Common Press hosts speaker, open house
Mancos Common Press this Saturday is hosting a lecture and open house, featuring Matt Neff of the Common Press at the University of Pennsylvania. The theme of Neff’s lecture is “Celebrating histories and innovations through preservation, education, and engagement with artists and communities.”
Neff is the director of the Common Press at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 2008 was awarded the Penn Design Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. Last year, he was instrumental in getting the Mancos Common Press’ antique Cranston Printing Press up and running.
The lecture starts at 4 p.m. at the Mancos Community Center, and an open house will be held across the street at the Mancos Common Press headquarters at 5 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Seed Saving Workshop slated at library
The Mancos Public Library and Laughing Wolf Farm are collaborating on a Seed Saving Workshop.
The morning session includes an overview of seed saving and a seed tour at Laughing Wolf Farm. The afternoon session focuses on seed cleaning and the Mancos Seed Library and takes place at Mancos Public Library.
Seeds will be available for harvesting at Laughing Wolf Farm during the morning session. For the afternoon session, you are welcome to bring your own seeds to clean, sort, and save or if you choose, donate seeds to the Mancos Seed Library.
To RSVP or for more information, contact Lee-Ann at laughingwolffarm@gmail.com or 970-560-5486, or Shaine at sgans@mancoslibrary.org or 970-533-7600.
Laughing Wolf Farm is located at 8411 Road 41 in Mancos.
Phillips: Water project wrapping up this month
Town administrator Andrea Phillips says the $1.1 million Water System Improvement project should be wrapped up by the end of October.
As part of the project, the town’s contractor has installed a 430,000 gallon water storage tank, made upgrades to the pump house, and is working to tie in enlarged water lines and new valves at the Colorado Highway 184 and U.S. Highway 160 intersection.
The town worked with contractors to install a meter and to install wiring for a backup generator. All these improvements will help improve the resiliency of the water system and the treatment plant. Town administration anticipates that the water system overhaul will be completed by the end of this month. Town staff appreciates the understanding of Mancos water customers as water is temporarily shut down to allow for these upgrades to be made.
Empire Electric plans power outage on Oct. 23
Empire Electric Association has planned an outage that will affect members in the town of Mancos and the surrounding areas including:
East of Mesa Verde entrance (Road 34989 on U.S. 160)
North to Road P on Colo.
