Saturday, July 16, 2011

Hall of Fame Nominations - Dan Rodgerson

The Glenwood Springs Community Center is calling for nominations for a 2002 Hall of Fame inductee. Nominations for the 2002 inductee are due by Friday, Nov. 1. Nominees must be currently or have been a resident of Glenwood Springs. Nomination forms are available through the Glenwood Springs chamber, 1102 Grand Ave.; the Community Center, 2301 Wulfsohn Road; or City Hall, 101 Eighth St. For more information, call Dan Rodgerson at 384-6301.

Local author Jerry D. Mohrlang will give a slide presentation, "Adventure in Borneo" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Glenwood Springs Branch Library, 413 9th Street. Mohrlang is the author of "Sarawak," a newly published work of historical fiction set in Borneo. The program is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a book-signing. Through The Looking Glass bookstore and the Glenwood Springs Branch Library are sponsoring the event. For more information, call 945-5958.

Learn to square dance. Lessons will begin Tuesday, Oct. 15, at Roy Moore Elementary School in Silt. Singles and couples of all ages invited. Single men especially needed. Dance to master caller Dan Seeley of Meeker. For more information, call P.J. Miller at 984-0801.

The reference department of the Garfield County Public Library system will sponsor a program on genealogy, "Beyond Death Certificates: Newspaper Records" at the Silt library at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11. Professional genealogist Barbara Henritze will speak about newspaper articles that can help in a genealogy search. The program is free. For more information, call the Silt library at 876-5500 or Sharon at 947-0512.

Carbondale will shut down the irrigation ditches on Oct. 15. If you have any questions, please call the public works department at 963-1307. We would like to thank everyone for their patience and understanding during this drought period. Through everyone's cooperative efforts, we all seemed to have enough water when it was needed. If there is any water left in the river next year, we expect to have the ditches back on around the first of April.

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