{"id":36322,"date":"2023-01-13T16:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T23:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/martin-luther-king-jr-day-celebrated-with-events-at-fort-lewis-college\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:30:51","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day-celebrated-with-events-at-fort-lewis-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/martin-luther-king-jr-day-celebrated-with-events-at-fort-lewis-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrated with events at Fort Lewis College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4712f8d1-e002-44b2-8643-a6562cc89421&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2165\" alt=\"Martin Luther King Jr. gave his \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Martin Luther King Jr. gave his \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">National Archives and Records Administration<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, there will be a walk on the Fort Lewis College campus beginning at 12:15 p.m. at the clock tower. Participants will meet with members of the Black Student Union in the student union building for coffee and hot chocolate after the walk.<\/p>\n<p>Community members are encouraged to attend a viewing of the movie \u201cSelma,\u201d which is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by King.<\/p>\n<p>The movie will be shown from 6-8:30 p.m. in the Vallecito room. Community members and FLC students will speak before the showing of the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u220e\u220e\u220e<\/p>\n<p>The holiday weekend is expected to bring an influx of travelers to the Durango area.<\/p>\n<p>Lodging at Purgatory Resort was at capacity for the three-day weekend, said Theresa Graven, spokeswoman for the resort. In addition to it being a busy travel weekend, snow is in the forecast, which will bring additional skiers and snowboarders, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The resort reminds people to drive safely, carpool if possible, abide by the skier code and have a partner when skiing through the trees. Graven reminded locals that Hesperus Ski Area is open, which includes night skiing.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, Purgatory passes were selling for $135 Saturday, $123 on Sunday and $109 for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a busy weekend, which is good for everyone,\u201d Graven said. \u201cBut if there\u2019s anyway to remind people to just take it easy on the hill when we\u2019re busy, especially with out-of-town skiers who aren\u2019t skiing as much as we all are here; it\u2019s just a good reminder to everybody to take it easy and live to ski another day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purgatory Resort expects busy weekend with fresh snow, holiday travelers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[132,28,598,712],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-36322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fort-lewis-college","tag-headlines","tag-public-holiday","tag-purgatory"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83307,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322\/revisions\/83307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36322"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=36322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}