People

: Karen Schafer; Contributor to "Out of the Blue and Into the Sun," (source: Out of the Blue and Into the Sun: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Karen Severson; A Mesa County School District 51 Early Childhood Special Educator. She worked at Columbine Elementary School as an instructional assistant in the 1990's. In 1997-98, she led a school-wide-tile-making project, in which every student and employee at the school created a ceramic tile. The tiles were then displayed at Columbine and became a source of great school pride. Subsequent to Columbine’s closure, Severson led efforts to preserve the tiles. The tiles were displayed at the school district’s Hawthorne Building before finding at permanent home at the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in 2023. Severson left Columbine Elementary School in 1999 and became a certified teacher at Clifton Elementary School. As of 2023, she was working in School District 51 as an Early Childhood Special Educator.

: Karl Johnson; He was a Grand Junction City Councilman from 1942 to at least 1982. He lectured on the history of Grand Junction's city managers during a presentation of the Mesa County Historical Society on May 24, 1982.

: Karl Linn; He was the son of Swedish pioneers in Collbran, and was a cowboy and cattle rancher in Plateau Valley.

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