Photos for August 16, 2009

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Jon Baskin, left, and his wife, Louise, are shown in 2007. Jon recently was named to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference's All-Century team for basketball. Baskin still is Mesa State College's all-time leading scorer.

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Soroco High School senior Cody Miles will start his third season as the Rams quarterback Monday. Miles hopes to be able to earn a college scholarship playing football.

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Jon Baskin, right, signs his letter of intent to play basketball at San Diego State University with coach Kelly Meek in 1986. Baskin recently was named to the All-Time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference basketball team.

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The inclusion of things in the foreground can really make a great shot. Jimmy Westlake included an arch at Utah's Arches National Park in this photo. The lights of Moab glow behind the arch and the Milky Way extends "paint" the arch during the camera's exposure.

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Rabbit Ears is visible in the bottom of Jimmy Westlake's photo of the northern sky. To achieve the circular effect, Westlake aimed his camera at Polaris, the North Star, during a long exposure.

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Two bright meteors tear through the night sky near Stagecoach Reservoir on Thursday night, the last night for prime viewing of the Perseids meteor shower. As awe inspiring as the brilliant flashes were, they - one on the left third of the photo, closer to the horizon than the top of the frame, and starting midway across the top of the photo and streaking down to the right - could be mistaken for scratches on the camera frame. Still, considering the complications involved in developing successful star photos, they amount to a resounding success.

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Kurtz launched Andy Kurtz Horsemanship this summer after moving back to the Steamboat Springs area last year.

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Kurtz cuts a cow off while training a colt at the Kurtz Ranch.

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Kurtz cuts a cow off from the herd while training a colt Friday at the Kurtz Ranch.

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Kurtz gives some advice to student Susan Shoemaker on Friday morning at the Kurtz Ranch off Routt County Road 129.

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Horse trainer and clinician Andy Kurtz, right, drives a herd of cows to a pen with student Beth Trujillo, middle, and ranch hand Dawn Serafin. Kurtz, who has years of professional rodeo experience, runs Andy Kurtz Horsemanship to teach others the rodeo skills he's learned.

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Livestock fills the Multipurpose Building at the Routt County Fairgrounds.

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Wayne DeLuca runs toward 8-year-old Shelby Archuleta as she gets bucked off a calf Saturday during the Routt County Fair calf riding competition.

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Thirteen-year-old Kaiden Decker, of Hayden, rides a bull Saturday during the Routt County Fair calf riding competition. His ride lasted 3.89 seconds.

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Chris Wening

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Chris Wening pores through the paperwork he's collected since finding out his identity was stolen earlier this year. Wening since has spent months tracking his credit.

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Matt Stensland/Staff The One Steamboat Place project at the base of Steamboat Ski Area had a building-use tax deposit of $2.9 million that has not been reconciled.

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Jane Stein

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Steamboat resident Larry Guss enters a photo of the cloister at Abbey of Fontenay in the commune of Marmagne in France, into the Routt County Fair on Wednesday.

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Nancy Mucklow helps Tell Belton, 10, decide whether his brown farm eggs should be entered in the "large" or "medium/small" classification for the Routt County Fair.

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Carl Medvesk was stationed on a U.S. Navy cargo ship like this one.

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Carl Medvesk and other World War II veterans from the Western Slope head to Washington, D.C., this month as part of an Honor Flight program to get them to the WWII Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

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Max Halterman sits with his wife, Samara, and their daughter, Sylvyanna, at the Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, Calif. Halterman, along with other Oak Creek natives, has created a successful business in Santa Cruz importing silk and other goods from Vietnam.

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The "Bronze Pack Trail" sculpture, one of the first exhibits entered into the Routt County Fair on Wednesday, is on display in the fair's exhibition hall.

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J-Jay Johnson, of Yampa, entered many porcelain pieces into competition at the fair.

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This cowboy sculpture is one of many works of art on display for judging at the Routt County Fair.

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Kevin Carty, left, and Jason Ruemelin prepare to snap a chalk line and cut the fly-aways, making the log walls of the Richards' home ready to accept the roof.

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Tom Wood has built nearly 80 log homes since establishing his business in Routt County in 1986.

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The new home being built by Thomas Wood Handcrafted Log Homes will be taken apart this week, transported to the Steamboat Lake area and reassembled on the clients' seven-acre property.

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Kevin Carty, of Thomas Wood Handcrafted Log Homes, uses years of experience to eyeball the right trim depth for a native lodgepole pine.

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