LAGRANGE â Show off your classic car and help a family battling to get their daughter healthy this Saturday at Everage Auto just north of LaGrange.
The LaGrange car lot will be hosting the first-ever Daniah Nieto Car Show and Fundraiser this Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
The event was created to help the family of Nieto, a 10-year-old Lakeland Intermediate School student, cope with the costs associated with traveling to Chicago where Nieto is being treated for two extremely rare medical conditions. Nieto suffered from two linked genetic mutations â Smith-McCort Dysplasia and Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen Dysplasia. Those conditions result in uncharacteristic and somewhat abnormal skeletal development and are characterized by shorter limbs, a shorter trunk, and a barrel chest. These conditions are not noticeable at birth, and the condition is so rare fewer than 100 cases have been observed worldwide.
He went on to say he hopes to announce the name of the new superintendent soon.
Dr. Eva Merkel, Lakelandâs current superintendent, announced late last year that she intends to retire at the end of this school year. Before becoming superintendent, Merkel was the principal at the schoolâs high school.
Larimer said he was pleased by the number of âqualityâ candidates that applied to be Lakelandâs next superintendent, although he made it clear he would not say how many applicants the school system had in that initial field of candidates.
Larimer did say that the search committee managed to narrow that field down to five, and after a round of interviews, narrowed that field down to three finalists.
LAGRANGE — When Sam Plew was a kid, he said he was absolutely fascinated when he opened a National Geographic magazine and first learned that it does snow in Africa,