Baby items sought for community shower
The third annual “Community Baby Shower for Moms in Need” will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Durango Elks Lodge, 901 East Second Ave.
Guests are asked to bring new, unwrapped infant- to toddler-size baby items, diapers, wipes, grocery gift cards, car seats or other baby-related items for donation to La Plata Family Coalition and Mercy Family Birthing Center. These items will be distributed to moms in the area who need help. All guests making a donation will be treated to appetizers, desserts, soft drinks, a wine tasting and door prizes. For people unable to attend, donations may be dropped off at the lodge any day after 11 a.m.
Program addresses diabetes, heart health
Rivergate Pharmacy in Durango has a free support program for people with diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
The program is designed for patients who either have been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, or people who have concerns relating to their heart health (cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.). By working one-on-one with a pharmacist, the pharmacy strives to improve drug treatment and reduce the incidence of complications from these diseases.
The diabetes and cardiovascular self-management programs consist of six monthly visits. Included are blood pressure, cholesterol and A1C blood test (if applicable) checks during the program. The pharmacy will work directly with your primary-care provider.
For more information, call 375-7711 or visit the pharmacy at 575 Rivergate Lane, No. 111, adjacent to the Animas Surgical Hospital.
Arts center to benefit from concert series
The Durango Arts Center is one of the community recipients of The Rochester Secret Garden Concert Series.
The Rochester Hotel hosts its Secret Garden Concert Series in partnership with the Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado from 4:30 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday through Sept. 30. The series benefits the nonprofit community and promotes Durango’s music scene by featuring a different nonprofit and music talent every Wednesday. The cover charge is a $10 donation to support the selected 13 nonprofits. There will be a bar and food vendor at each event.
For more information, visit www.DurangoArts.org/secret-garden-series.
Seat-belt crackdown set through Sunday
The Colorado Department of Transportation’s Click It or Ticket campaign is taking its enforcement initiative after hours with a statewide nighttime seat-belt crackdown through Sunday.
CDOT is again teaming up with the Colorado State Patrol and local law-enforcement agencies to cite unbuckled motorists, hoping to raise Colorado’s seat-belt use rate and decrease avoidable unbuckled fatalities.
For more information, visit SeatBeltsColorado.com.
Native graves act focus of presentation
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act will be the topic of a presentation at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Sunflower Theatre, 8 E. Main St. in Cortez.
Fort Lewis College anthropology professor Kathleen S. Fine-Dare will present “NAGPRA+25: Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going?” as part of the Four Corners Lecture Series. Fine-Dare will review some of the benchmarks of this legislation through the lens of her own experience. The latter part of the talk will engage with the Four Corners Lecture Series theme, “It’s About Time,” in reflecting how it’s time to look more deeply at the act not only as a set of practices with which to comply but also for the intellectual and political issues tied to state “biopower” practices involving forensic and other treatments of bodies and the remains of the past as they figure in everyday life, reconciliation and ongoing mourning.
Farm Stand at FLC offers fresh veggies
The Old Fort Farm Stand will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday near the Fort Lewis College Student Union.
The stand accepts cash, check, skycash and credit cards. The stand will offer spinach, mixed greens, romaine, arugula, curly kale, chard, radishes, green onions, snow peas, snap peas, garlic heads, basil, flat-leaf parsley, cilantro, oregano, lemon thyme, basil pesto, cilantro pesto, arugula pesto, kale chips, dehydrated onions, zucchini bread, pumpkin bread, roasted green or poblano chiles, grass-fed beef and local pork.
Florida Grange to offer free breakfast
The Florida Grange, 656 Colorado Highway 172, will host its July free breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday.
Herald Staff
