Tucson Weekly: Listings: Lectures (May 7

LECTURES
BEE SAFE. Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library. 601 N. La Canada Drive, Green Valley. Learn how to bee-proof your home and protect family members and pets from stinging attacks by Africanized honey bees with Janet Mitchell, former coordinator of the UA/USDA Africanized Honey Bee Project. Her free workshop is at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 7, and will be presented at branch libraries throughout Tucson during the month of May. Call 791-4391 for information.
Listings CORPORATE WORKSHOP. Doubletree Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. Learn how to declare and attain your business goals with Margot Dorfman, M.Ed. of Pace International as she presents "How to Declare Your Vision and Gain Success", a free workshop presented by the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Small Business Association. Workshop meets from 8 to 10 a.m. Thursday, May 14. Call 886-6588 for information, or visit the website at http://www.asba.com.
FAMILY TREE. Family History Land. 6061 E. Broadway Blvd., Suite 128. Learn valuable clues for researching your family's heritage from the Friends of Family History Land and Los Descendientes del Presidio de Tucson, with classes at 1:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through May. Classes include: Introduction to Genealogy; U.S Court, Probate and Land Records; U.S. Military Records; Institutional-Business-Employment Records; British Isles Census Records; British Records in the Family History Library; and Genealogy Research Though Commercial Sources: CD's, Internet, etc.. Classes are $8.50, free to members of FHL and Los Descendientes. Call 790-5444 for registration and information.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT. Historic Y Theater, Fifth Avenue and University Boulevard. Citizens for Growth Management sponsors a statewide petition drive for an urban sprawl initiative on the November ballot. Local campaign strategy meetings are at 6 p.m. Thursdays, May 14 and 28. Sign up at the meetings, or call 792-6589 for information.
HOMICIDE. Borders Books and Music. 4235 N. Oracle Road. Borders Books and the Tucson Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children (PMOC) host a community forum entitled Tucson's Homicide Rate at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 7. The forum discusses the possible reasons why Tucson's homicide rate remains the same while national rates fall. For more information, call PMOC at 740-5729.
IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. 531 E. Roger Road. TNDC Cohousing project has a selected an infill site for the construction of an environmentally sensitive urban community of private homes in a pedestrian-oriented urban neighborhood. Construction will start in September, but you can find out more about cohousing opportunities from 1 to 4 p.m. every Saturday through May 16. Call 325-8256 for information or visit the website at www.igc.apc.org/tndc.
WARTIME ARIZONA. Arizona Historical Society Museum. 949 E. Second St. Learn more about Arizona's diverse and intriguing military history with the AHS spring lecture series, Wartime Arizona. Lectures are at 7 p.m. Wednesday evenings. Free, lighted parking is available in the AHS parking lot on the ground floor of the UA Main Gate garage. Persons with a disability may request reasonable accommodation, preferably in advance. Lectures are $5, $3 for students. Call 628-5774 for information.
WIDOWED TO WIDOWED. Widowed to widowed offers free support groups to widows and widowers of all ages and lifestyles. Day and evening meetings are available. Call 884-4570 for information.