Article: Community rallies to a giving family.(Sports Columnist)

Byline: George Schroeder The Register-Guard

They were on vacation in Maui, getting ready for a luau with friends, when every parent's worst fear arrived.

A cell phone rang.

"Johnny's been hurt," someone told Rick and Carol Barrows. "It might be pretty bad."

What's it like to learn your son has been severely injured? That doctors hope he'll survive? That paralysis is a secondary concern?

And what's it like when a giving family is suddenly in desperate need of help?

"It's all kind of a blur," Carol says.

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