Thursday, August 9, 2012
The first official Maryland Latino Festival will be held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds this weekend.
The best in the state's offerings of Latin food and entertainment will be available to patrons who attend the inaugural Maryland Latino Festival on Sunday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. (Click here for Spanish site) Festival representatives are expecting 20,000 to 30,000 attendees this weekend for a day of food, dancing and headlining Hispanic performers. “Based on some of the early returns, it looks like we’re going to make those numbers,” said festival spokesman Darrell Carrington. The festival was envisioned by business owner Luis Contreras as a way of galvanizing the growing Hispanic population in Baltimore County. “Baltimore County has one of the fastest growing Latino populations,” Contreras said. “I started working on this …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Take a look inside the May 8 edition of "Montgomery Al Dia."
With red hair, red dress and red heels to match her fiery personality, Lorna Virgili checks her reflection in her iPhone before taping her bilingual radio show, which will hit not only the airwaves, but also a YouTube audience. Virgili hosts "Montgomery al Dia," a weekly half-hour Spanish-language segment on all things Montgomery County, which is broadcast every Tuesday at 2 p.m. on Radio America's 1540 AM channel. The studio is located in what is known as the Computer Building in Wheaton, at 11141 Georgia Avenue. Since its launch on April 3, full episodes of all of Virgili's broadcasts are now available on Montgomery County's YouTube channel. Virgili works as a Montgomery County public information officer and the principal Spanish-media…
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Patch asked Montgomery County Council Vice President Nancy Navarro about her vision for Latino leadership in Wheaton and the rest of Montgomery County.
Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro organized a Latino Civic Leadership Conference at Ana G. Mendez University on Jan. 28 for parents of MCPS students. Last week, Patch published the first part of an interview with Navarro, in which she explains how she initially became interested in building Latino leadership in Montgomery County, and how her office chose the parents who attended the invitation-only conference. Today we continue the conversation. Patch: What do you see as the intersection between the Latino and immigrant communities? The growth of the Latino community has really been happening for the last 30 years in the county. They are the fastest growing minority group, and most interestingly, the under-18 group is the …
Friday, February 3, 2012
Patch asked Montgomery County Council Vice President Nancy Navarro about her vision for Latino leadership in Wheaton and the rest of Montgomery County.
Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro organized a Latino Civic Leadership Conference at Ana G. Mendez University on Jan. 28 for parents of MCPS students. Patch interviewed her earlier this week about how she first became interested in building Latino leadership in Montgomery County, and how her office chose the parents who attended the invitation-only conference. Check back next week for Part 2 of the interview. Patch: Councilmember Navarro, where did the idea for this conference spring from? Previous to joining the public service world, I was the director of a non-profit organization working with the Latino community on issues of childcare, and from that we started a network of childcare providers. I always felt very strongly …
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Conference organizers say they want to provide Latino parents in Montgomery County with the necessary resources for civic engagement and leadership.
This Saturday, Wheaton will host Montgomery County's first Latino Civic Leadership Conference. More than 100 Latino parents of Montgomery County Public Schools students will gather on Jan. 28 at Ana G. Mendez University, a dual-language university that opened in November at 11006 Veirs Mill Road at Westfield Wheaton Mall. The 100 parents for this invitation-only event were selected by the office of County Council Vice President Nancy Navarro (Distr. 4), who organized the conference in collaboration with MCPS and the County’s Collaboration Council for Children, Youth and Families. The conference, which runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., features the following workshops in English and in Spanish, according to a county press release: …
Friday, January 13, 2012
Gov. O’Malley's redistricting plan leaves out the option of organizing a minority sub-district in Wheaton.
Gov. Martin O'Malley's Redistricting Advisory Committee's proposed redistricting plan will not be unchallenged in this year's General Assembly in Annapolis. District 18 Del. Ana Sol Gutiérrez will battle in the legislature to reinstate her proposal for a Hispanic sub-district, following the decision by O’Malley on Wednesday to leave the proposal out of the proposed redistricting map, as reported by the Gazette. In the General Assembly, Gutiérrez plans to try to change the proposed plan to include a sub-district with a Hispanic majority in District 18, citing results from the 2010 Census that show extraordinary growth in the Hispanic population in Montgomery County, Gutiérrez said in an email to Patch. “Bad news,” Gutiérrez said of O’Malley…
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