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He served as the head football coach at Western State College of Colorado—now known as Western Colorado University—from 1971 to 1984, compiling a record of 87–45–2. Noxon died on February 24, 2016, at HopeWest Hospice in Grand Junction, Colorado , from injuries he sustained in a fall the previous September.
Grand Junction: Damaged by flooding in 1983. Demolished in 1988. [6] 2: Fifth Street Bridge: Fifth Street Bridge: February 4, 1985 (#85000220) July 22, 1994: Northbound U.S. Highway 50 over the Colorado River: Grand Junction: Replaced in 1989. [6]
KLFV (90.3 FM) is a radio station in Grand Junction, Colorado. The station broadcasts a contemporary Christian format from the K-Love radio network; the station and network are owned by the Educational Media Foundation.
Grand Junction is 247 miles (398 km) west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.The city has a council–manager form of government. [8] It is a major commercial and transportation hub within the large area between the Green River and the Continental Divide, and the largest city in Colorado outside of the Front Range Corridor.
It is also home to the largest collection of Uintah Railway cars on the Colorado western slope. [5] At its peak the orchard produced 22,000 apple trees over a 243-acre (0.98 km 2) orchard. It is considered the largest orchard for the time in western Colorado. [6] The only land left today is now a 24-acre (97,000 m 2) site.
The Art Center of Western Colorado, formerly known as The Western Colorado Center for the Arts, is located at 1803 North Seventh Street in Grand Junction, Colorado. Founded in 1953, the art center has a permanent collection comprising mainly regional Western art. Its facilities also include four galleries, a gift shop, two enclosed courtyards ...
The Western Colorado Botanical Gardens and Butterfly House is located at 15 acres (6.1 ha) cite on the bank of Colorado River at the southern end of 7th Street in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States. Garden is connected with Colorado River Trails system via walkways. [1]
When the Utes fled to Utah, the Governor of Colorado called on the militia to apprehend them. Indian Agent T. A. Byrnes claimed the Indian parents from the Ouray agency were not prepared to send their children to the Grand Junction School at Colorado, for they were told that any "Ute Indians crossing the Colorado line would be shot on sight." [4]