Mesa View has scheduled a series of free events for March 8 to 10 at the independent retirement community located at 601 Horizon Place in Grand Junction. A March of Dimes fund-raiser offering wine and cheese is set for 2 p.m. March 8. An Irish feast is planned for 12:30 p.m. March 9. A bingo […]
Tickets are now available for Edesia, an annual benefit event pairing gourmet foods with wines and spirits. The event is set for 1 to 5 p.m. March 24 at the Wine Country Inn, 777 Grande River Drive in Palisade. Tickets sell for $65 and are available at Alpine Bank locations, the Wine Country Inn and […]
RSW Partners, a Grand Junction-based marketing firm, worked with the Western Colorado Center for the Arts to redesign its website. The revamped website, located at www.gjartcenter.org, offers a more modern look and improved access to information about programs, exhibits and the permanent collection at the center. “As a long-time community asset, the Art Center wanted […]
A Grand Junction radio station has been nominated to receive three awards at a March 9 presentation by the Colorado Broadcasters Association in Denver. KEKB has been nominated to receive two awards in the category for best marketing and promotions campaigns for its Last Run of Your Life 5K, a 5-kilometer benefit event for the […]
A Dairy Queen and Orange Julius restaurant has reopened in larger location at the Mesa Mall in Grand Junction. The newly reopened restaurant is located only four storefronts away from the previous location, but in a larger space with 1,500 square feet. The restaurant is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and employs […]
An advertising company whose owner is active in business, civic and philanthropic activities has been selected as the Fruita Area Chamber of Commerce Business of the year. Merge2Media and owner Joel Kincaid were honored at the chamber’s annual banquet. Merge2Media offers a range of services related to advertising and graphic and website design. Kincaid started […]
Powderhorn Mountain Resort has joined forces with the Grand Junction Visitor & Convention Bureau and a dozen local lodging properties to offer specially priced ski, stay and play packages. The packages, which include lift tickets and overnight hotel accommodations, start at $76 per person per night. The Wine Country Inn in Palisade and Slopeside Inn […]
Writing this on the morning following the deadline for the dreaded sequestration cuts to commence, I note happily that civilization is not crumbling around me like some B-grade movie. In the heady exhilaration of that realization, I make a bold prediction: When this column goes to print, no explicit signs of a sequestration-generated Armageddon will […]
How else can we explain what we hear out of our state capitals and Washington, D.C.? Just how our elected leaders and entrenched bureaucrats can binge and purge so effortlessly and methodically should be a warning sign to all of us: Because if anyone should be losing control of our bodily functions en masse, it […]
One of the best lines to come from the many presentations at the latest Energy Forum & Expo at Grand Junction encapsulated in a single sentence what it’s going to take to keep pace with increasing global energy demand: We really do need everything, everywhere all the time. But even as all-of-the-above approach involving such […]