Milpillas Club Newsletter 14th Edition
July 2004
With warm greetings to the Milpillas community in the United States, we will start this edition.

We hope that you had a great time celebrating this past Mother’s and Father’s Day. Best wishes to all of them.

Congratulations to all the graduates in all grade levels. Best wishes to them and may success follow them in all that they do.

This past 22nd of May, we had our second potluck in the city of Bakersfield in the home of the Navarro Family. We appreciate their hospitality and their great collaboration along with the rest of the people who were so helpful in the realization of the potluck.

We had a great variety of food, like tasty tamales, delicious birria, appetizing seafood tostadas and shrimp cocktails, delicious steak tacos, freshly cooked “godornices” with rice and beans, hot dogs, french fries, nachos, corn on the cob, desserts like flan, different flavored slushies, ice cream, “mangoneadas” and of course, cold drinks.

The food was donated by the following people: Jose and Luis Navarro-tacos, Bianey Navarro-tamales, Cuca and Florentino Ortiz-godornices, Bere and Eliverato Navarro-seafood tostadas, Arcadio Navarro Sr.-birria, Rosalena and Antonio Becerra-shrimp cocktails, Zacarias Navarro-french fries, corn dogs and nachos cooked by Jimmy Navarro, beans and rice-courtesy of Restaurant EL PORTAL, Norma Castaneda-flan, Altagracia Navarro-strawberry flan, Cuca and Hector Romero-flavored slushies, Maria Navarro-“mangoneadas”, Primo Benavides-avocados, Everardo Rivas-3 boxes of strawberries.

Drinks: Ramon and Juan Navarro-6 20 packs of beer, Remigio Navarro-1 24 pack of Corona and 2 24 packs of Coronita, Ana Navarro-2 24 packs of Corona and 3 24 packs of soda, Bere and Marco Antonio Castaneda-3 24 packs of Modelo beer, Susana Gonzalez-1 24 pack of soda, Rafael Bobadilla-1 24 pack of BudLight and 1 24 pack of soda, Romero Bobadilla Family-1 24 pack of Corona, Consuelo Castaneda-1 24 pack of soda, “El Chino”- one bottle of Cuervo de la Familia.

We received a donation from the clients and workers of EL CAZADOR Restaurant. Norma-two cakes, Maricela-4 24 packs of soda, Alejandra-3 24 packs of soda, “El Gordo”-8 cases of water, Timoteo- 3 24 packs of soda, Arcadio Navarro Jr.-3 20 packs of Corona and 3 20 packs of BudLight. THANK YOU!!

 Those who gave contributions for this potluck were:
Serafin Sandoval $50, Rodrigo Lamas $100, Efren Castaneda $50, Bere and Marco Castaneda $80. Thanks to all for their cooperation.
Thanks again to Ariana Gonzalez, she delighted us with her company and put herself at our disposition for anyone who would like to solicit her in interpreting their writings. According to comments, she is very assertive. We appreciate her sharing her talent with our community.

We thank Bere and Marco Antonio, also Jorge Gonzalez and all the families that came all the way from Fallbrook, CA and drove several hours to make it. Thanks for coming and showing support for our club. We would like to invite all those who want to come to our reunions, your presence is welcome.

Once again, Sergio Castaneda sent beautiful plants that were either raffled or sold.

For the raffle we received: a 300X’s hat and crocodile skin boots given by Remigio Navarro-owner of the DON PERICO Restaurant- he gives a warm welcome to all so you can visit him, where you will be taken good care of, where you will be able to count on a great variety of plates for all tastes. The location is:

9021 Grapevine Rd
Lebec, CA 93343

(661) 248-6903
On this occasion we had the presence and participation of an aspiring singer, her name is Ariana. She provided great entertainment singing great songs and giving light to her beautiful voice. She hosted a singing contest, men vs. women. The winner for the women was Ana Castaneda, singing, “Se Me Olvido Otra Vez”, she won a beautiful plant. On the men’s side, Everardo Rivas won, singing “El Rey”, his prize was a Milpillas Club T-shirt. We thank the person who invited Ariana, she brought us great cheer.
The winners of the raffle were: boots- Antnio Becerra, hat-Karina Ortiz, a bottle-Janet Navarro, cake-Remigio Navarro (we found out that father and daughter exchanged gifts for obvious reasons). A box of strawberries- Tony, cake-Gustavo Marquez. Through the raffle $364 were gathered. In total, excluding the expenses for this event was $2,336.

Mr. Florentino Ortiz, President of the club, wants to express his appreciation to the Navarro Family and all those who have given their unconditional support in this potluck and all the events that have taken place in the city of Bakersfield.

In the last potluck in the Valley, $100 were received from Elena Montes to help with expenses. Unfortunately, this information was not available when the newsletter was made, that’s why it is being published until now. Thank you Elena! Please make sure that when you give a donation, a member of the Board of Directors makes note of it.

$1,800 were received from the Rockford, IL community. Thank you for your contribution! We hope you can keep helping our club.
$1,800 were received from the Rockford, IL Milpillas community. Thank you for your contribution! We hope you can keep helping our club.
We would also like to express our great gratitude to Arturo Castaneda. Through his web page, which has been up since 1996 until May of this year, Milpillas was given the opportunity to be known worldwide. With this, we believe Milpillas de Allende will pass on to history as one of the first Mexican towns to ever have their presence known through the internet. (This web page was first published in 1996, and in 8 years it has been visited 19,000 times.)

We invite you to visit the Milpillas web page at its new address, which is: www.milpillas.com. In this site you will be able to find the newsletter and much more information. We ask you to be patient, since we are gradually improving. If you want to help, you are more than welcome to.

We are soliciting volunteers to translate the newsletter from spanish to english. If anyone is interested please contact any member of the Board of Directors as soon as possible.

We would like to invite you to our next event, which will take place in the city of Paramount, in the home of Ana And Roque Castaneda. This is where we will be celebrating our 2nd Anniversary

DATE: July 17, 2004

Map of t he place

We have been informed that on July 17th we will be receiving a visit from a beloved teacher to our community. He is Professor Salvador Barrera. We hope you can be there and have a chance to greet him.

We would like for you to continue your support like you have been doing in the past. We have noticed your absence in some events. We invite you to support all the events, no matter where they are held. You don’t have to wait until they take place in your area. The proceeds go to the same funds and we are all from the same community.

¡LOS ESPERAMOS!

Translated from the Spanish version by: Gaby Perez. (Elena Muro's daughter)
Last update: 8/20/2004