Organizations

: Republic Airlines; Referred to, in error, as Public Airlines in the article "Up, up, and away!"

: Republican Party of Mesa County; A political party in Mesa County that is connected to its national counterpart.

: Retired Teachers Board (Mesa County, Colorado); ): An organization for retired teachers founded in part by Basil T. Knight, who was an original board member. The Teachers Board itself was founded by members of the Twenty-Five Year Club, a group for teachers that had taught in Mesa County schools for at least twenty-five years. Some members of the board also served on a legislative committee composed of retired teachers.

: Rettig Packing Company (Grand Junction, Colorado); They operated the meat packing operation called the Modern Market on Main Street, and had a slaughterhouse near the Colorado River.

: Rhone School District 7, Mesa County, Colorado; The Rhone School District served the Rhone area just east of Fruita and south of the Hunter District from 1884 to 1904. It administered the Rhone School beginning in 1895. In 1904, it became part of the Union High School District, which fed Fruita High School. This district, in turn, became part of Mesa County Valley School District 51 in 1951. *Some information for this article came from "In the Beginning... A History of the Districts and Schools that became Mesa County Valley School District 51" by Albert and Terry LaSalle.

: Ridenaur-Baker (Grand Junction, Colorado); A large wholesale grocery warehouse and plant on South Seventh Street in Grand Junction in the early Twentieth century.

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