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GOOD MORNING Area man killed in Shipshewana crash
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BY BOB BRALEY bobb@kpcnews.net
SHIP-SHEWANA — A Wolcottville man was killed Saturday from injuries sustained when the vehicle he drove hit mailboxes, a parked sportutility vehicle and some trees, the Trittipo LaGrange County Sheriff’s Department said. Derek R. Trittipo, 34, of Wolcottville was eastbound in the 9000 block of West C.R. 375N at 2:07 a.m. when the 2008 Dodge fourdoor vehicle he drove came in contact with several mailboxes and a parked, unoccupied 2003 Chevy Trailblazer. Trittipo then overcorrected and lost control of the Dodge. It came in contact with several trees after leaving the roadway, then came to rest in the roadway. Trittipo was pronounced dead at the scene. The Indiana State Police assisted at the scene. A complete obituary for Trittipo appears on Page A4.
Trine player proposes on baseball diamond ANGOLA — After the Thunder baseball team pulled off an exciting 1-0 win over NCAA Division III eighth-ranked Adrian Sunday, Trine’s centerfielder and leadoff hitter capped Senior Day in memorable fashion by proposing to his girlfriend at home plate. READ MORE ON PAGE A2
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FILE PHOTO BY AMY OBERLIN
Dee Hammond and Judy Jones of the Angola Garden Club plant variegated marigolds at the Soldiers Monument in downtown Angola last
May. Garden Club members will be planting flowers around the Mound in a few of weeks.
Beauty times 84 years Angola Garden Club one of city’s longest running groups BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcnews.net
ANGOLA — There is something therapeutic about digging in the dirt, feeling the soil against the hands, while planting flowers, trees and bushes that will have beauty coaxed from their roots on up. That was the take of Marty Diller, co-president of the Angola Garden Club. Currently, she has a perennial garden of peonies, lavender, choke service berries, lilacs and forsythia. She said it’s all about “working with beautiful plants and flowers, learn more and beautify. People go by” when flowers are being planted out on the Mound “and give a thumbs up while we’re planting. It’s nice.” The Mound is owned by the city of Angola. The Steuben County Soldier’s Monument is owned by Steuben County. Gardening is gaining in popularity and Diller is one gardener who swears by it. According to the National Gardening Association, the are 90 million households in the U.S. with a yard and garden. Of that, 35 million are conventional gardeners and 5 million are organic gardeners. Locally, the Angola Garden Club is one of the oldest organizations in Steuben County. It began in SEE GARDEN CLUB, PAGE A6
Who is France’s Hollande? FILE PHOTO BY AMY OBERLIN
Roses are some of the permanent plantings on the Mound in downtown Angola after the Angola Garden Club added perennials to the downtown Angola landscape when changes were made to the property in the 1990s.
Lugar fighting to rally support INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar is keeping a smile on his face as he fights against the growing possibility his Senate career could be nearing its end. Lugar spent Sunday touring northern Indiana and rallying supporters two days before the Indiana Republican primary.
WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s a smug, Harvard-trained elitist who doesn’t get how regular Americans are struggling these days. More extreme than he lets on, he’s keeping his true agenda hidden until after Election Day. He’s clueless about fixing the economy, over his head on foreign policy. Who is he? Your answer will help decide the next president. Is it Barack Obama, as seen by Mitt Romney? Or Romney, the way Obama depicts him? For all their liberal versus conservative differences, when the two presidential contenders describe each other, they sound like they’re ragging on the same flawed guy. Or mirror images of that guy. Will voters prefer the man waving with his left hand or his right? Blame it on two cautious candidates with more traits in common than their disparate early biographies would suggest. SEE ALIKE, PAGE A6
Various polls shows state Treasurer Richard Mourdock ahead of Lugar in recent polling. Tea partyers have been working to topple Lugar in the primary following 36 years in the Senate. The winner of Tuesday’s primary will face Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly in November.
Lugar supporters sounded forlorn Sunday as they pondered what put the Indiana icon perilously close to defeat. Miami County prosecutor Bruce Embrey says Lugar’s supporters got caught off guard. Peru Mayor Jim Walker blames tea partyers who believe “compromise” is a dirty word.
‘Accidental president’ rides anti-Sarkozy wave into office PARIS (AP) — Just one year ago, the idea that Francois Hollande would become France’s next president would have been laughed at — even by some of his political allies. Hollande had long been sidelined from France’s national affairs. Longtime friends and colleagues compared him to a jiggly pudding, or the captain of a pedal boat — a way to suggest he had no political spine. He led the Socialist Party through 11 years — years fraught with divisions and two consecutive presidential defeats. That was before the “Affaire SEE HOLLANDE, PAGE A6
Different ways of learning, different ways of teaching Schools adapt to new learning methods BY MATT GETTS mattg@kpcnews.net
The days of teaching students about dinosaurs by lecturing to a class for 50 minutes has gone, well, the way of the dinosaurs, according to area educators. The reason? More and more, children don’t respond well to lengthy lectures. “There’s certainly a place for that,” said Jon Willman, superintendent at Hamilton Community Schools. “But a big chunk of kids don’t learn like that.” “Kids do learn differently,” said Lynn Simmers, assistant superintendent at DeKalb Central schools. “Kids also learn at different rates.” Children learn in three distinct ways, according to numerous websites and educational professionals. A for-profit brain-training company’s website, learningrx.com, identifies and describes the three learning methods as: • Auditory learners would rather
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Kaidin Coburn, 6, learns geography by placing individual states on a large piece of white paper during a class at Oak Farm Montessori School in Avilla. The school stresses a literal “hands-on” approach, particularly for its younger students.
listen to things being explained than read about them. Reciting information out loud and having music in the background may be a common study method. Other
noises may become a distraction, resulting in a need for a relatively quiet place. • Visual learners learn best by looking at graphics, watching a
demonstration or reading. For them, it’s easy to look at charts and graphs, but they may have difficulty focusing while listening to an explanation. • Kinesthetic learners process information best through a “handson” experience. Actually doing an activity can be the easiest way for them to learn. Sitting still while studying may be difficult, but writing things down makes it easier to understand. Another website, 4therapy.com, says that today 65 percent of people are visual learners. Willman said that’s a fair number. “That’s going to continue to rise in our society,” he said. “We’re much more visually orientated because of technology.” 4therapy.com said 30 percent of people are auditory learners, who would benefit most from lectures, with 5 percent being kinesthetic learners. The challenge for educators is to find out what works best for each individual in their classrooms. “It’s difficult,” said East Noble SEE LEARNING, PAGE A6