Photos for May 24, 2009

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Mike Maudlin pauses to collect his thoughts on Sunday while speaking at a memorial service for Chris Corna. Maudlin worked with Corna at Slopeside Grill, which Corna owned at the base of the Steamboat Ski Area.

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Routt County Communications dispatcher Nathan Archuleta locates information for a police officer Friday afternoon. Communications Director J.P. Harris was granted an exemption from the county's hiring freeze to hire a new dispatcher.

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A memorial plaque with the police badge and photo of James Chew, a Steamboat Springs police officer who served in Vietnam.

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Greg Kyprios stands in Iraq in 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, when he was a 1st Lt. in the U.S. Army. He later started a high-tech and aerospace consultant group, KittyHawk Partners, that continues to have an impact on our national defense.

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Carl Ramunno is shown here in 1950. The Korean War veteran later returned from the service, married, and went to college to become a teacher. Ramunno taught at industrial arts at Steamboat Springs High School, where his legendary wrestling program led to six team and 28 individual state titles.

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Don Brookshire, shown here in about 1943, served with the U.S. Navy in World War II and was based on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. He returned to Steamboat Springs where he worked for Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. for 20 years and served three terms on the Steamboat Springs City Council.

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Claude Luekens, left, and Ralph Veasy attend the grand opening of the Tread of Pioneers Museum in November 1959. Luekens, a World War I veteran, served 23 years as a Routt County Commissioner and 19 years as the mayor of Steamboat Springs.

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Soroco High School graduates throw their caps into the air at the conclusion of Saturday's ceremony.

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Soroco High School graduate Clinton Koler hugs his mother, Stephanie Bratton, after Saturday's graduation ceremony.

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Roger and Alfreda White

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Jordan Gray

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A bear broke through the window screen of Sandie Ihlenfeldt's house May 19 on his way to the kitchen for brownies, powdered sugar and honey.

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David Benedict leaps into the Yampa River with a riverboard on Saturday.

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The bear left behind muddy footprints on his way in and powdered sugar footprints on his way out of the Ihlenfeldt house on Mark Twain Lane.

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Danny Tebbenkamp started Boardom Bound, a Steamboat Springs company that offers lessons in riverboarding, wakeboarding, wakesurfing and snowkiting.

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The young bear eventually ended up in a tree adjacent to Glenda Hachenberger's backyard.

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Levi Gallas rides a riverboard Saturday while Eugene Buchanan, center, and Josh Copelan wait for their turn.

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Steamboat Springs resident Eugene Buchanan, left, rides a riverboard in Charlie's Hole in downtown Steamboat Springs on Saturday as Josh Copelan tries not to get washed downstream.

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The first train arrived in Steamboat Springs in December 1908, shown in this photo.

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The bear hangs out in the backyard of a home in the Angler's Retreat subdivision Thursday morning.

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A flock of lambs await shipment to market outside the Steamboat Springs train Depot on Sept. 20, 1915.

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A train heads toward Steamboat Springs in 1909.

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A young bear runs through a field near Rollingstone Drive on Thursday morning.

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Workers construct the Moffat Road through Steamboat Springs in 1908.

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The Depot train station and surrounding yards.

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The Steamboat Springs train Depot.

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Workers construct the Moffat Road near Steamboat Springs in 1908.

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David Jolly

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Ben Custer prepares for a game during the sixth annual Steamboat Classic Lacrosse Tournament on Friday. Custer played goalie for both eighth-grade teams, helping Steamboat to a 3-1 record on the day.

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Soda Creek Elementary School fifth-grader Connor Frasier finds out what it feels like to be cuffed by Steamboat Springs Police Department school resource officer Josh Carrell on Thursday during a presentation for Emergency Services Week.

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Community Service Supervisor Tom Whiddon shows students his bike during a Emergency Services Week presentation.

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Krista Halsnes plays with one of her dogs earlier this winter. Halsnes was just featured in a documentary titled "Sled." The documentary, by The Film Dailies, won the second annual Spirit of the Outdoors Film Festival earlier this week.

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Rick Franken kayaks Saturday in the Yampa River Festival's kayak rodeo at Charlie's Hole in downtown Steamboat Springs.

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Dan Piano paddles Saturday during the Yampa River Festival's kayak rodeo. Piano won the event and earned the right to compete Monday in the Paddling Life Pro Invitational in Steamboat Springs.

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Sarah Hamilton tries to work through a wave Saturday at Charlie's Hole in downtown Steamboat Springs. Hamilton, the only woman competing in the kayak rodeo at the Yampa River Festival, placed third in the event.

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Ken Reed, founder and managing partner of K to the 8th Power, a national company that sells online school curriculum, sold his business to a Baltimore-based company.

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Joan Sorensen Boyle

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Kenneth Earl Shelton

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SCORE counselors, from left, Roger Good and Randy Rudasics visit with Pamela Turner on Thursday during a One-On-One Business Consultation session at the 2009 Economic Summit at the Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel. Turner was seeking advice for her Pilates business.

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The handsome skeleton of a timber frame home remains visible after the home is completed.

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Decks on the south side of The Olympian overlook the Yampa River and the ski jumps at Howelsen Hill. Two units have sold at the luxury condominium building.

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The condominiums at The Olympian blend the historic loft look with warm wood finishes. A half dozen units offer semi-private elevators that open in the living space.

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The Meyer home has a rustic covered front porch that has the feel of a farm home.

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The foyer features a curved wall.

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The timber frame of the Meyer home in West End Village is built to a 300-year standard.

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