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Suffering from colon cancer, 22-year-old Craig Canape spent at least 74 days in Room 370, a bleak and tired-looking room on the third floor of Fortin Tower at St. Vincent Healthcare.

Despite its glum and antiquated look and feel, the room became a home away from home for Craigs parents, Tom and Susan Canape of Laurel. It was filled with heart. They decorated the room with family and school photos and entertained Craigs friends there routinely, even hosting dinners.

Staff brought in a refrigerator, even a big-screen TV anything to make it better.

At night, Tom transformed a cubbyhole-sized waiting room nearby into a makeshift bedroom to be near his son.

We just adapted to what we had, Tom said. It was home, and we got to be with him. There could be improvements, sure, but its hard to knock it because of the excellent care we received.

Craig, often accompanied by friends and family, would escape his dismal room to visit fourth floor where the surroundings were more pleasant and appealing. Fourth floor houses the nursery and sports a new, modern, 21st century look.

You can tell third floor is probably the last floor on the list to be renovated, said Susan with a smile. Its definitely original.

All of that is about to change as St. Vincent Healthcare prepares to embark on a $4.3 million renovation of the floor so that in the future families will be surrounded by a more pleasant, peaceful environment in addition to receiving quality medical attention.

It was in Room 370 that Craig Canape, a former football and basketball player for the Laurel Locomotives, lived out his final hours.

Tom recalls the precise moment his son died 7:15 a.m., May 18, 2013.

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Eight years after the first bottle of wine was uncorked and poured for tasting room visitors at Winonas Garvin Heights Vineyards, owners Marvin and Linda Seppanen are constructing an addition to the building.

Below ground, the winery will triple in size. But the half-million dollar project wont be just a larger tasting room. For the past year the couple, along with their daughter Christine Seppanen and her husband, have been planning an event center with space for medium-size weddings of 100 or so guests, Marvin said.

On Tuesday, the Seppanens grapes rustled in the wind, seemingly undisturbed by the sound of hammering and the rhythmic pulse of the air compressor. Construction crews were hard at work laying floorboards for the event center, and cement walls stood guard over a sand floor in the lower level.

The project, which began in mid-July, will be completed sometime this fall theyre not sure precisely which day.

You know how that goes, Linda said, laughing.

Marvin, an engineering consultant, and Linda, who retired from teaching nursing at Winona State University this year, have been growing grapes at their location above Garvin Heights for 25 years. They made wine for family and friends until they reached the 200-gallon benchmark that required them to get a license.

Their four acres of grapes are augmented by grapes from at least two other growers, Marvin said, so theyre not restricted by the amount of land they have. The winery currently offers about 20 different wines to its customers.

Of course, fall is wine-making season, and theyll start making wine the first week of September in the current space. Once next year rolls around, they hope to increase production with the extra space the addition will afford.

Linda said she looks forward to offering more events in the new space. Shed like to offer classes like how to pair wine with cheese, and her daughter Christine plans to offer wine and yoga classes.

Besides that, the addition will allow the Seppanens to continue to offer their tasting room to visitors without interruption there will be a separate entrance for the event center.

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Chicago The Tigers on Friday made room for Evan Reeds addition to the active roster by dropping another right-handed reliever, Jose Ortega, who was designated for assignment.

The Tigers likely will outright Ortega to their minor-league system should he clear waivers. They could also trade him within a 10-day period. Ortega, 25, has had stints with the Tigers during the past three seasons, spanning 14 games.

He had been pitching at Triple A Toledo, where he was 2-2, with a 3.70 earned-run average in 45 games. He had 45 strikeouts in 56 innings, but he had also walked 36 batters, accounting for a dark 1.52 WHIP (walks plus hits per inning).

Reed, 28, was with the Tigers earlier this season and in his last 10 games at Toledo had a 1.93 ERA, with 16 strikeouts and a single walk in 14 innings. Earlier this month, sexual assault charges against Reed, stemming from a March incident, were dropped by a Wayne County District Court judge.

The Tigers were preparing Friday for a night game against the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. They are scheduled to play a day-night doubleheader Saturday, when another Toledo pitcher, left-handed starter Kyle Ryan, is scheduled to join the team. The Tigers will make a 40-man roster announcement ahead of Saturdays first game as they clear space for Ryan.

Showers and thunderstorms were forecasted for late Friday afternoon in Chicago, extending into early evening Saturday.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A University of Iowa professor who donned a robot costume to heckle Bill Clinton and Michele Bachmann has now set his sights on one of his school's famous quirks: the visiting team's pink locker room at Kinnick Stadium.

Kembrew McLeod is organizing what he jokingly calls a "Million Robot March" to coincide with an annual celebration Friday honoring legendary Iowa football coach Hayden Fry, who had the opposing team's locker room painted pink in 1979. McLeod wants the school to ditch the pink, which he says amounts to a school-sanctioned taunt that exudes homophobia and sexism.

Fry has said pink is a calming color meant to make Hawkeyes' opponents passive. But he also noted in his biography that it was the color of little girls' bedrooms and some considered it for sissies. The tactic has rattled some opposing coaches, with the late University of Michigan coach Bo Schembechler having student managers put white paper over the walls.

The paint became part of Hawkeye lore. A 2005 renovation added pink across brick walls and shower floors and installed pink metal lockers, carpeting, sinks, showers and urinals.

Many opposing players have shrugged off the color, with Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner recently calling it the best locker room in the conference because of its spaciousness.

Some feminists, lawyers, gay rights activists and editorial boards have criticized the gimmick over the past decade. But previous protests, including a longstanding threat of a discrimination lawsuit, haven't changed anything.

Fans have generally opposed the various efforts to get the color changed, saying it's a tradition that isn't meant to be a gender-based putdown.

McLeod, a communications studies professor, hopes his absurd approach will draw attention to the issue. He said people dressed as robots will meet on top of a hotel parking garage, and then march through FryFest, an annual event that draws up to 20,000 Hawkeye fans. They plan to hold signs and chant slogans such as, "Binary code yes! Gender binaries no!" and "Delete the pink locker rooms!"

McLeod, 43, was dubbed "Roboprofessor" after he heckled Clinton during a 2008 speech in costume. He followed that up in 2011 when Bachmann, then a Republican presidential candidate, visited an Iowa City diner. Video of McLeod dressed as a "gay robot" accusing Bachmann of being a "robophobe" and a "homophobe" - before getting booed and escorted out - quickly went viral.

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In addition to books, he said, the store will offer many of the same sorts of items found at Philly AIDS Thrift.

"It's going to be some clothes, some shoes, also . . . camp, pop-art collectibles, kind of hipsterish," Brennan said. "We're just going to fill the shelves."

He said his group was committed to keeping $15,000 in inventory of new lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books at all times, adding that about a third of the store would be devoted to books.

"The aim is to keep its original vision and focus as a significant part of the store, which is that it's the United States' oldest gay bookstore," Brennan said.

Brennan said his group would also take over the bookstore's online business, queerbooks.com.

All Philly AIDS Thrifts' profits are donated to the AIDS Fund, a Philadelphia group that distributes money to organizations devoted to HIV/AIDS-related issues. Profits from the bookstore also will be donated to the fund, Brennan said.

Giovanni's Room, which is named for the 1956 novel by James Baldwin, prospered for many years. It wholesaled books to Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and had $100,000 in inventory in the early 1990s.

As with many other bookstores in recent years, Giovanni's Room's profits dwindled amid Internet-based competition, said Ed Hermance, the founder and former operator of the store.

Hermance said the new operator had a good chance of succeeding because of the array of items the store will offer.

Brennan said that Giovanni's Room would open in a few weeks, but that its grand reopening would be Oct. 10, 11, and 12 to coincide with Philadelphia Outfest, the city's annual gay block party.

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A new emergency room expansion is currently under construction at McDonough District Hospital and is scheduled to be finished in late 2015. It is estimated to cost $32 million.

There are bonds that will be paid back by hospital revenue over the next number of years, said John Maguire, Leader of Public Relations and Fund Development at McDonough District Hospital.

There are also donated funds that will be used for the geriatric psych portion. There was a trust gift to the hospital many years ago that was designated to serve seniors and the funds from that gift are being used to pay for that portion of the renovation.

The new expansion will be three stories and will include: 10 large private treatment rooms, a comfort room for family and friends during a crisis situation, relocation of rehabilitation services to the third floor of the new addition, direct access to diagnostic technology and construction of a new geriatric psych wing on the second floor of the new edition.

There is supposed to be substantial completion by June of 2015, Maguire said. There is a specific part of the new structure that is supposed to be ready for patient occupancy and usage no later than July 1, 2015, and thats the new geriatric psych inpatient unit that will be on the second floor.

When it came time to add new space for the emergency room there were some other features that were deemed beneficial to add, Maguire said. The geriatric psychiatric unit will be inpatient care for people who are 65 or older who may have mental illness issues that need to be addressed in an inpatient setting. The third floor of the new addition will enable to take our services for rehabilitation and physical therapy that are currently in the basement and move them to the third floor, which will allow them a better physical space for that type of activity.

Currently the emergency patient entrance will be rerouted to the hospital main entrance.

The current emergency main entrance we are using can be inconvenient at times; it can get a bit crowded, but it will be better once the new expansion is finished, said Eric Mccleery, a paramedic for McDonough District Hospital. The new expansion will allow for a lot more patient privacy.

There will also be other new changes coming with the construction of this new expansion, which includes renovations of current rooms to private, single patient rooms, relocation of the heliport pad, expansion of the parking lot and changing the traffic flow to two-way.

Our current emergency room is what I would describe as an open area, which means there is no audio privacy, Maguire said. If Im treated in bed one, the only thing that separates me from bed two is a curtain and if you dont want to know what your neighbor is having done or you dont want them to know what youre having done, patient privacy is non-existent. Logistically, the setup needs to be modernized. In order to do that and to keep your current emergency room running, you need to add new space.

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Carlos Delfino may not be with the Clippers long. (USATSI)

USA Today reports that after the Los Angeles Clippers traded Jared Dudley to the Milwaukee Bucks for Carlos Delfino Tuesday, LA plans to waive Delfino immediately using the "stretch" provision allowed in the last CBA:

Yet according to a person with knowledge of the Clippers' situation, it's likely that Delfino - who is owed $3.25 million next season and has a team option for the 2015-16 campaign - will be waived using what's deemed the "stretch provision." The provision allows the payment of a player's contract (and the related salary cap hit) to be stretched out over several years, and would allow the Clippers to make another addition via free agency (or perhaps even two). Because the Clippers used their non-taxpayer midlevel exception on center Spencer Hawes in July, they are operating with a hard salary cap and have less than a million dollars remaining to work with because of it. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because the moves had not yet been made.

One strong free agent possibility is 27-year-old shooting guard Chris Douglas Roberts, though he can't sign until the aforementioned moves are made. Roberts averaged 6.9 points and 20.7 minutes for the Charlotte Hornets last season in 49 games. Another possibility is big man Ekpe Udoh, the 27-year-old who visited with the Clippers on Tuesday. Udoh, who was taken sixth overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 2010 draft, spent the last three seasons coming off the bench for the Milwaukee Bucks. Raduljica is also likely to be waived by the Clippers, and his possible buyout (he's owed $1.5 million) could also create more salary cap space.

via Clippers trade Jared Dudley to Bucks.

Delfino is a productive forward and a crack shooter, but surgeries have gone badly and his healing process has been complicated. He may not be able to play any time soon.

Delfino worked tirelessly with Bucks trainer Scott Barthlama during spring and summer. But bone not healing properly after 2 surgeries.

In related news, the Clippers reportedly worked out free agent center Ekpe Udoh on Tuesday.

In other Clippers news, I'm told free agent big man Ekpe Udoh is on a visit in Clipper Land today.

Udoh would be a supreme fit for what the team needs. They added Spencer Hawes in free agency but they desperately need a bench rim protector. Udoh has failed to generate playing time in several stops, but maintains a very healthy defensive efficiency on/off differential (compared to teammates), indicating he's got some value. We'll see what the Clips do to generate space and how they use it.

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