Steamboat Today: Photos for October 25, 2009

Soroco's Ceanna Rossi tries to tap the ball over the net past Hayden senior Samantha Huffar Saturday as the Tigers beat the Rams in Hayden.

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Seniors Katie Parrott, left, and Rachael Koehler leap for a block Saturday as the Hayden volleyball team knocked off Soroco in three.

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Seniors Katie Parrott and Rachael Koehler leap for a block Saturday as the Hayden volleyball team knocked off Soroco in three.

Published on October 25, 2009

Steamboat Springs soccer player Andrew White hugs his mother, Katie, while his dad, Brian, watches Thursday when the seniors were introduced during halftime of their game against Moffat County High School. The win against the Bulldogs helped the Sailors clinch the league title for the first time since 2001.

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Soroco coach David Bruner speaks to his team before Friday night's game against Norwood that pitted the 7-0 Rams against the 7-0 Mavericks.

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The Class 4A regional cross-country meet for boys and girls teams was held in Aspen on Saturday. The Steamboat Springs High School boys team finished third, which qualified the team for next weekend's state meet. The girls team did not qualify for state, though two runners ran close to their best times of the year.

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Cody Miles, left, Alex Estes and Gage Achtner, who, along with Matt Watwood, make up the senior class on Soroco's football team, charge on the field Friday before a game against Norwood.

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Soroco coach David Bruner pumps his fist Friday after Soroco's defense came up with a key first-half stand. Bruner helped guide the Rams from winless league seasons in 2006 and 2007 to a 4-4 campaign in 2008 and a 7-1 record in 2009.

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Bailey leaps from step to step at the rodeo grounds, holding a squat position as she lands.

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Marla Bailey pulls into a one-legged squat in the stands at the rodeo arena in downtown Steamboat Springs. Bailey works out at the arena several times a week. She picked up many of the exercises by taking a ski fitness class from Chris Voyvodic at Old Town Hot Springs.

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Coleman, left, and Marrs execute triceps dips on the steps at the Howelsen Hill rodeo grounds, lowering themselves with their arms and pushing back up.

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Sarah Coleman, left, and Cara Marrs lunge their way up the steps at the rodeo grounds at Howelsen Hill. Coleman, a personal trainer at Fusion Fit in Steamboat Springs, said the area can offer a full-body workout without any expensive equipment.

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Felix & Fido owner Kelda Combs Wall is closing her business today in the Alpen Glow building in downtown Steamboat Springs.

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Dave Singer, of Lone Tree, and Denise Baumbach, of California, share a kiss Aug. 1 during the Wine Festival at Steamboat. The event, along with the Triple Crown World Series, was the most-visited weekend in summer 2009 with lodging capacity at 79 percent.

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Ron Medina, back left, and his brother Victor Medina, back right, have joined forces with Roxanna Shores, Sidney Peak Ranch equestrian center manager, front row from left, Donna Dunkelberger, a boarder who helps with functions at the equestrian center, and Beth Trujillo, assistant equestrian center manager, to collect food to donate to LIFT-UP of Routt County.

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Ron Medina, left, and his brother Victor Medina have led a food drive at the Sidney Peak Ranch after being inspired by efforts at the Steamboat Christian Center to raise a ton of food for LIFT-UP of Routt County.

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Rusty de Lucia, a longtime Steamboat Springs resident who has been active in the theater community throughout the years, will join the 5 percent of volunteers who are older than 50 in the Peace Corps' approximately 7,500-person force. She is appearing in "Kimberly Akimbo" at 7 p.m. today at the Depot Art Center.

Published on October 25, 2009

Rusty de Lucia, a longtime Steamboat Springs resident who has been active in the theater community throughout the years, will join the 5 percent of volunteers who are older than 50 in the Peace Corps' approximately 7,500-person force. She is appearing in "Kimberly Akimbo" at 7 p.m. today at the Depot Art Center.

Published on October 25, 2009

Rusty de Lucia, a longtime Steamboat Springs resident who has been active in the theater community throughout the years, will join the 5 percent of volunteers who are older than 50 in the Peace Corps' approximately 7,500-person force. She is appearing in "Kimberly Akimbo" at 7 p.m. today at the Depot Art Center.

Published on October 25, 2009

Let's Vote committee member Tim Rowse watches Steamboat Springs resident Eugene Buchanan sign a petition Saturday to put the Steamboat 700 annexation to a vote.

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Rusty de Lucia rehearses with Cesare Rosati for the February 2007 performance "Games People Play: The One Acts Are Back!"

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Rusty de Lucia, right, performs with, from left, Mark Bucksen and Cesare Rosati in the 2006 production of "Arsenic and Old Lace."

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Victor Medina, left, and his brother Ron Medina, right, have led a food drive at the Sidney Peak Ranch after being inspired by efforts at the Steamboat Christian Center's drive to raise a ton of food for LIFT-UP of Routt County.

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Naomi Lang and Lenny Kline, of Steamboat Springs, were married Sept. 19, 2009.

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Hayden Valley Elementary School Student Council members Cassidy Crawford, from left, Alex Hamilton, Zoie Lowe, Paige Barnes, Kyra Bennett, Tyler Hockaday, Dustin Sullins and Darian Murphy sit on bags of the 1,156 pounds of clothes the school collected. The clothes will be taken to Denver, where they'll be shipped to schoolchildren in Burkina Faso, Africa.

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Most of the Whiteman kayaking group, including Jim Linville (red helmet), Colin Klein, Will Findell, Galen Goldscheitter, David Lea, Karsten Thompson, Erik Petersen, Brian Alsberg, Errik Hill and John Morse.

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Ariel Marchand tries out the electric chair in Colorado Mountain College's "Screamboat Chamber of Horror."

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Lowell Whiteman School kayak trip leader Jim Linville assesses how to remove the upturned raft out from between two boulders at the Gates of Lodore on the Green River through Dinosaur National Monument.

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Colorado Mountain College's "Screamboat Chamber of Horror" performers, from right, Courtney Brown, Ariel Marchand, Wyatt Wilson and Bryant Finley will be dishing out the scares from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight, Friday and Saturday.

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Steamboat Springs resident Erin Brosterhous enters U.S. Highway 40 from 12th Street during rush hour Thursday afternoon. Brosterhous has used her bike to beat the traffic in downtown Steamboat Springs created by recent construction.

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Lowell Whiteman School students kayak in front of Steamboat Rock on the Green River through Dinosaur National Monument.

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Auctioneer Scott Shuman looks over a quiet crowd Oct. 18 at the Dry Creek land auction in Hayden. Residential lot sales lagged at the auction, while 25 miles east on U.S. Highway 40, affordable housing continues to be a hot topic for debate.

Published on October 25, 2009