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Local couple opens F45 Training Four Points
David and Gina Bohreer recently opened F45 Training and hosted a West Austin Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday at 7900 RM 620, adjacent to Home Depot.
By LYNETTE HAALAND
Four Points News
A local couple opened F45 Training fitness studio last month and hosted a West Austin Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday at 7900 RM 620, adjacent to Home Depot.
“F45 is a 45 minute functional, high intensity, interval training, group class that anyone can do from beginners to advanced members,” said owner David Bohreer, a sixth-degree black belt in taekwondo and Steiner Ranch resident. “What sets F45 Training Four Points there are 27 different programs and over 3,000 different exercises so you will never experience the same class twice.”
Bohreer and his wife, Gina, have a son, Jacob at Vandegrift, and a daughter, Julia at Canyon Ridge Middle School. They have lived in Austin for three years and lived in Phoenix before that.
Students harvest and taste
Local families enjoyed an event at Steiner Ranch Elementary where students harvested vegetables from the school gardens and also tasted fresh produce in the “Eat the Alphabet” portion of the event on April 21.
#BuildTheRoad update
By LYNETTE HAALAND
Four Points News
The community’s help has made a difference in getting Washington D.C.’s attention regarding the construction of a second access road to Vandegrift. Leander ISD launched the #BuildTheRoad campaign a month ago at a public forum at VHS, and through tweets, emails, letters and phone calls, Washington is getting the message.
“You have been heard! We are in contact with all members of the regional congressional delegation and both Texas senators. They are concerned and working on your behalf,” according to an update from the Washington contingency on June 15 given to Pam Waggoner, vice president of LISD Board of Trustees and founder of the Four Points Traffic Committee, which is spearheading this effort.
“The Washington contingency has our letters, they have been spoken to and seem to be in agreement with us,” Waggoner said.
How accusing a powerful man of rape drove a college student to suicide – Part 1
Megan Rondini, shown in August 2014, 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 KATIE BAKER
BuzzFeed
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama — Megan Rondini’s friends and family remember her as having an ironclad sense of right and wrong. Her childhood nickname was “Rules Rondini” because she was such a principled board game player. As an honors student at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Megan offered rides to drunk girls walking alone at night, even after one threw up in her backseat.
No one was there to help Megan — a Vandegrift honors graduate from Steiner Ranch — when she found herself in that very situation one night in July 2015, except for a well-to-do businessman Megan knew only as “Sweet T.” The 34-year-old later told authorities he offered 20-year-old Megan a ride home because he and a friend saw her leaving downtown Tuscaloosa alone. Megan couldn’t remember how she ended up in Sweet T’s white Mercedes on the way to his ornate mansion, decorated with his choicest hunting conquests, from massive-tusked elephant and wide-mouthed hippo heads to taxidermied lions and leopards. But, Megan later told police, she was sober enough by the time he pointed her toward his bedroom to know she didn’t want to have sex with him — and, she said, Sweet T should’ve known it, too.