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Hispanic culture takes center stage in Milton

Hector Martinez strummed a guitar near Broadway Avenue as people strolled around with plates of cheese-covered nachos and rice and beans Saturday at the second annual Fiesta de Mayo. “It’s a good way to be part of the community,” Martinez, 19, of Milton said. Organized by Joe and Maggie Rosa, pastors of Congregacion Menonita Shalom in New Columbia, the festival is a chance for the large local Hispanic and Latino community to share their culture with Valley residents. “We want to get people to mingle, for people to learn a little bit,” Joe Rosa said. Sharing food, music and information about Hispanics and Latinos is a way to bring the groups together, he said, and hopefully redefine a community that is often stereotyped. READ FULL STORY
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