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Canning is a major component of THON fundraising activities.
WALMART, PITTSBURGH MILLS
GOLDEN CORRAL, ROBINSON TOWNSHIP
SHOP 'N SAVE, ROUTE 286
COMMUNITY MARKET, PENN HILLS
COMMUNITY MARKET, LOWER BURRELL
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 3-5
Students at Penn State New Kensington are making their final fundraising push this weekend to benefit the Penn State Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, aka THON.
Campus students will be canning Friday, Feb. 3 to Sunday, Feb. 5, at Walmart in Pittsburgh Mills, Golden Corral in Robinson Township, Shop 'N Save on Route 286 in Holiday Park, and Community Market franchises in Lower Burrell and Penn Hills, to raise money for what is believed to be the largest student-run philanthropy in the world. The proceeds go to research of children's cancer.
THON is a University-wide event, and Lauren Richards, THON committee chair for the New Kensington campus, moved the final canning weekend up by a week after the Jan. 20 weekend was cancelled due to the snow storm.
“Even though we lost a canning weekend, we aren't giving up on our goal or the kids,” said Richards, an information sciences and technology major. "We have really good fundraisers and an awesome team."
THON culminates at Penn State University Park with a 46-hour, no sitting, no sleeping marathon from Feb. 17-19 that benefits the fight against pediatric cancer. The number of dancers going to University Park from each campus is based on the amount of money raised by the campus the previous year. In 2011, New Kensington students raised $52,392, shattering the campus record of $23,000 set in 2010. Since 2002, the campus has collected more than $162,000 for the charity.
Joe Mandak, senior corporate communications major from New Kensington, Erin Prager, senior business administration major from Natrona Heights, Andrew Holodnik, senior administration of justice major from Penn Hills, and Kelsie Nury, a freshman education major from Lower Burrell will represent the New Kensington campus at THON.
The four students were chosen by an interview committee and the selections were based on participation in campus THON activities that began in September-- canning hours, meetings attended, and raising at least $1,000 apiece. The dancers will join more than 700 Penn State students from all the campuses at the Bryce Jordan Center during THON weekend. All monies raised through the dance marathon directly benefit the Four Diamonds Fund at the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.
“With everything we have faced this year, we continue to thrive on as an organization, university, team, but most of all as a family," said Nicki Thoma, a junior business major and a 2011 THON dancer.
Even though it’s the final canning event, the fundraising continues with the THON dancers send-off and potluck dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Conference Center. Non-dancers can revel in the spirit of philanthropy by purchasing apparel or making gifts online. T-shirts emblazoned with “PSNK THON” are available through Lauren Blum, student life coordinator, 724-334-6063 or ldb14@psu.edu via email. Donations can be made by visiting https://secure.imodules.com/s/1218/thon/thon.aspx?sid=1218&gid=1&pgid=671&cid=2344 online. Please be sure to designate the New Kensington campus, #75, for the credit.
For more on campus THON, contact Lauren Richards, ler5128@psu.edu or Nicki Thoma, nat5066@psu.edu via email.
DANCIN’ FOR THE KIDS
(Parody of words and music of the 1985 Live Aid video, “Dancin’ in the Streets,” performed by Mick Jagger and David Bowie, who collaborated on a cover of the 1964 song written by Mickey Stevenson and Marvin Gaye and performed by Martha and the Vandellas).
To view the Jagger-Bowie video,
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dancing+in+the+street&mid=AE0862E2973B1A91104BAE0862E2973B1A91104B&view=detail&FORM=VIRE7 online.
OK, Penn State
University Park, New Kensington, York, Altoona, Schuylkill, Mont Alto
Callin' out around the state, are you ready for a brand new vid?
Winter's here and the time is right for dancin' for the kids.
Dancin' in State College (dancin' for the kids)
From all ‘cross Penn State (dancin' for the kids)
In Jordan Center
All we need is money, fightin’ cancer,
There'll be students everywhere
There'll be swingin' swayin', and records playin,
Dancin' for the kids
Oh it doesn't matter what you wear, just as long as you are there.
So twist and shout, boys and girls,
Raising funds, around the world
There'll be dancin', they're dancin' for the kids.
This is an invitation, for the Penn State nation,
Alumni can do what students did
There'll be laughin' singin', and music swingin'
Dancin' for the kids
New Kensington P.A., Beaver and Fayette now,
Don't forget the DuBois city,
On the streets of Shenango
Back in the Behrend College
It’s the kids we acknowledge
All we need is money, fightin’ cancer
There'll be students everywhere
There'll be swingin' swayin', and records playin,
Dancin' for the kids
Oh it doesn't matter what you wear, just as long as you are there.
So twist and shout, boys and girls,
Raising funds, around the world
They're dancin', dancin' for the kids
Way down in G.A., every day they're dancin' for the kids
Across the white and blue, THON and you
We're dancin for the kids