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Valley View Officials Salute Olympic Gold Medal Winner

Justin Payton, a junior at Bolingbrook High School, showed his mettle and brought home a shiny medal from a competition in Orlando, Fla.

At the Valley View School Board meeting earlier this week, district officials welcomed home an Olympic gold medal winner.

Justin Payton, a junior at Bolingbrook High School, was congratulated for winning the national gold medal at the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific (ACT-SO) Olympics in Orlando, Fla., over the summer months.

Payton posed for photographs with Bolingbrook High School principal Michael White and his parents, Dorietta and Mark Payton.


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