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The Happy Valley Latin Festival was hosted on Saturday, October 9 by Juana’s restaurant and co-sponsored by the Borough of State College, with the goal of celebrating family, community, and Hispanic heritage through music, food, arts, crafts, and many other activities representative of the culture. The festival also sought to bring camaraderie among the people of State College in general while raising awareness of the influence of Latin culture on the community.
CLS graduate students Jessica Vélez Avilés, Estilita María Cassiani Obeso, and Tiffany Rodríguez-Cruz and lab manager Sarah Schaech were there to represent our branch of Bilingualism Matters, sharing games and spreading the words about the benefits of linguistic diversity!