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Aging US dams pose risk to thousands
BY DAVID A. LIEB, MICHAEL CASEY
AND MICHELLE MINKOFF
Associated Press
On a cold morning last March,
Kenny Angel got a frantic knock
on his door. Two workers from a
utility company in northern Ne-
braska had come with a stark
warning: Get out of your house.
Members of the Spring Creek Chapter of Trout Unlimited’s Veterans Service Program Jim Hibbert, Dan Van Winkle and Bob Sills laugh
with Jim Lanning at the Spring Creek House at Camp Breac. The house is a labor of love for Lanning, a Vietnam War veteran.
Spring Creek House opens
hearts and home to veterans
BY SARAH PAEZ
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Inside a grand, Georgian-
style house situated on a pic-
turesque 3.5 acre parcel on the
banks of Spring Creek is the
heart of a local veterans’ serv-
ice organization dedicated to
environmental conservation
and preserving the well-being
of all veterans.
The Spring Creek House at
Camp Breac — the Gaelic
word for brown trout — is a
labor of love for Vietnam War
veteran Jim Lanning, who
served as a U.S. Air Force staff
sergeant. Lanning, along with
several other veterans, are
active in the Trout Unlimited
Spring Creek Chapter’s
Veterans Service Program,
which provides free resources
and fly-fishing instruction to
veterans and their families in
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Spencer Dam, unleashing a wave
High-risk dams pose upstream danger of water carrying ice chunks the
for many Pennsylvanians. 6A size of cars. Angel’s home was
wiped away; his body was never
Water was coming over the top found.
of a nearby hydroelectric dam, “He had about a 5-minute
they told him before fleeing in notice, with no prior warning the
their truck. day before,” Scott Angel, one of
Minutes later, the swollen Kenny’s brothers, said.
The Spring Creek House offers a place for veterans to gather and
find resources. Lanning and his wife bought the house and fixed it
up. It also serves to grow fly-fishing programs used as outreach.
Centre County. problems.
Sitting in a recliner sipping a “All of us are trained to
mug of coffee, Lanning mused solve problems for people
that the program volunteers, transitioning either from the
many of whom are veterans, sand, or the old guys,” he said.
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State inspectors had given the
dam a “fair” rating less than a
year earlier. Until it failed, it
looked little different from thou-
sands of others across the U.S. –
and that could portend a
problem.
A more than two-year investi-
gation by The Associated Press
has found scores of dams nation-
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and his wife Denise bought
the house on West Water
Street off Buffalo Run Road
and fixed it up to create a
gathering place for veterans of
any age and their families.
The house also serves to grow
the fly-fishing programs they
use as outreach to build a
network of veterans and active
duty military personnel.
For Daniel Van Winkle, a
retired U.S. Navy lieutenant
and Vietnam veteran, the
fly-fishing drew him in but the
group of friends he found in
the other veterans made him
stay.
“So now I catch fish occa-
sionally,” he said with a laugh,
“and have a group of vets now
that we can communicate with
and share stories with and fish
with, so it’s worked out well.”
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BY MARLEY PARISH
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A new addition will be com-
ing to the ACRES Project – one
that aims to create sustainable
produce and entrepreneurial
opportunities for adults with
autism.
Founded in 2014 by retired
State College Area School
District special education in-
structor Bellamarie Bregar,
ACRES — Adults Creating
Residential & Employment
Solutions — offers day pro-
grams, job support, social
groups and book clubs. On
Thursday, the nonprofit was
awarded Centre Foundation’s
$100,000 Centre Inspires
grant to develop a community
aquaponics greenhouse.
In March, Bregar told the
Centre Daily Times that the
nonprofit was working toward
raising money to turn that
dream into reality, selling
soaps created by Acres of Joy
members and seeking dona-
tions from individuals.
“Thank you to Centre Foun-
dation for believing in our
project,” Bregar said in a state-
ment. “We want the green-
house to be filled with people,
plants and produce — a place
where everyone has a seat at
the table.”
After noticing a lack of em-
ployment and social opportuni-
ties for adults on the autism
spectrum, Bregar wanted to
create a place where adults
could “have a good time and
just be themselves,” she told
the CDT in March. In addition
to offering social opportunities,
the ACRES Project, head-
quartered on a rural property
on Bernel Road in Patton
Township, helps teach adults
job skills — like growing plants
and food production.
The Acres of Joy program
serves as the entrepreneurial
portion of the project. Partici-
pants create all-natural, vegan
and cruelty free soaps that can
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‘Jersey Shore’ star
pleads not guilty
to charges
“Jersey Shore” star Ron-
nie Ortiz-Magro has
pleaded not guilty to do-
mestic violence, child en-
dangerment, false impris-
onment and other misde-
meanors after his arrest
last month in the Holly-
wood Hills.
The 33-year-old Ortiz-
Magro entered the plea
Friday in Los Angeles to
seven misdemeanor counts
that also included criminal
threats, brandishing a wea-
pon and resisting arrest.
Police say Ortiz-Magro
was uncooperative and they
had to use a stun gun to take
him into custody on Oct. 4.
Ortiz-Magro’s attorney
Scott Leemon says the facts
around the arrest have been
Jim Lanning, chairman of the Trout Unlimited Spring Creek Chapter’s Veterans Service Program, has a wall filled with
certificates and accolades at the Spring Creek House.
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SPRING CREEK
World War II veterans in
fly-fishing has been “very
rewarding,” he said, be-
cause it’s about more than
just fishing.
Since all the mentors
have received listening
training from certified
mental health profession-
als, Van Winkle said, the
process becomes more
about “letting (the veter-
ans) tell you about their
experiences either about
the war or afterward and
getting to know them.”
Jim Hibbert, a retired
U.S. Marine Corps staff
sergeant who served in
Operation Iraqi Freedom,
said that the organization
tries to mirror aspects of
military service that veter-
ans come to rely on.
“When you’re in the
military ... everyone kind of
looks out for each other.
When we leave the military
and come back into civilian
life ... we don’t have that
sense of network or family
that we had when we were
in,” he said. “That’s a lot of
what we’re trying to build
here. So that the veterans
can come someplace and
be with people who under-
stand their experiences
that they’ve had and share
those experiences back and
forth.”
Volunteers with the VSP
have a book of contacts for
everything from helping
veterans find housing and
pay bills to filing VA claims
and getting health care
coverage, he said.
Lanning said the experi-
ence of coming back from
combat or a deployment
can be very isolating. At 19,
when he came back from
Vietnam, he said, “people
of the towns and cities
called us baby killers and
asked us who we na-
palmed.”
Most soldiers who come
to Spring Creek House from
a deployment are “trying to
figure out how to get back
mainstreamed again,” he
said. They ask how things
work in the civilian world,
and how to get on with the
EVAN AGOSTINI Invision/AP
“Jersey Shore” cast member
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro attends
the MTV Video Music
Awards on Aug. 26 in
Newark, N.J.
misreported and exaggerat-
ed, and they look forward to
addressing the situation
with the city attorney.
— ASSOCIATED PRESS
rest of their lives.
“We do everything we
can to make them fit,” he
said. “It’s these guys and
this place ... all of this
heals, the outdoors. Gives
you a place to get away,
kick back, not think about
the stuff, and if you want to
ask somebody something,
you can ask them and get a
credible answer.”
Part of that integration is
through service to the com-
munity, like packing
backpacks of food at the
YMCA in Bellefonte and
handling all the logistics
for the Get Outdoors pro-
gram run through Clear-
Water Conservancy, said
Lanning. Volunteers and
participants complete over
1,500 hours of service to
the community each year.
Around the property, veter-
ans constructed an acces-
sible walking path to the
stream bank, a playhouse
for the children and various
art projects.
VSP is looking for ways
to expand its reach and
attract more veterans to its
programs and services, said
board member Bob Sills,
former Army National
Guard sergeant during the
Vietnam era. Currently, the
group runs a Learn to Fish
on Spring Creek program
on the first and third Sun-
day of each month from 1
to 5 p.m. from April to
October at Fisherman’s
Paradise.
For veterans and their
families who participate in
the program, Trout Unlim-
ited provides fishing gear,
supplies, a fishing license
and a one-year member-
ship to Trout Unlimited.
During the off-season from
January to March, the VSP
offers fly-fishing and fly
tying classes for beginners
and intermediates at South
Hills School of Business
and Technology in State
College.
In the future, Sills said,
VSP wants to offer activ-
ities beyond fishing to
increase the pool of veter-
ans it serves.
Ex-Trump adviser
Bolton lands
book deal
Former national security
adviser John Bolton has a
book deal, The Associated
Press has learned.
The hawkish Bolton
departed in September
because of numerous for-
eign policy disagreements
with President Donald
Trump. He reached a deal
over the past few weeks
with Simon & Schuster,
according to three publish-
ing officials with know-
ledge of negotiations. The
officials were not autho-
rized to discuss the deal
publicly and spoke on con-
dition of anonymity.
Two of the officials said
the deal was worth about
$2 million. Bolton was
represented by the Javelin
literary agency, whose
clients include former FBI
Director James Comey
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Lanning talks about the organization Thursday at the
Spring Creek House. He said the experience of coming
back from combat or a deployment can be very isolating.
The Trout Unlimited Spring Creek Chapter’s Veterans
Service Program provides free resources and fly-fishing
instruction to veterans and their families in Centre County.
“We’re really blessed
here as far as fishing is
concerned,” he said. “...
The resources are here, all
we have to do is find ways
to engage more of the vets
to get them out.”
Van Winkle said the
group is excited to have the
house because it allows
them to expand the Sunday
fishing program into any
day of the week a veteran
wants to fish. For those
who don’t fish, the house is
a place for veterans to sit in
nature, hike or talk and
share stories with each
other.
Above all, creating fam-
ily and welcoming veter-
ans’ family members is
central to VSP’s mission,
said Lanning. Hibbert, who
takes care of his two chil-
dren full time, said the VSP
and the Spring Creek
House are a great way to
teach his children about
and the anonymous Trump
administration official
whose book, “A Warning,”
comes out Nov. 19.
The publishing officials
did not know the title or
release date. Simon &
Schuster declined com-
ment Saturday and Javelin
did not immediately re-
spond to a request for com-
ment. Bolton’s 2007 book,
“Surrender is Not an Op-
tion: Defending America at
the United Nations and
Abroad,” was published by
the conservative Simon &
Schuster imprint Threshold
Editions.
— ASSOCIATED PRESS
Director: Casting
CGI Dean not
meant as gimmick
A director behind the
film that cast a CGI version
of James Dean says he’s
surprised by the backlash it
sparked.
service to the community.
Both sons are on the au-
tism spectrum, and over
the program’s five years
they’ve learned to fly fish
and take on extra duties in
the program, he said.
And as much as he helps
others in the program, the
program has helped him
immeasurably too.
“It’s been a way for me
to integrate myself in a
community, find a way to
serve again and involve my
family in that service too,”
he said. “It’s a chance to
find purpose again.”
For more information
about the Spring Creek
Chapter of Trout Unlimit-
ed’s Veterans Service Pro-
gram, visit
springcreektu.org/vsp.html
or contact Jim Lanning at
jlanningvsp@gmail.com.
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Iran says case is open on
missing former FBI agent
deal with world powers.
BY JON GAMBRELL That’s in addition to
Associated Press $5 million earlier offered
by the FBI.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES The Associated Press on
Iran is acknowledging for Saturday obtained the text
the first time it has an open of Iran’s filing to the U.N.’s
case before its Revolution- Working Group on Enforced
ary Court over the 2007 or Involuntary Disappear-
disappearance of a former ances.
FBI agent on an unauthor- “According to the last
ized CIA mission to the statement of Tehran’s
country, renewing questions Justice Department, Mr.
over what happened to him. Robert Alan Levinson has
In a filing to the United an on going case in the
Nations, Iran said the case Public Prosecution and
over Robert Levinson was Revolutionary Court of
“ongoing,” without elaborat- Tehran,” the filing said.
ing. It wasn’t immediately It did not elaborate. Iran’s
clear how long the case had Revolutionary Court typical-
been open, nor the circum- ly handles espionage cases
stances by which it started. and others involving smug-
However, it comes amid a gling and blasphemy. West-
renewed push to find him erners and Iranian dual
with an offer of $20 million nationals with Western ties
for information from the often are tried and convict-
Trump administration amid ed in closed-door trials in
heightened tensions be- these courts, only later to be
tween Iran and the U.S. over used as bargaining chips in
Tehran’s collapsing nuclear negotiations.
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AQUAPONICS
Aquaponics, an indoor website reads. “Impair-
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the program become more organizational abilities
efficient and use less re- leave many of these adults
sources. without employment or
The aquaponics system working a jobs they cannot
will grow microgreens at a sustain. Our aquaponics
rapid pace, going from seed program will provide these
to table in 45 days. In com- adults with an employment
parison to conventional opportunity that fits.”
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