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The Kiwanis de Amigos Club provided 24 children from Los Ranchitos Elementary School with the opportunity get holiday presents for their families at Wal-Mart on Dec. 13.

Club members and family members, as well as students from the University and Sabino high school Key Clubs, escorted the students around the store as they shopped. Afterward, everyone returned to Los Ranchitos, near East Valencia Road and South Tucson Boulevard, where all the gifts were wrapped. As a final surprise, each student was presented with a gift for himself or herself.

This was the 16th year that Kiwanis de Amigos Club has provided this opportunity to schoolchildren.

Have you seen the festive, colored displays at bus shelters around town that talk about drunken driving?

Local attorney Elliot Glicksman and AdVision Outdoor Advertising have teamed up to discourage drunken driving. The posters will be displayed during the holidays and into the new year.

"To bring awareness to the community, especially around the holiday season, is critical," said Kelly Larkin, executive director of the Southern Arizona Chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. "If this campaign helps save just one life, it has done its job."

The U.S. Local Business Association has selected the T-Rex Museum, 3861 N. Oracle Road, for the 2008 Best of Tucson Award in the museums category.

The U.S. Local Business Association's Best of Local Business award program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country.

Each year, the association identifies companies that it believes have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local communities and business categories.

The museum is at the North Building of the Oracle Tower (formerly the Ponderosa Plaza). It includes a small children's dinosaur museum, an activity center and a gift shop.

Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and Monday through Thursday by appointment only. The last admission of the day is at 2 p.m.

For more information, call 888-0746 or go online to www.trexmuseum.org

The Navajo Wash dedication ceremony was held Dec. 13 at the northwest corner of North Mountain Avenue and East Hedrick Drive.

Representatives from Tucson Clean and Beautiful, Ward 3 and the Tucson City Streets Department officially recognized the Hedrick Acres Neighborhood Association's beautification project — the Navajo Wash.

Enough volunteer hours were logged to keep the wash clean.

An ongoing effort to clean the wash will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month.