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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
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Vol. 21, No. 226
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Gas prices Cost of a gallon of regular unleaded fuel on Sunday
Fuel Stop ................... $2.45 West Kum & Go ....... $2.39 7-Eleven ................... $2.39 Petro West ............... $2.55 Phillips 66............................ $2.54 Space Station...................... $2.54 Bob’s Conoco ...................... $2.59 Hilltop Sinclair....................... $2.54 Anglers Kum & Go................. $2.39 Ski Haus .................................. $2.54 Mount Werner Sinclair ............ $2.46 Shell .......................................... $2.60 Shop & Hop .............................. $2.46 State Average ................... ...................$2.45 National Average...............$2.55
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Road project set to start Meeting tonight will answer questions about work on U.S. Highway 40 Page 3
SPORTS
MATT STENSLAND/STAFF
City Market employee Sandra Carver serves an ice cream cone to Steamboat Springs resident Chuck King on Saturday in front of the store during a fundraiser for Cory Pike. Pike, who graduated from Moffat County High School in 2007, was diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma in June.
‘Thank you just isn’t enough’ Rally in the rain Page 20
Correction A memorial service notice on page 7 of Saturday’s Steamboat Today incorrectly listed the name of Dustin Lindahl. The memorial service is for Dustin Dahlin, at 3 p.m. Sept. 26 at United Methodist Church.
Jack Weinstein
PILOT & TODAY STAFF
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
When J.J. Pike’s City Market co-workers discovered her son had been diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma, they wanted to do something to help. The employees hosted a fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the grocery store in Steamboat Springs to assist with Cory Pike’s hospital bills. “Anything we can do to help
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Saturday fundraiser benefits son of City Market employee
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Saturday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 12-24-25-30-32 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
her,” Assistant Manager Erik Boehm said about the event and J.J. “It’s the right thing to do. It’s nice living in a small town where everybody knows everybody. It just sort of brings out the best in people.” Boehm added that J.J. and her co-workers at City Market, where she’s worked in Craig and Steamboat for 13 years, are a family. Cory was like their son, too, he said. A 2007 graduate of Moffat County High School — where he played football and threw
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Mostly cloudy and colder. High of 52.
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the shot put for the school’s track and field team — Cory was diagnosed June 9 with cancer of the lymphatic system. Cory was home for the summer from Colorado State University, where he’s majoring in construction management, when he got a cough. After it persisted, Cory went to the doctor, who prescribed antibiotics for bronchitis. After a week, Cory’s jaw started to hurt and his lip became numb. He was pre-
scribed painkillers, but things got worse. In the next couple of days, Cory was constantly tired, started bruising, couldn’t eat and experienced night sweats. “It got so bad so fast,” J.J. said Sunday, when reached in Denver. J.J. said her husband, Dave, the city of Craig’s parks and recreation director, took Cory in for a full workup, and he was diagnosed with Burkitt’s. See Fundraiser, back page
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