Hispanic Club: GOP Hispanic organization plans meeting.
Florida Today Staff The Republican Hispanic Club will conduct its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Friday at party headquarters 2525 Aurora Road in Melbourne.The club will discuss election activities.For information, call 773-8231....
Hispanic Club: A melting pot in the middle of the Metroplex
If a community's nightclub scene represents a proper gauge of its cultural diversity, Tarrant County is nearing United Nations status. On the heels of Tejano Rodeo, the upscale Hispanic club in the Fort Worth Stockyards, comes Midpointe, new to that bustling burg midway 'twixt Fort Worth and Dallas. (They call it Arlington.) Midpointe, at 1900 W. Division St., is an international club - a recently coined term that means it's a melting pot of music and...
Hispanic Club: Trail ride started by family to travel through Fort Bend
More than 30 years ago, Larry Ramirez watched 10 groups of trail riders come into Houston for the annual livestock and rodeo. He saw a group of black riders, but no Hispanic group. "And the idea hit me. Why not start a Hispanic club?" he recalls. So in 1973, Ramirez started the Los Vaqueros Rio Grande Trailride Association, which is still composed primarily of members of his family. The trail riders of Los Vaqueros - and other groups that attach themselves...
Hispanic Club: Waukesha Ramos receives Carroll scholarship
Carroll College has named Barbara Ramos as recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Scholarship, a full, four-year scholarship.Ramos, of Milwaukee, is a June graduate of Washington High School in Milwaukee, where she was president of the Young Women's Service Club, president of the Hispanic Club and senior class secretary. At Carroll, she will major in sociology, and then plans to study law. The scholarship is awarded for academic achievement and commitment to improving the...
Hispanic Club: Incumbent Clark faces ex-employee
Primary Election 2004 Long-time incumbent John Clark is facing political activist Michael Rios Aug. 31 in the race for Palm Beach County Tax Collector.Clark, who is completing his fourth term in the four-year post; Rios is head of the Puerto Rican-USA/Democratic Hispanic Club. The winner will face Republican Peter Carney in the Nov. 2 general election.Clark handily won re-election in 2000. In campaign literature and appearances, Clark says he has striven to make paying taxes as...