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Best bets this weekend in and around Durango

Four Corners Unity Motorcycles and Car Clubs will host the third annual Suicide Awareness Ride and Community Rally on Saturday. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file

Best bets this weekend include the Suicide Awareness Rally and the final Apollo 14 Speaker Series event.

Four Corners Unity Motorcycles and Car Clubs will host the third annual Suicide Awareness Ride and Community Rally on Saturday.

Registration for the ride starts at 9 a.m. at Durango Harley-Davidson and 10 a.m. at Aztec VFW with the rides beginning at 10 and 11 a.m., respectively. Entry fees are $15 for single riders and $25 for double riders.

The rally will take place from noon to 2 p.m. in the Durango Harley-Davidson parking lot. Free hot dogs, snow cones, popcorn and cotton candy will be available while supplies last. Music, a motorcycle and car show, community support booths, guest speakers and a raffle will also be featured.

All proceeds benefit The CODY Project and DJ’s Way. Toys for Tots will also be on-site collecting teddy bears. Every teddy bear donated will earn a raffle ticket.

For more information, email fourcornerscorvetteclub@gmail.com, call 759-5800 or 764-7945, or visit bit.ly/3rU13SZ.

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The Powerhouse will host the final episode of the Apollo 14 virtual speaker series from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday on its Facebook livestream.

Charlie Garcia, local production manager and stealth thruster lead engineer at Agile Space Industries, will discuss NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and America’s sustainable return to the lunar surface. A Q&A will be held afterward.

To watch the livestream, visit www.facebook.com/powscicenter.

FRIDAY

Mother’s Day & Country/Rock weekend, 5 p.m.-Sunday, $15-$39, Tico Time River Resort, 20 County Road 2050, Aztec, bit.ly/3aVfRLy.

First Friday taco night, 5:30 p.m., free, VFW Post 4031, 1550 Main Ave.

Auditions for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 6:30 p.m., Theater Ensemble Arts, 818 W. Arrington St., Farmington.

SATURDAY

Mother duck race and Mother’s Day brunch, 9:30 a.m., The Community Treehouse, 658 S. East St., Bayfield.

Four Corners Back Country Horsemen trail cleanup day, 10 a.m., Sauls Creek, Bayfield. RSVP to 247-5615.

Animas Museum Saturday Seminar with Durango Police Historian Sharon Greve, 1 p.m., $5, Zoom at www.animasmuseum.org/events.html.

SUNDAY

Spring Fling Mother’s Day celebration, noon, free, Wines of the San Juan, 233 Highway 511, Blanco.