Orange County Regional History Center is currently hosting an Exhibit entitled “Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente” from January 21-March 18, 2012. Last Saturday I attended the opening event where Steve Blass, former teammate and close friend of Roberto was a presenter. The emotional presentation and exhibit was truly a magnificent event. Please click on attachment for this Saturday’s upcoming mural event with artist, Hector “Nicer” Nazario. Please forward this info to family and friends. This is a very important event for our youth. Congratulations to Paul Wenglowsky from the Center on a job well done.  For more information, please call             407-836-7010   

Por eso…Haz lo que quieras hacer, antes de que se convierta en lo que te “gustaría” haber hecho…No hagas de tu vida un borrador, tal vez no tengas tiempo de pasarlo en limpio…Si te gustó, pegalo en tu muro…y NUNCA es tarde para empezar, Papi y Mami descansen en paz

Felicidades a todos!!…Juntos podemos hacer más.

I wonder what makes them all think that we don’t think, what makes them believe that we don’t believe. If they did not follow the natural flow of the overall community growth with their decision, then the river of society could flow another way. Again, why leave room for a sentiment of not being treated fairly, instead of giving us a room to grow in prosperity in a house that is also ours? Although there are usually several factors in a situation, there come the critics of less performance in schools and other negative remarks about our community. I don’t even understand why this has turned into a subject of discussion. A system like this should have granted us what was right. It would have helped us to be better. And it did not matter if some speakers were from different areas other than the one in question, the voice of the majority was not heard anyway. Some people also supported us and this was not taken into consideration either.

It was interesting to find out how some participants were unjustly following the trend.

A high school student who wanted to convince us that we had enough representation somewhere else and we should live with that–another bone someone want us to chew on. Also, a woman who claimed to be known in our community (I asked around and no one seemed to know her.) who reminded us that we knew about her honesty when speaking, in order to feel free to make derogatory statements about our group. Amazing.

Only one commissioner thought that we deserved more than bones. We appreciate that he mentioned that it was unfair to see how our numbers were diluted along the lines of all the maps. We thank him for standing up for what is right. Finally, I think that if “Map I” did not work for everybody, other options could have been discussed in order to get us the representation we needed…if they really wanted to help us. We expected no more, no less and, for sure, no bones.

María Asunción López

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