“Health Care My Way Presentation: Living Wills and Medical Powers of Attorney” will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Room A of the Garden Level of Mercy Regional Medical Center.

Dr. John Boyd, Mercy Regional Medical Center’s CMO and Melissa Delio of the Southwest Bar Association will present current information about medical powers of attorneys and living wills.

Participants will be able to fill out and execute these documents, which will be provided at the close of the lecture.

SCAPE graduates to speak Thursday

Durango Tech Members and other interested parties are invited to a question-and-answer feedback session with the latest trio of SCAPE graduates at 5 p.m. Thursday at the SCAPE offices, on the second floor, 1211 Main Ave.

Participants will learn what these local entrepreneurs have been doing, then discuss and encourage their projects.

Yard sale to take place at Ignacio High School

A Yard Sale Extravaganza will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Ignacio High School parking lot.

The sale will include more than 10 booths.

Fuels-reduction project to take place in Dalla

The city of Durango, in partnership with the Southwest Conservation Corps and the Colorado State Forest Service, will complete a fuels-reduction project in Dalla Mountain Park.

Hand thinning of vegetation on approximately three acres will begin May 5 and continue through May 9, weather permitting. Recreational users of Dalla Mountain Park are encouraged to use caution.

For more information, call 375-7321 or email [email protected].

Area open spaces to be sprayed

The city of Durango Parks and Recreation Department will spray these areas from Monday to May 12:

Durango Community Recreation Center, Rank Park, Rio Vista Park, Chapman Hill and Mason Center on Monday.

Downtown Brown, Santa Rita Park, Rotary Park and Carnegie Building on Tuesday.

Fassbinder Park, Viles Park, Roosa and Triangle Park, Hillcrest View Park and Jenkins Ranch Park on May 5.

Crestview Park and Greenmount Cemetery on May 6.

Fort Lewis College Softball Complex and Third Avenue Parkway on May 12.

The herbicide that will be used are Vessel Broadleaf Herbicide.

For more information, call 375-7380.

U.S. 160/550 project update

Colorado Department of Transportation and Concrete Works of Colorado, Inc. will work on the College Drive/Camino del Rio intersection as well as remove the center median on U.S. Highway 550 from College Drive to 8th Street the week of April 27.

During that week, travelers should consider alternate routes for those heading south on U.S. 550 and wanting to turn left onto College Drive, as the left-turn lane will be closed most of the week. To minimize the amount of time the left-turn lane will be closed, crews will be working from 6 to 10 p.m. today with anticipated one-lane closures in both directions on U.S. 550.

These traffic impacts are expected:

The U.S. Highway 160/550 Intersection to Eighth Street will have wide load restrictions of 10 feet through the work zone, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. Monday. The restrictions will be in place for two weeks, Monday through Friday, ending the week of May 12. Weekend restrictions are not anticipated.

Sidewalk detours and temporary closures are expected along College Drive. The left turn lane onto College Drive heading southbound on U.S. 550/Camino del Rio will be closed for most of the week.

On U.S. 160/550, two lanes in each direction of travel will remain open before 8:30 a.m. and after 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and after 2 p.m. on Fridays.

On U.S. 160/550, single-lane closures will take place between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

On U.S. 160/550, travelers should expect single-lane closures from 6 to 10 p.m. today.

Single-lane closures may be in effect at any time during the day on U.S. 160/550 turn lanes and side streets.

Travel delays will vary.

For more information, call (970) 238-1669.

Herald Staff