Normal Park Zoning Debate Continues
November 24th, 2011A discussion about whether to expand the Normal Park school zone again turned into much more at Thursday night’s Hamilton County school board meeting.It brought up old issues from the Hill City debate and new ones since the board decided to let that area attend Normal Park Museum Magnet School. It ended with an emotional presentation from the school’s principal and board member Rhonda Thurman walking out during the meeting.A mother-to-be asked the Hamilton County school board to include 1 Northshore into the Normal Park school zone after Chip Baker proposed it. Baker says it’s only fair because the board agreed to let Hill City students into the magnet school zone at the November 3 meeting. Other board members wanted more information, but Rhonda Thurman wanted to forget the topic altogether.”I am ready to move on,” Thurman told the board. “There are other kids just as important as the ones at Normal Park and the surrounding areas.”But the issue isn’t over. To illustrate the point that the school will soon become overcrowded, Normal Park Principal Jill Levine showed the board real estate listings in Hill City.
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Why do we stuff ourselves at Thanksgiving? The following is an excerpt from Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, by Gordon Shepherd. In the excerpt Shepherd begins by looking at fast food and then looks at some of the neurological reasons for why we overeat at Thanksgiving and other times of the year.