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Natural Grocers offers free nutrition classes

Want to learn how to achieve optimal health and lose weight or oust the secret weight-buster in your salad dressing or live without inflammation-causing wheat?

Nutrition health coach Tiffany Godwin of Natural Grocers can teach you all this and more at her weekly nutrition class at the newly expanded store on Camino del Rio. The best part? It’s free.

Godwin conducts classes every Tuesday night from 6-7:30 p.m. in classroom space at the back of the store. On Aug. 26, she’ll hold a class on how to make your own healthy salad dressings and dips, free of the Omega-6-laden canola and soybean oils used in most commercial dressings. On Sept. 2, she’ll teach you how to beat cravings, weight gain and the blood-sugar roller coaster by busting common diet myths.

Classes are first-come, first-seated, no reservations.

Brew Fest comes to downtown Durango

If you want to help out a good cause while drinking some beer this weekend, the annual San Juan Brew Fest is for you.

More than 50 breweries will show up in Buckley Park on Saturday to help raise money for United Way of Southwest Colorado. They include Santa Fe Brewing Co., Moab Brewery, Deschutes Brewery from Oregon, and Upslope Brewing Co. from Boulder, as well as Durango’s five breweries, which will pour samples from 1-5 p.m.

The 20-piece band The Hill Stompers – a favorite at Snowdown – will be there with three other musical acts.

The VIP tickets are sold out, but general admission passes will be on sale until 7 p.m. Friday at www.sanjuanbrewfest.com, or Saturday at the gate.

For more information, call the Durango Business District, which is assisting with the event, at 375-5068.

Food stamps welcome at Farmers Market

Fresh produce from the Durango Farmers Market can seem on the pricey side, but if you’re a savvy shopper, even the tightest budget can find room for the delicious vegetables, meat and fruit.

“This is a big thing we’re pushing,” said market manager Cody Reinheimer. “We want to make sure the public knows that food stamps are welcome at the market. We’re affordable, and we’re equal access.”

To use an electronic benefits transfer card at the market, simply go to Reinheimer’s information booth and he will issue vouchers to buy produce from the market’s many vendors.

The statewide program Cooking Matters Southwest Colorado also has a booth at the Farmers Market to help low-income families learn which items are the best bargains and how to prepare the fresh food they buy.

Pamela Hasterok



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