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The Christmas Cantata 2019 Review
by Erick Padilla
The Show’s history
The magical show Christmas Cantata has been amazing audiences for over fifteen-years. This show has traveled from Los Angeles, California to New York City. Christmas Cantata has performed in popular venues such as, The Sydney Opera House, and the Madison Square Garden as well as many other stages around the world. Christmas Cantata 2019 was held on October 4th at the Tingley Coliseum at seven PM. The show begins with the Opera. This beautiful scene is also the scene of
The show...
The Opera: The first Christmas This scene is what literally began it all. This is the scene that gives you hope. This Scene touches on all of the subjects on the first christmas. The Opera scene talks about when the three wise men saw the star and followed it to belen, when King Herod kills every child between the ages of newborn to 3 years old. Then of course the Birth of the Christ. Next. Let’s talk about The Musical: The Christmas. The musical is the scene that tells you about a family this family is trying to celebrate Christmas with their dad but he’s too busy at work. The Choir: The Choir doesn’t really have a theme it’s just a beauty which has to be admired in all of its glory.
The reviews
“Loved the performances, the story during the intermission, the sharing of some good news, and then the perfect choir numbers at the end. Fantastic. Loved all of of it. Even the little children’s dance numbers where fun.” as per said by the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.
“Gracias Christmas Cantata offers cherished, heartfelt music and unforgettable scenes that will be sure to brighten and revive your hearts. The musical reenactment of Jesus Christ’s birth will make your hearts overflow with joy and thankfulness. And as we deliver the message of God’s greatest gift for us all, there is no doubt you will be filled with the love of the Lord.” said the International Youth Fellowship.
HERMAN SANCHEZ COMMUNITY CHAVEZ
HAUNTED HOUSE
by: Victoria Almaguer
Have you ever been to a fun and scary haunted house? This year on October 19,2019, Herman Sanchez community center will be having a haunted house and its free!. They will also be having food and other fun activities .
Herman Sanchez is a newly renovated community center that offers various programs and amenities for all ages. Programs and amenities are free. Herman Sanchez transports children to and from East San Jose elementary school. Before school programs Monday to Friday 7:30am to 8:30am escort to school. After school program Monday to Friday 2:50pm to 6:00pm pick up children from school.
Herman Sanchez also have events like they celebrate Easter, Halloween and Christmas. Every year they invite other community centers to come join or participate on our celebrations events also invite the kids from the programs. This community center will be having this haunted house for on day Friday 11,2019 It will start at 7:00pm to 11:30pm. It will be FREE. Make sure kids under 8 have gradient or they wont be able to go in the haunted. This haunted will have scary actions we have 5 sections and only 25 people go in at time. Every year we approximately have 200 people join are fun and scary haunted house. On this haunted house staff’s from other centers or from Herman Sanchez will be participating.
Crime in Albuquerque
Written by: David Jimenez
What is being done to control the crime in Albuquerque? Albuquerque citizens want to know what is being done with the crime in the city. Albuquerque’s crime rate has been increasing as per, KRQE “Safe wise has named Albuquerque one of the 10 most dangerous big cities in the nation. The city ranked eighth, up from number 12 a year ago.” This means that Albuquerque is a very dangerous city and crimes are being committed everyday. The Mayor’s strategy to reduce the crime in Albuquerque is having more police enforcement on the streets and helping the homeless.
Violence in Albuquerque has only been getting worse in the last 10 years. The City of Albuquerque reported that poverty increased 46 percent since 2010 which made the crime rates also increase 5 times, as per KOAT.The most committed crime in Albuquerque is robbery such as cars, breaking into homes and robbing people. The murder rate has went up dramatically since 2014. The population in Albuquerque is of 560235 people the murder rate is of 12.32%, as per Mactrotrends. Lack of police officers on duty has always been a big problem to the crime in Albuquerque and it is a very difficult job and dangerous.
Officer Rodriguez from the Albuquerque police department says “The crime rate has definitely rose up.” Mr. Rodriguez says the most common calls that they respond to are robberies. The authorities deal with minors in a way where they can rehabilitate instead of instant punishment that will be hard on the children. Officer Rodriguez also said “The crime rate within these last years got worse and it is because of the lack of officers on duty.” Rodriguez also stated that since the city crime is so elevated people do not want to be in the police force. Also he said it was very common for people that end up in jail to re-offend and it gets worse for them.