Event Highlights

Dia de los Niños

Pescadero’s annual children’s literacy festival returns to Puente on April 27th from 6 to 8 p.m. We invite families to come and play, receive books and school supplies and share a meal, all to remind our children how important they are to us and plant a seed about the delights of reading. For details, click here. please click here.

College Tours

April 10 and 12, Puente youth staff and students from Pescadero High School will visit and tour California State University Monterey Bay, Santa Clara University and San José State University. Unlike traditional college tours, students will meet with faculty, college students, student services staff – and even get to tour some dorms. To learn more about Puente’s commitment to create a college-bound culture and community, please click here.

Summer Youth Program

Puente is currently accepting applications for its Summer Youth Program. More than 35 local youth apply every summer to be part of Puente’s summer programs, which include work training and employment opportunities, recreational field trips, internships, college tours, and presentations on local sustainable farming practices. For more information please, click here.

Pescadero Grown! Farmer’s Markets

Puente’s hugely successful farmer’s markets are back for a second year with oodles of fresh produce from local farmers and ranchers. The Pescadero market begins May 3 (every Thursday), and the La Honda market begins May 8 (every Tuesday). Both markets will takeplace from 3 to 7 p.m. For details,click here.

Job Openings at Puente

Puente is hiring a Community Organizer to join our vibrant staff, and seeking to hire youth between the ages of 14 and 21 to staff our Summer Youth Program. For details, please click here.

Professor Francisco Jiménez visits Pescadero

Dr. Francisco Jiménez emigrated with his family to California from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, and as a child he worked in the fields of California. He is currently the Fay Boyle Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University. He has published several books on Mexican and Mexican-American Literature – including two for children. His books are available in English and Spanish, and some have been translated into other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Italian.

In Pescadero, Professor Jiménez gave two presentations:

At Pescadero High School he shared tales from his life as a farmworker boy, the struggles of his family and the positive influences that help him decide to go to college.

At Pescadero Elementary, he read in English and Spanish his work of La Mariposa, an illustrated story based  on his life in elementary school.

For more information about Professor Jiménez, visit his website: http://www.scu.edu/cas/modernlanguages/facultystaff/jimenezhomepage.cfm

His visit was sponsored through a grant from Cal Humanities. Support for the project was provided by Photo4Change, a Tides Center Project, KPDO, Half Moon Bay Library and Puente. Special thanks to Pescadero High School teacher, Randy Vail, and Sally Bachman, Photo4 Change, for coordinating the visit.

 

National Farmworker Awareness Week

 

National Farmworker Awareness Week (NFAW) is a week of action for students and community members to raise awareness about farmworker issues on our campuses and in our communities. In 2012 we celebrate the 13th Annual National Farmworker Awareness Week to raise awareness about farmworker conditions and to honor their important contributions to us every day!