Slice
of Yakima -- YVCC Trustee Garcia Honored (click here)
(YHR) Ricardo Garcia, a member of the Yakima Valley Community College
Board of Trustees, has received the 2001 Outstanding Advocate for
Equity Award from his fellow trustees statewide. Garcia, a resident
of Wapato and college trustee for more than seven years, ...
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2001/06/06
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Valley
Operations Get Marketing Help from Diverse Groups (click here)
(Sandy Summers/YHR) Gabriel Martinez, left, station manager for Granger's
Radio KDNA-FM, will benefit from marketing advice from students like
Eliza... |
2001/06/04
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| Students from Heritage College in Toppenish and the Business and
Economic Development Program of the Business School of the University
of Washington collaborated to develop fund raising and development
programs for Radio Cadena (06/04/01). Read more in the University
of Washington Weekly, on the UW
Business School website, or in the Seattle
Post Intelligencer. The UW and Heritage College student consulting
pilot project is underwritten by Washington Mutual Bank. |
2001/06/04
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Play
Gives Farm Workers a Safe Act to Follow (click here)
(Gordon King/YHR) Farm workers for the John I. Haas company stood
and sat in the shade Tuesday afternoon as they watched the play that
showed them ... |
2000/08/16
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 Latina
Women's Conference - Women Farmworkers, Know Your Rights
In the midst of cherry season, on July 1, 2000 165 Latinas took
time to attend a conference devoted to career opportunities and
labor rights. Radio KDNA was a cosponsor and participant. A complete
transcript of the presentation by Iraesma T Garza, Director of the
U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau, is avilable by
clicking here. More photos, click
here
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2000/07/01
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2000/06/22
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Hooked
on Life (click here)
(Sandy Summers/YHR) Juan Orozco has come a long way since his days
as a homeless drug addict eight years ago. Today, Orozco is a city
council memb... |
2000/05/21
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Determined
to Succeed (click here)
(Roy Musitelli/YHR) Gloria Mendoza has drawn off her farm-working
background to start a business that provides training to people wishing
to ente... |
2000/04/20
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Cesar
Chavez's Influence Lives On (click here)
(Colleen Pohlig/YHR) Tomas Villanueva met Cesar Chavez, the late
farm workers' rights leader, 34 years ago. His life changed forever.
Consequently, so did many others' in the Yakima Valley. Chavez,
the United Farmworkers of Americ...
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2000/04/01
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Providence
Honors Radio Station KDNA (click here)
(Julie Peterson/YHR) For its part in helping the Spanish-speaking
community, radio station KDNA was honored with Providence Health
System's Community Health Award. The award was presented to the
radio station director at a luncheon in ...
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2000/03/30
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Radio
Cadena Adapts to Spanish Community's Changing Needs (click here)
(Mike Barenti/YHR) The accolades that accompanied December's 20th
anniversary celebration of Radio KDNA, the nation's first all Spanish-language
public radio station, have faded into background static. Now the station's
execu... |
2000/03/20
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Entre
Amigas (click here)
(Sandy Summers/YHR) Guests Catalina Gomez, left, and Naomi Wentzel,
center, talk with "Entre Amigas" host Ninfa R. Gutierrez. The show
is broadcas... |
2000/02/29
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Pastors
Bring Message to Air Waves (click here)
(Pat Van Antwerpen, Voices Correspondent/YHR) Three Lower Yakima Valley
pastors -- two Hispanics and an Anglo -- have launched a Spanish-language
talk show, "Todo de Todo" (All of All), in an effort to cross denominational
lines and help local Latinos... |
1999/10/07
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KDNA
Volunteer Now Station Manager (click here)
(Pat Van Antwerpen, Voices Correspondent/YHR) While much of his audience
is still clinging to a last few precious moments of sleep, Antonio
Balderas, station manager of Radio Cadena (KDNA), is setting up his
day. Listening with one ear on the weathe... |
1999/10/07
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Radio
Cadena is Community Link for Spanish Broadcasts (click here)
(Roy Musitelli/YHR) In the early days, says Executive Director
Ricardo Garcia, KDNA made waves on the airwaves through its advocacy
of farm-worker ... |
1999/10/04
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A
Rising Tide: La Raza in the New Millennium (click here)
William E. Kennard, former Chairman Federal Communications Commission,
speaking before the National Council of La Raza, in Houston. |
1999/07/28
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 Six
months after going on the air, KDNA's first big news story was in
May 1980, when Mount Saint Helens erupted (05/18/1980). KDNA
was how Spanish speakers learned what was going on and how to protect
themselves from the ash. This picture shows the ashstorm about 80
miles to the North, two hours into the eruption. |
1980
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 Tardeadas
were regular events held in KDNA's Plaza Agustin Lara, until severe
winter snows brought down the kiosko. The tardeadas included performances
by local and visiting musicians, dance, food, and an opportunity for
listeners to meet. |
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