Grandorf School for the Deaf

Grandorf School for the Deaf has made a few odd appearances here and there in the Butler County Times since 1990. It's not too many that you can't look at all of them, and so after scrolling through a few pages you manage to find something incredibly useful in an article that isn't even focused on the school itself: "Local Students Provide Key Evidence in Scientific Study." The article, from March of this year (1999) mentions that the "Ford Sisters" who attend public school in Butler County, are one of only a handful of identical twins in the world who suffer from two different genetic issues. One of them has asthma, and the other has a deadly allergy to peanuts. Their mother, a "Ms. Suzie Ford" who is principal at the nearby "Grandorf School for the Deaf" was originally contacted by researchers looking to identify if there were any sets of twins where one was born deaf and the other was not. While she didn't have any twins attending her school, she asked if her daughters, Melissa and Heather, could be useful and it turns out, they were. She says, "They couldn't be more different. My youngest (we all call her that even though it's only by about 15 minutes) is shy but essentially hasn't stopped running from the moment she learned to scamper. Asthma has kept her sister off the soccer field, but she's the definition of 'extrovert' and is even performing in a local production of 'Is There Life After High School?' later this year." The article includes a picture of the girls, added to your evidence.