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Fw: survivors identified fund started

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Surviving blind students identified and fund started to help them
and others

By Howard Pankratz The Denver Post

Posted: 12/20/2010 11:50:29 AM MST

Updated: 12/20/2010 12:38:44 PM MST

Two students at the Colorado Center for the Blind seriously
injured Friday when a car slammed into a Littleton bus stop were
identified today as Helen G.

Sydnor and Carissa Ubersox.

A third student, David Nanney, was killed in the collision.

The names were released by Lt.  Sean Dugan of the Littleton
Police Department and Littleton mayor protem Debbie Brinkman.

Both Sydnor, 18, and Ubersox, 26, live at the Pinnacle at
Mountain Gate apartment community in Littleton and attend the
Colorado Center for the Blind.

Brinkman said Sydnor is from Virginia and Ubersox is from
Wisconsin.

Brinkman said that a special fund is being established called The
CCB Healing Fund in honor of the 47-year-old Nanney.

The fund will help cover the costs of grief counselors and "other
healing needs the school may have" and to help support Nanney's
family, particularly his

19-year-old daughter who is currently in college, Brinkman said.

Grief counselors, therapists and other professionals will meet
with the students and the CCB staff when they return from their
two-week holiday in early

January, said Brinkman.

Brinkman said she and the school's executive director Julie Deden
visited with Sydnor on Sunday.

Brinkman said that the tragedy has struck the CCB students and
staff very hard.

"They (the students) are so tight," said Brinkman.  "They live
together, they commute together, they go to school together  I
don't think people really understand

the depth of the tightness."

She said that people who live in most U.S.  communities don't see
a large contingent of blind people on their streets.  But she
said the situation in Littleton

is completely different - the blind students and staff of the CCB
are on the streets of the Denver suburb all the time.

"Every day we watch these amazing students navigate through the
streets of Littleton," said Brinkman.  "They are the most
independent and stubborn folks

you'll ever meet.  They are conquering their blindness with
confidence.  They are a proud group," said the Littleton mayor
protem.  "But today they are broken.

They have lost a friend and are watching as two more friends work
to heal their broken bodies.  They are trying to understand how
this could happen."

Brinkman said in her hospital visit with Sydnor, the young woman
told her she recalled the impactbut remembered most a good
Samaritan who rushed to her

and the aid of her friends.  Brinkman said the good Samaritan
took off her coat and put it under Sydnor's head and removed her
shirt to help stop Nanney's

bleeding.

"She (the good Samaritan) spoke words of comfort and calm to the
three who lay helpless on the ground," Brinkman said.

Brinkman said Sydnor is recovering from a broken pelvis, a broken
wrist and a broken nose.

The Healing Fund has been established at the Colorado Business
Bank, 2409 W.  Main St.  Littleton, Co., 80120.

Brinkman is encouraging people to mail checks or drop off cash at
the bank.  The checks should be made payable to: "The CCB Healing
Fund".  The fund will

be administered by Carol Elzi at CCB.

Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or

hpankratz at denverpost.com.

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