News (Noticias) for Michigan

Jessica, a 2008 graduate of Immokalee High School, left last week for Michigan State University. She and several of her classmates will attend Michigan State in East Lansing through a program designed specifically for migrant students.

The Michigan State University College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) was initiated in 2000 and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The program is one of 45 in the nation and accepts 50 students to the program each year.”*

Nicolas Arreola measures success by the smiles on his customers’ faces.

His Mexican market in downtown Ypsilanti - the only grocery store in the city - draws customers from Canton, Saline and Ann Arbor.

“We see new faces every day,” said Arreola, who is celebrating a first year of success in Ypsilanti this month. “It’s good for business.” “*

Henry Sanchez, a 61-year-old resident of Saranac, is hoping to bring his experience to Washington by running for Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District seat for the U.S. Congress on the Democratic ticket.

“I think there’s a lot that has to be accomplished,” Sanchez said.”*

One of Dulce VanDyken’s earliest craft memories dates back to her childhood in Cuba, watching her mother sew custom brassieres.

“I used to sit under her sewing machine and pick up all her brassiere scraps,” she said, recalling how she would then move to her own sewing area across the room and make little bras for Barbie dolls.

“I used to sell them to the neighborhood kids for a quarter,” she said, laughing.”*

At age 19, Jane Garcia, who at the time was a beautician and mother of three, decided it was time to join the fight for Latinos to get their voices heard.

Forty years later, the southwest Detroit native can look back on a career that’s challenged and changed the city’s Catholic Church, the public school system, the state’s political parties, federal, state and city government and corporations.”*

Detroit Tigers catcher Ivan Rodriguez is in the final season of his five-year, $50 million contract. Some speculate that, at 36, this could be the final season for an almost certain first-ballot Hall of Famer.

“Is this going to be my last year?” Rodriguez said. “I don’t think so. Anybody who says that is not telling the truth.”"*