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Baseball Page B1 Home runs power Tigers past White Sox
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GOOD MORNING Relief fund to aid Butler fire victims BUTLER — A relief fund has been established at Farmers & Merchants State Bank, 200 S. Broadway, Butler, to help victims of an April 30 house fire. Donations may be given to the Coleman Fire Fund at the bank, according to Butler Police Chief Jim Nichols. Clothing donations are also being accepted by the bank and at the Butler Police Department, 201 N. Broadway, for the five occupants of the home, who lost everything in the fire. Sizes and descriptions of clothing needed: • 11-year-old boy — size 10 pants, medium shirt, size 10 underwear, socks and size 7 shoes; • 12-year-old girl — size 10-12 pants, medium shirt, size 9 shoes, 32-C bra, socks and size 7 underwear; • adult female — size 16 jeans, size 42 shirt, socks and size 42-DD bra; • adult male — size 32-34 pants, large shirt, socks and large underwear; and • adult male — size 32-34 pants, large shirt, size 11 shoes, socks and large underwear.
Lugar working to drum up 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. Various polls shows state Treasurer Richard Mourdock ahead of Lugar in recent polling.
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, 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 forprofit 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. SEE LEARNING, PAGE A6
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House burns An abandoned home in Auburn was left to burn early Sunday morning after flames were shooting out of the house, according to WANE-TV. The Auburn Fire Department received a call around 1:30 a.m. about a home on fire in the 1000 block of North Indiana
Street. Witnesses said fire crews were battling the fire for some time but then pulled back to let it burn down. Fire crews on scene said the home has been abandoned for many years. No one was injured. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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. “Campaigns are working to make sure nothing is missed.”
DeKalb Health donates fitness equipment GARRETT — DeKalb Health has donated fitness equipment valued at $10,000 to the Judy A. Morrill (JAM) Recreation Center in Garrett. The donation of four new treadmills was made possible by a grant presented from the DeKalb Health Foundation to DeKalb Health, a portion of which went to purchase equipment destined for the JAM Recreation Center. The new equipment helped to expand the Center’s capabilities and is part of a larger, strategic partnership between the two organizations. Through the partnership, DeKalb Health provides physical, occupational and aquatic therapy services on-site at the JAM Center. “We are very proud of our partnership with DeKalb Health and grateful for the important role they play in the health and wellness of our community,” JAM Center executive director Cheryl Karr said. “The donation of this equipment, along with ongoing therapy services on-site, has helped to provide the residents of DeKalb County with another key wellness and rehabilitation resource.” Ttherapy services DeKalb Health makes available at JAM Center include aquatic therapy, sports rehabilitation. exercise programs, spinal stability programs, total joint replacement therapies, stroke therapy, orthopedic and pediatric diagnoses,
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DeKalb Health has donated fitness equipment to the Judy A. Morrill (JAM) Recreation Center in Garrett, including four treadmills valued at $10,000. Standing atop the treadmills are, from left, JAM Recreation Center executive director
private treatment rooms, individualized treatment programs and more. “It is a fundamental part of our mission to ensure access to wellness, rehabilitation and activity programs for as many people in our community as possible, and
Cheryl Karr, DeKalb Health Foundation director Anna Nixon, DeKalb Health manager of physical and occupational therapy Angie Vogel and DeKalb Health director of wellness and rehabilitation Jamie Leeper.
our partnership with the JAM Center plays an important role in that pursuit,” DeKalb Health president and CEO Kirk Ray said. “Our on-site therapy services at the JAM Center, provided by our highly trained and skilled professionals, are designed to assist each
person in achieving an independent, productive and satisfying life.” DeKalb Health therapy hours at the JAM Recreation Center are Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A physician referral is required.