Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher - Better Newspaper Contest
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Division 1 Headline Writing/Category 7 First place ���Second chance���; Lure, decoy event reels in light response; Senior sends foul tweet Sue Carpenter, The Garrett Clipper Comments: Liked the fishing reference and giving ���Chance��� a second chance on sight, and a foul tweet was also creative! Second place ���Spirits��� from the past watching over Orleans; Super Bowl of chili made in Orange County; With artist���s eye, Goodpaster ���easel-y��� recreates history Nancy Wright, The Progress Examiner (Orleans) Comments: Enjoyed the timely Halloween headline with the spirits. The ���Orange Chili��� and the creative headline for ���Easle-y��� was the work of some talented staff! Third place Splashing away the summertime heat; Two Starke schools fail to make the grade; Pumpkin drop: A smashing success Cheryl Patrick, The Leader (Knox) Comments: Splashing the summer heat away is a very appropriate headline for this summer. Best Short Feature Story/Category 8 First place Writer introduces web comic on area music scene Wade Coggeshall, Hendricks County Flyer (Avon) Unique story that was well-written and informative. Writer did not go into too much of the comic book lingo that would have turned off the average reader. Second place l King for a day Ryan Palencer, Hendricks County Flyer (Avon) Comments: Cute story that hit the highlights of a very interesting day for a young boy. Third place Miss Garrett winners mark 50 years Sue Carpenter, The Garrett Clipper Comments: Writer did a great job of capturing the importance of the pageant and did the extra work by interviewing a number of sources. Best Profile Feature/Category 9 First place GS principal, maintenance man moonlight as refs Jill Sorg, South Gibson Star-Times (Fort Branch) Comments: Fun story and the writer did a great job of mixing in their day jobs with their moonlighting jobs. Far and away the most interesting read in this category. Second place Bowler encourages many in community Sue Carpenter, The Garrett Clipper Comments: Simply a great story on a very interesting man who certainly inspires others. Third place ���Call me Yogi ... ��� Lisa W. Hoppenjans, Ferdinand News Comments: Fun story on a man who friends call Yogi. ��� ���Second chance��� ��� Lure, decoy event reels in light response ��� Senior sends foul tweet Sue Carpenter The Garrett Clipper Writer introduces web comic on area music scene Wade Coggeshall Hendricks County Flyer (Avon) His formative years were the same time that a lot of super heroes were on TV and in the movies during the 1970s and ���80s: Spiderman, Superman, The Incredible Hulk, the Super Friends, etc. ���I don���t remember the first comic book I got,��� Brownfield said. ���But to me there���s always been this presence (of that) and growing up in a time when it was OK to leave your 5-year-old by the spinner rack in the Kroger while Mom did the shopping. I���d sit and read everything on the rack. It totally informed a lot of things I was interested in from a very early age.��� Indeed Brownfield has gone on to write for Fangoria Comics, Zenescope Entertain�� ment, and DC Comics, among others. He���s also freelanced for such publications as News�� arama, Comicon.com���s Pulse, and Wired. ���Writing��� comic books is the key word. ���If I drew, it would be a bunch of sticks stalking each other,��� said Brownfield, a Terre Haute native and Plainfield resident. ���I recognize my limitations.��� Brownfield���s also delved into web-based comics, with varying success. The first, in 2000, died because of logistical obstacles. While working for Fangoria, Brownfield adapted a horror novel into a web comic, but that was killed because of copyright issues. His third attempt has been the charm. On Feb. 29, Brownfield and artist Sarah Vaughn, whom he met while teaching at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute, officially unveiled ���Sparkshooter.��� The serial comic, found online at sparkshooter.com, follows the travails of a rock group named Crazy Yeats, beginning with their participation in a battle of the bands contest. Sparkshooter, named after a cheap plastic toy gun from the l���70s that shot sparks when you fired it, represents Brownfield���s other passion ��� live music. As a student at Indiana State University, he organized shows and festivals. After moving to the Indianapolis area, he managed a band called Samsell and played in the collectives Mirage and The Frank Booth Project. While the band at the center of the Sparkshooter comic is fictional, their environment is not. It���s set in Indianapolis��� music scene circa 2003, a time when it was driven by a local website, had its own record label hosting battle of the bands contests and the Midwest Music Summit, and lots of theme nights at area clubs. For complete story, see www.hspafoundation.org. Click on ���Contests.��� GS principal, maintenance man moonlight as refs Jill Sorg South-Gibson Star-Times Chuck Lewis and Scott Reid. By day, these two men keep the halls of Gibson Southern High School free of trash and rule-breaking. By night, they don their striped uniforms and keep the basketball courts free of foul play. Lewis and Reid work at Gibson Southern as the maintenance director and principal, respectively. However, they also spend plenty of time on the courts, serving as referees for basketball games. Reid also referees football and baseball games. Reid began his career as a referee by officiating at youth league and junior high games in his school district at the time to help out. He wasn���t licensed at first, but it didn���t take him long to realize how much he enjoyed officiating and working with kids. When his two children were young, Lewis coached basketball teams, and he played the game himself most of his life. This inspired him to become a referee. Both Lewis and Reid enjoy the interactions with kids during games, though the amount of interaction depends on the age group. ���Part of officiating smaller kids��� games is to help teach them the ins and outs of the game of basketball,��� said Lewis. ���I always try to talk to the players and explain why something was called.��� With varsity games, Reid tries to maintain a certain level of professionalism with the players and the fans, but that doesn���t keep him from being personable. He talks to fans before the game begins, and light conversation can come up with the players. ���It is not a good idea to get too chummy with the patrons because after the ball goes up they will not like you at least half the time,��� said Reid. Neither Lewis nor Reid has many problems with crowds at games. Lewis is deaf in his right ear and considers this an advantage for dealing with loud patrons. He said the comments he does manage to hear just make him laugh. ���When you put on your striped shirt and go out on the floor, everyone in the gym thinks they know more about the game of basketball than you do,��� said Lewis. Reid doesn���t hear much but general noise, and that feeds the atmosphere. He said officials can feed off of that competitive spirit and use it to push themselves to their highest levels of concentration. Though he had some problems with summer leagues in the past, Reid believes the sportsmanship in this area���s high school sports is exhibited at a high level by everyone involved. Staying neutral is an issue about which many patrons and other nonofficials worry, but Lewis and Reid don���t find it challenging. Reid has never considered being anything other than neutral; as soon as the ball goes up, he calls the game as he sees it. Lewis said that close games are easier to call than games in which one team has an advantage. ���When one team is clobbering the other, it is For complete story, see www.hspafoundation.org. Click on ���Contests.��� Page 15