MONDAY May 7, 2012
Proposal
Guest Column
Player makes ‘play’ at the plate
Baseball
11 steps to increase Hoosier jobs, income
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Home runs power Tigers win
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Weather Showers and thunderstorms likely today, high 74. Partly sunny Tuesday. Page A6 Serving Noble & LaGrange Counties
Kendallville, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Correction • Only three arrested on drug charges; others on warrants LAGRANGE — A headline in Saturday’s edition incorrectly described a warrant sweep by LaGrange County police officers as a ”drug sweep.” Only three of the eight people arrested in the sweep are facing drug charges. They are Joseph Stephens, 21, Stephens and Bryan Rowlison, 23, both of Stroh, and a 15-year-old girl, whose name was not released. Five others Rowlison arrested in the warrant sweep are not facing drug charges. They are: Lois Miller, Wolcottville; Gregory E. Littlefield, Shipshewana; Evan L. Friedman, Howe; Kyle P. Green, LaGrange; and Orvan D. Schlabach, Millersburg. All charges were listed correctly in the body of Saturday’s story. Only the headline described the sweep incorrectly. We apologize for the error.
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Crash kills Wolcottville man 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 four-door vehicle he drove came in contact with several mailboxes and
BY BOB BRALEY bobb@kpcnews.net
SHIPSHEWANA — A Wolcottville man was killed Saturday from injuries sustained when the vehicle he drove hit mailboxes, a parked sport-utility vehicle and some trees, the
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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.
Two of a kind?
Approaches To Learning
Obama, Romney each call opponent smug and elitist
MATT GETTS
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.
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, superin-
tendent 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 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 SEE LEARNING, PAGE A6
Democrats to elect precinct committee members ALBION — There will be a race for Democrats in the Noble County primary election: selecting precinct committee members. Thirteen candidates are seeking the 12 precinct committee
member slots in Tuesday’s primary. Candidates are Ora Baer II of Albion, Jeffrey Coburn of LaOtto, Shawnee Coburn of LaOtto, Brian L. Darland of Albion, Dennis E. Desper of Albion, Daniel G. Fritz
of Avilla, Cindy E. Gordon of Kendallville, John F. Huelsenbeck of Avilla, Sally L. Huelsenbeck of Avilla; Brad J. Leitch of Kendallville, Julia Scher of Avilla, Homer Smith of Albion and Mike Wilber of LaOtto.
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. No Drama Obama is panned as professorial and aloof. Romney is deemed boring when he’s not being awkward. Distrusted as too moderate within his own party, each is demonized as a radical by the other side. They don’t get specific about the tough stuff, like budget cuts or taxes, that would invite more precisely calibrated negative ads. Add a presidential contest buried beneath a single issue, the economy, and original lines of attack are scarce. The candidates take jabs anyway. “They’re trying to define each other. That’s what it’s all about,” said Ken Duberstein, chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan. “They’re throwing out different characterizations to see which one resonates.” With quickie Internet videos and instant comebacks via Twitter, “the attack and counterattack is happening in real time,” said political communications expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
Hollande is France’s new ‘accidental president’ 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 DSK,” the New York sex scandal that engulfed Dominique StraussKahn, the man France’s Socialists were counting on to be their champion in the election battle with incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Now, Hollande will have to show the French, and the world, that he brings the talents of a
statesman to the table, not just the fact that he’s not Sarkozy. Hollande, 57, won the presidency in a campaign that reflected his personality — slow and steady. Like the tortoise in Aesop’s fable, he managed to overtake the hyperactive hare in front of him and win the race without ever igniting passions. And after a strong performance in his only debate with the toughtongued Sarkozy, Hollande’s looking ready to slip right into his new role as head of state. “The change … starts now,” he said in his victory speech. After a bitter campaign and five years under the often-divisive Sarkozy, Hollande promised to be the “president of everyone” and not just those who voted for him. “There is just one France … one single nation, united in the same destiny,” Hollande said. He promised to reduce the SEE HOLLANDE, PAGE A6
PHOTO COURTESY GRACE’S HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
West Noble prom royalty West Noble High School students celebrated their Senior-Junior Prom Saturday night at Paige’s Crossing in Columbia City. Crowned as king and queen were, Pedro Ruvacalaba, left, and JoAnna Ness. On the right are the junior princess and prince, Chelsea Risser and Eduardo Viallobos.