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Chicas Calaveras commemorate Cinco de Mayo Wed, 05/05/2021 - 6:09pm
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Members of Chicas Calaveras Ines Magaña Picazo and Karla Valentina celebrated Cinco de Mayo by wearing their traditional Dia de los Muertos costumes. The Day of the Dead is celebrated all year. This is how we celebrate our culture and express it creatively, the two said. Chicas Calaveras a nonprofit organization that shares Mexican culture through its costumes and artistic expression commemorated Cinco de Mayo at Canyon High School in New Braunfels on Wednesday, where they took photos and shared their story with students.
Comal Independent School District said it has stepped up disinfectant treatments at Canyon Middle School after an uptick in COVID-19 cases at the campus.
The 40 active and 217 symptomatic cases at the school, reported on Comal ISDâs COVID-19 page on Tuesday, account for nearly half of both totals, 86 and 394 respectively, throughout the district, which ended its mandatory mask mandate at facilities on March 10.
âFor the two week period between April 19 and May 4, there have been 48 students who have tested positive, most of whom have been asymptomatic,â said Steve Stanford, the districtâs executive communications director, who said 238 students were quarantined after being exposed to those identified as lab-confirmed positive cases.