Dear Editor, All Morgan Hill students are invited to participate
in a great event
– the city of Morgan Hill’s annual Earth Day Art and Science
Fair. Students have a chance to win up to $250, and $500 for their
classroom.
Don’t miss chance to participate in Earth Day activities
Dear Editor,
All Morgan Hill students are invited to participate in a great event – the city of Morgan Hill’s annual Earth Day Art and Science Fair. Students have a chance to win up to $250, and $500 for their classroom.
Projects can be creative, fun and should promote the reduction or reuse of beverage containers (like soda cans or water bottles), or anything that relates to preventing stormwater run off pollution.
Last year’s big winner, Martin Murphy Middle School’s 7th and 8th grade classes, took home $900 for their art project.
The deadline for entries is April 14th – visit www.EarthDayArt.com for all the details.
Don’t miss your chance to come out to the Community Center from 2 to 6 p.m. April 23, to see all the creative projects entered this in this year’s fair.
Laura Clark, project coordinator
What happened at MACSA could ‘easily’ have happened elsewhere
Dear Editor,
Olivia Soza-Mendiola was correct in her letter to the editor: the recent news about administrative questions about MACSA should not detract from the very good work MACSA has done and continues to do in this community.
As a leader in the South County Collaborative, I have been very fortunate to work with MACSA employees who have demonstrated a genuine passion for working with all to serve all in the South County community.
I have always been able to count on them to willingly lend their expertise, their resources, their counsel, their support and their friendship whenever I needed it, personally or professionally. They are an incredible resource. I know I am among many who feel the same way.
I also had the great fortune to work with and have my life graced by the students at El Portal Leadership Academy and their top staff, Noemi Reyes and Tom Hernandez.
The students made me hopeful for the future and Mrs. Reyes’ and Mr. Hernandez’s extraordinary commitment to the kids deeply inspired me. Many of those from the public writing comments on The Dispatch’s Web site display an appalling ignorance of both El Portal and MACSA.
They do not serve only Latinos, they serve everyone. There were Anglo students at El Portal, just as anyone is able to take advantage of MACSA’s other services.
To take this opportunity to denigrate the organization for trying to fill a gap created by our mainstream institutions in failing to meet the needs of Latinos demonstrates the nasty bigotry that still exists in Gilroy, apparently needing little to unmask it, as many have jumped on Ms. Soza-Mendiola and MACSA as an organization, referring to the Mexican Klan (?) and making other disappointingly off-topic comments.
What happened at MACSA is a result of a combination of a number of factors exacerbated by questionable decisions by its management. There are things that need to be addressed, and do not doubt they will be by the employees, the board and donors. However, what has happened is not at all limited to a particular ethnicity.
Additionally, despite claims in the paper to the contrary, this situation could very easily have been experienced by the school district, a private business, a city department or another organization.
To think otherwise and imply that recent events are related to MACSA’s mission to help improve the quality of life for underserved Latinos among others in the community is simply wrong.
Dina Campeau, Morgan Hill
