Grabbing cash for a good cause
It was a flash of kicking, grabbing and swirling cash! For 15 lucky nonprofits, Sky Ute Casino and Resort’s annual Nonprofit Money Booth resulted in some very appreciated money added to their bank accounts.
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Girls say ‘farewell high school, hello world’
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Celebrating our symphony
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‘Restored community’s trust’ in the arts center
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Aviks and crew reach far beyond Durango
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FLC benefits from a little help from its friends
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Banquet a treat of traditions
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Bravos to Worth ... and Welle
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Celebrating the Titanic’s most famous survivor
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Pulling out the creative stops
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Reading club looks to the south
Our society doesn’t have many rites of passage for young people beyond the first driver’s license and first legal alcoholic beverage. But graduation from high school is a big one, and the mothers and female teachers at Durango High School have made a tradition of guiding the senior class girls through the transition.
Several symphonies across the country have not survived recent lean economic times, but the Four Corners’ own San Juan Symphony has found ways to cut back and rework its offerings to keep the music alive.
It took just one look around Sorrel Sky Gallery to understand the regard and affection our community holds for Sheri Rochford Figgs. The occasion was a thank-you party she and her husband, Dan, held for all the people who worked with her to save the Durango Arts Center after its darkest hours two-and-a-half years ago.
Making a list and checking it twice – no, that’s not Santa, it’s Ilze Aviks and the committee of Textiles Today: Redefining the Medium, which opened at the Durango Arts Center last week.
In these days of decreasing state funding and increasing tuition, there is no more important fundraiser for Fort Lewis College than TLC for FLC, with money raised going toward scholarships to help students get those oh-so-valuable degrees.
The agricultural community works hard all year, particularly in the spring, when crops are planted and livestock is giving birth to the next generation.
Maybe that’s why the La Plata-Archuleta Cattlemen’s Banquet is such a hot ticket each year – everyone’s ready to relax and kick their heels up.
The subtitle for “For Love of Fashion and History” could have been: “The least known but most influential fashion designer ever.”
The annual historical fashion show was held after the Strater Hotel’s open house Thursday in the Henry Strater Theatre and was a fundraiser for the Animas Museum.
Her nickname resonates with anyone who ever heard of the famous ship that was supposedly unsinkable. The Titanic’s billing was way off the mark, but she lived up to her Unsinkable Molly Brown moniker by not only surviving herself, but keeping others on her lifeboat in good spirits and alive during the tremendous ordeal.
The title of the event – the Steampunk Stomp – was just enough to befuddle your Neighbors columnist. But when someone described steampunk to me as how the Victorians imagined the future would be, à la Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, I got it.
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, authors whose work has influenced the world and other voices that remain unheard have all been part of the Reading Club of Durango’s study of Latin America through its literature as the club celebrates its 130th year.
