DHS to host college planning meeting

Durango High School will host a college planning meeting called “How to Prepare for College and Beyond” from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday at the DHS library.

Freshmen and sophomores will learn what they can do now to prepare for their futures. Participants will discuss what colleges look for, local resources and tips and tricks to succeed in school and beyond.

9-R school board to meet Tuesday

The Durango School District 9-R School Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the board room at the 9-R administration building, 201 E. 12th St.

Fort Lewis Mesa and Park elementary schools will be the school highlights.

DHS Accountability Committee to meet

The Durango High School Accountability Committee, which is responsible for ensuring that school budgets, spending, safety and academic performance is the best it can be, invites interested parties to attend its meetings.

The committee reviews budgets, student data and provides input to make sure procedures benefit all students.

The group meets from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month in the DHS library.

Upcoming meetings will be held Nov. 6, Dec. 4, Jan. 8, Feb. 5, March 5, April 2 and May 7.

Safe Schools Month to include videos

October is Safe Schools Month in Colorado, and Durango School District 9-R is celebrating school safety with a new video series.

Visit http://durangoschools.org to view the latest video and learn more about protocols used to create a safe school environment for staff members and students.

Sunnyside to host Halloween Carnival

The 31st annual Sunnyside Elementary Halloween Carnival and Silent Auction will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 25.

Participants are asked to bring a book or baked item per family as admission. Game tickets will be sold at the door for 25 cents each.

The event will feature a haunted house, book walk, Plinko, bingo, bouncy house and more. Food and desserts will be on sale. The silent auction will include seven family-sized gift baskets. All proceeds will go directly to Sunnyside’s reading and computing programs.

For more information, call Amber Belvin at 903-9222.

DHS AVID team to host fundraiser

Durango High School’s AVID team will host a fundraiser from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Monday at Wendy’s, 1840 Main Ave.

Money raised will help team members visit colleges around the Four Corners. AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a college-prep program for students who may not typically be seen as college-bound.

For more information, visit www.avid.org.

Tutoring program available at DHS, AHS

Mumbling Marmot Tutoring is offering a new volunteer tutoring program at Durango High School and Animas High School managed by the tutoring service’s owner, Yvonna Graham.

The program uses volunteer students as tutors, many of whom are members of the National Honor Society. The program is expanding to Bayfield in October.

Mumbling Marmot provides private tutoring services in reading, writing and math for students from kindergarten to college. It also offers tutoring for test preparation, learning differences, languages, economics, study skills and gifted/talented students.

For more information, call Graham at 903-7498 or visit www.mumblingmarmot.com.

Scholarships available to student musicians

Music in the Mountains Goes to School is offering Shining Star Scholarships to student musicians in the Durango area.

These scholarships help defray the cost of private music instruction for students who show potential for a particular instrument. Financial need is important for awarding these scholarships, but it is not the only criterion.

To apply, visit www.musicinthemountains.com and click on “Education.” Applications also are available on the Durango School District 9-R partnership page under “Music in the Mountains.” The deadline to apply is Oct. 27.

For more information, call Cassie Robel at 385-6820 or email crobel@musicinthemountains.com.

Social media presentation set

Miller Middle School will host a parent forum called “How to Guide Your Middle Schooler in the World of Social Media” at 6 p.m. Oct. 22 in the school library.

The forum will be led by social media expert, Randy Parker. Parker was formerly a manager of digital production at Walt Disney Feature Animation, he started his own business in Durango creating Web-based educational software for children, and he has taught digital media classes to middle schoolers. Parker currently works as the director of marketing at StoneAge Tools.

For more information, email jennifer@cartwheelclothing.com.

Continuing education available at FLC

The Fort Lewis College Continuing Education Program will offer these courses:

“Taking Pictures to Making Pictures” will be taught by Harry Liles from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays from Oct. 21 to Nov. 13. Liles will present the skills of concept, composition and design by introducing techniques of creating an image with knowledge of how the viewer will respond to it. Liles is formerly a teacher with the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. The cost is $179 for eight classes.

“Drawing for the Artistically Wounded (or Broken-‘arted),” a four-class course, will be taught by Brenda Macon from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays from Nov. 4 to Nov. 13. The class will take participants through a number of drawing exercises that will stretch their minds and develop their artistic confidence using the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards.

Advance registration is required. To register or for more information, call 247-7385 or visit www.fortlewis.edu/continuing-education.

Animas High School announces events

Animas High School announces these events:

College student-led conferences will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. today.

Counselor Kim Coufal will host “Scholarships & Financial Aid 101: How to Pay for College” from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the Commons at AHS.

AHS board of directors will meet on campus from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The public is welcome.

LINK Program coordinator Zoe Nelsen will host a parent information night from 5 to 6 p.m. Oct. 22 in the Commons about the internship program, Leading Internships for New Knowledge. The program is required of all AHS juniors.

Ashley Carruth’s 11th-grade humanities classes will present the “Morality and Politics of Justice: Coffee House Community Dialogues” from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 30 at Durango Joe’s, 732 E. College Drive, and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Durango Joe’s at 40 Town Plaza. The public is invited to discuss students’ proposals for how the government should resolve various political issues, not based on what Democrats or Republicans espouse, but based on what is morally and politically just.

For more information, visit www.animashighschool.com.

FLC committees to meet Thursday

The Business Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees for Fort Lewis College will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday followed by the Academic Affairs Committee at 2 p.m. Executive session may be convened for purposes of receiving legal advice about specific legal questions.

The Presidential Evaluation Committee meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. Executive session may be convened for purposes of considering the employment of the FLC president. The meetings will be held in the President’s Conference Room, 2503 Berndt Hall at FLC.

For more information, call Peggy Sharp at 247-7437 or email sharp_p@fortlewis.edu.

FLC names locals as resident assistants

Fort Lewis College announces these local students will serve as resident assistants:

Katherine Svanes of Bayfield.

Allie Kruchell of Durango.

Graci Clark of Durango.

Denise Espinosa of Pagosa Springs.

Resident assistants are student staff members who live in the college residence hall to serve as primary resources for information and assistance.

They are responsible for creating a living environment that is conducive to the academic mission of the college, maintaining the safety of the dormitory and assisting students.

Herald Staff