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1982 1982: water war We win the

Jan. 7, 1982: O.J. Simpson is seen a couple of times around town, most recently at the Hong Kong. He was running through airports in those days, extolling the glories of Hertz rental cars.

He’s not doing much running these days.

Vail parties through the apocalypse, wins Homestake smackdown

Jan. 13, 1982: The fourth power outage in four days hits Vail. The Vail Daily runs a black square at the bottom of its front page with a caption saying, “Last night in Vail.”

Feb. 9, 1982: The Dallas Morning News says Vail is in and Aspen is out. Vail is joined by Taos, N.M., and Sun Valley, Idaho, on the “in” list.

Aspen finds itself on the “out” with Red River, N.M., and Lake Tahoe, Calif.

By Randy Wyrick RWYRICK@VAILDAILY.COM

The world did not end in 1982, despite the predicted apocalypse in the book “The Jupiter Effect.”

But, we did what we always do when we’re faced with our imminent demise: Vail had a This is the huge party. second part of a 30The world was supposed to be flooded, part series about the Vail according to “The Jupiter Effect,” so, of Daily’s 30th anniversary and course, the favored attire was scuba masks. the news that has appeared We would not have needed those scuba over the years. The series will masks or any other aquatic gear if the cities run every day on page A2 of Aurora and Colorado Springs had gotten leading up to the their way. They wanted to divert a whole anniversary, which is mess of water out of the Holy Cross wilderness June 15. area and down to the Front Range, where it would be used to irrigate the bluegrass lawns planted in their semi-arid environment and for the water grabbers to dilute perfectly good whiskey.

Aurora and Colorado Springs said they could take wilderness water from the Holy Cross area because, get this, they say they can. They’re homerule cities, and there’s nothing in their home-rule charters that says they cannot divert zillions of gallons of water from someone else’s county and into their own. They said this in a clear and steady voice, just like it was their native language.

Well, Dick Gustafson was an Eagle County commissioner, and he was so mad that the issue practically made him bilingual. He said all sorts of stuff, mostly in English and profanity, the two languages most local folks were using to describe the attempted water grab.

Eventually, the whole thing ended up before TOP: Former Eagle County Commissioner Dick Gustafson, center, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation’s high court former Eagle County attorney Jim Fritze, right, listen in as special attorney issued a ruling in favor of Eagle County that asked Hank Gibson, left, gives a little advice during a 1982 Homestake II Aurora and Colorado Springs, in effect, a simple hearing. Eagle County fought off a scheme by Aurora and Colorado multiple choice question: Springs to divert water from the Holy Cross wilderness area.

1. Are you nuts?

2. Or what?

BOTTOM LEFT: We cannot remember who this is, or what she’s singing, The water stayed and so did lots of people, to but it’s at Fresh Fruit II. the delight of some folks and the dismay of others.

In February, a study showed that Vail was 72 per- BOTTOM RIGHT: Surfin’ the Gore: Once upon a time, there were no video cent built out. And speaking of folks just passing games and we had to entertain ourselves by doing stuff like this. This through, the Hell’s Angels rolled through on the young man is surfin’ Gore Creek in Vail Village. You string a rope from a fourth day of their 10-day World Run. A good time hunk of plywood you liberated from some building site and tie it to the was had by all, and everyone behaved, which was- International Bridge in Vail Village. Then you ride the waves. This was n’t always the case around Vail in those days. around 1982, when we did stuff because we thought it was fun to watch liability attorneys’ heads implode.

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April 13, 1982: Eagle County attracts the third most tourist dollars of any county in Colorado.

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Longtime local Tim Cochrane dies Many people are alive today because of Cochrane’s work

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EAGLE COUNTY — Tim Cochrane was consistent, and persistent, and he spent much of his adult life putting together parties for people.

And that’s why his party will go on as planned Friday night at 4 Eagle Ranch, “A Great Western Fun … Raiser.”

Cancer took Cochrane’s life Sunday night, which is why the Friday night event is now a fundraiser to help his wife and children with the mountain of medical bills and living expenses. They’ll have a celebration of life May 27 at 11 a.m. in the Edwards Interfaith Chapel and Community Center.

Consistently to the rescue People are alive who would not be if not for Cochrane and others like him.

Cochrane was instrumental in forming Vail Mountain Rescue. Prior to that, calls went into various police agencies and results could be a hodge podge.

Cochrane was a Marine to his very marrow. He would not abide hodge podge and pulled Vail Mountain Rescue together through sheer willpower. He had a surplus of willpower.

He served Vail Mountain Rescue in several ways for more than 30 years.

“There are a few people alive who would not be if we hadn’t been there,” said Dan

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Tim Cochrane worked with the Vail Mountain Rescue Group for 30 years. He also was the executive director of the Eagle Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Marines. The Marines believed him, and he was in, even though he was supposed to be 18. That was 1967.

He spent four years in the Marines and did two tours in Vietnam.

Cochrane was a staunch supporter of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

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What: A Great Western Fun … Raiser for Tim Cochrane.

When: 5 to 9 p.m. Friday.

Where: 4 Eagle Ranch.

Cost: $25 at the door, includes dinner and silent auction.

Why: Fundraiser through the Vail Valley Charitable Fund. To make a donation by credit card, call 970-926-9795, or send donations to the VVCF at P.O. Box 2307, Edwards, CO 81632.

Loving family

Smith, who’s now helping run Vail Mountain Rescue.

It took two people to replace him when he stepped away, Smith said.

“Tim started this team. He ran it for 30-plus years,” Smith said. “At various times, he was president, at various times, operations manager — but was always the boss.”

Sitting with his family Monday afternoon, calls started rolling in from around the world.

He helped replicate Vail’s success all over Europe, China and about anywhere else on Earth’s mountains people could get lost.

He brought the world to Vail for a mountain-rescue convention a few years ago. In 2008, he took the family to Italy so they could be with him when the Italians honored him with a lifetime service award.

and Dr. Kent Petrie were among the founding members and medical directors.

The hospital, at that time, was having a hard time keeping its doors open and couldn’t afford to run an ambulance.

“It’s a big expense,” Brooks said. “They came up with a tax-supported solution so they’d have the basics covered, so everyone who needed help could get it. Tim Cochrane helped make that happen. Imagine how many lives have been saved because of that.”

He worked in the hospitality industry for years, running hotels in Vail and Eagle. He ran the Eagle Valley Chamber of Commerce and a similar organization in McCall, Idaho.

Tim Cochrane is one of those guys whose legacy is obviously much more than what he did for a living.

The ambulance district is building a new training center and they hope to honor him through that, Smith said.

Consistently persistent

Consistent service

As long as we’re on the subject of rescuing people, Cochrane helped launch the Eagle County Ambulance District. Dr. Larry Brooks

Cochrane was 17 when he stretched the truth a little about his age. He had graduated high school early and wanted to join the

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Tim met Betsy Cochrane in October 1977 when he was working the night shift at Vail’s Mark Resort and Tennis Club. She was working days because part of the compensation was all the tennis she could play — and Betsy can still play a lot of tennis.

You could say they were ships passing in the night — actually they were passing in the dawn — but Tim had no intention of letting her pass. It may not have been love at first sight, at least not for her, but for him it came on pretty fast.

A month after they met, he asked her to marry him, and then he asked again and again and again, until she said yes. He went home to meet her family in April because it was Vail in the mud season and what else are you going to do?

They were married Oct. 7, 1978. Eight years later, three beautiful blonde girls started arriving: Erin, then Mary, then Megan, to join his daughter Tracie. He also has a grandson, Drake.

Tim was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Doris and Thomas Cochrane, and the family soon moved to the Buffalo, N.Y., area. He claimed Orchard Park, N.Y., as his home town, home of the Buffalo Bills, whom he occasionally argued were one of the best NFL teams ever but that their timing was unfortunate. He then did what any red-blooded resident of the Centennial State would do; he became a Broncos fan.

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Vail Resorts lift mechanic Katy Hanlon heads up to the Two Elk Lodge area of Vail Mountain on a snowmobile Monday from the base of the Eagle Bahn Gondola.

Teva Mountain Games to run despite lingering snow Organizers have options for running and bike races

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VAIL — Yes, there’s still a lot of snow on Vail Mountain. And no, it won’t be all gone in a couple of weeks. But the Teva Mountain Games are still a go.

“We’re talking about outdoor sports, after all,” said John Dakin, of the Vail Valley Foundation, which puts on the games.

Dakin said Vail Resorts crews have cleared off the on-mountain roads on Vail Mountain. If there’s still a bunch of snow on the hill, events will run on those roads.

And, whatever the state of the snowpack, the on-mountain events will stay in Vail, Dakin said.

“The Mountain Games were born and reared in Vail,” Dakin said. “We’ll look at rerouting or making adjustments, but we’re not going to take an element of the games and have it someplace else.”

Whatever the weather holds over the next couple of weeks, it’s just about guaranteed that riders and runners will have to contend with somewhere between some and lots of mud.

Andreas Calabrese, of the Mountain Pedaler in Minturn, has raced mountain bikes for nearly 15 years in all kinds of conditions on a couple of continents. He said racing in sloppy conditions requires both keen attention to equipment and paying extra attention to the course. Tires with a bit more tread are helpful, Calabrese said. And taking a bit of air out increases a rider’s contact patch.

“If there are little things mechanically, they’re magnified in mud,” Calabrese said.

But perhaps more important is a rider’s mental preparation.

“You need to take it easy in corners and stay upright,” Calabrese said. “It’s just a mat-

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What: Teva Mountain Games.

When: June 2 to 5.

Headquarters: Vail.

Events include: Mountain biking, trail running, bouldering, kayaking, flyfishing.

More information: www.tevamountaingames.com.

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ter of being mentally prepared.”

There isn’t a lot a boater can do to change a kayak, but big water — and big water is a good way to bet for the first week of June this year — is a mental challenge for people racing local creeks and rivers.

Sean Glackin, of Alpine Quest Sports in Edwards, said boaters need to understand where the water is going and what it’s covering.

Glackin said low waters might provide lines around boulders, but high waters will let boaters sail right over or can create waves of various trickiness. The key, he said, is practice.

But, Dakin said, anyone trying to predict conditions now is on a fool’s errand.

“But that’s just the mountains in the first week of June,” he said.

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COMMENTARY

Beware the 21st of May! Are you ready for this Saturday? across the planet. Thousands have If not, then read closely because I’m walked out on their families, handed going out on a limb in assuming most over all their possessions to Mr. of you are not aware of this particular Camping & Co. and are eagerly tidbit of potentially useful informa- awaiting the rise of the curtain and tion, but here it is: The world is ending the physical manifestation on center this weekend. stage of the Chosen One, the one Yep, sorry to be the one to break it to who actually does all the choosing (I you, especially if it’s your guess the “all-loving” part birthday or anniversary. was facetious).

But according to Harold On one hand, I suppose Camping (president and we no longer have to worgeneral manager of the ry about the NFL lockout Family Network), there is or Obama being re-electabsolutely no doubt about ed, but then again, we the 21st of May. don’t get to re-vote against Sometime this SaturERS or see the final Harry day (the existence of Potter movie. time zones apparently My kids will probably wreaks havoc on pinning worry about who will feed down the actual hour) the dog, and my wife will the clouds will part, want someone to water the RICHARD earthquakes will begin, plants. But hey, life is short CARNES the dead will rise (all 20 (quite literally …), and my billion to 50 billion who have ever main concern is what to enjoy for dinlived, depending upon one’s defini- ner Friday night. Perhaps I’ll choose a tion of “human”), and a chosen few good book to close out the evening. will be carried up (raptured) to par- Something by Hitchens or Dawkins adise, and we’re not talking Bali will probably do the trick.

Ha’i.

But what if, just maybe, they are That place, after all, was fictitious. wrong?

According to them, this is for real, What if Saturday comes and goes and millions of dollars have been just like every other Saturday since we collected and spent over the past few began following the Gregorian calenyears to heavily promote this prom- dar in the late 16th century? What if ising message of hope and love their interpretations of their particular

MY VIEW

versions of their imaginative literature are self-defining?

I can see it now, a Sen. John Kylstyled press release on Sunday morning: “It wasn’t meant as a factual statement …”

To tell the truth, I think there’s going to be a lot of navel inspecting taking place around bedtime Saturday night. In fact, I suggest we start referring to each of these predicted end-of-the-world dates as “NonJudgment Day” and then collectively choose to use critical thinking to solve the world’s problems instead of just wishing for some mystical knight in shining armor to come save us all from ourselves.

But on Friday evening, if you feel so inclined, kindly send me an email with directions (along with PIN numbers and passwords), and I’ll be happy to take your possessions (cash, cars, etc.) off your hands so you won’t be bogged down with anything materialistic come Saturday morning.

I promise to deal with it all as soon as we finish with the kid’s weekend soccer games on Sunday afternoon.

After all, reality does have its priorities.

Richard Carnes, of Edwards, writes weekly. He can be reached at poor@vail.net. Comment on www.vaildaily.com.

I am a 100 percent disabled veteran (PVA member), and I have been in a wheelchair for over 27 years (see www.craigbashmd.com). I am also a property owner at one of the Vail-affiliated resorts, and I recently visited Vail with my son, who just had left cruciate repair surgery done at the Steadman Clinic. The surgery went well, and as part of the post-op rehab period, we spent a lot of time in Vail at various hotels and found them all to be very accommodating.

In early April, we went to lunch (at Blues) near the Checkpoint Charlie guard shack because both of us were disabled and we needed to use the handicap slot near the guard shack.

Over the past several years, this spot has been difficult to access due to the guard’s over-protective attitude. The slot is currently limited to a four-hour time period of use; lots of questions concerning the reasons for use. It feels as if this specific handicap slot is reserved only for the “VIP handicapped guest.”

But on this day, the guard on duty was particularity difficult to deal with.

I pulled in with my handicap placard showing and said I would like to use the handicap slot to go to lunch because I noticed that the police truck was parked in the designated slot. He said, “I do not care.” I then pulled in front of the police truck, which caused the front of my truck to block the entry steps of the co-located hotel (the majority of the handicap slot was occupied by the police truck).

The guard could have offered and/or moved his police truck, but he did not. Instead, he simply watched me struggle to get my truck into the remaining little space.

After I had parked and unloaded my wheelchair from the rear of my truck (I had to drop the tailgate and unload, thus I needed about 12 feet behind the truck to do this), the guard walked over and told me that I had to move my car back toward his police truck. I said that is difficult because I need the

12 feet to unload! He did not offer any help and did not say, “Oh, I understand now why you need extra rear side space. By the way, this is why handicap spaces are oversized because handicapped individuals need space to open doors while loading and unload our wheelchairs.”

I told him the keys were in it, and he could back it up for me. He said, “No, you do it.“ As a result, I had to transfer from my chair back into my truck and back it up, but I could not back up very far, as I needed extra room to load my chair in and out of the rear of the truck (the police truck blocked my ability to back up). I then had to retransfer back into my wheelchair. (FYI: Wheelchair transfers are probably one of the hardest things that I do each day.)

My final parking place was still not ideal, as I was still parked in front of the hotel, but the police truck was in a great location! During this process, a hotel employee came out and moved a bicycle. Apparently, he thought it might get run over with all of the obvious problems I was having negotiating a parking spot.

Requests: 1. Please replace this guard with a more tourist-friendly person, as he projects a less-than-ideal attitude and is not helpful, friendly or courteous.

2. Please give your guards disability sensitivity training, as they have not been overly helpful over the past several years based on my experiences at Checkpoint Charlie.

3. Please ask police to not park in any handicap designated slots throughout Vail.

4. Please add more handicap slots near Checkpoint Charlie that have no time restrictions. The current fourhour time limit is unreasonable because the slowest people in Vail are the ones in wheelchairs, and they need ample time to move around the village. Many federal facilities require that as many as 7 percent to 10 percent of all parking is designated for handicapped patrons. Vail is currently seriously underproviding handicap

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Suggestions: 1. Police trucks can be parked elsewhere, and handicap parking could be added on the edge of the walk bridge to the east where overflow police trucks are now parked.

2. The Checkpoint Charlie area could be a “valet” handicap access point into the center of Vail, and the guards, since they do not look very busy, could be facilitators — aka, courtesy door men of wheelchair access to Vail.

3. Please put in more handicap parking spaces throughout the Vail Valley.

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Dale McCall, 1925-2011 Dale McCall, the first director of the Vail Resort Association, died in Denver on Thursday after suffering a stroke one week earlier. He was born July 4, 1925, in Kansas City, Mo. Dale is survived by his wife, Erika; son Trevor (wife Nancy); sister Maxine Bell, of Grain Valley, Mo.; son MEMORIAL Jon McCall, of Kansas City, Mo.; son Kevin, of Reno, Nev.; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His daughter Monte preceded him in death.

A military funeral for Dale will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 South Sheridan Boulevard, Denver. If you plan to attend, please be at the staging area by 12:45 in accordance with military tradition. Following the ceremony, Erika, Trevor and the family will host a reception at their home in Thornton, 13425 Milwaukee Court.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Dale’s name to Trout Unlimited or the American Cancer Society.

The following are excerpts from an article about Dale that was written by Caramie Schnell and appeared in the Vail Daily on June 30, 2005: For Dale McCall, the Vail America Days Fourth of July parade is more than firemen tossing candy to the younger generation and the local dance team twirling around in front of the Battle Mountain High

School float. It’s a snapshot of how far Vail has come from that first parade in 1970, which Dale himself organized.

Dale was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo. World War II was in full swing when Dale graduated from high school, so he joined the Army, traveled to Europe with the 9th Infantry Division and served in three campaigns, including the Battle of the Bulge and the Remagen Bridge. After returning from the war, Dale, a longtime musician, was just in time for the “big band” era. He went into the music business, singing and playing the clarinet and the saxophone.

Dale was working later DALE as vice president of an MCCALL office furniture and design company when he met his second wife, Erika, who had recently moved to the United States from Germany.

The couple married in 1965 and moved to Colorado three years later with their son, Trevor.

“I decided I wanted to be a part of the recreation industry, and this is where it was happening,” Dale said.

The Vail Resort Association was being organized at the time (now the Vail Valley Partnership), and Dale was hired as the first executive director.

“We put together the VRA; everything from information about Vail to special events to reservations and putting packages together for travel agents and travel writers to get them acquainted with Vail,” he said.

Along with Vail America Days, the association started Airline Week; Vail Fest, which was held in October, and Winter Fest, which took place each January.

Fellow Vail pioneer Vi Brown has known Dale since the first days of Vail.

“In the early days, Dale helped bring events into Vail and he had great enthusiasm for the town,” Vi said. “Dale was Mr. Chamber of Commerce with a smile.”

After six years in the position, Dale stepped down and opened his own advertising agency, called McCall and Associates Inc., which he operated for 20 years.

Dale and his wife Erika spent nearly 35 years in Vail before they were forced to relocate because of Dale’s health.

“Living at 8,000 feet wasn’t working out for me,” Dale said.

The couple moved to Silt (and in 2007 to Thornton), and despite not living in Vail, Dale still holds the town and the community close to his heart.

“We were part of the early pioneers,” Dale said. “There have been tremendous changes, of course. We’re very proud of Vail’s stature today and it being recognized as a year-round premier resort.”

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Battle Mountain grad dies in N.M. Graham Bultermeier died in a longboarding accident in Los Alamos

By Scott N. Miller SMILLER@VAILDAILY.COM

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Graham Bultermeier, 21, a 2008 graduate of Battle Mountain High School, died May 14 in a longboarding accident in Los Alamos, N.M. According to the Los Alamos Police Department, officers were called to the scene of a skateboarding accident May 14 at about 3 p.m. at the intersection of Central and Rose, just west of downtown. Off-duty firefighter Matt Munoz witnessed the accident and provided immediate medical aid. An emergency medical crew arrived at the scene a few minutes later.

Bultermeier was airlifted from Los Alamos to the Christus St. Vincent medical center in Santa Fe, where he died.

According to the police report, there were no other vehicles involved in the accident, and excess speed isn’t suspected, but Bultermeier wasn’t wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

Bultermeier was a junior majoring in physics at New Mexico Tech in Socorro. An obituary and memorial service information will be published in a future edition of the Vail Daily.

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On Friday at about 5 p.m., workers were maintaining an irrigation ditch along Lake Creek Road in the Edwards area of Eagle County. About one mile south of U.S. Highway 6, the workers located a backpack containing personal property. The workers called a sheriff’s deputy to turn over the property, which included some cash. The deputy responded to the area and began to look around the area for any clues as to the owner of the backpack. The deputy located a partially decomposed body in some trees nearby. It is believed the person was dead at that location for several days.

A Sheriff’s Office detective and deputy Eagle County coroner responded to the scene and began an investigation. The male body was identified as Christopher Don Hodenpel, 38, previously from Aurora. Hodenpel is a Korean male, about 5-foot-5, weighing about 125 pounds, with black hair and black eyes.

A preliminary autopsy was performed on Hodenpel. No apparent trauma was located. Toxicology studies are pending.

No obvious cause of death has been determined at this time; however, no immediate signs of criminal involvement have been found, either.

The Sheriff’s Office is looking for any information on Hodenpel and why he was in Eagle County.

If you think you may have any information about this incident, call the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office at 970-328-8500 or Eagle County Crime Stoppers at 970-328-7007 or 1-800-972-TIPS, submit your tip online at www.tipsubmit.com or text a tip from your cell phone by texting STOPCRIME plus your message to CRIMES. If your tip leads to the arrest and indictment of any suspect involved, you could earn a reward from the Crime Stoppers.

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GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Colorado Mountain College’s elected board of trustees was presented Monday with the college’s draft budget for the 2011-12 academic year.

Because of projected substantial decreases in two of three of the college’s main sources of revenue, the overall draft budget is $10 million less than the current year.

The bulk of that impact will be felt in planning for future construction projects, not including facilities projects already under way, such as a replacement building in Steamboat Springs and the consolidation of Central Services sites in downtown Glenwood Springs.

The college also has set aside reserves to support the introduction of bachelor’s degrees in the fall. The tuition rate for upper-division courses was set so that state funding isn’t needed to underwrite their cost, which was a requirement for the degrees’ approval at the state level.

The proposed general operating budget is increasing 3.5 percent, to $52 million. The increase is largely because of health insurance premiums that are jumping 20 percent, as well as increased costs for utilities and adding adjunct instructors to meet increased enrollment for credit classes.

Across the board, college employees are facing a salary freeze in the coming year, said Dr. Stan Jensen, president of the college. The draft budget also outlines tapping into the reserves to the tune of approximately $600,000 to cover one-time costs for classroom technology.

It’s been a complicated balancing act to ensure that reduced funding and increased costs in some areas don’t affect the college’s ability to serve the learning needs of its projected 24,000 students, trustees heard.

The next two years are very uncertain for state funding, so the college will continue to budget conservatively in preparation for expected shortfalls.

The trustees will examine the budget once more and consider it for passage at their June meeting. A draft budget will soon be available for viewing at the college’s locations and on its website.

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The demos are provided by Alpine Kayak, and instructors will be on hand to demonstrate their skills and to show kayakers how to freestyle.

Participants also will have free access to all of the latest 2011 kayaks and gear. The Tuesday evening demos begin today and will run through June 21, with sponsorship dollars provided by the Vail Commission on Special Events.

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Open Sundays Students at Red Sandstone Elementary School are working diligently to be more environmentally sound by taking part in a “Battery Challenge.” The competition continues until May 27. So far, the students have recycled 216 pounds of batteries. Way to go!

FATHER DAUGHTER DANCE There will be a Father Daughter Dance on Saturday at Brush Creek Pavilion from 6 to 9 p.m. Cost is $25 (father and daughters).

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Boulder set to launch a large-scale public bike sharing program this week A large-scale bike sharing program will roll out this week in Boulder. The Daily Camera reported Boulder B-cycle will launch Friday in Boulder. Authorities say the 100-bike rental program mimics a similar sharing system started in Denver last year. Members can pay a fee for an annual, weekly or daily pass during which they can rent any bike at a B-cycle station for up to an hour without an additional fee.

NEW YORK

IMF chief jailed in N.Y.C. attempted-rape case; more allegations spill out Haggard and unshaven after a weekend in jail, the chief of the International Monetary Fund was denied release on bail Monday on charges of trying to rape a hotel maid as allegations of other, similar attacks by Dominique Strauss-Kahn began to spill out. In New York, prosecutors said they are investigating reports of at least one other case. In France, a lawyer for a novelist said the writer is likely to file a criminal complaint accusing Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her nine years ago.

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Endeavour soars on second-to-last space shuttle flight for NASA Endeavour blasted off on NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander’s wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

“Good stuff, good stuff,” Giffords was quoted as saying by her chief of staff as Endeavour took flight for the final time. Husband Mark Kelly, the shuttle’s skipper, had red tulips presented to her afterward.

ISLAMABAD

U.S. and Pakistan try to salvage ties as Kerry demands action against militants A top U.S. emissary warned Pakistan on Monday that “actions not words” are needed to tackle militant sanctuaries, as the two countries tried to salvage their relationship two weeks after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a garrison town close to the national capital.

Sen. John Kerry, the first high-level American official to visit Islamabad since the May 2 death of the al-Qaida leader, said Pakistan agreed to take several “specific steps” immediately to improve ties.

VATICAN CITY

Vatican tells bishops to report sex abuse, but guidelines have no enforcement check The Vatican told bishops around the world Monday that it is important to cooperate with police in reporting priests who rape and molest children and asked them to develop guidelines for preventing sex abuse by next May.

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U.S. maxes out its credit Fight to raise threshold begins

By Paul Wiseman AP ECONOMICS WRITER

WASHINGTON — The government has maxed out its credit card.

The United States reached its $14.3 trillion limit on federal borrowing Monday, leaving Congress 11 weeks to raise the threshold or risk a financial panic or another recession.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally notified Congress that the government would halt its investments in two federal pension plans so it won’t exceed the borrowing limit.

Geithner said the government could get by with bookkeeping maneuvers like that through Aug. 2.

After that, the government could default on its debt for the first time, threatening the national credit rating and the dollar.

Geithner sent Congress a letter saying he would be unable to make the pension investments in full. He urged Congress to raise the debt limit “in order to protect the full faith and credit of the United States and avoid catastrophic economic consequences for citizens.”

Republican leaders in the House have said they won’t raise the debt limit unless the Obama administration first agrees to big spending cuts or to steps to lower the debt over the long run.

House Speaker John Boehner repeated the pledge in a statement Monday. The statement did not address Geithner’s warning about what would happen if the limit were not raised.

“Americans understand we simply can’t keep spending money we don’t have,” Boehner said. “There will be no debt limit increase without serious budget reforms and significant spending cuts.”

Republicans have also ruled out any tax increases, including any plans to end tax cuts for high earners enacted in 2001 and 2003.

“We need to have a vote to lift the debt ceiling because the consequences of not doing so would be

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Specialist Dwane V. Branker, center, works his post on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange a short time after the beginning of trading Monday. The federal government maxed out its credit card, reaching the $14.3 trillion borrowing limit imposed by Congress on Monday.

Bookkeeping maneuvers will allow the Treasury to keep borrowing for 11 weeks, but failure to raise the debt ceiling by then would cause an unprecedented government default on its debt — creating panic in financial markets, ruining the national credit rating and undermining the dollar. quite serious,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

“And those who suggest otherwise are whistling past the graveyard.”

If it doesn’t raise the limit, Congress would have to come up with $738 billion to make up for what it planned to borrow through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. The options are drastic: Cut 40 percent of the budget through September, which might mean defaulting on payments to investors in government bonds; raise taxes immediately; or some combination of the two.

“In the economic area, this is the equivalent of nuclear war,” says Edward Knight, who was the Treasury Department’s general counsel during a standoff over the debt ceiling in the mid-1990s.

What is the debt ceiling?

The debt ceiling is a legal limit on how much debt the government can pile up. The government accumulates debt two ways: It borrows money from investors by issuing Treasury bonds, and it borrows from itself, mostly from Social Security revenue.

In 2010, Congress raised the limit to nearly $14.3 trillion from $12.4 trillion.

Three decades ago, the national debt was $908 billion. But Washington spent more than it took in, and the debt rose steadily — surpassing $1 trillion in 1982, then $5 trillion in 1996. It reached $10 trillion in 2008 as the financial crisis and recession dried up tax revenue and as the government spent more on unemployment benefits and other programs.

Congress created the debt limit in 1917. It’s unique to the United States.

Most countries let their debts rise automatically when government spending outpaces tax revenue. Raising the debt ceiling doesn’t usually create much of a stir. Congress has raised it 10 times since 2001.

A refusal to raise the debt ceiling wouldn’t mean that Congress had begun to solve the nation’s budget problems. It would just mean that lawmakers were refusing to let the government borrow more money to finance programs and tax cuts already approved.

“Having voted to run up the bill, it is utterly irresponsible to prohibit the government from borrowing the money to pay it,” writes Howard Gleckman, resident fellow at the Urban Institute.

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In front is the Teva U.S. National Champion Men’s Whitewater Raft Team on its way to winning its ninth straight national title. The men’s and women’s teams, based in the Vail Valley, both swept all four events to win national titles in Oregon last weekend for a combined total of 16 national titles. Both teams will represent the U.S. at the world championships in October in Costa Rica.

Local rafters win national paddle battle U.S. men, women sweep all four events for 16 total national titles

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Teva U.S. National Champion Men’s Whitewater Raft Team: Chris “Mongo” Reeder, Seth Kurt Mason, Joe Sialiano, Andrew Bishop, Mike Reid, Todd Toledo and Jordan Kurt Mason.

Teva U.S. National Champion Women’s Whitewater Raft Team: Jessica Kurt Mason, Ronni Malson, Sarah Hamilton, Molly Etters, Misty Cumings and Brooke Magstadt.

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EAGLE COUNTY — Two local raft teams returned from Oregon with two more national titles, a clean sweep for both the men and women.

The Teva U.S. National Champion Men’s and Women’s Whitewater Raft Teams rolled into Oregon for the Clackamas River Festival and delivered a top-notch performance.

Most of them are raft guides with Timberline Tours, which sponsors the teams along with Teva.

Between the men’s and women’s teams, they had won 14 national titles before last weekend. You can now make that 16.

Both the men and women did it in a big way, sweeping all four events: the time trial, down river, sprint and slalom.

They earned the right to represent the United States in the IRF World Rafting Championships in October in Costa Rica on the Upper Pacuare River.

“It’s an incredible honor to be able to compete at that level and

The winners

JORDAN KURT MASON | Special to the Daily

Teva U.S. National Champion Men’s and Women’s Whitewater Raft Teams, based in the Vail Valley, both swept all four events to win national titles in Oregon last weekend. Combined, that’s 16 national championships for the two local teams. Both teams will represent the U.S. at the world championships in October in Costa Rica. to represent your country,” said Lisa Reeder, with Timberline Tours, who helped pull the teams together.

Winning a little respect Given the pre-event hype, it didn’t seem to occur to anyone that the eight-time defending national champions (make that nine-time after last weekend) could roll into Oregon and roll out with a win.

“It’s a great feeling to win. You

never want lose, and when you can win by that much, it’s even better. That’s what we call a good time,” said Andrew Bishop, a member of the men’s team. “We know many of the competitors and we’re friends with a couple teams, so they let us know what they were thinking. Even though we are the nine-time national champion, they continue to underestimate us.”

There is that point when that sort of thing will get a competitive

person’s back up a little, and it’s time to teach some folks a lesson.

For the locals, that came after the men and women had both won three events and their latest national titles were in the bag.

“Even after we have the event sealed up, we still had a point to make,” Bishop said. “We wanted them to understand that there’s a reason we’ve won all those national titles.”

So, just for good measure, they ran everyone into the river.

“We wanted to send them home with their egos bruised a little,” Bishop said.

Now they compete through the summer as the Teva U.S. National Championship Raft Team.

The Teva Mountain Games in Vail are next up. There are a couple of races on the Arkansas River and then Lisa Reeder’s Gore Canyon Festival on August 20.

“That keeps us in competition mode and in the boats,” Bishop said.

Then it’s hard training for the world championships in October in Costa Rica.

The men’s team has remained intact since competing in Bosnia for the 2009 world championships. Three members have been together for nine years, and the team finished fourth in the Netherlands at last year’s worlds.

They missed the podium by one point.

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Rules, equipment change fighting’s impact on NHL Player’s sudden death brings more scrutiny to the sport

By Nancy Armour AP NATIONAL WRITER

Detroit Red Wing opponents knew better than to mess with Steve Yzerman. Take a cheap shot at him — or any of the other Wings, for that matter — and you’d have to answer to Bob Probert and, in later years, Darren McCarty.

It was an on-ice code of justice, and it’s proven so effective over the years that players like Probert, McCarty and Derek Boogaard built careers dishing out punishing hits.

But Boogaard’s sudden death Friday five months after a seasonending concussion, and his family’s decision to donate his brain to the Boston University project that

found Probert had signs of brain trauma resulting from blows to the head, is bringing added scrutiny to fighting’s place in the NHL. “I think the league does a good job. They’re trying to limit head shots,” Tampa Bay Lightning center Nate Thompson said Monday.

“I don’t think they can (ban fighting entirely). That’s part of the game. It’s a physical sport and it always has been. If they take that out of the game that takes a part of the history out of the game.”

Like football, hockey is a game of controlled violence. Players are skating full-speed around an enclosed rink, and collisions — some intentional, some not — are bound to happen. Referees are there to make sure transgressions are punished. But when they don’t, or don’t see them occur, that’s when players take matters into their own hands.

Boston’s Big Bad Bruins

brought the rough-and-tumble style to the ice, and the Philadelphia Flyers’ Broad Street Bullies are considered the role models for modern-day enforcers. What people forget is that the Flyers only started beating people up because owner Ed Snider got tired of other teams picking on his.

“That fighting stuff way overshadowed the talent we had on the team,” Bob “the Hound” Kelly said. “We don’t have talent, we don’t win anything.”

But the Flyers did win, hoisting the Stanley Cup in 1974 and ’75.

By the 1980s, every team had an enforcer or two whose primary role was to protect his teammates by whatever means necessary, whenever necessary.

Advances in equipment and rules changes elevated the level of fighting. Dave “the Hammer” Schultz said he never would have slammed into opponents shoul-

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The Montreal Canadiens’ Sheldon Souray, right, fights with the Calgary Flames’ Darren McCarty during a game in Calgary on Jan. 19, 2006. Fighting is so much a part of NHL culture that there is a special category of players devoted to doing the game’s dirty work. der- or headfirst because it would have hurt him. But players now

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SCOREBOARD TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB—Named John Allen assistant monitor of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Suspended New York Mets minor league RHP Edgar Ramirez (Binghamton-EL) 50 games after testing positive for a performanceenhancing substance.

American League BOSTON RED SOX—Place RHP John Lackey on 15-Day DL. Recalled RHP Scott Atchison from Pawtucket (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Placed OF Grady Sizemore on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 11. Recalled OF Travis Buck from Columbus (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS—Released OF Milton Bradley.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Placed 1B Adam Lind on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 8. Purchased the contract of OF Eric Thames from Las Vegas (PCL).

National League CINCINNATI REDS—Placed LHP Aroldis Chapman on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jordan Smith from Louisville (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS—Announced owner Drayton McLane agreed to sell the team to a group led by Houston businessman Jim Crane.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Activated RHP Roy Oswalt from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Vance Worley to Lehigh Valley (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Claimed RHP Jess Todd off waivers from the N.Y. Yankees. Transferred RHP Bryan Augenstein from 15-day to 60-day DL.

FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS—Named Mark Brockelman senior vice president/chief financial and administrative officer.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES—Promoted Jay Feaster to general manager.

RODEO Pro Rodeo Leaders Through May 15 All-around 1. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $104,108 2. Cody Ohl, Hico, Texas $30,924 3. Landon McClaugherty, Tilden, Texas $23,767 4. Clayton Hass, Terrell, Texas $21,315 5. Stan Branco, Chowchilla, Calif. $21,180 6. Paul David Tierney, Oral, S.D. $20,394 7. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $19,130 8. Jesse Sheffield, Austin, Colo. $17,594 9. Jess Tierney, Hermosa, S.D. $14,771 10. Derick Fleming, Roosevelt, Utah $13,237 11. Jack Vanderlans, Temecula, Calif. $12,930 12. Rhett Kennedy, Chowchilla, Calif. $12,902 13. Clint Singleton, Medina, Texas $11,628 14. Cade Swor, Winnie, Texas $10,750 15. Bart Brunson, Terry, Miss. $10,665 16. Justin Thigpen, Waycross, Ga. $10,601 17. Cole Echols, Elm Grove, La. $7,624 Bareback Riding 1. Tilden Hooper, Carthage, Texas $50,514 2. Kaycee Feild, Payson, Utah $44,363 3. Will Lowe, Canyon, Texas $43,973 4. Clint Cannon, Waller, Texas $28,158 5. Chris Harris, Itasca, Texas $27,800 6. Steven Peebles, Redmond, Ore. $27,408 7. Joe Gunderson, Agar, S.D. $26,713 8. Jake Vold, Ponoka, Alberta $24,798 9. Wes Stevenson, Lubbock, Texas $24,593 10. Bo Casper, Fort Scott, Kan. $23,686 11. Caine Riddle, Vernon, Texas $20,452 12. J.R. Vezain, Cowley, Wyo. $18,354 13. Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb. $18,069 14. Luke Creasy, Brownfield, Alberta $17,514 15. Heath Ford, Slocum, Texas $16,488 16. Bobby Mote, Culver, Ore. $15,937 17. Dusty LaValley, Bezanson, Alberta $14,469 18. Jason Havens, Prineville, Ore. $13,572 19. Jared Smith, Cross Plains, Texas $12,548 20. Dustin Smith, Rome, Ga. $12,064 Steer Wrestling 1. Luke Branquinho, Los Alamos, Calif. $39,309 2. Billy Bugenig, Ferndale, Calif. $34,269 3. Todd Suhn, Hermosa, S.D. $29,326 4. Sean Mulligan, Coleman, Okla. $26,990 5. Casey Martin, Sulphur, La. $25,849 6. Darrell Petry, Beaumont, Texas $25,312 7. Trevor Knowles, Mount Vernon, Ore. $25,184 8. Jake Rinehart, Highmore, S.D. $24,632 9. Stockton Graves, Newkirk, Okla.

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3 p.m. VERSUS — Tour of California, stage 3, Auburn to Modesto, Calif.

6:30 p.m. ESPN — Draft Lottery, at Secaucus, N.J. 7 p.m. ESPN — Playoffs, conference finals, game 1, Oklahoma City at Dallas

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THE LINE Major League Baseball National League FAVORITE at Atlanta at Washington at Colorado at Cincinnati Florida at St. Louis at Arizona at Los Angeles American League at Tampa Bay at Detroit at Boston Cleveland

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$16,822 15. Timber Moore, Aubrey, Texas $16,532 16. Jerome Schneeberger, Ponca City, Okla. $15,839 17. Landon McClaugherty, Tilden, Texas $14,822 18. Scott Kormos, Teague, Texas $14,628 19. Michael Otero, Lowndesboro, Ala. $14,602 20. Houston Hutto, Tomball, Texas $13,632 Steer Roping 1. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $46,548 2. Cody Lee, Gatesville, Texas $23,586 3. Kim Ziegelgruber, Edmond, Okla. $21,350 4. Walter Priestly, Robstown, Texas $17,339 5. Rocky Patterson, Pratt, Kan. $14,872 6. Scott Snedecor, Uvalde, Texas $14,708 7. J. Tom Fisher, Andrews, Texas $14,608 8. Will Gasperson, Decatur, Texas $13,569 9. Vin Fisher Jr., Andrews, Texas $12,874 10. Lawson Plemons, Axtell, Texas $10,240 11. Shay Good, Midland, Texas $7,621 12. Bryce Davis, Abilene, Texas $7,563 13. Buster Record Jr., Buffalo, Okla. $7,396 14. Chris Glover, Keenesburg, Colo. $7,061 15. Dan Fisher, Andrews, Texas $6,795 16. Guy Allen, Santa Anna, Texas $6,235 17. Cody Garnett, Barnsdall, Okla. $6,084 18. Roy Cooper, Decatur, Texas $5,903 19. Chet Herren, Pawhuska, Okla. $5,785 20. Ralph Williams, Skiatook, Okla. $5,727 Bull Riding 1. Shane Proctor, Grand Coulee, Wash. $66,637 2. J.W. Harris, Mullin, Texas $46,054 3. Cody Whitney, Asher, Okla. $41,295 4. Trevor Kastner, Ardmore, Okla. $37,461 5. Kanin Asay, Powell, Wyo. $33,548 6. Clayton Foltyn, El Campo, Texas $31,738 7. Jacob O’Mara, Prairieville, La. $31,626 8. Clayton Savage, Casper, Wyo. $29,658 9. Bobby Welsh, Gillette, Wyo. $29,556 10. Ardie Maier, Timber Lake, S.D. $29,188 11. Tyler Smith, Fruita, Colo. $28,523 12. Seth Glause, Rock Springs, Wyo. $28,304 13. Clayton Williams, Carthage, Texas $28,290 14. Tyler Willis, Wheatland, Wyo. $24,939 15. Chance Smart, Philadelphia, Miss. $23,076 16. L.J. Jenkins, Porum, Okla. $22,714 17. Rankin Lindsey, Hillsboro, N.M. $22,513 18. Travis Atkinson, Lehi, Utah $22,042 19. Douglas Duncan, Alvin, Texas $21,925 20. Bryan Richardson, Dallas, Texas $20,961 Barrel Racing 1. Brittany Pozzi, Victoria, Texas $73,362 2. Jody Sheffield, South Weber, Utah $57,014 3. Brenda Mays, Terrebonne, Ore. $47,715 4. Lisa Lockhart, Oelrichs, S.D. $40,145 5. Jill Moody, Letcher, S.D. $39,411 6. Sherry Cervi, Marana, Ariz. $35,824 7. Jane Melby, Backus, Minn. $27,230 8. Britany Fleck, Mandan, N.D. $26,083 9. Tana Renick, Kingston, Okla. $25,849 10. Christina Richman, Glendora, Calif. $25,821 11. Lindsay Sears, Nanton, Alberta $24,483 12. Kenna Squires, Fredonia, Texas $22,635 13. Lee Ann Rust, Stephenville, Texas $21,817 14. Robyn Herring, Huntington, Texas $21,502 15. Kay Blandford, Sutherland Springs,

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NBA Playoffs Tonight FAVORITE at Dallas Tomorrow at Chicago

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NHL Playoffs Tonight FAVORITE at Boston Tomorrow at Vancouver

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BASKETBALL NBA Daily Playoff Glance CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) Sunday, May 1 Memphis 114, Oklahoma City 101 Miami 99, Boston 90 Monday, May 2 Atlanta 103, Chicago 95 Dallas 96, L.A. Lakers 94 Tuesday, May 3 Miami 102, Boston 91 Oklahoma City 111, Memphis 102 Wednesday, May 4 Chicago 86, Atlanta 73 Dallas 93, L.A. Lakers 81 Friday, May 6 Chicago 99, Atlanta 82 Dallas 98, L.A. Lakers 92 Saturday, May 7 Memphis 101, Oklahoma City 93, OT Boston 97, Miami 81 Sunday, May 8 Dallas 122, L.A. Lakers 86, Dallas wins series 4-0 Atlanta 100, Chicago 88 Monday, May 9 Miami 98, Boston 90, OT Oklahoma City 133, Memphis 123, 3OT Tuesday, May 10 Chicago 95, Atlanta 83 Wednesday, May 11 Miami 97, Boston 87, Miami wins series 4-1 Oklahoma City 99, Memphis 72 Thursday, May 12 Chicago 93, Atlanta 73, Chicago wins series 4-2 Friday, May 13 Memphis 95, Oklahoma City 83 Sunday, May 15 Oklahoma City 105, Memphis 90, Oklahoma City wins series 4-3 CONFERENCE FINALS Sunday, May 15 Chicago 103, Miami 82, Chicago leads series 1-0 Tuesday, May 17 Oklahoma City at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 18 Miami at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 19 Oklahoma City at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 Dallas at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Chicago at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, May 23 Dallas at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Chicago at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 x-Oklahoma City at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 26 x-Miami at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, May 27 x-Dallas at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 28 x-Chicago at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

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HOCKEY NHL Daily Playoff Glance (x-if necessary) CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) Thursday, April 28 Vancouver 1, Nashville 0 Friday, April 29 Tampa Bay 4, Washington 2 San Jose 2, Detroit 1, OT Saturday, April 30 Boston 7, Philadelphia 3 Nashville 2, Vancouver 1, 2OT Sunday, May 1 San Jose 2, Detroit 1 Tampa Bay 3, Washington 2, OT Monday, May 2 Boston 3, Philadelphia 2, OT Tuesday, May 3 Tampa Bay 4, Washington 3 Vancouver 3, Nashville 2, OT Wednesday, May 4 Boston 5, Philadelphia 1 Tampa Bay 5, Washington 3, Tampa Bay wins series 4-0 San Jose 4, Detroit 3, OT Thursday, May 5 Vancouver 4, Nashville 2 Friday, May 6 Detroit 4, San Jose 3 Boston 5, Philadelphia 1, Boston wins series 4-0 Saturday, May 7 Nashville 4, Vancouver 3 Sunday, May 8 Detroit 4, San Jose 3 Monday, May 9 Vancouver 2, Nashville 1, Vancouver wins series 4-2 Tuesday, May 10 Detroit 3, San Jose 1 Thursday, May 12 San Jose 3, Detroit 2, San Jose wins series 4-3 CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) Saturday, May 14 Tampa Bay 5, Boston 2, Tampa Bay leads series 1-0 Sunday, May 15 Vancouver 3, San Jose 2, Vancouver leads series 1-0 Tuesday, May 17 Tampa Bay at Boston, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 18 San Jose at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 19 Boston at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Friday, May 20 Vancouver at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 Boston at Tampa Bay, 11:30 a.m.

Sunday, May 22 Vancouver at San Jose, 1 p.m.

Monday, May 23 x-Tampa Bay at Boston, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 x-San Jose at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 x-Boston at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 26 x-Vancouver at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 27 x-Tampa Bay at Boston, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 28 x-San Jose at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

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THE VAIL DAILY

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Lightning survivor ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDUSTRY, Pa — Police say a Pennsylvania man has survived a lighting strike while helping set up tents for a Boy Scout outing.

Police in the town of Industry say the 49-year-old man was standing by a tree hit when he was struck by a bolt of lightning at about 8:30 p.m.

Saturday.

Industry officer Aaron Lopez says the man and others were moving scouts and camping supplies off the site as a thunderstorm approached.

Lopez says no children were nearby when the man was struck. The man was up and walking around when police arrived, though he was treated later at a hospital for a wound where the lightning bolt apparently exited his body.

Police are not identifying the man.

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