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<p>&nbsp;“First, he walked slower, then with a cane and now he’s in a wheelchair,” said Carol Walton about her husband of 52 years, professional bass player, music educator and author Ortiz Walton.</p>
<p>&nbsp;The Waltons are among the 22.9 million households in the United States that struggle daily to maintain an elderly relative or sick child at home—and out of a nursing home—for as long as possible, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving.</p>

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&nbsp;In 1994, Barbara Coe from Orange County, California got her 15 minutes of national attention as the founder of California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR). She was a co writer and promoter of the now infamous California Prop.187. According to Coe, “We are suffering robbery, rape and murder of law-abiding citizens at the hands of illegal barbarians, who are cutting off heads and appendages of blind, white, disabled gringos.” Her activities earned Coe and the CCIR Hate Group status from the Southern Poverty Law Center.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;I have never watched the movie “Grapes of Wrath” from beginning to end. I ran across it this afternoon and watched some of it.</p>

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SPECIAL SOCCER EDITION</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;Dear Mexican: Why does El Tri act like pendejos every time the U.S. men’s national soccer team kicks their ass? They won’t even shake hands or exchange jerseys after the game and they always act like the U.S. got lucky with the win, even though the Americans have destroyed Mexico on the pitch this century. I’d be pretty pissed if I gave up a goal to über-pussy Landon Donovan, too, but is there really any need to act like such poor losers after a friendly match?<br>

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<p>&nbsp;En las décadas de los 70 y 80, Joe Serrano organizaba los festivales de fiestas patrias cada septiembre en San Ysidro.</p>
<p>&nbsp;En ese entonces, dice, la fiesta era en grande, toda la comunidad participaba en el evento, que incluía música en vivo y hasta un desfile de carros alegóricos.</p>
<p>&nbsp;En ese entonces Serrano era líder de El Combo Latino, un grupo de música versátil que grabó canciones en honor al terruño, como Mi pueblito San Ysidro.</p>