Bayfield Early Education Programs is celebrating its 20th birthday in 2015.

All kids, big and small, who have attended the preschool and all board members, parents, staff and community members who have helped the school flourish since 1995 are invited to walk in the Bayfield Fourth of July Parade.

For more information, email [email protected] or call 884-7137.

Durango to host Fourth of July events

These events will take place in Durango on the Fourth of July holiday:

All-American Breakfast by Rotary Club of Durango will take place from 7:30 to 11 a.m. at Rotary Park.

Freedom 5k will start at 9 a.m. at Rotary Park.

Family Fun in the Park will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Buckley Park, 12th Street and Main Avenue.

American Voices, public readings of the nation’s founding documents by Fort Lewis College, will take place at 11 a.m. in Buckley Park.

Kids to Kids Flea Market by Durango Toy Depot will take place from noon to 3 p.m. in Buckley Park. To sign-up, call 403-8697 or visit 658 Main Ave.

Patrick Decker will perform classic rock at noon in Buckley Park.

Magi Nation, reggae band, will perform at 1 p.m. in Buckley Park.

Mysto the Magi Magic Act and Catch it Quick Juggler will perform at 3 p.m. in Buckley Park.

Mountaintop Pocket Pickers, bluegrass band, will perform at 4 p.m. in Buckley Park.

A Family BBQ by Durango Elks Lodge will take place from noon to 4 p.m. at 901 East Second Ave.

Stars & Stripes Parade will take place from 6 to 6:45 p.m. on Main Avenue.

Street Dance on Main will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. on Main Avenue between 8th and 9th streets. The High Rollers will perform.

Salute to America Fireworks will begin at 9:15 p.m. Fireworks will be launched to the west of downtown and can be viewed from the downtown area.

For more information, visit www.downtowndurango.org/July-4th.

CDOT to begin project on Red Mountain

The Colorado Department of Transportation will begin a project on July 7 to repair five retaining walls below U.S. Highway 550 on Red Mountain Pass.

This is a two-season project, scheduled for completion by Nov. 15, followed by a winter shutdown. The project likely will run from mid-April to late June 2016, weather permitting.

This project consists of repairing and replacing the walls at these work sites:

Work approximately 4 miles south of Ouray near the snow shed will begin July 7 and end Sept. 15.

Work just south of the Red Mountain Pass summit will begin Sept. 1 and end Nov. 15.

Work about 3 miles south of Ouray will begin Sept. 15 or Oct. 6 and end Nov. 15.

There will be some single-lane, alternating traffic, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. There will be two nights of full closures to enable crews to install a pipe under the highway.

These will be announced in advance. In October, there will be full traffic stops in both directions between about Mile Marker 89 to 91; potentially, these closures will be half day only.

In 2016, the impacts are expected to be similar, though the majority of the work will be at the site 4 miles south of Ouray. More details of 2016 work will be known once this current season is complete.

For more information, call (970) 209-3332.

Prostate cancer group offering support

The Man to Man Prostate Cancer support group will meet at 6:30 p.m. July 7 at the Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.

Anyone with prostate issues or prostate cancer is urged to attend. Additionally, at the meeting the group will discuss its November participation in the Life Long Learning Series at Fort Lewis College.

For more information, call Jim Duresky at 247-1292

Archaeology Society to discuss Inkas

The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society will present James Davenport at 7 p.m. July 7 at the Methodist Church, 515 Park Street, Cortez, to discuss “‘Literal Providers of Food and Drink’: The Inka Empire, Feasts and Ritual Control.”

Davenport will discuss ritual controls used by the Inka Empire in their rapid expansion from Chile to Argentina.

He will explore the extent of this ritual control through compositional analysis of ceramics recovered from Pachacamac, a ritual center conquered by the Inka on the central coast of Peru.

For more information, call Kari Schleher at (505) 269-4475.

Herald Staff