Enjoy the last LLL events of the season
As the LifeLong Learning season draws to a close, we hope you’ll find time to enjoy these events. Lectures are in the Renaissance Theater while all classes and PC Reads meet in the LLL Center. Other locations noted below.
To register, please go online or come to the LLL Center during office hours.
Thursday, March 1: PC Reads discusses Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Monday, March 5: MML, How to Talk About Death
Wednesday, March 7: All About Drones – SOLD OUT
Saturday, March 11: Trip to Arizona Opera, The Barber of Seville
Monday, March 12: MML, Arizona’s Agriculture Industry and GMO’s
Tuesday, March 13: Trip to Florence Ruins, Monastery and Museum
Friday, March 16: Premier Lecture, Aviation History Through the Eyes of Igor Sikorsky
Monday, March 19: MML, Progress in Anti-Aging Interventions
Sunday, March 25: Sunday Series, Steel Drums, Chianti Room
Monday, March 26: How to Talk About Death
Friday, March 30: Trip to St. Vincent de Paul’s SOLD OUT
Tuesday, Apr. 3: Trip, Discover Tucson
Thursday, Apr. 5: PC Reads discusses Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Last four Monday Morning lectures of the 2017-2018 season
LLL has once again filled Mondays in March with interesting lecture topics. Lectures begin at 10:00 a.m. in the Renaissance Theater. Tickets are $4 per person, sold in the lobby beginning at 9:00 a.m.
Solving Crime through Secret Witness
PebbleCreek resident Don Richter is the founder of Secret Witness in Nevada. He and a small group of citizens formed the independent non-profit after a six-year old girl was kidnapped in 1977 by a pedophile who raped and murdered her.
On March 5 he will explain how too often vital information on crimes fails to reach the police because people fear retaliation in some form. Secret Witness gets the information to the proper authority without compromising the identity of the witnesses, and the witnesses receive any offered rewards. In Reno, Sparks, Carson City and the surrounding communities of northern Nevada, more than 105,000 anonymous calls have helped solve more than 1,000 crimes.
What’s New in Arizona’s Agriculture Industry?
“E-I-E-I-O” are no longer the exclusive letters associated with farming. GMOs (genetically modified organisms) have become increasingly more prevalent on Old MacDonald’s farm. On March 12, Katie Aikins, director of education for the Arizona Farm Bureau, will talk about how Arizona’s $17.1 billion agriculture industry uses GMOs and will explain to us the technology used to produce them.
Can We Slow Aging?
Have we found the fountain of youth? And when did the term “anti-aging” become so marketable? On March 19, Gary Marchant, a professor of law at ASU will be here to discuss some of the newest interventions that control the basic aging process — and the regulatory barriers to making them available.
Often, he says, those reviewing interventions base their conclusions on outdated medical models that assume aging is not a treatable or modifiable condition. He will suggest ways to help overcome obstacles to consumer access to those interventions.
Preparing for the Inevitable
We may prolong aging, but one thing is for certain: death. On March 26, Dave Kampfschulte, a certified grief specialist, will present I’m Dying to Talk With You. We’d much rather talk about the weather, or our latest round of golf, but we need to have end-of-life conversations, according to Kampfschulte.
His 30 years working in hospice have taught him that not talking about death deprives the survivors and can add to their grief. By sharing stories of how others dealt with end-of-life stories, you will get a better understanding of how planning and conversations can lead to a “good death.
New AED Defibrillator in LLL Center
Kare Bears,which has purchased AED defibrillator units for the protection of residents and guests of PebbleCreek, recently placed one in the LLL Center in the Eagle’s Nest Activities Center.
While the Activities Office also has an AED unit, LifeLong Learning has classes and other activities in the LLL Center in the afternoons, evenings and weekends when the Activities Office is closed.
We hope an occasion to use the AED does not occur, but we’re glad to know we are ready.
A few spots left on March trips: next season planning underway
Emily Grotta
With just four trips left this season, LifeLong Learning is already busy investigating possible destinations for next year. If you have been somewhere interesting, or have heard of someplace that you’d like to visit, let us know by emailing Lisa Greenhoot, the director of trips, at [email protected], or drop by the LLL Center and let us know about your suggestions. We appreciate your input.
There are limited spaces available on the following trips. Please register online at www.lifelonglearningatpc.org or in person at the LLL Center Tuesday-Friday between 9:00 a.m. and noon in March.
Sunday, March 11: Join LLL at the Arizona Opera for one of Rossini’s greatest works, The Barber of Seville, a delightful comedy that will keep you laughing while you’re humming familiar arias. A pre-opera lecture is part of the day as well as dinner after at The Parlor. $160.
Tuesday, March 13: LLL travels to Florence and the Casa Grande National Monument where one of the largest prehistoric structures ever built in North America still exists. It was here where ancient Sonoran Desert people developed wide scale irrigation farming and extensive trading connections around 1350. An engineering marvel, the compound was active for more than a thousand years, then abandoned. Then we are off to the Greek Orthodox Monastery, established by six monks who arrived in 1995. They planted vegetable gardens, a vineyard, citrus orchards and an olive garden and established an elaborate system of gardens, pathways, gazebos and fountains. Certain clothing requirements apply, see website for more information. Afterwards lunch at Mount Athos Restaurant and Cafe, before touring the Pinal County Historical Museum, which focuses on the events and people who influenced the growth of Florence. $75.
Tuesday, April 3: Discover Tucson with LLL. Dendrochronology. Rolls right off the tongue doesn’t it? Start the day at the Bryant Bannister Tree Ring Laboratory where the science of tree rings has been studied since 1937. Then it’s off to the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun at the foot of the Santa Catalina Mountains where acclaimed Arizona artist Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia had his studio and painted his recognizable cherubic Native American children. The Arizona State Museum is the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the Southwest. Explore the origins and life ways of our region’s native cultures, through a maze of life size dioramas, ancient artifacts, historic objects and native voices. Following lunch at Trattoria Pina the adventure continues with a 50-minute narrated tram ride through Sabino Canyon, a natural desert oasis, located in Tucson’s Coronado National Forest. $95.