The Last Stand
Photo archive for May 25, 2008
Routt County Search and Rescue President Darrel Levingston looks at a map with volunteer Patrick Meyer on Sunday at a staging area set up on Routt County Road 80 to look for a plane that went missing after taking off from Yampa Valley Regional Airport.
U.S. Olympic boxer Shawn Estrada will look to medal at the summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Estrada will train at Quaker Mountain Ranch north of Hayden at the end of June or the beginning of July.
Soda Creek Elementary School fifth-grader Danny LaPointe takes a shot during the annual Steamboat Classic Lacrosse Tournament at Emerald Park.
Brian Hannon cruises downhill through a stand of trees along the Valley View mountain bike trail at the Steamboat Ski Area in Steamboat Springs during last year’s Rio Stampede. This year’s race has been changed to six- and 12-hour races and moved to Aug. 9 to let trails dry.
Paddling Life Pro Invitational freestyle runner-up John Meyers took home the “PBR King Can” Big Air Award last year after throwing a series of huge aerial loops to land him in the men’s finals and earn him third place overall in the two-part event.
Cody Van cruises downhill along the Valley View mountain bike trail at the Steamboat Ski Area in Steamboat Springs during last year’s Rio Stampede.
Australia’s Tanya Faux took second place at the Charlie Beavers Classic downriver race portion of last year’s two-part Paddling Life Pro Invitational on Fish Creek. Practice runs for this year’s Life Pro Invitational will take place at 3 p.m. today at Fish Creek. The actual race will take place at 10 a.m. Monday.
Soroco High School graduate Chelsea Worley is congratulated by South Routt School District Superintendent Kelly Reed on Saturday during graduation at the school.
Joe Roberts draws a cartoon that appears weekly on the editorial page of the Sunday Pilot & Today. This is the cartoon for May 25, 2008.
Volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints help a homeowner clean up debris Saturday in the Cornerstone area in Windsor.
Cathy Schwindt, right, cries on the shoulder of her friend Paula Barrientos after returning to her home and finding it uninhabitable. Building inspectors from around the state rated the homes by a color system. If there was an orange tag on the house, it was unsafe and uninhabitable.
A Windsor man walks through the wreckage caused by Thursday’s tornado Saturday in the Cornerstone area of Windsor.
South Routt Medical Center medical assistant Stephanie Bratton puts a bandage on Yampa resident Trudy McCardle’s hand after drawing blood Tuesday.
Physician assistant Jennifer Sliney says the biggest transformation for the medical center was to create more room for sports medicine and physical therapy.
Steamboat Springs resident Tasha Weiss holds her 1-day-old baby girl, Kiera Faucett. Yampa Valley medical center delivered 431 babies in 2007.
Tasha Weiss tries to calm her 1-day-old baby girl, Kiera Faucett, on Tuesday in the maternity ward at Yampa Valley Medical Center. An expansion at the hospital will double the size of the Family Birth Place to 10 patient rooms.
Kevin Kolvereid, right, assists Dr. Eric Verploeg with hip surgery on Clark resident John Sharp on Thursday in an operating room at Yampa Valley Medical Center. An expansion at the hospital will add two new operating rooms in addition to two suites for minor and endoscopy procedures in the Surgical Services Department.
Karen Strong watches her 2-year-old son, Kyan, ride Lightning on Friday in front of F.M. Light & Sons. Britina Design Group is in the process of developing a Downtown Streetscape Improvement Plan, which would address pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle improvements.
Randy Delay and Jill Altman, pictured with T-Lane, Belle and Maggie, will wed May 31, 2008.
Steaks fill a case at Steamboat Meat and Seafood Co.
Sleeping Giant Gallery co-owner and photographer Don Tudor has been doing most of the finishing work at the new gallery himself.
Sleeping Giant Gallery co-owner and painter Cully Kistler said she hopes to open Sleeping Giant Gallery’s new location, Lincoln Avenue and Sixth Street, for the First Friday Art Walk in June.
One of Yampa Valley Customs owner JC Cirisan’s current projects is restoring a 1961 Chevrolet Apache.
Yampa Valley Customs owner JC Cirisan discusses the role cage he will install in what will become a rally car.
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