By Kaitlin Candelaria Betty Daigle and Dolly Walker have been affectionately dubbed the Gardening Grannies by the faculty and staff at Riverchase Elementary School. Both Master Gardeners, the women are not only deft with a spade and a hoe, they also must accumulate at least 25 volunteer hours a year to maintain their Master Gardner certification. When they received an … [Read more...]
Double Take: Smith Splits Her Time Between Two Schools
By Kaitlin Candelaria Jamie Smith said it’s important to her to not only learn the names of the kids at her schools, but also to learn a little bit about them. Man, does she have her work cut out for her. Smith, who just accepted the assistant principal positions at Deer Valley Elementary School and at Brock’s Gap Intermediate School in Hoover, will be working with more than … [Read more...]