Shoppers browse through stacks of sweets and other items at Operation Interdependence’s parking lot extravaganza this morning west of the 29 1/2 Road and North Avenue intersection.

Shoppers browse through stacks of sweets and other items at Operation Interdependence’s parking lot extravaganza this morning west of the 29 1/2 Road and North Avenue intersection.

Triantáfilos Patsantáres, 96, of Grand Junction waves and salutes the congregation of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church after the Rev. Luke Uhl, left, and His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah present him with a pair of medals.

The Grand Junction Fire Department works a fire during a training session.

The Grand Junction Fire Department working at a training fire on the south end of 9th Street.

A Grand Junction firefighter, left, spreads a shovelful of neutralizing agent over spilled acid while others mop up after a fire at Plating Specialties, 574A 25 Road, Friday morning.

Lorrie Sheley and Kim Jones stand next to the motorcyle that Sheley plans to ride this fall to raise money for the Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation.

Sen. Michael Bennet receives a tour Friday of GPD Global Precision Dispensing Systems in Grand Junction by General Manager Sven Wedekin.

Ryan Patterson sets up his computer display before he speaks at A Weird Night of Science, a fundraising dinner for the John McConnell Math and Science Center Of Western Colorado held Friday at the Lincoln Park Tower hospitality suite. Proceeds of the event will support the creation of science resource kits that the Math & Science Center will provide to every elementary classroom in School District 51 during the 2012-2013 school year.

Marilyn Miller in her Bookcliff Avenue Apartment apartment. Ms. Miller recently received a boost in her Social Security, but it put her exactly one dollar over the limit to receive the Medicaid she’s relied on for many years.

Six-year-old Amadeaus Foster goofs around with sisters Shelby Goff, 18, right and Anastasia, 15, at their home in Grand Junction Thursday. Shelby saved his life after she performed CPR on the boy when he was found not breathing in a swimming pool.

Amadeaus Foster, 6, laughs with his older sister Shelby Goff, 18, who saved the boy’s life after she had just received training in CPR during her basic training for the U.S. Air Force.

The Redstone"beehive"coke ovens were constructed in the late 1890s to carbonize or"coke"coal mined in the nearby Coal Basin mines for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.

A man smiles down at a young boy as the two stand beneath a giant American flag while waiting for President Obama to arrive at the Grand Junction High School gym.

Joseph Velarde and Jonathon Vigil were the first lined up outside Grand Junction High School for President Obama’s visit to Grand Junction on Wednesday. Velarde and Vigil started the line at 4:45 a.m.

Obama speaks to a large crowd at GJHS.

Obama mingles with the crowd during his campaign visit at GJHS.

With tears in her eyes, a GJ woman hugs President Obama.

Jauden Mayer, 10, left, sprays children in the neighborhood as Fireman Todd of the Clifton Fire Protection District holds the fire hose at the National Night Out event at Kimwood Park in Clifton. Residents were treated to a give-away of new children’s bikes and backpacks, two Bump and Jumps, a DJ and demonstrations from the Mesa County Sheriffs Department. The event tries to pair law enforcement with neighborhoods to celebrate a night out against crime.

A butterfly stops to check out a flower at Camp Cedaredge on the south side of the Grand Mesa.

A message to President Obama was cut into an alfalfa field southeast of the Grand Junction Regional Airport by artist Stan Herd for Protect the Flows, a network of more than 500 businesses across the West that depend upon the Colorado River and its tributaries.

A pair of women heading to the office to register for the fall semester walk by stacks of fencing waiting to be set up Tuesday in front of the old gym at Grand Junction High School as campaign crews prepare for President Obama’s visit to the high school today. No Parking signs already lined both sides of Fifth Street for several blocks.

The evening session of the Western Zone Championships at the el Pomar Natatorium at CMU featuring the swimmers from the western U.S.

Despite the cast on his left arm, Omar Tarin, 8, of Clifton launches himself off the the sculpture “Big Drop Five” by artist Alvin Sessions that sits at the corner of Fifth and Main Streets. Omar was visiting downtown with his sisters Ruth Huggins and Veronica Tarin and Veronica’s friend Destiny Johnson.

A bus load of tourists from the Detroit metro area load onto their bus in downtown Grand Junction Monday. The group was touring western National Monuments and Parks. The next stop for them is Moab and then north to Yellowstone.

A huge line is formed in Grand Junction for tickets of the presidential visit as Jeff Varnadore of Florida sells Barack Obama buttons for $5 each or 3 for $10. He and his partner have traveled over 35,000 miles by minivan in the last month and a half following the president at his events.

A hummingbird glances at the photographer through a window as it buzzes down to a feeder at a farm in Montrose County.

Gabe Quintana of Grand Junction, a musician who sometimes plays with the local band Pineapple Crackers, plays “Songbird” by Joe Burleigh of Carbondale. The Painted Steel artwork invites people to try play a tune on the Art on the Corner sculpture in the 500 block of Main Street.

Kids from the Kids of the Kingdom Dayschool sing the national anthem before the start of the Grand Junction Rockies VS Ogden Raptors game Sunday afternoon at Suplizio Field.

Chief Deputy Coroner Kim Hollingshead, left, and Mesa County Sheriff’s authorities investigate the scene of a suspicious death in Clifton Monday afternoon.

Lindsey Cotter, left, of Clifton credits Deb Leany, right, her trainer of 1 1/2 years at Gold’s Gym, with helping her win the “Most Inspirational Member” award for Gold’s Gyms worldwide after she lost 130 pounds since 0ct., 2010.

Lindsey Cotter, left, of Clifton works out on a Jacobs Ladder machine with her trainer Deb Leany at Gold’s Gym.

Grand Junction firefighters mop up a fire at 2946 Ronda Lee Road about midnight Friday on Orchard Mesa.

Mesa County Sheriffs search the Fruita Industrial Center along Hwy 6 & 50 at 15 Road on a report of a bomb in the area Sunday afternoon

Dave Grossman turns his bike around on a trail, which recently has been closed in the Jacob’s Ladder area on Glade Park.

A line outside the new Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar at the Mesa Mall grows. The first 100 people in line will get a year of free hot wings.

Passengers arrive at Grand Junction Regional Airport recently aboard an American Eagle flight.