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Local girls attended the 2009 State 4-H Conference, hosted June 23 through 26 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. From left are Ashley Summers, Abbie Reid, Karissa Maneotis, Makayla Goodnow, Miranda Blomquist and Emily Wellman.
Daigle holds one of the 6-inch shells Craig Fire/Rescue will launch.
At the June 28 Moffat County School Board meeting, the board discussed how the current late start on Thursdays at the high school has led to an increase in tardy students. Principal Thom Schnellinger proposed changing to an early dismissal on Thursdays to make time for a teacher collaboration period.
The black tubes in the lower portion of the photo are used to fire 3-inch shells and the boxes in the upper portion are used to fire 4- to 6-inch shells. Steel tubes are inserted into the boxes according to the size of shell the firefighters will be launching. The black tubes, however, will not be used this year as the 300 3-inch shells Craig Fire/Rescue has for this year’s show come in special packs, which are buried in the ground and will be fired during the finale.
Firefighter Will Daigle holds a flare the crew will use to set off the fireworks. The flares are attached to 4-foot lathes, so the firefighters are able to have their faces as far from the fireworks as possible for safety reasons.
Boxes of fireworks sit in the garage Wednesday at Craig Fire/Rescue.
To ensure safety, Daigle said firefighters wear full bunker gear, safety glasses and earplugs. “It’s a little hot,” Daigle said, “but it’s worth it.”
This Gossard Breeding Estates advertisement was published in April 1920 in a Moffat County promotional booklet.
Gossard Breeding Estates presented a horse fair of Percheron draft horses in Craig in May 1919.
A yellow star thistle bloom, shown with its customary spines along the stalk. County officials said the plant, which is new to the region, spreads easily and is poisonous to any animal that eats it, particularly horses. Residents who spot yellow star thistle are encouraged to report it to the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Office in Craig at 824-9180.
Randy and Cindy Looper, owners of the Elk Run Inn in Craig, fear that Four Hands LLC, a development company with an office in Carbondale, is trying to force them to sell their hotel. Phil Mann, Four Hands representative, said he “categorically denies” forcing the Loopers into anything.
The view from Victory Way shows some of the current renovations the Loopers are putting into the Elk Run Inn, including the beginning of a rock wall along the highway, which will have a lighted roadside sign once finished.
The laundry room on the Elk Run’s east side, which would be partially demolished along with part of the stairwell above it, if the Loopers remove three feet of their building that encroaches on the property to the hotel’s east.
A view inside the eastern stairwell that would be partially demolished and rebuilt if Elk Run Inn owners have to bring their building off its encroachment into the property just east of the hotel. One the Elk Run’s owners, Randy Looper, said a ballpark estimate for the project put the cost between $50,000 and $100,000, because it is a solid concrete wall and extends to the roof.
Joe Rukavina, of Grand Junction, tees off Friday afternoon at Yampa Valley Golf Course. Rukavina is one of 183 golfers participating in the 42nd annual Cottonwood Classic golf tournament.
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