Manna seeks volunteers for event
Manna Soup Kitchen is seeking volunteers for this year’s Taste of Durango, which takes place May 18.
To volunteer, email admin.mannasoupkitchen@gmail.com or call 385-5095 ext. 1#.
Durango bird walk to be held Wednesday
A bird walk will be hosted by the Durango Bird Club at 9 a.m. Wednesday at For the Birds, 1560 East Second Ave.
The walks last about one hour and 15 minutes. Bring binoculars. The walks are free, but donations to the hosting group are welcome.
For more information, call 382-9396.
Fort Lewis College to host Hozhoni Days
Hozhoni Days will take place at Fort Lewis College.
Hozhoni Days celebrates the Native American and Alaska Native tribes and villages represented in the college’s student body.
Hozhoni Days will begin with the Miss Hozhoni Pageant. Miss Hozhoni is selected every year from the student body and serves as the college’s Native American student representative. The pageant begins Tuesday with the interviews of the candidates. Thursday is the traditional foods-talent portion, and the pageant concludes with the traditional and modern talent show April 14. Each part of the pageant will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.
Three workshops in Native American jewelry and clothing will take place in the Center of Southwest Studies, Room 217. The first, a workshop for creating beaded earrings, will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The workshop is $25. The second will take place at 4:30 p.m. April 16 and offers instruction on making wing dresses. The cost is $10, and attendees should bring two yards of material. Space is limited for the dressmaking workshop; to RSVP, email swperry@fortlewis.edu. A baby moccasin workshop will be held at 4:30 p.m. April 23. The cost is $40. A Round Dance will take place at 6 p.m. April 17 in the Student Union Ballroom. The annual Hozhoni Days Powwow will take place April 18 and 19. The Grand Entry is scheduled for 7 p.m. April 18 in Whalen Gymnasium. The powwow continues at 1 p.m. April 19.
For more information, visit www.fortlewis.edu/hozhoni-days-powwow or call 247-7221.
Writers and Scribblers to meet Wednesday
Writers and Scribblers will meet from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Pine River Valley Bank, 1701 Main Ave.
“Healing Through Story,” an open discussion about the ability of story to heal trauma, will be presented by Reed Gantzert. Guests are welcome.
Archaeological society to meet Thursday
The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
Tim Riley will present “The Lower Pecos Canyonlands and Archaic Rock Art: The Divergence of Ancestral Cosmologies?” He is the Curator of Archaeology at the Eastern Prehistoric Museum at Utah State University in Price. His field experience ranges from Ice Age mammoth sites to early European trading posts in the Great Plains. His specialty is paleoethnobotany, or the study of past human use of plants for subsistence and other aspects of material culture.
Herald Staff
