Community News & Notes

Basalts final Garden Walk About for the summer season will meet at noon today, Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Red Caboose in Lions Park.Join Lisa DiNardo, Basalt town horticulturist, for this seasons last tour through different areas of Basalts beautiful gardens. For more information, call 927-4723 or visit http://www.basalt.net/gardens.

Communities in Motion and Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) are celebrating the opening of the new park-and-ride facility in Carbondale at the corner of Highway 133 and Village Road, at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, with a free barbecue lunch and an official ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m.Communities in Motion, a valleywide partnership between RFTA, the city of Aspen, and the town of Snowmass Village, promotes alternative transportation in the Roaring Fork Valley. For more information about the new Carbondale park-and-ride celebration, RFTA routes or other alternative modes of transportation, call 384-4984 or visit http://www.communitiesinmotion.net.