting local history. We welcome her columns at least once a month in The Ga-zette. Don Bedell has penned Part One of the 2010 Entertainment Review. It’s amazing how many great performances come to Happy Valley. I’ve added a new feature to our entertainment pages – a small events’ listing that includes plays, concerts, jams, movies, art shows, and other activities around the county. Feel free to submit your arts and entertainment events. Next issue will include a feature called Your Money: Planning for the New Year. Financial experts are invited to write columns, give advice, or volunteer to be interviewed. On January 28, we’ll include the Winter Outdoor Sports Guide, a cooperative effort of Les Barnhart, sports dude, and my editorial team. Let’s see how much fun we can have in our great, frozen outdoors! In the meantime, keep up the good works, enjoy your-selves, get involved, and let me know about it.

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STATE COLLEGE – An Eagle Scout Award Ceremony was recently performed for Jeffrey E. Duclos, of Boy Scout Troop 31, of State College. Jeff is the son of Keith and Barbara Duclos, and is a senior at State College Area High School. Jeff earned 34 merit badges, com-pleted three God and Country Programs, and attended the World Scout Jamboree in Chelmsford, England. Presenters at Jeff’s Eagle Scout Award Ceremony were David Maneval for the State College Elks, U. S. Representative Glenn Thompson, State Representative Scott Conklin, Centre County Commissioner Steve Dershem, Marine Corps League Dallas Lykens, and James E. West National Eagle

Scout Association representative Raymond J. Vanden Berghe, Sr. For his Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project, Jeff coordinated the sorting, and organizing of the contents of more than 70 boxes of documents, records, and objects that had been stored in multiple locations of the St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, of which Jeff is a member. Through this project, the church was able to dispose of a great many items. Jeff then organized, recorded, and restored the remaining items. In addition, Jeff organized work crews to do brush and leaf removal at the Old Pine Hall Cemetery in Ferguson Township, total-ing more than 200 points in these combined projects.

Jeffrey Duclos Earns Eagle Scout Award

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Pictured at the recognition ceremony held January 6 at BEA are, L-R, Manager Kerry O’Hara, representing First National Bank;

Stacey Summey Tressler and Eric Summey, representing Eagle Towing and Recovery/Eagle Valley Equestrian Center; Board of Education

members Theresa Peters, Tom Bowes, Jeff Turner, and John Rougeux; Superintendent Dan Fisher; Karen Urbanik, representing Eagle

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WINGATE – A donor recognition ceremo-ny was held at the Bald Eagle Middle-High School on January 6, prior to the BEA vs. Penns Valley Girls Basketball game. Mem-bers of the Bald Eagle Area Board of Edu-cation and Administration were on-hand to recognize recent donations made to the school district. BEA players and fans will always know the score in its new main gymna-sium, thanks to two local businesses. The district recognized Manager Kerry O’Hara for First National Bank’s donation of an 8-foot x 12-foot electronic scoreboard, and Eric Summey and Stacey Summey Tressler of Eagle Towing and Recovery/Eagle Val-ley Equestrian Center for their donation of

a 12-foot x 18-foot electronic LED score-board. This large scoreboard, donated by the Summey family, lists points and fouls per player, and includes a full-color video display. A plaque recognizing the late Wen-dy Walker Summey, a 1975 graduate of the Bald Eagle High School and generous scholastic supporter of the district, will be displayed in the trophy case located outside the main gymnasium. Karen Urbanik, representing Eagle Ambassadors, was recognized for the alum-ni foundation’s donation of an eight-foot DuMor steel bench that has been installed in the lobby of the new gymnasium. The group also donated $200 to each of the school’s five libraries.

Donors recognized at Bald Eagle AreaBy Rose Hoover

STATE COLLEGE – State College Area School District is proud to announce the cre-ation of the Fred and Joan Lynn Elementary Student Musical Instrument Fund. This fund was made possible by the generosity of a retired SCASD teacher, Donn Wag-ner, and his wife, Mary Ann. It was formed to honor Mr. Fred Lynn and his tremen-dous commitment to the in-strumental music program in the district. The Fred and Joan Lynn Elementary Student Musical Instrument Fund will sup-port elementary students in fourth and fifth grades in need of financial assistance to pur-sue instrumental music. The fund will assist with the rental, loan, or purchase of a musical instrument. Student recipients will demon-strate a willingness and aptitude to develop their musicality. Instrumental music instruc-tors will conduct evaluation of appropriate student recipients. Fred Lynn was born in Sunbury in 1945. He began playing the trumpet at the age of six, and never stopped. After his family moved to State College, Fred became a student at State College Area High School, where he received the Colonel George S. Howard Outstanding Musician Award. He was also the Principal Trumpet in the State College High School band, orchestra, and stage band, and held this honor at district, regional, and state concert band and orchestra competitions. His senior year, he was the featured soloist, and got to perform and record H. L. Clark’s Carnival of Venice with Ronmarc Records. During his undergraduate studies at Penn State, Fred performed with the Penn State Symphony Orchestra. He later played in the U.S. 55th Army Band and also performed Army bugler duties. During his military ca-reer, he recorded trumpet soundtracks and bugle calls for military training films under contract with RCA.

While living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from the ’70s to the ’90s, Fred performed with the Fort Wayne Area Community Band, the Indiana/Purdue Fort Wayne Symphonic Winds, and the Second Time Arounders Marching Band. In 1990, Fred founded and led the Summit City Saints Dixieland Band in Fort Wayne. The band is known for old-fashioned but familiar American Dixieland, ragtime, and blues music that pays homage to the Roaring Twenties. In 1996, after 30 years in the midwest, Fred returned to State College and reformed the Summit City Saints Dixieland Band. Fred has led his band in performing more than 150 shows at more than 70 different venues including opening for the Smothers Brothers, Riverboat Cruises, ballpark season openings, fairs, and tailgates. Since then, Fred has marched with the State High Alumni Band in homecoming parades, and has performed with the Little German Band, State College Area Municipal Band, Keystone Society of Swing Big Band, and Nittany Valley Symphony. Fred is an alumnus of Penn State, Purdue and Indiana Universities. Fred and his wife, Joan, met at State College Area High School in band class. They have two children and five grandchildren living in the state of Indiana.

A fund to honor Fred Lynn was established to offer financial assistance to elementary

students who need financial assistance to buy or rentmusical instruments.

Shown are Fred and Joan Lynn.

State College Area School District Announces New Fund: Fred and Joan Lynn Elementary Student Musical Instrument FundSubmitted by Julie Miller

STATE COLLEGE – On January 12, James Horne, managing partner in the McQuaide Blasko Law Firm, announced that McQuaide Blasko is issuing a chal-lenge to the Centre County community. For every dollar donated to Centre County United Way from now until January 31, Mc-Quaide Blasko will match the total dona-tion amount up to $10,000. This challenge comes after the United Way announced a projected campaign shortfall of $100,000. “When we heard the news that Centre County United Way was in jeopardy of not meeting the $2.2 million goal, we knew we had to do something to help,” Horne stated. “We understand how important the 40 United Way partner agencies are to our community and to those who need their help.” Horne felt there was an opportunity to step up and be a part of the solution. “We want to do more than write a check. We want to encourage our neighbors to give as well. What better way to do this than by matching the community’s efforts with our own corporate gift.”

Centre County United Way supports 40 health and human service agencies that provide services to one in three county residents each year. Without United Way funding these agencies will need to make changes in programming that will impact everyone in Centre County. Fewer chil-dren will be matched with Big Brothers or Big Sisters. Fewer families will be given help with childcare, employment training, legal assistance, and literacy skills. Those who are most in need will go without. Those directly involved with the Cen-tre County United Way campaign are con-fident that with the support of companies like McQuaide Blasko and the entire com-munity they will reach this year’s goal. “To witness the generosity of McQuaide Blasko is overwhelming but not surprising,” Ted McDowell, 2010 Campaign Chair, com-mented. “This is a group of people who care about our community and who con-sistently find creative ways to demonstrate that care.” The United Way Campaign continues through the end of January.

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BOALSBURG – A stately, 74-year-old brick building stands at 901 Boalsburg Pike in Boalsburg. Lettering on its south side and a wooden sign in the front lawn identify it as the Boalsburg Elementary School. But on its west facing front face, etched in the con-crete lintel over the double front doors, is the name it bore in a former life – Harris Town-ship High School. The school was erected in 1937, and served the residents of Boalsburg and Harris Township as its high school un-til members of the final graduating class, of just three members, received their diplomas in 1946. The following school year, the build-ing became an elementary school, and high school students from the area were sent to the State College High School. This is the final year for the Boalsburg El-ementary School as part of the State College Area School District. The new Mount Nit-tany Elementary School is being constructed about a mile away, which will consolidate stu-dents from the Boalsburg and Panorama Vil-lage Elementary Schools. The Boalsburg Ele-mentary School has been sold to the Saint Jo-seph’s Academy, and is slated to become a Cath-olic high school. A group of alumni and a former teacher from the old high school have formed a com-mittee to give the old school a farewell party. The committee, headed up by Grace Strong of State College, has planned the event to take place on Friday, May 27, just before the Memorial Day week-end festivities in Boals-burg. It is planned to begin with a gathering under a large tent for desserts from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for the older alumni and faculty. At 3:30 p.m., the public is invited to join the alumni for a social time. School memorabilia will be on display, and music by the current elementary students is planned. Cop-

ies of a drawing of the old school building by artist Marcille Tressler, and souvenir pendants are planned to be sold at the farewell celebra-tion. It promises to be a great reunion and a fitting farewell to the site of many memories of good times “back in the day.” This event is still in the planning stage, and the committee is searching for memora-bilia and information regarding the school’s graduates. If you have memorabilia to share, or an address for any long lost alumni, please call Grace Strong at 814-237-4089.

The Boalsburg Elementary School building today

Jim Cole, at left, examines a 1946 yearbook in a committee planning session.

The last high school graduating class in 1946, had three members:

(L to R) Bill Miller, Bertha Cole, and Russell Makepeace.

Artist Marcille Tressler’s rendering of the school building, in 1982. The signature pine tree has since

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Boalsburg High School Alumni Plan FarewellBy Sam Stitzer

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BELLEFONTE – I stopped in for a haircut at Amy’s Fine Cuts in Bellefonte last week. My wife and I happened upon a little girl who touched our hearts. In the first chair sat little Josephine Trevino. Her eyes simply melted you, and her dimples made you wish you could pinch her little plump cheek. Josephine wasn’t there for a simple trim. Josephine, at the ripe old age of four, was about to have 10 inches or more cut from her beautiful mane to con-tribute to the Locks Of Love organization. Josephine’s mother, Nan-ci Poorman, talked with Jo-sephine about the little boys and girls who become sick and lose their hair from the medicine they must take. Josephine was a little apprehensive, but remembered how much she liked wearing the wig with her Snow White costume and liked the idea of another little girl using her own hair as a wig. So, with her huge, caring heart, Jose-phine hopped into the barber chair and before she knew it – and after my wife ran for my camera – Amy Yeaney placed Josephine’s long, thick black locks in her hand. The tension in the shop could be cut with a knife, but with one sly smile from Josephine, all was calm once again. Her mom was snapping before and after photos on her cell phone. What a proud moment for mom, to see her baby girl sit so still and give of herself, literally. I told Nanci that it will grow back in no time. She seemed sure of that fact, although her assuring face was a little damp from teary eyes. I learned more about little Josephine through e-mailing with her mother. Josephine was born in Chico, Cali-fornia in 2006. Being of Mexican de-scent, she has a strong understanding of the Spanish language and is eager to speak it, as well. Her family’s nickname for Josephine is Pina, which is short for

a Spanish nickname, Chepina. Josephine has two older brothers and two older sisters. She has a brand new kitty, named Dale. She loves all ani-mals, real and stuffed. Along with her love for animals is a love for song and dance. Watching tele-

vision, making bead bracelets and necklaces, coloring, and being read to are just some of her favorite past times. Her favorite toys are her Disney Princess dolls (very fit-ting), Strawber-ry Shortcake, and the infa-mous, Dora the Explorer. Her love of movies is huge, and she could han-dle a Pokemon

Movie marathon on a rainy day. Josephine’s love of animals is easy to see at home. As part of her chores, which include folding clothes on laundry day and putting away silverware daily, “Pina” feeds and cares for her fish, cats, and her little guinea pig. Josephine also loves to help her momma in the kitchen, cooking and baking. Mom admits she may be a bit bi-ased, but thinks Josephine is an incred-ible child who is extremely caring, kind and affectionate. I must agree with mom’s final de-scription, Josephine Trevino is an abso-lute sweetie – and a fitting young exam-ple of a Hometown Hero. Josephine Trevino is the daughter of Raul Trevino and Nanci Poorman of Pine Grove Mills. A quote from a recent email read, “We are blessed to have a happy and healthy child and consider her hair a small sacrifice. There are so many sick children and we are happy to make a contribution and, as you say, it will grow back in no time.” I say, thank you dear Lord above for people like Josephine and her loving and caring parents. They make the world a better place. For more information on Locks of Love, go to locksoflove.org.

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The Pennsylvania Room and Historical Museum, part of the Cen-tre County Library in Bellefonte, are a treasure trove of books, documents, and photographs about our region. The collections comprise a great va-riety of materials, mostly donated by many people over many years, result-ing in a wonderfully interesting as-sortment of information about Cen-tre County from its earliest recorded times. This and future articles will be an informal sharing of photos and local history information from days gone by. If readers have questions about Centre County history, feel free to ask – contact information ap-pears below! We in the Pa. Room will answer in print or directly to you.Featured Photo In 1918, Bellefonte was chosen as the only official landing site in Pennsylvania for the first leg (Long Island to Cleveland) of the fledgling air-mail service. The original airfield was on the site of the current Belle-fonte Area High School. A state his-toric marker placed in front of the school in 1969 honors the Bellefonte

Air Mail Field and the first flight through on December 18, 1918. Flying the mail through central Pennsylvania in those days was rarely easy, between the perilous planes and the often wayward weather. I’m writ-ing this article on January 10, and on that date in 1922, a storm dumped several feet of snow on the county. Trains came from Tyrone and Al-toona to help dig out the Bellefonte railroad station, hauling the snow away on cars. A Bellefonte cat taking shelter under a porch spent five days snowbound after the drifts mounted around him. But, the mail had to go through, and the resourceful airfield crew used the equipment at hand to help clear the field. What you see in the photo is an airplane-powered snow-blower, clearing the snow by propeller as it backed out of the hangar onto the runway. 150 Years Ago There were few Centre County newspapers in 1861, and most of them were in Bellefonte. Curiously, most of the news was state and na-tional: local information appeared

mainly in advertise-ments. The lead article in the Democratic Watchman of January 24, 1861, was titled “Uni-versal Gloom,” and read, “The gloom that shrouds the whole country is un-relieved by a ray of light. If we look to the Senate, that august assemblage of American wisdom, we find it power-less in this hour of the country’s need. More powerless still is the House of Representatives. Faction, prejudice, fanaticism, seem to have taken pos-session of our public men, and to have poisoned their counsels.” I’m not sure if knowing that this was a prevailing attitude in 1861 makes me feel better about today’s political situ-ation or not. As for local problems, the main ones seemed to be roaming livestock. The classifieds noted a stray bull turn-ing up at premises in Walker Town-ship, a red cow in Boggs, a black steer in Gregg, and three hogs in Union. A farmer in Hublersburg evidently just noticed in mid-January the dis-appearance of three steers “sometime during the summer.”

100 Years Ago A disastrous fire broke out in Philipsburg in early January 1911, started by an overheating stove in Chase’s barber shop and destroying two blocks of buildings on the main street, including the opera house. In-sufficient water pressure in the mains was blamed for the fire department’s inability to contain the blaze. Diphtheria, quinsy (abscessed tonsils), pneumonia, and “Texas fe-ver” (this is a cattle disease, and in local humans probably was yellow fever) were carrying off adults and children around the county. A petition was raised in Belle-fonte protesting the decision to close the post office at 7 p.m. instead of the previous 8 p.m., and even to ex-tend the hours to allow for distribu-tion of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh mail arriving on the 8:16 train from Tyrone. The Pennsylvania State Col-lege trustees (led by President James A. Beaver of Bellefonte) asked the

Pennsylvania legislature for fund-ing for new buildings on campus to accommodate the 1,650 students, an increase of 500 in less than four years. Community columnists contrib-uted local news; the Centre Democrat (Bellefonte) had a dozen different offerings in each issue, many from towns that no longer are on our map, such as Plumgrove (in Union Twp.), Georgetown and Sober (Penn Twp.), and Rock Forge (Benner). Lost place names of Centre County will be a good topic for an-other time! Please share your sugges-tions for upcoming columns.

Kitty Wunderly is the Pa. Room Man-ager and Museum Curator, Centre County Library & Historical Muse-um, 203 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. E-mail: [email protected], or call 355-1516, ext. 214. www.centrecountylibrary.org

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By Pat Park Sometimes, if we are lucky, we meet a person in a book who stays in our memo-ries long after the final page. Author Chris Cleave has provided such a person in the title character of his novel Little Bee. Little Bee escaped a dangerous situa-tion in Nigeria and has spend three years in an immigration detention center in Eng-land. The only English people she knows are Charlie and Sarah O‘Rourke. They had

met briefly on a beach back in Nigeria un-der horrific condi-tions. After leaving the center, she goes to their home and arrives just before Charlie’s funeral. She stays to help the widow and her young son, Charlie, Jr. The events that had taken place on that beach back in Nigeria and the fact that Little Bee is an il-legal immigrant cast a shadow over everything that these two women do. Partly because of the past and partly because they need each other, Little Bee and Sarah form a close attachment.

Little Bee has been busy learning how to be Brit-ish so that in a tight spot, she simply thinks of what the Queen would say or do. She also finds that people pay attention if she says, “ There is an old proverb in my coun-try.” Some of these are so obviously false that we have to admire her ability to think fast. Much of the advance advertising promised that this would be a funny book. It is, at times. Many of the situa-tions in the book are far from humorous.

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NEW HOURS OF OPERATION—As of January 3, 2011, these are the hours of operation at Centre County Library locations:Centre County Library/Bellefonte: Monday: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday: noon to 8 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday: Closed Thursday: noon to 8 p.m.Centre County Library Historical Museum/Bellefonte: Monday: Closed Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday: ClosedCentre Hall Area Branch Library: Monday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday: Closed Saturday: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday: 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday: ClosedEast Penns Valley Area Library/Millheim: Monday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday: 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday: Closed Sunday: Closed Thursday: 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.Holt Memorial Library/Philipsburg: Monday: 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday: 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday: Closed Saturday: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

ALL CENTRE COUNTy LIBRARy & HISTORICAL MUSEUM LOCATIONS (Bellefonte, East Penns Valley, Centre Hall, Holt/Philipsburg, Bookmobile):26th ANNUAL WRITE AND ILLUSTRATE YOUR OWN BOOK HAS BEGUN!—“Go Hog Wild!”First through sixth graders living in or attending school in Centre County can enter a book of their own creation in our 26th Annual Write and Illustrate Your Own Book Contest at any of the Centre County Library branches (East Penns Valley, Bellefonte, Bookmo-bile, Centre Hall, Philipsburg). Contest guidelines are available at the locations listed. Entries may be turned in at any branch; deadline is Saturday, February 26. For more information, contact DJ. Lilly at (814) 355-1516 X205 or [email protected].

Centre County Library/Bellefonte—call 355-1516 for more infor-mation:BOOK BABIES—Stories and activities geared for kids up to two years old with a favorite adult in the Centre County Library in Belle-fonte:Wednesday, January 19 at 9:15 a.m.: “Bear-y Books”—Stories and activities about bears.STORYTIME—Stories and related activities geared for two- to six-year-olds with a favorite adult in the Centre County Library Kidzone in Bellefonte:Wednesday, January 19 at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.: “Let It Snow”— We’re kicking off 2011 with a swirl of blustery books, topped off by snowy creations that will never melt.NEW YEAR BOOK BINGO—Family Fun Night activities geared for school age kids with their favorite adults in the Centre County Library in Bellefonte: January 21 at 6:30pm: “New Year Book Bingo”—Kids who know their letters and numbers, along with a favorite adult, can welcome 2011 during this after-hours evening of bingo with books as prizes for the winners. ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP—The Adult Book Dis-cussion group meets the third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Pick up your copy of the 2011 Centre County Reads selection, Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, at any Centre County Library location (CCL/Bellefonte, Centre Hall, East Penns Valley, Holt/Philipsburg)! For more information on related Centre County Reads activities including a writing contest and programs featuring horse trainer Suzanne Myers, visit centrecountyreads.org.Wednesday, January 19 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Centre County Library in BellefonteUSED BOOK/AV SALEFriday, January 28 and Saturday, January 29 during library hours—Hardcover books and DVDs/CDs for $1 each or six for $5; paper-back books and VHS or audiocassettes for 50 cents each or three for $1. HOOKS & NEEDLES—Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. in the Centre County LibraryJanuary 20, January 27

Holt Memorial Library/Philipsburg—call 342-1987 for more in-formation:BABY’S MORNING OUT—Informal educational play group for babies and toddlers with a favorite adult:Tuesday, January 18 at 10:30 a.m.—Winnie the Pooh Day

PRESCHOOL STORYTIME— Stories and related activities geared for two- to six-year-olds with a favorite adult:Wednesday, January 19 at 10:30 a.m. and Thursday, January 20 at 2 p.m.: “Pop! Pop! Pop!”—Celebrate Popcorn Day at the Library with crunchy stories and treats.FAMILY ACTIVITIES—Activities geared for the whole family in-cluding at least one adult:Thursday, January 20 at 6 p.m.—Celebrate Popcorn Day with a bushel of animated books on video accompanied by our favorite crunchy treat!

East Penns Valley Branch Library at 225 E. Main Street in Mill-heim (Millheim Borough Building)—call 349-5328 for more in-formation:NEEDLES NIGHT: Stitchers of all ages are invited to bring any sort of needlecraft to work on including knitting, crocheting, nee-dlepoint, and cross-stitch. Get inspired by others’ projects and share sewing tips!Thursday, January 27 at 6 p.m.BOOK BABIES—stories and related activities for up to two-year-olds with a favorite adult:Monday, January 17 at 10:15 a.m.: “Fly Away”—Today we’ll listen to stories, songs and poems about bird migration, then make a treat for our feathered friends.STORYTIMES—stories and related activities for two- to six-year-olds with a favorite adult:Monday, January 17 at 11:15 a.m.: “Fly Away”—Today we’ll listen to stories, songs and poems about bird migration, then make a treat for our feathered friends.

Centre Hall Area Branch Library—call 364-2580 for more infor-mation:BOOK BABIES—stories and related activities for up to two-year-olds with a favorite adult:Thursday, January 20 at 1:30 p.m.: “Fly Away”—Today we’ll listen to stories, songs and poems about bird migration, then make a treat for our feathered friends.STORYTIMES—stories and related activities for two- to six-year-olds with a favorite adult:Friday, January 21 at 1:30 p.m.: “Fly Away”—Today we’ll listen to stories, songs and poems about bird migration, then make a treat for our feathered friends.KNITTING CIRCLE—second and fourth Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. January 27

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www.centrecountygazette.org.Jan. 14 – Friends School Open HouseThe State College Friends School will be holding an open house for parents with students in K – 8th grade on Friday, January 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. School staff and parents will lead tours and answer questions. Please contact Mary Zeigler at (814) 237-8386 for more information.

Jan. 15 – Singles DanceSingles Adult Ministry will hold its next SAM Dance 4 Singles event on Saturday January 15 at Mount Nittany United Methodist Church, 1500 E. Branch Road (Lemont area). This month the SAM Dance Committee has a live performance by well-known DJ Jeff Pennycoff. The dance is from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Dress casually. Participants must be at least 21 years old. ID required. Admission is $8 for DJ and snacks. Couples are also welcome. For more information, contact Jeff G at dancing2as1@ yahoo.com or (814) 867-7771.

Jan. 15 – WWII DocumentaryYou are invited to see a film documentary, “You Enter Germany – Bloody Huertgen and the Siegfried Line” January 15 at 2 p.m. at the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg. Between September 1944 and February 1945, 13 U.S. Army divisions fought for control of a 50-square-mile area of dense forest along the German border. This battle was the longest single battle in American history and largest defeat of the U.S. Army in Europe. This 2007 German production tells that story with veterans’ interviews and never-before-seen archival footage. (104 minutes). Donation requested. Visit pamilmuseum.org for updates. Museum opens at 1:00 pm for special guided tour. (814) 466-6263. Guided tour fee for 1 p.m. tour, $4. Free admission for the 2 p.m. documentary.

Jan. 16 – Worship ServiceAll are invited to the historic Upper Spruce Creek Presbyterian Church Sunday, January 16 for Sunday school for children and adults at 9:30 a.m., and worship at 10:30 a.m. Nursery available. Ample parking and ADA compliant. The church is on Route 45.

Jan. 20 – Meatloaf DinnerThe State College Knights of Columbus is holding a meatloaf dinner at 850 Stratford Drive on Thursday January 20, serving from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The menu includes: soup, meatloaf, mashed potatoes with gravy, corn O’Brien, tossed salad, rolls & butter, beverage, and dessert. Adults $8.50, Ages 6 to 10 $4, 5 and under free. Public welcome. Take-outs available.

By Jeff Fleming, Esq.

As we get older, it often seems that time accelerates. It seems the children were in diapers just yesterday. But, now they’ve left home and they have kids of their own. Where does the time go?

Aging is a normal part of life. The infant becomes a tod-dler. Later the teenager becomes an adult (thankfully). Unfor-tunately, as we age later in life we are no longer as able-bodied as when we were teenagers. Gradually, we all get more aches and pains. But, what would happen if something serious were to occur? Let’s take a look at Betty’s situation.

Betty is 66 and has worked hard all her life. Betty and her husband, George, retired a few years ago. George died after only a year in retirement. Betty and George had a wonderful life together and raised two children, Alice and Mark. Not a day goes by that Betty does not miss George terribly. How-ever, she has decided to live life fully and has had an active, fulfilling life. She travels and she spends a lot of time with friends and family—especially her adorable grandchildren. She was visiting Alice and the grandchildren in the Northeast when she had difficulty walking and talking. She was having a stroke. She was rushed to the hospital. After a week in the hospital, her condition stabilized and the doctors sent her to a nursing home for recuperation, which they expected to take three years.

Not only does Betty have a lot of hard work ahead of her, much of her life savings will be wiped out by the nursing home bills. Betty thought she had it covered with Medicare. But Medicare only covers the first 100 days of a nursing home stay. And there is a big daily co-payment after the first twenty days. After 100 days, she has to pay it all. Betty wants to be close to Alice and the grandkids during her recuperation. Un-fortunately, the average nursing home in that area costs well over $8,000 per month. The total stay will be over $280,000, even after Medicare pays its portion. Over a quarter of a mil-lion dollars! This will wipe out most of Betty’s lifetime of sav-ings and cause her to become financially dependent on her children. Instead of being able to help with her grandchil-dren’s future, she’ll be a financial burden on her children.

There must be a better way! Well, there is. Betty could have planned ahead by gifting her money into a Medicaid In-come Only Trust. The income of the trust would have been available to Betty, but the assets themselves would not be con-sidered available to pay the nursing home expenses and would not have to be used up. As a result, Betty would have qualified for Medicaid. While she needed the nursing home assistance, the income she received from the trust would go toward her “share of cost” for the nursing home. But, the principal of the trust would remain intact and could go to Betty’s children or grandchildren at her death. Unfortunately, this strategy does not work if you wait until the last minute. Medicaid has a five-year look-back for gifting. Any gifts made within that five-year period are totaled and divided by the average monthly nursing home cost to determine the “penalty period.” Betty would be ineligible for Medicaid during the penalty period.

If Betty had planned ahead, she could have preserved her independence, avoided being a financial burden on her chil-dren, and helped with her grandchildren’s future. And, she would have had the exact same care! Avoid Betty’s fate. Eat healthily and exercise, but also plan to protect your indepen-dence and your family’s future. A qualified estate planning and elder law attorney can help you plan to preserve your financial independence.

Attorney Fleming is a member of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys and has been engaged in the prac-tice of law for the last twenty years. For more information, call 814-943-5500.

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Tutors neededMid-State Literacy Council is looking for volunteer tutors. These tutors teach reading, writing, math, pre-GED prep, ESL, job skills, and other skills needed by adults. Tutors will be trained and have access to teaching materials for their tutor sessions. If you can spare two hours a week and would like to help an adult with their literacy needs, call (814) 238-1809 and ask for Mike or Amy. Mid-State Literacy Council and our students appreciate your efforts. Tutoring is done from 248 Calder Way, Suite 307, State College.

Bellefonte Artists’ Exhibit

A new exhibit, “Willard Dominick Retrospective,” will be presented at the BHCA Gallery at the Gamble Mill beginning Saturday, January 15, and running through April 15, 2011. The exhibit will present works by Willard Dominick, a Clearfield artist of wide renown. A reception will be held on Tuesday, March 29, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Refreshments will be provided. All are invited. The Gallery is at the Gamble Mill Tavern, 160 Dunlap Street, Bellefonte. Hours for the exhibit are Monday to Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., closed from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. For further information, call (814) 383-0039.

Re-enactors WantedThompson’s Independent Battery C PA Volunteer Light Artillery is recruiting families to help them reenact the Civil War. Be a part of living history. For an application, call (814) 355-4934, e-mail [email protected], or visit thompsons-battery-c.org.

Ink Cartridge RecyclingHabitat for Humanity accepts laser cartridges, inkjet cartridges, laptops and cell phones for recycling – with proceeds benefiting their organization. Drop off Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at PrinterMech, 171 Technology Drive, Suite #100, Boalsburg, (814) 237-2790. Tell them it’s a donation for Habitat for Humanity. The Frame Factory also still accepts cartridges at 426 Westerly Parkway.

Indoor Winter Farmers MarketAn indoor winter farmers market is scheduled for every Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the State College Municipal Building, 243 South Allen Street, State College. The market will be weekly for the foreseeable future. The market will feature products from the following vendors: Spring Bank Acres – dairy productsSam Swarey – baked goodsJacob Stoltzfus – drinks, snacks, canned goodsFasta & Ravioli Co. – handcrafted artisan pasta and saucesDawg Gone Bees Honey & Gifts – honey and honey productsSteve Bowes – fruit and root vegetablesElk Creek Fish Hatchery – smoked trout and salmonFor more information, stop by the market and talk to Sam Swarey and/or Raymond Fisher at Spring Bank Acres; or call Jody Alessandrine at the Downtown State College Improvement District, (814) 238-7004.

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BELLEFONTE – What do you know about your ancestors? Where did they come from, what did they do? Last season on TV, two shows followed celebrities as they delved into their family trees; thus, raising viewers’ interest in their own geneal-ogy research. Where should you start? If your “roots” passed through Centre County or the surrounding areas, a visit to the Pennsylvania (PA) Room is a must. The PA Room is located in the big stone house of the Centre County Library & Historical Museum at the corner of Allegheny and Howard Streets in Bellefonte. Within this building, a wealth of family history information is available: from indexes of Centre County marriage records and news-paper obituaries to a book collection of cemetery records and census and tax assessment records, plus much, much more. Lining the walls within the room, one can browse the many books featuring local and regional info to Pennsylvania info by counties. The amount of information can be over-whelming (but finding your family information can be fun). Last year, according to Kitty Wunderly, PA Room Supervisor & curator, researchers came from all over the U.S., including South Dakota, California, Texas, and Florida. Let’s start researching using the name of a great-grand-father. Find the name in the card catalogue. Here, more than 250,000 cards index the “Spangler Collection.” Adelle Fink Spangler was a local researcher whose records are found in 176 bound notebooks and 20 bound scrapbooks dating until about 1942. A search in the catalogue for great-grandfather Horace Greeley Rogers tells where to search next: “Bk 26 p 4 – 7.” Page 7 of Book 26 provides this information: “1925 Hor-

ace Greeley Rogers and Anna M. Rogers of Nittany, Centre Co., Pa…” So, when were Horace and Anna married? A search for a marriage record in the indexed marriages on the computer lists: 03/11/1887, book 2, 128. Downstairs in the bowels of the stonewalled base-ment, a fascinating array of organized old books and records can be found. With the assistance of a PA Room Curator or volunteer, a large, tattered Book 2 of marriage licenses is pulled off the shelf. There on page 128: Horace G. Rodgers and Annie Crawford were “authorized to join together in the holy state of mat-rimony.” An interesting fact: Horace signed his name “Rodgers”…all generations since have spelled the name “Rogers.” Documentation from the 1940s to the 1970s can be found in the J. Marvin Lee Genealogical Collection of note-books with family group names. You can spend hours doing research. Just be sure to write down your findings and keep organized records. A family tree chart and sheets of family group records (listing all children of the parents) is a good start to your organization. What spe-cial moment in someone’s research does Ms. Wunderly recall? “Someone once burst into tears when they opened a cemetery book. Everything in (research) is new and they were astonished to find ‘their’ information,” she said. Hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sat-urday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; e-mail [email protected]; or visit centrecountylibrary.org/pa_collect.htm.

Where to go…What to do…PA Room of the Centre County Library& Historical MuseumBy Judy Hazel

Left: Catalogue card and Spangler Collection book; tattered marriage record Book 2; the actual marriage record for Horace Greeley Rodgers and Annie Crawford

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Book-lined walls of Pennsylvania history, genealogy, and record books

Recently completed books of allCentre County cemetery names

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County thanks the Home Depot Foundation for their

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County. Accepting on behalf of HFHGCC are Community Development Director Missy Schoonover (left)

and Executive Director Tom Mesko (right).

State College Snow RemovalSTATE COLLEGE – Borough residents are reminded that you must remove all snow and ice from your sidewalks with-in 24 hours after snow stops falling. Walks should be cleaned to their full width and length. Residents are reminded not to place shoveled snow into the street or alley. This law is strictly enforced to ensure the safety of the many pedestrians in State College. Failure to clear walks of snow and ice may result in a fines and penalties. The Department of Ordinance Enforcement and Public Health will begin weekend enforcement activities effective immediately. This has been implemented to protect and pre-serve the public health and safety of our neighborhoods. Questions can be directed to the State College Depart-ment of Ordinance Enforcement & Public Health, (814) 234-7191 or [email protected].

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By Susan Stott

This week’s recipe is for Spinach Salad. This salad makes a healthy side dish, packed full of vitamins, that goes great with any meal.

Spinach Salad 1 bag baby spinach 1 small can mandarin oranges, drained 2 green onions, chopped ¼ cup celery, chopped Caramelized almonds- see recipe below Dressing- see recipe below

Place all ingredients into large bowl. Sprinkle caramelized almonds over top. Toss salad with desired amount of dressing and serve.

Dressing: ¼ cup vegetable oil 1 dash red hot sauce 2 tablespoons sugar ½ teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons vinegar

Place all dressing ingredients into jar and shake to mix. (note* I use the juice from the oranges to replace some of the vegetable oil- approx. 1/8 cup of each the oil and the juice. I also use Splenda instead of sugar).Caramelized Almonds:Place ½ cup sliced almonds and 2 tablespoons granulated sugar into saucepan. Heat over medium heat until sugar melts and almonds start to brown. Transfer onto a plate to cool immediately. Break into small pieces.

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BELLEFONTE – After owning The Gamble Mill for about three years, the Fonash.Kend-effy Restaurant Group (also owners of Zola, Alto, and Dos Locos) decided they’d like to start their own microbrewery. It took another year to get the proper legislation, equipment, brew master, and recipes. The Bellefonte icon started pouring its own custom beers this fall. The brewery is in the former Amber Room. Assembly began in early 2010. They use a 3.5 barrel (105 gallon) steam-fired brew-house and four 7 barrel (210 gallon) ferment-ing vessels. They use a wide variety of grains including many different kinds of malted barley (Pale Malt, Pilsner Malt, Marris Otter, Crystal Malt, Chocolate Malt, Roasted Barley, etc.) as well as Rye, Oats Wheat, and Corn. In addition, use a wide variety of hops (Cascade, Ahtanum, Czech Saaz, Hallertau, Columbus and more) and a variety of yeast strains from Belgium and The United States. A unique ingredient is the Bellefonte wa-ter they use as a base for all their beers. They develop all their own recipes, which include the combination of different ingredients, specific temperatures at different parts of the process, filtration through a plate, and frame filter (or not). They also hope to progress to barrel aging and wild fermentations.

Right now there are six brews on tap: HB 48 Session golden ale, named for the House Bill that allowed them to open the brewery; J. Rose Pale Ale; Lame Devil Farmhouse Ale, a Belgian white ale; Pig Iron IPA, an India pale ale; Bush House Brown Ale; and the slightly spiced seasonal offering, Buffalo Run Winter Ale. As named, the sixth seasonal beer will change with the seasons. The names are tied to Bellefonte’s history. Head Brewer, Mike Smith, is a native of State College. Shortly after earning a bach-elor’s degree from Penn State, Mike began brewing at home, developing a passion for hand-crafted beers – taking it far beyond a hobby. He is a graduate of the American Brew-er’s Guild’s Intensive Brewing Science and Engineering program. His internship after graduation at Dogfish Head Craft Brewery turned into a full-time brewer’s position. After two-and-a-half years at Dogfish Head, Mike accepted an offer from the Ithaca Beer Company where he brewed for three years. He’s happy to be back home, brewing beer for his neighbors at the Gamble Mill Brewery. Expect to see some of Mike’s beers on tap in other Centre County establishments soon, including Zenos in State College and Kellys in Boalsburg.

Something Brewing at The Gamble MillBy Sandie Biddle

Quite a few specialty food products are made in Centre County. The vendors and distribution centers are almost in our back-yards and we sometimes overlook their sim-plistic appeal. These familiar desserts and condiments were birthed right here in Cen-tre County. These delectables are offered in their home stores, specialty markets, via the Web. Shipments of these yummies are made world-wide, in some cases.

Herlocher Foods, Inc.415 East Calder WayState College, PA 16801(814) 237-0134 In 1978, State College’s Train Station restaurant offered dipping mustard. The popularity grew and so did customer de-mand. Long after the Train Station closed, the mustard lives on. Herlocher Foods now creates dipping mustard with a spicy hot taste. According to administrative asis-tant, Linda Weaver, the mustard’s flavor will change with age. Good with bologna and cheese, vegetables, shrimp, and egg rolls; the condiment contains no preser-vatives and boasts only pure, fresh ingre-dients. Several local supermarkets carry

the mustard including the widely popular McLanahan’s Downtown Market, Walmart stores and Sam’s Club all in State College. Produced in Tipton by Del Grosso Foods, Inc. the mustard is now offered in 51 super-market chains available in the mid-Atlantic, midwest and southern states. The mustard comes in 8 oz. and 14.5 oz sizes. They also produce Herlocher’s Salsa. In the spirit of game season, any tailgater will recognize PSU’s Nittany Lion logo on a Herlocher’s mustard jar. Herlocher is licensed to label its mustard with National Collegiate Ath-letic Association logos.

The Diner Grilled Stickies126 W. College, Ave.State College, PA 16801(814) 238-5590 Grilled Stickies can be shipped any-where! Ingredients: sugar, flour, margarine, water, yeast, cinnamon, salt, vinegar and with or without walnuts. The Diner makes these tasty treats on-site; buttery, light, goo-ey perfection, sugary enough to please your

sweet tooth. The Diner State College serves up this tradition with a pat of butter and grilled to warm the tummy. At the restau-rant the sticky buns are not grilled with nuts due to potential allergens. Diner Maitre D’ Deb Garbrick has been a fan of the sticky buns for eight years and likes them “hot off the grill with ice-cream – A la mode!” Of recent, the Diner launched a “Grilled Sticky Fundraisers” program. Through sell-

ing sticky buns your organization can ex-pect profit on a product loved worldwide.

Chocolate Madness134 W. College Ave.State College, PA 16801(814) 235-4055 Chocolatier and Owner, Paul Jensen stays busy with confectionery shipments and keeps his store neat and meticulous to show off his cocoa-based delights at just the

right temperature. In 2011, Jensen is most looking forward to meeting sales demands in Hawaii. According to the store’s ETSY homepage, at Chocolate Madness the goal is to, “create extraordinary chocolates, both in flavor and appearance.” All products use premium ingredients in small batches to ensure that you receive the freshest and best tasting product. The mouth-watering goods are work from a licensed and insured commercial kitchen (Lic. #S080) in State College. Orders are shipped, Monday - Wednesday.

The Piper’s PeckP.O. Box 433Bellefonte, PA 16823(814) 355-0215e-mail: [email protected] Janet Robinson began the business in 1998 due to her interest in growing hot

peppers and tomatoes. The Piper’s Peck also sells chocolate sauces and fudge. Robinson currently grows most of the ingredients. She incorporates these into selections of: condi-ments and jellies. “Hot peppers like really good soil, are very prolific and grow very well,” said Robinson of her home grown ad-ditives. Not hailing from the country, she

decided to buy a small farm land property as a site for the business’ kitchen. “I didn’t grow up on a farm but I’ve al-ways been interested in plant-ing,” said Robinson whose interest flourished to meet epi-curean tastes. “People can stop by, but there is no store on the property.” Robinson encour-ages locals to stop by the farm to avoid shipping costs. She is also willing to deliver her pro-

duce. Out-of-state shipments have gone as far as California and Arizona. The most popular product is the Raspberry Chipotle preserves. Robinson describes the combi-nation as jam and a “kick” of hot peppers. The product idea came to her as a sugges-tion from a customer at a farmer’s market. “It’s good with cream cheese and crackers, and great melted as a dip with shrimp!” said Robinson.

Tasty Treats from Centre CountyBy Portia T. Webb

BELLEFONTE – As a young family practice medical doctor, Wei-Shin Lai was awakened often with patient calls. “After that, it was hard for me to get back to sleep,” she said. “My husband suggested that I could listen to relaxing music. But I didn’t want to bother him.” She tried ear buds, which were never comfortable for her, and headphones, which were too bulky to allow sleeping on her side. She and her husband looked online for more comfortable headphones and couldn’t find any that would allow sound sleeping. They’d always wanted to have their own busi-ness, so as AcousticSheep, Ltd, they created SleepPhones. “We made the first 500 ourselves, my husband doing soldering and assembly, me cutting and sewing the fabrics,” she said. Not long after that, they moved from Connecticut

to State College, both accepting jobs at Penn State. The fledgling company moved with them. In 2008, they hired their first employ-ees. Equinox in Williamsport does their sew-ing. Assembly and shipping is done from the

couple’s basement in Bellefonte. They have developed a second product, called RunPhones. Runners liked the comfort of SleepPhones and found them to be a good alternative to ear buds. The next expansion will be retail sales. After developing packaging, they will offer SleepPhones and RunPhones at local specialty retailers. Right now they’re available on their Web site, sleep-phones.com, and through Amazon and Think Geek. Wei-Shin Lai is a doctor at Penn State’s student health center. Her hus-band and business partner, Jason Wolfe, is a computer games inventor at Educa-tional Gaming Commons. One can only imagine what this creative couple will come up with next.

AcousticSheep Helps You SleepBy Sandie Biddle

Wei-Shin Lai, MD and husband Jason Wolfe, both Penn State employees, are

the founders of AcousticSheep, Ltd.

SleepPhones headphones are like a soft headband, comfortable for

sleeping in any position.

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PENN HALL – This time of year there are few things more refreshing than coming in from the cold winds and snow of winter than sit-ting down to a hot bowl of homemade soup. I mean real soup, like our mothers and grand-mothers made from scratch years ago. It turns out that some of the best soup you can buy is manufactured right here in Penns Valley. Cooke Tavern Soups, located in Penn Hall, just east of Spring Mills is the home of a fine line of gourmet soup mixes designed for busy people who want to serve a great pot of home-made soup without the fuss of starting from scratch. Greg and Mary Kay Williams own and operate Cooke Tavern Soups, where the soup mixes are packaged and distributed. The soup mixes originated with Greg’s mother, Mary Ellen Williams, who used her own recipes to make soup mixes beginning in 1994. She sold the soup mixes at craft fairs and similar venues until 2000, when she and her husband retired and turned the business over

to Greg and Mary Kay, who have expanded the business over the last decade. They now sell their products to gourmet food stores in Pennsylvania, nationwide, and internationally to Canada, Switzerland, Australia, and as far away as Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Much of their soup stays close to home, since one of their major customers is the Tait Farm near Boalsburg. They also market their prod-ucts on the company’s Internet Web site. Greg Williams’s background is in me-chanical engineering, with years of experi-ence in the electrical connector industry, but he always wanted to own a business. When

his parents wanted to give up the soup business, Greg jumped at the chance. Cooke Tavern soup mixes are hand packaged using only high-quality air- and freeze-dried vegetables, herbs, and spices, free from preservatives and artificial flavoring. The freeze-drying pro-cess is said to preserve flavor and nutrients better than canning or just freezing. A company in Illinois supplies the freeze-dried ingredients. The soup mixes contain all-nat-ural ingredients with no salt or MSG added. Each bag of soup mix will make two quarts of soup when cooked with chicken or beef broth. Some require the addition of a diced potato or other readily available ingredients. Greg has four part-time employees who package and ship the mixes, and Lisa Kines is the company’s customer service representative. The packaging plant in Penn Hall is in the lower level of the Williams’s barn. In this plant, Greg has “gone green” in a big way, using a large array of photovoltaic (solar) cells to generate all the electricity the plant requires to operate. The solar array can produce up to 10 kilowatts on peak sunshine days, which means that Greg actually feeds power back into Allegheny Power’s grid for credit! The heat for the plant is pro-vided by a geothermal system. Greg’s wife, Mary Kay, performs

sales and marketing duties for Cook Tavern Soups, and manages the Cooke Tavern Bed & Breakfast (their home) next door to the barn. This two story Georgian-style brick house, built in 1808 by James Cooke, Esq. was a tav-ern in operation from 1808 until 1863, and is serving travelers once again. For more infor-mation, Cooke Tavern Soups can be reached at 814-422-7687 (SOUP).

Greg and Mary Kay Williams with their Cooke Tavern Soups at a recent

craft fair

Greg poses with a display of soup mixes in the Cooke Tavern Soups packaging plant.

Cooke Tavern Soups are packaged in the lower level of the Williams’ barn.

Soup mix bags being sealed and labeled in the Cooke Tavern Soups’

packaging plant

Penns Valley Company Makes Gourmet Soup MixesBy Sam Stitzer

STATE COLLEGE – Prepare to get the very best of fresh fruits, vegetables, foods and more. The Indoor Farmers Market opened January 7 in State College. This is the second year that the indoor market has been coor-dinated in State College. Last year the indoor market that originally began in Sozo Institute of the Arts at 256 East Beaver Avenue was successful – generating a lot of loyal customers and made the market profitable. This inspired Jody Allesandrine, Downtown Improvement District Director, and the other vendors to contin-ue to work together to make this event possible. The Indoor Farm-ers Market has now moved to the Municipal Building at 243 South Allen Street. So far there are seven vendors that have committed to participat-ing in the Indoor Farmers Mar-ket and they work together on a month-to-month basis, monitor-ing how well everything goes and the profit made from customers. They plan on marketing this event online and some have even hired a marketing consultant to help with the advertisement as well. “This is situated in a very convenient spot where a lot of people pass by, so we’re hoping to get a lot of expo-

sure,” says coordinator Jody All-esandrine who became involved in this project in September 2008. The vendors that participate in the Indoor Farmers Market are from central Pennsylvania; some travel to Centre County to sell their goods. They will be in the Municipal Building every Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. until the Spring Market starts up again on Tuesdays and Fridays. “I am optimistic that this event will be successful which will allow us to coordinate more events like this in the future,” says Jody Allesan-drine. This market gives State Col-lege residents another reason to travel down-town, shop and have fun as they add natural and healthy foods to their menus at home. One vendor that is participat-ing is Sam Swarey who works out on Hidden Hollow Farm where he and others create baked goods such as pastries, bread and organic eggs in addition to numerous other natural goods. “It’s been really great being a part of this event because I was looking for a nice

area where I can share all this great food. I really appreciate the oppor-tunity to be here and I hope that there will be many more events like this to come,” says Sam Swarey. Another vendor, Jacki Mack, maintains the Dawg Gone Bees Honey and Gifts table at the In-door Market with her husband. They have all natural raw honey products, and make all sorts of goodies such as honey products, bees wax and candles gift box bas-kets, wedding and party favors, and other delicious treats. What’s great about their products is that you’re guaranteed the best of ev-erything since they have their own

beehives that they maintain and harvest from in order to make their products to sell. “I love being here in order to show all the great things that we have to sell. This market is good for the people that live here and it’s also great for all the people to participate and to make a profit from this,” says Jacki Mack. “This is a great way for the community to get together and to spend their money on something that’s really worth it.”

The Indoor Farmers Market; A Delicious Event Served Fresh!Article & photos by Jasmine J. Suarez

Jacki Mack of Dawg Gone Bees & Honey Gifts

Elk Creek Fish Hatchery of Rebersburg brings fresh fish to the market.

Spring Bank Acres brings dairy products from their farm in

Rebersburg.

Fasta and Ravioli makes fresh pasta in State College.Sam Swarey and his daughter make fresh baked goods to sell.

A line of jams, jellies, relishes, and other

canned goods from Woodside Acres



BOALSBURG – The Tait Farm, located along route 322 just east of Boalsburg, was literally a “mom and pop” farm, hav-ing been purchased by Marian and Elton Tait in 1950. They both graduated from Penn State University, Class of 1937, Marian in Home Economics and Elton from the College of Agriculture. Elton worked for the Agricultural Extension at Penn State for 39 years. In addition to raising their three chil-dren (Sandy, David and John) on the farm, over the years they also raised sheep, chickens, hogs, horses, and Bassett hounds, as well as growing Christmas trees. In the late 1970s, the Tait sons left their day jobs to re-turn to the family farm, deciding to make their living off the land. Perennial plantings of apples, raspberries, asparagus and more Christmas trees followed, and by the mid-1980s the farm was fast becoming the local spot to pick-your-own fruits, vegetables and Christmas trees. The value-added food business began after a bumper crop of raspberries in 1986, when hundreds of pounds of fruit sat on the canes in pouring rain and no one was coming out to pick. The crop was harvested and frozen. The only problem was what to do with all that frozen fruit. After an unsuccessful at-tempt to sell frozen raspberries, David Tait remembered a recipe for something he had once tried called Raspberry Shrub. This was an old Colonial cre-ation served by folks like Martha Washington. It was made by preserving fresh fruit in vinegar, adding sugar, creating a concentrate that was then enjoyed in the off season by mixing it with water. The original Colonial-era recipes were modified slightly to produce a more palatable and contemporary taste. The first bottles were hand labeled and sold at the farm begin-ning in 1987 and by 1989 a new label had been developed and David went on the road selling shrub. Since that time, the farm and value-added food busi-ness has continued to grow. John Tait raises the Christmas trees and Bassett hound dogs, and Kim K. Tait runs Tait Farm Foods, which now manufactures more than 50 food products, has a year-round Harvest Shop and greenhouse (specializ-ing in local foods, gift collections, seasonal produce, herbs, flowers, roses, and gifts for the kitchen, garden and home), and has a Community Supported Agriculture project called Community Harvest. This is a fresh produce membership that provides nearly 200 families and several local restaurants with certified organic vegetables and fruits in half-year and full-year shares. The Tait Farm produced 40,000 pounds of certified or-ganic vegetables in 2010 alone, all of which was sold in Centre County. More than 50 food products are manufactured in the Tait Farm barn, including sauces, jellies, relishes, chutneys, dips, pancake mixes, and the famous shrubs. Tait Farm serves as a retail outlet for many food products manufactured locally, such as: Herlocher’s mustard & salsa, Lost Hollow honey, MacNeal maple syrup, Mario & Luigi’s sauces and dressings, Way Fruit Farm apple butter, Ye Olde College Diner grilled sticky buns, Cooke Tavern soups, and several others. It is also an outlet for many local artisans and craft vendors, whose wares are tastefully integrated into the Harvest Shop’s merchandise displays. The business partici-pates in the State College Farmers Market, the People’s Choice Art Show, and numerous food and craft shows. The company has received the following recognitions: • New York Times Style Magazine, Design & Living, Winter

2008 • CBS Evening News - June 2003, Eye on America - Featured

in a segment on Women in Agriculture• State College Magazine - May 2004, cover photo and story

about the farm.• Entrepreneur of the Year – 2004, awarded by the Centre of

Business and Industry of Centre County • Sustainable Agriculture Leadership Award – 2006, awarded

by the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricul-ture

• Wall Street Journal - July 2007, feature on shrubs in July 1, 2006 Weekend Edition.

• Reader’s Digest – August 2007, Featured in article titled “Home Grown”

• Centre Daily Times Good Life Magazine – September 2008, Interview with Kim Tait

Sixty years after its purchase, Marian and Elton Tait’s family farm has expanded into a large, thriving business, and has become one of Centre County’s major attractions. Tait Farm can be reached at (814) 466-2386.

Tait Farm Produces Many Food ProductsArticle & photos by Sam Stitzer

Harvest Shop manager, Deb McManus, with a variety

of food products all made here in Centre County

Elton and Marian Tait purchased their farm

in 1950.

The Tait Farm store near Boalsburg

Tait Farm owner Kim Tait. Kim calls herself a

“stewardess of the land.”


Steve Spanelli and Erin McKinney farm 10 acres on the Tait Farm, raising 200 different

varieties of vegetables.

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STATE COLLEGE – After eight years in their original location in State College, Otto’s Pub & Brewery reopened in November in their new location, just down the street, at 2235 North Atherton. Partner Roger Garthwaite spent 25 years at Penn State before changing direction and becoming involved with Otto’s. He says that consistency is what keeps them going, and growing. “We’re here in our new location be-cause Charlie can make good beer consistent-ly.” Charlie Schnable is the Head Brew Master at Otto’s. One of Garthwaite’s goals with the new location was to expand the brewing operation. Soon, Otto’s will be able to offer 12-ounce bottles, which means that six-packs and cases will be available on site and at retailers. Garthwaite says, “Our immediate goal was to satisfy the need right here in the Cen-tre Region by expanding our beers on tap and

adding 12-ounce bottles.” Otto’s doesn’t have any immediate plans to expand outside of PA. “There’s a lot of unmet territory right here,” Garthwaite adds. Otto’s standard varieties include Apricot Wheat which is an American Wheat Ale with the aroma and flavor of apricot. Otto’s stron-gest offering, at 9.2% ABV, is Double D IPA, an Imperial India Pale Ale. Very malty and crisp, Red Mo Ale is an American red ale. If you like floral aroma and assertive hops, try Slab Cabin IPA, a classic American IPA. Otto’s

also features Spruce Creek Lager and if you like a darker variety beer that’s smooth and creamy, they also feature Black Mo Stout, which is a

dry, Irish-style stout. One other brew that Otto’s currently offers is only available on Friday afternoons. It’s called “Fir-kin’ Fridays.” Firkin’ is a British-style cask of ale that is conditioned in the cask and gravity-poured for a real ale taste. Garthwaite says

that Otto’s will be able to offer 12-ounce bot-tles in six-packs and cases in the first quarter of this year. Apricot Wheat, Red Mo, Slab Cabin, and Double D will be the first four varieties offered in 12-ounce bottles. The next phase of expansion in the second quarter of this year will be additional beer va-rieties including lagers that typically take more fermentation time. Otto’s has also updated their Web site. More information can be found at ottospub-andbrewery.com.

MILLHEIM – Tim Yarrington not only brews beer, he knows how to construct a brewery. A happy confluence of opportunities made Tim Yarrington a multi-talented consultant to the beer brewing industry. Now the Brew Master at Penn’s Valley’s Elk Creek Café + Aleworks, Yarrington started out with a BS from Penn State, and complet-ed a nine-month course in the Master Brewers Program at University of California – Davis in 1995. He also had construction experience. His first job out of brew school was a start-up brewery, Long Valley Pub and Brewery in New Jersey. There he combined his beer brewing and construc-tion talents to build the brew-ery from the ground up. After eight years with the company, he was lured away by a start-up brewery on Times Square, Manhattan. He helped construct the brewery. “The beer got great reviews, but…” he said with a rueful laugh. Management problems closed the brewery three years later. Yarrington even helped dismantle the brewery and send the equipment to Sydney, Australia. He hopes to “visit” his old brew tools someday. Now Yarrington was experienced enough to become a freelance consul-tant in the construction and launch of microbreweries. He was quite suc-cessful, but the work kept him away from his family for long periods of time. Besides, he didn’t get to brew beer anymore – one of his favorite pastimes. When hired by Tom Bowser, owner and brainchild of Elk Creek Café + Aleworks in

Millheim, he found himself coming full circle back to central Pennsylvania. After opening the aleworks in December of 2007, he agreed to stay as Elk Creek’s Master Brewer. He couldn’t be happier. His single-batch brewing system, yield-ing 8 barrels (250 gallons) of brew at a time, allows him to fine-tune his recipes and enjoy the subtle differences from batch to batch. In addition to six standard brews, ranging from an American wheat ale to a robust Porter, he

also offers two ever-changing seasonal brews. Besides at Elk Creek Café, this beer is also on tap in State College and Lewisburg. His plans for the future include expanding the brewery’s capacity so he can offer even more volume and variety.

BELLEFONTE – In 1919 Sicilian immi-grates, Guy and Pauline Bonfatto, opened a grocery and produce store in downtown Bellefonte. Bonfatto’s began to evolve from a gro-cery and produce shop to a destination for prepared ready-to-eat foods and in 1970, the family launched a full restaurant. The busi-ness prospered under the leadership of Fran-cis and John Bonfatto. In January 1990, David Letterman, grandson of Guy and Pauline, became the third generation to enter the business. In July 1999, David and his wife Sherri became full owners. The hard-working cou-ple’s first order of business: the launching of Bonfatto’s Restaurant and Lounge (Bonfat-tos.com), which opened in November 2000 on Bishop Street in Bellefonte and featured everything from American-Italian dishes to the renowned and trademarked Bonan-za Subs. The idea was to provide a modern, fami-ly-friendly atmosphere and menu that would satisfy a wide range of tastes. Over the years, Bonfatto’s Restaurant & Lounge has re-ceived many awards for their Bonanza Subs, wings, and pizza. And with Bonfatto’s Pick-Up Window, Bonfatto’s offered customers the option to order by phone and pick up their meals without getting out of their ve-hicles – which is especially convenient in the cold winter months. And in recent history, David has made his own new innovation to the family business – a fabulous bottled line of award-winning

Bonfatto’s Wing Sauces & Marinades avail-able at the restaurant, in specialty-food stores and online at FeelTheFlavors.com! Although the business has changed over the 90+ years, one thing remains – the commitment to quality, customer service and community support. Bonfatto’s wing sauces aren’t just wing sauces, they’re hand-crafted, versatile mari-nades, sure to liven up any kitchen or barbe-cue. And they’re the reason Central PA keeps voting their wings the best around!AWARDS:1st Place – Blue/White Wing Festival - 20101st Place – Blue/White Wing Festival - 2009PSU Tailgaters Favorite Wings - 20091st Place Lakemont Park – 20081st Place Tussey Mountain Wing Festival 2007Judges’ Choice – Tussey Mountain Wing Festival - 2005Try ‘Em All!Bonfatto’s Original – the sauce that put Bon-fatto’s on the map.Hawaiian BBQ – Say “aloha” to our blend of teriyaki and tropical tang.RazzHab – Our first fruit-based sauce (and some say our best!)Peaches & Scream – Sweet, meet hot. A screamin’ good time!Apple PepperJack – Brown sugar and Jack Daniels #7 … ‘nuff said?Fire-in-the-Hole – The superlative superhero of super-hot brush-ons!

Made in Centre County, uSaOtto’s Brews up Local FavoritesBy Don Bedell

What’s Brewing in MillheimBy Sandie Biddle

Bonfatto’s: Feel The Flavors!


Anyone who is a great fan of wine knows the best places in the country, and the world, to find wineries and their vineyards. But even some of the most avid wine connoisseurs don’t realize that there are a couple winer-ies right here in our own backyard – the Mount Nittany Vineyard and Winery and Seven Mountain Wine Cel-lars. The Mount Nittany Vineyard and Winery is on the mountain in Centre Hall. When you drive through the scenic wooded road to it, coming upon it seems al-most like a dream. In the months that the grapes are on the vine you see 65 acres of juicy ripe fruit. The winery opened for business in 1990 by amateur winemakers Joe and Betty Carroll after they purchased the land in 1983 and planted their first grapes. Many changes have been made since the land was first purchased. The newest addition, more than 10 years ago, added a banquet room that is used for events like conferences and wine tastings. Just because snow has covered the vineyard doesn’t mean the winery is closed. Monday is the only day they don’t have tasting hours. They also hold special wine tasting events throughout the winter months, too. Seven Mountain Wine Cellars is located farther out of town in Spring Mills. This winery is fairly new, open-ing its doors in August 2009. Scott Bubb, owner, is a Mifflin County native and still lives close by the south-ern part of the county. Winemaking had been a part of

Scott’s life since 1976. He made his first wine from Con-cord grapes that he picked from his Aunt Sylvia’s back yard. It wasn’t too bad, but since that day, he has had a strong passion, almost an obsession, with trying to pro-duce the highest quality wine that he possibly can. His father said, “If the job isn’t worth doing right, it’s not worth doing at all.” Bubb has lived by that advice for many years. He has earned awards at both regional and na-tional wine competitions and is currently ranked 12th on the American Wine Societies list of the top 50 Amateur Winemak-ers in the United States. The next time you are look-ing for something to do locally, don’t forget that these wineries offer a unique way to spend a day.

Made in Centre County, uSaHomegrown WineBy Ebun Adewumi

Mount Nittany Vineyard and Winery

A sampling of their wines and a the view they offer at Mount Nittany Vineyard and Winery

Seven Mountains Wine Cellar

Inside Seven Mountains Wine Cellar


2010 Armchair Quarterback Standings

The NFL playoffs opened last week with several upsets including the Green Bay Packers going into Philadelphia and knocking off Michael Vick and the third seeded NFC East champion Eagles, 21-16. The Packers made the postseason as

a Wild Card team but will now move on to face off against the top seeded Atlanta Falcons this Saturday night at 8pm. In the other NFC matchup, an upset even bigger than the Packers over the Eagles, the Seattle Seahawks upended the defending World Champion New Orleans, 41-36. The Seahawks entered the playoffs as the NFC West champions but also had the worst record of any playoff team at 7-9 and still hosted the playoff game as the Saints were the other Wild Card team. Seattle now moves on to face the second seeded Chicago Bears this Sunday at 1pm. The AFC opening weekend also saw at least a mild upset as the New York Jets used a field goal as time expired to defeat

the Indianapolis Colts, 17-16. With the loss, both the Colts and Saints, who played in the Super Bowl last year saw their seasons come to an end much earlier than each would have liked. The Jets now face the unenviable task of traveling to New England to try and derail a Patriots team that looks the team that will represent the AFC in the Super Bowl in February. The Patriots as a result of being the top seed in the AFC did not play last week. The Steelers also had the opportunity to rest their players and watch their opponent as well as the other games. Pittsburgh opponent this weekend is quite a familiar one in the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens and Steelers split their regular season meetings this year and will meet in the playoffs for the first time since 2009 when the teams battled for the AFC title in a game played in Pittsburgh, the site of Saturday’s game. The Steelers hold a 12-5 advantage over the Ravens in Pittsburgh. Baltimore, a Wild Card team, advanced to this game after a 30-7 drubbing of the Kansas City Chiefs last week in a game in which the Ravens defense forced five turnovers.

Philadelphia makes quick exit while Steelers get to work after bye By Les Barnhart

Friday January 7, 2010 The Red Raiders defeated the War-riors of Indian Valley on Friday night, 46-38. Bellefonte used a big 2nd quar-ter to grab the upper hand, and never looked back. Robbie Proper and Jason Jarvis each accounted for 15 of points of the Raiders points. Seth Wagner led the Warriors in scoring, dropping 15 of his own.

Bellefonte BasketBall Weekly RoundupBy Matt Masullo

Monday January 10, 2010 Bellefonte dropped its record to 5-5 with a 51-38 loss to Central Mountain (4-5) Monday night. The game was closer than the score indicated, as the Raiders made it a six point game in the 4th quarter. The Wildcats proved to be too much down the stretch, hit-ting several clutch free throws. Be-hind Cole Renninger’s game high 16 points, Central Mountain pulled away late. Robbie Proper led the Raiders in scoring with 15 points.

WEEKEND LINEUPSaturday, January 15th

Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers4:30pm — TV: CBS

Green Bay Packers at Atlanta Falcons8:00pm — TV: FOX

Sunday, January 16th

Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears1:00pm — TV: FOX

New York Jets at New England Patriots4:30pm — TV: CBS

Ravens @ Steelers Packers @ Falcons Seahawks @ Bears Jets @ Patriots Bowl Challenge Results Last Week Season Games Behind

Jeff Byers 16-15 2-5 55-53 19

Jerry Fisher* 12-19 2-5 57-52 17

Denny Mason 15-16 2-5 62-46 12

Todd Brown 13-18 2-5 63-45 11

Norm Brown 16-15 5-2 74-34

Ravens @ Steelers Packers @ Falcons Seahawks @ Bears Jets @ Patriots Bowl Challenge Results Last Week Season Games Behind

Bellefonte Red Raiders* 14-17 3-4 61-47 7

State College Little Lions 11-20 3-4 49-59 19

Bald Eagle Area Eagles* 15-16 4-3 68-40

Penns Valley Rams 10-21 5-2 61-47 7

Games of the Week

Games of the Week

2010 Armchair Quarterback Standings


Just a reminder that with the all the sports going on in the county, its especially important that I get the input of all of you as I am bound to miss many of those who are deserving of recognition in their respective sports. No sport should go unnoticed or worse yet, unplayed. You can even submit your own name and deny it to your friends and teammates. Please feel free to contact me at my email address: [email protected] regarding your sports story as well as a phone number where you can be reached if needed. You can also post your ideas for a story or a recap of your game on the Centre County Sports page on Facebook. In order to make the Centre County Gazette the paper of the people, I need you, the people to provide the best sports coverage around. Good luck to all you in your respective sports. Hopefully I will run into you at a sporting event sometime and it will be you I will be covering. — Les Barnhart, Sports Editor

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Fans, Parents and Athletes!!

Two explosive offenses – check. Premier talent on each team – check. Scoreless first half - check. The odds makers in Vegas set the over/under on this anticipated slugfest at 73 points and if you took the under you were smarter than most as Auburn defeated Oregon 22-19 on a last second field goal to cap off a 14-0 season. The win also earned them the BCS National Championship. The victory gave Auburn its first Na-tional Championship since 1957. Auburn was lead by true fresh-man Michael Dyer, who was named Offensive Player of the Game. That in itself would be considered by most a huge feat being that Auburn’s offense also features Heisman Trophy Winner Cam Newton (329 all purpose yards, two touchdowns and two intercep-tions). Dyer finished the night with 143 yards rushing. 37 of those yards came on the games most controversial play. On 1st and 10 late in the 4th quarter, Dyer dashed of the right end and was wrapped up by an Oregon defender, but alas his knee never hit the ground. The spinning tackle attempt left everyone frozen, including Dyer. Hearing fellow players and coaches urging him to keep running, he took off up the Au-burn sideline before being tackled after the amazing 37-yard run. Three plays later, Dyer had Auburn setup with a 1st and Goal at the 1-yard line after a 16-yard run. It would be from there that Wes Byrum would put the dagger in the Ducks with a 19-yard chip shot field goal. Oregon’s high-octane offense, which is predicated on a fast paced, no huddle environment, never seemed to get fully in sync. Doak Walker Award winner LaMichael James was held to just 49 yards on 13 carries although he did catch two Darron

Thomas touchdown passes. Thomas threw for a career high 363 yards and two interceptions. With TV timeouts hamstringing Oregon’s effort to move quickly, they were not to be shut out on the highlight reel. On their second pos-session of the 2nd quarter, facing 1st and 10 from their own 7-yard line, Thomas hit Jeff Maehl for an 81-yard strike, which set up an eight yard screen pass to James three plays later. The point after attempt fea-tured an Option play between the holder and the kicker Rob Beard, which was good. The win for Auburn gave the SEC a perfect 7-0 record in BCS title

games. The conference has been dominant for the last five years in title games. Dating back to 2006, the National Champs have come from the SEC, with Florida winning in 06’ and 08’, LSU winning in 07’ and Alabama winning last year.

auBuRn cashes in on dyeR’s late heRoicsBy Matt Masullo

On Tuesday night this week during training our camp continued to get the fight-ers ready for the February fight. After go-ing through the necessary warm-ups we got to learn a new choke called the Darth choke. It’s a pretty nifty choke from side control however it took some time for me to learn. The only problem with the choke in my opinion is that you have to get your op-ponent to commit and try and escape in order to get it in tight. If you are capable of pulling it off its sweet dreams for the guy you’re doing it to. If you miss the hold for some reason the fighter is still able to get a great neck crank out of it that very well may still end a fight. After Jason schooled us we went back to fighting and boxing. On Thursday, we fought all night long by starting out with the basics and moving to full out fights. By the time the night was over I had got to roll with Jason, Chuck (fighter) and Glunt (fighter). It was by far one of the toughest nights of training I had experienced and ended up with a pulled neck muscle, and multiple bruises. When we were done wrestling we boxed, practiced leg kicks, then combined the two and went toe to toe. This was the first time during training that I found myself gassed and out of breathe for the first time. I’m sure the pulled neck muscle didn’t help. The atmosphere has changed somewhat with fighters getting a little more serious and the training regi-

ments become harder and faster. Jason and Byron try to get them to the gassed point, and then make them go harder and faster for another half an hour. This pushes the guys

to get better and prepares them endurance wise for the upcom-ing fight. If the fight goes the distance they want them to be prepared and be the guy stand-ing wanting more instead of sitting and sucking water in the corner. As each day passes I find myself getting more excited each day to see these guys fight Feb-ruary 26th. These are the guys I get to train with and see on a weekly basis and come fight night I’ll feel like there is a small part of me in the ring with them.

I will be there cheering them on and hoping that someday soon I’ll get the chance to do what they are doing.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Starting Statistics Timothy D. KesslingWeight: 152Height: 5’ 6”Reach: 65 inchesExperience: 2 MonthsBorn: Hill Air Force Base, Utah Hometown: Bellefonte, PA

WEEK 10By: Tim Kessling

The top seeded Nittany Lion wrestling team opened the two day Virginia Duals last Friday with a dominant win over VMI. In the 42-3 win, Penn State lost only one match and seemed to set the tone not only for the second match of the day but for the fol-lowing day as well. In the second match, Penn State dropped Edinboro 37-12 and only two Nit-tany Lions lost in that match. One of the victorious Penn State grap-plers was Andrew Long. The transfer from Iowa State saw his first action as a member of the Nittany Lions and he didn’t disappoint.

Long picked up a fall in 2:44 against VMI and followed that up with a 17-1 win against Edinboro. As a team, the Lions re-

mained hot on Saturday as they handed Kent State a 27-15 loss to open the day. That would set the stage for the finals in what

could be a preview of the Big Ten finals as Penn State would face off against Michigan and ultimately defeat the Wolver-ines, 24-12, to win their first Virginia Duals title since 1991. The Nittany Lions improved their season dual meet record to 11-0 after the four wins at the Duals.

Nittany Lions dominantin winning Virginia DualsBy Les Barnhart

BALD EAGLE AREALITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALLREGISTRATION

Attention all parents of girls ages 9 through 12 interested in playing softball this spring and summer. Cost is $40 per player with a $5 discount per child for multiple player families. Bald Eagle Area Little League Softball will be holding open registration on the following dates:

January 24th in the Bald Eagle Area High School cafeteria• January 26th in the Bald Eagle Area High School cafeteria• February 1st in the Bald Eagle Area High School cafeteria•

Registrations will run from 6-8pm on the nights listed and parents MUST bring the following documentation:

A copy of the child’s birth certificate that will remain on file with the league• The date of last TETANUS shot for child• Registration fee•

The Penns Valley Rams wrestling team picked up three dual meet wins last Saturday after competing in the Coud-ersport Tournament. Overall in the tournament, the team went 3-2 to improve their season dual meet record to 4-3. The wins came over Coudersport (55-18), Sheffield (48-28) and Curwensville by criteria (the match ended tied 42-42). Leading the Rams in the tournament was Matt Swartz with two falls at 171-lbs. Maverick Swartz (HWT) and Cole Confer at 135-lbs also had two falls. Neil Hosterman had three wins at 152-lbs including two falls but it was Ryan Baker that enjoyed the most success in the tournament. Baker picked up four wins in the five match-es including three falls and a decision at 160-lbs.

Penns Valley wins three at Coudersport TournamentBy Les Barnhart

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The Bald Eagle Area Little League Soft-ball will be holding their regular monthly meeting on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH AT NOON. The meeting will be held in the Bald Eagle Area High School cafeteria. Reg-ular monthly meetings are held the second Sunday of each month at the Bald Eagle Area High School. Those interested can check us out at our Eteamz league page at http://www.eteamz.

com/baldeaglearealittleleaguesoftball where additional information can be found on upcoming meetings as well as other league news. This is an exciting new league and pro-vides a new opportunity for the girls in the Bald Eagle Area School District. Please do what you can to be a part of the league.“This will never be our league unless you are a part of it”

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WINGATE- The Bald Eagle Area wrestling team evened their dual meet record at 2-2 last Tuesday after they defeated the visiting Altoona Mountain Lions, 52-27. The Eagles tal-lied six falls in the win starting with Travis Giedroc at 103-lbs. His second period fall came at the 2:53 mark. Also picking up falls for the Eagles were Tyler Baney (119-lbs), Nick Taylor (152-lbs), Jake Taylor (171-lbs), Gar-ren Kunes (189-lbs) and Nate Sharkey at 215-lbs. Matt Dil-lon picked up a 12-4 major decision at 130-lbs for Bald Eagle Area. Jason Sherry (112-lbs) and Coleman Hoffman (160-lbs) each had an easy night as they received a forfeit.

Eagles pin MountainLions in lopsided winBy Les Barnhart

SPRING MILLS- The Penns Valley Rams came up short in their tilt on the mat with the Hollidaysburg Golden Ti-gers. The Rams won three bouts in the meet by forfeit but could win of the final three bouts that were contested and that proved to be the difference in the 32-31 loss last Thursday night. The Rams (1-2) saw Cole Confer (130-lbs), Joey McNitt (135) and Seth Decker (140) receive forfeits while Logan Confer picked up a major decision at 145-lbs. At 152-lbs, Neil Hosterman recorded a first period fall at the 1:52 mark. Matt Swartz was also victorious for the Rams as he picked up a decision at 171-lbs.

Ram grapplers fall short against visiting HollidaysburgBy Les Barnhart

WINGATE- The Lady Eagles’ basketball team kept up their pressure defense against visiting Saltsburg and it again resulted in a lopsided 76-33 win last Friday night. Bald Ea-gle Area’s defense, which forced 39 turnovers against Penns Valley the night before, had 27 steals in the win on Friday night. Bald Eagle Area again used a balanced offensive attack with Anne Hoover just missing a double-double with 15 points and 9 rebounds. Abby Gettig hit for double digit scoring with 10 for the Lady Eagles. With a game well in hand late, the Lady Eagles sur-prised some people when head coach Brandy Preslovich reinserted her starters to close out the game despite getting production from her bench.

Lady EagLEs kEEp onprEssuring…and winning!By Les Barnhart

The Penns Valley Rams suffered their first setback on Sat-urday when undefeated Greenwood (10-0) took it to them, 61-29. The Rams rebounded nicely on Monday night as they traveled to Tyrone and got back on the winning track with a 46-36 win behind a game-high 17 points from Kevin Mont-miny. Collin Smith added 10 points in the win as the Rams improved to 9-1 on the season

Rams shake off setback with road win at TyroneBy Les Barnhart

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Christmas Training Camp —Mach One TeamDay 1, December 28, 2010BELLEFONTE – Rachel Eirmann, Chance Blakeslee, Sarah Mosier, Kyler Phillips, Keegan McChesney, Jonathon Eirmann and Coaches Robbie Fulton and Da-vid Kurtz met this morning for a little paddling exercise at the Sunnyside Paddling Park in Bellefonte on the first day of the annual four-day Christmas camp. It was a brisk 22 degrees with a bit of wind, gusting to maybe 40 miles per hour at times. After a lot of careful dressing with appropriate clothes the group held a morning practice of conditioning. The afternoon, now warmed to 32 degrees, found our do-ing a technical workout at the top of the course. Robbie carried a watch and clipboard and timed a large number of runs. Chance had the best times with Sarah close by. Chance’s best time of 10 attempts was 22.4 seconds. Sarah had five timed runs with a best of 25.9 seconds. The younger Kyler also had five timed runs with a best of 88 seconds (there were one or more 50-second penalties factored in) while Coach Kurtz’s best was 26.0 seconds. Day 2, December 29, 2010 The day started at 32 degrees and the group did a number of one-on-one sprints. For this exercise there were six pairs of gates such that the paddler starting on the river right did the six right-side gates and the other paddler did the six left-side gates. Each pair did a run from each side.

Blakeslee raced against Mosier four times, edg-ing her each time but either very close or dis-

tant. Kurtz raced Phillips two times and Mosier two times edging Kyler twice and splitting with Sarah. The activity was really exciting and well spent with a promise of doing this

again when the weather gets warmer in the spring. The group then did the cruise from Sunnyside down

to Milesburg, only this time it was a downriver race. Ful-ton had a head start of 90 seconds and then there was a mass start of the others. The final times were Robbie Ful-ton, 18:40, Chance Blakeslee, 21:00, Dave Kurtz, 21:37, Sarah Mosier, 22:17, and Kyler Phillips, 23:07 minutes. After lunch team race training was held where the four boats of Robbie, Chance, Sarah and Kyler started at the top and went to gate 26 in a series of upstream gates. In each case the task was to try to have simultaneous gate-ins and gate-outs with interleaving of the boats. Sometimes there were crashes but not serious. They did a total of six runs, each person leading at least once. Day 3, December 30, 2010 The plan for this day was to find a river away from Sun-nyside that had water, flow, and some excitement – yet be close to home. The Red Mo was a best hope and if it were warm enough it would have enabled some cranberry picking. The group bundled up and took off for the Route 53 bridge north of Moshannon town where the gage was. The temp here was 25 and a bit cold. The level looked runnable with the gage cov-ered by ice but estimated to be 0.5. Robbie and I looked at the water and upstream, pondered, and then decided it was a “no go”... Too many rocks mid stream and enough ice along the shore for rescue purposes gave a risk too high for young kids. So it was back to home base and the group paddled from Home Base at Sunnyside to Dowdy’s Hole on the

Bald Eagle. Highlight on the trip was found in Miles-burg. Chance paddled a little upstream on the Bald Eagle where ice covered the whole stream. It was about 1.5 inches thick. Sarah and Dave spent their time ramming onto the edge to break off pieces, some as large as a square meter. The paddle was long as usual. It was a total of seven miles of conditioning. One blue heron was seen but boats scraped a bit in numerous places at the 165 cubic-feet-per-second flow. Kyler did well in his family’s Dirigo recreational boat, getting stopped broadside on only one drop but still making good lines and having good control throughout.Day 4, December 31, 2010 The day dawned cold but quickly warmed up as the group, now slightly smaller convened on the last day of paddling activ-ities in 2010. Keegan was able to join with Chance and Sarah as Coach Robbie led the way for some nice stroking experiences – keeping the paddle nearly vertical, always leaning forward, and placing the catch well forward. After some practice some one-on-one sprints were held. Here Chance and Keegan were virtually the same speed and Sarah and Coach Kurtz also matched each other. The group shifted to back paddling. Here the body is still leaning forward to keep the stern above water and the paddle moving to the vertical after catching speed. Then they raced the one-on-ones. Again each person in the pair matched the other. This is going to be great next year as the kids will be matching and competing together as they gain skill and strength. Video observations will be done this spring so the kids can better see themselves and how they can improve. The camp was a huge success for those who participated. They learned how to dress in cold weather to be able to enjoy get-ting out in weather 95 percent of our population couldn’t handle. The first indoor paddling/rolling session will be January 16 at Penn State’s Natatorium – only weeks away.

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MILESBURG LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALLREGISTRATION Attention all parents of kids ages 5 through 12 interested in playing baseball. Cost is $40 per player in the 7-12 year old division and $30 for the T-ball level (5-7 year old) with a $5 discount per child for multiple player families. Milesburg Little League will be holding open registration on the following dates:

January 24th in the Bald Eagle Area High School cafeteria• January 26th in the Bald Eagle Area High School cafeteria• February 1st in the Bald Eagle Area High School cafeteria • Registrations will run from 6-8pm on the nights listed and parents MUST bring the following documentation:A copy of the child’s birth certificate that will remain • on file with the leagueThe date of last TETANUS shot for child• Registration fee•

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WINGATE- The Lady Eagles used a pressure defense to force 30 Penns Valley turnovers and a balanced offensive attack to pull away for a 53-37 home win last Thursday night. Bald Eagle Area improved to 8-0 while the Lady Rams, despite getting a game-high 17 points from Cassie Hazel and 12 rebounds

from Krista Rupert, saw their record slip to 3-6. Anne Hoover recorded a double-double with 14 points and 14 rebounds in the win for Bald Eagle Area. Brittany Butterworth and Abby Gettig each added 12 points for the Lady Eagles.

Lady Eagles apply pressure to Lady Rams in winBy Les Barnhart

Billy Stover has seen plenty of bowling lanes, especially the ones at the Millheim Lanes. Then again, at 88 years old, he has seen plenty of things. Mr. Stover, who has been bowling in the Millheim Lanes Men’s Senior League for over 25 years, made his first appearance in the Monday Mixed League at the Lanes and rolled a very impressive 233 in his debut. He is the oldest bowler in the league and

stands as the last living member of his original team. The 233 is above his current average of 128 but he is hoping to continue in the Mixed League with equally impressive results. Even if Mr. Stover is unable to reach that number again on the lanes, he will keep on rolling and will be sharing his stories with his other pals, something he very much enjoys. Congratulations again, Billy. Keep on rolling!

Just rolling along life’s path, Billy Stover, still has itBy Les Barnhart

WINGATE- The Eagles’ basketball team cruised to a seemingly easy win at home over Juniata last Wednesday night with Justin Taylor and Ty Bennett leading the team in scoring with 11 each in the lopsided 52-31 win. The Eagles quickly built a lead and pushed that to a dou-ble digit halftime lead. Dennis Fisher had 10 rebounds in the win for Bald Eagle Area as they notched just their second win of the season to improve to 2-7 on the season. In the Junior Varsity game, the Eagles also prevailed to improve their record to 3-4 with Ryan Dyke pacing the of-fense with 10 points in the 44-37 win.

Bald Eagle Area dominant in win over JuniataBy Les Barnhart

SPRING MILLS- The Rams kept their season rolling and their perfect record intact (9-0) last Friday night after beating Bald Eagle Area 68-55 behind the duo of Collin Smith and Kevin Montminy. Montminy, who was honored prior to the game for reaching the 1,000 point milestone had to resign himself to the second leading scorer with 18 points in the win over the Eagles as Smith found his touch from behind the three-point line. Of his game-high 20 points, 18 came from behind the arch. Sam Snyder added 10 points for the Rams. The Eagles were led offensively by Dennis Fisher as he ended the game with 10 points. The loss dropped the Eagles to 2-8 on the season under head coach Bill Butterworth.

Rams down Eagles on hardwood in Centre County battleBy Les Barnhart

Bellefonte Bash Gymnastics Invitational

Box Scores: Event Place Freshmen Sophomores Juniors Seniors Vault 1 H. Sinclair – BHS 8.6 K. Dove – BHS 8.3 T. Brown – JV 8.5 T. Schall – DAHS 9.0 2 T. Sinclair – BHS 8.4 A. Wittman – STM 8.0 C. Fredericks -BHS 8.4 M. Eschbach – STM 8.65 3 M. Kachik – BEA 8.0 H. Plotts – CM 7.8 M. Boatman – BHS 8.2 M. White – JSHS 8.35 Bars 1 T. Sinclair – BHS 8.7 K. Dove – BHS 7.7 C. Fredericks – BHS 8.4 K. Purnell – BHS 8.85 2 C. Fredericks – BHS 7.95 H. Plotts – CM 7.4 K. Blair – CHS 7.3 A. Cesare – HAHS 8.25 3 M. Kachik – BEA 7.6 A. Wittman – STM 5.4 M. Sorg – STM 7.25 M. Eschbach – STM 7.65 Beam 1 T. Sinclair – BHS 8.4 K. Dove – BHS 7.7 C. Fredericks – BHS 8.7 T. Schall – DAHS 8.8 2 H. Sinclair – BHS 8.0 A. Wittman – STM 5.9 M. Sorg – STM 7.3 M. Longhi – STM 8.0 3 C. Fredericks – BHS 7.3 H. Plotts – CM 5.3 A. Braid – DAHS 7.3 E. Brittan – MMLC 7.9 Floor 1 H. Sinclair – BHS 8.75 H. Plotts – CM 7.85 C. Fredericks – BHS 8.7 K. Purnell – BHS 9.0 2 C. Fredericks – BHS 8.35 K. Dove – BHS 7.75 M. Sorg – STM 8.1 T. Schall – DAHS 8.85 3 M. Neureiter – STM 7.9 A. Wittman – STM 7.3 K. Stockdale – DAHS 7.6 K. Speck – HAHS 8.7 AA 1 T. Sinclair – BHS 33.05 K. Dover – BHS 31.45 C. Fredericks – BHS 34.2 T. Schall – DAHS 34.3 2 H. Sinclair – BHS 32.9 H. Plotts – CM 28.35 M. Sorg – STM 30.05 K. Purnell – BHS 33.35 3 C. Fredericks – BHS 31.1 A. Wittman – STM 26.6 K. Blair – CHS 31.45 M. Eschbach – STM 30.9

The Bellefonte Gymnastics Booster Club hosted the 3rd Annual Bellefonte Bash Gymnastics Invitational on Sat-urday, January 08, 2011 at the Bellefonte Area Middle School with 13 high schools from District VI and IX represented. During the competition, the freshmen compete against other freshmen; sophomores against sophomores; and so on. The individual invitational allows gymnasts in the districts who do not have High School varsity gymnastics programs to compete with High Schools who do have Varsity Teams. It also al-lows the gymnasts to earn scores to qualify into the PA Classic Individual State Championship Invitational in February. Bellefonte dominated the individual places taking 15 of the 20 first place spots. Senior Kylie Purnell fin-ished first on bars and the floor exercise. She earned a 9.0 on floor and had her highest scores of the season on both of her first place finished events. Junior Cydnie Fredericks finished in first on every event except vault where she placed second. She had her highest all-around score of her career earning a 34.2. The sophomore class was the smallest of the four grade levels, but that didn’t matter to Kiersten Dove, sophomore, who took first place on vault,

bars, beam and in the All-Around. The fresh-men trio of Taylor Sinclair, Haley Sinclair, and

Cortney Fredericks wrapped up the top 3 spots in the All-Around respectively, while Taylor won the bars, beam and all-around, Haley the vault and floor, while Cortney finished

second on bars, floor, and in the all-around. The invitational allowed for all gymnasts to compete from every school and did not limit the line-up to the top 5 compet-itors per school; therefore Bellefonte had some great first time

performances from some of their underclassmen. Freshman Katie Matsko competed all-around for the first time and

place in the top 5 on vault. First year sophomore Mi-kayla Eckley finished fourth in her two events, vault

and beam. Junior, Miranda Boatman had her highest score of her career on bars with a score of 7.1 and performed consistently finishing in the top 5 on 4 of 5 events. The Red Raider Gymnasts will travel to St.

Marys on Wednesday, January 12, 2011. The meet will begin at 6 pm. The next home meet will be the following Wednesday against Dubois at the Bellefonte Middle School Gymnasium at 6 pm.

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GROUP MEETINGSThe Gazette will publish the regular meeting dates & times for all Centre County social & service groups, organizations, clubs, etc that has membership open to the public. To have yours listed send to [email protected] or mail to Stott Publications, PO Box 129, Warriors Mark, Pa. 16877

The 9-12 Project of Central PA, A non-partisan group of citizens concerned about America’s future, will hold a meeting Tuesday, January 18, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in The Forum of The Ramada Conference Center, 1450 South Atherton Street, State College. Focus: Maintaining effective communication with newly-elected and re-elected Representatives of the people, developing an incremental plan of study of The Constitution,And promoting fiscal responsibility. Meetings are free and open to the general public.

Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans meet the fourth Thursday every month at 7:30 p.m. at I.O.O.F. Hall, 756 N. Main St., Pleasant Gap.

BEA Class of 1959 holds its monthly dinner on the first Thurs-day each month at 6 p.m. at the Highway Pizza Pub on Zion Road in Bellefonte. Any questions call Joyce at (814) 383-4337

BEA Class of 1964 holds its monthly breakfast on the fourth Saturday of each month at 9 a.m. at the Mt. Valley Diner in Win-gate. Call Sue at (814) 625-2132.

BEA Class of 1966 will meet for breakfast on Saturday, January 15 at 9:00 a.m. at the Mt. Valley Diner, Wingate. Any questions call Joyce at (814) 355-1807.

Bellefonte Class of 2014 is holding a parent group meeting January 18 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the faculty lounge at Belle-fonte High School. If you have a freshman at Bellefonte High, please attend and get information on upcoming events from class advisors. They will also be discussing and choosing their annual fund raiser.

Bellefonte Intervalley Chamber of Commerce will hold a lun-cheon January 19 at 11:30 a.m. at Home Delivery Pizza in Belle-fonte, with a presentation by APPI Energy Savings Program.

Bellefonte Elks Lodge meetings are held on the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 7 p.m. at the Bellefonte Elks. The Bellefonte Elks Home Service Night Auction and Las Vegas Night begin at 6 p.m. on February 19 at the Lodge, to support the State Elks Major Project. This project provides funding for in-home nursing services, at no cost to clients.

Bellefonte Encampment #72 and Ridgeley Canton #8 meet the second Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Windmere Hall, 454 Rolling Ridge Drive, State College.

Bellefonte Kiwanis Club meets every Tuesday at the Moose Club on Spring Street at noon. For information on Kiwanis, contact Richard King, (814) 355-9606.

Bellefonte Sunrise Rotary Club meets every Friday at 7:30 a.m. at the Cafe on the Park at Talleyrand Park. Guests and visitors welcome. (No meetings on December 24 and 31.) For more in-formation on BSRC, contact Debbie Rowley (814) 880-9453.

Bible Study for Adults offers helpful and practical explanations from Ezekiel & Daniel. There is also a teen meeting (Games & God’s Word) with Pastor Jeremy. These take place at the Nittany Baptist Church just east of Boalsburg on Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. Call (814) 360-1601 for more info.

Breast Cancer Support Group meets the first Monday of each month from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Conference Room 4, Entrance B, Mt. Nittany Medical Center, State College. Call Kristin Sides for information (814) 234-6175

Cancer Survivor’s Association Support Group meeting will be Monday, January 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the United Way Office in State College. This month’s meeting will be an open session to discuss whatever is on your mind. For more in-formation call (814) 237-2120 or go to the CSA Web site at can-cersurvive.org.

Centre Region Model Investment Club meets in the Mazza Room at South Hills Business School, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the second Monday of every month. The meeting is free and open to the public. For informa-tion call (814) 234-8775 or e-mail [email protected].

Centre County Real Estate Investment Club meets the third Thursday of every month from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 1609 N Ather-ton St. State College. For more information call (814) 280-5839.

Grief Support Group meets the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. at Centre Crest. For additional info contact Anne Boal, Social Service Assistant, Centre Crest Nursing Facility, 502 East Howard Street, Bellefonte, (814) 548-1140

I.O.O.F. Centre Lodge #153 meets the first and third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at I.O.O.F. Lodge Hall 756 North Main Street, Pleasant Gap.

Keystone Guild of the Watchmakers Association of Pa. meets the second Tuesday of each month 1 p.m. at the Bull Pen Restaurant at the west end of Tyrone. Call George at (814) 238-1668.

Mount Nittany Chapter of PARSE will meet Thursday, Janu-ary 20 at noon at Hoss’s in State College. Lynn Herman will pres-ent the program. Nittany Mineral Society meets the third Wednesday of the month in Room 114 Auditorium of the Earth & Engineering Sciences (EES) Bldg on the west side of the Penn State Campus in State College. Agenda: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. – social hour, refresh-ments in the lobby; 7:30 to 8:00 p.m.- free door prize drawings, announcements; 8 p.m. – speaker. Junior Rockhounds also meet on third Wednesdays, 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 116 Earth & Engineering Sciences Building (during the social hour for the regular NMS meeting). Call (814) 867-6263 for details. Maps and directions are available through nittanymineral.org.

State College Elks Lodge holds its meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the State College Elks Country Club.

State College Lions Club meets the first and third Thursday of the month at Damon’s of State College at 6 p.m.

Zion MOPS & Beyond meets the first Thursday of each month at 3261 Zion Road Bellefonte from 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. and on the third Thursday of the month from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. First visit is free; $10 annual membership fee when you join.

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MON 17-Jan PSU, AGRICULTURAL ADMIN. BUILDING, SHORTLIDGE AND CURTIN RD. **APPOINTMENTS ONLY - A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. ..................................................................................... 9-2:00

MON 17-Jan PSU, HUB, ALUMNI HALL, POLLOCK RD. - A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. ..................................................................................10-4:00

TUES 18-Jan RED CROSS DONOR CENTER, 135 S. PUGH ST., STATE COLLEGE - G-Man pizza in the canteen....................................10-4:00

TUES 18-Jan WARRIORS MARk UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1840 CENTRE LINE RD., WARRIORS MARK ........................ 1-7:00

TUES 18-Jan PSU, HUB, ALUMNI HALL, POLLOCK RD. - A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. .....................................................................10-4:00

TUES 18-Jan PSU, ARL BUILDING, RM 103, BURROWS RD. **APPOINTMENTS ONLY A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. ..... 9-3:00

WED 19-Jan PSU, HUB, ALUMNI HALL, POLLOCK RD. - A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. ..................................................................................10-4:00

WED 19-Jan PSU, OFFICE OF PHYSICAL PLANT, PARK AVE. **APPOINTMENTS ONLY - A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. .......9-3:00

THUR 20-Jan MOSHANNON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 5026 GREEN ACRE RD., HOUTZDALE ................................. 2-7:00

THUR 20-Jan PSU, HUB, ALUMNI HALL, POLLOCK RD. - A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. ..................................................................................10-4:00

THUR 20-Jan PSU, SCHOOL OF LAW, BIGLER RD. **APPOINTMENTS ONLY - A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. ..............................................11-4:00

FRI 21-Jan CENTRE COUNTY COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT, 2643 GATEWAY DR., STATE COLLEGE ................................. 1-7:00

FRI 21-Jan PSU, kELLER BUILDING, FISCHER RD. ** APPOINTMENTS ONLY - A $4 contribution will be made to the Four Diamonds Fund in honor of all presenting donors. The donor may choose to which THON-registered student group this will be credited. ................................. 9-2:00

RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) volunteers and Penn State students will join ranks to share time and talents with residents of the Centre Crest Nursing Home in Bellefonte on Monday, January 17 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. “DAY ON” day of service. This intergenerational volunteer opportu-nity will bring 15 Penn State student volunteers together with 15 RSVP (adults ages 55+) vol-unteers for an afternoon of “resident commu-nity service,” visits, reading, nail polishing, and camaraderie. Karen Soble, volunteer coordinator for Centre Crest encourages Centre Crest residents to participate in the community service when-ever possible. To that end, RSVP and Penn State volunteers will assist residents in stuffing bears for the children’s wing at Mount Nittany Medi-

cal Center and cutting stamps for the American Philatelic Society. Residents who cannot par-ticipate in community service have the option of a nail polishing, a reading visit, a board game visit, or just a chat with a volunteer. RSVP volunteers will also visit Eagle Val-ley Personal Care Home in Milesburg and Wynwood House Assisted Living Community in Centre Hall. Additionally, an RSVP clean-ing crew will be dispatched to the Bellefonte Community Lunch Program housed at the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte to perform some cleaning and polishing tasks. If you are 55+ and would like more in-formation about RSVP of Centre County, or would like to join our MLK, Jr. Day of Ser-vice activities, please contact RSVP at (814) 355-6816 or e-mail [email protected] and they will be happy to put you to work!

MLK, Jr. “DAY ON” Day of Service

Please call the Bald Eagle State Park Office for more information at 814-625-2775!

This Week aT Bald eagle sTaTe Park

Saturday, January 15Nature Inn Green Building Tour and Discussion - Join the Innkeeper for a tour of the Na-ture Inn including a detailed explanation of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and the major green building systems. Learn about geothermal heating and cooling, solar hot water heat generation, rainwater harvesting, native habitat restoration, and the use of rain gardens during this behind-the-scenes visit. Meet at the Nature Inn lobby; event 11 a.m. to noon.

Thursday, January 20Project Feeder Watch - Let the birds come to you! Spend some time examining the birds that frequent the feeders at the Nature Inn. This program isn’t just watching birds at a feeder, but rather a nationally conducted program that en-gages people in citizen science. Birds will be counted, iden-tified, and then the data will be put into a country-wide database. This program will occur on the 3rd Thursday of the month through March! Meet at the Nature Inn Lobby, event 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tubbies Bedrooms

2221 E. College Ave. 234-4566 • www.tubbies.net

5 Piece Bedroom Group* $1700

*Includes: Queen Headboard, Chest, Triple Dresser, Mirror, and Night Stand


Centre County Deed Transfers12/27/2010 thru 12/31/2010

List compiled from information provided by Centre County Recorder of Deeds, Joseph Davidson. Publisher not responsible for typographical e r ro r s . The pub l i shed information is believed to be accurate, however, publisher neither warrants or accepts any liability or responsibility for inaccurate information.

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S: Chmela, Michael JB: Chmela, Michael J Chmela, Elfriede A 218 W Beaver Avenue$1.00T/M: State College

S: Summit at Shiloh Limited PartnershipB: Miller, Dale E Jr 100 Jefferson Avenue Unit 125 State College, PA 16801$199,900.00T/M: College

S: Bailey, Lois E Homan, Kenneth B Homan, Susan EB: Bailey, Lois E Erhard, Faye L 461 Douglas Drive$1.00T/M: Patton

S: Homan, Kenneth B Homan, Susan E Erhard, Faye LB: Erhard, Faye L 1386 Fowler Hollow Ln$1.00T/M: Taylor

S: Stryffeler, Jaime L Stryffeler, Jamie LB: Stryffeler, Jaime L 442 Douglas Drive State College, PA 16823$1.00T/M: Patton

S: Mihalenko, Joseph FB: Mihalenko, Joseph F 276 Filmore Road Bellefonte, PA 16823$1.00T/M: Patton

S: Westlesen, Bennett TB: Pisciotta, John M 1133 S Atherton Street State College, PA 16801$147,900.00T/M: State College

S: Bell, Nora AB: Houser, Sean S 2412 Buchenhorst Road State College, PA 16801$162,500.00T/M: College

S: Hall, Bonita L Estate Hall, Michael J ExtrB: Hall, Matthew A Cowfer, Shelly L 224 Hall Road Julian, PA 16844$164,500.00T/M: Union

S: Voshelle, Robert S Estate Tuckmantel, Amanda E Extr Aghajanian, Melinda Aghjanian, Michael Tuckmantel, Amanda Tuckmantel, Glenn Voshelle, Robert Voshelle, Lisa Voshelle, Robert JB: Commonwealth of PA DCNR Kato orviston Road$40,000.00T/M: Snow Shoe

S: Eckels, Joseph DB: National Transfer Services LLC 170 Meadow Lane$192,500.00T/M: Walker

S: National Transfer Services LLCB: Boob, Troy R 170 Meadow Lane$192,500.00T/M: Walker

S: Torquato-Eby, Tonia M, Eby, R RyanB: Eby, R Ryan Torquato-Eby, Tonia M 629 Pike Street State College, PA 16804$1.00T/M: College

S: Don Cotner FarmsB: Fischer, Richard B Tr Fischer, Claudia G Tr 113 Alma Mater Drive #302$233,000.00T/M: Patton

S: S&A Homes Inc. Gray’s WoodsB: Rocklage, Gregory M Rocklage, Judith A 119 Garret Way Port Matilda, PA 16870$269,000.00T/M: Patton

S: Wolf, Kline R Wolf, Jeanne CB: Esh, Christ K Esh, Ella S 250 Bald Eagle Street$220,000.00T/M: Liberty

S: Hawbaker Office Center Partnership LCB: Hawbaker, Daniel R 1949 Weaver Street$1.00T/M: Patton

S: Arnold, Scott C Arnold, Cari BryantB: Putnam, Micahel T Putnam, Jill R 2084 N Oak Lane State College, PA 16803$215,000.00T/M: Patton

S: Yocum, Scott L Kissell, Craig WB: GAAR Lp 2300 N Atherton Street$80,000.00T/M: Patton

S: Mervin J Shuman Irrevocable Family Trust Shuman, Blanche D Co-T Northwest Savings BankB: Baron, Michael P Baron, Elizabeth T 1175 Smithfield Circle State College, PA 16801$290,000.00T/M: State College

S: Clair, Gerald F Clair, Susan WB: Bilyeu, Amy Clair 142 Spring St State College, PA 16801$1.00T/M: College

S: Gohn, Elizabeth Heath, Wade Jr Martin, Joanne M Heath, Dawn ChristineB: Martin, Joanne M Martin, Brian K Heath, Dawn Christine 134 Lost Lane$47,500.00T/M: Haines

S: Fairman, Derek R Fairman, Linday VB: Fairman, Derek R Fairman, Lindsay V 117 Pinewood Place Port Matilda, PA 16870$1.00T/M: Patton

S: Olson, Joann SB: Perate, John C Perate, Michelle L 226 Gerald Street$118,900.00T/M: College

S: O’Connor, Harold C Jr O’Connor, Nancy MB: Satco, Associates LP 725 W Cherry Lane$925,000.00T/M: Ferguson

S: Brouse, Helen A Estate Brouse, Robert W ExtrB: Barlow, Jeffrey R 811 Torrey Lane$150,000.00T/M: Harris

S: Nancarvis, Dedra BB: Nancarvis, Dedra B Nancarvis, Billy L 302 Cemetery Road Aaronsburg, PA 16820$1.00T/M: Haines

S: Stasko, Alec H Stasko, PriscillaB: Casher, Karen Sue 106 Borger Road$1.00T/M: Snow Shoe

S: Donald R. Straw Trust Straw, Donald R Tr Mabel J Straw Trust Straw, Mabel JB: Straw, Donald R Straw, Mabel J 106 Seymore Avenue State College, PA 16803$1.00T/M: Patton

S: Vanamburgh, Roderick W Vanamburgh, Dora Kay H Vanamburgh, Roderick WB: Vanamburgh, Roderick W 114 Creek View Lane Spring Mills, PA 16875$1.00T/M: Penn

S: Solan, Christine RB: Difolco, Lori J Shaner, Mark C 142 Mitch Avenue State College, PA 16801$174,000.00T/M: College

S: Fenner, John F by Agent Fenner, Virginia B by AgentB: Cartus Financial Corp 232 Leawood Lane State College, PA 16803$258,000.00T/M: Patton

S: Cartus Financial CorporationB: Carlson, Richard Forlizzi, Lori 232 Leawood Lane State College, PA 16803$258,000.00T/M: Patton

S: Bittersweet Real Estate CroupB: Neideigh, Courtney Scott 339 N East Street Aaronsburg, PA 16820$90,000.00T/M: Haines

S: Strouse, Fred AB: Fred A Strouse Charitable Remainder U Strouse, Fred A Tr 139 Kuhns Lane$1.00T/M: College

S: Burton E Ruth Estate Pacella, Sharon E ExtrB: Pacella, Robert A 805 E High Street Bellefonte, PA 16823$1.00T/M: Bellefonte

S: Canada, Brian AB: Payvand Ventures LP Penna Limited Partnership 2079 Mary Ellen Lane$126,500.00T/M: Patton

S: Wance, Emma C Wance, Jerry E Wance, Lynn Steven Wance, Donald G Moyer, Dora Mae Bilger, Donna MB: Wance, Emma C 237 N East Street$1.00T/M: Haines

S: Ashayer-Soltani, Mohammad AliB: Harandi, Omid F Kalantari, Parisa 710 S Atherton Street$80,000.00T/M: State College

S: Pontzer, David JB: Pontzer, David J Rudy, Terri L 165 Chicory Avenue Bellefonte, PA 16823$1.00T/M: Benner

S: Akl, Joseph Akl, AnnaB: Exley, John Theodore Exley, Suellen K Whitehill Road$145,000.00T/M: College

S: Spearly, Ralph L Spearly, Christine TB: Miller, Mark A Miller, Karla J 375 Meadow Flower Circle$409,000.00T/M: Benner

S: Johnson, Nadine MB: Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc W Sycamore Road$118,000.00T/M: Snow Shoe

S: SPE Federal Credit UnionB: Berezenko, Mikhail F Berezenko, Natalia 134 Long Street$50,200.00T/M: Gregg

S: Hurley, Brent WB: O’Connell, Timothy F O’Connell, Kathleen E Himes, Gary L Himes, Dawn M 1741 Blue Course Drive$136,500.00T/M: State College

S: Sweitzer, Ryan R Sweitzer, Tracy LB: Bowersox, Robert E Taylor, Misty A 455 Upper Georges Valley Rd Spring Mills, PA 16875$344,000.00T/M: Potter

S: Cullman, Erin MB: McCauley, Edna A 192 Harvest Run Road N State College, PA 16801$280,000.00T/M: Ferguson

S: Walter M Bieber Trust Barbara M Bieber TrustB: Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries 2360 Commercial Boulevard$392,000.00T/M: College

S: Lubalin, Andrew Lubalin, DarcieB: Duncan, Marten B Duncan, Mona D 461 Pantops Parade$175,000.00T/M: Patton

S: Con-Stone IncB: Stover, Lucas W Brown, Cheaney M 315 E Aaron Square Aaronsburg, PA 16820$200,000.00T/M: Haines

S: Seagren, Karen E Estate O’Toole, Kathryn E Co-Ex O’Toole, Thomas E Co-ExB: Grimm, Bruce K 318 Burnside Street Bellefonte, PA 16823$127,500.00T/M: Bellefonte

S: Christ, Carol TB: Sherman, Todd D Romine, Stephen 205 Riverstone Lane Bellefonte, PA 16823$122,000.00T/M: Walker

S: KCKM LLCB: Walker, Robert G 2065 General Potter Highway$1,200,000.00T/M: Potter

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BELLEFONTERaymond Paul Bartley, 84, of Bellefonte, passed away Monday, January 3, 2011, at his home. He was born August 7, 1926 in Zion. Funeral services will be held Friday, January 14, 2011, at 11 am at Wetzler Funeral Service, Inc., in Bellefonte, with the Reverend Anne Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Zion Union Cemetery in Walker Township. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 501 Howard Ave., Bldg. D-Suite 101, Altoona PA 16601, or the American Cancer Society, Centre Unit, 123 S. Sparks St., State College PA 16801-3915

M. Joanne Long (June 13, 1943 - January 6, 2011)

M. Joanne Long, 67, of Centre Hall, went home to be with her Lord, Thursday, January 6, 2011, at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. She was born June 13, 1943, in Bellefonte, a daughter of F. Evelyn Miller Sharer of Centre Hall and the late Reeder J. Sharer. On April 16, 1966, she married Robert R. Long, who survives at home. Joanne was a 1961 graduate of Penns Valley High School. She was the Administrative Secretary to the Chief of Police at the State College Borough Police Department, retiring in June 2005, after 31 years of service. Following her retirement, she substituted as a teacher’s aide in the Penns Valley School District. Joanne was a dedicated, faithful and active member of St. Luke Lutheran Church in Centre Hall, having served on the Altar Guild and Church Council. The Centre Hall Garden Club and the Red Hat Society were other organizations of which she was a member. She was also involved with the Food Bank in Centre Hall. An extremely active and people-loving person, she loved spending time with her grandchildren, attending every possible school, sporting, and scouting event they were involved in. Spending time at Camp and going to Grange Fair were times she cherished. Always busy with something, Joanne enjoyed crocheting and needlepoint, as well as being an avid gardener. In addition to her mother and husband, she is survived by one son, Brian R. Long and his wife Kathy of Centre Hall; one daughter, Michele L. Brown and her husband Terry of Spring Mills; five grandchildren, Forrest Rishel, Ian and Dayna Brown, and Andy and Ryan P. Long; three sisters, Shirley L. O’Hara of Spring Mills, Patricia A. Strouse and her husband Monty of Centre Hall, and Norma J. Crater and her husband Jan of Centre Hall; one brother, Thomas Ray Sharer of Centre Hall; her beloved cats, Cali and Scoot; and was fondly known as Aunt JoJo to her many nieces and nephews. Friends were received from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 8, 2011, at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 301 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Centre Hall, PA. The funeral followed at 2:00 p.m. at the church with the Reverend Scott Klimke officiating. Burial was in the Reformed and Lutheran Cemetery, West Church St., Centre Hall, PA. In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to St. Luke Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 331, Centre Hall, PA, 16828. An on-line guest book can be signed or condolences sent to the family at www.heintzelmanfuneralhome.com.

Bridgework To Close Route 4002 (Clarence Road)SNOWSHOE – Bridgework will close Route 4002 (Clar-ence Road) in the Snowshoe area, beginning January 20. The road will be closed until February 11 in order to re-place the super-structure on a bridge spanning the North Fork of Beech Creek. The bridge is located between But-terworth Road and Cattail Road in Snowshoe Township. Route 4002 will be closed between Route 144 and T-875 (Fountain Road). A detour will be in place during the closure and driv-ers will be directed to use Route 144. All work is weather and schedule dependent. Drivers are reminded to obey de-tour signs and posted speed limits and always buckle up. PennDOT reminds motorists they can log on to 511pa.com or call 511 from any phone to check traffic conditions before heading out.

State College Elks Host Communities That Care RetreatSubmitted by Brad LunsfordState College Elks youth Activities Committee ChairmanSTATE COLLEGE – The State College Elks Youth Activities Com-mittee recently hosted the Communities that Care Retreat at the State College Elks Lodge. The event focused on how we can create a safe, healthy community in which underage and excessive drinking are not the norm. Speakers Damon Sims, Penn State Vice President for Student Affairs; Tom King, State College Borough Police Chief; and Steven Shelow, Director of Penn State Police Services discussed efforts that have taken place over the last year to change attitudes, behaviors and conditions that place our youth at risk. CDT Editor Bob Heisse was recognized for his role in raising public awareness of the excessive drinking issue and Bob Ott’s mem-ory was honored through a donation of leadership publications to Centre County Libraries.

Tune in to C-NET Channel 7 to watch regular meetings of the Bellefonte Borough Council….Meetings will be televised during the week following a Monday night

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FOR SALEWork Horse garden tractor, by Wheel Horse, snow plow, 18hp, $975, 814-355-8567, Bellefonte

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2000 Dodge Dakota 4x4, 3.9 V6, auto, 158K, 8/11 insp., good tires, needs fender, minor mechanical & body repairs, $2,800, 814-574-4473, State College

1997 Ford F250 Heavy Duty, 2-wheel drive, turbo diesel, automatic, aluminum flatbed w/stake sides, tow package. Very Good Condition, Also, 2010 BRI-MAR Dump Trailer, drop down sides, 10,000 GBW. Pictures on Craig’s List-posting 1-6-11. Both for $11,135 or Truck $7,200, Trailer $4,800. Call 814 364-9668.

2001 Ford F250 X-cab 4x4, 5.4 V8, at, alum. flatbed, goose hitch, new whls. & tires, 90K, sharp, $11,900, 814-441-0974, Centre Hall

2004 Chevy X-cab 2500 LS 4x4, 80K, 6.0, at, 3.73 gears, locking rear diff., pw, pl, new tires/brakes/batt., $16,500 obo, call Doug, 814-321-3224, Bellefonte

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ESTATE NOTICEHOUSER, JOSEPHINE MOORE, late of College Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, Executors - Martha R. Colbert, PO Box 612, 300 Mills Street, Milesburg PA 16853 and Lee N. Pressler, 3011 Halfmoon Valley Road, Port Matilda PA 16870. Attorney - Louis T. Glantz of Glantz, Johnson & Associates, 1901 East College Avenue, State College, PA 16801

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’68-70 Dodge Charger parts for winter resto. project, need of plastic grille ends that go around the outside of hideaway headlights, consider whole grille in GC, also need other parts, 814-321-7157, State College

2 0 0 2 J e e p G r a n d Cherokee, at, cloth int., 119K, 39K on replacement e n g . , V G C , $ 6 , 2 0 0 ,814-574-5724, Centre Hall

2003 GMC Yukon Denali XL, white, tan lthr., AWD, Nav., On-Star, lthr., pw, pm, sr, 2nd row bucket seat, 3rd row seating, all opt., $15,500, 814-360-0235, State College

1980 Chevy Scottsdale 4x4, PROJECT PU, mostly disassembled, new 8’ fleet side bed, (2) cabs, 4 spd. man., exc. frame, (2) 350s (1 runs/1 does not), 2-sets whls. w/31x10.50x15 tires, $2,000 obo, 814-364-2336, Centre Hall

CARS1995 Olds Cutlass Cruiser SW, blown eng., rest of car solid, $300 obo, 814-360-0979, Centre Hall

1992 VW Cabriolet conv., needs work, $1,000, 814-359-4499, Centre Hall

1994 Chevy Camaro Z28, 440hp LT1, 6 spd., white, many upgrades & extras incl. (2) extra sets whls., extra exh. & more, 15K on eng., $15,000 obo, 814-360-2228, Centre Hall

2000 Ford Focus SW, runs good, clean, reliable, very high mi., over 300 hwy., $500 firm, must see, 610-905-1360, State College

1993 GMC G2500 conv. van, 135K, 5.7, at, ac, raised roof, fully eq., trans. slips in 4th gear, $1,100 obo, 814-355-3093, Bellefonte

1988 Chevy G20 3/4-ton cargo van, 305, at, 37K, shelves, work van, good tires, exh., needs insp. & minor body work, $650, 814-353-9059, Bellefonte

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PART ONE – January – August Anyone who says that there’s nothing to do around Centre County, needs to pay more attention. It was quite a year in en-tertainment locally in Centre County with great performances and CD releases from local musi-cal groups, captivating lo-cal stage performances, and national acts making tour stops in our area. The fol-lowing is a list of some of my highlights from the year. Back in January, I had the honor of interviewing Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jorma Kaukonen, a former member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Kaukonen per-formed to a packed house at the State Theatre along with David Bromberg. In March, the State Theatre hosted back to back performances from spoken word artist Henry Rollins and blues guitar legend Robert Cray. The Gazette featured in-terviews with both artists prior to the shows. Also in January, the many of many voices and puppets, Jeff Dunham brought his “Identity Crisis” tour to the Bryce Jordan Center. The Bryce Jordan Center was electrified in March with a perfor-mance from Daughtry, lead by former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry. The State Theatre was also electri-fied with spoken word artist Henry Rollins. When I talked to Rol-lins prior to his show, I asked him about how easy technology has made it for musicians to release music and how that has af-fected the music industry. He had one of my favorite quotes of the year. “Now that everyone can have a band on their laptop, everyone has a band on their laptop. So, there are a lot of ‘pre-tenders to the throne’ as they say.” In early April, Penn State bands got to-gether for a Haiti Benefit concert at the HUB-Robeson Center. And, in late April, local band Royal Benson, had a CD Release Party at Bar Bleu in State College for their debut CD, “(long) Drive.” Another memorable interview that I was lucky enough to get this year was with Ian Mc-Culloch, lead singer of the post-Punk band, Echo & The Bunnymen before their State College per-formance. One of my favorite quotes came when McCulloch was sharing his thoughts about how the music industry has changed saying, “Being in a band now seems to be, almost like a potential job for kids rather than a way to be brilliant.” In May, State College’s legendary reggae

band, The Earthtones, celebrated their 25th Anniversary with a show at The Arena. Current and former members of the band were part of the show. J u n e was a big month with Jam-

Fest taking place at Tussey Mountain Ampitheatre to benefit the Second Mile. The event featured a chil-dren’s program from Mark Ross, jazz from the An-drew Jackson Jazz En-semble, bluegrass, coun-try and even party rock from Velveeta. One of the many highlights was Pure Cane Sugar and Ted McCloskey and the HiFi’s joining forces on stage. Also in June, Dar Williams returned to

State College with a performance at the State Theatre. A personal highlight from that show was opening act Sara Watkins. Formerly of the bluegrass band Nickel Creek, Watkins was promoting her debut solo CD and captivated the State College crowd. July had multiple opportunities to see live music with Fourth Fest, the Arts Festival and the People’s Choice Festival. At their perfor-mance at the People’s Choice Festival, local Americana group Pure Cane Sugar announced the release of their debut CD. Come Back Home features seven original songs from the group. Pure Cane Sugar member Kate Twoey was thankful to the local music community. “The music community itself is so supportive and so won-derful. There’s something about it where everybody seems to up the ante a little bit.” We went to the theater in July as well with

reviews of Smokey Joe’s Café from P e n n s y l v a n i a Centre Stage at the Downtown Theatre and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Boal Barn Playhouse. Streetcar fea-tured impressive performances by Susan Riddiford Shedd, Sunam Ellis, and Mie-baka Yohannes.

July closed out with a bang with the JazzPA Festi-val in Bellefonte. The Gazette was

proud to be a media sponsor of the event. Local groups and musicians from New York City, includ-ing State College native Catherine Dupuis entertained the

crowds in Bellefonte. Dupuis organized the event as well and said, “This year’s suc-cessful festival provided plenty of proof that Jazz is alive and well in Centre County.” We were back at the Boal Barn Playhouse in August for State College Com-munity Theatre’s wonder-ful performance of Hello Dolly. It was an extremely busy fall and early winter in Centre County. Next week, we’ll recap the year in En-tertainment from Septem-ber through December.

Cheers!

Weekly Entertainment

Bar Bleu – Downtown State CollegeAll Entertainment starts at 10:30pm1/14 Lowjack1/15 Ted McCloskey & The Hi-Fi’s1/20 Royal Benson

The Saloon – Downtown State CollegeAll Entertainment starts at 10:30pm1/14 Velveeta1/15 Mr. Hand1/16 Atomic Supersonic1/17 Smokin’ Karaoke1/18 Tuesday Jones1/19 Atlas Soundtrack1/20 My Hero Zero

The Deli – Downtown State College1/16 Tries Bien Ensemble – 11:30am-1:30pm1/20 Domenick Swentosky

Inferno Brick Oven & Bar – Downtown State College1/19 Greg & Jason Acoustic

Zeno’s Pub – Downtown State College1/14 AAA Blues Band1/15 Pure Cane Sugar, 9:30pm1/16 Kris Kehr1/19 Andy Tolins Bluegrass Revue1/20 Wilgus & Bishop & Waffles, Belly Dancers & Harold

Otto’s Pub & Brewery – N. Atherton St., State College1/14 The Allegheny Ridgerunners, 10pm

Prospector’s Allegheny Rib Company – State College1/18 Richard Benninghoff Table Magic, 6pm1/19 Ken Volz, 9pm

Elk Creek Café & Ale Works – Millheim 1/15 Corey Harris, 8pm1/20 Troubadour Third Thursday, 7:30pm

The Phyrst – Downtown State College 1/14 Ted McCloskey & The Hi-Fi’s, 10:30pm1/15 The Phyrst Phamily, 10pm1/16 Lowjack, 10:30pm1/17 Open Mic Night, 9pm1/18 Table Ten, 10:30pm1/19 The Nightcrawlers, 10:30pm1/20 Atlas Soundtrack, 8pm Maxwell Strait, 10:30pm

American Ale House – Toftrees/State College 1/14 Tommy Wareham, 6pm & 9pm1/15 Dominic Swintosky, 8pm1/16 Ted & Molly, 8pm1/19 Tommy Wareham, 7:30pm1/20 Scott Mangene, 8pm

The Arena – Martin Street/State College 1/14 Sucker Punch1/15 Mason Dixon1/19 Karaoke w/ DJ Foxx1/20 Country Karaoke & Country Dance w/ DeeJay Houser

The Rathskeller – Downtown State College1/14 Mr. Hand, 10:30pm1/15 Table Ten, 10:30pm

The Darkhorse Tavern – Downtown State College 1/14 Kate & Molly, 7:30pm The Piano Rocks, 10:30pm1/15 kBand - Live Karaoke, 10pm

Red Horse Tavern – Pleasant Gap1/14 Stress Busters Karaoke by Rick LaPean 8pm to 1am

Governor’s Pub – Bellefonte1/11 Bisquit Jam 6:301/19 JT Blues, 6:30pm

Centre For The Performing Arts – University Park 1/19 Jonathan Biss, 7:30pm

Live Entertainment

Schedule 1/14 – 1/20

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2010 - THE YEAR IN (LOCAL) ENTERTAINMENT

By Don Bedell

Catherine Dupuis performing at the Jazz Fest in Bellefonte in July

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jorma Kaukonen

performed at The State Theatre in January

Ian McCulloch stood in the

shadows at The State Theatre

during an April performance

with his band Echo & The Bunnymen

Pure Cane Sugar

American Idol Chris Daughtry rocked the BJC in March


BELLEFONTE – Once Upon a Mattress, the musical adapta-tion of the children’s fairytale The Princess and the Pea, hits the stage of Bellefonte Area High School this January 19 to 22. Under the guidance of stage director Marilyn Knoffsinger, vocal director Louise Victor, orchestra director Jay Zimmer-man, and choreographer Caitlin Osborn, this performance is one you won’t want to miss. “We are very fortunate to have an artistic staff and cast who meet the challenges of a musical and provide us with a lovely production,” says Knoffsinger. “Now, we only need an audience to make us feel complete!” This will be the first musical performed at the BAHS theatre since the 2007 building renovation, and the faculty and staff couldn’t be happier. “Being involved in a musical is so enjoyable because it brings all the artistic disciplines together: singing, acting, dancing, and musicians. All are equally important and when blended together make for fine entertainment,” says Zim-merman. Students from Knoffsinger’s technical theatre classes have been busy building and painting the set since Septem-

ber while several advanced students are serving in the role of designers. With the recent edition of costumes from the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the show’s appearance is as impressive as its acting. Cast members include Lauren Dabiero as Princess Win-nifred, Brandon Lengyel as Prince Dauntless, Marissa Weaver as Lady Larkin, Steven Bone as Sir Harry, Melissa Hilder as Queen Aggravain, and Jake Van Bramer as King Sextimus. Once Upon a Mattress tells the tale of a kingdom in tur-moil. Before the knights and ladies of the land are free to wed, Prince Dauntless must first find the perfect princess to marry. With a mother whose main goal is to impede all mar-riage proposals, Dauntless’ task is daunting indeed. When a princess from the swamp arrives at the castle, the lives of the royal family are turned upside down. Hilarity ensues. Tickets for the show will be available at the door for $7 per adult, $5 per student, and $3 per child twelve and under. “We are so thankful for the support of local businesses,” says senior Lauren Dabiero. “Without their help, this show would not be possible.”

Once Upon A Mattress Opens January 19By Elizabeth Heidt, Drama Advisor

Lady Larkin (Marissa Weaver) and Sir Harry (Steven Bone) celebrate the prospect of their marriage in the Bellefonte High production of Once Upon a Mattress.

Blind Captain Cat, Polly Garter, and the other residents of the fictional town of Llareggub made their annual visit to The State Theatre on December 31. The characters from Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood have become as familiar to some of us as if we, too, had spent some real time, at least a night and a day, in this Welsh town. Written originally as a radio play, Under Milk Wood depends on the actors to bring the characters and their actions to life through voice alone. On a bare stage except for seven chairs and seven actors, the town of Llareggub came alive. The play’s program was not as accurate as I would have liked, so forgive me if I get some of the actors and their characters wrong. Each actor did such an impressive job that I would not want to overlook anyone of them. Kristine Allen played many roles, but the two that showed her abilities were the contrast between Polly Garter with her many babies from many lovers and Gossamer Beynon, who dreams of illicit love. Polly Garter is a favorite of mine and Ms Allen did not disappoint. According to the program, John Austin is new to playing multiple voice theatre but it was easy to catch the variations in his characters. I liked his Nogood Boyo. I hope that we see more of him in local theaters. Bob Barton has the most beautiful speaking voice and we knew that his parts would all be good. I was pleased with his Mr. Pugh, the man who dreams of poisoning his wife. This is another favorite character of mine. He adds just the right amount of hu-mor.

Because Caitlin Osborne was Mrs. Pugh, among many oth-er characters, she has to be mentioned next to Mr. Pugh. Caitlin made it easy to understand why Mr. Pugh would buy a book about the great poison cases in history and the people who got away with them. Ms Osborne showed great variety in her parts, going from Mrs. Pugh to Lily Smalls, the hired girl. John Churchill had the job of narrating the action both dur-ing the night as the residents slept and of helping us to hear their dreams as well as explaining their actions during the following day. Mr. Churchill’s acting credits made him an excellent choice for the role. Oz Osborne is another experienced actor from whom we have come to expect great things. When his Cherry Owens and his wife laugh over his drunken antics, the laughter is contagious. We could understand how she could love both of her husbands, the drunk Mr. Owens and the sober Mr. Owens. Julia Laplante had the difficult job of doing the subtle sound effects as well as reading several characters. She deserves credit for being the sultry, wife number two to Dai Bread. Director Susan Riddiford Shedd gets a standing ovation of her own for putting such a talented cast and crew together. I overheard an audience member say that this was even better than last year’s. It makes us eager to see what will happen next year. Note to those of you who are not familiar with Dylan Thomas’s sense of humor: Llareggub spelled backwards is “Bug-ger all”. Thank you to cast, crew, and board for keeping such a gem of a theatre experience alive.

Voice Theatre: Under Milk WoodBy Pat Park

Tuesday Night BluegrassOld Time & Gospel JamPine Hall Lutheran Church1760 West College Avenue, State CollegeTuesday nights – 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.Join in, or just to listenMusic stands OK. Admission is free.Contributions for church utilities are encouragedBring potluck goodies for the 8:30 p.m. social break(814) 883-0287 or [email protected].

Sunday Afternoons at the LibraryCentre County Library203 North Allegheny Street, BellefonteSponsored by the Bellefonte Historical & Cultural As-sociationEasterly Chamber PlayersFebruary 27 – 2:30 p.m. Diane Toulson, flute; Smith Toulson; clarinet,Trina Gallup, bassoon; Ann Sullivan, harp

Bald Eagle Middle School Drama Club“Clue,” written by Eric BrisnerA play based on the board game, with a modern-day twistBald Eagle Middle SchoolFebruary 4 – 7:30 p.m.Admission $5 for adults; $3 for students

The Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra’s “Grand Eu-ropean Tour”Saturday, January 29 at 7:30pmEsber Recital Hall on the Penn State CampusTake a virtual visit to Rome to hear Rossini’s Over-ture to The Barber of Seville, then on to Vienna for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, and finally on to Mos-cow for the highlight of the evening; Tchaikovsky’s Pi-ano Concerto No. 1, featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Svetlana Rodionova. Of special interest for music lovers who wish to know more about the evening’s program, Maestro Meyer will conduct a Pre-Concert Talk at 6:45 p.m. the night of the performance. Reserved seating ticket prices are $29, $19 and $10. Order tickets online: centreorchestra.org

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LET THE GAZETTE KNOW ABOUT IT AND WE’LL TELL ALL OF CENTRE COUNTY!!!

Just send your band information -- however big or small the news is -- to The Gazette!

We will start a new feature called “Centre of the Music Scene” which will feature information about the local band scene in Centre County. Whether it’s country, rock, bluegrass, folk, jazz, rap -- whatever -- let us know what’s happening! We might even do a full-length fea-ture about it!

Just send your info via e-mail to [email protected] or if you have a CD

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