For a few months, I’ve been working on a picture story about Isaac Salas, a Cheyenne South High School wrestler who broke his C1 and C2 vertebrae in a practice on Nov. 17, 2010. In the months that followed his accident, the Cheyenne community came together to raise money for Isaac as he recovered in Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colo. Isaac continued to make steady progress in his recovery and returned home from the hospital on Aug. 4. Less than a month later on Sept. 3, Isaac died following a procedure to pulverize urinary tract stones blocking his catheter. Here is an audio slideshow I put together with some of the pictures I took of Isaac and his family.
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Santa Claus visits family that lost home in fire
Let it glow
The 27-foot-tall Christmas tree that stands in the Wyoming State Capitol lit up on Wednesday glowing bright enough to make Clark W. Griswold jealous. It rivals only the 7.5-foot-tall tree that occupies a large portion of living room and features some 600 light bulbs. Sadly, however, my apartment ceiling is not as cool as the one in the Wyoming State Capitol rotunda.