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Volume 4 | Issue 2 | November 2015
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Hoover family’s everyday life attracts thousands of followers to watch their YouTube vlogging endeavor.
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Sight on success
Students eat lunch at Deer Valley Elementary, which is at about 108 percent capacity. Photo by Frank Couch.
Football coach Josh Niblett hits 100-win mark at Hoover, but it’s a fear of failure that drives him.
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Rezoning a pressing issue for schools at or past capacity By JON ANDERSON If anyone knows about the need to redraw Hoover school attendance zones, it’s Principal Wayne Richardson of Deer Valley Elementary School. Deer Valley added about 35 students over the past year, pushing enrollment to about 885, which school system officials say is 108 percent
of capacity. Due to grade configurations, Richardson said he had to add three classrooms over this past summer, and with more houses being built in his school zone, he expects to have to add at least two more next year. Deer Valley has only two rooms left to add students, he said. A guidance counselor is using one, and the other is being used to store extra furniture, he said.
“We’re overcrowded … We are very, very tight,” Richardson said. “It’s kind of important that something happens.” That’s one reason Hoover school officials were trying to come up with a rezoning plan to redistribute children among schools a year ago, and why new Superintendent Kathy Murphy has
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Marine’s death inspires parents to serve others
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George and Marynell Winslow have fond memories of their son, Ryan Winslow, a Marine who was killed in Iraq 9½ years ago. Photo by Frank Couch.
It has been almost 10 years since Hoover native Ryan Winslow was killed by a bomb in Iraq, but the pain of losing him is still all too real for his parents, George and Marynell Winslow. They still vividly remember the day in April 2006 when two Marines in green uniforms came to their door to inform them their 19-year-old son
had been killed just three weeks into a seven-month tour in Iraq. Ryan was one of three scouts for the 2nd Tank Battalion killed when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. Marynell said she gave the two Marines who came to her home a hard time, telling them they must have come
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