Bell's Baking

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~Gayle E. Bell

 

http://aztecpressonline.com/2014/11/downtown-campus-hosts-party-2/  

 

By JAMIE MAESE

 

Pima Community College Downtown Campus celebrated its big 4-0 birthday Nov. 15 with crafts, live performances and a variety of food truck vendors.

The party also featured music spanning several decades, spun by Main Events DJ Richie Rich and by emcee R Dub. The tunes had some visitors dancing and singing along while others just swayed to the beat.

R Dub, founder of the internationally syndicated Sunday Night Slow Jams radio show, attended Pima for several years on and off before returning in earnest to earn an associate degree.

“I love coming back to Pima or being involved with anything that has to do with Pima,” he said.

Patricia Houston, an academic dean who helped coordinate the event, was happy with the way the birthday party turned out.

“We didn’t expect it to have such a great turnout but it did and it is amazing to see,” she said.

“I think the thing that is shocking people most is the thousand cupcakes that were donated to us,” Houston added.

Downtown Campus staff members Gayle Bell and Celina Ortega each baked 500 cupcakes.

“I would come home from work and start baking,” Bell said. “I slept about three hours until I had to go to work again, and had cupcakes all over my house.”

Cupcake flavors included chocolate, vanilla, red velvet and gluten-free carrot.

“It’s great seeing people’s faces once they come in and see the huge cupcake tower,” Bell said. “It makes it worth the three hours of sleep for the past two days.”

Food truck options ranged from homemade ramen soup to Spanish-Peruvian entrees to sweet delights.

The smell of sugar cookies permeated a room filled with kids enjoying the task of decorating a cookie with colorful sprinkles.

The Downtown Campus 40th Birthday Bash will continue next spring with an event to honor the campus founders.