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LECTURESCALLING ALL TEACHERS. The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality is sponsoring a free air-quality workshop for local educators from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, October 26, at the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality Clean Air Program office, 130 W. Congress St. Emphasis will be on local air pollution issues. Registration is required by 5 p.m. Friday, October 25. Call 740-3344 for registration and information.CELEBRATE ARIZONA. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-1380. The Arizona Heritage Alliance presents a lecture with Dr. David Yetman, beginning with a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, October 26. Tickets to the luncheon are $18.50, which includes admission to the museum and lunch. Call (602) 266-6586 for reservations and information. CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK. Question about assistive technology resources for people with disabilities will be answered during a free lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday, October 24, at Direct, 1023 N. Tyndall Ave. The Consumer Action Network is a statewide, grassroots network of community members interested in issues involving technology and disabilities. Call 624-6452 for information. DIG DEEP. Arizona Historical Society. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. One of Arizona's greatest assets has been its mineral wealth. The AHS fall lecture series, Digging Earth's Treasures: Arizona Mining Through the Ages, uncovers how the search for the earth's bounty has influenced Arizona's history and development. Lectures are from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday evenings, continuing through November 20. On October 30, Dr. Charles W. Polzer presents Spanish Prospectors: Arizonac, Fact and Fiction. Cost is $5 per lecture, $3 for students. Free, lighted parking is available at the AHS parking lot on the ground floor of the UA Main Gate parking garage. Call 628-5774 for information. DISCOVERING FUNDY. One of Canada's leading science and environmental writers, Harry Thurston, will lecture on the natural wonders of Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 24, at St. Philip's Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave. The Bay of Fundy is a repository of North America's oldest dinosaurs, migratory feeding ground for millions of shore-birds, refuge to whales, and home to one of North America's oldest cultures. Admission is $7. Call 626-4444 to register. LATIN AMERICAN CENTER SERIES. The UA Latin American Area Center hosts Carlos Castillo Peraza, secretary of international relations for the National Action Party (PAN) at 7 p.m. Monday, October 28, in the Modern Languages Building auditorium on the north side of the UA mall. This free lecture is open to the public. Call the Latin American Area Center at 622-4002 for information. PRENATAL PREPARATION. Family Maternity Clinic. 3838 N. Campbell Ave. 318-6393. If you're preparing to support your wife, partner, friend or relative through labor and birth, you'll want to attend Prepared Partners, a free class led by Misty Gomez, CCE, DOULA, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 30. You'll learn more about the emotional needs of a woman in labor and the "tricks of the trade" in labor support. Call 318-6393 for registration and information. |
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