Looking back at Chavez, forward to better days

“Cesar Chavez’s message of “si se puede” — “yes, it can be done” — lived on Friday morning at a Local Latino Leadership Conference held at Napa Valley College’s Upvalley campus.

More than 50 students from Calistoga and St. Helena high schools gathered at the college to hear about the life of the late, great founder of the United Farm Workers, and get a glimpse of what’s possible if they complete college. Speakers Louis Flores and Aurelio Hurtado both marched alongside Chavez, whose work helped California farm workers gain rights and protections they did not enjoy, during his visit to St. Helena in the early 1960s.”

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