February 2013
Photos for February 14, 2013
Eighth-grader Josie King drives to the basket against a Steamboat defender Thursday in the Craig Middle School gym. The eighth grade girls basketball team won the game, 40-34. The seventh grade teams played two games against Steamboat on Thursday at Sandrock Elementary School. The A team lost, 27-26, and the B team fell, 21-10. For more pictures from the games, visit CraigDailyPress.com.
Skiers have to pass through a gate and several warning signs before going into the backcountry at Steamboat Ski Area.
Nick Demarest watches Jordan Osterman drop off a rock in Fish Creek Canyon on Thursday. Demarest is a ski instructor, and Osterman is a ski patroller. Steamboat Ski Area has been busy during the past week rescuing skiers who venture into the backcountry and do not know where they are going.
Sandrock Ridge's Valentine's day queen and king, Elsie Chase and Earl Updike, pose for a picture during their Valentine's day celebration. The two were chosen as king and queen as part of a tradition in place for more than eight years.
Sunset Elementary School third-grader Evan Allen, center, plays marbles during a party celebrating the class's graduation from Apple Valley School. Apple Valley School is a unit where students experience what it was like to go to school back in 1853.
Ridgeview Elementary School third grader Daniel Running signs his valentines in Mariah Doolin's class Thursday during their Valentine's day celebration.
Mary Gillingham, center, activities director for Sandrock Ridge, crowns resident Earl Updike as king during the Valentine’s Day Celebration. Crowning the chosen king and queen each Valentine’s day is a tradition Gillinham remembers carrying on for at least eight years. Resident Elsie Chase was crowned queen. The duo posed for photos and received chocolates and flowers. For more Valentine’s Day photos from around the community, visit CraigDailyPress.com.
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Question of the week
News this week showed snowpack in the Yampa River basin has reached 94 percent of median for the date. Do you think Moffat County is out of the woods as far as drought concerns?
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