>>> hello and welcome to "comunidad del valle." i'm damian trujillo. and today it's all about culturo climaxing with -- the mexican heritage plaza is here. also los senusntless. this is your "comunidad del valle." >>> we begin today with the ongoing exhibition in oakland at the oakland museum of califor a california. it's a deea delos meritos exhibition. welcome to the show. buenos dias. you sent me some pictures. but dia de los muertos is such a colorful event. >> this year's is called colorful lives. it's about how all of us in our ordinary lives make extraordinary contributions to the story of california, to the story of the community, to the story of our family. >> people create and they build altars in memory of a loved one. now, those who don't know about the cultura, about dia de l de lode los de los muertos think this is morbid. explain how this is not morbid. >> this is something we have to educate the public about. because it's around the same time as halloween and people are used to all the media having skeletons and scary zombies, that's an

"comunidad del valle." i'm damian trujillo. today, we begin with a season of giving. this is "comunidad del valle." we do begin with a season of giving. can you believe it's already here? the nbc bay area holiday food drive. along with safeway. here with us today are ralph with the south heyward parish and susan with the l.a. community food bank. welcome. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> our minds i think as a community have been preoccupied with so many things. the election. for one. are we paying attention to the shelves in our food banks do you think? what have we seen so far? >> one of the most interesting things i think is hunger's a year-round problem. we think it's great the community gets involved but it is a year-round problem. agencies are facing the problem that food supplies are short. >> how dire is it now? >> we've almost doubled the number of people we're serving last year at this time. and yet our funding from the local government and federal government have been cut 15% to 20%. emphasifamily sizes are growing. and the working poor, their hours are cut an

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