The Homewood Star Volume 5 | Issue 8 | November 2015
A Sunday ride
neighborly news & entertainment for Homewood
Seeing the better side Josh Foster turns tragedy into unforeseen opportunity
Homewood cyclists form community through weekly rides across the city.
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Humans of Homewood
Local photographer uses lens to look deeper into personalities, lives.
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Despite being in a wheelchair since a 2013 car wreck, Josh Foster continues to be physically active and teach others to challenge their boundaries. Photo by Frank Couch.
By JESSE CHAMBERS Josh Foster’s exercise routine made Romen McDonald, the owner of Squad Fitness, stop in his tracks. “The first time I saw Josh, he was suspended in the air doing dips while his wheelchair was attached to him,”
McDonald said. Foster has used a wheelchair since a March 2013 car wreck injured his spinal cord. Despite that, McDonald immediately wanted to hire the 32-year-old to work at Squad, which is located in Homewood and Trussville. “I was instantly inspired and knew this
would motivate others,” McDonald said. The opportunity was just as welcome for Foster, who has been in love with fitness since he was a kid and needed a positive direction as he worked to come back from the car wreck.
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A blast from Homewood’s past
New pictorial history book documents city from founding to present Jake Collins and Martha Wurtele look through photos they used for the new Images of America: Homewood book. They worked on the book, which will hit bookshelves Nov. 30, in the Homewood Room of the Homewood Public Library. Photo by Frank Couch.
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Jake Collins and Martha Wurtele are more proud to call themselves listeners than authors. For Collins, writing history is all about getting to know people. He would know. For the past several years he has spent hours upon hours with a handful of Homewood’s residents who remember Edgewood Lake, for which Lakeshore is named, and homes that
See HISTORY | page A31
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