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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
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Vol. 21, No. 231
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S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Summit talks green Sustainability Council board members hear infrastructure presentation Page 3
SPORTS
Sailors undefeated Page 19
Baby born in Subaru
Woman gives birth in car outside emergency room doors
Corrections The headline “Shively says Realtors expect shift in 2010,” on page 13 of Friday’s Steamboat Today, was incorrect. Ulrich Salzgeber made that statement. Derrick Duckels’ last name, and Duckels Construction, were misspelled in a photo caption on page 6 of Friday’s Steamboat Today.
Zach Fridell
PILOT & TODAY STAFF
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
It was right about where U.S. Highway 40 meets Pine Grove Road that Suzanne Graham realized her grandson was waiting for no one. Graham was driving her
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■ INDEX Briefs . . . . . . . . .10 Classifieds . . . . .25 Comics . . . . . . . .23 Crossword . . . . .23 Happenings . . . . .7 Horoscope . . . . .24
COURTESY PHOTO
Samantha Youngs gave birth to Joseph Patrick Paul Youngs in the front passenger seat of her mother’s Subaru at about 4:30 a.m. Monday. At right is Youngs’ firstborn son, Graham Youngs.
Nation. . . . . . . . .35 Scoreboard. . . . .22 Sports. . . . . . . . .19 The Record. . . . .10 ViewPoints . . . . . .8 Weather . . . . . . .35
Friday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 4-14-20-22-27 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
daughter, Samantha Youngs, to Yampa Valley Medical Center to give birth at about 4:30 a.m. Monday. But the baby was already on the way. Just 20 minutes after she went into labor, Youngs, 28, found herself sitting in the front seat of her mother’s Subaru outside
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Bright sunshine. High of 74.
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of the emergency room doors at YVMC, giving birth to her second child, Joseph Patrick Paul Youngs. “She literally delivered the baby herself,” Graham said. Youngs said she was amazed the labor was so quick. “His body came out, and my mom was banging on the (emer-
gency room) door, then the doctors came out,” Youngs said. “It all happened really, really quick.” Youngs was born at Routt Memorial Hospital, the predecessor to YVMC, and she has lived most of her life in Routt County. She was at her parents’ See Baby, page 13
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