Chipper rental rebate available till Oct. 15
Have you been reducing the wildfire fuel load on your property and wondering what to do with those slash piles?
Rent a chipper or hire a contractor to chip your slash on your property in Dolores, Montezuma, LaPlata, Aruchleta, or San Juan counties, and you are eligible for a rental rebate.
FireWise of Southwest Colorado will reimburse you for the lesser of $100 per day or 50 percent of your chipping cost until Oct. 15. Ask for an application from your contractor or rental yard.
More information: FireWise at montezumafirewise@gmail.com.
Acott, Allen named to UNC dean’s list
Aeron Acott and Rachel Allen have been named to the Dean’s List of Distinction or the Dean’s Honor Roll in recognition of their outstanding scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year at the University of Northern Colorado.
The dean’s list requires a 3.75-4.0 GPA in any two terms of the year, and the honor roll is a 3.50-3.74 GPA.
Talk focuses on Pueblo-Ethiopia link
As part of the Four Corners Lecture Series, the Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society presents Dr. R. Kyle Bocinsky on Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Sunflower Theatre, 8 E. Main St., Cortez, to discuss “Can Pueblo Corn Save Ethiopian Farms? Deploying 1400 Years of Agricultural Knowledge in Service of the Future.”
Kyle will discuss how a deep-time approach to crop science is revealing the incredible adaptability of Puebloan agricultural practice, and why corn — along with traditional varieties of many other crops — are likely to be essential in preventing the worst impacts of global climate change.
Contact Kari Schleher at 505-269-4475 with questions.
Mancos band to play at Telluride Festival
The Mancos School Bluejazz Band will play at Telluride Jazz Festival on Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. at the Wilkinson Public Library Stage.
The Wilkinson Library concerts are free.
Visit telluridejazz.org for more information.
The students have been working all summer to prepare for this opportunity, and may attend the rest of the concerts that day on the festival’s main stage.
Reading Program runs till Aug. 19
There’s still time to join the Cortez Public Library’s Summer Reading Program, which runs until Aug. 19.
Drop by and pick up a reading log and read for books and prizes. There will be a drawing for seven big prizes at the end of the program.
Children are also encouraged to listen to the library’s radio program Library on Go! for a half-hour and then add an hour on their reading log. The show is on every Sunday at 3:30 p.m. on KSJD, 90.5 and 91.5 FM radio. Listen to archived shows on ksjd.org/programs/library-go or monteloresecc.org.
Program addresses diabetes, heart health
Rivergate Pharmacy in Durango has a free support program for people with diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
The program is designed for patients who either have been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, or people who have concerns relating to their heart health (cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.). By working one-on-one with a pharmacist, the pharmacy strives to improve drug treatment and reduce the incidence of complications from these diseases.
The diabetes and cardiovascular self-management programs consist of six monthly visits. Included are blood pressure, cholesterol and A1C blood test (if applicable) checks during the program. The pharmacy will work directly with your primary-care provider.
For more information, call 375-7711 or visit the pharmacy at 575 Rivergate Lane, No. 111, adjacent to the Animas Surgical Hospital.
Seat-belt crackdown set through Sunday
The Colorado Department of Transportation’s Click It or Ticket campaign is taking its enforcement initiative after hours with a statewide nighttime seat-belt crackdown through Sunday, July 26.
CDOT is again teaming up with the Colorado State Patrol and local law-enforcement agencies to cite unbuckled motorists, hoping to raise Colorado’s seat-belt use rate and decrease avoidable unbuckled fatalities.
For more information, visit SeatBeltsColorado.com.
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