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Local university police departments hold food for fines donation events

LOCK HAVEN — Commonwealth University police departments at Lock Haven, Bloomsburg, and Mansfield recently held Thanksgiving Food for Fines events, in which parking tickets were forgiven in exchange for donated food items At Lock Haven, approximately 40 campus parking tickets were forgiven in exchange for donated food items. Each forgiven parking ticket required a donation of five items, resulting in the collection of 200 items that were split equally between the Haven Cupboard campus food pantry for LHU students and the Lock Haven Salvation Army Food Pantry. “One of the things that ...

Salladasburg hosts ‘Games with Grandparents’ event

Salladasburg Elementary School recently hosted an event for their students and their grandparents. The school invited grandparents to come into the school during the day and play board games with their grandchildren. This was a wonderful opportunity for the district to hold an event ...

Campus community helps local families in need

LOCK HAVEN — The Lock Haven Community Service Office recently hosted its annual Adopt A Family project in partnership with the Salvation Army in Lock Haven. Members of the Lock Haven campus community were asked to donate gifts to children in need. Volunteers were provided a wish list of items the children had requested. The LHU community provided 100 local children with an abundance of gifts. Without the support from the campus, many of these children would have had a less fortunate holiday. More than 95 campus volunteers provided more than 350 hours of community service to this ...

Student receives highest award from national organization

In a few short years, McKenzie Sweigart plans to pursue her dream working as a wildlife biologist. As a junior in Keystone College’s wildlife biology program, she’s off to an excellent start. McKenzie recently received the American FFA Degree, the highest award given by the non-profit ...

Loyalsock Township High School Students of the Month

Loyalsock Township High School selects one student a month to acknowledge as students of the month. Harris Kahn has been nominated by the science department for the month of November, and Emma Strickland has been nominated by the math department for the month of December. Harris Khan, son ...

Company president/alumnus establishes student scholarships

The founder and president of a Troy manufacturing company, who is also an alumnus of Pennsylvania College of Technology predecessor institution Williamsport Area Community College, has established two scholarships to benefit students in engineering design and manufacturing majors. John M. ...