A need to ketchup during the Wienerschnitzel race between inning of the Grand Junction Rockies game at Suplizio Field.

Courteney Northrup,age 5 right and her sister Brittany Northrup,age 6 both from Grand Junction enjoy an ear of corn at the Olathe Sweet Corn Festival Saturday in Olathe Community Park.

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

Archeologists at Mesa Verde National Park say a crack is threatening the southern half of the park’s largest and most famous cliff dwelling. The park announced Friday that the crack and other related structural problems is the reason why visitors have been kept away from the edge of a kiva on tours of Cliff Palace this summer.

Ashley Sanderson, 9, reaches for a juicy peach at the former Rancho Fruita orchard earlier this month. She was part of the 90 percent of pickers who treated the orchard respectfully.

A hummingbird glances at the photographer through a window as it buzzes down to a feeder at a farm in Montrose County. One of the world’s smallest birds, hummingbirds consume half their weight per day because it takes so much energy to fly, according to Wild Birds Unlimited. The birds can fly up to 60 MPH.

Julian Yan, left,  is congratulated by David Dahl and Ashley Graeter and the ball boy after he hit a three run HR in the sixth.

Carrie Rodriguez plays a hot fiddle during a Pickin’ in the Park concert in Paonia’s town parkThe next show in the free concert series will be on Augest 9th with Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys; August 16th with Lisa’s Gogo Lab and on August 23 Darrell Scott will close this year free show.All shows start at 6:00p.m.

The Brady Trucking site along the banks of the Colorado River.

Garrett Henderson pops the big question to his girlfriend Brittany Gaston at the Farmers market Thursday evening while local band Jack and Jill payed their song “Broken.” She accepted as friends and family cheered.

James Bray, left, and Krissy Hummel with the Grand Junction Parks and Recreation Department apply a coat of fresh paint to the lines of a four-square court at Chipeta Elementary School’s playground.

Grand Junction Rockies starting pitcher Jayson Aquino has a good first outing.

Matt Randall, project manager for Interstate Highway Construction (IHC), Inc., describes the work that will be done to the I-70 Business Loop and 25 Road intersection during the 18 days that both the north and southbound lanes of 25 Road will be closed beginning at 6:00 a.m. August 6. Both the eastbound and westbound lanes of I-70 B will remain open during that period. Randall said that the entire intersection will reopen Aug. 23.

A lazy lizard looks out from a crack in an old pile of wood on the Redlands.

Water from Hayes Creek spills down Hayes Falls near Colorado Highway 133 in Pitkin County, south of Redstone. Even with little water in the creek, the falls are still beautiful. The falls drop in two sections for a total of about 50 feet.

Poeple eat their lunch on the lawn of Chick-fil-A as a Grand Junction police officer directs traffic at the intersection of Highway 6&50 and Rimrock Drive. Officers were called in after traffic in line for the drive-through backed up onto the highway.

Dean Yee arranges soda bottles inside his store, Grocery and Commodities Liquidators, on North Avenue.

Zach Coutts is one of two big-game pitchers for the Monument Major Boys Little League team, which begins its quest for a regional title Saturday in Waco, Texas.

Tim Menger, right, shakes hands with supporter Jim Haas of Grand Junction following a press conference Tuesday on Main Street. Menger is the libertarian candidate for House District 54, and the only other candidate running against Jared Wright for the seat.

Wendell Faircloth of Grand Junction describes what happened during the robbery of the Bradley Sinclair station early Tuesday. Faircloth had stopped by the gas station around 2:00 a.m. to work on a flat tire on his bike when a man carrying a handgun and wearing a black hoodie and a “Scream” mask robbed the store.

Surrounded by supporters during a press conference today at the Mesa County Republican party’s Grand Junction headquarters, former Fruita police officer and House District 54 candidate Jared Wright addresses his recent resignation from the Fruita Police Department. Wright told the press conference an internal investigation focused on him centered around him being late to work 17 minutes on June 14 and a finding by Fruita Police Chief Mark Angelo that Wright was dishonest during the investigation. Wright called Angelo’s findings, “outrageous, groundless and politically motivated.

Barista and baker Angelie Bouse takes a break at Main Street Bagels sitting on a door step to the old Mesa County Courthouse. The date on the door is 1863, and a vault from the courthouse is still in the building.

A drum circle, more then 150 strong play during the Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado’s Camp Good Grief at Camp Cedaredge on the Grand Mesa.75 kid camper and over 100 volunteers took part in the three day camp.

The big move has begun at the Central Library as staff and a team from Mesa Moving began loading books and shelves early Monday morning. More than 150,000 volumes will be moved this week to the library’s temporary home at 655 N. First St., the previous Ashley Furniture location

Chuck Bisbee of Mesa Moving shrink wraps a load of books Monday morning that will be moved to the library’s temporary location at 655 N. First St.

Orchard Avenue Apartments viewed from the CMU soccer stadium, Walker Field.

An addition is being completed at the Maverick Pavillion, part of the maintenance and Remodel projects on campus.

While Sean Petty, below, does the deliveries, his wife Sharon mans the phones at Food Taxi’s office on North Avenue.

Sean Petty of Food Taxi prepares to deliver a stomboli from Enzo’s Piaaeria and Italian Cafe to a customer.

Stake Young Men’s President Doug Weaver, right, leads a group of teen square dancers at a practice pioneer reenactment Saturday night.

Beverly, center, and Henry Madaris of Collbran find Cochise, a horse they adopted in 1992, in a scrapbook at the Friends of the Mustangs 30th anniversary celebration at the Musuem of the West Saturday

Firemen try to find the source of a fire on a porch at a home at 30 1/2 Road and Colorado Avenue where the double wide mobile home sustained mostly smoke damage. Mesa County Sheriff’s deputies had to kick in the front door to get a nine-year-old boy and two dogs out of the house after a neighbor had reported smoke on the back porch. The boy and dogs were not injured.

The Grand Junction Police Department’s section of the Public Safety Building.

Grand Junction Police Chief John Camper shows evidence lockers in various sizes on the first floor.

Radio subcontractor Scott Bellendir works on equipment in the Grand Junction Regional Communication Center on the second floor of the building.