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Journal Courier Thursday July 17 2008 Local C3 Pedestrian crashes According to the "2007 Tippecanoe County Vehicle Crash Report" 54 pedestrians were involved in 52 crashes in 2007 Of those crashes 327 percent or nearly one third were within a quarter mile of Purdue University's main campus ive of those crashes involved fatalities Here's a closer look at crashes involving pedestrians in 2007 7 PEDESTRIAN CRASHES BY TIME Times Total crashes Pct 6 am 11:59 am 15 288 2QJ J385 6 pm 11:59 pm 13 250 PEDESTRIAN CRASHES BY MONTH Month Total crashes Pct January ebruary 4 77 Wrch? 1 April 4 77 June 2 38 August 3 58 September October 9 173 November December 6 115 Percentages add to 100 percent due to rounding PEDESTRIAN CRASHES BY CAUSE Reason Total crashes Pct action ailure to yield 16 31 COtherWA Source: Tippecanoe County Area Plan Commission Thomas MaxfieldJournal Courier PEDESTRIANS CONTINUED ROM PAGE C3 Police Department Patrols are stepped up dur ing September as the campus is flooded with students like Sorrels who are not yet accus tbmed to their new environ ment Sorrels is from a area in southern Indiana where she said there crosswalks She tries to use the ones on campus but admitted she by passes them sometimes designated cross walks crossing safely and be ing aware of your surrounding and putting safety first is what you need to do to stay Gallagher said The report found that the pedestrian was the primary factor in 20 crashes that in cluded the four fatalities Jim Knapp Purdue Uni versity senior civil engineer and committee member said the number of accidents near campus was to be expected because of its dense popula tion While he had yet to examine the report Knapp said it could help university engineers iso late problem areas and make structural changes such as correcting intersection drain age if a wet road was a factor A total of 13 accidents oc curred during wet snowy and icy conditions in 2007 our of the five fatalities happened along roads with higher speeds such as Indiana 26 near Wal Mart and the in tersection of US 52 and: US 231 is not a lot of pedes trian access in these Baldwin said Another year of data is needed before: Baldwin can identify trends or pinpoint if particular roads or signs lead to pedestrian crashes Tuesday the data will be discussed and input will be re quested from the public at the Citizens Participation Com mittee meeting Contributing: Dorothy Schneiderdschneiderjournal andcouriercom New principal coming to St Mary Cathedral School By MERANDA WATLING mwatling)ournalandcouriercom St Mary Cathedral new principal comes to Lafayette with experience and accolades Judith Brew er who was a need Wednesday as the Catholic new principal said she came to Lafayette be cause it was a strong Catho lic school system spiritually academically and even athleti cally She said important not just for her but for her three children as well am blessed to come into a school system a proven Brewer said just hope to be an extra link in that She spent the past five years as principal of New Market Elementary School in New Market While there she was named the 2007 District IV Principal of Year by the In diana Association of School Principals and was a finalist for Principal of the Year from the Indiana Association of Student Councils But it was her spiritual ity and energy that made her right for the Lafayette Catho lic School System according to President Joe Brettnacher had some tremendous Brettnacher said Brewer just had the experience She was the right Theresa Ensign who has two sons at St Mary said looking forward to working with Brewer and to the fresh perspective bring to the community positively am excited about putting a new energy and spirit in the En sign said obviously has done well at other Brewer grew up in Con necticut and earned her un dergraduate degree in physi cal education and health from Ithaca College in New York She earned a degree in school administration from Indiana State University Brewer 40 is married to Eric Brewer They have three children: Bailey 13 EJ 3 and Ella 2 Kimberly Overmyer who was named principal of St Mary last school year has re turned to parish work Brewer 6 Advocates opponents get set for next step By DOROTHY SCHNEIDER dschneiderjournalandcouriercom Noticeably absent from the discussion Tuesday of a proposed juvenile justice center in Tippecanoe County was resident Michele Blaas been a vocal oppo nent of the cost and scope of the project As coordinator of the Tax Advocacy Group Blaas filed a public records request in March seeking mails and other correspondence on the project from elected and youth services officials After publicly requesting the council delay its vote on the project at a July 2 meet ing Blaas chose not to join the 25 other citizens who spoke during public comment on the project Tuesday Most spoke in favor of the project At the close the council voted unanimously to move forward with further planning on the 38 bed de tention assessment and pro grammingfacility a good thing they did not approve the funding (yet) and the council is present ing concerns for getting the numbers Blaas said Wednesday She believes the price tag is too high and could still balloon But Blaas said she and other members of the group for which she could not provide a membership es timate plan to continue pres suring elected officials to ex amine cost cutting measures Blaas said her group is also reviewing the public docu ments released to them at the end of last week They have electronic copies of mails from officials including the commissioners Youth Ser vices Executive Director Re becca Humphrey and Auditor Jennifer Weston The next planning phase is design development which should provide better con structioncost estimates Those designs are due to the commissioners by Sept 3 Humphrey said thankful for the community participation at recent meet ings continue to receive overwhelmingly positive sup port in public meetings and conversations continue for the betterment of our com she said Among those support ing the project is Dan Hol lingsworth of Lafayette who urged the council to approve the project at meet 1 ing His son is in the juvenile system and has been for some 1 time putting strain on the en tire family especially because of how far away kept Hollingsworth and his wife recently made an overnight visit to Columbus to sec their son said to me I had the best sleep had since beefi here because I knew you and Mom were hard to put a price on any of Hollingsworth said WBAA gets signal boost THE NEWS WBAA Purdue Univer public radio station will increase the power ofy its station after receiving approval from the ederal Communications Commis sion The 1013 sig nal will increase from 5000 watts to 14000 watts ac cording to station General Manager Tim Singleton WBAA also broadcasts on AM 920 WHAT IT MEANS The signal increase dramatically Single ton said But it will get stron ger in the Lafayette area will get better recep tion in the immediate area and extend our coverage a Singleton said Overall Singleton though coverage would only expand a couple miles The AM sta tion will not change wattage WHY THE INCREASE Singleton said the relo cation of another transmitter allowed for the change was because of a station in Richmond Indiana We had to protect their signal so we did not interfere with Singleton said have moved their transmit ter so we can expand our WHAT'S NEXT Singleton said the station already planned to convert its AM and signals to dig ital and received a $75000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting The part of that was put on hold when WBAA learned it could expand the signal Instead of upgrading the old transmitter and then hav ing to buy a new one WBAA plans to just buy a new trans mitter before the upgrade to digital Singleton said the grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be modified to cover part of the cost He said a total for the project is unknown because bids have not been sought for the new equipment Singleton thought it would be next year before the proj ect is complete Brian Wallheimer bwallheimerjournaland couriercom IRST YEAR CONTINUED ROM PAGE Cl before other fundraising pro grams because she says symbolic of her dedication to student success Others say they believe got their backs as well Glen and StizieParker fac ulty in political science said dedication to put ting more emphasis on lib eral arts is going to be good for the university think she recognizes you have a great uni versity without greatliberal Suzie Parker said Glenn Parker said something been miss ing at Purdue for some time like what he said arts needs to be strengthened here at Purdue dedicated to Cordova oster fitting right in By BRIAN WALLHEIMER bwallheimerjournalandcouriercom In the free time had Purdue University President rance C6rdova has seen much of Tippecanoe County by bicycle "I have no idea how far we go I just follow Chris" C6r dova said of her rides with her 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