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CrowieThe handsome fellow in the pic-
ture with me is 37-year-old CraigAlexander, long-time professionaltriathlete, two-time winner of theIronman World Championships in
Hawaii (2009 and2008), super-hus-band and devot-ed dad, and all-around incrediblynice guy.
Alexander, known fondly the world over as Crowie, is fromAustralia, but lives right up theroad from us in Boulder during oursummer and spring, then headsback Down Under to enjoy trainingand racing during the Australiansummer, which of course coincides
w i t ho u rwinter,which isd e c i d -edly notcondu-cive tooutdoort r a i n -ing.
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letes amateurs and pros alike tend to choose the distancesthey race based on their individu-al strengths: sprint and Olympic-distance tris for the shorter side ofthe endurance spectrum, and half-Ironman and Ironman distancesfor those who are really into suffer-festing and whose bodies will holdup to all that training.
One thing that sets Crowie apartis his true versatility over all triath-lon distances. During his years asa professional triathlete, he hasracked up an impressive list ofwins and top finishes over the fourdistances of triathlon, all over theglobe. Hell be looking to defend hisIronman title again in Hawaii thisOctober.
In late spring this year, alongwith about 60 others, I met Crowieat Wheat Ridge Cyclery where hewas speaking at the inaugurationof the brand-new section of multi-
sport clothing and equipment in astore that, for 35 years, has beenall about bikes.
Wheat Ridge CycleryWheat Ridge Cyclery has a cool
story behind it. After investigatingseveral business opportunities, in
1973, bearing salesmanEugene Kiefel bought abike shop advertised forsale in The Denver Post.He started with capital of $4800and a 750-square foot shop, and
himself as the soleemployee.Thirty-five years
later, Wheat RidgeCyclery helpedcreate a seven-
time Tour de France Competitorand 1984 Olympic bronze med-allist (Ron Kiefel, Eugenes son),there is now a staff of 50 in a30,000-square-foot facility, indoortraining classes in the winter, out-door group rides during the warmmonths, professional bike fittersand the new multi-sport section!
Wheat Ridge Cyclery got the ideato have a real section for triath-letes in its store when some staffmembers were out on a long early-morning ride and came across atriathlon in progress. Five hundredplus bikes glinting in the transitionarea, a great many of them top-of-the-line machines, promptedthem to start thinking about howWheat Ridge could tap into themulti-sport market. I mean, letsface it: although hard-core cyclistsare fond of calling triathletes tri-geeks, the sport of triathlon hasdone nothing but grow. Just togive you an idea, in 1999, USA Triathlon, the governing body oftriathlon in the United States, had19,000 members. As of March thisyear, there were 133,000 of us tri-geeks!
A couple of years after that ear-ly-morning aha moment, WheatRidge opened the doors to its multi-sport section. A lot of triathletesare real gear heads, and many willhappily pay lots for better, lighter,faster equipment if they can dropsome time off their race splits bydoing so. I can attest to buying gearto drop my splits and I can alsoattest to already starting to drop$$ at Wheat Ridges multi-sportsection. And ladies, if youve evergotten snubbed or talked down toin a bike shop, you dont have to
worry about that here.Injury UpdateIts been just over one month
since my foot injury during Triathlon Regionals, and onemonth exactly since I got a cortico-steroid injection for plantar fasciitis
Multi-Sport
Blurbs
(ouch). Happily, the foot is improv-ing noticeably every week, and withmy new cool arch supports (GoodFeet Store Ed McCaffrey is onto something), I can actually walkwithout wincing.
Racing in August is looking iffy,however, despite the enormousimprovement, although I just mightgo ahead and do the swim and bike
legs of the races I entered pre-inju-ry (it is rare to get a refund or roll-
over on a race entry). I still haveNationals at the end of Septemberin my sights though.
In the meantime, Coach Eddiehas been beating me up big-timeon the bike and swim, so hopefullywell see some good results. As forthe rest, well, Im still trying to keepa good positive face on about theinjury and the turnaround in my
racing season. Character building,you betcha.
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Denver City Councilmember Judy Montero and representa-tives from the Denver Office ofEconomic Development (OED)and the Denver Department of
Environmental Health celebrat-ed the opening of the ColoradoRanch Market grocery store,located at 4860 Pecos St., at aribbon cutting ceremony today.
Colorado Ranch Market isowned by Leevers Supermarkets,Inc., a third-generation family-owned business that operatesseven Save-a-Lot grocery storesin Colorado, including five inmetro Denver. Located in theChaffee Park neighborhood, thenew 35,000 square-foot super-market includes a bakery, pro-duce, dairy, meats, deli and a
sit-down eating area. The storeis the first location brandedunder the Colorado RanchMarket name.
The availability of local gro-cery shopping options con-tributes greatly to the physi-cal and economic health of ourresidents, said Mayor JohnHickenlooper. This is a definite
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The Chaffee Park neighbor-hood was at risk of becoming afood desert an area severelyunderserved in grocery markets
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cery store at the 48th & PecosSt. location earlier this summer.
Colorado Ranch Market openedat the location in late July.
We are tremendously pleasedto welcome Colorado RanchMarket to the Chaffee Park
neighborhood, said Montero.What easily could have becomean empty storefront is now arefurbished site, providing oneof the most essential of shop-ping needs to our residents. Weapplaud their investment in thiscommunity.
To address the issue of fooddeserts, the Denver Departmentof Environmental Health held theDenver Supermarket Summitlast year in partnership withthe Colorado Health Foundationand The Food Trust. Designed toexplore how government, non-
profit organizations and the pri-vate sector can work togetherto maintain and improve theavailability of grocery services,the summit brought togethermore than 45 participants.Representatives from LeeversSupermarkets and the formergrocery store met at the summitand began discussions that ledto the eventual property sale toLeevers Supermarkets, Inc.
OED assisted with the busi-ness expansion by providing
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workforce development funds.Additionally, OED provided reg-ulatory assistance and referrals
to financing.Leevers Supermarkets is
proud to have the privilege ofserving the Chaffee Park neigh-borhood and its residents,said John Leevers, presidentof Leevers Supermarkets, Inc.We are pleased that our par-ticipation on the Denver FoodAccess Task Force could helpprevent another Food Desertin Denver. This would not havebeen possible without the helpof the Denver Office of EconomicDevelopment, the DenverDepartment of Environmental
Health, the SBA and ColoradoBusiness Bank as our localpartners. We look forward toproviding jobs for the local areaas well as farm fresh foods atlow prices.
Access to labor is a neces-sary ingredient for all successfulbusiness start-ups and expan-sions, said LaCharles Keesee,interim director of the DenverOffice of Economic Development.Through our Denver WorkforceCenter programs, were proud tohave connected Colorado RanchMarket with resources to meetits job creation goals.
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The two-door has yet to be crashtested but the four-door versiongets four stars in frontal impactsand five stars for side impacts,mostly thanks to side protectiondoor beams.
My slight six-foot frame fit easilyand comfortably into the seats butsome of my larger friends might benot so well accommodated.
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Caption: We photographed the2010 VW GTI in front of Streamline,an automotive performance shop,because it has the soul of a hotrodcouched in the guise of an urbancommuter. (Photo by Don Bain)
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By Don Bain The sweltering summer heat of
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Well next week you can immerse yourself in Polynesian culture andhospitality at the annual Polynesia-Pacifica Foundation of Colorados(PPFC) Luau 2010.
"PPFC was founded primarily tohave a place for islanders to cometogether and call our foundationhome, said Helen Simms, presidentof the organization. We embrace allof these people in our fold with one
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Simms is also the director andcostume designer for one of the localdance groups, the Jr. Wahines, whohave been in existence since 1996.
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I'm from Maui and was immersed with the Polynesian cultures, shesaid. Choreography, teaching and
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dancing with some local PolynesianDance Groups until I finally formedmy own group.
The Luau 2010 will be held at theRed Lion Hotel, I-225 and ParkerRd., Aug. 14 from 5 to 10 p.m.
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Wedding News Two members of the North Denver
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Christopher and Angela took advan-tage on many of North Denver amenities
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marriage preparation classes at HolyFamily and they treated their guestto their favorite restaurants- CarlsPizzeria, La Loma, Gaetanos, La Crmaand Patrick Carrols.
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Imagine being hurt in a caraccident. It's a bad accident, but
you delay getting much treatment,because you don't think you arebadly hurt, you'll get better on yourown, and you don't love doctors.
When you finally seek treatment,and try to get help from an insur-ance company, you have to sue themto get the care you need.
The lawyers from the insurancecompany then try to paint you asa liar and worse. Imagine that theyplay upon your insecurities sometough times and the fact that, by testscores, you might be below average.All the time without addressing youractual injuries..
A Jefferson County jury awarded$555,000 to a Lakewood, Coloradoman injured in a roll over colli-sion that occurred on September13, 2008, near Steamboat Springs,
Colorado. Ryan Flaherty was apassenger in a vehicle operated byMr. Steven Bigwood of Lakewood,Colorado. Mr. Bigwood was driv-ing his vehicle too fast for a curveon Highway 40, and lost control ofhis car causing it to roll four to sixtimes. Two other passengers wereejected from the vehicle and one sus-tained a brain injury.
Mr. Bigwood denied negligence for
the collision until two weeks beforetrial but still testified that he wasnot operating his vehicle too fast forthe roadway, that he did not thinkhis driving was careless, and arguedthat the collision was not the causeof Mr. Flaherty's injuries.
Mr. Flaherty did not immediatelycomplain of neck pain at the sceneof the collision or at the emergencyroom. However, a few days afterthe collision he did start to developsymptoms such as blurred vision,numbness in his right hand fingers,headaches, and shoulder pain. Aftervisiting his primary care physicianten days after the collision, Mr.Flaherty was told that his symptomsshould resolve over time.
Five months later, Ryan's symp-toms did not resolve and when hebegan medical treatment, it was dis-covered that he had permanent inju-ries to his cervical facet joints. Thearticular cartilage between the facet
joints in his neck were damaged andhis doctors testified that it took fivemonths for it to wear away causingpermanent bone on bone friction--an irreversible condition that isvery painful. Twenty-three year-oldFlaherty was honorably dischargedfrom the Army for an ankle inju-ry and rarely complained of pain.
Rather than seek medical care forinjuries caused by this collision, hehad tried to just work through hispain and hoped it would get betteron its own.
Mr. Flaherty will require medi-
cal care for the rest of his life whichincludes radiofrequency rhizotomies,essentially burning the nerves in hisneck that relay pain signals to hisbrain.
The issues decided by the jury were whether the collision was thecause of Mr. Flaherty's injuries, andif so, what amount of compensation
was required to pay for his lifetime ofmedical care.
Defendant did not present anyexpert medical evidence disput-ing Mr. Flaherty's treating doctors.Instead, the defense focused on Mr.Flaherty and made attacks againsthim personally suggesting that he
was lying, a faker because he didnot receive medical care for fivemonths, and implied he was notvery intelligent. American FamilyInsurance, the insurance companyfor Mr. Bigwood, offered $12,500 tosettle the case.
With pre-judgment interest,American Family Insurance will nowbe required to pay $651,000 plus thecosts of trial for Mr. Flaherty.
Flaherty's attorneys, Mark Gouldof Denver, and Richard Eddington ofSteamboat Springs, Colorado, werespoke of the jurys verdict. Theentire defense was that becauseRyan tried to work through the painfor five months and see if he wouldget better without medical care, theysaid he wasn't hurt, said attorneyMark Gould.
This was Mr. Gould's first trial aslead attorney. "The insurance com-pany hoped that the jury would bepoisoned by the false notion that if
you don't have continuous medi-cal care you cannot be hurt," saidGould. "This jury was smart and
was able to see that this young manhas permanent injuries, and focusedon the undisputed medical evidencerather than the personal attacksagainst Mr. Flaherty."
This has been a very difficultexperience for Ryan and his fam-ily and they now have hope for thefuture, Mr. Eddington said.
"It is my hope that future juriesrealize that it is the insurance com-panies that force cases to trial byrefusing to pay for medical expens-es," said Gould.
Mark Gould has been a frequentcontributor to the North DenverNews.
by Denver Health RockyMountain Poison and DrugCenter Physicians
Along with fun and sun,summer often brings injuriesthat can be serious, but arepreventable.
Fireworks
Fourth of July celebrations
have the potential for seri-ous injuries. More than halfof all fireworks-related inju-ries involve children. Hospitalemergency rooms see numerousinjuries involving burns on thehands, fingers, eyes and headeach Fourth of July holiday.
Sparklers cause the most inju-ries for children under the ageof five, as young children lackcoordination to handle themsafely. The safest way to pre-vent fireworks-related injuriesis to leave fireworks displays tothe trained professionals.
Heat strokeHeat stroke occurs when
the body is unable to regulateits temperature. The bodystemperature rises rapidly, thesweating mechanism fails andthe body is unable to cool down.With heat stroke, the bodystemperature can rise to 106F
or higher within 10 minutes to15 minutes. Heat stroke cancause death or permanent dis-ability if emergency treatmentis not provided quickly.
During heat waves, drinklots of water, be aware of theamount of time spent in thesun, use sunscreen and avoidstrenuous outdoor activities.
Warning signs of heat strokeinclude extremely high bodytemperature, above 103F:red, hot, dry skin; no sweating;rapid, strong pulse; throbbingheadache; dizziness; nausea;confusion and/or unconscious-
ness.If these warning signs appear,call 911 and begin to cool thevictim. Get the person to ashady area. Immerse him/herin a tub of cool water or shower,spraying or sponging with coolwater. Continue cooling effortsuntil his/her body temperaturedrops to 101F or 102F.
Infants, young children,senior citizens, those with men-tal or physical illnesses espe-cially heart disease or highblood pressure, and people
Enjoy Your Summer Safelyworking outside are at highestrisk for heat stroke.
Children, adults and petsshould never be left alone in aclosed, parked car, even for aminute. Heat stroke can hap-pen quickly, and the conse-quences can be deadly.
DehydrationDehydration is caused by
losing too much fluid throughsweating, not drinking enoughwater or fluids, or vomiting anddiarrhea. When severe, dehy-dration is a life-threateningemergency.
Children risk dehydra-tion due to their smaller bodyweights and higher turnover of water and electrolytes, as dothe elderly and ill people.
Symptoms of dehydra-tion include: dry or stickymouth; low or no urine output;
not producing tears; sunkeneyes; lethargy and possiblyeven unconsciousness withsevere dehydration.
Drinking fluids is usuallysufficient for mild dehydra-
tion. Drink frequent,small amounts of
fluid rather than large amountsall at once. Sports drinks orfreezer pops are also effective.Avoid using water as the prima-ry replacement fluid in infantsand children.
The best defense is preven-tion. Drink fluids regularly,regardless of your activity level
do not wait until you arethirsty. Do not drink liquids with caffeine, alcohol or largeamounts of sugar as theseactually cause you to lose morebody fluids.
Snake BitesIf a poisonous snake bite is
suspected, remain calm, reas-sure the victim and call 911for immediate, rapid and safetransport to the closest hospi-tal.
Immobilize the affected area.If bit on the arm, make a sling.Do not use a tourniquet. Ifthe victim is bit on the leg,
splint the leg and have thevictim lie flat with the affectedarea positioned at, or below,the level of the heart. Avoid iceor cold application, and do notcut or incise the wound to suckout the venom, as this maycause more injury to the victimand can release poison into themouth of the person helping thevictim.
When hiking, always wear atleast ankle high shoes or boots.Do not blindly stick hands orfeet into woodpiles, deep grassor crevices. Be particularlyaware around rocky, sunny
areas for snakes. Stay far awayfrom snakes, as they can jumphalf the length of their bodywhen striking.
Rattlesnakes are indigenousto Colorado. Denver HealthsRocky Mountain Poison andDrug Center (RMPDC) handlesmore than 50 calls about biteseach year. For more informa-tion about snakebites, call theRMPDC at 1-800-222-1222.The center is staffed around theclock, 365 days a year.
Mary Brown, Denver Health
Jury Awards $555,000 forpermanent neck injury
