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Every morning for the past three years, new head varsity cross country coach Andrew Easton wakes up with the same thing on his wrist: a yel-low rubber bracelet, showing support for his para-lyzed father.
On Nov. 11, 2011 a sick Andrew Easton Sr. left in the middle of the night to go get some medi-cine. The drive changed his life forever. It caused his paralysis from the neck down. In Aug. 2013, he had a double amputation to remove his legs be-cause of infection.
Two years after his father’s accident, Easton has come into a new town, a new school and taken on a new coaching position.
The one thing that remains constant is the yel-low bracelet.
Easton was born in Gillespie, Illinois. As the son and grandson of two football players, his life KDV�EHHQ�KHDYLO\�LQÀXHQFHG�E\�VSRUWV�
“My dad was the head coach at my high school in football for years,” Easton said. “He was actu-ally put into the Illinois High School Football [Coaches Association] Hall of Fame for the num-ber of wins during his career.”
However, despite his family’s heavy back-ground in football, Easton’s passion was cross country.
“It’s funny; coming from a family of football players, you’d probably expect me to play football as well,” Easton said.
Gillespie High School didn’t have a cross coun-try program when Easton was a freshman, so his grandfather retired from his illustrious football position to begin a cross country program for his JUDQGVRQ��,W�JRW�R�WR�D�VORZ�VWDUW�
³)RU�PRVWO\�WKDW�HQWLUH�¿UVW�VHDVRQ��DOO�ZH�GLG�was jog to a nearby park, drink soda and hang out,” Easton said. “None of us really took it seri-ously. I think we ended up placing last in our con-ference that year.”
Easton’s family saw his potential and sent him to more established running programs and camps in several other states.
“I went to a lot of camps and learned how to run and the strategies of cross country,” Easton said.
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Boys cross country coach Andrew Easton talks strategy with sophomore Milo Gre-der before the Charlie Thorell Invitational held Thursday, Sept. 5 in Seward, NE. The varsity boys won the meet for [OL�ÄYZ[�[PTL�PU�ZJOVVS�OPZ[VY`�^P[O�Ä]L�Y\UULYZ�medaling in the top 20. Photo by Jakob Phillips
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“During that time, my grandpa read and learned about the sport. By my senior year, my grandpa, my dad and I had whipped the team into shape. :H�¿QLVKHG�P\�FDUHHU�H[WUHPHO\�FRPSHWLWLYH�DQG�placed 11th at state that season.”
The improvements in the team weren’t just from the coaches. Easton emerged as a leader in the cross country team as well.
Easton took over many responsibilities after his sophomore season.
“He had a pretty good grip on how it all worked,” Easton Sr. said. “You could almost say he was more of a player and a coach.”
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“My grandfather was really my inspiration,” Easton said. “He supported me through every decision and helped me succeed in what I really wanted to do.”
Following his high school career, Easton want-ed to pursue the next level of cross-country: the college level.
“I wanted to go to a big school,” Easton said. “I thought I was going to go to Kentucky. I had ran there before and really liked their program, but the summer before my junior year, I ran at the Kansas summer cross country camp and really fell in love with Lawrence.”
Easton experienced considerable success with running, but soon the amount of work that college required proved to be too much. He was forced to quit after his sophomore year.
“I decided not to [run] for my last two years because I was working as a director of a dorm,” Easton said. “So my decision was made because the job was keeping me up three nights a week. It was a great experience, but the demands of my HGXFDWLRQ�DQG�ZRUN�PDGH�LW�YHU\�GLFXOW�WR�UXQ�DW�the same time.”
Halfway through his college career, Easton stopped running daily. It was not until an im-mense tragedy occurred that he returned to the sport he loved.
“My dad’s accident will be three years ago this November,” Easton said. “Because of that, I start-ed running again. I just got back to enjoying the sport. When I came up here, I had a great oppor-tunity to get back into running with the coaching
position.”Just as Easton has taken a positive view on the
situation, so has Easton Sr. “It’s actually been kind of a blessing,” Easton
Sr. said. “It’s made me a lot more patient. I spend a lot more time thinking about things. [...] My life just kind of changed overnight, but I know I have to keep going.”
As he watched his father push forward through his newfound disability, Easton realized how for-tunate he was to be able to run.
“If he could take one more step, he would, and I really appreciate that,” Easton said. “I don’t take what I have for granted, [which is] why I started running again.”
Even through all the tragedy and the opportu-nities to call it quits, Easton Sr. will continue to say that his struggle “isn’t that impressive.”
“What I have to deal with is not as impres-sive as people who have cancer or Alzheimer’s,” Easton Sr. said. “We all have crosses to bear. We just have to pick it up and keep going.”
At Westside, Easton continues his family tradi-tion of coaching young athletes, a skill that seems to be in their blood. However, now Easton runs not just because he loves it, but also for the person that the yellow bracelet represents.
Student vacations to Israel to become closer to her culture, religion
5RFNHWV� ÀDVKLQJ�� SHRSOH� SDFNHG� LQWR� HYHU\�inch of every street, safety precautions taken with every single step outside. This is what junior Sophie Budwig was dealing with for a summer when she went to the city she had been learning about her whole life. Budwig was raised Jewish and has since connected with others and had many amazing experiences because of it. As it is a big a part of her life, she wanted to experi-HQFH� WKH�FLW\�ZKHUH� LW�ZDV�FUHDWHG�¿UVWKDQG��6R�R�%XGZLJ�ZHQW�
:KHQ�%XGZLJ�ZDV�RHUHG�WKH�FKDQFH�WR�JR�WR�Israel with her youth group for her mission trip, she was naturally excited and anxious. While Budwig was excited for most of the time prepar-ing for the trip, her feelings completely changed when she lost her passport.
“I was starting to think to myself ‘I don’t even want to go, this is dumb,’ but when we [Budwig’s family] found it, I started to want to go again,” Budwig said.
Upon arriving in the country, Budwig realized she didn’t have much to worry about.
“Everyone was so friendly, and it’s cool to see how similar we really are,” Budwig said.
Budwig found herself loving the people she was around and feeling comfortable in the place she was going to be calling her home for the next month and a half.
The youth group sought out to absorb as much of the culture as they could and to connect more with their religion through being in the place Ju-daism was born.
“The entire trip was based around the fact that we were all Jewish,” Budwig said. “It was re-ally interesting to actually be able to see all the places the history took place that I always hear
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Above: Junior So-phie Budwig stands on Mount Solomon
in Isreal. “I hated the OPRPUN�ILJH\ZL�P[�^HZ�really hard at times,”
Budwig said. “But look-PUN�IHJR��P[�^HZ�H�YLHSS`�JVVS�L_WLYPLUJL�¹�Photo
provided by Sophie Budwig Bottom: Bud-wig poses for a photo PU�[OL�JHML[LYPH�ILMVYL�
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her youth group over the summer. Photo by
Mitch Francis
about but could never imagine.”Budwig’s trip to Israel was not as grand as
she imagined it would be though. This was due WR�WKH�VHULRXV�,VUDHO�*D]D�FRQÀLFW�WKDW�VKH�IRXQG�herself in the middle of. When they arrived, no one in the group really knew how to handle the situation.
“People were making up rumors, and no one really knew what was going on,” Budwig said. “But once we were informed what was really happening, we felt safe.”
The group was protected in this time and ZDV�LQ�FRQWDFW�ZLWK�RFLDOV�ZKR�NQHZ�ZKDW�ZDV�going on and how to avoid trouble.
As a result, it was not a major setback. How-ever, it did prevent them from seeing some of the places she had learned about in the Torah. )RUWXQDWHO\�� WKLV� GLGQ¶W� VWRS� KHU� IURP� ¿QGLQJ�the beauty in Israel.
“One thing that stuck with me was how close everyone in Israel is,” Budwig said. “Everyone has so much pride [in their country].”
7KH� ,VUDHOLV¶� FRQ¿GHQFH� LQ� WKHLU� FRXQWU\�made the trip all the more enjoyable for the vis-iting youth group. The citizens’ willingness to stick together helped Budwig and her group stay together as well.
“I didn’t really know what to expect going, but at the end, everyone was crying and we didn’t want to go,” Budwig said. “It makes me want to go back.”
Being in the midst of a country where Bud-wig’s religion was very prevelent everywhere she went, she experienced some amazing mo-ments.
“It was really exciting to be able to actually JR� WR� D� GLHUHQW� SODFH� DQG� WR� VHH� VRPHWKLQJ�new,” Budwig said. “Especially something that I had been learning about and wanting to go to for my whole life.”
RUNS IN THE FAMILY Coach honors paralyzed father through leadership
Elizabeth Tape walks around the stage wear-
ing a pair of bright pink Crocs. She eases around
the students near her, but then she stops. She
raises her camera to her gray hair and snaps pic-
tures.
The students she is surrounded by are actors
rehearsing for the upcoming musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. While tak-
ing photos, she feels the energy of the students
on the stage. To her, the amount of enthusiasm
they show during rehearsal is extraordinary. The
excitement of the preparation for performances
is one reason why Elizabeth continues to help out
with musical and theater programs.
Elizabeth and her husband, Tom Tape, have
helped with vocal music and theater programs at
Westside since their oldest son, Samuel, began
attending the high school in 2001. She started
by helping with the band program, but eventu-
ally transitioned into helping with the vocal music
and theater programs as well. Tom and Elizabeth
want to continue their involvement because they
are appreciative of everything Westside has done
for them.
“I feel like Westside did a great deal of good
for our kids,” Tom said. “I think it’s a really qual-
ity program that deserves as much support from
parents and community as it can get. As long as
people are appreciating the pictures we take and
feel it […] adds something to the program, we’re
very happy to do it.”
Elizabeth and Tom also enjoy the performances
students put on. Elizabeth takes great pleasure in
being able to see what happens behind the scenes
during rehearsals.
“The teachers continue to be willing to allow
me to be around [rehearsals] which is something
to which I am extremely grateful [for],” Elizabeth
said. “The students every year are lovely, kind,
DQG�YHU\�UHVSHFWIXO�DQG�WKRXJKWIXO��DQG�WKDW�VWX �never seems to change. It’s still [as] exciting today
as it ever has been.”
Doran Johnson, director of the vocal music
program, is very grateful for their contribution to
the program.
“[Elizabeth] has a heart bigger than the great
outdoors,” Johnson said. “She will do anything for
anyone; she never expects anything in return.”
Johnson was also thankful for everything Tom
has put into the program.
“He does a lot of things we don’t know about,” Johnson said. “He can troubleshoot things; he’s
very good with technology. Tom is just as involved
in the program as Elizabeth.”
As they help out with the departments, they
make an impact on the students that lasts even
after graduation.
“[Pictures of me taken by Elizabeth are] always
good to look back on,” show choir alumni Michael
Paskach said. “The pictures have reminded me
of the memories from sow choir, and I love those
memories.”
Recently, Elizabeth has been putting her time
DQG�HRUW�LQWR�The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Elizabeth will be volunteering with
musical until the show premieres Sept. 25, 26 and
27 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. The show also ap-
pears Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. While attending the re-
hearsals, Elizabeth has been able to connect with
the students acting in the musical. These relation-
ships are something she has been able to gain
through volunteering.
“[I have gained] the profound appreciation I
feel for all the hundreds if possibly not thousands
of students I’ve had the privilege of meeting over
these years that have gone out of their way to make
me feel welcome,” Elizabeth said. “I’m amazed at
how much [volunteering at Westside] continues to
mean to me.”
Top: Elizabeth Tape takes photos of the
musical rehearsal after school Sept. 3. Tape
has contributed to the WHS musical and theater programs for
many years. Right: Tape waits to capture
the right moment during musical rehersal. Tape has been volunteering since 2001. Photos by
Mitch Francis
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Top: Senior Hallie Platt plays a game of braille cards with her mother, Kristal Platt, and the rest of her family Sept. 7. Platt used her experiences with her mother to help come up with the idea for her DECA project, which helps visually impaired children. Left: Platt and her mother pose in their home. Platt’s DECA project will focus on hosting a goalball event. Photos by Sarah Lemke
Senior Halie Platt lives a normal life. She hangs
out with her friends and goes to school like any
RWKHU�WHHQDJHU��EXW�KHU�KRPH�OLIH�LV�GLHUHQW�IURP�anyone else’s. Her mother Kristal is visually im-
paired. Platt has to help her do simple things, but
they have forged a strong connection through the
projects they do together.
:KHQ�WKH\�ZRUN�WRJHWKHU�RQ�GLHUHQW�SURMHFWV��their relationship shines through.
“I help her with Beeping Easter Egg Hunt and
Camp Abilities,” Platt said. “We end up spending
a lot of time together during these events trying to
get everything organized.”
The Easter Egg Hunt and Camp Abilities are
both at Boystown and involve activities for visu-
ally impaired children that help them meet people
with disabilities and create friendships.
The Easter Egg Hunt and Camp Abilities are
activities anyone can participate in, but they are
primarily aimed towards helping the visually
impaired.
Her DECA project draws upon her experiences
working with these camps and shares their aims.
The project is to create a goalball tournament for
visually impaired children.
Goalball is a lot like soccer, but the balls have
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event organized.
Platt mentions how her mom inspired her to
do this project.
“My mom is the director of a sports camp for
visually impaired children,” Platt said. “One of the
sports they play is goalball, so I thought it would
be fun to have a goalball tournament this school
year.”
After she gets permission from the directors,
VKH�ZLOO�PDNH�À\HUV�DQG�VHQG�LW�WR�WKH�SDUWLFLSDQWV��Even though working with her mom is fun, it
can be hard growing up with her mom not being
able to see. She won’t be able to see her daughter
walk down the aisle or see her daughter’s children
face to face. These are more of the unique chal-
lenges Platt to deal with.
“We can’t do some activities that most families
can, and when I was little, my dad had to do all the
driving,” Platt said. “Once I turned 16, I became
WKH�IDPLO\�FKDXHXU�´%HLQJ�WKH�IDPLO\�FKDXHXU�PHDQW�VKH�FRXOGQ¶W�
hang out with her friends as often she wanted to,
but she’s not complaining. She loves to spend time
with her mom, and she treasures the moments she
has with her.
Platt believes people think Platt and her mom
do not have a good relationship, but they have a
stronger relationship than most people.
“People think that I don’t have a good relation-
ship with my mom, but my relationship with her
is strong,” Platt said. “I respect my mom’s opinion
and we get along really well.”
Knowing visually impaired people has given
her a greater sense of perspective on the world
DURXQG�KHU��6KH�ORRNV�DW�WKH�ZRUOG�GLHUHQO\�WKDQ�most people.
“Through all this life experience, it really
pushes me to give kids with the disability a bet-
ter future and to make their lives a little easier,”
Platt said. “Once you meet these kids you feel so
inspired.”
She wanted to help out visually impaired peo-
ple because they don’t get a lot of recognition. She
ZDQWV� WR� KHOS� WKHP� LQ� WKH� IXWXUH� ZLWK� GLHUHQW�projects and services through Boystown.
“We hope that this event will bring awareness
of visual impairment to Westside and that the kids
will have a blast playing one of the few sports they
are able to play,” Platt said.
Platt has shown the Westside community that
HYHQ� WKRXJK� KHU� IDPLO\� LV� GLHUHQW� EHFDXVH� KHU�mother is visually impaired, Platt and her mom
have risen above the disability to create an event
everyone can enjoy.
She hopes her project will enlighten the
Westside community and teach people about
organizations who help out visually impaired
people.
STUCK LIKE TAPEWoman supports programs through pictures
DECA ProjectStudent’s visually impaired mother inspires project
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When asked if she enjoyed the song Gangnam Style by Psy, senior Leah Lee audibly groaned.
The 2012 hit, famous for its entertaining video and dance moves, is what put Korean pop music, or K-Pop, on the map for many Americans. It was parodied on thousands of YouTube channels and featured on countless news stations. At the height of its popularity, it broke records for video views DQG� ZDV� RFLDOO\� LQJUDLQHG� LQ� WKH� SRS� FXOWXUH�landscape.
In Lee’s mind, it doesn’t deserve the attention. The Korean-American student has been a fan
of K-Pop for years, and she prefers artists to stick to the staples of the genre: happy music, intense choreography and entertaining visuals.
According to Lee, K-Pop is meant to be fun. It’s all a production. The groups are carefully pieced together by companies and marketed as a pack-age, and their music videos are often more com-SDUDEOH�WR�D�VKRUW�¿OP�WKDQ�WR�WKH�DYHUDJH�$PHUL-can music video. The entertainment value is what matters, to the industry and to Lee.
While Lee describes her fascination with K-Pop and Korean dramas as just “a hobby,” it also of-fers her an opportunity to better understand her community. K-Pop and K-Drama may not be the best representation of Korean life, but they are a unique way for her to explore the culture.
“I’m actually hearing [the] Korean language and trying to understand it,” Lee said. “I do feel more connected [to my culture].”
Lee is a second generation immigrant, the American-born daughter of parents born in South Korea. She describes herself as “Americanized,” touting her imperfect speaking skills and lack of traditions as evidence.
As a child, much of Lee’s exposure to her cul-ture came from her grandmother. She cared for Lee and her brother while their parents worked. She spoke to the children in Korean, asking them about their day or chastising them for their behav-
ior in her native tongue. As a result, Lee spent the ¿UVW�IHZ�\HDUV�RI�KHU�OLIH�H[FOXVLYHO\�VSHDNLQJ�.R-rean. It was not until her grandmother died that she began to lose touch with her culture.
“When she passed away, I lost that ability to practice speaking Korean everyday,” Lee said. “My parents kill themselves over that because they’re always [so] busy with work that they didn’t have time to be at home and speak Korean with me.”
7KRXJK� LW� EHFDPH� PRUH� GLFXOW� IRU� /HH� WR�speak the language after her grandmother’s death, her culture will never be completely absent from her life. Lee laughingly noted her diet as one ex-ample of this, saying it consists of “all Korean food.” Even on Thanksgiving, when most students HQMR\�WXUNH\�RU�VWXQJ��/HH¶V�IDPLO\�HQMR\V�D�WUD-ditional Korean meal.
Lee also attends a Korean church. Every Sun-day, she listens to a sermon and converses with her friends in her second language. It’s an easy way for her to get involved in the Korean commu-nity here in Omaha.
This community involvement is what ultimate-ly lead to Lee’s renewed interest in her culture. When talking to her Korean friends, Lee noticed how the death of her grandmother changed her. She realized how Americanized she had become.
“I was sort of jealous that they know the culture a lot better than I do,” Lee said. “I felt lost some-times when I was hanging out with them.”
Her jealousy and the cultural pride she had been raised with caused her to take steps to re-immerse herself in her culture. She chose to sign up for a language class.
Every week, the class would review what they’d gone over already and move on to new learning exercises. Lee already understood the language’s basic structure from listening to her parents, but VKH�ZDV�VXUSULVHG�E\�KRZ�PDQ\�VSHFL¿F�JUDPPDU�rules she hadn’t learned. The class taught her the details, the things she couldn’t pick up from lis-tening to her pastor or talking with her friends. 0DUNHUV��RU�VLJQL¿HUV�XVHG�LQ�ZULWLQJ��ZHUH�DQ�H[-ample of something she was surprised to discover.
UN-AMERICANIZEDStudent reconnects with Korean culture through academics, media
Senior Leah Lee sits alongside cul-tural memorabilia in her home on Sept. 8. Lee is a second generation immigrant and is inter-ested in reconnecting with her culture. Photo by Estella Fox
To Lee, her fascination with the Korean lan-guage and the country’s media functioned primar-ily as a great starting point for her journey. It al-lowed her to have a basic idea of what she needed to know, an image that would grow more detailed with research. In her opinion, this is the most im-portant step to understanding a culture.
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She plans on continuing her studies through-out her life. This year, her senior project will re-volve around her experiences relearning her lan-guage and cultural identity. After she graduates, she plans on taking a gap year to study in Korea. There she wants to take language classes and pos-sibly get a job tutoring local students in English.
Still, no matter where she goes, Lee will always have K-Pop to bring her fun and connect her to her roots.
As long as it’s not Psy.
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All is quiet downstairs at the Village Grinder. 6RSKRPRUH�$QQD�'XG]LDN�¿QGV�KHUVHOI�EDNLQJ�
cookies.She sits by herself, headphones in, downstairs
in the Employee’s Only section. There’s a kitchen down there, tucked away from the quiet buzz of customers coming in upstairs.
Anna is a part-time employee, a once-a-week in the summer time kind of employee. But it’s the kind of job that follows her home: in the form of her mother and devoted business women, Pat Dudziak.
To Anna, working at the Grinder means a lot of YDFXXPLQJ�DQG�¿OLQJ�SDSHUZRUN��%DNLQJ�FRRNLHV�ZDV� WKH�¿UVW� VWHSSLQJ�VWRQH� IRU�$QQD� WR�EHFRPH�accustomed the business.
“This way, [Anna] can kind of be a part of it, be here, do something, but not have to be up there, RFLDOO\� KHOSLQJ� D� FXVWRPHU�´� 3DW� VDLG�� ³-XVW� WR�kind of see how the basics work.”
To Pat, however, the Grinder is her career and full-time job.
She arrives at the store at 6 a.m. to make sure the store is ready for customers by 7 a.m. Pat doesn’t leave until nearly evening.
“I’m all about being prepared,” Pat said. “When you have company in your house, you don’t want to be cooking when they’re here. You want to get everything prepared so that you can enjoy it with them.”
Pick up Anna and take her to school. Come EDFN�WR�WKH�VKRS��)LOO� WKH�FRHH�MDUV��RUGHU�PRUH�smoothie supplies, take orders, make a smoothie.
When Pat is making cookies, she does it with-out music.
“I like quiet,” Pat said. “Because it’s busy up-stairs, there’s always something going on. I like to come down and recharge.”
In addition to the baking, cleaning and helping customers, Pat is also in charge of taking time to
create the displays that greet visitors upstairs. Art SLHFHV��D�ZDOO�RI�FRHH�EHDQ�LQ�PXOWLFRORUHG�SDFN-ing, jars of jellybeans and candy.
These displays decorate the front of the store, which faces south towards Westside. It has had WKUHH�GLHUHQW� ORFDWLRQV� LQ� WKH����\HDUV� VLQFH� LWV�creation, with the most recent being ideal because RI�LWV�SUR[LPLW\�WR�3DFL¿F��
Although they have shared the space with the Bookworm for many years, the bookstore plans on relocating to Loveland Centre this October.
The Grinder, however, plans to stay. “I’m staying put,” Pat said. “I’m not leaving.
We get the best business here and we love being a part of the neighborhood.”
Pat claims that moving locations is akin to starting a new business. It’s starting over: new at-mosphere, new location and new people. Pat isn’t willing to give up the customers who have sup-ported her at Countryside for many years.
“We have ladies from the church and little kids who get sugar cookies,” Pat said. “[Our custom-ers] are all ages.”
7KH�*ULQGHU�DOVR�RHUV�D�SODFH�IRU�KLJK�VFKRRO�students like Anna and her friends to do home-work after school. Anna admires the hard work that her mother puts into the shop.
Regarding whether she would someday run the Grinder herself, Anna didn’t think it would hap-pen.
“I used to when I was little, but it’s changed,” Anna said. “I want to be an orthodontist now, but I don’t want to see [the Grinder] go. I’d want some-one that I know would take care of it and keep it the same.”
Whoever takes over the business after Pat, will KDYH�ELJ�VKRHV�WR�¿OO��3DW�SXWV�LQ�RYHU����KRXUV�D�week to working at the Grinder, a job she feels has been greatly rewarding to her.
And although Anna and her mother may not EHQH¿W�LQ�WKH�VDPH�ZD\V�RU�DJUHH�RQ�WKH�ULJKW�W\SH�of music to listen to when baking, both have made the Grinder a home.
Sophomore Anna Dudziak works at the Village Grinder with her mother, Pat Dudziak, Sept. 3. Dudziak works the most hours in the summer time at her TV[OLY»Z�JVќLL�ZOVW��Photo by Sarah Lemke
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