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Vol. 21, No. 124
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Gas prices Cost of a gallon of regular unleaded fuel on Sunday
Fuel Stop ................... $2.48 West Kum N Go ....... $2.49 7-Eleven ................... $2.39 Western Petro .......... $2.49 Bob’s Conoco ...................... $2.49 Hilltop Sinclair ..................... $2.49 Anglers Kum N Go............... $2.49 Ski Haus................................ $2.49 Mount Werner Sinclair .......... $2.49 Shell......................................... $2.59 Shop & Hop............................. $2.45 State Average....................$2.37 .................... National Average................$2.42
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Mike Maudlin pauses to collect his thoughts Sunday while speaking at a memorial service for Chris Corna. Maudlin worked with Corna at Slopeside Grill, which Corna owned at the base of Steamboat Ski Area.
Mourners honor Corna
Hundreds crowd lawn outside Slopeside Grill to say goodbye to friend Blythe Terrell
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Chris Corna was a charmer — a lover of animals and Tom Petty, a great teacher, a tireless adventurer and a heck of a businessman, his friends and family members said. Hundreds of them gathered Sunday evening between his beloved Slopeside Grill and his beloved snowboarding mountain. They spoke of Corna’s
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sense of humor, generosity and dashing good looks. Corna died May 18 in Port Chester, N.Y.., at age 45. Lindsey Grannis helped organize the memorial service. She had known Corna since his arrival in Steamboat Springs, when he started working for her as a waiter in 1993 at the Time Out Sports Bar and Grill.
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Cloudy with storms. High of 64.
“That smile might have actually brought us all the business we had that winter,” Grannis said. The Time Out Sports Bar later became Slopeside, and Grannis later worked for Corna. “He was sitting on the deck, and I pulled him aside and I said, ‘Would you like to be my assistant manager for the upcoming winter?’” she said. “And he looked me in the eye and said, ‘Lindsey, don’t tell anyone yet, but I just bought
the place. Will you be my manager?’” Corna also was a University of Florida Gators fan. A college friend, Aaron Youngdahl, told about a Florida-University of Kansas basketball game he attended with Corna. Corna was getting agitated because the team was huddling up, and star center Joakim Noah wasn’t participating. “He stood up in a relatively See Corna, back page
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