Mt. Allison Grange members will host an annual Easter supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 26. The menu includes ham, turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, hot rolls, tossed salad, homemade pie, coffee, and punch. Tickets are $10.50 for adults, $4 for children, and children younger than 6 are free. Call Shirley at 883-2483 if you have any questions or need directions to the Mt. Allison Grange Hall.
Information also is online at www.facebook.com/mtallisongrange.
Nunsense continues this weekend at BHS
Bayfield High School theater students will continue their presentation of Nunsense at 7 p.m. today and Saturday at the Bayfield Performing Arts Center.
The show is directed by BHS teacher Mark Zaharko, with musical direction by Derek Smith. Rennie Hynes designed the costumes, and wood shop students helped with set design. While suitable for most families, the directors do advise parents the play is rated somewhere between a PG or PG-13.
Tickets are $6 for students and seniors and $8 for adults.
Zumba starts at Pine River Library
Do you want to dance away the pounds to the sound of Latin rhythms? Pine River Library offers Zumba, a fitness dance party, Tuesday and Friday from 8 to 8:45 a.m. This class is open to the public with donations to the instructor encouraged.
For more information, call the library at 884-2222, ext. 510.
Christian Academy to hold fundraiser
Hope Community Christian Academy will host a dinner and dance at 5 p.m. Saturday, April 9. Dinner and dessert will be provided by academy families, followed by music performances by the school’s students. A live and silent auction also will be held. Wild Country will start playing at 8 p.m. The cost is $18 for couples, $10 for singles, $35 for families, and $5 per person for the dance only.
For tickets, call the academy at 553-9086. The academy is at 115 Ute St. in the Ignacio ELHI building.
Southwest Civic Winds to perform
The Southwest Civic Winds will perform its spring concerts next week. The community band will perform Monday evening in the Ignacio Performing Arts Center at 315 Becker St., along with musicians from Ignacio High School and Aztec High School. This performance is free, and families are invited.
Wednesday evening’s performance will be at the River Church, 850 Plymouth Drive (off Florida Road) in Durango. The cost for this performance is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Both performances are at 7 p.m. Selections will include “The Star Spangled Banner,” variations on Celtic and Japanese folk songs, “Council Oak and March of the Belgian Paratroopers.”
The Southwest Civic Winds are a symphonic community band with 57 brass, woodwind and percussion players. The Southwest Civic Winds conductor, Mark A. Walters, has served as the director of bands at Fort Lewis College since 1996.
Commissioner Lachelt to meet public
County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt will meet the public from noon to 2 p.m. Monday, March 21 at the County Fairgrounds Extension Building Pine Room. Come with questions or comments about county issues.
For more information, call 382-6219.
Registration open for water seminar
The annual Water Seminar hosted by the Southwestern Water Conservation District will be held Friday, April 1, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Durango. Registration is open at www.swwcd.org. The cost is $35 before Tuesday, March 29, and $40 at the door.
Featured presenters this year include former Colorado Supreme Court Justice and water attorney Gregory Hobbs, and former Colorado Water Conservation Board director and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Deputy Commissioner Bill McDonald. They will review the evolution of water management since 1941.
Southern Ute Tribal Chairman Clement Frost and Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Heart will describe their tribes’ histories of water stewardship.
Other presenters will discuss an assortment of water-related issues.
For information call 247-1302.
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