Durango to host budget meeting
Durango School District 9-R will host a public budget meeting at 6 p.m. May 8 in the library of Needham Elementary School.
Superintendent Dan Snowberger will share the proposed 2013-14 school budget and explain large expenditure items and budget plans for the new school year.
Animas High School announces events
Humanities and Spanish classes will host an End of Year Exhibition from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Animas High School.
Digital arts, math and science classes will host an End of Year Exhibition from 6 to 8 p.m. May 9 at Animas High School.
The First Class Celebration will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 18 at Sorrel Sky Gallery. The community can meet graduating seniors at this reception, which will honor them and wish them well as they prepare for their journey beyond AHS.
R.S.V.P. to pac@animashighschool.com.
DHS community service event will be Saturday
Durango High School’s Student Council will hold its second annual Big Event Durango, a day of community service, on Saturday.
Students will help people, free of charge, who are unable to do tasks around their homes.
Volunteers will meet at DHS at 10 a.m. and work until 1 p.m. Lunch will be provided, including sandwiches and cookies donated by Bobby D’s Deli.
To have volunteers help with a task, print out an application, available on the DHS website under the “For Parents” tab, or pick up an application at Durango Community Recreation Center or Durango High School’s Welcome Center.
Return the application to either the rec center or the Welcome Center.
For more information or to volunteer, email Logan Graham at loganbg96@gmail.com or call 903-3138.
El Centro receives book donation
El Centro de Muchos Colores Hispano Resource Center received 20 copies of The House on Mango Street en Español by Sandra Cisneros as part of the worldwide program called World Book Night.
Each year, 30 books are chosen by an independent panel of librarians and booksellers to be donated to people who don’t regularly read and people who don’t normally have access to printed books.
The authors of the books waive their royalties and the publishers pay the costs of producing the specially-printed World Book Night U.S. editions. Bookstores and libraries sign up to be community host locations.
Fort Lewis College employee Lindsay Reichert-Noisom personally delivered and donated the books to the center April 23. Reichert-Noisom asked World Book Night U.S. to delivers the books to host location Maria’s Bookshop.
El Centro coordinator Shirena Trujillo Long and student Manuel Chavarria accepted the donations at the center to commemorate the first time El Centro has been a part of World Book Night.
The organization plans to distribute the books to Spanish speakers in the community with Club del Centro in the fall semester. The first copy went to Manuel and his mother, who both have heard of the award-winning novel but have never read the book.
For more information about World Book night, visit: www.us.worldbooknight.org. For more information about El Centro de Muchos Colores, visit: www.fortlewis.edu/elcentro.
Mountain Middle to host golf scramble
Mountain Middle School’s second annual golf scramble, “Golf Under Par for Education Over Par,” will be held Friday at Dalton Ranch Country Club.
The 9 a.m. shotgun start will cost $125 per person or $500 per team. This includes greens fees, cart, range balls, gratuities, sack lunch and prizes.
A silent auction and dinner, featuring Mexican cuisine, will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Dalton Ranch Pavilion. Cost is $25 adults, $12.50 kids.
For more information and reservations, call Michelle at 769-0404, email ptso@mountainmiddleschool.org or visit mountainmiddleschool.schoolauction.net/golf2013/.
Continuing education available at FLC
Fort Lewis College Continuing Education will offer these classes:
Doc Roberts will teach “ePublishing Nonfiction for Maximum Profit” the evening of May 14. This course will discuss the process of creating, publishing and selling a nonfiction book online both as an ebook and in print. The cost is $74 for one class including workbook and handouts.
“Nutrition and Hormone Balance” will be offered by Jess Kelley on Tuesday evenings, May 14-28. The class will cover how hormones become imbalanced by our modern diet, causing symptoms such as the inability to lose weight, difficulty sleeping, digestive disorders, certain diseases including cancer and strategies to implement a supportive diet. The cost $69 for three classes.
Advance registration is required. For more information, call 247-7385 or visit www.fortlewis.edu/ContinuingEd.
Liberty School to host science fair May 9
The Liberty School Science Fair will be open to the public from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 9. All first- through eighth-grade students will present their science projects orally at 6 p.m. after a casual open house, where all students will accompany their displays at 5:30 p.m. for an informal question-and-answer session.
For more information, call the school at 385-4834 or visit the website, thelibertyschool@live.com. The Liberty School is housed on the second floor of 215 E. 12th St.
Gifted, talented program will be discussed today
Durango School District 9-R is implementing some changes, starting in the 2013-14 school year, that will affect how children in the Gifted and Talented program.
Superintendent Dan Snowberger and the program council will hold a meeting from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today in the Durango School District 9-R’s board room, 201 East 12th St., to discuss these changes.
Topics that will be discussed include transitions, identification, programming, Advanced Learning Plans and more.
DHS program seeks community volunteers
The IB MYP Programme (International Baccalaureate Middle Years) at Miller Middle School and Atlas at Durango High School are looking for parents and community members who are interested in participating on the IB MYP Steering Committee.
This team will work with the IB coordinator to help develop clear, written plans that provide the program’s goals, strategies, accountability measures and time lines.
To learn more about the steering committee, email Rachel Colsman at rcolsman@durango.k12.co.us or call Durango High School, 259-1630, ext. 2249, or Miller Middle School, 247-1418, ext. 2524.
Empty Bowls fundraiser slated for Tuesday
The Durango High School Atlas Small Learning Community will host a fundraiser from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in the DHS cafeteria.
Tickets for the Empty Bowls event are $10 for adults, $5 for children and students. They will be available at the door.
Tickets include a meal of soup and bread meant to symbolically reinforce the fact that many people go to bed hungry each night.
There also will be a silent auction.
For more information, call Rachel Colsman at 259-1630 ext. 2249.
Miller Middle School to host poetry reading
In celebration of April being National Poetry Month, Miller Middle School will host its 13th annual Poetry Slam from 6 to 7 p.m. today in the Miller Middle School commons area, which is transformed into a coffeehouse atmosphere for this event.
This year’s theme, “Imagine,” focuses on the essence of the word as well as themes from John Lennon’s song “Imagine.”
Southwest Colorado eSchool to host session
Southwest Colorado eSchool will host a live information session at 6 p.m. May 8 in the Durango High School library.
For more information, visit the website www.southwestcoloradoeschool.
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