The Last Stand
Latest Photos by Blythe Terrell
Steamboat Smokehouse owner Fritz Aurin and his family brought Larry the camel downtown for an advertising photo shoot Sunday morning outside the restaurant. Aurin’s daughter, Aleigh, showed the pet some love as a crowd started gathering on Lincoln Avenue. The 4-year-old camel was on his way to a pet photo shoot with Santa at Howelsen Hill. The holidays are a busy time for Larry, Aleigh Aurin said. “He comes out for a lot of Nativity scenes,” she said.
Routt County Fair royalty handed out pins and awards at Sunday's Routt County 4-H Achievement Day at Steamboat Springs High School. Queen Christina Appel, left, and attendants Shealynne Yeager and Brianna Wilhelm give a pin to Annecy Hillmuth while outgoing President Andy Mucklow reads names.
The new Haven Community Center is scheduled to open Dec. 5. The building includes a large meeting area, an Internet café and a physical therapy/workout room.
The Haven Assisted Living Center’s expansion, right, adjoins the new Haven Community Center in Hayden.
Residents at The Haven Assisted Living Center have more room to move around in their expanded dining room. From left: Myrtle Rhodes, Florence Schinto, May Ravenscroft, Lydia Rader and Don Morgan show off the new space Monday.
Voter flow was slow but steady Tuesday in Hayden at the Routt County Fairgrounds. Election official Tina Fry, left, keeps an eye out as Frank Roitsch helps Thamra Drescher with her provisional ballot and Lana Nelson, right, gets her identification in order.
Voters cast ballots Tuesday at the Routt County Fairgrounds in Hayden.
The first section of Hayden’s Creek View development is nearly finished. Real estate agent Annette Hall shows off a kitchen in one of the townhomes Tuesday. Developers Louis and Stef Nijsten, who live next door to this unit, plan to rent out some of the homes.
The Creek View Townhomes sit on the western side of Hayden. Developers Stef and Louis Nijsten have moved into one of the units.
Children hop onto a train conducted by Trenton Wixom at the Oak Creek Labor Day celebration in Decker Park during a rare sunny moment Sunday afternoon.
Bonnie Carrico, standing next to plans for the new Hayden Police Station on Friday, will leave her position as deputy town clerk to serve as police clerk.
Seven Hayden youths won Young Reader Awards through a program at the Hayden Public Library. Five received their awards from Library Director Ana Lash, left, on Friday afternoon. Recipients included Michelle Gutierrez, top left, Abi Velasquez, top right, and bottom, from left, Matthew Irvine, Shjon Petersen and Daylon Frentress. Trent Gabel and Thalia Carbajal also won awards.
Jim Earley, technology director for the Hayden School District, shows off a machine he calls the “super computer” Monday at the high school’s business computer lab. He and others built the machine to pique students’ interest. In the background is one of 30 computers Routt County donated to the district.
The Lake Village subdivision in southern Hayden sat unchanged Tuesday afternoon. Compaction issues around manholes still exist. The Town Board plans to discuss a resolution today to call the bonds and the letter of credit for the project.
After about an hour and a half of sales Tuesday afternoon, these children had made $11.30 selling lemonade on Poplar Street in Hayden. From left: Garrett Salazar, 6, Garrett Camilletti, 10, and Shaelynn Salazar, 10, were selling the cool drink for 25 cents a cup. Ten-year-old Tommy Wade also was helping. Business was good, the entrepreneurs said. Garrett Camilletti said he was saving up cash for a bow to do archery. Shaelynn is saving up for the Routt County Fair, and her brother, Garrett, said he’d probably use his share of the money to buy toys.
The owners of the Redstone Motel in Hayden want to add 24 long-term rental units to the property.
The owners of the Redstone Motel in Hayden want to add 24 long-term rental units to the property.
Taryn and Lorri Benson wrote a book together about Taryn’s eating disorder. The residents of southern Florida live in Steamboat Springs during the summer and are speaking at Off the Beaten Path on Wednesday evening.
The Connor family from Denver takes an afternoon stroll along Lincoln Avenue on Sunday. Christie Connor pushes Cameron, 3, and John Connor holds Morgan, 1. Grandparents Audrey and Bill Bladt from Arizona came along. Officials from Mainstreet Steamboat Springs are asking the city for funding to improve the downtown area to keep bringing in tourists.
Rocky Mountain Airways Flight 217 crashed on Buffalo Pass, northeast of Steamboat Springs. This image was shot Friday from a plane flown by Matt Kotts, who survived the crash as an infant. The power lines the plane hit run down the bare patch in the middle of the photo. The plane landed toward the top of the pass.
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