This procedure requires the first word of a text to have only one letter, the second two, the third three, and so on as far as resourcefulness and inspiration allow. The first word of a snowball is normally a vowel: in English, a I or O.
From your newspaper, select a starting vowel and then continue adding words of increasing length from the same source article or passage. Challenge yourself further by only using words in order as you encounter them in the text.
Here’s what I came up with, bending the punctuation a bit to remove hyphens and add a possessive. I also put only one word per line, while still having the words increment one letter at a time/per line.
Robin, Laura Arrival of the lambs at Milkhouse Farm and Dairy Apr 10, 2014 print edition, Ottawa Citizen in Food & Drink