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The Daily Sentinel was founded in 1893 by Isaac N. Bunting. He published the paper until 1911, when he sold it to Walter Walker. Under Walker's leadership, the paper became a staunch supporter of Democratic Party causes. The Sentinel's main rival in its early years was the Grand Junction News, a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. The News's publisher, Charles Adams, was friends with Walker, and the News was eventually purchased by the Sentinel sometime...
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An establishment that was created, thanks to Walter Walker's support, to help and care for veterans living in Grand Junction. Currently, it's called the Grand Junction VA Medical Center.
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A club founded in 1953 in order to represent the interests of Colorado’s Western Slope. Preston Walker, son of Daily Sentinel publisher and Democratic Party member Walter Walker, was a founding member. It is an organization of counties, businesses, communities, individuals, and tribes in Western Colorado.
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A social and charitable organization founded in part by Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel newspaper.
According to Grand Junction Lions Club founder Silmon Smith, the Rotary Club came into existence when the original Grand Junction Lions Club folded in 1922, with some Lions members joining the Rotary.
According to William "Bill" Rump, whose father Charles Rump was a charter member, the Grand Junction Rotary was an early proponent...
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A local activist organization formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. RAW was a driving force in the protest movement arose in the wake of Floyd’s death, and is still active in the community. With Black Citizens and Friends, they put on a Juneteenth celebration.
It was founded in 2020 by Anthony “Tony” Clark and Jay Bishop, two former football players from Colorado Mesa University. According to oral history...
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A branch of a revised version of the organization that began in 1915 and grew stronger in the 1920s. The Ku Klux Klan inflamed prevailing prejudices against Catholics, Jews, Blacks and immigrants, and promised a return to "Old Time Religion" and Americanism. As Colorado was a primarily Protestant state, the Klan's influence was particularly strong here during the 1920's. The Klan had several members in positions of power, including the governor,...
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A Depression era organization that provided clothes and toys for poor and minority children at Christmas, and meals for people in need. It was organized by Al Look, advertising agent and columnist for The Daily Sentinel newspaper and backed by Walter Walker, publisher of the Sentinel.
The group staged fundraising events at the Avalon Theater, the Mile-Away Dance Hall and other locations. Look arranged to buy gifts for children at cost by buying...
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Fruita's first hospital was located near the mortuary and run at first by the doctors James Moore Beard and Porter. Doctors White and J.S. Orr ran the hospital at a later date. It received funding from Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel, and others.
According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, who was friends with Dr. Beard, he ran a small hospital from his home in Cleveland, the town that adjoined Fruita, in the late Nineteenth and early...
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A local chapter of the international organization created by attorney Silmon Smith, M.N. Due, Bob Ross, and man named Jones in 1921. According to Lion Laird Smith, the club briefly disbanded when Walter Walker brought the Rotary Club to town. In 1922, the Grand Junction Lions Club reformed with Silmon Smith as president (Laird's father). According to Silmon Smith, because he and others had not been offered membership in the Rotary Club, he and other...
