In preparation for the visit by Dr. Temple Grandin, the featured guest author for Fort Lewis College’s Community Common Reading Experience, there will be a showing of the HBO film “Temple Grandin” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, 419 San Juan Drive.

Grandin is a gifted animal scientist who is also autistic. She has designed one-third of all livestock handling facilities in the U.S. using insight from her own experience with autism.

Her book, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, is the chosen book for the 2015 Common Reading Experience. Grandin will do a free public talk and book signing at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Whalen Gymnasium at FLC.

There will be multiple college and community events next week.

For a calendar of events, visit www.fortlewis.edu/cre.

Talk will explore Zuni migration, settlement

Dan Simplicio, cultural specialist at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, will give a talk called “What Happens When Migration Stops” at 7 p.m. Thursday at Crow Canyon, 23390 Road K, Cortez.

After the emergence of the Zuni people at Ribbon Falls in the Grand Canyon, Simplicio says, they began migrating in search of the Middle Place. They traveled for thousands of miles in multiple directions over hundreds of years. Then the Zunis encountered the talking giant water strider who told them their journey was about to end. The migration’s end meant that hundreds of years of experience pooled together for a new, non-migratory way of life.

For more information, visit www.crowcanyon.org.

Sex-assault services group seeking help

Sexual Assault Services of NWNM in Farmington provides crisis advocacy and sexual-assault nurse exams to survivors of sexual assault.

The organization is seeking volunteer advocates to assist survivors in navigating the legal, medical and mental health systems.

An application, initial interview and 32 hours of classroom training are required. The next training will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 10, 11 and 17 in Shiprock.

For more information and to register, call Donald Stage or Rachel Reed at (505) 325-2805 or email [email protected] or [email protected]. The deadline to register is 5 p.m. Friday.

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. Sarada Leavenworth will give an update about the Durango Homeless Coalition.

Herald Staff