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

The fall is full of holidays: My birthday, then Halloween, and then Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) on November 2. And all of these holidays have something awesome in common: Sweet treats! I loved my chocolate birthday cake with ginger icing, and there is a special place in my heart for candy [...]

Brianna de Alba, 18, will be headlining the Jeans Brings Dreams concert series, which kicks off at Sierra Vista Mall Community Park on Saturday. During the event, which includes a concert, fashion show, and motivational speakers, Brianna will be performing the concert’s theme song, “When We Believe,” which she herself wrote. If you’re not yet [...]

Last week, my co-worker and I spent the morning covering a naturalization ceremony at Yosemite National Park. (The story is in this week’s edition of Vida en el Valle.) It took more than three hours to get from Fresno to Glacier Point, due to construction on Yosemite’s windy roads. When we finally exited the car [...]

As I’ve mentioned in past blog posts, I spend a lot of my work hours (and my free time) driving through the Central Valley. In fact, I’ve spent so many less-than-fascinating minutes on Highway 99 (The 99, for all you native West Coast-ers) and on Highway 180 that sometimes, I need to take recreational stops [...]

One person at the induction of 10 soldiers to the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Fresno Chapter 106 at Fresno’s Courthouse Park last Friday said that every soldier who returns from a tour of duty is a hero.   Ignacio Chávez Morales came back from Korea a little disgruntled. After being wounded twice within [...]

For this week’s edition of Vida, I featured three people who participated in the 32nd annual Joaquín Murrieta Horse Pilgrimage. I’d like to introduce you to two more longtime riders: During Sunday’s celebration at the Halfway Store, Dante Hurtado hopped on the stage and began singing a corrido about the legendary bandito Joaquín Murrieta. Hurtado, [...]