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Five members of the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College NYS College/Post-secondary Skills USA delegation placed in the top 10 at the National SkillsUSA Championship in Kansas City, MO, in late summer. Cristian Cruz, East Amherst, who took first place in the state then continued on to Nationals, was awarded a bronze medal for third place in the nation in masonry.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College will host its third Children's Festival on Saturday, Oct. 6, on West University Street in downtown ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ from 12 noon-5 p.m. 

The third week of classes began to feel a whole lot more like normal for ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State students and the ACES team as one of the dining hall serving lines opened for the first time since last spring's kitchen fire.

Students enrolled in the bakery, production and management program of the Culinary Arts Department at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College's School of Applied Technology Campus, Wellsville, will hold their annual community bake sale Friday, Oct. 5 AND Saturday, Oct. 6, in the Culinary Arts Building parking lot, Wellsville, from 8 a.m.- 1 p.m. and 11 a.m.-2 p.m., respectively.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College nursing students welcomed Jon Thomas (JT) Robertson, 11, of Cuba, to one of their classes early in the fall semester to help them kick off the caring project in nursing. The caring project is an outgrowth of the "pay it forward" concept (from the movie by the same name) which promotes the practice of helping others, while expecting nothing in return.

Dr. Melvin Chambliss, associate professor, Agriculture and Horticulture Department at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College, has been chosen by the Hornell Area Humane Society Board of Directors to receive the Dr. Ted Beyer Award at the Humane Society's fifth annual "Black Cat Event," Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007.

Visitors, faculty, staff, and students at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College's School of Applied Technology are greeted each day by a sculpture by Glenn Zweygardt, professor of sculpture emeritus, NYS College of Ceramics School of Art and Design.  The large-scale, mixed media piece is on loan from the artist as part of a beautification initiative at the Wellsville campus.

Local eateries will once again participate in ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College's "Taste of Wellsville," this year, Saturday, Oct. 6, from 11 a.m. -2 p.m., as part of the College's Centennial Celebration.  Restaurants and other food purveyors will showcase their tasty signature dishes in "miniature form" at stations around the Applied Technology Campus.

Smiles were the order of the day when local student Bryce Davis, 16, of Canisteo, was the recipient of a NASCAR from ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College alumni Robert, '86, and Carrie (Cassidy), '98, Struble from Charlotte, NC. Struble, a 1986 graduate of ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State's ornamental horticulture/landscape design program