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By Ana Mata, Daily Journal staff Nov 1, 2024 State Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, spoke about his support of the immigrant community as Election Day approaches, alongside, from left, Redwood City Councilmember Alicia Aguirre, Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, founder of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, and Redwood City Planning Commissioner Maggie Cornejo. Ana Mata/Daily Journal As Election Day approaches and nerves rise, local leaders gathered in front of the mural at Casa Circulo Cu

Events all weekend By Sebastian Miño-Bucheli Nov 1, 2024 Updated Nov 1, 2024 ALAS will erect an altar at Mac Dutra Plaza again this year. Coastside News file photo. With Halloween having come to a close, the start of November marks the time when the community gets to remember and celebrate loved ones who have passed. Day of the dead, Día de los Muertos or Día de los Difuntos is a two-day holiday celebrated throughout Latin America. Since the holiday has pre-Columbian origins

ALAS invites the community to join a heartfelt Día de los Muertos celebration honoring cultural traditions and remembering loved ones...

Building in downtown Half Moon Bay will host arts programs By Sebastian Miño-Bucheli Oct 24, 2024 Updated Oct 24, 2024 Youth performing arts programs, such as baile folklorico, will take place at the new ALAS building. Coastside News file photo Ayudando Latinos a Soñar has purchased a building at 507 Purissima St. that will become a new community arts center just two blocks away from the non-profit’s “Yellow House” headquarters. ALAS is calling the new space the ALAS Communi

ALAS Secures a Permanent Home for Cultural Arts Programs in Half Moon Bay

Over a year since the Half Moon Bay shootings, Arriaga said survivors and community members affected by the violence are “continuing to work on healing.” By Ryan Macasero | rmacasero@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group UPDATED: September 27, 2024 at 3:35 PM PDT Nonprofit founder Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga poses with two farmworkers in Half Moon Bay. Photo courtesy of ALAS Half Moon Bay nonprofit founder Belinda Hernandez Arriaga was among hundreds of leaders who attende

Story by Damian Trujillo • 1mo • 2 min read AHalf Moon Bay community leader is returning home after attending a White House gun violence prevention summit where President Joe Biden signed an executive order targeting untraceable 3D-printed guns and machine gun conversion kits. The move comes nearly two years after a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay that left seven dead and one other severely injured. The massacre brought the community together and put a spotlight on gun violenc

By Jessica Flores, Reporter Sep 26, 2024 President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order that aims to help schools create active shooter drills that are less traumatic for students yet still effective, on Thursday. Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press President Biden signed an executive order Thursday that tackles gun violence, and a Bay Area mental health advocate attended the White House signing ceremony on behalf of the victims of the 2023 Half Moon Bay mass shoo

By Jessica Flores, Reporter Sep 26, 2024 President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order that aims to help schools create active shooter drills that are less traumatic for students yet still effective, on Thursday. Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press President Biden signed an executive order Thursday that tackles gun violence, and a Bay Area mental health advocate attended the White House signing ceremony on behalf of the victims of the 2023 Half Moon Bay mass shoo

Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, founder and executive director of Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (ALAS) and Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco, has received a personal invitation from President Biden to attend the White House Gun Violence Prevention event on Thursday, September 26, 2024. This invitation follows the tragic 2023 mass shooting in Half Moon Bay that claimed the lives of seven farmworkers and brought national attention to the harsh living and working

By August Howell May 22, 2020 Updated Aug 13, 2024 Ayudando Latinos A Soñar saw the need for food in the community and responded. And its giveaway is generating a line. Barbara Anderson / Review For five consecutive Saturdays, Ayudando Latinos A Soñar has hosted a drive-thru food pantry in front of the Half Moon Bay Library. It’s available to anyone who needs food assistance, and those who wait in a queue that may be shocking receive a prepackaged supply of not only canned no

City says petition is improper By Peter Tokofsky Aug 5, 2024 Updated Oct 14, 2024 Half Moon Bay officials examine petitions submitted last week to call for a voter referendum on approval of the 555 Kelly Avenue affordable housing project. Ashton J. Hacke/Coastside News Half Moon Bay City Clerk Jessica Blair issued a letter on Thursday rejecting a referendum petition delivered to city hall just hours earlier. The petition asked for a voter referendum on the June 26, 2024, deci

From staff reports Aug 2, 2024 Updated Sep 17, 2024 Maggie Rodriguez, assistant Half Moon Bay city clerk, accepts petitions submitted by Hal Bogner. Ashton J. Hacke/Coastside News Three residents delivered petitions with more than 1,100 signatures to Half Moon Bay City Hall on Thursday asking for a referendum on the 555 Kelly project for senior farmworker housing. Hal Bogner, Steve Hyman and Chris Minoletti said the signatures, that were mostly collected by Dan Haggerty outsi

Cassandra Garibay and Hiram Durán, El Tímpano Farmworkers sat in the crowd, often with earpieces to hear live translations, listening to their peers and other Half Moon Bay residents give public comment before the council voted on the appeal of the Half Moon Bay City Council Planning Commission’s decision to approve the building of a five-story affordable housing building at 555 Kelly Ave. on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Rep

555 Kelly Avenue pedestrian view, rendering by Van Meter Williams Pollack By: Andrew Nelson 5:00 am on July 2, 2024 The Half Moon Bay City Council has granted final approval for the proposed farmworker housing at 555 Kelly Avenue. The affordable housing project would bring 40 units to support the coastal city’s agricultural community. Mercy Housing is the project developer, working alongside local non-profit Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, or ALAS. Once complete, the 59-foot tall s

Story by Local News Matters • 4mo • 4 min read Newsom blasts Half Moon Bay planners over delay on farmworker senior housing project© Provided by Local News Matters Affordable housing for the community’s senior farmworkers will move forward, the Half Moon Bay City Council decided this week, rejecting efforts to delay the project. Councilmembers listened to the arguments of applicants, appellants and the public for nearly three hours before deliberating, and eventually voted un

Vanessa Rancaño Jun 27 The entrance to Concord Farms in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) Updated 2:30 p.m. Thursday Half Moon Bay officials cleared the way for an embattled affordable housing project for farmworkers to move forward, a year after a mass shooting at a mushroom farm in the city put a spotlight on the wretched living conditions of many of the area’s agricultural workers. On Wednesday, the City Council unanimously approved the 40-unit development

By Ginger Conejero Saab • Published June 27, 2024 • Updated on June 27, 2024 at 6:49 am The path now appears clear for new affordable housing for farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, more than a year after the community was rocked by a deadly mass shooting at two mushroom farms. Ginger Conejero Saab reports. The path now appears clear for new affordable housing for farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, more than a year after the community was rocked by a deadly mass shooting at two mushroom