Cinco de Mayo Celebration

The city of South El Monte will be having a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

Friday, May 1, 2009

5pm-9pm

South El Monte Community Center
1530 Central Avenue
South El Monte, CA


Bring the entire family for an evening filled with entertainment. There will be music, games, falles, crafts, a jumper, live entertainment food and much more.


Boxing Show
At 7:30pm
Featuring Boxers from Southern California


What a great way to bring the community together. We expect this event to a blast and foster unity in the great city of South El Monte.


For more information: 626 579 2043

Nick Salerno to Become Superintendent of EMUHSD

El Monte Union High School District Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, Nick Salerno, has been appointed superintendent by the El Monte Union High School District Board of Trustees.


Salerno replaces Furnald who announced her retirement effective July 1, 2009 after 39 years with the District.


We wish Mr. Salerno success at his new position and may he govern as a man of caution and reason with the interests of the students always first.

Tickets are Here!

The tickets for our June 4th Dessert Reception Fundraiser are here! Yay! A fellow El Montean donated the tickets for our event.

The tickets are crystallic! I attached a picture of a ticket taken from my digital camera I hope you all can see it okay. Expecting a big crowd of supporters on June 4th....!

Spring Into Summer Youth Festival

Spring Into Summer Youth Festival

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Time: 10am-8pm

Location: Salesian Boys and Girls Club

3218 Wabash Avenue, Los Angeles, CA Ca 90063

Contact Information: Jose Silva (626) 409-6499



Featuring: From So you can think you can Dance, Pop Lock King, Mr. Fantastic with DJ Irony and E.P.I.C. Battleground of 2009 b-boy and b-girl pop lock contest


The Following Activities Will be Provided: Open Mic * Summer job, college and health fair * Live Street Art * Slam poetry * Art auction * Live performance * Martial Arts Demo * Bouncing Castle * Rock Climbing * Face painting * Poppin and Breakin


We are confident that this event on Saturday will be a huge success for the community, students and parents. I look forward to see you there! We will have a booth there of information about our scholarship program and future events.

Have a crystallic day!

El Monte Community Jog-a-thon

Saturday April 25 an El Monte Community Jog-a-thon was held at Durfee School in El Monte.

What a great event! Parents, students, educators, and the community were out in full force participating in the jog-a-thon. Many booths were set up on health, wellness, nutrition. There were also free manicures, and hair cuts, and a healthy lunch of baby carrots, apple slices, juice or milk, and a veggie quesadilla on whole wheat tortilla. The event was free to the public and a encouraged a healthy, active lifestyle to the those in attendance.

Eating right, exercising and taking care of your body is essential to reaching your American Dream.

Sen. Cedillo Supports MVHS Boys Soccer Program

On Saturday April 25th Mountain View HS's Varsity Boys Soccer Program held a Pozole Dinner Fundraiser to raise money for their CIF Rings. It was great time with yummy pozole, a silent auction and MVHS soccer tshirts for sale. State Senator Gil Cedillo stopped by to show his support the program. Sen. Cedillo chatted with the young men and took some photos. Also EMHUHSD Board of Education members: Salvador Ramirez, Carlos Salcedo, and Esthela Siegrist with her husband, David, were also in attendance, when I stopped by late in the afternoon.

We are confident that God will continue to multiply the success of the soccer program at Mountain View and look forward to a winning season next year. There is still time to support the championship soccer team with a contribution. You can walk in or mail in your checks/money orders at:

Mountain View High School

2900 Parkway Dr

El Monte, CA 91732

(626) 443-6181

Checks are made payable to: Mountain View High School

Memo: Boys Varsity Soccers

The path to college is made available through the road of athleticism. We encourage athletes such as the soccers players at MVHS to parlay their love and devotion for soccer at the collegiate level.

501 Spotlight

I would like to introduce our readers to a great 501c3 nonprofit in the San Gabriel Valley, the

How Can We Help Foundation.

The foundation wants to reach out to struggling communities in the Greater Los Angeles area with caring hearts and open arms, asking them, “How can we help?” The foundation will then match resources to needs, focusing on youth and those who work with them, in an effort to break the cycle of need through empowerment.



Please learn more about the organization at: www.howcanwehelpfoundation.org.