Jadon Sagehorn from Littleton, CO gets his photo taken at the Mike the Headless Chicken sculpture in Fruita during Mike the Headless Chicken Festival Saturday afternoon.

Glenn Stanko from Whitewater with one of his Llamas at the Grand Mesa Llama Classic and Kokopelli Llama Classic Show at the Mesa County Fairgrounds Saturday.

The historic Jordan house at 440 N. 7th was one stop on the Historic 7th Street Home & Church tour Saturday afternoon.

Sif Gunnardsdottir, left, explains to Barb Bowman of the Grand Junction Visitor and Convention Bureau what attracting tourists is like in Iceland, as her husband, Omar Sigurbergson, listens.

Some of the displays at the visitors center at the CNM.

Out-of-state visitor Lori Boling gets her bearings in Colorado National Monument. Upgraded status would enhance the monument’s profile, said an official of nearby Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, which was upgraded from a national monument in 1999.

Museum personnel set up part of the new Ice Age exhibits at Dinosuar Journey. The new exhibits will open and be on display this Saturday.

Forty-six students from the Dual Immersion Academy and about 20 adults ride on the Riverfront Trail Thursday morning. The students were on a ride from DIA to Eagle Rim Park on Orchard Mesa, with a stop at the Botanical Gardens.

R5 High School Principal Anna Goetz hugs Bandon Oldakowski at the school’s commencement ceremony on Friday morning.

Family member visit the grave site of Eric and Alex Gomez, two brothers who committed suicide within three months of each other last year.

Retired teacher Becky Karisny taught fourth grade for years and kept projects from her students specifically to give them back upon HS graduation. Well, this year she found all 25 and has one packet left to send off.

Gateway School seniors Ashley Stauffer, left, and Chris Southern grin as guest speaker Elda Graham tells stories from their earlier years at the school during the pair’s graduation at the Gateway Community Center Thursday.

Valedictorian Ami Martin smiles after a man in the audience shouts “I love you!” while she is delivering her address to the General Educational Development (G.E.D.) graduates during a commencement.

Graduate speaker Daneille Hanahan gives an ode to non-traditional students at the end of her speech at the Grande River Virtual Academy Wednesday. Nine students participated in the ceremony.

Vincent Michael Giandonato, left, accepts his diploma from Alan Espinoza, president of the Mesa Valley Vision., Inc., board of stewards during Wednesday’s graduation ceremony at the Roper Music ballroom.

Family and neighbors console a homeowner, center, who lost two dogs in a house fire at 183 1/2 Glory View Drive this morning. The Grand Junction Fire Department believes the fire started outside the home on a deck.

Physical Education teacher Josh Warinner and a group of first and second grade students gather around a birthday cake that the children were treated to Wednesday in celebration of Tope Elementary School’s 70th birthday.

A 1977 Porche being towed on Third Avenue just south of The Daily Sentinel building caught fire Wednesday afternoon. “We were just trying to get it started, but it backfired and caught fire,” said Al Johnson,

Clutching her diploma in one hand, Melanie Stout reaches out to hug school board member Jeff Leany with the other as she crosses the stage during Fruita Monument High School’s graduation Tuesday at Stocker Stadium.

Scenes from the FMHS graduation

The Combined Honor Guard places Old Glory in honor of fallen officers during a memorial vigil at the old courthouse Tuesday evening. The Rifle Salute Team gave a 21 gun salute, James Werner sang two numbers and taps was played by Daniel Kell.

Cody Barnes, 12, a fifth-grade student at Garnet Mesa Elementary School in Delta, kisses a live razorback sucker at the Colorado Division of Wildlife’s Kiss a Sucker booth Tuesday during the 19th annual Children’s Water Festival held at Colorado Mesa University.

Hutten Veatch waves to the crowd from a wheelchair at the Grand Junction High School Graduation. Because of a freak loose baseball bat injury, he endured a 5 1/2 hour surgery Monday, but he attended graduation anyway. His chassmates walked but he rolled.

Grand Junction High School graduated 366 in 2012 in the 100th year of its existence.

A Pacific Recyclers truck with a load of scrap metal overturned on Highway 50 blocking southbound traffic into Grand Junction. Traffic is being detoured onto the Riverside Parkway.

Authorities investigate a fatal accident Sunday evening east of exit 42 on Interstate 70 near Palisade. Two cars crashed, and one rolled multiple times.

Graduates walk across the field during the Palisade High School Commencement at Stocker Stadium Monday night.

Palisade high School Valedictorian, Emily Miller, left and Salutatorian Elliot Britvec arm-wrestle to see who gos first to give their speech at the Palisade High School Commencement at Stocker Stadium Monday night.

Ten-year-old Calvin Vaughn describes the size of the needle he has to use for his insulin. The boy has diabetes and needs a $10,000 insulin pump. On Tuesday, a read-a-thon will be held at Scenic Elementary School to help raise the funds for the pump.

Mario Marias-Mora walks as the first from his family to graduate from high School.

School Board member Harry Butler.

A blue bird sets in a dead tree at the top of Douglas Pass along Colorado State Route 139.

Adrian Silva walks along the rail leading up from the bottom level of Colorado Mesa University’s Lowell Heiny Hall as he practices parkour, a physical discipline which focuses on efficient and dynamic movement around obstacles.

Arrow Oswald and his grandmother Peg watch Ashtonn Means turn a pot at the Art Center display at the Downtown Art and Jazz Festival Sunday.

Sarah Brooks winces as she cuts for the first time a 4-foot section of board destined to become part of a garden box for a community garden in Palisade.

A new Pizza Hut is under construction at the old Go-Fer Foods store on Hwy 6 & 50 in Fruita near FMHS.

Old furniture litters the desert north of Highline Lake off of Colorado Route 139. Old chairs, tables, speakers and trash were dumped off this dirt road in the north desert.

Six-week-old Kaeden Cooney sleeps curled up on his mother’s chest.

New mother Lyndsi Cooney smiles down at her 6-week-old son Kaeden while he sleeps as she cradles him in her arms in the nursery of the family’s Fruita home.

Executive director Gi Moon at what will be the new homeless shelter, the former Grand Valley Power building at 28 Road and the I-70 business loop