How to make custom front page section for sticky post?

I’m customizing the bresponzive theme to replace the slider widget with a single sticky post. I’ve gotten it to echo back correctly, but for some reason, stickies are showing up only in the “recent posts” section.

I suspect that I didn’t correctly modify the loop to correspond with my sticky post code. Do you see an error in my main index template code?

<?php get_header(); ?>

<!--#blocks-wrapper-->
<div id="blocks-wrapper" class="clearfix">
<!--#blocks-left-or-right-->

	<div id="blocks-left" class="eleven columns clearfix">
   			<?php
		if(isset($bresponZive_tpcrn_data['offline_feat_slide'])) { if($bresponZive_tpcrn_data['offline_feat_slide'] =='1')  include_once('includes/flex-slider.php'); }?>

<?php
$sticky = get_option('sticky_posts');
$not_in = array();
if ( $sticky ) {
   $args = array(
      'posts_per_page' => 1,
      'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
      'post__in' => $sticky,
   );
   $sticky_posts = get_posts($args);
   if ($sticky_posts) {
      foreach ($sticky_posts as $post) {
         setup_postdata($post);
         $not_in[] = $post->ID;
         echo "<h2>Sticky Post</h2><p>$post->ID ";the_title();echo '</p>';
      }
   }
}
wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<h2 class="blogpost-wrapper-title"><?php _e('Recent Posts','bresponZive');?> </h2>
			<?php   get_template_part( 'includes/blog', 'loop' );?>
<!--homepage content-->
 							<?php dynamic_sidebar('Magazine Style Widgets)'); ?>

  			</div>
 			<!-- /blocks col -->
 <?php get_sidebar();  ?>
 <?php get_footer(); ?>