Help Imperial Valley Families Make Good Health a Priority While Celebrating Their Latino Heritage
Network for a Healthy California’s Annual Latino Health Awareness Month Festivities Help Imperial Valley Families Make Good Health a Priority While Celebrating Their Latino Heritage WHAT: The Network for a Healthy California—Latino Campaign, the El Centro Parks and Recreation, Imperial Food Bank, Imperial County Children & Families First Commission, Women, Infants and Children(WIC), Behavioral Health, March of Dimes, Breastfeeding Coalition and UC Cooperative Extension will host a Community Event in El Centro, to commemorate Latino Health Awareness Month. This [...]
Imperial County Sheriff’s Volunteer Service Organizations will be holding their Annual Pit BBQ
The Imperial County Sheriff’s Volunteer Service Organizations will be holding their Annual Pit BBQ dinner on Sunday, September 26, 2010, from 11:00 AM till 5:00 PM at the Casa De Manana building, located at the Imperial County Expo/ Fair Grounds in Imperial. Tickets will cost $7.00 per plate and can be purchased from any one of the volunteer groups, at the front counter of the sheriff’s office or at the door the day of the BBQ. This year we will also be selling pre-packaged meat at the door for $7.00 per pound. While you are there check out the displays [...]
Brawley’s Cattle Call Queen Competition Begins With Orientation Meeting
By Chris Furguson This year’s Cattle Call Queen’s Competition began with an orientation meeting for the six Queen candidates and the two Junior Queen candidates last Friday, August 27 at the Stockman’s Club. While Orientation usually takes place during the middle of September, a special schedule of training and practice days have been maintained in order to better prepare the candidates for competition and in being Queen or the first or second princess. These practices will consist of several runs through the horse riding patterns for the Horsemanship competition, make-up [...]
Imperial Valley Football Action Begins Friday Night
By Chris Furguson The Imperial Valley League Football Season begins in earnest this Friday, September 3 for most of the schools with a series of non-league preseason games. Last year's IVL champion Central Spartans (8-2 regular season, 5-0 in IVL) won the championship outright at last year's Bell Game against the Brawley Wildcats. For their first game of the football season, the Spartans, coached by Kevin Bird, will take on Lucky Arvizo's Cibola Raiders in Yuma on Friday. Game time is 7 pm. The Brawley Wildcats (8-2 regular season, 5-0 IVL) lost the overall IVL title at the Bell Game [...]
The Imperial Valley College Foundation will be sponsoring a Golf Tournament Sept. 25
The Imperial Valley College Foundation will be sponsoring a Golf Tournament Sept. 25 at Del Rio Country Club in Brawley to raise funds for IVC student book scholarships, "This is our inaugural event," said IVC Foundation Executive Director Todd Evangelist who added that the foundation intends this to become an annual event. "With the ever-increasing cost of academic textbooks, scholarships to purchase them is a focus of our foundation for this school year," he said. The competitive book scholarships are available to all IVC students who do not qualify for financial aid. The [...]
California Recovery Task Force Director Congratulates Recipients of Over $3.6 Million in Recovery Act Funds
California Recovery Task Force Director Rick Rice today issued the following statement after over $3.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) funds were awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture to recipients across California: “The funds awarded today will aid in reigniting California’s economy by creating jobs and improving infrastructure in rural communities. I congratulate today’s recipients and applaud their dedication to improving our schools, medical centers and fire stations.” The $242.3 million in Recovery Act projects announced [...]
WOVEN Chosen as Pepsi Refresh Project Finalist, They Need Your Vote
The Women of Virtue Empowerment Network (WOVEN) has been accepted as a finalist in the Pepsi Refresh Project. Each month Pepsi gives $1,000,000 to fund community projects in communities across the country. WOVEN is in the running for a $25,000.00 grant to fund their women's free support center. This is a great opportunity to bring some of Pepsi's grant money to the Imperial Valley to support a wonderful cause. The directors of WOVEN are encouraging everyone to log on to www.refresheverything.com , type WOVEN in the search box, and cast their vote for WOVEN. Another way to vote is [...]
ICONIC FIRST RESPONDER GREETS HEROES ABOARD THE USS MIDWAY
SAN DIEGO, September 1, 2010 – One of the first responders to the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building is welcomed as the keynote speaker for the 2010 Real Heroes Breakfast event. Major Chris Fields of the Oklahoma City Fire Department will address over 800 local business and community leaders aboard the USS Midway on September 30, 2010. Like all disasters, certain images stick in our minds as illustrations of their magnitude. And in Oklahoma City, a photograph of firefighter Chris Fields holding a child became one of those iconic images. Major [...]
Cocaine and Methamphetamine Seizure at Checkpoint
Blythe, Calif. — U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Yuma Sector seized more than 23 pounds of cocaine and more than four pounds of methamphetamines on Monday in two separate incidents. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Blythe station encountered two men driving white 2004 Ford F-150’s within two hours of each other, the first at approximately 10:15 a.m. and the second at approximately 12:00 p.m., at the Highway 98 checkpoint, north of Yuma. A cursory sniff by a K9 team alerted to the odor of narcotics or hidden persons within the vehicles. The subjects were [...]
Southwest H.S hosts Varsity Football Scrimmage
By: Jorge Villalobos EL CENTRO -"This is what they want,to play again," explains Assistant Coach Keith Smith Sr. As the familiar sounds of whistles being blown, football pads clashing against one another and the good ol' flags on the field coming into play, it was that time again. This past Friday, the Southwest High School held a football Carnival of sorts which was an open invitation to all the Varsity football teams in their division to come out and play. A few Varsity teams came out and took advantage of this warm up including the Holtville Vikings, Calexico Bulldogs, St. Joseph [...]
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