The December monthly meeting of the Sierra Club – Rincon Group will highlight a slide show of Vietnam:

Thursday, December 8th – The Many Wonders of Vietnam –

Sierra Club members Tim Wernette and Carolyn Brown will show a slide presentation on their Sierra Club Vietnam Adventure trips, highlighting activities in southern, central and northern Vietnam. These trips include hiking, snorkeling, kayaking and cultural tours. Vietnam is an incredibly beautiful and interesting country and this presentation will highlight some of its most fascinating natural features.

The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at Volunteer Southern Arizona, 924 N. Alvernon Way. This is the new name of the Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona at the same location, between Speedway and Broadway.

The Sierra Club is the nation’s largest grass-roots environmental organization (founded in 1892).

The Rincon Group of the Grand Canyon Chapter, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, promotes the Sierra Club motto to explore, enjoy and protect the planet.

The Rincon Group supports education, environmental activism, and careful, informed and caring stewardship of resources as a means to preserve the planet for future generations. To that end, the Rincon Group provides educational monthly programs concerning environmental issues affecting Southern Arizona, alerts to, and information on, getting involved in environmental issues (with an emphasis on those issues of interest in Southern Arizona), the opportunity to participate in outings to explore nature in Southern Arizona, and periodic newsletters which provide articles on environmental issues affecting Southern Arizona.

For more information: www.sierraclub.org/rincon.
And coming up on their January 12 meeting, an update on the Rosemont Mine.

I used to be an avid hiker and backpacker, and have hiked with the Sierra Club in various states and countries, but never in Vietnam.

The Historic Y

“The Historic Y is a vibrant, artistically and progressively oriented community, home to a variety of visual, architectural, performing and healing arts professionals as well as many of Tucson’s pre-eminent non-profit environmental, conservation, educational, cultural, social justice and community service organizations, including Tucson Audubon Society, Paulo Freire Freedom School, The Rogue Theatre, and ZUZI’s Theater.”

The Historic Y is located at 738 N. 5th Avenu and 300 E. University Blvd. (SE corner of N. 5th and University). “The main building at The Historic Y was designed by Annie Graham Rockfellow to house the YWCA of Tucson and was completed in 1930. Expanded in the 40’s and 50’s, the entire complex was updated and converted to offices in the 1980’s, with care to preserve the original architectural features that lend the building its wonderful charm and character.”

(The YWCA of Tucson has moved to their lovely, new building at 525 N. Bonita Avenue).

Most people in Tucson know that a number of “Green-friendly” organizations are housed in this building: Arizona League of Conservation Voters, Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, Arizona Wilderness Coalition, Sierra Club – Rincon Group of the Grand Canyon Chapter , Sky Island Alliance, as well as the aforementioned Tucson Audubon Society (and Nature gift shop).

Need I say more? For more need information about long term office leasing, or booking an event or class in The Historic Y Conference Room, Courtyard, Second Floor Lobby or other rooms including the art gallery, please contact Shawn Burke at shawnburke@me.com or 520.622.4700, or log onto www.TheHistoricY.com.

Coming up: Artwork & photography by students of Paulo Freire Freedom School, May 24-28, 2010, in the Historic Y Gallery.