LECTURES ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER. Doubletree Hotel. 441 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200. Dr. Gary K. Yamamoto presents a seminar entitled: Professional Power, Personal Excellence, from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 27. Cost is $29.95 and registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Call 742-4384 for more information. ADOPTION INFORMATION. Northwest Neighborhood Center. 2160 N. Sixth Ave. The Arizona Children's Home presents Adoption Information Meetings: A First Step to Join Adoptive Families With Waiting Children at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 29. Call 622-7611 for information. HISPANIC TRADITIONS. El Centro Cultural. 40 W. Broadway. Learn more about Hispanic traditions and culture at El Centro Cultural de las Americas free platicas (conversations) series. At 2 p.m. Sunday, July 28, Fred McAninch discusses Pullman City: Lost Barrio of NW Tucson. Call 748-8910 for information. ALMOST NADER. Green Valley Library, Green Valley. A video-taped lecture of Ralph Nader screens at 10 a.m. Thursday, August 1. Call Bob Steck at (520) 548-5683 for information. NATURAL RESOURCE. The Book Mark. 5001 E. Speedway. 881-6350. Imagine a home made from an inexpensive, annually renewable resource. One that has superior fire resistance and thermal insulation and costs half the price of a comparable conventional home. At 7 p.m. Thursday, July 25, Athena and Bill Swentzell Steen present a free slide lecture entitled The Straw Bale House. Call 881-6350 for information. PERCEPTUAL ACUITY. Learn how to break away from yourself and better understand the signals other people are trying to send at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 25. Cost is $15 and reservations are required. Call the NLP Wellness Center at 325-4138 for location and information. THEN AND NOW. The Arizona Historical Society. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. The Arizona Historical Society presents its summer lecture series, Faces and Spaces: Tucson's Communities Then and Now, at 7 p.m. Wednesday evenings through August 21. On July 31 Duane Bingham presents Binghampton: Tucson's First Mormon Community. Cost is $5 per lecture or $30 for the series, with AHS and student discounts available. Call 628-5774 for information. Upcoming WOMEN ON THE MOVE. The YWCA presents the eighth annual Women's Leadership Conference from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, October 4, 1996, at the Westin La Paloma. Keynote speakers are author Debra Benton, attorney Sarah Weddington and Sheila Wellington, president of Catalyst, the premier national non-profit research and advisory organization on women's private sector leadership. Cost is $80 and includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Call the YWCA at 884-7810 for registration and information. Registration deadline is October 1.

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