Santa Ana Cesar Chavez Celebration & Youth Leadership Conference set for 3/30

SANTA ANA COUNCILMAN ROMAN REYNA AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEE JOSE SOLORIO INVITE PUBLIC TO CESAR CHAVEZ CELEBRATION AND YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Variety of family activities planned in honor of the farm worker labor leader

SANTA ANA – Santa Ana Councilman Roman Reyna and Community College Trustee Jose Solorio invite the public to the 13th Annual Cesar E. Chavez Celebration and Youth Leadership Conference on Saturday, March 30, 2013, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Santa Ana College amphitheatre located at 1530 W. 17th Street (at Bristol Street) in Santa Ana.

Trustee Solorio, Councilman Reyna and other guest speakers will be on hand to greet and address the crowd. In addition to elected officicials, other featured speakers will include Attorney Rosa Elena Sahagún who graduated from Santa Ana High School and is a frequent CNN guest commentator regarding immigration reform/deferred action, Ernesto Medrano who worked for the United Farm Workers is now a local Teamsters labor leader, and Ross Romero who is a related cousin of Cesar Chavez and local community leader. This year a Youth Leadership Conference for high school students will begin on Friday night and continue throughout the day on Saturday.

Trustee Solorio marched with other attendees at last year’s Cesar E. Chavez Santa Ana Celebration. Publications: click for larger image.

“Cesar Chavez’s legacy of hard work and dedication to public service should be something we all aspire to. It is a privilege to honor his life’s work by helping to host this event,” Solorio says. “Cesar Chavez’s example played a significant role in my farm worker upbringing in the Central Valley. This event is a great way to pay tribute to an esteemed leader who exemplified the importance of education and giving back to the community.”

Reyna adds, “This year’s Chavez Celebration will include a youth leadership conference, and speakers and entertainers that will motive local teenagers to set life goals and give back to the community. We’ll be at Santa Ana College and that’ll help get them thinking about going to college, so that’s another positive element.”

To learn more about the life and legacy of Cesar E. Chavez, you can visit www.chavezfoundation.org.

Community College Trustee Solorio is a Vice President of the Rancho Santiago Community College District Board of Trustees. The Board oversees Santa Ana College and Santiago Canyon College and represents 700,000 residents in the cities of Anaheim, Garden Grove, Irvine, Orange, Santa Ana, Tustin and Villa Park. For more information about Trustee Solorio, visit Solorio4California.com.

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