Important places in the Latino community
August 18, 2008
While many Americans enjoy Cinco de Mayo, few understand its historical significance of the day in Mexican History. Watch Arturo Rangel, Tere Tibbetts, and Alejandra Quirarte de Orozco talk about the holiday and its celebration at Heavenly Ski Resort.
Watch Pastor César Minera of the Word of Life Ministries speak about his congregation and time in Tahoe as an evangelical leader.
Latino Night at Tahoe Underground on Wednesdays provides young Latino adults with a time and place to gather, socialize, and dance. The video below includes live Mexican music, dancing, and Raymundo Rosas talking about the importance of Latino Night at Tahoe Underground.
The video below includes a short series of images from South Lake’s Navarro’s Bakery (Panaderia). Jamie’s parents, Francisco and Adele moved to South Lake in 1977. Jaime opened the Bakery so his father could bake bread as he did before immigrating to Tahoe.
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The Immigration Experience
August 18, 2008
Watch community members Jorge Orazco, Jorge Montoya, and Alejandra Quirarte de Orozco talk about the experience of immigrating to Tahoe, the process of becoming a citizen, and the idea of “being a Latino.”
This video describes a history of the Latino community in South Lake Tahoe:
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Our Workers
August 18, 2008
Approximately one-third of South Lake Tahoe’s year round residents are Latino. Many of these residents work as janitors and maids in Tahoe’s hospitality-based economy. Latino construction workers also play an important role in rebuilding the homes destroyed by last year’s Angora fire.
In this video, Latino foremen José Castillo and Jesus “Chuy” Caro talk about Latinos working construction in South Lake.
Watch Francisco Mariscal and the Salas Family talk about cleaning houses and cabins at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe.
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Our Community
August 18, 2008
Watch members of South Lake’s Latino Community speak about their hopes, what they would like non-community members to know, and the issues facing this fledgling community.
In this first video residents describe the opportunities they see in the South Lake Tahoe community:
Latinos in the second video describe what they want others in the South Lake Tahoe community to understand about them.
In this third video, Latinos describe the challenges their community faces in South Lake Tahoe.
The final segment of this section is a 360º “virtual reality” panorama of Bijou Elementary School. Bijou is an important place for the South Lake’s Latino Community. The school’s gymnasium serves as the monthly meeting place for the Latino Affairs Commission, which reports important Latino issues to the City Council. Bijou’s location also provides the grounds for the community’s Family Resource Center, which provides basic needs services to many Latinos living in South Lake. Finally, this last year, Bijou became one of California’s “Two-Way Immersion” schools in which K-6th grade children learn to read, write, and think in both Spanish and English.
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Explore South Lake’s Latino community
August 18, 2008
Over the past few months, I have conducted an experiment in journalism to see if using a process called civic mapping, combined with using multimedia tools (audio, photographs, edited video, and networking software) would enable me to cover South Lake Tahoe’s Latino community in a new way.
My goal was to find a rich and authentic way to report that invited the community’s participation in the storytelling. The 12 videos in this package include interviews with residents and highlights of significant places in the Latino community. Read more
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