March 2008
Photos for March 8, 2008
Organizing the mass amount of mail in her truck, Barbara Jones stops for a moment to think. Two rural carriers and three highway contractors help fill about 6,000 total deliveries coming out of the Craig post office, according to Pam Vaughn, supervisor of customer service and manager of the workroom floor.
Barbara Jones walks back to her truck after making a delivery Thursday. The weather this year made delivering difficult, she said, but “we go ’til we get our mail done, get everything delivered every day.”
With about 700 possible deliveries in a day, Barbara Jones, city carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, keeps a full workload that includes stops all around Craig. Jones is one of nine city carriers in Craig who account for 5,000 deliveries in the city.
Rosetta Webb is in the right of this photo of a pioneer picnic that was held in the City Park about 1913.
Rosetta Webb is on the right of this photo that was taken inside the Webb Hotel.
Courtney Teeter can’t help but smile Friday when asked about how it felt to win four Mesa Media Day photography awards for her work in the Moffat County High School newspaper, The Post Script. Her classmates are in the background working on the next edition of the monthly publication. She was one of several of the class’ students to earn awards at the journalism conference held Monday in Grand Junction.
Moffat County High School’s Jorgiea Raftopoulos scores late in the game against Greeley West on Friday in the 4A girls basketball playoffs in Longmont. The Bulldogs held the Spartans to a season-low 21 points.
MCHS girls basketball coach Craig Mortensen barks out a play Friday night. Mortensen’s squad eliminated the No. 3 seed Spartans for the second consecutive year.
MCHS senior Desirae Pearcey cheers on her team late in the Bulldogs’ Sweet 16 matchup against the Greeley West Spartans. The No. 2 seed Bulldogs face No. 1 seed Silver Creek today in the Great 8.
Abigail Carlson, a fourth-grader at East Elementary school, stops to write down some notes during a presentation at the Wyman Museum on Friday. East Elementary students were at the museum as part of the Newspapers in Education program, a partnership between local schools and the Craig Daily Press to help students develop writing skills by teaching them to report about the field trips they take. Stories from the Wyman trip are scheduled to publish April 4.
Maricela Almaraz plays guitar during a spring concert Friday at Craig Intermediate School. The concert was part of Music in Our Schools month and featured American music via singing, dancing and guitar.
The largest Craig project is Western Skies, a collection of 149 single-family homes west of Ridgeview and north of Columbine Apartments being developed by Western Skies LLC. Different colors represent different construction phases. The orange section is the first construction phase, which has 22 home lots. Green is the second phase that expands the eventual neighborhood with 27 homes and a three-acre park. Yellow is the third phase. Purple is fourth phase, and blue is fifth phase.
