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Support Education: message at Concilio’s Monthly Meeting

STOCKTON, CA — “We lost 30 thousand workers in the schools both teachers and schools employees. 170,000 school workers across the state have taken furlough days, unpaid days, in order to help with this budget crisis, we rank at the bottom of all 50 states in staff students ratio,”   said Rose Roach, Field Director of the River Delta California School Employees Association discussed education and the tax initiatives on the November 2012 ballot. Continue reading »

Stockton Cinco de Mayo Parade 2012 Gears Up

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San Joaquin County — The Coalition of Mexican-American Organizations (known for its acronym in Spanish COMA) announced that the 2012 Cinco de Mayo Parade will be held May 6^th at 11:00 a.m. at Stockton’s downtown. Continue reading »

Concilio Food Bags benefit 600 on its first year

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Stockton, CA / Bilingual Weekly
It was still cold that morning but sisters Denia and Ester Flores do not feel it anymore.
The two moms had arrived by 6:30 a.m. Saturday, December 18, 2010, to the Council for the Spanish Speaking (El Concilio)’s parking lot… some of the first people lining up to exchange a yellow coupon for foodstuffs, just in time for Christmas. Continue reading »