Nurses Set up Shop in Local Libraries

It’s a typical warm Monday morning in Tucson. As the sun rises, more and more people gather outside the Sam Lena-South Tucson Library.  Some are here for the towering shelves of books, some for the computers, and a few for the air-conditioning. Others are here for the nurses. Inside, Nurse Kristin Robinson-Lund sets up her…

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Restoration organizations band together for native plants

Francesca Claverie adores Heuchera, a hot pink and coral-red wildflower that calls to hummingbirds. She clings to Ratibida columnifera, a reddish-brown and yellow wildflower that grows in sunny, open grasslands. She cherishes Asclepias asperula, a perennial milkweed that monarch butterflies need to survive. Fastened to Claverie’s bright multicolored, striped apron is a pin that reads, “I love…

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