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Heart Safe La Plata to offer CPR and first aid classes

Local nonprofit Heart Safe La Plata will offer basic first-aid and CPR trainings in March at Durango Fire and Rescue Station 1, 142 Sheppard Drive: A basic first-aid class will...

DATE: Feb 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Durango gym owner distills years of fitness experience into “Wellness Toolbox”

Don Roberts’ fitness and nutrition book a guide to making healthier choices

DATE: Feb 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

‘Ugly produce’ trend may have limits, as grocers end tests

URBANDALE, Iowa – Is the “ugly produce” trend already reaching the end of its shelf life in supermarkets? Walmart and Whole Foods in recent years tried selling some blemished frui...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Australian Cardinal George Pell convicted of sexually assaulting two choirboys

SYDNEY – Cardinal George Pell, one of the most senior figures in the Catholic Church, sexually assaulted two 13-year-old choirboys at a cathedral in the Australian city of Melbourne 22 years...

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion

Analysis: Pope’s sex abuse summit: What it did and didn’t do

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ summit on preventing sexual abuse was never going to meet the expectations placed on it by victims groups, the media and ordinary Catholics outraged over a scand...

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion

For more streamlined chicken enchiladas, use a slow cooker

Chicken enchiladas offer a rich and complex combination of flavors and textures, but traditional cooking methods can be tedious. We wanted a more streamlined recipe for chicken en...

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Free lecture to explore the hidden power of soil

The Life-long Learning Free Lecture Series will present “The Hidden Power of Living Soil” by Tom Bartels at 7 p.m. Thursday in Room 130 of Nobel Hall at Fort Lewis College. Bartel...

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

America is hung up on bowl culture. What if you like to eat from a plate?

I love bowls. I own a lot of them – from pinch bowls that hold little more than a soupcon of salt to a glazed terra-cotta behemoth that my neighbor held on her lap on a plane all the way fro...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

‘Irish Car Bomb’ firkin to return Friday at Steamworks

Herald Staff Report Steamworks Brewing Co. plans to continue its ongoing Firkin Fridays series by reprising the tapping of its “Irish Car Bomb” firkin at 3 p.m. Friday at its down...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Travelers can visit Green Book locations in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – The Oscar-nominated interracial road-trip movie “Green Book” has spurred interest in the real guidebook that helped black travelers navigate segregated America. Wit...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Neutrons used to examine priceless Harvard gold specimen

ALBUQUERQUE – Scientists at a premier U.S. laboratory have helped to unravel some of the mysteries about a rare gold specimen discovered at a Colorado mine more than 130 years ago. ...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

United Methodists confront possible split over LGBT issues

The United Methodist Church’s top legislative assembly convenes Sunday for a high-stakes, three-day meeting likely to determine whether America’s second-largest Protestant denomination will ...

DATE: Feb 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion