Guy Masterson teaching a Refuse to be a Victim class in the Blue Star building Saturday morning.

A blue heron eats a rainbow trout on the ice covered Corn Lake in the James M. Robb Colorado River State Park. Cliff Ulman was ice fishing on the lake and after catching the trout tossed it out for the happy heron to eat.

A fire at just after 6:00 a.m. Friday morning fully engulfed this Orchard Mesa home on Beaver Street. Firefighters from the Grand Junction Fire Department were on site. One resident was evacuated without injury. The home was severely damaged. Cause of the fire is under investigation.

Nine-year-old Ryan Pinneo from Grand Junction works on his fielding during the Rockies Baseball Camp in the Mavs Pavillion on the CMU campus. Rockies’ third baseman Jordan Pacheco was working with kids at the Rockies Baseball camp.

Eight-year-old Issaic Joseph a 3rd grade student at Clifton Elementary School checks out the plasma sphere at the John McConnell Math & Science Center Friday afternoon as part of the City of Grand Junctions Park and Rec. Department’s Kids Day Out. The Center was just part of the fun for the kids with ice skating, bowling and swimming as actives for the kids.

Joseph Roussin, 2, thoughtfully shares a mittenful of snow with his grandmother, Julie Roussin, while playing in the front yard of her Orchard Mesa home.

Mt. Sneffels at 14,150 feet is the 28th highest peak in Colorado and is in the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado.This is the peak as seen from Dallas Divide along Colorado Highway 62.

Daniel and Ruby Saxton bundled up for the cold as they waited for the doors to open at the Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Soup Kitchen. The couple are from Tulsa and not prepared for the cold here in Grand Junction. They had just visited the free clothing pantry at the charity to find warm clothes.

Ed Heiden warms his ears as he walks to the Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Soup Kitchen Wednesday. Today will be the fifteen straight day below freezing in the valley.

Wearing fins and goggles, Catelyn Page, 6, swims underwater at Orchard Mesa Pool on Thursday. Catelyn spend the afternoon at the pool with her seven-year-old sister Kadyn and her grandfather. Orchard Mesa Pool will be open for public swim Saturday and Sunday, but will close Monday and Tuesday for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

Zac Duarte of Grand Junction goes one way while his skateboard goes another as he practices kick and switch hard flips over a rail with friends Jordan Kissner and Kevin Brink on the porch of Lincoln Park Barn.

Dusty Moots’ eyes light up as he cradles his newborn daughter Airibella Eden in his arms while his wife Airin looks on from her bed in the obstetrics ward of St. Mary’s Hospital on Tuesday. Airibella was the first baby born in 2013 in Grand Junction after her mother delivered her at 3:58 a.m. New Year’s Day. The baby girl, who weighed 5 pound 12 ounces at birth, wasn’t due until Jan. 26. The Moots live in Grand Junction and have three older daughters.

Bob Daugherty shoots photos of the hoarfrost by the Colorado River.

Snow and hoarfrost collect on a rose hip along 25 Road.

Ice-fishing doesn’t have to be fancy to be fun, as Jeff Cook of Grand Junction demonstrated last winter at Vega Reservoir. Some basic angling equipment, plus a thermos for something hot and a chair to sit in, is about all you really need.  Photo by Dave Buchanan.

Grand Junction police man the scene of a fatal accident while the Colorado State Patrol investigates after a pedestrian is hit at the intersection of Greenwood Court and Broadway by a man driving a Chevy Uplander Tuesday. The pedestrian died at the scene, and officers have closed down both eastbound and westbound lanes of Broadway while they investigate the accident.

Hannah Atencio, 12, who made a resolution to ride her horse Maggie every day last year, did it as she also gives her cat, Flip Flop, a ride

Windi Hurst and Larry Kinnick walk Main Street on New Year’s Eve day.

The lifts were full at Powderhorn Monday morning.

Savanna Green, 7, reaches for a dollar bill as her mom Ciji teaches her figure skating student to skate backwards at the Ice Skating In. rink at 1130 North 3rd Street Sunday.

Lisa Cox, planning manager for the city of Grand Junction, describes the two new truck stops that will be built on properties west of the interchange of Highway 6 & 50 and I-70.

Even the chrome buffalo in downtown Grand Junction appears cold today.

Clutching his purchases in a plastic bag, a shopper leaves the City Market grocery store at First Street and Rood Avenue in Grand Junction. Since the cities of Aspen and Carbondale have banned such plastic bags, the City Market stores in those communities have had many of their shopping baskets disappear.