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Marietta hoop dance instructor donates hula hoops to Marietta City Schools.

Alphabet Hoops is focused on introducing kids to the joys and benefits of hula hooping.

Lorene Shaw, the face behind Alphabet Hoops, was so moved by hoop dance and her friend Laura Roinstad, of Baila Hoops, that with the help of some videos, she started making her own hoops and sharing them.

Shaw is now a hoop dance instructor.

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To increase the number of kids that Shaw reaches, she wants to introduce hula hooping to adults who work with kids. Shaw is attempting to donate two adult-sized hula hoops to the P.E. department of each of the .

On Jan. 23, Shaw donated hoops to . On March 13, she made a donation to .

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