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Lock Your Love on the Avenue

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Carolyn Classen | 1 comment

Lock your Love — Feb. 10, 2 to 6 p.m. on 4th Avenue

“Every time you purchase an item from a Participating Merchant (on 4th Avenue) or buy a lock from one of the nonprofit groups set up by the Lock Your Love Sculptures, you’ll receive a sticker for our Valentine card. Get three stickers and you could be on your way to win a wonderful prize!

Take the completed card to Haggerty Plaza, 316 N. 4th Ave., between 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 10th and you’ll receive a key for a chance to open a Golden Lock. If your key opens 1 of 7 Golden Locks, you win a prize! There will be 7 nonprofit organizations stationed along Fourth Avenue selling locks for $5.00 each to place on a sculpture and Lock Your Love on the Avenue.

Everyone can participate in some wonderful Karaoke at Haggerty too!!!

Only one Golden Lock prize is allowed per person.”

https://www.facebook.com/events/2018474955095256/

Carolyn’s note: over the years I’ve been reporting on the HeART sculptures planted in metal containers up and down 4th Avenue shopping district. You can lock your love on these sculptures, but they are getting filled up with all kinds of metal locks. Most sculptures are heart shaped, but some in shape of the AIDS logo, for All Souls Day (a skull), or the Ben’s Bells design.

Happy Valentine’s Day on February 14, 2018.

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Lock your Love on 4th Avenue

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Carolyn Classen | 1 comment

Lots of LOVEly activities to participate in on Feb. 11 on 4th Avenue, while shopping and planning for Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14. Buy a lock to place on the sculptures scattered along 4th Avenue. Photos below (courtesy of yours truly) of 2 of the heART shaped sculptures, already full of locks from previous V Day activities.

February 11th
“Lock your love on 4th Avenue! We have SOOOO much fun for you for Valentines weekend!!! 4th Avenue has it all- Shopping and strolling, fine dining, live music, this is the PERFECT place to bring your valentine.
Come see our new HeART sculpture unveiled, show your love to our non-profit partners by buying a lock for $5 (the charity keeps the whole $5- Fourth Avenue Merchants provides the locks)
Lock your love, and throw away the key! Show your love, and love of community with 4th Avenue’s unique and popular interactive public art. Non-profits are here with locks from 2-6pm
We have a fun event in Haggerty Plaza hosted by the fabulous Dee and Y-Not Karaoke! 2-6pm
http://www.goynot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/karaokewithdee/
Perform your favorite love song on the stage, the words will be right there for you on the screen-bring your voice and enthusiasm, but be sure to BRING IT!

Flowers availble from Flower Shop on 4th Avenue
https://www.facebook.com/FlowerShopon4th/?fref=ts
Jewelry vendors Silver Sea and 3 Quarter Moon Creative
https://www.facebook.com/SilverSeaJewelry/
https://www.facebook.com/3QuarterMoonCreative/?fref=ts

Play our KEY game!!!
(2-6pm) by shopping with participating merchants!
Get a valentine’s day card, get stickers by shopping- 3 stickers gets you a key to try a special lock. If your key opens one of 6 GOLDEN LOCKS- you win a prize basket! There are 6 prize baskets filled with goodies from your 4th Avenue merchants
Specials, discounts, exciting coctails, Romantic dinner venues- Our 4th Ave merchants want to make your Valentines MEMORABLE!
More details coming!
http://www.fourthavenue.org/”

From FB page: https://www.facebook.com/events/220585498401913/

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Tagged 6 Golden Locks, HeART shaped sculptures, Lock your Love on 4th Avenue, Mike Haggerty plaza, Valentine's Day

Find “True romance”on Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Carolyn Classen | 1 comment

VALENTINE’S DAY SCREENING

TRUE ROMANCE

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 AT 7:30PM | REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES | 35MM PRINT!at Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson

“This Valentine’s Day, celebrate the wonders of bulletproof love with the Quentin Tarantino-scripted “lovers on the run” action classic, True Romance, starring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater, on the big screen in 35mm!

Under the direction of tough guy filmmaker Tony Scott, the Quentin Tarantino-scripted True Romance was transformed into a film geek’s wet dream of a road movie – a violent, action-packed ode to exploitation cinema, trashy romance flicks and all-around Hollywood excess.

Geeky Detroit comic store clerk Clarence (Christian Slater) falls for ditzy hooker Alabama (Patricia Arquette), and before you can say “lovers on the run,” the young newlyweds are on a honeymoon road trip to L.A. with a stolen suitcase full of $5 million worth of mafia cocaine, which they plan on selling in order to ensure a bright future of marital bliss. Of course, the path to true romance never runs smooth, and soon the not-so-innocent lovers are caught between the police, the mob and the ghost of Elvis in a crazed adventure filled with wild car chases, kung fu vengeance and over-the-top Mexican standoffs! Will their love survive? Chock full of Tarantino’s trademark “pop culture in a blender” obsessions and colorfully profane dialogue, True Romance features a killer supporting cast that includes James Gandolfini, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Walken. (Dir. by Tony Scott, 1993, USA, 121 mins., Rated R) “

Carolyn’s note: thoughts of what is “true romance” this Valentine’s Day. I met my husband on a cruise ship (really!). Relatives in my family met theirs at a college dormitory over breakfast, at a nightclub (naturally), on a farm being guest laborers, in a college class. Where did you meet your “true love”?

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Lock your love on 4th Avenue

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Carolyn Classen | 2 comments

Last year for Valentine’s Day 2015 five heART shaped sculptures were placed around 4th Avenue, for lovers to attach their lock to them. Lots of loving couples did just do that, so the sculptures are mostly full of all types of metal locks, in different colors, shapes, some with decorations. See photo below.

HeART schulptre on 4th Avenue x E. 6th St. courtesy of Carolyn Classen

HeART sculpture on 4th Avenue x E. 6th St., courtesy of Carolyn Classen

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Lock your Love on Fourth Avenue on Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Carolyn Classen | 1 comment

Happy Valentine’s Day to all those in love on February 14, 2015. Purchase a lock and head over to 4th Avenue to “lock your love” on one of the 4 heart-shaped HeART sculptures (see photo below).

“Love on the Avenue”
Spend Valentines with 4th Ave merchants! Special events, guest artists, Live music, the best keepsakes and gifts, a grand prize package to be won, romantic candle lit dinners, art installation,Pastries and desserts, cocktails! From the gift, to dinner, to a beautiful expression of love- 4th ave is the best place to come with your love!

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Tagged Fourth Avenue, HeART sculptures, Lock your love, Mike Torres, Valentine's Day

Unique V Day: tour of recycling facility & landfill

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Carolyn Classen | Comments Off

My husband and I took this fascinating & educational tour last year on Valentine’s Day 2014– it’s a unique gift of love for your partner/spouse and for our planet Earth.

TOUR THE LOS REALES LANDFILL AND RECYCLING FACILITY ON VALENTINE’S DAY

The City of Tucson Environmental Services Department (ES) is offering a tour of the Los Reales Landfill and the ReCommunity, Inc. Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). Participants will be provided the opportunity to get an exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ view and learn how ES operates the landfill. Tour participants will also gain an in-depth understanding of how recyclables collected in the blue barrels aresorted and marketed.

The first stop will be ReCommunity’s state-of-the-art recycling facility which opened in July 2012. ReCommunity has allowed ES to accept an expanded list of materials for recycling due to technology built into the equipment used for sorting materials. At the Los Reales Landfill, participants see how ES handles household hazardous waste and are even able to hear how construction of the landfill cells protects groundwater. Those on the tour will also see landfill operations and learn how methane gas generated at the landfill is used as a renewable energy source to power Tucson.

Tour participants will meet in the upper level parking lot at 4004 S. Park Avenue on Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. The tour will be complete by 12:15 p.m.

Those who join the tour should wear long pants, closed-toe shoes, hats and sunscreen. Drinking water will be provided. A minimum of 15 participants is needed.

The tour is available on a first come basis. If you don’t have any plans, take yourself out for a
treat this year by doing something completely different! If you’re spending this Valentine’s with
someone, show your love by booking your honey and yourself for a tour of the landfill. To reserve a seat, call ES at 791-3175 by Tuesday, February 10, 2015.

Contact: Cristina Polsgrove
Environmental Services Public Information Officer
TDD: 791-2639
520-837-3715; cell: 520-975-5966
Cristina.Polsgrove@tucsonaz.gov