Preschool open house, enrollment Aug. 28
The Silverton Family Learning Center is conducting open enrollment and an open house at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28.
The purpose is to open the school to visitors and prospective students to learn about SFLC programs, enroll for the coming school year, and learn about financial aid programs and policies. 
A Spanish translator will be on hand and enrollment forms available in Spanish.  Programs are open for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years.

Flea market fun at Visitors Center Sept. 7
The Silverton Jamboree will conduct a community flea market on Sunday, Sept. 7 at the Visitors Center from noon to 4 p.m.
Live bluegrass music, food and drinks will be offered.
Donate $25 to the Jamboree to get a booth at the flea market and get rid of some of that extra stuff while keeping 100 percent of your sales proceeds. Call 387-5654 to reserve a spot.
 
Historical Society plans great giveaway
The San Juan County Historical Society is giving away a lot of stuff on Saturday, Aug. 23.
Items includee new ceiling tile, a modern desk, large modern windows, banks of Post Office boxes (“We are saving a bank for display purposes,” said Historical Society President Bev Rich), modern light fixtures, electrical wiring and other items.
The great giveaway will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the old Engine House, Ninth and Cement streets.
Donations will be welcome.

Peak named after mathematician

The United States Board of Geographic Names in Reston, Va., a division of the United States Geologic Survey, voted Aug. 4 to name a peak in the San Juan Mountains in honor of internationally renowned mathematician and Colorado native Donald C. Spencer.  
Spencer, while teaching at Princeton University in the 1950s—then known as the “center of the mathematical universe”—was a mentor to John Nash, whose story was told in the movie “A Beautiful Mind.”
At institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Princeton and Stanford universities, Spencer worked with some of the great mathematical minds of the 20th century.
 The 13,087 foot-high Spencer Peak, part of a triad formation including Grand Turk and Sultan mountains, is located in the San Juan National Forest west of U.S. 550 near Little Molas Lake.
 

Quilt raffle raises $933 for brass band festival
Phyllis Schenlle of Tulsa, Okla., is the winner of the American Legion Post 14  quilt raffle, held during the Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass Band Festival.
In addition, the American Legion post presented the brass band festival officials with a check for $918, the proceeds from the raffle.
The Legion post thanks all who participated, and especially Nancy Hoffer, who made the quilt patterned from festival T-shits.