From Loft Cinema: http://www.loftcinema.com/endbullying

Saturday, April 28th at 10:00 am
Free Admission

In honor of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding presents “Step Up, Speak Out, End Bullying: PSA Showcase and Awards”.

The Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding wants to find out what your solutions to bullying are and to share them with Southern Arizona. They are inviting you to take part in their Public Service Announcement contest by creating your own 30-second video PSA with the theme “Step Up, Speak Out, End Bullying.”

Cash and prizes are up for grabs and the winning PSAs will be aired on local television and converted to radio format. It’s your chance to Step Up, Speak Out and End Bullying.

Those entering are encouraged to have fun with the process, to be creative and to choose positive, nonviolent solutions for dealing with this issue. Good luck and thank you for joining us as we continue to strive for the end of bullying.

For details about submitting a PSA, go to www.endofbullying.com

A Project of the Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding in Collaboration with:
Cox Communications, Pima County Attorney’s Office, Homicide Survivors, So. AZ Center Against Sexual Assault, Our Family Services, Tucson Unified School District, Community Partnership of So. AZ, Wingspan, and the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind.

update: Take the Civility Pledge & notes from this PSA event (click here).

If you (like me) missed the Loft Theater’s screening of “Bag It” back in February sponsored by the Sierra Club & Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection (click here), you have another chance to see it for free again this Friday at:

Catalina United Methodist Church, fellowship hall
7 p.m.
2700 E. Speedway (NW corner of Treat Ave.)

Join us for a FREE screening of the award winning documentary “Bag It”. If you care about the condition of our beautiful earth, if you are concerned about the health of our children, if you care about the survival of our wildlife now ingesting our throw-away plastic, you want to see this film!

http://catalinamethodist.org/event/bag-it-movie-screening/

The Students for Sustainability sponsored an earlier showing of this movie on Tuesday April 24 at UA Gallagher Theater, which I did see, along with only about 20 students. But the movie is very thought-provoking, and mostly addresses the wastefulness of single-use plastic bags, bottles, dishes, containers, etc.

The documentary movie maker Jeb Berrier also addresses the content of plastic, the danger of plastic to our environment (especially the oceans), and even to our own adult health and the health of our children. One of the students was there dressed up in the costume of 500 plastic bags which is supposedly the amount of bags a person uses in one year.

For Tucson updates go to facebook.com/bagittucson.

Please see this movie and start thinking about the over abundance of plastic in our lives. More grocery stores could start encouraging shoppers to bring their own cloth bags. And please recycle whatever plastic you can. The City of Tucson just announced a new system which will take all rigid plastics in our blue barrels (but sadly not those grocery plastic bags):

http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/es/customer-services-residential-recycling

Is your life too full of plastic?

Come Help us Turn on the 4 restored Neon Signs!

Friday – April 27 – 6:00 – 9:00 pm.

Pima Community College Downtown Campus (1255 N. Stone Ave.)

Join the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation and Pima Community College for a night celebrating Tucson’s Neon past.

The evening will include the lighting of 4 historic neon signs rescued and restored by the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation; the release of THPF’s Driving Guide to Tucson’s Neon Signs, a mid-century fashion show, classic cars, and a Sock-Hop.

The events start at 6:00 pm on the Pima Community College Downtown Campus

Southwest corner of Drachman and Stone Avenue.

The event is Free and open to the entire community.

SCHEDULE

6:00 – 6:15 Mid-century Fashion Show

6:15 – 6:45 Live Music (Salvador Duran)

6:45 – 7:15 Neon Sign Lighting

7:15 – 9:00 Sock-Hop

All night: kids activities, classic cars, food trucks, neon signs and fun!

Questions: 520-206-7100, 520-206-4500.

Next day: 5th annual Historic Miracle Mile Open House & Tour, 9 a.m. to 12 noon (click here ).

The event will include tours of the fully rehabilitated Monterey Court; guided walks through vintage motor court motels; illustrated talks on Miracle Mile and U.S. 80, architecture, iconic neon signs, and displays on future projects planned for the area. Listen to music, enjoy refreshments, and pick up a Driving Guide of Historic Places and a Find-the-Sign activity for kids.

I’ve been to this open house in the past, toured a few vintage motor court motels on Oracle Road (ie. La Siesta Motel), and even walked the Evergreen Cemetery on local historian Ken Scoville’s tour – fascinating to see the gravestones of famous Tucsonans, and hear about what Tucson was like in the 19th and 20th centuries.

More information on this Miracle Mile event contact Linda Mehall, Ward III, at (520)
791-4711, or Linda.Mehall@tucsonaz.gov.

Enjoy these “blast from the past” days.