Lia Ruggiero of Grand Junction and her father, Jim Ruggiero of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pose on the summit of Pagosa Peak in early August.

Bernie Mullarkey and his daughter Fiona Johnson caught this 9 pound, 6 ounce catfish at Highline Lake on Aug. 15. “My daughter Fiona, who is 5 years old, caught this fish and asked daddy to help reel in this big ol lunker,” wrote Mullarkey in his e-mail submission. “When we got this fish to shore Fiona told me, ‘this is for you, for your birthday present’ as it was my birthday ... It was so cute and then she didn’t even wanna sit next to (the catfish).”

Dante Markley holds his trophy king salmon caught while fishing the Kenai River in Alaska. The fish weighed 75 pounds and was 54 inches long. Markley is a Cedaredge High School student. His brother, Drew Markley, took this photo.

“Christopher Balding proudly displays the cutthroat trout he caught at Yellowstone Lake before returning it to the water,” wrote Niccole Harmon in an e-mail. Harmon took this photo of her son over the Fourth of July weekend.

The Mesa County Search & Rescue ATV Team recently went over all the motorized routes in the Bull Basin area of Grand Mesa for familiarization purposes. Steve Chapel took this photo.

Wayne Jipsen and Susan McKeon snapped these photos while hiking Crag’s Crest on Grand Mesa and Monument Valley in the Colorado National Monument in July. While in on the Monument Valley trail, McKeon took the photo of Jipsen looking up at a couple of desert bighorn sheep.

Dick Fletcher enjoys some time with his granddaughter, Effie, while at a wedding reception July 17 in Glenwood Springs. Ruth Fletcher sent in this photo.

Brenna Graves was the grand champion for the 4-H photography unit 1A and 1B. She also had the best photo in the juniors competition. Brenna will show her photos at the Colorado State Fair, which begins Aug. 27 in Pueblo.

The Orchard Mesa All-Stars, 9-10 district girls, posed for this photo after a no-hitter by Melissa Gellerman in July.

Adam Molzahn, Susie Ball, Jared Molzahn and Ray Ball were the hosts of the annual Camp Hale ATV Geocache Scavenger Hunt, a poker run with the theme of Leadville in the 1890s.

“The Molzahn-Herring annual family camping reunion at Camp Hale culminated with all the ladies shedding their jeans and dressing up and going to the Delaware Hotel in Leadville for its weekly Sunday afternoon Victorian tea,” wrote Linda Molzahn.

Clients of Millennium Services, a Grand Junction company that provides transportation for people in wheelchairs, recently gathered for a barbecue at Longs Family Park celebrating the company’s sixth anniversary. Millennium Services is owned by Mike and Rose
Romero.

Jerry and Jill Wedlake enjoy The Daily Sentinel while on a break from rafting down the Yampa River in June.

Sam Schroeder won the boys age 12-13 Rockies Skills Challenge Sectional at Suplizio Field on July 10 and plans to compete in
Denver on Aug. 14. Jane Ann Schroeder sent in this photo.

This is a photo of Landon Gleason, age 6, who is the grandson of Barbara Kinion, and the great-grandson of Doug and Carolyn Bryant.

Barbara Leitch holds one of her brother Bob Williams’ bearded dragons. It is named Jaws. Williams took this photo while Leitch was on vacation from California.

Greg Agnew, a past president of Sunrise Rotary, opens his farewell gifts.

Horizon Sunrise Rotary celebrated the term of past president Greg Agnew with a party at Longs Family Park.

The RotarACT Club of Grand Junction presented a $2,500 check to Mesa Developmental Services’ Home of Their Own project. The project developed three homes to provide specialized care to 24 individuals who previously lived at the Grand Junction Regional Center.

Grand Junction couple and U.S. Marines, Sgt. Jennifer Estrada and Staff Sgt. Jonadam Costilloe are serving their third combat deployment but their first in separate camps in Afghanistan. Estrada and Costilloe, both 27 years old and married Feb. 2, were reunited for the first time in months during Costilloe’s promotion ceremony at Camp Leatherneck on July 1. Estrada pinned the staff sergeant chevrons on her husband’s uniform during the ceremony.

“Cullen Johnson loves tractors,” wrote Grandpa Mike Moran, who sent in this photo.

Sioux Robbins-Bartels, director of Pig-a-Sus Homestead Sanctuary, feeds birthday cake to a couple pot belly pigs who attended the Blue Pig Gallery’s anniversary in June.