Kalama athletes jolted into action by La Center peer's sudden death
To help the family of Cody SherrellAccess the online payment system at La Center Middle School's website at http://www.lcsd.k12.wa.us
Or send a check made out to The Cody Sherrell Fund to the middle school at 700 E. Fourth St., La Center, WA 98629.
To get a screening for a teen athlete:
• Locally, check with your pediatrician about a comprehensive sports physical, including screening for heart problems.
"In Cowlitz County, we have open access," said Dr. Phyllis Cavens of Child and Adolescent Clinic. She urged parents to get sports physicals for their kids early, so students will be ready for sports.
"Make an appointment and make it happen," Cavens said.
• Young Champions Screening, organized by The Quinn Driscoll Foundation, Vancouver, WA, is a non-profit organization dedicated to distribution of automated external defibrillators and to the education, testing and screening of young people for Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA).
The next foundation-sponsored screening will be Feb. 25, at Peace Health Southwest Medical Center, Heart and Vascular Center, 1st Floor of Firstenburg Tower, 400 NE Mother Joseph Place, Vancouver. These screenings are free or subsidized.
To contribute, help set up a clinic or get more information, go the foundation's website, www.quinndriscollfoundation.org .
Another helpful website is "Parent Health Watch" for stories and medical tips related to student athletes who collapse during sports because of heart problems.
KALAMA — Kalama's middle-school basketball players heard the news in an especially vulnerable place: They were in the gym, at basketball practice.
Coach Brandon Walker told them what happened, said Spencer Stone, 14. "And then I saw it on the news."
"I came home from practice and my dad told me about it," said Victor Leatzow, 13, whose father Vic is the Kalama fire chief.
Cody Sherrell, a boy who was practicing basketball nine miles away at La Center Middle School, had collapsed Jan. 3 and was in critical condition at a Portland hospital.
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25, at Peace Health Southwest Medical Center, Heart and Vascular Center, 1st Floor of Firstenburg Tower, 400 NE Mother Joseph Place, Vancouver. These screenings are free or subsidized. To contribute, help set up a clinic or get more information,
David and Dixie Weich were transported to PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview with chest, neck and back injuries. They were treated and released, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday morning. Marthaller was not injured but was cited for
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Family Farm Defenders, a national organization based in Madison, WI expresses its solidarity with International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) Local 21, and strongly condemns all attempts to deny workers their basic right to organize.
“Similar strategies of collective action have been successfully used by farmers and workers for centuries in their struggles against corporate robber barons and the fight being waged today on the docks in Washington State, pitting unionized longshore workers against greedy grain exporters, is really no different,” notes John E. Peck, executive director of Family Farm Defenders. “It was this historic solidarity that brought ILWU members all the way from the West Coast to bolster the ranks of the hundreds of thousands of protesters outside the state capitol in Madison during the Cheddar Uprising last spring, and which is prompting workers and farmers in Wisconsin and across the nation to express our support for their effort now. An injury to one is an injury to all.”
As an active member of La Via Campesina, the largest umbrella organization for family farmers in the world, Family Farm Defenders is a staunch advocate of food sovereignty. One of the underlying principles of food sovereignty is that ALL workers deserve a living wage, dignified working conditions, and the right to organize. This guarantee extends to everyone working in the food/farm system – not just farmers and farmworkers, but also meatpackers, retail clerks, restaurant servers, truck drivers, and dockworkers.
The union-busting corporation, EGT Development, which is now hiring scabs to replace ILWU workers, is hardly unfamiliar to family farmers as its dominant partner, Bunge North America, has a notorious reputation for commodity price fixing and taxpayer subsidized dumping. Bunge is among the world’s top three grain traders and saw its profits jump by 77% in the last quarter of 2007 thanks to speculation on the global food crisis. By the end of 2010 Bunge saw its revenues balloon to $45.7 billion with $2.35 billion in reported profits. As a major peddler of livestock feed and agro fuels, Bunge is also responsible for environmental destruction, industrial factory farm expansion, and biotech contamination worldwide.
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