The staff and students at Peperzak Middle School know each Nov. 7 is a gift. Every year since the school opened in 2023, its occupants welcome a special guest to celebrate her birthday: school namesake Carla Olman Peperzak, a local Holocaust survivor. She turned 103 on Saturday and visited the South Hill school to the reverence of hundreds of tweens on Friday. “It was not lost on us how important it was and how valuable it was, how much of an asset and how special it was to be able to have our school’s namesake be with us,” said principal...
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