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• Enrique Flores Started East Side Heroes

  Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2008 at 10:34 AM

  

  At age 23 (year 2003), Enrique S. Flores Founded the East Side Heroes' Vision. This vision is to improve the quality of life of all underprivileged youth and families, via life-long team-mentorship, assisting our mentees in the development of 35 core-leadership-strengths, and as the 1st Community Based Organization in the San Francisco Bay Area to successfully provide academic scholarships to qualified 8th grade students who have been admitted into a private college prep high school of their choice, but who's family simply can not afford the tuition. 
   
  Remarkably, East Side Heroes (as a volunteer-run organization) has raised over $125,000 dollars in the past 4 years. Enrique acknowledges that this success can only be attributed to the hundreds of community volunteers, generous donors, and friends who share this same vision of making a quality education and resources available and attainable to all youth and their families. Enrique continues to serve and volunteer his time, faithfully over the past 5 years, as the Executive Director for East Side Heroes.
   
       Enrique S. Flores is a product of the Alum Rock School district and grew up in East San Jose's "Story & King Neighborhood". Enrique S. Flores comes from a working-class/ low-income family. Both Enrique's parents are immigrants, whom arrived to this country in hopes of providing a better future for their children. With the help of many caring Jesuit Priests (aka: The Society of Jesus), Enrique was educated at Bellarmine College Preparatory and earned both a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University. Enrique S. Flores is the author of his autobiographical intervention workbook entitled: From East Side San Jose, to Santa Clara University and Back. Enrique is currently working on a second short-story book, soon to be released.
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• MySpace nun hasn't forgotten to have fun

  Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2008 at 10:19 AM

  

  The Mercury News wrote this article about Sister Rebecca Shinas, a graduate of the Pastoral Ministries program.  I love this quote!  "Most nuns are really mean," said Mark Graham, 48, a Cisco software engineer who play guitar with Sister Rebecca and posts her concerts on YouTube.  "She's the exact opposite of that.  how many times have you seen a nun play electric guitar?"
  
  Sister Rebecca has four CDs for sale on cdbaby.com and iTunes.  Her MySapce page is at www.myspace.com/justbebecky
  

  Article written by Lisa Fernandez
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