Kaya, a rescue dog flies over a jump on the last leg of a heat a flyball competition at the Mesa County Fairgrounds on Saturday.

Colorado University fellow Reese Merrell, left, adds publications on matter to the stack of items as she along with fellow Matt Whittlesey, center, and educational resources consultant Maggie Cason put together a teacher’s third grade chemistry kit with 15 lessons in the storage room of the Math and Science Center Friday. The fellows are being funded by a grant from the Colorado University at Boulder’s engineering program.

Palisade’s Ronald Kuntz heads down the field on a long run followed by Central’s Devon Wolff, left, during the first half of Friday’s game at Stocker Stadium.

Central High School senior Kassie Bell, left, shelters the flame for Tony Martinez, Troy Martinez’s father, as he speaks to a crowd of several hundred friends and family members during a candlelight vigil for his son in the parking lot of the high school Thursday. Troy Martinez died of a bullet wound Wednesday.

Richard Weaver wins the 400 meter competitive walk at Stocker Stadium at the 9th annual Western Colorado Senior Games Friday.

Ellen Roberts of Fruita finishes the 400-meter competitive walk at Stocker Stadium at the 9th annual Western Colorado Senior Games.

From behind the counter of his business, Dusty Higgins, owner of Nature’s Medicine Wellness Center, encourages his clients to speak up against the Grand Junction City Council’s proposed ban of marijuana dispensaries. Higgins said that, under the council’s plan, it would take 187 caregivers with 16 patients each to meet the demand that his dispensary meets now.

Highland Ranch’s quarterback Steve Donatell is sacked by Grand Junction’s Jerreon Dennis during the first half of Thursday’s game at Stocker Stadium.

Ivan Esparza practices with the Mesa State College soccer team early Thursday.

Mesa County Sheriff’s deputies search for evidence in the road outside of 621 Susan Street where a teenage boy died of a bullet wound Wednesday.

Mesa County School District 51 Superintendent Steve Schultz speaking at the Grand Junction Education Forum at the Ed Bozarth Building, Thursday morning.

More then 200 people in front of the old Mesa County Courthouse before the start of a PUC hearing. Randy Baumgardner, bottle right, A Colorado State Representative for District 57 was addressing the people

Joe Wurzelbacher, known as Joe the Plumber since his impromptu questioning of then-Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign, urged about 125 people in front of the Mesa County Courthouse this morning to become politically involved.

Students at Fruita Monument High School sign a banner as a way of accepting the challenge given by Rachel Scott, the first person shot and killed at Columbine High School.

Dressed in an over-sized T-shirt and a full length Indian headdress given to him by his grandfather, 9-year-old Devin Arnhold of Grand Junction waves at the Butzer family as they ride past his grandparents’ F 1/2 Road home during the Tour of the Valley Sunday.

Capri Rino practices her setting technique during a drill at volleyball practice at Grand Junction High School.

Mesa State College football players have been practicing hard this week.

Mesa State theatre arts faculty member Jeremy Franklin shows off atop a piano.

Heather Waggoner is a member of the Mesa State College theater arts faculty

Prof. Tim Pinnow, department head of the Mesa State College theater department.

Cori Sturgeon of Grand Junction jogs behind her sons 7-year-old Luke, right, and Blake, 6, along Rimrock Drive past Independence Monument during Sunday’s Walk Through Time.

Participants in the Colorado National Monument’s Walk Through Time cluster together along the edge of Rimrock Drive on Sunday to view a pair of bighorn sheep, upper right, near the Independence Monument overlook.