W e e k l y RIALTO RECORD
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March 14, 20 19
Vol 1 7, NO. 26
No Kid Hung r y honors Rialto’s Breakfast in the Classroom program By David Phillips
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n Tuesday, March 5 the anti-hunger national campaign No Kid Hungry came to Rialto to honor Dr. Monte Stewart, principal of Hughbanks Elementary School, as a 2019 Breakfast Hero. Rialto Unified was hailed as a champion of tackling the issue of childhood hunger with the breakfast in the classroom program. No Kid Hungry honored five school leaders as their 2019 Breakfast Heroes. Principal Stewart was an early adopter of the Breakfast in the Classroom program in the Rialto Unified School District. “He’s passionate about the program and sees how important breakfast is for his kids to succeed,” said Daisy Munguia, a senior program manager for No Kid Hungry California. “Everything he does goes back to supporting his number one stakeholder: his students.” Hughbanks Elementary 2nd grader Emily Ramero spoke about the Breakfast in the Classroom program and how connected it makes her feel to be able to eat with her friends and her teacher, as opposed to feeling
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From Nutrition Services (L-R), Michael Clarke and Sara Aguilar; Rialto Councilman Andy Carrizales; Kristina Kraushaar, Maria Rangel, and Fausat Rahman-Davies from Nutrition Services; and RUSD Board President Edgar Montes.
alone in the cafeteria because not all students ate breakfast before school. Taking breakfast out of the cafeteria and bringing it into the classroom takes the stigma away from free breakfast, and as
Emily put it, makes it seem like a family. Emily’s teacher Sergio Infante said that the breakfast in the classroom program was important because all of his students
were given the opportunity to eat allowing them the ability to focus more on learning and not hungry stomachs. Breakfast, cont. on next pg.
A c t i v i s t D r. J o s é Á n g e l G u t i é r r e z r e l e a s e s “The Eagle Has Eyes”
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ctivist Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez, who resides in Redlands, just released his new book, “The Eagle Has Eyes.”
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Gutiérrez, who has authored 18 books is also a graduate from Saint Mary’s University, an attorney and a professor emeritus at the University of Texas, Arlington. “This is the first one on this subject. There are no books written about us Chicanos,” Gutiérrez said.
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According to an official press release, Dr. Gutiérrez will discuss how the FBI and the Federal Government sought attempts and means to destroy César Chávez, the UFW Union and the Chicano Movement of the 1960’s. “The FBI did not find anything criminal on Chavez; yet they tried to destroy him by investigating him for over 10 years,” said Gutiérrez. “In life the blame is frequently placed on the victim. You are never shown the complicity and collusion of the FBI…disrupting, destroying and discrediting Chicano efforts,” said Gutiérrez.
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Activist Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez will be making a presentation followed by a book signing of his newest book “The Eagle Has Eyes” on Saturday at the Gonzales Center in Colton at 2 p.m. The book discusses how the FBI and the Federal Government sought attempts and means to destroy César Chávez, the UFW Union and the Chicano Movement of the 1960’s.
He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party, a MexicanAmerican third party movement that supported candidates for elective office in Texas, California, and other areas of the Southwestern and Midwestern United States, also according to the published press release. Recently, Gutiérrez received the National Hispanic Hero Award from the United States Hispanic Gutiérrez, cont. on next pg.