Whatever your Christmas traditions, they are most likely included in the Penn State Shenango Drama Club’s production of "A Christmas Pudding," to be held the first weekend of December in the campus Auditorium. A reading from the Gospel of Luke? Scrooge and Tiny Tim? Singing Christmas carols? Virginia being told "Yes, there is a Santa Claus"? Yes, they are all there ... and much more.
Penn State Shenango will once again be sponsoring a toy drive to benefit the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program this holiday season. The annual community collection drive, staffed by the Shenango campus Physical Therapy Assistant students and faculty, will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Hermitage Walmart Super Center.
During a prior year, Dr. Jen Jewell, assistant teaching professor in Penn State Shenango's Physical Therapy department, far left, and her physical therapy assistant students, collected donated toys at the Hermitage Wal-Mart for the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program.
During a prior year, Dr. Jen Jewell, assistant teaching professor in Penn State Shenango's Physical Therapy department, far left, and her physical therapy assistant students, collected donated toys at the Hermitage Wal-Mart for the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program.
Penn State Shenango advisor Billie Jean Horvath, along with her daughter Macie, work on last year's float for the Hermitage Light Up Night Parade. Each year, the campus collects mittens and hats during the parade, which they donate to local charities before the holidays.
For the seventh year in a row, Penn State Shenango faculty, staff and students will be collecting mittens, hats and socks to be donated to Joshua’s Haven, the Prince of Peace, and West Hill Ministries, as part of its “Operation Warm Hands” during the Hermitage Light Up Night Parade on Nov. 18.
From L to R: Dr. Steven Brewer, assistant professor of administration of justice at Pnen State Shenango; Daniel Pustinger, district director, PA Board of Probation and Parole; and Roxanne Atterholt, instructor in human development and family studies at Penn State Shenango, talk during a break at the CIT Training workshop held at Penn State Shenango in October.
Penn State Shenango recently hosted 15 law enforcement officers from area police departments, the Mercer County Jail and the Pennsylvania Board of Probation Parole at the downtown Sharon campus for a week-long Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training workshop made possible through a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
The Penn State Shenango Drama Club has announced plans to kick off the Christmas season by presenting a celebration of readings and carols under the title of 'A Christmas Pudding.' The production will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 1 and 2, and at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, in the campus auditorium, located in downtown Sharon.
