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Grant Boosts Physical Education - The United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona obtained a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools this summer to promote physical fitness in schools. As part of the grant, students in grades three through six are expected to perform 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each week by playing modified sports, such as basketball and football, and dancing. ...[more] click here to read the full story provided by The Arizona Daily Star
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The Farmers Insurance Young Americanos Photography Competition encouraged students from kindergarten through the 12th grade to photograph Latino Life in Southern Arizona. The photo contest was held in partnership with the Tucson Children's Museum, the Tucson Newspapers/Newspapers in Education program and the Tucson Hispanic Coalition. In addition to receiving valuable awards, the Tucson Children's Museum has ... agreed to feature the winning photographs in a special exhibition through August 20.
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TMC HealthCare is Southern Arizona's regional nonprofit hospital organization with Tucson Medical Center and El Dorado Hospital at its core. As community hospitals, the staff of TMC and El Dorado Hospital comes to work each day to use their skills and expertise to improve the health of the entire community, from birth to the end of life. Tucson Medical Center, Southern Arizona's largest hospital, has been delivering healthcare services to the community for 60 years.
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Nearly 150 years later, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino founded a string of Jesuit missions across the region the Spanish called the Pimeria Alta, an area that would later become northern Mexico and southern Arizona. Converting the Indians and building mission churches, Father Kino left a long-lasting mark on this region. Two of the missions he founded -- San Xavier del Bac, 9 miles south of present-day Tucson, and San José de Tumacacori, in Tubac -- still stand.
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