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W e e k l y COLTON COURIER Features, Lifestyle & News You Can Use!

Vol 144, NO. 23

THIS WEEK Relay for Life raises over $100,000 Gloria’s Corner and Words To Think About

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Sheila Amani, 30, of Loma Linda holding a butterfly during the 12th annual Relay for Life event at Colton High School on May 21. Cesar Chavez Park in Colton over a decade ago, according to Rock N willingness to combat 4 A Cure team leader Darlene cancer led six dedicated Chavez. residents to organize six teams for a Relay for Life walk at The 48-year-old breast cancer By Anthony Victoria

survivor was among the group that helped put together what is now among the Top 10 American Cancer Society fundraising efforts Relay cont. on page 2

News in Colton: Golf camp to show kids about basics and life values Colton High School's Campa hopes to maintain family athletic, law enforcement tradition

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May 26, 2016

Ernie Garcia launches new book “Growing Up Aleluya”

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Enhancing Forward Action Inc. founders Tammie and Steve Lozolla.

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golf camp that plans to teach young children the lessons of hard work and determination is scheduled to take

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place throughout June and July at Action Inc. and Brighton Hill the Colton Golf Club. Academy Sports and Learning Center to help at-risk youth in the The camp is part of a new initia- Inland Empire. tive--The First Tee Drive--organized by Enhancing Forward Briefs cont. on page 2

lease join the Inlandia Institute as we celebrate the launch of Growing Up Aleluya, by esteemed local writer and community leader, Dr. Ernest F. Garcia. The launch celebration will be held June 18, 2016 at 2 pm at the Colton Area Museum, located at 380 N La Cadena Dr, Colton, CA 92324. Dr. Garcia will read and discuss his memoir, followed by book sales and signing. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and the public is cordially invited. "Ernie has written a charming memoir of growing up in a South Colton barrio, and we are honored to cheer his latest literary achievement," stated Frances J. Vasquez, president of the Inlandia Institute. She adds, "True to Ernie's character, his book is replete with amusing vignettes of escapades with his cronies in the barrios of South Colton. He vividly describes his resourcefulness during the Great Depression and the World War II eras." About Growing Up Aleluya:

The village of Jesús María in the state of Sinaloa, México was at once a quiet, in a sense bucolic environment where young people did the normal things expected of them. Conversely, there was a revolution going on that disrupted life on a regular basis. In this setting, Lupita Felix and Polo García made their plans to emigrate to "El Norte" and seek a better life in California. Their lives began to change when Methodist missionaries greeted them at the border and offered food, shelter and spiritual support. A few years after settling in Colton, California they became members of a Baptist congregation. There were few Protestants in the Mexican barrios of Southern California and discrimination by the Catholic majority was sometimes harsh. Ernesto (Neto), the youngest sibling in the family writes about growing up Garcia cont. on page 2


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