Ryan Gibb, 17, places a post Saturday at Lincoln Park where he designed a project to place placards on the posts to label the more than 60 varieties of trees for his Eagle Scout community service project.

Angelo Archuleta of Grand Junction strains to pull himself up on the rings during one of the heats at the SouthWest FireBreather National semi pro competition at Stocker Stadium.

Sal Pace smiles during a conversation at the Grand Junction campaign headquarters that he shares with Dan Robinson.

Scott Tipton speaks to the Grand junction Rotary Club during a swing through town.

Snow in the high country

Barb Stephens places a calcite piece as her husband Dan watches at the Gem and 2012m Mineral Show at Two Rivers. The Grand Junction couple
are exhibiting materials for the first time, which Dan mined from the famous Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, including the $550 calcite piece. The show runs 9-6 Saturday and 9-4 Sunday

The trails around the lakes in Delta’s Confluence Park are popular this time of year with the bright yellow fall colors complimented by blue skies.

Kimberly Basham threw her hands up in celebration as members of Sam’s Club drew her name to receive a $50 gift card Friday morning at Nisley Elementary School.

Artists position fabric over woodcuts. The road roller will be driven over the fabric to print the artwork.

Artists lift a collection of woodcut prints printed with a road roller at Colorado Mesa University Thursday. CMU art students, faculty, Palisade High School IB students and some visiting artists participated in the printing process. The Art Gallery, located in the University student center, will feature the prints in an opening reception of the pieces from 6-8 p.m. Friday.

Art students used a small road roller to create large prints on paper and cotton for a new display at the Colorado Mesa University Gallery. The show opens Friday.

Bill Devries with his pink pumpkins at his fruit stand on C and 31 1/2 Roads.

Appleton Elementary kindergartners experiment with the aid of Science kits provided by the Math and Science Center.

The marina at Ridgway State Park is almost high and dry thanks to continued drought conditions that have forced low water levels this season at the reservoir.

Maggie Lopez, president of the Friends of the Library, browses through a box of old and rare books donated to the group’s annual sale by Twice Upon a Time Bookstore. Signed and special books will be sold for $3-$4 this year.

A trio of Thunder Mountain Elementary School students wait for a truck to stop before crossing F 1/2 Road at Allegheny Drive several blocks east of the school. Unlike a similar crosswalk west of the school, this one has no crossing guard.

Judith Harrison, left, and her friend Jade Brown, 12, walk Harrison’s 3-year-old Schnauzer Bishop along the Audubon Section of the Riverfront trail lined with golden cottonwood trees.

Duffy’s Small Power Sales and Rental is selling raffle tickets for a new, hot pink Hustler Sport power lawn mower to benefit breast cancer research.

Mike Arial makes his putt on the eighth hole of the West Lake Disc Golf Course as his 9-month-old son Sterling Dawson looks on from his backpack Tuesday afternoon.

Three deer graze in the grass along the banks of the Colorado River across from the James M. Robb Colorado River State Park Connected Lakes Section.A small herd of deer were walking along the river bank eating the grass in the river bottom.

13-year-old Tristany Hightower, National American Miss Colorado Preteen, presents about 100 stuffed bears and aminals to the Grand Junction Fire Department Tuesday morning at Fire Station No 1.

Finnegan McDermott, age 5 and his brother Brody McDermott, age 2 from Glenwood Springs ride on the Lunch Loop Bike Park on Monument Road in Grand Junction.

Pastor Blaine Scott has spend the last three nights atop a platform outside First United Methodist Church to raise money for the church’s teen outreach program.

Bri Webb, 11, left and sister Baylee Webb, 7 from Grand Junction pick out at pumpkin at the Moon Farm Pumpkin Patch, 1360 18 1/2 Road in north Fruita.

A three man crew with Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc. out of Montrose work on the Driggs Mansion in Unaweep Canyon Monday afternoon on the first day of a two week project to stabilize the mansion.

An old photo of the original Driggs mansion. A three man crew with Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc. out of Montrose work on the Driggs Mansion in Unaweep Canyon Monday afternoon on the first day of a two week project to stabilize the mansion.

The top of Mt Garfield and the Bookcliffs as seen looking south from a low flying airplane. Palisade is the green valley in the background.The top of Mt Garfield is 2,000 feet above the valley flood and is a two mile hike from the Palisade trailhead.

An Xcel energy light pole on Horizon Drive with a banner hanging from it.

Mesa County Sheriff’s deputies cordon off the scene of a shooting in the parking lot of Infinity Nightclub, 2993 North Ave., with crime scene tape early Sunday morning. Several people were taken to the hospital from the scene.

Jon St. Peter, assistant technical professor in the culinary arts program at Western Colorado Community College, recently won Colorado Chef of the Year from the American Culinary Federation Colorado Chefs Association.

As culinary arts students Ryan Lloyd, left, and Barb Kelly-Diaz, center, listen, Chef Jon St. Peter offers advice while touching up a plate of pancetta-wrapped Colorado striped bass fillets.