
{"id":2868,"date":"2008-06-26T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2008-06-26T06:39:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T14:39:09","slug":"letter-thanks-from-pa%e2%80%99lante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/26\/letter-thanks-from-pa%e2%80%99lante\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Thanks from Pa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Pa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lante\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebration of Latino high school graduates last week, a young man encouraged his younger peers:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Even if you think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never get English, keep trying because you will get it eventually. And keep studying until you graduate, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that hard after all. And standing here ready to graduate feels really good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe graduating senior speaking these words had overcome the odds by succeeding in a rigorous technology program despite coming from a family headed by a limited-English-speaking single mom who did not have much formal schooling. He was participating in Noche de Estrellas, or Night of the Stars, the graduation celebration hosted by Pa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lante, a Spanish-language youth media program serving the community in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.<\/p>\n<p>Pa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lante would like to thank the diverse local businesses that helped make Noche a success. They include DJ Fido; Back Alley Bikes; Whole Foods Market; the Hispanic grocery stores and restaurants Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Tres Amigos and Taqueria Toledos; Jim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Famous BBQ; the Chapel Hill Restaurant Group; Twig; the Clean Machine; CYCO Yoga; and many of the vendors at Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wednesday evening Farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Market.<\/p>\n<p>Pa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lante means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Roll!,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and with the help of our community, our immigrant children are successfully rolling ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Wenzel<br \/>\n<em>Pa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lante<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Pa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lante\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebration of Latino high school graduates last week, a young man encouraged his younger peers: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Even if you think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never get English, keep trying because you will get it eventually. And keep studying until you graduate, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that hard after all. And standing here ready to graduate feels really good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}