The 12th Annual Gila River Festival will be held September 22nd through the 25th in Silver City. Events will include presentations and tours on topics including Mangas Springs, the Continental Divide Trail, Floodplain Diversity, and Birding. A schedule and more information is available at gilaconservation.org
There will be a Nonprofit Compliance Workshop offered on September 22nd from 9 am to noon. Regional experts will clarify the changing regulations in the Fair Labor Act. To register, call 313-3031. Seating is limited and early registration is recommended
There will be a series of blood drives in honor of September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Drives will be held at Western New Mexico University and Billy Casper Wellness Center on Wednesday, September 21st from 11 am to 3 pm, and at Gila Regional Medical Center on Thursday from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
In conjunction with the Gila River Festival, children are invited to the Silver City Museum on September 24th from 10:30 to noon to make mosaics out of paper rock squares. There will be mosaic patterns they can follow or kids can create their own. Call 538-5921
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, and the Silver City Public Library is celebrating with free library card replacements on Wednesday, September 28th between 9 am and 5:30 pm
The Western Institute of Lifelong Learning Lunch and Learn will be held September 28th at noon in the WNMU Global Resource Center ABC Room. This week, Andrea Warner and Jeff Goin introduce “Silver City Seva.” Seva is a Sanscrit word which means selfless service. Call 538-6835
The Concert Band of the Southwest will kick off it’s seventh season with the “First Concert of the Fall” on Wednesday, September 28th at the Cobre High School Auditorium. The concert begins at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30. Seating is open and free. Call 388-7874
The Southwest Festival of the Written Word presents its even-numbered year event, the 2016 Prologue Weekend, on September 29th through October 1st. For more information, visit swwordfiesta.org
Join Life Quest for an Open House and Ribbon Cutting to celebrate the dedication of Life Quest’s Peoples’ Park and MRAC Youth Mural “I Am Me” at Life Quest, 907 N Pope Street at 2:30 pm on Thursday, September 29th. Call 388-1976
For our Lordsburg listeners, the HMS Lordsburg Clinic will be holding a free flu vaccination drive-through clinic on October 1st from 9 am to noon. Please enter off E. DeMoss Street. Call (888) 271-3596 for more information
