January 4, 1994 By Yolanda Reynolds Last week, La Oferta Review took a major step forward when its presses rolled out last week’s issue of the paper. La Oferta, in late November, moved from its location on Alum Rock Avenue to its own, larger offices at 1376 North Fourth Street. La Oferta now also has …
October 9, 1993 By Yolanda Reynolds Plaza Park in downtown San Jose has been renamed. The new name is plaza de César E. Chavez. It’s new name honors the nationally known labor leader, community organizer and farm worker advocate, Cesar E. Chavez from San Jose. He became a national figure for organizing farm laborers, first …
“HONOR A QUIEN HONOR MERECE” – PLAZA PARK RENAMED IN MEMORY OF CESAR CHAVEZ Read More »
November 20, 1991 By Yolanda Reynolds Sunday noon at Sacred Heart Church, a determined crowd of janitorial workers and their supporters met for a rally. The janitors have taken their struggle for justice in the workplace to the street and the general public after over a year and half of inaction from an unresponsive system. …
November 6, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The Historic Arts Advisory Committee (HAAC) voted Wednesday evening, October 24, to place the Thomas Fallon statue at Pellier Park. It is not slated to unveiled until 1995. At that meeting, discussions generally followed the format of the previous meetings. The chairman of the committee, Alex Smart. spent some …
September 12, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The San Jose Mercury News, the only daily newspaper in Santa Clara County and one of the largest in the Bay Area hires few Latino writers. The news last week of Nora Villagran’s reassignment (to a position normally held by junior writers or on occasion clerical staff) has created …
LOCAL DAILY NEWSPAPER HIRES FEW HISPANIC JOURNALISTS Read More »
September 5, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Last week the Historic’ Arts advisory Committee meeting brought together a number of historians from throughout the Bay Area whose specialty is early day California history. Most of the historians who spoke before the committee at that meeting felt that Fallon’s raising of the American flag was not really …
H.A.A.C. to determine Fallon statue fate tonight Read More »
August 29, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The San Jose Evergreen community College District announced last Wednesday that one of its colleges, San Jose City had been selected to receive a 2.5 million dollar federally funded Title III Grant, to be awarded over a five year period. The grant monies were made available to help institutions …
ADELANTE PROGRAM TO BEGIN AT SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE Read More »
August 8, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Members of the Historic Arts Advisory Committee (HAAC) were selected on July 31. This committee was formed as a consequence of the Fallon controversy. HAAC will serve two functions: 1) to recommend a resolution of the Fallon statue controversy to the City Council and 2) recommend to the Fine …
April 4, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds A statue of Captain Thomas Fallon on a horse in military garb and raising an American flag over San Jose, is on its way to this city. It is to be located at Plaza Park directly across from the Fairmont Hotel. A Mercury News editorial states that it (the …
November 22, 1989 By Yolanda Reynolds N.A.S.A. scientist Ellen Ochoa, Chief of Intelligent Systems Technology Branch, N.A.S.A. Ames Research Center in Mountain View, was recently honored at the First Annual Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award in the category of the “Most Promising Engineer.” Dr. Ochoa came to N.A.S.A., Ames from Sandia Laboratories in Livermore. She …
Ellen Ochoa, N.A.S.A. Scientist Conducting Research in the Forefront of Computer Science Read More »