Wilmer Valderrama opens the Money XLive financial advice show at Suplizio Field Saturday, extolling the crowd of about 400 to decide what they love to do and go for it at a young age. Valderrama told the young crowd that he arrived in the United States from South America at 13 barely speaking a word of English, yet went on to become a television star as the character Fez on “That 70’s Show.”

In honor of her husband, Elinor Bergman, wife of Bus Bergman throws out the ceremonial first pitch Friday night at Suplizio Field.

Ken Goss leans against the Sentinel Express van he drives outside the courier company’s warehouse. Goss jumped into an icy Colorado River and swam downriver to save a Salt Lake family whose raft had overturned off of Utah Highway 128 east of Moab last Friday.

Linda Kravits from Denver stands in the cool mist of Hanging Lake Falls.

Tegan Brunk from Grand Junction, finds an Easter egg at the Grand Villa Assisted Living Center Easter Egg Hunt. Some of the areas egg hunts were canceled, so hundreds of kids came to this one hunt. It started at 2:00 and it was all over at 2:01.

The dedication of the “Field of Flags Display"in the Mesa State College Main Quad today.Each flag represents 5,000 people killed during the Holocaust. Mesa State College Holocaust Awareness Weeks is April 6-27. Holocaust Awareness Weeks is an interdisciplinary series of events that investigates various aspects of modern genocide. Holocaust survivor Louise Lawrence-Israels will be discussing her memories of surviving the Holocaust tonight at 7:00p.m. in the Saccamanno Lecture Hall Room 110 on the Mesa State Campus.

8-year-old Dillon Earl who steered his grandmother’s truck to a stop on I-70 last Sunday after she suffered a seizure is photographed in N. Cherry Street in Fruita Monday afternoon April 26, 2010.

Fog lifts from Wedding Canyon and Independence Monument just after sunrise this morning. Today is Earth Day. The first Earth Day was celebrated 40 years ago toady. In 1969 U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., announced that the “National Teach-In on the Crisis of the Environment” would take place on April 22, 1970. On January of 1970, the event was renamed “Earth Day.”

Kent Hups, a science teacher at Mountain Ridge High School, shows what he hopes is a fossil of an Armadillo-like dinosaur found in Western Colorado in the BLM office parking lot in Grand Junction Saturday.

Walt Bergman, left Jane Norton, center and Judy Black, Bus Bergman’s children, joke about who was the favorite kid during the Funeral Service for Water “Bus” Bergman at the Robinson Theater at Mesa State College.

Mark Berkley owner of Berkley Automotive in Grand Junction, serves up some hot chili at the South-West ArborFest at Lincoln Park Saturday afternoon. A chili cookoff, live music, microbrews food, “Touch-a-Truck” and seedling trees giveaway were part of the fun.

Grand Junction High School’s Ashley Wallace, right, grimaces after colliding with Central’s Arianna Herrera (9) Thursday in the first half at Walker Field.

Ben Stein meets and with students from Rangley High School for a photo before the start of the Mesa State College Entrepreneur

Despite warmer temperatures, winter made an encore appearance today by dusting the valley with a thin layer of snow early this morning. The flakes lined the sword-shaped leaves of a Yucca plant along South Seventh Street, creating an abstract symmetry.

With the body of a “dead” student on a stretcher behind them, a pair of Grand Junction motorcycle officers wait as CareFlight lands beside Tiger Way to take another injured victim to the hospital during a mock DUI crash at Grand Junction High School Friday.

Grand Junction High School student Juliana Liddle gets her photograph taken with Mesa County School District No.51 Superintendent Steve Schultz during a luncheon Monday afternoon at Two Rivers Convention Center. Graduating high school seniors who have achieved a 4.0 cumulative GPA or better over the course of their four years in high school.84 Grand Valley students were honored.

To the delight of other volunteers and the victim, three-year-old Taggart Blake of Grand Junction smashes an egg over the head of Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautziner during the third annual Egg-Stravaganza Thursday at American National Bank, 1199 Patterson Rd. The event was a fundraiser for the March of Dimes Walk for Babies, and featured media personalities and civic leaders getting egged for donations to the charity.

Sasha and Joe Leber and their three children of Delta gather Thursday at the memorial marker donated by Snyder Memorials of Grand Junction and placed outside Roice-Hurst Humane Society. The family owned Buddy, the dog that was dragged to death.

David Armstrong and Tank the dog ski the back-country on Grand Mesa near Mesa Lakes Resort on Thursday. The area got about 6 six inches of snow during Thursday’s storm.

Father Edmundo Valera, left, holds baby Zaphniah Leo Dean Sherwood during Sherwood’s baptism at St Joseph Catholic Church. Deacon Doug VanHouten is on the right

CHS student Clare Felletter, 17,  the creator of the sit-in to bring awareness to girls in the world who lack education opportunities, checks in on a class which is sitting on the floor, Wednesday at CHS. Her charity for girl’s schools in Afganistan and Pakistan raised $1050 last year. She is hoping to top the effort this year.

Grand Junction’s Jamie Derrieux clears a hurdle on her way to winning the 100-meter hurdles Friday at the Phil Wertman Invitational at Stocker Stadium. Derrieux’s victory helped the Tigers win the girls title.

Tori Zattiero holds Sissy, a adoptable dog, at the new Mesa County Animal Services facility on Coffman Road in Whitewater. Zattiero volunteers with Claws, a cat rescue program in Grand Junction. The new facility is gearing up for a grand opening

A bee lands on a cluster of apricot blossoms on East Orchard Mesa.

Larry Croft of Salt Lake City ties a gunslinger, a general nymph pattern fly, at the 12th annual Fly Fishing Expo at the Double Tree Hotel Saturday. The Grand Valley Anglers, sponsors of the event, gave away over 150 gifts to young fly fisherman including 35 rod and reel kits for children.