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A Confederate’s final resting place

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Ken Garrison at the grave of Civil War vet Leroy T Harris. Garrison, a GJ man, orchestrated the placement of a Confederate’s headstone in OM Cemetery.

Virginian Leroy T. Harris, born in 1836, died in 1915, was a private in the Confederate States Army, that much is clear from the headstone.
There’s more to Harris than that, though, Ken Garrison learned in the process of identifying his burial plot in Orchard Mesa Cemetery.

Meth ‘cook’ turns self in to GJ police

A 29-year-old suspected drug manufacturer, carrying a backpack full of ingredients to make methamphetamine, walked into the Grand Junction Police Department lobby Thursday to turn himself in. Saying he “needed help,” Andrew Nolen Masdon, 29, 555 Ute Ave., sat down with officers for nearly 30 minutes to talk in detail about where and how he manufactured meth because he “wanted to turn himself in,” according to Masdon’s arrest affidavit.

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Aaron Jenkins performed with choir members from Grand Junction High School in a benefit concert to help him cover college expenses.

Aaron Jenkins watched from the first row at First Church of Nazarene Thursday night as his alma mater, Grand Junction High School, performed in a choir concert for his benefit. Jenkins, who is now a sophomore at the University of Colorado at Boulder, lost both of his parents within seven months … more

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