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Strudel stand retains strong traditions
By Kathleen Loughran
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
A young boy with a YMCA T
shirt and a smile on his face
screamed “Strudel!” as he passed
the yellow and red striped-tents of
Helmut’s Strudel, located by the
intersection of Allen Street and
College Avenue.
He wasn’t the only one enthusi
astic about the venerable Arts
Pest food vendor.
• Dottie Bird, of Bellefonte, said
she has bought food from the
stand before.
“I like German food,” she said.
“I like the pretzels, and probably
before the week is over, I’ll buy
some of the almonds and of course
the strudel.”
Over its 29 years at the Central
Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts,
Helmut’s Strudel has become a
Festival
supported
by donors
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
It costs more than $600,000 to put together both
the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and
First Night, but festival officials say community
support makes it all possible.
The festival is funded through
sponsorships and gifts from corpo
rations and individuals, said Diane
Bloom, director of development.
Bloom said sponsorships
brought in a little more than
$lOO,OOO for the festival this year.
Individual donations totaled about
$35,000.
State grants are also an integral
money source for the event.
This year, the festival was given three grants
from state and local governments, said festival
director Rick Biyant.
The grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts (PCA) is between $lO,OOO and $20,000 this year,
and is expected to decrease in the future, Bryant
said.
“The PCA’s funding has been subject to serious
budget cuts in the last couple of years, so we look
for our grant to decrease as the agency experi
ences budget cuts,” he said.
The final grant is from the Visitors’ Bureau in
Centre County, he said it’s an annual grant that
varies, but this year the festival was awarded a
$40,000 grant.
People have various reasons for donating to fes
tival, Bryant said.
“Some people are willing to support the festival,
some people believe in the adage why buy the cow
when you get the milk for free,” he said.
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Dreamers
twirl, dance
despite heat
By Paul Osolnick
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
With batons, flags and grace, several groups of
young twirlers took the stage on the Old Main lawn
yesterday.
The Nittany Dreamers Baton Corps about 15
girls ranging in age from kindergarten to high
school performed Wednesday on the Festival
Shell Stage.
The twirlers performed to the song “Down” by
Jay Sean.
As the music started and the performances
commenced, the crowd that totaled 35 people
started to grow to about 75 with interested people
who were passing by.
The mid-day heat caused some twirlers to drop
their batons.
“One thing you have to watch out for is when you
wipe your face and touch your baton,” twirler
Allison Gasperich said, explaining how sweaty
hands can affect grip. “You don’t do that.”
Despite the day’s heat, the twirlers made the
best of it.
“We’re realty used to the heat because we do
parades and it’s realty hot most of the time,”
twirler Sasha Scherlinsky said. ‘You just got to
work around it.”
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fixture at the summer festival.
“Back then there were only four
food stands... when there were lit
tle houses [on the street] instead
of those buildings,” owner John
Dailey said.
Dailey decorates his tent with a
pair of German flags, and offers
more than just strudels.
The tent sells frosted banana
berry and strawberry smoothies,
in addition to hand-twisted pret
zels topped with melted butter.
Their signs also boast German
almonds roasted in cinnamon
State College resident Maddox Leitzell, 4, gets? a basketball painted on his nose at the painting booth at the Old Main Lawn
Kids kick-off Arts Fest
Noah Johnson is six and three quar
ters, and he likes turtles.
Though he sold wooden swords with
his brother, Eli Johnson, 9, at this year’s
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the
Arts’ Children and Youth Day, Noah said
he wants to sell wooden turtles next
year.
“|I want to sell them] because I like
turtles, and I want to get more money,”
he said. “I only have three bucks.”
For the children who did not sell
crafts, Children and Youth Day provided
activities such as clowns, marionettes,
performances and the Grand
Procession at 4 p.m.
A performance by the Dance
Academy closed the day.
Noah and Eli Johnson were only two
Women compete for title, award
Six different performers took to the
Allen Street Stage on Wednesday as part
of the Centre County Outstanding Young
Woman Scholarship Program an Arts
Fest performance that served as prepara
tion for the main competition in October.
The performers comprised of current
contestants and alumni of the program
sang, danced and played musical instru
ments for a crowd that braved the after
noon heat at the Central Pennsylvania
Festival of the Arts’ Children and Youth
Day.
The program looks for well-rounded
contestants to compete in different cate
gories such as talent, academics and inter
view skills, said Suzie Shoffner, a 2010 con
testant.
Shoffner, a junior at State College Area
High School, auditioned with the trumpet,
sugar a scent that trails Allen
Street for blocks.
Dailey said Arts Fest is the
most challenging” event he does.
“Between the heat and the rain,
you never know what to expect,”
he said. “It takes a very large crew
to do it, and the crowd changes the
items that sell. Kids love the pret
zels, and moms love the strudel.”
Though Helmut’s Strudel has
visited other arts festivals in the
past. Dailey said Arts Pest is now
the only arts-related festival at
which he sets up stands and sells
his German food.
“It’s the only [festival] that has
such versatility,” Dailey said. “It’s
a party. It’s one big celebration.
Anytime anyone says Arts Pest to
me, I say ‘You mean Penn State,
right?' ”
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By Kathleen Loughran
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
By Zach Geiger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Steph Witt/Collegian
Helmut’s Strudel has been a crowd favorite for the past 29 years.
Located on Allen Street, the booth stands out with its German flags.
of the several hundred children who
sold their crafts at the festival.
Katie Ziegler, 12, said she has been
selling at the festival for the past three
years. Her friend Gwen Moore, 13,
joined her two years ago. Among other
items, the girls sold flower-shaped pens
made of duct tape.
“I’ve been into duct tape lately, so I
made a flower,” Ziegler said.
Bly Persell, 16, is no rookie to the
Children and Youth Day Sidewalk Sale.
He said this is his seventh year selling
ceramic sculptures at the festival.
“My parents both do it, so it was a big
influence on me,” Persell said. “[Arts
Fest] is a fun place to exhibit my
wares.”
Though Cade Fortney, 10, and Trent
Fortney, 13, have sold their products at
other art festivals before, this is their
first year at Arts Fest.
sang and tap-danced. For her perform
ance, Shoffner sang and played the trum
pet for the crowd.
“The performance helps to get the jit
ters out,” said Linn Ripka, program direc
tor for Centre County Outstanding Young
Woman.
Only two of the 15 current contestants
performed A Children and Youth Day, with
the other performers consisting of
alumni and past winners who were invited
back, Ripka said.
The program is beneficial to the young
women involved because it teaches confi
dence, maturity and responsibility, Ripka
said.
“It’s realty relaxing because of all of the
kids running around,” program alumna
Maiy Elizabeth Mcculloch said. “It wasn’t
as nerve-wracking as being onstage with
all the judges staring at you.”
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See back
The brothers use images they find in
nature to create letters people can then
use to spell out various wonls.
“I guess we’re pretty creative
because we saw a flamingo and made
an ‘S’ out of it,” Cade said.
Cade said they initially got the idea
for the project after seeing an adult sell
photographed letters.
It took the duo three years to collect
the whole alphabet, he said.
Rachel Stuber, 9, also got her inspira
tion from seeing the craft someplace
else.
Stuber makes bottle-cap necklaces
and decided to sell them at her first Arts
Fest after her mother told her about the
sale.
“I like it, although it’s very hot,” she
said.
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Sarah Glerhart, a sophomore at
Temple University, performs.