Local tour business gets a new name
Tommy and Jeannie Barnes have purchased Outlaw Tours in Durango.
The couple is redirecting the company, as well as renaming it to Durango Adventures and Tours. The business will continue to offer Jeep/Hummer tours and all-terrain vehicle rentals.
As a locally owned and family-operated business, it will focus on customer service and providing memorable tours for all ages.
Durango Adventures and Tours will continue to work with Outlaw Rafting to provide combination packages for people wishing to rent Jeeps and raft down the lower Animas River.
For more information, call 259-1800 or visit 555 Main Ave.
Happy Paws Pet Spa announces new owner
Happy Paws Pet Spa, 1301 Florida Road, Suite E, announces new owner Steph Heskin.
Heskin has 10 years of grooming experience in Colorado and New Mexico. She has been the groomer at Happy Paws for the last 2½ years. The all-natural pet-grooming business is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For more information, call 259-7917.
Wells Fargo adviser receives designation
Wells Fargo Advisors has designated Roger Hayes, first vice president – investments, as a member of the firm’s Premier Advisors Program, a distinction that reflects Hayes’ achievement of professional success by meeting or exceeding the firm’s standards for revenue generation, educational attainment and client-service best practices.
Hayes has been a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors for 18 years and has 24 years experience in the brokerage industry. He has a master’s degree in business management from the University of Utah.
For more information, visit www.wellsfargoadvisors.com.
Chamber of Commerce to clean Animas River
The Durango Chamber of Commerce will host “iClean My Animas” from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. July 27.
The cost is $10 for nonmembers and $5 for chamber members. Buses and boats will be provided by Durango Rivertrippers. The group will meet at the 29th Street put-in and end at Santa Rita Park where food and beverages will be served.
For more information, email dmullins@fnbdurango.com.
La Plata Electric announces promotion
Bret Cochrane, serviceman at La Plata Electric Association, has been promoted to safety and regulatory compliance superintendent.
In his new position, he will be responsible for overseeing LPEA’s safety “culture,” helping ensure that safety is embraced as a core value at all levels of the cooperative. He also will oversee regulatory compliance and loss control at the cooperative, monitoring LPEA’s operations to continue to meet all industry regulations, as well as avoid workplace accidents. A native of southwest Kansas and 24-year veteran of the electric-utility industry, Cochrane joined LPEA in 2000 from Pioneer Electric Cooperative. He worked the line crews at LPEA until December 2013 when he became a serviceman, working more closely with members.
For more information, call 247-5786 or visit www.lpea.coop.
Priority Rentals opens new location
Priority Sales & Rentals announces the opening of its new location in Pagosa Springs, just west of City Market.
The store will offer a selection of furniture, appliances, computers and electronics. The new store manager, Colt Roberts, has a great selection of name-brand home furnishings like Whirlpool, Ashley, Samsung, HP and Vizio. With four different payment options, it’s the first store of its kind for people in the Pagosa Springs and Dulce, New Mexico, area.
Rotary Club of Durango announces officers
The Rotary Club of Durango announces its officers and board of directors for the Rotary calendar year, which began this month.
Officers are: Terry Swan, president; Lynsey Powell, president elect; Kari Plante, vice president; Andrea Mull, treasurer; and Gordon Clouser, secretary. Additional members of its board of directors are: Chessa Gill, Tim Guill, Natambu Obleton and Bruce Rodman.
At its annual special leadership changeover meeting last month, the club celebrated its 85th anniversary. Since it was founded in 1929, the club’s meeting place has been at the Strater Hotel. The club’s dinner meeting starts at 6 p.m. Tuesdays in the Strater, 699 Main Ave. Visitors are welcome.
For more information, call Bruce Rodman at 385-7899.
Herald Staff
