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Chico police mounted patrol officer Abigail Madden waves to Cesar Chavez Day revelers on March 31, 2011. A recent survey asked people about concerns over crime and policing priorities. (Bill Husa/Staff File Photo)All Chico E-R photos are available here.
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Smith is one of about a dozen volunteer docents from Golden Gate Audubon Society who help passersby spot and learn about the small population of Western burrowing owls who spend each winter at the marina. This year, five owls have been documented –...
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - NOVEMBER 04: San Francisco mayor Ed Lee (L) greets workers after touring the Cesar Chavez Street Infrastructure Improvement and Streetscape Redesign Project site on November 4, 2011 in San Francisco, California. With less than a... View Photo »
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A border patrol agent was injured after he was struck by a tractor-trailer while searching for an illegal immigrant. It happened on the Cesar Chavez Highway, in El Paso, Wednesday night. Police said the driver didn't see the agent because of his dark...
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The school board voted unanimously late Tuesday to establish all-male seventh- and eighth-grade programs at Fillmore, Hamilton, McKinley and Peyton schools, and an all-male after-school program at Chavez High. "It's long overdue," board Vice President...
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U.S. Navy employs certain conventions when naming its ships. Until politics intervenes. The Obama administration has upended these conventions from time to time to make political statements. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has named two Lewis and Clark-class...
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Charlene Pittman, center, of of the NASA Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. , leads "astronaut" third grader Ramiro Romero, right, on a space walk outside the "international space station" constructed in the cafeteria at Cesar Chavez Elementary... View Photo »
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Marines and diving on an explosive devise, saving at least one Marine and keeping the enemy at bay in Vietnam. California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter had been pushing to have ships named after Finn and Peralta, especially following the Navy’s decision...
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Mabus it has been going from naming warships to honor people who have served or are intimately connected to the sea services to reaching into a more political environment and doing things almost on a feel-good basis,” he said, noting his dismay at...
About Cesar Chavez
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César Estrada Chávez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Supporters say his work led to numerous improvements for union laborers. His birthday has become a... Full Article
