Que Pasa Calexico

These past couple of days I had the opportunity to talk to teachers and see how they're dealing with distance learning and being away from their classrooms and students.  In today's episode I have the chance to talk to a couple of Calexico High School seniors, JP Andrade and Efrain Villegas Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/2AljpUQ Follow us on Instagram! http://bit.ly/31l34ve Follow us on...

Today's guest is Michelle Velasquez, I've known Michelle since she was 5 years old, she was my neighbor in las Pichos.  She is now a 5th grade teacher at Heber School.  I wanted to talk to her because I know she's very dedicated teacher and has an amazing relationship with her students and i wanted to see how she is coping with this distance learning and what Heber School District is doi...

Mi invitada de hoy es la maestra Guadalupe Espino.  La Sra Espino da clases de espanol en Calexico High School. Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/2AljpUQ Follow us on Instagram! http://bit.ly/31l34ve Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/2ZTMdlL List of all Episodes! http://bit.ly/2v4jNYr

Today's guest is my friend Rosa Martinez-Lopez.  Rosa is a teacher with over 30 years of experience and she's one of the hardest working people in our district.  She's always looking for ways to help our teachers find resources, materials and techniques to help our students learn.  Even now that everyone is learning from home she is still working hard to support our teachers in deal...

Today's guest is an amazing 5th grade teacher from Kennedy Gardens Elementary, Mr Jesus Huerta.  Mr Huerta is not only a huge asset to students but to other teachers, he's an expert in implementing technology in the classroom and he's also more than willing to help his fellow teachers with any issues and concerns they might have with distance learning. Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/2Al...

Today's guest is an amazing English/AVID teacher at Calexico High.   She's not only a great teacher but also a great softball coach, motivator, friend and a great Calexican.  My guest today is Mrs Jennifer Lopez.   Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/2AljpUQ Follow us on Instagram! http://bit.ly/31l34ve Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/2ZTMdlL List of all Episodes! http://bit.ly/2v4jNYr

Today's guest is an amazing history teacher, great friend and co-worker and the owner of an amazing mustache ... Mr Jesus Nunez.  Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/2AljpUQ Follow us on Instagram! http://bit.ly/31l34ve Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/2ZTMdlL List of all Episodes! http://bit.ly/2v4jNYr

Today’s guest is a amazing teacher from Central High school, she’s a Stanford Graduate, she was a CCTC teacher representative in 2014, in 2009 she became a National Board Certified Teacher and a member of the Board of Directors for Professional Teaching Standards, in 2007 she was named Teacher of the year by the Association for school administrators, in 2015 she received the Las Primeras Award hon...

Today's guest is my very good friend Mr Q, I've known Mr Q for a very long time and I really admire his passion for teaching and life and I wanted to share him with you guys!  Mr Pedro Quintanilla is a math teacher at Imperial High school and he does some really cool things for his students including YouTube videos so they can review whatever they're studying in class. Check out Mr Q's YouTube Cha...

In Episode 71 we have a returning guest ... Mayor Bill Hodge. In this episode I wanted to focus on the expansion of Heber park. For those of you who don't know #Calexico was awarded $8.5 million from the state to expand Heber park. Despite the fact that this is something positive for our city some in a our community were and are still worried that these funds are going to be misused and the projec...

Watch or listen to this and previous episodes by clicking on the link below! http://bit.ly/2v4jNYr In today's episode I get to sit down and chat with the crew from Red Line Studios and Red Line Scene.  Who is Red Line Studios and Red Line Scene?  It a group of guys and girls trying to help our small local bands, artist, poets, musicians or anyone who is trying to record music or put out...

Find a complete list of all of the Podcast Episodes by clicking on the link below! http://bit.ly/2v4jNYr In this episode I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to one of the candidates for IID Board of directors for division 2, Mr Ryan Childers. Follow Ryan's campaign on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/RDCforIID/ Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/2AljpUQ Follow us on Instagram! http://bi...

In today's episode I sat down with Jose Lopez and Daniel Flores two  partnership specialists for the US Census bureau.  I wanted to have them on so they could talk to us about how you can fill out your Census, important dates for this upcoming census, the importance of getting counted, how your data is use and many other important things regarding the US Census 2020.  If you still have questions r...

In today's episode I had the pleasure to talk to a local comic book artist and writer, Mr Josef Vargas.  Follow Josef Vargas on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/jvargas.art/ Follow us on Facebook!!  https://www.facebook.com/quepasacalexico  Follow us on Instagram!!  https://www.instagram.com/quepasacalexico/  Follow us on Twitter!!  https://twitter.com/quepasacalexico

In today's episode I had the pleasure of talking to and amazing Hispanic comic book creator, Mr Javier Hernandez.  Follow Javier Hernandez on Instagram!  https://instagram.com/javierloscomex?igshid=1wumkw91rg3p9  Follow us on Facebook!!  https://www.facebook.com/quepasacalexico  Follow us on Instagram!!  https://www.instagram.com/quepasacalexico/  Follow us on Twitter!! https://twitter.com/quepasa...

In today's episode I have a chat with a Bruce Kuhn.  Mr Kuhn is currently part of the IID board of directors for division 2.  His term is up December 2020 so he is also running for re-election, he is up against 3 other candidates.  We spoke about some of the big issues surrounding the IID and that might have a huge impact on the Imperial Valley, issues like AB854, Abatti Vs IID and water rights.  ...

In today's very special episode, the very 1st trilingual episode,  I sat down and talked to the ladies from Dynamic Hands, America and Fernanda.  We talked about their passion for teaching everyone American and Mexican sign language!    Me la pase muy suave grabando este episodio especial por que es El primer episodio trilingüe y quisas El ultimo ... Fernanda y America tambien conosidas como Dynam...

In today's episode I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with the talented producer, rapper, creator and all around great guy Tony Slumz!  This episode was a lot of fun we talked about producing music, cartoons, creating and I even got a little therapy session.  Because of this episode you're going to see some changes on how the podcast is produced and I have Tony to thanks!! Follow Tony on I...

In this episode I had the opportunity to talk to sit down and talk to Erik Ortega who is on the IID board of directors for division 4.  Erik is also campaigning for this seat because his current term ends in December 2020.  Erik and I spoke about his history here in Calexico and how and why he got involved in politics, the major issues affecting the valley through the IID and many other...

Today I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Reyes, Quintin, Ricardo and Ferny otherwise known as Sweet Orange.  Sweet Orange is a local punk rock band I can honestly say I'm a fan of.  The have this nostalgic sound that takes me back to when I was young and used to listen and watch bands like Blink 182 and Greenday.  These guys have gone from playing small local gigs and winning the batt...

Today I had the pleasure to sit down and chat some local veterans who are trying to help out their fellow veterans through their Podcast. The Blue Falcon Krew is made up by Ramon, Raymond and Ernie.  These three veterans are on a mission to reach out to veterans with success stories to show other veterans that even though they're out of the service they can still find a mission and find a way...

In today's episode I sat down and talked to Maribel Padilla.  She is one of the hardest working women in the Imperial Valley and most to the work she does is to help the less fortunate in our community.  Maribel is one of the co-founders of the Brown Bag Coalition.  Back in 2014 Maribel posted something on Facebook stating she was worried about the homeless in Calexico because of th...

Today I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Calexico's current mayor Bill Hodge.  This is Mr Hodge's 2nd term as a Calexico City Council Member.  I asked people on social media if they had any questions and I tried to ask most of them and I feel that most of this episode was based off those questions. Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/quepasacalexico Follow us on Instagram!...

Today's guest is a 23 year old from El Centro who is running for IID Board District 2.  Even thought he's really young he is really knowledgeable.  I had a good hour long chat with JB where we touched on some of the really big subjects impacting the IID, like the Abatti V IID lawsuit, AB 854 and a lot more things.  I want to thank my Anchor Sponsors Jake, Sergio and James!!  I also want to thank G...