Wednesday September 13th commenced an event that aims to connect Siouxland, A story that the Sioux City Journal covers. Celebrate Siouxland is the Latin American festival event that has many opportunities for connections of all ages. A Mexican bingo night was held Wednesday the 13th, a parade will be held Friday the 15th down Dakota Avenue. A Unity in Action staff member, Olga Guevara, said that “There will be bands, floats and participation from many South Sioux City businesses during the parade.” To top it all off there will be on Sunday the 17th a grand closing of the festivities at the Jeffrey Dible Soccer Complex.
The grand closing is a family festival at its core. The family festival is really an opportunity to connect those latin and otherwise non-latin folks. This event will coordinate live music, cultural latin dances, kids zones, arts and crafts, as well as many food trucks taking the opportunity to share their cuisine with the crowds.
All in all this festival gets us out of our comfort zones. Out of our bubbles. Into the streets. Something we all must do to be neighborly. There is the chance for stories to be told, food to be shared and livelihoods to be upheld.
You sort of answer “why is this news,” but you could provide more discussion of the article and how it’s written.
This is the normal Earl Horlyk story. He likes to play on people’s emotions in stories. He does that by injecting a person into the events and how they are affected. He’s definitely not totally objective.