Applications are being accepted for upcoming vacancies on 17 Judicial District Nominating Commissions.

Judicial nominating commissioners are volunteers and serve six-year terms, interviewing and nominating applicants for judicial vacancies. Non-attorneys are appointed by the governor; attorneys are appointed by the governor, together with the chief justice and attorney general.

The 22nd Judicial District (Dolores and Montezuma counties) will have one non-attorney vacancy. The appointee may not be registered as Republican.

For more information, visit www.courts.state.co.us/Courts/Supreme_Court/Nominating.cfm. Applications will be accepted through Oct. 31.

Applications may be made online only at www.colorado.gov/pacific/governor/boards-and-commissions-application.

Applicants should include a current resume or biography where indicated on the application.

Delays on Hermosa Park Road continue

People are reminded to expect up to four-hour delays on the Hermosa Park Road (Forest Road No. 578) between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. seven days a week through Oct. 4.

The delays are necessary as the U.S. Forest Service resurfaces five miles of the road. Access to the Upper Hermosa Creek Trailhead and beyond is affected.

Access to Relay Creek Road (Forest Road No. 579) is limited. The roads are open for traffic prior to 8 a.m., between noon and 1 p.m., and after 5 p.m.

Gravel from a pit up the Relay Creek Road is being transported via dump trucks to road graders, which are applying the gravel and blading the surface of the Hermosa Park Road between its intersection with the Relay Creek Road and the Upper Hermosa Trailhead. Signs are posted, and Forest Service employees are onsite conducting traffic control.

For more information, visit www.fs.usda.gov/sanjuan or follow on Twitter @SanJuanNF

Nature Studies to host Full Moon Hike

Durango Nature Studies will host a Full Moon Hike under the harvest moon from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Smelter Mountain.

The hike is free for members, or $10 for nonmembers. Participant will learn about natural history, nocturnal animals, local landforms, and moon facts and legends.

This will be a special night because of the eclipse.

To register, email [email protected], call 769-1800 or visit www.durangonaturestudies.org/fullmoon.htm.

Temple Grandin to speak Wednesday

Dr. Temple Grandin will visit the Fort Lewis College campus for a free public presentation and book signing. “Helping Different Kinds of Minds Solve Problems” will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Whalen Gym.

No tickets are needed. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Following Grandin’s presentation, she will be available to sign copies of her book, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, which is this year’s FLC Common Reading Experience selection. Each year, the college chooses a book to be read and discussed across campus, as well as in the community.

Grandin will be at the Picnic to Celebrate Humane-ity from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday on the Student Union Plaza. Tickets are required for this event and are $7 for students, $10 for community members.

For more information, visit www.fortlewis.edu/environmentalcenter or call 247-7091. A schedule of Common Reading Experience events can be found at www.fortlewis.edu/common-reading-experience.

Poetry Gathering parade to be held

The Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering Parade will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday on Main Avenue.

Festivities will begin at 9:30 a.m. with live music up and down Main Avenue. An Old West gunfight in front of the Strater Hotel will kick off the parade, which will be led by the USMC Mounted Color Guard.

The color guard from Barstow, California, will bring their palomino mustangs which are acquired from the BLM Adopt A Wild Horse and Burro program and are trained by the Marines in addition to their regular duties.

For the very first time, entries will be judged. The featured parade entry is the Diamond Z English Shire Horses of Utah, sponsored by Coca Cola in honor of their 100th anniversary in the Four Corners. Blizzard, a registered Texas longhorn, also will make an appearance.

Photo opportunities will be available immediately following the parade at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train station.

This year’s grand marshal will be Anthony Zellitti, whose family has been ranching in La Plata County since 1902. Entries are still being accepted.

For more information, visit durangocowboygathering.org.

Herald Staff