CURBING HUNGER

The hunger strike that almost was, over the sidewalks that definitely aren't

Shaun Stamper is fed up. The 27-year-old prep cook has used a wheelchair for the last two years, and he has already learned to maneuver around many small obstacles. However, there are many places in Boise that he finds completely impassable. At the downtown corner of 13th and Jefferson streets, which has no curb cuts or ramps, Stamper has to wheel into the street and up the block to find an acceptable spot to get on and off the sidewalk. Even worse is the no-sidewalk, no-ramp corner of Emerald and Garden, where Stamper got off a bus recently when he went to tell his plight to the disability legal advocates …