Local artist Grace Pilato said she can remember when the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts consisted of little more than artwork displayed on folding tables lining College Avenue. A State College man was arrested yesterday in connection with alleged patient abuse at the State College Manor Nursing Home, 450 Waupelani Drive, State College Bureau of Police Services said. The University is joining the Downtown Business Association in an effort to improve customer service for minorities in the community, local leaders said yesterday. The owner of IGGIES Skytop Gifts, located in Huston Township, will be on trial at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte today for allegedly selling pornographic material to undercover state police officers in 1988. The $22 million expansion and renovation of the Nittany Mall -- which will relocate Sears into a new 90,000 square-foot unit, and add a new J.C. Penney's department store -- is to be completed by 1991, the mall's developer said. Although University Student Advisory Board members say closed meetings allow for candid collaboration among student leaders, some students and at least one USAB member say the group should not discuss University concerns behind closed doors. The state Department of Environmental Resources will spot check vehicles for identification at landfills and transfer stations, said DER spokesman Dan Spadoni.
On July 21, Nittany Lion basketball great Tom Hovasse will begin a quest to join the San Antonio Spurs' Frank Brickowski and become the second current Penn State alumni in the National Basketball Association. Ed Fogell, center for the Nittany Lion basketball team, is a very busy man these days. Busy advancing his athletic career, that is. Fogell was recently selected as a member of an elite squad of Atlantic 10 Conference All-Stars who will be conducting an international tour of Scandinavia later this summer.
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The College of Arts and Architecture recently named Carl L. Blake to fill the newly-created position of minority recruiter for the arts. JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP Big Daddy (Mercury)