Southwest Life - The Durango Herald

Local organizations team up to celebrate 100 years of women’s voting rights

Professional Women’s Network of Durango invites the community to Sip & Shop to benefit the Women’s Resource Center of Durango from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Urban Market, 865 Main Ave. ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Library seeks feedback

Durango Public Library and the Library Advisory Board are seeking feedback from the community to help guide updates to the library’s strategic plan. The survey will help the Advisory Board a...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Garden Club of Durango to meet

The Garden Club of Durango will hold its March meeting at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. The program, presented by member Helen Winfrey, will be...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

La Plata Quilters Guild to meet

La Plata Quilters Guild will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds Extension Building, 2500 Main Ave. Holli Pfau and Lisa Laughlin from the Outreach Commi...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Southwest Colorado Genealogical Society to meet

Southwest Colorado Genealogical Society will meet at 10:30 a.m. March 14 at Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave. After a brief business meeting, Anna Hopkins-Arnol...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Durango DeColores Civitan Club to meet

Durango DeColores Civitan Club will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Tequilaâ€™s Restaurant, 948 Main Ave. The meeting is free and open to all. For more information,...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Rotary Club of Durango to meet

Mike Remke, Forest Health research associate for the Mountain Studies Institute will provide insights about the 416 Fire in a historical context to the Rotary Club of Durango at its dinner m...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

San Juan Basin Public Health offers HIV prevention

San Juan Basin Public Healthâ€™s Sexual Health Clinic has expanded its prevention services. PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, a daily medicine to prevent HIV among people at high risk for i...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Southern Ute Boarding School listed as a ‘most endangered’ place

Colorado Preservation working with tribe on plans for site, which recalls painful chapter of U.S. history

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Raphael fever hits Italy but art isn’t immune from virus

ROME – The paintings, drawings, tapestries and sketches in the most ambitious exhibition of Renaissance superstar Raphael’s works are collectively insured for 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Science Says: How risky is that virus? Your mind may mislead

NEW YORK – Anna Alexander, a property manager in Virginia Beach, Virginia, started the day Monday thinking that she might avoid shaking hands because of the coronavirus outbreak. Then somebo...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

China’s virus slowdown offers hope for global containment

The slowdown in coronavirus cases out of China offers a sliver of hope that the global outbreak can be controlled, but whether that can happen anytime soon without drastic measures remains t...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health