Volume 13 • Number 5
The Voice of the Catalina Foothills
March 8, 2023
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Cuisine Classique cuts to the chase BY KAREN SCHAFFNER Tucson Local Media Staff
Plenty to do this weekend | Page 2
Spectacularly going nowhere on this train | Page 9
Another outbreak may be looming this season | Page 12
M
ardi Burden learned to cook the hard way. She, admittedly, cut her fingers “millions” of times before she mastered knife handling. “I’ve put a knife through my hand,” said the outspoken Mardi. “Yeah, my hands look like crap.” Mardi co-owns the 20-year-old Cuisine Classique cooking school with her husband, Bob Burden, both of whom teach knife handling straight out of the gate. The Burdens teach the class at their home on West Magee Road, where they’re hosting an open house 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 16. The teaching room features a very large island, where students are equipped with their own burners. If they’re lucky, the glass doors
Mardi Burden is co-owner of Cuisine Classique, a cooking school located in her West Magee Road home. First thing students learn is proper knife technique. (Photo by
Noelle Haro-Gomez)
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Youth leader seeks to change state's education policy BY KATYA MENDOZA Tucson Local Media Contributor
M
aritza Roberts-Padilla says quality sexual health education is lacking. So the 18-year-old created Increasing Sexual Literacy Matters (ISL Matters) to bridge the sexual health gap among teenagers. A junior at BASIS Tucson North, Padilla
JULIE KELLY,
is one of 33 national Civic Spring Fellowship recipients. The New Jersey-based Institute for Citizens and Scholars seeks to engage in the development of civic learning. Audra Watson, senior program director, said that the institute’s mission is to develop young people who are knowledgeable, engaged and hopeful about democracy. “Civic learning encompasses a number of
things,” Watson said. “It includes developing civic knowledge, skills and dispositions, understanding what the systems of our government are and how to engage with one another on an individual level.” Watson said in 2020, the institute sought to begin work with young people and called upon youth-led organizations to propose proSee POLICY Page 6
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