President Obama greets members of the audience at the end of Saturday’s town hall meeting.

The president during his opening remarks of the town hall m

The president rolls up his sleeves before answering questions from the town hall crowd.

President Obama fields a question during the town hall meeting.

People whom sat behind the podium were rewarded with the honor for volunteering for the president for over 300 hours according to staff at the event.

President Obama shakes hands after the event.

The president drinks some water at the end of the meeting.

President Obama shakes hands with the people who were seated behind the podium after the town hall meeting.

President Obama shakes hands with the people who were seated behind the podium after the town hall meeting.

CU Student Zach Lane asks the president a question.

A member of the town hall audience addresses the president.

President Obama shakes hands with the people who were seated behind the podium after the town hall meeting.

President Obama shakes hands as he leaves the school.

A crowd gathers at Grand Junction Regional Airport to catch a glimpse of the president.

President Obama began the town hall meeting with a brief speech outlining his stand on health care reform issues.

President Obama greets members of the audience at the end of Saturday’s town hall meeting.

Air Force One sits idly at Grand Junction Regional Airport.

Tillie Bishop leads an invocation at the town hall meeting at Central High School.

President Obama greets folks after the town hall meeting wrapped up.

President Obama shakes hands with the people who were seated behind the podium after the town hall meeting.

The president listens to a question, one of six at the town hall meeting.

Gov. Ritter listens to the president a the town hall meeting.

Grand Junction police stand watch at Grand Junction Regional Airport.

A TV crew prepares for President Obama’s departure.

Teh National Anthen is performed.

President Obama answers a question from the audience.

Central High School’s gym was packed with people who converged upon the school to hear President Obama.

Differing emotions flicker across the faces of audience members on the stage.

Donna Fletcher and her granddaughter Hailey Harris, 6, of Denver brought a painting that Fletcher’s mother created in her nineties. Fletcher wanted to ask a question about artificial joint replacement and whether such procedures would be covered under the President’s proposed health care reform.

The President arrives.

The crowd cheeers as President Barack Obama takes the podium.

The Central High School ROTC Honor Guard present the colors.

A couple in the crowd takes a picture of each other.

A man in the audience asks a question on health care reform.

The President purses his lips for a fleeting moment as he pauses while talking about his grandmother passing away last year.

The woman who asked the last question laughs as she tells President Obama that she’s a naturalized U.S. citizen before asking her question on health care reform.

President Obama greets members of the audience at the end of Saturday’s town hall meeting.

President Obama greets members of the audience at the end of Saturday’s town hall meeting.

President Obama shakes hands with the people who were seated behind the podium.

the President answers the first question, one of six, at the town hall meeting.

Teh President takes the fist question at the town hall meeting at CHS.

Air Force one lift-off.

Mesa State College health sciences student Jamie Wade hands the microphone back as she listens to Barack Obama’s answer to her question during Saturday’s town hall meeting.

U.S. Rep. John Salazar, far right, talks to a member of the audience as his brother Interior Secretary Ken Salazar elicits laughs from others as they mingle with the crowd at the beginning of the town hall meeting.

Volunteers handed out glasses of water to those standing in line waiting to get through security and into the gym to hear President Obama speak about health care reform.

Backlighting from a stage light creates a halo of light around President Obama.