Día Del Recuerdo Resalta Los Casos Sin Resolver by Traduce Debra Decoster Gemma Tornero Any Parents Dream Bright Uchos Padres Sueñan Con Futures for Their Children
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Periódico Bilingüe Kansas City VOL. 17 No. 39 | 5 de Junio, 2014 PRSRT STD U.S POSTAGE PAID KCMO PERMIT NO. 990 Your Latino Connection Since 1996 | Tú Conexión Latina Desde 1996 College Graduates Give Young Latino Professionals Takes Back To School That Philanthropy Throughout KC Area Gave Them So Much Jóvenes Profesionales Latinos, Llevan Graduados Universitarios Retribuyen A La Escuela La Filantropía A Través Del Área De KC Que Les Dio Tanto Former Cristo Rey students Tajah Molden and Eduardo “Eddie” Sanchez were honored to give the commencement address last Friday evening to the graduation class 2014 at Cristo Rey High School. Last month Molden and Volunteers with Young Latino Professionals pitched in last weekend to paint the conference room and do landscaping Sanchez graduated from Rockhurst University. Both feel it’s like coming back at Head Start of Shawnee Mission’s administrative building in Overland Park. home. They shared their story about the way this school prepared them for Los voluntarios con Jóvenes Profesionales Latinos, acamparon el fin de semana para pintar la sala de conferencias y encargarse college and telling students to keep up the good work. Picture provided by del paisajismo del edificio administrativo de Head Start de Shawnee Mission, en Overland Park. Caulfield Photos Los antiguos alumnos de Cristo Rey Tajah Molden y Eduardo “Eddie” Sánchez tuvieron el honor de dar el discurso de graduación el pasado viernes por la tarde a la clase de graduación 2014, en Cristo Rey High School. El mes pasado Molden y Sánchez By Traduce se graduarón de la Universidad Rockhurst. Ambos sientieron como volver a casa. Compartieron su historia sobre la forma en que esta escuela los prepara para la Jerry LaMartina Gemma Tornero universidad y animan a los estudiantes a que sigan con el buen trabajo. Fotografia proporcionada por Caulfield Photos. professional organization for young Kansas na organización profesional para los jóvenes City-area Latinos engaged its philanthropy gears latinos del área de Kansas City dedicó la By Traduce last week and the beneficiary was Head Start of semana pasada sus engranajes de filantropía Joe Arce & Jose Faus Gemma Tornero A Shawnee Mission (HSSM). y el beneficiario fue Head Start de Shawnee Young Latino Professionals (YLP) gathered about 15 UMission (HSSM por sus siglas en inglés). risto Rey Catholic High a Escuela Preparatoria volunteers last Saturday to paint the conference room School at 33rd and Broadway Católica Cristo Rey, ubicada Jóvenes Profesionales Latinos (YLP por sus siglas en inside and do landscaping outside HSSM’s administrative inglés), reunió cerca de 15 voluntarios, el sábado pasado, was founded in 2006. en la calle 33 y Broadway fue building in Overland Park, which sits next to its school para pintar la sala de conferencias y hacer jardinería exterior Sponsored by the Sisters fundada en 2006. Patrocinada building. Cof Charity of Leavenworth, it is a Lpor las Hermanas de la Caridad de en el edificio administrativo de HSSM en Overland Park, private, college-prep, school targeting Leavenworth, es una organización Edgar Palacios, YLP’s board president, told Kansas City que se encuentra junto al edificio de la escuela. economically challenged youth and privada, de preparación pre- Hispanic News that philanthropy is the organization’s primary method to develop leaders in the Latino Edgar Palacios, Presidente de la Junta Directiva de YLP, families. universitaria, la escuela va dirigida a los dijo a Kansas City Hispanic News, que la filantropía es el jóvenes y las familias con dificultades community. YLP also provides social networking and “Through an innovative Corporate principal método de la organización para el desarrollo de económicas. professional development, Palacios said. He’s 28 and lives Work Study Program, every student in Roeland Park. líderes en la comunidad latina. YLP también proporciona works one day per week to offset “A través de un innovador Programa Palacios said he had gotten involved with YLP in 2011, una red social y desarrollo profesional, dijo Palacios. Él approximately half of the cost of his Corporativo de Estudio y Trabajo, cada tiene 28 años y vive en Roeland Park. or her own education. Currently, 110 estudiante trabaja un día por semana “because it felt like a family.” companies partner with Cristo Rey to para compensar aproximadamente la “I was looking to get back to my roots in the Latino Palacios dijo que se involucró con YLP en 2011, “porque give students from low-income families mitad del costo de su propia educación. community,” he said. “It was the right place for me to be.” se sentía como una familia”. “I FEEL LIKE I ... / PAGE 3 “SIENTO QUE SOY ... / PÁGINA 3 YOUNG LATINO PROFESSIONALS ... / PAGE 6 JOVENES PROFESIONALES LATINOS ... / PÁGINA 6 Day Of Remembrance Spotlights Unsolved Cases Día Del Recuerdo Resalta Los Casos Sin Resolver By Traduce Debra DeCoster Gemma Tornero any parents dream bright uchos padres sueñan con futures for their children. un futuro brillante para They look forward to sus hijos. Ellos esperan a graduation day, a un día de graduación, una Mwedding day, or maybe the day their Mboda, o tal vez el día en que su hijo o son or daughter holds their first born hija sostienen a su primer hijo/a en sus child in their arms. brazos. Those dreams and others were Esos sueños y otros, se hicieron shattered for the parents that gathered añicos para los padres que se reunieron outside Mattie Rhodes Center on afuera de Mattie Rhodes Center, en la 17th Street in Kansas City, Missouri calle 17 en Kansas City, Missouri, el last Saturday. They lost children to sábado pasado. Perdieron hijos debido a violence. Their hope is that no other la violencia. Su esperanza es que ningún parent experiences what they have gone otro padre experimente lo que han through. vivido. “When your child dies, a part of you “Cuando tu hijo muere, una parte de This past weekend area families attended the 4th annual Day of Remembrance on Kansas City’s Westside. Those dies with them,” said Lupe Rennau. ti muere con ellos”, dijo Lupe Rennau. in attendance had one thing in common, all have lost a family member through violence and many of their cases are still unsolved. During the event balloons were released with their messages to their love ones. “You are not the same person you were “No eres la misma persona que eras Este pasado fin de semana, familias del área asistieron a la 4ta Jornada Anual del Día del Recuerdo, en el Westside, en Kansas before this happened. I tell people ‘I antes de que esto ocurriera. Yo le digo City. Los asistentes tenían una cosa en común, todos han perdido a un familiar a causa de la violencia y muchos de sus casos están “A PART OF ... / PAGE 2 “UNA PARTE DE ... / PÁGINA 2 aún sin resolver. Durante el evento se lanzaron globos con sus mensajes a sus seres queridos. NEWSROOM: (816)472.5246 | FAX: (816) 931.6397 | KCHISPANICNEWS.com | E-MAIL: [email protected] | 2918 Southwest Blvd. Kansas City, MO 64108 5 de Junio de 2014 I kchispanicnews.com “Una Parte De Ti Muere Con “A Part Of You Dies With Them” CONT./PAGE 1 those crimes,” said Boehm. some believe it is hopeless and we Ellos” am two people. I was one way “We have several cases, such as can’t change it,” she said. CONT./PÁGINA 1 before my son was killed and I Johnny Valdivia, that the family “The truth is there is a am another person after my son has raised the award money. We relatively few number of a la gente, ‘Yo soy dos personas. was killed. My whole life has Yo era de una forma antes de carry about 40 to 50 cases with individuals that do these changed,’” she said with tears in extra rewards funds. We have crimes,” added Peters. “If we que mataran a mi hijo y soy her eyes. otra persona después de que 24-hour call service and they can do a better job of identifying mataron a mi hijo. Toda mi Her son, Johnny Valdivia, [callers] can talk to a live person who those individuals are, we vida ha cambiado’”, dijo con was killed four years ago on when they call. We also have can do a better job of preventing lágrimas en los ojos. Valentine’s Day. His case remains Spanish-speaking call takers. crime. In Kansas City, we are unsolved despite Rennau’s and So we encourage anyone with doing that. As we stand here, we her family’s efforts to fundraise information about the unsolved have reduced our homicide rate money for the TIPS hotline. The cases to call our hotline,” he said. by 25 percent this year.” award for a tip leading to the Jackson County Prosecutor She encouraged witnesses to arrest of his murderer stands at Jean Peters Baker has worked come forward and help solve “We should all be working together to make our city safe $12,500. regardless of ethnicity, gender or language. All individuals are hard to push the resolution of the homicides stressing that extremely important and we should not let our decision to get Rennau serves as co-chair of unsolved cases. Her efforts were their testimony can help win a involved be based on statistics. We want to see a place where the Latino Advocacy Taskforce recognized during the Day of conviction in a case. individuals are healthy, safe and have the resources to thrive Remembrance. (LAT). She told the crowd that “That half of one percent of and reach their full potential,” said John Fierro, President and gathered for the fourth annual CEO of Mattie Rhodes Center.