(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant)
Lifelong Silver City resident Nellie Baca-Leyba (seated) celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday. One of Baca-Leyba’s daughters, Julie Medina (foreground), grandson Andres Medina and 5-year-old great-granddaughter Tereza Acosta all unmasked because they are members of the same household are also pictured during a drive-by parade in honor of the centenarian.
Lifelong Silver City resident Manuela Baca-Leyba celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday with help from dozens of participants in a socially distanced drive-by parade which included Silver City firetrucks, vintage automobiles and several lowriders.
On Sunday, Mariachi Plata de Western New Mexico University was enlisted by Baca-Leyba’s friend, Juanita Escobedo, to serenade the centenarian with songs of belated
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Terri de la Peña at the Pascual Marquez Family Cemetery in Santa Monica Canyon, where some of her ancestors are buried. (Courtesy Terri de la Peña)
Over the next year, we re hoping to hear your stories about how race and ethnicity shape your life and, hopefully, publish as many of these stories as we can, so that we can all keep on talking. We re calling this effort
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By Terri de la Peña
In October 2019 eons ago, it seems I watched John Leguizamo s Latin History for Morons unfold at the Ahmanson Theater.