Paris Barraza

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Worked on 25 assignments, created 0, named on 23 bylines for The Chaffey Breeze.

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Fall Transfer Fair

(Chaffey volunteers serving lunch to transfer fair attendees.) By: Paris BarrazaOn Thursday, September 27th the Transfer Center hosted it’s fall transfer fair on the Rancho Cucamonga campus. Prior to the event, students could register to attend one of four workshops. This included a UC Santa Barbara General Admissions Workshop, UC Transfer Options Workshop hosted by University of California Riverside, a...

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The Hitch: Thanksgiving for Students

Seven years ago, Karina Suchánek started an event to serve the underserved communities in Southern California, Eat and Be Well. She gathered friends and family to volunteer for their first Eat and Be Well event in Seville Park, Fontana and succeeded in serving 2,500 people. Suchánek is also the co-founder of Project Boon, along with her husband Chris Suchánek. Project...

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Breezing Through LA

Student journalists from The Breeze received the exciting opportunity to spend two days in Los Angeles visiting newsgroups and participating in different learning experiences. On the first day of the trip, twelve students packed into two Chaffey vans and headed off to the first stop on the large itinerary list: YouTube Space LA. We arrived unannounced, so it came as...

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Fontana Town Hall Meeting

Students, faculty members and Fontana residents all rushed into one of the Ralph M. Lewis Center rooms located at the Chaffey Fontana campus on September, 19th. All eyes were on Hector Solorzano the coordinator of The Breeze Town Hall Meeting as he introduced the mayoral candidates. The running Fontana mayoral candidates present that night were Lorena Corona, Mylinda Carrillo and...

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Voting and Elections Panel

On Oct. 24, a voting and elections panel took place on the Rancho Cucamonga Chaffey Campus in Wargin Hall. The panel intended to further educate students on the purpose of voting as the 2018 Midterm Election approaches. The Philosophy Club, Muslim Students Association and the Spanish Department sponsored the panel, which included Philosophy Professor Dr. Ryan Falcioni, Political Science Professor...

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We Give Thanks 2018

(We Give Thanks 2018) Brandon Olguin and Sophie Ngorn exited the Honda Center hand in hand as dozens of members from Orange County and beyond entered. They volunteered for We Give Thanks 2018 since 8 a.m., three hours before the event opened to the community. Though it was Ngorn’s fourth year, she expressed her continual willingness to participate:“We just have...

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Frank Montanez

Frank Montanez reveals, unlike other men on the job, he did not dream of joining law enforcement. Yet there he was, in uniform, sitting in his office. Montanez is quick to add he did not know what he wanted to do in his early twenties. He worked full time as a Mechanic after he served in the Air Force. You...

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Documented Screening

On Oct. 18, a screening and discussion of Jose Antonio Vargas’s "Documented" was hosted by the DREAMers’ Club in conjunction with the One Book, One College program as part of California Community Colleges' Undocumented Student Week of Action to encourage support for undocumented students and community members."Documented" follows the story of Vargas’s struggle as an undocumented American who left the...

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What the Holidays Look Like in 2018

According to an Adobe Analytics report from 2017, U. S. retailers earned a record $7.9 billion on Black Friday. (Retain Chain Cotton On inside Ontario Mills mall.) (Shoppers on Black Friday at Ontario Mills mall.) The holiday season is generally recognized anywhere from late November to early January, revolving around widely celebrated holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving originated...

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A Change in Cheer

"We're getting colorblind as we grow up," Chaffey Community College student Antonio Orellano tells me. Orellano, 19-years old, sits across from me with his back turned to his desk, which was set up with monitors and equipment that he uses to play and stream online games. Orellano teasingly set his desktop wallpaper as a picture of a wrapped present, as...