Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 9:40 AM click to enlarge The Alazan-Apache Courts is San Antonio s largest and oldest public housing development.
More than half of the toys collected for children living at the Alazan-Apache Courts public housing complex were stolen a day before a holiday gift distribution planned for Saturday. The event continued with limited toys to provide families, according to a statement from San Antonio Housing Authority. The annual drive was originally expected to provide gifts to more than 200 disadvantaged children. The toys were stolen during a Friday break-in at the Courts community room, according to the statement. SAHA also posted information on its website on how people can make donations to re-stock the drive.
Over half of the toys collected for kids at Alazan Apache Courts were stolen, SA Housing Authority says
The distribution event Saturday will still go on as planned
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EDITOR’S NOTE:
A previous version of this story incorrectly called the event for residents at Alazan Apache Courts a “toy drive.” Additionally, based on information from SAHA, included an incorrect tally of how many presents and children were included. Following further reporting, these errors have been updated.
Over half of the toys collected for children living at the Alazan Apache Courts were stolen just one day before they were to be handed out, according to the San Antonio Housing Authority.
Fifty years ago, tens of thousands of people marched through East Los Angeles in a series of demonstrations as part of the Chicano Moratorium movement to protest the Vietnam War and its toll on Mexican Americans. Hundreds were arrested, and several were killed, including L.A. Times journalist Ruben Salazar.
Those marches are an indelible part of Angelenosâ struggle for racial equality, but their national significance was not formally recognized until last month, when several key sites along the march routes were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Credit is due to the Los Angeles Conservancy and countless Chicano studies scholars for advocating for their listing. But it is important to put this victory in perspective.
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Fifty years ago, tens of thousands of people marched through East Los Angeles in a series of demonstrations as part of the Chicano Moratorium movement to protest the Vietnam War and its toll on Mexican Americans. Hundreds were arrested, and several were killed, including L.A. Times
journalist Ruben Salazar.
Those marches are an indelible part of Angelenos’ struggle for racial equality, but their national significance was not formally recognized until last month, when several key sites along the march routes were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Credit is due to the Los Angeles Conservancy and countless Chicano studies scholars for advocating for their listing. But it is important to put this victory in perspective.