TODAY
A HEART FOR ADOPTION
To help special-needs children and older children looking for adoptive families, the Heart Gallery of Colorado arranges an exhibit of their portraits. For the next three months, Focus on the Family is housing the Colorado Heart Gallery collection at its Colorado Springs facility. Get a fresh perspective on children who desperately need parents and stability in their troubled lives.
Heart Gallery exhibit, Focus on the Family headquarters, 8605 Explorer Drive, Colorado Springs; and online at
MORE FOR THE WEEK
TODAY
Watch cops literally fight each other at this boxing fundraiser for Rich Maez, founder of the Littleton Boxing Club and the Denver Police Youth Boxing Team, and the youngest U.S. Olympic Training Center boxing coach. Maez needs a new kidney (a bad place to take a hit, financially or in the ring). The $25 tickets are tax-deductible; put “DPPA Relief Fund/Rich Maez on the check’s memo line. 5-9 p.m., PPA Event Center, 2105 Decatur St., Denver
WEDNESDAY
“The Return of the Galloping Goose No. 5” is a documentary film about a Delores group’s efforts to restore a Galloping Goose – a transport railcar, not a ski run – in the 1930s. 12:30 p.m., Wilkinson Public Library, 100 W. Pacific Ave., Telluride; 970-728-6613
THURSDAY
“The Science of Steam” lecture examines the steam-powered trains that so capably served Telluride’s mines. The lecturer is a professor of theoretical chemistry from Boston University, and tickets are $10. 5:30 p.m., Telluride Historical Museum, 201 W. Gregory Ave., Telluride; 970-728-3344
SATURDAY
That plant’s yucca-y! Learn to weave with the Southwest’s iconic yucca plant at this hands-on workshop. The $20 fee includes a copy of instructor Maria Westy Bush’s book “Yucca: The Amazing Plant.” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., El Pueblo History Museum, 301 N. Union Ave., Pueblo; 719-583-0453
SATURDAY
The Rocky Mountain Churchillians celebrate the 133rd anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s birth today with a lecture on the great man’s strategic philosophy. Cost: $65 for dinner, wine and presentation. 6 p.m., University Club, 1673 Sherman St., Denver; 303-697-9461
