Robert Redford is directing the movie and stars as the trainer. Being out in the open and on your own here is a special thing. Hoping to inspire students at his old high school, track and field champion Carl Lewis is donating a life-size mural of himself performing the long jump. By his senior year at Willingboro High School in Willingboro, N.J., Lewis was ranked fifth in the world in the long jump. Lewis has fond memories of the southern New Jersey community 16 miles east of Philadelphia, although he lives in Houston now, he said.
Nobody forgets where they came from.
I want students to look at the mural and say 'Hey, he sat in the same classroom, had the same teachers, and became a success. The City Council on Friday approved the name Theo Wilson Square for the intersection of Glencoe Way and Camrose Drive in Hollywood Heights, where she lived for 25 years near the Hollywood Bowl. She would just be so proud. She was a modest woman. She would probably say this was overdone.