http://www.ourtahoe.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:40:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/08/18/important-places-in-the-latino-community/ 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: Return to the main story.ShareThis http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/08/18/the-immigration-experience/ 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 ... http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/08/18/our-workers/ 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 ... http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/08/18/our-community/ 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 ... http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/08/18/explore-south-lakes-latino-community/ Over the past year as the recreation correspondent for OurTahoe.org, I developed an interactive, environmental journalism Web site called, LifeMoreNatural.com. Life More Natural is a platform to for conversation about the environment and the role that outdoor enthusiasts play in sustaining it. Working within an existing network of outdoor enthusiasts, ... http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/05/23/creating-conversation-within-a-network-society/ Covering the Washoe people poses an interesting difficulty for the community-based reporting encouraged by this master's program. Some of my work for this program has been to investigate the different forms of spirituality at Tahoe using video and audio to create multimedia presentations. Since the Washoe are the original inhabitants of ... http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/05/18/i-get-why-i-dont-get-it/ St. John's in the Wilderness Episcopal Church is located on the scenic shores of Glenbrook in South Lake Tahoe. Click on the photo to hear church members Barbara Olsen, Dennis Cocking, Carolyn Goodenough, and Bonnie Woizeski speak about the spiritual significance of the church's location.ShareThis http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/05/16/st-johns-in-the-wilderness/ Lisa Marsh, 39, is a South Lake Tahoe resident and a single mother of three. She dreams of a better life for herself and her children, but the realities of everyday living often get in the way of dreams. “A lot of us don’t like to classify ourselves as the 'have-nots,' ... http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/05/14/from-morals-to-economics-poverty-is-everyones-problem/ On Thursday, May 8th, the final BMP Talks meeting took place in Kings Beach, CA. Participants presented and proposed to the public their solutions to BMPs and celebrated the two-month deliberation process. Listen to what they said here. "It was good to get together and hear what others think," said Dennis ... http://www.ourtahoe.org/2008/05/12/bmp-talks-participants-presented-their-bmp-solutions/