October 2009
Photos for October 30, 2009
Taft Cleverly takes the ball to the hoop for a lay-up during the Craig Middle School eighth-grade basketball game Thursday night in Craig. The eighth-grade Bulldogs A-team beat visiting Steamboat Springs Middle School, 45-27. Cleverly scored 12 points in the game, Kelly Campbell added 10, Thorin Jackson had eight, Curtis Dunlap put in five, and Colton Yoast, Dalton Kendall and Jorge Torres had two points apiece.
Samantha Cancino, front, 5, and Linda Herrera look through Halloween costumes Wednesday at the Community Budget Center. The store offers a variety of full costumes and also displays abnormal pieces of clothing accumulated throughout the year.
Sabrina Zachary, left, and Danielle Rolbiecki sift through bonnets Wednesday evening at Katie's Kostumes on Washington Street.
Marilyn Bouldin, of Salida, a 42-year career nurse, recently received a lifetime achievement award from the Colorado Public Health Association.
Kathy Wasik-Wolff, left, sweeps leaves off of the sidewalk in front of her shop, Pinky's Palace, with a broom while William Terrill, of Terrill Financial/New York Life, uses a blower to keep leaves from being tracked onto his carpet Thursday afternoon along Yampa Avenue.
Amanda Snyder, 18, right, Jesse Kurz, 12, center, and Bailey Kurz, 12, work on signs Tuesday at the Moffat County Courthouse to be hung around town for National Runaway Prevention Month. Synder is a member of the Moffat County Youth Leadership Team, which seeks to raise awareness about local homelessness and address the issues through local resources and lobbying state officials.
Judge Michael O'Hara accepts an award for his dedication and passion to the Moffat County Drug Court on Thursday afternoon during the Not Even Once Carnival at The Boys & Girls Club of Craig. Organizers for the event gave Judge O'Hara the award as a token of their appreciation.
Amairani Acosta, 11, front, laughs and waits with other children for Craig City Council members to hand out cotton candy Thursday afternoon during the Not Even Once Carnival at The Boys & Girls Club of Craig. Communities Overcoming Meth Abuse, the Boys & Girls Club and The Colorado Meth Project sponsored the event.
Ryan Hess, a Moffat County Sheriff's Office deputy, reads off a raffle ticket for COMA gear Wednesday during seventh-grade lunch at Craig Middle School. Hess appeared at the school as part of "Not Even Once" Week, an educational, anti-meth awareness campaign.
Bob Wells operates the compactor in the back of the rear loading trash truck Thursday morning. The bags of leaves popped like grapes when the machine squeezed the air out them. Wells said he would rather hear the bags of leaves pop than glass bottles, which sometimes explode onto whoever is operating the compressor.
Justin Ketchum hoists a heavy bag of leaves into the back of the trash truck Thursday morning. Ketchum has worked for the sanitation department for four years and enjoys listening to heavy metal music on his iPod while he works.
Bob Wells carefully drives the city of Craig trash truck Thursday morning around a corner on School Street. Wells has worked for the Sanitation Department for 19 years.
Justin Ketchum, right, lifts a trash bag full of leaves while Bob Wells, left, tosses a bag into the rear loader Thursday morning. The end of the fall season is especially strenuous for the City of Craig Sanitation Department crew because of the heavy bags of damp leaves.
Jay Harris operates the automated refuse truck to pick up 90- and 300-gallon trash cans Thursday morning. On average, one automatic side-loader will bring 10 to 14 tons of household trash to the dump.
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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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