Slide Show: Getting Dunked

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MEEKER | The chamber of commerce sponsored a dunk tank as part of Saturday’s Range Call activities. Various locals took the plunge.

Slide Show: Bank Robbery!

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MEEKER | The annual bank robbery reenactment for Range Call weekend is always a big hit.

Slide Show: 2009 Range Call parade results

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The parade is an annual highlight for Range Call. A slide show of the parade and all the results are below.

Kids’ events add to rodeo fun

MEEKER I The Ranch Rodeo, when local ranches compete against each other in events taken from daily ranch living, is accompanied by another thoroughly enjoyable spectator sport: the kids’ events.

‘Run for Your Life’ 5K running or walking, it’s a great way to start the day

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MEEKER I Since 1979, locals and visitors alike have gathered in the early morning hours of the Fourth of July in downtown Meeker for their own kind of parade.

Two couples will serve as grand marshals of parade

Jim & Patty Cook Jim Cook was born Feb. 18, 1928, to Robert J. and Daisy Cook in Yuma. Jim spent his early childhood in Yuma and then moved to Meeker around 1942. He worked for Rio Blanco County and then spent the majority of his working career building fence,

Pageant offers peek into valley history

MEEKER I No one warned me. I stepped onto my back porch for a breath of fresh air my first summer in Meeker.

You can douse some of ‘Meeker’s Finest’ in dunk tank

County Commissioner Kai Turner, then a member of the Meeker School Board, prepared to drop into the dunk tank during last year’s event on Main Street.

MEEKER I The Meeker Chamber of Commerce has been organizing the downtown Range Call events for the past several years.

The most fun you can have in a few square blocks

A watermelon eating contest, sponsored by the Meeker Chamber of Commerce, will again be held as part of the Range Call activities taking place Saturday on the courthouse lawn in downtown Meeker.

MEEKER I For a few days each July, Meeker’s historic downtown is transformed into a gala of amusements for mind, body and soul.

Thwarted bank robbery lives on at Range Call

Phil Jannes played one of the bank robbers in last year’s re-enactment at the corner of Sixth and Main in downtown Meeker. This year’s bank robbery re-enactment will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the same location.

MEEKER I Re-enactments of famous battles and unsolved crimes are fairly common on television, but a live re-enactment of Meeker’s thwarted 1896 bank robbery offers a picture of living history everyone can enjoy.

‘Big Kahuna Beach Party’ opens for Tracy Lawrence

The Big Kahuna Beach Party will be the opening act of Range Call 2009, appearing prior to Tracy Lawrence at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 3, at the Rio County Fairgrounds.

RBC I Music lovers of all ages will enjoy the interactive entertainment of Range Call’s opening concert act, Kahuna Beach Party.

Range Call Fireworks Show: Big sparks in a small town!

Courtesy photo Meeker’s annual Fourth of July fireworks display will light up the sky Saturday night, beginning at dusk.

MEEKER I Fireworks and the Fourth of July are inseparable traditions for most, if not all, Americans.

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