Word is out that Central High School’s Senior Student Senate has voted to change the school’s annual baccalaureate from a religious event featuring a blessing by a pastor to a secular event featuring 3-5 minute speeches by students about what…
Tag: Pop culture
Break time! Need Cheering Up Amid all the Bad Donald Trump News?
Here is the best example of human genius I think I’ve ever seen, in my opinion far more worthwhile an accomplishment than sending people to Mars. This man designed and built this machine himself. The song he wrote for it…
“Merry Christmas,” Wacky Grand Junction Style
New Recreational Marijuana Shop Adds 20 Jobs in Parachute
The town of Parachute, Colorado, in Garfield County, is celebrating the opening of its first recreational pot shop today. Parachute has a population of about 1,000 people, and the new shop, called The Green Joint, has already created 20 new jobs in the town. Parachute is about…
Mesa County Missing Out On State’s Pot Bonanza
Recent news reports tell of the Mesa County Commissioners’ current struggle to deal with a $3 million budget deficit due to decreasing tax revenue. At the same time, Grand Junction City Councilors, citing a lack of tax revenue, turn down a chance to host the USA Pro…
Mysterious Redlands Talking Hill: Still Communicating
As previously noted here on AnneLandmanBlog., the Mysterious Redlands Talking Hill’s constantly-changing messages consist of single 3-4 letter words only. Over the past few years the Hill has said innumerable things, including “MOM,” “DAD,” “MOON,” TREK,” “USA,” and “XMAS.” Last week it said “YETI.”…
Western Colorado Atheists & Freethinkers Booth a Hit at the G.J. Farmers Market
Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers (WCAF) again hosted their highly popular booth at the Main Street Farmers Market in downtown Grand Junction on Thursday, 9/24. So far, WCAF’s has been the only booth at the Farmers Market to challenge people’s knowledge and sense…
Pope Toaster Marketed to Celebrate Pope Francis’ Upcoming U.S. Visit
A Pennsylvania company called Fireworks is celebrating Pope Francis’ upcoming U.S. visit by marketing a specially-designed toaster that burns the image of Pope Francis onto your sliced bread. The Toaster comes with and an additional insert that toasts the words…
New Change.org Petition Seeks to End the Ban on Marijuana Cultivation and Sales in Grand Junction
It was a long time in coming, but a Grand Junction resident named Derrick Sorg has finally started a Change.org petition to end the ban on cannabis cultivation and retail sales in Grand Junction. Sorg says lifting the ban on marijuana commerce…
Independence Day Mayhem in Mesa County
Independence Day is Mesa County offered fun for some, but caused a tremendous amount of trouble and expense for citizens in the evening due to multiple fireworks-caused fires, intoxicated drivers, people angry at neighbors who continued to blast fireworks off late into…
Culture Shift: Drag Queens Come to Grand Junction
While Caitlyn Jenner has been grabbing all the headlines, it’s been almost overlooked that Grand Junction has been experiencing some gender-bending of its own. Grand Junction now has its first professional drag queen troupe, The CD’s Drag and Jewell Case, LLC. The troupe…
How Bike Cops Lock Their Bikes
G.J.’s 3rd Annual Gay Pride Parade Bigger and Better Than Ever
Grand Junction’s Third Annual Colorado West Pride Parade was more impressive than ever this year, with more sponsors and floats than in previous years, and a bigger crowd of spectators on Main Street. The weather was perfect for the event, with…
Why Stop at Renaming North Ave.? Grand Junction Needs a Modern Moniker
Note – Owing to City Council’s now-official change of name of North Ave. to University Ave. in 2017, I am re-posting this blog from 2015. In a March 24, 2015 editorial, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel argues that “North Avenue…
The “Little Free Library” Movement Comes to Grand Junction
In 2009, Todd Bol of Hudson, Wisconsin, built a small box in the shape of a one room schoolhouse, filled it with books and mounted it on a post in his front yard with a sign that said “FREE BOOKS. Take a book,…
“Liebe” Means Anything but “Love” in Grand Junction
Paul Liebe is the owner of NiteLife Billiards at 2882 North Ave. in Grand Junction. “Liebe” means “love” in German, but unfortunately Mr. Liebe does not project a loving front to many area citizens. His business’ slogan is “We Deliver Family…
Culture Shift: Grand Junction Embraces Gay Pride Events
The most overlooked and historic story in Grand Junction this week is the area’s burgeoning gay scene and the growing prominence of the area’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population. This year Gay Pride week brought an extended celebration…
Jumpin’ Without Jesus: Get Air at the Silo to Open Soon in Grand Junction
A controversy arose in Grand Junction last month after a parent complained about a video shown at Grand Mesa Middle School students that promoted Fellowship Church’s new youth indoctrination center, “4640.” The video boasted that 4640 had a foam pit, a ledge…