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		Edición impresa de Junio 2, 2009. Editorial in English By Zulma Prieto Continue Hispanic Children: The Rise of the Second Generation WHAT: Hispanics now make up more than one-in-five of all children in the United States and as their numbers have grown, their demographic profile has changed. Continue Roemer tapped as envoy to India President Barack Obama nominated former U.S. Rep. Tim Roemer as ambassador to India, the White House said late Wednesday. The 52-year-old Democrat represented South Bend and the surrounding region in the U.S. House from 1991 to 2003. Continue Hispanic Caucus Meets with Van Jones to Connect Hispanic Community to Green Jobs Movement (Washington DC) -The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) met with Van Jones, who is the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Equality. The meeting’s purpose was to discuss how the Latino community could help move the new clean energy economy forward. The CHC wants to ensure that the Latino community becomes skilled for green jobs and that green jobs training programs are accessible to Latino communities—particularly the provisions in the Green Jobs Act and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Continue Daniels answers budget questions in Plymouth Governor speaks at Chamber of Commerce luncheon By VIRGINIA RANSBOTTOM Tribune Staff Writer PLYMOUTH — After hearing what the governor had to say about the state’s fiscal forecast, people attending the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday left a little more informed, a bit more optimistic, but still with unanswered questions. Continue Community Exceeds Goal for Local Letter Carriers’ Food Drive FORT WAYNE – Local residents stepped up to the challenge and collected 453,513 pounds of food for the 2009 Letter Carriers’ Food Drive. That number is 100,000 more pounds of food than last year. Continue Like every year El Puente presents the graduates from our region who march out of the school and into de world. On this issue we have graduates form Washington High School, Clay High Schhol, Memorial High School, Elkhart Central High School, Goshen High School and GED. On following issues we will have graduates from other area High Schools. Full of dreams and hopes, they are the generations that will step in to bring new ideas to our communities. The graduates form the picture are from Elkhart Central High School. Picture by Hefzi Guzmán. I Inicio I Locales I Internacionales I Nacionales I Columnas I Entretenimiento I Deportes I Clasificados I Publicidad I Escríbanos I Conózcanos I English Section I Advertise I Contact us I Archivo I Enlaces I El Puente, LLC. ©