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(A P )— Ricky Martin, Alexandre
P ires w ith K elly C larkson, Thalia,
B acilos and M olotov w ill perform
at the fourth annual Latin G ram m y
A w ards on W ednesday, Sept. 3 in
Miami.
T he aw ards w ill be broadcast at
9 p.m . from the A m ericanA irlines
A rena on C BS.
C o m ed ian -acto r G eorge Lopez
will be aw ards show . Lopez, a long
tim e stand-up com edian, is co -cre
ator, w riter, producer and star o f the
A B C sitcom "G eo rg e L opez.”
T he Latin G ram m y s feature 40
aw ard categories, including record
o f the year, album o f the year, song
o f the y ear and best new artist.
P r o d u c e r - c o m p o s e r S e rg io
George, w ho wrote the hit “Mi Primer
M i 1 Ion” for the group Bac i los, leads
t the nom inations with six; C olom bia
singer-songw riter Juanes has five.
G eorge is nom inated for record
o f the year, song o f the y ear and
S te v e Kelton, hands
shown at right, instructs
Vicente Ramirez how
water from a fire hose
can be used to filter
smoke during a session
at a fire training camp
near Salem. Over the
past five years, Hispan
ics have flooded the
ranks of contract
firefighting crews in
Oregon and Washington.
(AP photo)
Hispanics Flood Firefighting Ranks
Ricky Martin (right) and George Lopez will star in the fourth
annual Latin Gammy Awards on CBS.
o th er honors for the B acilo s’ hit
song, as w ell as for album o f the
y ear for p ro d u cin g th e g ro u p ’s
“C araluna.”
Juanes earned nom inations for
record and song o f the year for “ Es
Por T i,” album o f the y ear and best
rock solo album for “U n Dia N or
m al," and best rock song for "M ala
G ente.”
MOM
Hispanic Men, Low Wages Linked
(A P )— M en tended to earn less search C en ter study found that men
in blue-collar and service jo b s if
both native and established im
they w orked alongside new ly ar m igrants— earned an average o f 11
rived H ispanic im m igrants because percent less than others in sim ilar
the new com ers w ere paid less, driv service and m anual laborjobs when
ing dow n the w ages for all, acco rd they w orked w ith new ly arrived
ing to a U C L A study that analyzed H ispanics.
C ensus data from 1990.
M inority w orkers in those jo b s
T he U C L A C hicano Studies Re earned an average o f 14 percent
less. A nd the h igher the proportion
o f new ly arrived H ispanic m en on
the jo b , the less m oney the other
w orkers tended to m ake, the study
said.
The study recom m ends exp an d
ing w orker protections forthe im m i
grants, enforcing m inim um w age
standards and extending am nesty.
communicate. Eventually, someone
w ho could translate w as found and
no one w as hurt.
"T h a t’s a dangerous situation,"
said Ed D aniels, training m anager
for the O regon D epartm ent o f For
estry, w ho investigated the ac
count. "K nock on w ood that no
one has died ” yet because o f lan
guage barriers.
(A P) — A s they fought a rag
The case illustrates a grow ing
ing w ildfire last year in southern language barrier on the front lines
O regon, a fire crew got w ord that o f the n atio n 's w ildfires as m ore
the blaze w as approaching rap H ispanic m igrant w orkers rush to
idly and all w orkers needed to tirefighting jo b s around the W est.
evacuate.
In O reg o n and W ash in g to n ,
T hey yelled the directions to a contractors w ho em ploy the m ajor
H ispanic crew digging a fire line, ity o f crew s fighting forest fires in
but none o f them understood En the N orthw est estim ate that H is
glish. T hey stood, confused.
panics m ake up m ore than 60 per
M em bers o f the English-speak cent o f their crew s. M any o f those
ing crew ran tow ard the w orkers, w orkers cannot speak o r under
w aving their arm s in an attem pt to stand English.
C h a n g in g
d e m o g ra p h ic s
b rin g lan g u ag e
b a rrie rs to the
fro n t lines
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M e x ic a n s L iv in g in U .S . A s k
T h e ir G o v ’ t fo r S u p p o rt
(A P ) — M exicans living in the
U nited States want their hom e coun
try to arrange cross-b o rd er health
insurance, deno u n ce an ti-im m i
g rant groups and helping identify
the bodies o f m igrants, according
to su g g e s tio n s p u b lish e d b y a
fledgling m igrant advisory counci I.
Since taking office in D ecem ber
2000, President V icente Fox made the
rights o f M exicans living abroad a
priority. He appointed the advisory
council in D ecem ber2002. and asked
for suggestion on how M exico can
help the estim ated 8 million M exi
cans in the United States.
The council’s suggestions, taken
from minutes o f the two-day meeting
in M arch, ran the gam ut from pro
m oting access to higher education
for M exicans in the United States to
providing tim ely information about
the U.S. death penalty, drivers li
censes and the Mexican consular
identification cards.
O ther suggestions included a
bi-national forum on allowing M exi
cans to vote from abroad in M exico’s
national elections.
The council also called fo racam -
paign to fortify cultural identity and
the use o f Spanish am ong M exican
living abroad, as wel I as a cam paign
about o p portunities to close the
education gap betw een M exicans
and o th er U.S. citizens.
The council includes 100 people
from M exican com m unities in the
U nited S tates and reports to the
governm ent’s Institute o f M exicans
Living A broad, the office that re
placed F o x ’s m igrant affairs office.
The prevalence o f Spanish spo
ken on tire lines has prom pted a
safety debate am ong contractors.
D espite the influx o f H ispanics, the
Pacific Northwest W ildtireC oordi-
nation G roup, w hich oversees na
tional contract crew s, has strength
ened language req u irem en ts to
ensure m ore firefighters speak En
glish.
O n any 20-person crew , the boss
and the three assistants m ust speak
English fluently. All tire com m uni
cation on the radio m ust be in En
glish. A nd firefighting officials are
m aking greater efforts to m ake sure
those hired on crew s meet the m ini
m um English requirem ents.
Som e contractors say they p re
fer to hire H ispanics - regardless o f
language barriers - because they
are hard w orkers despite the low
wages.
School Nam ed in
Honor o f Celia Cruz
New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg has named a new
high school in memory of
“Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz,
shown in, in this Sept. 17,
2002 photo. (AP photo)
(A P ) - N ew Y ork M ayor M ichael
B loom berg announced a new high
school nam ed in m em ory oP 'Q ueen
o fS a lsa ” C eliaC ruz.
T h e D e W itt C lin to n H ig h
School-Lehm anC ollegeC eliaC 'ruz
B ronx H igh School o f M usic is
scheduled to open in Septem ber.
The 90 students enrolled this year
will take academ ic classes at DeW itt
and th eir m usic classes at Lehman
C ollege, w here the m usic school
will be located.
"It is a great honor to her and a
w ay to rem em ber the contribution
she m ade to the com m unity and
gives al I those w ho hold her in their
hearts the feeling that she lives on
an d th a t s h e ’s a p a rt o f u s ,”
B loom berg said.
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