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Tom Ross' On the Market column appears Sundays in the Real Estate section of the Steamboat Pilot & Today. Contact him at 871-4205 or e-mail tross@SteamboatToday.com.

Can you say 'ski fast' in Croatian?

Steamboat Springs — Marabou owners have the opportunity to ski this month with one of the most congenial Winter Olympians the U.S. Ski Team has known.

Steamboat Springs resident Caroline Lalive is the newest master guide to join the crew at Marabou ranch preservation subdivision.

She has been a member of the U.S. Ski Team for the past 11 years. This three-time Olympian is currently a member of the A Team for Alpine skiing. She attended Steamboat's Lowell Whiteman School and was a member of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club.

Certain to help anyone with skiing pointers, Lalive also might be persuaded to give foreign language lessons on chairlift rides to the top of Mount Werner. She is fluent in French, knows a little Spanish and German and is currently learning Croatian.

After suffering a season-ending injury immediately preceding the 2006 Winter Olympics, she has her sights firmly set on the upcoming 2010 Olympics in British Columbia.

Lalive was named to the U.S. Ski Team after her junior year in high school in 1996. Nicknamed "Liner" for the ability to pick out the perfect racing line, she has stood on the World Cup podium six times.

Making room for babies at hospital

Yampa Valley Medical Center has begun working with the city of Steamboat Springs to gain approvals to expand the maternity ward and the surgical department of the hospital building on Central Park Drive.

Proposed expansions would fit inside the corners of the T-shaped building and would be largely unnoticeable for motorists driving by.

The hospital reports it administered 4,119 surgeries and treatments in 2007 and delivered 431 infants into the world. In October 2007, the hospital broke the previous monthly record for newborns with 59.

Yampa Valley Medical Center opened in late 1999.