By PETE REDINGTON
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During Thanksgiving dinner at his home in Vermont two years ago, champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce, 27, finally told his family that he realized that the brain injury he had suffered in a crash on the slopes three years earlier had changed him forever. He looked at his brother David, 30, who has Down syndrome, and told him that he accepted the limitations he now faced. His days of X Games glory were over. Their mother Pia turned to David and asked: Would Kevin’s acceptance of his traumatic brain injury help David accept his Down syndrome? David’s eyes welled with tears as the other five family members sat silently. It was a long moment. “It’s hard,” David said finally. “But I will try.”
Two dead and two injured after head-on crash in southern Idaho
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2 young men die following crash near Montpelier
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The following is a news release from Idaho State Police.
On Thursday, Dec. 17, at approximately 8:12 a.m., Idaho State Police investigated a three-vehicle, fatality crash northbound US 89 at milepost 14, one mile south of Paris.
Preston Schei, 20, of Montpelier, was southbound on US 89 at milepost 14 in a 1996 Dodge Ram. Eldon Bird, 63, of Montpelier, was also southbound in a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado. Traeden McPherson, 18, of Paris, was northbound on US 89 in a 1998 Honda Accord.
The Dodge went into the northbound lanes to pass the Chevrolet and it collided with the front of the Honda. The Honda came to rest blocking the roadway. The Dodge came to rest on the driver’s side, down an embankment on the west side of the roadway. The Chevrolet was struck by debris from the collision. The occupants of the Honda and Dodge were not wearing seatbelts.