Family, friends and community members reflect at a memorial set up for the shooting victims at South Sable Blvd and East Centrepoint Drive in Aurora Thursday July 26, 2012. The site is covered with hundreds of balloons, candles, flowers, stuffed animals, rosaries and many other items people have left behind in remembrance of the victims.
Community members, friends and family members attend a candlelight vigil for Ambrosia Amalathithada at State Street and Kensington Avenue Friday March 16, 2012. Amalathithada was killed in the crosswalk on Wednesday afternoon on her way home from school with her mom.
High School students from around Davis County release pink balloons on the sidewalk along Monroe Blvd, as Emilie Parker’s hearse passes on the way to Myers Evergreen Memorial Park Saturday December 22, 2012. Emilie Parker, 6, was one of 20 children massacred by a gunman Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Members of the Utah Army National Guard 624th Engineer Company wave to a crowd of supporters during a parade along 100 North in Price, Utah Tuesday June 12, 2012. Around sixty soldiers from Utah will be deployed for a year to Afghanistan.
Crews work to put out the Quail fire above Alpine Tuesday July 3, 2012. A wildfire that started about 2 p.m. Tuesday in Lambert Park in Alpine has burned at least one structure — a barn — and 80 homes have been evacuated, according to the Lone Peak Police Department. Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the fire was human-caused — somehow sparked by a man was working on a trackhoe near the Alpine rodeo grounds.
Cliff swallows fly around at the Bear River National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday April 24, 2012.
Community members hold candles during a public service honoring 6-year-old Emilie Parker at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden, Utah Thursday December 20, 2012. Emilie was among 20 students killed on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Students cheer for their teachers during a rock star assembly at Longview Elementary School during Teacher Appreciation Week.
Customers pose for pictures with a bear on display at Scheels Saturday September 29, 2012. Scheels opened its 220,000-square-foot mega-sporting goods store in Sandy. Featuring a 16-car Ferris wheel rising toward a skylight, a 16,000-gallon double-arched salt water aquarium, a boating department, game centers and a focus on fashionable apparel, the store is meant to be a fun destination, said Dan Hermanson, an assistant store leader.
The Peterson family, Bret, Stephanie, Gage, 6, and Bailey, 9, dressed as characters from Beetlejuice during the Monster Block Party at the Gallivan Center Saturday October 27, 2012. They won second place in the costume contest.
Creature, a 10-year-old Mexican Hairless Mix, poses for a picture at Veterans Memorial Park Thursday June 14, 2012. Creature will be competing for the title of World’s Ugliest Dog on June 22, at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. Creature recently won the title of Utah’s Ugliest Mutt.
Dr. Reed Hall, Veterinary Area Emergency Coordinator for Utah, and Dr. Robert Erickson, a field veterinarian with the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, test a dairy cow for foot and mouth disease during a simulated Foreign Animal Disease scenario at the USU Caine Dairy Teaching and Research Center Wednesday August 1, 2012. The Utah/Idaho Foreign Animal Disease exercise was intended to strengthen the teamwork between the two states’ local governments and private livestock owners to prevent the spread of a Foreign Animal Disease. The three-day exercise included classroom training on topics of biosecurity on the farm, strengthening community agro-security planning, livestock inspection, techniques of incident command structure, necropsy techniques and pathogenic control.
Around 300 wild sheep from the Cache National Forest are unloaded at Soldier Hollow Olympic Venue before the start of the Soldier Hollow Classic Wednesday August 29, 2012. The Soldier Hollow Classic will run Friday-Monday.
Pamela Bailey and her horse Wicoma, a thirty-three inch tall Shetland miniature stallion during the Days of ’47 All-Horse Parade Tuesday July 10, 2012.
Residents evacuate on a motorcycle with a computer and bass guitar as the Rose Crest Fire burns around Herriman, Utah Friday June 29, 2012. As of about 7 p.m. the fire was estimated at 200 acres in size and at zero containment.
