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Cleveland, December2014: Esperanza, Inc. staff andvolunteers have plenty of rea-son to celebrate these days, asthe graduation rates of Cleve-land-area Latino high schoolstudents have more thandoubled from 30 percent in2011 to just over 60 percentlast year.

Three years ago, ClevelandMetropolitan School DistrictCEO Eric Gordon called thedistrict’s horrible Latino gradu-ation rate as “a crisis in thecommunity” during a paneldiscussion with U.S. Secretaryof Education Arne Duncan.Gordon even pointed out thatthe rate was even lower amongjust Hispanic boys.

The nonprofit agencywhich mentors young Latinoshas significantly helped to“move the dial” in a positivedirection, turning around atrend of ever-worsening highschool dropout rates. Some ofthose solutions include hands-on, real-world, one-on-onementoring and tutoring.

“It makes us feel wonderfulthat we set a goal four years agoand through a lot of hard work,a lot of focus that we’ve beenable to make an impact,” saidVictor Ruiz, Esperanza execu-tive director. “We can attributea lot of that to us— not all of it.But it makes us feel accom-plished. We know there’s stilla lot more work yet to be done,but we’re seeing results.”

Esperanza conducted a pairof external evaluations to mea-sure the success of its effortswith Hispanic high school stu-dents. Ruiz indicated thosesurveys showed an impact onthe youth served by the non-profit organization.

“We know that studentswho come through our pro-grams see increases in GPAand school attendance, as wellas graduation,” he said. “Sothose are the things we canquantify and say yes, we had animpact.”

Esperanza also ratcheted upits advocacy efforts, workingwith Cleveland public schoolsleaders to “ensure they wereproviding them the resourcesthat they need,” according toRuiz, who called it “a partner-ship” with the school district“to get the needle moving.”

But Esperanza’s executivedirector still believes the situ-ation is in a crisis mode, be-cause the graduation rate isstill not where he’d like to seeit for Latino teens. He also seesa crisis in the lack of Latinoyoung people who are seekinghigher education and “gradu-ating with some sort of degreeor credential.”

“While this is great news forour community, there is still alot of work to be done, so we arestill in what I consider to becrisis mode,” said Ruiz.

Esperanza’s “Top-down approach”

Esperanza’s board launcheda systemic change in the waythe organization handled itsacademic programs, recruited,hired, and trained staff a fewyears ago. Ruiz stated that “top-down approach” led to whole-sale changes at the nonprofitorganization, which startedmore than four decades ago as avehicle to award studentscholarships. The nonprofit stilldoled out $120,000 in collegescholarships this year, but get-ting more Latinos to collegebecame a primary focus.

“Under our watch, the ratehad dropped to abysmal num-bers,” he admitted. “One of thethings we realized is that weweren’t focused enough on ouryouth and their graduation rate.We got into adult workforceeducation. So we eliminatedprogramming that wasn’t im-pacting the high school gradu-ation rate and bringing program-ming that was.”

Esperanza and its supportersmanaged to leverage larger do-nations from foundations andbusinesses across Greater Cleve-land, partly by bringing in evi-dence-based programs that wereworking elsewhere. Ruiz ex-plained that the nonprofit was“able to see results quickly withsmall groups first,” whichhelped to make the case for in-creased and sustained funding.

“It really started by articulat-ing the need and I think we wereable to convince the fundingcommunity that the Hispaniccommunity matters,” said Ruiz,himself a product of the Cleve-land public schools. “They ac-knowledged that our commu-nity was growing and if Cleve-land was going to be a betterplace, they needed to addressthe Hispanic community. Butthose results gave the fundingcommunity the confidence theyneeded to invest in us and ourwork.”

Esperanza has grownfrom a $600,000 peryear to $2 million

As a result, Esperanza hasgrown from a $600,000 per yearoperation to an annual budgetof more than $2 million. Someof its chief financial backersinclude: The George GundFoundation, Saint Luke’s Foun-dation, and United Way ofGreater Cleveland. The Cleve-land Foundation has been chip-ping in significant dollars aswell— mainly because of thenonprofit group’s strategic andsystem approach to improvinggraduation rates.

One of the biggest hurdlesEsperanza had to overcome wasthe growing number of Span-ish-speaking families that weresettling in Greater Cleveland.The nonprofit group increas-

ingly puttheir focus onhiring bilin-gual staff, par-t i c u l a r l ythose whoworked di-rectly withstudents andtheir families.That lan-guage barrierwas onlymade worse bythe lack of bi-lingual peerselsewhere.

“The otherpiece was en-suring thatthose familieswere gettingthe servicesthey needed from the commu-nity in general,” said Ruiz. “Insome cases, it’s advocating tomake sure the school districthas the proper number of inter-preters and instructors to referfamilies to the agencies thathave the proper bilingual staff.It became an issue of under-standing, who were the goodresources out there to refer.”

The Esperanza executivedirector stated his staff had to“become intentional” onwhere to send Spanish-speak-ing families for help, so theywouldn’t become frustratedand give up.

“There’s an attitude in gen-eral among many agencies thatthey will institute bilingualservices when there is a need,”said Ruiz. “In many cases, thecommunity won’t go to theseservices because the servicesjust aren’t there. It’s one ofthose things where the generalcommunity won’t make theinvestment because they don’tsee the need. We know there’sa need.”

The Esperanza chief execu-tive stated there is a long-held“perception problem” amongthe general community thatLatino families don’t careabout education, which he ex-plained could not be fartherfrom the truth.

“What our communityneeds to lean is how to engagein the educational system inthis country,” said Ruiz. “Inthis country, an engaged par-ent is one who is constantlyseen at the school, attends allthe open houses. A lot of therest of us believe engagedparenting can mean a lot ofdifferent things. I think it’s theway we culturally define en-gagement.”

Hispanic families typicallydeal with academic and othertypes of problems within thehome environment withouttaking it to a school principalor a teacher. That is where Ruizsees a potential perceptionproblem and his staff is trying

to help those families assimi-late better.

“We’re teaching them howto read a report card, to sched-ule a meeting with the princi-pal, because that is how en-gagement is defined in thiscountry, in this community,”he said, explaining that self-advocacy and mentoring be-come important componentsto successful students.

For example, Esperanza’sELLA and ELLOS programs tar-get the leadership potential ofhigh-school age Latinos, meet-ing once each month in groupsof 20 with a community leaderas a volunteer mentor. Thoseleadership clubs are aimed atproviding an alternative togangs, violence, and droppingout of school on the part of at-risk, inner-city Latinos. Stu-dents deal with gender-specificissues and learn more abuthigher education options.

Academic programs includetutoring for students active inother Esperanza programs andactivities. A partnership withthe Cleveland MunicipalSchools gives the agency ac-cess to student grade and testdata to help identify and sup-port specific student academicneeds.

Regular test preparationssessions also are held to helpstudents with the Ohio Gradu-ation Test (OGT) or collegeentrance exams like the ACT.

Plummeting Latino gradu-ation rates in Cleveland can betraced back to 2007 when Ohiostarted requiring students topass the OGT in order to earn ahigh school diploma. WhileLatino students do well on statetests through middle school,results drop off dramatically inhigh school. That can be attrib-uted to language barriers andrestrictions on language helpwhile taking the OGT. Studentsmay know conversational En-glish, but struggle with the tech-nical language on standardizedmath and science tests.

State regulations also limit

Esperanza celebrates increased Latino graduation rates

Esperanza’s executivedirector Victor Ruiz

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15 dic., 2014: Este jueves18 y domingo 21 de diciembresaldrá la caravana demexicanos que desean viajarde regreso a sus hogares,acompañados por autoridadespara tener un viaje seguro. Elpunto de reunión es Laredo,Texas y el destino Querétaro.En la caravana del 18 dediciembre, saldrá un grupoespecial de Michigan y en ladel 21 de diciembre, saldránde Chicago, Illinois. Si ustedgusta sumarse a una de estascaravanas, comunicarse loantes posible al ProgramaPaisano en Chicago: (312)4918948.

“Los connacionales vanacompañados en las caravanaspor personal de la direccióngeneral del Programa Paisano,quienes les brindan asistenciay supervisión en todo lorelacionado a sus derechos enel proceso de ingreso y tránsitopor México, para que noreciban ningún abuso por partede las autoridades. Tambiénles acompaña la policía fed-eral para brindar la seguridaddurante el trayecto y losÁngeles Verdes para apoyomecánico por si se poncha unallanta en el camino, sedescompone el auto, ocualquier otro incidente”,informó Ernesto AndradeSánchez, Representante delPrograma Paisano para la CostaEste con Sede en Chicago.

En entrevista exclusivapara La Prensa, Andradecomentó que estas son las dosúnicas caravanas que serealizarán durante este año,por lo que exhorta a losmexicanos que desean viajarpor carretera, se comuniquencuanto antes a las oficinas delprograma paisano para queellos les brinden directamenteel teléfono del responsable dela caravana.

“Este es el primer año quese hace una segunda caravana.Ya tenemos como cinco o seisaños con la caravana que salede Michigan y llega a Laredo,Texas el 18 de diciembre, peroen esta ocasión aumentamosuna más para el día 21, la cualsaldrá de Chicago. Sin em-bargo, hemos recogido muchainquietud por parte de nuestrospaisanos de organizar otracaravana el próximo año entreel 12 y el 15 de diciembre, yaque se ha incrementadomucho la afluencia en esasfechas, así que lo más seguroes que para el próximo añotengamos tres caravanas”.

Michigan, diciembre de2014: El Consejo Consultivodel Instituto de los Mexicanosen el Exterior (CCIME) delciclo 2012-2014, llevó a cabosu última reunión el pasadomes de noviembre en Or-lando, Florida. Dicha reuniónfue encabezada por elsubsecretario para Américadel Norte, Sergio AlcocerMartínez de Castro.

En la XXIV Reunión, los100 consejeros revisaron lasacciones desarrolladas pararesponder mejor a lasnecesidades de cada una denuestras comunidades enEstados Unidos y Canadá.

Destacaron las ponenciasdel procurador agrario, CruzLópez; del coordinador deAsuntos Multilaterales deINADEM, Iván Ornelas; de laCoordinadora de InversiónSocial de la Fundación Slim,Brenda de Hoyos, y de lasjóvenes Mirna Orozco yJulieta Garibay de laorganización United WeDream.

Asimismo, se contó laparticipación de Efrén Leyva,cónsul de México en Or-lando; Reyna Torres, directorageneral de Protección aMexicanos en el Exterior dela Cancillería; SamuelBerkstein, director delPrograma 3×1 de SEDESOL;y Cristina King, DirectoraGeneral Adjunta dePromoción Cultural de laSRE.

Durante la reunión, losConsejeras presentaron lasconclusiones de su trabajo enComisiones e intercambiaronideas sobre el desarrolloefectivo de proyectos locales,regionales, nacionales ybinacionales.

María Elena Rodríguez,Consejera Titular en Michi-gan, comentó que fue todauna experiencia formar partede este consejo. “Es la terceravez que participó comoConsejera, las primeras doscomo suplente y ahora comotitular. Durante el tiempo quehe participado me he dadocuenta que cuando lanzaronel programa nos tomaban másen cuenta, nos daban muchaatención y nos reuníamos conel Presidente en Los Pinospara compartirle laspreocupaciones de losmexicanos en el exterior, perocon esta nuevaadministración, nos dan laimpresión de que ya no sabenqué hacer con nosotros”.

“En esta ocasión nosexplicaron claramente desdeel principio que nuestro papelera de consejeros, podíamos

La ventaja de ir en lascaravanas es viajar seguro.“Si bien el paso es lento, haymuchos beneficios; porejemplo, la del 21 dediciembre se va encontrar enla milla 13 de Laredo, Texascon un modulo de migraciónmexicana y banjercito, elcual será instalado del 19 al21 de diciembre, paraagilizar la revisión y tal vezexpedición de documentospara el trámite del permisode autos y para losextranjeros que requieranpermiso para entrar a nuestropaís.

También habrá unaprerevisión de equipaje ymercancía, para asegurarse quelleven todo en orden conrespecto a la membrecía fiscala la que tienen derecho. Esoagilizará mucho el tránsito”,agregó el entrevistado.

Cabe destacar que estascaravanas forman parte deloperativo especial delPrograma Paisano que inicióel 1 de noviembre y concluyeel 8 de Enero. “Tenemos tresjornadas especiales en todo elaño, semana santa, verano einvierno. En este momentoestamos en pleno operativode invierno y hemos recibidomuchas llamadas solicitandoinformación”.

Para aquellos que noalcancen las caravanas odeseen viajar por tierra por supropia cuenta, es importanteque realicen el permiso deinternación de su vehículo enlos módulos de banjercito máscercanos. “En el módulo deChicago estamos recibiendopaisanos de Michigan, Wis-consin, Indiana, y losalrededores. Eso agilizarámucho el tránsito por lafrontera ya que no tendránque hacer largas filas deespera”, dijo Ernesto Andrade.El módulo de banjercito seencuentra localizado en lasoficinas del Consulado deMéxico en Chicago, ubicadoen el 204 de la avenida S.

aconsejar pero no teníamos voz.Entiendo que eso lo hicieronporque muchos trataban deaprovecharse y llegabanexigiendo a los consuladoscomo si fueran jefes”, agregó laentrevistada. “Yo he formadoparte de varios consejosconsultivos y entiendoperfectamente nuestro papel;pero creo importante que sidesarrollamos proyectos parabeneficio de nuestra gente, nosapoyen y no nos digansimplemente que no haypresupuesto, porque entoncesterminas preguntándote quéhacemos aquí. Basado en losúltimos años, parece que quierendeshacerse de los Consejeros”.

Es importante mencionarque el CCIME fue creado en2003 como herramienta parafomentar un mayoracercamiento entre el gobiernode México y los connacionalesen este país. Con apoyo de losconsejeros del CCIME, Méxicoha logrado consolidar distintasiniciativas que benefician anuestros connacionales enEstados Unidos y Canadá, talescomo el programa deVentanillas de Salud y laSemana de EducaciónFinanciera.

María Elena Rodríguezformó parte de la Comisión deEconomía en donde sedesarrolló un proyecto para quelos mexicanos que regresen aMéxico puedan poner sunegocio. “Hablamos conSedesol y varias autoridades,pero nunca se concreto por faltade presupuesto. Espero que sele de seguimiento porque esalgo muy positivo para nuestragente”, agregó.

Por su parte, MarylouOlivarez-Mason, ConsejeraTitular en Michigan dijo quehabía sido una gran experienciaformar parte de este ciclo y sesiente muy satisfecha de loslogros alcanzados por laComisión de Asuntos Políticosde la cual formó parte. “Lasautoridades del Instituto de losMexicanos en el Exterior nosfelicitaron por nuestros logrosy nos dijeron que sería buenaidea que pudiéramoscontinuar”.

Durante el ciclo 2012-2014,la Comisión de AsuntosPolíticos concretó el voto delos mexicanos en el exterior.“Ya es una ley, ya paso por elSenado y la Cámara deDiputados, está aprobado. Loque sigue es que el InstitutoNacional Electoral (INE) y laSecretaria de RelacionesExteriores (SRE) se pongan deacuerdo para saber cómo se vatrabajar en la emisión de lascredenciales de elector, que ese

era el conflicto, porque por unlado la Secretaría no estaba deacuerdo con prestar susinstalaciones y por el otro, lotenía que hacer porque ya esuna ley. Al parecer ya se logróestablecer una mejor relación yestán llegando a un acuerdo, eslo que nos dijeron en la últimareunión que tuvimos enMéxico el primero deDiciembre”, compartió ElviaTorres, Consejera Titular deChicago y Coordinadora de laComisión de Asuntos Políticos.

La Consejera Torrescomentó que viajaron a laciudad de México algunosconsejeros para entregar unacarta al INE en donde solicitanser parte del proceso decredencialización. Además,agregó: “Pedimos quecapaciten a un grupo denosotros para que a su vez,nosotros podamos capacitar anuestros connacionales ylíderes comunitarios para hacereste trabajo titánico; ya quenosotros tenemos lasensibilidad y conocemos laimportancia del voto de losmexicanos en el exterior. Es unproceso por el que se hatrabajado durante muchos añosy por fin lo logramos, queremosenamorar a todos losmexicanos; pero hasta ahorano hemos tenido respuesta porparte del INE”.

De acuerdo con ElviraTorres, en enero se debenestablecer los módulos en losconsulados para la emisión dela credencial para votar.

En cuanto a la posibilidadde que la Comisión de AsuntosPolíticos continúe el siguienteciclo del CCIME, la Consejerade Chicago declaró: “Esperoque no nos hurten esto que estáempezando y deseamos seguirimpulsando. Yo veo muy difícilque podamos seguir, el IMEestá haciendo muchos cambiosno democráticos. No sé a quiénvan a llamar ellos el próximoperiodo, hasta el momento nosabemos nada sobre el procesode elección de los siguientesconsejeros”.

Durante otros ciclos, en laúltima reunión ya se teníanestipulados los lineamientospara la elección de lossiguientes consejeros, pero enesta ocasión no se sabe nada alrespecto. De acuerdo con laSRE la XXIV reunión seenmarcó en un proceso dereflexión y reingeniería sobrela forma en que opera dichoConsejo, que derivará en uncambio en su estructura yámbito de operación para re-sponder mejor a las necesidadesde la comunidad mexicana enambos países.

Ashland.Por otra parte, se recomienda

viajar de día para tener unamayor seguridad por si tienenalgún percance con su vehículo.La policía federal y los ÁngelesVerdes realizan recorridos porlas carreteras. También se hadesplegado personal delprograma paisano en variospuntos de ingreso al país, tantoterrestre como aéreo parabrindar orientación a losmexicanos sobre sus derechos.En caso de tener algún problemafavor de reportarlo a lossiguientes números gratuitos:

18772109469 (dentro deEstados Unidos) y018002018542 (en México).

Es importante destacar queen este momento la franquiciaes de $500 dólares por persona.“Incluye a los bebés y esacumulable; es decir, si una fa-milia viaja con niños y son cincointegrantes en total, la franquiciaa la que tienen derecho es de$2500 dólares. Dicha franquiciaes el valor de los regalos quepueden internar a territorionacional, libres de impuestos.Se recomienda no quitar lasetiquetas a los regalos y guardarlos recibos en caso de que hayanecesidad de comprobar elgasto”, informó elRepresentante del ProgramaPaisano en Chicago.

Regularmente, la franquiciavía aérea es de $500 dólares y$300 vía terrestre, pero cuandoes operativo paisano, se igualaen cualquier vía.

Para concluir, ErnestoAndrade invitó a denunciarcualquier situación irregularpor parte de las autoridades.“No se queden cayados, en laguía paisano viene toda lainformación que se necesita paratener un viaje seguro yordenado, pueden obtenerlagratuitamente en cualquierconsulado o bien, bajarla denuestro sitio webwww.paisano.gob.mx Comosiempre lo digo, un paisanoinformado, es un paisanoempoderado”.

Celebran última reunión del ciclo deConsejeros del Instituto de Mexicanos en elExterior 2012-2014Comenzarán a expedir credenciales de elector para elvoto de los mexicanos en el exterior.Por: Isabel Flores, Corresponsal La Prensa

Viaja seguro a México en la caravana delPrograma Paisano.Paisano informado… paisano empoderado. No permitas elabuso de las autoridadesPor: Isabel Flores, Corresponsal La Prensa

El Consejo Consultivo del Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior

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Más estadosdemandan aEEUU portemainmigración

AUSTIN, Texas, 10 dedic. de 2014 (AP): Otroscuatro estados se han unidoa una demanda contra elgobierno federal por lasreformas a las leyesmigratorias anunciadaspor el presidente BarackObama.

Arkansas, Michigan,Dakota del Norte y Okla-homa se sumaron a lainiciativa liderada porTexas, con lo que el númerode estados querellantesasciende a 24.

La querella se presentóen un tribunal federal enBrownsville.

El mes pasado, Obamaanunció que implementarápor orden ejecutiva unaserie de reformas a las leyesde inmigración a fin deevitar que millones de per-sonas sean deportadas.

La demanda, sin em-bargo, afirma que elgobierno federal está“violando laconstitución”.

El fiscal general deTexas, Greg Abbott, quienpronto será juramentadocomo gobernador, sostieneque Texas es el mejorestado para representar alos querellantes debido asu vasta frontera conMéxico.

Abbott dijo elmiércoles que la medidapresidencial “evade lavoluntad del puebloestadounidense”.

NUEVA YORK, 9 de dic.de 2014 (AP): El presidenteBarack Obama dijo el martesque algunas familiasinmigrantes seguirán siendodeportadas por algún tiempohasta que se entrenen aagentes de inmigración y seapliquen de forma uniformelas nuevas pautas deexpulsión que anunciórecientemente.

“Ahora, debido a lasmedidas que he tomado,todavía tengo a 5 millonesde personas que no puedeninscribirse (al plan) ni tienenla confianza de que no serándeportadas”, dijo elpresidente durante unaentrevista con Univisiontransmitida parcialmente elmartes.

“De hecho, lo que va aocurrir digamos en lospróximos días, semana omes, es que va a haber perso-nas que todavía van a quedarenmarañadas en el sistemadebido a que tenemos queentrenar a los agentes de ICE(Servicio de Inmigración yControl de Aduanas) para querespondan de una maneradiferente”, señaló elpresidente durante suentrevista con el periodistaJorge Ramos.

El contenido de laentrevista fue distribuido alos medios el martes. Éstaserá transmitida en sutotalidad el domingo.

Obama anunció el mespasado varias medidas dealivio migratorio, entre ellasnuevas pautas para ladeportación. Aseguró que elenfoque estará en expulsar acriminales y no familias.

Las declaraciones delmartes sobre ICE contrastancon el mensaje que elmandatario dio el mismo díaen un centro comunitario enNashville, Tennessee, dondeanimó a familias inmigrantesa acogerse a los nuevosprogramas de aliviomigratorio.

Estos incluyen protegerde la deportación a padresque llevan más de cinco añosen Estados Unidos y quetienen hijos que sonciudadanos estadounidenseso residentes permanentes.Los beneficiados por lamedida también podránrecibir un permiso de trabajotemporal.

También en Nashville, elmandatario aseguró que elICE no aplicará las nuevaspautas de deportación deforma inmediata.

“Esto tomará algúntiempo, el que los agentes deICE en el terreno comprendanlo que son estas prioridades ylas apliquen de formaconsistente, así que aún seoirán historias alrededor delpaís sobre algunas familiasseparadas”, dijo Obama. “Amedida que pase el tiempo,

sin embargo, noscentraremos en reenfocar yredirigir las prioridades paraque los agentes (deinmigración) entiendan‘enfoquémonos encriminales, enfoquémonosen delincuentes, no nosenfoquemos en familias”’.

Según las nuevas pautasde deportación, anunciadaspor el presidente el 20 denoviembre, la prioridad prin-cipal serán los inmigrantesdetenidos en la fronteratratando de ingresar demanera ilegal, los convictosde delitos graves y las perso-nas que representan unaamenaza para la seguridadnacional.

La segunda prioridadserán inmigrantes con delitosmenores “significativos” yhallados culpables de almenos tres delitos menores,mientras que la prioridad másbaja son las personas enproceso o con órdenes dedeportación emitidas a partirdel 1 de enero del 2014.Activistas, sin embargo,dicen que las autoridadesdeberían definir lo quequieren decir con delitosmenores “significativos”.

Por otro lado, y duranteuna entrevista conTelemundo tambiénrealizada el martes, Obama

dijo que los inmigrantes queteman acogerse a su nuevoprograma de aliviomigratorio deberían tomar elejemplo de sus hijos, muchosde los cuales sí se acogierona un plan similar hace dosaños.

“Uno piensa en todos esosjóvenes que se apuntaron,entendiendo que era algo tem-poral, pero que proclamaron‘somos estadounidenses;necesitamos ser vistos yescuchados y queremos haceruna contribución a estasociedad”’, dijo Obama du-rante la entrevista, cuyatranscripción fue emitida elmartes pero cuya transmisiónocurrirá el domingo.

Muchos inmigrantestienen temor acogerse al planporque es válido sólo durantetres años, entre otros motivos.

En el 2012 Obama impusoun plan temporal desuspensión de lasdeportaciones para jóvenesinmigrantes que llegaron aEstados Unidos sin permisolegal junto con sus padresmientras eran niños. Hastaahora, más de 600.000jóvenes se han beneficiadodel programa.

Se calcula que unos 4millones de inmigrantes sinautorización para residir enel país podrían beneficiarse

de las nuevas medidas, cuyoproceso de solicitud se abreel año que viene.

Algunos legisladoresrepublicanos, sin embargo,han expresado su fuerteoposición. Más de unadocena de estados, entre ellosTexas, han interpuesto unademanda federal en contrade las acciones ejecutivas delpresidente.

Obama aseguró a losestadounidenses el martesque si se acogen a losprogramas no serándeportados en el futuro,aunque éstos seantemporales.

“Es cierto que una futuraadministración podríaintentar revertir algunas denuestras políticas”, dijoObama en el centrocomunitario en Nashville.“Pero seré franco con ustedes,creo que básicamente losestadounidenses tienen unbuen corazón y querrán tratara la gente de forma justa”.

En la entrevista conTelemundo el presidente dijoque los inmigrantes que seacojan ahora a las medidasprobablemente “estarán enuna mejor posición” de sacarleprovecho a una posible futurareforma migratoria que abra lavía a la naturalización deinmigrantes no autorizados.

Obama: Nueva pauta en deportación no es inmediataPor CLAUDIA TORRENS y E.J. TAMARA, Associated Press

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District to enhance learn-ing and realize hundreds ofthousands in annual sav-ings: 60% reduction inclassroom lighting energyutilization and the elimina-tion of maintenance cost.

Detroit Public Schoolsis adding new, energy-effi-cient LED lighting to 11school buildings, whichwill not only provide a cost-savings to the district butwill enhance the educa-tional environment for morethan 7,000 students by mak-ing classrooms brighter,including in two SouthwestDetroit schools.

“The key benefit to theproject is improvement inour classrooms, whereteachers and students willspend their academic dayin brighter settings that aremore conducive to learningand academic achieve-ment,” said DPS EmergencyManager Jack Martin. “TheLED technology also uti-lizes approximately 60%less electricity, lasts morethan twice as long as ourprevious lighting andcomes with a 10-year war-ranty, which will save thedistrict in operational dol-lars, a key goal.”

The district is installing15- and 40-watt LED lampslasting up to 50,000 hours,versus 40- and 80-watt fluo-rescent lamps that last onlyup to 20,000 hours. Thehigher LED light qualityand lumen output of eachlamp reduces the number oflamps required in manyclassrooms. The combinedbenefits will result in a more

“The generous supportof the Southwest Detroitcommunity, our partners,the Detroit Public SchoolsFoundation and donors likeCynthia Estrada’s CharityFund will help ensure thatour successful bilingual im-mersion program will helplay the academic founda-tion for the next generation’ssuccessful college gradu-ates, leaders in world affairs,ambassadors and interna-tional entrepreneurs,” saidNicholas Brown, Academyof the Américas Principal.“Our students and staffcould not be more thankfulfor this donation.”

Detroit Public Schoolsthis fall expanded the suc-cessful Academy of theAméricas K-8 program byadding a 9th grade acad-emy. The school, called theEscuela PreparatoriaAcademia de las Américas,offers a dual language cur-riculum, honors classes, andrigorous academic stan-dards. It is part of an overallrollout of several major edu-cational initiatives inSouthwest Detroit, includ-ing a new gifted and tal-ented program, a new adult

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The development ofthese initiatives follows astrong community engage-ment process with many par-ents, students, partner orga-nizations and agencies inSouthwest Detroit.

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Nov. 3, 2014: Kathy(née Trejo) Huner madepolitical history recentlyon two fronts when sheofficially was sworn in asWauseon’s new mayor—as the first female mayor inthe city’s history and asthe first Latina mayor inOhio’s history.

But Mrs. Huner onlywants to better her home-town and wasn’t lookingto set any of those history-making moments. Shecalled it a long time incoming that a Latino be-comes a mayor.

“It’s an amazing honor,but when I went forwardwith this I did not knowthis,” she admitted.

“I had no idea until Iwas told by anotherWauseon friend who is acity councilman down inthe Columbus area. Hesaid ‘You know you holdthe highest-ranking officefor a Latino in Ohio.’ So Idid some checking onsome areas of the Internetand I could not find one. Iwas shocked. I would havethought by now therewould at least be one.”

Mrs. Huner was selectedunanimously as mayor byher peers on city councilafter former mayor DougShaw decided to give upthe office to focus on hisclothing business. Mrs.Huner will serve the re-mainder of Shaw’s term—through the end of 2015.She will earn $12,000 an-nually.

Mrs. Huner has served13 years on city council.Her first stint was from2000 to 2011. She gave upher council seat to runagainst Shaw for mayor,but was elected back tocouncil for a fourth term in2013. Once the unexpiredmayor’s term is done, Mrs.Huner plans to run for herown term as mayor.

The 1981 graduate ofWauseon High Schoolwants to promote the posi-tives of the city to theyounger generations—hoping to keep them inNorthwest Ohio or drawthem back to raise theirfamilies. That long-heldgoal becomes even moreimportant now that she is

The University of To-ledo Fulldome Studio(UTFS) has premiered itsfirst production, “Santa’sSecret Star,” commenc-ing Friday, Dec. 5, 2014,at 7:30 p.m. at the RitterPlanetarium. Admissionis $7 for adults and $5 forchildren.

“Santa’s Secret Star”will run Fridays at 7:30p.m. and Saturdays at 1p.m. through Dec. 20.

The 23-minute pro-gram geared toward chil-dren in kindergartenthrough second gradetells the story of howSanta uses astronomy toplan his annual triparound the world. Ateacher’s guide and otherresources to help furtherthe educational impactof the program will beavailable.

“Santa’s Secret Star”is based on a planetariumprogram that Alex Mak,associate planetarium di-rector, created in 1988.

“We’ve updated thescript and have created astunning visual adapta-tion,” Mak said.

Fulldome programs areimmersive, 3D experi-ences that require a spe-cial projection system andare featured in modern,digital planetariums.

UT’s fulldome projector, theSpitz SciDome XD, was in-stalled in 2011. Creation offulldome programs involvesa large production crew andcan be costly.

“We don’t have all of theneeded talent on our smallplanetarium staff, but it oc-curred to us that UT, as awhole, does,” Mak said. “Bycombining our talent withthat of others at UT, we haveput together a team that canproduce high-quality pro-grams for a reasonable cost.”

“Santa’s Secret Star” willbe marketed to other plan-etariums throughout theUnited States. Revenue gen-erated will be used to sup-port the Ritter Planetariumand future UTFS produc-tions.

“There are many elementsto creating a good program.It has to be scientifically ac-curate and up-to-date. It hasto be interesting, engagingand informative. Finally, it

mayor.“I was

h o p i n gmy ownch i ld renw o u l dgrow up inthis town,go to col-lege, andc o m eb a c k .Many ofour chil-dren go tocollege in other parts of thestate and then don’t comeback to raise their families,”she said. “I wanted to seewhile on council if there werethings I could do—parks andrec departments, helping toget businesses in here or cer-tain types of areas, zoning,that would encourage peopleto stay here and also bring inother people so we would bethriving.”

But the recent recessiondelayed those dreams, asWauseon city officials, likemany other communities,had to cut back on its spend-ing. That’s what promptedher to run for mayor in 2011.

“I grew up here. I loveeverything about it—small-town environment, familyethics. I like that,” said Mrs.Huner. “There were somethings I really wasn’t happywith occurring within ourcity. We had a lot of budgetcuts at that time.”

Supporters prompted herto run for council again, tell-ing her they “needed hervoice” back in city govern-ment.

“I know sometimespeople feel they don’t getheard or that it gets over-looked or set aside and Ididn’t want them to feel thatway,” she said.

Mrs. Huner admitted“there was some debate”among city council membersas to who would succeedShaw as mayor. The citycouncil president was nextin line, but nominated Mrs.Huner instead.

“There was a lot of dis-cussion and debate. You’vegot to have a lot of time anda lot of compassion,” shesaid. “You need to know thisdoesn’t come without stum-bling and certain reserva-tions. But you go in know-

ing you’re going to servethe people and that’s all youcan do. I’m here to do thejob. I have no personalagenda. I want to serve thecitizens. I do not please allof them, but I sure do try tolove them.”

Her father moved fromTexas to Northwest Ohiowhen he was an infant. Hergrandfather was a farmer forseveral years and moved hisfamily to Wauseon to beginworking in a factory. Herfather went into law enforce-ment, becoming the firstLatino to ever serve on theFulton County Sheriff’s De-partment in the early 1970s.

Mrs. Huner, 52, tries tostay close to her Latino roots.Her family gathered lastweekend to prepare theirannual Christmas tamales.

“I try to stay involvedwith my family as much as Ican, because it’s gettingsmaller and smaller as far asour memory of our roots andwhere we come from,” shesaid. “Living in Wauseon,my father did not teach usSpanish. That is one thingthat is frustrating for me isthat I do not speak Spanish,but my father does.”

Mrs. Huner married herhigh school sweetheart 32years ago. The couple hastwo children. Her sonMitchell, 25, is now aWauseon police officer. Shepoints out he has hired to thecity police force during herbreak from city council.

Her daughter Katie, 22,will graduate next springfrom Adrian College. Sheplans to attend law school.

Mrs. Huner, who has beena preschool teacher fornearly 30 years, will keepher part-time job she startedlast fall at a non-profit tutor-ing center.

HISPANIC PROFILEKathy Huner: Wauseon Latina becomes firstLatino mayor in OhioBy Kevin Milliken, La Prensa Correspondent

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UT’s Ritter Planetarium to debut ‘Santa’sSecret Star’ Dec. 5

needs visual appeal,” Maksaid. “The program has totake full advantage of thetechnological capabilitiesof modern projection sys-tems.”

UTFS utilizes talent fromdepartments across campus,including the Center forCreative Instruction, theCollege of Education andthe Art Department, amongothers.

The UTFS crew is plan-ning its next production andhopes to produce two pro-grams each year.

For more informationabout the Ritter Plan-etarium, visit utoledo.edu/nsm/rpbo/.

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Me acuerdo de unaocasión en la que visité a unatía abuela durante las fiestashace unos años y estabasentada con ella en la mesade la cocina mientras setomaba sus (muchos)medicamentos de la mañana.Mientras conversábamos,me di cuenta de que iba aagarrar la misma botella de laque acababa de sacar unapíldora. Pregunté: “¿No teacabas de tomar esa?”.Pareció un poco sorprendiday dijo: “Ah, me imagino quedos no harán daño”.

Le expliqué con muchotacto que tomar susmedicamentos tal cual comose los han recetado esimportante para su bienestarcontinuo, y que hasta unpequeño error puede causarproblemas graves. Ese mismodía, fuimos a la farmacia ycompramos un organizadorde píldoras para que ellapudiera organizar susmedicamentos de la mañanay de la noche al principio dela semana.

Mi tía accedió a anotartodos sus medicamentos paraque yo pudiera hacer copiasde la lista. Ahora lleva unascopias en su cartera cuandova al médico y a la farmacia.Y tiene una referencia a manopara cuando organiza suspíldoras todas las semanas.

Nuestros padres y otrosfamiliares mayores quierenvivir sus vidas. Deseanquedarse en sus propioshogares, transportarse solosy hacer lo que se les antoje.Por supuesto, compartimosesos deseos para ellos y hastapara nosotros mismos. Ya queel tiempo va pasando entretus visitas a tus familiares,las fiestas pueden ser un buenmomento para evaluar elbienestar de tus seresqueridos.

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MEXICO, 3 de dic. de2014 (AP): Vicente Leñero,reconocido periodista yescritor mexicanoconsiderado un autor fun-damental de la historia cul-tural reciente en el país,falleció el miércoles en sucasa de la Ciudad deMéxico por un cáncerpulmonar, informaronautoridades culturales y larevista en la que colaboróbuena parte de su vida.Tenía 81 años.

El presidente delConsejo Nacional para laCultura y las Artes, RafaelTovar y de Teresa,confirmó el deceso delmultifacético autor, quientambién fue elogiadocomo dramaturgo yguionista.

Entre sus obras destacan“Los albañiles” y laadaptación teatral de “Loshijos de Sánchez”, de Os-car Lewis, y en cine elguion de “El callejón delos milagros”.

Leñero falleció aconsecuencia de un cáncerpulmonar en su residencia,señaló una nota divulgadaen el sitio de internet larevista Proceso, unsemanario que ayudó afundar y del que fuesubdirector.

El jueves se rendirá unhomenaje a Leñero en elPalacio de Bellas Artes dela Ciudad de México,informó Conaculta en uncomunicado.

El autor nació en laciudad occidental deGuadalajara, el 9 de juniode 1933. Estudióingeniería y periodismo.

“Vicente Leñero es unade las grandes figuras delas letras mexicanas delsiglo XX”, dijo Tovar y deTeresa. “Su papel comodramaturgo, periodista,novelista, guionista, lohacen una figura funda-mental”, añadió.

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2. MedicamentosIgual que le pasó a mi tía,

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3. Temporada de gripeLas vacunas antigripales

salvan vidas. Y es probableque no haga falta programaruna cita con el médico, puespueden encontrar clínicascomunitarias queadministren la vacuna enfarmacias y otros lugares.

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El período de inscripciónabierta de Medicare tienelugar del 15 de octubre al 7de diciembre. Este es elmomento en el que losbeneficiarios de Medicarepueden cambiar su coberturamédica y de medicamentosrecetados de Medicare. Si atu madre, padre u otro famil-iar mayor le cuesta trabajopagar las cuentas médicas,aliéntale a fijarse en otrasopciones en http://es.medicare.gov/. Tambiénpuede beneficiarse alponerse en contacto con elState Health Insurance As-sistance Program (SHIP,Programa Estatal de

Asistencia en Seguros deSalud) en su estado. SHIPbrinda ayuda a beneficiariosde Medicare y sus familias.

5. Seguridad hogareñaPara poder envejecer en el

hogar, por lo general hace faltarealizar algunos cambios ennuestros hogares por razonesde seguridad. Algunos sonsimples, como librarse deartículos que puedanrepresentar riesgo detropiezos, por ejemploalfombras sueltas o cordoneseléctricos. Si a tu ser queridole resulta difícil abrir puertasy gabinetes o abrir y cerrar losgrifos debido a la artritis uotros padecimientos, tu o unempleado de mantenimientopueden reemplazar lospicaportes o manillas por otrostipo palanca. Esos son muchomás fáciles de usar. ¿Lavivienda tiene al menos unaentrada sin escalones? Si noes así, deberías darle la ideade instalar una rampa opasamanos. Puedes encontrarestos y otros consejos útilesen la AARP Home Fit Guide(Guía para tener una viviendaadecuada, de AARP) en líneaen www.aarp.org/homefit.

Otros recursosSi buscas consejos para

cuidar a tus familiares, AARPbrinda mucha ayuda en elCentro de recursos paracuidadores, ubicado en http://www.aarp.org/espanol/hoga r - f ami l i a /p re s t a r -cuidados/. Puedes encontrarinformación sobre cómocompaginar respons-abilidades de trabajo y deprestación de cuidados, cómoubicar recursos locales ycómo cuidarte a ti mismomientras cuidas a otra per-sona.

Todos queremosmantener nuestraindependencia. Puedesayudar a tus seres queridos ahacerlo si verificas cómoestán durante las fiestas. Aveces, incluso cambiospequeños pueden sersumamente útiles paraayudar a tus parientesmayores a seguir siendoindependientes.

Nota de Editor: NicoleDuritz es vicepresidenta delequipo de asuntos relativosa la salud y la familia en elgrupo de Educación yDifusión de AARP. Ellaencabeza los esfuerzos deeducación y difusión deAARP, que incluyen eltrabajo en asuntos comoMedicare, la ley de salud, laasequibilidad de losmedicamentos recetados, laatención a largo plazo, y laprevención y el bienestar.Puedes contactarla porcorreo electrónico ennduritz@aarp.org.

la novela “Los albañiles” de1963, que posteriormenteadaptó al teatro, en la queretrata la situación de la clasetrabajadora y el sistema ju-dicial en México través deesos empleados de laconstrucción.

Fue guionista de algunasde las cintas más popularesdel país, como “El callejónde los milagros”,protagonizada por SalmaHayek en los años 90, y “Elcrimen del padre Amaro” de2002, encabezada por el ac-tor Gael García Bernal.

En su faceta periodísticafue uno de los fundadores enla década de 1970 deProceso, un semanario quedesde su nacimiento esconsiderada una revista dereferencia en México.

En “Los periodistas”, unlibro clásico en la materia,Leñero presenta episodiosque él mismo vivió yllevaron a la creación deProceso: los ataques delgobierno de Luis Echeverría(1970-1976) al Excélsior, undiario crítico, que culminócon la salida de sureconocido director JulioScherer García. A él loacompañaron varios de suscolaboradores, incluidoLeñero.

“Vicente Leñero se ocupóen forma primordial de lacrítica de las costumbres, deltestimonio sobre la vida delperiodismo en México, delos valores religiosos de suspersonajes enmarcados enuna problemática social yde la recreación desituaciones históricas”,según lo describió elmiércoles el ConsejoNacional para la Cultura ylas Artes en un comunicado.

La muerte de Leñero tomópor sorpresa al mundo de lasletras, que estos días celebrala Feria Internacional delLibro de Guadalajara, laciudad natal del autor.

Marisol Schulz, directoradel encuentro, expresó suscondolencias.

“Se sentó a jugar(ajedrez) con la muerte yperdió la partida”, expresóSchulz, durante un brevemensaje a los medios, enreferencia a una de laspasiones de Leñero. “Nosdeja en la orfandad totalpor su visión crítica”.

En la edición anteriorde la feria se le rindió unhomenaje: “VicenteLeñero en sus palabras”.

“Fue un gran escritor,periodista y hombre conuna calidad humanaextraordinaria. Nunca sedejó sobornar”, dijoGonzalo Celorio ,presidente de la AcademiaMexicana de la Lengua,también desde la FILGuadalajara. Leñero eramiembro de esa Academia.

García Bernal expresósu pésame en la red socialTwitter.

“Qué tristeza. Hastaluego querido VicenteLeñero. Un abrazo eterno atoda la familia”, dijo el ac-tor.

“Deja una huellaimborrable en el mundocultural de México”,señaló el grupo editorialPlaneta en un comunicado.“Él, que creía en la vidaeterna, continúa presenteen cada lectura de suscuentos, novelas,reportajes, crónicas oguiones”.

El sello Alfaguara dePenguin Random House,otra de sus casas editoriales,se sumó a las condolencias:“Quienes lo conocimos ytuvimos oportunidad detrabajar con él,encontramos en su personaa un autor imprescindibley, sobre todo, a un serhumano generoso y admi-rable, a una voz crítica queseguiremos ‘escuchando’ através de su obra”.

El periodista de TheAssociated Press IsaacGarrido contribuyó a estedespacho desdeGuadalajara, México.

Las visitas durante las fiestas te dan laoportunidad de verificar que tus familiaresmayores están bienPor Nicole Duritz

Muere periodista, escritor mexicano VicenteLeñeroPor E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press

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BEVERLY HILLS, 10 de dic.de 2014(AP): Kirk Douglas yano quiere escribir.

El gran actor de Hollywooddejó eso en claro en una entrevistareciente en su casa de BeverlyHills, días antes de publicar sucolección de poemas “LiveCould Be Verse: Reflections onLove, Loss, and What ReallyMatters”.

“Para mí este es mi mejor libroy mi último libro”, dijo Douglas,sentado junto a Anne Douglas,quien ha sido su esposa por 60años.

Esta afirmación surgió másde una vez en la charla. El astrode barba partida de “Espartaco”,que acaba de cumplir 98 años,tiene 87 películas en sus créditos,11 libros y es uno de los últimossobrevivientes del viejo Holly-wood.

Quizá el mundo crea queconoce a Kirk Douglas. Pero “LifeCould Be Verse” es su obra máspersonal, con poemas dediferentes momentos de su vidaasí como ensayos y fotos privadasde su familia que ayudan a crearla imagen de Douglas comohombre, padre y esposo.

En una industria famosa porsu poca estabilidad familiar, Kirky Anne Douglas podrían ser unode los más grandes romances deHollywood. Sentados de cercaen un sofá acogedor en una casaelegante, modesta y largamentehabitada, la pareja recordó quese conocieron en París. Él estabatrabajando en la película “Act ofLove”. Ella era la publicista de lacinta.

“Me pareció que era muyhermosa y yo bajé la voz y dije‘¿te gustaría ir a cenar?”’, recordó.“Esperé una respuesta y ella dijo‘no, creo que iré a casa y meprepararé unos huevos y despuésme voy a dormir”’.

Anne Douglas (cuyo apellidode soltera era Buydens) tenía sus

dudas sobre las estrellas de cine.Muchas de sus amigas salíancon actores en ese entonces.“Pensé ‘no voy a hacer eso,trabajaré y haré mi trabajo en lapelícula para la que fuicontratada, nada de contacto conlas estrellas de cine”, dijo.

Después asistió a un eventocaritativo donde los actoresinterpretaban a artistas de circo.Kirk Douglas, con un esmoquin,pensó que su talento sería limpiarlo que iban dejando los elefantes.

“Me resistí hasta que levantóla popó de elefante”, dijo Anneriendo. “Eso me venció”.

Douglas bromeó:“Obviamente ella estababuscando a un recogedor debasura”.

Pero su tierno comienzo noes lo más notable. La longevidadde su relación sí lo es. “El ro-mance comienza a los 80 y yo lodebo saber”, dijo en referencia auno de sus poemas.

“Soy un tipo romántico.Quizá pienses que siempre estoydisparando pistolas con JohnWayne, pero puedo serromántico. Y, mira, estamos aquí.Hemos estado casados por 60años. Unos cuantos poemasayudan”.

El romance es sólo uno de sussecretos. A lo largo de los años sehan dedicado a la filantropía.Apoyar cusas ha sido una pasiónpara la pareja que ha resistido aun derrame cerebral del actor en1996 y la muerte de su hijomenor Eric Douglas en 2004.

“Desde que lo podemos hacernuestra meta ha sido ayudar unpoco y compartir lo que tenemoscon las personas necesitadas, esoha sido algo que nos une mucho”,dijo Anne Douglas.

Han vendido piezas de artede su colección para ayudar afinanciar varias causas,incluyendo la restauración deunos 400 juegos infantiles en la

zona de Los Angeles y eldesarrollo de un albergue paramujeres sin hogar en el centro dela ciudad. En 2012 la parejaentregó 50 millones a cincoorganizaciones caritativas.

Dar ha sido parte de KirkDouglas desde su infancia.

“Era un niño que no teníasuficiente para comer. Tuve seishermanas y ningún hermano,vivíamos junto a las vías del treny cada noche llegabanvagabundos a tocar en la puertay aunque no teníamos suficiente,mi madre siempre guardaba algopara cuando llegaran, ella teníaalgo que darles. Me enseñó desdemuy temprano a ayudar a otragente”.

Su carrera queda en segundoplano cuando reflexiona sobresu vida. Fue un rebelde dentro yfuera de la pantalla y dice quedarle crédito al guionista vetadoDalton Trumbo en “Espartaco”fue su movida más rebelde. “Eramucho más joven en eseentonces, era mucho más necio”,dijo.

Ahora Kirk y Anne Douglasestán enfocados en su hogar, sufamilia y en reflexionar sobreuna vida muy bien vivida.Recientemente tuvieron unacena del Día de Acción de Graciasen su casa cerca de Santa Bárbara.Entre los 14 invitados estabanMichael Douglas, sus hijos, y lamadre de Michael Douglas, laactriz Diana Dill, a quien AnneDouglas se refiere como “nuestraexesposa”.

“Vivimos en una ciudad defantasía. He hecho unas 90películas, eso quiere decir quecada vez pretendía ser alguienmás. Hay momentos en la vida enlos que dices ¿quién soy yo?”’,dijo. “He descubierto que escribirlibros es un buen substituto ahacer películas. Cuando escribeslibros puedes determinar el papelque interpretas”.

Kirk y Anne Douglas viven romance de 60 añosPor LINDSEY BAHR, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC, 8 dedic. de 2014 (AP): Tom Hanksy Sting, junto con lacomedianta Lily Tomlin, elcantante Al Green y la bailarinaPatricia McBride, fueronhonrados por el CentroKennedy por su influencia enla cultura estadounidense através de las artes.

Grandes artistas ypersonalidades de Hollywood,Broadway y Washington sereunieron el domingo parasaludarlos en una gala yconcierto. El espectáculo fuepresentado por StephenColbert y será televisado el 30de diciembre por la cadenaCBS.

David Letterman encabezóuna serie de homenajes aHanks, recitando algunas delas líneas más inolvidables desus películas, como “Mamásiempre decía que la vida eracomo una caja de bombones”,de “Forrest Gump”; “íNo sellora en el béisbol!”, de “ALeague of Their Own”, o“Houston, tenemos unproblema”, de “Apollo 13”.

El cineasta StevenSpielberg, quien ha trabajadocon Hanks en muchosproyectos, dijo que “el hijopredilecto de Estados Unidos”ha abierto una ventana en lanación con películas queincluyen “Filadelfia”, ‘’ALeague of Their Own”, ‘’ForrestGump”, ‘’Apollo 13” y “Sav-ing Private Ryan”.

“Tom ama este país”, dijoSpielberg.

El realizador GeorgeStevens Jr., quien creó lospremios del Centro Kennedy

pero dijo que este sería su últimoaño produciéndolos, manifestóque Hanks se destaca como“uno de los más grandes actoresde su generación o cualquiergeneración”.

Antes del show, Hanks, de58 años, bromeó que debióhaber un error al seleccionarseun quinto agasajado.

“Este es el trabajo queempecé en 1981, así que todova bien”, dijo.

Sting saltó a la fama en 1978con la banda The Police y éxitoscomo “Roxanne” y “EveryBreath You Take” antes decomenzar una carrera comosolista. Ha estado haciendomúsica por cuatro décadas y haganado 16 premios Grammy.

Muchos músicos jóvenesadmiran su trabajo y acudieronpara honrarlo cantando temasde su repertorio.

Lady Gaga interpretó “If IEver Lose My Faith in You”,Esperanza Spalding “Fragile”y Bruno Mars un popurrí de “SoLonely”, “Roxanne” y “Mes-sage in a Bottle”.

Bruce Springsteen tambiénrindió homenaje a su amigo ehizo un brindis en la cena delDepartamento de Estado elsábado, diciendo que laamplitud y profundidad deltalento de Sting es intimidanteal cruzar del folk al jazz, a lamúsica clásica, el pop, el rock yel reggae.

“Sting me hace sentir comoun músico neandertal. Cuandonos juntamos, siempre tenemosla misma discusión. Él insisteen que hay más de tres acordes,yo insisto que no”, dijoSpringsteen arrancando risas de

los presentes. “En una era dehomogenización musical,nadie ha sonado a cantadocomo mi amigo”.

El martes, Sting se unirá alelenco de su musical en Broad-way, “The Last Ship”, sobre suciudad natal.

El músico de 63 años dijoa The Associated Press queestaba desconcertado por elhonor.

“El hecho de que un inglésreciba este reconocimiento, noes algo único, pero es raro, yeso me lo tomo muy en serio”,dijo Sting. “Después de venira este país en 1978 sin ningunaexpectativa y terminar aquíarriba ... es un gran viaje. No lodoy por hecho”.

El presidente BarackObama saludó a los agasajadosel domingo en la Casa Blancaantes del espectáculo. Durantela recepción, Obama evocó elapreció de John F. Kennedypor el papel de los artistas en lanación, lo que ayudó a inspirarla creación del CentroKennedy como un homenajeal 35to presidenteestadounidense.

“Es claro que el grupo en elescenario que me acompañaesta noche comprende lo queentendía el presidenteKennedy: que nuestro arte esun reflejo no sólo de nuestropueblo, sino de una nación.Nos une”, dijo Obama. “Lascanciones y la danza y el cineexpresan nuestros triunfos ynuestros fracasos, nuestrasfortalezas y nuestrassensibilidades de maneras quea veces las palabrassimplemente no pueden”.

Tom Hanks, Sting honrados por el Centro KennedyPor BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press

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December 18 - El Centro Food Pantry – In collaborationwith Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio –from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at El Centro 2800 Pearl Ave. Lorain, Ohio 44055.Families are given one box of food on a first come first served basis-FREE- Photo IDrequired. (This event occurs every third Thursday of each month at the same time)

Upcoming Events 2015:January 8 – January 22, 2015 – El Centro in collaboration with Oberlin College

will be providing ESL classes Monday - Friday from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. at ElCentro 2800 Pearl Avenue, Lorain Ohio 44055. Class will have a pragmatic focusand be centered on medical and anatomical terminology, so as to provide participantswith knowledge that they may use in routine medical visits. Call El Centro at 277-8235 to register for class.

For more information on any of these events please contact El Centro at 440-277-8235.

El Centro is a Hispanic-Latino non-profit advocacy organization whose mission isto enhance the socio-economic status of the greater Lorain County community byproviding essential social, educational, cultural and community development services

the amount of help Span-ish-speakers can have onthe OGT and other tests.After students have beenin the U.S. for three years,they are limited to a Span-ish-English dictionaryand a little more time tocomplete the questions.Many believe some Latinokids would score higher ifthey were tested on thesame material in their na-tive language.

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Esperanza celebrates increased Latinograduation rates(Continued from Page 1)

pares Latino students forhigher education with col-lege readiness classes andfield trips to college or uni-versity campuses. Successskills such as budgeting,time management, and gooddecision-making. But highschool students have to earntheir way into the SaturdayAcademy by maintaining atleast a 2.5 GPA.

SISCO, on the otherhand, is an academic pro-gram aimed at middle

school-age Latino stu-dents, providing in-school and after-school tu-toring and enrichment ac-tivities, a summer learn-ing program, high schoolvisits, and student-parentactivities. The aim is tohelp students prepare andsuccessfully transition tohigh school— the one tran-sit point in a child’s edu-cation most likely to de-termine whether they willdrop out of high school.

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HAMPTON, Iowa, Dec.11, 2014 (AP): It’s not ev-ery day that your middleschool principal visits youat home.

H a m p t o n - D u m o n tMiddle School PrincipalTony Spradlin recently vis-ited the homes of Alex VanCleave and Pedro Castillo,both in eighth grade; andDaniel Sánchez García,seventh grade.

None of the boys were introuble. Spradlin wanted tointroduce himself to theirparents because he is serv-ing as their mentor througha new program being offeredfor seventh and eighth stu-dents called Al Éxito (to suc-cess.)

“It’s fun to be able tohang out with them,”Spradlin told the MasonCity Globe Gazette (http://bit.ly/1yEdHTq ).

Al Éxito is a statewideprogram which targetsLatino students and pro-vides support through men-tors, programs and leader-ship training.

The organizationstarted in Marshalltown in2006-2007 as an IowaAmerican Association ofUniversity Women(AAUW) project to provideLatino students with sup-port. The program spreadfrom there, including intothe Belmond-Klemme andClarion-Goldfield-Dowsschool districts.

In 2009, Al Éxito be-came a non-profit organi-zation.

This fall is the first year AlÉxito is being offered forHampton-Dumont seventhand eighth-grade students.

“I’m really excited,” saidDawn Martinez Oropeza, ex-ecutive director of Al Éxito,about the program expansioninto Hampton-Dumont.

Site coordinater ValeriaGonzález said 44 studentsattended an informationalmeeting in October and 25have turned in permissionslips. Another seven are show-ing interest.

“To me it’s an over-whelming response,” shesaid. “They’re excited there’sa program just for Latinos.”

While Al Éxito targetsLatino students, it’s open toanyone. Two of Hampton-Dumont’s participants aren’tLatino, said González, whois also a bilingual enrollmentadviser for North Iowa AreaCommunity College.

In addition to a kickoff, afamily festival was held inNovember. Only five fami-lies attended, but Gonzálezsaid that was expected sincethey’re just getting started.

Twenty-three studentsalso went on a tour of NIACCon Dec. 1.

“It was fun,” Alex saidabout the visit.

Daniel said he liked visit-ing the NIACC farm and see-ing the rest of campus.

González said the goal isto get students on a collegecampus at least twice a yearso students start thinkingabout future plans.

They plan to go to Iowa

State University in March.Both she and Spradlin saidstudents are already ex-cited about visiting ISU.

Al Éxito will also meetonce a month with differ-ent topics each time. Forexample, next month willbe about civic engagementand likely include Hamp-ton Mayor BrookBoehmler. February willinclude vision boards.

“If you have a vision ofyour goals you can make ithappen,” Gonzalez said.

Mentors are encouragedto attend the meetings ifpossible and check in withand spend time withmentees throughout themonth. Mentors are alsoencouraged to talk aboutthe student’s goals, inter-ests and what they mightwant to do beyond highschool, Gonzalez said.

Spradlin said he washappy to become a mentor.

“I just know how it iswhen these students comeand they don’t have anyfriends,” he said. “Theirparents maybe know a fewpeople. I feel like me beinga mentor I can help thembuild some relationshipswith other people in thecommunity.”

González said she is stilllooking for mentors, espe-cially Latino ones. Any-one can be a mentor; how-ever, they must undergo abackground check.

Information from:Globe Gazette, http://www.globegazette.com/

Al Éxito: New mentor program offered toLatino studentsBy LAURA BIRD, Mason City Globe Gazette

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9,2014 (AP): Unlike the dra-conian state of Arizona,which bans ethnic studiesin its public schools, LosAngeles Unified will re-quire students to take eth-nic studies classes as part ofan effort to promote stron-ger cultural understandingwithin the nation’s second-largest school district.

Officials say the newrules are aimed at pushingstudents to achieve throughthe exploration of differentperspectives in literature,history and social justice.LA Unified students arelargely Latino, but morethan 90 languages are spo-ken within the district.

By the 2017-18 schoolyear, every high schoolmust offer at least one se-mester of ethnic studies, theLos Angeles Times reportedMonday (http://lat.ms/1uf9FOJ ). The graduation

requirement takes effect for the2018-19 school year.

The effort was largelydriven by students, whowrote letters, led petitiondrives that gathered thou-sands of signatures and metwith educators and electedofficials to build support, thenewspaper said.

“This is a reform that camefrom the bottom up,” said JoséLara, a social studies teacherat Santee Education Complex.“It’s students demanding morefrom their education.”

Lara, a leading advocate ofthe move, said teachers willhave the freedom to craft cur-riculum to suit the needs andinterests of their students.

“In East LA, it might beChicano history. InKoreatown, it might be Asian-American courses,” he said.

A task force of students,parents, district officials, ex-perts and teachers will deter-mine how much curriculum

will be developed and howmuch will be adapted fromother districts, Board of Edu-cation member Steve Zimmersaid.

Supporters of the measuresucceeded in Los Angelesdespite the failure of similarefforts elsewhere, the Timessaid. This year, Californialawmakers proposed legis-lation to look into provid-ing an ethnic studies cur-riculum statewide, but theeffort stalled for lack of funds.

In Southern California,supporters gained momen-tum after El Rancho UnifiedSchool District in PicoRivera passed a measure inJune requiring ethnic stud-ies course work. The class of2016 at El Rancho HighSchool is believed to be thefirst in California with sucha graduation requirement.

Information from: LosAngeles Times, http://www.latimes.com

‘Los Angeles Unified’ to require ethnic studies

The University of To-ledo is changing the wayinternational studentsstudy in the United States,with the help of a few com-munity colleges.

A new program calledthe UT-Community Col-lege InternationalizationConsortium will kick offin fall semester 2015. Itbrings together four com-munity colleges in Ohioand Michigan — HenryFord College, JacksonCollege, Schoolcraft Col-lege, and Columbus StateCommunity — with eighthigher vocational collegesin Shanghai, Jiangsu,Zhejiang, Hebei, andHunan provinces in China.

The Chinese studentswho participate in the pro-gram will spend their firsttwo years of college intheir home country andtheir last year at one of thecommunity colleges, re-ceiving both a Chinese di-ploma and associate’s de-gree upon completion.They will then spend theirnext two years earning abachelor’s degree at UT.

“I think if you reallywant to be educated forthe work force of the fu-ture, you’re going to havedevelop your global com-petence,” said Dr. RonOpp, UT associate profes-sor of higher educationand a member of the

consortium’sUT OversightB o a r d .“You’re go-ing to have tohave the abil-ity to commu-nicate inter-culturally; that’sgoing to be the nature of workin a global economy.”

In China, higher voca-tional colleges arepostsecondary schools simi-lar to community colleges inthe U.S. Each college tendsto have a niche — whetherit’s environmental sciences,engineering, business or an-other subject. Each commu-nity college in the consor-tium will be matched withtwo vocational collegesbased on their niche.

Many community col-leges want to have more in-ternational students, but of-ten don’t have the resourcesfour-year schools have, Oppsaid. That’s where UT comesin with its Center for Interna-tional Studies and Programsthat helps students with theirvisas, setting up bank ac-counts, housing, improvingtheir English speaking skills,and more.

The consortium will be-gin by accepting five stu-dents from each Chinese col-lege in the fall of 2015, 10students the following fall,15 the following year, and soon. By 2018, the first 40 stu-dents will be enrolling at UT

for theirbachelor’s de-gree programs.

The consor-tium also willinclude leader-ship program-

ming with faculty and ad-ministrators from all of thecolleges involved to learnmore about the partner in-stitutions, with individu-als here traveling to Chinaand vice versa.

Another aspect of theconsortium is that somefaculty from the commu-nity colleges involved willteach at the vocationalschools in China. Thosewho do will get assistancewith their flight, housing,and living expenses.

“It may be more helpfulin the long run that we getour faculty over there tosee how China is develop-ing,” Opp said. “Becauseonce you get over thereand you see what’s goingon, you realize how impor-tant developing globalperspectives is.”

Opp said the goal ofbringing faculty membersto China is that they willbring their experienceback to UT and the com-munity colleges.

For more informationvisit utoledo.edu/csjhs/higher_education/con-sortium.

CLEVELAND, Dec.15, 2014: The AmericanCivil Liberties Union ofOhio sent a letter to theGreen Local Board ofEducation in Smithville,reminding the school dis-trict that teachers have aFirst Amendment right toengage in free speech.The ACLU urges theschool board to immedi-ately reinstate formerteacher Keith Allison tohis position with GreenLocal Schools and issuean apology.

Keith Allison was re-moved as a Title I tutor bythe school district in Au-gust for sharing his per-sonal beliefs about thetreatment of animals ondairy farms and encourag-ing people to drink plant-based milk on hisFacebook page. The mes-sage was posted on Mr.Allison’s personal time,off school grounds, usinghis own computer.

“Teachers do not give

up their right as citizens tofree speech simply becausethey work for a publicschool system,” said JosephMead, a cooperating attor-ney with the ACLU of Ohiorepresenting Keith Allison.“This is an important civicslesson. As the trainingground for future citizens,schools have a special obli-gation to follow the Con-stitution.”

The Facebook post didnot violate any laws, Meadsaid. The reason given forMr. Allison’s terminationby Superintendent JudyRobinson was that it of-fended the owner of a farmdepicted in a photographon the post, even thoughthe identity of the land-owner or location of the farm

was not specified.“All public employees,

including teachers, are al-lowed to express theirpoint of view whether youagree with it or not” saidFreda Levenson, legal di-rector for the ACLU ofOhio. “A school districtcannot punish an em-ployee simply because amember of the communityobjects to what the em-ployee has to say.”

EDITOR’S NOTES:Letter to the Green LocalBoard of Education canbe viewed at: http:/ /www.acluohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/LetterToGreenLocalBoardOfEducation2014_1210.pdf

ACLU urges school board to give teacherjob back

UT teams with community colleges to attractinternational students

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Washington, DC, De-cember 11, 2014: Last week,the State of Ohio joined nine-teen other states in suing thefederal government over thePresident’s recent executiveaction on immigration. Inaddition to subjecting thou-sands of Ohio families todeportation, the lawsuit, ifsuccessful, would deny $41million in much needed taxrevenue to the state over thenext five years.

In the wake of this news,Ohio leaders have been quickto blast the decision by Gov-ernor John Kasichand Attorney General MikeDeWine to join this frivolouslawsuit. Former Ohio Gover-nor Ted Strickland also addedhis voice to the mix, high-lighting how DeWine’s ac-tion stands in stark contrast toOhio values.

As the Northeast OhioMedia Group reports in arecent sit-down interviewwith Strickland:

“Strickland then broughtup Mike DeWine and thefact that the Ohio attorneygeneral says he intends tojoin a lawsuit, led by Texas,in an effort to strike downPresident Barack Obama’simmigration order. That or-der, announced in Novem-ber, would shield up to 5million undocumented im-migrants from deportation.Obama said he was issuing

the order because Congressfailed to find a way to dealwith a broken immigrationsystem. Conservative crit-ics including DeWine sayObama overstepped hisbounds.

“’That is so troubling tome,’ Strickland said. ‘MikeDeWine, rightly so, has al-ways advocated for familiesand children. He is engagedheavily with Haiti, workingwith the orphanage and soforth.

“I see a major contradic-tion in Mike DeWine’s be-havior here, because this im-migration executive orderat its heart is a family valuesissue – keeping parents andchildren together and allow-ing them to come out of theshadows in which they areforced to live in this coun-try. I do not know why thisman has chosen to use Ohioresources and Ohio’s pres-tige in this way. I find itreally troubling. I’d like totalk to Mike DeWine aboutthat, because it is such acontradiction to so much ofwhat he does in his personallife.”

Asked to respond,DeWine sent this statement:

“’My decision to join thelawsuit in Texas has noth-ing to do with immigrationpolicy. It has everything todo with preserving ourConstitution’s separation of

powers and combating thecurrent administration’sconsistent efforts to expandpresidential authority intothe traditional powers ofCongress to make andchange federal laws.’”

“Governor Strickland isright—Attorney GeneralDeWine and GovernorKasich should know bet-ter. By joining this law-suit, they’re putting anti-Obama partisanship overOhio families. The effectof DeWine and Kasich’slawsuit would be to pre-vent tens of thousands ofOhio residents from gettingtheir papers together andpaying more in taxes. Itdoes not make any kind ofsense—not moral sense,and certainly not economicsense—to involve Ohio inthis frivolous, anti-Obamapolitical exercise. And itcertainly doesn’t move ourcountry toward any sort ofpermanent solution on im-migration,” said LynnTramonte, Deputy Direc-tor of America’s Voice.

Editor’s Note: FollowFrank Sharry andAmerica’s Voice on twitter@FrankSharry and@ A m e r i c a s V o i c e . America’s Voice – Harness-ing the power of Americanvoices and American val-ues to win common senseimmigration reform

ICYMI: Former OH Gov. Ted Stricklandblasts Gov. Kasich and AG DeWine’s Decisionto join Texas Immigration Lawsuit“I Do Not Know Why this Man Has Chosen to Use OhioResources and Ohio’s Prestige in this Way”Op Ed by www.americasvoice.org

The Ariel InternationalCenter plans to organize a trademission to India early next yearand is looking for Ohio busi-nesses to include in the trip. Aninformational session and re-ception is planned for Thurs-day, Dec. 18, 2014, 4 to 6 p.m.,at the center, Skyline LakeRoom, 1163 East 40th Street,4th floor, Cleveland.

The trade mission to Indiawould run from Feb. 27 toMarch 9, 2015, and include thecities of Delhi, Chennai (Ma-dras), Hyderabad, and Mumbai(Bombay). Dr. Manoj KumarMohapatra, Deputy ConsulGeneral of India, New York,will be on hand for the recep-tion to welcome businesses in-terested in investing or expand-ing their business to India.

The information sessionand reception are co-sponsoredby the Ariel International Cen-ter, the Consulate General ofIndia, NY, and Federation ofIndian Associations(FIA). Appetizers will be servedand there will be a cash bar.

Radhika Reddy, founder ofthe Ariel International Centerand a native of India, is helpingto organize the trade missionearly next year. She explainedthat this is a high-level meet-ing, because Dr. Mohaptra isthe “number two guy from In-dia” in the U.S. and the official“key person for commerce andtrade and international trade.”

Ms. Reddy has accompa-nied then-Ohio Gov. GeorgeVoinovich on a trade missionto India in 1997 and helpedorganize a visit by India-basedbusiness owners and investors

to the Cleveland area a decadelater, which included a presen-tation by then-Ohio Lt. Gov.Lee Fisher.

“I have arranged for trademissions, worked together withother people to bring trade mis-sions to the U.S.,” she said. “Butthis is the first one on my own,back taking a trade mission backto India because of the recentlandslide victory of the newprime minister.”

Ms. Reddy stated the politi-cal climate has changed as aresult, with a prime minister whowill welcome new businessesand investment in India and isworking to root out the corrup-tion and bureaucracy that hasinfected her home country.

“This is the right time for usto go to India because they willmake things happen,” she said.“You need the right kind ofleader to perform changes forthe country. This one has themandate of the people; beforeit was all coalition government.Sometimes you’re stuck in thepolitics and you can’t getthings done. Things are reallychanging”

The Ariel International Cen-ter was founded by Ms. Reddyand other investors to create aone-stop international businessincubator, office, and an inter-national business and intercul-tural event center in Cleveland.

“There is a lot of synergybetween India and Ohio,” shesaid.

Ms. Reddy hopes to attractOhio companies who special-ize in biomedical, pharmaceu-tical, renewable energy, andcutting-edge manufacturing to

accompany her on the trademission. She is especially anx-ious to take along packagingcompanies.

“India is one of the largestproducers of fresh foods and alot of it gets wasted by the timeit reaches the markets becauseof rotting food,” she explained.“The U.S. ability to packageagriculture and those types oftechnologies are needed.”

But the Ariel InternationalCenter founder also is quick topoint out the trade trip “is atwo-way street.”

“One is to take companiesinterested in capturing thegrowing market in India, Ohiocompanies that want to ex-pand,” said Ms. Reddy. “Theother is to attract Indian com-panies to come to Ohio. We’retrying to create an interna-tional trade district (in Cleve-land). If we can bring compa-nies back here to locate, ware-housing and distribution—I’m hoping to achieve that formy own company.”

Ms. Reddy explained thatnorthern Ohio is perfect forinternational commerce, be-cause freighters can traversethe Great Lakes to welcomingports in Toledo, Cleveland,Detroit, and elsewhere. She iscurrently working withCleveland’s port authority,trying to attract new interna-tional markets.

“We do have (interna-tional) shipments that do comefrom Bombay towards Europe,towards Cleveland,” she said.“It would be great to makeconnections to make directshipments to and from Cleve-

Ariel International Center plans India TradeMissionBy Kevin Milliken, La Prensa Correspondent

Each year, the Farm La-bor Organizing Committee(FLOC) hosts a benefit con-cert to raise funds to supportthe ongoing fight to bringjustice to migrant workersthroughout the Midwest andSouth, and now localLatinos. This year’s FLOC’sbenefit concert was entitledSongs for Justice, and wasvenued at Forrester’s on theRiver restaurant.

FLOC PresidentBaldemar Velásquez and theAguila Negra Band enter-tained a full house withsongs that told tales of thestruggles migrant workersface as they stand up fortheir rights.

The theme song for thenight was titled Solo Le PidoAdios /I only ask of Godwritten by León Giego. Thissong asks its listeners to notbe indifferent to injusticeand discrimination in theworld but to fight alongsidethe poor and exploited.Shouts of approval rangthroughout the hall as audi-ence members found them-selves moved by the music.

The guests of honor dur-ing the night were Sesarioand Lucy Durán, longtimeresidents of Toledo. Theywere honored for their manyyears of support and com-mitment to FLOC and thecommunity.

Father Richard Notter,retired pastor of SS. Peter &Paul Church, describedSesario and Lucy as, “al-ways dedicated, providing

nothing but support for theirchurch and community, andalways humble.“

Velásquez shared some ofthe many experiences he andthe Duráns have had through-out the many years of march-ing, rallying, and fighting forthe rights of others. A movingslide show to the backdropmusic of “Pioneer” docu-mented Sesario and Lucy’shistory in the many marches,rallies since 1968. He and allof FLOC’s staff presented theDuráns with a commemora-tive plaque and gifts as a tokenof thanks for all they have done,and all the support they con-tinue to give.

When presented with thegifts, Christiana Wagner,daughter of Velásquez, sharedthese words with the audience:”Sesario and Lucy Durán havea rich history with FLOC andwe are truly blessed to honorthem tonight. Sesario and Lucyhave been with FLOC fromday one. At every march andrally, they represented a senseof passion and justice that istruly irreplaceable. Throughthe hard times of struggle, theystood by our side. Through thegreat times of victory, theyrejoiced with us.

“Working hard, as a part ofthe FLOC family, Sesario andLucy have been unwaveringin their dedication and com-mitment to the cause. It hasbeen a true honor to watchthem grow in family and infaith. Their faith has been atrue testament of their loyaltyand character. Their countless

prayer meetings with staffand friends touch the heartof what FLOC stands for:Justice and passion for giv-ing a voice for those who donot have one.

“We wish them well inwhatever life brings. Asimple thank you does notseem to be enough, so to-night, let us celebrate theirservice and their commit-ment to seeing justicebrought to life!“

The event was a successas community members andsponsors enjoyed the pres-ence of one another and cel-ebrated the many victoriesFLOC has had due the hardwork and dedication ofpeople like the Duráns,FLOC staff, and countlesscommunity volunteers.

The Farm Labor Organiz-ing Committee/Campaignfor Migrant Workers Justicewould like to thank all thosewho sponsored the eventand continue to provide sup-port.

FLOC recognizes thatbuilding a strong commu-nity is imperative to mak-ing changes and creatingopportunities for the dis-advantaged. FLOC encour-ages the public to becomean associate member. Visitthe FLOC website atfloc.com for membershipdetails, and how your sup-port can make a big differ-ence. The fight for justiceis never ending; your sup-port helps FLOC provide avoice for others.

“Songs For Justice” rallies Latinos, honorsSesario and Lucy Durán to packed ballroomOp Ed by Monica Morales, FLOC Outreach Advocate

land. We’re at a huge turningpoint and a potential upside.”

Ms. Reddy explained thatCleveland’s Indian communityis not as large as New York orChicago, but is very active andhas courted the support of localleaders, such as Cleveland’smayor and former CuyahogaCounty executive Ed FitzGerald.

Ms. Reddy is on the globalmarkets advisory team for theState of Ohio, providing adviceon strategies to help Ohio com-panies export and market glo-bally, attract foreign direct in-vestment into Ohio, and attractglobal companies to locate inOhio. She is also on the interna-tional advisory committee forthe City of Cleveland, helpingto develop strategies to attractinternational businesses toNortheast Ohio for economicdevelopment.

Reddy came to Clevelandfrom Hyderabad, India, 25years ago to study at CaseWestern Reserve University.“I came as a student with $20and a one-year scholarship,”Ms. Reddy once told theCleveland Plain Dealer. Shehad a relative, Mohan Reddy,who was a professor at CaseWestern Reserve at the time.Ms. Reddy has since earnedan MBA in Finance & MISfrom Case and a Masters inAccounting/Taxation fromCleveland State University.

Ms. Reddy also offers in-ternational business, export/import documentation, fi-nance, tax and IT services, tohelp US companies meet thechallenges of operating in aglobal marketplace. Ms.Reddy has helped Ohio com-panies set up subsidiaries in

India, Hong Kong, Canada,Brazil, Denmark, UK, andSingapore. She has a total of 30years of management experi-ence (20 years in the U.S. anda decade in India) in real estate,renewable energy, economicdevelopment, internationalbanking, and business.

Ms. Reddy also offers inter-national companies expertisein complex financial transac-tions and tax credits. She hashelped to provide deal struc-turing, financial and cash flowmodeling and compliance forover $1.5 billion of tax credittransactions, to structuremulti-layered project financ-ing in public-private partner-ships, combining comprehen-sive economic developmentincentives to attract busi-nesses and stimulate eco-nomic development.

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MEXICAN MUTUAL SOCIETY (MMS)DECEMBER 2014 EVENTS

Continuing the “SAVE THE CLUB” Campaign by family and friends of the MexicanMutual Society, 1820 East 28th Street, Lorain, OH, the following fundraiser events are plannedfor the month of December 2014 to raise funds to support the Club’s operation:

����������CELEBRITY BARTENDER NIGHT. Every Friday night from 6-9 pm.Mexican food will be available.

• December 19, 2014. Lorain’s Own George Clooney, Pete García, with hisbeautiful Bride, Michele.

• December 26, 2014. Jim Palmer retired Lorain Firefighter, the “Hottest” Guy inTown, accompanied by the “Pole Sliders”.

����������MEXICAN MUTUAL SOCIETY ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BUFFET. Come andcelebrate the Christmas holiday with your favorite Mexican food on Wednesday, December17, 2014 from 5-7 pm. Cost is $10. Cash bar.����������MEXICAN MUTUAL SOCIETY ANNUAL NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY. Ring in

the New Year, December 31, 2014 from 9 pm-1 am. with holiday food and a champagne toastat midnight. Cash bar.����������2015 Membership Drive. Social Membership is open to the public for $10. Membership

forms available at the Club.����������New Club Hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 1-10pm; Friday and Saturday, 1 pm-12; and

Sunday 1- 10 pm. Food available daily from Hector’s Kitchen.

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Fundraiser events are open to the public.Call the Club at 440-277-7375 for further information.

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 11,2014 (AP): Secretary ofState John Kerry tried tospur slow-moving U.N. cli-mate talks Thursday, tell-ing nations to stop bicker-ing over who is to blamefor global warming and toshun the cheap route ofhigh-polluting coal togrow their economies.

In a speech during a briefstop in Lima, Kerry saidneglecting to seize themoment and forge an ef-fective plan to fight cli-mate change would bejudged a “massive, collec-tive moral failure of his-torical consequences.”

“If we don’t lead, futuregenerations will not for-give us,” Kerry said. “Theywill want to know how wetogether could possiblyhave been so blind, so ideo-logical, so dysfunctionaland, frankly, so stubborn”by failing to act on over-whelming scientific evi-dence.

Kerry also took a swipeat U.S. politicians whocontinue to deny the pre-ponderant view of scien-tists that climate change isman-made, mainly causedby emissions from burningfossil fuels.

“You don’t need aPh.D. to see that the worldis already changing,”Kerry said. “You just needto pay attention. Thirteenof the warmest years onrecord have occurredsince 2000, with this year,again, on track to be thewarmest of all.”

He called adopting aglobal pact next year torein in heat-trapping green-house gas emissions an“urgent necessity” andwarned against getting“bogged down in abstract

debates.”Rich nations have to play

a major role in cutting emis-sions, “but that doesn’t meanthat other nations are justfree to go off and repeat themistakes of the past,” Kerrysaid, noting that more thanhalf of global emissions arecoming from developingcountries.

How to divide the emis-sions cuts that scientists sayare needed to avoid danger-ous levels of warming is amajor sticking point in thenegotiations toward anagreement a year from nowin Paris.

The optimism injectedinto the negotiations lastmonth by a joint U.S.-Chinaannouncement on theirplanned efforts to limit emis-sions has faded in Lima assplits between rich and poorcountries re-emerged overwho should do what.

Some delegates said theywere surprised that China—the world’s No 1 greenhousegas polluter—continued totake a tough stance at theLima talks on keeping cleardividing lines between theclimate action expectedfrom developed and devel-oping nations.

“I thought that theywould not be as stern as theyused to be in the past,” saidTony de Brum, the foreignminister of the Marshall Is-lands, which is among thesmall island states that fearthey will be submerged byrising seas caused by globalwarming.

Liu Zhemin, the deputyhead of the Chinese delega-tion, stressed that rich coun-tries have a greater respon-sibility to fight climatechange and called China’sannouncement last monththat it would peak its emis-

sions by 2030 “a very am-bitious target” that wouldrequire tremendous action.

Chinese experts are stillcalculating how high emis-sions will be when theypeak but “it will be a verybig volume,” Zhemin said.

Earlier Thursday, U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged big carbon pol-luters to follow the ex-amples of China, the U.S.and the European Unionand announce emissionstargets for the Paris deal.India, Russia and Japanand other major carbonemitters haven’t madepledges.

Governments are sup-posed to submit theirpledges by the end ofMarch, though many haveindicated they need moretime.

Rich countries insist thepledges should focus onefforts to control emissionsand are resisting demandsto include promises of fi-nancing to help poor coun-tries tackle climate change.

Scientific reports sayclimate impacts are alreadyhappening and include ris-ing sea levels, intensify-ing heat waves and shiftsin weather patterns caus-ing floods in some areasand droughts in others.

Ban said the messagefrom scientists that emis-sions need to come downurgently is unambiguous.

“They are even shout-ing from the rooftops,” hesaid. “Scientists are sayingthat climate change is hap-pening much, much fasterthan we expect, than werealize.”

Associated Press writerFrank Bajak contributed tothis report.

Kerry to climate talks: No excuses, get to workBy KARL RITTER and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Dec. 10,2014 (AP): Negotiationsbetween the city of Cleve-land and the U.S. JusticeDepartment over allega-tions of a pattern and prac-tice of excessive force bypolice are expected to be-gin next week.

The city law directortold a city council commit-

Latino organizationsacross northern Ohio willgather to celebrate the holi-days this month in any num-ber of ways— with familyevents, fundraisers, and gath-erings simply to share goodtidings. Below are thoseevents that have been re-ported to La Prensa:

On Wednesday, Decem-ber 17, 2014, the Spanish-American Organization(SAO) will gather at the homeof Phil (& Lisa) Barbosa at 6p.m. for its annual effort tohelp seven families in needin the Old South End. Thegathering of SAO members,family, and friends beginswith each participant askedto bring canned goods or non-perishable food. Large boxesare prepared for each familywith a holiday meal, toys forthe children, and otherneeded items. Those are thendelivered to each family byteams of “Santa’s elves.”Everyone then returns for anevening of fellowship andfriendship.

Also, Adelante, Inc. willthrow a Family ChristmasParty on Wednesday, Dec.17, 2014, 5 to 8 p.m. at L.Hollingsworth School, 653Miami St., Toledo. Each fam-ily in attendance is asked tobring a covered dish to share.While Adelante has heldholiday parties of one sort oranother for several years, thisis the first time the nonprofitgroup has combined its fam-ily and youth divisions.

“Hollingsworth is one ofthe places where we doafterschool programs, andthey have generouslyopened their gym to us. Weneeded a space capable ofholding more than 200people and volunteers,” saidGuiselle Mendoza, Adelanteexecutive director.

Adelante currently servesmore than 200 families acrossmetro Toledo. The eveningwill begin with a family ac-tivity at each table, followedby dinner and Christmas pre-sents for the children.

“We’re really excitedabout it, because this is re-ally a first for all of our newstaff,” said Ms. Mendoza.“It’s something we’ll see ifwe can continue doing inyears to come. It’s also cost-effective because we’re nothaving two different holi-day parties and our donorsand supporters only have togive once, not twice.”

The party serves as a year-end wrap-up for the non-

profit organization,which also is Ms.Mendoza’s first yearat the helm. She statedthe agency has a lot tocelebrate in 2014.

“This year has beenvery successful over-all. We had a lot ofgood things happenfinancially— donations,fundraising, sponsorships, newgrants that we haven’t receivedbefore, collaborations, andpartnerships,” said theAdelante director. “2015 islooking very vibrant and we’llbe working very hard. I’m verygrateful for the hard-workingstaff I have.”

Toledo’s Latino Alliancegathers Thursday, Dec. 18,2014 for its first-ever HolidaySocial. Alliance members andpeople who belong to its part-ner organizations are invitedto attend the event, 5:30 to 9p.m. at El Camino Real restau-rant, 2500 W. Sylvania Ave.,Toledo. There will be a fullcash bar and $5 taco bar in thelower level of the restaurant.The event is open to the pub-lic.

“We figured we’d get to-gether before the year ends andtell everybody what the Alli-ance does, come celebrate withus the year that we’ve had, andtalk about the future of theAlliance.” said Ms. Mendoza,who also serves as that group’ssecretary. “That’s why the alli-ance is there— to bring groupstogether on issues and set agen-das throughout Toledo, notjust individually. I think wewant to move away from that.When you organize peopletogether you speak with alouder voice. We want to dothat together.”

The Latino Alliance ofWood County (La Conexión)celebrated Christmas, ThreeKings Day, and a variety ofother special events in Bowl-ing Green on Dec. 7th in a cel-ebration entitled “HolidaysAcross the Américas.”

Nuestra Gente CommunityProjects, Inc., will host a holi-day-themed fundraiser FelizNavidad Dinner at 6 p.m., Fri-day, Dec. 19, at Los Dos Gallosrestaurant, 5327 Dorr St., To-ledo. Tickets are $20 each,available at the door, and go tobenefit Nuestra Gente’s mis-sion and programs throughoutNorthwest Ohio, many ofwhich focus on the generalhealth and well-being of theLatino community. Theagency has set a goal of raising$3,000 from the dinner.

La Prensa, Tony Rios, and

TRE, Inc. will be hosting twomore Friday night celebrationsto honor La Navidad andTejano music; they are sched-uling through the holidaysfor Tejano Friday Nights atthe elegant Pulse Ultra, 1260W. Alexis Rd., Toledo. Doorsopen at 9 p.m. with a covercharge of $10. Los HermanosVillegas (from Adrian MI) willperform Dec. 19 and LaCorporación (from LansingMI) will take the stage Dec.26, 2014.

The University of ToledoLatino Alumni Affiliate gotan early jump on the holidaycelebrations with a party atthe Sylvania Township homeof one of its members Fridayevening, Dec. 12. Membersshared a covered dish dinnerand brought donations of hats,scarves, gloves, and mittensfor distribution to needyschoolchildren.

According to its presidentChevo Torres, Toledo’s Lat-ins United celebrated Christ-mas early on Dec. 13th at theclub, with gifts to over 80children.

There were numerous cel-ebrations on Dec. 12 and Dec.13 regarding the honoring of“Our Lady of Guadalupe,”including a celebration andMass by the diocese at St.Wendelin’s Church inFostoria.

Mexican Mutual Soci-ety—Ohio’s oldest MexicanSocial Club

The Lorain-based MexicanMutual Society also has cho-sen Wednesday, Dec. 17th, 5 to7 p.m., for its annual ChristmasBuffet at the organization’sclubhouse, 1820 E. 28th St.Tickets are $10 each or mem-bers can bring a side dish of thesame value to share.

The Mexican Mutual So-ciety presents Celebrity Bar-tender Night each Fridayfrom 6-9 pm. On December19th, hosts will be Lorain’sOwn George Clooney, PeteGarcía and his beautifulbride, Michele. December26th presents Jim Palmer, re-tired Lorain Firefighterknown as the “Hottest Guy inTown,” accompanied by the“Pole Sliders.” Come andenjoy the fun!

Latino groups celebrate the HolidaysBy Kevin Milliken, La Prensa Correspondent

tee on Wednesday thatMayor Frank Jackson’s ad-ministration is analyzing theJustice Department reportmade public last week. Thereport leveled harsh criti-cism at officers, supervisorsand the administration forhow the police departmentis run and how allegations ofexcessive force by police are

investigated.The official told council

members that the city willconfront problems detailedin the report. The DOJ isseeking an agreement withthe city that will lead to acourt-ordered consent de-cree and the appointmentof an independent monitorto oversee reforms.

Cleveland, DOJ to begin talks on police reforms

Diciembre 19, 2014 La Prensa1.com Page 13

Michigan, Dec. 2014:According to MichiganUnited, “Millions of immi-grant families will not beseparated this holiday sea-son. They no longer have tolive with fear of losing aloved one due to deporta-tions. Now, we have a monu-mental task ahead of us toimplement this new policy.”

Michigan United is host-ing information sessionsthrough December of 2014and January of 2015:

• Dec. 16, 2014 at St.Joseph Catholic Elemen-tary School, 47 N. 23rd St.Battle Creek, MI 49015, inSpanish at 6:00 pm.

• Dec. 21, 2014 at St.Stephens Catholic Church,4311 Central Ave. Detroit,MI 48210 in Spanish at12:00 pm.

• Jan. 4, 2015 at FirstLatin American BaptistChurch, 6205 W. Fort St.Detroit, MI 48209 in Span-ish at 12:30 pm.

• Jan. 22, 2015 at HolyRedeemer CatholicChurch, 1721 Junction St.Detroit, MI 48209 in Span-ish at 6:00 pm.

Beware of Scams!According to Adonis

Flores of Michigan United,“Some unscrupulous “no-taries” and scam artists areready to take advantage ofyou and steal your money.There are no applicationsyet. Do not pay anyone any

money yet.“ I n s t e a d ,

come to one ofour upcomingInfo Sessions toget reliable andaccurate infor-mation. Remem-ber that this is a temporarysolution. Our efforts con-tinue to get CIR a permanentsolution that includes all im-migrants.”

Editor’s Note: MichiganUnited is “a broad state-wide coalition working toreform the U.S. broken im-migration system, advancehousing justice, protect therights of low-wage work-ers, and develop leader-ship.” More informationcan be found at the Michi-gan United’s website:www.miunited.org

¡El PresidenteObama nos dio unalivio de inmigracion!

Michigan Unido preparaa la comunidad inmigrantepara el Alivio deInmigración

¡Millones de familias noserán separadas estos díasfestivos! Ya no tendrán quevivir con miedo de perder aun ser querido debido a lasdeportaciones. Ahoratenemos una tarea inmensapara implementar estoscambios de Inmigración.

Venga a una de nuestrassesiones informáticas.

· 16 de diciembre del 2014

en la escuela St. JosephCatholic Elementary, 47N. 23rd St. Battle Creek,MI 49015, en Español alas 6:00 pm.

· 21 de diciembre del2014 en la iglesia St.Stephens, 4311 CentralAve. Detroit, MI 48210 enEspañol a las 12:00 pm.

· 4 de enero del 2015 enla iglesia First LatinAmerican Baptist Church,6205 W. Fort St. Detroit,MI 48209 en Español a las12:30 pm.

· 22 de enero del 2015en la iglesia Holy Re-deemer, 1721 Junction St.Detroit, MI 48209 enEspañol a las 6:00 pm.

¡No seas víctima defraude!

Algunos estafadores y“notaries” estan listos pararobar su dinero. Aún no hayaplicaciones disponibles.No le pague dinero a nadieque le haga promesas deser de los primeros enaplicar.

Esta es una solucióntemporal. La lucha por unareforma permanente queincluya a todos losinmigrantes continúa.

Dec. 12, 2014 (AP): Insmall-town communitycenters, schools, churchesand a vast city conventioncenter, immigrant advo-cates are spreading theword about PresidentBarack Obama’s plan togive millions of immigrantsliving in the U.S. withoutdocumentation a tempo-rary reprieve.

The November an-nouncement promisingwork permits and protec-tion from deportation madea splash, but lawyers saythe events are crucial todispel rumors about eligi-bility, ward off fraud, andhelp immigrants determinewhat they might need toapply.

Immigrants are eager tosee if they qualify forObama’s executive actionsto spare nearly 5 millionpeople from deportationand to refocus enforcementefforts on criminals.

At least 20 states—in-cluding Ohio—have fileda lawsuit to try to block themeasure, which aims tobenefit immigrants whohave been in the countrywithout documentation formore than five years andhave children who are US-American citizens or per-manent residency greencard holders, along withsome immigrants who en-tered the country withoutdocumentation as children.

In Los Angeles, advo-cates are hosting an infor-mation session for as manyas 10,000 people at thecity’s convention centerSunday.

“After this big forum,

NEW YORK, Dec. 11,2014 (AP): The highest-ranking Latina in a man-agement position at MajorLeague Baseball head-quarters said in a lawsuit onThursday she has faced dis-crimination there for twodecades.

Sylvia Lind’s lawsuit,filed in Manhattan federalcourt, seeks unspecifieddamages for what she de-scribes as a failure by theleague to consider, inter-view, appoint, and promotequalified Latinas to mana-gerial and executive posi-tions. Lind, 48, says theleague has created a hostilework environment for herbecause of her age.

Lind, the league’s direc-tor of baseball initiativesin its Office of the Commis-sioner, names as defendantsthe league, CommissionerBud Selig and Hall of FamerFrank Robinson, who su-pervised her. Messages tothe league were not imme-diately returned Thursday.

The lawsuit says Lindworks in an industry domi-nated by white men and hasbeen passed over for pro-

Dec. 12, 2014 (AP): Theeconomic recovery has notbeen equal among the races,according to a Pew Re-search Center study re-leased Friday.

The study found that thewealth gap between whitehouseholds and minoritieshas widened in recent years.

The wealth of whitehouseholds was 13 timesgreater than that of blackhouseholds in 2013, versuseight times the wealth in2010. And the wealth ofwhite households was morethan 10 times that of Latinohouseholds, up from ninetimes the wealth in 2010.

Pew researchers—ana-lyzing data from the Fed-eral Reserve’s Survey ofConsumer Finances—

we’re going to have daily ori-entations. That is what wehave to do in order to dealwith the demand,” said An-gelica Salas, executive di-rector of the Coalition forHumane Immigrant Rights ofLos Angeles.

For immigrant advocates,the challenge is reaching pro-spective applicants in diversecommunities that speak mul-tiple languages and oftenknow little about the UnitedStates’ byzantine immigra-tion laws. While some immi-grants find strength in num-bers, others shy away frompublic meetings because offear or stigma over their im-migration status.

At recent workshops andon telephone hotlines, immi-grants have questioned ad-vocates about who willqualify and what documentsthey will need. Many want toknow how they can prove theiridentity after living under theradar for so long, Salas said.

At a recent forum at a SanDiego community center, animmigration attorney fieldedquestions for two hours, andmany hands were still raisedwhen time ran out.

Anahi Maldonado, a 32-year-old mother of two US-American-born children, saidshe attended to verify that sheand her husband wouldqualify for the program. She’sbeen living in the U.S. for 14years after crossing the bor-der from Mexico and wantedto ensure she didn’t need avisa to apply.

“The thing is, sometimessomeone has questions thatthe president is not going toanswer,” said Maldonado,adding that she also won-

motions and underpaidsince 1995.

Lind said Latinos areunderrepresented in themanagement level whilebaseball has a high percent-age of Latino players [al-most 30 percent]. She saidof 52 people who are vicepresidents or above only twoare Latino and only 12 arewomen.

According to the lawsuit,Lind, who is of Cuban de-scent and lives in New Jer-sey, earned her law degreefrom Fordham UniversitySchool of Law in 1995. Itsays she began working forMajor League Baseball onNov. 21, 1995, as supervi-sor in the legal departmentof MLB Properties Inc. at anannual salary of $43,000.

She said she was the onlyLatina lawyer in the legaldepartment at the time andno Latino attorneys havebeen hired since.

Lind said her troubleswith the league worsenedafter Robinson, who playedfor several teams between1956 and 1976, became ex-ecutive vice president ofbaseball development in

found that the gap betweenwhites and blacks has reachedits highest point since 1989.The wealth ratio for whites-to-Latinos is at a level notseen since 2001.

Net worth is a measure ofthe difference between thehousehold’s assets and theirliabilities. The typical house-hold had a net worth of$81,400 in 2013, accordingto the Fed’s survey.

The recession was univer-sally hard on US-Americanfamilies as a stock marketcrash and plunging houseprices ate into their net worth.From 2007 to 2010, the me-dian net worth of US-Ameri-can families fell 39 percent.

Researchers say a num-ber of factors may be re-sponsible for the uneven re-

dered if she would need agood conduct letter frompolice, and how she couldget one since she didn’t havevalid immigration papers.

Immigrant advocates aredoling out whatever infor-mation they have, much of itbased on their experienceswith a 2012 program to as-sist U.S.-educated immigrantchildren. But there is stillmuch that is unknown, andno application form yet.

Advocates are warningimmigrants not to pay any-one to get in line to applyand to avoid being dupedinto filling out fake applica-tions.

Many are also planningone-on-one consultations tohelp immigrants determineif they’re eligible and if that’stheir best shot at immigra-tion relief, since sometimespeople may qualify for a visaor other benefits.

Michelle Saucedo, a le-gal advocate for Asian-Americans Advancing Jus-tice in Los Angeles, saidAsian immigrants are morelikely to turn out for one-on-one consultations thangroup sessions because somefeel a sense of shame overtheir immigration status.When advocates advertisedlarge workshops about the2012 program in the Chi-nese community, only oneor two people would showup, she said.

Contributing to this re-port were Associated Presswriters Elliot Spagat in SanDiego, Manuel Valdes inSeattle, Travis Loller inNashville, Tennessee, andRussell Contreras in Albu-querque, New Mexico.

covery: falling income,lower savings rate and dif-ferent asset holdings.

The median income inminority households fell 9percent from 2010 and2013, versus a 1 percentdrop in white households.And in turn, researchers say,minority households mayhave either been forced todraw down from savings toget by or were unable toreplenish their savings asmuch as white households.

Additionally, certain fi-nancial assets, such as stocks,recovered more quickly thanhousing since the recessionended. And white house-holds are more likely thanminorities to own stocks,putting them in a better po-sition for a recovery.

Immigrants flock to workshops after ObamareprieveAdvocates are warning immigrants not to pay anyone to getin line to apply and to avoid being duped into filling outfake applications.By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press

Wealth gap widens between whites andminorities

President Obama has issued administrative reliefMichigan United prepares immigrants for Executive Action

June 2012 and criticizedher writing and other skills.

She said Robinson, whowon rookie of the year andMVP honors with the Cin-cinnati Reds and MVP withthe Baltimore Orioles,lacked the educational cre-dentials, professional li-cense and executive expe-rience to qualify for thejob, which paid him morethan $1 million annually.

Lind said the league’sdiscriminatory conductwas carried out even as shewas assigned to plan, ad-vance, and promote theleague’s annual CivilRights Game.

“While plaintiff has al-ways maintained a profes-sional demeanor to the pub-lic and endeavored to dowhat is in the best interest forMLB, it has been extremelydisheartening, utterly de-moralizing and extraordi-narily taxing on her, bothemotionally and psycho-logically, to almostsinglehandedly perpetuatewhat she has known to bethe diversity and equal em-ployment opportunity false-hood,” the lawsuit said.

Lawsuit alleges discrimination at MLBheadquartersBy LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press

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Por la presente, la Junta Electoral del Condado de Cuyahoga notifica a laspersonas que deseen votar en la Elección Especial del 3 de febrero de 2015 quedeben inscribirse para votar a no más tardar del 5 de enero de 2015. Puedeninscribirse en la Junta Electoral del Condado de Cuyahoga, en la 2925 Euclid Ave.Cleveland, que abre de lunes a viernes de 8:30 AM a 4:30 PM.

Formularios de inscripción de electores estándisponibles en los siguientes sitios:1.La oficina del Secretario de Estado o cualquiera de las 88 juntas electorales de

los condados.2.La oficina de cualquier registrador delegado del Departamento de Vehículos de

Motor de Ohio.3.Oficinas de agencias designadas que proporcionan programas de asistencia

pública o para incapacidades.4.Bibliotecas públicas.5.Escuelas secundarias públicas o vocacionales.6.Oficinas del tesorero del condado.7. Oficinas de agencias designadas:

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Las personas que deseen inscribirse por correo pueden llamar, escribir o enviarun mensaje de correo electrónico a la Junta Electoral y solicitar que les envíenformularios por correo. Estos formularios deben completarse y devolverse a laJunta Electoral antes de la fecha límite indicada arriba.

Las personas que deseen actualizar su dirección residencial en-línea puedenhacerlo en el www.443vote.com, clic “español” y luego haga un clic en “Actualizarmi dirección”. Esto también debe realizarse antes de la fecha límite indicadaarriba.

Si una persona ya está inscrita para votar dentro del Estado de Ohio y deseacambiar de nombre y/o de dirección al Condado de Cuyahoga, puede hacerlo enla Junta Electoral del Condado de Cuyahoga, hasta e incluso el Día de lasElecciones. El Día de las Elecciones, usted puede informar el cambio de direccióny votar con una papeleta provisional en la oficina de la Junta Electoral o en el lugarde votación del distrito electoral en el cual está ubicado su nueva direcciónelectoral.

Usted está calificado para inscribirse para votar en Ohio si cumple con todos lossiguientes requisitos:1.Es ciudadano de los Estados Unidos.2.Tendrá al menos 18 años de edad antes del o el día de la elección general.3.Será residente de Ohio por al menos 30 días consecutivos antes de la elección

en la cual usted desea votar.4.No está encarcelado (en prisión) por una sentencia de delito mayor según las

leyes de este estado, otro estado o los Estados Unidos.5.Ningún tribunal de sucesiones le ha declarado incompetente para fines electorales.6.No ha sido privado de sus derechos permanentemente por violaciones a las

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LCCS currently needs families willing to foster children of all ages, particularlyyoung children and groups of three or more brothers and sisters who have been victimsof abuse or neglect.

The agency is again providing its free information and training classes at its offices,located at 705 Adams Street in downtown Toledo. Tuesday/Thursday evening classesrun January 6 through February 12, 2015, from 6 to 9 p.m.; Saturday sessions arescheduled for February 14 through March 21, 2015, and April 11 through May 16, 2015,both from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. To register for any of these sessions, please call 419-213-3336or visit www.lucaskids.net.

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Baby gibbon born at ToledoZoo on Nov. 30 is nowviewable for the public

Dec. 16, 2104: A fe-male gibbon was bornon Nov. 30 at the To-ledo Zoo. Animal-carestaff is allowing themother and baby tobond without humanintervention.

This is the fourth off-spring for mother Hueand father Batu. Hue isproviding acceptablematernal care, which isgood news because gib-bons are thought to havea higher incidence ofmaternal neglect thanother primate species.

Mother and baby are easy to spot because both arecream-colored, while most of the Zoo’s other gibbons areblack. Baby gibbons are born a cream color, darkening asthey mature. Males stay black their whole lives, butfemales, when they reach maturity, change back to acream color.

The new family is scheduled to be on exhibit duringdaytime hours, indoors at Primate Forest. However, pub-lic viewing during these times may be irregular depend-ing on the animals’ needs.

This baby gibbon’s arrival is more than great news for theZoo; it’s important for the preservation of this species, whichis critically endangered and faces extinction. In southeastAsia — where gibbons spend all their lives in the trees oftropical rainforests — deforestation, hunting and poachingthreaten their survival. The species’ population numberscontinue to decline.

As part of the ongoing efforts to preserve the species,the Toledo Zoo participates in a Species Survival Plan(SSP) in conjunction with the Association of Zoos andAquariums (AZA). Through this cooperative breedingand conservation program, the Zoo works with other zoosaround the country to help ensure a future for manyspecies, including the gibbon.

LANSING, Dec. 16,2014: Secretary of StateRuth Johnson and StateTreasurer Kevin Clintontoday announced that se-lect motorists are being sentletters this month statingthey are eligible to performcommunity service in placeof paying certain Driver Re-sponsibility fees.

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Main Library, Wintergarden, 325 Michigan St.,

12:30 – 1:30pmFREE and open to the public

A family-friendly series sponsored by theLibrary Legacy Foundation

• Wednesday, December 17Cantor Ivor Lichterman – Congregation B’nai Israel Chanukah celebration• Thursday, December 18 Susan Hedler & Cecilia Johnson - Harp/Violin

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