Horse center to host veteran’s event
Medicine Horse Center will host a screening of “Riding My Way Back” from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Elk’s Lodge, 901 East Second Ave.
This is a documentary about the healing of therapeutic riding for a veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Tickets are $15 and admission for veterans is free. Tickets will be available at the door or can be purchased in advance by calling Lynne Howarth at 533-7403.
All proceeds of ticket sales go toward veteran’s services with Medicine Horse Center.
For more information, call Emily Campbell 903-7979, email emilyncampbell@gmail.com or visit www.medicinehorsecenter.org.
Author to visit Durango library
Jennifer Pharr Davis, author of Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph, will speak at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.
In 2011, by hiking 2,181 miles in 46 days Davis became the overall through-hike record holder for the Appalachian Trail. She was the first female to ever set that mark.
A book signing will follow the author’s presentation.
For more information, call 375-3387 or email abby.lambert@durangogov.org.
Public Lands Center to host book signing
“Trails, Poles and Trees – A Book Signing to Celebrate Elements of Our History” will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the Public Lands Center.
This will be a combined book signing of recent publications that celebrate the area’s lands, culture and history.
Esther Greenfield will sign her book Tough Men in Hard Places: A Photographic Collection. Andrew Gulliford will sign his book Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology and Ruth E. Lambert will sign The Wooden Canvas: Arborglyphs as Reflections of Hispano Life Along the Pine-Piedra Stock Driveway.
For more information, call Lambert at 385-1267 or email ruth@sjma.org.
Fracking seminar offered in Mancos
Frack Free Colorado and Frack Free Montezuma will host a “Community Empowerment Training” from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday and from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Mancos Public Library, 211 E. First St., Mancos.
The Community Empowerment Training is designed to assist people in learning that they can have a say in how fracking is done.
To RSVP, call Joanie Trussel at 759-6606 or email joaniep@gmail.com.
High Noon Rotary to meet Thursday
The Durango High Noon Rotary Club will meet from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio.
The cost for lunch is $15. Wayne Bedor and Dick Pearson will speak about the future of Hospice at Mercy.
Herald Staff
