Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 8410 GoodLifeFamilyMag.com NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2016 For complete details or to nominate someone for ourVIP Award, visit goodlifefamilymag.com or emailTricia@goodlifefamilymag.com. When he isn’t on the road, spreading the word on the dangers of Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs (APEDs), Don Hooton says he enjoys the twenty- foot commute to his home office, cup of coffee in hand. But as founder of the Taylor Hooton Foundation (THF), named after his beloved 17-year-old son who died tragically in 2003 as the result of steroid usage, he says his time is best spent out of the office. When Taylor died, Don and wife Gwen were shocked to learn how many of their son’s friends also used steroids. “We figured if we’d been ignorant, other parents were too,” he says. His initial step was simply to reach out locally, and just six weeks after Taylor’s death, he spoke to over 600 students at Plano West High School. But what began as a grieving father’s cautionary tale to Taylor’s classmates quickly grew to something much bigger. A Dallas Morning News reporter in the audience that day ran a story, leading to another story in the New York Times. Soon after, Sixty Minutes called. “I realized this wasn’t some epidemic limited to North Texas. Somehow, we’d walked into an information vacuum on a national level,” he says. Since then, Don and THF have moved nothing short VIPAWARD Major League Dad by Kristin Cicciarelli DON HOOTON’S MISSION: KEEPING KIDS SAFE FROM STEROIDS The Hooton Family: Don Hooton, Gwen Hooton, Taylor Hooton (of blessed memory), Donald Hooton Jr., Mackenzie Hooton Mikulas “Believe me, the problem’s there, and it’s going on in your child’s school.” - Don Hooton