Bookcliff Gardens, 755 26 Road is hosting the Plant Show West 2013 this weekend.The Western Colorado Garden Club, Western Colorado African Violet Society, high Desert Orchid Society, Chinle Cactus and Succulent Society and Colorado Desert Herb Society are showing plants and flowers for the show.

Chuck Johnson, Vice President of Brady Trucking standing along the banks of the Colorado River on the Brady Trucking property on 27 1/2 Road in Grand Junction.

Jacqulynn Parnell, right, of Grand Junction alternates pushing her friend’s son Keegan Martina, 2, and her own son, 11 month-old Kevin Tyson, left, as they play on the swings at Rocket Park.

Garrett Hall a student at Olathe Middle School demonstrates his air cannon at the Western Colorado Middle and High School Science Fair in the Grand Ballroom at Colorado Mesa University Friday afternoon.His air cannon can shoot an orange over a half a mile.

Fruita Monument’s Samantha Parks, #3, sinks one of several free throws from the line that she made in the last minute of Friday’s playoff game to lift the Wildcats past Loveland’s fourth quarter rally at Fruita Monument High School.

Jeanette Hensley gets a kiss from her 8-year-old German shepherd Kenai near the east gate of the Colorado National Monument Friday. Hensley joined about a half dozen people in protesting budget cuts that will come if the sequester is not averted.

Chef Alberto Cabilan gives a cooking demonstration at the opening day of the Home Improvement & Remodeling Expo at Two Rivers Convention Center Friday afternoon. The three day expo is open today and Saturday from 10am to 6pm and Sunday from 10am to 4pm

Security at the Grand Junction Regional Airport. With $85 million in federal spending cuts on the doorstep, Grand Valley residents stand to be affected.

Nina Cruz won the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra’s Crystal Baton Competition with her insrumental melody “Walking Blues.” The eighth-grader will receive her handmade crystal baton at the symphony’s Tuesday, March 5, concert.

Navy Seal reservist Jeff Biggs. Paonia resident Jeff “Biggs” was selected to join a team for Animal Planet’s TV series, “Battleground: Rhino Wars.” Biggs is ready for the show to air.

Erika Hall walks a string of five dogs on South 7th Street while taking a phone call. She owns and operated Strutt Your Mutt in Grand Junction. Of the five dogs on this walk, two of them are her own, which she often exercises beside her bicycle in the area.

From the red carpet, board member Jeff Kirtland, left, and volunteer Christy Pfost unveil the amount donated to United Way during their fundraising drive at the end of the year campaign banquet Thursday at the Doubletree Hotel.

2 1/2-year-old Jayden Dahl of Fruita zooms down a slide at Sherwood Park on a visit with his mom and little sister.

Ryan Todd, 8, of Glade Park leaps off the top of the big rock in the play area of the 300 block of Main Street. Todd was playing with his 5-year-old sister Jacy in the play area as their mother watched with the family dogs.

A Grand Junction police officer sits at the end of a long driveway by a house at 688 29 1/2 Road where a man was shot to death by his father early this morning, according to police

Rescue workers take one of two people off a school bus that rolled over this morning at about 8:30a.m. on Hwy 50 at mile marker 55. No students were on the bus at the time of the crash. The Colorado State Patrol and the Delta County Fire Department were on site, and the highway was open.

Rescue workers take one of two people off a school bus that rolled over this morning at about 8:30a.m. on Hwy 50 at mile marker 55. No students were on the bus at the time of the crash. The Colorado State Patrol and the Delta County Fire Department were on site, and the highway was open.

Terra Brand, left, and LeeAnn Camp distribute eggplant into the 98 baskets at the Bountiful Baskets distribution point at Peachtree True Value. Bountiful Baskets is a produce cooperative and has four Grand Valley sites where it distributes fresh food to members.

Truck driver Kyle Stabler of Phoenix fills up his truck at the Acorn Travel Plaza at 2222 U.S. Highway 6&50 on Tuesday afternoon. It cost him about $500 to fill the tank.

Lots of new snow a Powderhorn Mountain Resort.

Chenelle Anson, a Front Desk Associate at the Clarion Inn, 755 Horizon Drive in Grand Junction placing stuffed animals on the front desk at the Clarion Inn.The stuffed animals and the hearts on the back wall are for sell with all the proceeds going Clarion Inn’s Relay for Life team “Fifty Shades of Life”. The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life will be on June 14th and 15th at Long Family Park.

Construction workers putting down concrete as part of the Central Library Expansion and Improvement Project with a estimated to cost $7.1 million. The project includes adding 9,000 square feet of space to the Central Library at Fifth Street and Grand Avenue, bringing the building’s total size to about 45,000 square feet. The project also includes extensive modernization and safety improvements to the existing building.

Crews work to clean up a mill-tailings site near Moab, Utah, along the banks of the Colorado River, in this Nov. 15, 2012, file photo. After breaking for the winter, work will soon start up again, and trains will continue moving the tailings to Crescent Junction, Utah.

Marjorie Haun holds up a sign in support of gun rights at a rally Saturday at the old Mesa County Courthouse. The rally was planned because the date, Feb. 23, or 2/23, corresponds to .223-caliber ammunition..

Thousands of starlings fill the skys and trees on Quail Run Drive in the north area of Grand Junction. A better name could be Starling Run Drive.

Great Clips stylist Bailie Weaver enters a customer’s styling information into the Clip Notes database. Great Clips is located at 2546 Rimrock Avenue.

Michael Sobczynski of Grand Junction rides his bike on the shoulder of Monument Road as a car passes.

Lydia Morgan of Northglenn sews a large patch on a leather jacket at the 2nd Annual Western Slope Motorcycle Swap at the Lincoln Park Barn today.

Libby Collins, project coordinator for Mesa Land Trust, points out on a map of the Monument Road corridor the area where the land trust is proposing to build a recreation path.

Matt Popick shovels snow off of a yard line Stocker Stadium Sunday hoping that more players will show for the Sunday flag football game.

St Joseph Catholic Church is draped in purple for Lent. Modern believers focus more on self-improvement than deprivation in this season.

Hardy – and romantic—souls braved a wintery night on Saturday to imagine themselves in Paris in springtime. The “We’ll Always Have Paris” benefit ball at Colorado Mesa University raised funds for the People to People Student Ambassador’s Australian Adventure program. Photo Special to the Sentinel/Drew Koch