Posted on 10/20/2007 1:13:06 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
La Plaza Comunitaria and La Paz de Dios will host an annual Hispanic health fair Sunday in conjunction with Binational Health Week, organizers said.
Mirtha Jones, director of Plaza Comunitaria, an initiative of Chattanooga State Technical Community College, said it is important to have a health fair specifically for Hispanics because "There are a lot of Latinos in the area that don't have access to medical care."
She said this is the second year the health fair will be held together with Binational Health Week.
The fair will include about 20 different organizations offering information on various illnesses, such as tuberculosis, epilepsy and testing for HIV and AIDS, according to organizers. The fair also will have entertainment and door prizes.
Kasey Poole, spokeswoman for the Chattanooga Hamilton County Health Department, which is participating in the health fair, said outreach "is always important when we work with the community."
She said it is fundamental to educate people about health care services available to them, and interpreters will be available for participants who need them.
"We want to make sure we provide all the information in their language and let them know there are other places where they can receive free health care services," Ms. Jones said.
She said organizers are expecting 250 to 300 people at the fair.
Binational Health Week is an annual weeklong series of health-promotion and health-education activities geared toward migrants and immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
E-mail Perla Trevizo at ptrevizo@timesfreepress.com
You have been here since Jan 2007 and you are calling me a troll?
You racist hateful little newbie.
I apologize, It was a jerk thing to say. I was trying to be funny (not so successfully) and didn’t mean to offend a fellow conservative such as yourself (or anyone else for that matter.) If it is any consolation, I felt bad for it even before I saw that you had acknowledged it yourself. I certainly need mercy for my grammar/typing/spelling. I forgive you for calling me a lazy witless nit.
That’s quite a disgusting thing to call a lady. Shame yourself.
Shoo!!
Just because you hate immigrants does not mean everyone here feels the same...
Your prejudice blinds you to other peoples ideals, beliefs and status...
Nobody here has attacked you, but you have burst upon this thread with a predetermined attitude of division and have attempted to intimidate the FRee Republic members here who regularly post their honest concerns about our country and the threats to our national security and economic wellbeing..
I do not believe the name calling and personal attacks in which you chose to engage adds anything to this thread...
Ooooooo, you said “white people”, racist scum!!!! /sarc off
“So far you are just playing dumb”
I don’t think he’s “playing”. DUmmie = dumb
Still showing your DUmmiesk. Try not to be so obvious.
Perhaps instead of enjoying an icecream cone, they can give out free tb shots!
‘because you hate Hispanics/poor-white-trash events outside at the travelling carnaval/I guess you just one of them “enlightened” white folks/Cry baby/but your laziness is twice that of your wit. Look down one post nit/ You racist hateful little newbie’
Of 41 total posts, you have made at least 6 personal insults and as your new friend I gotta tell ya, “Don’t be THAT guy”
“I will pray for my soul”.... how un-Christian like of you.
Talk about racist!!! In the few comments I have read from you, I must say, you are the BIGGEST racist I have come across! You are disgusting!!
I don’t think too many Americans, you know, the legal ones, will have a problem w/ English being the offical language.
A newbie? ?
What part? White Trash or Trailer Parks?
A unique partnership between Chattanooga State and the Mexican Consulate in Atlanta provides a free-of-cost educational opportunity to Latino residents of Southeast Tennessee.
Know her personally, you’re so off base, makes me wonder....
All the above....check your other posts.
Foolish comments from these threads should be challenged with ridiculous comments. Clowns like the folks on this thread only under stand big shoes and noses that squeak.
If Conservative Hispanics (and Blacks for that matter) feel that a bunch of yahoos are representing our conservatives by saying it only exist in a trailer some where in south Tennessee, then it must be challenged, shutdown, and ridiculed.
You make a lot of assumptions, hombre. TennesseeNana (LEGALLY!) immigrated here herself, and also served her adopted country. I know nothing about you, but so far you give the impression of being an obnoxious troublemaker.
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