Christmas is coming, and everybody’s excited! They’re out buying decorations, gift bags, food, wrapping paper, Santa Claus apparel, and arguably the most important part... presents! The list goes on and on, right? Buying all these things can be fun and rewarding at first, but doing so can also harm the environment, sometimes in ways we can’t even see.

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Bosa Donus Teacher of the Month Mark Winans from Mountainside Middle School
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Mark Winans is the band director at Mountainside Middle School. He also teaches band at Anasazi Elementary and Laguna Elementary. This is Winans’ 38th year of teaching, and his 28th year teaching in Scottsdale Unified.

Winans is an Arizona native who grew up in Yuma and Casa Grande. He... Read more

Have you thought or even dreamt about what you want to do for a career one day? Is it a job that you admire, a lauded position you aspire to or a job that involves special skills? Your future job might be one that you are already studying for and working to achieve, or it might be something that you have never considered or even heard of before.

Boomer believes it is never too early to do some research on a dream job—it could start you on the path to your future career, or it might lead you in an unexpected but exciting new direction!

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Records Facts: • Most concurrent records held: 181 • Largest drawing by an individual: 10,814.5 sq feet • Deepest concert underground 9,000 feet
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Have you ever wondered who has the largest collection of rubber ducks? Or who holds the record for the most magic tricks performed underwater in three minutes?

If you want to know facts like these, there are the Guinness World Records, the self-proclaimed ultimate authority on record-... Read more

A 35,000-year-old mummified saber-toothed kitten, Homotherium latidens, is shown in amazing detail. Its short, thick, dark brown fur, small rounded ears, and unique muzzle are preserved. The kitten still has its whiskers and claws, frozen in time by Siberian permafrost.
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SIBERIA—How good do you think you’ll look after 35,000 years? A 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten discovered in permafrost a few years ago is in beautiful shape, giving researchers an amazing look at this extinct PREDATOR.

Their findings recently came out in Scientific... Read more

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In the book “The Sparkle Box” a boy named Sam is very excited when he notices something shiny on the mantel. His mother tells him that the special gift is called a sparkle box and they will all open it together later, but she and Sam’s dad must fill it first.

Sam becomes more curious about what’s inside the sparkle box. As Sam and his parents do things to help people in need and the homeless, it makes Sam wonder more and more about what could be inside the box.

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"DOG MAN! Part dog, part man, ALL HERO!" Dog Man is one of the best selling series written by Dav Pilkey. The book is so good that it's already a musical and soon it will be a full length feature film. “Dog Man: The Musical” will be traveling all over the U.S., to 18 states and Canada over the course of eight months—including a stop in Tucson. 

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