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Page B2 August 17, 2005 el O bservador Latina Artist Featured at Onda Arte Painter portrays world with surreal statements I n s id e h e r p i c t o r i a l - l i t e r a r y w orld, artist M arianela de la H oz deals w ith the m aterial and the im m aterial, the ord in ary and the e x trao rdinary. She d ep icts the w ay we live, love and d ream , hut alw ays w ith m agical details, zoom orphism , strange p ro p o rtio n s and e x a g g e ra tions. T he intellectu al level o f the w ork is ex trao rd in ary hut the p u r pose o f the artist is to en g ag e the sp ectato r as a total bein g , p ro v o k ing an em o tio n al response. H er w ork w ill be d isp lay ed from A ug. 25 to Sept. 27 at the O nda A rte L atina/C ross C u rren ts G allery, w ith an artist reception on A ug. 25 from 6 to 9 p.m . She describes her art as “portraits o f reality converted into fantastic "Politically correct: Not even the devil swears anymore." El Salvador Sends 380 Soldiers to Iraq (AP) - El Salvador sent its fifth contingent of 380 soldiers to Iraq for humanitarian mis sions last week, a move that President Tony Saca said was in the same spirit as the coun tries that helped El Sal vador during its 12- yearcivil war. “El Salvador owes a lot to the international c o m m u n ity ,” Saca said, just before planes carrying the troops too k o ff from the Ilopango air base near the capital. “This country suf fered war, suffered ter rorism. and there were a lot of peaceful orga nizations that came to A Salvadoran Army soldier marches to do humanitarian work, board a plane at a military base. and that’s the reason (AP Photo) why we are helping out in Iraq,” Saca said. ing and rebuilding schools, high El Salvador is the only Latin ways, clinic, local roads and water American country still participat system s.” ing in the Iraq conflict. El Salvador has been sending Saca said the troops’ humanitar humanitarian troops to Iraq since ian mission would include “build August 2003. MARTIN CLEANING SERVICE CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Residential & Commercial Service CARPET CLEANING 2 CLEANING AREAS OR MORE PRE-SPRA Y TRAFFIC AREAS INCLUDES 1 SMALL HALL $25.00 Each Area $35.00 1 CLEANING AREA PRE-SPRA Y TRAFFIC AREA (HALL EXTRA CHARGE) STAIRS (with other service) $ 1.50 Each (AP)- When Amaury Pi-Gonzalez was a boy in Cuba, he would flip a broom upside down and pretend to call baseball games. Those days of make-believe are long gone. The sticks and straw have been replaced by real microphones, and instead of broadcasting fake games from his front porch he now looks down upon major league fields from his radio booth. For the past 30years, Pi-Gonzalez has been living his dream. And, lately, it’s been twice as fulfilling. The 60-year-old Pi-Gonzalez does Spanish play-by-play for two teams - the Seattle Mariners and the San Francisco Giants - and that leads to lots of frequent flier miles. “I know most of the pilots on Alaska Airlines,” Pi-Gonzalez said. O n a re c e n t w ee k e n d , Pi- Gonzalez, who lives in Fremont, Calif., was in San Francisco calling Giants games. Then he flew to Se attle to do broadcasts for the Mari ners. "The fact that he can do this dual broadcasting job is incredible,” said Marty Gonzalez, a weekend anchor for KRON-TV in San Francisco and a longtime admirer of Pi-Gonzalez. “H e’s doing two different teams in two different leagues, which means he has to know every player in major league baseball.” Only a handful of announcers have worked concurrently for two major league teams, including leg ends Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray. By the time the season ends, Pi- Gonzalez will have worked 8 1 home games for the Mariners and 25 for the Giants. Former San Francisco infielderTito Fuentes takes his spot when Pi-Gonzalez is in Seattle. Randy Adamack, vice president of communications for the Mari ners, said that the feedback about Pi-Gonzalez from fans has been very positive. “Misdelivery is exciting, and the Dr. Billy R. Flowers Oakland Athletics. Pi-Gonzalez recalled that when e c cen tric O akland A ’s ow ner Charlie Finley first hired him, he sent a messenger to tell him to “go ahead and broadcast the games in Mexican." After 17 years with the A ’s, Pi- Gonzalez started doing play-by- play for the Giants in 1994, and began doing double duty with the Giants and Mariners in 2003. In Seattle, he is joined in the broad cast booth by former Mariner Julio Cruz. Inhisbook, Pi-Gonzalez also will tell o f his childhood years in Cuba, when as a passionate young fan he used that broom to emulate the An ongoing series of questions and answers about Amencas natural healing profession : I have been to see a number about the nervous system . When ropractic, we work with reducing of doctors about my head pressure or irrita tio n gets on subluxations, releasing the irrita aches. The most recent one said nerves it (scientifically known as tion from the nerve fibers. Muscles was, “just nerves" Can Chiroprac subluxa-tion), tension in muscles can relax. The body will no longer tic help? will result. In the neck, this ten send a message of pain and your : Your doctor was probably sion will work its way up to the headaches will be gone for good! right. Chances are it is your skull. Nest, blood flow will be If you’re tired of hearing that your problem is “just nerves,” call us nerves. An in-dependent re altered. Before today. 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Pi-Gonzalez began his career in 1975 doing baseball game re-cre ations in Spanish, and started broadcasting live in 1979 with the Part 20. It’s Just Your Nerves: Chiropractic’s answer to an age old answer I CALL FOR APPOINTMENT: Amaury Pi-Gonzalez sits in the broadcast booth on Thursday, July 28 in Seattle, prior to a game between the Seattle Mari ners and the Cleveland Indians (AP Photo) SPINAiCOLUMN SOFA-------------------------------------- $ 6 9 .0 0 LOVESEAT --------------------------- $ 4 9 .0 0 SECTIONAL ---------------------------- $ 9 9 .0 0 CHAIR OR RECLINER _________ $ 3 5 .0 0 THROW PILLOWS ------------------------- $ 5 .0 0 1 tim es, these po w erfu l p ersonal sta te m e n ts w ill have a stro n g im pact fo r m any years to com e. For more inform ation on exhibit hours, visit w w w .ondagallery.com . Leads play-by-plays for Mariners and Giants ____________ THE____________ UPHOLSTERY CLEANING OR theatrical scenes.” U sing black hu m or and sarcasm , her detailed paint ings m ust be seen up close, as the hau n tin g im ag ery stay s w ith the view er long after turning away. “Eating so much hatred makes us sick. " Latino Announcer Lives Dream Additional Services • AREA A ORIENTAL RUG CLEANING • AUTO/ B O A T/R V CLEANING • DEODORIZING A PET ODOR TREA TMENT • SPOT A STAIN REMOVAL SERVICE • SCOTCHGUARD PROTECTION COUPON SPECIAL "Erotic dreams under the earthy sheets. “ Born in M ex ico in 1956, H oz receiv ed her art deg ree from the M etro p o litan U n iv ersity in M exico C ity in 1978. S ince then, she has e x h ib ite d in g ro u p and solo e x h ib i tio n s th ro u g h o u t M exico, in V en e zu ela. and in the U nited S tates. 2005 has been an esp e c ia lly busy y e a r fo r her, w ith m ajor solo show s in M exico and the U.S. H oz c h o o se s egg tem p u ra as her m edium b e c a u se the pain tin g te c h nique p ro d u ces in ten se c o lo r and d u rability. W hile oil p ain tin g s often b eg in to c rack and y ellow w ithin a few years, a p ro p e rly e x e c u te d egg te m p u ra p a in te d can be ex p e c te d to last fo r c e n tu rie s w ithout c rack in g o r c h an g in g in color. In p o rtra y in g the c o m p le x itie s o f o u r tro u b led A Flowers' Chiropractic Office I voice and style o f legendary an nouncer Rafael “Felo” Ramirez, who broadcast Cuban W inter Profes sional League baseball games for many years. He later collaborated with his childhood hero in a 1998 playoff game in the United States. Ramirez, 82, now calls games in Spanish for the Florida Marlins. One o f only four Cubans broad casting in the major leagues, Pi- Gonzalez was inducted last year into the Cuban Sports Hall of Fame in Miami, which he said was “the thrill of a lifetime.” Pi-G onzalez has interview ed many great Latin American players during his career, but he counts Tony Perez, Fernando Valenzuela and Jose Canseco as the most char ismatic. But he said his most memo rable interview was with a non- Latin player, home run king Hank Aaron. The most thrilling moment in his career came during the l989W orld Series between the Giants and the A ’s when a 7 .1 earthquake struck the Bay Area before Game 3. He was doing A ’s play-by-play for a San Jose station. “Tenemos un terrom oto,” he shouted over the air. (“W e’re hav ing an earthquake.” ) The station went off the air moments later. “C andlestick Park was shak ing on all sides, the m onitors were rocking," Pi-Gonzalez recalled. “I thought it was the end o f the w orld.” More recently, Pi-Gonzalez was calling agame in Seattle when Rafael Palmeiro o f the Baltimore Orioles became the first Cuban player to reach 3,000career hits. Pi-Gonzalez said it was the first time he'd had the chance tocall such an achievement by a Latin player. “ESPN also joked that I was the first Cuban announcer ever to call the first Cuban ever to hit 3,000,” Pi- Gonzalez said. Minorities Grow to Majority in Texas Texas has now joined Hawaii, New Mexico and California as a majority-minority state, along with the District of Columbia, the U.S. C ensus Bureau reported. Five states - M aryland, M ississippi. Georgia, New York and Arizona - are next in line with minority popu lations of about 40 percent. Estim ates in July 2004 stated that Texas had a m inority popula tion o f 11.3 m illion, com prising 50.2 percent o f its total popula tion o f 22.5 m illion. In com pari son, 77 percent o f H aw aii's popu lation was m inority. In New M exico and California, the proportions were 57 percent and 56 percent, w hile the District o f Colum bia was 70 percent m i nority. California had the largest state wide Hispanic population, with 12.4 million. New York had the largest black population with 3.5 million.
