For Our Future / Para Nuestro Futuro campaign: Community Alliance for Safety and Peace (CASP)

City of Salinas Recreation-Park Division presents Summer 2012 activities

City of Salinas Library & Community Services Department Summer 2012 flyer. This is a great resource for recreational and educational activities for children and youth in their own communities, see attached flyer.

Escuela de Musica Regional Mexicana

California Endowment Building Healthy Communities Initiative in partnership with City of Salinas Library & Community Services Department and Alisal Union District are offering two months of free music lessons.

Summer Fun at the Recreation Department

The city of Salinas Recreation-Park Division Presents: Summer Fun at the Rec starting June 11 through August 10, 2012 ages 5 - 18

Join the Fun!

Come and hang out with friends and participate in a variety of fun and exciting activities at a neighborhood recreation center near you!

Program Highlights: arts and crafts, games, sports & physical activities, trips and video gaming. Free lunch served daily.

Bread Box Recreation Center, 745 N. Sanborn Road, Salinas 758-7908 1:00-8:00pm

Pentecost Sunday event for peace in Salinas - May 27th, 2012

The Congregations of Salinas are coming together in an event to promote peace in Salinas.

Keynote Speaker Reverend Samuel “Billy” Kyles, the last living witness to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, will share his word of hope for the community.

Other guest speakers include Sr. Pastor Eddie Caraveo and the Reverend Jeff Brown and several local Salinas pastors.

5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday at the Steinbeck Performing Arts Center, 940 N. Main St., Salinas.

Community comes together for troubled youth

From the Associated Press via HealthyCal.org: On a 100-acre ranch in the foothills northeast of Salinas, 28 students, many of whom are on probation, are building a house. When it’s finished, it will shelter some of them from the violence in their own neighborhoods.