Pat Roark, left, and Lance Taylor, both of Grand Junction, examine Ed “The Outlaw” Jones’ Jelly Belly Candyland Stagecoach at Enstrom’s Candies Friday. From a dead stop, the stagecoach race car will do more than 100 m.p.h. in a quarter mile on two wheels. The stagecoach will be performing at Western Colorado Dragway, 115 32 Road, today.

Fruita LL 9-10 Lauren Reed pitches in the State Champioship game

As the photographer was framing a image of a rainbow near Mount Garfield while using a building to hide electric lines at the Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery;  the sprinklers turned on, extending the rainbow down to the grass in the foreground.

Hazardous waste removal contractors with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shovel dry acid waste from a metal drum to a more secure poly container Wednesday morning at the Elizabeth Mining and Development Inc. in Montrose.

Scott Goebel of Palisade plays fetch with his yellow lab Ginger in the Colorado River in Riverbend Park.  where he was keeping cool and getting his dog in hunting shape.

Mesa County Sheriff’s deputies investigate a shooting at a house, 2524 I-70 Frontage Road, that left one man dead Wednesday.

David Fletcher, the ditchrider for several subdivisions in Pear Park, looks at the notice on a locked headgate.

Shaun Sweeney, makes a point about shipping the homeless out of the valley during a Housing First! No More Deaths! meeting at Whitman Park.

Brunella Gualerzi, co-owner of Il Bistro with her husband, Ron, recently lost 71 pounds in order to donate a kidney to her nephew. Brunella lightened up many of the items on the menu to help her lose weight and thus making the menu more healthy.

Jerry Christensen wheels his bike to a home where he is staying for the night during his cross country trip to raise money for brain research.

Fives for a coach after the win.

John Foster,the Curator of Paleontology for the Museum of Western Colorado, digging at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in Rabbit Valley Friday morning. Foster has received a $25,000 grant from the BLM to do more work on the quarry, which has yielded several Cretaceous fossils.

These kittens at the Mesa County Animal Services building on Orchard Mesa were curious and hungry.

Wild flowers are in full bloom on Pinon Mesa along the Ridge Trail in the Grand Mesa National Forest.

Armed with an umbrella, icess and a couple of bags of ice, Truth Hafey of Grand Junction and her sister Trinity seek relief from the heat as they settle in to watch friends play baseball at Monument Little League.

Shea Bramer won the American Idol audition held Saturday. Bramer plays at his workplace, Naggy MacGee’s Irish Pub, on Thursday evenings.

Bryan Whiteley, surface management coordinator for Encana, describes the revegetation project at Encana’s Gardner PL16 well pad that he directed to be seeded with oats and other grasses at the request of the landowner.

A re-vegetated Encana well pad, center left, resembles a squarish pasture at the base of an old burn area when viewed from the interstate on other side of the Colorado River.

Fishing is one of the many outdoor activities citizens can enjoy in Colorado.

Tara Penner, director of the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission, often knows what films or TV shows are being shot in the area, but producers and directors usually want the information kept quiet.

Bette Stanton, film historian and author of “Where God Put the West,” stands on an old movie set along the banks of the Colorado River in Professor Valley. Director John Ford’s 1949 film “Wagon Master” was the first movie to make its way to Moab, Utah.

Joe McBride, a controller with Palisade Brewery Co., says the company’s license came through at the end of May, “so technically we’ve only been brewing less than two months.” Next year, McBride says, the company hopes to design a special, all-western Colorado ale with local crops.