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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Eric Adler / The Bulletin
July 16, 2009
COLWICH, Kan. — On the first day — long before the lawyer from the Vatican showed up, long before talk of saints and miracles — young Chase Kear lay on the edge of death in the intensive care unit.
It was an accident: pole vaulting. The 19-year-old....