Idonna Gage couldn’t stop smiling as friends and family came to shake her 100-year-old hand Friday at Hilltop’s “The Commons” Senior Retirement Community.
“I’m just an ordinary woman,” Gage said, adding that she didn’t do anything special to reach 100 years. She didn’t eat anything different than anyone else or exercise every day, “I’m just lucky,” she said.
Gage was born in 1909 in Winnemucca, Nev. She started traveling with her family all over the western United States.
She attended Abraham Lincoln High in Los Angeles, Calif. notably…more
Preschool students from the Lutheran Church and School of the Messiah scampered through the halls of the Daily Sentinel Thursday morning, getting a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a daily newspaper.
The tour also included discussion about what a newspaper’s role in the community is,…more
Holiday shoppers shouldn’t overlook the products being created for the season at the Career Center.
The center, located at 2935 North Ave., offers two on-site businesses, a floral shop and the Coyote Cafe. Both businesses are operated by School District 51 high school students and their teachers.
Nobody knows for sure, but if his increasingly popular Internet music video is any indication, he’s a sweet-talking, fake-mustachioed cyber-lothario. A devil-in-disguise who lures innocent girls like Tammie Lotionson into “kind-of-illegal” dates on his Cushman Tote Goat.
More than 50 people turned themselves in Thursday to the March of Dimes Jail and Bail event at Smuggler’s Brewpub.
The inmates were taken before the judge, given bread and water, then forced to dial all the numbers in their address book asking for donations for to help…more
Hundreds of students and guests clapped, cheered and whistled for the active and retired veterans that attended the Holy Family School’s salute to veterans assembly Wednesday afternoon.
The program was presented as a play with two students acting as a grandfather and grandchild who were visiting the cemetery…more
The Hospice and Palliative Care’s upscale consignment shop had a grand opening Monday of their new men’s apparel retail space.
The room was acquired when the neighboring Talley’s Restaurant reduced half its restaurant space. Many businesses donated to the expansion, including new carpet and a donation of clothes…more
The well-known rocket and orbiting planet, the namesake for the new Rocket Park formerly named Melrose Park, received a much-needed paint job this week by Grand Junction Parks and Recreation staff.
The rocket is suspended off the ground horizontally and protected by a large fence while crews remove…more
Cowboy Poet Peggy Malone slid into a booth at Lois’ Place this week. On the wall near her booth was a biography of a veteran killed in Iraq. The story so moved her she penned this poem:
Lois’s…American Pride:
If you’re looking for conviction, of strong American Pride.
The shelves that once displayed thousands of Rubik’s Cubes are now empty in Cecil Smith’s downtown Grand Junction home. But the passion for the puzzle of squares still lives within the 80-year-old Smith.
He’s looking online for a rebirth of the cube and has self-published his book, “Cubeology’s…more
Gary Follett is not one of those guys who complains that he never wins anything. He wins all the time.
Most recently Follett won a $10,000 bedroom makeover from KSTAR 96.1. Follett entered his name into a random drawing at one of the first Farmer’s Markets this summer,…more
Nine local animal shelters were awarded $40,000 last week by Maddie’s Fund, the Pet Foundation. The shelters are members of the WeCARe SW Coalition, which includes facilities in Delta, Mesa, Ouray, and Montrose counties.
The ultimate goal of the coalition is to make these counties completely kill-free as…more
Wes Sheader got more than a few looks during his morning commute Friday. Sheader was dressed in full Bat suit, cape flying, while driving his very own Bat Mobile.
Sheader is one of the few pediatric chiropractic specialists in the nation. He works at New Life Chriropractic where…more
The big white house at 929 Main Street is a popular Halloween stop for the young and old alike.
Each Halloween Marie and Karol Ramstetter have an open house. Guests are welcome to come in for a drink and tour of the old colonial-style home owned by the…more
Nobody was a wallflower at the annual Halloween party for clients of Mesa Developmental Services Thursday at Whiskey River but there were a lot of clowns, witches, and ghouls.
The floor was packed as the revelers danced to such Halloween hits as “Monster Mash” and “Ghostbusters.”
The cold didn’t decrease the enthusiasm of Broadway Elementary School students Wednesday as they trampled the fresh snow into sticky slush on their annual Bear Walk. In fact, it probably made the annual fundraiser more fun.
The Bear Walk is an event in which students and invited guests…more
