HINTON — Eighteen-year-old Avah Meadows still remembers Friday nights when her cheer squad had to beg parents for rides to away games, piling pom-poms and duffel bags into sedans because there wasn’t money for a bus.
She remembers the flickering lights in the auditorium, worn bleachers in the gym, and the old, dented locker she used to store all her books.
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