PRO Neighborhoods is looking for connectors! What/who is a connector? Read on (especially if you care about obesity).

PRO Neighborhoods is seeking 20-25 neighborhood “connectors” to be part of a network of “diverse individuals who are committed to mobilizing resources, strengthening the environment, and supporting the well-being of their neighborhoods. Ideal connectors are currently using an asset-based approach in their neighborhood work.”

Connectors encourage “genuine intergenerational participation. Using tools and resources provided by PRO Neighborhoods and the network, each connector will collaborate with neighbors, schools, businesses and institutions to:

–Build relationships among stakeholders
–Lead an assessment of the community’s health and wellness with an eye to reducing obesity
–Guide a community visioning process to propose solutions to issues revealed in the assessment.”

Those selected will make a 20-month commitment and receive a monthly stipend of $250. Grant funding and technical support will be available to help realize the action projects.

This sounds like a great goal & project, especially to combat obesity in Arizona, and to include inter-generational components, such as wise elders as well as young teens, also prone to obesity. And there’s even a monthly stipend!

If interested send a letter of interest to connectors@proneighborhoods.org by July 9.
For more information, contact Judith Anderson at (520) 882-5885 or at the same email aforementioned.

They are also once again offering their 3 month Community Organizing class, which I blogged about last summer (click here).

Pro Neighborhoods is moving in July to the Historic Y, 738 N. Fifth Avenue, Suite 101 Tucson, AZ 85701. Their phone number will remain the same, 520- 882-5885.

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The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission (CCEC) has posted the June 22 online debate in Phoenix between attorneys Tom Horne and Andrew Thomas, both seeking the open seat for Attorney General in the Republican primary. You can view it online by clicking here. Thomas is participating in the Clean Elections program, but Horne is running traditional.
CCEC website: www.azcleanelections.gov.

Horne has been the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction for 7 years, and Thomas is the former Maricopa County Attorney (first elected in 2004, re-elected 2008), and both reside in Phoenix.

Current Attorney General Democrat Terry Goddard is running for Governor. Thomas was the Republican nominee for Attorney General in November 2002, but lost to Goddard.

Their campaign websites:

Tom Horne: www.electtomhorne.com

Andrew Thomas: www.thomasforagexploratory.com

View this contentious, 25 minute debate and the candidates’ campaign websites before voting in the August 24 primary. There haven’t been any debates in Southern Arizona between these two candidates, so this is your chance to learn about both attorneys.

8/6/10 Update: KUAT Channel 6 in Tucson online debate:
http://ondemand.azpm.org/videoshorts/watch/2010/8/6/1626-republican-ag-candidates-face-off/

Tom Horne

Andrew Thomas

Be scared. Be very scared as it’s the 50th anniversary “screaming” of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 hit “Psycho” tonight at the Loft Theater. 7 p.m. is show time.

Has it really been 50 years? And did you realize that the main actress Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) left Phoenix, Arizona — of all places– seeking a new life, and ended up staying at the Bates Motel?

From the Loft website: “See the “mother” of all Hollywood fright fests on the 50th Anniversary of its U.S. release (premiering in New York City on June 16th, 1960), as Hitch intended it to be seen – on the big screen in 35mm, with an audience of equally terrified movie fanatics! Just don’t forget to shower first …”

PLUS: Enter their FREE RAFFLE for “psychotic” prizes sure to please those who “wouldn’t even hurt a fly!”

After I first saw this movie decades ago, I was afraid to stay

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The Loft Theatre is at 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.