Players invited to get muddy

By Ed Mahon

- emahon@centredaily.com

One rule of mud volleyball: Players must wrap duct tape around their shoes.

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“You have to or you’ll lose them,” said Jim Shunk, president of the Kiwanis Club of Penns Valley, which is organizing a mud volleyball tournament July 11. Registration costs $100 per team and is due by June 6.

Shunk got the idea from a relative who participated in a similar tournament in Hagerstown, Md.

He flipped through some photos of the players who had sloshed through mud to compete.

“Look at that muck,” Shunk said.

At the Centre Hall tournament, prizes will be awarded to the winning teams, the top fundraisers and the least and most muddy players.

The teams with the best uniforms and best attitudes also will receive awards. Proceeds will benefit several charities, including local food banks and student scholarships.

The tournament will take place at the American Legion post on state Route 45 in Centre Hall. For more information, contact Shunk at 571-2296 or Donna Martin at 349-5940.

In honor of veterans

Construction workers have begun to prepare the way for a more than 2,400- pound monument that will honor 388 veterans at Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery in Rebersburg.

Vonnie Henninger, a local historian and an organizer of Miles Township’s bicentennial celebration, is looking for some voices to pay homage to those veterans, as well.

The dedication ceremony for the monument will be at 3 p.m July 5. Henninger’s seeking singers to perform during a following church service. The first practice will be in early June.

Construction on the monument, which has been six years in the making, began last week with the pouring of concrete footers.

The monument honors all deceased veterans, not just those who were killed in action.

There’s room on the slabs for anyone who may have been missed.

Anyone interested in singing can contact Henninger at eeh1@psu.edu or 349-8960

Science in the spotlight

Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School will showcase its science program from 6 to 7:30 tonight.

Since 2006, the state has invested $38 million in the Science: It’s Elementary initiative, which focuses on inquiry-based learning through experimentation. About 72,000 students across the state have used the program.

Topics of the Penns Valley demonstration will include plants, soils, pollution and motion.

Ed Mahon writes about happenings in the Penns Valley and Brush Valley regions. Let him know about news at emahon@centredaily.com or 231-4619.