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Volume 41 • Issue 20 • May 20 - May 26, 2021
1701 S. 55th. Street, Kansas City, KS. 66106 • (816) 221- 4747
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School poster contest winners
Capt. Luis Ortiz
Mexico’s Andrea Meza crowned Miss Universe Andrea Meza, coronada Miss Universo
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iss México Andrea Meza fue coronada Miss Universo en el concurso anual 69, que se
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Missouri ending federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits
Missouri pone fin a los beneficios federales de desempleo
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retrasó un año debido al COVID-19, el domingo por By Roberta Pardo la noche (16 de mayo) en el Seminole Hard Rock iss Mexico Andrea Meza was crowned Hotel and Casino en Hollywood, Florida. Miss Universe at the 69th annual “Me siento muy honrada de haber
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pageant, which was delayed a year because of COVID-19, Sunday night (May 16) at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
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Drought emergency declared in most of California
Alan Pulido
Noticias Nacionales
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Deportes
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Ortiz serves community through work with KCPD Ortiz sirve a la comunidad a través del trabajo con KCPD
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l capitán del Departamento de Policía de Kansas City (Missouri) (KCPD) Luis Ortiz recuerda que cuando tenía 7 años le dijo a sus padres que iba a ser oficial de policía cuando fuera mayor. En ese entonces, El Salvador natal de Ortiz atravesaba una guerra civil. Ver lo que estaba sucediendo despertó el deseo en Ortiz de ayudar a otros, dijo. “Quería que la gente tuviera a alguien en quien confiar”, dijo Ortiz. Cuando era adolescente, su familia se mudó a Miami. Allí, terminó la escuela secundaria y estudió en la universidad, donde obtuvo su título de asociado en ciencias de la computación de Miami Dade College.
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By Angie Baldelomar
ansas City (Missouri) Police Department (KCPD) Capt. Luis Ortiz remembers K being 7 years old and telling his parents he was
going to be a police officer when he was older. At that time, Ortiz’s native El Salvador was going through a civil war. Seeing what was going on sparked a desire in Ortiz to help others, he said. “I wanted people to have someone to rely on,” Ortiz said. When Ortiz was a teen, his family settled in Miami. There, he finished high school and put himself through college, where he got his associate’s degree in computer science from Miami Dade College. At the time, Ortiz also was applying to police departments across the nation. Kansas City was among them. “I (had) heard good things about
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UGPHD announces school poster contest winners
Mia, Carlos, Mireya, Ruby and Anai Melendez.
l domingo (16 de mayo), el Departamento de Salud Pública del Gobierno Unificado (UGPHD, por sus siglas en inglés) anunció los ganadores del gran premio del concurso de carteles escolares #IHelpedConquerCOVID. Celebrada en el James P. Davis Hall en Wyandotte Lake Park, la ceremonia de premiación celebró a los finalistas que representan a cada distrito escolar en el condado de Wyandotte y la Arquidiócesis de Kansas City, Kansas. Las obras de arte de todos los finalistas se exhibieron en el evento. “Ver las obras de arte de estos talentosos artistas jóvenes es asombroso y muestra cuán creativos y resistentes han sido nuestros estudiantes para hacer frente a la pandemia del COVID-19”, dijo el Dr. Allen Greiner, director médico de la UGPHD. “La creatividad puede ser una salida importante para hacer frente a un evento tan estresante, y estos estudiantes hicieron un excelente trabajo al expresarse en sus obras de arte”. Las selecciones de primer, segundo y tercer lugar de cada distrito recibieron un
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n Sunday (May 16), the Unified Government Department of Public Health O (UGPHD) announced the grand prize-winners
of the #IHelpedConquerCOVID school poster contest. Held at the James P. Davis Hall at Wyandotte Lake Park, the awards ceremony celebrated the finalists representing each school district in Wyandotte County and the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas. All finalists’ artwork was displayed at the event. “Seeing the artwork of these talented young artists is amazing, and it shows how creative and resilient our students have been in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dr. Allen Greiner, UGPHD chief medical officer. “Creativity can be an important outlet for coping with such a stressful event, and these students did a terrific job of expressing themselves in their artwork.” Each district’s first-, second-and third-place selections got a prize. The first-place finishers advanced to the final round
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UGPHD anuncia a los ganadores del concurso de carteles escolares