The Colorado Department of Human Services announces the awarding of a new Family Support Services grant to La Plata Family Centers Coalition.
Through this grant, La Plata Family Centers Coalition will enhance and increase the coordinated family case management offered at this community-based center.
Family Resource Centers are local agencies that provide a single point of entry for providing comprehensive and integrated community-based services to vulnerable families, individuals, children and youth.
Volunteers are needed to help with hosting duties at the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Museum located at the fish hatchery in Durango.
Volunteers are asked to commit from four to eight interpretive shifts during the summer months (May to September). Volunteers can choose days and dates compatible with their vacation plans.
No experience is necessary, and training will be provided.
An orientation meeting will be held at 10 a.m. April 16 at the Wildlife Museum, 151 E. 16th St.
For more information, call Derek Snyder at 382-3810.
The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will present “True Americanism: Mexican- and Irish-American Allegiance in the Age of Nationalism” with speaker Zachary Adams at 6 p.m. Monday in the center’s Lyceum Room.
In collaboration with the FLC Department of History, Adams is the spring 2016 teaching fellow by way of Southern Methodist University. He will present on his doctoral dissertation, a comparative work looking into the complex national identities brought forth by the Mexican Revolution and Irish fight for independence, set within the backdrop of American nationalism during and after World War I.
For more information, call 247-7456 or visit http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu.
Tickets are now available for the La Plata-Archuleta Cattlemen’s annual banquet to be held April 23 at the Sky Ute Event Center in Ignacio.
Tickets are available at Basin Coop in Durango, Well Fargo Bank in Ignacio, Valley Feeds and Ranch Supply in Gem Village and Goodman’s Department Store in Pagosa Springs.
The menu includes a prime rib buffet and dancing to the music of Wild Country.
For more information, call 247-2816.
The Man to Man Prostate Cancer Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on the second floor of the Durango Public Library, 1900 East Second Ave.
A new member who recently underwent radiation therapy will present a video on the procedure.
For more information, call Jim Duresky at 247-1292.
Southwest Regional Emergency & Trauma Advisory Council Drive Safe Coalition will offer Alive at 25 classes to teenagers in La Plata County from noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Durango CDOT Training Room, 20581 U.S. Highway 160.
Alive at 25 is a highly interactive program that encourages young drivers to take responsibility for their driving behavior. Skill and on-the-spot defensive-driving techniques help change bravado to confidence.
To register, visit https://aliveat25.us and click on “find a class.” The registration code is “SWRETAC 2016.”
For more information, call Michiko Burns at 764-4054 or email michikos wretac@gmail.com.
Herald Staff
