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Contest offering $10K to nonprofits

WoodmenLife, a champion of family, community and country since 1890, is offering donations totaling $10,000 to fund worthwhile community nonprofit organizations across the country. The Community Champions contest is seeking nominations for deserving U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in good standing. One grand prize winner will be selected to receive a $6,000 donation from WoodmenLife. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 donations. The public is urged to nominate community champions via the online submission portal, which can be found through WoodmenLife’s ...

The Jared Box Project marks 25 years of delivering smiles

The Jared Box Project celebrated its 25th anniversary in June, marking a quarter century of delivering smiles and the gift of play to children in hospitals across the country. The Jared Box Project began during vacation Bible school at Our Lady of Victory Catholic School in State College in ...

Yesteryear local history on this date: July 16

50 years ago: 1976 The Altoona Recreation Commission sponsored a trip to Story Book Forest and Idlewild Park in Ligonier for kids from all the playgrounds in Altoona and five buses were needed to transport the 250 children who responded. Carole Bartley, Barbara Allen and Estelle Pappas were adult supervisors. 25 years ago: 2001 More than 100 state policemen and State College Borough police were on hand as the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts ended in State College. There were riots at two of the last three festivals, one causing more than $100,000 in damages and the other ...

Doing the math: Counting calories doesn’t always add up

BOSTON — When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn’t always add up. Fad diets come and go, but the underlying message almost always follows a simple equation. If you consume fewer calories than you burn, the weight will melt away. In principle, it’s true. And counting calories can be a useful tool for managing weight. But it only works if you know what numbers you’re counting. And what’s been billed as basic math can sometimes look more like Einstein’s theory of relativity. That’s because a complex web of factors ...

Tofu vendor is on a mission

TOKYO — Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in much of Asia. But delivering soybean curd in all shapes and textures is only a small slice of her mission. And it’s just that. A mission. More than simply a vendor of healthy food, she’s also a social conduit who checks on elderly customers as she guides her pink cart, wearing a straw hat and tooting a small brass bugle to signal her arrival. She knows the habits of many of her customers like family, and they know hers. She’s lost some ...

Yesteryear: In the news on July 14

Local history 50 years ago: July 14, 1976 The Altoona Area Transportation Study Committee was to consider a device called a “People Mover” between the downtown and the new Station Mall over and across the railroad tracks. 25 years ago: July 14, 2001 Citizens opposed to a cellular phone tower being built near Cross Keys flooded the Allegheny Township supervisors meeting, most being concerned about health issues from radio waves, despite a Federal Communications Commission ruling that they caused no health concerns. 10 years ago: July 14, 2016 Cambria County Judge Tamara ...