Ami Schiffbauer, development director for Mesa County Libraries, has long known that a library can play a crucial role in promoting literacy, education and lifelong learning. And she knew that Clifton, the unincorporated community between Grand Junction and Palisade, with the second-highest population in Mesa County, faced many economic challenges. Not the least of those [...]
For 31 years, HopeWest has provided the only comprehensive hospice and palliative care service within a 250-mile radius of Mesa County. It provides in-home and nursing-home and hospital care, assisted living and a state-of-the-art inpatient hospice care center. There is a generosity of spirit that pervades the entire HopeWest organization. Consider: In 2024, HopeWest is [...]
Grand Junction residents know eBricks as a fun, downtown LEGO retailer. The shop offers unique LEGO sets and hard-to-find classic collector’s items, making it an attraction for LEGO lovers of all ages. And while the storefront is definitely noteworthy, boasting a hands-on interactive building station, a huge and colorful minifigure statue and a complex LEGO [...]
Hi Five Robotics brings a new level of excellence to the engineering climate in Grand Junction. This April, the Grand Valley’s premier robotics team, made up of 13 high school students from various educational settings across the valley, went to Worlds, the highest level of competition in a national program called First Robotics. This is [...]
Kodi and Victor Imondi are a couple of dreamers with a passion for water sports. That passion and lot of hard work led to the creation of the Imondi Wake Zone on a 30-acre lake west of Fruita. Building a water sports park in the middle of the high desert of western Colorado may not [...]
On any given day, one might find Ben and Sarah Fogle working side–by–side. Maybe they are framing a new house, a house that will soon be home for a western Colorado family. Or maybe the day’s agenda calls for them to install cabinets, or to texture drywall in preparation for painting tomorrow. Fogle Custom Homes [...]
Trail Cookie owner Desi McGee is merging her love of baking and the great outdoors, by creating decadent cookies made to be savored on the trail. Desi is a veteran and takes pride in the fact that Trail Cookie is a veteran-owned business. The values of the Army resonate deeply with her—selfless service and integrity. [...]
Brandi Norsby has always had a love affair with the food industry. It all began with her first job at Rosie’s, a truck stop diner in Cameo when she was in high school, and eventually led her to enroll in culinary school. But life, as they say, sometimes gets in the way of dreams, and [...]
It was in the middle of the Covid pandemic when Nate Strouse had the seed of an idea, an idea that had its roots when he and his brother, Phil, were children and made annual visits to their farming grandparents in Wisconsin. Now, just a few years later, that idea is blossoming nearly every day. [...]
Jeff Thornton, a Navy veteran, spent several years operating heavy equipment before his company relocated to North Dakota. Although he followed his company, Jeff came to realize that the cold tundra wasn’t going to be his permanent home. He began looking into other options and got to know a business owner who quickly convinced [...]
