Sun Neighborly news & entertainment for Hoover
Taking the field
Volume 3 | Issue 11 | August 2015
Feeding Hoover
Hoover and Spain Park are preparing for the start of the new football season. Read more inside.
See page A18
A perfect match
Local organization addressing child hunger through community partnerships Read more about a local man who found his kidney donor in an unexpected place.
See page B1
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By KATIE TURPEN For Rocky Ridge Elementary School Principal Dil Uswatte, one childhood memory stands out vividly. She was in second grade and was sent to
Rocky Ridge Elementary School Principal Dr. Dil Uswatte and Riverchase United Methodist Church Associate Pastor Tyler Christiansen are partnering up to launch a weekend backpack program at the elementary school this fall. Photo by Keith McCoy.
the grocery store with a bag of change to buy a loaf of bread. As she was checking out, she was informed she was 25 cents too short. “I immediately just froze,” Uswatte said. “But then the woman behind me slid a quarter forward. I left the store quickly. I never got the
chance to thank her that day.” It is that personal connection that has Uswatte passionately involved in fighting child hunger in Hoover City Schools.
See CHILD HUNGER | page A23
Between two cities Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, a couple calls both Hoover and New Orleans home By SYDNEY CROMWELL The electronic harpsichord in Barry and Fran Ivker’s living room doesn’t immediately draw the eye. It’s covered in picture frames and papers and dwarfed by the two pianos that also share the room. However, the harpsichord holds a special place because it is one of the few things the Ivkers could rescue from their flooded home after Hurricane Katrina hit. On Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, Barry remembers wondering if
See KATRINA | page A22
Most of Barry and Fran Ivker’s belongings were destroyed after Hurricane Katrina, but they managed to salvage over 500 pounds of Mardi Gras beads stored in their attic. They brought those beads to their new home in Hoover. Photo by Sydney Cromwell.
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