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The city's trial restriping of Charleston Road-Arastradero Road has impacted the neighborhood of Barron Park, residents there report, and evaluation of the project continues through June.
The redesign, which reduces the number of lanes along Arastradero, is designed to slow traffic and reduce accidents along the road, which is a route for school children attending Barron Park and Juana Briones elementary schools, Terman Middle School and Gunn High School.
But the trial met with consternation among some residents last year who said that the restriping is confusing and has led to traffic cutting through their neighborhood.
Gunn High School, which is located on Arastradero, started a new bell schedule in the fall, and the trial will be evaluated at the end of the school year.
Bicycling will also be a topic for discussion in the neighborhood, with last July's release of a draft of the City of Palo Alto Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan. It includes several recommendations, including possibly removing barriers on the Bol Park bike path, potentially extending the Bol bike path to El Camino Real and creating a new "bicycle boulevard" along Matadero Avenue.
Barron Park emergency-preparations leader Lydia Kou is also organizing another emergency campout drill, "Quakeville," in 2012. Kou has coordinated the past two years' Quakevilles and is working on this year's event with Ken Dueker, the city's new director of the Office of Emergency Services, she said.
College Terrace
The College Terrace Residents Association this year is looking ahead at potential impacts of the planned Mayfield housing projects on California Avenue and redevelopment of the block at El Camino and College Avenue housing JJ&F Market. With both construction projects, traffic and parking are likely to become concerns, association President Brent Barker said.
Residents fear that the Mayfield development, which would involve the removal of 17 acres of building materials, could bring construction vehicles onto California Avenue and rumbling past residences, Barker said.
Neighborhood leaders are currently in discussions with Stanford University, which owns the Mayfield land, and the City of Palo Alto to consider adding a road parallel to California to take construction traffic.
The neighborhood this year will also continue to work on the issue of people living in their vehicles as well as a related problem of people storing their cars on streets near El Camino Real, Barker said.
The city last year proposed an ordinance to ban vehicle dwelling after residents complained they were tired of sanitary issues caused by some of the homeless persons. The city is currently working with the homeless and residents to find a solution.
A plan to redesign California Avenue between El Camino and the Caltrain station, which is currently in litigation, will also be an issue in 2012 as its concept designs continue to evolve. A community meeting on the concept design will take place Jan. 26 at Escondido Elementary School in College Terrace.
Downtown North
The big issue in Downtown North will be developing a residential parking-permit program that people living on both sides of University Avenue can accept. Residents in Professorville, south of University, have been working with the city to develop the program, which would limit what they call the inundation of downtown employees leaving their cars all day on neighborhood streets.
Downtown North residents said they fear that creating a permit plan in Professorville would only shift the problem to their streets. They will be consulted but won't have a seat in the city's new Downtown Parking Community Group, which includes business representatives and Professorville residents, said Curtis Williams, director of planning and community environment.
Sally-Ann Rudd, Downtown North's neighborhood association president, said people are waiting to see what form the parking-permit program will take.
Also in Downtown North, Cogswell Plaza is scheduled for a landscape renovation this spring and summer, according to city landscape architect Peter Jensen. The patch of green and redwoods on Lytton Avenue and Bryant Street, which has become a hangout for some homeless persons, will get improved lighting, new plantings that will eliminate hiding places and a configuration that is more community friendly, Jensen said at a community meeting at Avenidas Wednesday night.
The biggest story in 2011 for the Greendell neighborhood in south Palo Alto — located between Ferne Avenue, San Antonio Avenue and Mackay Drive — was the sale of the old Peninsula Day Care property at 525 San Antonio Road to the Palo Alto school district, said association President Srini Sankaran.
In 2012, "we are hopeful that the Palo Alto Unified School District will involve the Greendell community as they go through their planning and design," Sankaran said.
The neighborhood is also looking forward to the tree replacement, sidewalk repairs and repaving taking place on San Antonio Road. But Sankaran said the neighborhood faces traffic issues that the road renovation won't affect, Sankaran said.
"We continue to be concerned about the hundreds of new housing units (along Central Expressway) that are planned or approved for development along San Antonio Road. Although most of these units are technically on the Mountain View side of San Antonio, it affects Greendell as we are at the border. We are concerned that San Antonio Avenue, especially its intersection with Middlefield, will face extreme traffic challenges," Sankaran said.
In the Southgate neighborhood, located between Churchill Avenue and Park Boulevard, southwest of the Caltrain tracks, the city's planned Park Boulevard bike corridor could become a hot topic this year, neighborhood association leader Jim McFall said. The bike corridor would run through the neighborhood.
Southgate already experiences a high level of bike traffic, as numerous Palo Alto High School students bike to school along the narrow neighborhood streets. The city is considering possible traffic modifications, such as relocating stop signs or a roundabout to aid bike traffic. This has raised the interest and concerns of Southgate residents regarding possible neighborhood and traffic impacts, he said.
Storm drainage is a fairly significant issue in the Southgate neighborhood, McFall said.
In 2005 Palo Alto residents approved a ballot measure to increase the city Storm Drainage Fee to fund various storm-drainage projects. Storm-drainage improvements in Southgate, which currently has no piped storm-drainage system, were planned. But project costs were greater than expected, and a number of projects have not proceeded.
Some funding now exists for Southgate, McFall said. The Public Works Department, which is looking at a variety of innovative and green techniques to address neighborhood storm drainage, has reached out to Southgate to help find new solutions. The neighborhood anticipates a meeting within the next month to start this process, he said.
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Senior Jennifer Gibbs excitedly recalls memories of her high school adventures with Upward Bound, a federally funded program that aids first-generation college-bound high school students. Now, four years after successfully completing the program, Gibbs is preparing to graduate from Southwestern with a degree in biochemistry and is planning to attend graduate school at the University of Arizona.
The Upward Bound program started in the 1960s as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty." Southwestern received funds to run an Upward Bound program beginning in 1999. Upward Bound staff members, instructors and college student mentors equip high school students with the resources to achieve higher levels of education. Once Upward Bound alumni are in college, the program continues to track their progress. Results show that most alumni perform very well.
"Upward Bound is a great program that helped me a lot in high school, especially with the SAT," Gibbs said. "It's particularly helpful for students who need someone to nudge them along, or for families who are unsure how to get their children to college. My parents both have associate degrees and hoped that I would do better than them in life, which is why they enrolled me in Upward Bound. Because of their encouragement and the resources in Upward Bound, I've been able to not only to do well in college but now I'm ready to go further in education."
Gibbs and Darlene Thompson, a senior political science major, will be the first Upward Bound alumni from Georgetown to graduate from Southwestern. Both are 2005 graduates of Georgetown High school.
Thompson plans to attend graduate school to study public policy. While at Southwestern, she received the prestigious Hatton B. Sumners Scholarship, studied abroad in France and interned in Washington, D.C., with the Council for Opportunity in Education, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance and defend the ideal of equal educational opportunity in postsecondary education by supporting programs such as Upward Bound. She currently is participating in UT's Intellectual Entrepreneurship program, which encourages first-generation college students to pursue graduate school. She meets weekly with a graduate student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and has sat in on some classes at the school.
"The LBJ School is one of the graduate schools I would like to apply to," Thompson said.
Thompson said when she first started the Upward Bound program, she didn't take it seriously. "I thought college was out of the question for me since I came from a single-parent family," she said. However, the program eventually helped her realize that there were resources and scholarships available to her. An Upward Bound Scholarship from Southwestern, which covered all her tuition, made her decide to enroll there.
"I'm so happy I came to Southwestern," she said. "I feel like I can do anything now."
While they were at Southwestern, both Gibbs and Thompson served as tutors for the Upward Bound program. Thompson also served for three years as an RA during Residential Week of the six-week summer academic enrichment program that Upward Bound hosts at Southwestern each summer.
Gibbs also has been involved on campus with the wind ensemble and Students Ending Sexual Assault. She also attended a summer program in Australia where she learned about research management and field studies. Last summer, she attended a program at the University of North Texas sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and was published in a scholarly journal as an assistant to Chemistry Professor William Acree. She also participated in Southwestern's Paideia® program.
"So many high school students have tremendous potential, regardless of what kind of background they come from. These two women's achievements are great examples of how far students can go when they work hard and have guidance, information and a network of people who believe in them." said Upward Bound Director Lorna Hermosura.
Thompson said that as a result of her experience, several of her younger cousins are interested in college now. "One of them will be starting at Georgetown High School in the fall and she definitely plans to get involved with Upward Bound," she said.


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One of several young and talented players on the Dodgers' roster, Matt Kemp is hitting .317 with six home runs and 23 RBIs over 54 games and 145 at-bats. Kemp went 6-for-14 with Los Angeles in April. He then batted .329 with four home runs, 20 RBIs and a 14-game hitting streak at Triple-A Las Vegas before being recalled by the Dodgers again on June 8. Last season, Kemp became the first Dodgers player to hit four homers in his first 10 games with the team since Jimmy Wynn in 1974. Kemp recently answered some questions from MLBPLAYERS.com.
MLBPLAYERS.com: This is your second season with the Dodgers and your second time in a big-league playoff chase. How exciting is this for you?
Kemp: Of course it's exciting. I'm on a great team and we have a good chance of doing real well this season. Hopefully we can get there, get to the World Series and win it all.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Your team is scuffling a bit as we speak. What will it take to turn things around?
Kemp: We have a good team. We have good hitters and good pitchers. We know what we need to do to be successful. Every team goes through their little slumps. That's what we're experiencing right now. But on the positive side, there is a lot of baseball left. We think we'll come out on top.
MLBPLAYERS.com: How has your season been so far?
Kemp: To me, the season is still early. I started off pretty good and then I slowed up a bit. I am having a lot of fun though and I enjoy doing what I do. Everything has worked out so far.
MLBPLAYERS.com: You made your debut last season with the Dodgers. How do you compare the two experiences?
Kemp: This year is different. I feel a lot more comfortable at the plate. I'm a better player than last year and I think it shows.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Your power and run producing numbers are pretty similar to last year, but your batting average is 75 points higher. When you look at what you have done offensively, does that surprise you in any way?
Kemp: Not really. I've been working hard. The more you get out there, the more things seem to come together. Some things come to you a bit easier with experience. Hopefully I can just keep it going.
MLBPLAYERS.com: You're one of several talented outfielders on this Dodgers roster. What is your role right now?
Kemp: I'm going out there, but not on an everyday basis. I'm getting a lot of at-bats, and when they call on me to go out there, I'm ready to do what I have to do to help the team win.
MLBPLAYERS.com: We've primarily focused on what you are doing at the plate so far. How do you feel about your defensive game right now?
Kemp: Defensively, I feel great. I think I've improved quite a bit from last year. I worked hard in Spring Training on my defense and I think it shows. I take a lot of pride in going out there and contributing on the defensive side of things.
MLBPLAYERS.com: How big of a role does your running game play in your overall game?
Kemp: It is a part of my game. I think it is at least. You have to get on base to steal bases and I have not really tried to steal a lot of bases this year. But with 50 games and a whole lot of baseball left, we'll see how that goes.
MLBPLAYERS.com: How many people are following your season right now back home in Oklahoma?
Kemp: I have a lot of family following me. They call me and check up on me. They're real excited about me playing up here with the Dodgers.
MLBPLAYERS.com: You are not the only native of Oklahoma on your team. How far does Brad Penny live from you?
Kemp: He's about an hour way. He lives in Broken Arrow and I live in Midwest City. Both cities are pretty similar.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Growing up a good basketball player, what did you think of the New Orleans Hornets recently playing so many of their games in Oklahoma City?
Kemp: It was actually really exciting. The team did well and I think that Oklahoma is in line for the next NBA team. That would be great for our community and our state as a whole.
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 15, 2013 at 8:56 am
The good news is the work will not be excavating the newly paved street.
The bad news is that there will be more traffic inconvience - again - in the same area. Why can't they do it all at once?
a resident of Fairmeadow
on May 15, 2013 at 10:54 am
You have to be kidding me...
a resident of another community
on May 15, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Maybe this will slow down the people who fly down Alma as if it were the freeway. Resident, they could have shut down Alma from Page Mill to Charleston and "done it all at once", except there are different agencies involved and it would have been an even bigger hassle and inconvenience. Reminds me of the time I was preparing to repair a gas leak in the street and the resident came out and whined that she was having a dinner party and didn't want any mess. Good old Palo Alto!
a resident of Midtown
on May 15, 2013 at 3:41 pm
I just hope that this doesn't turn into another long debacle of congestion.
A couple of years ago, a four week test turned into many months of aggravation and inconvenience. The PG&E crews tore up the road, blocked driveways/entrances/exits and also endangered citizens by blocking drivers' lines of sight as they attempted to pull onto Alma.
Even the most recent "test" lasted longer than estimated and produced enormous amounts of noise -- even throughout the night.
Over the last four years, it seems that PG&E spends at least a month per year "testing" things on Alma St. while causing major inconveniences to residents and drivers. In addition, when PG&E wasn't working on Alma St., others have been.
I hope that this isn't as inconvenient as nearly every other "test" conducted by PG&E. Also, I hope that the PG&E workers can park non-essential vehicles elsewhere. It is a safety hazard to have residents who live along Alma try and pull out on the street when they can't see oncoming traffic due to the trucks.
a resident of Menlo Park
on May 15, 2013 at 6:10 pm
Nayeli is spot on. My girlfriend lived on Alma near Colorado for three years and endured several multi-month PGE invasions, although they were always advertised as a 'week or two' initially. She was unable to use her driveway for weeks at a time (no street parking on Alma, remember) due it being dug up or used as a parking lot for construction vehicles. There were often workers taking naps in or under these vehicles only steps from her door, which was quite awkward. The noise was incessant and often went through the weekend and past 10pm.
Long story short, it made the decision to move out of the area this spring (and out of Palo Alto) pretty straightforward. I am thoroughly unsurprised that they have to come back and dig it up again - just look at the Foothill/Junipero Serra disaster.
a resident of South of Midtown
on May 15, 2013 at 8:55 pm
If you want to hear about inconvenience, talk to the people in Belmont whose houses burned down after the pipeline explosion.
a resident of Palo Verde
on May 15, 2013 at 11:36 pm
a resident of South of Midtown
on May 16, 2013 at 8:18 am
Sorry, I meant San Bruno. I got my B's mixed up.
a resident of Midtown
on May 16, 2013 at 9:23 am
Donald: No one is saying that PG&E shouldn't be able to test their lines. Moreover, no one is so callous as to not grieve for those who lost their lives due to the PG&E pipeline explosion in San Bruno.
However, this is about ongoing tests on Alma Street -- year in and year out -- and the consequences to this city. The workers can take their trucks and park them elsewhere when not in use (instead of blocking driveways, entrances, exits, lines of sight or even boxing in vehicles).
In fact, as someone else mentioned, the workers parked in our parking spaces...often asleep. That is some cushy job!
Perhaps PG&E would be better served if they actually considered the people who they proclaim to "serve." If we learned anything from San Bruno, it's that PG&E doesn't care very much about individual human beings. Perhaps that is why they tried to push the enormous cost of their own negligence upon taxpayers.
PG&E can test the lines...but they should have the foresight to be honest about what it entails. They should also do EVERYTHING within their power to not cause even greater inconvenience to the residents who's lives they perpetually disrupt anyway.
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What With All These Mainstream Cosplay Outfits, Comic-Con Has Officially Become Halloween In July
For the past few years, I've heard the same complaint from my geeky friends: San Diego Comic-Con is getting way too mainstream. Why are the Glee kids telling us about season 4? Does it really make sense for the Archer cast to pop in? We love the guys from Psych, but really…? However, while you could make a case for these kinds of shows being "geeky" in some small way, it's the cosplay that has me worried.
Cosplay, short for "costume play," is where people dress up as beloved fictional characters and is integral to any geeky convention. I would go so far as to call it an art—the energy and creativity that these fans put into their costumes and performances is incredible. It's always a treat to scan through galleries, like this comprehensive one from Redditor notdagreatbrain, and just appreciate the sheer joy of creating and enjoying these costumes.
But as I looked through the 600 photos, I was incredibly surprised to see some decidedly nongeeky faces. Like, the kinds of characters and reality personalities that we write about on Crushable when we're not covering superhero movies and actors with dedicated Tumblr followings.
Let me be clear: I am not denigrating these cosplayers. They have every right to dress up as whomever they like, and in every case the resemblance is incredible. That said, it's worth noting the shift in costume choice from obscure geeky characters (a random X-Wing pilot from Star Wars) or even mainstream ones (the Avengers, the Engineer from Prometheus) to people like Flo the Progressive girl or Snooki. Yes, there was a Snooki at Comic-Con. I guess we should just be grateful that it wasn't the real thing. Then we'd know for sure that 2012 was the last year of the world.
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House Rules says goodbye to Townsville duo
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder and, according to House Rules pair Maddi and Lloyd, so does appearing on a renovation series.
The engaged Queenslanders were eliminated on Tuesday night's second semi-final episode of the Seven Network reality show.
While they won praise for their backyard decking, the judges weren't impressed with some of their other styling choices.
But the friendly pair aren't holding any grudges.
They say even though they didn't walk away victors, they've struck gold when it comes to strengthening their relationship before they walk down the aisle.
"If you can survive something like that, you can survive a lifetime of marriage," Maddi laughs.
Luckily, her fiance agrees.
"We went in thinking that we were going to argue so much," he admits.
"But we became a lot better mates."
"It definitely made us stronger."
He says relying heavily on each other strengthened their existing bond.
And when the other teams starting bickering in the first week, Lloyd and Maddi resolved not to waste valuable renovating time bickering.
While they acknowledge it was probably their time to go, the Townsville team did feel the judges' scores were a bit unfair.
Judges Joe Snell and Wendy Moore found fault with the couple's design, furniture choices and planting schemes and gave them a combined score of just 12 points.
"We were happy to accept we were going home," Maddi says.
"But it would've been nice to score more points in that last one."
"I was a bit disappointed."
The rest of the field were trounced by the Victorian team, Adam and Lisa, who scored 16 points.
As for wedding plans, the pair have optimistically set their sights on March, although nothing is finalised.
In the meantime, they're both just trying to readjust to everyday life, while Maddi says she'd love to get a regular gig as a radio presenter.
Unfortunately, things haven't worked out quite as well for fellow contestant couple Candy Stuart and Ryan Pusic, with the couple confirming they've split.
Pusic told New Idea magazine they both knew things weren't working after the show's second renovation.
"We bandaged up the relationship and tried to make it work," he said.
"But as soon as the show was finished, that was it."
They had been together for five years.
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Amnesty International Annual Report 2011 - New Zealand
|Amnesty International
|Publication Date
|13 May 2011
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|Amnesty International, Amnesty International Annual Report 2011 - New Zealand, 13 May 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4dce154fc.html [accessed 19 January 2018]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II represented by Anand Satyanand
Head of government: John Key
Death penalty: abolitionist for all crimes
Population: 4.3 million
Life expectancy: 80.6 years
Under-5 mortality (m/f): 6/5 per 1,000
Indigenous Peoples' property rights were recognized by the Marine and Coastal Area Bill. The New Zealand Human Rights Commission called for a review of the Immigration Act which continued to put asylum-seekers at risk of persecution because of the passenger screening process.
Indigenous Peoples' rights
In April, the Government announced its support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
In September, the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill was introduced which aims to repeal the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 that discriminated against Maori property claims. However, the Bill did not afford Indigenous Peoples the right to exclusive occupation or the right to register a claim for property already in private ownership. The Bill was pending before parliament at the end of the year.
Counter-terror and security
In August, the Minister of Defence confirmed that detainees arrested by the Afghan Crisis Response Unit, which the New Zealand Special Air Service has worked with, had been transferred to the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's Intelligence Service, where they were at grave risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
Refugees and asylum-seekers
In May, the New Zealand Human Rights Commission called for a review of the Immigration Act 2009. The Act allowed the detention period for refugees and asylum-seekers to be extended without warrant to up to 96 hours and lacked an explicit guarantee against the detention of children and young people. The Act empowered the chief executive of the Immigration Department to refuse a person permission to board an aircraft to travel to New Zealand without providing a reason. This could expose asylum-seekers to harm if they were at risk of torture or other serious human rights violations in their own countries. The Act also denied asylum applicants access to judicial review.
Legal, constitutional or institutional developments
The Immigration Act 2009 allows schools to provide education to children who are unlawfully in New Zealand, partly remedying New Zealand's General Reservation to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The government continued to refuse to legally entrench the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, allowing for the possible enactment of legislation that could be inconsistent with its provisions.
Police and security forces
In March, a High Court judge found that police in Whakatane had subjected a detainee to excessive use of force. The detainee had been held in a cell for over seven hours and repeatedly squirted with pepper spray and hit with a baton.
An investigation into complaints against three police officers for the ill-treatment of detainees was ongoing at the end of year.
In October, two off duty policemen in Manukau were convicted of assaulting a group of students.


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RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan said Thursday the Obama administration should delay by two months the period in which individuals can sign up for health insurance through the new government website and when financial penalties begin for those remaining uninsured.
Hagan announced her call while identifying problems with the federal exchange as "absolutely unacceptable." She said extra enrollment and penalty delays are needed to make up for lost time while the site has not been functioning.
"North Carolinians are frustrated that they haven't been able to enroll in health insurance plans, and I am just as frustrated," Hagan said in a prepared statement.
The open enrollment began Oct. 1 and lasts until March 31. The White House says consumers who sign up through March should not face the financial penalty that was scheduled to start in mid-February.
Hagan, a Democrat, wants to extend enrollment through May 31 and delay the penalty until after that date, too.
"An extension would provide time to assess the extent of the problems and determine whether additional delays in the individual mandate are necessary," Hagan said, but preferred to keep the pressure on "to get these problems fixed sooner rather than later."
The Obama administration, Hagan added, must be fully transparent in efforts to get the web portal working and improve their communication with Americans about the health care rollout.
Hagan's statement came as leading contractors on the website told a House committee Thursday the government failed to test the system thoroughly before it went live.
The announced Republican primary hopefuls seeking Hagan's job in next year's election are opposed to the new health care overhaul and want it ultimately repealed.


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The largest in-state bank merger in Arkansas history will make Home BancShares the second-largest Arkansas-based bank holding company behind Arvest Bank, owned by the Walton family.
"I'm excited about it," Roy Reaves, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Liberty Bank's central division in Russellville, said.
The deal is expected to unfold over the next 18 months, and the combined company will have about $7.1 billion in assets, including $5.6 billion of those in deposits and $4.5 billion in loans.
The company will have 151 branches, 186 ATMs and 1,500 employees across Arkansas, Florida and southern Alabama, according to a Home BancShares Inc. news release.
Reaves, who has been with Liberty Bank since July 1997, explained that the leadership at Home BancShares and Liberty share common roots and a history of working together.
"John Allison and Wallace Fowler have been friends for a long time," Reaves said. "They've known each other since John was in college. They were board members at First Commercial Bank together until it was sold to Regions Bank. After that, both men returned to their respective hometowns; Allison returned to Conway and Fowler returned to Jonesboro."
The deal was announced during a Tuesday news conference at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce building, where Allison called the merger "the most significant transaction of my career and a game-changing deal."
"We will keep as many people as we can, but there will be job losses," Allison said. "Standardization is based on transactions, and that formula tells us how many employees we need in each branch."
Randy Sims, the chief executive officer of Centennial Bank, said Tuesday at Jonesboro that Morrilton and Searcy are the only two cities in Arkansas with both a Liberty Bank and a Centennial Bank. Morrilton has one of each, and Sims said both of those would stay open. Searcy has three Liberty Banks and two Centennial Banks, and Sims said those branches are under consideration.
Every other city affected by the buyout has only Centennial or Liberty Banks, and Sims said that since there's no overlap, "we're going to need those branches and those people."
"This is unusual," Reaves said. "You rarely find an opportunity like this. There is basically no overlap in banking locations. No overlap only enhances the bank's ability to serve customers and adds to their banking opportunities.
"Customers will see a great benefit from this. No overlap with facilities also protects the jobs of employees. No major changes, aside from typical reorganization, are expected."
All Liberty Banks will be renamed Centennial Banks, and Liberty Bank Stadium at Arkansas State University will be renamed in 2014. The bank donated $5 million to the university in 2012 and secured naming rights to the stadium for 15 years.
"The name of the stadium will stay the same this year, but next year it will change to Centennial," Allison said.
Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Liberty Bank would receive $250 million of Home BancShares common stock plus $30 million cash. The acquisition is expected to close late in the third quarter or early in the fourth quarter of this year and is subject to Liberty Bank shareholder approval, regulatory approval and other conditions set forth in the merger agreement, according to the Home BancShares press release.
Each company has 46 branches in Arkansas, giving the combined Centennial Bank 92 branches. Sims said the combined footprint of the company would be amazing.
Wallace Fowler agreed. The Liberty Bancshares chairman has been in the banking business for about 30 years, and "you couldn't find a better fit than these two companies," he said.
Sims agreed: "There's not another set of banks in Arkansas that will have the synergy these two do, ever."
Reaves added that the merger means services will be extended throughout the state. No major changes are anticipated and no negative impact on the Arkansas economy is expected.
"To customers and employees, I see this as a greater opportunity for them," Reaves said. "Take care of customers, and everything else works. If you don't, you deserve what you get."
Gov. Mike Beebe praised both Allison and Fowler at Tuesday's news conference in Little Rock, saying he considered both men good friends who helped steer their companies through the Great Recession.
"They are the epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit," he said.
Fowler said he decided to sell because it was time to move on and look out for the best interest of the company's more than 400 shareholders. He said he's known Home BancShares' Allison since the 1960s, when Allison worked at Star Clothing next door to Fowler's furniture store, and they've been friends and partners in business since then.
"We swept sidewalks together and had coffee together every morning," Fowler said. "We're just good friends."
When Liberty Bank opened in 2001, Centennial programmed the data processing, Fowler said.
The 7-to-7 banking will stay at the combined bank, as will free checking, fees, free ATMs nationwide and current loan rates.
"The same great customer service will be in place, but our goal is to do more and better for our customers," Sims said.
Liberty Bank employs about 650 full-time and part-time employees across Arkansas. Bank president John Freeman said 75 percent of those employees have been with the bank for 10 or 12 years.
"I haven't come in to disrupt my hometown. I've come in to help support the people who live here ...," Allison said. "We probably give more than any other bank. In Conway we have Centennial Park; the high school fields are named after us; we support the local police department, because I don't believe they are paid enough; and much more. You will find the same things in Centennial Bank towns as here with Liberty Bank."
Sims said his son calls Vilonia "Centennialville" because there are so many things in the town named after Centennial Bank.
"We support our community because the stronger the community, the stronger the bank," Allison said. "We also like to support things our employees are involved in."
Fowler and his son, Mark, will sit on the board of the holding company, Home BancShares, and Fowler and Allison will continue to work together.
"Two great friends and two institutions have come together to make things better," Allison said.
Howard West contributed information for this report.


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Missy's Peanut Butter Passion Cake
Melissa Dommert1
I have never shared this specific recipe until now. It's a wonderful cake and has been a prizewinning blessing to me. It won a 1st place ribbon and $100. prize in the 2010 Kroger Employee Holiday Baking Contest and a 1st place medal in the adult dessert category at the Texas Rice Festival cooking contest held in Winnie, Texas, last weekend. It's a blessed cake! Nothing would please me more than to hear from one of you telling me that you tried it and liked it too! Hope you enjoy!
Blue Ribbon Recipe
I'm lost for words... This cake is pure peanut butter heaven. The Test Kitchen
- 2 c
- sugar
- 1 c
- vegetable oil
- 2
- eggs
- 1 tsp
- vanilla extract
- 3 c
- all purpose flour
- 3/4 c
- cocoa, unsweetened
- 2 tsp
- baking powder
- 2 tsp
- baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp
- salt
- 1 c
- coffee, room temperature (water can be substituted for the coffee but it's purpose is to enhance the chocolate flavor of the cocoa)
- 1 c
- buttermilk
- 8 oz
- cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 c
- peanut butter, creamy
- 1/2 c
- powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp
- salt
- 12 oz
- non-dairy whipped topping, thawed
- 1/2 c
- chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs
- 2 c
- chopped peanut butter cups
- 1/4 c
- prepared fudge frosting (any brand) or
- chocolate syrup (optional)
How to Make Missy's Peanut Butter Passion Cake
- 4Using an electric mixer, combine cream cheese, powdered sugar, salt, peanut butter until smooth.
Using a spatula, gently fold in whipped topping until smooth. Chill frosting for about an hour (even overnight is okay). This frosting tastes like a creamy peanut butter mousse.
Spread cake with frosting and sprinkle all over with chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs. Garnish with chopped peanut butter cups and warmed fudge frosting or as desired.
For the cooking contest, I carefully cut each peanut butter cup in half and placed it on the cake (as shown in the photo) but what I really like to do is buy 2-3 packages of individually wrapped peanut butter cups (I think there are 8 in a package) and chop them up into chunks. This is easier to do if they're slightly chilled. Pile them onto the top of the cake (broken pieces, crumbs and all) and drizzle that with the softened fudge frosting (first soften it in the microwave for about 10 seconds - just long enough to thin it). Chill until serving time.
For a gourmet touch, I like to split the layers or sheet cake in half and spread frosting between the layers as well. If you do it this way (and it's worth it to do it),the cake is much easier to work with if it's very well chilled. Who doesn't like extra layers of frosting? You could also sprinkle finely chopped peanut butter cups on top of the frosting between the layers.
About Missy's Peanut Butter Passion Cake
Main Ingredient: Flour
Regional Style: American
Dietary Needs: Vegetarian
Collections: Member's Choice, Terrific Toppings, 2012 Member's Choice
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sounds like this is some kind of UPnP type horror. run away!
Nokia's got a smile on its face. The Finnish phone giant's N95 8GB handset has become the world's first mobile to win wireless connectivity certification from the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). Nokia_N95 Nokia's N95 8GB: now with DLNA certification DLNA who? It's an industry organisation that aims to provide an …
sounds like this is some kind of UPnP type horror. run away!
This is just saying it has all of the necessary IN BUILT functions to qualify to a certain standard - it's not any new protocol - just a 'yardstick' (for our US friends - see how cultured I am!) for measuring the usefulness in terms of interactivity of a device when looking to integrate into your digital lifestyle.
I like the idea :)
I saw this on my phone, mmm, so...
Can I play music on my phone off the network? NO!
Can I play videos off my network? NO!
Can I make my phone that has 8gb as a server instead of my 1tb NAS storage? YES!
Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish.
"Nokia N95 8G becomes first phone to win DLNA thumbs-up
The what got what?"
That tag just had me laughing so hard my chest started to hurt, lol!!!!
>sounds like this is some kind of UPnP type horror. run away!
Why, what's so bad about UPnP? (I'm not defending it - I've never tried to use it, but have been toying with the idea for media server... )
I was thinking about rigging up some plumbers nightmare to automatically shift videos from my bittorrent machine to my '95 so I can watch them on the bus in the mornings, if the new 8GB version makes this easier then Bring It On.
They're on 8G now? And I thought my 3G phone was up to date...
I can copy msuic, videos,and photos over from my EyeConnect equipped imac to my N95 8Gb fine!
I can even play music directly off my N95 from the Netgear Radio I have too :-)
Not only that, my Ps3 connects to both too!
All excellent!
RTFM mate, I can quite happily do those. Don't knock the product because you can't be bothered to learn how to use it
Actually the phone cannot play music on itself from these "Home Networks", Look at the AAS forums and you will see others can confirm this.
-I have my own standard, no honestly it's not proprietary, my mother uses it too, it must be a standard!


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Home Truths
After decades of living month to month in trailer parks, some South Dade migrant workers have found a permanent address
By Judy Cantor
A burly man cradling a black-haired baby strides across the empty shuffleboard courts at the Royal Colonial Mobile Home Park in Naranja and walks into the park's management office. He wants to settle his bill. It's barely nine o'clock on a Monday morning in May, but a line has already formed at the office counter. A nervous-looking young mother wearing a Selena T-shirt and Lycra shorts grasps her little girl's hand tightly and studies a bulletin board posted with several flyers printed in Spanish. Hands are needed to pick cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes in Ohio, and the Mexican League of Childrens' Soccer in South Dade is looking for new players. A notice from the Metro-Dade Police Department offers a reward for information relating to a February bus hijacking that left one Guatemalan farm worker dead and another a paraplegic. On the floor below the bulletin board sits a cardboard box filled with loaves of day-old bread wrapped in plastic bags, a donation for park tenants from a local supermarket.
Like other mobile home communities that sprang up in the Fifties in South Florida, the Royal Colonial was once home to white-haired snowbirds with plenty of time on their hands. But since 1994 the trailer park, located in a desolate section of South Dade that locals call the Dead Zone, has been populated by tired-looking, Spanish-speaking couples with small children. Many of the Royal Colonial's current residents are migrant farm workers who leave South Dade in the spring and return to pick tomatoes, squash, and beans from November to March. They make, on average, $6000 to $12,000 a year, and pay $63 a week during the winter harvest season to rent a three-bedroom singlewide in el campo (as the Spanish speakers call the place). Ninety-five percent of the families are Mexican or Mexican-American, but some come from Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, or Cuba. By the end of May this year, 60 of the park's 312 tenant families had already taken off to pick onions, tomatoes, and potatoes in New York State or cherries in Michigan. Others will pack up their pickups and vans just as soon as their children are out of school.
At the counter in the park office, a patient young Hispanic woman attends to residents' needs from behind a wall of protective glass, where another sign in Spanish is posted:
You can reserve for next year:
If you paid your rent on time
If you kept your unit clean outside and inside
If there were no reports of incidents or bad behavior
If you didn't have unregistered guests.
Dressed in a T-shirt, jean shorts, and sandals, Esmeralda Sanchez sits on the steps of her trailer, which is set on a grassy corner space in the center of the park. Sanchez has long chestnut hair, and the deep shadows under her eyes make her look like a college student recovering from the ordeal of final exams. Her fatigue comes not from pulling all-nighters, but rather from taking care of her three children -- ages seven, two, and one -- and waiting around for her husband Oswaldo to come home from his job driving a forklift. This year, like every other, the family will put their clothes, their TV, and their VCR in their red double-cab truck and head for Michigan. (They left in mid-June.) From there they'll go to Illinois, where there's usually work husking corn, and then they'll spend three months in Houston with Oswaldo's family before returning to Florida in November. "You get to see a lot of the country," Esmeralda says of the migrant life. "We have the basic things that we need."
The inside of the trailer is sparsely furnished, mostly stuff left behind by other migrants. The Sanchezes will pass along the sofas and tables and beds to neighbors when they leave. Esmeralda, age 25, grew up in Tamaulipas, Mexico, near the southeastern Texas border. Her father and uncles were migrant workers who traveled each fall to the United States while she stayed home with the other women and children in her family. Her oldest child Jesse finished second grade this year. "I have to put him in school wherever we are, even if it's for two weeks," she explains. "His teachers have advised me to start keeping him in one place, but he seems fine to me."
Back in Mexico, Sanchez attended college, majoring in physical education, but she dropped out after her freshman year to marry Oswaldo, who decided he could best support a family with migrant work. "My husband works all the time because we want the kids to have a profession and not to have to travel from place to place like this," she notes with a wan smile. "I think my father had the same thought. But sometimes things don't turn out the way you expect."
Marta Cruz, her husband Carlos, and their two children will also be leaving their trailer soon, but they won't be coming back to the Royal Colonial. The Cruzes, who have lived in the park for the past year and a half, are among 25 families who are scheduled to move next week to the Everglades Farmworker Villages, a federally subsidized rental housing project in unincorporated Dade near Florida City, just south of the Royal Colonial off U.S. 1. The new pastel houses stand on the former site of the Everglades Labor Camp, an older trailer park for farm workers, located on a lonely stretch of land just across from the Dade Correctional Center.
Notorious for its crime and squalid conditions, the Everglades camp was set up in 1973 with trailers furnished by the U.S. Department of Labor. They were already dilapidated when Hurricane Andrew blew them to kingdom come in 1992, paving the way for the new homes. Later this summer additional tenants will move into the 240 Everglades Villages houses currently nearing completion. By 1998, 520 homes are slated to be built on the 110-acre plot, which also encompasses the Andrew Center, a still-active encampment of 532 trailers adjacent to the old Everglades camp.
The new housing complex, developed by the Everglades Community Association (ECA), a nonprofit agency that maintains both the Royal Colonial and the Andrew Center, is being paid for with $41.2 million in grants and loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service; additionally, the We Will Rebuild Foundation, a private nonprofit group founded by local business leaders to help fund recovery in the area after Hurricane Andrew, kicked in a one-million-dollar grant. The finished project will have a population of approximately 2500 people, making it the largest planned community for farm workers ever built in the U.S.
Like Esmeralda Sanchez, Marta Cruz, a vivacious 26-year-old who wears her straight black hair in a smart, blunt-cut style, comes from a family of Mexican migrants. She grew up traveling from state to state in the U.S. but says she now wants to put down roots, a desire made apparent by the suburban-style decor of the living room of her immaculate trailer. China figurines and seashell sculptures crowd onto shelves around a large television set and stereo system. An aquarium filled with tropical fish sits in one corner. A matched set of plush furniture was store-bought in Miami.
"A lot of people here throw everything out and move on, but I couldn't do that," the young homemaker explains as she sits on a French colonial style sofa holding her baby Carlitos. Her toddler Laura points at the fish in the aquarium and burbles "Kmart."
Cruz's husband works in a Homestead packing plant, and the couple has already lived in South Florida year-round for four years. "There's a lot of young people like us who don't want to migrate because they don't want to move the kids," Cruz says. "We want to live in a house."
Architect Robert Chisholm designed Everglades Villages' two-, three-, and four-bedroom homes with the future tenants' wishes in mind. These agricultural workers are rural folk who come from small villages in Latin America, where they were accustomed to wide open spaces. They prefer to live in low-rise detached houses with small lawns. When queried on what they'd like in a new home, the men asked for driveways that extend right up to the front door, the better to keep an eye on their valuable trucks; the women wanted large windows in the kitchens so they can watch their children playing outside. The completed development will also include a soccer field, a community center, three child-care facilities, and classrooms for various educational programs, including English-as-a-second-language courses. Security guards will patrol the grounds from dusk to dawn in an effort to discourage the kinds of crimes that typically plague low-income housing developments A robberies, drugs, gang violence.
All of this is somewhat atypical. For more than twenty years, many South Dade farm laborers have lived in trailer camps. Now, if everything goes according to plan, the completion of Everglades Villages will do away with such camps, marking the end of an era for Dade County's migrant farm workers. "We've lived with trailers for too many years," asserts Juanita Mainster, a former migrant worker who serves as ECA's director of resident services. "The problem is that for farm workers, what's temporary can easily become permanent."
Like other South Dade agencies that serve migrants, ECA wants to improve the workers' standard of living. The two ECA-run parks (Royal Colonial and Andrew Center) are the only organized trailer facilities for migrant farm workers. The ECA's lease on the Royal Colonial expires in September 1997, and all of the trailers on the Andrew site will be replaced by new permanent houses by 1998. But Everglades Villages is not designed to preserve the seasonal ebb and flow of migrants, which can amount to 25,000 people each year. Instead, it will accommodate the growing number of South Dade residents who are defined as seasonal farm workers. Some labor in the fields in the winter, then find other jobs, such as construction work, during the summer. Those who don't find work get by on their meager savings or they collect unemployment benefits. Other year-round residents work in local nurseries cultivating tropical fruits or indoor plants.
"We're definitely seeing a trend toward settling here year-round," says Arturo Lopez, the director of the Coalition of Florida Farmworkers Organization (COFFO), a nonprofit that provides immigration assistance, substance abuse counseling, and other services for farm workers. "Those who have the possibility to stay here will stay."
Through Everglades Villages, ECA is encouraging its tenants to establish permanent ties in South Dade by providing affordable housing. At the same time, current trailer residents who don't qualify for a house will have to seek shelter elsewhere when the trailers are gone. "It won't be as easy to go and come back," contends Mainster. "Federally funded farm workers housing has very specific regulations. You can't just leave a house empty for long periods of time. You have to keep paying the rent."
Although undocumented immigrants reside in both the Royal Colonial and the Andrew Center parks -- "We sort of have a don't-ask, don't-tell policy," notes Mainster -- illegal workers will not qualify for the new housing. At least one family member must be a permanent resident alien or a U.S. citizen, and families must earn close to half of their income from farm work in order to be accepted into Everglades Villages. Priority is given to those who make between 80 to 100 percent of their living from agricultural employment. Once established in one of the houses, the family must bring in at least $2600 a year from farm work.
"One of our goals is to integrate farm workers into the community," explains ECA executive director Steven Kirk. He's strolling through one of the new tan stucco homes: three shoebox bedrooms and a slightly larger master suite; central fan system and several large, low windows to provide cross ventilation; a refrigerator and a gas stove. The house stands on a small grass plot landscaped with a row of plants bordering a square cement front porch. "The perception that these people are different is probably more fiction than fact," Kirk adds. "Migrancy makes them different, but year-round farm workers are regular working-class people. We envision the Everglades Villages as a stepping stone for home ownership. We think we have a model community here."
Carmen Rivera, an Everglades Community Association housing counselor, slows for a speed bump as she steers a white golf cart down one of the narrow streets on the grounds of the Royal Colonial. Rivera spends most of her days in her office listening to residents' problems and screening new applicants for trailer rentals. Prospective tenants' police records must be clean of felonies, while serious misdemeanors -- like carrying a knife -- can be overlooked if the candidate appears responsible and hard-working. Sometimes a single man will show up with a woman he barely knows, someone he has asked to pose as his wife, so that he can be eligible for a family trailer. Rivera usually exposes these pretenders with a few pointed questions, and turns them away. About one in twenty applicants is rejected.
Certain days in the office are especially busy. For example, if a report on government proposals for tightening immigration laws appears on the evening television news in Spanish, she'll arrive the next morning to find a room full of people. "They ask me will I take care of their children if something happens to them," she sighs.
Rivera, an attractive dark-haired woman who wears a heavy-looking silver cross around her neck, is Mexican herself. She arrived in San Francisco after graduating from college in Durango, then moved to Miami in 1987 with her husband, who was born in El Salvador. (The couple met in San Francisco.) Once settled in they started a service at Miami International Airport that delivered lost luggage to passengers, but it was tough going. Their customers were various airlines, some of which were slow about paying their bills A or didn't pay them at all. In 1993 they decided to fold the business. Her husband went to work for the U.S. Postal Service, while Carmen sought a job in Dade's Mexican community.
As she tools through the facility on this quiet morning, dueling ranchero music drifts from the open doors of several different trailers. The tinkle of bells from a faded ice cream truck joins in as it rounds a corner, just in time to snag some youngsters and their mothers as they emerge from a doublewide trailer at the front of the park. The group, which includes Marta Cruz and Esmeralda Sanchez, takes part in Dade County Public Schools' adult education and First Start programs; these provide English classes for mothers while their kids go to a special daycare facility designed for "at risk" children A all on the Royal Colonial's grounds.
Farther along the golf cart catches up to a white sedan. A boy of about ten sits in the back seat, behind his parents. "You have to stop driving," Rivera tells him. She chides the parents for letting the child take the car out by himself. She's seen him zooming around the park at high speeds. His parents feign surprise.
"They think it's funny," clucks Rivera, after they've gone. "I tell them, 'If you live here, you have to have a driver's license, you have to get a car seat for your kids.' These people don't know the laws in the United States. It's very difficult because here, in South Dade, it's not like the United States. They feel like they're in Mexico."
Rivera continues on, passing one trailer whose steps are covered with AstroTurf and plastic flowers. "The woman who lives there wanted a trailer really badly," Rivera explains. "She said she'd take any one we had, and she'd fix it up nice."
Other sights dismay the housing counselor. She spots a clothesline from which work pants, baby T-shirts, and men's jockey shorts stiffen in the sun. She frowns. Clotheslines are against the rules at both the Royal Colonial and the Andrew Center. Residents are supposed to wash and dry their clothes in the on-site laundromat. "That's part of their culture, to hang their clothes outside," Rivera acknowledges. "But when we go to the houses they won't let them do it at all. Then they'll have no choice." She also points out several trailers where cars are parked on the grass instead of on the cement slabs provided for parking. Another no-no.
Just then a woman with permed, bottle-blond hair flags down the cart. She holds up a black box full of costume jewelry: rhinestone earrings and gold chains like the ones she is wearing -- fantasia she calls it in Spanish, shaking her curly head so her earrings jingle. Her smile reveals two gold-capped teeth. Rivera gently admonishes the woman. It's illegal for residents to do business out of their units, she whispers, and sends the woman on her way.
A Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department truck stops to ask directions; a water heater has been reported stolen in trailer 1706. "Every day it's something different," Rivera shrugs, steering back toward the office. Sometimes the tenants come to see her for help dealing with alcoholism and domestic violence. Or they suspect that their teenage children have gotten into drugs. Most often they have trouble making the rent and come to negotiate some kind of a payment plan. She'll give them as much time as she can before evicting them. When a family is thrown out, it's usually because its members had been continually disruptive, allowed unauthorized relatives or friends to stay in its trailer, or engaged in some other verboten activity.
"This is housing for migrant families but not any migrant families," Rivera explains. "We give them a nice, clean decent place to live and we expect them to obey the rules. I truly believe that if you give them a nice place to live, they keep it up. If it's ugly, why should they care?"
Leaning forward in a worn easy chair that sits just inside the open door of his trailer, Vicente Sanchez (no relation to Esmeralda) carefully raises one leg. The skin between his dusty trouser hem and the leather straps of his brown sandal is red and swollen. His calf looks as fat as a grilled chorizo about to burst from its casing, and just as tender. Seventy-six years old and one of the Royal Colonial's two oldest tenants, Don Vicente, as he is respectfully known, was recently released from Homestead Hospital. "They took one of the veins in my leg and put it up here," he explains, pounding his chest. "I can't work."
His large frame sinks heavily into the chair as he stares absently at the snowy screen of a small TV tuned to an afternoon telenovela. The trailer's wood-paneled walls are crowded with school and wedding photos of Sanchez's ten children and their offspring. A straw cowboy hat rests within easy reach on the sofa. A few feet away, in the kitchen area, his wife Maria stirs a pot on the stove while a little boy in diapers, their grandson, plays at her feet. The musty smell of beans thickens the air.
"My life has been very sad," Sanchez murmurs. "All I've done is work and work in the fields because I didn't know how to do anything else. I didn't have an education. I've worked the land, that's all I have to say about what I've contributed to the world. And there's pain and suffering in this life."
Orphaned at age six, Sanchez started doing farm work soon thereafter in his native Michoacan, Mexico. Later, when he was married, he and his growing family crossed the border into Texas where they picked cotton. They kept following the crops, arriving in South Florida in the fall of 1969. "There was plenty of work then," he recalls, stroking his gray mustache. "And not so many people. Now there's people from South America, from Haiti. It's all filled up."
That first season Don Vicente and his family lived in a wooden cabin in one of the dozen or so private labor camps set up by farm owners for South Dade's winter harvest season. The camps were maintained by the growers themselves or by independent contractors, foremen who gathered together incoming field workers and offered them jobs. Other migrants lived in the Redland Farm Labor Camp, a Homestead Housing Authority facility that today is populated by former migrants who work year-round in agriculture and other jobs. Mostly these camps housed men who had come to South Florida alone, men who had left behind their families. Accommodations were rudimentary; the cabins had no indoor plumbing and no electricity.
Back then Mexicans had begun to arrive in the area from Texas, where cotton-picking machines had started to replace human hands in the fields. In the Fifties and early Sixties, the migrant pool in South Dade was made up of Puerto Ricans and African Americans. By the late Sixties many of the Puerto Ricans had moved north to settle in New York or had returned home, creating a need for farm workers in the area, one that Mexicans would fill from then on.
In 1973 the U.S. Department of Labor plopped down 400 trailers on land near the entrance to Everglades National Park, creating the Everglades Labor Camp. The facility was run by the county, which in 1980 paid about one million dollars to the federal government for 200 additional trailers; these had been used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house people left homeless by floods in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1972. Under county management of the park, workers paid $17 to $35 a week to rent a trailer.
Federal officials had discussed plans to build subsidized housing for farm workers in the Homestead area since 1971. Finally, in April 1981, Metro-Dade's Department of Housing and Urban Development ("Little HUD") began construction on 66 permanent homes on the Everglades site, using $3.15 million in grants and loans from the federal Farmers Home Administration (now the Rural Housing Service) to finance the project. County officials subsequently applied for federal money to build 96 more houses on the site, but that request was denied. The existing structures are now managed by ECA.
Also in 1981, a freeze wreaked havoc with the local tomato crop, resulting in hardships for both growers and migrant workers. To make matters worse, officials in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana were trying to prevent an overflow of migrants coming from Florida; they warned workers not to make the trip unless they had written confirmation of a job and lodging. Many migrants decided they'd do better to stay in South Dade and attempt to get by on their savings. County officials, who had agreed to keep the Everglades Camp open year-round for the first time in 1980, said they would not do it again because the previous year's summer months' expenses had amounted to $100,000. They also argued that the Everglades Camp was not public housing for farm workers living year-round in Dade; the facility was intended only for seasonal migrants. But the desperate workers would not take no for an answer. They staged a "live-in" at the camp, demanding that the county let them stay in the trailers for the summer. The workers triumphed, and since then some families have lived there throughout the year.
But county officials continued to complain about running the camp, maintaining that it was costing more than $300,000 a year in public funds. In June 1981 the county announced it would close the facility that October. By July, local growers, who had an obvious interest in keeping farm workers in South Dade, announced a plan to take over management of the camp. And migrant advocates, sensing the potential for exploitation if farm owners controlled living conditions, announced their own plan to operate the camp.
A series of meetings between growers, workers, community organizations, and government officials ensued, with the cooperative Everglades Community Association emerging to take over management of the trailers and the site's HUD housing; the association was run by a 21-member board of directors that included representatives from migrant groups, county government, church organizations, growers, and local bank officers. Under its first director Enrique "Kiki" Vazquez, the ECA eventually lifted the Everglades Camp out of the red, operating it on a break-even basis with no funds other than rents collected from residents.
"It was a combination of a good crew and good management," explains Vazquez, a former migrant farm worker from Puerto Rico who has lived in Florida since 1955.
In 1990 the ECA hired Steven Kirk as a development consultant. A self-described "poverty expert," Kirk, 42, relocated to South Dade from Washington, D.C., when he became the association's director last year. He previously lived in South Dade from 1982 to 1985 when he served as the founding director of COFFO. Once onboard in 1990, Kirk and then-ECA board officer Steve Mainster (Juanita Mainster's husband and founder of Centro Campesino, a migrant-rights organization that assists farm workers in buying their own homes) worked to come up with a plan for replacing the trailers at the Everglades Camp with permanent houses.
"The strategic plan at that point was that we'd probably get two and a half to three million dollars from the federal government for phase one," Kirk recalls. "We'd be building 60 units at a time. We thought it would take us a decade to build and that we probably wouldn't get more than 300 units."
Hurricane Andrew sped up the process; the Everglades Labor Camp was almost totally destroyed by the storm. "When the hurricane happened, it placed the need for migrant housing development higher on everyone's agenda," Kirk points out. "Because South Dade was devastated, the growers were putting real pressure on the government. They were prepared to plant, but the workers needed somewhere to stay."
After the hurricane, about half of the 400 trailers that had been destroyed at the Everglades camp were replaced using insurance monies (those trailers now stand on the Royal Colonial site). Also, as a temporary and partial solution to the post-hurricane housing problem, the county purchased 532 additional trailers and created the Andrew Center on land next to the Everglades camp. Then in the fall of 1993 the U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed to allocate $41.2 million to create the first phase of permanent housing on the Everglades and Andrew sites.
Once it had received the go-ahead from the feds to build new housing, the ECA needed somewhere to place the farm workers who had been living at the Everglades Camp. The Royal Colonial, which had been abandoned after Andrew, seemed a likely choice. But the residents of several condo buildings and mobile homes near the Royal Colonial made it clear they did not want poor migrant laborers as neighbors. In 1994, after a fierce battle between migrant advocates and Naranja Lakes residents -- who were backed by then county commissioner Larry Hawkins -- the Metro-Dade Commission voted to purchase the devastated Royal Colonial facility for four million dollars from owner Thomas Vellanti, then turn around and lease it to ECA for three years. (The county has plans to make the site a public park when the ECA lease is up).
The completion of the first phase of Everglades Villages represents a victory for people like Kirk and Mainster, who have fought through the years to provide quality housing for South Dade farm workers. But the new homes are not a solution for everyone. Vicente Sanchez, who served as a resident ECA board member for four years, doesn't share Kirk's enthusiasm about the project. "The houses are too expensive for us," Don Vicente laments.
Rents at Everglades Villages range from $350 to $390 a month; with financial assistance from the federal government, tenants pay an average of $250 or one-third of their monthly income. "Everything's gone up," Sanchez notes. (He now receives Social Security payments and food stamps, and points out that the $63 a week he pays to rent his trailer is more than he can afford.) "I remember a time when I paid seventeen dollars for two trailers for my family. Now nobody gets two trailers. With the Americans it's just, 'If you can't pay, get out.'"
He sits back in his chair and thinks for a minute. "I have a son in Georgia. When I get better I'm going to take a trip to see if it's any better up there." (True to his word, just a few days later, during the first week of June, Sanchez packs up his family and vacates the Royal Colonial, leaving no forwarding address.)
Although the Royal Colonial now houses migrants instead of retirees, it still retains the pleasant air of a place designed to get away from it all. The Andrew Center, on the other hand, was specifically built for farm workers. It's a bleak place, an army barracks -- more than 500 trailers laid head-to-toe on a field of concrete.
An old dog sleeps outside the center's guardhouse, where a pistol-packing security officer is always on duty. Beyond the chainlink fence that surrounds Andrew, there's not much to see: the Dade Correctional facility across the street, with its silver barbed wire glinting in the sun; the colorful new Everglades Villages houses that rise to the west. Otherwise there's just the great expanse of the Everglades itself, plus some remote groves cultivated by local nurseries. The nearest store is a Circle K grocery in a gas station about a mile north on Redland Road; it stocks "todos sus productos Mejicanos," even Coca-Cola bottled across the border.
"Tourists pull into the camp and they don't know what it is. They think maybe it's part of the prison and they take pictures," laughs Mariana Anguiano, the Andrew Center's housing counselor. Anguiano stands outside the doublewide that serves as her office. "This is a Third World place in the middle of what's supposed to be a tourist mecca. Well, you sure aren't going to find it in any guidebook."
Anguiano deals with the center's 500 families, plus the residents of 32 additional trailers that serve as dormitories for single men. As is the case with the Royal Colonial, the tenants here are predominantly Mexican, with many hailing from Oaxaca, what Anguiano refers to as deep Mexico. Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Salvadorans also live in Andrew, plus three Haitian families, and one black American man.
"The Royal Colonial residents are more sophisticated," ventures Anguiano, an easygoing blonde with a lusty laugh. "They've been here longer. In this camp I have the true migrant farm workers, the ones who pick tomatoes and cucumbers and beans. The ones who follow the crops."
Because of the large number of residents at Andrew, the serious problems that affect the farm worker population as a whole are likely to crop up here more often than at the Royal Colonial. "I looked out the office window yesterday and I saw a guy who was so drunk he fell down," relates Anguiano. "Right in the middle of the day."
New Paths, a substance abuse program sponsored by COFFO, is based in a doublewide trailer next to the center's office. People in the program receive group and individual therapy. Most are men referred by the Metro-Dade police after DUI or domestic violence arrests. "Alcohol is a cultural problem with this community," asserts Dr. Oscar Danilo Pozo, who runs the COFFO clinic. "We have to show them that drinking brings economic problems, domestic violence problems, legal problems, housing problems."
Anguiano is more direct: "To most of these people drinking is a matter of survival. That's the way it is. The men work in the fields all week and on weekends they drink and they beat their wives -- and they think it's nobody's business but theirs."
Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Anguiano talks knowledgeably about the farm workers because she was once one herself. She was able to move on, to "get out of the system" as she puts it, by joining the army. When her service hitch ended, she worked for Texaco in Texas and then for a cellular phone company in Homestead that blew away with the hurricane. Although her current job is to enforce the rules at the Andrew Center, she admits she can't help but see things from a migrant's point of view.
"They expect people to come here and follow the rules and regulations," she says. "But there are things that we take for granted that they just don't know. They're used to leaving their kids at home, because in their villages they have extended families; there's somebody to take care of them. Here someone will call the HRS on them if they find the kids at home alone. If their kids have lice in their hair, they sit 'em between their legs and pick them out. Here, the doctor sends them to buy all this stuff that they don't even know how to use."
Anguiano greets a small hunched woman dressed in men's work clothes and a bright striped rebozo. It has started to rain hard, and the woman has been sent home from her job. Soaking wet, she smiles and waves and keeps walking determinedly through the downpour. "The fact is that here [in the United States] we're different," Anguiano continues. "We have stoves and refrigerators; we also have the law. We try to show our people that you can be poor but you don't have to live in a ghetto."
On this Saturday afternoon, a parade of cars and pickups passes by the Andrew Center's guardhouse as families return from the grocery store or head out on their way to lunch at El Rodeo, a nearby roadside tortilla stand. Strings of laundry, displayed here and there during the week, now flap outside most of the trailers. The Mobil Market, a truck stocked with candy, meat, milk, and all manner of hot peppers and spices, makes its rounds, honking on each block.
Surrounded by racks of shirts, jeans, shoes, shampoo, and a table full of ripe melons, Maria Perez sits on a chair in front of her trailer. On weekends Perez and her husband Magdaleno set up this open-air market for Andrew's residents. Neighbors pay on a credit plan. Magdaleno oversees a table stocked with audio cassettes by Selena, Vicente Fernandez, Gloria Estefan, and other popular Latin artists.
The Perezes' tiny patch of lawn is decorated with statues of elves and angels, and the couple has stretched a chainlink fence around "their property." Management doesn't appreciate such initiative, however, and has asked Maria and Magdaleno to remove the fence and statuary. "I don't understand it," shrugs Maria. "They want it nice but they won't let us make it nice."
Nor can she comprehend why it's against the rules to set up her own shop. "We do agricultural work but it's not enough," she insists. "We have to supplement our income. If it rains, we don't have work in the fields, but we still have to pay the rent." Perez feels that a house in the Everglades Villages is not for them. "It's too strict here," she sighs. "We're not going to live in one of those houses -- it's like prison with all those rules. We're going to look for a place to rent in Homestead."
In a far corner of the Andrew Center, Josefa de Leon is crocheting a shawl, quickly wrapping thick white thread around her crochet hook with her strong weathered hands. The old woman worked in the fields alongside her husband for decades, right up until he died last year. De Leon is dressed in a simple black cotton dress, and she wears her waist-length gray hair pinned up in a twist behind her head.
She is visiting her son Jesus and his family. Her daughter Rosa lives in the Royal Colonial. They will all leave soon for Monterrey, Mexico, where they return for the summer each year. Jesus de Leon, a 30-year-old tractor driver, plans on coming back to live in the Andrew Center with his wife and two daughters next year. But he's not sure what the family will do when the trailers are replaced by houses. "We qualify for a house but it's not worth it for us," he says. "We have a house in Mexico, in the most beautiful place of all. We spend our dollars there. If we could work there, we would. But there is no work. We don't come here to be part of a community. We come here to make money."
Over at the Royal Colonial, Francisco and Delia Alvarez are waiting to find out the date for their move to a house in Everglades Villages. "We've never had a house before," Delia notes. "We've always lived in a trailer." A petite woman with long hair, Delia and her husband sit in the living room of their neat but crowded trailer. Several of their eight children, who range in age from 5 to 21, play noisily in an adjoining bedroom, ignoring Francisco's suggestion that they should put a movie in the VCR and watch it.
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Actually, Francisco isn't supposed to be here. He had planned to go to South Carolina to pick beans but nixed the trip when he heard there wasn't much work. A robust, handsome man with a mustache, he sits quietly on the couch studying the callouses on his hands. "They keep shutting the door," he says softly. "It's not so easy to make a living." On the wall above his head are several plaques that commemorate his coaching winning teams in Khoury league baseball. More baseball trophies sit on a cabinet next to two parakeets in a cage.
The whole family used to spend the year moving from place to place -- South Carolina to Virginia to Washington -- but now that their fourteen-year-old is an honors student at Mays Middle School in Cutler Ridge, they've decided that, in his best interests, they should stay put. To help make ends meet, Delia has started studying to be a legal secretary. She talks animatedly about her word-processing classes at a Homestead technical school.
Back in the ECA management office, Steven Kirk stresses that families such as the Alvarezes can thrive only in an environment like Everglades Villages. "We have an established Hispanic community here in South Dade," he states. "It's a good place for people to move from marginal to being working-class." But for families that do not qualify to rent a house, or that don't want to put down roots here, Kirk doesn't have an easy answer. "With every solution comes a problem," he admits. To deal with those people who won't move into a house, ECA's board of directors has voted to look for land to maintain a temporary facility of 50 trailers when, in 1997, the Royal Colonial lease expires and the Andrew Center will be gone.
"Essentially we're landlords, providing basic shelter to the poorest members of the community," he says. "The reality is that if they don't succeed here, we have to realize -- unlike most landlords -- that they may have no place else to go.


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