Jason Keller, right, of Grand Junction joins about a half-dozen other marksmen as he takes aim at a target with his .223 sniper rifle at the Bureau of Land Management rifle range.

Michael Petersen, right, of Grand Junction teaches Spencer Weinberg, also of Grand Junction, how to shoot at the Bureau of Land Management rifle range.

Steve Bowen of Grand Junction examines one of his racing pigeons at the Western States Racing Pigeon Show in Grand Junction Saturday.

Ryan Stulzman, left, of Delta finds a good deal on a pair skis at the Gene Taylor booth at the Powderhorn National Ski Patrol Ski Swap at Two Rivers Convention Center Saturday.

Chuck and Diana Mathis of Grand Junction walk the isle again after 40 years of marriage.

Chuck and Diana Mathis embrace as their grand children, from right, Caden Thompson, Ava and Grayson Mathis, who are the flower children, wait for to start the couple’s vow renewal after 40 years of marriage.

Paul and Janna Ryan Arrive at the Black Canyon Jet Center at the Montrose Regional Airport Friday for a Romney Ryan Victory campaign stop. Organizers put the crowd number at more than 1,200 people for the event.

Paul Ryan shakes hands at the Montrose Regional Airport during a Romney Ryan Victory late campaign stop Friday. Organizers put the crowd number at more than 1,200 people for the event.

Colorado State Patrol troopers investigate a three-vehicle accident on F Road east of the 32 Road intersection that sent several people to the hospital Friday.

Celina Kirnberger, left cuts Edward Ballenger’s hair while Amanda Ambers, right snips John Otten’s during Friday’s Stand Down at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1425 N. Fifth St. The free haircuts were just one of a number of services available to veterans and other at-risk adults at the event. Although both women are licensed cosmotologists, they are employed by Mesa County in much different professions. Both men are veterans and were working at the Stand Down; Ballenger was there with the Veterans Administratiion, and Otten was a volunteer.

Veterans and other homeless were given warm clothes, coats, hats, and boots in anticipation of the winter months at the annual Veterans Stand-down Friday morning.

From left, Palisade players Savannah Hanson, Morgan Thieszen and Shannon Rhodes celebrate after winning a point.

Firefighters mop up after a blaze at 1010 White Avenue.

Indian Summer continues in western Colorado as a couple feeds a duck from a pedestrian bridge on the south side of Baldridge Park in Montrose.

From left, parent volunteer and artist Astrid Stoye, and Briana Elis and Phoebe Stoye, both international baccalaureate students, work on a new mural at in the performing arts hallway at Palisade High School. The piece is a community project by 2011 IB graduate Lauren Restivo and is being completed by IB students this year. It represents all the musical and theater departments at the school and will have the fight song notes painted on it.

Bus driver Snow Hartje, right, who is known to her customers as “mom” talks to a passenger during a stop of at the GVT transfer station.

Local artist Thad Tuin has several pieces of art on display around Grand Junction.

Created by Thad Tuin. Tuin’s work can be seen around the Grand Valley.

Chloe Brown is the new 2013 Miss Colorado USA and Miss Colorado Teen USA. Pageants took place Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley.  Photo courtesy of Chloe Brown

Kathryn Zamora as the Queen of Hearts, left, and Nicile Millican as the White Queen face-off in the lobby of the American National Bank.

Chase Ferrone, an eighth-grade student at Holy Family School, works on his iPad II in class. Students from Holy Family use their own technology in the classroom as part of a new “Bring Your Technology to School” program.

Ron Brenner with I’m Popping Kettle Korn out of Delta makes a batch of Jalapeno popcorn during a local event in Grand Junction.

A full moon call the Hunter or Harvest Moon in October is seen as a high flying jet plane crosses in front of its path. The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth, and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and is 238,900 mile from Earth.

Challenger Baseball’s Carma Brown smiles through tears as she watches a video of family and friends giving her accolades before receiving the Grand Junction Lions Club’s Hometown Hero award from the service club on Tuesday at Two Rivers Convention Center.

Gov. John Hickenlooper attends the GJEP annual meeting at Two Rivers Convention Center on Tuesday afternoon.

Eve Tallman, Mesa County Library Director, shows plans of the new Central Library expansion and improvement project this morning in the lobby of the Alpine Bank Building. The project is expected to cost $6.7 million. Read in the Wednesday’s Daily Sentinel for the full story.

Construction crews with Shaw and Skyline Construction take down the steeple from the old parish hall at St. Joseph Catholic Church Monday morning.

A Special Olympian from Fruita runs track at Stocker Field.

The setting sun lights up low clouds over Colorado National Monument and homes in the Ridges on the Redlands.

Nine-year-old Jaleb Monroe trying his luck at the archery range at the Heroes Harvest Renaissance Faire along the banks of the Colorado River and 29 Road Sunday afternoon.

Lord William, Bill Monroe with an 85lb suit of armor getting ready to do battle at the Heroes Harvest Renaissance Faire along the banks of the Colorado River and 29 Road Sunday afternoon.

Susan Cypher and The Nightbird Band play at the Heroes Harvest Renaissance Faire along the banks of the Colorado River and 29 Road Sunday afternoon.

Paul Brown, owner of Monument Oil, shows a large built-in safe in the Colorado Avenue building into which the company has recently moved. Shelving has yet to be unpacked in some rooms of the building such as this one, and wall decor has yet to be hung.

Monument Oil Company’s new office has been moved downtown to 560 Colorado Avenue in a building that was once a gas station in the 1940s and 1950s.

Holding my 3-year-old son and standing next to my dad, I get ready to take my son on the combine after it finishes dumping a load of wheat into a truck. For weeks after this trip, my son talked about how he got to ride in the combine,  tractors and trucks. Photo Special to the Sentinel/ Brian Wright

My father, Jerry Winterholter, and son wave as my husband, Brian Wright, climbs out of the tractor that pulls the grain cart. The tractor is parked along the uncut wheat so the combine won’t have to go out of its way to drop off a load of harvested grain.

Some oil-and-gas-related facilities already exist in the Thompson Divide area, which a coaliition is seeking to protect from drilling southwest of Glenwood Springs and west of Carbondale. Pictured is part of the infrastructure SourceGas uses to store natural gas in underground formations so it can be tapped to help meet higher local demand in winter months.

Rancher Jock Jacober strides by one of several decades-old wells that point to prior oil and gas development in the national forest southwest of Glenwood Springs. Ranchers, recreationists, conservationists and others are trying to prevent future drilling in the Thompson Divide area, west of Carbondale and southwest of Glenwood Springs.

Rancher Jock Jacober, shown by a ditch on national forest land southwest of Glenwood Springs that sends water to area ranching operations.

Some oil-and-gas-related facilities already exist in the Thompson Divide area, which a coaliition is seeking to protect from drilling southwest of Glenwood Springs and west of Carbondale. SourceGas stores natural gas in underground formations there and pipes it via this corridor to help meet higher local demand in winter months.

An aerial shot of Thompson Divide.