Kirk-Bear Canyon Library – Community Room
8959 E. Tanque Verde Road

State Senate Candidates:

LD9 Tyler Mott (President of Pima County Young Republicans), political newcomer

LD10 the Honorable Frank Antenori (incumbent LD 30 State Senator)

State House Candidates:

LD 9 Ethan Orr, political newcomer

LD10 the Honorable Ted Vogt (incumbent LD 30 House Rep.), & Todd Clodfelter, political newcomer

All Are Welcome – The Eastside Republican Events are free

More Info: Parralee Schneider, 749-0312 pmstucson@aol.com or Lori Oien, 749-3472 oienjmo@msn.com

More info and websites of the candidates at Pima County Republican Party (click here).

State Senator Frank Antenori

Tyler Mott

Ethan Orr

Todd Clodfelter

State Rep. Ted Vogt

In April, we have our minds on money and money on our minds!

It can’t be helped since April 21-28 is Money Smart Week @ the Pima County Public Library!

Money Smart Week is a nationwide financial literacy event brought to you by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the American Library Association and the Pima County Public Library.

We invite everyone to participate! Come and learn about the resources, programs, services available in Pima County. There are workshops for everyone, from children to adults and covering topics including reading credit reports, financial survival, and fair housing information. We’ll have Storytimes for the kids, Creating Duct Tape Wallets for the crafty, and Coupon Club for the thrifty!

There couldn’t be a better time to begin planning for tomorrow. Financial fitness begins here, at your library… Special thanks to our partners: Debbi Jasperson’s Coupon Club, The Credit Wise Cats, Financial Education Collaborative of Southern Arizona, Southwest Fair Housing Council, Hughes Credit Union, and the Pima County Housing Center.

Lots of events from Monday April 23 to Saturday April 28, at various branch libraries–Nanini, Flowing Wells, Woods, Valencia, Martha Cooper, Dusenberry-River, Kirk-Bear Canyon (click here for full schedule). The free workshops include info on homebuyer education/fitness, identify theft, financial literacy, duct tape wallets, coupon clubs, credit card reports.

Now that Tax Day (April 15) is past, we can all concentrate on other money/financial matters.

one of Ruth's beautiful bird drawings

Birds With An Attitude, a solo exhibit by Ruth Canada, will be on display in the gallery at Kirk-Bear Canyon Library January 3 – January 31, 2012. The exhibit features a series of vibrant bird paintings in acrylic, mixed media and watercolor that depict birds displaying human-like behaviors.

Canada, a signature member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters, Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona, Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild and Arizona Watercolor Society was awarded a competitive scholarship to study commercial art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and continued her fine art education at Northern Illinois University.

Art has been her passion since childhood. Raised in rural Illinois, Ruth developed a closeness and sensitivity to nature and animals. Retiring from her commercial art career to Arizona, her love of the Southwest is now reflected in her subjects and palette.

Meet the artist at a reception Sunday, January 22nd from 2-4 p.m. in the library’s meeting room.

"He who has the gold....rules", courtesy of the artist

I’ve enjoyed viewing Ruth’s acrylics and watercolors over the years, have purchased her note cards, and once luckily won a Giclee reproduction of her large watercolor painting “Blonde’s Duck” at Agua Caliente Park. As a former board member (3 years) at this Pima County Park, her colorful painting is a real treasure for me.

Statement from the artist from her website about painting birds:

My closeness to nature and sensitivity to animals is the result of growing up in rural Illinois. The current bird series is inspired by watching the desert birds outside my Tucson foothills studio. I see not only how they look, but what they do and how they act. Birds are a kick! They have behaviors and attitudes like people. Observing them, understanding their delights and struggles, intrigues me. I enjoy sprinkling my birds with a little humor just for fun. These contemporary bird paintings are rendered in my signature palette of brilliant to deep rich colors. The birds can startle a viewer or charm them into a smile.

One day, a vulture landed outside the studio. Its size amazed me. I began to research vultures and they quickly became one of my favorite birds. They are masters at soaring, conserving energy and going days between meals. I found also, these gentle birds are not predators. Some say they are ugly, but my painting, Two of a Kind, is saying… “not ugly if you are another vulture.”

To learn more about artist Ruth Canada:
Sunstone Artworks Studio
Tucson, Arizona
Phone 520-577-0664
RuthCanada@msn.com
www.RuthCanada.com

Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch library is located at 8959 E. Tanque Verde Rd. The library hours are Monday to Thursday, 10 to 8 p.m., Friday 10 to 5 p.m., Saturday 9 to 5 p.m., Sunday 1 to 5 p.m.

Chair Carolyn Cox, courtesy of Pima GOP

Carolyn Cox was elected Chair the Pima County Republican Party on September 8, 2011 after former Chair Brian Miller (former candidate for CD 8 House seat) was removed over the summer. She will be speaking at the Eastside Republicans monthly meeting on Wed. Nov. 16, 6:30 p.m. at Kirk Bear Canyon Branch Library – Community Room, 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road.

Here’s part of Carolyn’s statement when she ran for Chair:

I have been involved with the Pima County Republican Party since my husband, Garland, & I started coming to Arizona in 1999. We moved to Arizona permanently in 2004.

Because Garland & I have been among the major supporters of the Republican Party I believe I will have the creditability necessary to raise funds for the Party to keep the headquarters’ door open. The Party needs to assist candidates and facilitate the election of candidates in every way possible. It takes money to staff & maintain an office to do that.

The get-out- the- vote (GoTV) campaign is important. The Party needs to communicate with voters using all the proven and all the new technologies possible.

I was the Republican candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District in the year 2000 campaign. I do understand the challenges a candidate faces.

I was a National Director of Economic Security 2000 from 1997 thru 2003. Its goal was to advocate for younger workers to invest a portion of their Social Security Taxes in an account they would own and receive a market-rate of return on that money.

I was the Chief Financial Officer of an engineering corporation in Colorado. I fully understand pensions and their difference from self-funding IRAs and 401(k)s.

Carolyn graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and completed one year of graduate study at the University of Colorado. She has “served on the Tucson Committee for Heritage, the premier conservative Think Tank.” And she’s also been president of the Tucson Conservative Forum since April of 2005.

For more info about Eastside Republicans, contact: Lori Oien (former candidate for Ward 2 Council seat in 2007) at oienjmo@msn.com, 520-749-3472, or Parralee Schneider (former candidate for LD 30 House in 2010), 520-749-0312, pmstucson@aol.com