CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Even on the darkest of days, there is a ray of sunshine and a ray of hope at the Sunshine Seven Ranch in Castle Rock.

Curtis and Emily Graves are opening their ranch and sharing their story to help others in the community who are suffering from tragedies like they have.

The ranch is named for the seven family members Curtis and Emily have lost in tragic car crashes. Curtis lost his wife and three teenage children in a multi-car pile-up during a blizzard in Wyoming in 2006.

Emily lost her husband and two of her four daughters in a freak car crash in Idaho in 2008.

Emily said, “what I miss most is the memories we didn’t get to have. My girls were still quite little. The pictures don`t ever change. I just miss them. I miss touching them and kissing them and seeing them and loving them and what could have been, what they would be doing now.”

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A team of 80 Colorado firefighters, engineers, and medical experts are on standby to be deployed to the East Coast to assist in recovery efforts following Hurricane Sandy.

The team, known as FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force One, is packed up and prepared to be deployed with just a few hours notice.

“We’re like the elite heavy system for the national system,” said Cpt. Rod Tyus, a commander of the task force.

The group, which has been used in national emergencies including 9/11, is part of a nationwide system that encompasses firefighters specially trained in rescue missions. FEMA maintains 28 similar teams nationwide that are often deployed in natural disasters that require complicated cleanup and rescues.

“We have to make sure we can feed everybody, make sure their equipment’s working,” said April Walker-Stemple, a logistics coordinator for FEMA on Tuesday.

With just 10 days to go until Election Day, political heavyweights and Hollywood celebrities came to Colorado Saturday in support of their favorite presidential candidates.

Republicans brought out a bus with political stars from New Mexico and New Hampshire to a Mitt Romney campaign office in Cherry Creek.

Actors Rachael Leigh Cook, Ben McKenzie, Bryan Greenberg and Zachary Quinto all appeared at an early vote student rally at the University of Colorado Boulder to support President Obama.

“This state is so important. This election is so important,” said actress Jennifer Westfeldt, whose grandfather lives in Denver. She spoke to a group of Obama volunteers at an Early Vote Canvass Kick-Off in Lakewood.

Jon Hamm of the cable series “Mad Men” spoke to a cheering crowd at The Penalty Box located at 1862 W. Wadsworth Blvd.

“It’s exciting that Colorado is a battleground state. And it should be exciting for you,” Hamm said.