7:14 pm UTC May. 10, 2021
Editor s Note: Author Chelcey Adami met Maribel Landeros and Karizma Vargas a few years ago when she wrote about Karizma’s quinceañera. Adami became close friends with Landeros, eventually asking her to be a bridesmaid at her wedding.
Maribel Landeros always wanted to be a mother.
Growing up in Salinas, she tried to pack up a bag to take her baby cousin home and cried when her aunt told her, No Mija, you can t take her.
Maribel Landeros
I was in heaven. I was the happiest mom on earth. I was so ready for motherhood. It was the best gift ever.
5:41 pm UTC May. 8, 2021
Editor s Note: Author Chelcey Adami met Maribel Landeros and Karizma Vargas a few years ago when she wrote about Karizma’s quinceañera. Adami became close friends with Landeros, eventually asking her to be a bridesmaid at her wedding.
Maribel Landeros always wanted to be a mother.
Growing up in Salinas, she tried to pack up a bag to take her baby cousin home and cried when her aunt told her, No Mija, you can t take her.
Maribel Landeros
I was in heaven. I was the happiest mom on earth. I was so ready for motherhood. It was the best gift ever.
They were there for their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
At 66, Juan Jose Flores rode his bicycle from his home in East Salinas to the parking lot on Harris Road. The Taylor Farms employee of 16 years tested positive for COVID-19 in November. Luckily my symptoms weren’t serious, Flores said in Spanish. I’m just happy that I was finally able to get the vaccine.
Organized by Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (CSVS) and the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California (GSA) and hosted by D’Arrigo California, more than 300 agricultural workers over the age of 65 were anticipated to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Relying on Community Values: How One School Leader Advocates for Vulnerable Families 7 min read
Carissa Purnell, director of the Family Resource Centers for Alisal Union School District in Salinas, Calif., provides essential services and critical information to vulnerable families.Nic Coury for Education Week
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Growing up in a large Filipino immigrant family in Sacramento, Calif., Carissa Purnell didn’t feel like she really fit into the local community. But that changed in 2010 when she started teaching English at a library in Salinas, Calif., while she was in graduate school.
“It just felt like home as soon as I got here,” Purnell said of Salinas, a city roughly two hours south of San Francisco where nearly 80 percent of the residents are Hispanic.