Jennifer Pencek
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Centre Safe Honors Sexual Assault Awareness Month With Theme ‘Together We Act, United We Change’
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As part of April serving as national Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Centre Safe will spread awareness and education throughout Centre County, emphasizing the theme of “Together We Act, United We Change.”
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January Is a Call to Action to Respond to Stalking
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This column by Centre Safe Executive Director Jennifer Pencek originally appeared in The Centre County Gazette. When we talk about acts of interpersonal violence, oftentimes people will focus on sexual assault or domestic violence, both of which are horrendous, traumatic crimes. But one crime that often gets lumped onto the end of lists of crimes…
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Breaking Barriers: FitLink Connects Central PA Residents with Intellectual Disabilities to Fitness and Wellness Classes
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You see the commercials, get the random social media posts, and have images of fitness in your face constantly, especially after the holidays. “Join our gym, pay for our wellness plan, be happy and fit.” But what happens when you want to be active, but nothing you see meets your needs, or you feel excluded?…
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Neighbor to Neighbor: Celebrating the Little Victories
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Somica Brower was at her lowest point in February. After having just given birth to her third child, Brower’s sister passed away from COVID-19 and her husband left their family, all within a span of three weeks. Suddenly a single mother and feeling isolated, Brower didn’t know where to turn for
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Neighbor to Neighbor: Celebrating the Little Victories
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Somica Brower was at her lowest point in February. After having just given birth to her third child, Brower’s sister passed away from COVID-19 and her husband left their family, all within a span of three weeks. Suddenly a single mother and feeling isolated, Brower didn’t know where to turn for help. Then she found…
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50 Years after Opening Uncle Eli’s, Douglas Albert Is Sticking to ‘Plan A’ with His Emporium and His Gallery
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Douglas Albert came to Happy Valley in 1968 to attend Penn State and more than 50 years later, he hasn’t left. He has become a fixture in town with longstanding businesses celebrating big anniversaries – Uncle Eli’s Artist Marketplace and Gift Emporium celebrates its 50th anniversary this year
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Offering That Special Something: 50 years after opening Uncle Eli’s, Douglas Albert is sticking to ‘Plan A’ with his emporium and his gallery
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Douglas Albert came to Happy Valley in 1968 to attend Penn State and more than 50 years later, he hasn’t left. While he never graduated from Penn State as he intended, he has become a fixture in town with longstanding businesses celebrating big anniversaries – Uncle Eli’s Artist Marketplace and Gift Emporium celebrates its 50th…
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Trout in the Classroom program connects students with important cold-water resources as they raise small fry
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Austin Smith and his fellow seventh-graders at Bellefonte Area Middle School spent time before school closed because of COVID-19 going beyond textbooks and into a different kind of learning environment – a fish tank. The tank inside of Allison D’Ambrosia’s science classroom was filled with rainbow trout, joining more than 400 classrooms across the…
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5 Questions with Steven Snyder of ‘Camelot’
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Steve Snyder is a faculty member of Penn State’s School of Theatre, teaching Shakespeare performance and leading the creation of a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. He will next be seen as an actor portraying the character of King Arthur in Fuse Productions upcoming production of Camelot, which run
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5 questions with Steven Snyder of ‘Camelot’
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Steve Snyder is a faculty member of Penn State’s School of Theatre, teaching Shakespeare performance and leading the creation of a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. Professional work includes productions with American Players Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Writers’ Theatre, among others. He will next be seen as an actor portraying…