Comment on Honoring her legacy of service

About 80 people will spend Saturday painting fences, volunteering at the humane society and performing other good deeds in memory of Virginia Tech shooting victim and Centennial grad Austin Cloyd. CHAMPAIGN — Centennial High School seniors Nellie Haug and Grant Thurman were in second grade on that awful April day in 2007 when 32 people, including Austin Cloyd, were killed in a shooting at Virginia Tech. Haug and Thurman didn't know Miss Cloyd, a Centennial graduate, and they don't remember a whole lot about that day. "That was so long ago," Thurman said. read more