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STATE: House of Representatives approves the ‘Real Hope Act’ > 21

LATIN AMERICA: Venezuela leader expels US officials > 17

RELIGION: Pope opens week for reform, family issues > 19

The most interesting man in the worldMexican skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe > 23

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WINTER OLYMPICS

(AP)

He is a German pop star who has put out eight albums,

with his newest record fea-turing the single, “Higher Than Mars.” He’s also an award-winning photogra-pher whose work has been featured in galleries and com-mercial campaigns. Fluent in five languages, an heir to an automotive fortune, 55-year-old six-time Olym-pian Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe (he is a descen-dent of German royalty) is representing Mexico on the Alpine ski course in Sochi. He has never medaled, but von Hohenlohe is the sec-ond-oldest Winter Olym-pian ever in the history of the Games.

Von Hohenlohe is the real-life most

interesting man in the world.Although he grew up in Europe, von

Hohenlohe was born in Mexico and

spent the first four years of his life there. He has dual citizenship in Austria and the Latin American country, which allows him to represent Mexico at the Games.

The prince began competitively skiing while a student in Austria, and at 21, he won the university downhill champion-ship and then began participating in the World Cup circuit. In 1981, the citizen of the world founded the one-man Mexican Ski Federation and then represented Mexico at his first Winter Games in the 1984 Sarajevo Games.

“I hope Mexicans are proud to have someone at the Olympics and, through that, hopefully they get to know who I am,” Von Hohenlohe said.

Von Hohenlohe has become more known for his popular garb on the slopes than his final Olympic results, though. In Vancouver, he wore a ski suit inspired by Mexican banditos, which featured fake pistols and bandoliers. Last week, he showed off his newest outfit -- a Maria-chi-style ski uniform that he will wear in this year’s game. The skier said the suit is meant to pay homage for the country he is representing.

“We in Mexico are 100 million people and the only chance we have of winning a medal is up to me, but we don’t have to look at it like that, you have to see it as I’m an ambassador of this country, an ambassador with style and a human force that goes beyond the result,” he said.

The most interesting man in the world: Mexican skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe

Mexican skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe will be Mexico’s only athlete competing for the country during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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WINTER OLYMPICS: The most interesting man in the world: Mexican skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe

OUR PRIDE: Establishing a connection with the community

STATE: House of Representatives passes ‘Real Hope Act’ for immigrant children

RELIGION: Pope opens critical week for reforms, family issues

HEALTH LITERACY: Medicaid now covers dental services for adults

LATIN AMERICA: Venezuela leader expels US officials

SPORTS: Sounders complete sale of Montero to Portuguese team

NATIONAL: Mexican brands that have crossed borders

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By Arlette RodriguezYakima tu Decides correspondent

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“I started like all of us who come as immigrants to this country, looking for new opportunities for my family,” says Romero.

Romero started working in the fields and also attended a class of basic edu-cation for adults. That class taught the basic skills that adults needed to know, such as filling out applications, how to make appointments and in general how to adapt to the valley as a whole. From

there, he began reach-ing out into the com-munity and becoming involved with multiple organizations.

“I was the president of the board for the Child Development Center in Toppenish.”

He was also a member of the board of direc-tors and president of other community orga-nizations. Romero has always loved working with the community, and especially reaching out to the Latino com-munity and helping their voice be heard.

As he reflects proudly on his past, he knows he wants to con-tinue to reach out.

“Five years ago I started doing taxes,” says Romero.

From the experience he has gained doing taxes, he has established his busi-

ness for that and more. The business, located in Yakima is called Connec-tion Hispana and has been open since January of this year. Romero intention-ally meant for the business name to be in “Spanglish,” a mixture of the cultures in the valley.

“We want to make this office like a connection with the community.”

He wants community members to be able to go to him and use his business as a resource for their needs and questions. In this time of the year, the business thrives with community members who are getting their taxes done, but after that Romero will continue to work with the community and provide his services. For example, on Saturdays from 4 pm to 5 pm, Romero offers citizenship classes at his business location.

With his passion for helping others and being there for his fellow com-rades and neighbors, Romero looks to the future of his business with a posi-tive outlook. He will do his best to help the community and be the resource they need. Romero has acquired the com-munity’s recognition over the years, and thus already has many clients and com-munity members who are aware of his business and making use of his services.

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OLYMPIA, Washington

Bill 6523, better known as the “Real Hope Act,” was over-whelmingly approved by the

Washington State House of Representa-tives by a margin of 75-22. The vote took place in Olympia on Tuesday night.

Senate Bill 6523, which was also approved by the State Senate by a vote of 35-10 on January 31st, provides some $5 million for college financial aid pro-

grams for immigrant students, enough to finance college-need grants for some 800 to 1,200.

The following is the complete list of the names of each state representative and how they voted on Tuesday night:

Voting Yea: Representative Appleton, Bergquist, Blake, Carlyle, Chandler, Clib-born, Cody, Condotta, DeBolt, Dunshee, Fagan, Farrell, Fey, Fitzgibbon, Freeman, Goodman, Green, Gregerson, Habib,

Haigh, Haler, Hansen, Hawkins, Hayes, Hudgins, G. Hunt, S. Hunt, Hunter, Hurst, Jinkins, Johnson, Kagi, Kirby, Kochmar, Kretz, Lytton, Moeller, Morrell, Morris, Moscoso, Muri, Nealey, Ormsby, Ortiz-Self, Orwall, Pettigrew, Pollet, Reykdal, Riccelli, Roberts, Robinson, Ross, Ryu, Santos, Sawyer, Seaquist, Sells, Senn, Short, Smith, Springer, Stanford, Stonier, Sullivan, Takko, Tarleton, Tharinger, Van De Wege, Walkin-shaw, Walsh, Warnick, Wilcox, Wylie, Zeiger, Mr. Speaker

Voting Nay: Representative

Buys, Christian, Dahlquist, Hargrove, Harris, Holy, Hope, Klippert, Kristian-sen, MacEwen, Magendanz, Manweller, Orcutt, Overstreet, Pike, Rodne, Schmick, Scott, Shea, Taylor, Vick, Young

Excused: Representative Parker

Results from the State Senate vote from January 31st, 2014:

Voting Yea: Senator Bailey, Becker, Billig, Chase, Cleveland, Conway, Dam-

meier, Darneille, Eide, Fain, Fraser, Frockt, Hargrove, Hasegawa, Hatfield, Hill, Hobbs, Keiser, King, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Liias, Litzow, McAuliffe, McCoy, Mullet, Nelson, O’Ban, Parlette, Pedersen, Ranker, Rolfes, Schoesler, Sheldon, Tom

Voting Nay: Senator Angel, Braun, Brown, Dansel, Ericksen, Hewitt, Honey-ford, Padden, Pearson, Rivers

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RELIGION

VATICAN CITY (AP)

Pope Francis on Monday opened the most critical week of his year-old papacy: Two commis-

sions of inquiry on Vatican finance are reporting their recommendations for reform and preparations get underway for a summit on family issues that will deal with the widespread rejection by Catho-lics of church teaching on contraception, divorce and gay unions.

In between, Francis will preside over his first ceremony to formally welcome 19 new cardinals into the elite club of churchmen who will eventually elect his successor. In typical Francis style, the new cardinals hail from some of the poorest places on earth, including Haiti, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.

The first half of Francis' busy week is being devoted to the third meeting of his "Group of Eight" advisers, the senior car-dinals representing every continent who Francis appointed to help him govern the church and overhaul the antiquated and inefficient Vatican bureaucracy.

On Monday, the G8, the pope and his No. 2 heard recommendations from a panel of experts on rationalizing the Holy See's overall financial and administrative structures. On Tuesday, they will hear from the commission of inquiry studying how to reform the troubled Vatican bank.

Francis was elected with a mandate to reform the Roman Curia, as the Holy See administration is known, to make it more responsive to the needs of the 21st-cen-tury Catholic Church. He wants to make the curia more of a support to bishops trying to spread the faith rather than an obstacle, and this week's meetings are a clear indication that improving the Vati-can's financial structures is a core piece of that reform.

Francis has placed particular priority on overhauling the scandal-marred Vatican bank, long accused by Italian authorities as being an off-shore tax haven for well-connected Italians and, more recently, a place where money could be laundered.

On the eve of the G8 meeting, the head of the Vatican bank pleaded his case to Francis' hometown newspaper, telling

Argentina's La Nacion daily that his process of reform hadn't yielded any "system-atic violations" of the Vati-can's anti-money launder-ing laws but just some "black sheep."

One of those black sheep is Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, an accountant in the Vatican's finance min-istry who is currently on trial for allegedly trying to smuggle 20,000 euro ($26,000) from Switzerland to Italy.

On a slightly more accel-erated timetable are plans for the October meeting of bishops at the Vatican on family issues. A broader group of cardinals are expected to discuss the summit in the second half of the week and then the main planning group gets down to work early next week.

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LATIN AMERICA

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)

President Nicolas Maduro's gov-ernment on Monday gave three U.S. Embassy officials 48 hours

to leave the country, accusing the Obama administration of siding with student pro-testers that Venezuela accuses of inciting violence.

The announcement by Foreign Minister Elias Jaua came amid fears that renewed clashes could erupt Tuesday when both pro- and anti-government activists hold demonstrations in the capital.

Jaua said the senior U.S. consular offi-cers were trying to infiltrate Venezue-lan universities, the hotbed of the recent unrest, under the cover of doing visa out-reach. Repeating charges by Maduro, who has expelled American diplomats twice before, Jaua said the U.S. is conspiring with opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and student activists in an attempt to oust the socialist president.

The U.S. denied the charges, and is expressing concern about rising violence that led to three deaths last week during

anti-government demon-strations and about the government's attempts to block peaceful protests.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Lopez's arrest would have a "chilling effect" on Ven-ezuelans' right to free expression.

More than 1,000 stu-dents, who have spent the past week on the streets alternating between peaceful protests by day and battles with police at night, marched on Monday to Venezuela's telecommunica-tions regulator to demand it lift all restric-tions on the news media's coverage of the unfolding political crisis. There were no reports of new disturbances.

Several journalists have been harassed and detained. Colombia's news channel NTN24 was taken off cable television while covering protests Wednesday that ended in a battle between student dem-

onstrators and security forces backed by armed pro-government militias.

Three people were killed during those clashes last week — two students and a pro-government demonstrator. News videos and photographs taken at the time indicate at least one of the students was killed when pro-government militia members fired directly at protesters.

Maduro accuses Lopez of being behind the violence and of leading a "fascist" plot

to overthrow him two months after his party's candidates won mayoral elections by a landslide. At a rally with thousands of supporters Saturday, Maduro dared Lopez, a Harvard-educated former mayor, to turn himself in after a court ordered his arrest on charges ranging from homicide to vandalism of public property.

Lopez said he doesn't fear going to jail to defend his beliefs. In a video message Sunday, he called on supporters to march with him in white shirts Tuesday to the Interior Ministry, where he'll deliver a petition demanding the government protect citizens' rights to peacefully protest.

"I haven't committed any crime," said Lopez, who hasn't been seen in public since a Wednesday night news conference after the bloodshed. "If there is a deci-sion to legally throw me in jail I'll submit myself to this persecution."

To avoid another violent clash, Lopez aides have rerouted their Tuesday protest away from the central plaza in Caracas where a competing march of pro-govern-ment oil workers will take place.

Venezuela leader expels US officials

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SPORTS

SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

Portuguese power Sporting Club de Portugal have exercised the club's option to complete the

permanent transfer of former Seattle Sounders forward Fredy Montero for an undisclosed fee.

According to the announcement, Montero, who is currently tied for the Por-tuguese league lead with 13 goals, signed a contract through the 2018 season.

The Sounders confirmed the transfer last Thursday afternoon.

"Fredy has been and will always be a special member of our family," said Sounders FC owner and general manager Adrian Hanauer in a statement.

"Fredy had a wonderful career in Seattle and is continuing that success overseas. Hopefully his quality of play gives him an opportunity to be added to the Colombia World Cup roster. We wish him well with this next chapter of his career."

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Millonarios during the spring. He joined the Sounders prior to their inaugural MLS season in 2009 and became an instant hit at age 21, scoring 12 goals that season and earning MLS Newcomer of the Year.

He produced 47 goals and 34 assists in regular-season play in four seasons with Seattle, although he was scoreless in 10 career postseason games.

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Sounders complete sale of Montero to Portuguese team

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By Alejandra Arce-Salazar, reachhispanic.com

We’ve heard about Rice Krisp-ies, Heinz 57, and Chips Ahoy moving south. Now

we’re hearing about Yemina, Bimbo, and Valle Verde heading north.

Mexican markets have around 18 million customers in the United States of Mexican descent, and not only Mexicans. I remember a completely Anglo worker who told me that he went three times a week to a Mexican store to buy Mexican cheeses.

And when you grow up with a brand in your country, you pass it on to future generations. I grew up with Marinela, Gansito, Pingüinos, and Choco Roles, and now my 7-year-old daughter who was born in the US also knows the famous Mexican treats. Without a doubt, those generations will continue to pass them on to their future children.

Each year Mexican brands are getting stronger. In 2009 Grupo Bimbo, a company based in Mexico City, bought

the companies of Weston Foods in the United States, acquiring the distribution of 22 industrial bakeries and 4,000 routes of distribution. The Mexican company has 35 bakeries in the United States, including Entenmann’s Pastries, Boboli Pizza, and Thomas’ English Muffins (no longer so English).

We can find more evidence of Mexican influence in Grupo Lala – the major dairy company based in Durango, Mexico – which acquired a plant in Omaha; and in Sigma Foods, which includes cold cuts from FUD, products which all Mexi-cans who came to this country know and consume.

Consumer loyalty in the Mexican/American market is impressive, and because of it our brands are here to stay.

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Sabiduría para las decisiones

Dave Says

Dave Ramsey

From my balcony

Dear Dave,

I’m trying to pay off my credit card and get out of debt. Do you think I should transfer the balance to one with a lower interest rate while I do this?

Kelsey

Dear Kelsey,

I’m not against this idea, as long as you understand that you’re not really accomplishing much. All you’re doing is moving money around, and maybe saving a tiny bit on inter-est. If you were planning on keeping the debt around for 30 years it would become a big deal. But if you’re talking about a few months, just until you get it paid off, it’s not that much money.

The problem with balance transfers is that you feel like you took a big step forward when you really didn’t. Lots of times this causes people to lose focus on other things they can do to get out of debt, like picking up an extra job or selling a bunch a crap they don’t want or need. That kind of stuff, along with living on rice and beans and a strict written budget, is 98 percent of the battle when it comes to getting out of debt!

—Dave

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Balance transfers don’t do much

Dr. Lorena Barboza [email protected]

That is how we can continue to greet each other,

but no matter your native tongue, keep it and cel-

ebrate it with pride!

On our little planet there are roughly 6,000 lan-

guages, but it hurts me to think that as many as

half of them are in danger of extinction. There-

fore also threatening our richness in education

and cultural identity.

But we at least have one day to reflect on the

great richness that we have! Knowing full well of

the importance of keeping alive those sounds

that have allowed to communicate among each

other, February 21st was proclaimed, in Novem-

ber 1999, as Day of the Mother Language by the

General Conference of the Organization for Edu-

cation, Science and Culture of the United Nations

(UNESCO.) In May 2007, they also encouraged all

of us to “promote the preservation and protec-

tion of all of the languages of the world,” and

in the same resolution, it proclaimed 2008 as

the International Year of Languages, to promote

unity and diversity, along with international com-

prehension.

In the Tri-Cities, we are home to some 30 differ-

ent ethnic groups and languages. Do you know

people of other nationalities and with differ-

ent customs? This Sunday, February 23rd, the

Three Rivers Folklife Society will be celebrating

the International Day of the Mother Language at

the Battelle Auditorium in Richland. Come and

experience with your family what cultural and lan-

guage diversity is all about, beginning at 2 p.m.,

by participating in this free event where various

groups will be showing off their native outfits and

customs from their homelands. Don’t miss this

exciting event!

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