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Texas, Sanchez moved to Zacatecas, Mexico when she was two years old. She lived there until she was 15, then she moved to Hugoton to live with her uncle and his family. Once in Kansas, she had to learn English.
"It took me a year or two years to understand a little bit, and I'm still working on my English," Sanchez said.
Sanchez said.
Meeting more people and having a job where she had to speak English helped Sanchez learn the language quickly.
When she needs a reminder of home, Sanchez attends Maracas — Latin dance nights at The Pool Room, 925 Iowa St.
St. "We don't know how to dance salsa, but it was really nice to hear Latin music," Sanchez said.
Although she is still straddling both worlds through language and culture, Sanchez's future is in this country.
She wants to become a middle or high-school math teacher and live in the United States permanently.
COMMUNITY BUILDERS
She said she eventually wanted to bring her family — five brothers, four sisters and her parents — here from Mexico so it can have a better life.
Lawrence's Spanish-speaking community is increasing. Businesses that cater to this population are also on the rise.
Kemly Regidor's three daughters, Marta, Maria, and Monica, chuckled as they watched Father William Velasquez speak to the congregation at St. John The Evangelist Church Sunday afternoon. St. John's holds mass in Spanish every Sunday at 2 p.m.
La Estrella, 2449 Iowa St. rants Spanish videos and sells CDs, phone cards and groceries Tortas Jalisco, 3300 W. Sixth St., authentic Mexican food Maraces, The Pool Room, 925 Iowa St., Latin music every Friday, starting at 10 p.m. St. John the Evangelist Church, 1234 Kentucky St. Spanish mass every Sunday at 2 p.m.
Maria Alonse
Maria Alonso During her first months in Lawrence, Maria Alonso said she hated Kansas. As a graduate teaching assistant, Alonso met several people in her department, but she still missed her home in Galicia, Spain.
She said she would call her mom and compare Galicia to Lawrence, complaining about what Lawrence lacked. Eventually Alonso's mom turned the tables. Instead of complaining about Lawrence, Alonso would tell her mom about the things that Lawrence did have and her mom would then complain to her.
"I started feeling lucky because they have so many things here," she said.
Alonso now likes Kansas and its culture. She enjoys going to rodeos, local lakes and camping. She appreciates Lawrence and its shops and restaurants. But she never eats Spanish food, goes to Latin music clubs or rents Spanish videos. She said places such as La Estrella were good for those who wanted a reminder of home, but they shouldn't go too often if they want to have a smooth adjustment.
Although Alonso has tried to
distance herself from Spain by embracing aspects of American culture, she is still holding tentatively to her other life, her other world. Her dream job would be to work as a publisher for a magazine or to write books. And her dream location? Spain. Alonso said one thing keeping her in the United States was the poor economy in Galicia.
Galicia.
"In Galicia, the government just changed," Alonso said. "If the situation changes, I'm going to go running back to Spain."
Candidates up TV advertising spots
- Edited by Danielle Hillix
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Just as John Kerry launched two campaign ads yesterday intended to help voters become familiar with him, President Bush's campaign unveiled a commercial calling the Democrat more liberal than Ted Kennedy or Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Kerry says in one of his new ads, "My priorities are jobs and health care. My commitment is to defend this country." In the other, the presumptive nominee says he would "reach out to the international community in sharing the burden" in Iraq.
burden in Iraq.
The 30-second ads started running in media markets in 17 battleground states yesterday, the first in a series meant to explain Kerry's proposals and present his biography as well as counter impressions created by Bush's negative ads.
Kerry's campaign bought its largest amount of airtime yet this year — about $4.5 million worth— to run ads over 10 days through the end of April. The buy overlaps by a few days the $1.3 million the campaign already was spending this week. One Kerry campaign official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the additional money means Kerry is now running even with Bush on the air for the first time.
the air for the first time Democratic strategists who track ad spending say Kerry's buy combined with what liberal independent groups are spending on ads this week, means that Democrats are significantly outspending Bush on the air for the first time this election cycle.
time this election comes. Kerry advisers considered the launch the official start of Kerry's general election ads, even though the candidate has been running modest levels of ads, mainly criticizing Bush, since early March.
learning about Kerry. And much of what they know about him comes from Bush's commercials that portray the four-term Massachusetts senator as a flip-flopper, a serial tax-raiser and a soft-on-terrorism lawmaker.
terrorism, lawmaker. Bush's campaign continues its effort to define Kerry with its new commercial that contends "Kerry's problem is not that people don't know him. It's that people do."
ple do.
The 60-second ad, to air on national cable networks starting today, quotes several newspaper editorials that say Kerry engages in doublespeak and waffles on positions. And, the ad says, "The nonpartisan National Journal magazine ranks Kerry the most liberal member of the Senate" — more than Clinton or Kennedy, two liberal senators the GOP loves to vilify. Photos of Kerry with each senator are shown in the ad.
ator are shown in the image. Kerry spokesman Chad Clanton called Bush's ad bogus. He said newspapers nationwide also have said that Bush is trying to mislead the public with his ad campaign.
Bush's current ads are negative, including one running in media markets in 18 states that assails Kerry on military issues, while Kerry's commercials are positive. But the Democrat continues to criticize the president while on the campaign trail. And, Kerry has run more than a dozen attack ads against Bush since the fall, primarily in states that held early Democratic primary contests.
Steve Schmidt, a Bush campaign spokesman, said the ad simply lays out "Kerry's positions as described by America's leading newspapers."
Kansas to distribute 200.000 gun locks
TOPEKA - Law enforcement agencies across Kansas plan to distribute more than 200,000 gun locks as part of the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Project ChildSafe campaign.
estes.
Kerry strategist Tad Devine said the campaign is running positive ads now because voters want to hear an optimistic plan for fixing America's ills.
The Associated Press
Last year the foundation gave out about 20,000 locks in Kansas, spokeswoman Dee Dee Dockins said yesterday after a Statehouse ceremony to launch the distribution effort.
This year, the Kansas Highway Patrol, sheriff's offices and police departments will help hand out 218,500 of the locks.
218. 500 of the locks The foundation bought the locks through a $50 million grant from the U.S.Department of Justice and is handling them out around the country.
outdoors
Dockins said gun owners should use the locks or similar devices to help keep guns out of
the hands of children.
"We're talking about responsible firearms ownership," she said. "If you're not willing to take any of these responsibilities on, you should not own a gun."
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius last week vetoed a bill that would have allowed Kansans to carry concealed weapons if they meet certain criteria.
Proponents of the measure said it would allow Kansans to defend themselves.
But opponents had argued that allowing concealed weapons would increase the potential for accidental deaths — especially among children.
Lt. Gov. John Moore said Kansans should never have to hear about another child being killed by a gun that was carelessly left out by the owner.
let off by the fire.
"We want to make sure safety exists in every gun owner's home," Moore said.
State, defendants decide fate of casino
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The state and other defendants have until tomorrow to respond to an appeal filed by the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma of a judge's refusal to grant the tribe permission to reopen its downtown casino.
A week later, U.S. District Court Judge Julie A. Robinson in Topeka declined to issue a temporary restraining order that would have allowed the casino to reopen. Robinson said the tribe failed to show it would suffer irreparable harm if the casino remained closed and did not provide convincing evidence it would win the legal fight to keep its casino operating.
A decision on the appeal, filed last week with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, could come as early as next week.
week.
State and local officials closed the casino — with guns drawn, according to the tribe's appeal — on April 1, taking more than $1 million in cash and property.
including about 150 gambling machines.
In their appeal of her decision, the tribe's attorneys called the raid "perhaps the most egregious invasion of tribal sovereignty in modern times."
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