News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Ventura County’

For that reason, Ramos and local business entrepreneur Adam Casillas held the Ventura County Latino Business Expo on Thursday at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Ventura for the second time since April.”*

Presumptive presidential nominees Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain addressed a record number of delegates including Ventura County members at the 79th Annual League of United Latin American Citizens National Convention in Washington D.C. recently. Both candidates spoke before large audiences in separate events at the Washington Hilton on Tuesday July 8.”*

Radio station KVYB-103.3 FM has pulled the plug on two popular morning personalities, Rico and Mambo, whose last day on the air was Friday.

Bruce Pollock, the station’s new general manager, said the station is going in another musical direction with less hip-hop and more mainstream music.

He said the contracts of the two radio hosts — Jaime Rangel, whose on-air name is “Rico,” and Daniel Herrejon, who uses the name “Mambo” — weren’t renewed.”*

Staff members with the Ventura Unified School District’s Adult and Continuing Education program and the founders of Open English share a vision.

Both see a future where language courses use technology to speed Latinos and other English language-learners toward fluency. In fact, the adult education program and language-learning business recently teamed up to help accomplish that.

With Open English providing the Internet platform and Ventura Unified’s program supplying the academic expertise, a multimedia studio and students to test new content, the two have begun sculpting an interactive language-learning system.”*

On April 17, Destino: The Hispanic Legacy Fund will award eight grants totaling $60,000 to programs serving the Countys Latino community that further financial and reading literacy and promote health care professionals within the Latino community. These reflect priorities outlined in the landmark 2006 Destino health care report, funded by The California Endowment as part of its Focus Funders Program. Destinos 2008 grants came from distributions from its endowment fund, part of the Ventura County Community Foundation.

This annual grantee reception will be held at the Derby Club at Seaside Park in Ventura. “*

*From: http://www.venturacountystar.com
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The final edition of Mi Estrella, the weekly newspaper for Ventura County’s Latino community, was delivered Saturday, announced George H. Cogswell III, publisher of The Star, which owned and published Mi Estrella.

It will be replaced on March 19 by a new, all-Spanish weekly newspaper that will include a rich mix of local and international news, plus sports, entertainment and feature stories, he said. Details about the new publication will be announced next week.”*

*From: http://www.venturacountystar.com
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Ventura County District Attorney Gregory Totten has recently taken action to legally prevent Judge Arturo Gutierrez, a well-respected Ventura County jurist, from hearing certain misdemeanor cases.

California Superior Court judges are appointed by the governor and are not required to follow the whim of prosecutors. They are, however, required to exercise good judgment, judicial discretion and an understanding of law in trying and sentencing offenders. Like any other attorney, the district attorney should always show utmost respect for the court.”*

Century 21 Real Estate LLC announced that the Hispanic National Mortgage Association (HNMA) recently honored Saul Serna, senior vice president of Hispanic Markets and Innovation for Century 21 Real Estate LLC with its first ever Lifetime Achievement Award. The HNMA recognized Serna in mid-October for his ongoing commitment to increasing Hispanic homeownership during its “The Future of Hispanic Lending,” networking luncheon and discussion held in Oxnard, Calif.Serna was one of 12 real estate and mortgage industry professionals honored during this event. Joining Serna from CENTURY 21 on the list of honorees was Kay Wilson-Bolton, broker/owner of CENTURY 21 Buena Vista, which is headquartered in Santa Paula, Calif. The HNMA recognized Wilson-Bolton in its real estate category for outstanding service to the Hispanic community in Ventura County, California.

“While it is truly an honor for me to accept this award that recognizes a lifetime of achievement in promoting and advancing homeownership among Hispanics, our collective work in this area is far from done,” said Serna. “What we do each day makes a difference and I’m proud to be among so many others in the CENTURY 21 System who are pa”*

“A California church that is sheltering an illegal immigrant from Mexico and her U.S.-born infant son will be billed nearly $40,000 (€28,845) for city police services during a weekend protest by anti-illegal immigration activists, officials said.

Mayor Paul Miller, who called United Church of Christ congregants irresponsible for “harboring an illegal immigrant,” told the City Council on Monday that he was ready to issue the $39,306 (€28,345) invoice right away, the Ventura County Star reported.”

“Luz Lopez was only 5 years old when she and her family immigrated to the United States from Mexico, and at the time, everything seemed foreign. There was a bounty of things that she would have to acclimate to as she grew up in a new country, but perhaps one of the most daunting concepts was one of the most widely embraced institutions in the U.S.: the American college system.

“No one in my family had the aspiration to go to school,” said the Ventura County resident, now 20, “and it was difficult to find guidance.” “

“Those who knew Robert John Hinostro often spoke about his pioneering efforts as Oxnards first Latino police chief and his long list of other community contributions.

But to those closest to him, Hinostro was first and foremost a family man who was always there at every school event, sports game and family celebration, often playing his favorite songs on his harmonica.

Hinostro, a longtime Ventura County resident, died Friday at his Oxnard home of complications from pneumonia. He was 91.”

“The Ventura County Community Foundations Destino: The Hispanic Legacy Fund has awarded eight grants totaling more than $80,000 to programs serving the Latino community.

The grants were awarded to programs that focus on “family strengthening,” the growing obesity epidemic, sexually transmitted diseases and access to higher education, priorities set by Destinos founders.”

“Could it really be a quarter century ago that César Chávez returned to Ventura County to take part in one of his long marches to bring attention to problems facing farmworkers?

As a writer/photographer/editor at Ventura College, I had the opportunity to photograph his march, which began in the Santa Clara Valley and ended in Oxnard.”

“It is good picking weather for the back-breaking job, the workers say, better than it has been in the last few days.

But deep anxiety still lingers among those who make a living working the fields of strawberries and celery, avocado and citrus in verdant Ventura County. Thirty-five years after labor leader Cesar Chavez brought the plight of the migrant to the forefront and planted the seeds of reform through his United Farm Workers, some hardships still remain, some too big to be bargained with.”

“Ten years ago, a group of 76 people gave $1,000 each to start a new charitable grant fund called Destino, aimed at improving the lives of Hispanics in Ventura County.

That $76,000 seed has grown to nearly $1 million, and the Ventura County Community Foundation, which oversees Destino, hopes to cross the seven-figure mark with a 10th anniversary benefit dinner Saturday.”

“When Doug Green took his position as executive director for the nonprofit AIDS Care 12 years ago, one of the first things he did was visit a man who was being treated for AIDS at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura.

“I remembered swallowing hard and thinking it scared me a bit,” Green recalled. “I went into the room, and there was this young, attractive Latino male in his late 20s. By the neat part in his hair and easy smile, I could tell he cared about himself and he came from people who took care of him. But there he was, struggling with his life.”"