JANUARY 22 - 29, 2025
VOLUME 32, ISSUE 3
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In this issue n Diesel Repair
A new and growing business, A&R Mechanical repairs diesel truck engines in the shop and out in the field.
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n Amazon deliveries
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Grand Junction’s Amazon delivery station has been operational for 3 months.
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n GJ Auctioneer named state champ Graig Medvesk was recently crowned the Colorado Auctioneers Association’s State Champion Auctioneer.
n Moving municipal elections to the fall City Council is deliberating changing municipal elections to November instead of April.
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Brett and Rachel Armour are betting they have a diamond of a business in Armour Athletics, a new batting-cage/sports training facility.
n Overhead Door sells to employee Once again, a longtime employee has purchased Overhead Door from a longtime owner.
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n Impact and Linkage Fee Study discussion On Jan. 14, City Council opened dialogue with stakeholders about the Impact and Linkage Fee Study.
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Brett Armour stands in one of the four batting-cage lanes at Armour Athletics, which he and his wife, Rachel, opened for business on Jan. 17 at 2892 North Ave., Unit A. The Armours wanted their facility to stand out for the quality of everything in it, something more often found in much larger cities than Grand Junction. Armour said his dream of developing such a facility goes back to his childhood and one of his oldest friends, Rylan Reed, who is an owner and general manager of Impact Sports Performance, a giant sports-training complex in Superior, CO. Reed served as a consultant on the Armour Athletics project, and Brett Armour said, “We had talked long about (Grand) Junction needs something like he’s doing on the Front Range, and he’s like, ‘Can you imagine if we’d had something when we were growing up like this?’” Photo by Tim Harty.
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