Angie Bertrand and Pat Verstraete with Americorps show off their Mardi Gras best and as they get the hang of maneuvering wheelchairs.

Mary Moore, independent living advocate, was joined by her service dog, Embree.

This is the board of the Grand Valley Young Professionals, which recently launched its Web site, http://www.gvyp.org.

Shawn Bingham, a seventh-grader at Mount Garfield Middle School, was part of the Colorado Regional Science Fair. “We are all very pleased he was able to participate,” wrote his proud mother, Cindy Brown.

Mesa State College speech and debate team member K.T. Trask gets a lift from her teammates (left to right) Andrew Orr, Brian Casaus and Tiffany Gard. The team posed for this photo in Monument Valley on February 12, 2010, while on the way to a competition at Glendale Community College. The team competed against 11 other teams and won seven awards.

Dan Flenniken took this photo of some students at the recent Kids Voting banquet.

Ashton Vaughn has fun in the snow with his cousin’s dog. Grandma Missy Sue took this photo.

Auntie Chris Cardenas took this photo of Jasiah Chavez helping Papo Lino Chavez redo grandma’s bathroom.

Three members of Troop 386 have earned their Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Michael Gebhard, Dallin Wright and Taylor Nielson will be honored in the Court of Honor at 5 p.m. Sunday at the LDS Redlands Chapel, 2235 Kingston Road.

Eleven members of the Grand Valley Children’s Choir were chosen to participate as singers or alternatives in the Southwestern Division American Choral Directors Association’s Grades 4-5-6 Treble Honor Choir that will perform at the association’s convention February 24-27 in Denver. Davis Devereux, Randy Gilbert, Maddie Goodman, Kaila Harward, Kaitlyn Jackson, Alexys Logsdon, Madison Markakis, Kate Olsen and Issac Winslow will sing with the choir and Nic Morrow and Max Solko were chosen as alternatives.

Five generations appear in this photo. Virginia Sidebottom, 92, is in the center. Around Sidebottom are her daughter Virginia Mertens, granddaughter Pam Renfro, great-granddaughter Misty Doussa and great-great-granddaughter Brianna Doussa. This photo was taken in July in Dodge City, Kansas, where all but Mertens are from.

Yzavel Esparza, 4 months, visited her great-grandmother, Orlinda Aragon, before Christmas. “She (Yzavel) was so happy. I put her down under the X-mas tree,” Orlinda wrote.