June 18, 2026

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Special day to commemorate: Veterans Day

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Every year on November 11th, the United States celebrates Veterans Day and dresses its streets and buildings with American flags. But do you really know the origin of this celebration and what is commemorated? It is very common for this celebration to be confused with ‘Memorial
ARIZONA HISTORY

Jewish Federation Raises Nearly $60,000

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Thanks to community generosity between May 3-21, $35,000 has been donated to the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Migrant Relief Services Emergency Fund for Central American asylum seekers transiting Tucson. Combined with an initial anonymous $25,000 matching grant donation, that’s $60,000 to assist with emergency expenses.  Expenditures are managed by a
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¿Te sientes vieja o viejo a los cuarenta y más?

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En días pasados en Facebook el LIC. Y DR. MANUEL RODOLFO “FIFI” BERNAL LEON (de los que no quiere el Presidente por aquello del “fifi”, originario del Pueblo Mágico de Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, con residencia también en Hermosillo, publicó: En México, si tú tienes más de cuarenta años o más,  estás muerto(a) para conseguir […]
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Memorial Day

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Our nation on Monday, May 27th, marked Memorial Day, the day we remember those men and women of the military who sacrificed their lives for this country.  The history of Memorial Day goes back to the 19th century. People who lost their friends and relatives in the Civil War started to decorate the graves of […]
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Cinco de Mayo

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By Councilmember Richard Fimbres Cinco de Mayo is the holiday held on May 5, commemorating the Mexican Army’s victory over French Forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguin. In the U.S., Cinco de Mayo has taken on significance beyond that in Mexico and the […]
HISTORY TUCSON

Education is the Key to Sucess!

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The youth leadership conference started 30 years ago with MannyAlvarado who was the Talent Search Director at Pima College, Ralph Chavez, the Tucson Unified School District Drop-out Prevention Director, David and Cathy Rodriguez, and Mary and Richard Fimbres. We were losing too many of our youth to the prison system, gangs and the cemetery so […]
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María Alejandra Hayde Moreno Vázquez

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Nacida en Magdalena, Sonora, un 24 de abril de 1947 era la menor de cuatro hermanos. Sus abuelos paternos fueron Reyes Vázquez y Francisca Fontes y los abuelos maternos Francisco Moreno y Manuela de Moreno, quienes engendraron a sus padres Pedro Moreno Aldecoa (originario del Llano, Sonora) y de la Magdalenense Luz Vázquez Fontes nacida […]

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