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Osher Life Long Learning Institute
Office of Extended Education
Humboldt State University
1 Harpst St.
Arcata, CA 95521-8299
Phone (707) 826-5880
PERSONAL ENRICHMENT
Crime & Personal Safety Workshop
In this course, you will learn how to make common-sense decisions to better protect yourself and your possessions. Learn how to become more safe at home, while shopping, or while traveling.
Find out how to identify high-crime areas and learn techniques to minimize your exposure in these locations to enhance your safety.
Discuss the routine activity theory of criminology and discover how potential thieves or assailants find their targets.
The ultimate goal is to learn how NOT to present yourselves as potential targets to criminals!
Fees generated by this workshop will go to the OLLI Scholarship Fund.
date ..... Wed., July 16
time ..... 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
fee/members ..... $5 (crn 30543)
fee/nonmembers ..... $5 (crn 30547)
place ..... Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, Multipurpose Room
Dick Wild is a retired parole agent supervisor who has also worked as special agent for the FBI. He has worked at San Quentin and in various locations including Washington D.C., Denver, Colorado, San Francisco, California and the North Coast. Dick has also been a guest lecturer at Humboldt State University teaching criminology and legal and criminal psychology.
New! OLLI Special Interest Groups (SIGS) provide low or no cost opportunities for members to explore and share their passions with each other. SIGS are affiliated and approved by the OLLI curriculum committee, but are member-developed and led. OLLIs in other areas have offered such topics as hiking, bridge, New Yorker magazine discussions and fiber arts. If you’d like to share your interests with a new and lively group, call 826-3743.
Lifecycle Bicycles in Arcata is offering free basic bicycle maintenance trainings to pairs of OLLI members. Learn to change a tire, tighten a chain, and more. Contact Dave Parker at 822-7755 to schedule a free training at Lifecycle Bicycles, 1593 G Street, Arcata.
Biking friends wanted
Dick Wild is interested in biking with other OLLI members . He has biked twice from Seattle, Wash. to Rehoboth Beach, Del. (3,200 miles) and has also mountain-biked 300 miles in China. His biking ventures were during his late 50s and late 60s. If you’d like to ride, .
