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Quality, not quantity, is quilter’s credo

Much like a windmill in her native Holland, master quilter Ted Storm-van Weelden moves in a wide circle. Her journey in stitches has taken her from her home near the sea in the Netherlands and ...

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A Halloween to outdo all Halloweens

Nathan Hale, a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, famously said, “I only regret that I have but one month to celebrate Halloween,” or something ...

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Legends of music world among those with new CD releases

There seems to be no end to the new music that is being released this year. Apparently some people are still buying CDs because they are still releasing a lot of them right now. Some of the ...

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Today, Bronco fans will wish they could adjust the vertical hold on the TV ... and those socks

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Today’s the day the Denver Broncos harken back to days of yore — 50 years yore — as they reintroduce their original uniforms. I have ...

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Caring quilters extend hand to Navajo Nation

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” This master of literary rhyme wrote many profound lines in his time, but this ...

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Battlement Mesa is the town that Exxon built

Like the legendary phoenix rising from the ashes, the town of Battlement Mesa has arisen from near-extinction to become a thriving community in the past 30 years. The Battlement Mesa story ...

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GJ founder looks over city from tomb on Orchard Mesa

When you travel south toward Orchard Mesa, you might see a small but imposing stone structure overlooking the city of Grand Junction as you top the Fifth Street Bridge. This structure is the ...

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No, I don’t want to help you move

When someone asks me to help them move, my answer is always the same: “You’re not coming in very clear on my cell phone. I’m driving through a tunnel right now.” But ...

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Ignoring your screaming baby, and other helpful parenting tips

Today we give all you soon-to-be dads out there important tips on how to become a helpful, responsible father. We’ll start with how to avoid diaper duty. This one’s fairly simple: ...

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Budget wedding? Try wedded bliss at Super Wal-Mart

I think my wife is turning into some sort of snob, because when I told her about the couple that got recently got married inside a Nebraska Wal-Mart, she didn’t think it was very ...

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