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Why people in State College and rural north-central Pa. don’t have easy access to in-person abortion services

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STATE COLLEGE — Even though abortion is legal in Pennsylvania, Abby Minor, a Penns Valley resident, said she was shocked by how difficult it was to have the procedure done during the summer of 2013.

She called local health providers around Centre County, but none of them were helpful, she said. They didn’t even tell her where she could get one.

 

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Workplace deaths up 40% in south-central Pennsylvania, including Centre County

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Workplace fatalities in south-central Pennsylvania — which includes Centre County — have increased 40% so far this fiscal year, prompting a call Friday from the federal agency that monitors workplace safety.

Three of the 21 workplace deaths investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s south-central Pennsylvania office since October were in Centre County.

 

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Central PA Dad Killed In Crash On His Dad’s Birthday

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William “Mikey” Mullen, 41, of Parkesburg, died at the scene of a two-vehicle crash in Sadsbury Township at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 6, according to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office.

Mullen was driving his 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK 350 east in the 5400 block of Strasburg Road when— for an unknown reason— he swerved into opposing traffic, striking the front tire of Deborah L. Williams, 57, of Coatsville’s 2013 Toyota Avalon, according to a release by Pennsylvania state police.

 

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The Period Project Harrisburg takes steps to improve public health

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — People in need of menstrual products can stop by the Harrisburg Hilton on Aug. 5 to pick up free sanitary materials.

The Period Project Harrisburg will be at the hotel, located at One North 2nd Street, from 1 to 4 p.m. to hand out period packs. These bundles contain about a month’s worth of sanitary products.

The Period Project Harrisburg serves the unsheltered and low-income by providing sanitary products that can create a financial burden.

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Connecting diversity through cloth: Harrisburg students create social justice quilt

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Every year, Joann Baldwin, a third grade teacher at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Harrisburg, creates a unique name that represents all of her students. This past school year, she nicknamed her third graders as “change makers.”

She came up with the name after her students designed a social justice quilt to showcase the spirit of unity, identity, and equality. Baldwin and her students unveiled the decorated quilt at the MLK City Government Center on Tuesday afternoon.

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Harrisburg WR Ameer Grandberry gets his first college opportunity

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Ameer Grandberry got on the board with his first college opportunity over the weekend.

The Harrisburg senior wide receiver said Misericordia offered him an opportunity to play there.

“When I first got the offer, it was an emotional feeling between me and my family,” he told PennLive. “Everything I have worked for is finally paying off.

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Rod Woodson Joins Ravens Gameday Radio Team

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The Baltimore Ravens, WBAL Radio 1090 AM/101.5 FM and 98Rock WIYY FM announced Monday that Rod Woodson has become the newest member of their gameday radio broadcast team.

Woodson, a Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back and member of the Ravens’ Super Bowl XXXV-winning team, joins “Voice of the Ravens” Gerry Sandusky on the radio for all games during the 2022 season.

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Lancaster County organizations team up to help kids with special needs ride horses

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LANCASTER, Pa. — Two Lancaster County organizations teamed up to help kids with special needs learn about horses and ride them on Tuesday.

Aaron’s Acres and Greystone Manor Therapeutic Riding Center held a summer camp to show over 20 campers how to lead horses, groom them, and ride them.

The event took place at Greystone Manor’s Facility in Upper Leacock Township. Both organizations stated that the main mission of the event was the enhance the lives of children and teens with disabilities.

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Model train enthusiasts share their passion around central Pennsylvania

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Members of Capital PenNScalers, a model train club based out of Harrisburg, have an enthusiasm for model railroading that goes back to when they were kids. And since the group was founded, they’ve shared their passion around the region.

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With care and honor

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Once a nurse, always a nurse, local nurses say, and a new, local organization, the Central Pennsylvania Nurses Honor Guard, provides a memorial service that recognizes a life spent caring for others.

Active since November, the guard has honored six late colleagues as of June 30, said founder Cindy Bowman, a Penn State Altoona nursing instructor and a member of the Altoona/Mercy Hospitals Schools of Nursing Alumni Association. The new honor guard has 12 members.

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From stopped heart to graduation walk: Bloomsburg student beats the odds

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Bloomsburg, Pa. — Waking from an induced coma in November of 2020, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania student Sean Sears overheard a doctor telling his mother that “he may not walk again for at least six months. May never be able to speak words correctly. May never go back to college.”

A month earlier, on Oct. 17, 2020, Sears, from Jermyn, Lackawanna County, had been struck by a motorcycle in the early evening while crossing Lightstreet Road. The injuries were extensive. Sears’ heart stopped for several minutes. He had jaw, nose, skull and cranial fractures; his spleen was ruptured; and his leg was broken in three places from his knee to ankle.

 

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York County mom fighting to shut down suicide website linked to her daughter’s death | FOX43 Reveals

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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Jackie Bieber believes her daughter Shawn had been looking for help with depression when she landed in one of the darkest places on the internet. Shawn Shatto, 25, struggled with anxiety and felt miserable at her Amazon warehouse job. She found a website about suicide.

Shortly after joining the website in 2019, Shawn took her life.

 

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Search continues for two girls missing out of Waynesboro, PA, two years after abduction

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WAYNESBORO, Pa. – March 17 marked two years since two girls vanished out of central Pennsylvania. Their father continues to search for them – and for answers.

“I miss hearing my daughters’ voice telling me, ‘Daddy, I love you.’” John Rex told CBS 21 News’ Samantha York.

He last saw his daughters, Hanna Lee and Skye Rex, on March 17, 2020. In the two years since, Rex has never stopped looking.

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Barone honored for impact on youth

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is the biography of George L. Barone Jr., one of 11 inductees in the Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022.

Other inductees are Sarah M. (Bogardus) Burnett, Andrew J. Creager, Christina M. Kebort, Michael A. Sirianni, Lewis G. Mack, Marc T. Tramuta, Randall G. Anderson, Harry G. Carlson, Larry E. Rodgers and Richard P. Shearman.

These eleven individuals will be formally inducted at the CSHOF’s 40th annual Induction Banquet on Monday, Feb. 21 at the Lakewood Rod & Gun Club.

Tickets are now available at the CSHOF (15 W. Third St., Jamestown), by calling Chip Johnson, banquet chairman, at 716-485-6991 or online at https://www.chautauquasportshalloffame.org/about.php#banquet.

It’s hard to find a man who loved baseball and youth more than Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2022 inductee George L. Barone Jr. By his count, he coached 2,291 games and 1,473 players over 64 years.

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Ames leaving reporting legacy behind at news station

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After an extensive career in radio and TV, reporter Charlotte Ames retired Wednesday and is looking forward to spending time with her husband, helping homeless animals and uplifting others through her music and community involvement.

During most of her 37 years at WTAJ, Ames worked as a reporter and for the past few years, served also as a producer and weekend anchor.

Phil Dubrow, station vice president and general manager, said Ames’ retirement “is creating a large hole, but it’s good for her in the same sense. A lot of knowledge, history and understanding leaves with her, and she was able to share all of that with our staff — it is irreplaceable.”

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Central Pennsylvania family drives students to school for three generations

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CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA — One family in Central PA has served families in the region for three generations, spending decades behind the wheel at Rohrer Bus getting students to and from school.

“Every day is different,” says Judy Shatto, a retired bus driver of 46 years.

Her granddaughter, Bailey Fach, chimes in, “I’m 22 years old but I have 65 kids.”

Those kids she’s referring to are the students on her bus. Her mother, Tiffany Thomas, grew up as the “bus monitor” for her mother, Judy Shatto.

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Local cell phone store donates school supplies to children during annual event

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CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) – A locally owned central Pennsylvania cell phone store will be giving back to the community through its annual “School Rocks Backpack Giveway.“

On Sunday, Aug. 1, starting at 1 p.m. until they run out, Wireless Zone’s nine area stores will be donating backpacks filled with school supplies to local children.

President of Wireless Made Simple Erick Bruckner says whether it be in-person, or virtual, their mission is to ensure that kids are prepared for the start of the new school year.

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Gleaning Project of South Central Pa. provides fresh and sustainable food system for residents in Franklin and Adams counties

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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — The Gleaning Project of South Central Pennsylvania strives to provide a fresh and sustainable food system for low-income residents and reduce food loss on farms in Adams and Franklin counties

For those unfamiliar with gleaning, it means collecting leftover crops from fields that are not economically profitable to harvest.

Lori Mitchell, the gleaning coordinator of Adams County said the project has held thousands of people who were in need of food during the pandemic. In 2019,19,000 individuals were aided with the project’s services and in 2020, over 35,000 people were assisted, according to Mitchell.

“The need is there, the need is growing and that’s why it’s so important to let people know that we are here,” said Mitchell.” We are definitely the support that the community needs.”

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Lancaster County fund launched to pay bail for those who can’t afford it

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LANCASTER, Pa. — The Central Pennsylvania Equity Project is launching a bail fund aimed at allowing more defendants to wait out their legal hearings without being held in jail. The bail fund would reduce the number of pre-trial detentions by paying bail for those who can’t afford it.

The cash bail system causes inequities, said Equity Project CEO John Maina, because it takes valuable time away from the most vulnerable.

In Pennsylvania, within 72 hours of an arrest defendants have an arraignment, where bail is set. But public defenders are usually assigned until the defendants’ preliminary hearing, held 7 to 10 days after the arrest.
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Volunteer effort seeks to connect seniors, others with vaccine providers

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A group of Pennsylvanians wanted to see a change in the state’s vaccine roll-out and when the Commonwealth failed to step up, they did it themselves.

Vaccinatepa.org was created by a few, mostly college students but it is now managed by many Pennsylvanians, seeking to help seniors and others struggling to find and make an appointment.

The site works like a centralized hub connecting the user with healthcare providers and pharmacies that can help, while removing the guess work.

“We are just taking that work from the people, centralizing it so that we can also reduce the amount of calls being put on the locations and then making it super easy for especially the main demographic of seniors to access this through a very simple and accessible website,” said Richie Goulazian with vaccinatepa.org.

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