The local American Cancer Society needs volunteers who are interested in working with patients to arrange for services and goods patients need.

Rides to treatment, free lodging for those traveling from other towns, hats, wigs and information are all available at the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Resource Center within Mercy Regional Medical Center’s Cancer Center. Volunteers are trained and asked to work one four-hour shift per week. Substitutes are available when needed.

For more information, call 247-4912.

Durango Rotary hears from group’s governor

Bob Delavan, Rotary District 5470 governor, will speak at the Rotary Club of Durango at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.

Delavan began his service with Rotary International in September 1999, and he is active in the Grand Junction Horizon Sunrise Rotary. He lives in Palisade. Visitors are welcome.

For more information, call Bruce Rodman at 385-7899.

Marvel Grange to offer breakfast

The Marvel Grange will host a free community breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the grange, 217 County Road 133, Hesperus.

Pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon, juice and coffee will be served. The grange also will host a school-supply collection for children in need at Fort Lewis Mesa Elementary School.

Film shot in Bayfield to be screened

The film “When the Legends Die” will be shown at 7 p.m. Monday at the Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive.

In 1972, Bayfield was featured in a major motion picture. Based on the book by Hal Borland, When the Legends Die, which chronicles the struggle for a young Indian boy as he battles between the “old ways” and the “white man’s ways.” Filmed in Bayfield, Ignacio and the surrounding area, this film provides a glimpse of what it was like to live in the area in the 1970s. Area residents are invited to attend and share their memories of the making of the film.

For more information, call 884-2222, ext. 522.

Eat out Sept. 2 to help spill victims

To help support people who suffered losses because of the contamination and closure of the Animas River, Steamworks Brewing Co. and El Moro Spirits and Tavern will donate 10 percent of revenues from sales at both restaurants on Sept. 2 to the Community Emergency Relief Fund.

The fund was originally organized in 2008 by the Durango Business Improvement District and the Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado to help those harmed by the Main Avenue fire. The fund has now been reopened to assist employees facing economic hardship related to the river contamination. Steamworks and El Moro will contribute revenues directly to the Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado, a nonprofit entity administering the funds for the Business Improvement District.

Steamworks Brewing Co., open 11 a.m. to closing seven days a week, is located at 801 East Second Ave. For more information, visit www.steamworksbrewing.com or call 259-9200. El Moro Spirits and Tavern, 945 Main Ave., is open daily at 11 a.m., as well as for brunch on Saturday and Sunday. For more information, visit www.elmorotavern.com or call 259-5555.

Herald Staff