Jessica
Marie Marquez (12) and her mother Lupe Marquez of National City.
Jessica shares a poem she has written about her mother.
“A mother like you must be the dearest of all God’s
creations. I can’t think of anything as sweet as your love,
or as precious as you. I love you so much. I am so thankful for
the gift of a mother like you. It would be nice if I had an extra
special message for you, something never said before to express
how much I love you and appreciate you. But the best message I
could say is thank you for caring so much about me and for being
a part of my life. I thank God for this gift to me. The gift of
you.”
Teresa Quezada (28) and her daughter Stephanie Quezada (8).
Stephanie attends Central Elementary School in Imperial Beach.
“I love when my mommy makes me ‘espagetti’ and
when she gets me snacks like Oreo cookies and sour bubble gum.
This Mother’s Day I’m going to get her a nice present
and say that I love her too much because she has taken care of
me a lot. My mommy likes angels, and my grandma told me about
a little angel that costs one dollar and something. I have one
dollar and something, so I will surprise her with this.”
Maria Sanchez
and her sons Manuel Sanchez (10) and Jorge Amparo (5). Manuel
attends Sherman Elementary School in Barrio Logan.
“I love when my mom makes me sopa de queso and mole. For
Mother’s Day we’ll make chiles rellenos together. I
will help her wash and cut the lettuce. We wish all mothers peace
and good luck on this day and all year.”
School Board Member John de Beck Outraged Over
Removal of San Diego
High Principal
From the Office of John de Beck
San Diego school superintendent Alan Bersin and Chancellor
for Instruction Tony Alvarado, abruptly removed long-time district
principal Tony Alfaro from his leadership position at San Diego
High School. According to School Board Member, John de Beck, the
immediate buyout was a complete surprise and was never discussed
with the school board in an official meeting. The board met on
May 8th, but San Diego High School governance team members were
not notified until May 7th that Alfaro would be removed by May
9th.
Analysis
Labor Fights For Immigrants
By David Bacon
OAKLAND, CA - Even though she was working 40 hours a week
at the Valencia St. Travelodge in San Francisco, Matilda (last
name withheld), who moved to the US from Mexico a decade ago,
couldn't afford to clothe her four children. "First I go
to churches where they give clothes and food away," she said.
"When school begins, we get pencils and books from the Salvation
Army. If it wasn't for this kind of help, we couldn't live in
San Francisco."
Anthony D. Romero es el Nuevo Director Ejecutivo
de la ACLU; El Primer Latino
en Dirigir el Principal Grupo Pro Libertades Civiles
La Junta Directiva Nacional de la Unión Americana de Libertades
Civiles (ACLU, por sus siglas en inglés) votó unánimemente
este fin de semana para designar a Anthony D. Romero, ejecutivo
de la Fundación Ford y abogado de intereses públicos,
como el sexto director ejecutivo en los 81 años de vida
de la institución.
Program Changes Health of Latino Community One
Vida At A Time
By Yvette tenBerge
Carmen Gonzalez* (name changed to protect privacy) starts
this Tuesday morning as she does most mornings. She rises to make
the eggs and oatmeal for her family's breakfast and sets the cereal
boxes, low-fat milk and orange juice on the table. Her husband
and the two of her six grown children who still live at home sit
at the small kitchen table and quickly consume their meals in
order to make room for the grandchildren. As usual, Ms. Gonzalez
eats standing. As the small house empties, she clears the table
and wipes down its red and white checked, plastic table cloth.
She washes the dishes and sets them on a towel on the counter
to dry.
Noticias de México...
Detallan operaciones de narcotráfico
Exhibe Páez cómplices
Autoridades policiacas de Estados Unidos identificaron a 20
cómplices, algunos de ellos estadounidenses, del presunto
narcotraficante del cártel de los hermanos Arellano Félix,
Everardo Arturo Páez Martínez, "Kitty Páez",
quien fue extraditado el viernes a San Diego, California.
Dedicado a la fabricación de guitarras
Por: Paco Zavala.
Por el antiguo camino a Ensenada, un poco adelante del Motel
La Sierra, antes de llegar al siguiente semáforo, encontramos
el número 3415 del ahora Boulevard Cuauhtemoc, un pequeño
recinto en el que se encuentra instalada la fábrica de
guitarras del maestro Luis Alberto Sevillano, quien se ha dedicado
a estos menesteres por un promedio de 37 años.
Tijuana's Ecoparque: Decentralized Water Treatment
and Water Reuse
by Greg Bloom
Tijuana is a city of steep, close hills and hills make centralized
wastewater treatment plants expensive and large consumers of energy
as sewage must be pumped over hill after hill until it reaches
a large, often foul-smelling treatment plant that can cost close
to US $1 billion to build. Many of Tijuana's hills are also crowded
with homes or are covered in grasses that are brown much of the
year. Other hills show signs of severe erosion or scars where
they were cut into so as to create level building sites.
$2.99 Million Grant From The California Endowment
Completes Funding for
Unprecedented California Health Interview Survey
A $2,99 million grant from The California Endowment, the
state's largest health foundation, completes the funding for the
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), an unprecedented assessment
of the health needs of the state's ethnically and geographically
diverse population.
El Comité Nacional Demócrata Lanza
Nuevo Anuncio en la Televisión Hispana
Washington, DC — El Presidente del Comité
Nacional Demócrata (DNC), Terry McAuliffe anunció
la semana pasada el lanzamiento de una campaña de $80,000
en la televisión hispana en las cadenas Univisión
y Telemundo para asegurarse de que la comunidad Latina en la nación
esté informada sobre las malas decisiones que el Presidente
George W. Bush ha hecho durante sus primeros cien días
como presidente. El nuevo anuncio representa la primera vez que
el partido demócrata ha invertido en anuncios en Español
durante un año de no elección.
Para Francisco Guerrero, Una Herida en la Médula
Espinal se Convierte en un
Beneficio Personal
Haber quedado paralítico después de un balazo
en la espalda fue solo el comienzo de los problemas de Francisco
"Franky" Guerrero— ¡y el principio de su
salvación!
Encienda
Una Vela
Mons. Jim Lisante
El Amor y Mucho Más
Ya pasaron 25 años de la boda de Colleen y Jack.
Aún recuerdo ese tremendo amor que los unía; eran
ese tipo de pareja que uno sabía que lo lograrían
todo en la vida. Y por algunos años así fue. Jack
era un brillante profesional en la bolsa de valores de Wall Street.
Colleen era el ama de casa perfecta, y al poco tiempo también
la madre perfecta. Tuvieron cinco hijos--por supuesto, cinco niños
ejemplares. Era una hermosa familia. Con dinero, amor, con unos
niños maravillosos. Una familia muy estimada en la comunidad.
Symposium Exploring the Dynamics of Crossing
Borders to be Presented May 25
in the Price Center at UC San Diego
A symposium exploring the ways our static and changing
artistic, conceptual and social projects reflect and shape cultural
movement across borders will be presented May 25 in the Price
Center at the University of California, San Diego.
Editorial
Duchney Launches Misguided Congressional Redistricting
Proposal
Gloria Penner, KPBS- FM radio political pundit, interviewed
Ms. Denise Ducheny in a recent broadcast. Ms. Ducheny told Ms.
Penner that she thought that the 50th congressional
seat, now held by Congressman Bob Filner, should have its area
extended to include Imperial County! She implied that Imperial
County had only 140,000 residents and, therefore, wasn't big enough
to deserve a Congressional District. She neglected to say that
Imperial County is in the 52nd Congressional District,
the district that Congressman Hunter currently represents. It
was created (gerrymander) 10 years ago in order to provide him
with a safe seat. He knew he didn't appeal to the Democrats in
the South Bay area and that he would not survive reelection.
Editorial
Bersin & Alvarado, Darth Vader Regime
In Control of SDUSD!
Unknown to the teachers, parents, professional staff,
administrators and the minority members of the School Board of
Trustees (De Beck & Zimmerman), Tony Alvarado, the hired gun
brought in by Superintendent Alan Bersin, has decided that he
was going to fire the whole administrative team. Principal of
San Diego High School, Tony Alfaro, who has been with district
for 25 years, was one of those to be ingloriously dismissed for
reasons unknown at this time. He was not even allowed to hand
out the graduating diplomas to the graduating Class of 2001!
Commentary
Senators, Congressmen and EZLN are Acting
like Kindergarten Kids
By Enrique Davis-Mazlum
Mexico City - On April 25, 2001 the Senate (El Senado de la
República) approved the Bill: "Law of Rights and Customs
of the Indigenous Pueblos and Communities" with 109 votes
in favor (all parties voted in favor) and on April 28 the House
(Camara de Diputados) approved the same Bill with 386 votes from
legislatures from the National Action Party (PAN), Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Green Ecological Party of México
(PVEM).
Commentary
Planned Parenthood Program Aims to Decrease
Teen Pregnancy
By Sylvia Barron
Latinas in the United States have a lot to celebrate in terms
of ever-increasing educational and professional opportunities.
Without a doubt, our daughters enjoy greater rights and liberties
than our mothers did in this country. But a recent government
study reveals that Hispanic girls in the United States are seriously
lagging behind their non-Hispanic counterparts in one critical
area - declining the rate of teen pregnancy.
Commentary
Attorney General Releases New Training
Curriculum For Long-Term
Care Facilities
Your Legal Duty... Reporting Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse
By California Attorney General Bill Lockyer
"Let me know if she is dead." That's what a nurse's
assistant said she was told after three trips back and forth between
the elderly patient and the in-charge nurse in a California nursing
home last year. The response was from the in-charge nurse. The
resident was dying, suffocating on her own bodily fluids. The
assistant asked several times to have the tube going into the
patient's mouth checked and cleared, but the nurse refused. The
patient drowned. This case, investigated by the California Department
of Justice's (DOJ) Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse, is
currently being prosecuted.
"Aida" Sensacional
Por Paco Zavala
El Civic Theatre de San Diego el pasado sabado 5 de mayo,
con un lleno total, se engalanó al llevar a la escena la
opera de "Aida" de Giuseppe Verdi, con libreto de Antonio
Ghislanzoni, su primera representación fue en el Cairo,
Egipto el día 24 de Diciembre de l87l.
Book
Review
Fantasy Medical Mystery Comes to Life
By Daniel L. Muñoz
From the moment that Europeans sailed across the abysmal,
uncharted waters of the Southern Atlantic to confront the unknown
world that lay beyond, superstition and fear became part of their
daily lives.
Caminando Por los Pasillos Del CECUT en Tijuana
Por Paco Zavala
El Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), es un centro de cultura
que se dedica a atender y presentar infinidad de actividades relacionadas
con esta labor tan humana y necesaria, para la comunidad de Tijuana
y sus alrededores.
Calendar of Events...
by Berenice Cisneros
Celebrando La Musica Chicana. Aztec Entertainment
presenta el Aztlan Fest 2001 que rodará con un verdadero
elenco de talento explosivo.
Hollis Gentry Shares Lineup With Gilbert Castellanos
at Imperial Beach Chili &
Jazz Festival
Imperial Beach — Internationally known jazz artist
Gilbert Castellanos joins this year's lineup which includes Hollis
Gentry, for his eighth consecutive year, Reel to Real, the Navy
Jazz Fleet Ensemble, Longboard Blues Band and others at the 8th
Annual Imperial Beach Chili & Jazz Festival on Saturday, May
19.
Under the wing of Moses, Zeke Moreno begins journey
to make the Charger roster
USC's defensive MVP, Zeke Moreno didn't know what to expect
heading into the recently held NFL draft, but when his phone rang
and he learned that he was a San Diego Charger, he could hardly
believe his ears. Moreno, the 6'2" 245 pound linebacker out
of USC by way of Castle Park High is the younger brother of Chargers
quarterback Moses Moreno. Both brothers are excited about the
coming season and the opportunity to compete for spots on the
same team.
San Diego Spirit Gets First Win Over Freedom
The San Diego Spirit scored the first goals and recorded
the first victory in franchise history as Shannon MacMillan scored
once in each half to lead the Spirit to a 2-0 victory over the
Washington Freedom.
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