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Here’s the catch: Hooks, line pose everyday threat to birds
By Susan Marschalk Green, Times Correspondent
Saturday, March 2, 2013 3:30am
It’s a crisp, cloudless morning at the Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier, and Nguyen Sung of Lutz baits his hook, eager to try his luck alongside others who cast their lines into Tampa Bay on the pier’s south side. • Paddling about in the azure water below is another species hoping for a lucky catch: a common loon visiting from as far north as Minnesota or Canada. • Seconds after Sung’s hook zings over the railing, the loon abruptly dives, thrashing in a panic under water and then spinning wildly when forced to the surface as Sung tugs on the fishing rod. Suddenly he has a bird on a wire.
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DEADLINE COVERAGE
- This story was assigned late afternoon, covered and written for the next day’s deadline. Susan Green also took the photos.
Students teach educators that art and science can go hand-in-hand
By Susan Marschalk Green, Times Correspondent
Saturday, January 28, 2012 3:30am
TAMPA – With all the hype about science education these days, what are arts students to do?
In Hillsborough County, they headed to the Florida Aquarium to prove the two disciplines aren’t exactly oil and water.
About 300 students from the county’s five magnet arts schools and Rampello Downtown Partnership School recently incorporated marine science themes into music, drama and visual art displays. Their goal was to show educators from across the country that art can thread its way through science — or maybe it was the other way around.
The teachers and school officials were attending a weeklong conference of the Arts Schools Network, a nonprofit professional association that promotes the development of new arts schools, facilities and programs. The conference, which ends today at Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort in Lake Buena Vista, drew 150 from specialized arts schools.
About half of them traveled to Tampa for the showcase Tuesday. While here, they also toured Orange Grove Middle and Blake High magnet arts schools, along with the Straz Center for Performing Arts and the Patel Conservatory.
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Award-winning story for general audience:
Body Builders
Tampa Tribune, The (FL) – March 9, 2006
Garrett. Leighann. Tyler. Jaylanique. Alexis. Jordan. Marcus. Each of them and hundreds of other newborns started life too frail to survive. Their lungs were unable to breathe, they couldn’t swallow, they had brittle bones and other complications. For 22 years, nurses at Brandon Regional Hospital have strengthened fragile preemies for their new world.
By SUSAN M.GREEN
Tribune Staff Writer
BRANDON – What’s startling about the newborn nursery on the second floor of the Women’s Center is the quiet.
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Award-winning story for niche audience:
- Written for a target faith-based audience, this article was among four entries by Susan Green that garnered awards in the 2013 United Methodist Association of Communicators contest.
Reaching students the Wesley way
By Susan Green | FLUMC.org
September 18, 2012
It’s after 5 p.m. on a Thursday, and Vance Rains is driving through the streets of Tallahassee to a Goodwill store to pick out a cheap wedding gown.
The dress is intended to illustrate a biblical concept in an upcoming Wesley Foundation worship service at Florida State University. A student will wear it and then deliberately get it filthy and torn to portray “a fall from innocence.”
“The church is the bride of Christ,” explains Rains, FSU Wesley’s longtime pastor. “A lot of young people are struggling with the church and its failings and are giving up on the church.
“It’s still the bride of Christ, and He loves her.”
It’s a creative concept designed to reach college students, and Rains is excited about it. But his mind is not totally on the mission at hand.
“Just today, my last appointment was a student dealing with depression,” he says. “The student before that had a breakup with her boyfriend, and they had been talking marriage. The student before that, her mother was in a car accident and now is a quadriplegic.”
“Every year, I have students who lose a parent, and lots of parents are getting divorced. … There are a lot [of students] who are dealing with things in college.”