Hispanic Friends: Citizen review of police needed, forum speakers say: At a Riverside meeting, about 25 urge the creation of a board to oversee the department.
RIVERSIDE A lot of years have passed, but Kevin Akin remembers the black and Hispanic friends of his youth on Riverside's Eastside. Some had run-ins with the police. Similar events, from the 1950s to today, are part of what is fueling a movement in favor of a citizens review board to oversee the Riverside Police Department, Akin told about 100 other people at a community forum Thursday. He said the feelings are particularly strong among minorities."They do not...
Hispanic Friends: Community digest
AWARD DEADLINE Hispanic `Friends' nominations due Nominations for the annual "Friends of the Hispanic Community" awards must be postmarked by March 29. The awards are given by the United Community Center to recognize non-Hispanics who support the Hispanic community in areas such as education, human services, media relations, philanthropy, the arts, government, housing and health care."Friends" and youth will be honored at...
Hispanic Friends: KNOWLEDGE, AND A NEW LANGUAGE,
HISPANIC CHILDREN GRADUATE FROM A PROGRAM TAUGHT IN ENGLISH.
"Rain is necessary for all animals and all plants (to grow)," said Brenda Luna, 9, after seriously reflecting on the underlying meaning of a poem she recently learned.That elementary lesson was among many things that Luna and 33 of her new, Hispanic friends explored during the past two weeks in classes conducted by the Hispanic Center of High Point. Friday was graduation day for the children, ages 8 to 14, in a ceremony at St. Mary's Episcopal Church....
Hispanic Friends: Local school system targeted for `more outreach'
By SHAWN GAINER Staff writer Louis Guardiola Jr. estimates that by the time he graduated from high school in 1979, about half of his Hispanic friends had dropped out.Guardiola, now vice president of the local organization Voces Unidas, went on to college and became a mental health professional. Concern about how area Hispanic students are doing now prompted him to get involved with the Fremont City Schools Minority Recruitment Committee.Among local concerns are graduation rates, a...