Archive for March, 2009
Keep it up, Roosevelt bloggers!
Students from Roosevelt High School have begun blogging on Vida’s blog site, and I encourage all loyal Vida readers to check out their work. (To read the blogs, click on the link on the top right corner, alongside the names of Vida staff.) Just a few students have started to blog, but it’s neat to [...]
Fresno’s homeless in the New York Times
The Fresno Bee’s blogging site, The Beehive, has a regular feature called “Did They Just Say Fresno?” This morning, I’m adding a post to that feature here on Vida’s blog site. A story in today’s New York Times discusses the increase of shantytowns in cities across the country. The story’s main focus is on Fresno’s [...]
Ichiro, Japan is just damn good. Good luck in Seattle.
They did it again. There’s only been two World Baseball Classics … and Japan’s won them both. Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners (MLB) earned Japan the WBC trophy after his 10th-inning hit brought in two runs for the 5-3 victory against South Korea. By the way the Mariners finished dead last in the West last season [...]
Hear Ye! Lady Riders Day Proclaimed in Fresno!
The success just doesn’t stop with the Central Section D-3 title and berth in the So-Cal Regional for the Lady Rough Riders of Fresno’s Roosevelt High School. On Tuesday, the squad, alongside the Edison High School boy’s basketball team, received a proclamation from Fresno City Councilmembers Mike Dages and Henry Perea and the entire City Council for their [...]
La Copa Benito Juárez de 2009
Para ver más fotos, visite la galería en vidaenelvalle.com/To see more photos, visit the gallery at vidaenelvalle.com. Presentado por el Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), La Copa Benito Juárez es el torneo de baloncesto que dibujó con 16 equipos y cerca de 500 espectadores a la escuela secundaria Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle de Madera [...]
5 more schools move on to lip sync finals
Atwater, Patterson, Turlock, Manteca and Tracy all made it through to the lip sync state championship scheduled for Saturday in Modesto where they will compete against Sanger, Clovis West, Buchanan and Golden Valley High Schools. A total of 11 schools participated last Saturday at a sold-out Modesto Centre Plaza and every single one of those [...]
