Racing for the checkered flag

Tamie Meck

Published on Thursday, 29 November 2012 13:46

d10 bp1 Photos submitted Standing on her family’s race track and posing with her Tag kart, Mianna Wick of Delta holds her trophy for winning the S5 Junior Stock Moto division of the 2012 Rocky Mountain ProKart Challenge go-kart race in September. Wick recently returned from the SKUSA SuperNationals XVI, at Las Vegas. Wick is among a handful of serious female kart drivers in the state working to break into the high-speed sport of professional racing.At first glance, Mianna Wick seems like an ordinary 16-year-old girl. Her favorite subject (she has always been home-schooled) is algebra.

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The spirit of the Old West

Verna Barr

Published on Friday, 23 November 2012 13:50

d10 bp1 Photos submitted A costume contest is held at the annual Gathering of the Gun Fighters in Yuma, Arizona. Cap’n Billy (aka Richard Brubaker) attended the event last year.Richard and Terri Brubaker have been learning a lot about western history while portraying a variety of characters based on historical events.

"During shows," Richard said, "we like to portray, as close as we can, what happened at an actual event during the 1870s or 1880s.

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A marathon clean-up

Pat Sunderland

Published on Thursday, 15 November 2012 11:59

d10 bp1 Four local New Yorkers registered for the marathon, Jenny and the son of the owner whose apartment was cleaned up have a quick snack before running back to the ferry.Jenny (Marshall) Dziura, the daughter of Chris and Susie Marshall of Delta, flew into New York to run in the New York City marathon Nov. 4, but wound up with a far more rewarding experience helping victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Dziura is executive director of the Chris Klug Foundation (chrisklugfoundation.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting life-saving organ and tissue donation and improving the lives of those touched by donation.

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‘I thank the Lord for my eyes’

Annette Brand

Published on Thursday, 08 November 2012 13:10

c10 bp1 Photos by Annette Brand

Fred Honchell was painting away in Ridgway last Thursday on “Open Seating,” depicting this old car which he found at God’s Rods, a garage owned by a mechanic friend and his wife.When Fred Honchell of Delta left the U.S. Air Force in 1970, he went to work for Lockheed Aircraft Company in Marietta, Ga. Lockheed sent him to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mohave Desert where he worked on the C5A flight testing program.

"I was out in the desert by myself with spare time on my hands," Honchell said.

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Preserving a community landmark

Pat Sunderland

Published on Thursday, 01 November 2012 15:32

d08 bp1 Photo by Pat Sunderland

The Hotchkiss Homestead is still the seat of the Hotchkiss family cattle ranch and is occupied by the founder’s great-grandson Dick and his wife Janice.The community has rallied around an effort to restore the Hotchkiss Barn, a landmark in the community that is named for Enos T. Hotchkiss. Hotchkiss built the structure in 1886.

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A mosaic of nature

Hank Lohmeyer

Published on Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:55

d06 bp1 Photos by Hank Lohmeyer

The realism of this trout, the centerpiece of the community mosaic created by Barbara and DJ Hladik and their friends, is full of action as if ready to lunge at the fisherman’s fly.A community can adopt many things, from a school sports mascot to a feature of local geography as a symbol for the pride people take in the special feeling for the place that defines them.

In Cedaredge, the special feeling that community members have for their shared place and for one another has taken expression in a unique work of art created by Barbara and DJ Hladik and many of their good friends.

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Two Teams, One Cause

Tamie Meck

Published on Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:27

When Lynn Shirk watched the volleyball match between Hotchkiss and Paonia in early October, she didn't pick a favorite team. It was Pink Night at Paonia High School, and the two teams were playing to support breast cancer awareness and to raise funds for Hospice & Palliative Care of Western Colorado.

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Celebrating 20 years of the Backpack Program

Pat Sunderland

Published on Wednesday, 03 October 2012 01:00

“This is such an awesome program,” agree Carrie and Tanner Reed as they explore a Backpack box with their daughter Jordan, age 3. Their 5-year-old son Ty is a Backpack graduate.

A wonderful evolution has taken place since the Backpack Program was implemented 20 years ago, but the basic precept remains unchanged: Supporting parents as their child's first and most important teacher.

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You can do this!

Hank Lohmeyer

Published on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 01:00

Photos by Hank Lohmeyer

The striking, six-inch diameter flower displayed by this six-foot-high variety of Teddy Bear Sunflower finds itself right at home in the city’s pocket sunflower park on Meeker Street. The blossoms are a subject of local photographers whenever they appear, and they are among the huge variety of flowering plants just like the ones in the City of Delta’s summer floral gardens that local gardeners can grow at home.

Delta residents' summertime pride and joy is the citywide display of flora exuberance along Main Street, in the city parks and at the Bill Heddles Recreation Center.

The street corner flower pots overflowing with cascades of sweet potato vine; the rank and file of brilliantly blooming hibiscus and zinnia; the carefully groomed carpets of petunia; and the soaring extremes of richly foliated canna draw admiring compliments from residents and visitors for the masterfully groomed displays and exotic eye appeal.

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