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L.A. Mayor Talks Family Values Explorando el Columbia Slough
Urges political
response toward
Latino concerns
(AP) - Democrats must talk more
about family values if they want to
keep the support of Latino voters,
according to Los Angeles’ newly
elected Democratic mayor.
Republicans were able to gain
Hispanic votes in last year’s presi­
dential election because they fo­
cused on religion and seemed com ­
fortable with Latino voters, Anto­
nio Villaraigosa told reporters at
the National Association of His­
panic Journalists Convention last
week.
He said Democrats need to take
the discussion beyond the issues
Antonio Villaraigosa
o f gay m arriage and abortion.
Villaraigosa mentioned the home­
less, health insurance for children
and improving education as issues
that should be addressed as part of
family values.
Villaraigosa became Los Ange­
les’ first Latino mayor since 1872
when he beat incumbent James
Hahn last month. The election saw
a record 25 percent Hispanic voter
turnout, though blacks and left­
leaning whites also spurred his vic­
tory.
“ It w asn't just a black-brown
coalition,” said the mayor-elect,
who added that he will continue to
try to unite a city that has faced
racial clashes in the past. During
his campaign, he emphasized that
he wanted to be the right candidate
for every resident in the city and
not just a Latino candidate.
Vi 1 laraigosa, the son o f Mexican
immigrants and a city councilman,
takes office in July.
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Festivities include bilingual storytelling, canoe rides
The Columbia Slough W atershed Council in­
vites the public to the fourth annual Explorando El
Columbia Slough on Saturday June 25 from 1 to 5
p.m.
Explorando is an afternoon of free festivities
celebrating the nature and history of the Columbia
Slough. The event is targeted to the Hispanic
community with events and activities being of­
fered in both Spanish and English.
Highlights of Explorando El Columbia Slough
will include free canoe trips, music, bird watching,
environm ental gam es and displays, bilingual
storytelling, dancing by the group Ballet Folklórico
Sol Azteca, refreshments and more.
Explorando will be held at W hitaker Ponds Envi­
ronmental Learning Center at 7040 NE 47lh Ave in
Portland.
Participants receive a free t-shirt while supplies
last. Activities are family friendly and fun for all
ages.
Para mayor información acerca del evento por
favor llame al Fernando Velez at 503-329-0895.
Latina Artist Featured at Onde Arte
Artist Olga Montes de Oca de
Porter will have her ceramic sculp­
tures, paintings and mixed media
work featured at Onde Arte Latina/
Cross Currents Gallery, 2215 N.E.
Alberta St., until June 28.
Porter, currently working with
the Mt. Hood College Art Depart­
ment, has galleries in Portland and
Puerto Vallarta. Bom in MexicoCity,
she received her art education at
the Instituto Nacional de Bellas
Artes in MexicoCity and San Miguel
de Allende. She came to the states
12 years ago.
For more information on gallery
hours, visit www.ondagallery.com
orcall 503-493-1909.
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A ceramic sculpture by Olga
Montes De Oca de Porter
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(AP) - One of every seven people
in the United States is Hispanic, a
record number that probably will
keep rising because of immigration
and a birth rate outstripping that of
non-Hispanic blacks and whites.
The country’s largest minority
group accounted for one-hal f of the
overall population growth of 2.9
- Audrey Singer,
million between July 2003 and July
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report being released recently.
“Looking toward the future, we stopped or changed much.”
The agency estimated there are
see a different face of the U.S. popu­
41.3
million Hispanics in the United
lation,” said Audrey Singer, an im­
States.
The bureau does not ask
migration and census specialist at
people
about
their legal status; that
the Brookings Institution. “ But I
number
is
intended
to include both
don’t think that’s necessarily new.
legal
and
other
residents.
It’s a confirmation that this hasn't
Looking into
the future, we
see a different
face o f the U.S.
population.
T he p o p u latio n grow th for
Asians ran aclose second. Increases
in both groups are due largely to
immigration, but also higher birth
rates.
Most immigrants to the United
States tend to arrive in their 20s,
when many people have children. A
far greater percentage of whites than
Hispanics is 65 or older; the oppo­
site is true of those under 18.
The Census Bureau counts “His­
panic” or “Latino” as an ethnicity
rather than a race, so Hispanics can
be of any race. The population of
non-Hispanic whites indicating no
other race increased just 0.3 per­
cent in the past year, to 197.8 mil­
lion.
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Gospel Singer Ronald Winans Dies at 48
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(AP) - Ronald Winans, aGrammy-
winning member of the Winans
gospel family who was part of the
quartet The Winans, has died. He
was 48.
Winans, who had suffered a heart
attack in 1997, died Friday at Harper
Hospital of heart complications, his
family said. He had recently been
admitted for observation, the fam­
ily said, after doctors realized he
was retaining fluid.
“The family wishes to thank ev­
eryone who joined us in prayer and
will continue to extend their unwa-
vering support during our time of
loss”, BeBe Winans, one of Ronald
W inans’ brothers, said in the state­
ment.
Ronald W inans, along with
brothers Marvin and Carvin and
M ichael, w ere d isc o v e re d by
Gram m y-w inning gospel singer
Andrae Crouch. They released their
first album in 1981 titled, "Introduc­
ing The W inans.”
Ronald Winans, who sang on
five Grammy-winning albums, re­
leased his final CD, a live recording,
in January.
Ronald Winans
Stevie Wonder Pays for Children's Funerals
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The June 12 blaze in the city’s Kensington neighbor­
hood killed three sisters, SummerCooke, 5; Samantha
Bowers, 4; and Sabrina Dickson, 22 months; and two
of their cousins who lived nearby. Amber Johnson, 3;
and Reginald Ringgold, 1.
The three sisters’ mother. Shannon Bowers, 21, and
her boyfriend, LesterCooke, 33, escaped by jumping
from a second-floor window into a children’s wading
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(AP) - Stevie Wonder has arranged to pay the
funeral expenses for five children who were killed in a
Philadelphia row house fire.
Wonder was heartbroken after hearing about the
blaze and wanted to do something to help the family,
said his publicist, Ira Tucker.
Wonder, 55, also hopes to visit with the families
while he is in Phi ladelphia for the Live 8 concert on July
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