In addition to daily updates that will be carried by the Penn State Newswire, today we launch a Web site that will assist us in providing articles, schedules, color photographs and video clips of the event. The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel will be the main site for most NGA meetings. If you're going to be in the State College area on July 4, you may want to stop by The Bryce Jordan Center's Family Playground. This year's amusement extravaganza will include an inflatable slide, bungee run, ball pond, radar pitch, velcro olympic course, inflatable bounce, bronco bull ride, gladiator joust, radar pitch, shuffleboard, golf cage, and more. A great variety of holiday tastes also will be available at The Bryce Jordan Center during the event.
Admission is free, but rides and games each require one ticket.
This year's event will be a special Millennium show dedicated to the Bicentennial of Centre County. Dr. Ke Chung Kim, director of Penn State's BioDiversity Center, is tentatively scheduled to appear on NPR's Living on Earth program this weekend. A native of Korea, Dr. Kim, is leading a global campaign to preserve the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas from development as part of a Korea Peace Bioreserve System. Chandra, along with the rest of the winners, will be listed in the July 2000 issue of Discover Magazine. They are clones, donated by the propagation station at La Reunion.