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A Grand Junction newspaper founded by Dan Thornton, Grover Sanders, Alan Leperdink, Loyd Files, and Lyle Mariner in the 1940’s. It provided competition to The Daily Sentinel for a short time before folding.

During the summer of 1970, Vail’s arts and cultural movement arguably began when three artists, Randy Milhoan, Dan Telleen, and Jim Cotter, conceptualized the idea of Summervail Workshop for Art and Critical Studies. Popularly known as Summervail Art Workshop (SAW), the program grew with assistance from the Town of Vail, Colorado Mountain College, local lodge owners, and enthusiastic community members. During its run between 1971 and 1984, SAW...

An organization of business owners located along North Avenue in Grand Junction. It advocated for the vitalization of the area. It was active in the early 1980’s and possibly before. An organization of the same name was active in the mid-2010’s, but it is unknown whether it was the same organization as the former.

The company was founded in 1922 by Melvin “Pappy” Due and others. It was the first Western Slope company to pasteurize its dairy products. It became the Rose-Arctic Ice Cream Company after a Mr. Rose of Montrose bought into the company. Herman Koch led the company after Mr. Rose’s passing. The company had rivals in the same area of goods and services, including Chet Enstrom’s Velvet Ice Cream company. The company sold out to Arden Meadowgold....

An early Grand Junction, Colorado mortuary that began as Griffins and Stowe Mortuary in 1910. Ray Younker and Thomas T. Callahan took over the business sometime shortly after 1910, and it became known as Younker and Callahan Mortuary. In 1914, Thomas Callahan bought his partner out, and the name became Callahan Mortuary for the next 60 years. Callahan retired in 1944 and his son William "Bill" Callahan, who had been working as a mortician there,...

Vail Public Library is the municipal library for the Town of Vail in Vail, Colorado. The library has been located in its current location since 1983. Vail Public Library offers access to information resources of many types to serve the needs of Vail’s guests, residents, businesses and schools. The library holdings include over 52,000 fiction, non-fiction, visual media, and audio books and more than 300 magazine subscriptions and newspapers in print...

A Mesa County organization of World War I servicemen that was organized by American Legion members. According to the Daily Sentinel article "Last Squad Club honors comrades" (Gary Massaro, February 19, 1981), the Last Squad Club was founded during the Great Depression. At its founding in 1936, it numbered 169 members. Members in the group included Roy Pardew and Jess Burrows, Glen L. Coffman, William W. De Voe, C.M. Fancher, Webb H. Fiene, J....

The First Baptist Church was one of the first churches organized in Grand Junction and the second congregation with its own church building (the First Methodist Church seems to have organized first and built their building just prior). In the February 3, 1883 edition of the Grand Junction News, the article “A Baptist Church” mentions a meeting to take place in the Mayor’s office for the organization of a Baptist Church. By February 10, 1883,...

According to the book The Church that Stayed by Virginia Donoho, The Methodist Church in Loma was founded in 1909 with a church building being constructed in 1913. Longtime resident Gertrude Rader moved to Loma around 1920 and became an active member of the church and of the affiliated Ladies Aid Society. The Church seems to have met in the houses of members, at least for a time, and to have had guest ministers. A popular minister was James Baggs...

According to Lucy (Ferril) Ela, the club was founded around 1900 by a Mrs. Oglesvie, a “thinker and doer” who had just moved to town. Six of the members educated themselves about the countries of the world and then attended the World’s Fair [in 1904]. The club eventually disbanded.