Photos for March 2, 2008

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Steamboat Springs senior Aaron Calkins goes strong to the basket to score midway through the first half of Friday's 54-36 win against Fort Morgan. Winning the game advanced the Sailors to the Sweet 16 round of the Class 4A basketball playoffs.

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Hayden High School baseball coach Wayne DeLuca demonstrates hitting techniques to his team Friday. DeLuca and the Tigers will be taking the field this spring, the first Hayden High School baseball team to do so.

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Hayden High School's first baseball team practices in the gym Friday. The Tigers are anxious to get out of the gymnasium and onto a diamond to begin playing after a long battle to create the junior varsity team.

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Soroco High School freshman Tanya Zillacana sings "Amazing Grace" on Tuesday at the school.

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Men's standard course champion Michael Kloser pulls away from his transition station for the fourth leg of Saturday's Steamboat Pentathlon. Kloser won the division with a time of 1 hour, 46 minutes and 4 seconds.

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Dori McNeill, right, reaches out to tag Maddie Ruppel at the 17th annual Steamboat Pentathlon on Saturday.

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Joe Roberts draws a cartoon that appears weekly on the editorial page of the Sunday Pilot & Today. This is the cartoon for March 2, 2008.

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Stephan Herzog dives as he crosses the finish line Saturday in the 17th annual Steamboat Pentathlon. Herzog competed in the five-stage event with four teammates from his rugby team.

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Dan Hudspeth, left, reaches out to tag his teammate, Jim Lane, as he prepared to start the third leg of the Steamboat Pentathlon. Hudspeth and Lane formed "Team Binge and Purge."

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Kevin Anthony makes his way down the mountain at the Steamboat Ski Area on Wednesday morning. Anthony visited Steamboat Springs this week with the Sunshine Kids Foundation.

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Christopher Rodriguez rides a groomed run at the Steamboat Ski Area on Wednesday morning with the Sunshine Kids organization.

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Snowboarders Kevin Anthony, from left, Bobbi Bentz and Christopher Rodriguez ride the Christie Peak Express chairlift on Wednesday morning. Anthony and Rodriguez visited Steamboat Springs this week with the Sunshine Kids Foundation.

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Steamboat Springs' emergency whistle is shown in this undated photo.

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Perched on top of a wooden pole in the 800 block of Oak Street is a siren that sounds every day at noon.

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Yampa Valley Milling and Elevator Co. burned Feb. 28, 1958, on the site of what is now the Iron Horse Inn. Steamboat's emergency whistle, still heard every day at noon, called firefighters to the scene.

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Lowell Whiteman Primary School student Eliza Leeson, 10, studies her winter survival guide this week during an overnight excursion near Pearl Lake State Park. The school's fifth- and sixth-graders learned how to build a fire, emergency shelters and first aid skills during the annual winter skills trip. Seventh- and eighth-graders spent a night at Steamboat Lake.

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Lowell Whiteman Primary School student Dylan Parsons, 11, lays out an emergency blanket to keep firewood dry this week during an overnight excursion near Pearl Lake State Park. The school's fifth- and sixth-graders learned how to build a fire, emergency shelters and first aid skills during the annual winter skills trip. Seventh- and eighth-graders spent a night at Steamboat Lake.

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Sheraton Steamboat Resort employee Kaitlin Gallivan handles a customer inquiry on the phone at the hotel in Steamboat Springs on Thursday afternoon. The Sheraton Steamboat Resort will shut its doors two days early this ski season to begin full-scale renovations.

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Libby Jacobson reads a book in the Thunderhead Food Court at the Steamboat Ski Area on Thursday afternoon. The Steamboat Ski Area is planning to close as scheduled this season, on April 6.

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