Here’s some information on an upcoming event sponsored by Make Way for Books, a local literacy program.
Make Way for the 5th Annual Story Town!
Meet Maya & Miguel, Curious George and Clifford at Make Way for Books’ 5th Annual Story Town from 11 am to 4 pm in Jácome Plaza on Saturday, November [...]

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I stole the blurbs below from the Tucson Weekly’s endorsements, which on the whole I agree with anyway. If anyone has compelling arguments against one or more of their endorsements, feel free to share here in the comments. So besides voting for Obama/Biden, TucsonMama encourages you to vote YES on Prop 403, to improve our [...]

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This Halloween, kids can become mad scientists at Flandrau: The UA Science Center.
Parents can “rest in peace” as the science center opens its doors for five spooktacular nights of safe fun and festivities, featuring educational chills and thrills galore.
Spooktacular Science offers families plenty of fun-filled spooky science activities and games for kids of all ages [...]

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Oh, I love you, Sandra. Have a listen.

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Attention Parents!: Would you like to participate in a free science workshop, receive a stipend for your time, receive privileged “behind-the-scenes” access to local parks and museums, AND learn a great way to connect with your kids and learn some fun “everyday” science? Then join SPARKS Across America! Tucson partners Tucson Children’s [...]

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First, this, from TucsonMama Melissa:
Arizona Breastfeeding Coalition is having a Breastfeeding Health Fair during World Breastfeeding Week. The event will be on Saturday, August 2nd from
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Northwest Neighborhood Center, 2160 N. 6th Avenue.
And this from our fabulous friend Becca. (psst, it’s moderately good press about Tucson…) Curious–of the [...]

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Depressing and troubling. More talk about closing local school (because bigger classrooms in faraway schools are just what our kids need). It’s horrifying and a bit embarrassing to read about the flawed audit and the estimates of savings from the closures–the mistakes and confusion about these matters is upsetting.
Sharing the front page with the article [...]

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From our friend/reader Erika:I know you are a concerned parent, and I know that you will also help a person in need.  I am asking you to help those of us who want and even NEED to keep our TUSD elementary schools open, for the sake of our own children, and for the sake of [...]

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Thank you, Ilana, for this.

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We wrote about this a few weeks ago, and it looks like the situation is as bad as it seemed it might be.
One TucsonMama reader, Erika, wrote to say this: “I hope you’ll agree that the Board shouldn’t be closing schools to save money. Where will that end? Plus, one of the schools they’re talking about [...]

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