VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - Do you think you may have a wheat or\n gluten sensitivity? Are you curious about what all the recent attention to wheat and gluten is about?
Join us this week\n for the celiac/gluten free support group meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Avon Public Library. The meeting is free and open\n to the public.
Julie Shedko created the Eagle County chapter to support of the local community as well as visitors,\n and to help people understand gluten sensitivity and celiac disease and provide information on local availability of gluten\n free foods, restaurants and treatment options.
Several of the groups\' members, including Shedko, have struggled for\n decades with severe abdominal discomfort, unique neurological symptoms, malabsorption and painful skin rashes without diagnosis\n or treatment. Shedko says her goal for the group, which meets monthly, is to provide the community with information about\n the condition, lifestyle tips and support, as well as testing, care an

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Glider pilot discusses fatal midair collision\n -

BOULDER, Colo. - The glider pilot who flew to safety through a\n fireball from the midair collision of two planes over Boulder says it was just seconds between when he saw one plane approaching\n and when it collided with the plane towing him.

On NBC\'s \"Today\" show Tuesday, Reuben Bakker and his two passengers\n discussed the crash that killed three people Saturday near Boulder Municipal Airport.

The Cirrus SR-20 aircraft\n that collided with the Piper Pawnee towing Bakker\'s glider were flying at a 90-degree angle to each other when they crashed,\n investigators said. Bakker managed to disconnect the glider just before impact.

The crash killed the tow plane\n pilot Alexander Howard Gilmer, 25, of Evergreen; Boulder lawyer and Cirrus pilot Bob Matthews, 58; and his 56-year-old brother,\n Mark Matthews.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators were piecing together the planes Tuesday and\n will do a 3-D reconstruction in Greeley, where they took the wreckage.

Bakker told t

We\'ve got the Olympics covered on VailDaily.com\n -

Local Coverage

Aspen Times Sports Reporter Nate Peterson\n and Vail Daily Marketing Consultant Mark Bricklin will be on-site covering our local Olympians and reporting on the circus\n that is the Vancouver Olympics 2010.
Featured content includes:
- Colorado Olympians\' bios
- Complete event\n schedules
- Reader correspondents\' blogs
- Olympic Twitter feed
- Your Gold Medal Moment Contest
- And\n much more!

We\'re excited about our Local Olympians\' sections that have each athlete\'s bio, photos, articles and\n links to their website, Twitter and Facebook pages. Note: This section will be finalized with late additions, deletions on\n Friday, February 12, but check it out today!

Access this exclusive content at www.VailDaily.com/Quest
AP Coverage
The Associated Press is streaming content to our AP Olympics section.

This section will be\n updated throughout the day with great articles, videos, photography and more. You\'ll find complete Olympics coverage here,\n including a compl

Eagle Valley students recall Carnegie Hall performance\n -

EAGLE COUNTY - Choir students from Eagle Valley High School in\n Gypsum performed at Carnegie Hall in New York last month. Here, students and staff share their impressions of the trip:
Ashley Winsor
New York was just amazing. I\'ve wanted to go there all my life and to have it finally happen was\n just a dream come true. This city is so big. The Empire State building was amazing. The views were beautiful. It was such\n a great experience, especially at night.
Another great experience was the Statue of Liberty. I had no idea it was that\n big and that detailed. Each day was breath taking. The city never sleeps which was so different but awesome. Getting ice cream\n at midnight in Times Square was a new experience that will not be forgotten, just like the rest of this trip.
I also\n had a great time in China Town. It\'s not everyday a girl gets to bargain a price down for her yellow New York sweat shirt.Carnegie Hall was so beautiful. As soon as you walk in you\'re amazed and breathle

Colo. gov. moves on campaign finance law\n -

DENVER - Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter plans to take a dispute over\n campaign finance laws straight to the state Supreme Court.

Ritter\'s chief legal counsel Trey Rogers says the governor\n is asking the court to determine if state campaign finance laws are unconstitutional in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court\n ruling.

Under the U.S. Supreme Court\'s ruling, big business and unions can now directly spend unlimited amounts\n to produce and run their own campaign ads despite a state ban in Amendment 27 approved by Colorado voters in 2002.
House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann, D-Louisville, says lawmakers are drafting a resolution supporting Ritter\'s decision\n to take the dispute to court Tuesday.

Snowmobiler killed in Wyoming avalanche\n -

BILLINGS, Mont. - Authorities say a 50-year-old man was killed\n in an avalanche while he was snowmobiling in west-central Wyoming\'s Squaw Creek area.

Lt. Brian Andrews with the\n Lincoln County Sheriff\'s Department says Bob Joe Turney was buried after a 150-foot wide avalanche broke loose near Greys\n River at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Turney was wearing an avalanche beacon, and three fellow snowmobilers located him within\n about 15 minutes of the slide.

Avalanche danger at the time was rated considerable by the Bridger-Teton National\n Forest Avalanche Center. The slide happened at about 9,000 feet of elevation on a south-facing slope.

Snowmobilers\n have accounted for five of the 11 avalanche deaths in the United States this winter. There have now been two avalanche deaths\n in Wyoming this winter, the first occurring Jan. 6 when a Jackson Hole Mountain Resort ski patroller was swept off a cliff.
Montana has seen two avalanche deaths this winter. An ice climber was killed in th

Drunken man steals ambulance with patient inside at Wisconsin ski area\n -

MADISON, Wis. - Dane County authorities say a drunken man stole\n an ambulance from a ski area with the patient still inside.

The Dane County Sheriff\'s Department says Fitchrona\n emergency responders were treating a patient in the back of the ambulance at the Tyrol Basin Ski and Snowboard Area in Mt.\n Horeb on Monday night. A 24-year-old Illinois man got into the vehicle and drove it around the parking lot.

Dane\n County Sheriff\'s spokeswoman Elise Schaffer says police officers from Mt. Horeb stopped him but she didn\'t have any information\n on how they did it. Dane County Sheriff\'s deputies arrested the man.

Mt. Horeb Police Chief Jeff Veloff didn\'t\n immediately return a message.

Report shows Colo. grads needing remedial courses\n -

DENVER - An annual report by the Colorado Commission for Higher\n Education says roughly one-third of Colorado students entering college need remedial help in a core subject.

Among\n Colorado high school graduates who enrolled in two-year colleges in Colorado in fall 2008, about 53 needed remedial help in\n math, reading or writing. Among those enrolling in four-year Colorado colleges, 19 percent of first-year students needed remedial\n help in at least one of those subjects.

The report to the Legislature comes as the state embarks on reforms spurred\n by the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids, or Cap4K, legislation. The bill, signed by Gov. Bill Ritter, tasks the state to\n create public education standards and assessments from preschool through college.

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Information from:\n The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com

Another major storm headed to snowy Mid-Atlantic\n -

WASHINGTON - Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday on track for\n the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices were closed for a second day and utility workers struggled\n to restore power knocked out by a weekend blizzard.

The storm hit the Midwest early, closing schools and greeting\n commuters with slick, slushy roads from Minneapolis and Chicago to Louisville, Ky. Hundreds of flights were canceled at Chicago\'s\n airports as the storm moved across Illinois, where up to a foot of snow was forecast.

Powerful winds and snow were\n expected to hit Mid-Atlantic states by the afternoon, and could leave as much as 20 inches of new snow in Washington and 18\n inches near Philadelphia - a Northeast travel hub - by Wednesday night.

Parts of the region were already buried\n under nearly 3 feet.

A Safeway grocery store in the Dupont Circle area of Washington had milk and some bread Tuesday,\n but many other items were picked over from the last storm. There

GOP wary of pitfalls in Obama\'s health care summit\n -

WASHINGTON - Even as Republicans publicly welcome President\n Barack Obama\'s call for a bipartisan confab on health care, some privately worry that he might be laying a trap to portray\n their ideas as flimsy.

If so, a shaky showing by GOP leaders could possibly embolden congressional Democrats to\n make a final, aggressive push to overhaul the nation\'s health care system, with or without any Republican votes.
Some Republicans doubt that scenario, saying Democrats have lost momentum for any plan that\'s certain to draw fierce criticism.\n But they noted Monday that the White House has not backed away from its support of legislation similar to what the Democratic-controlled\n House and Senate passed separately in December over strong GOP objections.

\"This is a clever tactic by the president\n to try to put the Republicans on the defensive,\" said John Feehery, a GOP consultant and former congressional aide. \"There\'s\n a vast ideological gulf\" between the two parties on health care, he sa

Vail doctors to treat Olympians\n -

VAIL, Colorado - When skier Lindsey Vonn crashed during a training\n run at the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy, Vail surgeon Bill Sterett rushed to her side.
\"She was in a lot of pain,\"\n recalled Sterett, who skied over to Vonn, stabilized her and helped her onto a toboggan.
Sterett rode in a helicopter\n with Vonn to a Torino hospital, where he communicated with the staff about treatment for her injuries.
\"At the Olympics,\n so much of it is being a patient advocate,\" Sterett said. \"We were in the Torino and there wasn\'t a single person or nurse\n who spoke English. She was in a lot of pain from her pelvic [contusion] and trying to deal with pain medicines.\"
Vonn\n has long since recovered from that injury and has set her sights on winning gold in the Vancouver Olympics.
Sterett,\n too, will be traveling to the Olympics once again, ready to treat any medical problems the women\'s alpine team may encounter.\n Some of the world\'s best doctors and physica

Star skier Jimmie Heuga dies\n -

EDWARDS - Jimmie Heuga, the American skier who won a bronze medal\n in the 1964 Olympics and later used his battle with multiple sclerosis to help other people diagnosed with that disease, died\n Monday.
He was 66.
In 1984, Heuga founded the Vail Valley-based Jimmie Heuga Center, which sought to encourage people\n with multiple sclerosis to adopt healthy lifestyles and positive attitudes. The group is now called Can Do Multiple Sclerosis.\"Obviously, the world knew him for his accomplishments as a ski racer, but I admire him even more because of how he led\n his life, especially with the challenges of MS,\" said Billy Kidd, of Steamboat Springs, who stood on the podium alongside\n Heuga in the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Kidd won silver, and Heuga won bronze.
Friends used one common word\n to describe Heuga: \"tough.\"
\"He\'s probably the toughest guy, both on and off skis, both mentally and physically, that\n I\'ve ever known,\" said Bob Beattie, of

Fewer students enrolling at Vail Christian High School\n -

VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - The economic recession has taken a toll\n on Vail Christian High School\'s enrollment, and officials there are working with bond holders to renegotiate the school\'s\n debt, Head of School Randy Lowe said.
\"Like a lot of people who are renegotiating their mortgages, we\'re working with\n our bond holders to renegotiate our debt,\" he said.
At issue is about $12 million in debt the Edwards school took on\n to build Vail Christian and its gymnasium, Lowe said. He\'s hoping to hear more information from the bond holders by March\n 3.
\"There\'s always the question of how successful we\'re going to be,\" Lowe said. \"The board and I feel very determined\n that this is going to work out well.\"
As officials work to restructure that debt, they are grappling with a drop in enrollment.This year\'s student body included 89 students at the beginning of the school year, down from 101 students last year, Lowe

Parenting dinners and dialogues planned in Vail Valley\n -

VAIL - The Eagle River Youth Coalition and the the Eagle County\n Parent Network in will launch the second phase of the \"Parents You Matter\" campaign in March in Colorado\'s Vail Valley. Parents will be invited to \"Dinner & Dialogue,\" a series of frank conversations between parents and experts about the challenges\n and rewards of raising teenagers.
The kick-off Dinner & Dialogue will be held in two locations to accommodate both ends\n of the valley and will be facilitated by Dr. Henry Goetze, a local licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist\n with 29 years of experience working with teens and parents. Goetze, is on-staff at Vail Valley Medical Center and has a private\n practice in Avon, will lead a discussion, \"Positively Parenting.\"
Dinner & Dialogues are free, bilingual events, and\n will begin on March 3, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Eagle County Building in Eagle and on March 4, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.\n at Miller Ranch Community Cen

Rock the Pink fashion show is Thursday in Vail\n -

VAIL, Colorado - Come see your friends who work, live, and play\n in the Vail Valley strut their stuff down the runway at Samana Lounge in Vail Village on Bridge Street wearing this year\'s\n hottest spring fashion from Quiksilver, Arriesgado, and Studz Gem Wear, this coming Thursday.
Doors open at 6 p.m. and\n the show starts at 8 p.m. There will be a $5 donation charge at the door gives you the chance to win door prizes. For every\n $5 donated you get an extra ticket.
If you are not able to make it to the fashion show on Thursday and you still want\n to make a charitable donation to the cause. Quiksilver and Arriesgado will have donation boxes set up in their store for the\n month of February. Please feel free to go and make your donation.
The purpose of Rock the Pink is to reach out to the\n men and women of this community to raise awareness that early detection is the key to treating breast cancer.

Colo. getting $30 million for bark-beetle epidemic\n -

DENVER - U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado are getting\n $30 million to deal with the aftermath of the bark-beetle epidemic that have killed about 3.6 million pine trees in the state\n and southern Wyoming.

U.S. Democratic Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet said Monday the funds are a sign federal\n officials recognize how severe the bark-beetle problem has become since the infestation started more than a decade ago. Udall\n calls it \"one of the West\'s biggest natural disasters.\"

The funding Colorado is getting is part of $40 million\n that federal officials have allocated to deal with the infestation. Wyoming will receive $8 million, and South Dakota $2 million.
Udall says he wants the money to address wildfire threats, erosion on waterways, and safety risks associated with\n falling trees.