Jorge Guzman, Gabriela Flores and Rita Mancera became licensed Zumba® Instructors last weekend.

Puente offers two Zumba classes every week:

Tuesday 5:30 – 6:30 pm

Thursday 6:00 -7:00 pm

Classes are held at the Multipurpose room at the Pescadero Elementary School.

If you don’t know yet what Zumba is, take a look at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbuogcCoMf4

Zumba is easy, is different, is fun and is an effective workout!

Jorge, Gabriela and Rita with Zumba Education Specialist, Joy Smith.

In a unique for-profit/NGO joint venture, the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation and United Farm Workers of America, with support from Oxfam America, released a groundbreaking report on March 31, César Chávez Day.

The Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protections in the United States compiles and analyzes data from multiple federal, state, and private sources to give the most comprehensive picture yet of the reality faced by America’s least-valued but critically important workforce.

The report is the first of its kind to detail the lack of laws and protections for crop farmworkers in the U.S., and it is an important step toward addressing the issue of farmworker rights in our business and driving change in the food system. We hope that it will lead to the development of verifiable and enforceable standards for farm work that can be supported by both individual consumers and socially responsible corporations.

For the full report, click here.

The South Coast Prevention Project planned an afternoon with author Willie Stokes. Stokes, who wrote Testament of a Black Sheep, addressed students and parents.