A Iowa Western fan.

The San Jac Gator in the face of the Iowa Western fans.

JUCO Tournament Chairman Jamie Hamilton MC’s the pre game.

Sydney Chitwood with her two dogs Why Not, right and Just Because at the Canines for CASA dog show Saturday morning at Longs Family Park.

Megan Wilson from Grand Junction cuts a section of siding for one of the Habitat for Humanity homes being built at the hoffman Country Village, a Habitat subdivision at D Road and Wedgewood Avenue in Grand Junction Saturday morning.

Paul Rice of Rifle was inspired to return to school at Colorado Mesa University to study kineseology after having a heart attack. Now that he has graduated with his bachelors degree in May, he plans to go into cardic rehabilitation.

Clyde McGee and Daniel Lauten play gypsy music for spare change.

Analisa Swank concentrates on the game and her rainbow ice.

Jaela Bercher, 2, plays on the splash pad at Lincoln Park - Moyer pool.

Aaron Mizell of Gordon makes a catch in left field.

The moon put on a show outshining the lights in right field.

Covenant Presbyterian Church, 237 32 Road, will commemorate its first service, which was held in a tent, with a special service Sunday, also in a tent that was put up Thursday. Pictured from left are Lowell Clark, Ron Renolds and the Rev. Chuck Jerome.

Jim and Sarah Miller pose under a cherry tree in their orchard at the base of the Colorado National Monument.

Ken Henry, left and John Justman, two Mesa County commissioner candidates, square off for the Redlands Rotary at the Redlands Mesa Golf Course Clubhouse Friday afternoon.

Volunteers first planted the community garden at Canyon View Vineyard Church in 2010 and harvested 12,000 pounds of produce. Since then, volunteers have expanded the garden and added an aquaponics greenhouse.

Moke Raymond receives a blue band from LuAnn Harrah of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce at JUCO Thursday. The chamber is hoping the Blue Band Wagon will encourage people to buy local. Discounts are available from 150 chamber businesses.

Eleven-year-old Rachelle Neff of Grand Junction arises from her reclining rest on a mosaic artwork for a moment to dig a bottle of water out of her bag for a friend who was skateboarding at West Lake Skate Park.

Two heavy air tankers that drop fire retardant sit ready to fly on the tarmac at the air operations center, prepositioned in the event a large fire breaks out. The 1954 twin-engine Lockheed P2V-5F in front belongs to Neptune Aviation Services of Missoula, Mont.

Fire Management Officer Bill Hahnenberg points out the large collection of fixed wing aircraft, helicopters and engines currently prepositioned in the area on a large map of the state in the dispatch room at the air center.

Matt (Ethan Knowles), right, battles El Gallo (Ben Carlson), left, as a horrified Luisa (Shannon Foley) looks on in Colorado Mesa University’s summer production of “The Fantastiks,” which opens June 8.

Edgar Garcia Jimenez, 16, currently is in New York City receiving a Gold Medal from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for his collograph “Mi Hermano.” The Grand Junction High School student used a photo of his brother to create his artwork. Shown here is the mat board design and press used to make the collograph.

Edgar Garcia Jimenez is one of approximately 1,200 U.S. teenagers invited to Carnegie Hall for a Friday, June 1, awards ceremony for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The “originality, technical skill and emergence of a personal voice or vision” shown in his collograph “Mi Hermano” garnered him the honor.

Inspired by JUCO player Jeff Krammer’s mohawk, Natalie Davis, 9, wore a Denver Nuggets Birdman wig- two birds of a feather.

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Department’s Rural Area Deputies (R.A.D.) unit have received five new Automated External Defibrillators (A.E.D.s) to assist in saving lives in remote locations of the county and were trained in their use on Wednesday at the Sheriff’s Department.

Nick Chadd of Grand Junction applies a bit of polish and a lot of elbow grease to the base of the brass railing on the west side of the Wayne N. Aspinall federal building Wednesday morning

Alexis Garcia, 2, smiled for the crowd on the between innings.

Mitt Romney shakes hands with local lodging owner Frank Moe while wrapping up a campaign appearance in Craig Tuesday. Romney came to Craig as a result of a video in which Moe contends his business was hurt due to trickle-down effects of overregulation of the coal industry.

Polk College pitcher Steven Burnham watches a loose ball as it gets away at the plate while Shelton State’s Austin Kibourne slides past him to score in the bottom of the seventh inning of Tuesday’s game at Suplizio Field.

Former governor John Vanderhoof talks about the current state of politics in Colorado at his Grand Junction home. Vanderhoof’s 90th birthday was Sunday.

Maddie Thompson, 8, of Grand Junction spies a lizard on a cactus at the Western Colorado Botanical Gardens and points it out to her aunt, Michelle Norton, and 3-year-old cousin Haley Norton, both of Highlands Ranch, as the group wanders through the outside gardens. Today is a free day at the Botanical Gardens, located at 641 Struthers Ave.

The JUCO Memorial Day fireworks show at Sam Suplizio Field.

Ira Caley flying the American and Marine flags in front of his home at 3292 D 1/2 Road in Clifton.

No. 5, Kyle Leslie from Jefferson College dives back into first safe on a pickoff play. Polk St first baseman makes the late tag in the 1st inning of game 9.

A helicopter with Helicopter Transport Services flies from Grand Junction Regional Airport to the Sunrise Mine Fire in Montrose County on Monday afternoon. The fire consumed more than 5,200 acres in its first 48 hours.

Joan Ballantyne, right places flowers on the grave of her late husband Gary Ballantyne, a Navy Veteran at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado Monday morning. Joyce Clevenger, left also placed flowers. The cemetery had a Memorial Day ceremony today, one of the Memorial Day ceremonies today around the Grand Valley.

No. 20, Gordon College pitcher Jeb Dills pitches against Shelton St College in game 7.

Twenty-two students graduated Saturday from Plateau Valley HIgh School in Collbran. Ethan Heimforth and Jacob Hicks are third and second from right, respectively.

Sheila Damazo, 18, receives congratulations at Saturday’s graduation ceremony for Delta High School. She was one of about 140 graduates.

Kristen Schubert laughs Saturday as Grand Valley High School Assistant Principal David Walck removes his Justin Bieber disguise as Schubert receives her diploma. She had attended this year’s prom with a cutout of pop star Bieber.

No. 13, Dillon Ness from Western Nevada College hits this pitch for a RBI double in the 3rd inning against Cisco College in game 6.

Asher Hansow, 7, of Grand Junction pushes a small American flag into the ground after straightening it as he places flags in the center circle of the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado on Friday in honor of Memorial Day.

A special attraction at the CSU Extension Garden at the Mesa County Fairgrounds on Orchard Mesa are the two flowering century plants with 13 foot tall flower stalks at the should begin opening their first yellow flowers within the next very few days.

A cactus flower in the CSU Gardens at the Mesa County Fairgrounds are in bloom.

Harry Parker of Grand Junction works in his plot in the Grand Junction Community Garden, between 5th and 6th Street and Ouray and Chipeta Aves.This is the third year Parker has had a garden here.

Robert Flatten, from Crawford with four of the ten panels of regimental insignia he and his father collected and he is donating to the VA Hospital.

Judy Blevins, a longtime employee of DA’s office, is trying her hand at crime fiction with her first published book

Art Edwards holds a photo of the “Groadys,” which is what he and his U.S. Navy buddies called themselves. The name came about because they were given permission to have beards. Seen from left are Leroy Hessinger, Harry Burchett and Edwards.