Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher - Better Newspaper Contest
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Division 4 Headline Writing/Category 7 First place Vagas odds: Patriots will win Super Bowl; Gym-Dandy basketball day; Colts: 2-14���s bad luck, 3-13���s no Luck Mike Emery, Palladium-Item (Richmond) Comments: All three of these headlines are clever without being cloying. Even better, they convey information. Very well-done. ��� Vagas odds: Patriots will win Super Bowl ��� Gym-Dandy basketball day ��� Colts: 2-14���s bad luck; 3-13���s no Luck Mike Emery Palladium-Item (Richmond) Second place Ace has new place; Steeped in change; Tweet relief for disaster victims Staff, The Goshen News Comments: The Tea Party headline is spot on ��� a fresh take on a well-punned topic. Supporting headlines are also strong. Third place Woodcarver claims ���whittle��� talent; Dazed and enthused; Plug pulled on retirees Matt Troutman & Melissa Vogt, Chronicle-Tribune (Marion) Comments: Dazed and enthused pushed this entry into the top three. Best Short Feature Story/Category 8 First place Delicate art of sushi Ryan Trares, Daily Journal (Franklin) Comments: A great layout and everything you ever wanted to know about sushi. Second place Bug world gets close up Ryan Trares, Daily Journal (Franklin) Comments: Also a great layout and informational sidebars. WONDERFUL photos! Third place Special delivery: Father takes daughter���s birth into own hands Paul Minnis, The Republic (Columbus) Comments: Love the pull quote to lead you right into the story. Best Profile Feature/Category 9 First place Struggles in youth spur career choice for student Ryan Trares, Daily Journal (Franklin) Comments: This thorough article gave a complete picture of this girl and why she wanted to become a pediatric urologist. I���m glad the reporter also decided to get quotes from her professor. Second place Another chance Annie Goeller, Daily Journal (Franklin) Comments: This article put the reader in the thick of things as people worked to save this man���s life. Third place Everything he did was selfless Michele Holtkamp, Daily Journal (Franklin) Comments: By reading this article, the reader got a complete view of a man whom many people wouldn���t give a second thought upon seeing him. Page 42 Delicate art of sushi Ryan Trares Daily Journal (Franklin) With an almost effortless flick, Debbie Bennett carved an avocado into thin, curved slices. She placed the bright green strips on a bed of rice next to chunks of cream cheese and raw salmon. In a smooth motion, she rolled the entire concoction up tightly, cutting it into eight bite-sized pieces and laying them on a platter. The sushi dish known as a Philadelphia roll was done. Her two students watched attentively before trying to roll one themselves. ���I don���t think there���s any way I could do this at home,��� Greenwood resident Monica Klein said, struggling to keep her ingredients bunched together. As sushi has grown more popular, adventurous gourmets have attempted to make it at home. For those looking to replicate a true Japanese experience, weekly lessons are offered at Yokohama Restaurant in Greenwood. Students learn the basics, such as slicing fish, making the rice and wrapping it up into individual maki rolls. ���People come in expecting it to be simple, but it���s not like making a sandwich. There���s much more skill required,��� Bennett said. Sushi comes in many styles and forms but can be broken into three main categories. Sashimi is simply pieces of raw fish, such as tuna, salmon or mackerel. Nigiri are those same fish laid on a finger-sized bed of sticky rice. But Bennett���s class focuses on maki, or the sushi roll. Fish, vegetables, rice and sauces are all wrapped up into a seaweed paper called nori. Bennett has been a sushi chef for more than 30 years, having learned the skill growing up in Japan. She and her husband, Scott, bought Yokohama to give her an outlet for her talents. They started offering the class a few months later, as more and more customers expressed their desire to learn the skills needed to make their own sushi. Karyn Homan, a longtime Yokohama customer, decided to sign up for the class after watching Bennett at work. The way the chef sliced up the ingredients, working methodically to turn strips of fish and rice into intricate, edible art, was intriguing. ���There���s something interesting about learning how these ingredients come together into the rolls you eat,��� she said. ���It���s one thing to watch them do it, but it���s another to actually do it yourself.��� She and Klein decided it would be fun to learn together. As she began her session, Bennett stressed the importance of good rice. Rather than using the regular white rice anyone can buy at the grocery store, the best method is to purchase authentic sushi rice from a For complete story, see www.hspafoundation.org. Click on ���Contests.��� Struggles in youth spur career choice for student Ryan Trares Daily Journal (Franklin) The sting of embar�� assment r seemed to grow with each bladder control issue. Wetting the bed or accidentally going wasn���t something that a 14-year-old girl should have to deal with. But Marianne Tolmachoff found that her body wouldn���t listen. She had been born with spina bifida, a malformation of the spinal column, and the nerves that controlled her lower body were damaged. But more than embar�� rassment, Tolmachoff can remember her frustration. None of her doctors could answer her questions about why this was happening. ���They couldn���t understand that a child would have questions, or understand the situation. They didn���t feel they had to educate a kid,��� she said. ���If I���m going through this day-to-day and embarrassing situations, I want to know why.��� Tolmachoff, who will graduate from Franklin College on Saturday, has used her own life experiences and difficulties with spina bifida to guide her future career. She intends to become a pediatric urologist, helping children, particularly young girls, with the debilitating problems that arise from bladder or urinary tract conditions. Her mix of personal experience and medical knowledge will hopefully be a comfort for children dealing with such sensitive issues. ���The trials and tribulations of being a lifelong patient prepare you. No matter how smart you are, or how competent you are, there���s a part of understanding how the patient feels that doctor doesn���t have,��� she said. ���That matters to the patient, that their doctor knows where they are right now, and that���s something I can offer a lot of other doctors can���t.��� During her four years at Franklin College, Tolmachoff has worked her way through the science department to earn degrees in biology and chemistry. The time she spent dissecting specimens and performing minor surgeries on wounded animals helped hone the basic science she���ll need in medical school. ���She likes to learn things. She���s not just satisfied memorizing the information,��� said Sam Rhodes, biology professor at Franklin College. ���She likes to ask questions, likes to understand things, and is particularly active in lab.��� A service week in the urology department at Johnson Memorial Hospital helped teach her how doctors interact and treat patients. For six weeks, she worked in southern India, where she served as an apprentice to a practicing urologist for the international internship organization Travellers Worldwide. She helped stitch up patients after hysterectomies and assisted the doctors in surgery. But the training has been only part of her education. The majority has come as a patient herself. ���I���m familiar with it. I can For complete story, see www.hspafoundation.org. Click on ���Contests.���