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With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Tickets on sale for Shaver's Creek Halloween festival

Friday, September 26, 2003

University Park, Pa. -- Tickets are now on sale for the annual Children's Halloween Festival at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, an outreach facility of Penn State in northern Huntingon County. The event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 25 and 26, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Halloween Festival draws 900 people each year, making it one of the best-attended events at Shaver's Creek.

The fun-filled weekend of Halloween-inspired nature activities grows more popular every year. Ann Taylor, program director's aide at Shaver's Creek, believes that the event is so popular because it emphasizes outdoor fun rather than ghosts and goblins. "It's one of the few Halloween events that are educationally based and nonthreatening to small children," she said.

The Halloween Festival theme will be "Exploring the Night." The trail will feature several interactive nature stations focusing on nocturnal animals‹such as spiders, owls, moths, bats and wolves ‹as well as nighttime legends and facts regarding how people adapt to the night. All stations will be geared for children ages 4 to 10. Sunday's stations will be different from Saturday's. The festivities will also include games, music, crafts, pumpkin carving and food.

Trail times will start every quarter hour between 11 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. Since this is a popular event, people are encouraged to buy tickets at least one week in advance. The ticket price is $5 per person. Children 3 years old and younger will be admitted free. Tickets are available at Shaver's Creek, or can be ordered by phone with a credit card.

The public may also join in the Halloween fun at the pumpkin-carving event at Shaver's Creek on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. This is an opportunity for people to express their creativity by carving jack-o-lanterns to decorate the Children's Halloween Festival trail. Each participant should bring tools for carving and a spoon for cleaning out the seeds. This event is free.

Shaver's Creek Environmental Center is a not-for-profit, membership-supported organization. More information about Shaver's Creek and the Children's Halloween Festival, is available at the center's Web site at http://ShaversCreek.org or by phone, 814-863-2000 or 814-667-3424.

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