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- “Dig into Reading” with Pima County Library’s summer reading program
- “A Snowball’s Chance” (High School Dropouts Tell Their Stories) book review
- Newly restored “The Tin Drum” coming to the Loft
- “Ready or Hot?” Climate Smart Southwest conference in September
- $100 raffle ticket could win you French Empress Josephine’s chandelier
- Bold Belly Dancing at 2nd Saturday Downtown on May 11
- Neon Mile: Sixth Annual Historic Miracle Mile Open House/Tour
- Mother’s Day Luncheon for Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse
- Free Wendy’s Jr. Hamburgers for Tucson Educators on National Teacher Appreciation Day
- Tucson and 4 other cities win Wyland Foundation’s 2013 National Mayor’s Challenge on Water Conservation
- Celebrate Children’s Day (May 5) at Yume Japanese Gardens
- Popular Tucson Folk Festival in 28th Year
- Free admission to 30th anniversary celebration of Catalina State Park
- A Stanley Kubrick Odyssey at the Loft in May
- Summer 2013 Humanities seminars, including Dante’s Paradiso
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About Carolyn Classen
Carolyn Sugiyama Classen was a 2008 Tucson Citizen My Tucson columnist. She was born and raised in a sugar plantation community on Hawai’i Island, then belonged to a Jesuit “koinonia” at the Paulist Center in Boston. She is a 3rd generation Japanese American and has studied Spanish, Japanese, German, and Hawaiian.
She has been a practicing attorney, legislative aide on Capitol Hill (for U.S. Senator Dan Inouye), and is now a Hearing Officer in Small Claims Court. Carolyn has also published two short stories in Rick Carroll's 2006 "The Best of Hawaii's Best Spooky Tales."