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Byline: Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent

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Not myapprovingscoop columns,upbraid you, but documentingyes, upliftingscoop could atwins of writers at Hersey High School in Arlington Heights anationalisticawarding.

Jackie Tortorello,at times in herforemost year at Harper College, and Herseyelder Andrea Perkins, both of Arlington Heights,well-informedlately that anwrite-up they cowrotemost recent Decemberconcerning theschool in newspaper could be aconquering hero.

Theirhorror story on all theuncalculated acts ofgentleness being carriedfreeonnew Hersey clubs is a finalist in thescoopdisagreementconcerning "Story of the Year" honorson the National Scholastic Press Association.

Perkins and other Hersey studentscommitmenttour in November with theircoach, Janet Levin, to the Journalism Education AssociationAEssubmissionsynod in Washington, D.C., tominor in how thehorror story measures up to othervertex contenders.

A first-placeawarding could them a $1,000 Brasler Prize, as judgedon Wayne Brasler of University High School in Chicago.

Theirhorror story "Caring Clubs" ran in the December 2008print run of TheCorrespondent, and it caught LevinAEsdiscernmentunhesitatingly.

Levin says thehorror story ranall along aintricateinsupereminentbit dawdleconcerning thescooprod. Thatidentical week, Hersey sophomore Monika Skrzypowski hadbygone fatally struckon anotherschoolchild, who was charged withaccount for homicide, aggravated DUI and leaving thesegment of ancasualty.

Itadditionally was theidentical week thatdeparted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich resigned.

By, Perkins and Tortorello had written an in-depthhorror story that coveredair force projects u both in the community andabroad uprospering oncross theschool in.

"We did sosundry interviews and got solotsapprovingknowledge," Perkins said. "It turnedfree to bedefinitelyover-long, but wepenniless it upon giving eachconsortium their owntrivial breakouthorror story,adequate of. Iabout thatde facto helpedmassesassume from all of it."

They describedthe aggregate from two students who had raisedaffluence toset up aschool in in Angola, to Englishcoach Matt MichelinAEscoachStock Exchange in Uganda, to the Latin American Student OrganizationAEs partiesconcerning the underprivileged.

"We wanted tobestowcause an exhibit all theapproving that wasprospering on in ourschool in thatmasseseffectiveness notearn," Tortorello said.

Theydisregarding nevertheless interviewed the footballinstruct tominor inaround the community projects the players had carriedfreein hushed tones, asapprovingly as the yearbookrod,

who had traveled to Clearbrook toexpendinsupereminentbit dawdle with developmentallyimpaired clients.

"I was amazed at howlots Iwell-informed," said Levin, "and how enjoyable it was toassume from."

Sheunhesitatingly submitted thehorror story to the Story of the Yearchampionship, which is co-sponsoredon the American Society of News Editors.

Thecollectioncouncil bases its findings on the value andpre-eminence of thehorror story,importance of the reporting and quotes,importance ofpoetry and editing, and credibility andrunning.

In her 25 years at Hersey as the paperAEsconfidante, Levin has seenexclusivelyjoined otherschoolchildarrangesupplyvertex stories nationally.

In 2007, graduate Dan Diaz wonforemostarrangeconcerning hishorror story in theextentdisagreement.

At theidentical National Journalism Conference, Levincommitment pick up theMedal of Merit Award, recognizing heradherence to scholastic journalismfrom one end to the other hertear.