Community Calendar

Cortez Integrated Healthcare hosts a peer-led addiction recovery support group every Tuesday at 5:00 PM. Participants will learn practical recovery tools in a supportive, non-12-step environment.

From Tuesday, April 7th until Wednesday, April 15th, Health Without Barriers will host a six week wellness program in Mancos for teens aged eleven to nineteen.

This program will include health education, cooking and nutrition classes and stress coping skills.

Dates, times and further information are available by calling Elvia on 970-286-1866.

As part of Public Health Week, on Tuesday, April 7th at 6:00pm, Montezuma County Public Health will be holding a 5K Run and Walk beginning at the amphitheater in Parque de Vida, Cortez.

The Cortez City Council meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at City Hall on Roger Smith Ave. starting at 7pm.

The SAFE Coalition will host a conversation hour every second Wednesday of the month at Wild Edge Brewing Collective in Cortez from 8:00 to 9:00am for ranchers and farmers.

Working on suicide prevention in Montezuma County, The SAFE Coalition seeks to create a simple space for ranchers and farmers to connect with one another over coffee.

Further information is available by calling Nionna Phillips on (970) 564 4778.

The Montezuma Heritage Museum is hosting a traveling exhibition on Ute Knowledge through April.

The exhibit highlights how the Ute have used, and continue to use, science, technology, engineering, and math to live in the Rocky Mountains, with hands-on activities for visitors.

More information and hours are available at montezumamuseum.org.

From Wednesday, April 1st for a week, Cortez Public Library will be a hosting a dinosaur egg hunt.

Participants who find all the eggs will earn a dinosaur of their own.

The Turquoise Art Gallery in Cortez will host an exhibition of paintings by artist Bobbe Jones throughout April. Many of the pieces will focus on the theme of birds.

Further information and opening times are available at turquoiseravenartgallery.com

The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society invites the public to a presentation in the Lyceum at the Center of Southwest Studies on Wednesday, April 8th at 7:00 pm.

Dr. Angela Huster, a Senior Archaeologist at Chronicle Heritage, will present a discussion on the Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona titled “Cotton, Intra-regional Specialization, and the Hohokam Northern Periphery“.

Further information is available at sjbas.org

Southwest Conservation Corps are filling high school member positions for June and July. These positions offer an opportunity to engage in meaningful conservation work in The Four Corners Region.

Further information is available by calling (970) 946 0211 or visiting sccorps.org/youth.