People

: 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.