Cinco de Mayo to be led by students, Club del Centro and community leaders
Cinco de Mayo is an annual community event that has been held the first weekend in May at Santa Rita Park since 1995. The multi-cultural event has been sponsored by Del Alma, (Durango Educational Alliance for Multicultural Achievement), but this year the nonprofit organization announced in January that it wouldn’t be able to sponsor the event because of financial constraints. As a member of the Durango community who has lived my entire life here, I want to help lead an effort to ensure that the annual Cinco de Mayo celebration continues this year.
El Centro staff, myself, and many others are working together as a community to plan this year’s fiesta to be held in town from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, May 1st after FLC graduation.
Girls dancing at the Cinco de Mayo event
Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of community and culture and the Battle of Puebla that Mexico won against the French May 5th of 1862, expelling the last of the French army from Mexico. Here in Durango, this event has been looked forward to each year and it is necessary to keep the tradition alive. In order to do so, we here at El Centro and Club del Centro have decided to take the initiative to make sure that this event will be held this year and hopefully for years to come.
With much help from the community and local organizations we have started pulling the event together and are excited to see that there is so much support from our community. So far, we have raised enough money to fund the base of the event and ensure that there will be a Cinco de Mayo event even if it is not as big as it has been in the past. Thanks to the grant from the Center for Civic Engagement, we were awarded $2,000, and we only asked for $1,000! Also thanks to the Modern Language department and chair Amy Sellin for donating $150 and El Centro de Muchos Colores for donating $500 to this event.
With this community support, we really look forward to this event and we hope to see many of our Fort Lewis students there. If you are interested in the event and helping in the planning process please contact us here at El Centro de Muchos Colores at 247-7654 or by e-mail at elcentro_st1@fortlewis.edu. The next Cinco committee meeting will be held Thursday, March 4th from 10-11 a.m., at El Centro. Thank you all so much for supporting our cause and we will have updates in El Centro and on centrovision on KDUR about meetings and planning dates.
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