June 2009
Photos for June 24, 2009
Detention officer Aaron Murphy looks through some paperwork inside the booking department at the Routt County Jail. The Routt County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to hire a consultant to evaluate the staffing levels and procedures at the jail.
Steamboat Springs Community Youth Corps crew member Jack Triolo carries out brush from Snake Island.
Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien, left, talks to Steamboat Springs Community Youth Corps crew leader Jess Schnittka, right, along with 14-year-old Youth Corps crew members, from right, Max May, Andrew Watterson, Jack Triolo and Kent Barron on Tuesday on Snake Island in the Yampa River.
Scott Costello watches his home run to center field take flight Tuesday against Battle Mountain. Moffat County won the first game, 11-1, behind the pitching of Nathan Hill.
Bubba Ivers connects Tuesday night with a pitch against Battle Mountain's Chad Wilkinson. Ivers, along with the rest of the Moffat County American Legion Post 62 baseball team, defeated the Huskies, 25-6, in the second game of a doubleheader.
By the pool, beach or in bed, a range of book genres are popular reads for Craig women this summer.
Gabbert estimates he will have 30,000 to 40,000 lights on display for his Fourth of July show.
Clint Gabbert, 18, of Craig, has been spending his week setting up a display of lights in front of his house north of town in honor of the Fourth of July. Gabbert plans on the display being up and running by Sunday, and it will continue until July 4.
Seven-month-old Savannah Sanders and her mother, Leslie, of Craig, stopped by the first day of the Farmers Market last week. This week's market is scheduled for 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Alice Pleasant Park. It features regionally homegrown and handmade products.
Customers at Serendipity Cafe & Coffee Shop can enjoy their food and drink while surfing the Web. Serendipity, along with many other local businesses, has found many benefits in offering free wireless to its customers.
The Museum of Northwest Colorado recently added cameras to enhance security. The cameras are part of various county technological upgrades.
Wastewater Plant Manager Mike Frazier demonstrates the similarity between tap water, shown at right, and water taken directly from the end of the sewage treatment cycle, which flows into the Yampa River. Nearly every city in America gets its water from a source that is fed by another city's sewage plant, Frazier said, including Craig, which gets its drinking water downstream from Steamboat Springs. Good thing the final product is so clean, he added.
Mike Frazier, wastewater plant manager, uses a small, curved pitchfork to clean the bar screen that leads into the plant's first treatment pond.
A family of 11 ducks float in a pond on the sewage treatment plant site, filled with water that has gone through the full cycle. If the ducks start having problems, the city knows its has a problem at the plant.
April Branstetter, left, and Gina Andujo are the two full-time nurses at the Craig VA Telehealth Outreach Clinic. The clinic relies on technology, which allows its patients, all of whom are military veterans, to interact with a physician 150 miles away in Grand Junction.
The Craig VA Telehealth Outreach Clinic, located at 551 Tucker St., opened in September 2007.
April Branstetter introduces U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., to the clinic's video-conferencing system during his visit earlier this year.
April Branstetter talked earlier this year about the specialized telehealth system the VA Clinic in Craig uses. The system earned the local clinic a place in an upcoming documentary. It uses an encrypted signal, allowing patients in Craig to communicate with doctors in Grand Junction via video.
A truck rolls south on Colorado Highway 13 north of mile marker 113. The section of the highway between mile markers 111 and 123 is in need of major repairs, but the Colorado Department of Transportation said funding needed to pay for the project is not available.
This section of Colorado Highway 13 between mile markers 111 and 123 is about 19 miles from the Craig city limit. Repairs to the road could cost CDOT between $24 million and $26 million.
Glenn Duzik performs a computer check at the city of Craig's water treatment plant. Duzik, a plant operator, performs checks throughout the day to ensure the plant is running smoothly.
The new dissolved-air flotation filtering system at the Craig water plant below the walkway injects millions of air bubbles into water from the Yampa River at the beginning of the treatment cycle. The air bubbles force solids in the water to float to the surface, where a mechanical arm brushes them into a separate containment area.
Plant operator Ed Talkington uses a spectrophotometer to measure the chlorine levels in the water.
The new water filtration system at the Craig water treatment plant filters as much as 12 million gallons a day, as opposed to the old plant's smaller tanks, which capped at a combined six million gallons a day.
The old filtration system at the Craig water treatment plant, which is no longer in use, required plant operators to manually turn valves when they operated the filters.
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Question of the week
Do you seek medical care from The Memorial Hospital in Craig or Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs?
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