Friday flyover

If you look up to the sky Friday morning you will likely see a helicopter flying over Coal City High School.
The ABC7 Chicago news chopper will be hovering over the school for its popular Friday Flyover segment.
Station representatives contacted principal Chris Spencer several weeks ago to say the school was selected for the weekly feature based on viewer nominations.
The Friday morning segments provide selected schools an opportunity to not only highlight school spirit and outstanding students, but the community as well.
Throughout the morning news cast that goes live at 5 a.m. on Oct. 18 various students, school and community leaders will be interviewed, and flyovers highlighting various formations on the football field are slated to be aired at 6:20, 6:40 and 6:55 a.m.
Spencer indicated the formations are being worked on and will likely include interlocking C’s and possibly a hashtag featuring the football team’s 2019 motto of grit.
Students, staff and community members are invited and encouraged to participate in the segment.
“We are hoping to get a good crowd to come out,” Spencer said.
Students and community members are asked to arrive between 5 and 5:15 a.m. and report to the football stadium.
The football team, cheerleaders and Marching Coaler Band will all be participating in the event, as will the student council.
The Friday Flyover comes on the morning of the Coalers’ home football game against long-time conference rival Wilmington. Both teams enter the contest at 7-0.
Hot chocolate, coffee and donuts will be served at no cost while supplies last.
This isn’t the first time the Coalers have been featured on a morning news program. In October 2011, the school was selected as the NBC5 Prep Destination of the Week, an event that brought over 1,500 people to the school in the early morning hours on a football Friday.
School leaders are once again looking forward to a large crowd of Coaler fans joining them at the stadium.
“Everyone is invited to join us, the more the merrier,” Spencer said.