Special Sections - Portrait

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Stampede leader: Hinkle enjoying role at Colorado Mesa University

Feel free to tap your toe as you read along ... you’ll see why soon enough. Inside a rehearsal hall lit up by sunlight bouncing off snow piled up outside, Jonathan Hinkle leads 32 Colorado Mesa University musicians through a ragtime ...

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Dan Linsacum building a better breed of Mavs

In the constantly changing field of strength and conditioning, Daniel Linsacum brought even more change to Colorado Mesa University, staying ahead of the trends like a kayaker out-paddling a current. In the fall of 2009, Linsacum became ...

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People person: Bob Sammons enjoys a life involving others

Looking for Bob Sammons? Try Fiesta Guadalajara, where he typically lunches multiple times a week at the same table in the southwest corner overlooking North Avenue. Not there? Try Mesa Behavioral Medicine Clinic, 1400 N. Seventh St. ...

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Sending a message: Rev. Mike Burr blends religious, social sentiments

S o many things began making sense that day on campus, but to put them in perspective, head farther back, to the Sunday School room of a conservative Baptist church in Jerome, Idaho. Mike Burr’s mom had dropped him and his two older ...

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Rock star treatment: Tim Ray makes you feel at home as GM of Grand Junction Rockies

Tim Ray doesn’t know a stranger. “Hey, there, young man!” is the greeting a fan will likely receive from the general manager of the Grand Junction Rockies when he comes into the offices at Suplizio Field looking to buy ...

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Serious seller: Real estate is serious, just ask Dave Kimbrough

Selling real estate isn’t a sideline job, a retirement gig or just some part-time thing. To Dave Kimbrough, it’s serious business. The 42-year-old returned to the Grand Valley in the late 1990s — he lived here when he was a ...

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A lot to Admire: Living link to Avalon’s rich history

At 80 years old, Diann Admire proves that game-changing isn’t exclusive to the younger set. As a board member of the Avalon Foundation — the group at the center of a renewed effort to rehabilitate the iconic Avalon Theatre on ...

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Need for Bead: Neal Beidleman enjoys life as an Aspenite, engineer and inventor

It’s not all that unusual to meet Aspen-area residents who have climbed Mount Everest. The town’s surrounding mountains both attract climbers and serve as a training grounds for them. But there’s only one Aspenite to have ...

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At last, a home: Carei focuses on self sufficiency

Of basic human needs fulfilled — a big drink of water, a stomach full of food, a clean set of clothes — it could be argued that a roof overhead offers the most complex emotional fulfillment. For all the platitudes about home being ...

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Former newspaperman Fowler enjoying submarine life at Which Wich

One giveaway that Robert Fowler loves what he does is the erratic red marks on his hands. Those smudges can be traced back to the same red Sharpies customers use on brown paper bags to cast their sandwich orders at his shop, Which ...

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History to new heights: Peter Booth has a plan for Museum of Western Colorado

Peter Booth’s career path of ever-expanding horizons drew him to the Museum of Western Colorado, where he says the future of the museum is taking shape. A south Texas native who worked in Salem, Ore., before taking over in January as ...

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DJ Daytona: A game changer in world of EDM

Jeremy Velasquez isn’t trying to become famous. He’s just trying to be himself. It just so happened that on the way to being himself, the young disc jockey and electronic dance music producer became, arguably, the most talented ...

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Atop the mountain: Fry making impact in biking industry

Tim Fry had enough. The avid cyclist and mountain biker had enough of fighting over litigation and wanted to pursue his passion. Fry spent a year and a half traveling, looking for different opportunities — more specifically, ...

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Bowl reversal: Ace forced to switch throwing hands, but rolls with the changes

For most people, it’s all in the wrist, but for Grand Junction resident Cory Bennett, it took both wrists. At least, that’s when the 48-year-old is in the bowling alley. When the longtime resident started to get carpal ...

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A is for Alfaro: Spanish school founder provides forum for students hoping to bridge societal gap

Just in case you haven’t been paying attention, the demographics of the United States are undergoing a major change. That’s true for Colorado in particular, as people with Latino heritage — speaking predominantly Spanish ...

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