Mexico Chat: Center offers foreign visitors
business help Farm Progress Show The International Business Center has translators, e-mail and entertainment.By JERRY PERKINS REGISTER FARM EDITOR Alleman, Ia. -Hunched over a computer in the International Business Center at the Farm Progress Show, Alberto Souto of Industrias John Deere Argentina moaned as he saw 60 messages in his e-mail inbox.Helping Souto with his electronic-mail chores was Wendy Walker, small business air quality liaison for the Iowa Department of...
Mexico Chat: Day laborers find haven on Route 59
Immigrants gather at church for meals, training and work Suzan Clarke The Journal News At 11 a.m., about 30 men sit in the warm basement at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, relishing the opportunity provided them through the church's day laborers' program to eat, learn, relax and possibly earn a day's wage.The drop-in center, run by the church and Rockland Immigration Coalition, catered to just a handful of undocumented workers when it...
Mexico Chat: TAKING A STROLL
Prince Charles and President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico chat yesterday during a walk through the gardens at the presidential residence in Mexico City. The heir to the British throne is on a four-day visit to Mexico before he sets off for Jamaica on the royal yacht. / REUTERS PHOTO NIGRO ;02/16,12:10 CHASPI0AA PHOTO...
Mexico Chat: A SISTER CITY CHAT IN PLEASANTON
ROBERT ROMERO, center, and Caridad Avalos Salas, left, both of Tulancingo, Mexico, chat with Pleasanton resident Thelma Asbury, right, during the Tulancingo Sister City welcome party Monday at the Pleasanton Hotel. Two students will spend five weeks in Pleasanton and several Pleasanton teens will return to Tulancingo with the students for a five-week visit there. Photo - Robert Romero Caridad Avalos Salas and Thelma Asbury chat during Tulancingo Sister City welcome party in Pleasanton. (Doug...
Mexico Chat: A CENTER OF LEARNING, WOVEN TOGETHER WITH CULTURES
``Since Laie's early days, it has been crowned with a magnificent temple, which flanks this campus [Brigham Young University-Hawaii] on the one hand. The campus is flanked on the other by the beautiful and unique Polynesian Cultural Center, established by the Church to preserve and enhance the rich and beautiful cultures of the South Pacific islands and to further the education of young men and women. This university campus is perhaps one of the most beautifully situated of any in...