Los Osos 20-year-old dies after battle with cystic fibrosis

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  Navolt suffered since infancy from the disease, which causes thick mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive tract. Her lungs were functioning at 38 percent of normal capacity before she received a double-lung transplant in May 2010.

  The Tribune chronicled Navolt’s rush to receive the transplant, from which she made a remarkable recovery. But weeks later, the then-18-year-old’s body stopped responding to antibiotics to prevent tissue rejection, and she went into respiratory failure.

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• Letters to the Editor 3/28

  Letters to the Editor 3/28

  The hoodie problem

  Thank you, Geraldo Rivera. Let me tell you why I’m indebted to Geraldo Rivera. You see, I may very well owe my life to him. According to Geraldo, chances are Trayvon Martin lost his life because he was a black male wearing a hoodie in a predominantly white neighborhood. So, thank you, Geraldo; now that I know this, I know how dangerous it is for me as a black male to continue to wear a hoodie in my predominantly white neighborhood here on the Central Coast.

  But there’s a problem. First, I’ve got three hoodies and hate to give them up. I like all three. Each of them has a particular significance. One is a Stanford University hoodie, one is a The Citadel hoodie and one is a Pismo Beach hoodie. One of our daughters got two degrees from Stanford, another daughter got a graduate degree from The Citadel and the third, well, it’s Pismo Beach.