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On the cover Tarantulas are on the move in Southwest Colorado, looking for love. Please watch your step (and your roll) to avoid the furry little guys./ Photo by Missy Votel
Ear to the ground:
“The other day, I saw four white Sprinter vans, all at the same intersection, at the same time.”
– If that’s not a sign of the end times, we don’t know what is.
Green beer
As long as we’re talking about beer (and when are we not?), we’ve got a new one for you to try: Carver Brewing Co.’s Regen Ale.
This latest offering from Durango’s OG brewery is billed as a “first-of-its-kind, West Slope IPA” brewed with regional, regenerative ingredients. (Thus the name, Regen. Get it? Bonus points for the double pun.) Malt for the beer comes from Proximity Malt, in Monte Vista, and hops from Billy Goat Hop Farm, in Montrose. The companies grow the
crops using climate-smart practices like notill farming and cover cropping, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions, improves soil health and conserves water. Plus, buying from companies nearby also reduces emissions from transportation while helping to support the state’s agriculture.
These efforts have not gone unrecognized. At its Sept. 26 annual awards ceremony, the Colorado Green Business Network gave Carvers an Innovation Spotlight Award for the beer. (We are guessing a few of the beers also had to be sampled by the award committee, in the name of research, of course.)
First brewed in December 2024 and made possible through a grant from Visit Durango, Regen is now on tap at Carver Brewing.
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“This journey began at the 2024 Craft Brewers Conference, where we discovered Regen Malt, produced from Colorado-grown grain using regenerative farming practices,” the brewpub wrote on its Instagram page. “Paired with incredible hops from Billy Goat Hop Farm in Montrose, we’ve created a beer that’s bold in flavor and big on sustainability.
We’ll drink to that.
LaVidaLocal opinion
On borrowed ink
“You can’t live in this world, but there’s nowhere else to go.” – Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac completed his book “On the Road” in only three weeks, as if he penned it with his own blood. Technically, he just fed a continuous roll of teletype paper into his typewriter. Perhaps pausing to insert single sheets would have caused a pile-up on his imagination’s highway. The New York Times hailed it as “the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation that Kerouac, himself, named years before as ‘beat’ and whose principle avatar he is.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti said Kerouac provided us with “a vision of America seen from a speeding car.”
I was just a tyke on a trike when Kerouac’s novel first appeared in 1957. The only “beats” I’d been forced to consider turned out to be yucky vegetables. Now that I’m down the road, so to speak – a retired schoolteacher living without a lesson plan – I realize Kerouac’s vision of living fast and dying young was never my choice and certainly not the road I want to see carved by corporate energy through our public lands. Perhaps it’s time for a new novel. If Kerouac’s highway survives, we’ll need some sort of measuring stick to judge how far we’ve strayed from his vision of a more natural freedom. Not that romantic, century-old affair with the open road, but our commitment to trees and open land that resuscitates us by bringing oxygen into our lives.
the lines of Kerouac’s beatnik generation. My generation will likely end up chronicled as a culture of debtniks, maxed-out credit card consumers foreclosed out of their houses, living with their mothers in their childhood homes, just like Kerouac did as he chronicled his story.
Still, I’d start my novel by preaching the sermon of the wilderness, a beatific vision of our heritage still vibrant in a futuristic world. About 85 million acres of national park campgrounds and hiking trails in the United States will be the closest comparisons we can draw between Kerouac’s boxcars, beaches and open highways. “On Borrowed Ink” will speak for a constituency of backcountry dreamers, disengaged from the current obsession with off-road ATVs, side-by-sides, dirt bikes, rock crawlers, snowmobiles, monster pickups and jeeps. It will be a place where a pair of trail shoes can be passed around like a cheap bottle of wine.
My novel will be titled “On Borrowed Ink.” My main character’s mission will begin by trying to visit every designated wilderness on the East Coast. He’ll start out lucky, a solar-powered run-about will pick him up. He’ll take this free ride all the way to Kansas City, Mo., and find a mass transportation connection to begin his trek. All the while he’ll fiddle with his lifetime Senior Pass, promising himself that he’ll also visit every national park out West, on his way back home. Of course, many complications will appear in the novel – the biggest associated with getting him to these destinations, having lost his driver’s license, and maybe I’ll include a dust-storm gathering on the horizon.
That’s the spot where I always run out of literary gas. Surely, the disenfranchised, the down and out, the beat, will always be with us, reconstituted along
Thumbin’It
All the brave locals who showed up Monday and Tuesday to protest the ICE detainment of two children from Colombia, who were arrested on their way to school and separated from their parents.
Halloween is on a Friday this year. Truthfully, we’re not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but at least most of us don’t have to get up for work the next morning.
At least some good news in the gerrymandering mania, with a court ruling that Mississippi Republicans diluted Black voter strength. New, fairer maps were ordered to be drawn, which may help Democrats break the state’s GOP supermajority Nov. 4.
Maybe Willie Nelson will be inspired to retitle and revise his popular song for my novel’s debut, “Off the road again.” Maybe in another half-century, Americans will become reacquainted with their feet, will choose to walk again, to find a trailhead and celebrate an absence of pavement. Maybe I’ll have my character backpacking bundles of flattened obsolete motel nightstands into the parks and lighting campfires fueled by recycled particle board. With more than half of the world’s population already living in cities, seeing actual starlight might be as mind-blowing as hearing Allen Ginsberg first read his poem “Howl” at the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco.
The natural world will play a big part in my version of America. We may be running out of fossil fuels, space, money and patience, but if we ever lose our public lands, we will be so much more impoverished.
As for my main character, whatever his name will be, he’ll be left with his impossible dream, much like Don Quixote. Every coal-fired smoke stack or nuclear plant’s cooling towers, every nest of power lines and every monster truck’s accelerator stomped to the floor – blowing out a black cloud of diesel smoke –will prompt him to reimagine the thermal power bubbling out of Yellowstone’s Old Faithful. Every high-rise will bring to mind the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde as he stares down into a steep arroyo. Every airliner leaving a vapor trail will nudge him to recall the outstretched wings of condors gliding majestically across the milky white cataracts of his skies.
– David Feela
SignoftheDownfall:
Monster Hurricane Melissa barreling her way across the Caribbean, leaving a swath of death and destruction through many already-impoverished areas.
One of the uglier and sadder days in Durango that we can recall, with the protest at the ICE facility turning violent as federal officers unleashed rubber bullets and tear gas on the crowd. Maybe we should also ban Tuesdays, along with Wednesdays, and skip right from Monday to Thursday. Who’s with us?
In case you haven’t noticed, the government is still shut down, threatening Head Start preschool and SNAP benefits. Oh, and your health insurance is going up by a sh*t ton. Good luck!
Merkin Lots of Money
Kim Kardashian founded SKIMS in 2019 to provide “inclusive shapewear for all body types.” However, she waited until 2025 to think about all the poor, recently-waxed women who want to look like they have full bushes while wearing transparent dresses, which wasn’t very woke of her at all. So, two weeks ago, SKIMS started selling the “faux hair micro string thong” for $32, and it sold out in less than 24 hours because all those shaved ladies with see-through dresses had been waiting long enough. Given the downstairs trends I’ve encountered so far in 2025, wearing a fake bush is a lot like bringing sand to the beach, but whatever. And yes, it comes in blonde and red just in case the fake carpet needs to match the fake drapes.
WritersontheRange
The overlooked disaster
Storms trigger a humanitarian crisis in western Alaska
by Tim Lydon
Powerful back-to-back storms have ravaged dozens of mostly Alaska Native communities in western Alaska: Approximately 2,000 people were displaced, and at least one village was entirely torn apart.
Many people lost everything and are now sheltering far from home, where they face an uncertain future. Unfortunately, climate change is part of their story.
On Oct. 12, ex-Typhoon Halong, the second and stronger storm, slammed into the villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. A late jog in the storm track gave the more than 1,000 residents little warning.
As gusts topped 100 miles per hour and seawater surged inland, houses never built for such conditions floated away or crumbled. In Kipnuk, people crawled through the windows of flooding houses and waded in darkness and howling winds toward their neighbors, only to find their homes gone, too. The school provided shelter.
Rescuers arriving in Kipnuk found nearly all homes destroyed and failing water, sanitation and power. Far from Alaska’s road system, the village of 700 evacuated, in what became part of Alaska’s largest-ever civilian airlift.
Helicopters plucked people from eroded runways, carrying them 60 miles to Bethel, population 6,200. As shelters overflowed, C-17 military transports thundered in to bring survivors to Anchorage, another 300 miles from home. Exhausted survivors filed from planes without much more than their clothing.
Many do not know when or if they’ll ever return home.
Their plight is unique in America. No roads lead to these communities. No utility trucks are headed their way, something we see after Western fires and Atlantic hurricanes. Everything arrives
slowly and at exorbitant cost by barge or plane, mostly in summer.
Additionally, many residents live by a subsistence economy. They have lost hard-won winter stores and precious boats, snow machines and other expensive tools for securing food. They are American refugees.
In a day, these members of close-knit and culturally distinct communities suddenly scattered to Bethel, Fairbanks, Anchorage and elsewhere. People are generously sharing necessities, but they can’t replace connections, like the daily use of the Yup’ik language and humor, or a young person walking in the door with fresh traditional soup for an elder. Although fierce fall storms are common in Alaska, scientists have long warned that ongoing warming in the North Pacific and Bering Sea can energize the storms beyond historical norms. Today, a stubborn Pacific marine heatwave exacerbates the warming. It’s premature to say how much global warming fed these storms, but the science warrants dialogue and research, not the recent zeroing-out of federal research funds.
Declining sea ice and thawing permafrost have also dramatically increased erosion in dozens of Alaskan communities, especially during fall storms.
The recent storms tore away more land, edging waters closer to vital power and other infrastructure. At the village of Quinhagak, the storm swallowed 60 feet of shoreline and scattered thousands of Yup’ik archaeological artifacts.
Federal reports name more than 30 Alaskan villages imminently threatened by erosion. Investing in their resilience to avoid the trauma and astronomic cost of relocation – or sudden destruction – was behind Biden-era clean energy and infrastructure laws, which Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and other Alaskans helped author.
But the new administration abruptly canceled dozens of projects, including a $20 million EPA plan to fortify the nowdecimated Kipnuk. The work would not have started in time to make a difference by this fall, but what just happened signals an urgent need for investment in vulnerable communities.
The disaster comes amid a government shutdown and the gutting of Alaska public radio, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service, which now flies fewer weather balloons to aid forecasters near the Bering Sea.
Yet Alaska’s National Guard, Native consortiums, businesses and nonprofits have embraced survivors. They are cleaning up and flying pet-rescue missions. In Anchorage, shelters have opened for survivors, and an already
stretched school district is compassionately working to absorb at least 130 displaced students, for whom urban schools may bring further shock.
Western Alaska communities, already bearing their share of the disaster, are also acting on ingrained Yup’ik and Iñupiat values as they support their neighbors. It’s how Indigenous people have thrived here for 10,000 years.
Outside Alaska, news media didn’t give this disaster its due and has since moved on. But people should know about these storms and can consider giving to the Alaska Community Foundation relief fund coordinated through Alaska Native and other organizations.
Tim Lydon lives in Alaska and is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. ■
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Alaskan residents displaced by ex-Typhoon Halong file onto a C-17 military plane in Bethel, Alaska, for transport to Anchorage./ Courtesy Alaska National Guard
SoapBox
Raise your voice Nov. 4
With everything going on in the world and locally, it’s easy to forget there is an election in Durango/La Plata County next Tuesday (Nov. 4). But there are consequential decisions to be made. What better way to make an impact in the world and make your voice heard?
First, you have the common-sense, related Propositions LL and MM to fund the Healthy School Meals for All program – free breakfast and lunch – for all schoolkids, regardless of their parents’ incomes. This program (HSMA) is in danger of ending as soon as this January if these propositions fail. LL and MM also fund healthier meals by sourcing ingredients from local agricultural producers. As popular as HSMA is, and though most people seem to support the idea of free school meals for kids, these propositions could fail if voter turnout is low. Turnout is often low in off years.
Next up, make your voice heard on the 1% tax increase for La Plata County. No one likes tax increases (the last I checked), but FYI, the county has not raised taxes since the ’80s – crazy, right? If the 1% tax increase fails, La Plata County Sheriffs will have to reduce patrols at night, and snow plowing on county roads will also decrease, along with other consequences. I’m not telling you how to vote on this, but keep in mind, the county is passing the hat for 1 penny on every dollar you spend (tourists will pay this tax, also).
Also, you have the chance to vote for the Durango 9R School Board. It’s three incumbents (Rick Peterson, Andrea Parmenter and Erika Brown) versus three newbies
(Pearl Stegner, Jody Trampp and Tamra Fenberg). Whoever you choose, just make sure you vote.
If you don’t know where or how to vote, or need to update your registration, go to GoVoteColorado.com. – Joe Borum, Hermosa
Invest in local community
Here in Southwest Colorado, Compañeros is all about community. Every day, we help immigrant families find resources they need to feel safe, informed and supported – from legal help and education to simply connecting people with someone who understands their story. In a time when fear of immigration enforcement runs high and local news is harder to come by, that sense of connection matters more than ever.
But while our work is rooted right here in the community, the state systems meant to fund this kind of work often feel a world away. Too often, state grants go to big, Denver-based organizations that then turn to groups like ours for help reaching local families. Wouldn’t it make more sense for the state to fund the people already doing the work in the community?
This summer, Communities Lead Communities Thrive (CLCT) hosted listening sessions in rural and urban communities across the state, hearing directly from small nonprofits about how the state can do better. We all said the same thing: the grant process is too complicated, too confusing and too disconnected from what small, rural nonprofits actually need.
The system isn’t designed for groups like Compañe-
“I saw it in the Telegraph.”
(*Although a few probably just look at the pictures.)
For info. on how to get your business or event seen, email: telegraph@durangotelegraph.com
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ros. The applications are long, reporting is complicated and the reimbursement model means we have to spend money first and hope we get paid later. That’s not realistic for small organizations already stretching every dollar.
If Colorado truly wants its funding to make a difference, it has to account for rural realities – and trust the expertise of the people already doing the work. We know our communities best because we live here, too. The state doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel. It just needs to meet communities where they are, with sim-
ple applications, fair funding models and trust in the local leaders and organizations who show up every day to make every corner of Colorado stronger.
Because when the state invests directly in the people closest to the work, everyone benefits.
– Enrique Orozco, co-executive director, Compañeros: Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center
Paging Rep. Jeff Hurd …
I want to believe that you, Jeff Hurd, are a moral man, and that you are not in total agreement with this regime’s actions, having trained as you did for the clergy.
The utter disregard for all norms of government by our so-called leaders is appalling!
The American people are not being served. And worse: they are suffering from an established safety net consciously being dismantled. The 40 million people who are being denied SNAP benefits, when there was $6 billion already allocated for it, is just one wantonly cruel example. The ACA tax credits for working people is unacceptable to Russell Vought and to Stephen Miller – but the billionaire tax credits are not.
The desecration of the East Wing of the White House – for a gilded vanity ballroom! – is an obvious metaphor for the contempt that the president holds for his office. It is a tangible manifestation of what Trump is doing to the country, to our rights and liberties, to our economy, to our very Constitution. Especially poignant is this destruction being performed during a government shutdown in which federal workers are going without their paychecks!
And why have the Republicans worked in session for a mere 20 days in 17 weeks? Why are you not de-
nied your paycheck?
You, Jeff Hurd, have taken an oath, before God, to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. If this isn’t a threat from within, I cannot imagine what is. Do your job.
–
Adele Riffe, Hesperus
Showing up for a better country
What is this energy we all sink into when we read the news? There’s so much anxiety followed by anger, depression, confusion and/or numbness. Perhaps the most common experience is feeling overwhelmed. How do we, as individuals and a community, take positive action toward a more understanding, supportive life for ourselves, for those we love, and for those in need?
At the core of our collective helplessness is a desire to find simple solutions to our complex problems, which invariably pulls us up short. There is no “one size fits all” for the depth of our cultural questions. Nonetheless, perseverance in seeking effective actions is key. After all, mood follows action.
The Oct.18 “No Kings” event felt like one of the right answers. Why? Because respect and kindness prevailed. These alone can revive our spirits to take more actions, ones that can shift the attitudes of divisiveness and stalemate into dialogue about root causes of modern anger and judgement.
Are signs enough? No. Are speeches enough? No. Are cars honking in support enough to create the change people long for? No. Cumulatively, these are steps in the right direction. Why? Because the renewing of the human spirit is a formidable force, one that can guide us toward a more sustainable, healthy soci-
ety. Starting right here at home, in Durango.
With deep gratitude, I thank you dear Durango, for showing up, being creative, clever, kind and insistent that life can be better. For each of us and for all of us.
– Elli Morris, Durango
Oppose land desecration
Contact the BLM by Nov. 10 to oppose Trump rescinding the Public Lands Rule, which includes conservation of more than 200 endangered species and wildlife.
Also oppose Trump opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. ANWR is pristine and fragile, where the Porcupine caribou migrate to calve; where millions of birds migrate to breed; and home to endangered polar bears and arctic foxes. Global warming is greatest at the poles, melting permafrost. Building roads and mining here will release even more CO2, further increasing global warming. In addition, it will be disastrous for the caribou and Gwichen tribe, which totally depends on caribou, as well as for all wildlife. This desecration is totally unnecessary; it’s estimated the amount of gas retrieved would be equal to that saved if Americans filled their tires to correct pressure.
Contact Dept. of Interior Head Doug Burgum to oppose and donate to Earthjustice and Natural Resources Defense Council, which are suing the Trump Administration. A film producer and I traveled to ANWR decades ago to document its importance as a wildlife refuge. Keep it so.
– Margaret Mayer, conservation lead SW Sierra Club
Getting ICEd
Dispatches from the frontlines of Tuesday’s ICE protest in Durango
by Missy Votel
“Holy sh*t, girl. You ok?” Those are the types of texts that started flying on the afternoon of Tues., Oct. 28, in Durango after all hell broke loose at what started out as a peaceful protest at the local ICE facility. The previous day, a father, Fernando Jaramillo Solando, and his 12-year-old daughter, Jana Michel Jaramillo Patiño, and 15year-old son, Kewin Daniel Patiño Bustamante, were detained while on their way to school. They are all asylumseekers from Colombia who have lived in Colorado for more than 18 months. None of them have a criminal record or history of noncompliance with ICE reporting, according to Compañeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center.
Yet, they were stopped by ICE enforcement Monday morning, yanked out of their car, handcuffed and taken away, with plans to send the father to a detainment center in Aurora and the children to Texas.
Soon after, protestors began showing up at the ICE facility in Bodo Park, demanding the release of the minors. Many stayed overnight – forming a human chain in front of the ICE facility gate – and into the next day. That was when things turned ugly, and afterward, locals tried to wrap their heads around the melee from which most of us falsely believed we were somehow immune.
For starters, we learned that yes, there is an ICE field office here in little Durango. And secondly, the type of protests we’ve seen erupt in big cities like Portland and Chicago –where protestors are getting shot with rubber bullets and pepper sprayed – well, apparently those have come to our remote little corner of the mountains as well.
The aforementioned text was sent to a longtime
friend, Franci, after reading multiple reports of her having her phone taken away by some kind of masked thug on a power trip, put in a headlock and thrown to the ground. For the record, she’s got the tenacity of a
honey badger, and she – and her phone – were fine. I almost felt bad for the dude who tried to tussle with her (Oh, and bro, sorry about your failed high school sports career.)
A few hours earlier, I had gotten another call from a longtime friend and community celebrity of sorts, Rasta Stevie. He also had shown up at the ICE facility in Durango to join the protest on Tuesday morning. The human chain was still in full effect, and protestors had put a locked chain around the facility’s gate to block the children, still inside, from being taken away.
Sometime around noon, several white SUVs pulled up, and ICE and Department of Homeland Security officers piled out (sadly, no Kristi Noem – I would have loved to ask her about those eyebrows.)
“They had full camo; all their f***ing gear on,” Stevie said. “They started pulling people’s sunglasses down and pepper spraying them in the face and dragging them out by their hair, throwing them to the ground.”
One by one, the officers cleared the entrance of protestors and began sawing off the chain to the gate.
“I didn’t know what to do,“ said Stevie. “I ran to my car and jumped in and sped up into the only gap for them to leave ... and then I jumped out of my car and ran like a teenager being chased by the police and left my car so they couldn’t get through.”
And yes, since it is Durango, it probably goes without saying his car was a Subaru.
“I was the last defense to let them go, and all the people had put so much energy into keeping them from going, I just couldn’t let them leave,” he said.
Unfortunately, not even the toughest snow car in the world was a match for ICE.
“They rammed it out of the way,” Stevie said. “A 2,000 pound vehicle couldn’t stop them. We did everything we could.”
You will be glad to know Stevie’s trusty Suby survived with only a few minor scratches and dents, along with many of the protestors. (Including my own daughter, an FLC student who, despite trying to stay out of the fray, endured three rubber bullet shots to her legs. I’ve never been so proud.)
As for the minors, I wish I could say their outcome was better, but they were driven away in a black SUV, ostensibly to a detainment center in Texas. I say "ostensibly" (I know, a big word for anyone who maybe skipped high school English to become an ICE agent) because ICE has not bothered to respond to local media requests for comment.
What I do know is that this is some scary stuff, Durango. When our favorite breakfast waitress is manhandled by a masked goon; Rasta Stevie’s Suby is rammed by federal commandos; and our daughters are coming home with rubber-bullet welts after giving their sweatshirts to a woman in shock who got peppersprayed at point blank, something is horribly wrong.
Is this what we want? Is this making America great? Or is it making America a great, big, ugly dumpster fire?
I have a friend who recently ran into someone who bragged that she felt great about the world be cause she “hadn’t turned on the news in a year.”
While this seems like a dreamy idea, it is not prac tical. Nor is it responsible. Because what’s even more scary than residents being indiscriminately hauled off by these hooded henchmen is when people stop caring. When they stop showing up; stop opening their mouths. Apathy kills.
So, if you care about this community, or heck just other people in general, it’s time to pull your head out of wherever it is. Take action, stick up for what’s right, maybe take a
rubber bullet or two. (Note I said “rubber” bullet, I do not in any way condone the use of real bullets. Repeat: not real bullets! Geez, haven’t we learned anything in the last several months?)
“I’ve been around the world; I’ve seen it with my own eyes – and I saw it in Durango today. I saw the power of the people,” Stevie told me Tuesday as our conversation ended. “It’s like smoking pot at a concert. They can’t bust us all – safety in numbers.”
Top: Rasta Stevie’s “Freedom” flag waves over the crowd while an ICE officer moves in to quash the protest. Below: The ICE swat team prepares to do battle with Durangotangs./Courtesy photos
And when all else fails, do the Durango thing and dance – as protestors did Tuesday. After the big, scary masked men in camo drove off, the tear gas dissipated and people picked each other up off the ground, someone blasted "Camarón Pelao" by Mexico’s Banda El Recodo, and a spontaneous dance party broke out. Right there in the middle of the street in Bodo.
It probably wasn’t because people were happy or had extra energy to burn after a night out in the cold standing up for what they believed in. Actually, I think it was an act of defiance. Because, as we all know, dancing is one of the greatest expressions of freedom there is – and there’s nothing that big, scary masked men in camo hate more than that.
But, above all, the protestors were practicing what some would call their “god-given” right to object to what they see as unjust actions by thier government. And there’s really nothing more American than that.
“You know what’s interesting?” my daughter mused the day after, when the rush of adrenaline had long worn off and her war wounds were coming out in full bloom. “My bruises are red, white and blue.” ■
From top: A protestor collects their belongings after ICE ripped off their shirt during the melee; the aftermath, as protestors tend to one another after close-range tear-gassing and a barrage of rubber bullets; and a protestor is dragged through the street by a helmeted ICE agent./Courtesy photos telegraph
FlashinthePan
Torte confidential
Shaking up an iconic recipe with a berry good revelation
by Ari LeVaux
If you cue up the internet search engine of your choice and type “Marian B,” the autofill will complete your query: “Marian Burros’ Plum Torte Recipe.” Suffice it to say, I am not the first person to write about this spellbinding dessert, which seems to have more fans than the Boston Red Sox. The recipe was first published by the New York Times in 1983 and re-published by the paper every fall for the next dozen years.
The recipe calls for Italian prune plums. Also known as purple plums, these small, tart fruits don’t often make it to supermarket shelves. So it has always been a mystery to me why the torte is so popular when its key ingredient is so niche. Because the recipe is completely intolerant of any other type of plum.
I once attempted to make the torte with the incorrect type of plum, thinking I could somehow defy a law of the universe that dictates otherwise. Instead of purple Italian plums, I used the big, sweet and watery round plums typically found at the grocery store rather than prune plums, which are firmer-fleshed and have lower moisture content. My wrong-plum experiment was a failure. It was decidedly inferior to a year-old torte that had been made correctly and frozen, which says as much about the torte’s storability as its insistence on only this type of plum.
But in a major shake-up of the Marian B plum torte universe, I have recently dis-
covered that it can also be made with strawberries. This makes the torte accessible to the masses, rather than the few of us lucky enough to inhabit some charming small town with an abundance of backyard plums. Not only that, but a majority of testers, including both of my kids, prefer the strawberry version. I write this in a hushed voice, out of respect for the shockwaves it might create. But it needs to be said.
This revelation happened at a food festival in Whitefish, Mont., where there was a stand serving elk sausage pizza. There was a strawberry torte in the pastry case, and I ordered a slice. At this point, I was unsuspecting, but when I bit into the torte, I immediately recognized it as the one true torte, only made with strawberries rather than purple plums. And the strawberry rendition was absolutely amazing. Every bit as impressive and perfect as the purple prune plum rendition. In fact, my kids even prefer it to the original.
Given how popular this recipe became, even when made with an ingredient that most Americans could never find, the news that it can be made with strawberries is a game changer. Nobody has any excuses. Everyone should have lots of torte.
One note, it must be made with either purple Italian prune plums or strawberries. No substitutions, as these are the only known fruits with the correct balance of sweet, tart and moisture content.
Being a torte, there is no crust to worry
about. The batter has enough butter that it wouldn’t dream of sticking to the pan, and when sliced, it holds together just fine. So the crust will not be missed.
The quantities listed are for one 9inch torte. You will need a 9-inch springform pan to make it.
Marian Burros’ Plum Torte
1 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 stick butter, room-temperature soft 3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
12 purple Italian prune plums, pitted or split in half; or two pints of strawberries, sliced in half.
2 teaspoons sugar + 1 teaspoon cinnamon to sprinkle on top
Pre-heat oven to 350. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
Cream sugar and butter in a cake mixer. Add the eggs, followed by the dry ingredients. Mix until fully combined.
Spread the batter into a 9-inch springform pan. Arrange the plums atop the batter in concentric circles, skin side up. Or if using strawberries, arrange them cut sides down.
Sprinkle the top of the torte with the extra sugar and cinnamon.
Bake the torte for 40 minutes. If it starts to brown before that time, test the batter with a toothpick. If it comes out clean, the torte is done.
Allow to cool for 20 minutes and enjoy. If you wish to freeze it, let it cool, wrap in foil and seal in a plastic bag.
Thursday30
Craft and Connect, 3-5 p.m., Fort Lewis Mesa Library, 11274 HWY 140
Devo Halloween Bike Parade & Party, 4-7 p.m., The Powerhouse, 1333 Camino del Rio
Shane Finn plays, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard
Durango Green Drinks, 5-7 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Cult Movie Night “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” 6 p.m., Mancos Opera House, 136 W. Grand Ave., Mancos
Name That Tune Bingo Halloween Edition, 68 p.m., Barons Creek Vineyards, 901 Main Ave.
Nightmare on Elk Street Haunted House, 6-9 p.m., Durango Elks Lodge, 901 E. 2nd Ave.
Ben Gibson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Open Mic Night, 6 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr.
La La Bones plays, 6-9 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Rob Webster plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Durango Beer and Ice Company, 3000 Main Ave.
“Reclaiming Reclamation: Public Power, Climate Change and Glen Canyon’s Resurrection,” with author and journalist Zak Podmore, 6:30-8 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies, FLC
Rocky Horror Show, presented by Durango Arts Repertory Theatre, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. Second Ave.
Trivia Night hosted by Aria PettyOne, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.
Friday31
Thrift or Treat, 3-5:30 p.m., La Plata County Humane Society Thrift Store, 1111 S. Camino del Rio
Downtown Trick or Treat, 4-6 p.m., downtown
Children’s Halloween Carnival, 4-6 p.m., TBK Bank, 259 W. 9th St.
Halloween Trunk or Treat, 4-7 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds
Skalloween with music by John Cross and the Relics, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.
“Stay Tuned” mixed media by Benjamin Dukeminier opening reception, 5-7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E 2nd Ave.
Irish Music with Tom Ward’s Downfall, 6-8 p.m., Durango Winery, 900 Main Ave.
Larry Carver & Friends plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Matt Rupnow plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Nightmare on Elk Street Haunted House, 6-10 p.m., Durango Elks Lodge, 901 E. 2nd Ave.
San Juan Circus “A Book of Spells” (all ages), 6:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall, FLC
Squeaky Feet and Desiderata perform, 6:30 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr.
Rocky Horror Show, presented by Durango Arts Repertory Theatre, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. Second Ave.
Haunted Car Wash Tunnel, 7-10 p.m., Cascade Xpress Carwash, 1455 S. Camino Del Rio
Halloween Black Light Dance Party with Yes, No, Maybe & the Shallow Eddys, 7-11 p.m., American Legion, 878 E. 2nd Ave.
Jazz Church open jam session, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.
Monster’s Ball Extravaganza with YOPE performing, 8 p.m., The Subterrain, 900 Main Ave.
Vampire Party with music by Safety Meeting, Nu Bass Theory & Jaw, 8-11 p.m., The iNDIGO Room, 1315 Main Ave., #207
Halloween with Brain Spiders, 9 p.m., Black Heron Lounge, 736 Main Ave.
San Juan Circus “A Book of Spells” (adults only), 9-10:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall, FLC
Halloween Party with DJ Chris Love, 10 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave
Saturday01
Fall Car and Bike Show, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Durango Harley-Davidson, 750 S. Camino Del Rio
Community Open House, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Enchanted Treehouse Preschool, 17 Holly Hock Trail
Beading Circle, 1-3 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
“Portrait of Colorado at 150” Storytelling Initiative, 2-3 p.m., Animas Museum, 3065 W. 2nd Ave.
The Hive’s Grand Opening, 4-7 p.m., The Hive, 1175 Camino Del Rio
Adam Swanson plays ragtime, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Rob Webster plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Barons Creek Vineyards, 901 Main Ave.
Matt Rupnow plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Tyler Simmons play, 6-9 p.m., 11th Street Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Punk Night featuring Gabe Casual, KNFRMST, Wavelengths, Mommy Milkers and Undisassembled, 6:30 p.m., The Swarm, 1175 Camino Del Rio
Duffrey and Chmura with special guest Squoze perform, 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr
Rocky Horror Show, presented by Durango Arts Repertory Theatre, 7 & 10 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Sunday02
Flower Oil Painting Art Showcase and veteran’s breakfast, 9-11 a.m., Durango VFW, 1550 Main Ave.
Weekly Peace Vigil & Rally for Gaza & Palestine, every Sunday, 4 p.m., Buckley Park
Blue Moon Ramblers play, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Ben Gibson plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Lost Goat Market Days, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Lost Goat Tavern, 39848 HWY 160, Gem Village
Monday03
Happy Hour Yoga, 5:30 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.
ASL Learners Group, 5:30-7 p.m., Sunnyside Library, 75 CR 218
An Evening with Woody Tasch Founder of “Slow Money”, 6 p.m., Bread Café, 135 8th St.
Joel Racheff plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Terry Rickard plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Tuesday04
Stories in the Park, 10-11 a.m., Santa Rita Park, 111 S. Camino Del Rio
Talk with Venancio Aragon, Dine textile artist, 4:30 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies, FLC
AskRachel Hollow eve, breaking the code and faked out
Interesting fact: Two-factor authentication is not all that different than crafting a killer Halloween costume. To make it work, you just need two out of these three: something you know, something you have, and something you are.
Dear Rachel, I’m all for adults having their fun. Buy Lego sets. Go see “Wicked” 17 times. Whatever. But the Halloween dress-up standards have gone too far. Going to a Halloween party or your kids’ school shenanigans? Fine. Going to literally anything that is not a Halloween party and being asked to dress in costume? Get all the way off. Do you agree this is too far?
– Going as a Grownup
Dear Unmasked Menace, I need context! Do the costumes interfere with something important like, I don’t know, a dental exam? Am I at risk of putting an eye out on a vampire’s
Community Art Show Reception, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Durango Real Estate Investing Meetup, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave.
Book Club: “True Biz” by Sara Novic, 6-7:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
“Befriending the Body” mindfulness and meditation, 6-7:30 p.m., 4Corners Yoga, 1309 E .3rd Ave., #32
Author Talk & Book Signing: Kat Wilder “The Last Cows,” 6-8 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.
Andrew Schuhmann plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Sean O’Brien plays, 6-9 p.m., Office
lifted collar because we’re dressing up for rugby? Or is the only real risk that someone might get poked in the gaping wound in their soul that rages every time other people are simply enjoying themselves without causing actual harm to anyone? The way I see it, I dress up as a semi-functioning adult every day, and so far I keep getting rewarded with not dying. It’s not quite as good as a full-size Snickers, but it’ll do.
– Smell my feet, Rachel
Dear Rachel, I don’t understand two-factor authentication. You know, “hey we’re going to text you a number to make sure you’re you.” All that does is make sure that my hacker doesn’t have my phone. If someone got my phone (which has my email AND my authenticator app, by the way), they can two-factor their way into everything I own. What’s the reasoning here, and how does any of this work?
– One Finger to Two-Factor
Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Rotary Club of Durango presents DHS football player Mason Miller speaking about Ghana mission trip and fundraising, 6-7 p.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.
Barbershop tryouts, 6:30 p.m., Christ the King Church, 495 Florida Rd.
Open Mic, 7 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.
Wednesday05
“Southwest Remix” Invitational Exhibition, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Blue Rain Gallery, 934 Main Ave., Unit B
Artist Talk and Gallery Tour with Venancio Aragon, 4:30-6 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies, FLC
Dear Inconvenienced, Heck if I know. All I know is that I’m terrible at keeping secrets, and every single verification code I get expressly tells me not to share my code with anyone. And I can’t take it anymore. To everyone reading: my verification code is 964426.
– Happy hunting, Rachel
Dear Rachel, How old were you when you realized that just because someone is professional doesn’t mean they are actually any good at what they do? I know it real bad after being let down by a couple’s therapist who was more of a daytime show host, sparking fights with us and then letting us leave. You have any horror stories like this?
– Expert Disappointment
Dear Anti-Pro, Unfortunately, I figured this out in second grade when I went to see the nurse at school because my stomach
Elementary School, 2900 Mesa Ave.
Word Honey Poetry Workshop, 67:30 p.m., The Hive, 1175 Camino del Rio
Donny Johnson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Chuck Hank plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Ongoing
“From the Fringes: Dine Textiles that Disrupt” and “A Legacy of Gifts,” thru Nov. 13, Center of Southwest Studies, FLC
“Stay Tuned,” mixed media by Benjamin Dukeminier, Oct. 31-Nov. 14, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Danielle SeeWalker’s “Chó Snazz!” art exhibit, thru Nov. 19, FLC Art Gallery
Email Rachel at telegraph@durango telegraph.com
hurt. She told me I was fine – without even looking at my stomach. I was one disillusioned 8-year-old. This is why I feel better every Halloween about dressing up as a functioning adult: we’re all wearing costumes, baby. Some of us just have certificates on the wall to heighten the illusion.
– Passing, Rachel
Indigenous Ink: Empowering Stories in Comic Books, November, Maria’s Reading Room, 145 E. College
Upcoming
Tools for Cancer Caregivers, Thurs., Nov. 6, 4:30-6 p.m., 1701 Main Ave., Ste. C
Psych Rock, Doom, Grunge and Punk featuring Shu, Ora, Moon Farmer and Acid Wrench, Nov. 6, 6:30 p.m., The Swarm, 1175 Camino Del Rio
Durango Independent Film Best of Fest 2025, Thurs., Nov. 6, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Civic Winds Jazz Collective, Fri., Nov. 7, 7 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Drive
Author/Illustrator Event with Kayla Shaggy, Sat., Nov. 8, 4-6 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.
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FreeWillAstrology
by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to the American wildlife area known as Yellowstone Park after a 70-year absence. They hunted elk, which changed elk behavior, which changed vegetation patterns, which stabilized riverbanks, which altered the course of the Lamar River and its tributaries. The wolves changed the rivers! This phenomenon is called a trophic cascade: one species reorganizing an entire ecosystem through a web of indirect effects. For the foreseeable future, Aries, you will be a trophic cascade. Your choices will create many ripples beyond your personal sphere. I hope you wield your influence with maximum integrity.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I authorize you to explore the mysteries of sacred laziness. It’s your right and duty to engage in intense relaxing, unwinding and detoxifying. Proceed on the theory that rest is not the absence of productivity but a different kind of production – the cultivation of dreams, the composting of experience, and the slow fermentation of insight. What if your worth isn’t always measured by your output? What if being less active for a while is essential to your beautiful success in the future?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are not yet who you will become. Your current struggle has not yet generated its full wisdom. Your confusion hasn’t fully clarified into purpose. The mess hasn’t composted into soil. The ending that looms hasn’t revealed the beginning it portends. In sum, you are far from done. The story isn’t over. The verdict isn’t in. You haven’t met everyone who will love you and help you. You haven’t become delightfully impossible in all the ways you will eventually become delightfully impossible.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): By the time he became an elder, Cancerian artist David Hockney had enjoyed a long and brilliant career as a painter, primarily applying paint to canvases. Then, at age 72, he made a radical departure, generating artworks using iPhones and iPads. He loved how these digital media allowed him to instantly capture fleeting moments of beauty. His success with this alternate form of expression has been as great as his previous work. I encourage you to be as daring and innovative. Your imaginative energy and creative powers are peaking. Take full advantage!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Black activist Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” He was proclaiming a universal truth: Real courage is never just about personal glory. It’s about using your fire to help illuminate others. You Leos are made to do this: to be bold not just for your own sake but as a source of strength for your community. Your charisma and creativity can be precious resources for all those whose lives you touch. How will you wield them for mutual uplift?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Who would have predicted that the first woman to climb Mount Everest would have three planets in Virgo? Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei did it in 1975. She described herself not as fearless, but as “a person who never gives up.” I will note another key character trait: rebellious willfulness. In her time, women were discouraged from the sport. They were regarded as too fragile for rugged ascents. She defied all that. Let’s make her your inspirational role model, Virgo. Be persistent, resolute, indefatigable and, if necessary, renegade.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Among the Mbuti people of the Congo, there’s no word for “thank you.” Gratitude is so foundational to their culture that it requires no special acknowledgment. It’s not singled out in moments of politeness; it’s a sweet ambient presence in the daily flux. I invite you to live like that. Practice feeling reverence and respect for every little thing that makes your life such an amazing gift. Feel your appreciation humming through ordinary moments like background music. I guarantee this will boost the flow of gratitudeworthy experiences in your direction.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Martin Luther King Jr. said that harnessing pain and transforming it into wise love can change the world for the better. More than any other sign, Scorpio, you understand this mystery: how descent can lead to renewal, how darkness can awaken brilliance. Embody King’s militant tenderness: take what has wounded you, alchemize it and make it into a force that heals others as well as yourself. You have the natural power to demonstrate that vulnerability and ferocity can coexist, that forgiveness can live alongside uncompromising truth. When you transmute your shadows into offerings of power, you confirm King’s conviction that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in seemingly random data. It can be a generator of life’s poetry, leading us to see faces in clouds, hear fateful messages in static and find revelations in a horoscope. Psychologist C.G. Jung articulated another positive variation. His concept of synchronicity refers to meaningful coincidences between internal psychological states and external events that feel deeply significant and even astounding to the person experiencing them. Synchronicities suggest there’s a mysterious underlying order in the universe, linking mind and matter in nonrational ways. In the coming weeks, I suspect you will experience a slew of synchronicities and the good kind of apophenia.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Philosopher Alfred Korzybski coined the phrase “the map is not the territory.” In other words, your concepts about reality are not reality itself. Your idea of love is not love. Your theory about who you are is not who you are. It’s true that many maps are useful fictions. But when you forget they’re fiction, you’re lost even when you think you know where you are. Here’s the good news, Capricorn: In the weeks ahead, you are poised to see and understand the world exactly as it is – maybe more than ever before. Lean into this awesome opportunity.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Babies are born with about 300 bones, but adults have 206. Many of our first bones fuse with others. From one perspective, we begin our lives abundant with possibility and rich with redundancy. Then we solidify, becoming structurally sound but less flexible. Aging is a process of strategic sacrifice, necessary but not without loss. Meditate on this as a metaphor for decisions you face. The question isn’t whether to ripen and mature, but which growth will serve you and which will diminish you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Beneath every thriving forest lies a lacework of mycelium. Through it, tree roots trade nourishment, warn each other of drought or illness, and make sure that young shoots benefit from elders’ reserves. Scientists call it the “wood-wide web.” Indigenous traditions have long understood: Life flourishes when a vast communication network operates below the surface to foster care and collaboration. Take your cues from these themes. Tend creatively to the web of connections that joins you to collaborators and kindred spirits. Proceed with the faith that generosity multiplies pathways and invites good fortune to circulate freely. Offer what you can, knowing that the cycle of giving will find its way back to you.
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Announcements
Roller Skating Club for adults forming. Interested? Come join us at Zia North upstairs 11/4 at 7pm. All are welcome! Questions? Call / text Todd @ 970-799-0139
HelpWanted
The Hive is Hiring a FT Director of Programs and Operations. Email kelsie@hivedgo.org for position description and more information. Experience in youth programs preferred
Lost/Found
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Classes/Workshops
Sacred Psoas Offering Dr. Keneen Hope McNiven at Yoga Durango Nov 9th. Is your hip flexor creating back, hip or groin pain? Your psoas has everything to do with stress, fatigue, pain and sleep loss. Healing happens when your psoas, diaphragm and vagus nerve find freedom and fluidity. Find out more: yogadurango.com or Dr. Keneen 303513-8055. Early bird ends Nov 2nd.
Men's Yoga
Every Tuesday, 7:30-8:30 AM at Yogadurango. All levels welcome.
All Levels Yoga
Thursdays 10am, Smiley Room 32. Props provided. Accessible class for continuing beginners who want to focus on functional movement and fundamental actions within standing, seated, twisting, forward and backward bending postures. www.k-lea.com (303) 819-9076
West Coast Swing
Ready to dance? Join our 3-week West Coast Swing Basics series for beginners! It’s fun, social, and easy to learn—no partner or experience needed. A new series starts every few weeks, so join us for the next one! We also offer a weekly social dance – a fun drop-in option or included with your series registration! Sign up at: www.westslopewesties.com
Wanted
Books Wanted at White Rabbit Donate/Trade/Sell 970 259-2213
ForSale
Screen Printing Business for Sale
Over 100 screens, multiple presses, flash dryer, screen maker, squeegees. Call Greg at 970-247-3457 to see equipment.
Services
Need Help Raking Leaves? Call Chris 970-442-1021
Boiler Service - Water Heater
Serving Durango over 30 years. Brad, 970-759-2869. Master Plbg Lic #179917
Holistic Nurse - Health Coaching & private yoga lessons. Pro bono nurse coaching offered by Allison Scobie BSN, RN, YTT-200. Call/text 970-946-7537.
Massage by Meg Bush LMT, 30, 60 & 90 min., 970-759-0199.
CommunityService
Free Dental Care for Veterans
Dr. Blake Brown and staff are proudly donating free dental care to veterans on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Please call for an appointment or more info: 970-247-9549.
Tools for Cancer Caregivers free workshop. Nov. 6, 4:30-6 p.m. 1701 Main Ave., above the Community Banks building. Pre-registration advised, www. cancersupportswco.org or 970-403-3711
‘Weapons’ Perfect Halloween week treat to feed your need for a case of the creeps – Lainie Maxson
Honor Military Veterans at Greenmount Cemetery by purchasing a wreath for $17 at www.bluestar momsofdurango.org. Volunteers are needed Nov. 8 to premark veteran graves. Checks can be mailed to Blue Star Moms of Durango, P.O. Box 874, Bayfield, CO 81122. The deadline to purchase a wreath is Fri., Nov. 28.
Dementia/Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support group and information/resources to those caring for a loved one with dementia/Alzheimer’s on the 1st, 3rd & 5h Wednesdays of each month, 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon, La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. For info., email cajunmc @gmail.com or go to www.alz/ org/co
Dog Fosters Needed Parker’s Animal Rescue urgently needs foster families to provide temporary homes for rescued dogs. We supply crates, food, leashes, toys and support, and cover vet visits. Apply at: parkersani malresuce.com.
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