The Steamboat Pilot & Today

Latino Flavor will offer food from Mauricio Vasquez Aux’s home country, Colombia. He was preparing Monday at the tiny spot in western Steamboat Springs. The restaurant next to Grease Monkey opens today.

Butcherknife Creek, where it flows through Stehley Park, was behaving itself on Monday. However, local officials are keeping a close watch on rivers and streams swollen by an unusually large snowpack for this late in the spring.

This year’s Routt County United Way Day of Caring is from 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday. Volunteers still are needed to tackle projects across the county. Call United Way at 879-5605.

Longtime Steamboat Springs resident Gloria Gossard was named the recipient of the 2008 Steamboat Springs Heritage Award on Monday. The award is given biennially by the City Council to people or groups who have made extraordinary contributions to the community.

Chris Hammond sings the reggae not-so-classic “I Stopped the Sheriff” while Pam Pierce, Michelle Hess, Eva Littlefield and Patty Zimmer croon in the background.

Gov. Bill Ritter, from right, program engineer Bryan Hanson, Rep. Al White, R-Hayden, and Ash Awad, the vice of president of McKinstry, check out the old boiler at Soroco High School. Ritter traveled to Oak Creek where he commended South Routt students and community members during an assembly Monday in Oak Creek for its passage of a ballot initiative that will pay for a renewable energy heating system at the school. McKinstry is contracted to engineer and build the new system at the high school.

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Gov. Bill Ritter addresses South Routt students and community members during an assembly Monday in Oak Creek. Ritter was in town to commend the community for its passage of a ballot initiative that will pay for a renewable energy heating system for South Routt schools.