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Street Car #801 has arrived in KC ... you have See page 3. done us proud! 5 de Noviembre, 2015 * Periódico Bilingüe Kansas City VOL 19 No. 08 “Elegí los Marines Unos Reales increíbles llegan a casa porque quería un reto” a un amor sin límites “I chose the Marines because I wanted a challenge” Unbelievable Royals come home to unbounded love
Glenda Hernandez (left) is still in the Army and considering signing another contract. Hernandez was influenced in her decision to join the military by the events of 9/11. Rachelle Tinoco said, “I chose the Marines because I wanted a challenge. Marines are an elite force and that is what I wanted.” Glenda Hernández (izquierda) se encuentra todavía en el Ejército y considerando la firma de otro contrato. Hernández fue influenciada en su decisión de unirse a los militares por los acontecimientos del 9/11. Rachelle Tinoco dijo: “Elegí los Marines porque quería un reto. Marines son una fuerza élite y eso es lo que yo quería”.
by Debra DeCoster traduce Gemma Tornero
ext week, on November a próxima semana, el 11 de 11, the country noviembre, el país celebra el celebrates Veteran’s Day. Día de los Veteranos. Este día It originated as Armistice festivo se originó como Día DayN and marked the end of hostilities Ldel Armisticio y marcó el fin de las of World War I that occurred at the hostilidades de la Primera Guerra 11th hour on the 11th day of the Mundial que se produjeron en la 11th month. The day was originally hora 11 a los 11 días del mes 11. El VETERANS TELL .. / PAGE 3 VETERANAS CUENTAN ... / PÁGINA 6 KCPD pasa lista en el Centro CAN Westside KCPD, roll call at Westside CAN Center
It way a day of the biggest parade and rally in Kansas City history. Salvador Perez, catcher for the Royals, gave off “High Five” to the fans along to way to the main stage. The players and 800,000 fans will remember this day for years to come. Se forma en un día el mayor desfile y manifestación en la historia de Kansas City. Salvador Pérez, catcher de los Reales, “choco cinco” con los aficionados a lo largo de camino hacia el escenario principal. Los jugadores y 800.000 aficionados recordarán este día por los próximos años.
by Jerry LaMartina and Joe Arce traduce Gemma Tornero
he Kansas City Royals – “America’s team” – came os Reales de Kansas City - “El equipo de los home on Tuesday and witnessed in person just Estados Unidos” - llegaron a casa el martes y how their hometown feels about them. fueron testigos en persona de cómo su ciudad T Kansas City’s celebration of the Royals’ World Lnatal se siente acerca de ellos. Series victory over the New York Mets Sunday night at La celebración de Kansas City de la victoria de Citi Field in Flushing, New York, started at noon Tuesday los Reales contra los Mets de Nueva York en la Serie Jorge Coromac (right), the CAN Center’s director and Major Michael Wood, with a 2.3-mile-long parade from the Sprint Center to a Mundial la noche del domingo, en el Citi Field, en commander of the KCPD’s Central Patrol Division, attended the roll call. “We’re rally in front of Union Station. An estimated 800,000 Flushing, Nueva York, comenzó al mediodía del part of this community,” Wood told Hispanic News. “We’re not an adversary people turned out for the festivities to welcome home martes, con un desfile de 2,3 millas de largo desde el to anybody. We’re here to help people, and that’s our main mission. Open “The Boys in Blue.” Centro Sprint hasta una concentración frente a Union communication is key to police and the communities they serve developing “WE HAD A ... / PAGE 5 “TAMBIEN TENIAMOS ... / PÁGINA 5 mutual trust as a first step to keeping neighborhoods safe,” Wood said. Jorge Coromac (derecha), director del Centro CAN; y el comandante Michael Wood, jefe de la División Patrulla Central de KCPD, asistieron a la reunión. “Somos parte de esta comunidad”, dijo Wood a Hispanic News. “No somos el adversario de nadie. Estamos For the love of baseball aquí para ayudar a la gente, y esa es nuestra principal misión. La comunicación abierta es clave para la policía y para las comunidades que servimos, para desarrollar una confianza am going to tell you what I have My brother and I arrived in Kansas mutua, como un primer paso para mantener a los vecindarios seguros”, dijo Wood. come to know. I love baseball for City from Colombia in the early reasons that I will probably never weeks of January 1965. I remember understand. the darkness of the stadium. I recall by Joe Arce and Jerry laMartina Traduce Gemma tornero I the noise and I think I remember the I saw my first game back in 1966 when a friend of the family took crack of the bat on the ball. I don’t estside residents have os residentes del Westside están my brother and I by the hand and remember names but I do remember had enough of crime cansados de la delincuencia en walked us along Brooklyn Avenue the frenzy of the crowd. It was close in the neighborhood, el barrio, ellos quieren que el after we had parked the car on to the frenzy I experienced when as they want the Kansas Departamento de Policía de someone’s lawn. We were going to a younger boy my grandmother took CityW Police Department (KCPD) to do LKansas City (KCPD, por sus siglas en see the Kansas City Athletics. us to see the great Pele play. more to prevent it. inglés) haga algo más para evitarla. Municipal Stadium was old, I remember my first transistor “What we’re planning to do in our “Lo que estamos planeando JOSE cavernous and scary. The game was radio, a little black box with a silver household is to have cameras and hacer, es tener cámaras y alarmas an unfamiliar and awkward affair antenna and tinny little speaker that alarms, because of a series of break- en nuestro hogar, a causa de una FAUS for a boy used to kicking a ball than my stepfather gave me. I held it to “RESIDENTS HAVE HAD ... / PAGE 8 LOS RESIDENTES ... / PÁGINA 8 swinging at it with a stick. ROYALS TOOK ... / PAGE 4
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YOUR LATINO CONNECTION SINCE 1996 TÚ CONEXIÓN LATINA DESDE 1996 kchispanicnews.com I Noviembre 5 - 2015 3 Veterans tell their story on Veterans Day CONT./PAGE 1 they invaded your camp. You accomplished a 14 - mile set aside to honor Veterans of didn’t know if the person was hike with all her gear. World War I but after World good or bad or coming to “Being short, I felt I was at War II and the Korean War, warn you about something,” a disadvantage but I finished Congress recognized the she said. it with my team. It was tough. need to expand the meaning During those stressful times, We were in South Carolina in of the day and include all Tinoco’s training kicked in the middle of the summer heat veterans. and she was ready to defend marching but I am a person Over the years the face of the camp and protect her who likes a challenge and I the military has changed to a fellow Marines. push myself to go above and volunteer force that includes “I didn’t care if it came, it beyond what I can do,” she large numbers of women. came. That is what I am there said. Hispanic News spoke with for. Number one rule of When Hernandez went into two Latina women that reflect engagement – you are there to the Army she was not ready that change, Rachelle Tinoco fight a war, you are not there to deploy, but now, after and Glenda Hernandez. to be a cook anymore. You twelve years, she is looking at Tinoco is from Shawnee, are there to protect your own a unit that may be tasked with KS and joined the Marines and that is it. There is no fear deployment in 2017. June 2007, right after her – you better pull your head out While in the service she high school graduation. She of your ass and do what you completed her education. served eight years in the need to do and make sure that She has a Bachelor Degree Marines. Tinoco entered boot your brothers and sisters are in Sociology and French and camp with 97 other females. protected,” said Tinoco. then completed her Masters in When graduation rolled As her tour of duty was Social Work. around, there were only 37 coming to an end, she Hernandez works in the females in the graduation considered re-enlisting and class. administrative office of the she looked at the Marines’ Human Resources office as a “A majority of the women all female engagement staff sergeant. Her duties are dropped out within the first team (FET), an elite team to review records, personnel three months,” she said, “I of women that worked in actions such as promotions, chose the Marines because I Iraq and Afghanistan and demotions, processing wanted a challenge. Marines liaisoned with the female benefits and awards. Glenda Hernandez (right) recruited herself to enlist in the United States Army. It was a calling are an elite force and that is Muslim population. At its to serve the country that embraced her after she left Mexico at the age of 10 years old. The what I wanted.” inception, FET was primarily As a soldier, she is feeling military intrigued her and said, “This country has given me opportunities … in a way it is a used to search female Iraqis that she needs to be deployed “During boot camp we also sense of duty for me.” for concealed weapons and and see that side of her learned to come together in military service. Glenda Hernández (derecha) se reclutó a sí misma a unirse al ejército de Estados Unidos. Fue un a family setting and worked contraband items during a llamado para servir al país que la abrazó después de salir de México a los 10 años de edad. El side by side with my brothers wide variety of missions. “I am a mental health ejército la intrigaba y dijo: “Este país me ha dado oportunidades ... de una manera que lo siento and sisters as we jumped up “I was very interested in this counselor at the Family como un deber para mí.” on walls together and pulled team but I had to consider Conversancy in Wyandotte each other up and over. It my daughter. I didn’t want and Johnson Counties. I was pretty awesome the day to take any chances that I want to be a mental health we had a 10-mile hike and wouldn’t return to her and counselor in the military and we got our first warrior meal. raise her. She had to come I feel that if I go through a Veterans Day Activities Our training taught us who first in my life,” she said. deployment then soldiers seeking help can relate to me we could trust for the rest of Hernandez is still in the Wyandotte County Veterans Day National World War 1 Museum and and they may be inclined to Commemoration Saturday, November Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. our lives,” said Tinoco. Army and considering signing open up,” said Hernandez. 7 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. She was deployed to Iraq in another contract. Hernandez Free Admission all day to the public. 2009. When she arrived there was influenced in her decision The battle doesn’t always Doors open at 10 a.m. and Program Museum Galleries open at 9 a.m. until were about 2,100 Marines to join the military by the stop on the front lines of war. begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Salvation Army 5 p.m. The Veterans Day Ceremony will and only three females. events of 9/11. Today, the battle continues to Harbor Lights Village, 6723 State Avenue, begin at 10 a.m. with Congressman recognize the sacrifices that Kansas City, Kansas. This year’s program Emanuel Cleaver II; Mayor Sly James; “As we arrived, we were “9/11 had just happened were made by Latino soldiers will include a special recognition of the Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander; switching places and our and right after high school during each war. Vietnam War Veterans, as it is the 50th Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders camp shrank in size and I I looked into the Navy, the Last Friday, Kansas Anniversary of the Vietnam War. and French Consul Jean-Christophe Paris was the only female in the Army and the Marines. There The Honorable Ike Skelton Veterans inside the J.C. Nicholas Auditorium with a platoon,” said Tinoco. was something intriguing Governor Sam Brownback signed two proclamations Day Ceremony Harry S. Truman Library keynote address by Army University Provost She stayed in service until about the military but at that and Museum on Sunday, November 8 Brigadier General John S. Kem. time I was too afraid to enlist. honoring military veterans, July 30, 2015 and achieved one for Latino veterans and from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Disabled American the rank of sergeant. Her I don’t know exactly what it was during my freshman one for all veterans. It is a salute to America’s veterans at the Veterans/Red Racks Donation Drive will be unit in Iraq was Food Service Fourth Annual Ike Skelton Veterans Day hosting a donation drive in the U-Shaped 3381. Her job was to cook for year in college but I was About 15 Latino veterans very drawn to the military. stood up in uniform in Ceremony. Free museum admission with the Drive near the walkway leading to the the Marines but on occasion opening ceremony taking place at 12:30 Museum entrance. They are accepting she went out on convoys to I was not recruited, I say Governor Sam Brownback’s that I recruited myself,” said office and proudly watched p.m. with a proclamation by Independence gently used clothing, shoes, household items help search for Explosive Mayor Eileen Weir. and children’s toys. Ordinance Devices (EOD). Hernandez. as he signed the proclamation recognizing all Latino/ She loved to cook for Hernandez joined as she turned 20 years old during Hispanic veterans for their the soldiers and enjoyed service to their country. improving their meals with her freshman year of college. local spices and vegetables. Though a Kansas native, “This is the first time that Hernandez lived in Mexico these veterans have received Street Car “We made sure that until the age of ten. Growing recognition by the governor. whatever we cooked, it was up in the United States, she felt These gentlemen were so good. We tried to make it a connection to the country. happy and so proud. They feel like home and they were makes it way to KC “I love Mexico and it is were ecstatic that this was getting taken care of before done,” said Representative they went out on duty. When obviously who I am. It will always be in my heart, but this Louis Ruiz, D-Kansas City, the soldiers were out, we Kansas. always made sure to keep the country has given me more kitchen open for them or we opportunities than anything Ruiz cited the history of made up plates so that upon that I could have gotten in the Latino veterans who their return they had a hot Mexico if I stayed. I didn’t after returning from World meal,” she said. feel that I needed to repay the War II were not allowed to U.S., in a way it is a sense of join the American Legion or “It was a different duty for me.” the VFW. That is why the environment. The heat was GI Forum was formed. The very different there. We didn’t Hernandez’s Army class started with 80 women and American GI Forum began have running toilets or running in 1948 to advocate on water. Sometimes we were in graduated with 70 women after basic training. behalf of Latino veterans who blackouts and we had several were segregated from other sand storms hit. A completely “During our basic training veterans’ organizations at the different atmosphere for me we learned about our weapon, time. who comes from Kansas,” how to handle it, how to said Tinoco. take it apart, how to clean “Because of that history it is it, how to shoot. We learned why we felt that we needed While on tour, intruders to honor the Latino veterans came into their camp at least how to throw grenades, hand to hand combat, land uniquely,” said Ruiz, “and I every week and under their am happy that we got it done. rules of engagement, they navigation skills, running were not allowed to fire upon through obstacle courses and In next week’s issue we the intruders. lots of training that tested our will cover A Veterans Day mental capacity such as the Commemoration honoring all “We had a lot of warnings. famous gas chamber that veterans but also recognizing We got mortared. It was everyone talks about,” said Vietnam veterans as we difficult to have the rules of Hernandez. observe the 50th Anniversary engagement because of how of the Vietnam War. war is, and you can’t just She faced her On Monday morning shoot somebody because challenges head on as she KCMO Mayor Sly James and others city
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YOUR LATINO CONNECTION SINCE 1996 TÚ CONEXIÓN LATINA DESDE 1996 Noviembre 5 - 2015 | kchispanicnews.com Royals took me back in time CONT./PAGE 1 Oakland. By that time I was game we played, and how my ear. Music on the radio a Kansas City Chiefs fan and sweet when we finally broke was not familiar and as a knowing they had stolen our through and made it to the consequence I found myself team fueled my hatred for World Series. listening to people talk. I Oakland. That first Series against the don’t remember how but I Yet deep inside I cheered Phillies was a heartbreaker. I discovered baseball on the them when they went on still remember Tug McGraw radio. to have the great seasons tapping his chest as the I can tell you that in my – Catfish and Blue Moon tension mounted. I remember memory they won more often and Campy and the World yelling, “break your heart than they lost but in truth Series. I cheered because in not mine” and of course he they were miserable, but I truth they were my A’s even crushed mine. did listen many nights in my if they had a different city But that taste of winning the room before falling asleep. attached. pennant was an elixir. My I had been instructed in the I moved away for three partner at the time worked finer points. I knew about years. I lost connection when at the stadium to make extra strikes and outs and innings the new team, the Royals, money while we went to and began to remember the came in with Mr. K. It didn’t school. I remember dropping names of players. take long to attach myself her off and then immediately I remember a guy named to them. There was Cookie buying a ticket and sitting in Monday. I remember hearing Rojas. I mean that was like the bleachers and waiting till the name Blue Moon Odom. having a Blue Moon over the game ended so we could How sweet is that? If I could you alongside Campy. That drive home. That was magic. change my name I would name Cookie was grace for I had not been to a game Municipal Stadium was old, cavernous and scary. The game was an unfamiliar and awkward want to be a Blue Moon. me and I was hooked again. since that first game so many affair for a boy used to kicking a ball than swinging at it with a stick. There was a Catfish Hunter, I remember working at years before. I felt so close and Campy Campeneris. I various restaurants in high to the team I had listened to loved Campy because his school, in the kitchens for years. swore off the game. I did not I connected through the them play because their name was familiar. It was of Burger King and Red The names came and went listen to a game for years, only medium that gave me never-say-die attitude was Latino. Lobster, and the constant of but there was a nucleus that though I read the box scores comfort – the radio. I realized the mirror of believing when I remember once hearing the baseball game on radio sustained my passion, Brett, voraciously. The game had that I loved the soundtrack the everything else tells you it is the name of a rookie during the evening shifts. Wilson and White. I knew been a constant of so many game provided for so many insanity. I wanted to see that outfielder Reggie Jackson And how those names we would win it. Five years summers that I felt that if they years of my life. I didn’t care for myself. starting for the A’s. Years resonate now so many years later it happened. It is a did not care enough to settle if they won or lost but damn I was shocked to find the later, when Reggie was doing later, the fiery George Brett, blur to me. I remember it in their differences for the love how I hoped for the former. game was available only his last tour as a player, I there was the brief shining snippets but I remembered I of the game then maybe it We endured all the horrible with a cable subscription. booed because the Yankees moment of Richie Scheinblum. cried alone listening to the wasn’t a game worth loving. managers and the miserliness Alone in my studio I settled were beating us. A fan stood There was Amos Otis of the final game at home. I can’t A friend told me I held a of ownership because at into the only thing I had – the up and yelled, “let’s cheer for easy gait. He looked like he understand it to explain it but grudge a long time. I guess heart this was the city’s team, radio. I listened and in the him. He is one of the greats. wasn’t working but for me, it meant the world to me. I did. I followed the team but and in some weird way their solitude of my room I was We will never see him play AO was cooler than anyone We struggled the following the futility of 100-plus losing fortunes reflected the city’s. that kid again. The sound again.” In my arrogance I I knew. And there was Frank years but we remained seasons, or the endless butt Fast-forward and we are of the game filled the room yelled “but he is a Yankee, White at second, the greatest relevant. We fielded some of jokes and the irrelevance as the Royals came back in damn him.” champions once again and shame in baseball that he is good teams and some great that the team had become, I can tell that the world has that magical wild card game I wish I could have said not in the Hall of Fame. ones. Mr. K gambled and at times was too much. We changed in the intervening against the A’s. Yes, those something else but I was And there was Hal “Bubble lost; yet there was always the were the farm system for all years. When once I had hated A’s. How sweet, after a hardcore Kansas City Butt” McRae. I cringed at the hope of next year. the great teams that won Campeneris and Rojas, there years in the wilderness it had baseball fan by then. I had adventure that was Hal in the Then came that disastrous World Series with players we was now Ventura, Perez, all come full circle for me, fallen in love with a game I outfield and the redemption year and the folly of the had nurtured. Morales, Volquez, Colon, and I jumped like a maniac was never able to master. I that was Hal at the plate. baseball strike that ended Some things began Escobar, Orlando, Cueto in my studio alone with the could catch a ball but once a Outside of Whitey Herzog the season just shy of our changing. I trace it back to and Infante, along with Cain, decades of memories flowing pitch hits you, you are never and Dick Howser, he is still destiny. There was Hal at the that Tony Peña season when Hosmer and Moustakas, down my cheeks. the same. my favorite coach though helm and we were playing we seemed like a possibility Young, Davis, and Gordon. God, I love baseball but I lived through the ignominy Ned has grown on me. great ball. The team won less than an asterisk. I started The face of the game is don’t ask me why. I don’t of losing the team. One Those were the glory years. fourteen games in a row and believing, I started listening international. think you have the time to day there was no baseball Sure there were the Yankees was in the hunt for a playoff to the games again. I could And the only bad thing listen and there are so many on the little transistor. They that seemed to stand in the spot. I hardly paid attention not bring myself to watch about it all? I went looking more things to tell. were gone, packed up and way of every meaningful to the talk of a strike. Just them. That was my trek to the for the game last year on shuffled off to a place called like when there was talk of wilderness. television. I wanted to watch moving the A’s. I remember Hal throwing that toaster in the office. It is emblematic of every frustration I have ever felt as a fan exemplified in one graceful throw. It was the anger of losing the team and watching them go to great years on the coast. There was the sadness of losing Steve Busby, he of the two career no-hitters; and the sadness on Dennis Leonard’s face when he lost the lead in the ninth against Billy Martin’s Yankees. There was Chris Chambliss breaking every bone of my spirit. It was the misery of the David Cone trade and the death of the only coach to take us to the pinnacle. It is the frustration of every season afterwards – the twenty years of futility that followed Hal’s firing. It was COOKIE ROJAS the day the light went out in my head for baseball. I
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CONT./PÁGINA 1 Vólquez también agradeció Jason Walstrom, de Kansas CONT./PAGE 1 “When we got fans like City – “Everybody knows me Station. Se estima que 800 a los aficionados del equipo y City - “Todo el mundo me Just before the players hit you guys – I’m gonna be as Jigg” – stood on Main mil personas asistieron a los describió su importancia para conoce como Jigg” - se colocó the stage, the crowd erupted cryin’ now,” Volquez said. Street near the National WWI festejos para dar la bienvenida el éxito de Los Reales. en la calle principal, cerca del with several thundering “It’s too much for me, man. Museum and Memorial, a casa a “Los chicos de azul”. Museo y Memorial Nacional choruses of “Let’s go ... I went back to Dominican playing harmonica into a “Cuando tenemos fans como Justo antes de que los ustedes - voy a empezar a a la Primera Guerra Mundial, Royals!” Manager Ned Yost because my dad passed microphone. tocando la armónica en un and several Royals players away. When I came back, I jugadores subieran al llorar ahora”, dijo Vólquez. “I was 5 years old the escenario, la multitud estalló micrófono. addressed the roaring went straight to the skipper’s “Es demasiado para mí, last time this happened, so con varios estruendosos hombre. Volví a Republica “Yo tenía 5 años la última crowd. office and I told him, ‘I want this is a very magical day,” to pitch the game,’ because coros de “¡Vamos Reales!” El Dominicana porque mi padre vez que esto sucedió, por “Kansas City’s got the best Walstrom said. my dad wanted me to pitch mánager Ned Yost, y varios falleció. Cuando regresé, me lo que este es un día muy fans in the world, and now the game, and my mom, Kansas City firefighter jugadores de Los Reales, fui directamente a la oficina mágico”, dijo Walstrom. they’ve got the best team in too. And I did it. … All of David Wells told Hispanic se dirigieron a una multitud del capitán y le dije, ‘Quiero El bombero de Kansas City, the world,” Yost said. rugiente. my teammates, we love you News that, when the Royals lanzar el juego’, porque mi David Wells, dijo a Hispanic Catcher Salvador “Salvy” guys. We all love you guys. tied the Mets in the ninth “Kansas City tiene a los padre quería que yo lanzara el News que, cuando los Reales Perez, who won the World We can’t win even a single inning of what turned out mejores fans en el mundo, y juego, y también mi mamá. Y empataron a los Mets en la lo hice. Todos mis compañeros Series Most Valuable Player game without you guys. to be the final game of the ahora tienen al mejor equipo novena entrada en lo que de equipo, los amamos, chicos. award, thanked the crowd Thank you for your support. series on Sunday night, “I del mundo”, dijo Yost. resultó ser el último partido Todos los amamos, chicos. No “for being the best fans in We love you.” was supposed to work the de la serie el domingo por la El catcher Salvador “Salvy” podemos ganar ni un solo the world. Today, we’re next day, and I was thinking noche, “tenía que trabajar Hundreds of thousands Pérez, quien ganó el premio juego sin ustedes. Gracias por number one in the whole there’s no way they’re al día siguiente, y yo estaba of fans showed their love al Jugador Más Valioso de la su apoyo. Los amamos”. world, guys.” gonna win this. And then the Serie Mundial, agradeció a la pensando, no hay manera de for the Royals, too. Olathe- adrenaline, the looks on the También cientos de miles que van a ganar. Y después, First-baseman Eric Hosmer native Kali Narozny and her multitud “por ser los mejores guys’ faces – they just don’t fans del mundo. Hoy en día de aficionados mostraron su la adrenalina, las miradas said the team “couldn’t son Cameron flew from their quit.” amor por Los Reales. El nativo en las caras de los chicos - thank you guys enough for home in Orlando, Florida, to chicos, somos el número uno Sixteen-year-old Ciera en todo el mundo”. de Olathe, Kali Narozny y su simplemente no se dan por turning out.” Kansas City on Monday. hijo Cameron volaron el lunes vencidos”. Ayala called herself “a really El primera base Eric Hosmer, “It’s something you can’t “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime desde su casa en Orlando, big fan” and said she “had dijo que el equipo “chicos, Ciera Ayala, de dieciséis even make up in a dream,” opportunity, since I’m 30 a feeling they’d go on and Florida, a Kansas City. años se llama a sí misma “una years old and I was just no podemos agradecerles lo Hosmer said. “There’s a win.” suficiente para llevar esto a cabo”. “Es una oportunidad única gran fan” y dijo que “tenía la reason we had all those born when they won the first Roger McIntosh said he en la vida, tengo 30 años sensación de que iban a seguir comebacks, especially at time,” Kali Narozny told “Es algo que ni siquiera was around for the Royals’ de edad y yo nací cuando y ganar”. home. Whenever we hear Kansas City Hispanic News. puedes tenerlo en un sueño”, ganaron la primera vez”, dijo 1985 World Series victory, dijo Hosmer. “Hay una razón Roger McIntosh, dijo que you guys get up and get Kansas Citian Virginia Kali Narozny a Kansas City “and I’m old enough to por la que teníamos todas esas estuvo en la victoria de los loud, it sparks up the whole Ramirez said the celebration Hispanic News. remember that, too.” remontadas, especialmente Reales en la Serie Mundial de entire team. We’re all just marked “an historic moment La nativa de Kansas City, 1985, “y yo también soy lo “I didn’t think it was gonna en casa. Cada vez que glad the trophy’s right for Kansas City – period Virginia Ramírez, dijo que suficientemente mayor para happen again,” he said. “It’s escuchábamos que ustedes se where it belongs, here in – and also for the Latino la celebración marcó “un recordarlo”. quite a showing that Kansas levantaban y hacían ruido, Kansas City.” community, because we’ve momento histórico para City loves their sports. I gave despertaban a todo el equipo. “No pensé que iba a suceder got a Latin ball club now, Kansas City – así de sencillo - Outfielder Jonny Gomes up once in the Houston game Simplemente todos estamos de nuevo”, dijo. “Es toda una asked the crowd to join in a and it is awesome!” contentos de que el trofeo este y también para la comunidad demostración que Kansas City and thought it was done, but latina, porque ahora tenemos moment of silence for third- Maria Sanchez-Chastain I was wrong.” donde le corresponde, aquí, ame sus deportes. Me di por baseman Mike Moustakas said that when the Royals en Kansas City”. un club de béisbol latino, y ¡es vencido una vez en el juego de and pitchers Chris Young won the crown in 1985, “I His wife, Lana McIntosh, impresionante!”. Houston y pensé que era todo, though, kept the faith. El jardinero Jonny Gomes and Edinson Volquez. was still a little girl and I pidió a la multitud unirse en María Sánchez-Chastain, pero me equivoqué”. Moustaskas’ mother and wasn’t able to make it there, “I said from spring training un minuto de silencio por el dijo que cuando Los Reales Su esposa, Lana McIntosh, Young’s and Volquez’s but I made it here this time, they’re gonna go through tercera base Mike Moustakas ganaron la corona en 1985, sin embargo, mantuvo la fe. fathers died recently, but the and I’m really happy that my the whole year, through the “yo era todavía una niña y y los lanzadores Chris Young “Yo dije desde los three players continued their mom is gonna be turning 90 playoffs and win the World y Edinson Vólquez. La madre yo no pude ir, pero aquí estoy in December, and she’s over Series,” she said. “I never ésta vez, y estoy muy feliz de entrenamientos de primavera contributions to the Royals’ de Moustaskas y los padres que iban a estar bien todo el championship quest. there on Grand ready for the gave up.” de Young y de Vólquez que mi mamá va a cumplir 90 parade.” años en diciembre, y ella está año, a través de los playoffs y a “It’s unbelievable what Jake Wilcox, a student at murieron hace poco, pero los ganar la Serie Mundial”, dijo. Sebastian Uriarte, a St. Pius X High School, said tres jugadores continuaron sus allá en la calle Grand, lista these boys did!” Gomes para el desfile”. “Nunca me di por vencida”. student at Johnson County it was “fun seeing all these contribuciones a Los Reales en said. “It’s unbelievable what Jake Wilcox, un estudiante Community College, called fans out here, so many of la búsqueda del campeonato. Sebastián Uriarte, they did!” de la Preparatoria San Pío X, the celebration “really them.” “¡Es increíble lo que hicieron estudiante de Johnson County Gomes shared a thought Community College, llamó a dijo que era “divertido ver a awesome.” In the end, Royals estos muchachos!”, dijo about the New York Mets, la celebración algo “realmente todos estos fans aquí, a tantos outfielder Alex Gordon Gomes. “¡Es increíble lo que as well. “I’m here with my family impresionante”. fanáticos”. and friends,” Uriarte said. summed it all up. hicieron!” Al final, el jardinero de Los “You all want to be politically “You’ve just got to soak up Gomes, también compartió “Estoy aquí con mi familia correct?” he said. “I’m not a “We’re World Series y amigos”, dijo Uriarte. Reales, Alex Gordon resumió todo. the moment, because you champs, and you guys are un pensamiento sobre los Mets politically correct person. We “Sólo tienes que disfrutar del “Somos campeones de la don’t know when something the best fans in the world,” de Nueva York. whooped their ass!” momento, porque no sabes Serie Mundial, y ustedes son los like this can happen. … I’m Gordon said. “All I got to “¿Todos ustedes quiere ser cuando algo como esto puede mejores fans del mundo”, dijo Volquez also thanked the from Kansas city, so I’ve say is we had a trick up políticamente correctos?”, suceder. Soy de Kansas City, Gordon. “Todo lo que tengo que team’s fans and described watched the Royals since I our sleeves, too – it’s called pregunto. “Yo no soy una así que he visto a Los Reales decir es que también teníamos un their importance to the was growing up.” persona políticamente World Series champs.” desde que era niño”. truco bajo la manga, - se llama Royals’ success. correcta. ¡Les dimos duro!” Jason Walstrom of Kansas campeones de la Serie Mundial”. YOUR LATINO CONNECTION SINCE 1996 TÚ CONEXIÓN LATINA DESDE 1996 Noviembre 5 - 2015 | kchispanicnews.com Veteranas cuentan su historia en el Día de los Veteranos CONT./PÁGINA 1 nos afectaron. Un ambiente haber conseguido en México totalmente diferente para si me quedaba. No me sentía día se fijó inicialmente para mí, que iba de Kansas”, dijo que necesitaba retribuir a los honrar a los veteranos de Tinoco. EU, es un sentido del deber la Primera Guerra Mundial, Durante la gira, los intrusos para mí”. pero después de la Segunda entraban en su campamento La generación del ejército Guerra Mundial y la Guerra por lo menos cada semana y de Hernández comenzó con de Corea, el Congreso bajo sus reglas de combate, 80 mujeres y se graduó con reconoció la necesidad de no se les permitía disparar 70 después de la formación ampliar el significado del día contra los intrusos. básica. e incluir a todos los veteranos. “Tuvimos un montón “Durante nuestra formación Con los años, el rostro de de advertencias. Nos básica aprendimos sobre los militares ha cambiado bombardearon con morteros. nuestra arma, cómo a una fuerza de voluntarios Era difícil tener reglas de manejarla, desarmarla, que incluye a un gran número combate a causa de cómo limpiarla, dispararla. de mujeres. Hispanic News es la guerra, y tú no puedes Aprendimos a lanzar habló con dos mujeres latinas simplemente dispararle a granadas, combate mano que reflejan ese cambio, alguien porque invadió el a mano, habilidades de Rachelle Tinoco y Glenda campamento. Tú no sabes si navegación en tierra, el Hernández. la persona es buena o mala correr a través de carreras Tinoco, es de Shawnee, o viene advertirte de algo”, de obstáculos y un montón KS y se unió a los Marines dijo. de entrenamiento que puso en junio de 2007, justo Durante esos momentos a prueba nuestra capacidad después de su graduación de estrés, la formación de mental, como la famosa de la escuela preparatoria. Tinoco se hizo presente y cámara de gas de la que Ella sirvió ocho años en estaba lista para defender el todo el mundo habla”, dijo la Infantería de Marina. campamento y proteger a sus Hernández. Tinoco entró en el campo compañeros Marines. Se enfrentó a sus desafíos de entrenamiento con otras de frente mientras terminó una 97 mujeres. Cuando llego el “No me importaba si vino, caminata de 14 millas con tiempo de graduación, sólo vino. Es para lo que estoy todo su equipo de combate. había 37 mujeres en la clase. ahí. Regla número uno de combate - tú estás allí para “Al ser bajita, sentí que “La mayoría de las mujeres luchar en una guerra, no estás estaba en desventaja, pero lo lo abandonan dentro de los más allí para ser cocinera. Tú finalicé junto con mi equipo. primeros tres meses”, dijo, “yo estás ahí para proteger a los Fue duro. Estábamos en elegí a los Marines porque tuyos y eso es todo. No hay Carolina del Sur en medio del quería un reto. Los Marines temor - es mejor que saques calor del verano, marchando, son una fuerza de élite y eso la cabeza y hagas lo que pero soy una persona que le es lo que yo quería”. tienes que hacer y asegurarse gusta un desafío y me empujo “Durante el campo de de que tus hermanos y a ir más allá de lo que puedo entrenamiento, también hermanas estén protegidos”, hacer”, dijo. aprendimos a reunirnos dijo Tinoco. Cuando Hernández entró en un entorno familiar y A medida que su período en el ejército no estaba lista Rachelle Tinoco enlisted into the United States Marines and served for nine months in Iraq, in trabajamos codo a codo con de servicio estaba llegando para desplegarse, pero these camps also experiencing sand storms along the way. She is proud of her service to her mis hermanos y hermanas a su fin, ella considero re- ahora, después de doce country. She embraces challenges and she faced many challenges as she served in Iraq with no mientras saltábamos las enlistarse e investigó sobre el años, ella está buscando a running water, and camp invasions. paredes juntos y nos equipo de trabajo femenino una unidad que pueda tener Rachelle Tinoco se vinculó en los Marines de Estados Unidos y sirvió durante nueve meses en Irak, jalábamos por encima el (FET, por sus siglas en inglés) la tarea de despliegue en en estos campos también experimentan tormentas de arena en el camino. Ella está orgullosa de su uno al otro. Fue bastante perteneciente a los infantes 2017. servicio a su país. Ella abrazo desafíos y se enfrentó a muchos retos mientras servía en Irak, sin agua genial el día que tuvimos de marina, un equipo élite corriente e invasiones en los campamentos. una caminata de 10 millas Mientras su estancia en de mujeres que trabajaron y nos dieron nuestra primera el servicio ella terminó su en Irak y Afganistán y fueron latinos en uniforme se comida de guerreros. Nuestro educación. Ella tiene una enlace con la población pusieron de pie en la entrenamiento nos enseñó en licenciatura en Sociología y femenina musulmana. En sus oficina del gobernador Sam quién podíamos confiar para en francés y, posteriormente, Brownback y orgullosamente Actividades del inicios, FET fue utilizado sobre el resto de nuestras vidas”, completó su Maestría en todo para buscar mujeres observaban mientras él dijo Tinoco. Trabajo Social. iraquíes con armas ocultas firmaba la proclamación Ella fue enviada a Irak en y artículos de contrabando Hernández trabaja como reconociendo a todos los Día de los Veteranos 2009. Cuando ella llegó en una amplia variedad de sargento en la oficinaveteranos latinos/hispanos había alrededor de 2,100 misiones. administrativa de Recursos por su servicio a su país. Conmemoración del Día de los Veteranos del infantes de marina y sólo tres Humanos. Sus funciones “Yo estaba muy interesada “Esta es la primera vez que Condado de Wyandotte Sábado, 7 de noviembre mujeres. son revisar los registros, en este equipo, pero tuve que estos veteranos reciben el de 10:00 a.m. a 12:00 p.m. acciones de personal, tales reconocimiento por parte del “Mientras íbamos llegando, considerar a mi hija. Yo no Las puertas se abren a las 10 a.m., y el programa como ascensos, descensos de gobernador. Estos señores estábamos cambiando de quería correr ningún riesgo comienza a las 10:30 a.m. en el Ejército de Salvación categoría, las prestaciones estaban tan felices y tan lugar y nuestro campamento de no poder regresar con ella Harbor Lights Village, ubicado en el 6723 de State de procesamiento y premios. orgullosos. Estaban extáticos se redujo en tamaño y yo era y criarla. Ella tenía que ser lo Avenue, en Kansas City, Kansas. El programa de este año de que se hiciera esto”, dijo la única mujer en el pelotón”, primero en mi vida”, dijo. Como soldado, ella se incluirá un reconocimiento especial a los Veteranos de el Representante D-Kansas dijo Tinoco. siente que necesita ser la Guerra de Vietnam, ya que es el 50 aniversario de la Hernández se encuentra desplegada y ver ese lado de City, Kansas, Luis Ruiz,. Ella permaneció en el Guerra de Vietnam. todavía en el Ejército y está su servicio militar. servicio hasta el 30 de julio, considerando la firma de Ruiz citó la historia de los 2015 y alcanzó el grado otro contrato. Hernández fue “Soy una consejera de veteranos latinos, a quienes La Honorable Ceremonia del Día de los Veteranos de sargento. Su unidad en influenciada en su decisión salud mental en Family después de regresar de la Ike Skelton en la Biblioteca y el Museo Harry Irak era Servicio de Comida de unirse a los militares por Conservancy, en los Segunda Guerra Mundial S. Truman, el Domingo, 8 de noviembre 12:00 3381. Su trabajo consistía en los acontecimientos del 9/11. Condados de Wyandotte no se les permitió unirse a p.m. a 5:00 p.m. cocinar para los infantes de y Johnson. Quiero ser un la Legión Americana o al “9/11 acababa de suceder Es un saludo a los veteranos de Estados Unidos en la marina, pero en ocasiones consejero de salud mental VFW. Por eso, el Forum GI y justo después de la escuela Cuarta Ceremonia del Día de los Veteranos Ike Skelton. salió en convoyes para en el ejercito y siento que si fue formado. El American preparatoria investigue sobre La entrada al museo es gratuita, la ceremonia de apertura ayudar en la búsqueda de paso por un despliegue, a GI Forum se inició en 1948 la Infantería de Marina, tendrá lugar a las 12:30 p.m., con una proclamación por Dispositivos Ordenanza continuación los soldados para abogar en nombre de el Ejército y los Marines. parte del alcalde de Independence, Eileen Weir. Explosivos (EOD, por sus que buscan ayuda pueden los veteranos latinos que Había algo interesante siglas en inglés). sentirse atraídos por mi, y fueron segregados de las acerca de los militares, pero podrían sentirse inclinados organizaciones de otros Museo Nacional 1ra Guerra Mundial y Memorial Le encantaba cocinar en ese momento yo estaba a abrirse conmigo”, dijo veteranos de la época. en Kansas City, Missouri. para los soldados y disfrutó demasiado asustada para Hernández. el mejorar sus comidas con alistarme. No sé exactamente “Debido a esa historia, Entrada gratuita todos los días al público. Las galerías especias y verduras locales. lo que paso durante mi La batalla no siempre se es por eso que sentimos del museo abren a las 9 a.m. hasta las 5 p.m. La detiene al frente de la línea de necesitábamos honrar Ceremonia del Día de los Veteranos comenzará a las “Nos asegurábamos de primer año en la universidad, guerra. Hoy en día, la batalla a los veteranos latinos 10:00 a.m. con el Congresista Emanuel Cleaver II; el que todo lo que cocináramos, pero yo estaba muy atraída continúa reconociendo los exclusivamente”, dijo Ruiz, “y Alcalde Sly James; el Secretario de Estado de Missouri, estuviera bueno. Tratábamos por el servicio militar. No sacrificios que hicieron los estoy feliz de que lo hayamos Jason Kander; el Ejecutivo del Condado de Jackson, Mike de que se sintieran como fui reclutada, yo digo que soldados latinos durante hecho”. Sanders y el Cónsul francés Jean-Christophe Paris dentro en casa y que estaban me recluté a mí misma”, dijo cada guerra. del Auditorio JC Nicholas con un discurso de apertura siendo atendidos antes de Hernández. En la edición de la próxima por el Rector General Brigadier de la Universidad del salir al servicio. Cuando El viernes pasado, el semana vamos a cubrir una Hernández se unió cuando Ejército, John S. Kem. los soldados estaban fuera, cumplió 20 años, durante su Gobernador de Kansas, Conmemoración del Día de siempre nos aseguramos de primer año de universidad. Sam Brownback firmó dos los Veteranos en honor a todos De 9:00 a.m. a 3:00 p.m. los Estadounidenses Veteranos mantener la cocina abierta Aunque es oriunda de proclamas en honor a los los veteranos, pero también Discapacitados/Campaña de Donación Bastidores Rojos para ellos, o preparábamos Kansas, Hernández vivió en militares veteranos, una para con un reconocimiento a los será el anfitrión de una campaña de donación en U-Shape platillos, de manera que a su México hasta la edad de diez los veteranos latinos y una veteranos de Vietnam, en Drive, cerca de la pasarela que conduce a la entrada del regreso tuvieran una comida años. Al crecer en los Estados para todos los veteranos. la conmemoración del 50 Museo. Ellos están aceptando ropa, zapatos, artículos caliente”, dijo. Unidos, sintió una conexión Cerca de 15 veteranos aniversario de la Guerra de para el hogar con poco uso y juguetes para los niños. Vietnam. “Fue un ambiente diferente. con el país. El calor era muy diferente “Me encanta México allí. No teníamos retretes y es, obviamente, lo que funcionando ni agua soy. Siempre estará en mi corriente. A veces teníamos corazón, pero este país me ha apagones y tuvimos varias dado más oportunidades que tormentas de arena que cualquier cosa que podría
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YOUR LATINO CONNECTION SINCE 1996 TÚ CONEXIÓN LATINA DESDE 1996 Noviembre 5 - 2015 | kchispanicnews.com Chiefs improving as Los residentes están cansados season moves along de la delincuencia en el barrio moment there I was doing the math early on a Sunday CONT./PÁGINA 1 by Jose Faus “Es importante que nuestros morning after a Royals game serie de robos que han estado funcionarios entiendan the night before. I thought the ocurriendo últimamente”, dijo las diferentes culturas (en woke up early Sunday Lions had actually scored 50 un residente del Westside a los barrios para los que morning looking for a points. trabajan)”, dijo Wood. Kansas City Hispanic News. little bit of redemptive I woke up soon enough Este residente ha vivido en “Algunas personas entran medicine. You would not to realize it was only three en esta comunidad y están expectI that to be coming el Westside durante más de and the Chiefs still had a dos décadas y prefirió no ser recelosos con la policía from a Chiefs game played chance. They didn’t miss any identificado. a causa de lo que han across the pond in the lively opportunities for the rest of experimentado en sus vidas. football Mecca of London in the game. They ran left; they La semana pasada, Tenemos que reconocer eso hallowed Wembly stadium ran right; they ran back. They asistieron aproximadamente y abordar cómo avanzamos home of underachieving (at ran to the sideline for tea and 25 residentes a una reunión- de acuerdo a eso, y una least recently) Manchester crumpets and they ran until desayuno para un “pase de gran parte de eso es la United. the score ended 45-10. lista” de los oficiales de KCPD comunicación y los contactos You might wonder why De’Anthony Thomas ran y residentes en el Centro que se crean aquí en el Centro the need for redemptive for one hundred yards. Red de Acción Comunitaria CAN, y con los oficiales que medicine. Well to tell the Charcandrick West danced Westside (CAN, por sus están asignados aquí, las truth I have felt that the Chiefs for 97 yards and both of them siglas en inglés) para una relaciones que han construido team that has taken to the along with Spencer Ware conversación en curso acerca dentro de esta comunidad. KCMO police officers, Westside residents and business owners field all this season is much rushed for touchdowns. An de cómo la policía y los Ahí es donde comienza la came together in late October for police officers roll call. A lite better than the record that has interesting little sideline – it residentes pueden trabajar confianza”. breakfast was served and at the same time they were able to shown on the standings. This was the first time the Chiefs juntos para reducir el crimen. discuss what concerns they have when it came to safety and was a chance for the team to had four different players Jorge Coromac, director take a positive step forward “Hemos tenido un tiroteo del Centro CAN, dijo que las crime in their neighborhood. rush for scores in the same following last week’s win. game since 1960. detrás de nuestra casa - 20 reuniones de pase de lista Policías de KCMO, residentes del Westside y propietarios de tiros”, dice el residente. fueron diseñadas para “tener negocios se reunieron a finales de octubre para un pase de lista de Barely out of the first And by the way Travis quarter, there was a post “Llamé al equipo de asalto siempre una oportunidad parte de la policía. Se sirvió un desayuno ligero y al mismo tiempo Kelce caught a touchdown con un poco de información”. tuvieron la oportunidad de discutir las preocupaciones que tienen on facebook talking about and once again a Chiefs de aprendizaje para los how much the fans liked De acuerdo con el trabajadores y para el cuando se trata de la seguridad y la delincuencia en su barrio. wide receiver caught a the European version of the touchdown a beautiful throw residente, ha habido departamento de policía”. Chiefs. It could have been down the middle to Jeremy problemas de drogas dentro “Para los agentes de la comunidad. Nos asociamos mantengo mis ojos abiertos. the water thought the chiefs Maclin. de la comunidad durante policía, especialmente los con el programa COMBAT Desde el punto de vista de did not leave for London until When it comes to the años. nuevos agentes de policía, en el Condado de Jackson. la comunidad, necesitamos Friday. Maybe it was the Ofrece muchos servicios en que la gente llame al 911 weather. I did hear that there defense, I would like to make El Comandante Michael que entran en Kansas City, it policy that from now till la zona, incluyendo ayuda a o al número que no sea de was fog early in the morning. Wood, jefe de la División es una oportunidad para the end of the season, I will emergencia. Si usted ve algo What a shocker that London de Patrulla Central de KCPD, que entiendan lo que está las personas con enfermedad insinuate that Tamba Hali is asistió a la reunión y destacó pasando en ese barrio”, dijo mental. Tratamos de remitirlos sospechoso, confíe en sus would have fog this time of year. past his prime and headed que él vio al Centro CAN y a Coromac. “Es también para y animarlos a que vayan (para ojos. Y además, conozca a for the football heap. There los residentes como “socios, que los jornaleros conozcan los servicios de salud mental sus vecinos. Tómese el tiempo Whatever it was there is no is no other way to explain his para hacer de ésta área acerca de cuáles son las cuando sea necesario)”. para presentarse ante sus doubt that something clicked performance in the last two tan segura, agradable y nuevas regulaciones y por El residente señaló “los vecinos”. for the Chiefs in a way that weeks than the fear of being conveniente (tanto como sea qué es importante para ellos problemas en los barrios son: El residente expresó has not been there since dumped by a Ford. A Dee posible) a todo el mundo en seguir la ley”. pandillas, drogas, robos y su frustración, pero dio opening day. Alex “twinkle Ford to be exact. Whatever toes” Smith ran for 78 yards el barrio”. tiroteos”. a la policía una crítica it is, Hali is playing with En el Westside, las personas on five carries including a que no tienen hogar son un constructiva. a revved up motor. I hear “Somos parte de esta “El llamar a la policía nifty 49-yards scramble in rumors that Tamba Hali problema que se ha “estado comunidad”, dijo Wood a a tiempo y su respuesta, “Quiero que quede claro: the second quarter. What did will be demoted for Dee Hispanic News. “No somos el dando tradicionalmente aquí, y la cooperación entre yo apoyo al departamento he drink and can we bottle Ford next game. (Mission adversario de nadie. Estamos por muchos, muchos años”, departamentos, han sido un de policía”, dijo el residente. it, maybe design it into the Accomplished) aquí para ayudar a la gente, dijo. problema”, dijo el residente. “Creo que lo que hacen es playbook a little more? With six sacks and two y esa es nuestra principal un trabajo muy peligroso. “Hay dos cosas que “La policía está en el Centro ‘’He had some very positive interceptions, this defense misión”. (las personas) tienen que CAN mucho tiempo, pero A veces es un trabajo yards for us at needed looked all world, which is La comunicación abierta es entender”, dijo Coromac. los necesitamos afuera, en muy implacable. Se les times,’’ Chiefs coach Andy what was expected at the clave para la policía y para “Una de ellas es, a la gente la comunidad. Escuchen a da una gran cantidad de Reid said. ‘’We know he can start of the season. Rookie las comunidades a las que sin hogar, que por desgracia la gente, y cuando te están críticas, pero no se les da run. We don’t really want Marcus Peters is playing a sirven, esto desarrolla la están teniendo problemas dando la información, no sé mucho crédito. Soy un gran him to run, but if it works out fine corner and Sean Smith confianza mutua, siendo un mentales, enfermedades qué tipo de seguimiento se partidario del departamento that way that’s OK.’’ has picked up where he left primer paso para mantener mentales; y el otro, los le da. Y también de ser más de policía. Pero tenemos Granted all this production off last year. This is good seguros a los vecindarios, jornaleros que están aquí, proactivos con más y más problemas, y queremos que was against the Detroit Lions, news for a team that all of a dijo Wood. listos para trabajar y servir a patrullas. Yo no veo pasar a la policía sea más proactiva. a team masquerading as a sudden is back in the playoff muchas patrullas, porque yo No me estoy cambiando”. football squad. You don’t hunt. Yes, you read that right. fire coaches in the middle The Chiefs are one and a of the season and turn the half games out ship around, not in football, They team will sit out next Residents have had enough not even with a guy named week with a bye and then Jim Bob Cooter. Look at the play one big game against Miami Dolphins who lost hard the division leading and to the New England Patriots undefeated Denver Broncos of crime in the neighborhood after a season changing win in Denver. The Broncos after firing their coach. A CONT./PAGE 1 looked tough in a resounding neighborhoods they serve),” disturbance in the force that’s thrashing of the Green Bay ins that have been happening Wood said. “Some people what that was. Packers Sunday night. It is lately,” a Westside resident are going to come into this It looked bleak for the going to be tough but there told Kansas City Hispanic community and … they’re Chiefs at the beginning. The has to be a heart in this team. News. This resident has lived leery of the police because Lions took the opening kickoff All they have to do is look on the Westside for more than of what they’ve experienced and marched down the field across the stadium complex two decades and preferred in their lifetime. We have to before settling for a field goal. and see how possible the improbable is. not to be identified. recognize that and address It was so terrifying that for a how we move forward Roughly 25 residents accordingly, and a big part attended a “roll call” breakfast of that is the communication meeting of KCPD officers and and the contacts that are residents last week at the created here in the CAN Westside Community Action Center, and with the officers Hispanic Entrepreneurs Network (CAN) Center for an that are assigned here, the ongoing conversation about relationships that they have how police and residents built within this community. Expo set Mid-November can work together to reduce That’s where the trust starts.” crime. Jorge Coromac, the CAN n November 12, began planning the expo “We have had a shoot- Center’s director, said the roll 2015, the Olathe in early 2015 recognizing out behind our house – 20 call meetings were designed Latino Coalition that Latino entrepreneurs are shots,” the resident. “I called “to always have a learning will host the the fastest growing in the KCMO police officers, Chato Villalobos and Matt Tomasic HispanicO Entrepreneurs Expo U.S. From 1990 to 2012, the assault squad with some opportunity for the workers hosted the Roll Call of the police department at the CAN center at Indian Creek Community the number of Hispanic information.” and the police department.” on KC Westside community. Villalobos said they host this event Church from 4 – 8 p.m. with entrepreneurs in America According to the resident, “For the police officers, one or twice a year. registration beginning at 3 more than tripled, going there have been drug issues especially the new police Los policías de KCMO, Chato Villalobos y Matt Tomasic fueron los p.m. The Expo theme “Tools from 577,000 to more than within the community for officers, who come into anfitriones de la reunión del departamento de policía en el centro to Help your Business Take 2.0 million according to years. Kansas City, it’s an opportunity CAN en la comunidad KC Westside. Villalobos dijo que este evento Off” will feature workshops the 2014 report – Better Major Michael Wood, for them to understand se llevaria a cabo una o dos veces al año. and bilingual experts Business: How Hispanic commander of the KCPD’s what’s happening in that providing information Entrepreneurs Are Beating Central Patrol Division, neighborhood,” Coromac to refer and encourage people community standpoint, we and advice on various Expectation and Bolstering attended the meeting said. “It’s also for the day- to go in (for mental health need people to call 911 or topics such as: Resources the U.S. Economy. and emphasized that he labor workers to understand services when needed).” the non-emergency number. If for Starting and Growing Twenty-two exhibitors Your Business, Developing saw the CAN Center and what the new regulations are you see something suspicious, include corporate sponsors, The resident pointed to Your Business Plan, How residents as “partners to and what is important for Hispanic owned businesses “issues in the neighborhoods: trust your eyes. And then, to Start a Restaurant Right make this area as safe and them to do to follow the law.” know your neighbors. Take and the City of Olathe. Exhibit gangs, drugs, break-ins and from the Beginning, How to booths sold out immediately. friendly and convenient (as Homelessness on the time to introduce yourself to shootings.” Handle a Family Business, Sponsors include the Olathe possible) to everybody in the Westside is a problem your neighbors.” “Police call time and Introduction to QuickBooks, Chamber of Commerce, neighborhood.” that has “been happening response time, and The resident expressed and Marketing Your Business Kansas Department of traditionally here for many, and Social Media. Carlos “We’re part of this cooperation among frustration but gave the police Commerce, Kansas Hispanic many years,” he said. Fernandez, digital developer community,” Wood told departments, have been an constructive criticism. Latino American Affairs Hispanic News. “We’re not “There are two things from Wichita, Kansas will be Commission, Google issue,” the resident said. “I want to make it the dinner featured speaker. an adversary to anybody. (people) have to understand,” “Police are in the CAN Center clear: I support the police Fiber, AT&T, Brotherhood We’re here to help people, Coromac said. “One is a lot, but we need them out department,” the resident The Olathe Latino Coalition Bank & Trust, New York and that’s our main mission.” the homeless people who in the community. Listen to said. “I think that what they do was formed in 2011 in Life Insurance Company, Open communication is key unfortunately are having the people, and when they’re is a very dangerous job. It’s response to Olathe Mayor Univision , PIKU Designs and to police and the communities mental issues, mental disease, giving you information, I sometimes a very unforgiving Michael Copeland’s request Word of Events and Indian for help in addressing the Creek Community Church. they serve developing mutual and the other is day laborers don’t know what kind of job. They get a lot of criticism, needs and concerns of trust as a first step to keeping who are here ready to work follow-through happens. And but they don’t get a lot of Registration for the Expo is and to serve the community. Latino residents in Olathe, required at: neighborhoods safe, Wood also being more proactive credit. I’m a huge supporter of according to Mary Lou We partner with the COMBAT said. with more and more patrols. the police department. But we Jaramillo, project director. www.KansasCommerce.com/novexpo “It’s important that our program in Jackson County. It I don’t see a whole lot of have issues, and we want the The Business & Economic Source officers understand theprovides many services in the patrols going on, ‘cause I police to be more proactive. Development sub-committee Olathe Latino Coalition different cultures (in the area, including helping those keep my eyes open. 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