High Country Travel & Tours will host a travel presentation from 3 to 7 p.m. May 13 and 14 at the Quality Resort, 3505 U.S. Highway 160 in Pagosa Springs.

Travelers can learn more details on various itineraries.

For more information or to RSVP, call Julie Mincey at 731-2330 or email [email protected].

Retail marijuana to be discussed

The La Plata County Board of County Commissioners will hold a special meeting Tuesday after the 10 a.m. planning agenda meeting to hear the first reading of Ordinance 2014-02 (regarding Retail Marijuana Licensing) in the meeting room of the La Plata County Courthouse, 1060 East Second Ave.

Public comment will be taken. The purpose of the ordinance is to adopt restrictions on the personal cultivation of marijuana and to allow the county to license marijuana operations. In addition, the ordinance will rescind the ban on medical marijuana centers and the temporary ban on all retail marijuana establishments.

The second reading and formal consideration of the ordinance is scheduled for June 10. For more information and documents, visit http://co.laplata.co.us/departments_and_elected_officials/administration/marijuana_licensing.

For more information, call 382-6219.

Road work Thursday in Skyridge, Hillcrest

The city of Durango will work with Four Corners Materials to reconstruct a number of streets in the Skyridge and Hillcrest neighborhoods starting Thursday through May 23.

Residents in these neighborhoods should expect parking restrictions and traffic delays during the day. All parking restrictions will be posted a minimum of 24 hours in advance. The streets to be reconstructed are:

Jenkins Ranch Road between Goeglein Gulch Road and Ophir Drive.

Coalbank Drive.

Hillcrest Drive to the end of the pavement.

Jenkins Drive.

Golf tournament to benefit 9-R

The Durango Education Foundation will host the 21st annual Tom Hartney memorial Golf Tournament on May 16 at Dalton Ranch.

Hartney was an avid golfer and a staunch advocate for education. The foundation is looking for more teams and also for hole sponsors. Sponsors support will be advertised along the course with signs made by third-graders at Park Elementary School. The event supports the regular work the Durango Education Foundation. The foundation’s work includes funding programs, materials and technology needs outside the capacity of the regular Durango School District 9-R budget.

For more information, visit www. DurangoEducationFoundation.org. For golf particulars, choose “Events” and click Golf.

Herbicide carryover work group to meet

The first meeting of a Herbicide Carryover Working Group will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave., in the meeting room.

The purpose of the group is to address the issue of herbicide carryover and develop an educational program for those entities that distribute manure as a soil amendment, herbicide applicators and area food producers. Herbicides with the active ingredient of aminopyralid, clopyralid, or picloram, can be effective in controlling weeds, but the residues can contaminate hay and grasses as well as the manure of any livestock that consumes the hay or grass treated with these herbicides.

For more information, call Gwen Lachelt at 382-6215 or email [email protected].

Weather modification workshop offered

Local, state and regional cloud seeding (weather modification) experts will speak at a free workshop from 1 to 4 p.m. May 15 at the Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.

The workshop is hosted by Southwestern Water Conservation District and will include presentations on the state of Colorado’s weather-modification program, research from Wyoming and Texas as well as local program operations. The draft workshop agenda will soon be available at http://swwcd.org/programs/weather-modification. Reservations are not necessary.

For more information, visit http://swwcd.org/programs/weather-modification or call Laura Spann at 247-1302.

Herald Staff