News (Noticias) Tagged ‘sister city’

Should Paul Mertz’s plan take root, swapping Zinfandel wine for Zacatlan cider could soon be commonplace.

The local real estate agent thinks Zacatlan, Mexico — the center of an apple growing region northeast of Mexico City, already with one ticking tie to Lodi — would make a great sister city.

“I think it’s got a lot of potential,” Mertz said Friday, noting his proposal is still in the early stages.”*

The removal of three teachers from Angevine Middle School’s dual language program has prompted concerns from the Latino community, and exposed a broader dilemma of how teachers can meet the needs of native English- and Spanish-speaking students alike.

Administrators at the Lafayette middle school changed the responsibilities of three of the staff, including an exchange teacher from Boulder’s sister city in Mexico, with just weeks left in the school year. All of the teachers remain employed with the school district until school ends Thursday, but none are working solely in the school’s bilingual program.”*

An all-star cast of stars united in 2007 for this powerfully-told tale of the ongoing disappearance and murder of women in El Paso’s sister city of Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The film reunited director Gregory Nava with leading-actress Jennifer Lopez ten years after their collaboration on Selena.”*

Calling immigration “an inevitable fact,” the archbishop of Yakima’s Mexican sister city said immigrants need to retain their religious and cultural values, but also adopt the best traits of this country.

“Immigration can have good effects, not only economically, but culturally and religiously,” the Most Rev. Alberto Suárez Inda said, speaking through a translator. “But it does not run without risks.

“It’s an exchange,” he said. “I think it is very important that in that exchange, our people do not lose their values but that they also learn the best of the culture of this country, which is discipline, work (ethic, and) legality.”"*

*From: http://www.yakima-herald.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

Eagle Pass is a border town that prides itself on being both Texan and Mexican, a community with many cultural and financial ties that bind it to Piedras Negras, its sister city across the Rio Grande.

But the U.S. government’s proposal to build a giant fence along the border threatens to remake the landscape in the name of national security, undermining the relationship between the two cities and, some say, permanently scarring the riverfront.

Local leaders and residents who are fighting the fence have become increasingly frustrated with what they regard as the federal government’s heavy-handed tactics, which include threatening letters, lawsuits and swift legal judgments. “*

*From: http://www.cbsnews.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

“After local officials adopted a new sister city last week, the father-in-law flew up for a visit.

José Hernán Cortés Berumen, the 31-year-old mayor of Tlaquepaque, Mexico, is spending four days in Atwater to meet community leaders and learn about business opportunities.

“We have found so many similarities between our regions,” he said through a translator. “It makes sense to have a strong relationship between the two regions.”"

“All day, Ramos and hundreds of residents in communities on both sides of the U.S-Mexico border struggled to absorb the devastation left by a ferocious tornado that hopscotched through the area Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 160.

Seven of the victims died on the U.S. side, in a rural area south of the city of Eagle Pass. Across the Rio Grande, at least three people died in the towns sister city of Piedras Negras.”

“With heavily armed Mexican soldiers patrolling Nuevo Laredos graffitied, rubbish-strewn streets, Mario Cepeda is having a tough time convincing anyone to take his horse-drawn city tour.

Once an easygoing Mexican border town thronging with U.S. tourists, Nuevo Laredo is becoming a ghost town because of a brutal, three-year-old turf war between rival drug cartels that has driven residents and businesses across the Rio Grande to the safety and prosperity of its Texan sister city, Laredo.”

“Plaza Bank, the community, commercial bank with a Latino focus, is celebrating its Grand Opening in Fiestas Patrias style on September 16, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Plaza Bank is one of only a handful of banks in the U.S. to be founded by members of the Hispanic community.

Scheduled for the event is live music from 10-piece band Mariachi Grullense, straight from Kent’s sister city in Mexico, El Grullo. Mayas Restaurant, known throughout the local Latino community, will be catering the event. Children’s entertainment and giveaways will provide further attraction to the bank and its bilingual/bicultural services. The branch is located 207 West Kent Station Street in Kent, Washington, and will have special banking hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Grand Opening day.”

“Roberto Gonzalez, the restaurant owner and community activist who helped forge Kent’s sister city link with El Grullo, Mexico, now is helping lead an effort to create a new community service center to serve the area’s growing Hispanic community.

“I see a real need for such a center. And now I’m starting to see the opportunities,” said Gonzalez, who has owned the Mexico Lindo Restaurant at Fourth Avenue North and Gowe Street since 1975.”