TOCA Job Posting

UPDATE 2/1/2014 - SORRY- POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED - Join the TOCA team!  We are looking for a new Business Manager – an essential team member who can  help make all of our programs run smoothly.  A complete job description appears below.  Please share with anyone who might be interested.

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2013 Celebration of Basketry and Native Foods Festival- Hotel Reservation Deadline

Good Day friends,
Remember to book your hotel stay at Desert Diamond Casino and Hotel by November 25, 2013.
The Special hotel rate of $80.00 per night *plus tax will end November 25, 2013.
Hotel Reservation Link

If you have any trouble with booking please contact the Desert Diamond Casino Hotel directly at
 877-777-4212 or 520-342-3012 referring to the Celebration of Basketry and Native Foods Festival.

BINGO Sunday 11am-5pm

Location: TOCC Campus (New hall at Schuk Toak, HW-86 milepost 125.5)

TUES.OCT 29th - Bring Flashlights & Your Family - Costumes Welcome

The 2nd Annual "Tour de O'oidag"welcomes all, big and small, to our dusky walk among the gardens of Sells. Dress up and share Tohono O'odham foods along the way to a big costume contest at IOES Elementary School Oidag. Registration begins at 5pm at Senior Svcs:

 Link to TOCA's Facebook Announcement for this event

Sun. Oct 27 11am-5pm: Basket Bingo to Support TOCA's Basket Weavers

Play Bingo like Never Before at the New TOCC Campus Hall off HWY.

Play Bingo Like Never Before - At TOCC Campus Hall (New Campus off Hwy 86) - Blackout Prizes include a Maze Pendleton Blanket.

IOES Oidag Planting Day - 5pm Oct 16th

Wednesday, October 16th: Bring the whole family to the Indian Oasis Elementary Oidag for our community winter planting day! We will be planting beets, carrots, i'itoi onions, o'odham peas, and more! Squash and cheese and wheat popovers will be served under the watho. Come take part in helping grow the wonderful oidag that so many students love to learn in..and eat from! We will start planting at 5 PM and stay until the sun goes down.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=567219099999941&set=a.138994146155774.43102.137202393001616&type=1&theater

Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance (NAFSA)

NAFSA, whose 22 founding members include TOCA's 2 co-founders, Terrol Dew Johnson and Tristan Reader, has started its own Facebook page. Read their Call to Action and meet the founding members!  Link: https://www.facebook.com/nativefoodalliance?fref=ts

Harvest Festival 2013

We had nearly 600 people at Saturday's Fall Harvest Festival.

Thanks to all our hardworking staff and interns!  

TOCA's Facebook page will soon have photos:
 https://www.facebook.com/pages/TOCA-Tohono-Oodham-Community-Action/137202393001616?fref=ts