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January 14th, 2010
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Author: Shanti Sellz and Debbie Weingarten
by Mari Herreras
As interest grows in sustainable living and local foods, the demand for farmers will increase. Enter Debbie Weingarten (right) and Shanti Sellz (left), the youth education coordinator and the youth garden coordinator, respectively, at the Marana Heritage Farm’s Youth Farm Project. Weingarten says that only 3 percent of U.S. farmers are younger than 35. She and Sellz would like to change that, and they hope their apprenticeship and internship programs can also teach kids about where our food comes from,…
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Sol Gómez
by Mari Herreras
Sol Gómez, manager of the Sam Lena-South Tucson Branch of the Pima County Public Library, was recently given an I Love My Librarian Award, along with 10 other librarians from across the country, by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and The New York Times. Gómez, who was nominated by Pima County Supervisor Ramón Valadez, received $5,000 and traveled to New York for an awards ceremony on Dec. 3. For more information about Gómez and the award, visit www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian. For…
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Sheryl WuDunn
by Mari Herreras
Sheryl WuDunn’s book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, co-written with her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, shares stories that show how changing women’s lives can change the world, from adding economic opportunity to decreasing violence. The authors hope its buzz creates a social movement to create global and local change. WuDunn was in Tucson on Thursday, Dec. 10, to help the Girl Scouts, the YWCA and the Emerge! Center Against Domestic Violence kick…
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Theodore Buchholz
by Mari Herreras
While growing up in South Carolina, Theodore Buchholz discovered the cello; with the help of the right teacher, he discovered the camaraderie of performing with and learning from other cellists. Buchholz says he hopes to re-create that experience with the local chapter of the American String Teachers Association at the first Tucson Cello Congress, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 12, at Tucson High School. The cost is $20 and includes lunch. For more information, visit www.astaaz.com/news.php?id=87, or…
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Dan Brock
by Amanda Portillo
UA staff member Dan Brock, a film and music editor, is the co-founder of CueTime Software, which developed a program that is helping to revolutionize sound editing in films. The first major project to use CueTime is the new James Cameron film, Avatar, coming out on Dec. 18. After a five-year absence from the UA, Brock recently returned from Los Angeles to the UA’s School of Media Arts, where he helps students produce and shoot their films. How did you…
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Kelly Griffith
by Mari Herreras
The Southwest Center for Economic Integrity’s People Around Us was published in 2005. The goal of the book was to shed light on the lives of homeless and low-wage workers through poetry, stories and photography. Deputy director Kelly Griffith says she put out a call for submissions when she first started with the center, back in 2003. The most interesting submission to her was a poem written by a waitress on a worn guest ticket. Copies of the book are…
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Joan Ashcraft
by Amanda Portillo
Opening Minds Through the Arts (OMA) is a program that has been in the Tucson Unified School District since 1999, and it’s been a great success story, incorporating the arts into elementary and middle schools’ core curricula. Joan Ashcraft is the director of fine and performing arts for TUSD and manages OMA. For more information, visit www.omaproject.org. Why was OMA created? OMA was created by some TUSD principals, artists, arts teachers and myself. We did it in response to the…
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Marc David Leviton
by Mari Herreras
Marc David Leviton doesn’t make art for decoration, but to make people feel and think. Leviton says that’s why he continues to curate shows like God and Me and Contradiction, at Steve Murray’s Holy Joe Studio, 1124 N. Stone Ave., with 53 artworks by 28 artists. Leviton says the show, extended through Nov. 28, wraps around the themes of God, the modern human experience and the unwanted. For more information, call 624-7099. What other shows have you done at Murray’s…
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Bob Benzinger
by Mari Herreras
Bob Benzinger spent 25 years traveling the world in the U.S. Foreign Service. Although he retired in 1999, he keeps up on foreign affairs and teaches classes at Pima Community College on foreign policy. His next six-week class, “Current Topics in Foreign Policy,” starts at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 401 N. Bonita Ave. The class, which costs $79, begins with a report card on the Obama administration’s foreign policy to date. To register, call 206-6468; for more information,…
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Bill Ford
by Mari Herreras
Bill Ford started the blog Dad on Fire in July, feeling empowered after taking a leadership class with Landmark Forum in Phoenix. At the time, Ford was embarking on a new relationship with his 22-year-old son, a recovering heroin addict. The Tucson architect wants to create a resource and forum for others to learn more about drug addiction—and to perhaps create more compassion in society for addicts and their families. Check out Ford’s blog at dadonfire.net. Before your son, did…
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