Walkers pass a giant “Hope” sign as they complete their final lap this morning during the Relay For Life held at Long Family Memorial Park in Clifton. Relay participants began their walk to raise money to fight cancer Friday evening, and continued walking a loop in the park throughout the night.

A pair of JUCO fans dance to Cotten Eyed Joe between innings Wednesday during the Crowder College game against Iowa Western at Suplizio Field.

Mackenzie “Mac” Dodge laughs as she pulls away the pie tin from Mesa County Commissioner Janet Rowland, whose face is covered in French silk pie after Dodge hit her with the dessert. Rowland earned the pie in the face after getting fewer “friends” than Jessica Peterson in a promotion for the Mesa County News Facebook page.

Gov. Bill Ritter addresses a crowd at the groundbreaking ceremony for the $11 million Grand Junction Readiness Center for the Colorado Army National Guard on Tuesday.

Michael Valdez serves up a bratwurst at The Dog Hans, a food cart on the south, west corner of 7th Street and North Avenue Monday afternoon.The Dog Hans sells hot dogs, bratwurst and burgers as well as chips and pops.

Mike Russell and his wife Lisa laugh at the comments as photos from his past flicker across the screen as he was awarded the title Lion of the Year by the Grand Junction Lions Club today. Russell was cited for the honor for not only his work with the service club but also his work in the community during Tuesday’s weekly luncheon at Two Rivers Convention Center.

Fifteen-month-old Ben Arellano plays in the cool water at the Splash Pad at the Lincoln Park Moyer Pool Wednesday morning Wednesday is the free day at the pool.

Artist Bobby Millikan, with the help of Maretta Cherry,  paint a 50 X 30 mural in the parking lot of the Western Colorado Center for the Arts on Thursday afternoon. Millikan is a client with Mesa Developmental Services.

Gordon Harbert flips a mouse pancake at the 43 Annual Kiwanis Pancake Day at two rivers Friday. Harbert has been flipping for 18 years on one of the three rotating griddles designed by longtime Kiwanis Herb Wright and Alden Spooner. The popular fundraising event nets around $50, 000 for the Grand Junction service club.

Kyle Krabbe of Palisade eyes his agate as it rolls toward its target as he practices marbles at the Lincoln Park marble courts. For the second year in a row, Kyle took home the Best Sportsmanship award from the National Marbles tournament in Wildwood, New Jersey.

Sunset Lake is one of a handful of small ponds in the Mesa Lakes group as you drive on Grand Mesa from Colorado Hwy 65, and is currently spilling with the warming temperatures.

DiAnn Howard of Palisade waits to be uncuffed by Billy Pogany, an employee of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, after having her “mugshot” taken during the organization’s Telethon Executive Lock-Up fundraiser at The Ale House Wednesday morning.

Army Specialist E-4 Aleisha Klouzek, marches through the greeting party of the Patriot Guard Riders and the Grand Valley Blue Star Mothers with her children Kyra, 4, and Kaleigh, 2, at the Grand Junction Regional Airport Monday. Klouzek has been building roads in Iraq and is home for a two week R&R. Her children have been staying with family here. She has 6 more months in Iraq when she returns.

Teddy Herrera of Sacramento, Calif., rides along Seventh Street during his quest to bring awareness to childhood obesity by riding nearly 11,000 miles around the United States. Herrera was in town for the day before heading east.

A group of friends who recently graduated from Grand Junction and Fruita Monument High Schools launch their rafts and kayaks into the Colorado River currently running at near peak levels from the Blue Heron boat launch Friday for a float to Fruita.

Edwardo Reyes, 1, and his five-year-old sister Andrea find shelter from the sun under an umbrella as their older sister Ernestina, 15, pulls them down the sidewalk along Seventh Street.

The group “Stray Grass” takes the stage at the Palisade Bluegrass Roots Festival Saturday in Riverbend Park. Despite a drenching rain in the morning, spirits were high among the several hundred people in the audience.

Nurse Berna Haag, right, of the Nurse Family Partnership cradles 3-month-old Raidyn Rickard in her arms as the baby’s mother Samantha Wittern, 17, of Grand Junction eats her hot dog during the second annual Nurse Family Partnership’s reunion picnic. More than 200 families are attended to by the eight nurses from the Mesa County Health Department’s NFP program.

Roy Dimanlig and his son Victor both of Parker, are competing this weekend at the BMX state championship qualifying races at the track by the Mesa County Fairgrounds.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds play to about 2,500 fans at the James M. Robb River Start Park in Fruita Thursday evening in the first of the 2010 Colorado Riverfront Concert Series with the Colorado National Monument as a back drop at sunset.

Shooting out a spray of water, 11-year-old Aaron Echol’s rocket launches from a stand as he pulls the string during an experiment in rocket propulsion and aerodynamics at the John McConnell Math and Science Center Friday. Each youngster designed the paper wings for his or her rocket, which was a test tube partially filled with water; Echol’s rocket flew the highest.

A muskrat surfaces in a pond near the osprey.

Nineteen-year-old Sarah Jarosz opens the 37th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride Town Park Thursday morning. The four-day festival runs until Sunday night, featuring 31 acts. Tickets are for sale for all four days of the festival. Acts include Lyle Lovett, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Court Yard Hounds, Sam Bush and lots, lots more.

Hundreds of America flag as well as all 50 US State flags fly along the Ave of Flags at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, 2121 North Ave in Grand Junction in honor of Flag Day. In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened that day by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day; in August 1949, National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress.