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By Yvette Tello Times have changed. The world we live in today is worlds apart from when we were children. We used to play in the front yard unattended until right before it got dark and the street lights came on. We stayed home alone without a babysitter. I went to teen night clubs until 2am. I went to keg parties out in the country when I was 15 with no parents present. What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today? Rob Gonzales: “Ride in the back of pick up trucks. On the side wall, not the bed” S ally Ann Larios Herrera: “My parents had a lot of large pecan trees and I use to get on the roof of our house to knock down the pecans”
a whoopin would now a days be considered cruel and illegal but damn it, I grew up a well adjusted individual, go figure” Mark Gibbons: “Jump off my roof” Barbara Ann Mendoza Mead: “Sit on the roof of my grandmother's two story House and watch traffic go by…” Michelle Montemayor: “Walking unattended to the community pool to swim until supper time” Noel Tello: “I was walking to school alone or with other kids as early as third grade. Folks would fit now.” John Paul Ortiz: ‘Date crazy girls that had crazy boyfriends”
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Chavez Stephanie: “Hug” Mary Svetlik Watkins: “We rode in the back of the truck, ran the neighborhood, walked home from school, didn’t wear bike helmets”
Hope Robinson: “No seatbelts in cars”
Carolina Roberts: ‘Ride in the back of the truck for sure, and yes no seatbelt, for some might think drinking out of the water hose.”
Thomas Mc: “Lived with my family” Isaacjay Villanueva : “What didn't I do?” Melissa P Broschat: “Rode in back of truck, climbed on roof of house at night to watch stars and let us not forget, having to pick our own switch for
Patrick Southard: “I stuck a bobby pin in an outlet” Traci Martinez: “We would jump off our roof top into the pool” Vanessa McBryde: “I'm not sure how I was never abducted as a child.
I had 0 adult supervision.” NormaJean Hesskew: ‘I remember way, way back in the day when my brother and I were in 2nd and 3rd grade. Talk about unsupervised. But we did ask for permission though. We'd take the bus downtown to go watch a movie at the Texas theater with one other little kid, just us 3. Anyway, we knew how to get downtown but couldn't figure out how to get back by bus so we'd "walk" from downtown to the West Durango apts. Don't ask me how many miles away that is cause I don't know. But I bet you won't see that nowadays. And today, pffft, we freak out when we see kids playing in the front yard of a house with no fence unsupervised.” Anita Repya: “I would ride my bike down this high hill full speed through an intersection never looking just flying full speed” Tanya Flores: ‘We would walk through the monte and watch the people swim across the river from Nuevo Laredo to Laredo.” Lydia Curran: “Walk down the railroad tracks to the grocery store to get candy over the viaduct. I remember running fast because a train was coming. I was 9 years old “ Manuel C. Ortiz Jr.: “Ride on the hood of the car to see who could brave the highest speed”
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Provided by Dr. Ricardo Romo Benito Huerta received a B.F.A. degree from the University of Houston, and his M.A. from New Mexico State University. He was Co-founder, Executive Director and Emeritus Board Director of Art Lies, a Texas Art Journal. He is a Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington where he has been Director/Curator of The Gallery at UTA since 1997. His work will be featured in one-person exhibitions, “As the World Turns” at Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Dallas in spring of 2022 and in “InterSection” at William Campbell Gallery in fall of 2022. Recent one-person exhibitions were “Odd Ducks and Other Assorted Tales” at William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth; “Entr’acte” at Reavley Gallery, Cole Art Center at Stephen F. Austin University. Huerta has also exhibited at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, Houston Museum of African American Culture; the Wichita Falls Museum of Art; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth; the Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. His work is in several museum and corporate collections throughout the United States. Huerta was the recipient of the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art’s 2002 Legend of the Year Award and Exhibition and was the first Maestros Tejanos Exhibition in 2008 at the Latino Cultural Center, Dallas. He recently completed a public art project for the University of Texas at Arlington, Signs of Life, which was installed in August, 2019. Other recent work is Urban Still Life, South Main Street project, Fort Worth installed in 2017. Other completed public art projects are the Marine Creek Park Corridor Master Plan in 2014, Fort Worth; SnakePath (Mexican Milk Snake), Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas (2007); Wings, DFW International Terminal D Skylink terrazzo floor designs (2005); and Axis,
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Henry Gonzales Convention Center, San Antonio. As a curator he recently organized survey exhibitions of Mel Chin for The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington and Cesar A. Martinez for the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago. Other surveys/retrospectives exhibitions he has organized are of David McGee, John Hernandez, Luis Jimenez, Dalton
Maroney and Celia Alvarez Munoz. Artist Statement: In Memory of Days Past - The skull/ antlers is a portrait of me when I am 100 years old - inspired by a James Ensor lithograph, "Self-Portrait, 1960" of a reclining skeleton of him when he is/was 100 years old. The teeth on my
painting are modeled after my teeth that are crooked due to a childhood accident. In Memory of Days Past (In memory of Delfina Valdez Lozano), 2018 Oil on canvas 48” x 48”
As the World Turns, 2022 Oil on canvas 48” x 48” As the World Turns - the flowers are within the shape of the Coronavirus. Which in turn looks like the world with trees/palm trees. The lilies painted are used for weddings and funerals.
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Votar por el Referéndum de Bonos de $125 Millones de Harlandale ISD Por Mariana Veraza El referéndum de bonos de $125 millones de Harlandale ISD se enfoca en dos objetivos principales: brindar a la comunidad la oportunidad de votar sobre las necesidades de capital a largo plazo del distrito y al mismo tiempo hacer lo correcto para los contribuyentes al mantener el impacto de la tasa impositiva al mínimo. Con tres propuestas, desarrolladas en gran parte con el aporte de la comunidad, el paquete de bonos financiará instalaciones nuevas y renovadas que incluyen mejoras en las aulas, un edificio CTE (educación profesional y técnica), espacios de competencia y campos deportivos, mejoras en el estadio de fútbol y mantenimiento básico. Con la aprobación de los votantes, también reembolsará las obligaciones de impuestos de mantenimiento incurridas por el distrito por mejoras importantes de mantenimiento y capital realizadas durante el punto álgido de la crisis de COVID. La aprobación del referéndum de bonos resultará en un aumento mínimo de solo $5 por mes para la vivienda de precio promedio ($100,000). Los propietarios de viviendas de 65 años de edad y mayores no verán ningún aumento en su gravamen del impuesto a la propiedad ahora o en el futuro
si han solicitado que se congele su gravamen. Aquí hay un desglose detallado de las tres propuestas. Propuesta A: Instalaciones generales, incluido el nuevo edificio de Educación Técnica y Profesional Costo: $93,5 millones Nuevo edificio de Educación técnica y profesional para programas ampliados de capacitación laboral y certificación profesional. Nuevo espacio de instrucción para programas profesionales que podrían incluir, entre otros, plomería, HVAC, electricidad, soldadura, higienista dental y atención médica. Nuevo edificio ROTC para futuros cadetes. Gimnasio y edificio de usos múltiples. Nuevas pistas para eventos de atletismo, iluminación y césped para campos de béisbol/softbol y canchas de tenis. Tecnología moderna y programas de seguridad. $30.4 millones a ser determinados por el aporte del grupo de trabajo de la comunidad.
Propuesta B: Reembolso de las obligaciones fiscales de mantenimiento Costo: $22 millones Cancelar las obligaciones de deuda anteriores que se utilizaron durante el apogeo de la crisis de COVID para el mantenimiento mayor diferido y mejoras a las instalaciones, incluidos reemplazos de techos, auditorios, actualizaciones de HVAC, marquesinas, parques infantiles, lotes
de estacionamiento, vestidores de secundaria y nuevos pisos de gimnasio. Propuesta C: Estadio e instalaciones deportivas Costo: $9,5 millones Finalización de la Fase 2 del Memorial Stadium, incluidos los vestidores para el hogar y los visitantes, el palco de prensa, el mantenimiento del estadio y las instalaciones de oficinas.
Pista de repavimentación para conservar la integridad de la superficie y corregir los problemas de drenaje que se han desarrollado con el tiempo. La votación anticipada continúa hasta el martes 3 de mayo. El día de las elecciones es el sábado 7 de mayo. Para obtener más información sobre el bono, incluidos los lugares y horarios de votación, visite www.harlandale.net/bono2022 o llame al 210-989-4300.
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Marco Antonio Solís en el AT&T Center Por LPT Con más de 40 millones de copias vendidas de sus álbumes y más de 9 millones de oyentes mensuales en las plataformas digitales, Marco Antonio Solís, es sin duda una de las figuras más importantes en el ascenso global de la música mexicana y latina a lo largo de las últimas dos décadas del siglo XX. Nacido en Michoacán, México, Solís empezó su primer grupo, Los Hermanitos Solís, cuando apenas tenía 12 años, junto a su hermano Joel. Aún era un adolescente cuando conformó su banda
Los Bukis a comienzos de los años 70. Por las próximas dos décadas, Los Bukis dejarían una huella imborrable en la música norteña y tejana de México y el suroeste de Estados Unidos. Aunque Solís siguió trabajando de cerca con Los Bukis, emprendió una carrera en solitario que lo llevó a obtener discos de platino por sus trabajos Quiéreme, Inalcanzable y Por Amor a Mi Pueblo. Luego, llegó Trozos de Mi Alma en 1999. Para el nuevo milenio, Solís llegó con una colección en directo, En
Vivo y En Vivo, Vol. 2. Su siguiente disco, Más de Mi Alma, estrenado en 2001, se convirtió en un éxito de ventas, al igual que sus trabajos anteriores. El reciente anuncio de la gira de Solís llega poco después de nueve legendarios conciertos con Los Bukis. La gira “Una Historia Cantada” por EE. UU. celebró la reunión del grupo tras 25 años de estar fuera de los escenarios, y convocó a más de 480,000 fanáticos que disfrutaron en vivo de estos históricos conciertos.
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Servando Hernández celebró en Grande su cumpleaños No. 60 Por Franco El caballero Servando Hernández, nativo de Nueva Rosita, Coahuila, y diseñador gráfico de alto nivel, con el tema de "Onomastico de 60 años", quién vio la primera luz el 19 de Abril, con gran fiesta los celebró el sábado 23 de Abril en el Potranco Rodeo Ballroom.
Su esposa San Juanita Hernández, con anticipación sé encargo de hacer todos los arreglos e invitaciones tanto a familiares cómo directivos del club Rieleros y amistades de su esposo qué realizaron viaje exprofeso desde Nueva Rosita y del estado de Texas. Servando, agradeció las felicitaciones de sus padres Alicia y Anastacio Hernán-
dez quiénes le dieron sus bendiciones. Sus hijos; Servando Jr., y esposa Serena, Sergio y novia Angela Sánchez y su hija Samantha. Así cómo de sus nietos: Samuel, Stevie y Sadie. Sus hermanos: Gerardo, María Guadalupe y Gilberto Hernández. Sus compañeras de secundaria: Greicy Salazar, Lupina Martínez. Elvia Davalos y Pinny Martínez, quiénes vinieron desde Nueva Rosita para después de 40 años reunirse y felicitarlo. La cena fue delicioso platillo de Guiso de puerco y Tamales (preparados por la madrina Araceli Reza). Las madrinas de pasteles fueron las damas: Sandra Díaz y Clara Rábago. El ambiente musical fue amenizado hasta las 4am por DJ Poncho. " Contento porqué celebró 60 años de feliz existencia al lado de mi familia y amistades. Y directivos del club Rieleros, del cuál soy parte al lado de Juan Sánchez y JP Reza, por igual con nuestra base de seguidores. A todos ellos gracias por su ayuda", dijo el feliz cumpleañero. Servando, durante años sé ha distinguido por ser jugador y directivo de los equipos Rieleros qué militan en diversas categorías y del equipo de softball Blue Rockies, dónde ha dejado marca jugando cómo tercera base.
Durante el evento especial, Servando, emocionado escuchó el tema tradicional "Happy birthday", así cómo de un brindis con fino tequila y del espectacular momento en el qué sus compañeros beisbolistas lo llevaron al centro de la pista de baile pará felicitarlo y sacandolo a bailar bajó el ritmo de temas cadenciosos. Lo cuál fue aplaudido por los ahí presentes. "Teniamos
qué hacer éste show pará demostrarle a Servando todo lo qué lo apreciamos y a la vez le deseamos todo lo mejor", indicó el Rielero Mayor Juan Sánchez. En las fotos aparecen familiares y amistades acompañando al feliz cumpleañero. (Fotos de Franco).
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New Creation Christian Fellowship Held Its 2022 Wellness Promotion Summit Weekend On April 22nd & 23rd In Windcrest
Photos by Ramon Chapa Jr. Bishop David M. Copeland and Rev. Dr. Claudette A. Copeland are advocates for regular medical checkups. This dynamic duo has been ministering in the San Antonio area for over 37 years and are dedicated to ensuring the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health of their members and the community. The Women's Educational and Healing Retreats, Inc. was established in 2016 to serve a vast number of under-appreciated leaders who need time, environment safety, and space to do the work of inner healing. The wellness promotion is designed to provide a variety of onsite services to include medical, financial, dental exams & emergency services, and behavioral services to all attendees. Friday, April 22, 2022 in the New Creation Christian Fellowship sanctuary, the Summit kicked off with “My Health, My Wealth, for His Glory.” Community Leaders, organizations, influencers, and
residents came together to discuss opportunities to improve the health of our community. Saturday, April 23rd from 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., WEHR sponsored a FREE wellness promotion Health Fair in the parking lot of New Creation Christian Fellowship. The wellness promotion is sponsored by the Women's Educational and Healing Retreats, INC and its associates at New Creation Christian Fellowship. Other partners include University Health System, Baptist Health System, UT Health Science Center-San Antonio, San Antonio Food Bank, Black Heart Association, Prevent Blindness, West Care, Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Church, and many more. The wellness promotion had over 60 vendors who were donating Cardiac & Blood Pressure Screenings, Immunizations, Dental Exams & Screenings, assistance with Advanced Directives, Vision Screenings, Fresh Produce, Mammograms, Behavioral Health Information and so much more.
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Remembering a Premier Chicano Writer: Rolando Hinojosa-Smith By Ricardo Romo, Ph.D Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, a long-time professor of Spanish, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, passed away on April 19 in Austin, Texas. He was 93 years old. The Washington Post referred to Hinojosa-Smith as a “prizewinning Texas author whose wry, understated novels turned the Lower Rio Grande Valley into an almost mythic setting for explorations of family, history, and cultural identity, helping to propel a burgeoning Chicano literary movement in the 1970s and beyond.” I met Rolando Hinojosa in 1976 when he came to give a lecture at the University of California San Diego [UCSD] sponsored by the Spanish Department, Third World College, and Chicano Studies. Hinojosa wrote his first novel under the name Rolando Hinojosa. He later changed his last name to Hinojosa-Smith to honor his mother's maiden name. We were long-time friends and colleagues and I have chosen to write about him using his given surname, Hinojosa. Many of the Chicano faculty and students on the UCSD campus were familiar with Hinojosa’s writing. His novel Estampas del valle y otra obras won him the Quinto Sol Prize for best novel in 1973. When he arrived on the UCSD campus he had been awarded the Casa de las Americas prize for best novel in Latin America for his second book, Klail City y sus alrededores. He was the
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith at the Romo Austin home. Photo by Ricardo Romo,1980s.
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith as an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. Photo from the Ricardo Romo collection.
first Chicano to be recognized in Latin America. Prior to the mid-1980s, Hinojosa was writing principally in Spanish, thus his invitation to UCSD came with support from Spanish and Third World College professors Carlos Blanco, Rosaura Sanchez, and Juan Rodriguez. As a member of the History Department and faculty member of Third World College, I volunteered to pick up our distinguished guest lecturer and bring him to the campus. Rolando Hinojosa and I hit it off easily perhaps because we were both from Texas and both
undergraduate alumni of the University of Texas at Austin. Hinojosa made those he met feel as if they had been friends for years. He was muy caballero–a true gentleman. He was fully bilingual and wrote equally brilliantly in Spanish and English. Rolando Hinojosa grew up in Mercedes, Texas, just a short distance from the Rio Grande referred to as Rio Bravo in Mexico. He went to school in both Mercedes and in Northern Mexico, which promoted his fluency in English and Spanish. He joined the U.S. Army at age 17 and served in Korea.
Upon his discharge, Hinojosa enrolled at UT Austin with support from the GI Bill. He taught high school and worked in several industry jobs before enrolling in the Ph.D.program at the University of Illinois. Hinojosa returned to Texas in 1969 and filled several academic positions, including teaching Spanish at the Texas A&I campus in Kingsville where he also served as a college dean and vice president. Hinojosa left the Valley for a post in the Spanish Department at the University of Minnesota where he teamed with Arturo Madrid. He left Minnesota for an English professorship at UT Austin in the fall of 1981. From 1973, when Hinojosa’s first novel was published by
Quinto Sol Publications, to 2011, when his last book was published by Arte Público Press, Hinojosa’s literary career spanned nearly four decades. When Rolando Hinojosa published his third book in 1978, Korean Love Songs, a work of narrative poems, he christened his works The Klail City Death Trip Series, with the novels published thereafter being part of this series. Hinojosa was principally a novelist and while he also wrote essays, most essays were in Spanish. I had the privilege to co-author an essay in English with Rolando Hinojosa in 1986 titled “Texas Mexican Heritage” for a special issue of the UT Austin campus
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Rolando Hinojosa-Smith in retirement, Austin, Texas 2017 Photo by Ricardo Romo
Discovery Magazine. In 1986 Texans across the state were celebrating a Sesquenscentinential–150 years since the founding of Texas as a republic and officially noting a separation from Mexico. We wrote about the legendary Brownsville Judge J.T. Canales, a state legislator at the turn of the 20th century, and about LULAC and the American G.I. Forum founded by Mercedes native Dr. Hector Garcia. We highlighted the contributions of three outstanding University of Texas scholars and teachers: historian Dr. Carlos Castaneda, educator George I. Sanchez, and English and anthropology professor Americo Paredes. Rolando Hinojosa loved to write, and most of his 20 novels were published by Arte Publico Press under its founder,
Dr. Nicolas Kanellos. Kanellos wrote that Hinojosa experimented in many of his books “not only with various forms of narration–derived from Spanish, Mexican, English, and American literary histories–but also with English-Spanish bilingualism.” Kanellos added, “Hinojosa’s characters who, despite or because of their apparent isolation from a larger world, were stubborn and unashamed in the affirmation of place, tradition, dialect, and worldview.” In response to Austrian literary scholar Josef Raab’s question about what he wanted his readers to take away from his books, Hinojosa responded: “Mainly I want my readers to see and recognize themselves in those novels…My charac-
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith at the Romo San Antonio home front porch with his colleagues Arturo Madrid and Jaime Chahin. Photo by Ricardo Romo, 2002.
ters are as diverse as people are diverse. They are good people and bad people, some are in high offices, and some are out in the streets endangering their fellow citizens. And also, whatever the Texas Anglos thought of the Texas Mexicans in the last century, they can get some answers here from someone who has no bones to pick.” Texas State University Dean Jaime Chahin, Hinjojosa’s close friend and former Hinojosa student at the
Kingsville campus, introduced me to his colleague, English Professor Jaime Mejia, one of the first of many graduate students to write a doctoral dissertation on Rolando Hinojosa. Mejias noted that Hinojosa had “a sarcastic, cutting Texas Mexican wit.” Rolando Hinojosa was honored in 2013 by the National Book Critics Circle with a Lifetime Achievement Award, a tribute to his standing as a major American writer. To
many Latinos, Hinojosa represented the best of Texas. Hinojosa wrote about the people he knew in the Texas Valley. He was a beloved teacher, well-versed, articulate, educated in English and Spanish, and highly ethical and moral in his support of social justice for Texas Mexicans. Mejia concludes that “Rolando Hinojosa, a Valley man, will forever serve as a testament to what a good writer does with his creative imagination.”
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Freddy García de Broncos pegó Grand Slam Rieleros en Abierta invicto derrotó a Águilas Por Sendero Deportivo Broncos de Reynosa SA del estratega Rob Rob Garza, sigue adelante en categoría Veteranos Potranco Baseball League 2022 dedicada en honor de José Montes, qué presiden Eloy Rocha y Simón Sánchez. El pasado sábado 22 de Abril, con Grand Slam de su coach y jugador Freddy García, ganó por nocaut ante Rieleros con pizarra de 20-7 carreras en siete entradas. En maratonico partido qué sé jugó en cuatro horas el campeón Red Sox de Pedro Espinoza sé impuso ante Las Chanclas Voladoras de Mike Tabahan con pizarra de
19-9 carreras. Gilbert Salazar sé llevó la victoria con salvamento de José Espinoza. La derrota fue para Anthony Díaz. Joel Sterling pegó jonrón con uno abordo vs. Espinoza, para ubicar el score 12-9. Rol de juegos sábado 30 de Abril. 12pm Rieleros vs Red Sox. 3:30pm Broncos vs Chanclas Voladoras. En liga Abierta dominical dedicada a Frank Torres, Charros Potosinos y Maceteros empataron 2-2 en 9 entradas. Rieleros del manager y lanzador derecho JP Reza, ganaron ante Águilas para
seguir invictos 7-0 con pizarra de 6-5 carreras y victoria para el mismo Reza, quién cedió terreno en el último capítulo por errores. Por Águilas de Luis Cerros perdió Arturo Chávez. En Liga Masters 50+ qué coordina el scout Frank Torres y sé está jugando en honor de Catarino Obregón, Tuzos del Pichón Alarcón blanqueo 7-0 a Rangers de El Venado Benito Martínez. Rol de juegos domingo 1 de Mayo. Rieleros vs Dodgers. Yankees vs Tuzos. Astros vs. Rangers. En liga SemiPro Potranco
Men's Baseball League qué internamente coordina Roberto Garza, Tuzos 8 Desperados 6. Piratas de Sabinas de Sergio De Luna derrotó 4-3 a Indios de Nava de Pachin Martínez. Arturo Chávez comenzó y la victoria fue para el relevista Goyo Quintero ante Anderson Acevedo y relevó de Mark Muñoz. Broncos y Mt. Olympus sé fueron 0-0 hasta el cierre del noveno episodio dónde Broncos cómo visitantes anotó 1-0 en los ganchos de Ulises Núñez en pass ball. El
relevista cubano Adrián Bueno sé anotó la victoria en relevó de Jorge González. Rol de juegos campo 3 de Potranco Baseball Field. 9am Broncos vs. Tuzos. 12pm Indios vs. Desperados de Elías Contreras. 3pm Mt Olympus vs. Piratas de Sabinas qué promete será un gran clásico dominical. En las fotos aparecen: Freddy García de Broncos. Gilbert Salazar de Red Sox. Adrián Bueno de Broncos y JP Reza del invicto Rieleros. (Fotos de Franco).
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"Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency" by Mark K. Updegrove It wasn't even your idea. If you'd had your druthers, in fact, you would've chosen another course of action but the decision was out of your control. The situation was picked not by you but for you and though it wasn't your idea, you'll press on. As in the new book "Incomparable Grace" by Mark K. Updegrove, there's no option but you'll do your best. It was blisteringly cold on the day that John F. Kennedy was inaugurated. After he took the oath, he removed much of his cold-weather wear to give a brief speech; afterward, he departed for various celebrations while his wife, who'd recently given birth, retired to rest. "Jack" hadn't initially wanted the job of President, and he wasn't originally supposed to have it. According to his father, Jack's eldest brother was perfect for office but when Joe Jr. was killed in World War II, Joe Sr.'s focus turned to Jack. All nine of the Kennedy children grew up with the idea that politics were essential to the family, so while Jack seemed sometimes to grouse about this assumption that he wanted to be President, he ultimately embraced it. Insiders say that he was driven, always wanting to be in "the center of the action," and for this, Americans gave him stellar approval ratings. But within weeks of the inauguration in 1961, JFK was faced with his first crisis in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. He had to deal with a growing Civil Rights Movement that year, and unrest in Vietnam as well as troubles with Russia and East Germany. His own health issues plagued him, as did his father's. The following year was no better: early in 1962, Kennedy tangled with steel executives
and the media wasn't kind. The South boiled with Civil Rights issues; the Kremlin and Cuba forced him to face a real possibility of nuclear war. And during all this, his health issues worsened, and Kennedy was in pain nearly all the time. He would not see the end of 1963... In the past near-60 years, hundreds, if not thousands of books about the Kennedy assassination have packed bookshelves tight. "Incomparable Grace" touches upon that event briefly, but only after taking readers back and around. Certainly, author Mark K. Updegrove shows that his subject possessed the trait that gives this book its title but still, it isn't lavishly complimentary to the Kennedy legacy. While other political players circa 1955 to 1964 make their appearances here, JFK's presidency – including his mistakes and trials – is the focus of this book, which helps to remind readers that there wasn't a perpetuallyglossy sheen to Camelot. Hints of what could have happened, in fact, seem to hover just on the edge of some paragraphs; so do more than a few great anecdotes that will make historians grin with delight. Readers may also be surprised to see that nothing is new in politics – there are parallels for the drawing here, fascinating evidence remains and for history-lovers, reading "Incomparable Grace" is a good idea. For another scenes-beforethe-White-House, look for "Growing Up Biden" by Valerie Biden Owens (Celadon Books, $28.00). It's a great memoir of Owens' big brother, his career, and how his life-long passion for politics has shaped her own life.
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Tejano Music Recording Academy To Donate Musical Instruments To Southside High School Conjunto Cardenales Por LPT Staff The Tejano Music Recording Academy (TMRA) announces the donation of musical instruments to the Southside High School Conjunto Cardenales. Los Cardenales is the first high school conjunto group in San Antonio. It is a program started by music teacher Anna Bustamente. The donation will be presented on May 10, 2022 at 10 am at the Southside High School Auditorium located at 19190 US-281, San Antonio, Texas. The presenters will be: • Francisco Chapa, TMRA President • Jesse Turner, twotime Premios Tejano Mundial Male Vocal Performance of the Year winner • Zeke Campos, Conjunto Cats accordionist from Seguin, Texas • Tristan and Dylan Ramos, accordionist and bajo sexto (respectively) from Lamesa, Texas • Mia Garcia, vocalist from Austin, Texas • Siggno Kid Jesse Turner is the lead vocalist/accordionist for Siggno. Siggno is the chart-topping Tejano band from Santa Rosa, Texas, recognized for
their Rockteño sound. Zeke, Tristan, Dylan, and Mia are up and coming young Tejano artists…Tejano Next generation. The musical instruments to be donated are a Hohner accordion and a Ymagen Bajo sexto. These instruments were presented to Tejano Music Recording Academy at La Segunda Entrega de los Premios Tejano Mundial 2022. The Hohner accordion was provided by Texas Latino accordionist Arthur “Tweet” Juarez and the bajo sexto by ES Ymagen Guitars. Tejano Music Recording Academy Tejano Music Recording Academy is a 501c (3) non-profit organization founded to preserve
the music of the generations that came before and educate the next generations. “Tejano” music is rich in history as it is multicultural, multi-lingual, and expands across multiple musical forms. The Tejano Music Recording Academy shall also advocate for the advancement and growth of the Tejano music industry. All aspects of the industry shall be emphasized and recognized from those who create to the listeners of the creations. Recognition is through the Premios Tejano Mundial, held annually. Through education, evolution shall be ensured. Visit: www.tejanomusicrecordingacademy. com
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Walzem Road Community Clean Up By Ramon Chapa. Jr. The Walzem Road Area Revitalization led by Gwen Wilson along with many community partners had a Walzem Road Community Clean Up! What an event! Many volunteers from La Prensa Texas, Commissioner Tommy Calvert, Northeast Lakeview College, Gervin School, Ayers House, Roosevelt High School, Constable Kat Brown Office, City of San Antonio, Big Homie House, Neighborhood First Alliance and DJ Freddy came together to clean up tons of trash.
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Bexar County 2nd Chance Job Fair By Ramon Chapa. Jr.
La Prensa Texas was honored to have exclusive coverage of the 2022 2nd Chance Job Fair. Great Job to Commissioner Tommy Calvert and the Bexar County Re-Entry Center. Many that did not have jobs yesterday, have jobs today! Catered to formerly incarcerated people, they now have an opportunity to advance through work as hundreds got hired on the spot.
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2022 RAFB Air Show By Ramon Chapa. Jr.
La Prensa Texas was honored to be in attendance at the 2022 RAFB Air Show. Our very own Ramon Chapa Jr has the honor of being a former RAFB Honorary Civilian Commander. Incredible Show with thousands of people in attendance!
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