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Pima Community College Community Education Lecture Series' next event is Fresh Ink: Student Stories from Sunnyside and Desert View High Schools. The event will be held on Wednesday March 25, 2009 at 6:30pm at Sunnyside High School Auditorium, 1725 East Bilby Road, Tucson Arizona. The event is free and open to the public.

Fresh Ink is an after-school project devoted to developing the newest, "freshest" voices of Sunnyside and Desert View High Schools through the stories of its ninth-grade students. Join us for a multi-media presentation of student works and a celebration of these two high schools.

The participating students are part of a six-year college readiness program called GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs). Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Tucson GEAR UP Project is a collaboration among the University of Arizona, Pima Community College, Tucson Unified School District and Sunnyside Unified School District and numerous community and business partners. As part of The UA Office of Early Academic Outreach, the mission of The Tucson GEAR UP Project is to prepare ethnic minority, low-income, and first-generation students to enter and succeed in post secondary education.

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"StoryCorps, which airs Friday mornings in Tucson and Southern Arizona on Public Radio stations KUAZ 89.1 FM and 1550 AM, is a national initiative that has been documenting the everyday histories and the unique stories of Americans for the past five years. ... The StoryCorps mobile StoryBooth - an Airstream trailer outfitted with a recording studio - will be parked at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library's Jacome Plaza at 101 N. Stone Avenue. Parking is available in the library parking garage via the entrance on Alameda Street, located just west of Stone. The dates are Dec. 4 - 17 and Jan. 5 - 17. Interview times will run from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Reservations are strongly encouraged, and can be made either online at www.storycorps.net or by calling 1-800-850-4406."

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1960 cover The Hellbox Tucson Press Club

Thanks again to the Internet and the Web, we received ten of the Tucson Press Club's (TPC) annual The Hellbox. Hopefully, we'll be able to determine if there are any rights and permissions to pursue before creating a new website about the TPC and, in particular, these annuals.

The Hellbox issues were sent by Tyler St.Mark in California who wrote that his "parents, Marklan & Beverly Manning, were active members of the TPC during the 50's and early 60's and even appeared in some of the annual Gridiron Shows. My siblings and I grew up knowing many of the club's prominent members including "Uncle Jess" (Riggles)."

TPC ended in 1991, as far as I can tell. The Hellbox and its annual Gridiron show are unique to Tucson's 20th century history. We hope to bring it to the Web for students and community members to appreciate.

The third of Pima Community College's Discovering Southern Arizona community events is Friday, March 28th, 6:00 p.m. at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center. The topic is "Journeys Through Barrio Anita" and will feature the history and stories of Tucson's historic Barrio Anita. The event, of course, is free. For more information call 206-4500.

Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, 1288 West River Road. map.

The 82nd annual La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, February 16-24. Get in the spirit by viewing some of our rodeo and cowboy resources.

Pima Community College Community Education Lecture Series Discovering Southern Arizona

"Form over Function: A Tohono O'odham Artist's Story," featuring Terrol Dew Johnson, nationally-acclaimed basket weaver, artist and community leader. Friday, February 22, 2008 10:00 a.m. Community Performing Arts and Learning Center, 1250 West Continental Road, Green Valley [map]

"Journeys through Barrio Anita." Hear the history and stories of Tucson's historic Barrio Anita. Friday, March 28, 2008 6:00 p.m. Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, 1288 West River Road, Tucson. [map]

Pima Community College has just announced its Community Education Lecture Series. The first lecture is "The Legacy of Gold Mountain: Chinese Immigrant Families in Southern Arizona" and will be held on Friday, January 25, 2008, 6:00 p.m. at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center is a beautiful new facilityTucson Chinese Cultural Center, 1288 West River Road. map.

For more information contact Community Education at 206-6579. [download the announcement PDF]

Read Bonnie Henry's article from the July 22nd Daily Star, "Here's your chance to tell it like it was." Coni Weatherford, Pima County Public librarian, is starting "a new online library collection devoted to Tucson's memories." Coni is a graduate of the UA's School of Information Resources and Library Science. Tucson, Tell Us Your Story is starting off as part of Tucson's 232nd Birthday Celebration.

Perhaps the biggest challenge of in maintaining any of the Through Our Parents' Eyes websites is keeping them current with changes in technology. Since the late 1990s, the Learning Technologies Center has been using a system to capture and convert video into the Real format. We're always trying to move from products that lock us into proprietary formats to more open formats. This summer we are attempting to convert Through Our Parents' Eyes audio and video to MPEG4.

One place you will find this is on Encounters: Our Columbus Legacy, a 1992 KUAT production featuring Big Jim Griffith. We have hosted short video clips from Encounters since the late 1990s. They were captured and converted to Real at a time when most people lacked high bandwidth Internet access, such as cable modem and DSL. Veronica Rodriguez, a senior Media Technician in the LTC, worked from our original VHS tape to re-digitize Encounters and convert the video to the MPEG4 format. Veronica is now working on our Arizona Illustrated clips featuring Big Jim Griffith.

The additional benefit to converting or re-doing these video clips is that once they are in MPEG4, they can be podcast as well. BTW, have you subscribed to our podcasts? If not, all you need to do is click on the iTunes 1-Click button located in the upper right area of the blog's homepage and it will automatically start your podcast subscription and download the most recent episode. All you need is a copy of Apple's free iTunes. Check it out and let us know how you like it.