Growing Partners hires new director
Growing Partners of Southwest Colorado announces that Joni Podschun has been named executive director.
Podschun grew up in rural Kansas.
She worked for five years at Bread for the City in Washington, D.C., most recently as the senior adviser on strategy.
For her work on food justice, she was appointed to Mayor Adrian Fenty’s Commission on Food and Nutrition.
Podschun also has founded and/or led several coalitions, including Save Our Safety Net, Healthy Affordable Food for All, Fair Budget Coalition, D.C. Women’s Agenda, and the D.C. chapter of Place Matters.
She co-authored Voices for Change: Perspectives on Strengthening Welfare-to-Work from DC TANF Recipients, a community-based research project with welfare recipients.
Growing Partners of Southwest Colorado is a partnership of agencies and individuals working together to support a fair, sustainable local food system that reaches all incomes, ages and cultures.
For more information, email director@growingpartners.org and visit www.growingpartners.org.
Film will address Colorado water
As part of the annual Members’ Exhibit, held in late summer with the theme of environment and conservation, the Durango Arts Center with partners will host the screening of “The Great Divide” at 5:45 p.m. Sept. 10 in the center theater, 802 East Second Ave.
This is a feature length documentary about the history of water in Colorado.
Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. for a reception with regional water-focused groups, and a panel discussion will be held after the film featuring Bruce Whitehead, executive director of the Southwest Water Conservation District; Dan Olson, executive director of the San Juan Citizens Alliance; Kate Greenberg of the National Young Farmers Association; and Michael Vicente of Ute Mountain Ute Enterprises.
This event is sponsored in part by the Southwest Water Conservation District, the Water Information Project, Backcountry Experience and it’s new retail shop, The Crow’s Nest.
For more information, visit www.DurangoArts.org.
Water levels above average at Navajo Lake
Water levels at Navajo State Park in Southwest Colorado remain well above average for this time of year.
A project completed last spring to repair the boat ramp has made it easier to launch boats.
Boats must be inspected for aquatic nuisance species before launching. The inspection station is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. through the Labor Day weekend.
Beginning Tuesday, the inspection station will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Starting Oct. 1, the inspection station hours will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Mud and dirt must be removed from all parts of the boat, engine and trailer. Boats that have an inspection seal will move more quickly through the inspection.
Boaters also are reminded that proper fitting life jackets must be on board for everyone who will be on the boat. Children younger than 13 must wear life jackets at all times while on the water.
For more information, visit cpw.state.co.us.
Herald Staff
