Category Archives: Grandview Hills

11-0 Viper football continues in playoffs

Vandegrift Vipers senior wide receiver Ryan Merriffeld (11) carries the ball at the VHS and Tomball Memorial game at Monroe Stadium on Nov. 16.
SCOTT W. COLEMAN

By SCOTT W. COLEMAN, Four Points News

Vandegrift’s best all-around performance of the season ended in a 35-14 victory over Tomball Memorial on Friday night, sending the Vipers to a second-round matchup with Klein Collins on Friday, Nov. 23.

The Vipers (11-0) broke big plays in the passing game and the running game, with quarterback Drew Dawson going 15-of-20 for 277 yards and three touchdowns. He rushed for the game’s first score.

“(Dru) threw the ball well, he escaped pressure, he used his legs when he needed to,” said Sanders.

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Steiner Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving

The Steiner Ranch HOA Event Planning Committee invites residents, their friends, and family t

Students at Grandview Hills Elementary participated in a Turkey Trot earlier this month where each student ran around the perimeter of the school, about a 1 mile course. Students finishing in the top three of their age bracket each received a medal to recognize their accomplishment. Following the Nov. 1 race, GHE students participated in other field day activities including jump rope, hula hoop, tug of war and basketball games. Continue reading →

Thanksgiving feast at Laura W. Bush Elementary

Laura W. Bush Elementary kindergarteners had fun dressing up as pilgrims for the annual Thanksgiving feast, and first graders joined in the festivities dressed as Native Americans, said Mindy Hostick, kinder teacher. Continue reading →

SAFE Center opens after former Viper grad’s death

Megan Rondini, shown in March 2013 in Patagonia, grew up in Steiner Ranch, graduated from Vandegrift, and attended the University of Alabama on an honors scholarship. She killed herself in 2016 without closure to her long, drawn-out rape case.

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Last month — more than two and a half years after Vandegrift alumnus Megan Rondini’s death — the Tuscaloosa SAFE Center opened to perform sexual assault forensic exams in the University of Alabama city.  

“We’re pleased to see progress and believe it honors Megan’s memory as well as her wish that no one should have been treated the way she was treated,” said Mike Rondini, father of Megan.

Megan was a former University of Alabama student who grew up in Steiner Ranch and graduated VHS in 2013. In July 2015, Megan, then 20, was entering her junior year as a pre-med honors student at UA. She was majoring in biology with a 3.812 cumulative GPA. She hung herself in February 2016, less than a year after she claimed she was raped by an influential businessman in Tuscaloosa, and then denied treatment from UA counseling services, or the proper handling of her case by the Tuscaloosa Sheriff’s Department.  

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