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The Spark

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, host Asia Tabb starts conversations about what’s happening in the world and at home. Share your ideas at https://witf.org/programs/the-spark.

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11:39

The Red Zone: What to know about sexual violence on...

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2024/10/23

The red zone is a period of time on a college campus when the risk of sexual assault is the highest, typically from the start of the fall semester to Thanksgiving break. Lili Duarte- Evans, Vice President of the YWCA Carlisle & Cumberland County says it’s a time where students experience the most sexual assault. “So, we have students for the first time being away from home. And when you're going into college, what you hear a lot is trying new things, right? Get out of your comfort zone and

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11:32

Students at Widener University Commonwealth Law...

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2024/10/23

Widener University Commonwealth Law School is launching a professional closet, a donation-based initiative providing free professional attire to law students. The initiative was launched by students involved in Phi Alpha Delta. The students realized other schools had professional closets, and it was something they needed too. So students reached out to the Dean of Career Advising to get it started. “She was very gracious that we were going to actually put it into form. So she advised us, you know,

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21:00

The Feel Your Boobies Foundation Celebrates its 20th...

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2024/10/22

The Feel Your Boobies Foundation is celebrating 20 years of service by encouraging women to “feel their boobies” at a chance to survive breast cancer. The founder of this organization is breast cancer survivor Leigh Hurst. Hurst was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 at age 33. “After my diagnosis, I just realized that the messages were out there that were out there were not resonating with me. I never thought about breast cancer before. So, I wondered why. And I made a T-shirt just for fun that

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21:25

Girls wrestling and flag football creates more career...

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2024/10/22

Flag football and wrestling are the newest sanctioned girls’ sports in Pennsylvania. According to Lyndsay Barna, the Assistant Executive Director of the PA Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) says both sports passed with flying colors with support from the PIAA board. “a sport needs to hit emerging sport status to have 25 teams across the state to sponsor the sport. And then when we reach 100 teams, that way we can bring it to the board and start trying our sanctioning process. The board

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22:36

Upcoming publication on Laurel and Hardy features...

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2024/10/22

Laurel and Hardy were a comedy team that is widely regarded as the greatest in film history. Stan Lauren and Oliver Hardy made more than 100 comedies together between 1921 and 1950. Danny Bacher and Berine Hogye co-authored an upcoming publication, Collecting Laurel and Hardy. Bacher has always been fascinated by old silent film stories. “We would sit and watch these old silent film strips of like, you know, comedians like Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, of course, Laurel and Hardy,

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42:09

The Spark Weekly 10/20/2024: Journalist Roundtable...

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2024/10/20

On This Week's Edition of The Spark Weekly: Sydney Roach of WPSU in State College, will discuss her story on legislation approved by the PA Senate, providing funding to create “safe exchange zones” for child custody exchanges and online marketplace sales. These zones will have video surveillance and be near a law enforcement office or in a public area. and Stephanie Sigafoos of LeighHighValleyNews.com will speak about one of her stories about a gas explosion. Also, on the program. Andrew Dalton is

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22:35

Must see exhibits at the State Museum of Pennsylvania

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2024/10/19

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Fallingwater's listing the in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The State Museum of Pennsylvania has an exhibit honoring the place that held so much significance. According to Dr. Curt Miner, the Chief of Interpretation and Senior History Curator for the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the exhibit will be on display until January 5, 2025. "One of the things that we did in the course of researching this project is come across what I think is an

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21:09

Journalist Roundtable: funding for online marketplace...

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2024/10/19

Sydney Roach at WPSU in State College recently reported on legislation approved by the Pennsylvania Senate to provide funding to create safe exchange zones for child custody and online marketplace sales. She was drawn to report on this story because she does a lot of shopping on Facebook Marketplace. “I just thought it would be something that would be of interest to a lot of people and especially whenever I discovered some of the story behind it. There was a woman killed in Jonestown a few years

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21:35

Breast surgeon shares the importance of early detection

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2024/10/18

According to the American Cancer Society, when breast cancer is detected early and is in the localized stage, the five-year relative survival rate is 99%. Dr. Mai Gandhi is a breast surgeon with UPMC. She agrees its important to get screened as early as possible. “Treatment of breast cancer has come so far, and it's always amaze me every day how much things change by the month. The second reason that early detection of breast cancer is important is that it is less aggressive treatment potentially

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22:18

Pa. Retired Teacher Makes $10,000 Donation to Guthrie...

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2024/10/17

Asia Tabb speaks with Richard Gallagher, a retired teacher who donated $10,000 to Guthrie Memorial Library in Hanover, and Lizzy Baldwin, Former Director of Guthrie Memorial Library and current District Consultant Librarian with York County Libraries about the donation and the importance of access to libraries and education.Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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22:21

Gettysburg Museum Director shares importance of...

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2024/10/16

Andrew Dalton is the Executive Director of the Adams County Historical Society and Beyond the Battle Museum. As a Gettysburg native, Dalton has always been drawn to history. “We have a lot of people who are connected to Gettysburg through family history, whether their ancestors lived here or there are millions of Americans undoubtedly, who had an ancestor that fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. And so, connecting those people to Gettysburg is something that I really enjoy because, you know, I found

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22:06

Tec Centro Workforce Center Celebrates Hispanic...

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2024/10/16

October is Hispanic Heritage Month. Carlos Graupera is the CEO of Tec Centro Workforce Center and spent 50 years as the CEO of the Spanish American Civic Association. He joined The Spark to share the importance of highlighting Hispanic Heritage month. “It is appropriate that Latinos and Latinos in Pennsylvania, because that's where we're at, that community is celebrated because it's roughly 8% of the state population. It is not an insignificant group of people, and it's continues to grow and it's

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13:25

Joro Spider lands in Pa, but should we be worried...

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2024/10/16

The joro spider has been discovered in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in September. The Joro Spider is about four inches long according to Michael Skvarla, Assistant Research Professor of Arthropod Identification at Penn State University. "They're kind of gray and green stripes. The males look. So that's the adult females. The males look a little bit different. They're much smaller and kind of a reddish, reddish brown color. And they're all weaver. So they build a large orb web and they sit in the

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12:27

How Central Pa. organizations are helping with the...

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2024/10/15

The American Red Cross of Greater Pennsylvania is working to support states in need impacted by Hurricane Milton and Helene. According to Laura Burke, Executive Director of the American Red Cross Central Pa Chapter, says their work begins before the first drop of rain. “Our work actually began before that first drop of rain. And then with our partners, we're helping we'll be helping for weeks and months to come. So we're right now sheltering thousands of people in emergency shelters. And we have

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Former journalist discusses why he left the field in...

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2024/10/14

Ted Czech spent 25 years as a journalist before he left the industry in 2021. He just published a book, Saving the Beast: A recovering reporter reflects on America’s broken media and how to fix it. Czech got his official start in news in 1996 in Rhode Island. “There's a guy that he was a millionaire, Ernie, and he wanted to start up a newspaper. And because he didn't like his hometown newspaper that had been there for so long. And so, he started this newspaper. And five and a half months later,

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The Spark Weekly 10.13.2024: Ageism Awareness Day and...

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2024/10/13

Coming up on this week's edition of The Spark Weekly: October 9 is commemorated as National Ageism Awareness Day. The National Center to Reframe Aging works to end ageism by advancing equitable and more complete story about aging in America according to the Executive Director, Trish D’Antonio. The PA Council of Aging provides advice to the governor and department on suggestions on how to plan and provide service for older adults. Velma Carter-Dryer is a member of the PA Council of Aging. She also is

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12:01

What to Know About RSV

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2024/10/12

RSV is a common infectious respiratory virus that usually causes cold-like symptoms but can lead to serious illness or even death. Sue Peschin, CEO and President of the Alliance for Aging Research and Dr. Robert Hopkins, Jr., Medical Director for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases share information about the virus.Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Journalist Roundtable: Voting and Elections

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2024/10/11

Jaxon White of LNP | Lancaster Online, Jordan Wilke, WITF’s Democracy Reporter and Katelin Mentz, Program Manager for the civics education group Project Citizen discuss final report on the Franklin and Marshall College Deliberative Forum on Voting and ElectionsSupport WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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21:53

Author Dr. Richard Smith dishes on new book "The...

The Spark ·

2024/10/10

Asia Tabb interviews author Dr. Richard Smith, who tells us everything we need to know about coral reefs, sea creatures, and his new book "The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs"Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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20:45

Gettysburg Historic Daniel Lady Farm opens new hiking...

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2024/10/10

A new self-guided walking trail has opened at Gettysburg Historic Daniel Lady Farm. Chris Jones, Lady Farm Facilities Manager, and Lauren Wilmoth, Museum Curator says the trail has been in the works for years. “When the idea was presented to Chris and I, we jumped at it because it gave us the opportunity to really do a lot of deep digging into what we knew about the farm, to get more information as far as the things that we didn't know to weed through the apocryphal versus the factual, “said

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