Jim Stanko, left, presents the 2009 Stanley L. Larson Award to family members of Chuck Fulton. From right are Fulton's son Vance Fulton, Terry Wattles, Vance Fulton's wife, Sue Fulton, and Chuck Fulton's daughter Rebecca Wattles. Chuck Fulton's son Lee Fulton, of Fort Collins, could not attend Monday night.
Published on October 27, 2009
Jim Stanko, right, presents the 2009 Leckenby Pioneer Award to longtime Steamboat Springs residents Bud and Jane Romberg on Monday. Both former educators, the Rombergs have been involved for decades in numerous community services and activities.
Published on October 27, 2009
Soda Creek Elementary School third-graders donated $175 to LIFT-UP of Routt County on Friday. The students earned the money by creating a craft business as part of a unit on economics. The students toured local businesses and sold crafts. LIFT-UP Executive Director David Freseman said he plans to use the money to help needy residents pay utility bills. "We're running low on utility assistance funds," he said.
Published on May 30, 2009
The line of people walking to Invesco Field on Thursday, to see Barack Obama accept the Democratic nomination for president, stretched far along Colfax Avenue, where protestors thronged closer to the stadium.
Published on August 29, 2008
Protestors of numerous causes make their voices heard Thursday afternoon outside Invesco Field in Denver, where crowds thronged like ants around an anthole in anticipation of Barack Obama's acceptance of the Democratic nomination for president.
Published on August 29, 2008
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama laid out an aggressive policy plan Thursday night at Invesco Field, telling an estimated 84,000 that if elected, he will "cut taxes for 95 percent of working families," end U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East in 10 years, and invest $150 billion in alternative energy over the next decade. "We cannot meet 21st-century challenges with 20th-century beauracracy," he said.
Published on August 29, 2008
Volunteer Jane Hall, of Denver, right, lifts a free bike for Sallie Wyte, of Colorado Springs, on Thursday morning in downtown Denver. "It's my second day (riding a free bike)," Wyte said. "The first time was so much fun."
Published on August 29, 2008
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told the veterans caucus Thursday at the Democratic National Convention that Republicans have "forgotten what (veterans) need when they come home."
Published on August 29, 2008
Californian Brian Petrich, who is in Denver following the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, said he had logged 150 miles on free bikes offered downtown by Thursday morning.
Published on August 29, 2008
Jennifer Romero, of Arvada, left, and Carol Sandoval, of Denver, take in the scene Thursday afternoon at Invesco Field, where, just hours later, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, of Illinois, accepted the Democratic nomination for president.
Published on August 28, 2008
Flags waved Wednesday at the Pepsi Center as the Colorado delegation watches Delaware Sen. Joe Biden accept the vice presidential nomination, and Barack Obama makes a surprise appearance.
Published on August 28, 2008
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama made a surprise appearance Wednesday night at the Pepsi Center, where all eyes were on the nominee, portrayed over the crowd on a giant screen.
Published on August 28, 2008
Delaware Senator Joe Biden focused not only on his working class upbringing Wednesday night, but also on the dangerous waters of current foreign affairs. The plotters of Sept. 11, he said, "have regrouped in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan" and are plotting "new attacks" - statements that forecast tough challenges for America's next president.
Published on August 27, 2008
Delaware Senator Joe Biden wowed a packed crowd at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday night, when he accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president and, speaking of his roots in Scranton, Pa., said he is "here for the cops and firefighters," teachers and factory workers, all "the folks whose lives are the very measure of whether the American dream endures."
Published on August 27, 2008
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the Daily Kos web blog, talks with a friend Wednesday morning in The Big Tent, a multimedia extravaganza on Wynkoop Street. Daily Kos is one of the tent's hosts, along with ProgressNow.org and Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. The tent's sponsors include Google.
Published on August 27, 2008
Bloggers from around the country and world turn The Big Tent on Wynkoop St. into a charged, multi-media environment. Wednesday morning, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer spoke in the tent, hours after firing up a Pepsi Center crowd Tuesday night.
Published on August 27, 2008
Iraq Veterans Against the War secure 14th Street in Denver on Tuesday. The group staged mock Iraq scenarios throughout downtown and was followed heavily by media and passerby alike. One woman screamed at the group, calling them "liars" and "dorks."
Published on August 26, 2008
A member of Iraq Veterans Against the War points a mock rifle on 14th Street in Denver on Tuesday. The group staged mock Iraq scenarios throughout downtown, including scouting around corners, watching for snipers and avoiding ambushes.
Published on August 26, 2008
Rice and beans cooks in a "solar oven" displayed by the Colorado Renewable Energy Society on Tuesday, as the summer sun cooked all of Denver during the Democratic National Convention. Jennifer Beach of the CRES said solar ovens can be made at home by lining a wooden box with unrolled soda cans.
Published on August 26, 2008
U.S. Rep. Mark Udall said Tuesday that wind turbines "should be planted like trees" in Colorado. The blade he is standing in front of, in a sculpture park at the Denver Center for Performing Arts, was manufactured in Windsor. "We're starting a revolution," Udall said of Colorado's growing renewable energy industries.
Published on August 26, 2008
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