Alexis and Sam take big bites out of their free peaches at the festival.

Melinda Watson, right, mother of 14-year-old Amelia Watson, looks at her Girl Scout’s Bronze Cross Life Saving award during a ceremony Saturday afternoon at Fruita Middle School. Amelia was being honored for saving her grandmother from a fire at the family home last January

Clay Ogden from Farmington, Utah hits his second shot from the No.11 fairway at Tiara Rado Golf Course during the second round of the Enstrom’s Rocky Mountain Open Golf Tournament Saturday (8-21) morning.

Kimberly Seim, a first-year teacher at Mesa View Elementary School, writes on the chalkboard in her classroom Friday morning.

Hotchkiss residents survey the damage to trailer home Friday morning near downtown Hotchkiss. A large storm with winds exceeding 90 MPH torn through the area causing major damage to homes and property.

Two-year-old Keiara Schuman, from Collburn, get a new balloon hat from Owen Williams at the 42th annual Palisade Peach Festival in Riverbend Park. The festival runs until Sunday.

Britni Johnson, the 2010 Palisade Peach Festival Queen, hands out free peaches at the 42nd annual Palisade Peach Festival in Riverbend Park. The festival runs till Sunday.

Jeffrey Sutton from New Castle chips onto the #9 hole at Bookcliff Country Club during the Rocky Mountain Open Golf Tournament.

The Colorado National Monument is reflected in a pool of water in a field along Broadway Street (Colorado Hwy 340) on the Redlands.

Tammy Allen’s most recent purchase, a 1931 Ford pickup, is reflected in the hubcab of her 1938 Cadillac convertible.

National Park employees attempt to rebuild a rock wall along the west side of Rim Rock Drive in the Colorado National Monument.

The book store in the new Student Center at Mesa State College saw a lot of business on Thursday.

The Museum of Western Coloerdo-Dinosaur Journey, with the help of a backhoe from the city of Fruita move a very large Apatosaurus vertebra with at least 3 and up to 6 very large ribs underneath of the vertebra (probably also from Apatosaurus).

Paramedics tend to two injured motorcycle riders after an accident at 11th Street and Pitkin Avenue.

Philip Lochmiller waits to enter the federal building for a hearing.

Samantha McClellan, an epileptic, recounts a near-death struggle with her medication and weening herself from it, and creating a dietary regimen involving cannabis.

Quinn Harrison, 2, of Durango tries on a cowboy hat in Ouray as his parents, Tom and Jenny watch. The family is giving visiting grand parents a tour of some of the tourist destinations on the Western Slope.—- Sent as Maybe a cowboy w 081610

Shea Roberts of Grand Junction trudges through a rainstorm on Main Street this afternoon. She said it rained so hard at one point, it was hard to breathe.

Officer Geraldine Earthman of the Grand Junction Police Department describes the injuries to Oldo, a police dog that she handles, after he was nearly drowned by a robbery suspect last week.

Hiking on a road on the Uncompahgre Plateau, south of Glade Park.

Dean Anderson works to clean-up a pile of debris consisting of roofing shingles and wood after lightening struck the Hunter Creek Dr. home of his daughter Mary K Wendland Monday afternoon. According to Anderson the lightening struck around 4:30 Monday afternoon puncturing a small hole in the roof. Grand Junction firefighters we called to the scene shortly after to investigate.

A man takes his innertube into the water on the south end of Seventh Street Monday where water had backed up onto the Riverside parkway.

A wind-damaged banner hangs over Seventh Street.

Frankie Byrne surveys the high water surrounding her church, The Handy Chapel, on the corner of Second Street and White Avenue

Bob and Darla Beasley have a huge garden and the vegetables and fruit they can’t eat or preserve, they sell at Bob’s Garden produce stand, 3334 E 1/4 Road.