Volume 13 • Number 7
The Voice of the Catalina Foothills
April 5, 2023
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Kids Camp!
Read about Towns, museums and theaters hosting classes and camps this summer | Special Section
INSIDE Plenty to do in the Old Pueblo | Page 4 Have fun on a jumbo scale at kids' Minature Museum camp | Page 9 Sarah Goldman is Athlete of the Week | Page 19
Treasures await teachers at this nonprofit BY KAREN SCHAFFNER Tucson Local Media Staff
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hat looks like trash to the rest of the world is treasure to teachers — literally and figura-
tively. At Treasures4Teachers, shelves are stacked with bins filled with cast-offs and effluvia. One bin finds bundles of used but unbroken crayons. In another there are scads of pull tabs. Hard plastic floppy disks are placed in another. That’s just a tiny bit of what is
stacked on the many shelves at Treasures4Teachers, a nonprofit that bridges the gap between the need for tools and supplies and effective teaching. “The things that we like the most in this store we call loose parts,” said Adrienne Ledford, who opened Treasures4Teachers eight years ago. “Loose parts are a part of the new STEM movement. The more loose parts you can give a child, they can create whatever they want with it. You just give them
Adrienne Ledford established Treasures4Teachers eight years ago to help teachers get the classroom supplies they need. (Karen Schaffner/Staff)
See TREASURES Page 7
Local teen wins state spelling bee BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tucson Local Media Staff
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aren Opoku-Appoh, an eighth grader from Marana Middle School, won the 2023 Arizona Spelling Bee hosted by the Arizona Educational Foundation on Saturday, March 18.
JULIE KELLY,
The 13-year-old correctly spelled the word “passage” to win the bee. The runners up were: Second place: Opal Mishra, sixth grade, age 12, Basha Accelerated Middle School, Chandler Unified School District, Maricopa County Region 6 Third place: Sai Manvik Malreddy, eighth
grade, age 13, Explorer Middle School, Paradise Valley Unified School District, Maricopa County Region 2 Fourth place: Regina Rascon, seventh grade, age 11, Bogle Junior High School, Chandler Unified School District, Maricopa See SPELLING Page 7
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