Henry D. Sahakian, a prominent local businessman, philanthropist and one of the most influential figures in the State College area’s development over the past 60 years, died on Feb. 23 in State College at the age of 84.
Sahakian’s many residential and commercial building projects have played a major role in shaping downtown State College and the rest of Centre Region as Penn State and the surrounding community rapidly grew in the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st.
Though he made his home in Centre County beginning with his time as a Penn State student in the 1950s, he also made a mark well beyond central Pennsylvania as well, founding the Uni-Mart convenience store chain and developing hotels, medical buildings and shopping centers elsewhere.
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Why Fufa’s plan to grow local coaches on the international scene leaves a lot to be desired ROBERT MADOI The received wisdom that one walked away with after watching Sam Ssimbwa attempt – on NTV’s Press Box – to trace the through line of the Cranes fiasco in Douala is hardly inspiring. Ssimbwa is one not known to throw a cloak of political correctness over the ugly and intolerable. And true to form, the former Cranes international managed to season optimism with a dash of realism by revealing the fragile role that local football coaches play. Apparently, those ‘fortunate’ enough to be part of the Cranes backroom staff do no more than receive a steady paycheque. Such a measure, on mature consideration, may not be a stretch especially since Ssimbwa sat in the Cranes dugout with not one or two but three foreign coaches (Muhammad Abbas, Csaba Lászl�
Roy Keane Bought Patrick Vieira an Ice Cream to End Their Rivalry
Jan 29, 2021, 5:33 PM GMT+5:30
Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira is one of the biggest individual rivalries in football | Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Manchester United hero Roy Keane is known to be the ultimate bad boy of football, especially when it comes to his rivalry with Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira.
But, believe it or not, he actually bought Vieira an ice-cream to bury the hatchet.
Both Vieira and Keane were at the peak of their careers when they were captains of Arsenal and Manchester United respectively and their famous incident in the tunnel at Highbury in February 2005 can never be forgotten.