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Volume 5 | Issue 8 | May 2017
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Former councilwoman dedicates her life to caring for adult son in ‘vegetative state’ By JON ANDERSON
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avid Mazur has always been his mother’s “baby,” the younger of two boys to whom she gave birth. When he was growing up, Donna Mazur did everything for David, according to his older brother, Shaun. But never in her life did Donna imagine she’d be where she is today, taking care of the most basic needs of her now 36-year-old son. When David was 22, he had a car accident on Shades Crest Road that left him with a traumatic
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Donna Mazur cares for her son David at her Hoover home. David, now 36, sustained a traumatic brain injury in a car accident in 2003. Photo by Sarah Finnegan.
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Teachers take education outdoors with new pollinator garden project
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By SY DNEY C ROM WE
New Beginnings Students are speaking out against changes to a program for troubled kids, formerly held at Crossroads alternative school, and calling for a full restoration.
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Environmental science teachers J anet O rt and K evin Butler want to make sure their students don’t forget about Hoover High School’s wild neighbors. This year, the pair started on a project to make sure Alabama’s wildlife has a home on the school campus. Around the school’s southwest entrance to campus on Buccaneer Drive, the signs of local wildlife are
This retention pond is where Janet Ort and Kevin Butler plan to install bat and wood duck boxes along with bird- and pollinator-friendly plant species. Photo by Sydney Cromwell.
evident: a songbird resting on a tree branch, bees clustering over spring o ers and a tuft of fur left behind by a deer. Some species, called pollinators, are crucial to the survival of plants in the area. hen e think of pollinators bees are the first thing that come to mind. But pollinators are bats and moths some butter ies and bees of course but
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