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School-bus tracking goes high-tech

Though school bus riders won’t notice the difference, the district will soon be keeping a keener eye on its student cargo. First Student, the contractor that provides bus service to School District 51, has installed an electronic and satellite-based tracking system called Zonar to increase cost-effectiveness and student safety on the 160 buses throughout the district. Zonar tracks the exact whereabouts of each bus at any given time, and it performs electronic vehicle-safety ...

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Teacher’s turn of fortune will help pupils

Most people, upon being told they had just won $10,000, would start thinking cars, trips, trinkets or at least new carpeting. But when Grand Junction school teacher Alice McCary got a phone call last week telling her that very thing, she “quickly felt pretty sure that I would give it all away.” McCary, 41, a third-grade teacher at Tope Elementary School, entered a sweepstakes at Mesa Mall earlier this summer, and her name was picked from tens of thousands of entrants across ...

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VAC: Goblin Valley is a two and a half hour drive from Grand

A chocolate Easter Bunny, a wizard and a melting ice cream cone stand guard over campers who may struggle to set up tents in the roaring wind. It’s the same often relentless wind which helped carve the magical and whimsical sandstone sculptures scattered across Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. Goblin Valley is on the edge of the San Rafael Swell, a scenic two and a half hour drive from Grand Junction. Day use fee at the park is $8 per vehicle, and there are 25 campsites with flush ...

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Haute Mamas Blog: January 13, 2009

Posted by Lynn Lickers on Jan. 8 at 9:09 a.m. The thing about calling yourself a runner is that you have to actually, well, run every now and then. It’s been two months since the Rim Rock. I gave myself a couple weeks to recover before I got back on the road. But I’ll tell you honestly I don’t think I’ve logged more than 30 miles total since then. Even the beautiful, expensive, new cold-weather running gear languishing under the Christmas tree hasn’t called ...

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HW: Road from the Rim Rock Run

Three days before the US Bank Rim Rock Run, I watched the weather report and fretted over record morning lows of 15 degrees. I was used to training through the tripledigit temperatures of summer and didn’t own 15-degree running clothes. I didn’t own 15-degree lungs. I kept my fingers crossed for a warm front and turned to more important issues such as figuring my time and mileage. I studied the map of Rim Rock Drive (as if I didn’t already have it committed to memory) ...

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Best Blogs: Haute Mamas November 11, 2008

Mission Accomplished By Lynn Lickers | Monday, Nov. 10, 8:42 a.m. Let me first say that I am looking forward to the day when I regain full function of my body from the waist down. I’m thinking that’s not going to happen today, and maybe not even tomorrow. If anyone has a walker they’re not using, I’d be happy to rent it. Honestly, I’m still floating around in this sea of “I did it, I really did it!” and “I should have/could have/would ...

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HW: Road to the Rim Rock Run September 23, 2008

After a restless night, I walked through the parking lot of the Ouray Hot Springs Park at 7 a.m. on Aug. 23 and heard someone calling my name. I looked around wondering who I knew in Ouray that would be up this early in the morning to run 13.1 miles. I spied my Grand Junction friends Judy and David Fox and their 15-year-old daughter, Allison. “Hey! What are you guys doing here?” I asked before realizing Judy and Allison are dressed in running gear and are also there to run ...

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