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New Kensington police at YMCA Early Learning Center

Sergeant James Lane (far right), Penn State New Kensington station commander, visits with children at the Valley Points Family YMCA's Early Learning Center in downtown New Kensington. Lane and Wesley Sheets, southwest district deputy chief, spent time giving the children police badge stickers before dropping off nearly 200 toys and other items collected during the campus police officer-led "Cram the Cruiser" event.

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Wesley Sheets Holiday Gift Delivery at YMCA

Wesley Sheets, southwest district deputy chief for Penn State University Police and Public Safety, helps deliver toy and supply donations to the Valley Points Family YMCA's New Kensington branch location in downtown New Kensington. The donations were the result of the New Kensington campus' police officer-led "Cram the Cruiser" event on Dec. 11.

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Sergeant James Lane at Cram the Cruiser 2019

Sergeant James Lane, Penn State New Kensington's campus police commander, places a gift in the campus police cruiser during the first "Cram the Cruiser" event on Dec. 11. The event helped the campus' Police and Public Safety Department collect nearly 200 toys and items to be donated to the local Valley Points Family YMCA early learning and school age childcare centers.

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2019 New Kensington Faculty Publications Party

Yesenia Figueroa-Lifschitz (left), library assistant, speaks with Kasey Hudak, associate professor of corporate communication, at Penn State New Kensington's annual Faculty Publication Celebration in the campus' Blissell Library. Hudak was one of many honored at the event for authoring an article in an academic publication.