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Teen’s death investigated

Investigators with the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department are working to determine how a teenage boy was fatally wounded Wednesday afternoon in front of a Clifton home.


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Instructional assistant Frances Dominguez works on reading with Ryan Keever, 7, as he reads a book on Japan in his second grade classroom at Tope Elementary School. Dominguez has been an instructional assistant at the school for 11 years.

GJ Forum seeks 500 tutors

A community investment of time is the Grand Junction Forum’s answer to providing a world-class education to School District 51 students.
The think tank of community leaders associated with the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce spent a year discussing how to help local schools after identifying education as the No. 1 factor in economic development. Providing a world-class education in Grand Junction, the group reasoned, would help the local business community attract employers and produce better employees.
The forum then worked with the school district to produce “The 500 Plan,” which calls for 500 people to sign up by the end of 2010 to tutor District 51 schoolchildren. Each volunteer will tutor a student for six- to eight-week stints, spending 40 to 45 minutes one day a week with the student.



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Yo-yo club ties father and son

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Aman Sircus co-founded 97Yo with his son to encourage positive play among children.

Aman Sircus and his son, Ronin Lee, have had their ups and downs, but their father-son relationship has reached new heights with the help of the yo-yo. Sircus, 31, and Lee, 10, co-founded the 97Yo-Yo Club more than two years ago. For eight months, the duo stood outside 634 Main St. practicing famous moves like “Walk the Dog” and the “Trapeze.” But, nobody ever joined their club. “My kid would constantly be getting depressed about it, but we just kept going out … more







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