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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