The Beehive Design Collective, a graphic campaign about grassroots resistance to corporate globalization. will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Room 130 of the Chemistry Hall at Fort Lewis College.

For more information, email [email protected], visit www.beehivecollective.org or call (970) 987-1652.

Rotary Club of Durango to meet Tuesday

Karma Bhotia, owner of the Himalayan Kitchen and Dreams of Tibet, will speak about his native country Nepal at the Rotary Club of Durango meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.

Bhotia will talk about a Nepal expedition he led last October that included about 20 Durango residents. Photographs of his home village and Nepal, the terrain traversed and the living conditions will be shown. Bhotia plans to lead another expedition to Nepal this October. Visitors are welcome.

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

Durango senior center offers computer classes

These computer classes will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Durango/La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.:

Basic Computer Literacy will take place April 15.

IPAD Basics will take place April 16.

EBay, craigslist, Amazon will take place April 17.

The deadline to sign-up is Thursday. To sign-up, call 382-6428.

Southwest Studies opens exhibit Thursday

The museum at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will open a new exhibit, “Beauty and Necessity: Rio Grande Textiles from the Durango Collection” from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.

The exhibit will be on view through Dec. 17. A public reception will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday in the museum at FLC. Textile expert and Toadlena Trading Post owner, Mark Winter, will be the keynote speaker at 6 p.m., with a talk on Rio Grande blankets.

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

Durango to begin spring clean-up

The city of Durango will begin spring clean-up on Monday.

Crews will move through residential neighborhoods picking up bagged or piled brush, yard waste and tree limbs less than eight feet in length. No other items will be collected. Residents are asked to place materials in the alley for collection or curbside in areas of town where there are no alleys. Residents are asked to keep limbs and brush at least two feet from fences, trees, bushes, gas meters, hydrants, power poles and connection boxes. If a pile cannot safely be picked up, it will be left. No more than two truckloads will be picked up from each residence.

The schedule for pick-up is as follows:

April 7-11: Areas south of 15th Street, east to Ninth Avenue and the residential areas of U.S. Highway 160 west and east (Three Springs) within the city limits.

April 14-18: Areas north of 15th Street to the north city limits, paralleling Main to the east and west, including the Animas City area.

April 21-25: All west side subdivisions, including Crestview, Needham, Rockridge and Junction Street areas.

April 28 – May 2: All east side subdivisions, including Riverview, North College, Hillcrest and Skyridge areas.

For more information, call 375-4903.

Herald Staff