The Cortez Journal encourages people to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to news@cortezjournal.com. Items submitted at least two weeks in advance will have a better chance of getting published; items submitted several days before the event might not get published. For more information, call the Journal at 565-8527.
Clay McClinton will perform at Dolores River Brewery
Clay McClinton, son of Grammy Award winning Delbert McClinton, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the Dolores River Brewery, 100 S. Fourth St.
Learn more about McClintons music at www.claymcclinton.com.
For more information, call the Dolores River Brewery at 882-4677.
Chris Pureka & Band will play Millwood Junction show
Chris Pureka & Band will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, at the Millwood Junction Restaurant, located at the junction of U.S. Highway 160 and Main in Mancos.
Tickets are $15 advance/$20 at the door.
For more information, contact Tami at 759-9716. For more information about Pureka, visit www.chrispureka.com.
Librarys September Storytime theme is I Love to Read!
I Love to Read! is the September theme of Storytime at the Cortez Public Library, located at 202 N. Park Street. Storytime is held every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. for preschool-aged children and every Saturday at the Farmers Market beginning at 10:30 a.m., weather permitting. The Farmers Market is located on the corner of S. Elm and Main streets. Older children are welcome to join for the craft at 11:15 a.m. Thursdays. The Saturday Storytime will follow the same theme as the preceding Thursday.
On Thursday, Sept. 1 and Saturday, Sept. 3, Storytime will introduce Who Writes the Berenstein Bears? Clifford Who? will be the focal point for Thursday, Sept. 8 and Saturday, Sept. 10. Next is Curious Georges Literary Parents on Sept. 15 and Sept. 17. Well explore another author on Sept. 22 and Sept. 24 with Beatrix Potters Animal Friends. Storytime will wrap up the month with I Can Write & Draw at the Same Time!: Jack Ezra Keats on Sept. 29 and Oct. 1.
Storytime offers songs, stories, crafts and silliness and uses the Early Childhood Literacy Initiative program.
For more information, contact the library at 565-8117.
Library will offer class on Google searches, maps, images
The Cortez Public Library will hold a computer class on Using Google at 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, at 202 N. Park.
Subjects covered will include Simple Searching Tips and Techniques, Google Maps and Google Images.
For more information or to sign up, call 565-8117.
NEPA coordinator for San Juan National Forest will speak
The Mesa Verde Back Country Horsemen will present educational speaker Deborah Kill, National Environmental Policy Act coordinator for the San Juan National Forest, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, at the Elks Lodge, 2100 North Dolores Road on Colorado Highway 145, Cortez.
Kill will speak about NEPA and its implementation in proposing and evaluating the environmental effects of forest service projects. Virtually any forest service action requires some kind of NEPA analysis. The schedule of proposed actions (located on the San Juan website) is a good place to see all of the kinds of NEPA planning efforts underway on Dolores Public Lands. This event is open to the public.
Come early at 6:15 p.m. for a buy-your-own Taco Tuesday meal before the meeting.
For more information, call Howard Thomas at 533-9135 or visit www.mesaverdehorsemen.com.
Archaeologist will discuss Basketmakers with Hisatsinom
The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society will present Shanna Diederichs, supervisory archaeologist for Crow Canyons Basketmaker Communities Project, to discuss the new Indian Camp Ranch excavation in a talk entitled On Solid Ground: Unpacking the Research of the Basketmaker Community Project at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, at the Cortez Cultural Center, 25 N. Market St.
Diederichs will discuss how, in designing a research plan for the Dillard Basketmaker III site near Cortez, excavation is only one of five very important steps, from research design to curation, which will be executed. The Basketmaker III period is considered to be definitive in the development of Puebloan culture.
Diederichs joined the Crow Canyon staff fairly recently. Previously, she served as project director at several sites including Mesa Verde. Prior to that, she served as field and laboratory supervisor for numerous cultural resource management and mitigation projects in the Four Corners area. She has written for and contributed to numerous resources management planning and reporting publications, including, recently, Crucible of the Pueblos: The Early Pueblo Period in the Northern Southwest.
For more information, call Bob Bernhart at 739-6772.
Family Leadership Training Institute will hold open house
Family Leadership Training Institute will hold a community open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, at the Cortez Library, 202 N. Park St.
The open house will offer a taste of FLTI, including a sampler session, the opportunity to learn more about the program, and a chance to network with local alumni and the Montelores FLTI leadership team. Applications will be available on site. FLTI is accepting applications, and the third round of this training will start in October.
For more information, contact Trish Peters, FLTI site coordinator at 560-1360 or 564-1669; more information is available on the website at www.coloradofamilyleadership.com.
Montelores Catholic Community will hold rummage/yard sale
The Montelores Catholic Community will hold a Rummage/Yard Sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 9 and 10, at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, on the corner of Montezuma and Market Streets, in Cortez.
A large array of items will be offered. Donations of items to sell will be accepted at the church hall from Monday, Aug. 29, until noon Thursday, Sept. 8; no large appliances, please.
For more information, contact Paula at 565-4743, Barbara at 565-0776 or Rosa at 565-7308.
Local members of MCHS Class
of 1948 will hold reunion
Local members of the Class of 1948 will host their 63rd reunion beginning Friday, Sept. 16, with registration and an open house for friends from noon to 5 p.m. at the Calvin Denton Room, Empire Electric Association, 801 N. Broadway, Cortez.
Saturday, Sept. 17, activities will offer various local attractions for groups or individuals; on Saturday evening, there will be a dinner at the Cortez Elks Lodge for class members, and on Sunday morning, Sept. 18, a casual breakfast/brunch will be held at a local restaurant.
As of this date, approximately 24 of the surviving 32 class members are registered to attend the reunion.
Spring Creek Basin mustangs will be available for adoption
The National Mustang Association will sponsor trainer Ems Rapp to demonstrate her wild horse taming and training techniques from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds, 30100 U.S. Highway 160 east of Cortez. Rapp will ride her Spring Creek Basin mustang, Rock-On, adopted after the 2007 roundup. Rock-On will serve as a Spring Creek Basin mustang ambassador for everyone to meet.
Roughly 25 wild horses from the Spring Creek Basin herd in Disappointment Valley will be available for adoption at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the fairgrounds. The adoption will follow a planned gather by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management around Sept. 15.
Expect to see blacks, grays, colorful pintos and duns. The horses will be 4 years old and younger. Over the years, many Spring Creek Basin horses have been adopted, tamed, trained and become treasured riding horses.
Individuals interested in adopting a horse must meet corral and shelter requirements. The standards are available at http://www.blm.gov/adoptahorse/requirements.php. Horses not adopted will be placed in long-term pastures.
For more information regarding the clinic on Friday, Sept. 23, contact NMA/CO at 564-8400. For more information on the gather and adoption, contact the Dolores Public Lands Office at 882-7296.