Photos for January 4, 2008

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U.S. Ski Team member and former Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club member Michelle Gorgone races through a gate during last year's Race to the Cup parallel slalom at Howelsen Hill.

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Dave Freseman, director of the LIFT-UP, accepts a $6,000 check from Margie Morong, City Market store manager. The money was collected from customers who put money in coin boxes set out at the store's checkout stands. The donations were made to help with hunger relief in the Steamboat Springs area. It's the second time City Market has given LIFT-UP a $6,000 donation in the past 12 months. The other was handed out late last summer.

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Fran Caparrelli, a front desk person at the Bud Werner Library, checks out Steamboat resident Kyle Endres on Thursday afternoon. Library staff will be working on labeling books for a new, automatic checkout system that is expected to speed up the process once the new library is completed.

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Proud first-time parents Edie Seffrood and Corwin Gugel hold their new baby, Jocelyn Jade Gugel, on Thursday afternoon at the Yampa Valley Medical Center. Jocelyn, who was born at 8:35 p.m. Jan. 2, is the first baby born at the hospital this year.

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A gondola car heads to mid-mountain of the Steamboat Ski Area on Wednesday morning filled with eager skiers hoping to take advantage of great snow and bright blue mountain skies.

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A sinking ship holds an overflowing cash register and prescription pill bottles.

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Joel Allen uses a bedpan wrapped in pharmaceutical company advertisements to illustrate his feelings with the industry.

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Joel Allen's exhibit entitled Pharmaillogical: Can You Swallow This? will debut on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the K. Saari Gallery, 837 Lincoln Ave., in downtown Steamboat Springs. The exhibit runs though Jan. 27.

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Joel Allen's exhibit entitled Pharmaillogical: Can You Swallow This? will debut on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the K. Saari Gallery, 837 Lincoln Ave., in downtown Steamboat Springs. The exhibit runs though Jan. 27.

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Cynthia Zyzda's exhibit, "Specimens of Memory" opens tonight at the K. Saari Gallery.

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John Sant'Ambrogio

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Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio

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Reckless Kelly will be opening for Cross Canadian Ragweed at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Steamboat Music Festival Tent.

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Membes of Cross Canadian Ragweed are, from left, Grady Cross, Randy Ragsdale, Cody Canada and Jeremy Plato. The band is performing at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Steamboat Music tent during the MusicFest at Steamboat.

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Steamboat Springs Transit exceeded the 1 million mark for the first time with its local service, serving 1,144,800 passengers in 2007.

Published on January 4, 2008