Durango Elks Lodge Veterans Committee will serve breakfast from 9 to 11 a.m. the first and third Sunday of the month at the lodge, 901 East Second Ave.

Participants should use the lodge’s Ninth Street entrance. The cost is $5 for veterans and $6 for non-veterans.

Archaeological society to meet Thursday

The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Lyceum at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.

Tim Maxwell will give a talk called “The Place In Between: Casas Grandes, the U.S. Southwest and Mesoamerica.”

The prehistoric town of Paquime, in northern Mexico, was the center of the largest trade network in the Southwest. This area lies between the complex cultures of Mesoamerica and the pueblo world of the U.S. Southwest. The nature of the relationship will be explored.

Maxwell is director emeritus of the Museum of New Mexico, Office of Archaeological Studies. He has worked in Southwest archaeology for almost 40 years and in northern Mexico for 15 years.

Dharma center offers meditation retreat

The Durango Dharma Center will present a nonresidential retreat called “A View as Wide as the Sky” at the center, 208 East Animas Road (County Road 250).

Meditation teacher Howard Cohn will lead the retreat. The three-day program will explore the sky-like nature of mind and remind participants that their natural awareness is pure, open and free.

The program will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 10 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 11. The retreat is open to meditators at all levels.

Cohn is a founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, California. He has practiced meditation since 1971, led retreats worldwide and guided the Mission Dharma Community in San Francisco since 1985.

For more information or to register, email Tammy Hoier at [email protected] or call 403-3449.

For more information, visit www.durangodharmacenter.org.

Relationship class aims to build skills

Chrysalis Counseling and Michael Wilkinson will present a free class about relationship skill-building from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Mason Center, 301 E. 12th St., Room 1.

Participants will learn about communication, conflict management, forgiveness and intimacy.

For more information or to register, call 403-5054.

High Noon Rotary to meet Thursday

The Durango High Noon Rotary Club will meet from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio.

The cost for lunch is $15. Dr. Trapper Niccum will speak on wellness.

County commissioner to visit Bayfield

La Plata County Commissioner Julie Westendorff will hold office hours for the general public to meet with her from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday at the Pine River Library Conference Room, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield.

Local residents are invited to share their interests and concerns.

For more information, call 382-6219.

Herald Staff