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TEP to host community presentation about raptor protection program

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

MEDIA ADVISORY

Jan. 22, 2013

News Media Contacts: Joseph Barrios, (520) 884-3725, jbarrios@tep.com

TEP TO HOST COMMUNITY PRESENTATION ABOUT RAPTOR PROTECTION PROGRAM

Tucson, Ariz. – Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is inviting the public to flock to a free presentation about efforts to protect birds of prey in the Tucson metropolitan area.

The public is invited to attend a presentation about the Raptor Protection Program on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 at Sabbar Shrine Temple Auditorium, 450 S. Tucson Blvd. Tucson Electric Power employees

and researchers from the University of Arizona will discuss how customer participation, study data and fieldwork have helped to protect several species of raptors, including Harris' hawks, great horned owls and red-tailed hawks.

Attendees can meet a live Harris’ hawk

from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum’s Raptor Free Flight Program, learn about the hunting and nesting habits of raptors and examine insulated safeguarding equipment used by field employees throughout TEP’s service territory. A live great horned owl will also be present. Raptors use utility poles for perching, hunting and socializing. Harris' hawks live in family groups, e

xposing them to greater risk of electrocution than other raptors.

Dr. Bill Mannan, University of Arizona Professor of Wildlife & Fisheries Science, will share data collected from more than a decade of research conducted in cooperation with Arizona Game & Fish and TEP. Research data proves that properly installed bird guards on equipment in the vicinity of active raptor nest sites and high activity areas significantly reduces electric hazards to raptors.

Tucson Electric Power provides safe, reliable electric service to more than 405,000 customers in southern Arizona. To learn more, visit tep.com. For more information about UNS Energy, visit uns.com.

Raptor Protection Program Seminar

Thursday February 7, 2013

6-7:30 p.m.

Sabbar Shrine Temple Auditorium

450 S. Tucson Blvd., Tucson

The seminar is free and open to the public. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Members of the public are asked to report raptor nest sites and injured or dead animals located near TEP equipment to the company’s Customer Care Center at (520) 623-7711, or Arizona Game and Fish at (520) 628-5376. A video about raptor protection efforts and additional information is available at tep.com/news/features/raptor.

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Girl Scouts Tackling Childhood Obesity One Bite at a Time

Monday, September 24th, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Maria DeCabooter
mdecabooter@girlscoutssoaz.org
520.319,3175
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Thin Mint Sprint 5k and 1 Mile Fun Run
September 29, 2012
7:30am
Brandi Fenton Park
$12 ages 12 and under; $20 ages 13 and up; Race day $25
What’s better than those beloved Thin Mint cookies? The Girl Scouts Thin Mint Sprint 5k and Savannah Smiles One Mile Fun Run of course! In recognition of the 16^th annual Family Health and Fitness Day USA, Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona is holding the inaugural Thin Mint Sprint Family Run on September 29^th at Brandi Fenton Park. The race is part of the Girl Scouts Health and Wellness Initiative that builds skills girls need to keep their bodies healthy, their minds engaged, and their spirits alive by participating in innovative wellness programs.

During the past four decades obesity rates have soared among all age groups, increasing more than fourfold among children ages six to eleven. Girl Scouts programs and curricula work to address these issues so that every girl can lead a healthy lifestyle. Whether working towards age-level awards such as the Eat Right, Stay Healthy Try-It or the Stress Less Badge, or talking with leaders about issues of concern in their lives, Girl Scouts increases the well-being of girls by offering them numerous opportunities to learn about and experience what it mean to live well today.

As part of their Health and Wellness Program the Council developed a Thin Mint Sprint Training Patch to encourage girls to get outside and get moving. The patch program has girls log their miles and complete a “Marathon” one “bite at a time.” Girls log 23 miles before race day and then walk or run the Thin Mint Sprint 5k on September 29 to complete their very own marathon! The Thin Mint Sprint Coaches

also held “Run With Us” events across Tucson to bring girls together to discuss healthy living. Over 80 Girl Scouts across Southern Arizona ranging from ages five to fifteen participated in the Training Patch program, and over 100 young participants are expected at the race.

“Girls participation in this first ever training is truly encouraging,” notes Coco Horner, Health and Wellness Specialist. “We believe children need information and guidance to make healthy decisions. More than that, they also need the adults around them to model these behaviors. We encourage adults in the community to join us in observing Family Health and Fitness Month by getting out and moving. Parents have enormous influence over their children’s’ lifestyles by the example they set and by the decisions they make. With strong unity of purpose, we can truly make a difference for our kids.”

On September 29^th choose to get out and to get moving. Whether you walk, skip, jog, run or even dance your way across the finish line, you’re helping to make a difference! Post race participants can also enjoy a free health and wellness expo and work their way through fitness, nutrition and wellness stations to become healthier inside and out.

To register for the race visit GirlScoutsSoAz.org/sprint. For more information on the Thin Mint Sprint or Girl Scouts Health and Wellness Initiative please contact, Coco Horner, chorner@girlscoutssoaz.org

About Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts is the world’s preeminent leadership development organization dedicated to helping build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. GSSoAz serves over 14,000 girls in Southern Arizona and includes over 3,000 adult volunteers. Our goals are to provide a wide range of contemporary programs that reflect the unique needs and interests of all girls living in Southern Arizona, to empower girls to reach their full potential, and to give girls a voice in their community and in their own lives. For more information, please contact Maria DeCabooter at (520) 319-3175.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Maria DeCabooter
mdecabooter@girlscoutssoaz.org
520.319,3175
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Girl Scouts Tackling Child Obesity One Bite at a Time
Thin Mint Sprint 5k and 1 Mile Fun Run
September 29, 2012
7:30am
Brandi Fenton Park
$12 ages 12 and under; $20 ages 13 and up; Race day $25
What’s better than those beloved Thin Mint cookies? The Girl Scouts Thin Mint Sprint 5k and Savannah Smiles One Mile Fun Run of course! In recognition of the 16th annual Family Health and Fitness Day USA, Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona is holding the inaugural Thin Mint Sprint Family Run on September 29th at Brandi Fenton Park. The race is part of the Girl Scouts Health and Wellness Initiative that builds skills girls need to keep their bodies healthy, their minds engaged, and their spirits alive by participating in innovative wellness programs.
During the past four decades obesity rates have soared among all age groups, increasing more than fourfold among children ages six to eleven. Girl Scouts programs and curricula work to address these issues so that every girl can lead a healthy lifestyle. Whether working towards age-level awards such as the Eat Right, Stay Healthy Try-It or the Stress Less Badge, or talking with leaders about issues of concern in their lives, Girl Scouts increases the well-being of girls by offering them numerous opportunities to learn about and experience what it mean to live well today.
As part of their Health and Wellness Program the Council developed a Thin Mint Sprint Training Patch to encourage girls to get outside and get moving. The patch program has girls log their miles and complete a “Marathon” one “bite at a time.” Girls log 23 miles before race day and then walk or run the Thin Mint Sprint 5k on September 29 to complete their very own marathon! The Thin Mint Sprint Coaches also held “Run With Us” events across Tucson to bring girls together to discuss healthy living. Over 80 Girl Scouts across Southern Arizona ranging from ages five to fifteen participated in the Training Patch program, and over 100 young participants are expected at the race.
“Girls participation in this first ever training is truly encouraging,” notes Coco Horner, Health and Wellness Specialist. “We believe children need information and guidance to make healthy decisions. More than that, they also need the adults around them to model these behaviors. We encourage adults in the community to join us in observing Family Health and Fitness Month by getting out and moving. Parents have enormous influence over their children’s’ lifestyles by the example they set and by the decisions they make. With strong unity of purpose, we can truly make a difference for our kids.”
On September 29th choose to get out and to get moving. Whether you walk, skip, jog, run or even dance your way across the finish line, you’re helping to make a difference! Post race participants can also enjoy a free health and wellness expo and work their way through fitness, nutrition and wellness stations to become healthier inside and out.
To register for the race visit GirlScoutsSoAz.org/sprint. For more information on the Thin Mint Sprint or Girl Scouts Health and Wellness Initiative please contact, Coco Horner, chorner@girlscoutssoaz.org
About Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts is the world’s preeminent leadership development organization dedicated to helping build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. GSSoAz serves over 14,000 girls in Southern Arizona and includes over 3,000 adult volunteers. Our goals are to provide a wide range of contemporary programs that reflect the unique needs and interests of all girls living in Southern Arizona, to empower girls to reach their full potential, and to give girls a voice in their community and in their own lives. For more information, please contact Maria DeCabooter at (520) 319-3175.
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Girls learn teamwork, communication skills… in the middle of a lake.

Friday, July 20th, 2012

by Kristi Pallack

Throughout June and July, girls from the Whispering Pines Girl Scout Camp have been paddling up a storm, and learning a little something along the way. Looking at the pictures, you might not realize how much effort it takes to propel a canoe with 3 girls in it forward and backwards. Here's what the girls have to do as part of their canoeing experience:

Step 1: The girls are shuttled from camp to the lake, about a 3 mile drive.
Step 2: The girls have to work together to get the canoes off of the canoe trailer, and then carry them down a beach to the water. It usually takes about 6 girls per boat.
Step 3: The girls hike around the lake to the far beach (Away from the fishermen) while I tow the 6 canoes across the lake, navigating through fishing lines.
Step 4: The girls talk about their concerns. Some have never been in a boat before, some are afraid, nervous- a couple girls even said they were afraid of sharks.
Step 5: The girls learn what a life jacket is and how it keeps them safe. We talk about how to hold the oars, learn different paddling strokes and get into groups of 3.
Step 6: The girls learn to get into the canoes, keeping 3 points of contact on the boat, and get ready to launch.
Step 7: I launch the boats into the water and yell “have fun!”
Step 8: The girls have about 15 minutes to paddle around and get used to the strokes and working as a team.
Step 9: All the boats gather in the center of the lake, side by side. (Everyone learned how to parallel park a canoe!) We talk about how it was challenging to work as a team to get your canoe to go where you wanted it to. We talk about things they could do differently- talk to each other, m
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ake decisions as a group, put someone in charge. Then, I shake things up. Now that they've learned how to work with this group of people- they will learn how to work with others, because they all change places! I give the directions that while we are all together in the center of the lake, everyone will switch spots and boats. The girls have to talk among themselves to figure out who is going where and how they are going to make it happen without everyone falling in the water. Its a really fun trust, balance and communication activity- and its really fun to watch!
Step 10: We race! Now that the girls have learned how to work together and have a basic knowledge of paddling, we do some forwards and backwards races.
Step 11: Search and Rescue! I have 3 inflatable animals in my canoe- a turtle, a pelican and a monkey. For some reason, I always feel like throwing them out of boat (poor guys). The girls use their new skills to rescue the animals from the water- which gets really interesting when the wind picks up.
Step 12: Water sports! Also in my boat, I have 2 footballs and a soccer ball- all of which don't like being in my boat. They like the water, so I throw them in opposite directions on the lake. We did several things with the balls over the summer. We played water polo. We played football. We played catch. We tossed them around and rescued them. The girls came up with different games to play using the balls and animals. They are fun.
Step 13: Getting tired, but the day isn't over yet. I tow the boats back across the lake while the girls hike back to the beach. Then, they have to carry them back up the beach and load them back on the trailer- a harder feat after you've been using your muscles all day!
Step 14: Did you girls have fun? YES!

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Girl Scouts To Be First Boaters Ever on Rose Canyon Lake

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Arizona Game and Fish Department

NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release, June 13, 2012

Contact
AGFD PIO Mark Hart
520-388-4445/520-282-0978©
-or-
AGFD Officer Karen Klima
520-975-6490

Girl Scouts To Be First Boaters Ever on Rose Canyon Lake

MT. LEMMON, Ariz.- The Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona will be first-ever boaters on Rose Canyon Lake when they begin canoe and water rescue training there 10 a.m. Thursday, June 14.

“This is an exciting opportunity for our girls,” said Kristen Culliney, chief operating officer of the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona. “We are honored to be the first youth-oriented group on the lake and hope that what we teach girls will give them a lifelong appreciation for this mountain and our water resources!”

The training was made possible by a rule change enacted by the Arizona Game and Fish Commission last year as allows youth-oriented service programs to use canoes on the lake from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the months of June and July. Eligible organizations must have a permit issued by the U.S. Forest Service for such use of the lake by non-motorize watercraft.

“We’re gratified that the Girl Scouts will be the first youth-oriented service program to take advantage of this opportunity to learn how to handle watercraft safely and effectively,” said Regional Supervisor Raul Vega of Game and Fish in Tucson. “We are sure other qualified groups will do so as well.”

Vega noted that this opportunity is not for the public at large, and that entry into the lake for swimming, wading or other devices – such as pool toys as well as float tubes and rafts — is prohibited.

The seven-acre lake was closed to watercraft upon opening in 1960, and to all entry in 1985, to benefit rainbow trout fishermen. Rose Canyon Lake is at approximately 7,000 feet elevation amid Ponderosa pines, making it a popular summer retreat.

Mark A. Hart

Public Information Officer

Arizona Game & Fish Department

555 N. Greasewood Road

Tucson, AZ 85745

office (520) 388-4445

cell (520) 282-0978

fax (520) 628-5376

Mhart@azgfd.gov

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Girls are rock climbing! Come climb with us!

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Come try something new, test your limits, and have fun this fall! GS are rock climbing, and we have something for all ages!

Wallflowers Indoor Climbing Series:

September: 11^th 11-1 pm, September 13, 20, 27 & October 4: 6-8 pm

Rocks & Ropes

$40/girl/family member

All ages!

Climbing Camp

October 21-22

Whispering Pines on Mt Lemmon

$75/girl

Cadettes, Seniors, & Ambassadors

Special one-time offer! Come to our Climbing Series or Camp and receive a coupon for 20% off any one regularly priced item. Excludes official uniform insignia, and bottles. Expires 30 days from end of program.

For more information about climbing programs and our No Girl Left Inside initiative, contact Ariane at 520.319.3144

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Stories from the trail: Land & Lake Excursion

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

by Ariane Mohr-Felsen

“I love getting dirty!!” I heard a voice behind me yell. Turning around to see who had said that, it was clear that she definitely wasn’t exaggerating. In the less than five minutes since we had gotten to the lakefront, our little redhead camper had dirt streaked across her cheeks, arms and legs. She was also smiling the biggest smile I had seen from her since leaving for our trip two days earlier.

Rewind to Tuesday morning, 7:00 AM at the Girl Scout Resource Center and you would have seen a group of ten girls, aged 10-17, playing a name game before they hopped into the van and made the five hour drive up to the Flagstaff area, where we would be camping for the next four days. You would also have seen me, going through checklists in my head to make sure we had everything and wondering if this was going to work, having combined two trips and resulting in a huge range in ages and experiences for our first ever Girl Scout excursion camp. Our goal for the camp was to give our girls the chance to explore and connect with the outdoors in a new part of Arizona. At the same time, we wanted to use this outdoor experience to give girls the chance to practice living and working together as a team, as well as gain greater senses of self-confidence and courage by trying activities such as mountain biking, hiking, and geocaching.

We had spent weeks planning and preparing for the trip, but had to make several changes—combining two excursions into one and then changing the location last minute due to fire dangers. I was worried that these changes would throw us off and that we might encounter difficulties once up at Lake Mary, where we planned to camp. Luckily, these worries were unfounded.

This isn’t to say we didn’t have problems—of course we had faced little challenges, but isn’t that part of going on a trip with four adults and ten girls? We had to drive a ways to find the perfect campsite; girls had to be reminded that when it is your day to clean, that means you do the dishes; we inevitably had the small stack of burnt-on-the-outside, mushy-on-the-inside leftover pancakes; we battled bugs for our food; and to this day there remains a pair of underwear that no girl would claim as hers. But that is why you go camping—to remember that little imperfections aren’t what define our days. Instead, your days were defined by seeing one of your campers ride a bike for the first time, by watching a 17-year-old calmly help a frustrated 11-year-old set up her tent, by hearing the victory cry of your girls when they find the geocache they have spent a half-hour looking for, and by having your girls exclaim how much they love getting dirty and staying up to see the stars and how they really just want to stay here longer and can’t we just call parents and say we’re going back next week instead, please?? Pretttttty please??

We came back four days after we left, just as we had planned. We also came back with girls who had worked together to set up and take down camp, cook their own food, and resolve disputes, as well as who had pushed their own comfort limits to try activities they had never done before. And, despite—or perhaps because of—the bugs and the burnt breakfasts, we fully intend on doing another excursion camp next year. And next time, we might just make it a week long from the get-go, giving us all more time to revel in one another’s daily challenges and successes.

To see more pictures from the trail, visit our Facebook page!

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Explore Cyclovia Tucson

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Hi Ladies! Looking for a fun event that blends being outdoors, fashion, hanging out with friends, meeting new people, and doing something awesome for the Tucson community?? Come participate in the GS Booth at Cyclovia, on March 27 from 9:30-3:30! Cyclovia is a big celebration of open, car-free streets that anyone can come to, whether your walking, running, on a bike, on skates, pushing a stroller, anything! This year, the Girl Scouts will be womaning the “Fur and Flower Your Bike Booth,” decorating passerbyers’ bikes with whacky fur and crazy flowers. If you want to come join us and put your mad creative skills into action decorating bikes, contact Ariane at 520.319.3144 or amohrfelsen@sahuarogsc.org. Don’t forget to bring your family and your bikes and explore Cyclovia after you’re done helping out–there will be obstacle courses, food vendors, a jumping castle, a rock climbing wall, live music and dancing, and free helmet give-aways, just to mention a few of the other activities! Please contact Ariane by March 21st to reserve your space as a bike decorator!

For more information about Cyclovia, check out their website or find them on Facebook.

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Who’s the GREENEST of them all?

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Kristen Culliney, our Director of Mission to Market, is! To honor all her hard work and her devotion to not only leading a healthier life, but teaching girls how to lead healthier lives- we’ve nominated her for Mrs. Green’s “Who’s the GREENEST of them all?” Contest honoring the bestest and greenest in our community! Here’s what Super Kristi had to say about Kristen:

“Kristen is surely the Greenest of them all, both at work and in her personal life! At work, Kristen organizes and supports outdoor and environmental programming- teaching girls to respect and love nature, garden and even raise chickens as part of an urban agriculture series. She promotes recycling and composting around the workplace and even bikes to work! She coined the phrase “No Girl Left Inside” and supports curriculum that enables girls to become environmental stewards while going on the adventure of a lifetime. At home, she has sworn off television in order to develop healthy relationships, raise chickens with her family and spend more time in the outdoors running, biking and hiking with her kids. She is one of the lead organizers of GreenFest Tucson and is an advocate for shopping, eating and playing local. Kristen is a believer in reducing, reusing and recycling and lives her beliefs everyday. There’s no green-washing this lady! She’s totally green!!” Click here to vote for Kristen as the GREENEST of them all!

Visit Mrs. Green’s Website to vote for Kristen or nominate someone who you may think is the Greenest of them all! Are there any Green Girls out there who deserve some recognition? I bet there are!!

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Rain Smell

Friday, February 18th, 2011

by Ariane Mohr-Felsen

I ran in the desert this morning and the whole time felt as if I couldn’t breathe deeply enough. The desert smelled of rain to come and with each inhalation I tried to take in as much of that smell–that feeling–as I could. I tried to make out what I was smelling: a bit of creosote, some moist mesquite, maybe desert broom too? I couldn’t pinpoint it, but I think that is part of the magic of smelling rain in the desert–it is so infrequent and so elusive and so unique that it reminds us of how lucky we are to get the rain at all. And for me, I was reminded of how lucky I am to be able to step out into this Sonoran Desert–a desert with tropical roots and one of the youngest biomes on the North American continent–and just take it all in, marveling at how such a wide array of plants and animals eke life out of less than 15 inches of rain a year.

Something about the billowing clouds, the sporadic spots of sunshine, and the illuminated Tucson mountains off in the distance all made me think the last time I was in northern Arizona. Last fall I was up on the second Hopi Mesa, speaking with a teenage boy about his life there. The smell of rain was in the air then too, but it was different: we were in a different desert and the rain smell was accented with hints of different plants. He told me about how his culture believed that rain was brought by Kachinas–Hopi spirits–from the San Francisco Peaks, where I had been earlier that day. I remembered the clouds building over the peaks and pictured them trailing behind us, waiting to rain down upon the Hopi Mesas. The boy said they could definitely use the rain, and that a Kachina ceremony was being planned for that evening.

I and my group continued along our way, ending our day at the Grand Canyon. The next afternoon the rain arrived too, and I smiled, imagining the Hopi boy and his Kachina ceremony.

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I definitely hope that we do not get the same kind of rain on our San Francisco Peaks Expedition this upcoming summer as we got last fall. I don’t think we will–the amount of rain that northern Arizona received was highly unusual. That being said, I am SO stoked for our expedition, no matter the weather. We’ll be prepared with all of the right gear regardless, and just dreaming of days spent backpacking and night spent telling stories around a campfire or snuggled up in our sleeping bags makes my heart happy I can’t wait to get to know some new girls on the trip and discover a whole new part of AZ together.