People

: Rex Halterman; Rex Halterman has a B.F.A. degree in Studio Art, and has been working as a professional craftsman for over thirty years. His work is collected world-wide, and can be found in several public art collections.

: Rex Howell; Founder of Grand Junction's first radio station, KFXJ (now KREX), in 1930. He also founded the town's first television station in 1954. He began a radio station in the Denver Area in 1926. After visiting Grand Junction and finding it had little radio reception, he and his wife decided to move to the Grand Valley, which they did in 1930. He founded radio station KFXJ, which later became KREX. He placed the station on top of a hill in the First Fruitridge area, and developed the rest of the area for residential use. He later created a KREX television station as well. With Al Look, he raised money for the March of Dimes at KREX. While teaching communications to Aviation Cadets during World War II, he decided to become a pilot. He became a squadron commander for the Civil Air Patrol. He also had an interest in ham radio, and cooperated with the United States Navy to bring radio programming to ships during the war. He was a Colorado State Legislator from 1956-58, and 1960-64. Howell was a good friend and employer of broadcaster Robert “Bob” Collins

: Rex Myers; Contributor to "The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Reynold Robert "Bunk" Weimer; Because his mother had tuberculosis, his family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado from Storm Lake, Iowa when he was eleven years old in 1903. They lived in tent houses on D Road, west of town, for a year after their arrival. They then moved to 12th Street, on the site of present day Colorado Mesa University. Before the family leveled the land for farming, the boys slept in a cave and the rest of the family in tents. The family helped in the construction of the Mesa County Fairgrounds, located at the site of present day Lincoln Park. Bunk assisted in the construction of the Lincoln Park Barn and helped his father build several foundations for prominent buildings in town. When he grew up, he lived briefly in California before returning home to help his father run his farm out 12th Street near H Road. He later became the Road Supervisor for Mesa County, a job he held from 1946 to 1953. According to Pomona resident Fred Simpson, Weimer also ran a cider mill on Patterson Road by the canal. After his wife died in 1958, he and other farmers helped engineer an irrigation project using water from the Grand Mesa.

: Rhiannon Parent; Contributor to "Our River Our Valley", (source: Our River Our Valley: A Gunnison Valley Journal.)

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