LECTURES LIFE SURVIVAL. Up the Creek Without a Paddle: How to Survive Life's Transitions, a workshop that gives practical suggestions on navigating changes in the areas of jobs, relationships and finance, is offered from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 8. Cost is $25. Call 696-0495 for registration and location. VISION LOSS. Tucson Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired offers a free lecture entitled Coping with Vision Loss at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at Campaña del Rio Retirement Community, 1550 E. River Road. Call 299-1941 for information. SPIRITUAL GROWTH GROUP. A new weekly day-time Spiritual Growth Group will begin Thursday, May 2 at 2 p.m. at Sunrise Chapel, 8421 E. Wrightstown Road. Classes will continue for 13 weeks stressing inner serenity and facets of behavior that lead to a better understanding of relationships. Registration is required. Call the church office weekdays, 298-1245. An $8 materials fee is the only cost. ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURE. Gary Christopherson, Ph.D., presents The Madaba Plains Project: How Archaeologists are Utilizing Geographic Information Systems in Jordon at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at the Franklin Building, Room 202, UA campus. Lecture is free. Sponsored by the Arizona Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. Call 690-0279 for information. GROWING OLD. The UA faculty lecture series continues with a free lecture by John T. Boyer, M.D., entitled Why Do We Grow Old? The Biology of Aging at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, at UMC DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Call 621-3512 for information. TALES FROM GUATEMALA. Doña Antonia de Taulico, President of Widows and Orphans Committee in Pacux, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, and survivor of the 1982 Rio Negro massacres, speaks and answers questions about past and current issues in Guatemala, at 7 p.m. Friday, May 3, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 4831 E. 22nd Street. Call 889-1380 for information. PEACE CORPS. Three generations of Peace Corps volunteers from the Philippines speak from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the Wilmot Library, 520 N. Wilmot Road. Presented by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Southern Arizona. Call 797-8746 for information. ARTHRITIS AWARENESS. Check out Arthritis Awareness Day from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, at the Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Road. This free information fair includes presentations about many forms of arthritis and physical fitness for those who suffer from it. Call the Arthritis Foundation at 290-9090 for information.

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