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Mrs. Jodie Walizer’s high school homeroom at Sugar Valley Rural Charter School released 70 Rainbow Fingerlings into Fishing Creek on May 5. Despite a rough start due to Covid sanitation of the classrooms, the class was able to successfully care for and raise the small trout to the point of release. When the students arrived at the stream, they began investigating to ensure they were releasing in a viable area. The students looked for Mayflies because their presence indicates the stream is clean and well oxygenated. This is the eleventh year Mrs. Walizer and her students have participated in the Trout in the Classroom Program. The Trout in the Classroom program was made possible through a partnership between the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) and the Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited (PATU).
Penn State and Eberly College of Science faculty, staff, and students are mourning the loss of alumnus and longtime supporter Edward “Ed” D. Bellis, who died on April 5, 2021, in State College, Pennsylvania.
Bellis was born on June 28, 1927, in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. From 1945 to 1947, he served in the U.S. Army as part of the 88th Infantry Division in the Julian Alps of Italy, in an area now part of Slovenia. Bellis went on to earn his bachelor of science degree in zoology and entomology from Penn State in 1951. After receiving his master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma and his doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota, Bellis eventually joined Penn State s zoology and entomology department in 1957. He later served in the biology department in the College of Science.
Courtesy of Forbes Trail Trout Unlimited
Monty Murty of Laughlintown, right, receives the Forbes Trail Chapter of Trout Unlimited’s Don Robb Memorial Award for service to the organization from President Larry D. Myers.
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When Monty Murty returned to Westmoreland County after retiring from careers in the U.S. Army and as a business consultant in Washington D.C., he rekindled his love of trout fishing and became more active in the local Trout Unlimited chapter.
“In particular, I love fly fishing,” said Murty, now 76. “I began fishing at my grandfather’s cabin off of Route 271 on the north fork of Mill Run in Ligonier Township when I was just 9 years old.