Matt Schnepfe slides six packs of Odell’s Mountain Standard and Lugene beer into the racks of the craft beer section from the cooler side at Fisher’s Liquor Barn.

Grand Junction resident Amber Sigler, a member of the U.S. Navy Reserves, hopes to deploy soon working with the Navy Seabees.

Joey Waterman of Rocky Mountain Steel walks a roof frame opening into place at the Mesa County Public Library’s central branch building.

A Little Free Library on Fourteenth Street north of Elm Avenue offers readers the opportunity to take a book or return a book.

Holding a rolled-up copy of information from Colorado Off-Highway Vehicles Organization, Grand Junction Harley-Davidson dealership owner Scott Lindsay says he feels the Bureau of Land Management’s new draft management plan will have a negative impact on the local economy.  Lindsay said that dirt bikes account for 20 percent of his business and that the BLM’s draft plan calls for the closure of many of the area’s trails.

Firefighters from Lower Valley Fire Protection District and Grand Junction combine forces to extinguish a blaze that consumed a fifth wheel RV, a large metal barn and a power pole at 1138 Sundial Road around dawn this morning. Neighbor Mary Graves said that two loud explosions woke her up and when she looked out the window the RV was fully engulfed in flames. This morning’s fire was at the same site as a suspected arson fire three years ago.

DJ Ryan at No Coast Sushi.

Ryan playing at No Coast Sushi.

Mickey Shanabarger’s interest in photography began as a teen. The 73-year-old Fruita man, shown here in his dark room, prefers to use film and studied with Ansel Adams in the 1960s.

Grand Junction fiefighters Brian Lurvey, left, and Bob Hedrick practice ice rescue at Canyon View Park Wednesday, training in which all the stations in the department will participate. This time of year, ice thickness can vary depending on the location and the water.

A beaver has cut down a tree in the city of Grand Junctions Duck Pond Park in the Ridges sometime Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.This is the second tree in the park a beaver has taken down.

Greg Assenmacher walks past the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., during a 2010 Western Slope Honor Flight. Assenmacher, a commander with the Grand Junction Police Department, died suddenly Tuesday at his home.

Dr. Andrew Morse, left, talks with bariatric program R.N. Heather Sarten, center, and Community Hosptial CEO Chris Thomas in one of the rooms in the new bariatric unit Wednesday. Morse is one of the four general surgeons that will be participating in the full-spectrum bariatric program.

Michael Chamberlain has familial spastic paraparesis, a rare form of muscular dystrophy, but still finds a way to participate in sports, such as biking and skiing.

With the warmer weather and the break in the inversion, some birds found enough open water on a street in Grand Junction to take a bird bath.

Monumental View. Looking down onto the 450-foot-tall Independence Monument in Colorado National Monument on a cold clear day. This is the view from between Independence Monument View Point and Otto’s Trail on the west end of the Monument.

The top of the Aspinall Federal Building on Rood Avenue in Grand Junction is covered with solar panels.

Jason Sielcken, the Project Manger, Colorado Service Center for the U.S. General Services Administration on the roof of the Aspinall Federal Building with some of the 385 solar panels.

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is video taped via cell phone at a presentation in the old courthouse.

Seth Sachson, executive director of the Aspen Animal Shelter and the Aspen Boarding Kennel, mushes toward the finish line Sunday during the seventh annual Grand Mesa Challenge sled dog races. While many of the 35 or so mushers competing over the weekend raced behind teams of Siberian or Alaskan huskies, Sachson’s team is composed of mixed-breed dogs Sachson has rescued and adopted from the animal shelter.

Spc. Andrew Hoogeboom folds the Amercian flag at the service for veteran Juan Serna at the Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery.

A Red-tailed Hawk flies from a tree in the James M. Robb Colorado River State, Connected Lakes Section. The raptor can grow to more than 2 feet in length and can weight as much as 4 pounds, with a wingspan of 4 feet. Red-tailed Hawks will hunt snakes, turtles, frogs, lizards, ducks, bobwhite, crows, starlings and other birds.

Nancy Dobson and Mary Hertert share a laugh in Colorado Mesa University’s Art Gallery. Dobson and Hertert created pieces of fiber art for their exhibit, “Between Here and There.” The exhibit will be featured until Feb. 15.

Wayne Smith, left, working with students in the Culinary Arts program at the Western Colorado Community College new expanded facilities at WCCC.

A rock roughly the size of a Volkswagen crashed down into the westbound lane of traffic on Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon, slowing traffic in the area this morning. The Colorado Department of Transportation said the rock caused minor roadway damage and did not hit any vehicles.

Suzanne Diemer, co-owner of the Laughing Dog Coffeehouse fixing French Toast for the Furry Friends Fundraiser Sunday morning at 413 Monument Rd. in Grand Junction.

An inversion blocks the view of the lower half of Grand Mesa as traffic flows on F Road.

Dawn Morrow, who suffers from a terminal lung disease, looks over the inversion in the Grand Valley near her home on Orchard Mesa. She has been advised to wear a scarf in this weather.

Passengers wait to board their flights near their gates at Grand Junction Regional Airport.

Kyler Frye with one of the steers he will be taking to the National Wetern Stock Show in Denver.

Kyler Frye at the family ranch in Fruita.

Kyler Frye leads one of two steers he showed Saturday at the National Western Stock Show in Denver.

Kyler Frye works with one of the steers he took to the National Western Stock Show in Denver.