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Teacher to seek renewal hiking grandeur of West By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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The Select Sound women’s show choir presents “Rhythm and Rhyme” in a non-judged exhibition show.
Carroll tunes up for U.S. finals By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
Carroll High School’s Select Sound women’s show choir claimed third place in state competition. The Carroll Minstrel Magic mixed choir took eighth place. Both competed in the Large School Division
of the Indiana State School Music Association championships in Indianapolis. Both choirs advanced to the state for the second consecutive year. Jill Jeran directs both choirs. Both choirs also will compete April 24-25 at the FAME national finals at the Genesee Theatre in
Waukegan, Ill. For a final lineup, follow showchoirs. org. Tickets begin at $40 per day. A two-day pass is $75. Jeran said the choirs dealt with the demands of the state stage. “I definitely feel like they had one of their best shows, and we’re just really looking forward
to going to Chicago and representing Fort Wayne,” Jeran said. Choirs earned their way to the state finals with their scores in qualifying events throughout the state. Carroll choirs earned their way to the FAME See CARROLL, Page A11
Larry Linson will hike and bicycle through the natural wonders of the American West this summer, gathering lesson plans for Cedarville Elementary School. Linson said he has an awesome opportunity for personal renewal thanks to a $10,000 Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship. “I guess I’m kind of an experience junkie,” Linson said. “My father was an administrator at Ball State and he had different travel opportunities and he always took the family with him, so I traveled extensively as a child and that has carried over to my adult life.” Linson’s wife, Ann, the superintendent of East Noble Schools, will share part of the discovery. A friend, fellow Cedarville third-grade teacher Bryan Kaylor, will share part of the exploration. Linson’s son Zack, a
technology coach for East Noble Schools, also will share in the travels. “He and I are going to work a lot of different questions and videos that we can make for kids at both schools,” Linson said. “I love to travel, and I always get a lot out of it,” Linson said. “So my grant is written around traveling out West to the national parks of California, Oregon and Utah, and Wyoming and Arizona. We try to hit everything. “We’re going to go out to San Francisco and then hit the redwood forests, and Crater Lake in Oregon, and then down to Yosemite and Sequoia national parks and eventually branch off into the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon and Arches National Park and Zion National Park and Canyonlands National Park. It’s going to be a wonderful trip. We’ll even get up to Yellowstone. It’s going to take probably more than a month to get all this done.” See WEST, Page A8
Allure and Charisma plan Northrop show May 27 By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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The Allure women’s show choir performs on the Northrop home stage three days before the state finals.
schools competed for the nine spots at the state finals. Northrop Choral Asso-
ciation spokeswoman Nichole Thomas said the See SHOW, Page A13
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Northrop High School’s show choirs will perform their 2015 production one more time this school year. “We have our end-ofthe-year show,” director Tom Maupin said. “It’s called ‘An Evening with Allure and Charisma.’ ” The public is invited to thank and encourage the choirs one last time, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 27. Admission is $3 for students and $5 for adults. The choirs concluded their competition season Saturday, in the Indiana State School Music Association finals in Indianapolis. The Northrop Allure women’s choir placed eighth. The Northrop Charisma mixed choir took home ninth place. In each division, 55 Indiana