Birthdays: ANDREW GINSBERG, SHEILA ODLAUG, NANCY TAYLOR, CHRIS COVEDON, ROY ROGERS, BRYAN ADAMS, STEVE MILLER, TATUM O’NEIL, SAM SHEPARD, IKE TURNER, EDWIN ENTNER, THERESA JOHNS, PAUL SIMON, ELKE SOMMER, WARREN GILBREATH, LEE LAYTON
Today, Tuesday, November 5th, is Election Day! Head to your polling location and exercise your right to vote (if you haven’t already voted by mail-in, drop-off, or early voting. KOTO News will have all available election results as soon as they are available. Tune in starting at 6 p.m. tonight, or come by the Purple House on Pine and have some cake and comradery to celebrate (or mourn) the results.
Tonight, Tuesday, November 5th, the Bardic Trails Online Poetry series meets at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Email art@tellurideinstitute.org for a Zoom link to join the meeting. Tonight’s featured poets are Zoey Mckenzie & Milton Bluehouse, Jr.
Join Wilkinson Public Library and Bright Futures tomorrow, Wednesday, November 6th, from 5-6:30pm for a FREE family workshop about Screen Time. Dinner, child care and Spanish interpretation will be provided. See you at the library!
Telluride Rotary Club meets tomorrow, Wednesday, November 6th, from 5:30 - 7 p.m. via Zoom. Anyone with an interest in networking and service is welcome to drop in as a guest. The club meets to socialize from 5:30 to 6 p.m. at Mountain Lodge and then the meeting runs from 6 to 7 p.m. See telluriderotary.com for more info and follow @telluriderotary on Instagram.
KOTO is seeking volunteers for the annual Ski Swap coming up on Saturday, November 9th! Head to koto.org for a link to the volunteer sign up page. Have items to sell? Get your tags in advance at the Purple House on Pine through 5 p.m. on Thursday, November 7th, or get tags at the drop-off at Wilkinson Public Library Garage on Friday, November 8th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tags are $1 each, cash only.
On Friday, November 8th, Prospect Basin in the Telluride Ski Resort will be closed to all traffic and uses while the Telluride Ski Patrol conducts a Howitzer firing mission. Please avoid the area, and stay away from both Prospect Ridge and Gold Hill Ridge. Signs and closures will be posted at all entrances to the basin. Please contact Ian Kirkwood at 970-728-7310 with any questions.
Telluride Education Foundation's (TEF) Fall Raffle Fundraiser is live now, featuring two awesome prizes to get you ready for the ski season: an unrestricted '24-'25 season ski pass and a pair of Wagner skis!! Ticket sales end at 1pm this Friday, November 8th, and the drawing will be one hour later (2pm on 11/8) in the lobby of the Palm Theater. You do not have to be present to win. TEF will contact you via phone and/or email by 3pm on Friday if you have won a prize.