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November 16, 2022
The Voice of the West Valley for 37 years
Tigers swim to state title
BY DAVID MEDINA
West Valley View Staff Writer
SPORTS ........ 12 Millennium High senior commits to Texas State
FEATURES ..... 18 Traveler bringing world music to Goodyear
YOUTH .......... 22
Tolleson Service Committee Thanksgiving dinner is back OPINION ................. 6 BUSINESS.............. 10 SPORTS ..................12 CALENDAR ............13 FEATURES ..............14 OBITUARIES ...........20 YOUTH ..................21 CLASSIFIEDS ..........23 NORTH
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or the first time in program history, the Millennium High School boys swim and dive team are state champions. The Tigers recently won the Division II state championship in Mesa. Led by head coach Dave Laudati, the state championship put a cherry on top of the best swim and dive season in the school’s history. Kai Nabor, a senior captain on the swim team, knew that the expectations were high from the start of the season. He wasn’t alone in that, though. He said many of the other student-athletes felt that something special was brewing on the team early on. “A lot of us have swam with coach Dave before, so having him again for a lot of our senior years really got us motivated,” Nabor said. “It really made us want to swim harder, and I guess you could say faster in a way, just because he came back and he even said he came back for us.
The Millennium boys swim and dive team recently won the Division II state championship. (Milleni-
um Swim and Dive Team/Submitted)
“We really just wanted to come out here and show him what we were made of. A big majority of our boys’ team are seniors, so we
went in from the jump really wanting that
a burning hot vehicle as a 5-year old to being diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that will render her blind within the next decade, Ana has been through it all. Ana has been blessed with two guardian angels, though. Her adoptive mother, Marcela Ochoa, and her rescuing police officer,
Beau Wagnar, saved her from what her life could have been. With her angels by her side, Ana has weathered any storm life has thrown her way, all the while doing so with a smile and contagious happiness.
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Police send girl to Disneyland BY JOE MCHUGH
West Valley View Staff Writer
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ine-year-old Ana Ochoa has been through more hardships than anyone two or three times her age could have imagined. From being neglected as a child and left in
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