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Fair volunteer struggles to recover from fall ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ As the Alaska State Fair in Palmer welcomes thousands, one of its long-time volunteers is in a hospital in Seattle. Joel Stefanski is struggling to recover from an injury he suffered August 2nd while replacing poles used in the fair's lumberjack show. The base of the pole he was climbing snapped and he fell 21 feet to the ground, shattering his hip and pelvis. Stefanski is a veteran of climbing. He's the owner of Valley Tree Services, and for the past 19 years, a clearing foreman for Matanuska Electric Association. His wife, Mindy, says he has lost 30 pounds and surgeons have held off repairing his hip due to a tear in a vein in his pelvis. Doctors have told her it can take a month or two for the vein to heal on its own and if the hip is not repaired, Stefanski may have mobility issues due to improperly fused bones. Mindy Stefanski has been chronicling the ordeal CaringBridge.org, a nonprofit Web site for families in crisis. The fair is helping financially. It's donating $2 for every daily admission between 2 and 10 p.m. Tuesday to the Joel Stefanski Fund, a benefit account at the Mat Valley Federal Credit Union. |
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