Parks in Focus gives kids a chance to explore the wilds of Arizona through the lens of a camera.
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Parks in Focus
Featured on the December 20th, 2018 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- Visit the University of Arizona’s Center for Compassion Studies, the first of its kind in the southwest. Its mission is to research the impact of compassion on society, at a time when the Center's director says it may be needed more than ever.
UA Compassion Center executive director Leslie Langbert.
Ashley Fredde
- Meet Yoheved and Adolfo, two kids who are members of Parks in Focus, a unique program that takes youth out of the city to explore the great open spaces of Arizona, and teaches them to use photography to document the experience.
Photo By: Adolfo, age 14, Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson.
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Photo By: Yoheved, age 10, Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson.
courtesy Parks in Focus
Photo By: Adolfo, age 14, Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson.
courtesy Parks in Focus
- Tony Perkins talks with Dee O'Hara, who in 1959 was a nurse doing very important work on the terrestrial side of the Apollo Space Program. Join PBS 6 on Wednesday, December 26th for NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission, with many members of the Apollo space program telling about the first mission to circumnavigate the Moon, 50 years ago this month
Astronaut Wally Schirra and NASA nurse Dee O'Hara.
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- Essayist Adiba Nelson returns, to tell about a journey she had to take for her health, and the ways it lead her to re-examine the signals our culture sends about motherhood. (Music by Q and DJ Benbi.)
Adiba Nelson
- And, Emma Gibson asks some folks on the UA campus about their holiday traditions, old and new.
AZPM reporter Emma Gibson talks to UA journalism student Holly Halstead about holiday traditions.
Mark McLemore
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