A man and woman have been arrested and criminally charged in connection with a fight that ended with a fatal stabbing near a group of San Jose parks earlier this month, police said.
On Oct. 21-22, East Aurora Unit District 131 welcomed Dr. Sandra Mercuri as she visited district offices and several schools. Mercuri is a nationally-recognized educational consultant in second language acquisition, dual language education, and curriculum integration for biliteracy development.
Billie Blair
Pratt Tribune
A taqueria is a Mexican restaurant specializing in tacos and burritos, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary. Chavez is a family name. Pratt now has a new restaurant called Taqueria Chavez. It is located at the south end of town in the parking lot of the Pratt Business Center and Self-Storage building. Some people refer to this eatery as a “taco truck.” It is a walk up trailer fully equipped to make a variety of homemade Mexican delights, some of which may be new to area customers.
Beef tripe, roasted tongue and cheek meat are just a few of the new, and interesting items offered by food truck cook Nancy Chavez, who came with four children to Pratt from Hugoton, KS when her husband, Juan, changed jobs. Nancy had a dream since her children were little to open a taco truck and serve fresh Mexican food. With the move to Pratt and her children now aged 22, 20, 16 and 8, she and her husband decided the time and place were good. Nancy’s two oldest dau
It wasn’t yet noon and Magda Maldonado had already overseen her second funeral of the day.
The 58-year-old director at Continental Funeral Home in East L.A. had another service scheduled in four hours, but for a moment she sat down and closed her eyes. She thought about her grieving employees and how, in less than a week, four of them had lost loved ones to COVID-19.
“I don’t have words,” she said, holding back tears.
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Seven minutes from the funeral home, in a storefront with signs boasting specials for quinceañeras and weddings, Elizabeth Garibay arranged rose buds and baby’s breath into funeral bouquets at J&I Florist some of the only orders that haven’t dwindled during the pandemic.