Q Media Writing Summary Leads Assignment 2 Week 3 For instructors and students 1. Write summary leads for the following sets of information. Do not write the entire story. 2. You work for the Omaha World-Herald, and the stories will appear in Wednesday’s edition. • Your leads should be one sentence and no more than 30 words, including the most important who, what, when, where and sometimes why and how. • The information given may contain errors in AP style that you should fix. • Correct any punctuation errors. • Review the previous material regarding use of either an immediate or delayed ID. • Please double-space. • Attribute to the proper source using “said.” a. FACTS: The Pathfinder Chorus will compete for the fourth time in the Barbershop Harmony Society International Competition in July in Toronto, Canada. The announcement came Tuesday from the director. The Pathfinder Chorus is a male a cappella chorus with 100 members. The group is based in Fremont, Nebraska, but also includes members from the Omaha metropolitan area, Lincoln and more than a dozen smaller communities around eastern Nebraska. Director P.C. Stibor said this is the best chance for the chorus to medal by finishing in the top 5. The chorus is seeded seventh going into the competition and finished last year’s competition 11th. The competition is always held the first week of July. b. FACTS: Over the past decade, pro-business organizations have been trying to get Nebraska lawmakers to restructure the state’s corporate and business tax system to make the state more business friendly and attract new businesses and corporations while assisting existing ones. Fourteen members of the Nebraska Unicameral on Tuesday announced the formation of the Tax Modernization Committee, which Megan Hunt of Omaha will lead. Creating a more business and corporate friendly state is a goal of Governor Pete Ricketts. c. FACTS: A call was made to Douglas County’s 911 Center at 11:42 p.m. Tuesday. Martha Johnson, who was home at 4917 Fowler Avenue with her 9-year-old daughter shortly after power was knocked out from a storm, reported that someone was clumsily banging on the front door. After a few minutes, she said that she heard a man’s voice yelling, but she couldn’t understand what was being said. It seemed that the man was moving around the house in the darkness. Neither she nor her daughter could get a look at the man because of the darkness. When police arrived, they say they found the missing, 87-year-old Clarence Turner lost and confused. Police said Turner had been reported missing about an hour earlier from the House of Hope Alzheimer’s Care Center, which lost power from the storm, which knocked out power to 500 Omaha Public Power District customers in north Omaha. Forecasters with the National Weather Service say that the area could see storms continue for the next two days, however, they are not expected to be severe. d. FACTS: The family of Kristine Belcuore was grief-stricken. She was 51 years old and died of a heart attack last week. She left a husband and four children. Because her death was so sudden and unexpected, an autopsy had to be performed before the funeral last Saturday. It was a big funeral, costing more than $7,000. More than 100 friends and relatives were in attendance. On Tuesday, the county medical examiner said he apologized to the family for the mix up. Mrs. Belcuores body is still in the morgue. The body they buried was that of a woman whose corpse had been unclaimed for a month. The error was discovered after the medical examiner’s office reported they realized month-old corpse had disappeared. Someone probably misread an identifying tag, they said. Also, the family never viewed the remains, they kept the casket closed throughout the proceedings. A relative said, "We went through all the pain and everything, all over the wrong body, and now we have to go through it again." . e. FACTS: Nucor Steel, a steel manufacturer, announced Tuesday that it plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs from plants across the United States, including 75 positions at its plant in Norfolk, Nebraska. Nucor Steel manufactures steel products for large commercial development. Rachaelle Miller, Nucor Steel’s vice president of public relations, said the move was made to strengthen the corporation’s position in the market because of increased competition over the past two years. “It was a difficult decision, but one that had to be made. We had to sacrifice a few positions to minimize the threat of losing more of our friends and family.”