Spring Creek Horse Rescue, serving La Plata County’s horses for 39 years, has obtained a permanent property.

The rescue is currently in need of materials for horse shelters, help with fencing, carpenters to construct shelters, donations for winter hay and ongoing improvements so it can accept some horses on its waiting list.

For more information or to help, email [email protected].

Got antioxidants? Old Fort Farm does

The Old Fort Farm Stand will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday outside the Fort Lewis College Student Union.

The stand will offer: radishes, carrots, red beets, peppers, onions, potatoes, Anaheim green chiles, Pueblo chiles, collards, pumpkins, delicata squash, acorn squash, turnips, tomatoes, romaine, mini apple pies, cucumbers, red cabbage, beet hummus, garlic heads, basil, flat-leaf parsley, dill, basil pesto, arugula pesto, dehydrated onions, zucchini bread, roasted poblano chiles, yellow pepper rings, roasted Anaheim and pueblo green chiles, grass-fed beef and local pork.

For more information, email [email protected].

Zia partnering with Fort Lewis cycling

Fort Lewis College cycling has partnered with Zia Taqueria for a benefit weekend from open to close on Saturday and Sunday at both Zia locations, 3101 Main Ave. and 400 S. Camino del Rio.

Ten-percent of all sales for the weekend will go to support the cycling team and the 130 student athletes who compete in five different cycling disciplines: track, mountain bike, BMX, cyclocross and road. FLC cycling team members will be at both locations promoting the club, answering questions and helping to raise awareness of the benefits of racing bikes while working toward a degree in liberal arts.

For more information, visit http://fortlewis.edu/cycling or http://ziataqueria.com.

Grange’s free series of talks continues

“Young Farmers: Land Access & Policy Change” will be the next topic in a free series of talks at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Animas Valley Grange Hall, 7271 County Road 203.

This topic will be presented by Kate Greenberg, who is the Western Water Program’s director for the National Young Farmers Coalition. Greenberg organizes young farmers and ranchers across the West, advocates for supportive policy and promotes land and water stewardship. She sits on the board of directors of the Quivira Coalition and Southwest Farm Fresh Co-op and lives in Durango. She helped produce the short film that will be shown, “Resilient: Soil, Water, and the New Stewards of the American West,” which features many young locals in farming.

Refreshments will be provided. For more information, call 385-5298.

End of life paradigm discussed Wednesday

Compassionate Choices speaker and physician Dr. Charlie Hamlin will give a free talk on “Mortality Morality and Honor; The End of Life Paradigm” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.

The talk will be a visit to the landscape of the end of life with a philosophic bent, humor, some data but no dogma. It will look at people’s attitudes, hopes and fears and take into account the roles of medicine, law, government and spirituality,

Herald Staff