The Kiwanis Club of Durango will meet at noon Thursday at Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.

The guest speaker will be Matthew Krichman of the Durango Running Club. Visitors are welcome.

15th Street project to be discussed

A public meeting to discuss the accessibility and connectivity improvements to the East Second Avenue and 15th Street intersection will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall, 949 East Second Ave.

Project construction will begin Monday and is expected to take about six weeks. Fifteenth Street will be closed starting Monday for 30 days. There will be traffic impacts during construction including road closures, as the railroad tracks are being upgraded, storm drains are improved and sidewalks are connected. During the closure, 15th Street pedestrian and bicycle access to and from the Animas River Trail will be detoured.

The project includes the construction of a sidewalk and Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant improvements at the Animas River Trail in Rotary Park with 14th Street along East Second Avenue. Construction will also include safety, sidewalk and bikeway improvements to 15th Street.

For more information, call Amber Blake at 375-4949.

Colorado River to be discussed

The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will host Sara A. Porterfield’s lecture, “The Colorado River in Global Perspective,” at 6 p.m. Monday in the Center of Southwest Studies’ Lyceum Room at FLC.

Porterfield is the center’s inaugural doctoral fellow in Southwestern history. The fellowship is a collaborative effort between the center and the graduate program in the history department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Porterfield will spend the 2014-15 academic year in residence at the center performing dissertation research and writing in addition to teaching in the college’s department of history.

Porterfield’s research focuses on the engineers and river runners who have traveled into and out of the river basin. Porterfield’s talk will present her preliminary research on these figures and others, and suggest ways the Colorado River has a significant and yet-untold history on a global scale.

For more information, call 247-7456 or visit http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu.

Run to benefit Big Brothers, Sisters

The 2014 Zombie Challenge – Run for Kids’ Sake, benefitting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado, will be held Saturday at Three Springs.

The 1.5 mile course will feature boot camp-style obstacles and be infested with zombies. Zombies will aim for each runner’s health, which will be represented by flags placed around runners’ waists. If runners complete the challenge wearing at least one flag, they will have survived, if not, they will have been zombiefied. Online registration is open. All proceeds will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado to help mentor local children.

For more information, to register or volunteer, visit www.bbig.org.

Herald Staff