Dancers with the Khubsurat Ruh Middle Eastern Dance Troupe perform the camels gait dance at Saturday’s Cool Art for Warmth, a fundraiser featuring visual and performance artists held on Colorado Avenue to raise money for the Homeward Bound homeless shelter.

Drizzle accumulates on the rails at Suplizio Field as fans huddle under umbrellas to watch a high school game.

Firefighters from Lower Valley Fire Protection District and the Grand Junction Fire Department battle a blaze that gutted a home at 1311 Garfield St. in Loma on Friday.

Kate Belcher of Grand Junction holds up an example from the Jones Studio separates collection of the sort of professional wear that dressbarn stores around the country are collecting this weekend during the “Dress for Success” campaign. This is the eleventh year that Dressbarn has partnered with Dress for Success to help women in need receive donated professional business attire. On Saturday and Sunday, the store located at 632 Market Street will be collecting new or gently used women’s suits, suit jackets and blouses.

Dan Burden speaks at the inaugural Walking and Biking Trails Summit held Friday at Two Rivers Convention Center. Burden, an advocate for city walking, was the keynote speaker at the event.

While protesters line H Road on the hill behind, Kimber, a 9-month-old English mastiff belonging to Brad Hoy of Parachute, wears a sign at the rally at the Bureau of Land Management office, 2815 H Road, on Friday.

Beth Andrews of Grand Junction holds both her 10-year-old daughter Ashlyn and a sign as the two listen to a speaker during a rally at the Bureau of Land Management’s field office, 2815 H Road, on Friday. About one hundred people gathered to carry signs, sign petitions and listen to organizers speak out against the closing of roads on public lands.

High Noon Solar’s Tesla Roadster (front) and Chevy Volt recharge through the company’s solar power system at 569 S. Westgate Drive. Both vehicles can travel over 200 miles on a single charge.

Mike McLain, right, with Target, Inc., talks with a prospective employee during the Career Connections Job Fair in the Colorado Mesa University ballroom today. Hundreds of job seekers attended the fair which featured 49 booths of potential employers. McLain is the group facilities manager for Target.

Human resources manager Bobbie Otte, left, of Grand Junction talks to job seeker David Wright, also of Grand Junction, about positions open at Oldcastle South West Group at the Career Connections Job Fair held Thursday at Colorado Mesa University’s student center ballroom. Hundreds of prospective employees attended the fair, which featured 49 employers.

Student Kenneth Coles appears to be slacking on a slack line at Colorado Mesa University but what appears easy is not. Coles is a member of the Outdoor Program at the school and was enjoying some nice weather while drumming up interest in the program.

Horizon third baseman Hayden Schaefer is ready for the tag on Central’s Brandon Martinez.

Todd Sternberg, project manager with Trillium CNG, helps Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper fuel a bus at the Roaring Fork Transit Authority’s new compressed natural gas fueling facility in Glenwood Springs Wednesday. “That’s the first time I’ve ever done that,” Hickenlooper said. RFTA contracted with Trillium to install the facility.

A rock art panel on a high canyon wlll in Black Dragon Canyon in the north section of the San Rafel Swell, Utah.The Black Dragon Canyon is very popular with rock art enthusiasts.  The panel receives its name from a pictograph, which resembles a flying dragon.  Pictographs and petroglyphs are spread out along the base of the high canyon walls.  Unfortunately, the site has been seriously damage by visitors.Do not outline the rock art in chalk to highlight for photographs.

Dorothy Stewart, a volunteer with the paleontology lab at Dinosaur Journey, works on the jaw bone of an xiphactinus.The xiphactinus from Latin and Greek for “sword-ray” was a large,15 to 20-foot-long predatory bony fish that lived in the Western Interior Sea, in what is now the middle of North America, during the late Cretaceous period. The bones were found last year in the north Fruita area.

Christen Lopez demonstrates dribbling skills for Lincoln Orchard Mesa Elementary School students on Friday. The CMU women’s basketball team made a special appearance during the school’s ROAR Rally to talk about the importance of education.

A man who lives at 211 Grand Ave. watches as the corner of his home goes up in flames Tuesday afternoon. Grand Junction firefighters arrived soon after the fire started and put out the flames quickly. Dave Oswald of the Grand Junction Police Department saw the smoke and made sure the man and his dog evacuated from the home. The victim didn’t know the fire had started before Oswald arrived.

Leta Nielslanik of Okagawa Farms checks some vinca bedding plants, a decorative flower which doesn’t need much water, at one of the greenhouses at the Orchard Mesa nursery. Nieslanik says that they started planting in January to prepare for the 2013 season and she expects to open for business April 1.

Regis player Meghan Hollenga is sandwiched between CMU players Taylor Rock, left, Katrina Selsor and Hanna Bowden. Selsor came down with the rebound.

Village Park Apartment on 28 1/4 Road north of Patterson.

The Fairfield Inn, left and the SpringHill Suites on Main Street in downtown Grand Junction.

Danny Rivera, a welder with Rocky Mountain Steel grinds a section of steel to welded into a part of the roof of the new Mesa County Central Library Expansion and Improvement Project. Mesa County Libraries expect to move into the building and open it to the public later this spring.

The Butler Wash Ruins on Hwy 95, 10.5 miles west of Utah Hwy 191. North of the highway, the Butler Wash Ruins are a short half mile hike. The site consists of several structures; houses, granaries and four kivas. Moqui hand and footholds were carved by the ancient inhabitants.

Members of the Grand Junction Parks and Recreation Department set up the new playground equipment in Lincoln Park near the pool Monday afternoon. The new playground will have a ribbon cutting on April 20th during the Arbor Day Festival.

Brandon Witham and his eight-year-old son Finn Witham practice Finn’s hitting skills behind Suplizo Field in Lincoln Park Sunday afternoon.

A Bald Eagle flying over the Colorado River at the Walker Wildlife Area.

Dale Kruse, left from Fruita and his brother Mark Kruse from Westland,Michigan looking into Wedding Canyon from the Canyon Rim Trail in Colorado National Monument, Tuesday afternoon.

The Kruse family from Fruita and Westland, Michigan look at Independence Monument Tuesday afternoon from the Independence Monument View Point.

Aaron Hoffman, marketing and communications director for the Downtown Economic Partnership, works with Patti Kurztman in her office at Kurtzman/Lintott Gallery, explaining the benefits of tapping into social media.

A barrier has been installed at one of the Anvil Points oil shale mines high up the Roan Plateau above the former federal research facility. The barrier is designed to prevent humans from entering while allowing passage for bats. Photo Special to the Sentinel/Bureau of Land Management

Bureau of Land Management ecologist Carla DeYoung describes how waste shale from a federal oil shale research site had been dumped in this valley.