Tucson Weekly: Listings: Lectures (April 30

LECTURES
BEE SAFE. Wilmot Branch Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 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 10 a.m. Saturday, May 2, 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 effectively get your message across with Rich Allen of Impact Learning Systems with Speaking For Impact, a free workshop presented by the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Small Business Association. Workshop meets from 8 to 10 a.m. Thursday, May 7. Call 886-6588 for information, or visit the website at http://www.asba.com.
DIVORCE SUPPORT. The Family Counseling Agency offers a free support group for people ending relationships and adjusting to the single lifestyle. All groups are free of charge. Call 323-3952 for information.
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, April 30, 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.
MATH AWARENESS WEEK. The UA has scheduled several lectures in celebration of math awareness week: Eric Weiss discusses the use of satellite imaging and mathematics to track vegetation loss in The Desertification of Saudi Arabia from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in Franklin Building Room 204. Denice Warren discusses the mathematics of screen resolution, bit-depth images and color on the web in The Mathematics of Web Design, from 12:15 to 1 p.m. Friday, May 1, in Chem/Bio Room 218. Call 621-2056 for information on Math Week.
NETWORKING TIPS. RFW Center. 5210 E. Pima St., Suite 130. Resources for Women Present the free workshop The Benefits of Networking, a brief session from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 5. Reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance. Call 388-8810 for reservations and information.
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, preferrably in advance. Lectures are $5, $3 for students. Call 628-5774 for information.
WEBSITE SENSE. Maxwell's Restaurant. 1661 N. Swan Road. The Computer Using Graphic Artists sponsor Martha Retallick as she presents "How Much Does Your Website Really Cost?" The breakfast meeting begins with a networking session at 7 a.m. followed by breakfast and the talk at 7:30. The cost is $10 for CUGA members and $13 for non-members. Call 749-1185 or email dwhitby@aol.com for reservations and 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.