August 18, 2013 By Jeff Gebeau Record-Journal correspondent WALLINGFORD — When the New Haven Symphony invited the Mariachi Academy of Connecticut, a Spanish Community of Wallingford youth band that performs traditional Mexican music, to provide entry music in the rotunda of the Shubert Theater before its March concert, Academy Director Evangeline Mendoza Bourgeois considered it […]

August, 13th 2013 By  Jeff Gebeau WALLINGFORD – Spanish Community of Wallingford Executive Director Maria Harlow called the organization’s new recycling push a “happy accident.” SCOW planned to host a standard youth leadership conference in July as the culminating event to its annual Adelante! America Youth Leadership Program, but the kids “wanted something different,” Harlow explained. […]