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JULY 13, 2009
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Vol. 21, No. 166
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Gas prices Cost of a gallon of regular unleaded fuel on Sunday
Fuel Stop ................... $2.62 West Kum N Go ....... $2.60 7-Eleven ................... $2.60 Western Petro.......... $2.75 Bob’s Conoco ...................... $2.65 Hilltop Sinclair ..................... $2.64 Anglers Kum N Go .............. $2.60 Ski Haus................................ $2.59 Mount Werner Sinclair........... $2.63 Shell ........................................ $2.75 Shop & Hop ............................. $2.63
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Family mourns ‘Tigger’ Friends, rescuers found Steamboat canoeist Stothart on Saturday
State Average ................... ...................$2.72 National Average ...............$2.49
Blythe Terrell
PILOT & TODAY STAFF
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
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Dodgers vanquish Page 20
Correction The story “Hayden mourns Copeland” on Page 1 of Saturday’s Steamboat Today gave an incorrect year for when Judy Green substitute taught and met Ann Copeland. The year was about 1974.
■ INDEX Aging Well . . . . .12 Briefs . . . . . . . . .10 Classifieds . . . . .26 Comics . . . . . . . .24 Crossword . . . . .25 Happenings . . . . .7
Horoscope . . . . .24 Scoreboard. . . . .23 Sports. . . . . . . . .20 The Record. . . . .10 ViewPoints . . . . . .8 Weather . . . . . . .19 VALERIE STOTHART/COURTESY
Brian ‘Tigger’ Stothart’s wife, Valerie, describes him as a family man. Stothart holds his children, Samuel and Sophia, at Fish Creek Falls in May. This photo hangs on a tree along the Encampment River in Wyoming.
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Saturday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 3-4-20-21-30 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
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Afternoon storm. High of 82.
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By all accounts, Brian “Tigger” Stothart was an elite boater, a funny guy and a thoughtful friend. But his real passion, friends said, was his wife, Valerie, and their children, Samuel and Sophia. “In all the things he enjoyed doing, he was best at being a family man, being a dad,” Valerie Stothart said. Steamboat Springs resident Brian Stothart, 35, disappeared June 13 while running the Encampment River in southern Wyoming with four others. Stothart was a C-1 boater, which meant he paddled a canoe. The group he was with found his boat, and Carbon County Sheriff’s officials found nothing. Friends searched for him every weekend after he disappeared, and a sheriff’s deputy found Stothart’s body Saturday. The “Tigger” nickname fit Stothart, his wife and friends said. “He was just, I can’t even explain, a huge ball of energy,” said Dan Walsh, who had been searching for Stothart. “He was like Tigger, seriously, just bouncing off the walls and always excited and happy and making the best out of any situation. I’ve never seen that kid down and complaining, never. He was always the one who came and cheered you up.” Walsh said he met Stothart 15 years ago. Stothart got Walsh into paddling, and the men played See Stothart, page 15
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