Mayor seeks to help fund service agency
The mayor's proposed town budget for the 1996-97 fiscal year includes about $14,000 to help the Spanish Community of Wallingford survive a cut in its state grant. Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr. said the social service agency is valuable. It has been in town for 23 years and depends on $49,225 annually from the state."Given the size and apparent growth of the Spanish population, the need for translation capability and job-placement capability, we need to maintain...
GET IT STRAIGHT
-CORRECTION, May 18, 1996-The Spanish Community Association is funded by the City of York. The following list was incorrect about the source of its funding.*** People often confuse the agencies and groups that serve the Latino population in York. Here are brief profiles of each: The York Spanish American Center: This is a United Way member agency that provides training. It was founded in 1974.York Spanish Community Association: This organization is a private relief organization...
POINTING AT A SAFE SCAPEGOAT
Donnie Nielsen's letter (Jan. 6) regarding the "so-called Spanish community" deserves a brief response: Gee, I wish I could be more like you -- small-minded, racist and extremely ethnocentric. Take a moment to check the dictionary for "ethnocentrism." It is clear that you need to know what the term means.Furthermore, when you use the "so-called Spanish community" as a scapegoat for widespread societal...
Wallingford pulls together for Mitch victims
Donations to the Spanish Community of Wallingford, which is collecting goods to help the victims of Hurricane Mitch, have been terrific, the local coordinator said. Blanca Santana said she’s enjoying a luxurious problem - finding enough space to store the items until they’re trucked to Hartford and from there flown or shipped to Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. ‘‘I asked Holy Trinity Church to store items for us, but they need the...
FROM PUERTO RICO TO PLEASANTVILLE / AIDS EDUCATOR GOES NORTH FOR FREEDOM
Editor's note: Today, we hear from Merydawilda Colon of Pleasantville. Until three years ago a native of Puerto Rico, she is program director at the Spanish Community Center in Atlantic City."I was born in Rio-Piedras, but I was raised in Aguas Buenas, nearby. That's the metropolitan area, in the north. It's like - San Juan? It's part of all that. "Did I live there long? Oh, yes! For 23 years! It happened that when I...