Idonna Gage celebrated her 100th birthday Friday at Hilltop's "The Commons" Senior Retirement Community. Gage shared cake with her friends and family.
Photo by Richie Ann Ashcraft.
Idonna Gage couldn't stop smiling as friends and family came to shake her 100-year-old hand Friday at Hilltop's "The Commons" Senior Retirement Community.
"I'm just an ordinary woman," Gage said, adding ... more
Joe Leech, store manager of Vitamin Cottage, pulls back the plastic on a flat of designer turkeys that the store received Friday. Vitamin Cottage is offering Mary's Free Range turkeys, Heritage turkeys and Mary's organic turkeys for sale this Thanksgiving season. Out of the 701 turkeys, 656 have already been sold in advance. "There are a few left if people still want one," he said.
Thanksgiving dinner won't feature the same old bird at every table in Grand Junction.
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