Vida En El Valle Blogs: The Latin voice of the central valley.

Mural nay-sayers, watch out. A new generation of artists is learning the joys of painting the city’s walls.  Local artist Teresa Flores (disclosure: my friend) has partnered with Roberto Del Hoyo, a masters student at Otis College of Art and Design to create a mural project, LA to Fresno/Fresno to LA.   For the project, [...]

Is this the season to march? In the span of a few weeks, I covered an immigration march in downtown Fresno and a César E. Chávez march in Delano, and visited with participants in the March for California’s Future in Dinuba. So far, I know of  at least two marches on April 10: There are [...]

Last Friday night, I covered the Fresno-regional High School Principals Lip Sync Contest. In case you’re not familiar with the contest, here are the details: All eight schools that participated in the competition earned $1,000 in scholarship money. The top three high schools - Sanger, Clovis West, and Buchanan – earned more scholarship money. Those three schools, plus [...]

My co-worker Dan and I spent Thursday morning in Delano. After an action-packed morning, which included interviewing the principal of Cesar E. Chavez High School, and speaking with longtime members of the United Farm Workers, we stopped in at Jennie’s Café for lunch. As the waitress placed my glass of iced tea on the table, [...]

I was so excited to receive a letter from the U.S. Census Bureau yesterday. “Yes!,” I thought to myself, “I finally get to fill out this census I’ve heard so much about.” (The letter ended up not being the actual census survey, but a reminder letter. Oh well. I have something to look forward to.) [...]

I felt like I was paid to drive the Valley’s Blossom Trail yesterday! A little after noon on Tuesday, I drove from Fresno to Selma, where I picked up Vida photographer Daniel Cásarez. Then we drove to Corcoran, to interview students on the school’s Academic Decathlon team, and then to Dinuba, to interview a Latino [...]