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Response to the Paterno Report, from local youth and victims support non-profits

February 11, 2013 - 7:38pm — voicesweb

Response to Recommendations contained in the Paterno Report

 

As representatives of organizations working with victims of child sexual abuse and engaged in prevention efforts for many years in Centre County, we were pleased with the support of such programs in the recently released Paterno family response to the Freeh report. We are concerned, however, with the impression created by Mr. Clemente that a new national organization is needed to address the needs of victims of child sexual abuse and create new prevention programs. We realize that child sexual abuse is an issue that few people think about until they are impacted by a crisis, and thus knowledge of existing resources may be limited. It is important, however, that the community know how we have responded and what work is being done to meet the needs of victims and to prevent child sexual abuse.

Within weeks after Jerry Sandusky’s arrest, representatives from the Centre County Women’s Resource Center (CCWRC), the Centre County Youth Services Bureau (YSB), the YMCA of Centre County and the Centre County United Way met to discuss what the community needed and how we might provide it. Read more »

Antique lighting devices exhibit takes the spotlight

February 11, 2013 - 10:24am — voicesweb


State College, PA–The Centre County Historical Society will unveil a new exhibit titled “Shedding Light on the Past: Lighting Devices of the 18th and 19th Centuries” on Sunday, February 10, 2013 at the Centre Furnace Mansion (1001 E. College Ave., State College, PA 16801).

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Frog

February 9, 2013 - 9:16pm — voicesweb


I am bored, therefore I create gifs - Descarte - head like an orange Read more »

Mike the Mailman up at the University Park Post Office featured on CBS News On The Road

February 9, 2013 - 12:01am — voicesweb

The video embeds from CBS News are always a little cranky, you may have to wait a bit for it to appear and be ready to play. And deal with an advertisement. Hey, content isn't free...

Penn State postman delivers lesson in happiness

"STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Typically, post office lines breed anger and frustration. But at the head of this queue on the campus of Penn State University in State College, Pa., you'll find nothing but joy.

"My mission is to make them have a little bit of levity on the way out and say, 'Hey, it's not so bad after all,'" says Mike Herr.

To that end, Mike lives by a simple motto: if you can't say something nice about someone, you're just not looking hard enough." Read more »

Religion and family values

February 8, 2013 - 9:21am — voicesweb

When someone argues that religion is necessary for moral values, show them this...
The next time someone tells you that religion is necessary for moral values, show them this.

12-year old girl creates an amazing near-space flight experiment and video

February 5, 2013 - 12:00am — voicesweb

"Your Obama Guy - he won the election, right? So why is he nominating all these republican types?"

February 3, 2013 - 9:05am — voicesweb

Something new under the sun

January 31, 2013 - 11:05am — voicesweb

by James Hynes

Photo by Allison Robertson
The solar panels on the roof of the Friends School power about half of the community room.

Solar energy technology has been making inroads in central Pa.

As the soft morning fog lifts off a 30-acre field in Drumore Township in Lancaster County, the bluish glass veneer of 20,000 solar panels glistens in the sun. The Keystone Solar Project, built by the Community Energy Solar Company on a former poultry farm off Route 272, was connected to the grid in October 2012 in front of a crowd of over two hundred local residents.

The solar farm is the largest in the Eastern U.S., using a technology called photovoltaics (photo = light; voltaic = electricity) to generate enough clean solar electricity to fully power about 950 houses each year. Day-to-day power is distributed among 4,200 homes on the grid.

The $20 million project was funded, in part, by a grant from the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority and the sale of energy credits to institutions such as Juniata College, the Clean Air Council and the Philadelphia Phillies baseball franchise.

In the Bald Eagle Area School District in Centre County, about half the electricity for the middle school, high school and the Wingate Elementary School buildings is supplied by solar photovoltaic (PV) panels.

In nearby Bellefonte, three school buildings are also powered, in part, by solar panels. Read more »

Local roads dangerous for home owners

January 31, 2013 - 10:50am — voicesweb

by Sierra Dole

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Women gain preventative care options

January 31, 2013 - 10:45am — voicesweb

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