TÚ CONEXIÓN LATINA DESDE 1996 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 NDay 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 NEWSROOM: (816)472.5246 | FAX: (816) 931.6397 | KCHISPANICNEWS.com | E-MAIL: [email protected] | 2918 Southwest Blvd. Kansas City, MO 64108 Noviembre 5 - 2015 | kchispanicnews.com 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.