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Colorado takes gold at the Western US High School Alpine Championships

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CCHS senior Parker Scott made the team for the second year in a row

BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

One Clear Creek High School senior made the Western National Colorado Ski Team and helped Colorado bring home the gold at the Western US High School Alpine Championships.

Parker Scott is a member of the ski team at CCHS, but his ski journey hardly began long before high

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BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

“And I don’t remember screaming, but I remember hearing my voice screaming. It’s kind of weird,” Randy Wheelock remembered.

Now a Clear Creek county commissioner, Wheelock worked as a laborer on the Eisenhower Tunnel ve decades ago when he rst moved to Colorado.

e Eisenhower tunnel turned 50 on March 8 and was celebrated by the Colorado Department of Transportation and local o cials. According to CODOT, at the time of its construction, the tunnel project was the largest single federal-aid highway project in US history.

“I was working on this crew of laborers over there with pick and shovel and working really hard, doing really hard, dirty work,” Wheelock said.

at was the early ‘70s. Wheelock left his home state of Oklahoma in

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