Relay for Life participants walk past a row of luminaries emblazoned with the names of those who have died of cancer Saturday at Long Family Memorial park in Clifton. Walkers began their journeys to raise money to fight cancer Friday evening, and continued to hike around a loop in the park throughout the night and into Saturday morning.

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.

Bill Binnian, Palisade Fire Department’s EMS chief, finds himself up against the wall and a rack of tanks as he tries to pull a gurney out of the back of one of the department’s ambulance while demonstrating the tight space in the ambulance bays of the department’s 1950s vintage fire house.

Timer Catie Mercado dons a “I bleed pink,” t-shirt in honor of local swimming coach Terri Hermes Friday during the Dolphins swim meet at the El Pomar Natatorium.

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.

A fireman turns his hose on the smoldering remains of a house fire at 3049 F 3/4 Road Thursday morning.

Young riders take to the dirt course.

Dawn Martin holds her seven-year-old son Hunter while the pair inspect a large hole in the roof over a bedroom at the Martin family home in Fruita Wednesday evening. Hunter was playing a computer game on the bed, left, as the branch from a nearby tree broke off and fell nearly 40 feet into the home.

New head coach Shawn Marsh, second from right, tosses a football as his Fruita Monument High School players convene in a huddle before a play at the Mesa State College football camp.

Treasure Hunter Roadshow buyer Claire Neyla, top,  assesses some coins a Grand Junction family brought in at the Clarion Inn on Horizon Drive Wednesday.

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.

Families around the valley prepare for Father’s Day including, L-R,Ron,Bob,Evert and Marlene.

Rick Kauffman, left, an animal chiropractic, with the help from his wife Jane, prepares to make a chiropractic adjustment on a 20-year-old horse named Rusty, Wednesday afternoon at Kauffman’s property near Palisade.

As her son Justyn, 6, makes a face, Linda Applegate of Grand Junction reads “The New Friend” to him in the room with library books during the District 51 book giveaway at Pomona Elementary School Tuesday morning.

Ollie Lueck, 9, measures the track that her hover car will race on at PROTOCAMP Tuesday morning.

Using a diagram he has put together, retired engineer Richard Stover describes how his solution would stop the flow of oil from the British Petroleum well in the Gulf.

Third baseman TJ Pollock of the Gene Taylor team makes a throw during a recent game.

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.

Tim Sarmo Palisade Town Administrator, in the remodeled gym in the old Palisade High School building, the new Palisade Civic Center.

John Colley, left, was one of about 25 people at the Grand Junction City Hall to discuss/protest at the Grand Junction city council meeting on the medical marijuana rules.

Bob McConnell, right, and Scott Tipton, GOP candidates at the Republican Woman’s luncheon at Two River Convention Center in June.

Kids Aid volunteer Phil Smith, left, tosses a box of oat meal to Mike Barry, founder of the Kids Aid Backpack Program.

The Giggling Goons team pull in the Tug-O-War event of the 2010 Partners Superstars Competition at Lincoln Park, Sunday morning.