hello welcome to "comunidad del valle." today the spanish voice of the oakland a's is in our studio and ceo for employment training. this is "comunidad del valle." we begin today with an effort to keep the south bay healthy. sandra is the ceo of healthy silicon valley and joins us here on "comunidad del valle." i shared the story with you before the cameras came on about a barbecue, a family barbecue.

my nephew reaches into an ice cooler and i say there's water over there. he says why? it's only my fourth one. is that what we're dealing with. we're in love with soda pop? >> i would say within all communities but the latino community is strongly affected right now. if you stop and think about a soda, some of those sodas have about 48 grams of sugar. that means if you divide that number by four, that equals 12 teaspoons of sugar per can. if you get four cans that your nephew is getting and you put 12 in the first one and mix it with water and 12 in the second one and mixes it with water and he just drank all of those together. it's an enormous amount of sugar. again, we do push on drinking water. it's the best thing to do for the body. but to recognize how to read labels and how to look at the grams of sugar that are in what our children consume. >> i'm not his parent so i couldn't say put that down. it's ridiculous if you are going to drink that. what are we not doing as parents

that is allowing them to do this? are we setting a bad example ourselves? >> i would say one, two, and three. the first one is it's not necessarily the parents' fault if the parent doesn't know. sometimes what we need to do is just really figure out what it is that our children are consuming and how it affects the body. once we do that as parents, then it is really a big responsibility of ours to really say, hey, we're going to try to be healthy and these are different things that we're going to be looking for because we care about your health. and then lastly the child also needs to know. because for that child they think what's the big deal? it's a party. i've had four sodas. i'm burning it off. in reality they don't realize what that amount of sugar does to their body. so i have some statistics to share with you in you don't mind. presently right now we know that

close to 50% of the adults in santa clara county are overweight or obese. but among latinos we're about 68% overweight and obese. staggering statistics. children born in the year 2000 are estimated at 53% of those that are girls will end up developing diabetes and it's estimated that 45% of boys will develop diabetes. now, if they develop diabetes before the age of 40, their life span is shortened between 12 and 14 years. >> is that without a family history of diabetes? can it be brought upon because of the weight? >> absolutely. absolutely. now, we know that genes play a factor but they're not the ultimate determinative. if our parents or grandparents have diabetes, we know that we are susceptible to getting diabetes but getting type ii diabetes we can put up a strong fight to not become diabetic ourselves. >> what are you doing over at the healthy silicon valley to

make sure we're on the right track? >> a little bit about healthy silicon valley we're a community collaborative made up of over 100 organizations and over 1,000 individuals that are really coming together as members of the santa clara county office of education, hospitals, foundations, organizations coming together to talk about what can we do to help our community be healthier? being healthy and eating healthy is an easy choice. one is education. two if we can get sodas out and really think about drinking water to keep ourselves hydrated and doing exercises with our kids and going out on walks to the park, it doesn't mean that we have to do something big or spend a lot of money but there's little things to make sure that we do better to try to cook at home and not eat out as much really can help. >> is olive oil better than corn oil or is oil oil? >> oil is oil.

if we look at the portions we cook with, that will determine how best we can feed our bodies. cooking outdoors, we have the perfect summer weather. grill some vegetables outside. grill some chicken outside. you don't necessarily have to douse it in oil to have a really good meal. >> we progressed in the last ten years maybe, i don't think that a lot of us latinos -- i think we have switched to more natural oils but the problem persists though. >> absolutely. again, thinking that we've done enough to really make that dramatic change. we're not quite there yet. we actually need a lot more help in helping our children make some very strong and good choices for themselves. again, you know, it's good. it's very healthy. cooking a little bit without putting so much oil, that's very healthy too. if we can increase fresh fruits and vegetables and get rid of soda, that makes a big

difference in the meals of our families. >> stay away from french fries and chicken mcnuggets. if you are interested in getting ahold of this agency, give us final thoughts as you will as you really the website of your agency. >> we're located at www.healthysiliconvalley.com. we'll have a variety of events and information for you. >> it is dotcom and not dotorg. >> it is dotorg. up next, the ceo of the center for employment training. stay with us.

>> she's a leader of the successful center for employment training. happy 43rd birthday to cet. >> thank you. >> i want to thank you. because of cet, i have an older brother and my only sister is

what got them out of the fields. it is what allowed them to get a career that was not in agriculture. my roots go back to cet a long ways. thank you for what you did there. tell us about cet and why this is a huge event. >> every time i hear stories like the one you just shared with me, just make me so proud of what cet has been able to do for 43 years. and the reason for my being here is that we are celebrating 43 years with a celebration at the fairmont hotel. an event that's going to be exciting and first of all we want to showcase the accomplishments of cet as well as the accomplishments of so many students that have transformed their lives by coming to cet. >> we have video of the ribbon cutting of one of your events. cets staffing agency.

we were there for that. we want to show that footage. that's literally what you have done is given people who thought maybe they didn't have a chance at a career, a technical career, whatever it might be, it gave them that chance. >> most of the people who come to cet have knocked on many doors and because of the language barrier or their background or lack of experience, don't find the opportunities to expend their skills and to get on sure footing for a career. and so it's a great opportunity for people who don't have that chance elsewhere. >> you have opened up the eyes nationwide. you had senator barbara boxer there running for office, re-lere re-election. she was learning about the work you do there at cet. >> we were honored to have senator boxer tour our center

about two weeks ago and it was an exciting day for our students who don't get the opportunity to be engaged in the politics of electing a senator. she was here to speak about jobs and job training. she's very, very involved in supporting the administration to expand jobs and create jobs and so we were honored to have her. >> we'll talk specifically now about your celebration and then we'll get into whatever it is you might want to get across to our viewers. some great headliners. your keynote speaker is amazing and so is entertainment. >> our keynote speaker is a great person whom i've had the honor of hearing speak and that's an astronaut who comes to us from washington, d.c. where he works and resides. and the second headliner is

little joey. we have history with little joe. he's been with us at all of our anniversaries so when i called him i think he was already booked but somehow managed to agree to come. we like him. he likes us. >> why is it important to have jose and to have little joe and to have it at the fairmont? why do we celebrate in such a huge fashion for the 43rd anniversary? >> we don't celebrate every year. when we do, we try to do a really, really good event. and i had the opportunity of listening to jose and he represents so many of our students as well as so many of our staff. his story is very familiar to all of us. he was a farm worker. he reached for the stars. he reached the stars. that's what we tell our students. the sky is the limit and go for it. it's very, very symbolic for us

to have jose as our keynote speaker and little joe because he's the greatest and the fairmont because we are downtown and we want to be in the center of things. >> that's awesome. it will take a student how long to become accredited to receive a certificate and be certified? >> an average of six months. but it is full time. most institutions would require at least two years because they offer classes part time. ours is full time. and intense. students are able to obtain their training and certificate in six months. >> that's a commitment on their part and a special opportunity the doors that you've opened for them. the bash is happening on august 27th at the san jose fairmont.

logon their website cetweb.org for more informing. any final thoughts i'll let you wrap it up. >> we hope that everyone who is watching your program will come to the event because we will all go away very, very proud. >> very true. thank you so much for the work that you're doing in our community. center for employment training. up next on "comunidad del valle," the spanish voicewe of your oakland athletics. stay with us.

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he's the spanish voice of your oakland athletics. amaury pi-gonzalez. i met you 16 years ago. you are doing sports back then. you probably looked back and said who the heck is this clown? >> i was 6 years old. >> welcome to the show. good to have you back. >> thank you. >> we want to show you

something. amaury was a part of american histo history. he called a no-hitter a couple months ago. >> on may 9th. >> he had an amazing call in spanish. we want to thank you to the station you broadcast for. >> baseball.net. >> here's the call of the perfect game. [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ]

>> it was crazy. >> it was crazy. a spectacular day because it was mother's day. it was cancer awareness day. and his mom died when he was a teenager. here is his grandmother hugging him on cancer awareness day and mother's day. hollywood, spielberg couldn't write this. >> were you shaking? were you nervous? were you excited? what was it like knowing that you were an out away from history? >> i've been doing baseball in the major leagues for 33 years since 1977. you never think of the perfect game. this is the only one between the giants and a's. this is the only one here in the bay area. giants never had one. this is the first for theoaklan. when you get to the ninth inning, you know he's retired 24 in a row. it's just wonderful. something that no other sport

offers that individual accomplishment like baseball. >> congratulations. that was a great call. >> thank you. >> congratulations. what's it like to be the spanish voice of the oakland a's. it's a big deal? >> i live in oakland in the bay area of fremont for the last 30 some years. it is great. 25% of minor league players are hispanic now. when i started it was maybe 2% or 3%. it has changed a lot. the a's have won four world series. i covered most of them 1989 earthquake i was at candlestick park when that happened october 17th. this is just another memory. nothing like baseball when you have a perfect game or you have a world series. it's unique. i do this because i like it. it's not for the money. if it was for the money, i would be selling cars. >> in college i followed an announcer. is he your man?

>> yes. i work with him in a couple playoff and world series for the fox network in spanish. he's still doing dodgers. he's been doing the dodgers for 52 years. there's only one guy in front of me who is 86 years old. he's still broadcasting the florida marlins. i'm third in seniority in the country in baseball. >> you get paid to go to the ballpark. >> yes. i would have done it for free. i love it. when i get home, i watch another game. my wife says, wait a minute, you just came from calling a game. i'm always involved. you have to. just like doing news, you have to be involved. i like it. i'm blessed that i'm doing something i really like. >> in our next segment we'll switch it around and get harder on questions here because the manager of the chicago white sox said a few things about latino in baseball and started controversy. we'll ask amaury about that in our next segment. this is the fun and loving segment. do you see yourself retiring?

vince skully has been doing it for how many years? >> 60 some years. he's been the voice of the dodgers since '58. he's retiring this year. obviously i'll retire. i still love what i do. >> you get there at one time and you walk the batting cage? >> for a 7:00 game you get there at 3:30 or 4:00. you want to see batting practice. do an sbrinterview or two. you want to see if anyone is hurt. you want to talk to the manager. you work an eight-hour day at least. >> does each team have a spanish choice? >> there's a hispanic market. minnesota doesn't have. cincinnati doesn't have it. the west coast teams, yankees, the team in miami, i would say 15 out of 30 broadcast in spanish which is 50%. >> that's not bad. you are in line for radio hall of fame bay area.

we'll talk about that in our next segment. you can logon to vote. we'll ask about that and hispanic baseball museum.com has ryabau's abaury's perfect game call on broadcast. stay with us.

>> we're back with the spanish voice of the oakland a's. let's talk about the hall of fame voting. what is it, bay area votes for hall of fame radio broadcaster? >> it's people in news and weather and traffic and sports and i was the first hispanic nominated in the sports category. so i was very proud. i've been doing this for so long. it's called bay area radio hall of fame. they're going to announce it pretty soon. >> you've also been nominated for an award before. >> i'm in the sports hall of

fame in miami. hispanic heritage hall of fame in san francisco and been nominated four years in a row. >> what does that mean to you? >> it's prestige. peers like you and like what you do. i work with a lot of people. i'm easy going. i enjoy what i'm doing. it comes through. i leave the rest to whatever. i've been doing radio most of my life and i've been writing a lot and with the internet it's a different world. i wish i was 25 again. it's a beautiful thing now. the communication. i get e-mails from spain and all over the world so that's great. >> they say that you and i who are older are digital immigrants between 1 and 25 are digital natives because they are born with this technology. we had to evolve. >> i learn from my kids. incredible. what did you learn? >> ozzy guillen is the manager of the chicago white sox. he made some comments. he said that whenever a japanese or an asian pitcher, korean,

wherever he comes from, whenever they come into the major leagues, they get a translator to help them out when they are traveling around the country. he says that that's not the same with latino players. they were charged words. you agreed with him. >> i agree. that's true. it's more of an economic problem. japan is a rich country. i work with mariners a few year ago in seattle and the catcher got two interpreters. spanish players don't get none. baseball has to correct that. like i said before, most of the players from out of the united states are from latin america. venezuela is a poor country. third-world countries. maybe it's the contract with the union. you have to be fixed. that's one thing the commissioner have to look but i agree that it's a double standard for the japanese players most players from japan because baseball is number one sport in japan but i agree.

i love ozzy because he tells you what he feels. that's the way it should be. >> do you go out on a limb by agreeing? >> i mention it on the radio. we're talking sports. we're not solving any wars here. it's sports. it's the toy department of the half an hour newscast or sports. i do 3 1/2 hours ad lib every day. you have your own style. i say what i feel. i try not to be controversial but i broadcast in spanish and here is the only latino manager to win the world series, i agree with him. it's still a free country. we should say what we feel as long as we know how to say it. >> tom had a rationale explanation. he said when they bring pitchers from japan and korea, they are cream of the crop. they are coming in and being paid $55 million. it's an investment. you have to take care of them. some of the latino players are

not paying that kind of money and that's why it's not big of an investment for the owners. >> that's correct. most japanese players play 10 or 15 years in their own country. they were not rookies when they came here. you have guys from dominican that are 19 years old 20 years old. the short stop for the texas rangers is 21. that's another reason. they're so young and they haven't been able to learn the language in their country. major league baseball has to correct that and have an interpreter because sometimes they are misquoted and the media -- the bay area is a very quiet media. in new york you say something and you could be crucified in boston. there's no mercy. the media is tough. >> is eric chavez done? >> i think so. >> final thoughts. we'll show information to get ahold of you. there's the hall of fame voting that has ended already. we'll see the results pretty soon hopefully amaury gets in.

final thoughts? >> well, i thank you. nice to see you. you're still young as ever. it was 16 years ago. don't tell me that. >> keep the hair short because it gets rid of the white hairs. >> do you a great job. i watch you as much as i can. it used to be in the afternoon, right? >> we flip-flop but people who dvr it watch it later. do you know what that is? >> eight track. >> thank you so much for being with us. make that call again the next perfect game that the a's throw soon. er

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