EL CHICANo Weekly
Vol 60, NO. 01
December 08, 2022
Sista’s Making a Dif ference anticipate g iving away 23,000th toy this holiday season
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Sista’s Making a Difference is actively recruiting volunteers for its toy drive on Saturday, December 17th. Various shifts are available by emailing smdtoydrive@gmail.com.
By Manny Sandoval
ista’s Making a Difference’s Winter Wonderland 5th Annual SB Community Christmas is set for December 17th, 11 AM to 4 PM, across the San Bernardino Valley College campus. Come Saturday, and the 501c3
is set to donate 10,000 new toys to children and families across the inland empire. Historically.
“My Sister and Co-Founder Kiesha Miller and I have been coordinating this toy drive since 2018, and it has continued to grow. In 2018 we gave away 1,000 toys; in 2019, we gave away 2,000 toys. In 2020 we
gave away 3,000 toys, and last year we gave away 7,000 toys. Our team is proud to see this event grow yearly,” said Ronnie Miller, Sista’s Making a Difference CEO/founder. After this holiday season, the organization will have historically donated over 23,000 toys to Inland children.
This year’s toy drive theme is “winter wonderland,” and it's said to be a complete experience for children, families, and sponsors.
“Each of our sponsors is creating their own village, which Toy Drive cont. on next pg.
World renowned glassblowers and collaborating brothers, Einar and Jamex De La Torre perform exhibition at SBVC
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an Bernardino Valley College (SBVC) students were in for a treat on Wednesday, November 30th, as Einar and Jamex De La Torre performed a live exhibition at SBVC in front of a few dozen students.
Baja California, México, and in San Diego. The complexities of our immigrant experience and contradicting bicultural identities, as well as our current life and practice on both sides of the border, inform our art’s narrative and aesthetics,” said the brothers.
“Today we live and work on both sides of the border - The Guadalupe Valley in
One student named Jacob Anderson asked, “What is a piece of advice you’d give to
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The SBVC Art Department coordinated exhibition was held at the college’s glassblowing studio, where the Guadalajara natives created a three foot heart glass sculpture.
After the two and a half hour exhibition, the brothers had the students step out of the studio, which was loud due to the machinery and hot because of the burners, to host a live Q&A.
aspiring students like us?”
“The only way you can make a masterpiece is by not thinking about making a masterpiece.
Create for yourself and not by the standards of society. Make it your own,” concluded the De La Torre Brothers.
According to Einar and Jamex De La Torre’s website ,”their approach is additive, constantly combining material and meaning. Influences range from religious iconography to German expressionism while SBVC, cont. on pg. 2