Ashbrook inspires blood drive

by Divya Kumar News Editor  It is a rare thing for a teacher to have much of a lasting affect on a student beyond the school year in which they are acquainted. This clearly is not the case for Coppell Middle School North’s Band Director, Joel Ashbrook, whose students not only hold him fondly in their memories, but are also willing to go to great lengths for him. Ashbrook, whose bone marrow has recently stopped producing platelets, is now going through chemo therapy for what doctors feel might be cancer. While normally this process requires medical care and money to be received, upon hearing the news Ashbrook’s students – both former and current – decided to…