Hispanic Club: CHICANO STUDIES OUT IN VAUGHN
* Two teachers are told to stop using Chicano-oriented materials in their classrooms after Hispanic club is disbanded VAUGHN -- Two teachers in Vaughn are battling school district officials for the right to teach Hispanic history, literature and art and to allow students to form a Hispanic leadership club. Vaughn Municipal Schools officials won't discuss the issue but are getting support from some residents, who argue that the teachers' lessons promote racism and...
Hispanic Club: GOP GAINING HAITIAN VOTERS
If you've been to a Broward County Republican Party meeting or fundraiser, then you've seen Lucy Orlando.In a crowd of mostly white faces, she's the large, dark-skinned woman with the thick accent of her native Haiti and the unbridled enthusiasm of a high school cheerleader. ``She is the most exuberant person,'' said Georgette Sosa Douglass, president of the Broward Republican Hispanic Club. ``She hoots and hollers and stands up....
Hispanic Club: STUDENTS COMBINE FORCES TO HELP OTHERS,
* Centerville, Bellbrook groups raise donations for hurricane victims
High school students in Centerville and Bellbrook are rejecting modern technology and using old-fashioned means to link up with others this holiday season.Twenty business technology students at Centerville High School walked the halls of their school last week, seeking cash donations and teddy bears for Nicaraguan children orphaned as a consequence of Hurricane Mitch. Meanwhile, another student group, members of Bellbrook High School's Hispanic Club, are still at work...
Hispanic Club: City's social club for Hispanics to celebrate first anniversary
Membership stands at 250 after one year By CHARLES RUNNELLS crunnells@news-press.com Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, whoever. Everyone's welcome to Cape Coral's Latin American Social Club.And one year later, the Hispanic club has more members and more variety than ever.The Latin American Social Club began in August 2002 as a social outlet for Hispanic Americans of all stripes. No one was excluded.Now the club's membership teeters around...
Hispanic Club: Chief to hear club owners' complaints
By J.D. Gallop Florida Today PALM BAY -- A couple that owns a Hispanic club they say has been unfairly harassed by the same police officer in three separate incidents will meet with the police chief Friday, officials said.Meanwhile, officers who patrol the streets say that all-night clubs are routinely subjected to the same scrutiny because of complaints from neighbors."Hispanic clubs are not being singled out," said Savatore Cuomo, a Palm Bay police...
