• ELLF Receives Community Leadership Award
• ELLF Scholarship Fund Created

• Hispanic Heritage Celebration
  Sept. 29: Festival de Arte y Cultura, Bellevue City Hall
  Oct. 7: Fiesta Popular Latina, Crossroads Mall
  

Festival de Arte y Cultura schedule of events:
6 p.m.: Event begins
6:30: Welcome and introductions by Lourdes Salazar, ELLF president
Scholarship awards by Maria Valdesuso, Scholarship Committee
7–7:45: Correo Aereo
7:45: Readings by Joseph DeLeon and Maria Victoria
8:15: Tango performance
8:30–9:15: Correo Aereo

Fiesta Popular Latina schedule of events:
11 a.m. Children’s storytelling, Aida Ponce in Crossroads Library Noon Welcome – Lourdes Salazar, President, ELLF Luis Gonzalez, Master of Ceremonies
12:15 p.m.: Children’s singing group
1:00: Quichua Maschis
2:00: Children’s music by Rose Cano
3:00: Bailadores de Bronce
4:00: Mariachi Ayutla
Booth space will be available for business promotions as well as non-profit organizations.

Contributors to these events include Davis Wright Tremaine, FACES, Crossroads Bellevue, DML Insurance, and Mill Creek Boxing.