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As it has for the past half-dozen years, Penn College again added to the tradition of the Toy Train Expo at Park Place over the weekend: donating a computer that was used to run railroad simulation software.

Vol. 8, No. 15 (Through Sunday, Nov. 22) Penn College Wildcat Tales During a week playing up against mostly NCAA Division III opponents, Pennsylvania College of Technology basketball teams went 1-6. The lone bright spot was a four-point win by the men over King's College.

While celebrating Thanksgiving with traditional foods and family fun, you also can "Gobble Green" with these suggestions from The Nature Conservancy. By eating local foods in season, your carbon emissions (food miles) are reduced. Let nature and your landscape decorate your table: Soy or beeswax candles rather than petroleum-based reduce soot production.

"Erasing Borders 2009: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora," the latest presentation in The Gallery at Penn College, officially and colorfully opened Thursday evening. A reception, gallery talk and dance performance kicked off the exhibit, on display through Dec. 13 on the third floor of Madigan Library. Gallery hours are 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 2-8 p.m.

A member of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Hydraulics Club recently helped one of his instructors with a lesson at Curtin Middle School in Williamsport. Paul A.

Jessica R. Larson, of Williamsport, scheduled to graduate magna cum laude in December with a bachelor's degree in business administration: marketing concentration, was chosen as October's Student of the Month by the Student Government Association at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

The funeral will be Friday for Steven R. Parker, an assistant professor of physics in Penn College's School of Integrated Studies, who died Monday, Nov. 16. The college flags were lowered in memory of Parker, who joined the college faculty in Fall 2004 as an instructor of environmental technology in the School of Natural Resources Management. The service will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Pennsylvania College of Technology continues to expand the variety of its courses available to high school students through the Penn College NOW dual-enrollment program. The college received an $85,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to offer a selection of its plastics and polymer technology courses in high school classrooms.