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Creative Ideas for Free Summer Fun
Local parks, including Bagdouma Park, are a great place for youth to play sports, skate, and swim with their friends during the summer. FATIMA RAMIREZ/Coachella Unincorporated EASTERN COACHELLA...
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Mecca Movies in the Park Start July 11
MECCA – Children and their families are invited to free family movie nights at the Mecca Community Center Park as part of the Desert Recreation District’s Movies in the Park series, taking place on...
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Youth Mobilize for Day of Action in Coachella
Former vandal Jose Rodriguez spent Monday cleaning up Avenida Las Palmas in Coachella as part of the Clinton Foundation Day of Action. Photo: AURORA SALDIVAR/Coachella Uninc AURORA SALDIVAR and...
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A Safe Space for Community at San Antonio del Desierto mobile home park
A young resident hula hoops at the grand opening of the community park at San Antonio del Desiert mobile home park. Photo: COACHELLA UNINC MARIA GARCIA, KARLA MARTINEZ and BRENDA RINCON/Coachella...
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Previously Halted Improvements Now Underway in Mecca
The streets near Mecca Elementary School are undergoing a million-dollar makeover.Photo: COACHELLA UNINC IVAN VALENZUELA/Coachella Uninc MECCA – The streets near Mecca Elementary School are...
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Global Girl Media Uses Filmmaking to Empower ECV Girls
Coachella Unincorporated reporter Karla Martinez (left) interviewed her mother, Mirna Rodriguez, and grandmother, Maria Flores, for a Global Girl Media video project. Photo: COACHELLA UNINC Editor’s...
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Residents: Measure D Will Improve CVWD Representation for Eastern Coachella...
MARIA GARCIA and BRENDA R. RINCON/Coachella Uninc MECCA — A grassroots committee of mobile home park owners and residents, along with several elected officials, is urging voters to pass Measure...
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KARLA MARTINEZ AND AMBER AMAYA/Coachella Uninc Coachella — Eastern Coachella Valley residents can expect to see a lot more of Hearts for Art’s bright red van. The mobile art program, run by the Old...
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United Cerebral Palsy reopens Mecca location for Eastern Coachella Valley...
On Wednesday, July 23, United Cerebral Palsy of the Inland Empire opened a year round program in Mecca, Calif. Sofia Campos works as the director of program services for all UCPIE programs in the...
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Regional Access Project Foundation brings infused waters to Mecca
On Thursday, July 31, the Regional Access Project Foundation took infused waters and fitness demonstrations to a Movies In The Park event in Mecca, Calif. Photo: AMBER AMAYA/Coachella Uninc IVAN...
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15 Years Later, Comfort Station for Farmworkers a Reality
Plans for a permanent comfort station to be built at at the Galilee Center in Mecca, Calif. were on display outside the center on December 22, 2014. Construction on the station began this month and...
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Crisálida Workshops Celebrate Spanish Poetry and Literature
CHRISTIAN MENDEZ / Coachella Unincorporated The smell of pozole and tostadas floated through the air as a group of women and young people gathered for a poetry workshop at the North Shore Beach &...
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Second Phase of Mobile Home Paving Project to be Completed by End of May
Castro Mobile Home Park was one of 21 mobile home parks in the eastern Coachella Valley to be paved during the first phase of the paving project. Photo: Courtesy of Pueblo Unido CDC KARLA MARTINEZ /...
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New Mecca Comfort Station Open for Migrant Farmworkers
Claudia Gomez, co-founder of The Galilee Center in Mecca, Calif., welcomes the first field workers to the newly opened Mecca Comfort Station. Photo: Amanda Flores / Coachella Unincorporated By Amanda...
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Vanpool Program Inches Towards Reality
(Above Image: Christian Mendez) By: Karla Martinez MECCA, Calif. — For female field workers in the Eastern Coachella Valley, getting to and from work often means paying $10 a day for transportation or...
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