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My pickleball adventure began in late 2019, on the tennis courts of Southwest High School in El Centro, not too long before Covid. While playing tennis with some friends, I noticed a small group of people of all ages playing what I later found out was a game cal.led “pickleball”.

My name is Julio Bracamonte Jr. and I’d like to tell you about an experience I had in the 1960s during the Cesar Chavez march era. I started working in the fields picking and packing grapes in 1963 at the age of 13.

Fire and Emergency Service Agencies from across the Valley gathered to practice and hone their response skills to crises in wildland areas, utilizing the arid, overgrown landscape surrounding Cattle Call park to simulate real life scenarios that require them to think on their feet and work as a team.

As a woman from a family of mostly women, I do not believe that we benefit from tearing each other down, or passing judgement on our sisters in the egoic sense. And yet, in order to analyze or discuss any facet of life, words will inevitably be employed.

There is a lot to say about the California Mid-Winter Fair & Fiesta, and it’s not about this year’s Mardi Gras theme or the fact that it isn’t winter anymore. What I mean is, every resident here has a memory of that stretch of land in Imperial and mostly good ones.

I took Video Production with Mr. Chaney for three semesters where we produced creative and effective audio/visual communication. I recalled the days when I was nine years old recording all types of silly things with my Kevin MacCallister Talkboy, as if I was paparazzi or a news reporter.

Although the term Deaf+ isn’t widely known, it represents a unique community of individuals who are Deaf and also live with blindness, Cerebral Palsy (CP), or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). My personal involvement with the Deaf community started in high school when I began learning American Sign Language (ASL).

Politics, plane crashes, and slew of social media posts of every kind—aaahhh! It can all be too much to handle and makes a person just want to run away and scream! This past weekend, I knew I had to find a respite for my soul.

Many of you may have heard my name or seen my face somewhere in the press, mainly because I have enjoyed a lot of positive attention for various projects I have been working. My most prominent roles so far have been my involvement with community outreach for the anticipated boom of Lithium Valley.

January 1, 2025 submitted by gil rebollar edited by Sarina Guerra, an interdisciplinary artist, community activist, and vigilante medicine woman residing on the Kumeyayy lands of Southern California otherwise known as Imperial Valley. She is the founder, CEO, and editor of the region’s first and only grassroots nonprofit media outlet, a multidimensional concept born ofContinue reading “who is gil rebollar: from halfway house to council chambers”