Janine Allen doesn’t get a birthday, per say, this year, but she’s coming up on 27. The leap day baby has spent the past five years in Haines.
Allen was born and raised in Greeley, Colo., and named after a nurse who worked with her obstetrician-gynecologist father and nurse mother in the delivery room where they met.
At age 4, Allen was diagnosed with congenital hearing loss and soon fitted with hearing aids.
In elementary…